WE'LL MEET AGAIN: THE VERY BEST OF VERA LYNN
We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn is a compilation album by English singer Vera Lynn. The album is a selection of her recordings made for Decca Records, for whom Lynn recorded between 1936 and 1959. It reached number one on the UK Albums Chart on 13 September 2009, making her at age 92 the oldest living artist to achieve this feat with an album. The album entered the chart at number 20 on 30 August, and then climbed to number 2 the following week, before reaching the top position. (More from Wikipedia)
All I knew about Vera Lynn, an enormously popular English singer during World War II was the reference to her in the song "Vera" from the 1979 Pink Floyd album, The Wall. Thus, I was astounded (along with rest of the world, I think including Vera Lynn herself) when a retrospective of her work that was released in 2009, We'll Meet Again: The Very Best of Vera Lynn reached the top of the British charts. At age 92, she is the oldest person ever to achieve that feat in Great Britain.
(October 2013)
