{"product_id":"vera-lynn-vera-lynn-hidden-treasures-the-very-best-of","title":"Vera Lynn - Vera Lynn: Hidden Treasures (The Very Best Of)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Dame Vera Lynn’s daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, recently moved out of the family home – the house in Ditchling, East Sussex, where Dame Vera Lynn had lived with her husband, the saxophonist and clarinettist Harry Lewis, for nearly 40 years – she donated the entire collection of her mother’s records to The British Library.\u003cbr\u003eArchivists have been sorting through the extensive collection of discs and tapes with a fine-tooth comb ever since.\u003cbr\u003eAmongst these records, a set of three silver-coloured aluminium master discs were discovered.\u003cbr\u003eTwo of the discs are labelled by hand with the song titles, 'What a Difference a Day Makes' and 'Spring Don't Mean a Thing to Me' and the other is unlabelled.\u003cbr\u003eUsing specialist equipment, musicology experts at the British Library were able to listen to these masters and identify them as audition tapes, confirming that these are the first recordings in existence of a voice that went on to become one of the most recognisable, reassuring and beloved voices in the history of music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe new discoveries have been compiled together with a selection of Dame Vera Lynn’s greatest hits, rarities, duets and new mixes of beloved classics in a 3CD collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"DECCA","offers":[{"title":"CD Set","offer_id":53206971154759,"sku":"TRI-68130","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0931\/9779\/5655\/files\/2b5af83beb3ecb8b06fe965f8076827e.webp?v=1769377027","url":"https:\/\/towerrecords.ie\/products\/vera-lynn-vera-lynn-hidden-treasures-the-very-best-of","provider":"Tower Records Dublin Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}