"You'll Never Know" (Vera Lynn, 1943)
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2008
- Vera Lynn's wartime popularity with the British public provided her with "Vera Lynn's Own Orchestra", conducted by the very capable Len Edwards.
"You'll Never Know" won composer Harry Warren & lyricist Mack Gordon the Oscar for best song in '43--it was introduced by Alice Faye in "Hello Frisco".
YOU'LL NEVER KNOW
You'll never know just how much I miss you,
You'll never know just how much I care...
And if I tried, I still couldn't hide my love for you,
You ought to know, for haven't I told you so,
A million or more times?
You went away and my heart went with you,
I speak your name in my every prayer.
If there is some other way to prove that I love you
I swear I don't know how...
You'll never know if you don't know now.
You went away and my heart went with you,
I speak your name in my every prayer.
If there is some other way to prove that I love you,
I swear I don't know how...
You'll never know if you don't know now.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From Wiki:
"You'll Never Know" is a popular song. The music was written by Harry Warren and the lyrics by Mack Gordon, based on a poem written by a young Oklahoma war bride named Dorothy Fern Norris.
The song was featured in the 1943 movie Hello, Frisco, Hello where it is sung by Alice Faye. It was also performed by Faye in the 1944 film Four Jills in a Jeep. It was recorded in 1943 by, among others, Frank Sinatra and Dick Haymes. Haymes' version was a #1 hit on the R&B charts that year.
Sinatra recorded his version at his first recording session at Columbia as a solo artist. (He had recorded at Columbia in 1939 as a member of Harry James's band.) It was arranged and conducted by Alec Wilder with the Bobby Tucker Singers providing accompaniment. Sinatra's version charted for 16 weeks starting July 24 and spent two weeks at number 2.
***In Britain, the recording by Vera Lynn was very popular due to the ongoing Second World War.
A 1952 recording by Rosemary Clooney is also well known, as well as a version recorded in 1954 by Big Maybelle.
The Sinatra and Haymes records were made during the 1942--1944 strike against the recording companies a strike by the American Federation of Musicians. As a result, the recordings were made without musicians, with vocal groups replacing the usual instrumental backup. The group backing Haymes, The Song Spinners, was actually given credit on the records.
The song was the first song that Barbra Streisand ever recorded in 1955. It was the opening song on her 4-CD box-set Just for the Record (1991). The box-set closed with another version of the song, sung as a duet by Streisand in 1991 and herself as a girl of 13.
The song won the 1943 Academy Award for Best Original Song, one of nine nominated songs that year.
In 1961, a version by Shirley Bassey made #6 in the UK charts. 
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When my mom learned that my dad had been captured during WWII, one of the things she did was go to an arcade downtown that had a little recording booth and record this song with no accompaniment. She kept it as a keepsake for the rest of her life. She played it for him when the War was over and he came home. I discovered it in their large record collection and played it, a few times. She really had a beautiful voice, and I could hear her emotion. The recording wasn't very good quality, and unfortunately over the years it became unplayable on any turntables. I had tried to record it onto tape, but that didn't last, either. I'm not sure what happened to the recording as I grew up and got on with my life. I couldn't find it among my parents' belongings when they passed.
+Mike Smith What a wonderful story, Mike.
What keeps the great things alive is having memories and sharing them with others. Even if the recording has gone bad, its effects are to stay.
Mike Smith Such a touching story, dear Mike!!! Thank you for sharing it to us :-)
Mike Smith I know how you must feel Mike my father recorded a V disc for my Mother before he went overseas . Lost to time now
relaxing and lovely
Reminds me of my mom. She used to sing this when I was a young boy. I'm now a grandfather.
brotherjohn25 This makes me happy for some odd reason.
Oh man, that's heavy...
brotherjohn25 :booa
normie disguised in a meme account n8thuhubby
brotherjohn25 right on John! great tune!
My dad was a WWII vet. He had so many of the 1940s records. I grew up listening to those songs. I'm 76 now.
Both my parents are gone now as are so many of their generation. Their generation's music still lives on.💖
The Greatest generation
@@RichardRobbins-jt5bt The Best Generation❤
Dear Catherine, My respect.
