My mum sang this song in a talent show held at Butlins, Skegness in the late 1960s. It brings back such wonderful memories to me. Whenever I visit her grave I always gently sing this to her and like now the tears well up inside me. RIP you wonderful being, I miss you everyday mum xxx
@Ginganu 1234 Vera Lynn is British, not American. Keep your American comments to yourself, they have nothing to do with people's memories of this song. As @armyoldsweat said, "Grow up!"
Like ginganu1234 I too believe Vera Lynn is (not was) a lady but why why is it necessary for you to use such vile terminology. Haven't your parents taught you anything laddie? For goodness sake grow up!
Pt 2: and honestly i have to say vera lynn was a LADY if ive ever seen one before not the shit you see today, playing around and fucking screwing you at every turn. this music honestly has so much meaning, then lady gaga and all that other garbage you see nowadays
i love this song so much...it makes me cry cause its sooo beautiful. the women back then were so pretty and actually had some kinda of standards for themselves. life back then was much more simple, but at the same time it was difficult without what we have today, but i really think america has lost it's chivalry,and it's respect.
beautiful! I was also born to late and love the music from the 40s. I'm trying to get all Vera Lynn's music on my iPod. Vera Lynn and Judy Garland were the best. Shame Judy went the way she did. Today's music will never become "golden Oldies".
@jesserawls1991 - Oh Jesse I do remember Vera Lynn. I do remember what she sang about meeting some sunny day. I will always remember the English and WWll. And I send you greetings and good wishes from NY.
as a 76 year old person living in South Africa turning on the radio at two in the afternoon waiting to hear if the battle of Toubruk had been succesful - which wasn`t initially thye voice of Vere Lynn kept us going in this far didtant land
We think we got it bad. The folks in London think things are tough this week, but consider for a moment just how difficult it must have been to get up and go to work in London in the summer of 1941 then complain to me about today. They were some tough folks back then.
@4everugly people had class because they had Dignity , without honesty you can;t have dignity and without dignity you can't have class , put the 10 Commandments back in the courthouses and the schools and you may bring back the honesty and the rest will follow
Listening to her voice from sixty years ago it sounds to me like she's singing just for me. Wow I was 1 year old in august of "43. No modern singer moves me like this.
The voice of wartime. Vera Lynn was to World War 2 what sixties music was to Vietnam. She is the most remembered of all time, in my view, and justifiably so. Dame Vera, you have inspired generations and still do today..
My mum Joyce used to sing this when I was a kid. i don't mind telling you that I am sitting here with the biggest tears running down my face. Loved you sooooo much mum . xxx
colora 40 Vera Lynn is wonderfull singer.If you hear songs like this and sings that way you know it`s war time or after. I heard my mummy humming these songs and I learnt them too.
"You'll Never Know..." How much it warms my heart to see so many young people making favorable comments about the music of my generation. Maybe it's an indication that there's still hope for the world. (I'm 26, with 50 years experience). This music will still be around long after today's garbage is forgotten.
@Myles0Harcourt amen to that!! music now a days doesnt even come close to the lyrical imagination and accomplishments of this era. music now has no soul its all about profits not the love and respect that many artists of that time shared. lets never forget the greats like Vera Lynn.
Music now is mostly a load of rubbish. Music then actually meant something and it was possible to listen to without all the horrible screeching of electric guitars and wierd synthesised sounds. Music from before around 1960 shows that just an orchestra and microphone and imagination can produce wonderful music.
i'm 14, and i love her voice, its so romantic, i think other teens my age should have more respect and passion for this kind of music like i do, i would much rather have music like this than the rubbish we have today! this is real music, i think its absoloutly beautiful!
I first heard this song at sea in May 1945 We were being repatriated to the US About halfway across the Pacific they showed movies and played music on deck Just 2 weeks after we left l Philippine waters the US Indianapolis was sunk which may be why there was no enterainment earlier I will never forget
just think, back I the day they didn't have all the tecnology they do now and my personal opinion I think vera's voice is way better than some of the female voices we have today which are probley mostly a computer. I love her! so beautiful!
From wartime ballads to country standards, Vera can do them all with aplomb. What an inspirational lady. Seventy years on and she has a chart-topping album. We need more like her - for various reasons.
after hearing this song ,I can't help but wonder how many men went off to war without their wifes not telling how much they care, thinking , best to have them concentrating on winning a war instead of them
Love Vera Lynn's voice, been a fan since late 70's when I purchased an old 45 record at a resale shop. A Blessing listening to her here and revisit her vocals on the many other recordings of her beautiful voice. Thank You RReady555 for sharing with us all.
