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Today is the birthday of "
Leap Year Baby"
Dinah Shore born in 1916. She was an American singer, actress, and television personality, and the
chart-topping female vocalist of the 1940's who rose to stardom as a
recording artist during the
Big Band era.
I
love this song, it's one of my favorites; I remember my mom and dad
slow dancing to the tune in our living room. It's actually the "
B" side of the record. There are other versions I like better but this is the one from my childhood.
Sleepy Lagoon is used as the theme song for the
Desert Island Discs radio program broadcast on
BBC Radio 4. It was first broadcast on the
BBC Forces Programme on 29 January 1942.
Each week a guest, called a "castaway"
during the show, is asked to choose eight audio recordings
(usually, but not always, music), a book and a luxury item that they
would take if they were to be cast away on a desert island, as they discuss their life and the reasons for their choices. It was devised and originally presented by Roy Plomley. Since 2018 the programme has been presented by Lauren Laverne. More than 3,000 episodes have been recorded, with some guests
having appeared more than once and some episodes featuring more than one
guest.
When
Desert Island Discs marked its 75th year in 2017,
The Guardian
called the show a radio classic. In February 2019, a panel of
broadcasting industry experts named it the greatest radio program of all
time. I find it interesting to hear what musics famous people like and was the inspiration for my "Desert Island" series (
link below).
Sleepy Lagoon murder Defendants - 1942
Beginning in the early 1930s and exacerbated by the
Great Depression,
approximately one million Mexican immigrants and native-born Americans
of Mexican descent were forced to leave the United States for Mexico
during the
Mexican Repatriation as part of a policy by the
administration of
Herbert Hoover
who had scapegoated Mexicans for the
Great Depression and instituted
stricter immigration policies with the stated intent of freeing up jobs
for a narrow demographic of Americans.
The first side of the record has Three Little Sisters; a bouncy forties dance song that is not particularly interesting but fun.
Tracklist:
Side 1:
Three Little Sisters, written by Irving Taylor, Vic Mizzy
Side 2:
Sleepy Lagoon, written by Eric Coates, Jack Lawrence
Companies:
Record Company – RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Credits:
Notes:
For best results use
RCA Victor Needles
With Orchestra
A: Featured in the Universal film "Private Buckaroo"
Barcode and Other Identifiers Matrix / Runout (Label side A): 27875-A
Matrix / Runout (Label side B): 27875-B
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side A, stamped): 1 27875A A2 1 I
Matrix / Runout (Runout, side B, stamped): 1 27875B 1B 3 1 1
Dinah Shore – Three Little Sisters / Sleepy Lagoon
Label: Victor – 27875
Format: Shellac, 10", 78 RPM
Country: US
Released: May 1, 1942
Genre: Pop, Classical, Stage & Screen
Style: Vocal
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