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Dame Vera Lynn, 97, to release new album
BBC News ^ | March 19, 2014

Posted on 03/20/2014 10:12:30 AM PDT by Fiji Hill

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Happy birthday, Vera Lynn!
1 posted on 03/20/2014 10:12:31 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?


2 posted on 03/20/2014 10:13:48 AM PDT by dfwgator
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I have a couple of CDs of her greatest hits.


3 posted on 03/20/2014 10:17:35 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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To: Fiji Hill

What a sweet-looking lady.


4 posted on 03/20/2014 10:18:09 AM PDT by PapaNew
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To: Fiji Hill; a fool in paradise

If not for that damn rock and roll she’d still be on top of the charts!


5 posted on 03/20/2014 10:19:48 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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Reading just the headline I was thinking it was new recordings at first...


6 posted on 03/20/2014 10:20:18 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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My favorite song of hers is Calling Me Home (1936)
7 posted on 03/20/2014 10:20:55 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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Yes. Beautiful voice. I particularly like “Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart”


8 posted on 03/20/2014 10:21:35 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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The name is familiar and I have seen a couple of her songs on Youtube but I don’t remember much about her.

Of course I have hear “White Cliffs of Dover” and also she did a nice version of “Lili Marlene”.


9 posted on 03/20/2014 10:21:54 AM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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“Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WsuLH4sulA&feature=kp


10 posted on 03/20/2014 10:22:16 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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I REMEMBER HER AND SHE SINGING ON BRITISH BROADCASTS INTO NEW YORK CITY. I WAS 14 AT THE TIME

Dame Vera Lynn, DBE (born Vera Margaret Welch on 20 March 1917),[1] widely known as “The Forces’ Sweetheart


11 posted on 03/20/2014 10:22:39 AM PDT by franky8 (For the souls of the faithful departed.)
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To: Fiji Hill; a fool in paradise

97? So she’s about the age of the great Bobby Goldsborough!


12 posted on 03/20/2014 10:23:41 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
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Remember how she said we would meet again some sunny day?


13 posted on 03/20/2014 10:28:39 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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Remember how she said that we would meet again some sunny day?

Well, that day is here!

14 posted on 03/20/2014 10:29:45 AM PDT by pa_dweller (Extremist tea-party-driven hostage-taking legislative arsonist without a life)
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To: Fiji Hill

Glad to hear she’s still out and around and apparently doing well, despite her advanced age. I can’t think of many vocalists from her era (dating to pre-WW2) still alive. Well, maybe Bea Wain. And I guess, Baby Rose Marie, although I don’t think she cut too many records in the 30s.

Not entirely sure to the extent of Lynn’s fame and recognition in the United States. Probably somewhat akin to Gracie Fields status, I’d guess. Meaning Americans were pretty aware of them both, but it was in their home country where their stardom was overwhelming and massive.


15 posted on 03/20/2014 10:34:24 AM PDT by greene66
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To: Revolting cat!

How many people under the age of 50 would even know the name if it weren’t for Pink Floyd?


16 posted on 03/20/2014 10:36:09 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Vera! Vera! What has become of you?


17 posted on 03/20/2014 10:39:39 AM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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To: Fiji Hill

She’s the Bomb!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15YgdrhrCM8


18 posted on 03/20/2014 10:41:27 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: PghBaldy
I also like this earlier version:

Auf Wiedersehen--Rudi Schuricke (1950)

19 posted on 03/20/2014 10:41:30 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: dfwgator

Remember how she said that we would meet again
Some sunny day...


20 posted on 03/20/2014 10:41:51 AM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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