Vera Lynn - When The Lights Go On Again.
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- A song of hope looking forward to the end of World War 2 and the Blackout, and soldiers returning home.
It's hard for those of us born later to fully understand the way the War affected everything.
My mom was evacuated to strangers in the countryside to be away from our city being bombed.
People went without foods we take for granted now...
and worst of all, many many lives of loved ones were lost or damaged.
I'm yet another of the commenters who revisited this because of A Haunting in Venice (and because it's a great song anyway)
Exactly hatte i habe done .. after the movie😊.
I'm also here because of it and it's great stuff
When the film “A Haunting in Venice” opened with this, I teared up immediately. Just finishing my WWII novel about my father and an Italian woman he corresponded with until 1950. I often listen to Vera Lynn as I write.
Just come out of the cinema after seeing that film. My son and friend were smiling at me for crying as we sat and watched the credits. I think it make me think of my late parents too. As I know mum would have been singing it with me if she at been at my side.
So glad it wasn't just me who can appreciate this song, brought tears😢
We are from Austria and we heard Vera Lynn's song. During WW2 we were little chrildren. My husband overcame the holocaust because he is Jewish. We are very impressed by some of these hopeful songs. We think it is necessary to spread hope again in these dark and dangerous times.
God bless you both, may both of you have many more healthy years left on Earth. Thanks for sharing!
So pleased you, so like many of my fr iends, survived the
dr eadful Holocaust.
May we hope for the same with t he Palestinians?
My dear late brother John joined the"Paras' in 1944. He spent
2 years in Palestine as a Para, and came back.
I came here from the movie "A haunting in Venice" , really got impressed by the ending song.
me too
I'm only 19 years old and this is my favorite era for music. WW2 music truly exemplifies the power of art to fortify the human spirit in times of hardship.
+Kelsie Z I'm only 17 and I love the 1940s era of music
Me too. I am 20 and I like also Sandie Shaw and Florence and the Machine as well as Vera Lynn
WE are being invaded ! A invasion requires that we secure the breach. Block the entry point and stop the flow of ILLEGAS..do we have the means to do this? He'll yes! It's called a WALL! BUILD IT ! Now!
Dan Piner What does that have to do with anything?
im 16 and i love this music too
Thank you dear God, for giving us "the greatest generation" who put the lights back on all over the world.
16% of the American population put on a uniform then. You can't get 16% of the American population to agree on anything any more.
@@cellobus2961sad …and true
My father served on a minesweeper in the Atlantic during WW II. He always said that when it was over, it was wonderful to sail past seaside towns and see all the lights on.
U for your Father's service ❤
I was born in 1930 and lived in England during the Blitz. Thank you for these and for the wonderful old photos. When I was an evacuee and she sang Goodnight Children Everywhere it broke my heart.
Yr the first 90 year old I've seen on youtube
@@TheDeepState2001 yes
We owe your generation a lot. Thank you!
@@pussycat_S2 His comment was from 6 years ago he's most probably no longer with us but still appreciate his comment
@@ThatOneSandwichGuy I have had 90+ year old reply to me from a comment that was posted 12 years ago. So it is in fact possible.
Never heard this song before. Thanks to movie "A haunting in Venice" , I did now. Normally, I leave at the end of the movie as cast credits start scrolling up. But not today. I stayed glued to the song. What a touching song! Can move a man to tears. Movie is a masterpiece, too, but this song is at a whole different level. The visuals here remind the world of the madness of one deranged man who caused so much mayhem, death and destruction. It should serve as a lesson to citizens of every country not to elect an arrogant bully as their leader.
I can't listen to this song without crying. Especially the line 'and when the rain or snow is all that falls from the sky' ... keeping in mind that tens of thousands of Britons were losing their lives from aerial bombing, an especially poignant line.
Crying right now, just heard this song in the new Hercule Poirot movie, had heard We'll Meet Again numerous times and it always gets to me (dad tried to sign up earlier for the Navy but couldn't make the minimum weight requirement so on December 8 1941 he ate a bunch of bananas on the way to the induction center, got on the scale, got into the Navy, got off the scale and barfed). Seeing some OTHER songs mentioned here, so glad for the comments.
@@robertjohnson5838 At the beginning of A Haunting In Venice when this song played, I knew exactly what the opening line was all about. My parents told me about the "blackouts" of US cities they participated in during WWII, keeping the lights off at night to make sure the cities wouldn't present a lighted target to a possible enemy bomber attack. The line about "rain or snow is all that falls from the sky" got to me too, and even though it referred to the Battle of Britain, I'm sure the Germans and Japanese were also happy that rain or snow was all that would be falling from the skies as well.
