Well Meet Again One Sunny Day

Vocal written and composed past Hughie Charles and Ross Parker, outset recorded by Vera Lynn

1939 song by Vera Lynn

"Nosotros'll Meet Again"
Sheet music cover
Song by Vera Lynn
Released	1939
Characterization	Michael Ross Express
Songwriter(southward)	Ross Parker, Hughie Charles
Producer(s)	Norman Bully

"We'll Meet Once more" is a 1939 vocal by English singer Vera Lynn with music and lyrics equanimous and written by English songwriters Ross Parker and Hughie Charles. The song is ane of the most famous of the Second World War era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight besides every bit their families and sweethearts.

The song was published by Michael Ross Express, whose directors included Louis Carris, Ross Parker and Norman Keen. Keen, an English pianist also collaborated with Parker and Hughie Charles on "We'll Meet Once again" and many other songs published by the visitor, including "There'll Ever Be an England" and "I'm In Love For The Last Fourth dimension". The song'south original recording featured Lynn accompanied by Arthur Young on Novachord (an early on synthesizer), while a rerecording in 1953 featured a more lavish instrumentation and a chorus of British Armed Forces personnel.^{[1] [2]}

The song gave its name to the 1943 musical film We'll Meet Again in which Lynn played the lead role (meet 1943 in music). Lynn's 1953 recording is featured in the final scene of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 movie Dr. Strangelove – with a bitter irony, as the song accompanies a nuclear holocaust that wipes out humanity. It was as well used in the closing scenes of the 1986 BBC tv set series The Singing Detective. British director John Schlesinger used the song in his 1979 World War Ii film Yanks, which is almost British citizens and American soldiers during the armed forces buildup in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland equally the Allies set up for the Normandy landings.

During the Cold War, Lynn'south recording was included in the package of music and programmes held in xx cloak-and-dagger radio stations of the BBC'southward Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS), designed to provide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days afterward a nuclear set on.^[three] The song reached number 29 on the U.S. charts. Lynn sang the song in London on the 60th anniversary of VE 24-hour interval in 2005.

In April 2020, a clemency duet with Katherine Jenkins, released in 2014, reached number 72 on the UK Singles Chart, with proceeds going to National Health Service charities. In May 2020 post-obit the 75th Anniversary celebrations of VE Twenty-four hours, the solo version by Lynn also reached number 55 in the Britain chart.^[iv]

Other performances [edit]

• Numerous artists have recorded this song.^[5]
• Traditionally, this song is played on 5 May as a closure to the Liberation Mean solar day Concert in Amsterdam, to mark the end of World War Ii in kingdom of the netherlands, equally the monarch leaves the concert on a canal gunkhole.^[6]
• The Byrds recorded the song equally the closing track of their debut album Mr. Tambourine Man in 1965, inspired by the song's use in Dr. Strangelove. The credit reversed their get-go names.^[7]
• In 1980 the Viennese singer Margot Werner released a High german version chosen Muß ich auch geh'due north. Unlike Lilli Marlene, which was popular with troops on both sides during Earth War Ii, Muß ich auch geh'n is little known in Germany.
• Johnny Cash recorded a cover version as role of his 2002 anthology American IV: The Man Comes Around, the last album released in his lifetime.
• The Ink Spots recorded a encompass^[8]

In film and goggle box [edit]

• On the final episode of The Colbert Study, the song was sung past Stephen Colbert in a more upbeat tempo with members of his family unit and an assembled crowd of many of his most prominent guests.^{[nine] [x]}
• The song was sung past Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins during the concluding performance at VE Day 70: A Political party to Remember at Horse Guards Parade in London in 2015.^[11]
• On the flick Kong: Skull Island, John C. Reilly'south character starts singing the song to a picture of his married woman whom he has not seen in decades, every bit he is on the manner to be rescued. Vera Lynn's version then starts playing and is besides featured in the soundtrack album.^[12]
• The beginning trailer of season iii of Westworld uses the vocal equally the theme of the trailer.^[13] A song with same name composited by Ramin Djawadi is as well used in the last episode of flavour 2.
• On the blithe tv set show Gravity Falls, the master antagonist of the serial, Bill Cipher, sings it in the episode "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls".
• In Episode 6 of the French animated series The Long Long Holiday, Colonel Douglas sings the vocal to Gaston.
• At the end of the film Dr. Strangelove, the song is played over footage of nuclear detonations.
• In the concluding episode to the animated series Freakazoid, "Normadeus", it ends with the unabridged bandage coming out in a group rendition of the song.
• During season three of the show Stranger Things, the Vera Lynn recording plays during the stop of episode four.^[xiv]
• During episode 1 of season five of Gotham the song plays at the beginning
• Pennyworth season 02 episode 07: the clubgoers all take over the song to shut the fascist soldiers upwardly, while those are singing "Rule, Britannia!" in the club.
• In Why Women Kill season two episode iii: the episode ends with the Vera Lynn recording.
• The Johnny Cash recording is used in the trailer for the movie Jackass Forever
• The vocal's featured in a scene in the 2019 film The Best of Enemies.
• The Vera Lynn recording plays over the final cutscene of the Zombies mode of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
• The song plays at the start of the credits in Far Cry 5, later attaining the Nuclear Ending.
• In Castle season 6 episode 9, the Vera Lynn recording is heard on a tape left backside for Castle and Beckett.^[15]

