jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

If you're not familiar with the English singer Vera Lynn, very popular in the 1940s, go to Pandora.com and listen for a while. She was born in 1917 and still with us!

"Dame Vera Lynn, 100, has written herself into the record books as the oldest living artist to score a Top 10 album. The veteran singer, who has just become a centenarian, has outsold Rag’n’Bone Man and Depeche Mode on the charts just released in her native U.K."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/markbeech/2017/03/24/vera-lynn-100-becomes-oldest-artist-with-top-10-album-outsells-depeche-mode/#1c6e475b2745

Billbobboy42 Loc: Center of Delmarva

Didn't she star in the movie "White Christmas" with Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, and Danny Kaye? Or was it the "other" Vera Lynn. I think there were two.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Vera-Ellen

1Feathercrest Loc: NEPA

Jerry, the link you posted would not work for me, but I got the wonderful 58 minute interview with early clips of her during WWII. For old geezers like me she was (and still is) the sweetheart of those of us who lived during those times. Happy 100th birthday dear Vera, we loved you then, we love you now.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Cornishpete Loc: Illinois

Vera Lynn- known as 'The Forces Sweetheart' who on our 'wireless sets' (radios to you Yanks) kept the hopes and spirits alive for both our constantly bombed civilians and our armed forces.
As I was only a little kid, born in 1938, perhaps I am only guessing that I remember Dame Vera Lynn's songs from those actual years and not from just later in my life.
But with the BBC being our only source of news and entertainment that was what our families listened to and I just know that words and music form powerful memories when connected to events such as war when many of us were losing fathers, brothers, uncles and other family members.

'We'll meet again'; 'White cliffs of Dover'; 'When the lights go on again'; 'Lily Marlene'
It sends a shiver up my spine just thinking about how our hopes and spirits were raised by such music.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I'm listening to her now on Amazon. I ordered her two new CDs.

viscountdriver Loc: East Kent UK

A Spitfire flew over her house to help her celebrate. She was not one of the world's greatest singers but she raised spirits and morale she was also one of the few that went to Burma to entertain the troops A few more years,old girl'r

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

She was only in her 20s during WW II. I'm glad she's had a long life.

jackm1943 Loc: Omaha, Nebraska

Wow, I didn't know she was still with us. We'll Meet Again is one of my very favorite lifetime songs, but only when sung by Vera, there are various other artist versions out there but they do nothing for me. I've told my wife that I would like to have that song, and the Hollies "The Air That I Breathe" played at my funeral, but I'm not sure she would go along with that.