Anyone else here from the man singing to his wife?
+Maqueila Garcia That's why i came here also.
+Maqueila Garcia YES....TRULLY LOVE EVER SEE'N MY LIFE........HERE CRYING LIKE A BB... OH MEU DEUS QUANTO AMOR...EU ACREDITO NO AMOR.
Totally! [=
Omg yes
+Maqueila Garcia Yea!!
FACT - THIS WOMAN IS STILL ALIVE TODAY... as of 9th April 2019.. she is 102 years old now... God bless her
2020 and still going
she's queening
Great vocalist ww11 Vera Lynn
It’s all the love she has that’s keeping her alive
And now in Covid19 2020
My Mom is reading my Dad's letters from 1943. He was overseas in the Airforce. He mentioned this song in his letter.This is the first time I heard this song. It is playing now as my Mom opens each letter. ❤️I
Mom just passed, she was 97.Every morning of her life she sang this with her beloved Pappy. He wrote the words down as he got older. She gave it to me last week. I miss you already mom.
May she rest in peace, god bless her. Cherish her memories Jeanne Zujkowsi.
It is so sad that she has died. She kept up everyone's spirit during the war. Such a beautiful voice. ☹️🎶
Chloe Cook I agree, she had an angelic voice, the troops and all Brits. Loved Vera!❤️ Rest In Peace Dame Vera.
I'm really saddened by this
Vera Lynn died??!?! When?
Stefan Mogielnicki 1 month ago I believe! One of my favourite war time singers!🌹🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦
@@bethrobb3684 Now it's official! 2020 is the worst year ever! COVID and Kirk Douglas, Olivia De Havilland and Vera Lynn!
RIP. 103, what an age. Just imagine the life and memories she had...
could you imagine just sitting and talking with her?
She prolly had more knowledge & experience than most people would have in 2 lifetimes
My deceased Mother "sang this to me" in a dream last night. It has always been a top favorite of mine since I first heard it many years ago in "Hello Frisco." I'm 73!
How lovely x
Then woman who sang this song is STILL ALIVE. 98 years old.
For real?
+Hunter Roberts yup. lives in England.
+Jon G. I wish i could meet her. Surely should be a dream for all my life
she is the highest payed singer in the whole world, even though she doesnt sing anymore... this doesnt add up
It's called royalities.
My 96 years old grandma always requests me to play this favorite song hers. As of writing, she is beside me singing. She never gets tired of listening to this timeless song fr ngl.
Bless your grandma, hope you have many more years with her in good health! Best wishes!
@@kelvinsurname7051 yes
I also never get tired of hearing this song. this song belongs to every generation for eternity. ❤
I am 22 and I love this era❤️
You might be reincarnated
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
My mom loved this song - she said it reminded her of my Dad. He was very good looking and when he came back from the war in 1946 she saw him come into the office. He was the new BOSS. His gaze met hers for a second - she looked away & thought to herself - don't be stupid- how could such a sophisticated gentleman be interested in a girl from a farm. Wasn't long after that encounter he invited her out to dine & dance. Life was beautiful then. I miss them both sooo much 😢. He really was a wonderful gentleman- business like but caring. He died when I was 11 - my Mom educated us both - they had started a mining supply business in the Goldfields of South Africa.
My Grandma has Alzheimer's disease and it's been hard on our family... this is one of the songs that she remembers every single word to. I'll always love this song for that.
Mom, wherever you are, I know this one must've been playing on the radio a lot when Dad was in the army. I don't even know if you liked it back then, but now that you're gone, it really gets me. I love you and I miss you.
Your mom would have loved it especially when your Dad was away. Hoping she can hear it.
I remember my Mom would sing songs when driving in the car and that song was always her favorite
Love and miss you. Happy Mothers Day in Heaven. When I sing the song I'll be thinking of you
I'm crying!!!!! Sooo baaad!!!!!! You must miss her a lot!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
@Renaud Villacis lol
I know that she’s not In the comments....oof sorry
Go back to London during the 40/50/60s and walk in any side street pub and you'd hear this tune being played on a piano to the whole bar joining in the chorus. How times have changed. What a classic.
