Vera Lynn BrE slang

Sing along with Vera Lynn and other famous stars of the 40's.

I recently bought the Vera Lynn collection that topped the charts.

The most famous single performer was Vera Lynn who became known as "the forces' sweetheart".

Play Vera Lynn at my funeral, though I don't think we will meet again.

Contrary to some reports, it was not popularised by Vera Lynn during the war years.

I passed Vera Lynn's house the other day and she was gargling."

Vera Lynn's voice was a reminder of home to soldiers on far-off battlefields 70 years ago.

Dame Vera Lynn is topping the album charts at 92.

After war broke out on September 1, the song became a hit for Vera Lynn.

"We're trying to listen to our Vera Lynn records!"

She takes her role as a forces sweetheart — the new Vera Lynn — very seriously.

During recovery he attended a Vera Lynn concert, after which she gave him a singing lesson.

Glenn Miller and Vera Lynn made recordings of it too.

Of course, Britain has changed a lot in the 70 or so years since Vera Lynn was everybody's sweetheart.

There's more need for the expression of that feeling that Vera Lynn still apparently provides.

I don't see anything wrong with Dame Vera Lynn.

We will, as his predecessor Dame Vera Lynn would confirm, meet again.

So far as we're concerned we started an event for music that was an alternative - I didn't want to listen to Vera Lynn.

He says: I can confirm this is definitely not the same song as the Vera Lynn one.

Vera Lynn recorded a contemporary cover in Britain.

She looks like Dame Vera Lynn, only how she would have looked about 30 years ago.

“This, like the Vera Lynn compilation, will appeal to people who may have been very young during the war years,” he explains.

Vera Lynn soon acquired the unofficial title of the Forces' Sweetheart.

His first choice had been Dame Vera Lynn.

Dame Vera Lynn is writing a book about her wartime tour of Burma.