[78-L] Child Singers

[Cary Ginell]

How about Sugar Chile Robinson? Is he still alive?

Cary Ginell

> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:05:14 -0500
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Child Singers
> 
> So who asked?
> 
> The original Sonny Boy Davey Lee made it to 83 (died in '08). He made a couple 
> of records for Brunswick. Interesting that I find differing birth dates, but 
> only a week apart (December 29/24 and January 5/25).
> 
> dl
> 
> Royal Pemberton wrote:
> > Here's what Wonkypedia has about Gayla Peevey:
> > 
> > *Gayla Peevey* (born March 8, 1943) is perhaps best known for her song, "I
> > Want a Hippopotamus for
> > Christmas<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Want_a_Hippopotamus_for_Christmas>"
> > (Columbia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Records>,
> > 1953<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_in_music>).
> > A child star from Ponca City,
> > Oklahoma<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponca_City,_Oklahoma>,
> > she was ten years old when she recorded the novelty
> > song<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_song>,
> > which had been written by John
> > Rox<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Rox&action=edit&redlink=1>in
> > 1950 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_in_music> (who incidentally was
> > married to Alice Pearce <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Pearce> who
> > played the first Mrs. Kravitz on the TV Show
> > Bewitched<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bewitched>
> > ).
> > 
> > Although the song was not recorded as a fund-raiser, the Oklahoma City
> > Zoo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_Zoo>capitalized upon
> > its popularity through a fund-raising campaign to "buy a
> > hippo for Gayla" in order to bring a hippo to the zoo. (They had no
> > hippopotamus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus> at the time.) The
> > song raised $3,000. A baby hippo, named Matilda, was procured and flown in
> > to Oklahoma City and presented by Peevey to the
> > zoo<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo>
> > .[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayla_Peevey#cite_note-0> Recently Gayla
> > Peevey's song "I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas" was featured in a Telus
> > commercial.
> > Career after music
> > 
> > Gayla Peevey graduated from San Diego State
> > University<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_State_University>,
> > and received a teaching degree. She left teaching and went into advertising,
> > where she owned her own firm for 15 years.
> > 
> > She married Cliff Henderson and they have one daughter and three
> > grandchildren.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:51 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
> > 
> >> Gloria Jean?
> >>
> >> dl
> >>
> >> simmonssomer wrote:
> >>>  What was the name of that young girl soprano appearing with WC Fields in
> >>> one of his last films.
> >>> She was being groomed as that studio's Deanne Durbin .
> >>>
> >>> Al S.
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> >>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >>> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 11:28 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Child Singers
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Ann Stephens was a suicide. I don't know if we were clear about that in
> >>>> the
> >>>> liner notes to the Flapper CD or were being gentle about it, but it was
> >>>> confirmed by a couple of sources. As for Christopher Robin Milne, who
> >> made
> >>>> a
> >>>> record for HMV, my contact at Pearl knew him and said he ran a book
> >>>> store..he
> >>>> may also not have wanted to be bothered about Winnie (whose legacy will
> >>>> continue to be defiled by Disney, as they do everything else..now Marvel
> >>>> Comics).
> >>>>
> >>>> We mentioned Jimmy Boyd..Molly Bee as well (similar vintage). Eileen
> >>>> Barton was
> >>>> singing and clowning with Milton Berle and Eddie Cantor in the 1930s and
> >>>> she
> >>>> made it to a ripe old age. Baby Rose Marie is still with us (just saw
> >> her
> >>>> last
> >>>> week in what survives of "Top Banana").
> >>>>
> >>>> Speaking of Molly Bee, I wonder what became of Barbara Shuttleworth, who
> >>>> did
> >>>> singing commercials and shtick on The Small Types Club as "Baby Bee"?
> >>>>
> >>>> dl
> >>>>
> >>>> DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> >>>>> The posting about Laurie London got me wondering what became of other
> >>>>> Children who performed on 78s.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ernest Lough, (Hear My Prayer and others), lived to a ripe old age
> >> before
> >>>>> his demise in 2000.  If anyone's interested there is a four part
> >>>>> documentary on YouTube about Ernest Lough discussing his recordings and
> >>>>> lots of videos of the recording process in the 20s.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Jimmy Boyd, (I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus),  made it to his three
> >>>>> score and ten before dying last March, (I'm sure it must have been
> >>>>> mentioned on this list but I didn't see it).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Barry Gordon, (Nuttin' for Christmas), still alive and well at age 61.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Christopher Robin Milne, died at 76 in 1996.  Not a very happy person
> >> so
> >>>>> I've heard.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ann Stephens, (Teddy Bears' Picnic, etc.), Born in 1931, no evidence
> >> that
> >>>>> she died, or that she continues to live.  But I'm pretty confident that
> >>>>> she is in one condition or the other.  She managed to record "Teddy
> >>>>> Bears' Picnic" at the age of 13 while sounding like she hadn't reached
> >>>>> her 7th birthday yet.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I guess Deanna Durbin counts, she signed up with Decca at age 15, but
> >>>>> she's one who is neither dead or alive.  The person who was Deanna
> >> Durbin
> >>>>> still breaths but she claims that the Deanna Durbin we all knew never
> >>>>> existed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> db
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