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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDon't know why I woke up and thought of this classic WW2 song
I do wonder when we'll be able to travel and visit close family and friends
redwitch
(14,940 posts)Reminds me of my mom who was a young girl during WWII. She loved this song too.
malaise
(268,664 posts)She also loved this song.
samnsara
(17,604 posts)..going thru my head since I head Ozzie Nelson sing it during one of his dream sequences....
Bad malaise
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)the climax of Dr. Strangelove? It's a great song, but if your first experience of it was seeing Dr. Strangelove, it's hard to think of it in any other context.
Didn't know it was a WW2 song. Thanks for the information.
It is one of the more famous WW2 songs
whistler162
(11,155 posts)still alive. A UK national treasure.
I didn't know she was still alive.
Look at this from Friday
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/dame-vera-lynn-important-keep-going-keep-smiling-keep-hoping/
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Dame Vera Lynn, the Forces sweetheart, did not expect her wartime words to soothe a nation in crisis once again. But after the Queen echoed the lyrics of Well Meet Again in her address to the nation last month, the beloved 1939 tune has proved steadying in a time of uncertainty.
It was wonderful, the 103-year-old reflects. I didnt know that Her Majesty was going to finish up with the words we will meet again, but I think [they] speak to the hope we should all have during these troubling times.
Indeed those lyrics streams of which were up by over 200 per cent on Spotify after that royal mention, and which are heard anew in a recently released charity recording of the song, a duet by Dame Vera and Katherine Jenkins have unexpectedly become especially poignant, Dame Vera tells me over email. I am a firm believer in carrying on, she adds. It is so important to keep going, keep smiling and keep hoping even when things are tough....
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I am a royal hater so I did not watch or read the queen's address
hlthe2b
(102,105 posts)and the Ken Burns 14 hour documentary on The Roosevelts. Somehow knowing my late parents and grandparents lived through all of that is inspiring. But, oh, how it makes me desperate for us to see leadership. It is so frightening in comparison.
Music of WWII era is so spot-on. My father especially loved this music. Nice selection, malaise.
malaise
(268,664 posts)He said he first heard my second sis (his mom) play it, but that some of them knew it in Iraq
usaf-vet
(6,161 posts)Foyle's War. Can be found on Amazon Prime, YouTube, and DVD
https://tinyurl.com/y8gqzv9k
hlthe2b
(102,105 posts)The Blue Flower
(5,432 posts)This song is a reminder of that. Our precious forebears survived so much hardship that we can't even imagine.
malaise
(268,664 posts)I haven't experienced the fear part of it but I don't like the uncertainty.
Everything about my mother's approach to live was a reminder that she learned several lessons during that war.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Uncanny timing given you posted your OP and hr and a half before they tweeted.
malaise
(268,664 posts)not mom. He survived the war and then died a few years later in a motor bike crash in London.
Thanks for that.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)malaise
(268,664 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,319 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)Happens to me all the time. Often songs that were popular long before my time.
As a kid I had several large, what were called 'fake books', containing truncated, 3 to a page, songs with lyrics, notes and chords, - which I played.
Heard some from my parents. I would like the lyrics, melody, or chords [especially blues/minor, augmented and diminished].
'til then' was covered by many artists.
'We'll meet again' and 'til then', are about . . . hope of course. [As are 1000's of other songs and stories. 'This too will pass' - eventually].
malaise
(268,664 posts)but this one was mum's song. Lovely post.
demmiblue
(36,816 posts)malaise
(268,664 posts)What a lovely cover
bobnicewander
(798 posts)3catwoman3
(23,943 posts)...this again and again.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Maybe you heard it?
CBHagman
(16,980 posts)And here's another WWII song from Vera Lynn, not necessarily with the right text for now, but the sentiments of returning to a normal life are on the mark.
Vaughn Monroe recorded it as well.
I did hear reports of it so subconsciously it may have seeped in
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Oddly enough, I have been playing this song in my head for the past few days. I remember this song from the ending of the movie "Dr. Strangelove."
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|FM123
(10,053 posts)There are old tunes I suddenly remember, ones that played on my parent's record player in my childhood home growing up. The waves of melancholy that come with the music usually just wash over me lightly, but then there are moments when those waves just knock me over.
This one isn't that old but I've also been singing it
FM123
(10,053 posts)malaise
(268,664 posts)Yes, some sunny day.
Thank you so much. Really.
malaise
(268,664 posts)Enjoy
FM123
(10,053 posts)malaise
(268,664 posts)There is something so moving in the way in which she sings.
Danascot
(4,689 posts)the song meant and still means followed by a lovely tribute by Kiwi singer Hayley Westenra. It's from 2009. Dame Vera was the guest of honor.