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31 August 2009

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?

post by: Joe Beese at: 12:40 | 13 comments

I do. This is extremely nice.

posted by JanetLand 31 August | 12:54

Can't access the link from my phone, but just coming in to say that she's part of the folk memory here in the UK. She's still around, still goes to war-related ceremonies, I think, and has another record in the charts this week, aged 92.

posted by altolinguistic 31 August | 12:55

Yes, but solely because of the lyric you're referencing.

posted by Wolfdog 31 August | 12:57

She said we would meet again!

posted by The Whelk 31 August | 14:22

She still does work for charity

posted by dodgygeezer 31 August | 16:08

I only know that song from the end of Dr. Strangelove, and because it was covered by The Byrds.

posted by Obscure Reference 31 August | 18:47

*runs vacuum cleaner*

posted by cortex 31 August | 18:58

Wow, I assumed that she had died years ago.

posted by octothorpe 31 August | 20:16

Here's a youtube link. Listening to that just made chills run up my spine. Very nice, Joe Beese. Very nice.

posted by Doohickie 31 August | 21:35

Because of that lyric I picked up a Best of comp years ago that is strangly comforting. I also assumed that she had died years ago.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 31 August | 23:35

Absolutely, and I didn't realise she was still alive either. :) Nice.

posted by plep 01 September | 07:29

BBC World News interviewed her and she is still on the ball.

Vera. Vera. What has become of you.
Does anybody else in here, feel the way I do.

posted by terrapin 01 September | 12:17

Yes, but solely because of the lyric you're referencing.

No love for Mr C's "'As anyone got any Veras? Laaaaarvely!!!" ?

posted by pompomtom 01 September | 20:29

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