# "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:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/21 "2020-03-20T11:19:38Z")
I remember her! “The White Cliffs of Dover”, lovely song: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/WAaxkAgVkHQ/hqdefault.jpg "The White Cliffs of Dover - Vera Lynn (1942)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAaxkAgVkHQ) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/22 "2020-03-20T12:25:52Z")
I prefer “I’ll Be Seeing You,” myself: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Tsfbp5aEAQE/hqdefault.jpg "Vera Lynn - I'll Be Seeing You") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsfbp5aEAQE) ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/23 "2020-03-20T14:18:07Z")
She lives in the village of [Ditchling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditchling#Notable_residents), just down the road from us. (File under Lynn, Vera; Trivia). j ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/24 "2020-03-21T13:41:14Z")
Does anybody else in here feel the way I do? ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/25 "2020-03-21T14:00:00Z")
Wow I’ve always loved her most famous song “We’ll Meet Again” and I knew her name but I always just assumed the woman that sang it was long dead, that song was released 81 years ago and she’s still alive, holy crap! ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/26 "2020-03-21T14:12:24Z")
She seems absolutely lovely. I bet she’s a hoot at parties with a gin & tonic in her. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/27 "2020-03-21T17:23:14Z")
I didn’t know about “Be Like the Kettle” till a couple of weeks ago, when one of the TV channels down the bottom of the EPG was showing her movies, one of which included it (given her reputation for fairly slow and sentimental numbers, which not everybody was that keen on, even at that time, it was a pleasant surprise): [https://youtu.be/DvoYB1U1Wq4](https://youtu.be/DvoYB1U1Wq4) But one I’ve always liked is [Tomorrow Is A Lovely Day](https://youtu.be/JQk7Y_K27iI) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/28 "2020-03-21T18:13:27Z")
This thread brings to mind a lyric from the Kinks song “Mr. Churchill Says”: _As Vera Lynn would say We’ll meet again someday But all the sacrifices we must make before the end…_ ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/29 "2020-03-21T19:44:36Z")
And then there was her song about rationing: “Whalemeat again”… ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/30 "2020-03-21T22:56:16Z")
Awk! That was the title of a Jim Capaldi song and album. And I never got the joke. ---
**Author:** ![Carryon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Carryon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carryon)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/31 "2020-03-23T06:58:25Z")
I just loved her message about the coronavirus and sticking together to beat this. She is one classy lady. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/32 "2020-03-23T10:49:57Z")
A friend of mine interviewed her a few years ago. She and her daughter are very nice, although Dame Vera is quite deaf these days. Apparently schoolkids come to her door occasionally to ask her questions, which she finds sweet. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2020, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016/33 "2020-03-23T11:13:38Z")
> [@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) > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > 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. _nods_ yeah that was pretty much my line of thought too when I got down that far. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-vera-lynn/510016.md?page=1)