Glenn Miller "White Cliffs of Dover"

[Eddy2730]

I heard a click. What was that?

[Bruno47602]

marvelous,unexpectedly!Voice Glenn!..

[revpgesq]

thank you. do you know is this the original? to me Vera Lynn's version has become iconic, but the originator ought also to be recognized.

[cenotosa1]

@revpgesq This song was written in 1941 and Vera Lynn made it famous in 1942, and was the first to record it, so it is before Glenn Miller recorded it in 1944. I guess if Vera Lynn was first to record it, then she was the oringinal.

[revpgesq]

@cenotosa1

thank you. i first knew this as a Vera Lynn song....and of course a WWII song. nice to learn some of its history and to hear this swinging version :-)

[vandywilliam]

@cenotosa1 Glenn Miller recorded this one on Nov. 24, 1941, not in 1944. [Besides, Ray Eberle is on vocals here, and he was fired by Miller in mid-1942].

[Psychodog653]

@revpgesq

This was written in 1941 by Walter Kent and Nat Burton and first recorded by Vera Lynn in 1942. The song refers to a future time when peace would fall over Europe and refers to the aerial attacks and dogfights which were routine over and around the cliffs of Dover. The bluebird refers to the "Bluebird of Happiness"