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Featured Music From The '40's
From time to time we will endeavor to include relevant music from the War Years on our web site. We have received both praise and scorn from visitors. However, keep in mind that this web site is attempting to honor the men and women who gave up so much so that we enjoy the freedoms that we have today. Most, if not all of them, became very "linked" to the music of that era. Various circumstance from the uncertainties of the world, the strict isolation from friends and family, and no television made the Radio everyone's friend.
Back in 1939, a young Englishwoman, Vera Lynn, recorded "We'll Meet Again". The song was an immediate hit amongst the British soldiers leaving to fight Hitler's armies. In the early 1940's, she became known as the "Forces Sweetheart" and often performed for the thousands of Americans stationed in England with the 8th Air Force. The song "We'll Meet Again" eventually became one of the post popular songs of World War II and was often played by radio stations at all of the facilities of the Manhattan Project.
If you're a Manhattan Project veteran, close your eyes and try and remember where you were when you first heard "We'll Meet Again". If you're a descendent of a veteran or an interested visitor, take a moment and reflect on the meaning that songs like this had on the thousands of young people who were away from home for the first time; many of whom were not sure if they ever would see home again.
Miss Vera Lynn; the "Forces Sweetheart"
We'll Meet Again
Written by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles - 1939
We'll meet again,
Don't know where,
Don't know when,
But I know
We'll meet again
Some sunny day.
Keep smiling through,
Just like you
Always do,
Till the blue skies
Drive the dark clouds
Far away.
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So will you please say hello
To the folks that I know
Tell them, I won't be long.
They'll be happy to know
That as you saw me go
I was singing this song.
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We'll meet again,
Don't know where,
Don't know when,
But I know
We'll meet again
Some sunny day.
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