Dame Vera Lynn performs at 1990 Royal Variety Performance

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  • Опубликовано: 25 май 2011
  • Dame Vera Lynn performs War Songs and her hits at the 1990 Royal Variety in honour of the Queen Mother's 90th Birthday
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  • @josephmerlino6074
    @josephmerlino6074 4 года назад +17

    I am 78,born at the beginning of WWII, old enough to appreciate a beautiful voice from a beautiful person.From the USA, bless you Dame Vera Lynn and the Greatest Generation.

  • @anneaires3984
    @anneaires3984 4 года назад +57

    We Americans ❤ her too...my mom's 2 brothers died in WWII, these songs meant so much to her💔. May Vera fly on the wings of the Bluebird to her new home in Heaven....🐦🙏💔🇺🇸❤🇬🇧🙏🐦

    • @frankhendricks5918
      @frankhendricks5918 Год назад +1

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face..

    • @Fire-superme
      @Fire-superme 11 месяцев назад

      I thought Vera Lynn was born in Britain and died in Britain?

  • @marydonegan
    @marydonegan 4 года назад +85

    Dame Vera died yesterday. I grew up in Ireland listening to her songs. This was before television and even though Ireland was not in WW2, we loved all the ‘war’ songs Vera sang. I am feasting on all her music on You Tube today......with tears in my eyes.

    • @burntbacon7995
      @burntbacon7995 2 года назад +7

      Hundreds of thousands of Irish men volunteered in the British Military during World War Two.

    • @ameenkeshavjee4249
      @ameenkeshavjee4249 Год назад +1

      Vera Lynn. RIP. Many tears still...

    • @daisybelle1025
      @daisybelle1025 Год назад

      @@aileen9553 if you're gonna troll....find a dictionary ya spoon...

    • @nessshirley6049
      @nessshirley6049 Год назад

      @@ameenkeshavjee4249 on

    • @frankhendricks5918
      @frankhendricks5918 Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face..

  • @indyandnorbert1
    @indyandnorbert1 12 лет назад +19

    This in fact was The Queen Mothers 90th Birthday Gala, so you could not have had a better star to grace the stage. Not only did Dame Vera get a tremendous ovation, but the ovation for the Queen Mother at the end was overwhelming, it was edited on TV, but I was lucky enough to be there and it was a very special evening and a terrific cast - real theatre, sadly lacking now.

  • @theophilus1146
    @theophilus1146 2 года назад +27

    This is REAL singing. A time and a world long gone. Glad we have these recordings. Wonderful.

    • @danielvictor7321
      @danielvictor7321 2 года назад

      The Vera Lynn Show - 1977
      ruclips.net/video/zsAcZjOVQ2Y/видео.html

  • @ecinomahaeugene
    @ecinomahaeugene 4 года назад +119

    This woman deserves a state funeral, not just in recognition of her own contribution but as a last representative of that generation to whom we owe so much.

    • @dougmartin9828
      @dougmartin9828 4 года назад +2

      Yes

    • @gordonrobertson9072
      @gordonrobertson9072 Год назад +7

      She had the kind of funeral she would have wonted. People lined the roads through the towns she was driven. At the last town the RAF did a fly over. She died with the love and thanks of a grateful nation. I spent all of www in England and I will never forget her. god bless u dame Vera.

    • @kelvinsurname7051
      @kelvinsurname7051 Год назад +2

      ​@@gordonrobertson9072 sir, thanks you for sharing your story, might I ask what your age is? God bless you sir!

    • @gordonrobertson9072
      @gordonrobertson9072 Год назад

      @@kelvinsurname7051 85

  • @kasha1932
    @kasha1932 7 лет назад +7

    What a great woman is Very Lynn! And, what a voice she maintained for many, many years! She brought hope and love of country to the entire world (Allies). I was just about 12 years of age when all this began , and I learned every single song I am hearing here!!! And, I am an American lover of PEACE for which so many fought and died . What a great blessing Very Lynn was and I look forward to her 100 th birthday MARCH 20 , 2017!! Send her very best wishes so she knows we have not forgotten her! Thank you YOU TUBE!!! And THANK YOU VERA LYNN!!!!

    • @frankhendricks5918
      @frankhendricks5918 Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face.

  • @barrys1girl
    @barrys1girl 3 года назад +7

    I was a small child during WW11 and was raised with Vera Lynn singing on the radio. An amazing woman, with a beautiful voice and a load of compassion. There will never be another to match her. RIP and thank you for all you gave to us Vera.

    • @frankhendricks5918
      @frankhendricks5918 Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face.

  • @ericwalker6047
    @ericwalker6047 6 лет назад +175

    No backing vocals....no big PR Company..no miming...no Simon Cowell. just PURE talent ike it used to be!

  • @SuperDancingdevil
    @SuperDancingdevil 4 года назад +48

    R.I.P. Vera you will be sorely missed, Heaven has just received a songbird.

