WE'LL MEET AGAIN

Created on 05/10/2008
Latest update on 01/03/2014

Artist: Vera Lynn
Author: Ross Parker/Hughie Charles
Label: Decca
Year: 1939

With Arthur Young on the novochord.

Covers:

1939:

Victor Silvester & his Ballroom Orch. [for Parlophone]

1939:

Mantovani [first vocal version; vocal: Jack Plant]

1939:

Joe Loss [vocal: Chick Henderson; the orchestra featuring Ross MacManus (Elvis Costello's father)]

1941:

Vera Lynn [version used in Kubrick film Dr. Strangelove, while Vera's 2009 Very Best comp (n°1 UK!) holds a re-recording from '53]

1941:

Guy Lombardo

1941:

Kay Kyser

1941:

Ink Spots

1942:

Benny Goodman [vocal: Peggy Lee]

1962:

Frank Sinatra

1965:

Turtles

1965:

Byrds

1966:

Sandy Coast

1966:

Cryan' Shames

1978:

Tommy Cooper

1988:

Engelbert Humperdinck

1997:

Thé Lau [in Robbe De Hert film Gaston's War]

1999:

Joe Henry

2002:

Johnny Cash [produced by Joe Henry]

2004:

Anne Murray

Opening line sounds very similar to Anton Rubinstein's Melody In F (1852), first recorded by Hans Kronold (1905 - Edison Gold).

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