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I only hope “The Forces’ Sweetheart” – the title she treasured above all – wasn’t aware of the new war currently underway in Britain. If you told her on the day this footage was taken that she’d live to see a London statue of Winston Churchill boarded up in a box to protect it from fascist book burners and putschists, she wouldn’t have believed you.
Vale, Dame Vera.
The Left will try to cancel Vera Lynn too.
Everything must go.
The Sun
And in fitting with modern Britain, no one will be allowed to attend her funeral except to protest and desecrate her grave.
I love her voice and still play her music!!!
Appeared in the first ever UK singles chart in November 1952 & peaked at #10.
It performed rather better in the USA becoming a #1 hit there.
My all time favourite is We’ll Meet Again.
My grandmother sang this. In 1942 no-one knew how the war would end.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovfQjR3iU-A&w=994&h=559%5D
I hope we’ll all meet again.
Quite right mh.
They will be gunning for the “White Cliffs of Dover” before tomorrow’s papers are printed.
I hope she has found where and when now. What a legend RIP
Little bit racist. 👌
A very fine woman of great dignity , I remeber hearing her sing when I was a child , everyone loved Vera , she gave hope in desparate times . May her memory live on .
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/06/18/dame-vera-lynn-singer-embodied-brave-spirit-wartime-britain/
Vera Lynn connected with the ordinary people. She was one of them and her songs resonated with this.
A plumber´s daughter, Vera Margaret Welch was born on March 20, 1917, in London´s blue-collar East Ham neighborhood.
She took her stage name from her grandmother´s maiden name. She started singing in social clubs at age 7 and dropped out of school by 11 when she started touring Britain with a traveling variety show. By 17 she was a band singer, and at 21 – when the war started – she was a known performer.
Breitbart London – 18 Jun 2020
What a beautiful voice.
RIP
Even when she was in her 60’s she could still belt it out. Saw her at Shellharbour Workers club in the early 80s. The sound system was turned right down and you could hear her every note & syllable even in the audience singalongs, unlike her support act
Quoted on social media:
“If you thought you heard thunder in the heavens today, it wasn’t so. The sound you heard was a standing ovation from her legions of soldiers as she entered through the Pearly Gates”.
Vale, Dame Vera.
My favourite was “white cliffs of dover” – Churchill, Thatcher, Lynn – gee we need them today. She was here in 1980 and wowed them
Amongst the gems in the tributes run in TV news reports was the clip of the VE Day 50th anniversary celebrations – the Queen Mother on the Buckingham Palace balcony, with her daughters at her side, singing along with Dame Vera.
Here ’tis I think
https://youtu.be/WJqbdfWWO00?t=187
@P: Thankyou for that link; very enjoyable.