Celebrates 100 years tomorrow March 20th.
Happy birthday Dame Vera

The voice of WW2, along with Edith Piaf and iilse Werner....


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Thought this was a ...is dead thread.

There was a good programme on R2 about her.

Noticed how she married in 1941 and stayed with him until her husband died in 1998

I'd intended starting a thread this morning about the Forces Sweetheart, my dad would be proud of me for doing so. I'm sure he once told me that she visited them during the war.

She constantly lifted the spirits of those fighting for us during World War II - for that, happy 100th Dame Vera.

I suppose the link has to be this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY

I hate whale meat.

Her daughter could have been cloned from Vera. She was on BBC bfast TV today talking about her mother.

As a musician in the RAF for 23 years I had the pleasure of accompanying her on many occasions throughout Europe.
She is a lovely lady who deserves respect for all that she did during the war years and for many service charities since then.
I hope that she has a wonderful day.
By the way, mdd2, her husband was also her manager and was not always easy to deal with, however, Vera used to put him in his place!

Then , as now, musical tastes differ. I spoke to some chaps from that era, they couldnt stand her.

Wile E Coyote wrote:Then , as now, musical tastes differ. I spoke to some chaps from that era, they couldnt stand her.

I heard that from a guy who was an officer in Bomb disposal during WW2.
Troops loved or loathed her.*
* music not the person.

Applause on 100 minutes?

WestWiltsDave wrote:Applause on 100 minutes?

If we were still playing on 100 minutes, it's guaranteed we'd concede.

Apparently the 'White Cliifs of Dover' song was written by an American, which probably explains the incorrect reference to blue birds of which are not indigenous to this country.

Lovely lady who deeply cared about the troops. And very attractive in her day unlike a few forces sweethearts we've had lately.

Cirrus_Minor wrote:Apparently the 'White Cliifs of Dover' song was written by an American, which probably explains the incorrect reference to blue birds of which are not indigenous to this country.

I'm not sure where you got that info from, but so far as I have always understood, the "bluebirds" were the RAF planes, (with their blue uniforms). There are several metaphorical or symbolic references to the war and the troops in the text.
I'm sure the choice of "bluebirds" was quite conscious on Burton's part since there are many indigenous birds with 2 syllables that he could have used.
Somehow "There'll be seagulls over the white cliffs of Dover" doesn't quite have the same resonance.

nil_desperandum wrote:I'm not sure where you got that info from, but so far as I have always understood, the "bluebirds" were the RAF planes, (with their blue uniforms). There are several metaphorical or symbolic references to the war and the troops in the text.
I'm sure the choice of "bluebirds" was quite conscious on Burton's part since there are many indigenous birds with 2 syllables that he could have used.
Somehow "There'll be seagulls over the white cliffs of Dover" doesn't quite have the same resonance.

Written by Walter Kent, Jewish American song writer with Nat Burton, fellow American (tin an alley writers). They were apparently asked to write a nostalgic song as part of the war ethic and in fairness wrote a very good one.

Vera?
Vera?
What has become of you?

Does anybody else in here feel the way I do?