Dame Vera Lynn is the oldest living chart-topper in history

Dame Vera Lynn singing Half as much/isle of innisfree/you belong to me.

♥Have been a fan of Vera Lynn and her music since i was 14!!- i have most of her cd's♥ please read on...you can buy her latest cd here at amazon...it's really good.http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ver­a+lynn

Legendary singer Dame Vera Lynn has become the oldest living artist to enter the top 20 of the UK album chart, her record company said. Dame Vera, who kept up the spirits of millions of soldiers during World War II, has entered the album chart at number 20 - at the age of 92. She has achieved her success with her album, We'll Meet Again - The Very Best of Vera Lynn.

Dame Vera said: "I am extremely excited and delighted to be back in the charts after all these years." The album was released to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the declaration of war, which was on Thursday 3rd August 2009. A spokeswoman for her record company Decca said: "She has proven that music of this vintage and significance can still resonate with the British public."

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[ilovemaniototo]

So lovely.

Carol x 5*

[millie73]

Under the law, performers receive royalties for up to 50 years after the song was first released and the performing rights on the songs on the album expired during the 1980s and 1990s.

Instead, the royalties from Well Meet Again The Very Best of Vera Lynn will go to the singers record label, Decca, a subsidiary of Universal.

[millie73]

The Performing Rights Society, which collects royalties for artists, said Dame Vera could have earned up to £18 a minute every time one of the songs is played on the radio, although a cut of that would go to the songwriters.

She is also missing out on royalties from downloads and album sales

[millie73]

But Decca said it had offered to make a payment to 92-year-old Dame Vera after she became the oldest ever recording artist to top the album charts. It is believed to be a five-figure sum.

[amanecs]

When dad listened to her on the radio (1940's), we kids daren't make a sound !

[millie73]

Dad had good taste! :-) x x

[huelssner]

For me, it stands on a par with Zarah Leander, Edith Piaf and the highly revered by me ..... Lale Andersen

One of the greats my thanks and my appreciation.

No more war, even if the world needed one .....!

[thepixieful]

@SpazChat the world war two soldiers and sailors in the state, oh yes they knew vera lynn's voice and recordings, yes they did.

[thepixieful]

what a voice. I had to learn to like big band, but this voice, I loved her music from the very start.....

[SpazChat]

@195511SM , That's because she was mainly a British Star. She didn't really do America or many other parts of the world... she didn't need to

[laszlo181029]

All the Best!

[195511SM]

Though familiar with "We'll Meet Again", it wasn't until I first heard Pink Floyd's album "The Wall", that I ever even heard the name Vera Lynn. Years passed, before I saw one of her greatest hits albums offered up in a catalog of big band era music I'd recieved in the mail. As a Pink Floyd afficienado...I just HAD to have it. Wish i could find one of my favorites on YouTube. Vera's version of "It's A Sin To Tell A Lie". She's HOT!!!!

[QueenBeatlesWings]

beautiful music, yet heartbreaking in a way, she truly captured the feeling of post-war England and gave so many people something to enjoy and hope for a brighter future

[simona2u]

what a wonderful woman

[palmbyo2]

she has such a beautiful voice