http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2003/09/vera-lynn-my-son-my-son/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:54:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2003/09/vera-lynn-my-son-my-son/#comment-397550 Keith W Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:07:02 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2003/09/vera-lynn-my-son-my-son/#comment-397550 The song isn't very good, but I think you're letting your 2003 view of Dame Vera colour your thinking on this one. She was only 37 here - she was younger than Frankie Laine, for example. If she got to number one now, you could chalk it up to Granny Power, but back then this was surely just the kind of stuff that people bought. The song isn’t very good, but I think you’re letting your 2003 view of Dame Vera colour your thinking on this one. She was only 37 here - she was younger than Frankie Laine, for example. If she got to number one now, you could chalk it up to Granny Power, but back then this was surely just the kind of stuff that people bought.

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