[78-L] Dame Vera Lynn.

[Spats]

Vera Lynn was really very good indeed, but in a genre in which nobody 
sings today.

She was definitively ENGLISH in style and suited perfectly her time; 
perfect for sentimental songs of her day and perfect as the 
non-threatening, not-too-sexy girl next door for all those far away 
from home fighting in WW2 in the early days of the war especially, 
say, 1939-1942...hence her title of 'forces' sweetheart'. Her voice 
is clear and strong and dead in tune...always!

However, don't try to compare her with Ella Fitzgerald or Peggy Lee.
She never had any pretension to be a Jazz singer or, indeed, a singer 
in any American style.

Earl.