Home  ›  No Fear at Nine in the Morning Here Well Meet Again

No Fear at Nine in the Morning Here Well Meet Again

Written By Sunday, March 27, 2022 Add Comment Edit

English language singer and entertainer

Dame

Vera Lynn

CH DBE OStJ

Lynn in 1973

Lynn in 1973
Background information
Nativity name Vera Margaret Welch
Born (1917-03-xx)20 March 1917
East Ham, Essex, England, United kingdom of Swell Uk and Ireland
Died xviii June 2020(2020-06-18) (aged 103)
Ditchling, Due east Sussex, England, UK
Genres
  • Popular
  • traditional pop
Years active 1924–2020
Labels
  • Decca (London for consign)
  • MGM
  • HMV
  • Columbia (EMI)
  • EMI
  • Pye
Military career
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Entertainments National Service Association
Years of service 1939–1945
Battles/wars Battle of Kohima

Musical artist

Dame Vera Margaret Lynn CH DBE OStJ (née Welch; 20 March 1917 – 18 June 2020) was an English singer and entertainer whose musical recordings and performances were very popular during the Second World War. She is honorifically known as the "Forces' Sweetheart", having given outdoor concerts for the troops in Arab republic of egypt, Republic of india and Burma during the war as function of the Entertainments National Service Clan (ENSA). The songs well-nigh associated with her include "We'll Encounter Again", "(There'll Exist Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover", "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" and "There'll Always Be an England".

She remained popular subsequently the war, actualization on radio and tv set in the Great britain and the U.s.a., and recording such hits as "Auf Wiederseh'north, Sweetheart" and her Britain number-i single "My Son, My Son". Her terminal single, "I Dear This Country", was released to marking the end of the Falklands War. In 2009, at the historic period of 92, she became the oldest living artist to top the UK Albums Chart with the compilation album We'll Run into Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn.[1] In 2014, she released the collection Vera Lynn: National Treasure and in 2017, she released Vera Lynn 100, a compilation album of hits to commemorate her centenary—it was a No. three hit, making her the first centenarian performer to accept a Top 10 anthology in the charts.[ii] By the time of her death in 2022 she had been active in the music manufacture for 96 years.

Lynn devoted much time and energy to charity work connected with ex-servicemen, disabled children and breast cancer. She was held in peachy affection by Second Earth State of war veterans and in 2000 was named the Briton who all-time exemplified the spirit of the 20th century.[three]

Early life [edit]

Vera Margaret Welch was born in East Ham, Essex, now office of the London Borough of Newham, on 20 March 1917.[4] She was the girl of plumber[5] [six] Bertram Samuel Welch (1883–1955) and married woman dressmaker Anne "Annie" Martin (1889–1975), who had married in 1913.[7] In 1919, when Lynn was two years onetime, she fell sick with diphtheritic croup and near died. She was sent to an isolation unit and was discharged later on three months there.[8] Every bit a result of her hospitalisation, her female parent was very protective of her and did non allow her to visit friends or play in the street for a long time afterwards. Lynn recalled her mother was not every bit strict with her elder brother Roger as she was with her.[nine]

She began performing publicly at the age of seven and adopted her maternal grandmother Margaret's maiden name "Lynn" every bit her phase proper name when she was eleven.[ten] Aged xi, she joined a juvenile troupe called Madame Harris's Kracker Kabaret Kids and early on in 1933 she was spotted by Howard Bakery who invited her to join his band. In turn she was taken on past Billy Cotton wool and briefly toured with his band in 1934 before returning to Howard Bakery.[xi] It was with Howard Baker that she made her get-go tape on Feb 17, 1935, a song called "It's Habitation".[12] Her first radio circulate, with the Joe Loss Orchestra, was on Baronial 21, 1935.[xiii] At this signal she appeared on records released by dance bands including those of Loss and of Charlie Kunz.[14] In 1936, her starting time solo tape was released on the Crown characterization, "Upward the Wooden Hill to Bedfordshire".[fifteen] This label was absorbed by Decca Records in 1938.[16] She supported herself by working as an authoritative assistant to the head of a shipping direction company in London's Due east Finish.[17] After a short stint with Loss she stayed with Kunz for a year or and so during which she recorded several standard musical pieces. She joined the Ambrose band in 1937[xviii] and remained with him until 1940 when she went solo.

Career [edit]

In 1937, Lynn made her first hit recordings, "The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot" and "Red Sails in the Dusk".[19]

Wartime career [edit]

Lynn sings at a munitions factory in wartime Britain, early 1941.

Lynn's wartime contribution began when she would sing to people who were using London's tube station platforms as air raid shelters. She would bulldoze there in her Austin 10 car.[20] Between 1937 and 1940, she too toured with the aristocrat of British dance bands, Bert Ambrose[21] equally part of the Ambrose Octet; the group appeared in broadcasts for the BBC and for Radio Luxembourg. She left Ambrose in 1940.[22]

During the Phoney State of war, the Daily Limited asked British servicemen to name their favourite musical performers: Vera Lynn came out on pinnacle and as a result became known as "the Forces' Sweetheart".[23] On July i, 1940, Lynn made her beginning advent equally a "fully fledged solo act" at the New Hippodrome in Coventry.[xix]

Vera Lynn appeared in the revue "Applesauce!" with Max Miller which commenced on 22 August 1940 at the Holborn Empire and ran to 9 September 1940. Its run was curtailed due to a bomb destroying the theatre. The revue continued at the London Palladium from 5 March 1941 and ended on 29 Nov that year.[24] Lynn had to exit the show for a while in July 1941 to take her appendix removed.[25]

