While tripping merrily through the mail, Lee Ayrton was overheard
 
 GC> "We'll meet again
 GC>  Don't know where
 GC>  Don't know when
 GC>  But I know we'll meet again
 GC>  Some sunshiny day."
 
 GC> Pretty prosaic for today, but when wives and mothers were 
 GC> watching their uniformed young men departing on the train for the war, 
 LA> Is that song of WWII vintage?  A friend long again told me that he'd
 LA> thought  it had something to do with the Wobblies or the American
 LA> Communist Party.  He,  of course, could well have been wrong.
The original "Hit" recordings date from 1941 when Kay Kyser, Guy Lombardo 
and Benny Goodman all had "hits" with it.
It had another brief "fling" with popularity in 1954 when Vera Lynn had
some success with it.
Don
... Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
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