I love the fact that you ladies not only love to sing WW1 and WW2 songs, but you're not embarrassed to wear uniforms from the 1940s. My dad and I used to sing a lot of the WW1 songs that you very rarely hear today and we loved to share them at the VA Hospital in Portland, Oregon, where I used to live. I joined the US Navy in 1972 as an aircraft mechanic and on occasion would break out the WW1 songs on base of on board the ships. But my dad and I never sang them as a duet again. I don't remember why but it haunts me to this day. He was in the US Army in the Central Pacific (mainly New Guinea), was shot and captured by the Japanese and was released when the US Army freed the POW camp he was in. My dad passed away one week before his 72nd birthday, due to heart health issues. I sure miss his singing, especially the old Hawaiian songs him and my mom would sing, and his dancing the old hula style, where the men danced with one arm and the women danced with both. I'd love to spend time singing with your group. I think it would be great to learn new (old) songs. Unfortunately, I live on the west coast of the United States, which is a long way to drive to where you are. Just keep up the good work.
@youtubelover74113 жыл бұрын
I know its a little late, but thank you and your Dad for your service!
@isobellardner5483 жыл бұрын
yea the d day darlings are in America and I'm in the UK (big thanks to you and your dad!)
@kpodgursky5 жыл бұрын
love the kid !!
@KittyStarlight Жыл бұрын
These girls can sing. 🎵🎶🎵 The little boy marching along with them is really cute too. 🧒
@barrycaldwell54615 жыл бұрын
Voted twice for these lovely Ladies on BGT,they should have had more votes and won
@larrysintay44564 жыл бұрын
Just like in the U S ...our yoots that control the voting know nothing of this music
@KittyStarlight Жыл бұрын
Exactly.
@caroldickens30284 жыл бұрын
Love the d day darlings 💕 but can not take my eyes of the young lad at the front who is really enjoying all the songs 😄♥️
@thomasreading26535 жыл бұрын
It is nice to see the kids are really enjoying them selves that is what is should be about.
@angeladunn29065 жыл бұрын
Love these girls!! Keep it going! Great old war songs!! Remember my mum singing these great songs to me as child. X
@tiggerspal1004 жыл бұрын
I was there at this performance - in front of hundreds I was in tears. Happy tears because they are celebrating those that served and those that lost there loved ones.
@paulsouthwood8595 жыл бұрын
You girls bring me to tears thank you 😊
@bonchance92415 жыл бұрын
in Rememberance of All the Young Men of RAF Bomber Command (we remember you & love you still)
@sethkimmel73124 жыл бұрын
And the "mighty 8th", 8th Airforce, USAAF too...."we shall bomb them day and night"
@kathriding50844 жыл бұрын
Bon Chance my late father was a rear bomber in the Lancaster bombers
@angelicwolf9094 жыл бұрын
Why would anyone want to down vote these ladies? Give 'em nine upvotes from me ... nope ... round it up to ten upvotes.
@witchic5 жыл бұрын
the songs make me feel at home
@brogannewton2463 жыл бұрын
I love the little lad in the flat cap doing his best to mimic the darlings. Just wonderful. They should have brought him onto the the stage. He was loving it.
@restyle1003 жыл бұрын
I think its the same lad who's seen dancing to another act here > kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXW0e5qglsaHqrc
@angeladunn29064 жыл бұрын
Thank you girls!!! I'm going to try and take great and beautiful music to my day care centre!!!!! In Scotland!!! Thank you so much for your beautiful talant!! God bless you all!!! .xxxxx
@franktoledo93565 жыл бұрын
That's spirit of time today the UK needs the same spirit Patriots of today.
@porkscratchings54285 жыл бұрын
How lovely! Nice singing! I showed this to my nan and her friend, they are both in their mid 90’s and they sang word for word most of the songs here, it was like an auto cue for a long lost file in their brain that just opened up, totally amazing! Thank you for showing this!
@restyle1005 жыл бұрын
Thanks for such a nice story - your "auto cue for a long lost file" reference is both fascinating & understandable
@KittyStarlight Жыл бұрын
That is indeed a good story. 📖 Wow. 😮
@angeladunn29065 жыл бұрын
Brilliant brilliant brilliant!!!!!!
@bteuben-faber82153 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making & sharing this! We still remember grateful all the men who served in the army by D-day and 1945 🌷 Lots of love from Holland.
@charlaville76584 жыл бұрын
Beautiful - may this gorgeous music never die
@mariannejadlowski32703 жыл бұрын
I am so intrigued by this group. I am close to 70 years old but I always felt I was born at least 25 years too late. I love the music and fashion of the 40s. While I don't think I would have enjoyed the rationing, I think I would have enjoyed the vibe of those days. Women came into their own as they took the place of men in factories and offices. There were lots of handsome officers around at any given time. Music was fantastic with the big bands and the amazing vocalists. What a time to be alive!
@restyle1003 жыл бұрын
.... as long as you weren't being shot at or bombed!
@josieflorence40145 жыл бұрын
So talented ❤️
@Lasuil5 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this recording, my grandma loves it. I hope she will still be alive when they tour again as she would love to see them. She has bad dementia but remembers all the words to these songs.
@isobellardner5483 жыл бұрын
tell your grandma I said hi!
@Lasuil3 жыл бұрын
@@isobellardner548 thanks but I lost her in late 2019. However these types of videos kept her and I both going as she loved to sing and dance to them. Dementia takes so much but the music memory stays. 💔
@ghostpanic5 жыл бұрын
These gals are awesome! x
@christinejunecopple71553 жыл бұрын
Love the day darlings love the child doing what the girls were doing
@esmeraldagreen19925 жыл бұрын
The kids are having so much fun dancing
@marylenemorin94593 жыл бұрын
I love them ... Beautiful voices. Angels of WWII in blue uniforms
@h.p.oliver86663 жыл бұрын
See the young man in the newsboy cap down in front of the stage? He's getting a history lesson every kid should receive. If they did, we might have more generations between wars, which seems like a worthy goal. Up and at 'em, son!
