WE'LL MEET AGAIN

THE INK SPOTS

Songwriter: ROSS PARKER & HUGHIE CHARLES

Country: u. s. a.

Album: THE INK SPOTS vol 2

Label: decca records

Genre: jazz

Year: 1949

The Ink Spots were an American pop vocal group who gained international fame in the 1930s and 1940s. Their unique musical style led to the rhythm and blues and rock and roll musical genres, and the subgenre doo-wop. The Ink Spots were widely accepted in both the white and black communities, largely due to the ballad style introduced to the group by lead Singer Bill Kenny.

In 1989, the Ink Spots (Bill Kenny, Deek Watson, Charlie Fuqua and Hoppy Jones) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and in 1999 they were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. Since the Ink Spots disbanded in 1954, there have been well over 100 vocal groups calling themselves "The Ink Spots" without any right to the name, and without any original members of the group. These groups often have claimed to be "2nd generation" or "3rd generation" Ink Spots.

"We'll Meet Again" is a 1939 British song made famous by singer Vera Lynn with music and lyrics composed and written by Ross Parker and Hughie Charles. The song is one of the most famous of the Second World War era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight and their families and sweethearts.

The song gave its name to the 1943 musical film We'll Meet Again in which Dame Vera Lynn played the lead role (see 1943 in music). Lynn's recording is featured in the final scene of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove, and was also used in the closing scenes of the 1986 BBC television serial The Singing Detective. British director John Schlesinger used the song in his 1979 World War II film, Yanks, which is about British citizens and American soldiers during the military buildup in the UK as the Allies prepared for the D-Day Invasion.

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when

But I'm sure we'll meet again some sunny day

Keep smiling through, just the way you used to do

Till the blue skies chase the dark clouds far away

Now, won't you please say "Hello" to the folks that I know

Tell 'em it won't be long

'cause they'd be happy to know that when you saw me go

I was singing this song

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when

But I'm sure we'll meet again some sunny day

MONOLOGUE: Yes, we'll meet again. Darlin', I don't know where and I don't know when. But

I KNOW we'll meet again one of these good ole sunshiny days. Ya know, darlin', all ya gotta

do is just keep on smilin' through you know just like you ALWAYS do, until the blue skies

chase the dark clouds far, far, far away. I wantcha to do me a favor, please say "Hello" to all

the folks that I know. Well, just tell 'em it won't be long. They'd be happy to know that when

you saw me go, I was standin' right here, singin' this song.

We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when

But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.

HAPPY TIMES

BOB CROSBY AND THE BOBCATS

SONGWRITER: SYLVIA FINE

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: BOB CROSBY AND THE BOBCATS

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

GENRE: BALLAD JAZZ

YEAR: 1956

George Robert Crosby (August 23, 1913 – March 9, 1993) was an American jazz singer and bandleader, known for his group the Bob-Cats.

"Happy Times" is a jazz ballad written by American lyricist Sylvia Fine. The song was originally created for and made in a appearance in the 1949 film The Inspector General, which was originally titled Happy Times. Bob Crosby performed the song with his group, the Bob-cats.

"Happy Times" was created as a ballad with small notes of jazz. The song was an original production by Sylvia Fine (along with two theatrical numbers, “Soliloquy for Three Heads” and “Medicine Show Number”) for the 1949 musical comedy The Inspector General. The song was performed by jazz musician Bob Crosby and his group the Bob-cats.

In 2008 Crosby's rendition of the song appeared as part of the soundtrack of Fallout 3. The song made a repeat appearance in Fallout 4 in 2015.

Wish on the moon

And look for the gold in a rainbow

And you'll find a happy time

You'll hear a tune

That lives in the heart of a bluebird

And you'll find a happy time

Though things may look very dark

Your dream is not in vein

For when do you find the rainbow?

Only after rain

So wish on the moon

And someday it may be tomorrow

You will suddenly hear chimes

And you'll have your happy, happy time

So wish on the moon

And someday it may be tomorrow

You will suddenly hear chimes

And you'll have your happy, happy time.