Vera really knew how to put a song across. There is a tear in her voice.
Vera Lynn helped to win the war as much as anyone.
Oh my, I wish I could get through one Vera Lynn wartime song without crying. No, I wasn't even born yet (my mother is a WWII baby), and I am not British, but her beautiful, soul-feeding songs are just as relevant and touching today as they were then. When I see newsreels and movies, and read books about the suffering and sacrifice the average Britsh civilian endured, much less her soldiers, I am humbled. I am an American, but I stand in awe of Great Britain. Bravo...
I was born in 1948, & my Dad would tell me all sorts of things. We should be grateful for living in a peaceful country.
@@gailaspinall1688What Used to be a peaceful country, although it's nothing like wwll. No bombs yet, but the division & hate is sometimes, stifling!
Ridiculous!
God bless Vera Lynn she gave hope with her songs in a time of great fear and trial
A haunting in Venice brought me here, what a beautiful song
This song reminds me of my parents, simple, hard-working people, who gave all to save civilisation. My mother's eyesight went after years of work threading metal filaments into tank lightbulbs, my father was blown up by a shell and suffered all his life from the pieces left in his body. They didn't know of all the horrors happening, but the call came and they answered, as so many others did.
To hear the song and think of my parents and what they gave up for me - us - brings more than one tear
RIP Vera. The comments on your songs will forever continue. “And will go on again” and as will your songs. They will live on forever to remind us of your generation. I sang this song to my Nan before she passed away.
Vera Lynn and her songs just make my heart melt. Such courage displayed so simply by so many in such terrible times. A true inspiration for meeting today's challenges.
Great woman great songs. I am a ww2 infantryman. She brings back lots of memories. God bless her.
Thank you for your service.
You are more than welcome but I considered it an honor to serve.
happygael Me too, as did my grandfathers, but it's important to say it.
And thank you for the service of you your grandfather and any other who put it on the line for this great country
I'm sure you are
Love this song. I am fascinated by WWII era because even through all the scary, rough and dangerous times, people were still determined. I am awed by the English perserverance and determination during this time. I wish people now had that spirit more often.
RIP! Dame Vera Lynn passed away today, June 18, 2020.
Brings back the memory of my mother singing this song while she did her housework.
Happy VE Day everyone. A day for reflection, memories, tears and smiles.
My mother listened to Vera Lynn and loved the hope and the smile's she brought to the boy's.
My Mum was a bit older. She was drafted into war work in an aircraft factory. While there, she met my Dad, a Yank in the 8th USAAF. I heard many, many stories from her, my Nan and my Uncle, all of whom lived through it.
Jovan Weismiller Yes indeed the great 8th did a great deal towards putting the lights on again over Europe. Heroically
I hope the Ukrainians have someone like Vera to lift their spirits at this tragic time.
I myself had a brother fighting in Europe with the Brits, my sister was in the WAAC, i was in the navy, cousins fighting over in the pacific... this song reminds me of all of them
Sir, are you still alive? Thanks you for your, family and your service. Without you, your family, and your comrades we wouldn't have the freedom. Forever will I be grateful. God bless you sir! Thanks you, I would love to hear some stories! Take care sir!
I talked to my grandmother about her war time experiences as a Land Girl here in New Zealand during the War before she died last year. This song is especially poignant when I think of how she told me the countries fears of imminent Japanese air raids. When all buildings had windows blacked out, street lamps had blinkers, and cars could only have one head lamp pointing downwards! I hadn't realised the country was so close to invasion and can only imagine how frightening it must have been
Our Vera Lynn is 98 years old now and is precious to us. Oddly Adolf Hitler had her on a death list to break the morale of the allies. Born in East Ham,Essex (not London back then) and lived in nearby Barking she is a darling of our people.
My Father was in the RAF as a flight engineer on Lancaster’s during WW2.... he used to sing these old War songs.. If he heard them on television or radio he used to get misty eyed & reminisce about his old pals he flew with and times during the War... Tge pain showed on his face for a moment but then he’d smile at say he was glad it was all over & thankful he made it through those days. He used to talk to me about those days for hours... This reminds me of him. Such beautiful songs created & written out of tragic times... May we never forget the brave men & women of this country what they did for us...
love all her songs thanks !!!!!
