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VERA LYNN Remembers The Songs That Won World War II
MUSIC CD
Celebrate the 75th anniversary of VE Day on 8th May 2020 with this nostalgic CD and sing along to such classic songs as: The White Cliffs of Dover, Yours, There’ll Always Be an England, Lilli Marlene and We’ll Meet Again.
Vera Lynn is forever remembered as the singer who became the “forces sweetheart” during the difficult days of the Second World War. In 1941, during the darkest days of the conflict, she began her own radio programme, Sincerely Yours, sending messages to British troops serving abroad. She and her quartet performed songs most requested by the soldiers. Vera also visited hospitals to interview new mothers and send personal messages to their husbands overseas.
During the war years she also joined ENSA and toured Egypt, India and Burma, giving outdoor concerts for the troops. In March 1944 she went to Shamshernagar airfield in Bengal to entertain the troops before the Battle of Kohima. Her host and lifelong friend Captain Bernard Holden recalled “her courage and her contribution to morale”, and it’s for these qualities that Dame Vera Lynn will always have a place in our hearts.
22 Memorable Tracks:
Yours; Who’s Taking You Home Tonight; Wishing; Wish Me Luck; Somewhere in France with You; The Last Time I Saw Paris; Arm in Arm; I’ll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time; A Pair of Silver Wings; Silver Wings in the Moonlight; Comin’ in on a Wing and a Pray’R; London Pride; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square; White Cliffs of Dover; Medley: If I Only Had Wings; The Badge from Your Coat; Roll out the Barrel; I’ll Be Seeing You; You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To; Room Five-Hundred-And-Four; That Lovely Weekend; Besame Mucho (Kiss Me); There’ll Always Be an England; You’ll Never Know; It Had to Be You; Lili Marlene; Medley: Be Like the Kettle and Sing; There’s a New World over the Skyline; As Time Goes By; When the Lights Go on Again; I’ll Pray for You; We’ll Meet Again; Land of Hope and Glory (Adapted from ‘Pomp & Circumstance’ No 1).
OUR PRICE £12.99 WITH FREE UK POSTAGE
