"Does anyone remember Vera Lynn?"

I remember her! “The White Cliffs of Dover”, lovely song:

I prefer “I’ll Be Seeing You,” myself:

She lives in the village of Ditchling, just down the road from us.

(File under Lynn, Vera; Trivia).

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Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?

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!

She seems absolutely lovely. I bet she’s a hoot at parties with a gin & tonic in her.

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

But one I’ve always liked is Tomorrow Is A Lovely Day

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…

And then there was her song about rationing: “Whalemeat again”…

Awk! That was the title of a Jim Capaldi song and album. And I never got the joke.

I just loved her message about the coronavirus and sticking together to beat this. She is one classy lady.

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.

nods yeah that was pretty much my line of thought too when I got down that far.