The D-Day Darlings at the Black Country Museum July 2018

[@PaulBasso]

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.

[@youtubelover7411]

I know its a little late, but thank you and your Dad for your service!

[@isobellardner548]

yea the d day darlings are in America and I'm in the UK (big thanks to you and your dad!)

[@kpodgursky]

love the kid !!

[@KittyStarlight]

These girls can sing. 🎵🎶🎵 The little boy marching along with them is really cute too. 🧒

[@barrycaldwell5461]

Voted twice for these lovely Ladies on BGT,they should have had more votes and won

[@larrysintay4456]

Just like in the U S ...our yoots that control the voting know nothing of this music

[@KittyStarlight]

Exactly.

[@caroldickens3028]

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 😄♥️

[@thomasreading2653]

It is nice to see the kids are really enjoying them selves that is what is should be about.

[@angeladunn2906]

Love these girls!! Keep it going! Great old war songs!! Remember my mum singing these great songs to me as child. X

[@tiggerspal100]

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.

[@paulsouthwood859]

You girls bring me to tears thank you 😊

[@bonchance9241]

in Rememberance of All the Young Men of RAF Bomber Command (we remember you & love you still)

[@sethkimmel7312]

And the "mighty 8th", 8th Airforce, USAAF too...."we shall bomb them day and night"

[@kathriding5084]

Bon Chance my late father was a rear bomber in the Lancaster bombers

[@angelicwolf909]

Why would anyone want to down vote these ladies? Give 'em nine upvotes from me ... nope ... round it up to ten upvotes.

[@witchic]

the songs make me feel at home

[@brogannewton246]

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.

[@restyle100]

I think its the same lad who's seen dancing to another act here > kzbin.info/www/bejne/oXW0e5qglsaHqrc

[@angeladunn2906]

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

[@franktoledo9356]

That's spirit of time today the UK needs the same spirit Patriots of today.

[@porkscratchings5428]

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!

[@restyle100]

Thanks for such a nice story - your "auto cue for a long lost file" reference is both fascinating & understandable

[@KittyStarlight]

That is indeed a good story. 📖 Wow. 😮

[@angeladunn2906]

Brilliant brilliant brilliant!!!!!!

[@bteuben-faber8215]

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.

[@charlaville7658]

Beautiful - may this gorgeous music never die

[@mariannejadlowski3270]

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!

[@restyle100]

.... as long as you weren't being shot at or bombed!

[@josieflorence4014]

So talented ❤️

[@Lasuil]

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.

[@isobellardner548]

tell your grandma I said hi!

[@Lasuil]

@@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. 💔

[@ghostpanic]

These gals are awesome! x

[@christinejunecopple7155]

Love the day darlings love the child doing what the girls were doing

[@esmeraldagreen1992]

The kids are having so much fun dancing

[@marylenemorin9459]

I love them ... Beautiful voices. Angels of WWII in blue uniforms

[@h.p.oliver8666]

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!

[@angeladunn2906]

Very proud to be British! Proud great songs my mum sung to me as child! Thank you!!!

[@dorisharrison5101]

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.7176]

This little boy in front I'd how own show. Cute

[@paulshirley6383]

The D-Day Darlings love louis shiley

[@alexandraflavia6296]

Lindas como sempre ,admiro vcs de montão.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙋🏽‍♀️

[@YaboiSaddler]

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.

[@professorantoniocarlosalen6243]

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.

[@TSCLRJ1]

Lovely

[@euridicesacramentomariani6953]

Wonderful singers!

[@janjoynt3278]

Fabulous!!

[@martarose2559]

Awesome!

[@zivanikolin9510]

Bravo neka pobedi ljybav a ne rat.

[@restyle100]

Just uploaded the full 43 minute version of this performance - please excuse the wobbly camera bits - kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3e1iZ98nc-jpc0

[@randyhodder8186]

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...

[@oldhillbillyusa3384]

Wish they do other songs like hits of the 50s besides just war memory songs

[@robertsmyth4998]

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,

[@briansmaller7443]

My Dad was a D-Day Dodger. The D-Day Darlings are definitely easier on the eyes.

[@restyle100]

Not heard this phrase before, although Google says it references to Italian fighters. Would you care to elaborate & educate?

[@briansmaller7443]

@@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

[@briansmaller7443]

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/

[@restyle100]

@@briansmaller7443 Thanks - That was a really good read

[@restyle100]

@@briansmaller7443 Thanks for sharing, I never knew about this aspect of the war

[@restyle100]

Their 2019 performance at the BCLM uploaded here >> kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWTKaKmdgpZnhbc

[@1ltcap]

you should've brought that kid in the white shirt up on stage with you.

[@GregoryLancaster-rf7ce]

Up the wooden steps to Bedfordshire should have be more popular

[@restyle100]

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]

@@restyle100 no. It was recorded by Vera Lynn in the 1930s I believe

[@restyle100]

My mistake, I wasnt aware of that Vera Lynn version

[@Leland45028]

Would you think of singing '' the green fields of france '' ? the scots fought too.

[@restyle100]

I believe that song was written in 1976, whereas the D-Day Darlings only sing songs which were around in the 1940s

[@Leland45028]

@@restyle100 True but they would do a great job of it

[@Leland45028]

@@restyle100 The falklands war was in the eightys. war is timeless.

[@glorygracek.1841]

Where is the part where she dances?

[@restyle100]

At 9m18s >> kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnKmo2qblKujbbc

[@1joshjosh1]

Let's crush those goddamn krauts!!

[@restyle100]

....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)

[@abbeymclaren6778]

The uniforms are wrong

[@restyle100]

Possibly a tad on the "tight side", but I'll not lose any sleep