    • @Akeshavjee1
      @Akeshavjee1 3 года назад

      She loved cats. She is now looking after my two boys and one girl. Little Girl moved on in Oct 2020, left me shattered. They are all FOUR singing together.

    • @1in8billion14
      @1in8billion14 3 года назад +1

      She singing for Jesus now

  • @PLuMUK54
    @PLuMUK54 5 лет назад +45

    Wonderful. I was born in 1954, but these were the songs of my childhood. I've loved much music throughout my life, but nothing beats this.
    I was an history teacher and used to play this music to the 13-14 year olds studying the SWW, and it never ceased to amaze me how much it "spoke" to young people.
    I had some playing in my classroom during an open evening one year. I hadn't realised that I was joining in until I turned round and saw a group of pupils and visitors listening to me.

    • @gordonrobertson9072
      @gordonrobertson9072 Год назад +2

      For those of us in England. during the war w e will enver forget her. I feel honorer d to hâve been in that génération..God bless her now she Is sining with the Angels.We Willy met again.

    • @kelvinsurname7051
      @kelvinsurname7051 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@gordonrobertson9072God Bless you, I hope you are in good healthy.

    • @BigMovieNight-bg8fw
      @BigMovieNight-bg8fw 5 месяцев назад

      How can these songs be from your childhood if they were from the 1940s and you were born in 1954??

  • @oliviaharlfinger882
    @oliviaharlfinger882 4 года назад +52

    What a gift she was during the war and I love listening to her. So beautiful!

    • @frankhendricks5918
      @frankhendricks5918 Год назад +1

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face..

    • @walterbosch9198
      @walterbosch9198 3 месяца назад +1

      Vera lynn was one of a kind a rare talented lady what a beautiful voice and a brave lady who put herself in danger to entertain her countries troops. God bless her and rip vera lynn.

  • @loiba
    @loiba 10 лет назад +45

    For her to sing so well at 73 is incredible she is one of the best singers I have ever heard.

    • @curlymal
      @curlymal 10 лет назад

      I posted my almost identical comment before I read yours

    • @nessshirley6049
      @nessshirley6049 Год назад

      😮

  • @Sheila33410
    @Sheila33410 12 лет назад +6

    Oh my, I had not heard her voice since my early childhood. My grandmother was from England, living with us during the war. The Brits had Dame Vera Lynn and we had Kate Smith. There was no internet or skype of course, but these songs kept the spirit up. England was being bombed unmercifully and a story I cannot verify says that Dame Lynn was performing one night in London when the hits started to come. "Save Vera Lynn, Churchill can fend for himself." Brilliant video, many thanks.

  • @ianwhitehead4337
    @ianwhitehead4337 4 года назад +61

    God bless you Dame Vera. We will never see your like again.

    • @garydaniels1420
      @garydaniels1420 3 года назад

      The Last of the Few. ..God Bless... always Thankyou for Burhma..LWF..

  • @memphisdoolittle9020
    @memphisdoolittle9020 7 лет назад +647

    I hate how when i tell people my favorite singer is Vera Lynn and there Like who, I show them and they say too old. Im 14 and music is timeless, no matter when made.

    • @cameronholt7632
      @cameronholt7632 7 лет назад +30

      Good on you Memphis what they listen too is crap anyway all this bloody stormzy and Eminem is not proper music

    • @rowlandhoskinsiii6382
      @rowlandhoskinsiii6382 7 лет назад +34

      I am only 10 and she is still an inspiration. Hands down my favorite singer. I wish her the best of her final years.

    • @Greenplantsky
      @Greenplantsky 7 лет назад +3

      ...and sometimes they can ask if you mispronounced Lera Lynn. Facepalm guaranteed.

    • @luluzulu8947
      @luluzulu8947 7 лет назад +18

      Memphis never care about what other people think you should be listening too..what you love is all about you..people think they know everything about what someone else should be thinking or doing ..let them say what they like ..you love what you love ..and your right music is timeless ..

    • @liamconn5380
      @liamconn5380 7 лет назад +16

      Same thing I am 19 and have to explain who she is to people

  • @terrimyers3337
    @terrimyers3337 9 месяцев назад +6

    This is a history lesson set to music. Thank you to the greatest generation wherever you’re from or wherever you are. Godspeed ❤❤❤

  • @malikix9735
    @malikix9735 4 года назад +31

    Rest in peace Dame Vera Lynn.

  • @regfollett2105
    @regfollett2105 4 года назад +47

    Probably my age, but this fantastic woman has added so so much to the British culture and surely only true Brits will swoon listening to her voice plus lyrics, and be reminded of tough times. Fairwell and thank you so much Dame Vera, rest in peace.