Lynn is all-time known for the popular song "We'll Come across Once again", written past Ross Parker and Hughie Charles.[26] She starting time recorded information technology in 1939 with Arthur Young on Novachord, and after again in 1953 accompanied by servicemen from the British Armed Forces.[27] The nostalgic lyrics ("We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know nosotros'll meet again some sunny solar day") were very pop during the war and made the song i of its emblematic hits.[28] Her other great wartime hit was "The White Cliffs of Dover", words by Nat Burton, music by Walter Kent.[29]

Her continuing popularity was ensured by the success of her weekly 30-minute radio programme Sincerely Yours, which began airing at 9:thirty p.m. on nine November 1941, with messages to British troops serving away.[22] [14] Described as "to the men of the forces – a letter of the alphabet in words and Music", she was accompanied by Fred Hartley and his music.[xxx] Lynn and her quartet performed songs nearly requested by the soldiers. Lynn also visited hospitals to interview new mothers and transport personal messages to their husbands overseas.[31] Withal, in the aftermath of the fall of Singapore in February 1942 the programme was taken off air afterwards the broadcast on 22 March 1942[32] for xviii months out of fear that the sentimental nature of her songs would undermine the "virile" nature of British soldiers. Instead, "more traditionally martial classical music" was promoted.[33] Lynn returned with a regular show called "It'due south Fourth dimension for Vera Lynn" on the BBC'southward Forces plan on 31 Oct 1943, when she was accompanied past Peter Yorke and His Orchestra. The evidence was broadcast at 8 p.thousand. on Sunday nights and ran for twenty minutes.[34]

During the war years, she joined the Entertainments National Service Clan (ENSA) and toured Egypt, India and Burma,[35] giving outdoor concerts for British troops. In March 1944, she went to Shamshernagar airfield in Bengal to entertain the troops before the Battle of Kohima. Her host and lifelong friend Captain Bernard Holden recalled "her courage and her contribution to morale".[36] In 1985, she received the Burma Star for entertaining British guerrilla units in Japanese-occupied Burma.[37]

Between 1942 and 1944, she appeared in three movies with wartime themes.[22] Beginning, she starred in a film called We'll Encounter Over again in 1943 which was based on her own life story, that of a dancer who becomes a radio star. She went on to brand two more movies during the war, Rhythm Serenade (1943)[38] and Ane Exciting Nighttime (1944). In Rhythm Serenade she played a school instructor. After her schoolhouse is closed, she tries to join up. However, she is persuaded to organise a plant nursery for a munitions factory. One Exciting Night (also known every bit You Can't Practise Without Love) was a dramatic musical comedy in which she helps thwart a gang of art thieves.

Postwar career [edit]

Lynn's daughter and her just child, Virginia Penelope Ann Lewis, was built-in on 10 March 1946. After the state of war, Lynn had wanted to concentrate on being a mother and wife. Just her unfulfilled contract with Decca Records and financial pressures meant that she was lured back into showbusiness in 1947. She started a new radio show chosen "Vera Lynn Sings" on the BBC's Calorie-free Plan on Feb xvi, 1947.[39] This was broadcast on Sunday evenings from nine:xxx-10:00 p.k. with Robert Farnon leading the musical accompaniment. Her husband became her managing director. Her tape label, Decca, astutely promoted her records in the U.S. during the musicians' strike of 1948 and she had a U.South. Acme Ten hitting with "Y'all Tin't Be True, Beloved." In 1949, the BBC dropped her radio show because information technology claimed that at that place was no need for her "sob stuff". They wanted her to sing in a more lively style. So she made shows for Radio Luxembourg instead.[forty]

She kept touring and recording and in 1952 Lynn's British recording of a High german song, "Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart", became her best selling record ever. Information technology became the beginning tape by a British performer to top the charts in the United States,[41] remaining there for ix weeks. In Britain it held superlative spot for 10 weeks on the Sheet Music Charts (there were no tape charts at the time). She also appeared regularly for a fourth dimension on Tallulah Bankhead's U.s.a. radio programme The Large Bear witness.[42] "Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart", along with "The Homing Flit" and "Forget-Me-Not", gave Lynn three entries on the offset UK Singles Chart in Nov 1952.[43]

Vera Lynn was in the London Laughs [44] revue at the Adelphi Theatre, London from 12 April 1952 - 6 Feb 1954 with Tony Hancock and Jimmy Edwards.

Her popularity connected in the 1950s, peaking with "My Son, My Son", a number-i hit in 1954[45] written past Gordon Melville Rees, Bob Howard and Eddie Calvert. Information technology also reached No. 28 in the Billboard charts in the The states.[46]

In 1956, Lynn began her showtime television series for Associated-Rediffusion. During the same yr, she signed an sectional contract with the BBC for two years of radio and television piece of work.[22]

In 1960, she left Decca Records (afterwards most 25 years) and joined EMI.[47] She recorded for EMI's Columbia, MGM and HMV labels. She as well recorded Lionel Bart's song "The Day After Tomorrow" for the 1962 musical Rush!; she did non appear onstage in the play, but the characters in the play hear the song on the radio while they shelter from the bombs.[48]

In 1967, she recorded "It Hurts To Say Goodbye",[49] a song which hit the top ten on the Billboard Easy Listening chart.

