[78-L] Dame Vera Lynn.

[David Lennick]

She is in fact a very nice and gracious lady..I interviewed her around 1980. 
Just not somebody whose singing I want to listen to except at the end of "Dr. 
Strangelove", and she has help there.

dl

Spats wrote:
> 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.