Dr Strangelove Till We Meet Again

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

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

"We'll Meet Again" is a 1939 vocal by English singer Vera Lynn with music and lyrics composed and written past English songwriters Ross Parker and Hughie Charles. The song is one of the virtually famous of the Second Globe War era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight as well every bit their families and loved ones.

The vocal was published past Michael Ross Limited, whose directors included Louis Carris, Ross Parker and Norman Keen. Groovy, an English pianist also collaborated with Parker and Hughie Charles on "Nosotros'll Meet Once again" and many other songs published by the company, including "In that location'll Always Be an England" and "I'm In Love For The Last Time". The vocal's original recording featured Lynn accompanied past 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] [2]}

The song gave its name to the 1943 musical moving-picture show Nosotros'll Meet Again in which Lynn played the lead role (encounter 1943 in music). Lynn'southward 1953 recording is featured in the final scene of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove – with a bitter irony, every bit the song accompanies a nuclear holocaust that wipes out humanity. It was also used in the closing scenes of the 1986 BBC television serial The Singing Detective. British director John Schlesinger used the song in his 1979 World War II pic Yanks, which is near British citizens and American soldiers during the military machine buildup in the Uk as the Allies set up for the Normandy landings.

During the Cold War, Lynn'southward recording was included in the packet of music and programmes held in 20 underground radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS), designed to provide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days subsequently a nuclear attack.^[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 UK Singles Nautical chart, with proceeds going to National Wellness Service charities. In May 2020 post-obit the 75th Anniversary celebrations of VE Day, the solo version by Lynn also reached number 55 in the UK chart.^[4]

Other performances [edit]

• Numerous artists accept recorded this song.^[5]
• Traditionally, this song is played on five May equally a closure to the Liberation 24-hour interval Concert in Amsterdam, to marker the end of World War 2 in the Netherlands, every bit the monarch leaves the concert on a canal boat.^[6]
• The Byrds recorded the song every bit the endmost track of their debut album Mr. Tambourine Man in 1965, inspired by the song's use in Dr. Strangelove. The credit reversed their beginning names.^[7]
• In 1980 the Viennese singer Margot Werner released a German version called Muß ich auch geh'n. Unlike Lilli Marlene, which was popular with troops on both sides during Globe War Two, Muß ich auch geh'n is petty known in Frg.
• Johnny Cash recorded a cover version as part of his 2002 album American IV: The Man Comes Around, the final album released in his lifetime.
• The Ink Spots recorded a cover^[8]

In film and goggle box [edit]

• On the final episode of The Colbert Written report, the vocal was sung by Stephen Colbert in a more upbeat tempo with members of his family and an assembled crowd of many of his most prominent guests.^{[9] [10]}
• The song was sung past Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins during the final functioning at VE Day 70: A Political party to Remember at Horse Guards Parade in London in 2015.^[11]
• On the moving-picture show Kong: Skull Island, John C. Reilly's character starts singing the song to a picture of his married woman whom he has not seen in decades, as he is on the way to be rescued. Vera Lynn's version then starts playing and is also featured in the soundtrack album.^[12]
• The first trailer of season 3 of Westworld uses the song as the theme of the trailer.^[13] A song with same name composited past Ramin Djawadi is too used in the concluding episode of season 2.
• On the blithe television set evidence Gravity Falls, the main adversary of the series, Bill Null, sings it in the episode "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls".
• In Episode 6 of the French animated series The Long Long Holiday, Colonel Douglas sings the song to Gaston.
• At the end of the film Dr. Strangelove, the song is played over footage of nuclear detonations.
• In the terminal episode to the animated series Freakazoid, "Normadeus", information technology ends with the entire cast coming out in a group rendition of the song.
• During season 3 of the testify Stranger Things, the Vera Lynn recording plays during the cease of episode 4.^[xiv]
• During episode one of flavor 5 of Gotham the song plays at the beginning
• Pennyworth season 02 episode 07: the clubgoers all take over the song to shut the fascist soldiers upwards, while those are singing "Rule, Britannia!" in the club.
• In Why Women Impale flavour 2 episode 3: 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 Phone call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
• The vocal plays at the start of the credits in Far Cry v, after attaining the Nuclear Ending.
• In Castle season 6 episode 9, the Vera Lynn recording is heard on a tape left behind for Castle and Beckett.^[15]

References in other works [edit]

• On her concluding radio show, NPR host Liane Hansen quoted the song in her farewell address to listeners.^[sixteen]
• On five Apr 2020, Queen Elizabeth II 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 astringent challenges being faced past families beyond the earth.^[17] The reference spurred covers past West End theatre stars with Lynn,^[18] Katherine Jenkins with Lynn,^[19] and by elevate queens.^[20] Jenkins' version was released on iTunes equally a do good for the NHS Charities Together.^[19]
• A reference to the song appears on the 1979 Pinkish Floyd album The Wall. The song "Vera" invokes the themes of "We'll Meet Again", asking the listener: "Does everyone here remember Vera Lynn? / Remember how she said that nosotros would meet again? / Some sunny mean solar day".

References [edit]

1. ^ "Cover versions of Nosotros'll Meet Again past Vera Lynn with Arthur Young on the Novachord". Secondhandsongs.com.
2. ^ "Vera Lynn – We'll Meet 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 Sunday Times. London.
4. ^ "Vera Lynn | full Official Nautical chart History". Officialcharts.com.
5. ^ "secondhandsongs.com". Secondhandsongs.com . Retrieved 29 January 2021.
6. ^ "May iv and v 2017 Amsterdam (Commemoration Day and Liberation Mean solar day)". Simplyamsterdam.nl . Retrieved vii January 2020.
7. ^ Rogan, Johnny (1998). The Byrds: Timeless Flight Revisited (2 ed.). Rogan Business firm. pp. 81–87. ISBN0-9529540-1-X.
8. ^ "The Ink Spots - Nosotros'll Encounter Again - YouTube". Archived from the original on 21 Dec 2021. Retrieved 7 Jan 2021 – via YouTube.
9. ^ "Stephen & Friends: "We'll Run into Again"". Thecolbertreport.cc.com . Retrieved 19 Dec 2014.
10. ^ Thompson, Catherine (19 December 2014). "Here's Every Cameo In The Epic Finale Of 'The Colbert Report'". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
11. ^ de Peyer, Robin (9 May 2015). "VE Mean solar day Concert Katherine Jenkins, Pixie Lott, Status Quo Lead Party". Standard.co.u.k. . Retrieved xv September 2020.
12. ^ Fane Saunders, Tristram (18 June 2020). "Nosotros'll Come across Again: how Vera Lynn's song inspired everyone from Kubrick to the Queen". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 15 September 2020.
13. ^ "Westworld Flavor 3 Trailer Breakdown: We'll Meet Once more – Moving picture". Slashfilm.com. 22 July 2019.
14. ^ "SERIES REVIEW — Stranger Things iii". Notveryprofoundfilm.medium.com. 5 July 2019. Retrieved 24 Feb 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's coronavirus address: 'We will run across once more'". BBC News. 5 April 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
18. ^ Hewitt, Phil (24 April 2020). "Matriarch Vera Lynn promises UK theatre will thrive once more "some sunny day" – VIDEO". Littlehampton Gazette . Retrieved 24 April 2020.
19. ^ ^{a b} "Katherine Jenkins and Matriarch Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" reaches number one on iTunes charts". ITV. 16 April 2020. Retrieved 24 Apr 2020.
20. ^ Hudson, David. "Sentinel: Drag queens perform powerful 'Nosotros'll Meet Again' to help elders". Queerty.com . Retrieved 24 February 2022.

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