We’ll Meet Again will chart again after Queen’s message
DAME VERA LYNN is rereleasing We’ll Meet Again after the Queen’s “wonderful” message to the nation led to renewed interest in the song.
The 103-year-old singer was known as the “Forces’ sweetheart” for raising spirits during the Second World War.
Her Majesty referenced the song in her address to the nation watched by 24 million people across the UK.
The message of hope and reunion led to Dame Vera’s track rising more than 800 places up the charts following the address. Dame Vera first recorded the song in 1939 as war forced families to be separated.
She has now decided to rerelease her We’ll Meet Again duet with the Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins, with all proceeds going to the NHS. The adored voice of hope for those suffering through global conflict has welcomed the Queen’s morale-boosting message.
She told The Daily Telegraph: “I watched the Queen’s speech ... with the rest of the country and indeed, the world, and it was wonderful.
“I didn’t know that Her Majesty was going to finish up with the words ‘ We will meet again’, but I think those words speak to the hope we should all have during these troubling times.
“I hope everyone will feel encouraged by Her Majesty’s words, and that we can all continue to work together.”
She added: “I am reminded of World War Two, when our country faced the darkest of times and yet, despite our struggles, pulled together for the common good and we faced the common threat together as a country, and as a community of countries that joined as one right across the world.”
The song was originally written by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles as war loomed, and long after its debut was rerecorded as a duet with Jenkins in 2005 to celebrate V-E Day. This version is now set to be rereleased.