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

1939 vocal past Vera Lynn

"We'll Meet Again"
Sheet music cover
Vocal past Vera Lynn
Released	1939
Label	Michael Ross Limited
Songwriter(due south)	Ross Parker, Hughie Charles
Producer(southward)	Norman Keen

"We'll Run across Again" is a 1939 song by English singer Vera Lynn with music and lyrics composed and written by English songwriters Ross Parker and Hughie Charles. The song is one of the virtually famous of the 2nd World War era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight as well as their families and sweethearts.

The song was published by Michael Ross Limited, whose directors included Louis Carris, Ross Parker and Norman Corking. Keen, an English pianist also collaborated with Parker and Hughie Charles on "Nosotros'll Run across Again" and many other songs published past the company, including "There'll Ever Be an England" and "I'grand In Love For The Concluding Time". The song'southward 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] [ii]}

The song gave its name to the 1943 musical film We'll Encounter Again in which Lynn played the lead role (run into 1943 in music). Lynn'southward 1953 recording is featured in the final scene of Stanley Kubrick'southward 1964 film Dr. Strangelove – with a bitter irony, as the vocal 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 managing director John Schlesinger used the song in his 1979 World War Two film Yanks, which is about British citizens and American soldiers during the armed services buildup in the UK as the Allies prepare for the Normandy landings.

During the Cold War, Lynn's recording was included in the package of music and programmes held in twenty underground radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS), designed to provide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days later on a nuclear assail.^[three] The song reached number 29 on the U.South. 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 United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Singles Chart, with gain going to National Health Service charities. In May 2020 following the 75th Anniversary celebrations of VE Day, the solo version past Lynn also reached number 55 in the UK chart.^[4]

Other performances [edit]

• Numerous artists have recorded this song.^[five]
• Traditionally, this song is played on five May every bit a closure to the Liberation Day Concert in Amsterdam, to marker the end of World State of war 2 in the Netherlands, as the monarch leaves the concert on a canal gunkhole.^[6]
• The Byrds recorded the song equally the endmost runway of their debut album Mr. Tambourine Human in 1965, inspired past the song'south use in Dr. Strangelove. The credit reversed their first names.^[7]
• In 1980 the Viennese singer Margot Werner released a German version called Muß ich auch geh'n. Dissimilar Lilli Marlene, which was popular with troops on both sides during World War Ii, Muß ich auch geh'n is fiddling known in Germany.
• Johnny Cash recorded a cover version as part of his 2002 album American 4: The Man Comes Around, the last album released in his lifetime.
• The Ink Spots recorded a embrace^[8]

In film and television [edit]

• On the terminal episode of The Colbert Written report, the song was sung by Stephen Colbert in a more upbeat tempo with members of his family and an assembled crowd of many of his virtually prominent guests.^{[9] [10]}
• The song was sung by Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins during the final operation at VE Solar day 70: A Party to Recall at Equus caballus Guards Parade in London in 2015.^[xi]
• On the film Kong: Skull Isle, John C. Reilly's grapheme starts singing the vocal to a flick of his wife whom he has not seen in decades, equally he is on the way to be rescued. Vera Lynn's version and so starts playing and is also featured in the soundtrack anthology.^[12]
• The first trailer of flavour 3 of Westworld uses the vocal every bit the theme of the trailer.^[13] A vocal with same proper noun composited by Ramin Djawadi is also used in the last episode of season ii.
• On the animated television show Gravity Falls, the main antagonist of the series, Bill Cipher, sings information technology in the episode "Weirdmageddon three: Take Back the Falls".
• In Episode 6 of the French blithe series The Long Long Holiday, Colonel Douglas sings the vocal to Gaston.
• At the end of the motion-picture show Dr. Strangelove, the song is played over footage of nuclear detonations.
• In the final episode to the blithe series Freakazoid, "Normadeus", it ends with the entire cast coming out in a group rendition of the song.
• During season three of the show Stranger Things, the Vera Lynn recording plays during the end of episode 4.^[14]
• During episode ane of season 5 of Gotham the song plays at the beginning
• Pennyworth season 02 episode 07: the clubgoers all accept over the vocal to shut the fascist soldiers upwards, while those are singing "Rule, Britannia!" in the club.
• In Why Women Kill season 2 episode 3: the episode ends with the Vera Lynn recording.
• The Johnny Cash recording is used in the trailer for the motion-picture show 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 way of Call of Duty: Black Ops Common cold War.
• The song plays at the start of the credits in Far Cry 5, after attaining the Nuclear Catastrophe.
• In Castle season vi 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 last radio show, NPR host Liane Hansen quoted the song in her good day accost to listeners.^[16]
• On v April 2020, Queen Elizabeth 2 referenced the song in a rare televised address that aired to Britain and the Republic, 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 by families across the globe.^[17] The reference spurred covers by Due west Cease theatre stars with Lynn,^[xviii] Katherine Jenkins with Lynn,^[nineteen] and past drag queens.^[20] Jenkins' version was released on iTunes every bit a benefit for the NHS Charities Together.^[xix]
• A reference to the vocal appears on the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall. The song "Vera" invokes the themes of "Nosotros'll Run across Over again", asking the listener: "Does anybody here call back Vera Lynn? / Remember how she said that we would meet again? / Some sunny day".

