From 2023: Here’s my favorite Hawaiian-born girl singer in her 1977 TV special being pulled from the sea by astonished islanders—mostly Filipino, look at them closely—to lead a rousing chorus, with hula gestures, in THE GREATEST SHOW TUNE ever written. You got that, my Geordie love? Or is that too “exotic” for you?
Above: Audio of the entire 1977 TV special “Ol’Red Hair is Back”. And here’s the entire show on YouTube.
EXTRA!
- The Jack Benny Program, 24 May 1942. Why? Because Dennis Day sings “By the Sleepy Lagoon” by Eric Coates at 8:50 / And here’s my darling John Wilson conducting the BBCPO in the original instrumental version, just like you hear it on Monty Python
- Rizal: Philippine Nationalist and Martyr by Austin Coates (214 pages)
"I'll Be Dead Before You Break My Heart" 
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