Why don't females sing like this anymore? Why don't songwriters write like this anymore? How amazing....a beautiful melody..a wonderful sentiment and lyrics that you can understand! WOW....
@MrDannyel17 ... Vera Lynn born Vera Margaret Welch on March 20, 1917 is now 93 years old and still living in England. Since I'm an old timer I get to say that I heard her singing on the radio during World War II when she became singing sweetheart of so many Gi's who were stationed in England during that time.
Not only can you understand every word she sings but she evokes feelings and spirit into the music. The lyrics and composition years ago were exquisite and artists took time to bring out the emotions in a song. We just listen and the song works it's magic on us.
This song was highly popular in the Philippines during its liberation from Japan in 1945. Introduced by the G.I.'s, it was then practically in everybody's lips, including us, schoolchildren.
I agree with jillkristin, music back then was so much more romantic than it is today, and I know it sounds crazy, but dont you think the word love was used a lot less in songs back then? Its used too often now. :) x
Tears of joy are allowed. I visited my mother who lives 2 hours from me and I could not wait to tell her I had found this song expecting her to have great memories too - she cannot remember my father singing it. !! Seems like it only stuck in my mind as a 10 year old ha ha.Still I think it is a wonderful song and as I said tears of joy are allowed in these days when there is so much to be sad about. Best wishes to you from Australia.
@jillkristin things are alot more comercial now its not about the music for most people its about the money and the pop charts no one wants to express themselves or the people that are up at the top dont know how its sad really music is dying faster every day.
@jillkristin because most songs are all now rap and all singing about killing or whores or something like that which is why i don't like it and im 16 i like this kind of music better
@delcaty6555 So do I, and have since I was little. My grandparents had a collection of 78s from the '40s, Vera Lynn was on one of them, loved her as soon as I heard her.
Sorry to hear about your loss, This song means a lot to me also as my father used to sing it to my mother when I was a child and I have just again found the song. My father served in ww2 so I guess that's where it became popular with him but it is beautiful and brings back great memories for me. Best wishes to you.
This is another beautiful classic that we don't hear much of anymore. Vera has a lovely voice and is so pretty. It's always a treat when we can see the old movies with bios of the truly great songwriters and how they came to write such glorious songs and what many of them went thru to just be heard. Imagination and creativity are sorely lacking in so much of today's music. What little romance there is is often times too weak to stand the test of time. Thanks for posting. - Paula
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS AND THE OTHER VERY LYNN SONGS. PERHAPS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT THIS COMPUTER AGE IS BEING ABLE TO STEP BACK TO A GENTLER TIME. wHERE HAVE ALL THE SONG WRITERS GONE, WHERE ARE THE VERA LYNNS, THE AL HIBLERS AND THE NAT KING COLES?
I hope so to Kumiko but we live in a different time now, I really doubt if music will ever be as great as it once was. But how lucky we are that we have the computer to be able to hear what is long gone. My husband and I love the music from the 1950's called Doo-Wop music, alot of wonderful songs came from that era also.
What a beautiful voice to sing such a beautiful song, I love the way Alice Faye sings this song also. Such talent from that era, unfortunately for us we will never see or hear anything like this out of Hollyweird again, so sad!!!
i completely agree! there was this beautiful music and now we're stuck with meaningless songs like poker face wherethe entire verse is p-p-p-pokerface p-p-pokerface muh muh muh muh. in my opinion it doesn't get much worse than that.
You are right Kumiko it doesn't get much worse, aaaahhhh just give me the good ole days when the lyrics in the songs of that era was able to express to your sweetheart what you would like to say but couldn't say it better then the words in the song. Also give me back the days of chivalry when men would tip his hat to you or open a car door for you because there was a respect towards women, unfortunately those days are gone along with the music.
I think Gus Kahn complained about the same thing when Jazz became popular. And his love songs reflected his feelings that he couldn't express. And wasn't it Frank Sinatra who helped to bring back the enunciations of the words in songs (in the way Gus Kahn preferred songs to be sung)? I don't know if Gus Kahn really said these things but they are mentioned in the biography movie made about him.
