[78-L] Dame Vera Lynn.

[Bud Black]

Don't confuse female singers with female song stylists.  Vera Lynn was a
singer.  Peggy Lee was a song stylist, and a damned good one at that.  It's
the old apples and oranges thing again.  Could we compare Bing Crosby with
Nelson Eddy?  Two different genres.

Bud. 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: Spats
Date: 3/20/2009 7:30:58 PM
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
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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