The Very Best Of Vera Lynn: We'll Meet Again

1 (There'll be bluebirds over) The White Cliffs of Dover 2 Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart 3 We'll Meet Again 4 Travellin' Home 5 As Time Goes By 6 Dream 7 Faraway Places 8 Harbour lights 9 It's A Lovely Day Tomorrow 10 If you love me 11 When you hear Big Ben 12 Yours 13 The loveliest night of the year 14 Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye 15 Half as much - Isle of Innisfree - You Belong To Me 16 Up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire 17 When I grow too old to dream 18 Somewhere along the way - Here in my heart - Let the rest of the world go by 19 I'm forever blowing bubbles 20 From the time you say goodbye (The Parting Song)

Wholenote Discoveries - November 2009
November 11th is Armistice Day, remembering the end of THE GREAT WAR aka THE WAR TO END ALL WARS aka WW1. During WW2 through radio and recordings songs of inspiration and hope were a universal morale builder. No vocalist, at least in Britain and the colonies and probably elsewhere, was as easily recognised as Vera Lynn. She was called “The Sweetheart of the Forces” and the songs she recorded were convincingly optimistic. Decca has issued a nostalgic CD with 20 of those important morale builders including The White Cliffs of Dover, We’ll Meet Again, Auf Wiederseh’n Sweetheart, As Time Goes By, When I Grow Too Old to Dream, and Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye. A very pleasant collection I thought. Bruce Surtees

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