To Think That The Number One Song Is Awful?!

[BrandyandBabycham]

I think Captain Tom is an inspiration & the amount of money he’s raised is phenomenal. However, the song with Michael Ball is really not good. It would be ok if Tom could sing but he can’t & he’s not even in sync with Michael. It will probably make a great deal more money, which is great, but enough is enough.

It has long been sung by Liverpool fans. For decades. Most people in England associate it with them. I think the association with other clubs is much weaker and I cannot really see why it was chosen for this no 1 song given the Hillsborough tragedy. It’s associate with LFC full stop. There are other songs that could have been used.

No. It wasn’t performed in the 30s or during the war!!! FFS!!!

@BubblesBuddy it’s from Carousel. Unless you follow football, why would anyone now LFC sing it ? Not everyone gives a shit about Liverpool 😂

I thought everyone knew LFC sing it and I live nowhere near Liverpool and I don’t even like football. LFC were first, others followed!

Captain Toms achievement is amazing.

The song, horrific.

@EmpressMcSchnozzle

The song has become something of a football anthem. There are some fabulous versions of it out there.

As the Bradford City fire was on 11th May, the last home game of that season 84-85, it is always played / sang along to, at the last home game of the current season along with a minute's silence. I am usually an emotional cripple, but in that atmosphere, to hear thousands of people singing along to it, and to remember the reason why we re singing it, brings tears to my eyes and makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

Michael Ball's version definitely does not have this affect on me.

I know perfectly well it was written for Carousel by Rogers and Hammerstein! I also know it was revived by Gerry and the Pacemakers in the 1960s and adopted by LFC. I was around at the time and obviously my general knowledge is formed by that. Posters must have had very sheltered lives if they don’t know this as one of the greatest songs associated with a football club. Millions watch and follow football in this country and millions have followed the news about the Hillsborough tragedy where Liverpool fans singing this song has been a tradition to mark that sad event. It’s really is common knowledge that this is the case. I don’t care that much about Liverpool but I know the history of the song and it just wasn’t the right one for this single.

I didn’t know it was sung at Bradford City but that was an awful tragedy too. It’s a song that means so much to football fans isn’t it?

It’s associate with LFC full stop. Nope. You didn't watch my Celtic video, did you.

Celtic didn’t adopt it first! Honestly. They don’t have the history of it. This is what the Guardian has to say on the subject.

Celtic didn’t adopt it first! I know But it's now part of their tradition.

Patronising rubbish

the song, I mean! YANBU

actually I think there is something sinister in the "selling back to us" of our admiration for this old man in the form of cheesy music. It's all of a piece with the "carer" badges and the "it doesn't discriminate" nonsense...

It’s only “sold” if there are buyers. There seem to be plenty who see it as a charitable way of giving more to the nhs. I expect he could have read a poem and it might well have raided money too.

I haven't heard it, but I already know it's bad for ALL the reasons, which is why I voted YANBU.

What does that have to do with anything?

The song is fucking dire and I'm sure Michael Ball is just using it as a chance to get himself back into the limelight.

The money is not going to the NHS, it is going to NHS charities which is different.

We'll Meet Again" (AKA: We’ll Be Together Again) is a 1939 British song made famous by singer Vera Lynn with music and lyrics composed and written by English songwriters Ross Parker and Hughie Charles. The song was published by Michael Ross Limited, whose directors included Louis Carris, Ross Parker and Norman Keen. Norman Keen, an English pianist also collaborated with Ross Parker and Hughie Charles on "We’ll Meet Again" and many other songs published by the company including "There'll Always Be an England" and "I’m In Love For The Last Time". The song is one of the most famous of the Second World War era, and resonated with soldiers going off to fight as well as their families and sweethearts.

The song gave its name to the 1943 musical film We'll Meet Again in which Dame Vera Lynn played the lead role (see 1943 in music). Lynn's recording is featured in the final scene of Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove - with a bitter irony, as the song accompanies a nuclear holocaust which wipes out humanity. It was also used in the closing scenes of the 1986 BBC television serial The Singing Detective. British director John Schlesinger used the song in his 1979 World War II film Yanks, which is about British citizens and American soldiers during the military buildup in the UK as the Allies prepare for the D-Day Invasion.

During the Cold War, Lynn's recording was included in the package of music and programmes held in 20 underground radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS), designed to provide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a nuclear attack.[1] The song reached #29 on the U.S. charts. Lynn sang the song in London on the 60th Anniversary of VE Day in 2005.

Get your facts right before ranting!

We'll meet again
Don't know where
Don't know when
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day
Keep smiling through
Just like you always do
'Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away
So will you please say hello
To the folks that I know
Tell them I won't be long
They'll be happy to know
That as you saw me go
I was singing this song
We'll meet again
Don't know where
Don't know when
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day
We'll meet again
Don't know where
Don't know when
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day
Keep smiling through
Just like you always do
'Til the blue skies
Drive the dark clouds far away
So will you please say hello
To the folks that I know
Tell them it won't be long
They'll be happy to know
That as you saw me go
I was singin' this song
We'll meet again
Don't know where
Don't know when
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day

To me and many others this song is a reminder of how much we miss our families during lockdown and is wholly appropriate at this time.