I was singing this song while doing my dishes in my kitchen ... wonderful!
This song will be sung in UK as long as we remember WWII
If only we can do that again, even if it is just for a day
Just dreaming would be enough!
Patrick Martin I wish i could have lived then. im stuck in the 40s and i was born in 73.
I'm Here because of The Shape Of Water..What a year.. 1943.. Thank you for that song and movie..
Oh gosh, that movie. I saw it a few weeks ago. They used this song so much! And that clip on the TV of Alice Faye singing this was surprising to me! I had no idea she sung it!!!! I looked it up and I THINK Alice Faye was the first to sing it... I could be wrong though.
the film and the song were very compatible
same here
I just saw the movie, The shape of water, I'm also here cause the movie, great movie
Filmler Odası same.also here because of shape of water
My husband who passed away last month and I would always dance to this song whenever we heard it. Even when he was in his wheelchair, we'd still "chair dance" to it. We were both '50's babies, but this was one of our favorites.
+Patty Cooper
me too patty miss hubby so much...made me cry
Patty Cooper sorry to hear about your husband. Great Song
Patty Cooper I know it's been a while but I am so sorry for your loss 💜💜💜
Your story moved me to tears.
I'm almost 73, and I play this song on trombone a lot... Bravo for you and you're husband for "chair dancing" to it. Sorry for your loss. The two of you enjoyed beautiful music together and will dance together again, without the chairs.
My parents are the WWII generation so I heard bits and pieces of this music growing up and I've always loved it. Standards like this one were covered by so many, especially here in the USA. But this woman's delicate voice is the one that always brings me to tears, especially when I consider what must have been happening just outside the recording studio in 1943 in the UK and the tough times my parents' generation endured.
nauort23 I was There also! 👍🏻🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦💐
De St Aberdeen, Scotland...We had shipyard and munition factories, plus we were in the north east, the North Sea was our doorstep. Our Beach was heavily guarded!..I was a kid then, I still remember the bombing though. Hope never to be in that situation again. Cheers from 🏴🇨🇦
De St Yes, Toronto, Home of the Blue Jays and the Awesome Raptors!!
I am used to the winters now, they are not as bad as they used to be! I prefer the summer. My sister and I used to visit California a lot, I had 4 brothers living there, I also have retired u.s. military in my family, they are in ElPaso.
I am keeping up to date on your news, stay safe! 🤗🏴🇨🇦👍🏻
Thanks for sharing a snapshot out of World War Two, I hope you are doing well. God Bless you!@@bethrobb3684
You'll never know just how much I miss you,
You'll never know just how much I care.
And if I tried
I still couldn't hide
My love for you
You ought to know
For haven't I told you so
A million or more times?
You went away and my heart went with you
I speak your name in my every prayer
If there is some other way
To prove that I love you
I swear I don't know how
You'll never know if you don't know now.
You'll never know just how much I love you,
You'll never know just how much I care.
And if I tried
I still couldn't hide
My love for you
You ought to know
For haven't I told you so
A million or more times?
You went away and my heart went with you
I speak your name in my every prayer
If there is some other way
To prove that I love you
I swear I don't know how
You'll never know if you don't know now.
Gracias me amigo nuevo.
Unforgetable wow
Thank you for the lyrics of this song
Its a very very nice song unforgettable it goes deep into my heart
Thank you thank you very much for this song I keep on playing it over and over again
I play and sing these songs to my wife of 63 years, in Gods care Feb. I adore you and will continue todo so
This is another song my beloved diana loved it and so did i.
This is a war time song WWII and beautiful.
Now I list my diana partner of more then 68 years.
Lovely song.
God bless them both.
I cried all the way through this wonderful song. So many memories. This astonishing artist is 97 now. I am so grateful for her inspiring music. My beloved father was killed in the service in 1943 (when I was 10) and music helped me to survive.
Im sorry for your lost :(
Marly Harris, I hope you are still alive and going strong.
❤
....im here because i wanted to listen to vera lynn ......
Family Guy first introduced me to this song. Shape of Water helped fan the flames of my love for it
“You went away & my heart went with you”such lovely words.
