[78-L] Child Singers

[David Lennick]

He was in 2007---

http://blackkettleproductions.com/?p=22

dl

Cary Ginell wrote:
> 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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