BBC News, South East
Dame Vera Lynn’s audition record is to be released for the first time, for the first time after 90 years, when they were first recorded.
The first record of the late singer was discovered when her daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, donated her mother’s record collection to the Sound Archive of the British Library.
The donation was made when she went out of her house in East Sussex, where Dame Vera lived with her husband Harry Lewis for 40 years.
With three silver aluminum auditions records, which are hand -labeled, a copy of Dame Vera’s first record, It’s home, was recorded in 1935 with the bandelder Howard Baker in 1935.
Trumptor Baker recorded Dame Vera to join his band in 1933, the first record is only one of the 100 copies.
Virginia said: “It is very amazing to hear Ma’s voice from those early days, at the beginning of her career.
“I always felt that it would be worth searching, so I am fully thrilled that the audition tape we have never heard can now be brought into life, and add it significantly to what we already know about MA.”
Getty imagesThe audition disc will be released by Deka, with a difference in which a difference is a difference that releases the 80th anniversary of VJ Day on Friday as a single to mark.
Next unheard and rare tracks will be included in a new album called Hidden Treasers on one of the new albums, which will be released on 7 November.
Dame Vera made her name during World War II, when her Russian songs like we would meet again, (there will be on Bluebords) Dover’s white rocks and always England, she got the fate of affectionate name forces.
His last studio album, unforgettable, was released in 2010.
She died in June 2020, at the age of 103, she became the oldest artist holding the top 40 albums in the UK in May that year, with the biggest hit album 100.
