Give-Away: Music CD Celebrating Women in World War II

Post #44 – Rosie’s Daughters: The “First Woman To” Generation Tells Its Story by Matilda Butler and Kendra Bonnett

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After writing the award-winning collective memoir: Rosie’s Daughters: The “First Woman To” Generation Tells Its Story, Second Edition, Kendra Bonnett and I found that we had fallen in love with Rosie the Riveter and all things Rosie. We even developed a whole product line (red-and-white polka dot bandanas and mugs, Rosie collar pin/employment badge, a polka dot bag with rivets, a Rosie the Riveter cookbook and more) that featured Rosie.

Rosie’s World War II Music Give-Away

Part of the fun of all of this is that we get to meet such interesting people. Of course there are our customers who also love Rosie. We’ve shared some of their stories on this website and have more we’ll continue to share over the coming months. But we also get to meet other people who are interested in Rosie and have products of interest to our readers. One of these is Stacy Flankey. Stacy emailed us a few months ago. Her company, Altissimo Recordings, was working on a music CD with songs from World War II. But it was more than just the period. It was a CD dedicated to Celebrating Women in WWII. How great is that!

Stacy was interested in findings stories about women who worked during WWII. We wrote this up and urged readers to send her stories. We thought that would be the end of it.

But about a week ago, Stacy sent us a pre-release copy of the CD and we fell in love with it. Songs include Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Begin the Beguine, I’ll Be Seeing You, Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree and more — a total of 20 fabulous 40s musical offerings. The music is played/sung by the US Air Force Airmen of Note, US Navy Commodores, US Army Jazz Ambassadors, among others.

When we thanked Stacy, she came up with a great idea. She said that she’d contribute a CD to give away on our website.*

Just Leave a Comment and You Are Automatically Entered In Our Contest

So if you love Rosie the Riveter like we do and enjoy the music of her era, then we invite you to leave us a comment below. Your comment automatically enters you in our contest. Tell us what you like about Rosie the Riveter, or what you admire about the women who worked during WWII, or why you like the music from WWII period. It doesn’t need to be long — just a couple of sentences.

Then on February 10, we’ll choose a winner to receive a free copy of this fabulous CD: We Can Do It! – Celebrating Women in WWII.

Second Edition of Rosie’s Daughters Now Available

It is great fun for us that we get to announce the release of the second edition of our award-winning collective memoir: Rosie’s Daughters: The “First Woman To” Generation Tells Its Story, Second Edition at the same time that we announce the release of Altissimo’s We Can Do It! – Celebrating Women in WWII.

I conducted the interviews with more than 100 women who were born during World War II, the daughters of the iconic Rosie the Riveter, in 2002. Although the book was initially published in 2007, Kendra and I realized that these women — Rosie’s Daughters — had gone through the decade of their 60s, a period that were just anticipating at the time of the interviews. Now they were already anticipating the decade of their 70s. It was time to revisit them, to look at the experiences of the past decade, and to see what they were anticipating for the next decade of their lives. We were surprised by their responses and decided to share our findings in an all-new chapter in this collective memoir. We think these women’s stories will inspire you as you look forward in your own life, independent of your current age.

If interested, you can order through Amazon or if you would like an autographed copy, you can order directly from us.

We Look Forward to Your Comment and Will Enter You In the WWII Music CD Give-Away

We wish you luck and hope you win. But if you aren’t the lucky one but love this music, be sure to get your copy from Amazon — just click on any of the links in this blog. On Amazon, you’ll see that the music is available on a CD and also as mp3 files. Each song is also available separately. Of course, you can preview each song by clicking here: We Can Do It! – Celebrating Women in WWII.

*Note: We are giving away two copies of this CD. The second copy will be given away on our website featuring memoir writing — Women’s Memoirs. If you like, you are welcome to leave a second comment on that website and you will be entered in that contest as well.