Dame Vera Lynn RIP

I don't know why, but I've always imagined in my head, that she was protesting against whaling.. what with "whale meat again..." (I know, not funny)

RIP though, great innings, great woman. deserving of respect.
 
Oh no, I wasn't even half expecting this, she looked so well last time I saw her on the box, but I hadn't realised just what a great age she was. Very sad, but what a life she led, a truly great British icon.
 
RIP still think Lillil Marlene, from her, is more poignant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBEn_PM1ASk

never knew who wrote it Nat Burton, and composed it
Walter Kent, composer, songwriter: born New York City 29 November 1911; died Los Angeles 1 March 1994.
'THERE'LL BE bluebirds over / The white cliffs of Dover / Tomorrow, just you wait and see. / There'll be love and laughter and peace ever after / Tomorrow, when the world is free . . .' Walter Kent, who wrote the music to those words, never again had a comparable success, but enjoyed a long career, during which he was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song.

wrote his third piece of wartime optimism, 'I'll Be Home for Christmas'. Bing Crosby's recording sold over a million copies in its first year and became a Yuletide perennial.

In 1950 Kent had a hit with the simplistically titled 'I'm Gonna Live Till I Die'.
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