She hosted her own multifariousness serial on BBC1 in the late 1960s and early 1970s[50] and was a frequent guest on other diverseness shows such every bit the 1972 Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show. In 1972, she was a key performer in the BBC ceremony programme Fifty Years of Music. In 1976, she hosted the BBC's A Jubilee of Music, celebrating the pop music hits of the period 1952–1976 to commemorate the start of Queen Elizabeth II'southward Silver Jubilee year. For ITV she presented a 1977 TV special to launch her album Vera Lynn in Nashville, which included popular songs of the 1960s and state songs.[51]

The Royal Multifariousness Performance included appearances by Vera Lynn on seven occasions: 1951,[52] 1952,[53] 1957,[54] 1960, 1975, 1986 and 1990.[55] [56] Lynn was also interviewed most her role in entertaining the troops in the Republic of india-Burma Theatre, for The Earth at State of war series in 1974. Lynn is also notable for beingness the but artist to take a chart span on the British unmarried and album charts reaching from the chart's inception to the 21st century – in 1952 having three singles in the first always singles chart, compiled past New Musical Express,[57] and later having a No. 1 album with Nosotros'll Meet Over again – The Very All-time of Vera Lynn.[58]

Recording career [edit]

Vera Lynn made her solo recording debut with the vocal "The General's Fast Asleep" on iii October 1935, accompanied by the Rhythm Rascals (a pseudonym for Jay Wilbur's orchestra). The 9" 78 rpm unmarried was issued on the Crown Records label,[59] which went on to release a total of 8 singles recorded by Vera Lynn and Charles Smart on organ. Early recordings include "I'm in the Mood for Beloved"[60] and "Cherry-red Sails in the Sunset".[61]

In 1938, the Decca label took over control of the British Crown characterization and the UK-based Male monarch characterization; they had also issued early singles from Lynn in 1937, including "Harbour Lights". In tardily September 1939, Vera Lynn first recorded a vocal that continues to be associated with her: "We'll Meet Again" was originally recorded with Arthur Young on the Novachord.[26]

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s the Decca label issued all of Lynn'south records, including several recorded with Mantovani and His Orchestra in 1942, and with Robert Farnon from the late 1940s. These were merely available every bit 78 rpm singles, which contained only two songs every bit an A and a B-side. In the mid-1950s, Decca issued several EP singles, which comprised between two and four recordings per side, such as Vera Lynn'due south Party Sing Song from 1954. Lynn was the starting time British creative person to have a number one in U.S. charts, achieved with "Auf Wiederseh'northward Sweetheart", which stayed at the height for nine weeks in 1952. Singles were now issued on two formats: the known 78 rpm 10" shellac discs, and the recently introduced 45 rpm 7" vinyl single. In the late 1950s, Lynn recorded four albums at Decca, the showtime; Vera Lynn Concert remains her only live recording ever issued on vinyl.[62] [63] [64] [65] [66]

In 1960, later on more than than twenty years at Decca Records, Lynn signed to the U.s.a. based MGM Records. In the UK, her recordings were distributed by the His Master's Voice label, later on EMI Records. Several albums and stand-lonely singles were recorded with Geoff Love & His Orchestra. Norman Newell too took over every bit Lynn'southward producer in this period and remained with her until her 1976 album Christmas with Vera Lynn. Recording at EMI Records up until 1977, Lynn released thirteen albums with material as diverse as traditional hymns, pop and country songs, also as re-recording many of her known songs from the 1940s for the albums Hits of the Blitz (1962), More Hits of the Blitz and Vera Lynn Remembers – The World at War (1974). In the 1980s, two albums of contemporary pop songs were recorded at the Pye Records label, both including covers of songs previously recorded by artists such as ABBA and Barry Manilow.[67] [66] [68] [69] [70]

In 1982, Lynn released the stand-alone single "I Love This Land", written by André Previn, to mark the end of the Falklands State of war. Lynn'southward final recordings before her retirement were issued in 1991 via the News of the World newspaper, with proceeds in aid of the Gulf Trust.[71]

After years [edit]

Lynn sang outside Buckingham Palace in 1995 in a anniversary that marked the golden jubilee of VE Solar day.[72]

The United Kingdom'due south VE Twenty-four hour period ceremonies in 2005 included a concert in Trafalgar Square, London, in which Lynn made a surprise appearance. She made a speech praising the veterans and calling upon the younger generation always to remember their sacrifice, and joined in with a few confined of "We'll Come across Once more". This would exist Lynn'south last vocal performance at a VE Day anniversary event.[22]

Following that year'south Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance Lynn encouraged the Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins to assume the mantle of "Forces' Sweetheart".[72] [73] [74] In her speech Lynn said: "These boys gave their lives and some came home badly injured, and for some families life would never be the aforementioned. We should ever remember, we should never forget, and we should teach the children to call up".[75]

In September 2008, Lynn helped launch a new social history recording website, "The Times of My Life", at the Cabinet War Rooms in London.[76] Lynn published her autobiography, Some Sunny 24-hour interval, in 2009. She had written two previous memoirs: Vocal Refrain (1975) and We'll Come across Over again (1989).[77]

In February 2009, it was reported that Lynn was suing the British National Party (BNP) for using "The White Cliffs of Dover" on an anti-immigration album without her permission. Her lawyer claimed the album seemed to link Lynn, who did not align with whatsoever political political party, to the party's views by association.[78]

In September 2009, at the age of 92, Lynn became the oldest living artist to make it to No. one in the British album chart.[79] Her compilation anthology Nosotros'll See Once again: The Very All-time of Vera Lynn entered the chart at number 20 on 30 August, and then climbed to No. two the following week before reaching the tiptop position, outselling both the Chill Monkeys and the Beatles.[lxxx] [81] With this accomplishment, she surpassed Bob Dylan as the oldest artist to have a number one album in the Great britain.[81]

In August 2014, Lynn was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-upward to September's referendum on that issue.[82] In May 2015, she was unable to attend VE Day 70: A Party to Remember, in London only was interviewed at dwelling house past the Daily Mirror.[83]

3 days earlier her 100th birthday on 17 March 2017, a new LP entitled Vera Lynn 100 was released through Decca Records.[84] The album, setting Lynn's original vocals to new re-orchestrated versions of her songs, likewise involves several duet partners including Alfie Boe, Alexander Armstrong, Aled Jones and the RAF Squadronaires.[85] Parlophone, which owns Lynn'southward afterward recordings from the 1960s and 1970s, released a collection of her songs recorded at Abbey Road Studios entitled Her Greatest from Abbey Road on x March 2017, including v previously unreleased original recordings.[86] By October 2017, she was the best-selling female artist of the year in the Uk, having sold more albums than contemporary artists like Dua Lipa and Lana del Rey.[87]

Lynn received two nominations at the 2022 Classic Brit Awards for Female Artist of the Yr and Anthology of the Year and was also the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award.[88]

Dame Vera Lynn'due south girl Virginia Lewis-Jones and Ross Kolby in forepart of his portrait of Lynn at the unveiling ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall on 13 January 2020.