    • @theresaliebenberg
      @theresaliebenberg Год назад +1

      I, too, swoon when I hear Dame Vera Lynn sing. I am South African, in my early 50s, and fortunately, I never lived through a war. I have many of her records, etc, and have loved her since I was 12. Music can unite people of different ages and nationalities. She was and always will be my favorite singer and an icon to many. At least we can still enjoy her music and her voice. May she rest in peace. 🙏

  • @peterhayles6912
    @peterhayles6912 4 года назад +48

    And shame to all who pressed dislike to this national gem!

  • @lynne150351
    @lynne150351 4 года назад +15

    absolutely amazing the one and only forces sweetheart Dame Vera Lynn, voice is as clear as crystal even at 73 years of age!!! this is pure talent , not like the crap we have today, RIP beautiful lady , your music will live on forever

    • @frankhendricks5918
      @frankhendricks5918 Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face..

  • @jordanpaige7329
    @jordanpaige7329 4 года назад +4

    RIP Vera. Until we meet again. 🙏💜

  • @victorwashington7179
    @victorwashington7179 5 лет назад +87

    This is real music.
    Nothing today even comes close. Truly we have lived through the golden age of music.

    • @yorkshirequeen86
      @yorkshirequeen86 3 года назад

      Music you can listen to not just bang your head against a wall to illustrate I'm 36 and would rather listen to dame vera than any crap they are banging out now

  • @royhardy407
    @royhardy407 4 года назад +22

    This lady is the epitome of the courage of this nation. Today at 103 years old her song We'll meet again is as relevant today as it was in the darkest of years of WW2.
    Our Sovereign Lay Queen Elizabeth is still the inspiration for this United Kingdom and WE WILL MEET AGAIN. Stay safe keep well and may you all come through as we as a nation will.

  • @cameronholt7632
    @cameronholt7632 5 лет назад +127

    I don’t cry. The last time I cried was when my grandad passed away. But the patriotism and beauty of her voice is enough to make me cry.
    God bless Dame Vera Lynn
    God bless the United Kingdom. Vera has passed away today on the 18th June 2020. RIP you hero

    • @danielle2577
      @danielle2577 4 года назад +2

      She's died today. RIP her. I just know her today and she's a great singer, great figure.

    • @cameronholt7632
      @cameronholt7632 4 года назад +1

      Rizky Maisyarah Ive been reading about it mate. Terrible news. I hope the state can give her the send off she deserves so much

    • @danielle2577
      @danielle2577 4 года назад +2

      @@cameronholt7632 yeah. I am not from UK but I subscribe to BBC News, and then look for her songs and her interviews and she's indeed a great figure. Yeah I wish that too. RIP and so sorry for your country's loss.

    • @sooverit3258
      @sooverit3258 4 года назад +3

      Was introduced to Vera Lynn’s music a few years ago via the D-Day Darlings. Have since bought Vera Lynn’s cd’s and music is absolutely beautiful. I could FEEL the patriotism and I am American. Wishing she was born here in the U.S. No matter, she and her voice was a gift from God to all of us. Now, she is home and can rest knowing her music will bring comfort to all willing to listen. Thank you Dame Vera Lynn🇺🇸🙏❤️

    • @alanlevi1941
      @alanlevi1941 4 года назад +1

      Indeed-Gives you a lump in your throat!

  • @k8nairne
    @k8nairne 13 лет назад +5

    Amazing. Age 73 here and still such power and emotion in that glorious voice. Thanks for sharing!

  • @curlymal
    @curlymal 10 лет назад +57

    this is a 73 year old woman singing, absolutely incredible

  • @mirror17
    @mirror17 4 года назад +2

    103 years old now 😳 what an amazing woman you are. 🙏🏻🌹💋

  • @ML-po2hq
    @ML-po2hq 7 лет назад +18

    This is amazing, at 73 she could still sing - happy 100th birthday Vera x

  • @NIGHTWATCHERUK01
    @NIGHTWATCHERUK01 4 года назад +66

    rip at 103 years old .....I THINK WE NEED A BATTLE OF BRITAIN FLY PAST AT HER FUNERAL .....what do you the people say ????

    • @johnneves9580
      @johnneves9580 3 года назад +3

      That would be great. Dame Vera had a fantastic voice and she was a great entertainer.

    • @garydaniels1420
      @garydaniels1420 3 года назад +4

      She got it and rightly so....LWF.....

    • @johnneves9580
      @johnneves9580 3 года назад +1

      That would be fantastic. Such a great honor it would be for her, she would be so proud.

  • @wildliferescuer7166
    @wildliferescuer7166 4 года назад +43

    A legend, an Icon, a national treasure, an inspiration, a comfort & friend to thousands in WW2, a star, a voice of an angel, a role model, a superstar, a heroine, a pin up, a multiple record breaker, a heroine, R.I.P. to an amazing true legend now reunited with Harry, thank you for everything, your voice , songs & inspiration will continue forever, now rest easy you've more than earned it. 😢🐦🐦💐

    • @325diane
      @325diane 3 года назад +1

      What a beautiful tribute to Dame Vera Lynn! I couldn't have said it anywhere near as well. Thank you!

