The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #26507   Message #319640
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
16-Oct-00 - 06:02 AM
Thread Name: Vera Lynn - where are you?
Subject: RE: Vera Lynn - where are you?
Glad you like Nightingale CB, it's ann oddly powwerful song. There's a film, or maybe it's a story I read, where there's an injured pilot in a damaged warplane singing it over the intercom to the girl in the control tower, as he's trying to make it home, only he doesn't quite manage to finish it. That's the feeling it has for me.

Another one which you might look for is "Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer". But I couldn't find that.

Harlow - we are on the border between Essex and Hertfordshire, in England, on the Essex side, but with more natural links to Herts. Here is a councio websirte with pictures and so forth. We're looked down upon by our neighbours because we're a "New TOwn" built in the years after the war.and here's a song I wrote about it