# "Does anyone remember Vera Lynn?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 14, 2009, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016 "2009-09-14T09:25:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/1 "2009-09-14T09:25:42Z")
She’s still alive. She’s 92. And her “Best of” collection is Number One on the UK Charts- yes, ahead of The Beatles Remastered! Long Live Vera! > **[Dame Vera Lynn lands No.1 album at age of 92](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/music/music-news/dame-vera-lynn-lands-no1-1036566)** > > FORCES' sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn has topped the UK album charts at the ripe old age of 92. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/2 "2009-09-14T10:00:08Z")
Nevermind. Self-edit. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/3 "2009-09-14T10:12:17Z")
Just brilliant. They interviewed her on BBC Radio 4 a couple of weeks ago when the album first got into the charts, and she is still all 100% there mentally. She also sang for the interview. She can still sing. What a wonderful lady. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/4 "2009-09-14T10:30:30Z")
Unfortunately, when anyone references Vera Lynn, it reminds me of the end of Dr Strangelove. Vera Lynn = Armageddon. Gulp. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/5 "2009-09-14T10:41:55Z")
> [@NineToTheSky](#): > > Unfortunately, when anyone references Vera Lynn, it reminds me of the end of Dr Strangelove. Vera Lynn = Armageddon. Gulp. And of course, the other pop culture reference is Pink Floyd’s The Wall (from which the OP title comes). ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/6 "2009-09-14T13:33:01Z")
Yes- still remember her. Good to see she is still kicking along. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/7 "2009-09-14T14:30:57Z")
[QUOTE=FriarTed] And of course, the other pop culture reference is Pink Floyd’s The Wall (from which the OP title comes). [/QUOTE] She also gets a namecheck in Robyn Hitchcock’s _The Yip Song_, though I expect rather fewer people will be familiar with that. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/8 "2009-09-14T14:35:29Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > Good to see she is still kicking along. Or even bob-bob-bobbing along. ETA: Did she sing that? I thought it was but I’m not so sure now… ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/9 "2009-09-14T14:41:01Z")
> [@Small\_Clanger](#): > > She also gets a namecheck in Robyn Hitchcock’s _The Yip Song_, though I expect rather fewer people will be familiar with that. And the Kinks’ “Mr. Churchill Says”. ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/10 "2009-09-14T15:07:02Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Or even bob-bob-bobbing along. > > ETA: Did she sing that? I thought it was but I’m not so sure now… If you’re think of ‘When The Red Red Robin Comes Bobbin’ Along’, that was Al Johnson. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/11 "2009-09-14T21:57:50Z")
> [@NineToTheSky](#): > > If you’re think of ‘When The Red Red Robin Comes Bobbin’ Along’, that was Al Johnson. Yeah, but it’s a standard innit; I thought Vera Lynn had covered it too. On googling, I see it might have been Doris Day I was thinking of… Never mind. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/12 "2009-09-14T22:30:59Z")
I’ve met Vera Lynn, and have a few photos of her somewhere in the collection i left back in Australia. I was working at a country house hotel in the English Lakes District back in 1991, and she was a guest in the hotel. Knowing that photography was my hobby, the hotel manager asked me to take a few pictures of him and Vera and her husband Harry. He put it on a wall somewhere in the hotel, and for all i know it might still be there. Anyway, she and Harry were both very charming and friendly. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/13 "2009-09-14T22:33:19Z")
Whenever I hear her name it conjures images of her being lampooned by Spitting Image in 1995. They were mocking the surfeit of public ceremonies wherein she sang “We’ll Meet Again”. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/14 "2009-09-14T22:42:17Z")
> [@NineToTheSky](#): > > Unfortunately, when anyone references Vera Lynn, it reminds me of the end of Dr Strangelove. Vera Lynn = Armageddon. Gulp. My dad played it every night before a mission. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/15 "2009-09-14T22:43:36Z")
I too like Vera Lynn of course her American counterpart Jo Stafford was just as good, if not better, but Lynn still was great. My favourite song of hers is her renditon of “Be LikeThe Kettle And Sing” ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/16 "2009-09-14T22:48:17Z")
[Till me meet again](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Drw4aZhdT8) with a well behaved crowd singing along. ---
**Author:** ![Carryon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Carryon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carryon)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/17 "2020-03-20T05:54:22Z")
Wow I found this thread after realizing March 20th is her birthday. The girl is still going strong at 103 [Here’s her message about the coronavirus](https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/coronavirus/dame-vera-lynn-summons-spirit-war-virus-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR3wQIuea5DTl3Ligy6zw_ztU_k46yBVIQv5hzyG8A0XDv1GRHfr3GQDNJ8) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/18 "2020-03-20T06:17:59Z")
> [@Carryon](#): > > Wow I found this thread after realizing March 20th is her birthday. > > The girl is still going strong at 103 > > [Here’s her message about the coronavirus](https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/coronavirus/dame-vera-lynn-summons-spirit-war-virus-pandemic/?fbclid=IwAR3wQIuea5DTl3Ligy6zw_ztU_k46yBVIQv5hzyG8A0XDv1GRHfr3GQDNJ8) Okay, when I saw an eleven year old thread about somebody who was 93 had been re-opened, my assumption was not that the new post was going to be best wishes for her birthday. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/19 "2020-03-20T06:55:05Z")
Lucky any contributors are still alive. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/20 "2020-03-20T07:55:37Z")
I know her! Although she’s way over 100, I have her on a DeathPool list. I’m going for quantity, not points. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016.md?page=2)