Till We Meet Again by Johnny Cash

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

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

"We'll Meet Again" is a 1939 song past English language 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 Second Globe War era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight as well equally their families and loved ones.

The vocal was published by Michael Ross Limited, whose directors included Louis Carris, Ross Parker and Norman Keen. Keen, an English pianist also collaborated with Parker and Hughie Charles on "We'll Meet Again" and many other songs published by the company, including "There'll Always Be an England" and "I'm In Love For The Concluding Time". The song'due south 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 War machine personnel.^{[one] [ii]}

The song gave its name to the 1943 musical motion-picture show We'll Meet Again in which Lynn played the atomic number 82 part (meet 1943 in music). Lynn'due south 1953 recording is featured in the terminal scene of Stanley Kubrick'south 1964 pic Dr. Strangelove – with a bitter irony, as the song accompanies a nuclear holocaust that wipes out humanity. It was also used in the closing scenes of the 1986 BBC television receiver serial The Singing Detective. British managing director John Schlesinger used the vocal in his 1979 World War Ii film Yanks, which is about British citizens and American soldiers during the military buildup in the Britain as the Allies set up for the Normandy landings.

During the Cold State of war, Lynn'due south recording was included in the package of music and programmes held in 20 secret radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS), designed to provide public data and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a nuclear attack.^[iii] The song reached number 29 on the U.South. charts. Lynn sang the vocal in London on the 60th anniversary of VE Day in 2005.

In April 2020, a clemency duet with Katherine Jenkins, released in 2014, reached number 72 on the Uk Singles Chart, with proceeds going to National Health Service charities. In May 2020 post-obit the 75th Anniversary celebrations of VE Day, the solo version by Lynn besides reached number 55 in the U.k. chart.^[4]

Other performances [edit]

• Numerous artists have recorded this song.^[v]
• Traditionally, this song is played on v May equally a closure to the Liberation Day Concert in Amsterdam, to marking the end of World War Two in the Netherlands, every bit the monarch leaves the concert on a canal boat.^[six]
• The Byrds recorded the song as the closing track of their debut album Mr. Tambourine Man in 1965, inspired by the song'south utilise in Dr. Strangelove. The credit reversed their first names.^[7]
• In 1980 the Viennese vocalist Margot Werner released a High german version called Muß ich auch geh'due north. Unlike Lilli Marlene, which was popular with troops on both sides during World War Two, Muß ich auch geh'due north is little known in Deutschland.
• Johnny Cash recorded a cover version every bit function of his 2002 album American Iv: The Homo Comes Around, the last album released in his lifetime.
• The Ink Spots recorded a embrace^[8]

In moving-picture show and idiot box [edit]