In January 2020, a new painted portrait of Lynn was given equally a gift from London Mint Function to the Imperial Albert Hall in connection with the 75th anniversary of the peace in 1945.[89] The portrait is painted past Ross Kolby and was unveiled by Lynn's daughter Virginia Lewis-Jones and Britain'southward Got Talent winner Colin Thackery.[xc] [91]

On 5 April 2022 the song "We'll Meet Once again" was echoed past Queen Elizabeth II in a telly address she delivered addressing the COVID-19 pandemic.[92] For the 75th ceremony of VE Day, Lynn and Katherine Jenkins duetted virtually (Jenkins singing next to a hologram) at the Royal Albert Hall, which was empty due to the COVID-xix pandemic.[93]

In June 2021, a wildflower meadow on the White Cliffs of Dover was named in award of Lynn.[94]

Honours and cultural references [edit]

In 1976, Lynn received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the Memorial Academy of Newfoundland.[95] She received the Freedom of the City of London in 1978.[96] In 2000, she received a "Spirit of the 20th Century" Accolade in a nationwide poll in which she won 21% of the vote.[97] [23] A street named in her honour, Vera Lynn Shut, is situated in Forest Gate, London.[98] She was awarded the honorary degree of Master of Music (Chiliad.Mus.) in 1992 past the University of London.[99]

She was the subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions, in October 1957 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the BBC Television Theatre,[ commendation needed ] and once again in December 1978, for an episode which was broadcast on 1 January 1979, when Andrews surprised her at the Café Royal, London.[ citation needed ]

In 2018, Lynn received the Outstanding Contribution to Music award at the Classic Brit Awards.[100] In January 2019, it was reported that The London Mint Function had commissioned acclaimed Norwegian artist Ross Kolby to paint a portrait of Dame Vera. The painting was unveiled on thirteen Jan 2022 and hangs in the Majestic Albert Hall in London where Dame Vera performed on 52 occasions.[101]

Lynn's visit to the Burma forepart during the Second World War was included in the British idiot box documentary serial The World at State of war in 1974 and narrated by Lord Olivier. A short interview made for the documentary is included in Episode 14, "It'south A Lovely 24-hour interval Tomorrow: Burma 1942–1944".[102]

On their 1979 album The Wall, Pink Floyd released a vocal titled "Vera", referencing Vera Lynn and the song "Nosotros'll Meet Again" with the lyrics "Does anybody here recall Vera Lynn? / Retrieve how she said that / We would run across once again / Some sunny day?".[103] "We'll Meet Again" was also used as an intro to the live performances of The Wall in 1980 and 1981 (as tin can be heard on Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Alive 1980–81). The 1982 film Pink Floyd – The Wall opens with "The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot" performed by Lynn.[104]

The ending of Stanley Kubrick's black comedy film about the triggering of World War III (and the nuclear anything of civilization), Dr. Strangelove, shows several minutes of nuclear explosions, with a musical accompaniment of the 1953 version of We'll Meet Again with Vera Lynn and an military chorus.

A preserved instance of the WD Austerity 2-x-0 grade of steam locomotives at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway is named Matriarch Vera Lynn.[105] One of two new boats for the Woolwich Ferry service, which were delivered via Tilbury in autumn 2018, was named Dame Vera Lynn in her honour.[106] [107]

On his 2022 album Would You Yet Be in Beloved, Anthony Dark-green released a song titled "Vera Lynn" that referenced her songs "We'll Run across Again" and "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square".[108]

British honours [edit]

Strange honours [edit]

  • Commander of the Society of Orange-Nassau, The Netherlands (1977)[114]

Charity work [edit]

Vera Lynn, Hawkwind, and others at Crystal Palace Bowl, 24 August 1985

In 1953, Lynn formed the cerebral palsy charity SOS (The Stars Organisation for Spastics) and became its chairperson.[115] [116] The Vera Lynn Charity Breast Cancer Enquiry Trust was founded in 1976, with Lynn its chairperson and later its president.[117]

In August 1985, she appeared on stage at Crystal Palace Bowl, with Hawkwind, Dr. and the Medics and several other rock bands, for the finale of a benefit concert for Pete Townshend'southward Double-O anti-heroin charity.[118]

In 2002, Lynn became president of the cerebral palsy charity The Dame Vera Lynn Trust for Children with Cerebral Palsy, and hosted a celebrity concert on its behalf at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.[119] In 2008, Lynn became patron of the charitable Forces Literary Organisation Worldwide for ALL.[120]

She became the patron of the Dover State of war Memorial Project in 2010;[121] the aforementioned year she became patron of the British charity Projects to Support Refugees from Burma/Help 4 Forgotten Allies.[122] In 2013 she joined a PETA campaign against pigeon racing, stating that the sport is "utterly cruel".[123]

Personal life [edit]

During the Second World War, Lynn lived with her parents in a firm she had bought in 1938 at 24 Upney Lane, Barking. [124] In 1941, Lynn married Harry Lewis, a clarinetist, saxophonist and swain member of Ambrose'south orchestra[125] whom she had met ii years before. They rented another business firm in Upney Lane, near her parents' house.[124] Lewis became Lynn'southward managing director prior to 1950, afterward leaving his own career backside.[22]

After the 2nd Globe War, Lynn and Lewis moved to Finchley, northward London. The couple lived in Ditchling, East Sussex, from the early 1960s onwards, living next door to their girl.[126]

