# Holy Smokes, Vera Lynn is Still Alive!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-smokes-vera-lynn-is-still-alive/386984>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 6, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-smokes-vera-lynn-is-still-alive/386984 "2007-01-06T23:10:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-smokes-vera-lynn-is-still-alive/386984/21 "2020-06-18T15:55:50Z")

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> [@SanVito](#):
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> I had no idea until The Dope mentioned her that anyone outside the UK had even heard of her.

I think I had heard her name, but didn’t know anything about her, until a few weeks ago, on the 75th anniversary of V-E Day, when I saw several articles (and a story on BBC World News) about her, and that she was, at that time, still alive.

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**Author:** ![Carryon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc29f/32.png) [@Carryon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carryon)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-smokes-vera-lynn-is-still-alive/386984/22 "2020-06-18T15:58:04Z")

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I thought by now she was immortal. She was so great. It’s sad but at least we have her music.

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**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-smokes-vera-lynn-is-still-alive/386984/23 "2020-06-18T16:02:57Z")

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I’m not old enough to remember her in her heyday, I’m an American - not a Brit, and was never aware of the Pink Floyd song, but I _do_ know who Vera Lynn was. My parents had a couple of her records and I have the CD _Vera Lynn Remembers - The Songs That Won World War 2_ on a nearby shelf - right next to Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich.

Oddly, I never heard of Vera-Ellen until reading this thread, even though Google tells me that I’ve seen lots of the movies she was in.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-smokes-vera-lynn-is-still-alive/386984/24 "2020-06-18T16:33:55Z")

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> [@TroutMan](#):
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> I’m guessing at least 90% of non-U.K. residents know of her only because of [Pink Floyd](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MummZBgO3Ek).

Or _Dr. Strangelove_

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**Post date:** [June 18, 2020, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-smokes-vera-lynn-is-still-alive/386984/25 "2020-06-18T17:23:08Z")

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Weird. Just yesterday I succumbed to click bait along the lines of “look how old these women look” and one listed was Vera Lynn. I did the usual “I didn’t know she was still alive.”

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