References in other works [edit]

• On her last radio testify, NPR host Liane Hansen quoted the vocal in her goodbye address to listeners.^[16]
• On five April 2020, Queen Elizabeth Ii referenced the vocal in a rare televised address that aired to Britain and the Commonwealth, where she expressed her gratitude for the efforts people are taking to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic virus and best-selling the severe challenges existence faced by families across the world.^[17] The reference spurred covers by W Cease theatre stars with Lynn,^[18] Katherine Jenkins with Lynn,^[19] and past elevate queens.^[20] Jenkins' version was released on iTunes as a benefit for the NHS Charities Together.^[19]
• A reference to the song appears on the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall. The song "Vera" invokes the themes of "Nosotros'll Meet Again", asking the listener: "Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? / Recall how she said that nosotros would meet once more? / Some sunny day".

References [edit]

1. ^ "Comprehend versions of We'll Run into Again past Vera Lynn with Arthur Young on the Novachord". Secondhandsongs.com.
2. ^ "Vera Lynn – We'll Run across Again / I'm Praying To St. Christopher". Discogs.com.
3. ^ Hellen, Nicholas (11 July 1999). "Julie Andrews to sing to Brits during nuclear attack". The Sunday Times. London.
4. ^ "Vera Lynn | total Official Chart History". Officialcharts.com.
5. ^ "secondhandsongs.com". Secondhandsongs.com . Retrieved 29 January 2021.
6. ^ "May 4 and v 2017 Amsterdam (Commemoration Day and Liberation Twenty-four hours)". Simplyamsterdam.nl . Retrieved 7 January 2020.
7. ^ Rogan, Johnny (1998). The Byrds: Timeless Flying Revisited (two ed.). Rogan House. pp. 81–87. ISBN0-9529540-ane-10.
8. ^ "The Ink Spots - Nosotros'll Run into Again - YouTube". Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021 – via YouTube.
9. ^ "Stephen & Friends: "We'll Come across Again"". Thecolbertreport.cc.com . Retrieved 19 December 2014.
10. ^ Thompson, Catherine (nineteen Dec 2014). "Here's Every Cameo In The Epic Finale Of 'The Colbert Report'". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
11. ^ de Peyer, Robin (ix May 2015). "VE 24-hour interval Concert Katherine Jenkins, Pixie Lott, Status Quo Lead Political party". Standard.co.great britain . Retrieved xv September 2020.
12. ^ Fane Saunders, Tristram (18 June 2020). "We'll See Once again: how Vera Lynn'due south song inspired anybody from Kubrick to the Queen". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 15 September 2020.
13. ^ "Westworld Season 3 Trailer Breakdown: We'll Run into Once again – Pic". Slashfilm.com. 22 July 2019.
14. ^ "Series REVIEW — Stranger Things 3". Notveryprofoundfilm.medium.com. 5 July 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
15. ^ ""Castle" Disciple (Television receiver Episode 2013)". IMDb.com . Retrieved 24 February 2022.
16. ^ Hansen, Liane (29 May 2011). "Farewell From Host Liane Hansen". NPR. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
17. ^ "The Queen's coronavirus address: 'We will come across over again'". BBC News. 5 Apr 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
18. ^ Hewitt, Phil (24 April 2020). "Matriarch Vera Lynn promises Uk theatre will thrive once more "some sunny twenty-four hours" – VIDEO". Littlehampton Gazette . Retrieved 24 April 2020.
19. ^ ^{a b} "Katherine Jenkins and Dame Vera Lynn'south "We'll Meet Again" reaches number one on iTunes charts". ITV. xvi April 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
20. ^ Hudson, David. "WATCH: Drag queens perform powerful 'We'll Meet Again' to help elders". Queerty.com . Retrieved 24 February 2022.

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