The couple had one child in March 1946, Virginia Penelope Anne Lewis (now Lewis-Jones).[23] Harry Lewis died in 1998.[127]

Death [edit]

Lynn died on 18 June 2022 at her home in East Sussex, at the age of 103.[128] [129] Tributes to Lynn were led by the Regal Family, with Queen Elizabeth Ii sending individual condolences to Lynn's family and Clarence House issuing tributes from Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall. The Prime number Government minister, Boris Johnson, and Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, also led with tributes in Parliament, while musicians like Sir Paul McCartney and Katherine Jenkins and public figures like Helm Tom Moore discussed her profound touch on.[130] On the day of her death, regular programming on the BBC was stopped in order to air tributes to the singer.[131] The Band of the Coldstream Guards convened the same 24-hour interval to play her vocal "We'll Meet Again".[132] After Lynn'southward expiry, Jenkins began campaigning to cock a statue of her by the White Cliffs of Dover, a location referenced in some other of her famous songs.[133]

Lynn was given a military machine funeral, which was held on 10 July 2022 in E Sussex. The procession made its manner from her home in Ditchling to the Woodvale Crematorium in Brighton;[134] it was widely attended by the public. Ditchling was decorated with poppies, a symbol of armed services remembrance. Ahead of the funeral, the White Cliffs of Dover had images of Lynn projected onto them, equally "We'll Run across Again" was being played beyond the English Channel. Her cortege was accompanied by members of the Purple Air Force, the British Army, the Royal Navy, and the Royal British Legion, also every bit the Boxing of Britain Spitfire flypast, which followed the cortege and passed over Ditchling three times (10 July 2022 was the 80th anniversary of the outset of the Battle of United kingdom). Her coffin was draped in a Union Flag with a wreath. At the family service at the Woodvale Crematorium chapel, she was serenaded by a Majestic Marine bugler. Her family unit accept said a public memorial service volition be organised for some fourth dimension in the futurity.[134] [135]

Discography [edit]

Studio albums [edit]

Compilation albums [edit]

Charted singles [edit]

Filmography [edit]

Film[154] Year Role Notes Ref
We'll Run into Again 1942 Peggy Chocolate-brown [155]
Rhythm Serenade 1943 Ann Martin [156]
1 Exciting Night 1944 Vera Baker also known as You Can't Do Without Love [157]
Venus fra Vestø 1962 [158]
A Souvenir for Love 1963 music performance [159]

Publications [edit]

  • Lynn, Vera (1975). Vocal Refrain. London: W. H. Allen
  • Lynn, Vera and Cross, Robin (1989). Nosotros'll Encounter Again. London: Sidgwick & Jackson
  • Lynn, Vera (2009). Some Sunny Day. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-00-731815-five

References [edit]