STRANGE FRUIT

BILLIE HOLIDAY

SONGWRITER: LEWIS ALLAN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: STRANGE FRUIT

LABEL: ATLANTIC RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1972

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills, which made up for her limited range and lack of formal music education.

After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in Harlem, where she was heard by the producer John Hammond, who commended her voice. She signed a recording contract with Brunswick Records in 1935. Collaborations with Teddy Wilson yielded the hit "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which became a jazz standard. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, Holiday had mainstream success on labels such as Columbia Records and Decca Records. By the late 1940s, however, she was beset with legal troubles and drug abuse. After a short prison sentence, she performed at a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, but her reputation deteriorated because of her drug and alcohol problems.

Strange Fruit" is a song performed most famously by Billie Holiday, who first sang and recorded it in 1939. Written by teacher Abel Meeropol as a poem and published in 1937, it protested American racism, particularly the lynching of African Americans. Such lynchings had reached a peak in the South at the turn of the century, but continued there and in other regions of the United States. According to the Tuskegee Institute, 1,953 Americans were murdered by lynching, about three quarters of them black. The lyrics are an extended metaphor linking a tree’s fruit with lynching victims. Meeropol set it to music and, with his wife and the singer Laura Duncan, performed it as a protest song in New York City venues in the late 1930s, including Madison Square Garden.

The song continues to be covered by numerous artists, including Nina Simone, UB40, Jeff Buckley, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Dee Dee Bridgewater and has inspired novels, other poems, and other creative works. In 1978, Holiday's version of the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. It was also included in the list of Songs of the Century, by the Recording Industry of America and the National Endowment for the Arts. Lyricist E. Y. Harburg referred to the song as a "historical document". It was also dubbed, "a declaration of war... the beginning of the civil rights movement" by record producer Ahmet Ertegun.

Southern trees bear strange fruit,

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,

Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,

Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,

The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,

Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,

Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,

For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,

For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,

Here is a strange and bitter crop.

LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY

DICK HAYMES & HELEN FORREST

SONGWRITERS: JEROME KERN & IRA GERSHWIN

COUNTRY: U. S. A.

ALBUM: LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY

LABEL: MCA RECORDS

GENRE: JAZZ

YEAR: 1983

"Long Ago (and Far Away)" is a popular song from the 1944 Technicolor film musical Cover Girl starring Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly and released by Columbia Pictures. The music was written by Jerome Kern, and the lyrics were written by Ira Gershwin. The song was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1944 but lost out to “Swinging on a Star”. The song was published in 1944 and sold over 600,000 copies in sheet music in a year. In 2004 it finished #92 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema.

In the film it is sung by Rita Hayworth (dubbed by Martha Mears) to Gene Kelly, and later briefly reprised by Jinx Falkenburg. Charting versions were recorded almost simultaneously by Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest, Bing Crosby, Jo Stafford, and Perry Como.

The Dick Haymes-Helen Forrest recording was released by Decca Records as catalog number 23317. The record first reached the Billboard magazine charts on April 27, 1944 and lasted 11 weeks on the chart, peaking at #2.

[Her]

Long ago and far away

I dreamed a dream one day

And now that dream is here beside me

Long the skies were overcast

But now the clouds have passed

You're here at last

Chills run up and down my spine

Aladdin's lamp is mine

The dream I dreamed was not denied me

Just one look and then I knew

That all I longed for long ago was you

[Him]

Long ago and far away

I dreamed a dream one day

And now that dream is here beside me

Long the skies were overcast

But now the clouds have passed

You're here at last

Chills run up and down my spine

Aladdin's lamp is mine

The dream I dreamed was not denied me

Just one look and then I knew

That all I longed for long ago was you

[Her]

Just one look and then I knew

[Him, with her humming along]

That all I longed for long ago

[Both)]

Was you..