    • @christineflannigan2783
      @christineflannigan2783 Год назад

      God bless Vera sorry u died when the world was in a lock down.think u should have a state funeral.think the Queen would .given u one but sadly

  • @jimyoung2188
    @jimyoung2188 8 лет назад +405

    Its good to hear someone who can actually sing instead of screaming and screeching Good on ya Vera

    • @jackbouzek9417
      @jackbouzek9417 7 лет назад +4

      Jim Young ł

    • @robertevans654
      @robertevans654 7 лет назад +3

      Jim Young Chopin

    • @finnegan6464
      @finnegan6464 5 лет назад +1

      Today its like ERGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHILOVEYOUIWANNAFUCKYEHINYOURCUTEBED REEEEEEEEEENRGGENRG

    • @rw8733
      @rw8733 4 года назад +1

      Just magnificent. 😢

    • @johnnyjensen6067
      @johnnyjensen6067 4 года назад

      Exactly, but I love Janis Joplin's singing as well.

  • @vickifriend9285
    @vickifriend9285 7 лет назад +79

    God bless you Dame Vera. My wonderful grandma used to sing all your songs to me. She knew you very well. I have sung these songs to my children and now grandchildren. Charlie aged 12 loves these songs, Sadie aged 6 knows ALL of them too. And God bless my Mother in her Alzheimers knows these songs and continually sings them. Happiness always.

    • @johncarron9389
      @johncarron9389 4 года назад +11

      I was born in 1935, and living in London. I remember virtually living in a very small air raid shelter, and the only contact with the outside World was listening to a radio. Dame Vera Lynn would sing the songs that everyone would listen to.I remember being on my knees with my Mother ,and saying a prayer every night. We constantly had bombs falling all around us.That was how we knew whether it was daytime or nighttime, as the bombing was just constant at night. Vera Lynn was such a great person to listen to, and made life a lot more bearable for everyone during those very frightful times. Many years later my wife and I had the pleasure of attending a show and saw her in person. The show was in Wimbledon, and it started at midnight, and so she performed around 1.30 in the morning.!!!. I have no idea who the other people were that performed that night, but I still remember every note of her performance. Every time that I hear her, as many of you have stated, at age six I cried with my mother, and two other folks that shared the shelter.I have often thought since that she should have sung “ Cry me a river” because she certainly caused plenty of them. Thank you Dame Vera Lynn.

    • @virginialawler7725
      @virginialawler7725 3 года назад +3

      @@johncarron9389 What a lovely comment and piece of history. Thx.

    • @frankhendricks5918
      @frankhendricks5918 Год назад

      @@virginialawler7725 Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face..

  • @nessshirley6049
    @nessshirley6049 Год назад

    Ilisten to Veralynn at every opportunity I have very vivid memories I am 88 my husband served with the Manchesters I pray we will meet again Ness Shirley

  • @johnneves9580
    @johnneves9580 3 года назад +58

    I just love Vera Lynn's voice. So relaxing. Especially like her song We'll Meet Again. Tear jerker for me.

  • @larsrask3727
    @larsrask3727 4 года назад +17

    Vera Lynn was a spectacular singer no longer with us.

    • @frankhendricks5918
      @frankhendricks5918 Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face.

  • @AidanCasserlyHome
    @AidanCasserlyHome 8 месяцев назад +3

    Incredible lady, incredible vocal performance! This is 1990! Just breathtaking

  • @5tanne5on5ea
    @5tanne5on5ea 4 года назад +6

    And this Lady was three years older than I am now when she did this!!! Brilliant.

  • @ThePoolerguy
    @ThePoolerguy 4 года назад +83

    She never lost it still watching in 2019 :) shes 102 and still got it :)

  • @billshaw4785
    @billshaw4785 7 лет назад +2

    A BEAUTIFUL SWEET VOICED LADY I AM ONLKY 86 AND HAVE LISTENED TO HER WONDERFUL SINGING ALL THESE YEARS... HAVE A STACK OF HER RECORDS.. ONE AUTOGRAPHED..MY TREASURES.

  • @chadwinphillips9148
    @chadwinphillips9148 4 года назад +49

    To think she was already 73 years old in this video, and she is still alive and doing well now in 2019. She is truly blessed!

    • @dannytrue5056
      @dannytrue5056 4 года назад +3

      Chadwin, WE are blessed to have heard Vera during the war. I was 8 when it ended; I grew up listening to the promises of her songs. I am an American. Would that I live as long as she!

