The Backroom 6.04.24

They’re calling this D-Day anniversary — the 80th — the last hurrah for survivors of Operation Overlord, about 200 in number with an average age of 100. Thanking our veterans and honoring the fallen takes center stage in The Backroom, after some new music from Orgone.

  • Find ’em, Fool ’em, Forget ’em — Orgone (f. Gina Murrell)
  • Find My Way — The Mighty Mocambos
  • Can’t Find My Way Home — Blind Faith
  • Only A Fool Would Say That — Steely Dan
  • Won’t Get Fooled Again (2020 Backroom remix) — The Who
  • H-Hour — Adam Young
  • London Calling 1944 — The Clash & John Snagge
  • The Shores of Normandy — Jim Radford
  • News Correspondents Reporting — Quentin Reynolds
  • The Longest Day — Iron Maiden
  • D-Day — BBC Concert Orchestra & The Central Band of the Royal Air Force
  • Eye-Witness Recording — Charles Collingwood
  • Operation Overlord — Contrarian
  • D-Day News & Buy a Piece of the Peace — Newsman, Gen. DDE, President FDR, Frank Sinatra
  • D-Day — The Nat “King” Cole Trio
  • D-Day Dodgers — Pete Seeger
  • Techno D-Day (Demo) — Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
  • Normandy — Karen Waldrup (f. Jim “Pee Wee” Martin)
  • This Morning at Last, Poem — D-DAY Normandy
  • American Patrol — Glenn Miller & His Orchestra
  • Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy — The Andrews Sisters
  • Der Feuhrer’s Face — Spike Jones & His City Slickers
  • G.I. Jive — Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
  • Soldier’s Last Letter — Ernest Tubbs
  • We’ll Meet Again — Vera Lynn
  • Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans — Noël Coward