Vera Lynn Recording of Well Meet Again

Song written and composed past Hughie Charles and Ross Parker, start recorded by Vera Lynn

1939 vocal by Vera Lynn

"Nosotros'll Meet Again"
Sail music cover
Song by Vera Lynn
Released	1939
Label	Michael Ross Limited
Songwriter(s)	Ross Parker, Hughie Charles
Producer(southward)	Norman Keen

"We'll Meet Again" is a 1939 song by English singer Vera Lynn with music and lyrics composed and written by English language songwriters Ross Parker and Hughie Charles. The song is one of the well-nigh famous of the 2d Globe State of war era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight likewise every bit their families and loved ones.

The song was published by Michael Ross Limited, whose directors included Louis Carris, Ross Parker and Norman Neat. Keen, an English pianist besides collaborated with Parker and Hughie Charles on "We'll Meet Again" and many other songs published by the company, including "There'll Always Be an England" and "I'm In Love For The Last Time". The song's original recording featured Lynn accompanied past Arthur Young on Novachord (an early on synthesizer), while a rerecording in 1953 featured a more lavish instrumentation and a chorus of British Armed Forces personnel.^{[1] [ii]}

The song gave its proper noun to the 1943 musical pic We'll Meet Once again in which Lynn played the lead part (see 1943 in music). Lynn'south 1953 recording is featured in the concluding scene of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 flick Dr. Strangelove – with a bitter irony, as the vocal accompanies a nuclear holocaust that wipes out humanity. It was also used in the endmost scenes of the 1986 BBC television set serial The Singing Detective. British managing director John Schlesinger used the vocal in his 1979 World War Ii picture show Yanks, which is about British citizens and American soldiers during the military buildup in the Great britain as the Allies fix for the Normandy landings.

During the Cold War, Lynn's recording was included in the package of music and programmes held in xx underground radio stations of the BBC'south Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS), designed to provide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a nuclear set on.^[three] The song reached number 29 on the U.Southward. charts. Lynn sang the vocal in London on the 60th ceremony of VE Twenty-four hour period in 2005.

In Apr 2020, a charity duet with Katherine Jenkins, released in 2014, reached number 72 on the UK Singles Chart, with proceeds going to National Health Service charities. In May 2020 post-obit the 75th Anniversary celebrations of VE Mean solar day, the solo version past Lynn besides reached number 55 in the Britain chart.^[four]

Other performances [edit]

• Numerous artists have recorded this vocal.^[five]
• Traditionally, this vocal is played on 5 May as a closure to the Liberation Day Concert in Amsterdam, to marking the terminate of World War Ii in holland, every bit the monarch leaves the concert on a canal gunkhole.^{[half dozen]}
• The Byrds recorded the song as the closing track of their debut album Mr. Tambourine Man in 1965, inspired by the song's utilize in Dr. Strangelove. The credit reversed their beginning names.^[7]
• In 1980 the Viennese vocalist Margot Werner released a German language version chosen Muß ich auch geh'north. Unlike Lilli Marlene, which was pop with troops on both sides during World War Two, Muß ich auch geh'n is piffling known in Germany.
• Johnny Cash recorded a cover version as office of his 2002 album American 4: The Man Comes Effectually, the last anthology released in his lifetime.
• The Ink Spots recorded a cover^[eight]

In film and tv [edit]

• On the final episode of The Colbert Report, the song was sung by Stephen Colbert in a more than upbeat tempo with members of his family and an assembled oversupply of many of his virtually prominent guests.^{[ix] [10]}
• The song was sung by Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins during the final performance at VE 24-hour interval seventy: A Political party to Remember at Horse Guards Parade in London in 2015.^[11]
• On the film Kong: Skull Island, John C. Reilly's character starts singing the song to a moving-picture show of his wife whom he has non seen in decades, as he is on the way to be rescued. Vera Lynn'southward version so starts playing and is also featured in the soundtrack album.^[12]
• The first trailer of season 3 of Westworld uses the song equally the theme of the trailer.^[thirteen] A vocal with same name composited past Ramin Djawadi is also used in the last episode of season 2.
• On the animated television testify Gravity Falls, the main antagonist of the series, Bill Cipher, sings information technology in the episode "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls".
• In Episode vi of the French blithe series The Long Long Holiday, Colonel Douglas sings the song to Gaston.
• At the finish of the film Dr. Strangelove, the vocal is played over footage of nuclear detonations.
• In the terminal episode to the animated serial Freakazoid, "Normadeus", it ends with the entire cast coming out in a group rendition of the song.
• During flavour three of the show Stranger Things, the Vera Lynn recording plays during the stop of episode 4.^[14]
• During episode 1 of flavor 5 of Gotham the vocal plays at the beginning
• Pennyworth season 02 episode 07: the clubgoers all take over the vocal to close the fascist soldiers up, while those are singing "Rule, Britannia!" in the club.
• In Why Women Kill flavor 2 episode iii: the episode ends with the Vera Lynn recording.
• The Johnny Cash recording is used in the trailer for the movie Jackass Forever
• The song'southward featured in a scene in the 2019 moving picture The All-time of Enemies.
• The Vera Lynn recording plays over the last cutscene of the Zombies mode of Telephone call of Duty: Black Ops Common cold War.
• The song plays at the start of the credits in Far Cry v, afterward attaining the Nuclear Catastrophe.
• In Castle season 6 episode 9, the Vera Lynn recording is heard on a record left behind for Castle and Beckett.^[15]