  1. ^ "Matriarch Vera Lynn, the new queen of the album charts at 92". Official UK Charts. viii June 2014. Retrieved fourteen December 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f grand h i j grand l m n o p q r "Vera Lynn: full Official Chart History". Official Charts Visitor. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Obituary: Matriarch Vera Lynn, a symbol of resilience and hope". BBC. 18 June 2020. Retrieved twenty June 2020.
  4. ^ Seidenberg, Steven; Sellar, Maurice; Jones, Lou (1995). You lot Must Recollect This. Great United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland: Boxtree Ltd. p. 132. ISBN0-7522-1065-3.
  5. ^ "Dame Vera Lynn: 'It is so important to go on going, proceed smiling and keep hoping'". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 13 May 2020
  6. ^ "{Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces' Sweetheart, turns 100". BBC. Retrieved thirteen May 2020
  7. ^ "Welch Bertram Southward. & Martin Annie" in Annals of Marriages for West Ham Registration Commune, vol. 4a (March quarter, 1913), p. 43
  8. ^ Eames, Tom (18 June 2020). "Vera Lynn facts: Iconic singer's age, songs, daughter, husband and more revealed". Smooth Radio. Retrieved xviii June 2020.
  9. ^ Wintle, Angela (22 December 2017). "Vera Lynn: 'Mum was determined to put me on stage. I didn't mutter'". The Guardian . Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  10. ^ Lynn, Vera (2009). Some Sunny Day. London, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland: Harper Collins. p. 43. ISBN978-0-00-731815-5.
  11. ^ "W Ham and South Essex Mail". fourteen December 1934: 4.
  12. ^ "The Era". 27 Feb 1935.
  13. ^ "West Ham and South Essex Mail". xiii September 1935: 1.
  14. ^ a b Seidenberg, Sellar, Jones, p. 132
  15. ^ Some Sunny Solar day, p. 74
  16. ^ Some Sunny Solar day, p. 73
  17. ^ "Vera Lynn, singer and 'forces sweetheart', dies aged 103", The Guardian, 18 June 2020
  18. ^ "The Era". 28 April 1938: 12.
  19. ^ a b Guthrie, Kate (2017). "Vera Lynn on Screen: Popular Music and the 'People's War'" (PDF). Twentieth-Century Music. 14 (2): 245–270. doi:10.1017/S1478572217000226. ISSN 1478-5722. S2CID 192905715.
  20. ^ Lynn, Vera (2009). Some Sunny Twenty-four hour period. London: HarperCollins. p. 93. ISBN978-0-00-731815-5.
  21. ^ Some Sunny 24-hour interval, p. 83
  22. ^ a b c d due east f "Dame Vera Lynn obituary". London, Britain. 18 June 2010. Retrieved xx June 2020.
  23. ^ a b c "Vera Lynn Biography". Musicianguide.com. Archived from the original on ane Jan 2011. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
  24. ^ "maxmiller.org". maxmiller.org . Retrieved xiv February 2022.
  25. ^ "Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News". viii August 1941: 108.
  26. ^ a b Baade, Christina L. (2012). Victory Through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World War II. Oxford University Press. p. eight. ISBN9780195372014.
  27. ^ "Vera Lynn – We'll Run into Over again / I'm Praying To St. Christopher". discogs.
  28. ^ "Obituary: Matriarch Vera Lynn, a symbol of resilience and hope". BBC News. 18 June 2020.
  29. ^ Seidenberg, Sellar, Jones p. 24
  30. ^ "Londonderry Sentry". 8 November 1941: 3.
  31. ^ Some Sunny Mean solar day, pp. 139–140
  32. ^ "The Londonderry Sentinel". 21 March 1942: vi.
  33. ^ Todman, Daniel (2020). Britain's State of war. Vol. 2. London. pp. 116–7. ISBN978-0-241-24999-4.
  34. ^ "Manchester Evening News". thirty October 1943: 4.
  35. ^ Pertwee, Pecker (1992). Stars in Battledress. London, UK: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 19. ISBN0-340-54662-X.
  36. ^ "Technology Obituaries: Bernard Holden". The Daily Telegraph. London, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. 4 Oct 2012. Archived from the original on 12 Jan 2022. Retrieved xiv June 2014.
  37. ^ "Dame Vera Lynn to receive Burma Star". The Times. No. 62091. 20 March 1985. p. 2, col. A.
  38. ^ Mundy, John (2007). The British Musical Moving picture. Manchester University Printing. p. 98. ISBN9780719063213.
  39. ^ "Sunday Mirror". xix January 1947: 6.
  40. ^ Lynn, Vera (2009). Some Sunny Day. London: HarperCollins. pp. 215–234. ISBN978-0-00-731815-5.
  41. ^ "Vera Lynn". Retrieved 1 January 2011.
  42. ^ Some Sunny Twenty-four hours, p. 233
  43. ^ Sexton, Paul (18 June 2020). "Dame Vera Lynn, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland's Dear "Forces' Sweetheart," Dies At 103". uDiscoverMusic. Retrieved xviii June 2020.
  44. ^ "guidetomusicaltheatre.com". guidetomusicaltheatre.com . Retrieved 15 February 2022.
  45. ^ "Official Charts – Vera Lynn, Elevation 75 releases". Retrieved 10 Jan 2011.
  46. ^ Whitburn, Joel (1986). Joel Whitburn's Pop Memories 1890-1954. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Inquiry Inc. p. 286. ISBN0-89820-083-0.
  47. ^ Some Sunny Day, p. 262
  48. ^ Forest, Alex (eighteen June 2020). "Dame Vera Lynn dies aged 103". WhatsOnStage.com. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  49. ^ "Recording: Information technology Hurts to Say Goodbye". SecondHandSongs . Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  50. ^ "The singer who comes back at the top while pop music fashions change". The Times, Th, 20 Jan 1972; pg. xvi; Issue 58380; col A
  51. ^ "Lynn [Welch], Matriarch Vera". Gove Music on Line. OUP. Retrieved ten January 2011.
  52. ^ "Royal Variety Charity". www.royalvarietycharity.org/ . Retrieved 23 Feb 2022.
  53. ^ "Royal Diversity Charity". www.royalvarietycharity.org/ . Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  54. ^ "Royal Diversity Charity". www.royalvarietycharity.org/ . Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  55. ^ Some Sunny Day, p. 289
  56. ^ operathephantom (26 May 2011). "Dame Vera Lynn performs at 1990 Purple Variety Performance". Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2019 – via YouTube.
  57. ^ Bush-league, John; Eder, Bruce. "Biography (Vera Lynn)". Billboard . Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  58. ^ "We'll Meet Again – The Very Best Of". Acharts.us . Retrieved 10 January 2011.
  59. ^ "British Crown Records – IAJRC Journal". Faqs.org . Retrieved 22 February 2011.
  60. ^ Vera Lynn, Vera Lynn_I'thousand in the Mood for Love , retrieved 20 March 2020
  61. ^ "Ruby-red Sails in the Sunset". 1935. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 20 March 2020 – via YouTube.
  62. ^ "Decca records general catalogue 1949 (London GB)". Decca. Retrieved 18 June 2020 – via Issuu.