  • @hannadr
    @hannadr 4 года назад +11

    HARD TO EXPRESS THE SAD AND YET, BEAUTIFUL FEELING THESE SONGS GIVE ME, THOUGH I WAS A TODDLER OR A BIT OLDER, I REMEMBER THE COUNTRY ROADS WITH PEOPLE ONLY WITH UNIFORMS, AND THE STRESS MY PARENTS WERE UNDER, NOT ONLY WAS THE COUNTRY FIGHTING THE ENEMY, BUT MILLIONS OF OUR JEWISH BROTHERS AND SISTERS AND PEOPLE BEING MURDERED,

  • @mikeowen657
    @mikeowen657 6 лет назад +34

    At their request Mum & Dad both had 'we'll meet again' at their funerals .. tears my heart every time its played

  • @robertmarsh3588
    @robertmarsh3588 3 года назад +4

    Wonderful performance. She really was a star in so many ways.
    So sad she has finally left us, aged 103. RIP the great Vera Lynn

  • @haylz06
    @haylz06 4 года назад +37

    I am only 36 but .. i feel like i have known her all my life, she has melted my heart and made me cry, such a beautiful lady so very selfless and loving and caring, bless you Dame Vera

  • @davidgreen7495
    @davidgreen7495 6 лет назад +50

    Still, today, a nations sweetheart. Dame Vera Lynn, a national treasure and a bloody good singer to boot. I hope when Dame Vera does finally succumb to the next life, this country gives her the send off she deserves. One aligned to royalty.

  • @jamesaston9646
    @jamesaston9646 4 года назад +23

    RIP - Still going with the State Funeral option posted years ago...Beauty

  • @rugby2073a1
    @rugby2073a1 9 лет назад +34

    19 dislikes??????????? Fuck them Vera Kicks ASS!! Semper FI Vera.

  • @lucytvlucytv9416
    @lucytvlucytv9416 4 года назад +53

    This was when we were proud of our flag. It’s about time we were again! Be proud of Great Britain.👏👏👏🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧.

    • @fionathomson4436
      @fionathomson4436 3 года назад +4

      Yes, sadly that time has gone , happy memories.

    • @RenaissanceEarCandy
      @RenaissanceEarCandy 3 года назад

      We were proud of our flag when we had something to be proud of. Our dangerous, uncaring, selfish government has made us a laughing stock now, though. And what's more, we're a bout to impose sanctions on our own country.

    • @andrewhubbard4044
      @andrewhubbard4044 3 года назад +2

      Don't think those days will ever come back sadly the great in Britain as gone

    • @fionathomson4436
      @fionathomson4436 3 года назад

      @@andrewhubbard4044 Yes sadly

    • @RenaissanceEarCandy
      @RenaissanceEarCandy 3 года назад

      @@andrewhubbard4044 Yes, it's tory wasteland now

  • @shanekluin6568
    @shanekluin6568 4 года назад +28

    Rest in peace dear dame Vera Lynn the shine and the light in the most darkest hours of mankind!

    • @jorgedelabarra3808
      @jorgedelabarra3808 3 года назад

      Que pena que Vera haya fallecido. Sus canciones me emocionan y me trae el recuerdo de los años en que los ingleses demostraron su coraje.

  • @1928gerry
    @1928gerry 9 лет назад +124

    I was born in 1928 and remember these songs so well. Welcoming in 2015 by watching and listening to dear Vera Lynn. I saw her in Ottawa back around 1980 and the large group of veterans in the audience were still in love with her. Thanks for posting and glad I discovered it tonight especially.

    • @1928gerry
      @1928gerry 9 лет назад +4

      *****
      I'm glad for you.

    • @mamatibborscassady9388
      @mamatibborscassady9388 9 лет назад +2

      ***** Fine by me, fine by you that you listen to all music,now, and then, and yes, it was a very fascinating time........

    • @1928gerry
      @1928gerry 4 года назад +8

      I'm listening to Vera again on the day she has gone to Heaven. What rejoicing there will be among all those who were looking as word went out: Vera's coming, boys.

    • @kelvinsurname7051
      @kelvinsurname7051 2 года назад +2

      @@1928gerry Are you still alive, stay healthy! I hope you are doing fine. Dame Vera Lynn was a remarkable woman a true hero. God bless you!

  • @craigmcintosh7241
    @craigmcintosh7241 8 лет назад +33

    Beautiful!! I can't thing of a singer today that can sing like Vera Lynn!

  • @martinking2199
    @martinking2199 2 года назад +1

    This unique Lady was more than a voice , love care courage determination spirit hope you can go on & on she was everything & anything never be another & I must say a stunning Lady too.⚘x

    • @danielvictor7321
      @danielvictor7321 2 года назад

      The Vera Lynn Show - 1977
      ruclips.net/video/zsAcZjOVQ2Y/видео.html

  • @andrewhubbard4044
    @andrewhubbard4044 3 года назад +5

    Dame Vera Lynn makes you feel happy and warm when she sings RIP along with all those brave men & women that gave there lives to give us a new tomorrow GOD BLESS you all

  • @brendataylor2490
    @brendataylor2490 6 лет назад +44

    Magnificent voice and completely endearing through all these ages.
    I love her.

