Among her numerous popular songs are Well Meet Again and The White Cliffs of Dover.She was considered one of the major entertainers during World War II.
Lynn was born Vera Margaret Welch on 20 March 1917 in East Ham, London. Later she adopted her grandmothers maiden name Lynn as her stage name. She began singing at the age of seven in a working mens club. Her first radio broadcast, with the Joe Loss Orchestra, was in 1935. Lynn married clarinetist and saxophonist Harry Lewis in 1939, the year World War II broke out. In 1940 she began her own radio series, Sincerely Yours, sending messages to British troops stationed abroad. In this show she and a quartet performed the songs most requested of her by soldiers abroad. She also went into hospitals to interview new mothers and send messages to their husbands overseas. In 1942 she recorded the Ross ParkerHughie Charles song Well Meet Again whilst making the film of the same name. Lynns career flourished in the 1950s, peaking with My Son, My Son, a number-one hit in 1954. Lynn (who had one daughter) co-wrote the song with Eddie Calvert. In early 1960, Lynn left Decca Records, with whom she had been for nearly 25 years, and joined EMI. Lynn, then 78, decided to go out on a high as this is her last known public performance.In 2002, at the age of 85 she became the president of the cerebral palsy charity SOS and hosted a celebrity concert on its behalf at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. If you are one of the artists and not happy with your work being posted here please contact us so we can remove it.
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