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

1939 song by Vera Lynn

"We'll Meet Again"
Canvas music cover
Song by Vera Lynn
Released	1939
Characterization	Michael Ross Express
Songwriter(s)	Ross Parker, Hughie Charles
Producer(s)	Norman Keen

"We'll See Once more" is a 1939 song past English singer Vera Lynn with music and lyrics equanimous and written by English language songwriters Ross Parker and Hughie Charles. The song is one of the most famous of the 2nd World War era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight also every bit their families and loved ones.

The song was published by Michael Ross Express, whose directors included Louis Carris, Ross Parker and Norman Not bad. Peachy, an English pianist also collaborated with Parker and Hughie Charles on "We'll See Again" and many other songs published by the company, including "There'll Always Exist an England" and "I'grand In Love For The Last Time". The vocal's original recording featured Lynn accompanied by Arthur Young on Novachord (an early synthesizer), while a rerecording in 1953 featured a more lavish instrumentation and a chorus of British Armed Forces personnel.^{[1] [two]}

The song gave its name to the 1943 musical film We'll Meet Over again in which Lynn played the lead office (run across 1943 in music). Lynn'due south 1953 recording is featured in the concluding scene of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 flick Dr. Strangelove – with a bitter irony, as the vocal accompanies a nuclear holocaust that wipes out humanity. It was also used in the closing scenes of the 1986 BBC telly serial The Singing Detective. British manager John Schlesinger used the song in his 1979 Earth War II film Yanks, which is well-nigh British citizens and American soldiers during the military buildup in the UK as the Allies fix for the Normandy landings.

During the Cold War, Lynn's recording was included in the packet of music and programmes held in 20 clandestine 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 assault.^[three] The song reached number 29 on the U.S. charts. Lynn sang the song in London on the 60th anniversary of VE Day in 2005.

In April 2020, a charity duet with Katherine Jenkins, released in 2014, reached number 72 on the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Singles Chart, with proceeds going to National Health Service charities. In May 2020 post-obit the 75th Anniversary celebrations of VE Twenty-four hour period, the solo version past Lynn also reached number 55 in the Britain chart.^[4]

Other performances [edit]

• Numerous artists accept recorded this song.^[five]
• Traditionally, this song is played on 5 May as a closure to the Liberation Day Concert in Amsterdam, to marker the end of Earth War II in kingdom of the netherlands, as the monarch leaves the concert on a canal boat.^[6]
• The Byrds recorded the vocal as the endmost track of their debut album Mr. Tambourine Homo in 1965, inspired by the vocal's apply in Dr. Strangelove. The credit reversed their first names.^[seven]
• In 1980 the Viennese singer Margot Werner released a German version chosen Muß ich auch geh'n. Different Lilli Marlene, which was pop with troops on both sides during Globe War 2, Muß ich auch geh'n is little known in Germany.
• Johnny Cash recorded a cover version every bit part of his 2002 anthology American 4: The Homo Comes Around, the final album released in his lifetime.
• The Ink Spots recorded a cover^[8]

In film and television [edit]

