Vera Lynn - Vera Lynn - Hidden Treasures - The Very Best Of [3CD]

Format: 3 x CD
Catalogue No.: 7891206
Barcode: 602478912061
Release Date: 28 Nov 2025
Genre: Pop

When Dame Vera Lynn’s daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, recently moved out of the family home – the house in Ditchling, East Sussex, where Dame Vera Lynn had lived with her husband, the saxophonist and clarinettist Harry Lewis, for nearly 40 years – she donated the entire collection of her mother’s records to The British Library. Archivists have been sorting through the extensive collection of discs and tapes with a fine-tooth comb ever since. Amongst these records, a set of three silver-coloured aluminium master discs were discovered. Two of the discs are labelled by hand with the song titles, 'What a Difference a Day Makes' and 'Spring Don't Mean a Thing to Me' and the other is unlabelled. Using specialist equipment, musicology experts at the British Library were able to listen to these masters and identify them as audition tapes, confirming that these are the first recordings in existence of a voice that went on to become one of the most recognisable, reassuring and beloved voices in the history of music.

CCD1
We'll Meet Again
There'll Be Bluebirds Over The White Cliffs Of Dover
What A Difference A Day Makes
Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye
Auf Weiderseh'n Sweetheart
As Time Goes By
When You Wish Upon A Star
A Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square
Sailing
From The Time You Say Goodbye
Dream
Wishing (Will Make it So)
Travellin' Home
Harbour Lights
When I Grow Too Old To Dream
How Green Was My Valley
Home Sweet Home

CD2
It's Home
Spring Don't Mean A Thing
I Hate Myself (For Being So Mean To You)
It's A Lovely Day, Tomorrow
When The Lights Go On Again
You'll Never Know
Faraway Places
Yours
I'll Pray For You
The Bell's Of St Mary's
Close to You
Goodnight Children, Everywhere
I Hear A Dream
Shine On Harvest Moon
The Woodpecker Song
Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat
White Christmas

CD3
What A Difference A Day Makes
Vera Lynn Selected
Home
Spring Don't Mean A Thing
I Hate Myself (For Being So Mean To You)
When You Wish Upon A Star (feat Cynthia Erivo)
(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs Of Dover (feat Alexander Armstrong)
Auf Weiderseh'n Sweetheart (version)
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (version)