A Tommy Dorsey Weekend for Lee and I
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Sounds like a blast M1! Wish we could all be there - the M1 Peep Brigade!

You'd likely have to disassociate yourself from us though - too rowdy! :drinkin:

 

My Dad's major "passion" was music. I have his entire collection of 78s from the 30's and 40's and also all the reel to reel tapes he made. He'd "announce" the musical selections: "And now here's a great number by the Glenn Miller Orchestra" (I really should take them somewhere and have them made into a CD).

 

I only have to hear the first few bars of most of those songs to identify them. It's no wonder, when you consider that I started hearing that music on a daily basis, beginning when I was

lying in my bassinet. I must've inherited Dad's music mania because I've seen almost every great performer of "our generation", starting with the Beatles when I was 11.

 

Dad loved the Dorseys, but his special favorite was Jimmy with Bob Eberly and (drum roll!)

Helen O'Connell. He'd "serenade" me with some of his favorite musical selections - especially "Amapola" (does anyone remember that popular song from 1941?), "Green Eyes",

and Harry James' "Sleepy Lagoon":

 

A sleepy lagoon, a tropical moon and two on an island

A sleepy lagoon and two hearts in tune in some lullabyland

The fireflies' gleam reflects in the stream

They sparkle and shimmer

A star from on high falls out of the sky

And slowly grows dimmer

The leaves from thetrees all dance in the breeze

And float on the ripples

We're deep in a spell as nightingales tell

of roses and dew

The memory of this moment of love

Will haunt me forever

A tropical moon, a sleepy lagoon, and you.

 

I'd roll my eyes & groan: "Oh DAD! Not 'Sleepy Lagoon" AGAIN!" :rolleyes:

 

m2

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A Tommy Dorsey Weekend for Lee and I - by 206thmpco - 02-21-2008, 01:22 PM
A Tommy Dorsey Weekend for Lee and I - by CaptO - 02-21-2008, 03:53 PM
A Tommy Dorsey Weekend for Lee and I - by CaptO - 02-21-2008, 11:09 PM
A Tommy Dorsey Weekend for Lee and I - by ND-Jim - 05-03-2008, 11:31 AM



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