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While in the United Kingdom the song was made famous by Vera Lynn and sung by her to troops during the war, in the United States, "The White Cliffs of Dover" was first recorded by the Glenn Miller Orchestra in late 1941. Miller's version placed 10th in Billboard's Popularity Chart for the week ending Dec. 26, 1941, which was just 19 days after ...
The song included the line "Wandering I am lost, as I travel along the White Cliffs of Dover." The 1941 song "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover" is a popular World War II song composed by Walter Kent to lyrics by Nat Burton. It was made famous by Vera Lynn's 1942 version. The White Cliffs have long been a landmark for sailors.
"Cliffs of Dover" is an instrumental rock composition by the American guitarist, singer and songwriter Eric Johnson, released on his 1990 studio album Ah Via Musicom. Johnson had performed it as early as 1984.
Following Lynn's death, Jenkins began campaigning to erect a statue of her by the White Cliffs of Dover, a reference to one of her signature songs "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover". [138] Jenkins and Lynn's death established the Dame Vera Lynn Memorial Trust and selected sculptor Paul Day to design the memorial.
Preceding his death in 1989, Kent journeyed to Kent, England (the Anglo-Saxon namesake of his adopted surname) to view the cliffs of Dover.At the time of his visit, he donated an original manuscript of the song "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover" and participated in the preliminary stages of planning a war commemoration tourist center.
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The White Cliffs of Dover in the southeast of the United Kingdom "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover", a popular World War II song; The White Cliffs of Dover, a 1944 American film; White Cliffs, New South Wales, an opal-mining town in Australia White Cliffs Solar Power Station, the town's main source of electricity between ...
The White Cliffs of Dover is a 1944 American war drama film based on the verse novel The White Cliffs by Alice Duer Miller.It was made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, directed by Clarence Brown, and produced by Clarence Brown and Sidney Franklin.