References [edit]

1. ^ "Cover versions of We'll Run across Once more past Vera Lynn with Arthur Immature on the Novachord". Secondhandsongs.com.
2. ^ "Vera Lynn – We'll Meet Again / I'm Praying To St. Christopher". Discogs.com.
3. ^ Hellen, Nicholas (eleven July 1999). "Julie Andrews to sing to Brits during nuclear attack". The Sunday Times. London.
4. ^ "Vera Lynn | full Official Chart History". Officialcharts.com.
5. ^ "secondhandsongs.com". Secondhandsongs.com . Retrieved 29 January 2021.
6. ^ "May 4 and 5 2017 Amsterdam (Commemoration Day and Liberation Day)". Simplyamsterdam.nl . Retrieved seven Jan 2020.
7. ^ Rogan, Johnny (1998). The Byrds: Timeless Flight Revisited (2 ed.). Rogan House. pp. 81–87. ISBN0-9529540-1-10.
8. ^ "The Ink Spots - We'll Meet Again - YouTube". Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021 – via YouTube.
9. ^ "Stephen & Friends: "We'll Meet Over again"". Thecolbertreport.cc.com . Retrieved 19 December 2014.
10. ^ Thompson, Catherine (19 Dec 2014). "Here'southward Every Cameo In The Epic Finale Of 'The Colbert Report'". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved xix December 2014.
11. ^ de Peyer, Robin (9 May 2015). "VE Day Concert Katherine Jenkins, Pixie Lott, Status Quo Lead Party". Standard.co.u.k. . Retrieved 15 September 2020.
12. ^ Fane Saunders, Tristram (xviii June 2020). "We'll Meet Again: how Vera Lynn'south song inspired anybody from Kubrick to the Queen". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved xv September 2020.
13. ^ "Westworld Season 3 Trailer Breakup: We'll Meet Once more – Motion-picture show". Slashfilm.com. 22 July 2019.
14. ^ "SERIES REVIEW — Stranger Things 3". Notveryprofoundfilm.medium.com. v July 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
15. ^ ""Castle" Disciple (TV Episode 2013)". IMDb.com . Retrieved 24 Feb 2022.
16. ^ Hansen, Liane (29 May 2011). "Good day From Host Liane Hansen". NPR. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
17. ^ "The Queen'due south coronavirus address: 'We volition meet again'". BBC News. 5 April 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
18. ^ Hewitt, Phil (24 April 2020). "Matriarch Vera Lynn promises UK theatre will thrive again "some sunny day" – VIDEO". Littlehampton Gazette . Retrieved 24 April 2020.
19. ^ ^{a b} "Katherine Jenkins and Matriarch Vera Lynn'south "We'll Meet Again" reaches number i on iTunes charts". ITV. xvi April 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
20. ^ Hudson, David. "Spotter: Drag queens perform powerful 'Nosotros'll Meet Over again' to help elders". Queerty.com . Retrieved 24 February 2022.

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