Dame Vera Lynn Tops Itune Charts With Land Of Hope And Glory

[burlyshirley]

Will BBC have to play it now when they play the chart hits every week ?

[ToraToraTora]

yep allenlondon that tells me all I need to know about you.

[naomi24]

Royal Ascot is now considering axing Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia from its traditional sing-along.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8668239/Now-Queens-favourite-sporting-event-Royal-Ascot-considers-axing-Rule-Britannia-singalong.html

The madness gathers 'momentum'.... a bit of a play on words there perhaps.

[ichkeria]

My earliest memory is of - I think - DLT counting down the Top Twenty, with Johnny Walker taking over to do the last bit. Which always struck me as unfair on DLT :-)
And by the time Tom Browne did the chart show on Sunday it was five days old.
Yes the “Charts” are a bit of an anachronism now. There are more exciting things to grab kids’ attention now.
Apart from the - to me - baffling obsession with the Christmas No 1

[naomi24]

//Hope & Glory? Freedom?//

Yes, Allen … yours and mine. To paraphrase John Maxwell Edmunds, 'For our tomorrow they gave their today’. Without their sacrifice you would not have the privilege you now enjoy - and yes, we should celebrate that not least in remembrance of them.

[youngmafbog]

Dont mention privilege Naomi you will set off the liberal left on a protest :-)

[allenlondon]

TT. Never made a secret of it. Pro-soldiers, anti-war. Not a difficult dualism - IF you think about it.

MFB Wassis ‘liberal left’? Have you dropped LibFac?

[Peter Pedant]

// thanks Lanks that always makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and brings me out in goosebumps.//

oh you soppy thing !
and yet there are people on AB where Nothing makes them er go bump in the night - or stirs them or excites them

true british sang fwaa- - - pun intended

[Peter Pedant]

// MFB Wassis ‘liberal left’? Have you dropped LibFac?//

never ! never ! he writes .... he is entranced by libfac = --- enslaved by it even
for ever !

[gulliver1]

How about "They'll always be an England" While Boris is on holiday in Scotland.

[burlyshirley]

Blimey, I started something with this, didn't I ??

naomi 10:21 - couldn't agree more, this madness knows no bounds !

[ichkeria]

"Blimey, I started something with this, didn't I ?? "

Well it's good of you to own up, everyone's been blaming the poor old BBC ...

[burlyshirley]

Haha..

[fiction-factory]

Not a bad effort but reached number 17 in full week UK chart out last night. Will have peaked now unfortunately.

[douglas9401]

Black lyrics matter.

[fiction-factory]

Okay, my link to this week's actual number one single WAP by Cardi B was removed. Just shows how crude and or racist someone agreed that the Cardi B lyrics are. Such a contrast from Vera Lynn but we know which gets the airplay