Some sunny day...

Interesting to read that Vera Lynn (now a Dame of course) may have been the "forces' sweetheart" in WWII but she was apparently initially anything but flavour of the month with the top brass or with many MPs and bureaucrats who thought that her sweet sentimental style of singing, and her choice of songs with lyrics emphasising the sadness of separation from loved ones (We'll meet again etc.) would have a detrimental effect on morale.  They would much rather have had someone with a strident voice singing "up-and-at-'em" songs.  Luckily it soon became apparent that she was in fact good for morale and even though "crooning" generally was frowned upon as an American "fad" (there was even, believe it or not, a crooning ban on the BBC at one point, though it didn't last long) she maintained her popularity and continues to do so to this day.