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

1939 vocal by Vera Lynn

"We'll Run across Again"
Sheet music cover
Song by Vera Lynn
Released	1939
Label	Michael Ross Limited
Songwriter(s)	Ross Parker, Hughie Charles
Producer(s)	Norman Keen

"Nosotros'll Meet Again" is a 1939 song by English language singer Vera Lynn with music and lyrics equanimous and written past English songwriters Ross Parker and Hughie Charles. The song is ane of the almost famous of the 2d Globe State of war era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight as well as their families and loved ones.

The song was published past Michael Ross Express, whose directors included Louis Carris, Ross Parker and Norman Peachy. Not bad, an English pianist also collaborated with Parker and Hughie Charles on "Nosotros'll Meet Over again" and many other songs published by the visitor, including "There'll Ever Be an England" and "I'k In Honey For The Concluding Time". The song'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 Armed Forces personnel.^{[ane] [ii]}

The vocal gave its name to the 1943 musical film We'll Meet Again in which Lynn played the lead role (see 1943 in music). Lynn's 1953 recording is featured in the concluding scene of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 movie Dr. Strangelove – with a bitter irony, as the song accompanies a nuclear holocaust that wipes out humanity. It was also used in the endmost scenes of the 1986 BBC television serial The Singing Detective. British director John Schlesinger used the vocal in his 1979 World War II film Yanks, which is nigh British citizens and American soldiers during the military 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 20 underground radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS), designed to provide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a nuclear attack.^[3] The vocal 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 UK Singles Chart, with proceeds going to National Wellness Service charities. In May 2020 following the 75th Anniversary celebrations of VE Mean solar day, the solo version by Lynn also reached number 55 in the UK nautical chart.^[4]

Other performances [edit]

• Numerous artists have recorded this song.^[5]
• Traditionally, this song is played on five May as a closure to the Liberation Day Concert in Amsterdam, to marking the cease of World War II in holland, as the monarch leaves the concert on a canal boat.^[6]
• The Byrds recorded the vocal as the closing track of their debut anthology Mr. Tambourine Man in 1965, inspired by the song's 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 Two, Muß ich auch geh'n is trivial known in Federal republic of germany.
• Johnny Cash recorded a cover version as part of his 2002 album American IV: The Man Comes Around, the final album released in his lifetime.
• The Ink Spots recorded a comprehend^[8]

In film and television [edit]

• On the concluding episode of The Colbert Report, the song was sung by Stephen Colbert in a more than upbeat tempo with members of his family and an assembled crowd of many of his most prominent guests.^{[ix] [10]}
• The vocal was sung by Alfie Boe and Katherine Jenkins during the last performance at VE Day 70: A Party to Remember at Horse Guards Parade in London in 2015.^[11]
• On the pic Kong: Skull Island, John C. Reilly's character starts singing the vocal to a picture of his wife whom he has not seen in decades, as he is on the way to be rescued. Vera Lynn'southward version then starts playing and is also featured in the soundtrack album.^[12]
• The first trailer of season iii of Westworld uses the vocal as the theme of the trailer.^[13] A vocal with same name composited by Ramin Djawadi is also used in the last episode of flavour 2.
• On the animated television bear witness Gravity Falls, the primary antagonist of the serial, Bill Nothing, sings it in the episode "Weirdmageddon 3: Take Back the Falls".
• In Episode half-dozen of the French animated series The Long Long Vacation, Colonel Douglas sings the song to Gaston.
• At the end of the pic Dr. Strangelove, the vocal is played over footage of nuclear detonations.
• In the final episode to the animated serial Freakazoid, "Normadeus", it ends with the unabridged cast coming out in a group rendition of the vocal.
• During season 3 of the bear witness Stranger Things, the Vera Lynn recording plays during the end of episode four.^[14]
• During episode i of season five of Gotham the song plays at the get-go
• Pennyworth season 02 episode 07: the clubgoers all accept over the vocal to close the fascist soldiers upward, while those are singing "Rule, Britannia!" in the club.
• In Why Women Kill flavour 2 episode 3: the episode ends with the Vera Lynn recording.
• The Johnny Cash recording is used in the trailer for the pic Jackass Forever
• The song'southward featured in a scene in the 2019 film The All-time of Enemies.
• The Vera Lynn recording plays over the last cutscene of the Zombies fashion of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War.
• The song plays at the start of the credits in Far Cry 5, afterwards attaining the Nuclear Catastrophe.
• In Castle flavour 6 episode nine, the Vera Lynn recording is heard on a tape left behind for Castle and Beckett.^[15]

