Vera Lynn’s daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, reacts to hearing her audition tapes for the first time

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The first ever audition tapes recorded by National Treasure, Dame Vera Lynn, have been unearthed at the British Library in London.

When Dame Vera Lynn’s daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, recently moved house, she donated the entire collection of her mother’s records, which had been carefully and lovingly stored for years, to the British Library’s Sound Archive. Archivists have been sorting through the extensive collection of discs and tapes with a fine-tooth comb ever since.

Amongst the records, the singer’s first ever pressed disc was found: 'It's Home' recorded in 1935 with bandleader and trumpeter Howard Baker (who spotted Vera Lynn performing in 1933 and invited her to join his band). The song has never been widely available before, with only a small run of 100 copies pressed.

Stored together with this disc, tucked into the same paper record sleeve, a set of three silver-coloured aluminium master discs were discovered. Two 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. Using specialist equipment, musicology experts at the British Library were able to listen to these masters and identify them as the audition tapes.