    • @frankhendricks5918
      @frankhendricks5918 Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face..

  • @esthergetkate1739
    @esthergetkate1739 5 лет назад +9

    Dame Vera Lynn thank you for the music you voice is a DIAMOND. God Bless UK With love from Amsterdam The Netherlands ❤ 🌹 Esther

  • @davedrolett6890
    @davedrolett6890 9 лет назад +167

    She is the grand icon of the " Greatest Generation. In the worse of times, this ladies voice made life seem that much better.

    • @reubengerling6253
      @reubengerling6253 4 года назад +1

      dave Drolett lady’s

    • @garydaniels1420
      @garydaniels1420 3 года назад

      It certainly did.....LWF.....

    • @MrDavey2010
      @MrDavey2010 3 года назад

      She was very lucky as there were several ‘Forces Sweethearts’ in WWII. My grandad told me that there were lots of ladies like Dame Vera but she captured the media interest at the time.

  • @rogerpr364
    @rogerpr364 7 лет назад +1

    I'm 60 and I wish I was born in those days just to hear and listen to the true music and songs of those days live just like Dame Vera Lynne and others like her and the big bands, yes, I was born in the mid 50s but I always loved the 40s music and songs, Vera was a beauty then and still good looking here! God bless Dame Vera

  • @JoyceJobson-rr8dt
    @JoyceJobson-rr8dt Месяц назад

    I love that song as only Vera Lynn can sing it! I cry every time I hear it! So beautiful!!❤️🎶🙏

  • @rowlandhoskinsiii6382
    @rowlandhoskinsiii6382 7 лет назад +50

    She is an absolute inspiration. I can't believe she is coming up on 100 years old. God Bless her.

  • @iliketowatchvideos47
    @iliketowatchvideos47 Год назад

    Watching Jan 2023 what a legend she was R I P

  • @lisegroleau2662
    @lisegroleau2662 4 года назад +20

    I love her and she deserves all the accolades she gets.

    • @gwenwan904
      @gwenwan904 3 года назад

      l Totally agree ! back home in Hawaii , l was brought with her music on KGU ration station in Honolulu Hawaii the DJ was Akuhead Pupule yes! back in the 40's she will be greatly missed , l truly loved her and will truly miss her singing RIP&L

    • @frankhendricks5918
      @frankhendricks5918 Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face.

  • @tovawald7735
    @tovawald7735 9 лет назад +33

    Wonderful performance. She embodies songs of another era and carries it on to our time. A very lovely and gracious woman no matter her age. It's nice we can enjoy her videos from the past to the present.

    • @frankhendricks5918
      @frankhendricks5918 Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face..

  • @lesg.7983
    @lesg.7983 5 лет назад +7

    One of the most memorable songs of World War II. I think of all the military people who "did meet again" and of all the people who "did not meet again". The song tugs at my heart and affects me every time I hear it. And NOBODY can sing this better than Dame Vera Lynn. God bless you Dame Vera Lynn!

    • @frankhendricks5918
      @frankhendricks5918 Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face..

  • @larryhamsing4140
    @larryhamsing4140 3 года назад +1

    I'm an American and I simply love this woman.

  • @ithila6712
    @ithila6712 7 лет назад +1

    White Cliffs of Dover...brings tears remembering my mum singing this after my dad died of Hodgkins Disease when I was only six. She would go upstairs to her room, close the door, and listen to her Vera Lynn records and sometimes I could hear her crying.They are together again in Eternity, at long last, and all their grief and sadness is over.

    • @dennisroyhall121
      @dennisroyhall121 7 лет назад

      Ithila
      Bless you, I believe I can understand your feelings, I was perhaps a year older in those terribly dark years of the early 'forties, and Vera Lynn's songs especially White Cliffs of Dover in 1940, were a real godsend to so many of us. Take care.

  • @Wilshare
    @Wilshare 4 года назад +29

    18/06/2020 13 mins ago - Dame Vera Lynn, whose song We'll Meet Again became an anthem of hope and resilience during the second world war, has died aged 103 Auf Wiederseh`n Sweetheart

  • @erpollock
    @erpollock Год назад +6

    She brings warmth and expression to these songs, you can imagine how people must have felt during the war.

    • @frankhendricks5918
      @frankhendricks5918 Год назад

      Simple music can make you sing simple hug can make you feel better simple things can make you happy, i hope my simple Hello brings smile to your face.

  • @jovanweismiller9996
    @jovanweismiller9996 9 лет назад +188

    Dame Vera was 72 or 73 when this was recorded. Today, 20 March 2015, she's 98 and still going strong! God bless her and a Happy Birthday!

