Dame Vera Lynn back in her heydays.
Posted on 06/18/2020 8:00:36 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
Dame Vera Lynn, who’s rendition of We’ll Meet Again became an anthem for hope during World War Two, has died at the age of 103. “The family are deeply saddened to announce the passing of one of Britain’s best-loved entertainers at the age of 103,” a statement said.
“Dame Vera Lynn, who lived in Ditchling, East Sussex, passed away earlier today, 18th June 2020, surrounded by her close family.” ,p> The singer and actress, dubbed the Forces’ Sweetheart, rose to fame during the second World War.
Lynn is best known for hits such as We’ll Meet Again, her rendition of which was hugely popular during the war.
As she turned 100 in 2017, she looked back on her life. She established the Dame Vera Lynn Children’s Charity in 2001. And she said it is her charity work – not her wartime bravery – for which she wants to be remembered.
“I’d love it to be my legacy,” she said. “I’ve never considered my actions as courageous. I was just doing my job.”
Dame Vera Lynn’s daughter recalls growing up with Forces sweetheart Lynn released her first single Up the Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire in 1936.
At the start of the wartime, she began singing for people sheltering in air raid shelters before recording her version of We’ll Meet Again in 1939.
After topping a poll of British servicemen to find their favourite performer, she became known as the Forces’ Sweetheart
Vera Lynn’s songs also include Sweetheart, Dancing with Tears in My Eyes, The White Cliffs of Dover and Rose of England.
Before the Wogs!
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Born in 1917, the year of the Spanish Flu. In the middle of WWI, just as the world was changing.
Forget it.
It’s become De rigueur to post old news in Breaking.
At least this time it wasn’t chat that belongs in Bloggers.
My mom had a lively Big-band, Benny Goodman and Peggy Lee version of this song, which was the only version I ever knew - only realized a few years ago this song actually “belonged to” Vera Lynn.
Anyway, she had a long and full life. God bless her.
Dr. STRANGELOVE,
My Favorite version.
Another Covis 19 victim? Or was it just old age? She could have made it to 125.(sarc.) Her song will last forever, like Miller’s “In the Mood.” “We’ll meet again” was a tear jerk-er of a song during it’s time on both sides of the pond.
I watched a group called “The D-Day Darlings” do some of her songs.
They sounded pretty much like her but I then listened to “Blue Birds Over” and her voice went much deeper into the highs and lows.
RIP good lady. The GI’s massing in England prior to D-Day loved her, too.
She's pretty old, you know...
I Am Loved (1951)
Here, she's way out of character:
Hollywood Square Dance--Vera Lynn & Anne Shelton (1950)
Peggy Lee's "Waitin' for the Train to Come In is a favorite of mine:
Dinah Shore's "I'll Walk Alone:
Johnny Mercer's G.I. Jive:
Benny Goodman's "And the Angels Sing":
My mother was a big Glenn Miller fan, and I fell in love with Big Band music...Benny Goodman, Bob Crosby and the Bobcats, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, the Andrews Sisters. Even Spike Jones was big during WWII.
Glutrote Rosen (shiny red roses)--Rudy Schuricke, with Hans Bund & His Orchestra (1942)
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