References in other works [edit]

• On her concluding radio show, NPR host Liane Hansen quoted the song in her farewell address to listeners.^[sixteen]
• On 5 April 2020, Queen Elizabeth Ii referenced the vocal in a rare televised accost that aired to Britain and the Commonwealth, where she expressed her gratitude for the efforts people are taking to mitigate the COVID-nineteen pandemic virus and acknowledged the astringent challenges beingness faced by families across the world.^[17] The reference spurred covers by West End theatre stars with Lynn,^[18] Katherine Jenkins with Lynn,^[nineteen] and by elevate queens.^[20] Jenkins' version was released on iTunes equally a benefit for the NHS Charities Together.^[xix]
• A reference to the vocal appears on the 1979 Pinkish Floyd album The Wall. The song "Vera" invokes the themes of "Nosotros'll See Again", asking the listener: "Does anybody hither remember Vera Lynn? / Remember how she said that nosotros would meet again? / Some sunny day".

References [edit]

1. ^ "Cover versions of We'll Meet Once more by Vera Lynn with Arthur Young on the Novachord". Secondhandsongs.com.
2. ^ "Vera Lynn – Nosotros'll Meet Again / I'k Praying To St. Christopher". Discogs.com.
3. ^ Hellen, Nicholas (11 July 1999). "Julie Andrews to sing to Brits during nuclear assault". The Lord's day Times. London.
4. ^ "Vera Lynn | full Official Nautical chart History". Officialcharts.com.
5. ^ "secondhandsongs.com". Secondhandsongs.com . Retrieved 29 January 2021.
6. ^ "May 4 and 5 2017 Amsterdam (Commemoration Day and Liberation Twenty-four hours)". Simplyamsterdam.nl . Retrieved 7 January 2020.
7. ^ Rogan, Johnny (1998). The Byrds: Timeless Flight Revisited (2 ed.). Rogan House. pp. 81–87. ISBN0-9529540-1-Ten.
8. ^ "The Ink Spots - Nosotros'll Meet Again - YouTube". Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 7 January 2021 – via YouTube.
9. ^ "Stephen & Friends: "We'll Come across Again"". Thecolbertreport.cc.com . Retrieved 19 Dec 2014.
10. ^ Thompson, Catherine (nineteen December 2014). "Hither's Every Cameo In The Epic Finale Of 'The Colbert Report'". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
11. ^ de Peyer, Robin (9 May 2015). "VE Mean solar day Concert Katherine Jenkins, Pixie Lott, Status Quo Lead Party". Standard.co.great britain . Retrieved 15 September 2020.
12. ^ Fane Saunders, Tristram (eighteen June 2020). "We'll Meet Again: how Vera Lynn's vocal inspired anybody from Kubrick to the Queen". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved fifteen September 2020.
13. ^ "Westworld Season 3 Trailer Breakup: Nosotros'll Meet Over again – Film". 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 February 2022.
16. ^ Hansen, Liane (29 May 2011). "Farewell From Host Liane Hansen". NPR. Retrieved xvi September 2020.
17. ^ "The Queen's coronavirus accost: 'We will meet again'". BBC News. 5 Apr 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
18. ^ Hewitt, Phil (24 April 2020). "Matriarch Vera Lynn promises United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland theatre volition thrive over again "some sunny day" – VIDEO". Littlehampton Gazette . Retrieved 24 April 2020.
19. ^ ^{a b} "Katherine Jenkins and Dame Vera Lynn's "We'll Run across 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 Again' to help elders". Queerty.com . Retrieved 24 Feb 2022.

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