Wartime radio is a genre of music that was enjoyed during the late 1930s through mid 1940s. After the end of World War II, this music escalated until the paranoia of the Cold War made this kind of music irrelevant after the Soviet menace (under Joseph Stalin) replaced the Nazi menace (under Adolf Hitler). To most people, wartime radio music is fun, cheerful, bold, and daring. To others, wartime music can be depressing (especially if one is of German, Italian, or Japanese descent - an example of the nations that were vanquished by the Anglo-American forces in World War II). English is the only language that wartime radio is done to and some people from France were Nazi collaborationalists, thus making this kind of music unenjoyable for those Frenchmen who did not fight with the Allied Forces all the way through World War II.
One notable example of wartime radio songs is the iconic World War II song Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. Swing music is also another notable example of wartime radio music. Lawrence Welk would later play this kind of music on The Lawrence Welk Show.
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