400.04 - Happy Birthday - Vera Lynn - 2014

Born in 1917 in London, England, singer Vera Lynn began performing at age of 7. She gave up school at age 11 to start touring. By the late 1930s, Lynn had become a popular radio performer, appearing on the program Life from Mayfair. She got her own show, Sincerely Yours, in 1941. After World War II ended, Lynn made more albums and continued to tour. She had a No. 1 hit in the United States, "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart," in the early 1950s. Queen Elizabeth II made Lynn a dame of the British Empire in 1975. In 2009, she topped the British album charts with We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn.

Lynn also traveled abroad during the war, performing live shows for the troops. In 1941, she married Harry Lewis, a musician with the Royal Air Force's band. Lynn ranked No. 1 on a poll regarding soldiers' favorite entertainer, beating out the likes of Bing Crosby and Judy Garland, and became known as the "Forces' Sweetheart."

In 2009, Lynn made a remarkable return to the British music charts. She was 92 years old at the time—becoming the oldest person to have the No. 1 top-selling album in the country—with the collection We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn. That same year, she published the memoir Some Sunny Day.

Happy Birthday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz-RaBsp56g

As Time Goes By
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cS0fXZkbao

We'll Meet Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHcunREYzNY

Autumn Leaves
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7043133932689297639#editor/target=post;postID=7605416430434769090