Can you just imagine the beautiful music that would of been written during WW11 if Gus Kahn were alive and didn't die 2 months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I love the big band music during that era, my cousin use to perform with The Tommy Dorsey Band and other bands and I use to love to see him perform with the different bands he was in even though I was quite young.
@joemich325 > It's not completely gone, there are still a few of us around, if you've seen any more of my posts (and there are lots of them) you'd notice that I often converse with old song titles and lyrics. I'm an "Old School" GRITS guy, (Gentleman Raised In The South), A dying breed to be sure, but a few are still viable.
After watching Susan Boyle on Britains got Talent , her voice sparked my memory of another beautiful voice of England. I love Vera Lynn's breathe taking voice. I pray Simon developes a Super star out of Susan Boyle, England is so blessed.
I love her voice. Instantly, I fell inlove with her timbre and voice quality. She is inspirational. I hope I can sing near her rendition of all the songs she had sung before.....
to think that bioshock a video game made fall in love with the music of this era, listening to this song while it rains outside it just makes the day shine, good music
My mum sang this song in a talent show held at Butlins, Skegness in the late 1960s. It brings back such wonderful memories to me. Whenever I visit her grave I always gently sing this to her and like now the tears well up inside me. RIP you wonderful being, I miss you everyday mum xxx
tenodogblu 1 month ago 3
@Ginganu 1234 Vera Lynn is British, not American. Keep your American comments to yourself, they have nothing to do with people's memories of this song. As @armyoldsweat said, "Grow up!"
R2412076B 1 month ago 2
@R2412076B Hey Mate- Dame Vera belongs to the whole world. At least to the civilized bits of it.
And this is from a colonial, whose relatives fought and died, for you and all of us, during the war- at Dieppe.
Beautiful song, beautifully done.
Have a drink with me, and toast Dame Vera, and all those poor sods who gave everything.
-Bill in Canada
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Like ginganu1234 I too believe Vera Lynn is (not was) a lady but why why is it necessary for you to use such vile terminology. Haven't your parents taught you anything laddie? For goodness sake grow up!
armyoldsweat 1 month ago
Pt 2: and honestly i have to say vera lynn was a LADY if ive ever seen one before not the shit you see today, playing around and fucking screwing you at every turn. this music honestly has so much meaning, then lady gaga and all that other garbage you see nowadays
ginganu1234 1 month ago
i love this song so much...it makes me cry cause its sooo beautiful. the women back then were so pretty and actually had some kinda of standards for themselves. life back then was much more simple, but at the same time it was difficult without what we have today, but i really think america has lost it's chivalry,and it's respect.
ginganu1234 1 month ago 3
Remember my mum singing ths one, how i miss her lovely voice
MrFafito100 2 months ago
Excellent. Great era my uncle listened to this music; drove a landing craft during D-day, wasn't a job he enjoyed.
johnnyflames27 2 months ago
beautiful, and so lovely to sing along to........reminds me of my Grandparents...
codycobourg 2 months ago
Vera still going til this day
Evangeline30575 3 months ago
My dad's favourite singer. He knew what he was talking about, great voice,lovely lady.
untca 3 months ago
This was a LADY in every way....dignity,grace,talent and lovely....not to be found today.
murphyan1 3 months ago
beautiful! I was also born to late and love the music from the 40s. I'm trying to get all Vera Lynn's music on my iPod. Vera Lynn and Judy Garland were the best. Shame Judy went the way she did. Today's music will never become "golden Oldies".
zitamarion 3 months ago
@sweetheartjld Really? cause The Closest I Can Think of Is Judy Garland. It's A Shame She Fell the Way Of Janis Joplin And Jim Morrison, (OVERDOSE)
alex111053 3 months ago
Enchanting!
meredith218461 4 months ago
Delighted,thanks
MrLoxley123 4 months ago
You'll never know what you can find on YouTube .....Great tune !
swallowerx1 4 months ago 3
Is it sad that I'm in my twenties by love 1940s music? D:
Eriance 4 months ago
@Eriance If your sad then i'm sad too :) I love the 40s!
kiki725 4 months ago
@Eriance I'm fourteen and love it. :P
HikarusBestGirl 3 months ago
"Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? Remember how she said that we would meet again some sunny day? Vera! Vera!. What has become of you?"
