I’ve been on a little break this week but thought I should come back for a little Sunday music. I thought that since this was the final one for the year that we end with a song that is associated with endings, We’ll Meet Again. Most of us probably know it mainly from the end of Stanley Kubrick‘s great satire Dr, Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb when it was played as Major ‘King’ Kong, played by Slim Pickens rode a nuclear warhead like a bucking bronc to begin our ultimate destruction.
The version played in that film was recorded by Britain’s Dame Vera Lynn in 1939 and became, for obvious reasons, one of the most popular songs for British soldiers and their loved ones during World War II. It has had an enduring legacy, most recently used on the finale of The Colbert Report when a huge assemblage of famous guests sang it to end the show.
I am using my favorite version by Johnny Cash from his final album American IV: The Man Comes Around. He recorded this album right up to the very end of his life and this was one of his final songs from those final days. The voice is tired and strained at times but the sentiment of the song glows in this version. It fits the situation perfectly.
I probably will post before year’s end but if for some reason you don’t check back, have a wonderful New Year. I am looking forward to 2015 and what it might bring.
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