LA>  GC> "We'll meet again
LA>  GC> Pretty prosaic for today, but when wives and mothers were
LA>  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 
thought
LA>it had something to do with the Wobblies or the American
LA>Communist Party.  He,
LA>of course, could well have been wrong.
Yes,WWII, the rest I rather doubt, but don't know. I got interested in
the name VERA LYNNE from listening to Pink Floyd's THE WALL. "Whatever
became of Vera Lynne?" In running this down I discovered that she sang
to the troops during the war.
I got a surprise when I discovered she was the singer of a big hit in
the early fifties - one I remembered well without remembering who did
it. The song was AUF WEIDERSAN(sp). This kind of closed the circle and I
felt rather good about it all.  She had a very pleasent sounding
voice. I've been haunting the CD shops in the hope something will show
up there.
If you aren't familiar with her, she sounds something like Edith Piaf.
I believe she died in the past year...
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