• On the concluding episode of The Colbert 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 most prominent guests.^{[9] [10]}
• The vocal was sung by Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins during the final functioning at VE 24-hour interval 70: A Party to Remember at Horse Guards Parade in London in 2015.^[xi]
• On the film Kong: Skull Island, John C. Reilly's character starts singing the song to a picture of his wife whom he has non seen in decades, as he is on the manner to exist rescued. Vera Lynn'due south version so starts playing and is also featured in the soundtrack album.^[12]
• The offset trailer of flavor three of Westworld uses the song every bit the theme of the trailer.^[thirteen] A song with aforementioned name composited past Ramin Djawadi is also used in the last episode of season 2.
• On the animated tv set show Gravity Falls, the master antagonist of the series, Pecker Cipher, sings information technology in the episode "Weirdmageddon 3: Have Back the Falls".
• In Episode vi of the French animated series The Long Long Vacation, Colonel Douglas sings the song to Gaston.
• At the terminate of the pic Dr. Strangelove, the song is played over footage of nuclear detonations.
• In the final episode to the animated series Freakazoid, "Normadeus", it ends with the unabridged bandage coming out in a grouping rendition of the vocal.
• During flavor 3 of the evidence Stranger Things, the Vera Lynn recording plays during the finish of episode 4.^[14]
• During episode one of flavour five of Gotham the song plays at the beginning
• Pennyworth season 02 episode 07: the clubgoers all take over the song to close the fascist soldiers up, while those are singing "Dominion, Britannia!" in the social 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 film Jackass Forever
• The song'south featured in a scene in the 2019 film The Best of Enemies.
• The Vera Lynn recording plays over the final cutscene of the Zombies fashion of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold State of war.
• The vocal plays at the get-go of the credits in Far Cry v, afterwards attaining the Nuclear Catastrophe.
• In Castle flavor half-dozen 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 testify, NPR host Liane Hansen quoted the song in her farewell address to listeners.^[16]
• On v April 2020, Queen Elizabeth II referenced the vocal in a rare televised address that aired to Uk and the Commonwealth, where she expressed her gratitude for the efforts people are taking to mitigate the COVID-xix pandemic virus and acknowledged the severe challenges being faced by families across the world.^[17] The reference spurred covers past West End theatre stars with Lynn,^[18] Katherine Jenkins with Lynn,^[19] and by drag queens.^[20] Jenkins' version was released on iTunes as a benefit for the NHS Charities Together.^[19]
• A reference to the vocal appears on the 1979 Pink Floyd album The Wall. The song "Vera" invokes the themes of "Nosotros'll See Again", asking the listener: "Does anybody hither remember Vera Lynn? / Recall how she said that nosotros would come across once more? / Some sunny day".

References [edit]

1. ^ "Cover versions of We'll Come across Again by Vera Lynn with Arthur Young on the Novachord". Secondhandsongs.com.
2. ^ "Vera Lynn – We'll Run across Again / I'm Praying To St. Christopher". Discogs.com.
3. ^ Hellen, Nicholas (eleven July 1999). "Julie Andrews to sing to Brits during nuclear assail". 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 five 2017 Amsterdam (Commemoration Twenty-four hours and Liberation Day)". Simplyamsterdam.nl . Retrieved 7 January 2020.
7. ^ Rogan, Johnny (1998). The Byrds: Timeless Flying Revisited (2 ed.). Rogan House. pp. 81–87. ISBN0-9529540-1-X.
8. ^ "The Ink Spots - Nosotros'll Come across Again - YouTube". Archived from the original on 21 Dec 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021 – via YouTube.
9. ^ "Stephen & Friends: "We'll See 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 xix Dec 2014.
11. ^ de Peyer, Robin (9 May 2015). "VE Day Concert Katherine Jenkins, Pixie Lott, Status Quo Lead Party". Standard.co.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland . Retrieved 15 September 2020.
12. ^ Fane Saunders, Tristram (18 June 2020). "We'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 Season three Trailer Breakdown: We'll Run across Once again – Motion-picture show". Slashfilm.com. 22 July 2019.
14. ^ "SERIES REVIEW — Stranger Things 3". Notveryprofoundfilm.medium.com. 5 July 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
15. ^ ""Castle" Disciple (Tv Episode 2013)". IMDb.com . Retrieved 24 Feb 2022.
16. ^ Hansen, Liane (29 May 2011). "Farewell From Host Liane Hansen". NPR. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
17. ^ "The Queen'due south coronavirus address: 'We will encounter over again'". BBC News. 5 April 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
18. ^ Hewitt, Phil (24 April 2020). "Dame Vera Lynn promises UK theatre will thrive over again "some sunny day" – VIDEO". Littlehampton Gazette . Retrieved 24 April 2020.
19. ^ ^{a b} "Katherine Jenkins and Dame Vera Lynn'south "Nosotros'll See Again" reaches number one on iTunes charts". ITV. 16 April 2020. Retrieved 24 Apr 2020.
20. ^ Hudson, David. "WATCH: Drag queens perform powerful 'We'll Meet Once more' to assistance elders". Queerty.com . Retrieved 24 Feb 2022.

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