Vera Lee We Will Mert Again

Vocal written and composed past Hughie Charles and Ross Parker, first recorded past Vera Lynn

"Nosotros'll Run across Again"
Canvass music cover
Song past Vera Lynn
Released	1939
Label	Michael Ross Express
Songwriter(s)	Ross Parker, Hughie Charles
Producer(due south)	Norman Keen

"Nosotros'll Meet Again" is a 1939 song by English vocalist Vera Lynn with music and lyrics composed and written by English songwriters Ross Parker and Hughie Charles. The song is 1 of the virtually famous of the Second World War era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight equally well as their families and loved ones.

The vocal was published by Michael Ross Limited, whose directors included Louis Carris, Ross Parker and Norman Keen. Keen, an English pianist as well collaborated with Parker and Hughie Charles on "Nosotros'll Meet Again" and many other songs published by the visitor, including "There'll Always Exist an England" and "I'm In Love For The Last Fourth dimension". The vocal's original recording featured Lynn accompanied by Arthur Young on Novachord (an early synthesizer), while a rerecording in 1953 featured a more than lavish instrumentation and a chorus of British Armed forces personnel.^{[1] [ii] [3]}

The song gave its name to the 1943 musical film We'll Run across Again in which Lynn played the atomic number 82 role (see 1943 in music). Lynn's 1953 recording is featured in the final scene of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove – with a bitter irony, as the song accompanies a nuclear holocaust that wipes out humanity. It was as well used in the endmost scenes of the 1986 BBC boob tube serial The Singing Detective. British director John Schlesinger used the song in his 1979 World State of war Two movie Yanks, which is about British citizens and American soldiers during the military buildup in the UK as the Allies prepare for the Normandy landings.

During the Common cold State of war, Lynn's recording was included in the parcel of music and programmes held in xx hush-hush radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS), designed to provide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days afterward a nuclear attack.^[4] The song reached number 29 on the U.Due south. charts. Lynn sang the vocal in London on the 60th anniversary of VE Solar day in 2005.

In Apr 2020, a charity duet with Katherine Jenkins, released in 2014, reached number 72 on the Britain Singles Chart, with proceeds going to National Health Service charities. In May 2020 following the 75th Anniversary celebrations of VE Day, the solo version past Lynn also reached number 55 in the Britain nautical chart.^[five]

Other performances [edit]

• Numerous artists have recorded this song.^[6]
• Traditionally, this song is played on 5 May as a closure to the Liberation Solar day Concert in Amsterdam, to mark the end of World War II in the Netherlands, as the monarch leaves the concert on a canal boat.^[7]
• The Ink Spots recorded a encompass^[8] released in 1941 on Decca 3656. [ane]
• A version was recorded in 1942 by Peggy Lee and the Benny Goodman ring, released in the US on Okeh 6644. [2].
• The Byrds recorded the vocal as the closing track of their debut album Mr. Tambourine Human being in 1965, inspired by the song'south utilize in Dr. Strangelove. The credit reversed their offset names.^[ix]
• In 1980 the Viennese singer Margot Werner released a German version called Muß ich auch geh'due north. Unlike Lilli Marlene, which was popular with troops on both sides during World War Two, Muß ich auch geh'due north is little known in Germany.
• Johnny Greenbacks recorded a cover version equally part of his 2002 anthology American IV: The Homo Comes Around, the final album released in his lifetime.

In film and television [edit]

• On the last episode of The Colbert Report, the song was sung past Stephen Colbert in a more than upbeat tempo with members of his family and an assembled crowd of many of his most prominent guests.^{[10] [11]}
• The song was sung by Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins during the terminal functioning at VE Day 70: A Political party to Remember at Horse Guards Parade in London in 2015.^[12]
• On the film Kong: Skull Island, John C. Reilly'south character starts singing the song to a movie of his married woman whom he has not seen in decades, as he is on the way to be rescued. Vera Lynn's version then starts playing and is also featured in the soundtrack album.^[thirteen]
• The first trailer of season 3 of Westworld uses the song as the theme of the trailer.^[14] A song with aforementioned proper noun composited by Ramin Djawadi is too used in the last episode of flavour 2.
• On the animated tv show Gravity Falls, the main adversary of the serial, Nib Zip, sings it in the episode "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Dorsum the Falls".
• In Episode vi of the French animated serial The Long Long Holiday, Colonel Douglas sings the song to Gaston.
• At the stop of the flick Dr. Strangelove, the song is played over footage of nuclear detonations.
• In the concluding episode to the animated serial Freakazoid, "Normadeus", it ends with the entire cast coming out in a group rendition of the song.
• During flavor 3 of the evidence Stranger Things, the Vera Lynn recording plays during the end of episode 4.^[15]
• During episode 1 of season 5 of Gotham the song plays at the beginning
• Pennyworth season 02 episode 07: the clubgoers all take over the song to shut the fascist soldiers up, while those are singing "Rule, Britannia!" in the club.
• In Why Women Impale season 2 episode three: the episode ends with the Vera Lynn recording.
• The Johnny Cash recording is used in the trailer for the flick Jackass Forever
• The song's featured in a scene in the 2019 moving-picture show The Best of Enemies.
• The Vera Lynn recording plays over the terminal cutscene of the Zombies manner of Telephone call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
• The vocal plays at the starting time of the credits in Far Weep 5, after attaining the Nuclear Ending.
• In Castle season 6 episode nine, the Vera Lynn recording is heard on a tape left behind for Castle and Beckett.^[16]