    • @MichaelSmith-ui5zs
      @MichaelSmith-ui5zs 8 лет назад +6

      +Jovan Weismiller Nearly 20th March again and soon this wonderful lady will be 99.

    • @rbrown1147
      @rbrown1147 6 лет назад +3

      Jovan Weismiller Dame Vera was 73 when this was recored in 1990 and she has celebrated her 100th birthday this yeaf 2017.

    • @marialamb2958
      @marialamb2958 5 лет назад +2

      Jovan Weismiller
      You’ll be happy to know that she is STILL with us! 💕
      ruclips.net/video/Ewfr1o7EOLE/видео.html

    • @janX9
      @janX9 5 лет назад +1

      She's still going!

    • @ironguanyin123
      @ironguanyin123 5 лет назад +6

      She's 102 this year! Amazing that she's still alive. They say singing is good for soul, I believe it's good for the body, too. I hope she'll live to 120, but no matter how old she is, her songs will live on to be admired and loved forever.

  • @duanemcclure8324
    @duanemcclure8324 4 года назад

    CBS SUNDAY MORNING is running a story on the great Vera Lynn today, Father's day, June 21, 2020. 102 years of making people smile and cry. Now, that's a legacy! R.I.P, Vera..and, thank you!

  • @sheilawhite8314
    @sheilawhite8314 3 года назад +1

    what an amazing age 103 years old she finally passed away.

  • @christopherrowan3886
    @christopherrowan3886 7 лет назад +51

    This terrific woman is the epitomy of all that is good! I'm in my thirties, but believe that Vera exemplifies the true spirit of the twentieth-century!
    However sugary it may sound, it makes me proud to be British, knowing that Dame Vera is part of my heritage.
    When Dame Vera passes, I believe that she should be afforded at the very minimum a state funeral befitting that of a queen. Her contribution is just too great!

    • @000Responses
      @000Responses 6 лет назад +2

      That's not sugary at all! What are you talking about?

    • @000Responses
      @000Responses 6 лет назад +1

      But please don't talk about her dying, oh please no!

    • @barrylangford3276
      @barrylangford3276 4 года назад +2

      Very well said. I am saddened by much of what has happened to my country, but to me Dame Vera epitomises all that was great about England and whenever I hear her sing I am swept away on a wave of patriotism!

  • @simonsteam
    @simonsteam 13 лет назад +5

    WOW, Still such stage presence and such beauty. And that Glorious god given voice.Wonderful Thankyou Dame Vera for Everything. My grandfather was in WW2 and he recalled just how the boys lived to hear her singing and just for a brief moment they felt that "Home" Was there with them and that people were thinking about them.

  • @paulmiles9102
    @paulmiles9102 4 года назад +1

    R.I.P to one amazing legend one incedible voice this is just wonderful viewing here

  • @sylviaparker860
    @sylviaparker860 4 года назад +9

    Rest in peace dame vera lynn my heart felt condolences to your family

  • @victorwashington7179
    @victorwashington7179 5 лет назад +9

    Now this is real music. Just as beautifultoday as when firstrecorded.

  • @TheLeonhamm
    @TheLeonhamm 5 лет назад +15

    I am in my late 20s, when I look at my lovely Grandparents, and my splendid and still beautiful Great Grandmama and Great Aunt, and they sing along to Vera Lynn my heart almost bursts with pride, and sorrow, and joy .. and the grief of knowing that I shall have them all for only a comparatively little while longer. What a blessing they have brought into many lives, especially mine, with my wife and little kids. I know, I'm daft .. but it is true .. I want them - and the whole world - to know how much they are loved.

  • @lillianaizzo2847
    @lillianaizzo2847 10 лет назад +64

    Wow she really is brilliant. Today we sung her song ( we'll meet again ) even when she's old she can still sing!!!

    • @user-ge9hz3ot6w
      @user-ge9hz3ot6w 9 лет назад

    • @marialamb2958
      @marialamb2958 5 лет назад +2

      Lilliana Izzo
      LOL. SHE is STILL with us 💕🤗
      ruclips.net/video/Ewfr1o7EOLE/видео.html

  • @JimboUSAF007
    @JimboUSAF007 3 года назад +2

    Bless 'em all! R.I.P. Dame Vera Lynn. 💜

  • @Henry-vu5sg
    @Henry-vu5sg 5 лет назад +1

    I weep because we have so few people of this calibre today...

  • @simonsteam
    @simonsteam 10 лет назад +45

    This woman is another true Queen of Britain. apart from her beautiful voice. looks and songs. its Her. that our brave soldiers clung onto for hope when they faced the darkest times that Britain had ever seen.

    • @songbirdforjesus2381
      @songbirdforjesus2381 5 лет назад +1

      Yes, a true QUEEN OF BRITAIN

    • @isengard1500
      @isengard1500 4 года назад +2

      Vera Lynn's songs kept the Brits going against the Japanese hordes in Burma, she even went to Burma to help the lads.

