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Daily Archives: March 24th, 2009

Ode to a Sleeping Beauty

This is a beautiful monologue first recorded and performed by the great Jackie Gleason. My Dad included it in his act and performed it during the seventies when he was working the clubs around Sydney. It never failed to reduce grown men to tears. It is narrated, usually with an organist playing a lullaby softly [...]