[78-L] Dame Vera Lynn.

[David Lennick]

You want to hear a ridiculous pairing? In the mid 60s, Vera Lynn was half of a 
double at the Canadian National Exhibition Grandstand Show (football field, 
bleachers) with .. Myron Cohen!

Hey, they're old..we'll put 'em on the same show. Yeah.

dl

fnarf at comcast.net wrote:
> I was just reading in a biography of English comedian Tommy Cooper about his unsuccessful gig at the Flamingo in Las Vegas with Vera Lynn in the mid-fifties. Cooper went over fairly well as comedians go, but Lynn bombed -- she was still being billed as the "Forces Sweetheart" a decade after the war ended, and no one wanted to hear "White Cliffs of Dover" much anymore. And her talents weren't really suited to swinging Vegas, baby; you couldn't get much further from Louie and Keely and Sam Butera if you tried.
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Spats" <spats47 at ntlworld.com>
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 4:32:34 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> 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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