Hit of the Century 1918-1922

1922 – What Sort of Soldier is One for Which No Love Blooms?

Photo: scan5353 / Pixabay, CC0: In this series we present one hundred songs that went down in the history of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. They were either widely popular, important during crucial times in the Republic’s history or won the hit parade of the year. Today in our overview of the biggest hits of the last one hundred years we come to the year 1922. More...

1921 – The White Soldiers

Inkognito, photo: Panton In the series Hit of the Century we present one hundred songs that made history of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. They were either widely popular, important during crucial times in the Republic’s history or won the hit parade of the year. More...

1920 – Písnička z mládí (Letní noc se rozklenula) Song from Youth (The Summer Night was Blooming)

Soňa Červená, photo: Aerofilms / Czech Television Welcome to Hit of the Century, our series in which you will get closely acquainted with hit songs across 100 years of Czechoslovakia’s and the Czech Republic’s existence – one song for every year since the country was founded. Today we’re going back in time to 1920. More...

1919 - Vítězná Madelon (La Madelon)

Welcome to Hit of the Century, our series in which you will get closely acquainted with hit songs across 100 years of Czechoslovakia’s and the Czech Republic’s existence – one song for every year since the country was founded. More...

1918 – The Thirty-fivers

Karel Hašler, photo: public domain We start with 1918, the year marking the birth of the Czechoslovak Republic. That, however, was not until October. In January, people were experiencing the last, but for many of them endless months of World War I. More...