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We'll meet again,
Don't know where,
Don't know when,
But I know
We'll meet again
Some sunny day.
Keep
smiling through
Just like you
Always do
Till the blue skies
Drive the dark clouds
Far away.
Vera Lynn,
the 'Forces Sweetheart'
Her most famous song must be "We'll
meet again", which was written by Ross Parker and
Hughie Charles in 1939 and sung in the movie of the same
name, in which Vera starred in 1942. She first sang the
song in 1939 while touring with the Ambrose Orchestra.
The movie was produced by Ben Henry and his associate,
George Formby, pictured on the right. George was a singer
and movie actor and comedian in his own right.
Vera Lynn made two more movies, Rhythm
Serenade (1943) and One Exciting Night (1944).
While the first movie was basically her own lifestory, of
a dancer who becomes a radio star, in Rhythm Serenade
she played the 'girl next door' in a comedy, while One
Exciting Night sees her in a dramatic role about art
thieves. She sings in all three films.
In 1989, together with Robin Cross and
Jenny de Cress, Dame Vera Lynn published a 'personal and
social history of World War Two' (softback 1994, ISBN 0-283-06233-9),
from which these pictures and some quotes have been taken.
The book may be a bit hard to find, try Amazon UK.
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So will you please
Say hello
To the folks
That I know
Tell them,
I won't be long.
They'll
be happy to know
That as you saw me go
I was singing this song.
The
audio file downloading will take some time (about 300 k)
The song was featured on the Pink Floyd LP "Another Brick in the
Wall".
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