[78-L] Child Singers

[eugene hayhoe]

Seems like I recall hearing that Sugar Chile Robinson is/was doing some limited performing again, after many years off. There's also Ester Phillips (Little Ester) who's been gone many years now. 
 
Gene

--- On Tue, 1/12/10, Ron L'Herault <lherault at bu.edu> wrote:


From: Ron L'Herault <lherault at bu.edu>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Child Singers
To: "'78-L Mail List'" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 9:03 AM


The set of Warner musical short subjects has a young girl performing.  She
does imitations and then shows up as a pupil in another film.  I can't think
of her name but I recall that when watching the flick, none of the 6 viewers
could recall her doing anything else. 

Ron L

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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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