I never knew who that song was about until now.
jesserawls1991 4 months ago 2
@jesserawls1991 - Oh Jesse I do remember Vera Lynn. I do remember what she sang about meeting some sunny day. I will always remember the English and WWll. And I send you greetings and good wishes from NY.
Shirl
byline7844 3 months ago
Songs so beautiful and full of bravery and hope. There will always be an England as long as the British people keep these things from the past alive!
Kinseydsp 4 months ago 2
Lady Vera Lynn sang like an angeL. And she is still with us.
DIANNEELEE 4 months ago
im 14 and i think this is amazing. i love this kind of music.
kayisforkivlen 4 months ago 4
as a 76 year old person living in South Africa turning on the radio at two in the afternoon waiting to hear if the battle of Toubruk had been succesful - which wasn`t initially thye voice of Vere Lynn kept us going in this far didtant land
msjdrake1 5 months ago
This was worth coming home to.
rcarroll88 5 months ago
<3
Genn990 5 months ago
We think we got it bad. The folks in London think things are tough this week, but consider for a moment just how difficult it must have been to get up and go to work in London in the summer of 1941 then complain to me about today. They were some tough folks back then.
daveysan 5 months ago 2
the courage of england in world war 2 too bad america and england have been run over because of polotical correctness how stupid that is !
martinbeckthefirst 5 months ago
so pretty :)
TomThumbsBlues1965 5 months ago
There was so much class back then....it 's sad that its a lost thing. think I was born 60 years too late.
4everugly 6 months ago 48
@4everugly people had class because they had Dignity , without honesty you can;t have dignity and without dignity you can't have class , put the 10 Commandments back in the courthouses and the schools and you may bring back the honesty and the rest will follow
jhunted7667 4 months ago
@4everugly You're 7?
alex111053 3 months ago
Someone I like sings this song in our play. :) He sings it beautifully. I love this song, and she does a gorgeous job.
scarletroseify 6 months ago
Beautiful voice <3 i bet her music got a lot of soldiers through the war <3
paulmccartney7ElvisP 6 months ago
OMG....what a beautiful voice!!! What a wonderful song.
Rusty350 6 months ago
Listening to her voice from sixty years ago it sounds to me like she's singing just for me. Wow I was 1 year old in august of "43. No modern singer moves me like this.
medmond6 7 months ago
The voice of wartime. Vera Lynn was to World War 2 what sixties music was to Vietnam. She is the most remembered of all time, in my view, and justifiably so. Dame Vera, you have inspired generations and still do today..
DULABHAILE 7 months ago
I am 33 now and I hear that kind of music since I am 12, but my favorit version of that song is the one from Barbra Streisand from the 60s.....
se14ma 7 months ago
Great version of a golden classic... thanks for uploading it in site.
felixbautista 7 months ago
Wonderful voice and still with us......... Terry
terryclary 7 months ago
A wonderful standard!!!
I admit i am not very familiar with her...she's brilliant!!!
gfks11 7 months ago
some Enchanted Evening
kevinastraw 7 months ago
Wow what a beautiful song!
makoto 8 months ago
i know this song from the lost valentine, it's great song and beautiful movie ..love it.
AQUANAM 8 months ago
What a beautiful voice and what a lovely song.
Rusty350 8 months ago
My mum Joyce used to sing this when I was a kid. i don't mind telling you that I am sitting here with the biggest tears running down my face. Loved you sooooo much mum . xxx
tenodogblu 8 months ago 3
MARAVILHOSO!!!
vandafbezerra 8 months ago
i normally listen to rock&punk, But i have a soft spot for Vera! her voice is absolutely gorgeous! If only music was like this these days...
OptimusPrimesBitch 9 months ago
Vera Lynn sang with so much heart. Her voice is absolutely captivating.
DonsChocolate 9 months ago
What a lovely voice. Spectacularly sweet. Love it. Thanks for this!
Bossmanrocks 9 months ago
"You went away and my heart went with you."..how true
LePrince1890 9 months ago
i love this..... my mamas fav. song
vethmancera 9 months ago 2
15 and i loooove this :)
JustAnotherSperm8D 9 months ago 2
colora 40 Vera Lynn is wonderfull singer.If you hear songs like this and sings that way you know it`s war time or after. I heard my mummy humming these songs and I learnt them too.
colora40 9 months ago
"You'll Never Know..." How much it warms my heart to see so many young people making favorable comments about the music of my generation. Maybe it's an indication that there's still hope for the world. (I'm 26, with 50 years experience). This music will still be around long after today's garbage is forgotten.