I was about 7years old when I first heard Vera sing this
Harkens back to the hellish days of WWII!
Memorable songs that left an indelible mark never to be forgotten!
My mum used to sing us to sleep when we were kids thru the 50s & 60s with this.. She's still with us, but hasn't sung it for nearly 50 years.
there's a particular line that always gets me. How i feel about my husband exactly. The whole song is relatable but he hasn't gone away in years. Ever since I moved to be with him. Now he's my husband.
" if there is some other way to prove that I love you, I swear I don't know how."
godsspeed angel voice 💖
I sang this to my hubby last night he blushes and saids aww
Just popped into my head today. my mom's favorite song. RIP mom
My Mom loved this song! She sang it to my Dad every chance she got when they were dancing to it.
I love you mother Fely I used to hear from you,silently sing this song when you are doing your gawaing Bahay po your birthday is February 06,1927 po Ikaw po ay 95 years old na po .salamat po sa alaala po. Love you po Nanay Fely♥️❤️♥️♥️
She is 101 now and her songs still get me.
Three cheers for Dame Vera Lynn.
Then she passed away in 2020, at 103.
She was born the year the USA entered WW1, lived through prohibition, the depression, Pearl Harbor and WW2, the birth and emergence of rock-n-roll, the 60s, Ayatollah, Disco, the rise of video games (all the consoles from Magnavox Odyssey, to Playstation4 and Nintendo Switch), the internet, 9/11, the first black president Obama, trump and finally Covid19 It's honestly kind of mind-blowing..
My grandpa sang this song to my grandma all the time. I'm always reminded of them both whenever I listen to this song.
76 years ago this was a new song by my dear husband's great uncle, Harry Warren.!! Rest in peace dear Uncle Harry.
My nanny used to sing this to me and my brother when we were kids ❤️💚
I am hear because I fell in love with Vera Lynn while searching for songs to sing and record for a present for my grandparents. Now that my grandma passed away on 05-09-2015, the day before mothers day, I haven been finding all sorts of older gems that I absolutely adore. I can't wait to sing them for her, We'll meet again, some sunny day.
+Haley Powell I am sorry for your loss, but I also long for that sunny day with my own family.
You mean you'll sing with them in heaven??
I cried during this sequence in The Shape of Water. Love is real and it lives underwater.
This is the most romantic love song ever. Listening to her beautiful voice gives me shivers!! 💙
This 62 year old has Loved Vera Lynn since my mid 20's. Classic Voice of a Bygone Era.
Happy "102" Birthday Vera!
The sweet old man singing to his wife of 73 years brought me here. Beautiful
this was my grandmas favorite song. she died last year. Alzheimer's disease. this was the only thing she remembered. she didn't even remembered her husband
iah geraldino Sorry for your loss. ❤️
I love this song.
I'm 49 year's old..and i can honestly say that i love this kinda music,..but how i found this song is by the way of the husband that sung it to his wife of 73 year's before her passing. beautiful but so sad 😭😭😭
Brasil. 21/05/2020, 17:49 pm . Hoje ouvindo essa linda música para me desviar a atenção da Pandemia que está levando milhares que gostavam dessa melodia
Rest in Paradise, Ma'am Vera Lynn! You're extraordinary life and big contribution to music during hardtimes will never be forgotten!!
A song that's as relevant today as it was way back during WW2 .
a song for all times.
Incrível como as músicas antigas são infinitamente melhores que o lixo de hoje
Oh my god your so right
Confirmo mi estimado
The Lady is still alive, 103 years damn. God bless her.
My grandad brought me up on the golden oldies like this one so many happy memories of a bygone era he has been gone now for 15 years and I miss him more now than the day he went thank you for this beautiful 🫶🏼
Some of the greatest love songs were written during WW2. But then this was the time of "The Great Generation".
I agree.
They are actually referred to as "The Greatest Generation."
I love their music.
Dlee645 Ditto
John Coyle Yes, I was part of it...Aberdeen, Scotland.WW2. 👍🏻🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦❤️
@@bethrobb3684 I hope you are in good health and have many more years, god bless you!
Her vibrato is exquisite, and the orchestra has a comfortingly rich tone and arrangement.
