Happy birthday, Vera Lynn!
1 posted on
03/20/2014 10:12:31 AM PDT by
Fiji Hill
To: Fiji Hill
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
2 posted on
03/20/2014 10:13:48 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: Fiji Hill
What a sweet-looking lady.
4 posted on
03/20/2014 10:18:09 AM PDT by
PapaNew
To: Fiji Hill; a fool in paradise
If not for that damn rock and roll she’d still be on top of the charts!
5 posted on
03/20/2014 10:19:48 AM PDT by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
To: Fiji Hill
Reading just the headline I was thinking it was new recordings at first...
6 posted on
03/20/2014 10:20:18 AM PDT by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Fiji Hill; a fool in paradise
97? So she’s about the age of the great Bobby Goldsborough!
12 posted on
03/20/2014 10:23:41 AM PDT by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
To: Fiji Hill
Glad to hear she’s still out and around and apparently doing well, despite her advanced age. I can’t think of many vocalists from her era (dating to pre-WW2) still alive. Well, maybe Bea Wain. And I guess, Baby Rose Marie, although I don’t think she cut too many records in the 30s.
Not entirely sure to the extent of Lynn’s fame and recognition in the United States. Probably somewhat akin to Gracie Fields status, I’d guess. Meaning Americans were pretty aware of them both, but it was in their home country where their stardom was overwhelming and massive.
15 posted on
03/20/2014 10:34:24 AM PDT by
greene66
To: Fiji Hill
18 posted on
03/20/2014 10:41:27 AM PDT by
dfwgator
To: Fiji Hill
23 posted on
03/20/2014 10:51:19 AM PDT by
Lmo56
(If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
To: Fiji Hill
Heck.
This will make Cher and Babs want to do another farewell tour.
24 posted on
03/20/2014 11:00:31 AM PDT by
TomGuy
To: Fiji Hill
I worked in a bank where Vera Lynn kept an account.
She had been asked by the manager if he could be of personal assistance to her.
She refused any special treatment and insisted on standing in line ("queuing" as we say in the UK) with everyone else.
Some of today's divas should take note.
28 posted on
03/20/2014 11:19:47 AM PDT by
Churchillspirit
(9/11/2001 and 9/11/2012: NEVER FORGET.)
To: Fiji Hill
Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?
29 posted on
03/20/2014 11:30:52 AM PDT by
Teacher317
(We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
To: Fiji Hill
The closing theme to Dr. Strangelove!
32 posted on
03/20/2014 12:34:22 PM PDT by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: Fiji Hill
33 posted on
03/20/2014 12:38:31 PM PDT by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: Fiji Hill
Good lord,I didn’t know she was still alive.
“We’ll Meet Again” always makes me cry.
.
35 posted on
03/20/2014 12:46:43 PM PDT by
Mears
To: Fiji Hill
41 posted on
03/20/2015 7:48:30 AM PDT by
Borges
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