CaptRhett1 10 months ago 4
I'm 14 and Vera Lynn songs make me cry every time I hear them. My generation's music is trash.
linkeygirl 10 months ago 2
@linkeygirl Bless you. These songs are timeless.
hamishray 10 months ago
Beats the Lady Gaga or Justin bieber bullshit any day.
Myles0Harcourt 11 months ago 32
@Myles0Harcourt amen to that!! music now a days doesnt even come close to the lyrical imagination and accomplishments of this era. music now has no soul its all about profits not the love and respect that many artists of that time shared. lets never forget the greats like Vera Lynn.
nativeboi271 3 months ago
@nativeboi271
Vera Lynn was a great singer. Music was simpler, and actually meant something.
Myles0Harcourt 3 months ago
@nativeboi271
Music now is mostly a load of rubbish. Music then actually meant something and it was possible to listen to without all the horrible screeching of electric guitars and wierd synthesised sounds. Music from before around 1960 shows that just an orchestra and microphone and imagination can produce wonderful music.
Myles0Harcourt 3 months ago
I'm 19 and I love this :)
raichann 11 months ago 2
@raichann I`m 19 too and I`m love this too ^_^
TinNo4i 11 months ago
Fantastic, when music was music.
nexus040670 11 months ago
This is why the old songs never fade away. 5*****
joe1blue 1 year ago
i'm 14, and i love her voice, its so romantic, i think other teens my age should have more respect and passion for this kind of music like i do, i would much rather have music like this than the rubbish we have today! this is real music, i think its absoloutly beautiful!
therandomtwat 1 year ago 4
@therandomtwat I agree :) Music today doesn't give that "true love" Feeling
raichann 11 months ago
@dgoren1 You have the soul of a poet and the heart of a romantic. God bless you dear.
jillkristin 1 year ago
now this is singing not the crap thats out now, im 19 and i love this music
psychodora12354 1 year ago 2
@jillkristin -
Because music back then was written for and appreciated by adults.
gotmilk7926 1 year ago
Man that's great music.
TheBelldiver 1 year ago
Thanks for the fill in on the details of the song.
OldWriter205 1 year ago
Wow 1943 the year of my Mom & Dad Wow it 's still here Wow ! Thanks Youtube Love it !.....WOW!
smagisa 1 year ago 2
What's that font you're using in the vid?
chenarch 1 year ago
i think im here because of family guy o.o
great song
baozytools 1 year ago
Thank you so very much for posting these WWII sentimental songs...I love Vera Lynn and it's wonderful to listen to her great recordings.
ericedy 1 year ago 2
Woah... i stumbled upon this video and realised it was on an episode of Family Guy
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SeleneHazelEyes 1 year ago
@jlya2012 so sorry to hear about your cocker, bet he had a good life witth you
gramule 1 year ago
A great inspiration to me in war time
304donald 1 year ago
I first heard this song at sea in May 1945 We were being repatriated to the US About halfway across the Pacific they showed movies and played music on deck Just 2 weeks after we left l Philippine waters the US Indianapolis was sunk which may be why there was no enterainment earlier I will never forget
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sueromero39 1 year ago 4
A great singer & a beautiful song.
frilb 1 year ago
just think, back I the day they didn't have all the tecnology they do now and my personal opinion I think vera's voice is way better than some of the female voices we have today which are probley mostly a computer. I love her! so beautiful!
Candylanduser09 1 year ago
wonderful voice and song. A great tune of love.
scottylarue 1 year ago
From wartime ballads to country standards, Vera can do them all with aplomb. What an inspirational lady. Seventy years on and she has a chart-topping album. We need more like her - for various reasons.
Thanks for posting such good stuff.
