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Vera as you've never heard her...unknown!
Daily Express
|August 15, 2025
Audition songs of Forces' Sweetheart to be released
DAME Vera Lynn's audition records will be released for the first time — 90 years after they were recorded.
They were found when daughter Virginia Lewis-Jones donated her mother's music collection to the British Library's Sound Archive.
Along with the aluminium audition discs, labelled by hand with the titles What A Difference A Day Makes and Spring Don't Mean A Thing To Me, Dame Vera's first record, It's Home, made in 1935, was discovered.
Wonderful
Produced after bandleader Howard Baker invited Dame Vera to sing in 1933, it is one of just 100 copies to be pressed.
Ms Lewis-Jones said: "It's so wonderful to hear ma's voice from those early days, right at the start of her career.
This story is from the August 15, 2025 edition of Daily Express.
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