  63. ^ "Vera Lynn with Woolf Phillips & His Orchestra* And The Clubmen – Vera Lynn Concert". discogs. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  64. ^ "EP Discography for Decca Records – Australia". Global Canis familiaris Productions . Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  65. ^ "Vera Lynn 78 RPM – Discography – UK – 78 RPM". 45 Worlds . Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  66. ^ a b "Vera Lynn on Apple Music". Apple Music . Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  67. ^ Southall, Brian (2011). Abbey Route: The Story of the Globe's Most Famous Recording Studios. Vince, Peter; Rouse, Allan. London: Double-decker. ISBN978-0-85712-676-4. OCLC 830001182.
  68. ^ "Obituary: Dame Vera Lynn, a symbol of resilience and hope". BBC News. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  69. ^ "Barry Manilow Covered Songs and Artists". Setlist . Retrieved eighteen June 2020.
  70. ^ a b c d eastward f thousand h i j 1000 50 chiliad northward o "LP Discography: Vera Lynn – Discography". LP Discography . Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  71. ^ "Dame Vera Lynn With The 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards – Specially Recorded By Dame Vera Lynn For The News Of The World". 45cat.com . Retrieved 21 March 2018.
  72. ^ a b Some Sunny Day, p. 295
  73. ^ "Jenkins performs for Iraq troops". BBC News. 23 Dec 2005. Retrieved eighteen June 2020.
  74. ^ "Jenkins sings for Dame Vera at 90". BBC News. 20 March 2007. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  75. ^ "Thousands mark VE Day across UK". BBC News. 8 May 2005. Retrieved eighteen June 2020.
  76. ^ "Blessed are The Times of My Life". Response Source. 17 September 2008. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
  77. ^ Thorpe, Vanessa (xv February 2009). "At 92, forces' sweetheart Vera Lynn tells her life story". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
  78. ^ "Dame Vera Lynn takes on BNP over White Cliffs of Dover". The Daily Telegraph. London. 18 February 2009. Archived from the original on iii June 2010. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
  79. ^ Singh, Anita (2 September 2009). "Dame Vera Lynn in chart battle with Chill Monkeys". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 6 September 2009. Retrieved ii January 2011.
  80. ^ "Dame Vera Lynn re-enters charts". BBC News. 31 Baronial 2009. Retrieved 23 Oct 2009.
  81. ^ a b Leach, Ben (13 September 2009). "Dame Vera Lynn becomes oldest living creative person to have number one album". The Daily Telegraph. London, UK. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
  82. ^ "Celebrities' open letter to Scotland – full text and listing of signatories". The Guardian. 7 August 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
  83. ^ Bletchly, Rachael (8 May 2015). "VE Day: Matriarch Vera Lynn on why we must ever recall the heroes of the 2d World War". Daily Mirror . Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  84. ^ "Dame Vera Lynn breaks own record with new anthology at 100". BBC News. ii February 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  85. ^ "Vera Lynn 100 by Vera Lynn". Amazon UK. one Feb 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  86. ^ "Vera Lynn – Her Greatest From Abbey Road – Resident". Resident-music.com. ane February 2017. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  87. ^ "Matriarch Vera Lynn is currently the Great britain's top-selling female creative person of 2017". NME Music. 5 October 2017. Retrieved xviii June 2020.
  88. ^ "The nominations for the Classic BRIT Awards take been revealed". Classic FM . Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  89. ^ Horton, Tom (13 January 2020). "Dame Vera Lynn portrait goes on display at the Royal Albert Hall". The Belfast Telegraph . Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  90. ^ "Matriarch Vera Lynn portrait to hang on display at Royal Albert Hall". Sussex Express. 14 January 2019.
  91. ^ "Dame Vera Lynn – The Voice of a Nation on Vimeo". eight January 2022 – via Vimeo.
  92. ^ "The Queen's coronavirus address: 'Nosotros will meet again'". BBC News. five April 2020. Retrieved 6 Apr 2020.
  93. ^ "Katherine Jenkins to perform VE Day concert at empty Royal Albert Hall". The Guardian. four May 2020. Retrieved xviii June 2020.
  94. ^ "Wildflower meadow on White Cliffs of Dover named in honour of Dame Vera Lynn". ITV News. 17 June 2021. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
  95. ^ "Honorary graduates of Memorial University of Newfoundland 1960 – Present" (PDF). Memorial University of Newfoundland. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 February 2016. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
  96. ^ "Lynn, Vera (1917—)". Encyclopedia.com . Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  97. ^ "At 92, forces' sweetheart Vera Lynn tells her life story". The Guardian. 15 February 2009. Retrieved 7 February 2020.
  98. ^ Walawalkar, Aaron (20 March 2017). "New street signs to honour Dame Vera Lynn on her 100th birthday". Newham Recorder . Retrieved xviii June 2020.
  99. ^ "Dame Vera Lynn dies aged 103". University of London. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  100. ^ "Matriarch Vera Lynn to receive Lifetime Achievement Award". Classic Brits. 26 March 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  101. ^ "Dame Vera Lynn portrait to hang on display at Royal Albert Hall". Midsussextimes.co.uk.
  102. ^ "Earth at War, the, Pt. 14: It'due south a Lovely Day Tomorrow (Goggle box)". The Paley Middle for Media. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  103. ^ "Vera Lyrics – The Wall Lyrics – Pink Floyd Lyrics". Retrieved 25 May 2016.
  104. ^ Merey, Andy (22 December 2015). "The Picayune Boy that Santa Claus Forgot". DurhamRegion.com. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  105. ^ "Locomotives at the NYMR". Nymr.co.united kingdom . Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  106. ^ Broadbent, Giles (thirty June 2017). "Names for new Woolwich ferries revealed". The Wharf . Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  107. ^ "Matriarch Vera Lynn – IMO 9822023". ShipSpotting.com . Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  108. ^ "New Video for 'Vera Lynn'". Anthony Green . Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  109. ^ "No. 44740". The London Gazette. twenty December 1968. pp. x–12.
  110. ^ "No. 46593". The London Gazette (Supplement). six June 1975. p. 7376.
  111. ^ "Page 596 | Consequence 54652, 16 January 1997 | London Gazettee". Thegazette.co.uk . Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  112. ^ "No. 61608". The London Gazette (Supplement). xi June 2016. p. B27.
  113. ^ "Queen's Altogether Honours". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 Jan 2022. Retrieved x June 2016.
  114. ^ "Co-operative History". RAF Clan Amsterdam Branch . Retrieved thirty July 2019.
  115. ^ "Stars Foundation for Cerebral Palsy". Starsorg.co.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland. Archived from the original on iv July 2009. Retrieved 27 September 2010.