Les (East Ham).
lelboy 1 year ago
after hearing this song ,I can't help but wonder how many men went off to war without their wifes not telling how much they care, thinking , best to have them concentrating on winning a war instead of them
jhunted7667 1 year ago
One of the most loved singers in the history of music. No wonder. What a voice.
johnnyjemimah 1 year ago 2
Love Vera Lynn's voice, been a fan since late 70's when I purchased an old 45 record at a resale shop. A Blessing listening to her here and revisit her vocals on the many other recordings of her beautiful voice. Thank You RReady555 for sharing with us all.
texan4texas 1 year ago
what will we have we lost, when we forget these powerful old songs?
injamaven 1 year ago
Why don't females sing like this anymore? Why don't songwriters write like this anymore? How amazing....a beautiful melody..a wonderful sentiment and lyrics that you can understand! WOW....
oldgypsytap 1 year ago
@oldgypsytap I wish they would sing more like this today...
scottylarue 1 year ago
@scottylarue Yes, now they just holler unintelligible noise and call it singing. They don't know what they're missing....
oldgypsytap 1 year ago
such a sentimental 1940s classic..i absolutely LOVE this!
CrazyBoutThe40s 1 year ago
i'm surprised there aren't family guy comments x]
misterfreehugs 1 year ago
Hermosa cancion. Gracias por subirla
MeryChristmas25 1 year ago
is she still alive????
MrDannyel17 1 year ago
@MrDannyel17 ... Vera Lynn born Vera Margaret Welch on March 20, 1917 is now 93 years old and still living in England. Since I'm an old timer I get to say that I heard her singing on the radio during World War II when she became singing sweetheart of so many Gi's who were stationed in England during that time.
Koalkracker 1 year ago 2
15 and love it
dutchgangsta1 1 year ago
clear as a bell. lady ga ga lets see where she is 10 years from now
sweetheartjld 1 year ago
This is my song to Joseph , my son who passed away 3 years ago.
sweetheartjld 1 year ago
FIVE STARS.
Truthseekerfinder 1 year ago 2
Whatever happened to music? It used to be so pure and unaltered, true talent in true form.
BrookeKriv 1 year ago
★ ★★★★
Thank you for posting!
3muimui 1 year ago
My mum sung this to me and her mum sung it to her :)
MountainQueen 1 year ago 2
How charming; I have couple of her CDs. No one today with this kind of feeling, diction and all around "wonderful!"
7inga7 1 year ago 2
Lady GaGa here today gone tomorrow
Vera voice wasso pure and clear
The closest I can think of is
Julie Andrews
sweetheartjld 1 year ago 13
Enchanting!.
meredith218461 1 year ago 5
What memories this song evokes.........
gallamile 1 year ago 3
I sent this song as a belated Valentine's Day email just because of the song.
HR1800 1 year ago
Oh god, I am simply in heaven. The it opens is too luxurious. Maybe I should play this to the girl I feel for?
Wallawallwashington 1 year ago 5
Good art doesn't gets older. I live in Brazil.
daltonagre 2 years ago 7
Not only can you understand every word she sings but she evokes feelings and spirit into the music. The lyrics and composition years ago were exquisite and artists took time to bring out the emotions in a song. We just listen and the song works it's magic on us.
emerging2012 2 years ago 25
Isn't it uncanny, you can understand every
word she sings. Sorry for this generation of young kids. they ost out
sweetheartjld 2 years ago 19
yeah. i'm gutted about that! i adore this music and i'm 15!
poloiscool123 2 years ago 11
Beautiful voice; I'd have given it five stars had the ratings feature not been disabled.
jlewis31510 2 years ago 71
This song was highly popular in the Philippines during its liberation from Japan in 1945. Introduced by the G.I.'s, it was then practically in everybody's lips, including us, schoolchildren.
Thanks for putting it on YouTube.
ernieturla 2 years ago 6
Lovely song, lovely singer!
helenajesstarzak 2 years ago 11
excellent notes for an excellent song - thank you RReady555!
cemeterydude 2 years ago 18
I agree with jillkristin, music back then was so much more romantic than it is today, and I know it sounds crazy, but dont you think the word love was used a lot less in songs back then? Its used too often now. :) x
charleybee91 2 years ago 27
Lovely, moving... what more can I say. What a sad place the music world is today.
vittoriostoraro 2 years ago 18
How did this world go from a gem like this to the intellectual default that is Rap? Pity the kids of today reminiscing to their golden oldies.
