My Son, My Son 
Vera Lynn 
  
Words & Music by Ross Parker & Hughie Charles
Also Recorded by Benny Goodman, 1942 (#16)
Lynn's version was used in the final scenes of 
the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned
To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" 
as multiple nuclear explosions
oblitarate the civilized world.  
The year before Goodman's version,
both Kay Kyser's and Guy Lombardo's orchestras 
had also recorded the tune; both peaked at number 24.  

 

Chart 

Debut 
  
Weeks

# 

Label
 
  

 1954

 

29

 
    


 
My Son My Son