  116. ^ Lynn, Vera (1976). Vocal Refrain. Wyndham Publications Ltd. ISBN0-352-39884-1.
  117. ^ "Breast Cancer Research Trust". Retrieved 23 October 2009.
  118. ^ Cooper, Leonie (18 June 2020). "Yes: Dame Vera Lynn played an anti-heroin gig with Hawkwind and Lemmy". NME . Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  119. ^ "Matriarch Vera Lynn Trust for Children with Cerebral Palsy". Dvltrust.org.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland . Retrieved 23 October 2009.
  120. ^ "Menses for ALL – Welcome". Flowforall.org . Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  121. ^ "The Dover War Memorial Projection – Remembering the casualties of World War from Dover, Kent, England – the Front-Line town of Hellfire Corner". Doverwar,e,orialproject.org.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland . Retrieved 9 February 2016.
  122. ^ "Assistance for Forgotten Allies". Psrb.org.great britain. thirty March 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2014.
  123. ^ Depression, Valentine (28 March 2013). "Queen urged to end back up for 'roughshod' pigeon racing". The Times . Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  124. ^ a b King, Jon (xx March 2017). "Sometime Barking resident Dame Vera Lynn is 100-years-old today". Barking and Dagenham Post . Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  125. ^ Farndale, Nigel (17 Baronial 2009). "Matriarch Vera Lynn: the original Forces Sweetheart is even so in demand". The Daily Telegraph. London, Uk. Archived from the original on 26 Nov 2010. Retrieved 31 Dec 2010.
  126. ^ "Birthday chorus for Forces Sweetheart Dame Vera (From The Argus)". Theargus.co.united kingdom . Retrieved 23 Oct 2009.
  127. ^ "Harry Lewis". The Herald . Retrieved 21 March 2015.
  128. ^ "Forces' Sweetheart Matriarch Vera Lynn dies aged 103". BBC News. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  129. ^ Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (18 June 2020). "Vera Lynn, vocaliser and 'forces' sweetheart', dies anile 103". The Guardian. London. Retrieved xviii June 2020.
  130. ^ "Royalty and McCartney atomic number 82 Dame Vera tributes". BBC News. xviii June 2020. Retrieved ten July 2020.
  131. ^ "BBC drops this evening's Garden Rescue to air tribute to Dame Vera Lynn". Radio Times. eighteen June 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  132. ^ Coldstream Guards Perform Dame Vera Lynn'south 'We'll Run across Again' In Full. Forces Telly. xviii June 2020. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 10 July 2020 – via YouTube.
  133. ^ "Katherine Jenkins campaigns for statue of Vera Lynn". iv July 2020. Retrieved ten July 2020.
  134. ^ a b "Dame Vera Lynn: Spitfire flypast marks funeral". BBC News. BBC. ten July 2020. Archived from the original on 10 July 2020. Retrieved eleven July 2020.
  135. ^ "Funeral held for 'Forces' Sweetheart' Dame Vera Lynn". BBC News . Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  136. ^ "Reviews and Ratings of New Popular Albums". Billboard. 24 Nov 1956. p. 26. Retrieved eighteen June 2020.
  137. ^ "The Wonderful Earth of Nursery Rhymes – Vera Lynn, Kenneth McKellar". AllMusic. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  138. ^ a b Braid, Mary (24 April 1994). "Matriarch Vera: nosotros'll meet again and once more and again and ." The Independent . Retrieved xviii June 2020.
  139. ^ "Vera Lynn Remembers the World at State of war". Majestic War Museums . Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  140. ^ "Vera Lynn – Singing To The World". discogs. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  141. ^ a b c "British album certifications – Vera Lynn – Certifications". British Phonographic Industry. Select albums in the Format field.Type Certifications in the "Search BPI Awards" field and and so press Enter.
  142. ^ "Vera Lynn – Remembers". discogs. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  143. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Volume. ISBN0-646-11917-6.
  144. ^ "Vera Lynn – We'll Meet Over again – The Very Best Of – Music Charts". Acharts.the states . Retrieved 23 October 2009.
  145. ^ "Vera Lynn – We'll Meet Over again (the Very All-time of Vera Lynn) – Music Charts". Acharts.u.s.a.. Archived from the original on v August 2012. Retrieved 23 Oct 2009.
  146. ^ Furness, Hannah (8 June 2014). "Matriarch Vera Lynn breaks nautical chart record aged 97 with album of wartime hits". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved eighteen June 2020.
  147. ^ a b c Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top Popular Records 1940–1955. Record Research.
  148. ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). London: Bus Press. ISBN978-one-84609-856-7. OCLC 85691957.
  149. ^ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 25 February 1956.
  150. ^ "Such a Day (song by Vera Lynn) ••• Music VF, U.s. & Britain hits charts". Music VF . Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  151. ^ Vera Lynn – Billboard Singles, AllMusic. Accessed on line v May 2009.
  152. ^ "Original versions of It Hurts to Say Goodbye by Vera Lynn". SecondHandSongs.com. 6 January 1967. Retrieved one Oct 2016.
  153. ^ "We'll Meet Again - single". Apple Music. 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
  154. ^ "Vera Lynn" British Film Institute. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  155. ^ "We'll Encounter Once again (1942)" British Film Institute. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  156. ^ "Rhythm Serenade (1943)" British Flick Institute. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  157. ^ "One Exciting Night (1943)" British Film Institute. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  158. ^ "Venus fra Vestø (1962)" British Film Plant. Retrieved xviii June 2020.
  159. ^ "A Gift for Beloved (1963)" British Movie Establish. Retrieved eighteen June 2020.

External links [edit]

  • Hackel, Erin (2013). "Dame Vera Lynn: Voice of a Generation" (PDF). Kapralova Gild Journal. eleven (2): 1–six.
  • Vera Lynn at IMDb
  • Vera Lynn at AllMusic
  • Dame Vera Lynn Trust for Children with Cerebral Palsy
  • Vera Lynn discography at Discogs.com
  • 2002 Woman'southward Hour interview
  • Q&A with TIME Magazine in September 2009
  • 2010 interview with Nathan Morley on CyBC
  • Majestic State of war Museum Interview
  • March 2022 online interview with Lord Ashcroft
  • Vera Lynn's 78rpm recordings at the Internet Archive
  • Portraits of Vera Lynn at the National Portrait Gallery, London

montejanohateardideft66.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Lynn

0 Response to "No Fear at Nine in the Morning Here Well Meet Again"

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Iklan Atas Artikel

Iklan Tengah Artikel 1

Iklan Tengah Artikel 2

Iklan Bawah Artikel