References in other works [edit]

• On her final radio prove, NPR host Liane Hansen quoted the song in her farewell accost to listeners.^[17]
• On v Apr 2020, Queen Elizabeth II referenced the vocal in a rare televised address that aired to Britain and the Commonwealth, where she expressed her gratitude for the efforts people are taking to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic virus and best-selling the severe challenges existence faced by families beyond the world.^[xviii] The reference spurred covers by West Stop theatre stars with Lynn,^[19] Katherine Jenkins with Lynn,^[20] and by elevate queens.^[21] Jenkins' version was released on iTunes every bit a benefit for the NHS Charities Together.^[xx]
• A reference to the vocal appears on the 1979 Pink Floyd anthology The Wall. The vocal "Vera" invokes the themes of "Nosotros'll Come across Again", request the listener: "Does everyone here remember Vera Lynn? / Remember how she said that nosotros would meet over again? / Some sunny solar day".

References [edit]

1. ^ "Embrace versions of Nosotros'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn with Arthur Young on the Novachord". Secondhandsongs.com.
2. ^ "Vera Lynn – Nosotros'll Meet Once more / I'm Praying To St. Christopher". Discogs.com.
3. ^ Fell, Marking. "We'll Run across Once more: The story of Dame Vera Lynn's wartime archetype". BBC. Retrieved xx May 2022.
4. ^ Hellen, Nicholas (11 July 1999). "Julie Andrews to sing to Brits during nuclear attack". The Dominicus Times. London.
5. ^ "Vera Lynn | total Official Nautical chart History". Officialcharts.com.
6. ^ "secondhandsongs.com". Secondhandsongs.com . Retrieved 29 Jan 2021.
7. ^ "May iv and 5 2017 Amsterdam (Celebration Day and Liberation Twenty-four hours)". Simplyamsterdam.nl . Retrieved seven Jan 2020.
8. ^ "The Ink Spots - We'll Encounter Over again - YouTube". Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved seven Jan 2021 – via YouTube.
9. ^ Rogan, Johnny (1998). The Byrds: Timeless Flying Revisited (two ed.). Rogan House. pp. 81–87. ISBN0-9529540-1-X.
10. ^ "Stephen & Friends: "We'll Come across Again"". Thecolbertreport.cc.com . Retrieved 19 December 2014.
11. ^ Thompson, Catherine (19 December 2014). "Hither's Every Cameo In The Epic Finale Of 'The Colbert Written report'". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
12. ^ de Peyer, Robin (9 May 2015). "VE Solar day Concert Katherine Jenkins, Pixie Lott, Condition Quo Pb Political party". Standard.co.great britain . Retrieved fifteen September 2020.
13. ^ Fane Saunders, Tristram (18 June 2020). "Nosotros'll See Once again: how Vera Lynn's vocal inspired everyone from Kubrick to the Queen". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved fifteen September 2020.
14. ^ "Westworld Season 3 Trailer Breakdown: We'll Run into Once again – Film". Slashfilm.com. 22 July 2019.
15. ^ "Serial REVIEW — Stranger Things 3". Notveryprofoundfilm.medium.com. 5 July 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
16. ^ ""Castle" Disciple (Idiot box Episode 2013)". IMDb.com . Retrieved 24 February 2022.
17. ^ Hansen, Liane (29 May 2011). "Farewell From Host Liane Hansen". NPR. Retrieved xvi September 2020.
18. ^ "The Queen's coronavirus address: 'We will meet once more'". BBC News. v April 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
19. ^ Hewitt, Phil (24 Apr 2020). "Dame Vera Lynn promises Britain theatre will thrive again "some sunny day" – VIDEO". Littlehampton Gazette . Retrieved 24 Apr 2020.
20. ^ ^{a b} "Katherine Jenkins and Dame Vera Lynn's "Nosotros'll Encounter Again" reaches number one on iTunes charts". ITV. 16 Apr 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
21. ^ Hudson, David. "Picket: Drag queens perform powerful 'We'll Run across Again' to aid elders". Queerty.com . Retrieved 24 February 2022.

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