Dame Vera Lynn back in her heydays.
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.
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.
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.
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.