@angeladunn29063 жыл бұрын
Very proud to be British! Proud great songs my mum sung to me as child! Thank you!!!
@dorisharrison51014 жыл бұрын
Great performance. I saw some of you at the HMV store Workington, made my day and such lovely ladies. Next time your in the area ill be there cheering you on. xx
@annm.71765 жыл бұрын
This little boy in front I'd how own show. Cute
@paulshirley6383 Жыл бұрын
The D-Day Darlings love louis shiley
@alexandraflavia62965 жыл бұрын
Lindas como sempre ,admiro vcs de montão.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙋🏽♀️
@YaboiSaddler3 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this, sitting on the grass with my cone of chips (fries) with my family. Before this mess. God I love the 1940s events around England.
@professorantoniocarlosalen62434 жыл бұрын
Churchil dared to lead England to bravely resist alone against evil nazism Germany until The power and might of US joined the hard fight. What a moment and what a lasting lesson of faith in justice, sacrifice and honor for the good and on behalf of mankind.
@TSCLRJ12 жыл бұрын
Lovely
@euridicesacramentomariani69533 жыл бұрын
Wonderful singers!
@janjoynt32782 жыл бұрын
Fabulous!!
@martarose2559 Жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@zivanikolin95102 жыл бұрын
Bravo neka pobedi ljybav a ne rat.
@restyle1003 жыл бұрын
Just uploaded the full 43 minute version of this performance - please excuse the wobbly camera bits - kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3e1iZ98nc-jpc0
@randyhodder81862 жыл бұрын
My dream...to marry ...a D-day darling....I support the gals 110 percent and their fantastic patriotism...I could only imagine having a wife to talk history with and build SPITFIRES AND FOCKEWULF 190 models with....best dream I can imagine...
@oldhillbillyusa33845 жыл бұрын
Wish they do other songs like hits of the 50s besides just war memory songs
@robertsmyth49984 жыл бұрын
Oldhillbilly USA , or More Than A Name On A Wall, only 20 years old , recently covered by The Petersen Family from Missouri , the lady in the centre Katie Ashby lives about 20 minutes from The National Memorial Arbouretum, where there’s a wall with the names of the fallen since WW11, would love to see the Ladies sing it there,
@briansmaller74433 жыл бұрын
My Dad was a D-Day Dodger. The D-Day Darlings are definitely easier on the eyes.
@restyle1003 жыл бұрын
Not heard this phrase before, although Google says it references to Italian fighters. Would you care to elaborate & educate?
@briansmaller74433 жыл бұрын
@@restyle100 D-Day Dodgers was the name given to the soldiers fighting in Italy. THey were the forgotten soldiers fighting a campaign that was glossed over once D-Day and the invasion of Western Europe began. Whether Yank, Pom, Canadian, Indian or Kiwi (like my Dad) they felt somewhat forgotten. You may have heard this song. I am not sure it was true but the phrase was attributed to Lady Aster. Dad wanted this as one of his funeral songs. They wore the name 'D-Day Dodger' with pride. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oInPkKuwpq6Fnc0
@briansmaller74433 жыл бұрын
You might like to look at these photos of my father 1944. woolshedwargamer.com/2014/05/17/lcpl-brian-smaller-633301-22-infantry-batn-2nzef/
@restyle1003 жыл бұрын
@@briansmaller7443 Thanks - That was a really good read
@restyle1003 жыл бұрын
@@briansmaller7443 Thanks for sharing, I never knew about this aspect of the war
@restyle1005 жыл бұрын
Their 2019 performance at the BCLM uploaded here >> kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWTKaKmdgpZnhbc
@1ltcap3 жыл бұрын
you should've brought that kid in the white shirt up on stage with you.
@GregoryLancaster-rf7ce Жыл бұрын
Up the wooden steps to Bedfordshire should have be more popular
@restyle100 Жыл бұрын
I think it was called " Up the Wooden Hills to Bedfordshire" - but as it was first recorded by the Small Faces in the 1960s, its a bit too late for the Darlings.
@GregoryLancaster-rf7ce Жыл бұрын
@@restyle100 no. It was recorded by Vera Lynn in the 1930s I believe
@restyle100 Жыл бұрын
My mistake, I wasnt aware of that Vera Lynn version
@Leland450285 жыл бұрын
Would you think of singing '' the green fields of france '' ? the scots fought too.
@restyle1005 жыл бұрын
I believe that song was written in 1976, whereas the D-Day Darlings only sing songs which were around in the 1940s
@Leland450285 жыл бұрын
@@restyle100 True but they would do a great job of it
@Leland450285 жыл бұрын
@@restyle100 The falklands war was in the eightys. war is timeless.
@glorygracek.18415 жыл бұрын
Where is the part where she dances?
@restyle1005 жыл бұрын
At 9m18s >> kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnKmo2qblKujbbc
@1joshjosh13 жыл бұрын
Let's crush those goddamn krauts!!
@restyle1003 жыл бұрын
....that long forgotten Vera Lynn classic - I believe it was a B-Side to the one about Hitler's Cryptorchidism affliction (although the Albert Hall insisted they never had anything to do with it)
@abbeymclaren67783 жыл бұрын
The uniforms are wrong
@restyle1003 жыл бұрын
Possibly a tad on the "tight side", but I'll not lose any sleep