I use to sing this to husband a Vet of WWII. We both loved Vera Lynn.
RIP dame Vera Lynn, 103 years of age, may she rest in peace and may she be reunited with her family and friends in heaven.
Love that kind of movie and the soundtrack of THE SHAPE OF WATER..😊
Vera Lynn and Jo Stafford kept UK going in the second world war. Music you can sit still to. Beautiful.....
Sorry Brenda, I was a teenager in England during the war and I never heard of Jo Stafford at the time, she was American. We had Vera Lynn, Gracie Fields, Ambrose, Henry Hall andJohn McCormack.
Music Halls and Tommy Trinder, plus all the BBC greats
Brenda. Jo Stafford is one of my favourite singers but during wartime Britain she wasn't that well known here. The other iconic female singer those days in the UK was Ann Shelton.
@@goggerator16 I hope you are still alive and healthy! God bless you!
It was the sob in the voice at a time in history when so many were in tears. A voice far more mature than I believe she was, having begun her career in her late teens and knocking them out.
This song gives me a great feeling of relief after a tiring day, I love 20th century music
Shape of water. 😍
I’m glad people still listen to this music. I feel like I’m the only 16 year old who would listen to this music every day on the radio
I'm 13😂😂
Thanks The Shape of Water for introducing me to this beautiful song.....
My Mother would sing this song, I loved to hear her sing, Sad she is no longer with me .Thank you for the memories.
I always loved this song, it made me really happy to hear it in The Shape of Water. I love Guillermo del Toro's films. It was well deserving of the Oscar
the shape of water brings me here!!
鄭舜哲 same here
same
鄭舜哲 Such a beautiful movie 💙💖
Same
Still enjoying listening to Dame Vera Lynn. What a beautiful voice and repertoire she had.💖
She was the figure that kept up British morale during WWII, especially during the blitz. I have her 5 CD collection and every song is great.
I just turned 60 and loving this music! I could just imagine mom and pop dancing to this but they have both passed on. So much good music then...Thank you
tempos que não voltam mais.
My husband's great uncle wrote that music ... what a great composer and Vera is quite the singer!! The composer is HARRY WARREN... also composed the music for Love Affair to Remember.He was a dear man and was a romantic man. He was his wife's DREAM MAN!!
My dad's favourite singer. He knew what he was talking about, great voice,lovely lady.
I got here because of the video of a man sang to his dying wife posted/shared in FB. It's really touching!!!
would like to see this video
Tommy Un me too
I didn't know this song was about going away to war. An elderly lady sings this beautifully in a nursing home I play guitar in. Up to now I always thought the person in the song just went away as is the routine practice of today's relationships, lol. But heading off to war it brought a tear to my eye. It expresses the desperation of those waiting for them to come home and wanting them to know they were loved.
So many of us over 72 who found connection to the world through radio. There were stars who talked patriotism and humility, who asked only that we include ourselves in their songs. One of the towering voices was that of Vera Lynn. And while we listened at the foot of the radio, our parents heard the same voices and melodies, and reflected on their own very personal relationship to those same singers. Vera brought tears to our eyes, and chills of ennui, and beaming smiles as if one was bursting out of their body to be with her, to absorb more of her ideas, her voice. As we age, we give up those who we wished to retain and look to the future less today than we were when believed the person, the Dame, would be yet again to say a cheery word. Sigh, and thank you.
I'm here because of a Facebook video of a man singing this to his wife of 73 years dying in a hospice...so lovely
A wartime favorite. She crafted her songs to provide a reminder that loveliness was still possible even in war. That message gave us the strength to go on fighting.
I'm 45 yrs old and would like to thank every allied man and woman for my freedom lest we forget
And the Axis too.
@@GiganticPyro We should thank the Axis for our freedom? How's that?
I'm not ashamed to admit that "The Shape of Water" sent me here b/c how else are we going to broaden our horizons? Some of the very best & most romantic music I've ever heard has come from the show, "Call the Midwife". I may not have been born until years later, but I still recognize a TRUE love song when I hear it...
