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.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.We'll Meet Again

Vera Lynn

2.There'll Be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover

Vera Lynn

3.What a Difference a Day Makes

Vera Lynn

4.Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye

Vera Lynn

5.Auf Weiderseh'n Sweetheart

Vera Lynn

6.As Time Goes By

Vera Lynn

7.When You Wish Upon a Star

Vera Lynn

8.A Nightingale Sang in Berkley Square

Vera Lynn

9.Sailing

Vera Lynn

10.From the Time You Say Goodbye

Vera Lynn

11.Dream

Vera Lynn

12.Wishing (Will Make It So)

Vera Lynn

13.Travellin' Home

Vera Lynn

14.Harbour Lights

Vera Lynn

15.When I Grow Too Old to Dream

Vera Lynn

16.How Green Was My Valley

Vera Lynn

17.Home Sweet Home

Vera Lynn

Disc 2

Track name

Artist

1.It's Home

Vera Lynn

2.Spring Don't Mean a Thing

Vera Lynn

3.I Hate Myself (For Being So Mean to You)

Vera Lynn

4.It's a Lovely Day, Tomorrow

Vera Lynn

5.When the Lights Go On Again

Vera Lynn

6.You'll Never Know

Vera Lynn

7.Faraway Places

Vera Lynn

8.Yours

Vera Lynn

9.I'll Pray for You

Vera Lynn

10.The Bell's of St Mary's

Vera Lynn

11.Close to You

Vera Lynn

12.Goodnight Children, Everywhere

Vera Lynn

13.I Hear a Dream

Vera Lynn

14.Shine On Harvest Moon

Vera Lynn

15.The Woodpecker Song

Vera Lynn

16.Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat

Vera Lynn

17.White Christmas

Vera Lynn

Disc 3

Track name

Artist

1.What a Difference a Day Makes (Original)

Vera Lynn

2.Vera Lynn Selected (Original)

Vera Lynn

3.Home (Original)

Vera Lynn

4.Spring Don't Mean a Thing (Original)

Vera Lynn

5.I Hate Myself (For Being So Mean to You) [original]

Vera Lynn

6.When You Wish Upon a Star (Feat. Cynthia Erivo)

Vera Lynn

7.(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) the White Cliffs of Dover (Feat. Alexander Armstrong)

Vera Lynn

8.Auf Weiderseh'n Sweetheart (2017 Version)

Vera Lynn

9.I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (2017 Version)

Vera Lynn

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