I was born just at the end of the war but there are somethings I remember.as a little girl. My playground was often rubble and the old "keep out" air raid shelters were fun. I remember the ration books but sometimes though goods came in it was hard times for many without money to buy them but we used our gardens. An orange in the bottom of our Xmas stocking was like a birthday. Can't say we were poor because everyone where I lived were in the same boat. Our town was opposite Tilbury Docks the largest used to ship food inland it was heavily bombed so our town took some hard pummelling. When I was about 7 and some of the rubble had yet to be cleared my mother took me to the river and pointed out her flat. It was in at the end of some terraced houses. She pointed up to the wallpaper that still clung to the wall the rest was gone. Just before it was hit she had gone to Coventry to friends because she had just become a war widow with my two brothers and grieving, (later my mother remarried that's when I came along) when she came back, and in her absence, it had been hit. Sadly, within a few short days Coventry was bombed and she lost all her friends. Alone, life was unbearable for her and she attempted to take her life giving the two babies 18mos and 3 yrs to a neighbour to babysit. It wasn't about keep smiling thru it was about survival some don't remember them being the good ole days. Real pain was the agony of the parents in shelters with children in school that day praying they made it to safety. Germany never made appointments. By wars end some estimated 67,000 civilians died almost as many injured, million and half made homeless and spilling orphanages (some kids became my mates) and rationing went on until 1954. Considering that the UK is small enough to fit into the state of California our losses were great. These songs are at once uplifting but so poignant, and for some agonizingly sad. Unless you've lived on an island that depends on imported food and supplies and a war in the backyard it's hard to envision the emotions. No, we never surrendered, but just so you know there were some who wanted to out of complete desperation. It seems that throughout the planet wars continue to be waged but only battles are won (or lost) and the wars rage on. Civilians losses are the enemies best weapon. PS have you noticed that women don't start wars.
It was a different time, a time of courage, perseverance, and pride, she was at the forefront of it.
@hamerl May God bless and keep you for all of your trials these are songs of hope and I love them dearly. My Dad inlisted at age 17 to the Amry air corps and came home safe after the war. We are living in dangerous times and these songs tell the story
What a wonderful song
My great grandpa will sing this but saying "When the lights go out again.." and hums when he turns off a light so I decided to google it and I am now crying it's the purest thing
God Bless Dame Vera! Back on the charts in 2009~!!!
God bless you, Vera Lynn.
There are no words that can say how much this music means to me! Every year in June I go to the WWII weekend in Reading Pa dressed as a Col in memory of my Dad who was a tail gunner in a B-29 flying out of India over the Hump!
Anyone else here after watching Bomb Girls?!
I love this song. So haunting yet beautiful. It may have been made as a World War 2 song but it still applies as long as there is darkness in the world, which could be for a long time.
At every family celebration..weddings, christenings, anniversaries, etc...This was always played for gran and grandad. I'm 60 and when I was a kid, I didn't even know what it meant, but I knew all the words. This and "We'll Meet Again" always remind me of them dancing together and singing this song. Thanks for the upload.
My mum was in the British Air force and had to take shelter in the Salvation Army in London...God bless them!
I was born almost 13 years after the end of the war, but this song always gets to me. To consider a time when things were so desperate ... to have a song with this hope in it ... what a time my folks lived through.
Happy 100th birthday, Dame Vera. Your songs were magnificent, as was the era.
A haunting in Venice.
You welcome 😎🎉
Not heard this song before. Found a video of my late nan singing it. I’ve had it on all day. Gave me such comfort. ❤️ love you Nannie MB ❤️😇 forever.
This song is about 1945 when people hoped that with the end of war they could enjoy some security and settle down and plan their lives. By today, 2014, only elderly pensioners could have experienced this direction. The rest of us has to experience this vicariously.
My grandmother told me about one very dark night when she had to go out into the blackout at the start of the war when not even a very dim torch was allowed...she wanted to get to her son's house just along the street...she though she knew the area like the back of her hand but the blackout totally threw her,...she had NO idea where she was & that scared her even more than the air raid sirens & listening to the bombs falling from underneath her Anderson shelter with my grandfather.
I wish I could go back in time just to see what it was like so I could fully appreciate and understand what those people went through
Alison Hill Well, most people don't want to go back to that experience again.
good thing I said that about me not them then isn't it -.-
Alison Hill Agreed. I want to see what it was like, even just for a day!
Perhaps the day that my mother became a war widow at age 26 was told her (first husband) was killed and she was left with a 3 year old and 18 month old babies. But if you're interested in how the individual family lived their daily lives there is a BBC documentary called "1940's House" but, I'll add, that this is pretty much focused on the middle class and not the larger rest of us, but n common we all painted the line around the inside of the bath that indicated our water ration for once a week bathing. Also, "Goodnight, Mr Tom" starring the late John Thaw (inspector morse)
Vera....that voice brings a lump to my throat every time. THE voice of WW2.