Vera Lynn was always a favorite of mine even though she wasn't from my era more of my moms and my grand mothers time I lost them both along with my Dad too but remember them all when I hear this song😢😂
This is my era when songs could be understood and boy she was a great singer!!!!
I hope you are still alive and doing great! god bless you!
That couple was the frickin' cutest!!!
+Steven Lathrop awwww
A most beautiful 100 year old woman. God Bless Her. She warmed and comforted the hearts of so many thousands in the sad and turbulent times that was World War 2.
Reminds me of my mom.She sang this song a lot. RIP Mom!!
I'm here because I watched a 92 year old man sing to his dying 93 year old wife, and I know this song from Michael Bublé - You'll never know.
me too lol
+Fajar Hadi hahaha.. nice
so do I
so do I
+Berdhan Elbytra Downloaded..What a loving man!!....
What a time, what a grand time in history with so much war, despair and yet the human hope came through in some of the most beautiful music ever written. thank you to all who dreamed, fought, hoped, sorrowed, wrote and sang. Stephen King
Today would have been my mother's 99th birthday and I am really missing her. She was a part of "the Greatest Generation" and sang all of the wonderful songs of "The Great American Songbook" around the house. As I read all of the comments below, I am so touched. The comments are so sentimental and makes me grateful that we were all the children of the wonderful WWII generation. The composers of these songs as well as the lyricists were brilliant. The lyricists were "poets", writing words which expressed undying love and waiting to see their loved ones whom they miss so much. Vera Lynn sang with so much feeling. I think of today's young people who are now the same age that the majority of the soldiers were in WWII. The WWII families had no idea if their sons, husbands, sweethearts or brothers were alive or dead and had no idea of where they might be. The families were scared to death all the time that they might receive "the dreaded telegram" telling them that their son was either dead or missing. Today's (especially young) people think that it is terrible if someone doesn't reply to their text in 5 minutes. They wouldn't understand the beauty of these songs because they didn't go through the Depression as most of the WWII generation did. They are not tough as the WWII generation was and there is no way we could have won WWII without these tough soldiers. God bless all of them and God bless the wonderful songwriters and the singers (especially the great Vera Lynn) who helped us survive the War.
Happy Birthday Vera Lynn! 99 years old
Almost too beautiful for words
time is gold because of songs like this
I sang this to my Mother when I left for Military. 🇺🇲🌷
The iconic song that defined the personal side of the War - at least for my mom and dad. They couldn't listen to it without having tears in their eyes... Somewhere in all the clutter of my storage unit is a scratched up old 78 of my mother's voice singing this; recorded by her uncle while my dad was overseas... The message in this song probably helped in keeping young families together during the long separations the war caused. I need to listen to it once in a while - maybe out of respect for my parent's 67 years of marriage.
whos watching this because of an 96 year old man signing to his dying wife omg song is catchy though and how the hell did we go from this music and culture to the music of today.
god please send me to the 50sss were nothing was old or rusty but at the same time bushing towards a dream and full of heart and a communication no one longer knows
Fernando Mik ...and racism. don't forget the racism.
but if you like how people acted then more and stuff, do that yourself and others may follow. and as for the music, people are still performing this old jazz music and stuff. the trends just moved away from it, and it brought us a lot of other good, different music too. but the fact that that exists doesn't at all affect your enjoyment of this, just get a few cd's of it and use them instead of radio stations in your car and use youtube at home.
Fernando Mik ikr!!! How did we!
Fernando Mik me too
Fernando Mik
actually I am
I am friend . I could see my Grandparents dancing to it . The Greastest Generation
I'm watching The Shape of Water at the moment....so, I'm now telling you I will love you now, always & forever...XO💙
nato nel 1934 a 10 anni il mio cuore spasimava ascoltando questa canzone nel film e mi venivano le lacrime agli occhi....bramando già l'amore insito. Born in Egypt I heard in the movie this song...today I am back in the same mood 75 years ago
We will miss you Vera Lynn...You lived a good life...Thanks for the wonderful songs...2020 is the year of sorrows...
Ian L.Moore I grew up in WW2 listening to Vera, loved all her songs, she was an inspiration to our U.K and other soldiers. Her voice was angelic!🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦❤️💐