References in other works [edit]

• On her last radio evidence, NPR host Liane Hansen quoted the vocal in her good day accost to listeners.^[16]
• On 5 April 2020, Queen Elizabeth II referenced the song in a rare televised address that aired to U.k. and the Republic, where she expressed her gratitude for the efforts people are taking to mitigate the COVID-nineteen pandemic virus and acknowledged the severe challenges being faced past families across the world.^[17] The reference spurred covers by West End theatre stars with Lynn,^[eighteen] Katherine Jenkins with Lynn,^[19] and past drag queens.^[20] Jenkins' version was released on iTunes as a benefit for the NHS Charities Together.^[19]
• A reference to the vocal appears on the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall. The vocal "Vera" invokes the themes of "We'll Come across Again", asking the listener: "Does anybody hither remember Vera Lynn? / Call up how she said that we would meet once again? / Some sunny day".

References [edit]

1. ^ "Cover versions of Nosotros'll Meet Over again by Vera Lynn with Arthur Young on the Novachord". Secondhandsongs.com.
2. ^ "Vera Lynn – We'll Meet Again / I'm Praying To St. Christopher". Discogs.com.
3. ^ Hellen, Nicholas (11 July 1999). "Julie Andrews to sing to Brits during nuclear attack". The Lord's day Times. London.
4. ^ "Vera Lynn | full Official Nautical chart History". Officialcharts.com.
5. ^ "secondhandsongs.com". Secondhandsongs.com . Retrieved 29 Jan 2021.
6. ^ "May four and 5 2017 Amsterdam (Commemoration Day and Liberation Day)". Simplyamsterdam.nl . Retrieved 7 January 2020.
7. ^ Rogan, Johnny (1998). The Byrds: Timeless Flight Revisited (2 ed.). Rogan House. pp. 81–87. ISBN0-9529540-1-X.
8. ^ "The Ink Spots - We'll Meet Again - YouTube". Archived from the original on 21 Dec 2021. Retrieved 7 Jan 2021 – via YouTube.
9. ^ "Stephen & Friends: "Nosotros'll Meet Once more"". Thecolbertreport.cc.com . Retrieved xix Dec 2014.
10. ^ Thompson, Catherine (xix December 2014). "Here's Every Cameo In The Epic Finale Of 'The Colbert Written report'". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved xix Dec 2014.
11. ^ de Peyer, Robin (9 May 2015). "VE Day Concert Katherine Jenkins, Pixie Lott, Status Quo Pb Party". Standard.co.uk . Retrieved fifteen September 2020.
12. ^ Fane Saunders, Tristram (18 June 2020). "We'll Come across Again: how Vera Lynn'due south song inspired anybody from Kubrick to the Queen". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 15 September 2020.
13. ^ "Westworld Flavor 3 Trailer Breakdown: Nosotros'll Run into Over again – Film". Slashfilm.com. 22 July 2019.
14. ^ "Serial REVIEW — Stranger Things 3". Notveryprofoundfilm.medium.com. 5 July 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
15. ^ ""Castle" Disciple (Tv set Episode 2013)". IMDb.com . Retrieved 24 February 2022.
16. ^ Hansen, Liane (29 May 2011). "Farewell From Host Liane Hansen". NPR. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
17. ^ "The Queen's coronavirus address: 'We will meet over again'". BBC News. 5 April 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
18. ^ Hewitt, Phil (24 April 2020). "Matriarch Vera Lynn promises UK theatre volition thrive once again "some sunny twenty-four hour period" – VIDEO". Littlehampton Gazette . Retrieved 24 Apr 2020.
19. ^ ^{a b} "Katherine Jenkins and Dame Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" reaches number 1 on iTunes charts". ITV. 16 April 2020. Retrieved 24 Apr 2020.
20. ^ Hudson, David. "WATCH: Drag queens perform powerful 'We'll Meet Again' to aid elders". Queerty.com . Retrieved 24 February 2022.

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