Thanks for the beautiful song, from the son of 1st Lt. Clifford C. Frederiksen, USAAF 441st troopcarrier, 302 sqn. Merryfield, England. This, and "White cliffs of Dover" were favorites of dad, and mom. I'm glad Vera is alive and well at 92, in the UK today!
I am 76 now and remember vividly allthese WWII songs when I was growing up during the war years. They are so nostalgic. Even though there was a war on, the world was a much better place right after it ended in 1945. America was at its zenith in the world and we (USA) was loved and respected and admired then. Those were our glory days and I am glad to have lived at that time. The old war songs bring tears to my eyes.
Shirley Geremania are you still alive?
Takes me back to being a 👶 at my grandparents house and hearing this being played. I love it just as much now as I did then. I think we should remember times when our country was at war and respect and appreciate what our soldiers went through to ensure our freedom and world peace. Words can't express our gratitude but from our hearts we Thankyou. God bless
we all wondered who would come home and who wouldn't this is a fitting song for them that did. Mine did but not for long he died from wounds from ww2. Miss him terribly and always will.
@Alisa everson, my sincere condolences. God bless him and you. I hope you are still in good health, bless you. Thanks you for sharing.
With songs like this, we just HAD to win. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Funny how appropriate this seems when looking to the morass that the world has fallen into again. 15 March 2020
Despite the new "wartime" restrictions, we will come through this COVID. 19 crisis. The lights will come on again, and our lives will return to normal.
Time to get rid of Fauci and his ilk, then we will be free!
Unless I've said this already, I'm on the verge of tears when I hear this song for whatever reason. In other words, it's enough to turn a hard man into a softy, wolf into a puppy, and a lion into a kitten.
Fitting for today, as well. Thank you for sharing ❤️
Beautiful expression of wartime spirit during our darkest times. I wasn't born until 1960 but people's memories were still fresh as I grew up. I can sense some of their feelings.
Still a wonderful song.
What a beautiful song...I have been listening to this to learn it and I have been getting emotional just listening to the words, My husband and I will be performing next week to commemorate Armistice Day here in Australia and we will be doing all the old war songs but this will be the number one song in my opinion of the list of 20 songs that we will be performing on the day.I hope I can put as much emotion into it as Vera does.
I was born in 1931 and as a child remember that time, and this song keeps coming back to me as being so appropriate for the time we are living thru now. so sad for this to be a memory for our children and grandchildren growing up now
@Frances Sherman could you share some memories with us from your time? I love to hear them. Stay healthy and safe!
God Bless Dame Vera on this Remembrance Day, 2011! She fought the War in her own way and was a major contributor to our victory over Naziism!
For some reason, this song came to mind just now so here I am. My Dad wasn't born yet, my grandfathers and great uncle were in the war. I have Vera in my iTunes so I guess I'll be listening to her soon. Thanks. 😺🐈🐱🐾🇺🇸
My Dad used to sing this! WW11 vet. He's gone now, but I'm happy to find this. Thank you
Besides the music and her darling voice, it's worth watching for the pictures.
I like the one where the house is going for 7/6 "As It Stands Or Offer"--grace and humour in adversity, it's why the world loved you, Brits! Well done.
Thanks, maz59!
Vera Lynn fine singer and a hopeful song..
As of today, my part of the world is on lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Here's to the lights going on again soon. Take care and be safe everyone.
Talking about our American friend who referred to the shot at 2:09 - it was not unusual in heavily bombed areas here in England to see shops which had been severely bomb damaged in air raids displaying signs outside their premises half the walls and windows of which had been completely blown away by bomb blast simply saying: "We are more open than usual and still doing business". As you say - it could only happen here in England. We are strange lot - making the best of any bad times! :-)
Absolutely beautiful rendition! Many thanks for posting.
love her
Simply beautiful and uplifting.
I saw Bernie Winters and Leslie Crowther sing this on television many years ago. They played the parts of Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen. They were perfect in their roles. A superb song.
My word, weren't they just! I recall that very well, Chas. Thanks for the memory. They were a part of the seventies line-up.
as Jill just commented;Vera Lynn's songs were (and still are---as there are still wars going on and i doubt if they are finished or maybe ever will be!?)BEAUTIFUL AND SOUL-FEEDING--a very meaningful way to 'put it'.I was just a child 'then' but have ALWAYS loved hearing her sing with deep feeling and anyone who 'says' otherwise has NO idea how it was back then.
Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that
We would meet again
Some sunny day?
