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She's Still a Favourite! Dame Vera Lynn set to top the Charts at the Age of 97
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| Tue, June 3, 2014
| Kirsty McCormack
Posted on 06/06/2014 1:54:37 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Was introduced to her singing by greatgrandad .... he’s just turned 92 ...mind as sharp as a tack.
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posted on
06/06/2014 1:57:13 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
To: SkyDancer
That’s great. He’s just a youngster compared to her. It’s wonderful that you have so much time with a great grandparent.
To: nickcarraway
The stories he’s told when growing up in Brooklyn ... have them on tape (well CD) - told about the time of Dec.7th when the Japs hit Pearl Harbor. Him and his friends went cruising looking for Japs (his terminology which I fully understand. Today it’d be racist if you said that)
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posted on
06/06/2014 2:03:14 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(If you don't read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you do read newspapers you are misinformed)
To: nickcarraway
“We’ll meet again. Don’t know where. Don’t know when....” I can hear her voice singing that even now. My folks used to play a record of that over and over when they would talk about the importance of freedom and vigilance
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posted on
06/06/2014 2:03:56 PM PDT
by
Nifster
To: nickcarraway
My DH is British and my FIL fought the Gerries on the British coast as a gunner. “White Cliffs of Dover” makes me choke up.
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posted on
06/06/2014 2:04:14 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
To: nickcarraway
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
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posted on
06/06/2014 2:05:19 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: nickcarraway
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
To: dfwgator
Great minds think alike...
To: dfwgator
I seem to recall her mentioning meeting a again on a nonspecific date, barring clouds.
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posted on
06/06/2014 2:07:07 PM PDT
by
demshateGod
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
Does anybody else feel the way I do?
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posted on
06/06/2014 2:09:24 PM PDT
by
demshateGod
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: dfwgator
remember how she said that we would meet again some sunny day....
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posted on
06/06/2014 2:10:16 PM PDT
by
BBell
(The Blue Dog is Stupid)
To: BBell
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posted on
06/06/2014 2:11:30 PM PDT
by
demshateGod
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? Damn betcha!
We'll Meet Again is one of the most memorable songs of the era. Perfect tonality -- bittersweet, yet hopeful.
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posted on
06/06/2014 2:16:22 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
To: demshateGod
Sounds like she’s still making music :)
To: nickcarraway
To: okie01
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posted on
06/06/2014 2:27:50 PM PDT
by
lonestar
(It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
To: demshateGod
“I feel with my hands.
How do you feel....???”
101 year old friend use to love saying that when asked how she feels....
He Larry Us!
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posted on
06/06/2014 2:29:17 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
To: nickcarraway
This needs to be posted here.
We'll Meet Again, by Vera Lynn
This is, I believe, the second recording. The original was her singing solo. This version was recorded in concert, before a hall of young Royal Army troops soon to be on their way to join Montgomery's forces in North Africa. And they're invited to join her in the vocal about halfway thru.
The atmospherics are amazing. It is clear that she is singing to them!
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posted on
06/06/2014 2:29:35 PM PDT
by
okie01
(The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
To: Vendome
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posted on
06/06/2014 2:35:40 PM PDT
by
demshateGod
(The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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