  • @ankletowbasher
    @ankletowbasher 5 лет назад +6

    still emotional listening to the old war songs.. fantastic x

  • @ianleiper
    @ianleiper Год назад

    Hi thanks for having this on The RUclips this was entertainment better than today's tripe Vera was 2nd best lady to our late Majesty Queen Elizabeth 2 and Robert Hardy was brilliant

  • @johnneves9580
    @johnneves9580 4 года назад +11

    I love Vera's voice. Especially when she sings we'll meet again don't know where don't know when. My moms last words before she died of cancer. Makes me sad.

    • @mexicanfries5336
      @mexicanfries5336 4 года назад

      God bless you and keep all the days of your life.

  • @davidbuchan6877
    @davidbuchan6877 5 лет назад +6

    She sang this in her seventies !!!!!

  • @stevefenyvesi5926
    @stevefenyvesi5926 8 месяцев назад

    Beautiful lady and great voice and lovely performance.God bless her.

  • @richardmillar7221
    @richardmillar7221 7 лет назад +11

    watched it and over just could not turn it off WHAT INSPIRING MUSIC SUNG BY A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. SHE HELPED DEFEAT THE NAZI FOR SURE

  • @jma1009
    @jma1009 7 лет назад +8

    Dame Vera went to Burma in WW2 and sang to my Grandad who was fighting there at the time. Very few entertainers went to Burma in the later part of WW2.I think a peerage is long overdue for Dame Vera. She was on the radio recently at age 99 commenting on the Queen's 90th birthday.Cheers,Julian

  • @LifeOfJimbo
    @LifeOfJimbo 6 лет назад +17

    I will be turning 19 in september, and this is the sort of music I will listen to on a daily basis. Most of my CD's are songs from the old days. Artists like Vera, Gracie, Doris Day, Bing Crosby, dean martin, alma cogan and of course teresa brewer but one of my all time favourites is miss eileen barton
    music isnt real anymore

    • @martinjenkins5471
      @martinjenkins5471 4 года назад +1

      You sure know class for one so young. They were the greatest, not just for their songs but their spirit.

    • @isengard1500
      @isengard1500 4 года назад

      Dont forget Judy Garland and Roonie

  • @ladymaris06
    @ladymaris06 8 лет назад +16

    I was there at this event... such an emotional time it was ....!!!!

  • @oldiesfreek
    @oldiesfreek 4 года назад +2

    Can't imagine a 1990 clip looks so aged now. Time surely flies!

  • @jovanweismiller9996
    @jovanweismiller9996 10 лет назад +39

    My Mum and Dad waited until 'there was time for wedding rings' to get married on 7 July 1945, just two months after the lights came on again in England!

  • @ameenkeshavjee4249
    @ameenkeshavjee4249 2 года назад

    Vera Lynn, Dame of The Empire. Voice of liquid gold. RIP

  • @ukgirlinlv
    @ukgirlinlv 3 года назад +1

    Godbless Vera Lynn. You got our men and woman through WW2. Am I the only one who is bawling. Godbless the UK.

  • @brendataylor2490
    @brendataylor2490 5 лет назад +2

    Back when a Melody was so wonderful and what a singer.!!!!

  • @gianfrancocuffaro5878
    @gianfrancocuffaro5878 4 года назад +9

    A true great historical voice, always young and fresh, capable of instilling joy in the darkest and most tragic moments of British history. Requiescat in pace !!

  • @vaslav030547
    @vaslav030547 11 месяцев назад +1

    A bouquet of flowers presented by Robert Hardy would have been courteous.
    She got us through hard tines along with the likes of Alan Turing. We should be so thankful of our freedom.

  • @glenlay
    @glenlay 6 лет назад +33

    One of Our Nations greatest stars who’s worthy of the Star statutes, Dame Vera Lynn who recently celebrated her 101th birthday. 😊🇬🇧

    • @elizabethcole3662
      @elizabethcole3662 4 года назад

      Who was her husband did he serve In forces or not

    • @elizabethcole3662
      @elizabethcole3662 4 года назад

      Can't get any answers anywhere can you help

    • @ThatOneSandwichGuy
      @ThatOneSandwichGuy 4 года назад

      @@elizabethcole3662Her husband was Harry Lewis he was a saxophonist and clarinetist.

  • @zoequincey-trope4667
    @zoequincey-trope4667 5 лет назад +6

    Vera Lynn is an example of a true singer and its shame how I'd be shamed by my besties for listening to her.

    • @nessshirley6049
      @nessshirley6049 Год назад

      A superb voice really wish I could sing l like her Ness Shirley

  • @isengard1500
    @isengard1500 4 года назад +1

    Bloody hell Britain is amazing. God save this Country!