Vera, Vera
What has become of you
Does anybody else in here
Feel the way I do?
I'm 19 years old as of now. I don't know but I really find this songs comforting and nostalgic like your being taken into some dream. I'm really happy to hear this songs in youtube.🥰
same
Listening to this song and it strikes me how insulated from conflict we are. There is fighting all over the world now, just as there was then. Not at the same scale, of course, but fighting everywhere nonetheless. We can pretend as though there isn't, though. We can go about our lives oblivious to the sacrifices made by our service men and women and the atrocities committed by ISIS and the like. That wasn't the case for my grandparents' generation. Of course, both my grand dads were soldiers, and it was hard to ignore how most of the nation's men were gone, but it was more than that. Everywhere they looked, there was constant reminder of the fight. The song poignantly reminds us how measures like the blackouts affected every facet of their lives.
Lovely voice ... so evochative and ethereal .
The Brittish voice of the war just asGlenn Miller was for America ...
Hermosa ella y su voz angelical , se merece más que él cielo❤😇🍾🥂🇦🇷
The lights will always go on again.
And will always stay on
Until they don't...
Very much appreciate your nice work on this video. Vera Lynn conveyed every bit of hope that could be garnered in a world that was being shattered by warfare across the globe. We can never repay the sacrifice laid down by those of the Greatest Generation (all the Allies). Today's generation including those in power have no idea of the cost of freedom.
@hamerl May God continue to bless you, My dear Mother made us always watch the world at war when we were Kids so we would never forget those days. We are living in bad times now and I am glad she had the insite to make sure we saw those things and the terrible things that happen to people like you.
Great video to accompany the great Vera Lynn classic song
God Bless
David
A lovely song...
She certainly wrings the pathos out of this song.
She's still around at 92, topped the charts with an album in 2009.
Monsieur Hercule Poirot brought me here 🧐
My nanna loved this
Wonderful song by the great VERA LYNN !!!
THIS SONG MAKES ME SAD WITH HAPPINESS FOR THE WORLD AND OUR BOYS
IF THAT MAKES SENSE..
I heard it for the first time during A Haunting in Venice. It conveys the terrible heartache of war. Of young men away at war, the dangerous seas and skies. The dark and endless nights, the deprivations. War is a terrible thing. And yet through it all hope remains.
Same.. I just watched the movie and came here
RIP Dearest Vera
During the wartime air raids on our country Great Britain, the total backout, the terrible shortages and all manner of rationing, the loss of loved ones in air raids here at home & on the battlefields overseas, the bad news on the radio, the evacuation to safe areas of the children, the loss of well known landmarks & buildings & all kinds of difficultries and stresses the British people for the most part remained as cheerful & as positive as they could. They sang songs in the air raid shelters.
Look up the song "Silver Wings In the Moonlight" by Joe Loss & his orchestra with Elizabeth Batey singing. That song was my parents song..& Mom bought the record when Dad went overseas with the RCAF. I cry whenever I hear it. It was on an old 78rpm. When Dad's cremated remains were put in with Mom's, I put the record in there as well because I felt it fitting they should have their tune with them.
I was so intrigued by Kenneth Branagh…this actor and director and the works of this detective, of course I am another commenting after “A Haunting in Venice” and again, such delightfully to my ears.
I do remember when the lights went on in London. My sister's took my to Piccadilly Circus to see them, and what a sight that was after such a gloomy London previous to that!
The first time I listen to this song was when watching "Haunting at the Venice", I didn't know this song before and not aware of its historical significance, but the beautiful melody made me into tears, so nostalgic and comforting. It made me stay on the couch until the movie ends, and after getting the movie I watch it again and again ❤
Happy birthday to Vera Lynn her Birth Card is Three 🕒 of Diamonds Rest in Peace ☮️🕊️ Blessings and Hugs 💖🤗🙏🤗🙏🤗🙏🤗🙏!
I'd call it melancholy swing. During the second world war the music was sentimental and filled with hope. "I'll be seeing You," "The Last Time I Saw Paris," "I Left My Heart at the stagedoor Canteen," 'I Came Here to Talk for Joe,' "One Dozen Roses,""White Cliffs of Dover." The war was a cancer that dragged on and involved the entire nation. When it ended in 1945, the entire nation exploded with jubilation. The celebrating made winning a World Series look like a church picnic with no booze.
Thank you for your comment, it is beautiful and heartfelt and it brought a tear to my eye. I did not live through the war but my dear old Mother who is now 93 did and she gave so much to the war including her first Husband. Your comment touches me very deeply, thank you once again. :-)
What a beautiful song!