BlackCountryPuddler 2 years ago 18
I try not to listen to this beautiful song
because it makes me think of my beautiful son Joseph, The tears don't
stop and never will.
sweetheartjld 2 years ago 4
how lovely...
spankbandit 2 years ago 11
thank you hilros,
As old as I am, I really don't recall
WW2. I do have this uncanny talent of retainning words to music. When I came
across VERA LYNN'S music the wordscame back to me as if it was yesterday. These songs give me tears of
joy
sweetheartjld 2 years ago 5
Tears of joy are allowed. I visited my mother who lives 2 hours from me and I could not wait to tell her I had found this song expecting her to have great memories too - she cannot remember my father singing it. !! Seems like it only stuck in my mind as a 10 year old ha ha.Still I think it is a wonderful song and as I said tears of joy are allowed in these days when there is so much to be sad about. Best wishes to you from Australia.
hilrush 2 years ago 2
Why was the music then so much more romantic then than it is now?
jillkristin 2 years ago 94
Because it was romantic back then. People actually knew what love was, now today's era doesn't even know how to love now. :(
DjTribute 2 years ago 17
So right, DjTribute. For all our "progress" we've lost something, haven't we?
Cheers dear.
jillkristin 2 years ago 12
@jillkristin things are alot more comercial now its not about the music for most people its about the money and the pop charts no one wants to express themselves or the people that are up at the top dont know how its sad really music is dying faster every day.
KrunchieB 1 year ago
@KrunchieB So right, nice to have Youtube to listen to lovely music.
jillkristin 1 year ago 2
@jillkristin 'cause they had true heart feelings for love, not like today that is all pure interest material...
Stingercam21 1 year ago
@jillkristin Wasn't this song, also, on the soundtrack of the wartime film "The Sullivan Family"?
Gheorgyi 10 months ago
@jillkristin A big band provides a much 'warmer' backing than modern synthesizers and drum machines. Electronics have no soul.
YabbaDabbaTube 9 months ago 2
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@jillkristin A big band provides a much 'warmer' backing than modern synthesizers and drum machines. Electronics have no soul.
YabbaDabbaTube 9 months ago
@jillkristin because most songs are all now rap and all singing about killing or whores or something like that which is why i don't like it and im 16 i like this kind of music better
delcaty6555 7 months ago
@delcaty6555 So do I, and have since I was little. My grandparents had a collection of 78s from the '40s, Vera Lynn was on one of them, loved her as soon as I heard her.
jillkristin 7 months ago
@jillkristin Because when it comes to romantic now adays its all about sex and thing like that
I was born in the wrong generation my friend. I'm 14 and I shake my head when I hear lady gaga, Akon ext.
iceblue345 7 months ago 2
@iceblue345 Good for you! I think you're probably not alone.
jillkristin 7 months ago
This is my prayer song to my son
Joseph, who passed away two years ago
sweetheartjld 2 years ago 10
Sorry to hear about your loss, This song means a lot to me also as my father used to sing it to my mother when I was a child and I have just again found the song. My father served in ww2 so I guess that's where it became popular with him but it is beautiful and brings back great memories for me. Best wishes to you.
hilrush 2 years ago 3
try vera lynn I'll be seeing you
loathingbutterfly 2 years ago 11
does anyone know any songs from the 1930 / 40's era which sound sad, regretful etc...?
LEPrecon123 2 years ago 4
Just had her birthday & her newly released album 'The very best of' has been No1 - not bad for 92!!! :)
jomarkr 2 years ago 7
Quality always lasts!
OurWondrousWorld 2 years ago 5
what a lovely song and lovely voice..beautiful
Dreamyvelvet1 2 years ago 3
Have you tried Richard Carpenter's one?
It's worth trying.(I didn't say that Richard sang better than her)
Krichardvn94 2 years ago
One of the better popular songs during WWII
HermanStancill 2 years ago 2
Nice oldie song. Thanks for sharing.
nancyfloressantos 2 years ago 2
so good memories when i hear this...she is amazing singer,this song is excellent,it's simply old classic
kilkidi 2 years ago 3
Such a beautiful song, don't get many singers like this anymore!
Kelhibbert 2 years ago 6
sure don't - most singers these days don't know how to sing
palmbyo2 2 years ago 3
I never heard about Vera Lynn. She had a beautiful voice. Also the songs she sings are lovely old ballads. Thanks for posting this.
wholelotofshaken 2 years ago 3
you never heard of Vera Lynn.... This was a mistake lol! Shes amazing!
Millzy411 2 years ago 5
Vera Lynn isn't dead. Two of her most famous songs are "We'll meet again" and "The White Cliffs of Dover" She has a wonderful voice.
madeline045 2 years ago 2
She's like 92 or something now isn't she?!
