[78-L] Dame Vera Lynn.

[Kristjan Saag]

No need to compare Vera Lynn with jazz singers.
No use to say Vera Lynn sounded British either. What did Elsie Carlisle, 
Peggy Dell, Marjorie Kingsley, Beryl Davies and Julie Dawn sound like? 
Italian?
More interesting to compare her with other popular voices. I find more 
character in the soft altos of Anne Shelton and Dorothy Carless. And they 
sound as British as Big Ben, as far as I'm concerned.
Kristjan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Spats" <spats47 at ntlworld.com>
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Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Dame Vera Lynn.


> 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.
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