We'll Meet Again - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Benny Goodman covered this song with Peggy Lee in 1942.
• The Byrds recorded the song as the closing track on their debut album Mr. Tambourine Man in 1965, inspired by the song's use in the film Dr. Strangelove.
• Johnny Cash covered this song in his 2002 album American IV: The Man Comes Around and is used in the beginning of the 2010 remake of The Crazies.
• In 1972, P. J. Proby recorded a power-ballad rendition of the song. It was released by the EMI Group as Proby's last single for his recording contract.
• Jim Capaldi recorded a brief selection of the song in 1974, which appears as a hidden track on his album Whale Meat Again.
• Barry Manilow covered this song on his Barry Live in Britain album.
• Pink Floyd makes reference to this song and the performer in "Vera", in a song from their album The Wall: "Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?/Remember how she said that we would meet again some sunny day?". A short clip of "We'll Meet Again" can also be heard at the beginning of the first track on the Pink Floyd album Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81.
• The final scene of the last episode of the 1997 animated superhero comedy Freakazoid! features the cast singing this song at the Hollywood Bowl.
• Jim Keats sings the song in the series finale of Ashes to Ashes.
• Traditionally, this song is played on May 5 as a closure to the Liberation Day Concert in Amsterdam, to mark the end of World War II in the Netherlands, as HM Queen Beatrix leaves the concert on a canal boat.
• In The Simpsons episode Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming, Sideshow Bob whistles the song as he sets up a Cold War Era nuclear bomb in a US Airbase. The song is also used at the end of the episode At Long Last Leave.
• On her last radio show, NPR host Liane Hansen quoted the song in her farewell address to listeners.
• German actress Franka Potente sings this song in the movie "The Sinking of the Laconia" (2011).
• In The Muppets Go To The Movies, the title characters, with Dudley Moore and Lily Tomlin, sing the song at the end.
• The song appear on the first episode of the documentary "The Beatles Anthology", during the footage of the Beatles members when they were children.
• A part of the song plays at the end of the Futurama episode "A Big Piece of Garbage", when the credits are being shown.
• The song plays as part of the music loop of the The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attractions at numerous Disney parks.
• Episode 4 of the 5th season of HBO's True Blood is entitled "We'll Meet Again". A cover of the song plays during the end credits.
• Joe Henry covered the song on his 1999 album, Fuse.
• In the movie Hellboy, during Professor Broom's confrontation with Rasputin, a recording of Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" plays in the background (according to the closed-captioning).
• Early in the movie The Ides of March, Bob Mervak is briefly shown singing the song at Cliff Bell’s, a Detroit jazz club.