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Noah Spaceship
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9/15/2009 6:29:54 AM
anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
well, she just topped the Beatles with album sales
from cnn -
The 92-year-old's album "We'll Meet Again The Very Best of Vera Lynn" took the top spot in the British charts on Sunday, even outselling much-hyped re-mastered versions of the Beatles' back catalogue, according to the UK's Official Charts Company.
(the rest of the story)http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/09/14/lynn.charts.uk/index.html
well, I'll be darned, I guess I'm just an idiot, but I lernd sunthing today
who the hell Vera Lynn is! I'm stoked.
ok, carry on
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Bryon Tosoff
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9/15/2009 5:30:21 PM
hey Fred. my parents and all that era listened to her stuff way back , like way back in 40s 50s I know my neighbour was from England and they performed some of the songs she did, they are in their late 70s early 80s......very popular during WWII
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Jillidom
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9/15/2009 7:05:04 PM
Vera Lynn was the Forces sweetheart in WW2 and kept up the moral for people at home. She only really had one lasting popular song "We'll meet again" - What's happened with this album is people are giving it as a present to all the old folk who remember her, it's a nostalgia thing. I doubt that she actually still sings these days.
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Noah Spaceship
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9/15/2009 10:08:50 PM
yeah, well, she's 92 and still breathing, but I guess the familiarity for her to me is that Pink Floyd tune on the Wall.
All those years of listening to the short and sweet tune and now I know.
Cheers!
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Noah Spaceship
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9/15/2009 10:08:53 PM
yeah, well, she's 92 and still breathing, but I guess the familiarity for her to me is that Pink Floyd tune on the Wall.
All those years of listening to the short and sweet tune and now I know.
Cheers!
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9/16/2009 12:42:08 AM
I have met Dame Vera Lynn twice. Once aged 19 on my very first day working as a gopher in BBC local radio when she came in to be interviewed for their daily arts programme, and then again many years later when she came to Edinburgh for the opening of an exhibition. Both times she was absolutely charming and very proper in an old-fashioned English way. She had a tremendous verve and dignity about her and I found each meeting very inspiring even though on both occasions we only spoke for a minute or two and I'm sure it was all in a day's meet'n'greet for her.
I was thinking about her when I wrote the last verse of my song Tongue-Tied - she is hiding in the line about the tram-ride: the idea being that what goes around always comes around in the end (a familiar lyrical topic of mine).
A truly splendid lady.
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jingo
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9/16/2009 3:41:28 AM
It's nice to get some information to help flesh out Vera Lynne, who was obviously well loved and performed a very important war time function, she sounds like an amazing woman.
Like Spaceship, my only notion of "Vera Lynne" came from Roger Waters warbling as he destroyed a perfectly good band. Seems like she deserves better than that.
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