• On the final episode of The Colbert Report, the song was sung by Stephen Colbert in a more upbeat tempo with members of his family and an assembled crowd of many of his nigh prominent guests.^{[ix] [10]}
• The song was sung past Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins during the final performance at VE Day 70: A Party to Remember at Horse Guards Parade in London in 2015.^[eleven]
• On the film Kong: Skull Isle, John C. Reilly'southward character starts singing the vocal to a picture of his wife whom he has not seen in decades, as he is on the way to exist rescued. Vera Lynn's version then starts playing and is also featured in the soundtrack anthology.^[12]
• The first trailer of season 3 of Westworld uses the song equally the theme of the trailer.^[xiii] A song with same proper noun composited past Ramin Djawadi is also used in the last episode of season ii.
• On the animated tv set show Gravity Falls, the main antagonist of the series, Bill Zip, sings it in the episode "Weirdmageddon 3: Have Back the Falls".
• In Episode half-dozen of the French animated series The Long Long Holiday, Colonel Douglas sings the vocal to Gaston.
• At the end of the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, the song is played over footage of nuclear detonations.
• In the final episode to the animated series Freakazoid, "Normadeus", it ends with the entire cast coming out in a grouping rendition of the song.
• During flavor 3 of the show Stranger Things, the Vera Lynn recording plays during the end of episode 4.^[14]
• During episode 1 of season 5 of Gotham the vocal plays at the beginning
• Pennyworth season 02 episode 07: the clubgoers all take over the vocal to shut the fascist soldiers up, while those are singing "Rule, Britannia!" in the lodge.
• In Why Women Impale 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 song's featured in a scene in the 2019 movie The Best of Enemies.
• The Vera Lynn recording plays over the final cutscene of the Zombies mode of Call of Duty: Blackness Ops Common cold War.
• The song plays at the starting time of the credits in Far Cry 5, afterward attaining the Nuclear Ending.
• In Castle season 6 episode 9, the Vera Lynn recording is heard on a record left behind for Castle and Beckett.^[15]

References in other works [edit]

• On her last radio show, NPR host Liane Hansen quoted the vocal in her good day address to listeners.^[16]
• On 5 Apr 2020, Queen Elizabeth Two referenced the song 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 acknowledged the severe challenges being faced by families beyond the globe.^[17] The reference spurred covers by W End theatre stars with Lynn,^[18] Katherine Jenkins with Lynn,^[xix] and by drag 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 Pinkish Floyd album The Wall. The vocal "Vera" invokes the themes of "Nosotros'll Come across Over again", request the listener: "Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn? / Think how she said that we would run across again? / Some sunny solar day".

References [edit]

1. ^ "Cover versions of We'll See 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 Sun Times. London.
4. ^ "Vera Lynn | full Official Chart History". Officialcharts.com.
5. ^ "secondhandsongs.com". Secondhandsongs.com . Retrieved 29 January 2021.
6. ^ "May 4 and 5 2017 Amsterdam (Commemoration 24-hour interval and Liberation Day)". Simplyamsterdam.nl . Retrieved seven Jan 2020.
7. ^ Rogan, Johnny (1998). The Byrds: Timeless Flight Revisited (ii ed.). Rogan House. pp. 81–87. ISBN0-9529540-1-X.
8. ^ "The Ink Spots - We'll See Once more - YouTube". Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved seven January 2021 – via YouTube.
9. ^ "Stephen & Friends: "Nosotros'll Encounter Again"". Thecolbertreport.cc.com . Retrieved nineteen December 2014.
10. ^ Thompson, Catherine (19 December 2014). "Here's Every Cameo In The Epic Finale Of 'The Colbert Report'". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved 19 Dec 2014.
11. ^ de Peyer, Robin (9 May 2015). "VE Day Concert Katherine Jenkins, Pixie Lott, Status Quo Lead Party". Standard.co.uk . Retrieved fifteen September 2020.
12. ^ Fane Saunders, Tristram (xviii June 2020). "We'll Run across Once again: how Vera Lynn's song inspired everyone from Kubrick to the Queen". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 15 September 2020.
13. ^ "Westworld Season 3 Trailer Breakup: We'll Meet Again – Picture show". Slashfilm.com. 22 July 2019.
14. ^ "Series REVIEW — Stranger Things 3". Notveryprofoundfilm.medium.com. v July 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
15. ^ ""Castle" Disciple (TV 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'south coronavirus address: 'We volition meet again'". BBC News. five April 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
18. ^ Hewitt, Phil (24 April 2020). "Matriarch Vera Lynn promises UK theatre volition 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 Over again" reaches number ane on iTunes charts". ITV. 16 Apr 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
20. ^ Hudson, David. "Lookout man: Drag queens perform powerful 'We'll Meet Once more' to help elders". Queerty.com . Retrieved 24 February 2022.

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