[Dixielandjazz] First Tune of the night

[Harry Callaghan]

Yes, Pat, I am fully aware of what you are saying.as I have an LP of WWII
songs by Vera Lynn and my favorite of them has always been "White Cliffs of
Dover"

I also know that Irene Dunne (one of my favorite actresses of that era)
starred in a movie bearing that title, but I can't recall if she sang the
song in it as well.

Tides,
HC


On 7/27/10, Pat Ladd <pj.ladd at btinternet.com> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marek Boym" <marekboym at gmail.com>
> To: "Pat Ladd" <pj.ladd at btinternet.com>
> Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
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> the lines of "We'll Meet Again" which was the
>> closing number in "Dr Strangelove" sung by Vera Lynn > Tides
>> HC
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> It was much more than that. To my generation it was one of the songs, along
> with `There will be blue birds over the white cliffs of Dover` which helped
> maintain morale during WW2.
>
> The Saints may be the way to end a dixieland concert but carrying on with
> the observations about playing a slow song to quieten the crowd  before they
> drove off into the night the only way to end a dance  was the Last Waltz,
> and the tune was always `Whose taking you home tonight?". This gave the
> young hopefuls their last chance to get their sweaty little paws on a girl
> while he walked her home, or persuaded her into a car.
> In the case of my first army posting it was a chance for the girl to agree
> be to be taken home by either a Gunner (me) from a camp at one end of the
> town or a guy from the 16th/21st Hussars Tank regiment from a camp at the
> other end of town. Often the girl would agree to be taken home by one of
> each andthen leave it to the guys to slug it out round the back of th dance
> hall for the dubious privilege.
> What fun we had?
>
> Pat
>
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