Kelhibbert 2 years ago 2
This is another beautiful classic that we don't hear much of anymore. Vera has a lovely voice and is so pretty. It's always a treat when we can see the old movies with bios of the truly great songwriters and how they came to write such glorious songs and what many of them went thru to just be heard. Imagination and creativity are sorely lacking in so much of today's music. What little romance there is is often times too weak to stand the test of time. Thanks for posting. - Paula
PaulinaRena 2 years ago 2
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS AND THE OTHER VERY LYNN SONGS. PERHAPS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT THIS COMPUTER AGE IS BEING ABLE TO STEP BACK TO A GENTLER TIME. wHERE HAVE ALL THE SONG WRITERS GONE, WHERE ARE THE VERA LYNNS, THE AL HIBLERS AND THE NAT KING COLES?
fitzpjo 2 years ago 3
wow she is amazing. beautiful voice i havent heard many songs of this genre, if any 1 knows of more like this send me a link or something.
lois0must0die 2 years ago 3
I hope so to Kumiko but we live in a different time now, I really doubt if music will ever be as great as it once was. But how lucky we are that we have the computer to be able to hear what is long gone. My husband and I love the music from the 1950's called Doo-Wop music, alot of wonderful songs came from that era also.
joemich325 2 years ago
Wondering if anyone knows who sang the 1950 version (female vocalist). Any ideas?
QuiteSexy7 2 years ago
It was sung in 1943 by Alice Faye, in 1952 by Rosemary Clooney, and in 1955 by Barbara Streisand - those are the most known versions
lawninja86 2 years ago
I believe it was Rosemary Clooney who sang the 1950's version.
keyboardmagic 2 years ago
What a beautiful voice to sing such a beautiful song, I love the way Alice Faye sings this song also. Such talent from that era, unfortunately for us we will never see or hear anything like this out of Hollyweird again, so sad!!!
joemich325 2 years ago 3
i completely agree! there was this beautiful music and now we're stuck with meaningless songs like poker face wherethe entire verse is p-p-p-pokerface p-p-pokerface muh muh muh muh. in my opinion it doesn't get much worse than that.
Kumiko632 2 years ago
You are right Kumiko it doesn't get much worse, aaaahhhh just give me the good ole days when the lyrics in the songs of that era was able to express to your sweetheart what you would like to say but couldn't say it better then the words in the song. Also give me back the days of chivalry when men would tip his hat to you or open a car door for you because there was a respect towards women, unfortunately those days are gone along with the music.
joemich325 2 years ago
It's such a pity too. I hope someone makes it up there in the music buisness and changes things soon. We need it.
Kumiko632 2 years ago
I think Gus Kahn complained about the same thing when Jazz became popular. And his love songs reflected his feelings that he couldn't express. And wasn't it Frank Sinatra who helped to bring back the enunciations of the words in songs (in the way Gus Kahn preferred songs to be sung)? I don't know if Gus Kahn really said these things but they are mentioned in the biography movie made about him.
opelske 2 years ago
Can you just imagine the beautiful music that would of been written during WW11 if Gus Kahn were alive and didn't die 2 months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I love the big band music during that era, my cousin use to perform with The Tommy Dorsey Band and other bands and I use to love to see him perform with the different bands he was in even though I was quite young.
joemich325 2 years ago 2
@joemich325 > It's not completely gone, there are still a few of us around, if you've seen any more of my posts (and there are lots of them) you'd notice that I often converse with old song titles and lyrics. I'm an "Old School" GRITS guy, (Gentleman Raised In The South), A dying breed to be sure, but a few are still viable.
CaptRhett1 10 months ago
They don't write songs like anymore.
The words are so beautiful
tweetybird1937 2 years ago
After watching Susan Boyle on Britains got Talent , her voice sparked my memory of another beautiful voice of England. I love Vera Lynn's breathe taking voice. I pray Simon developes a Super star out of Susan Boyle, England is so blessed.
totaltexan 2 years ago
I love her voice. Instantly, I fell inlove with her timbre and voice quality. She is inspirational. I hope I can sing near her rendition of all the songs she had sung before.....
Enigma55826 2 years ago
Makes me think of my son, Joseph
who passed away two years ago. THANK
YOU
tweetybird1937 2 years ago
to think that bioshock a video game made fall in love with the music of this era, listening to this song while it rains outside it just makes the day shine, good music
ragnarok1326 2 years ago