Posted on 01/14/2017 9:11:32 PM PST by gasport
Working in a bank where she was a customer.
Manager offered her coffee in his office whilst a cashier attended to her needs.
She declined and elected to wait in line with the other customers.
Beautiful lady.
I have a CD collection of her songs.
I have a CD collection of her songs.
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that
We would meet again
Some sunny day?
Vera, Vera
What has become of you
Does anybody else in here
Feel the way I do?
Very nice.
Another historic singer that started her career singing in a subway during an air raid in London during WW2 was Petula Clark, who at 84 now still has sold out concerts and albums, she did her first music video last year “Sacrifice my heart”
One of her best and there is quite a few in recent years is my favorite from 2014, “Cut, copy me”.
For the younguns she was made famous for “Downtown”
The original version is much more evocative of the time, with only the lonely, haunting accompaniment of the Hammond organ, giving a poignancy to the parting of troops going off to fight a war many of them would never return from and no one perhaps believing it would last six long years and with horrors unimaginable even compared to the previous war.
The 1953 version, whilst nice, has a sumptuous orchestral backing, symbolic of men and women 15 years older who could look back with satisfaction on their youthful trials and a degree of nostalgia.
I know this thread is dedicated to a lovely lady, but I first heard her voice to the backdrop of a thermonuclear doomsday preceded by, “Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!!!”
But even by 1963 the filmmakers were already deriding everything that was patriotic and optimistic, never mind how much they owed to those who fought.
I believe she was only 18,when she was in the movie. She was the last of the stars to pass last year.
An interesting story about Roger Waters and the effect of WWII on him (he lost his father):
Me too...
Bookmark for all the wonderful links.
Vera, Vera.... what has become of you?
Does anybody else in here, feel the way I do?
I wanted some easy listening music yesterday afternoon. I went on youtube and selected Vera Lynn and her WWII era songs. I didn’t realize she was still living. Happy Birthday to her.
Thanks. I didn’t know she is still living.
Great Britain’s WWII secret weapon. She was worth 10 divisions.
Here's another one that generates a similar feeling.
A Mother's Prayer at Twilight--Vera Lynn (1940)
Two more of my favourites are “It’s a Lovely day Tomorrow” and “Bless them all” (”Bless them all, bless them all, bless the long and the short and the tall...”).
I have to admit that I became fond of the second one after discovering that “bless” was substituted for the actual verb originally sung by British Tommies, which as you can guess was somewhat more profane.
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