Mr Sandman, bring me a dream

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Fred Stiening

So just how messed up is our culture?

While listening to my newest favorite oldies station in Cairo WV, they played Mr Sandman, a song recorded in the 1950s by The Chordettes. Near the end of song, where the females are singing about their dream man, the song specifically mentions “curly hair like Liberace”. Really?

So that got me curious what kind of person would write a song for women to think their ideal soulmate is an effeminate man who plays the piano.

Which gets me to the point, which has nothing to do with that.

I went looking for who wrote the song and/or lyrics and I wound up here.

http://www.metrolyrics.com/mr-sandman-lyrics-chordettes.html

This site any many others credit Robert F Diggs as the writer. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, he’s the Leader of the Hip hop gang known as Wu-Tang Clan and was born in 1969

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rza

The Wikipedia account seems credible and has an image of the record which credits the song to Pat Ballard, a man who died in 1960

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Sandman

More than you ever wanted to know about Pat Ballard. He was married, but had no children

http://www.joycetice.com/articles/patball.htm

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13 Responses to Mr Sandman, bring me a dream

  2. briand75 says:
    February 27, 2014 at 7:29 am

    I can understand the curiosity – this is a great song even if it’s quite simple. You can see one rendition here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsKQXJQwrNc&feature=player_embedded I don’t see any controversy in Liberace – it actually rhymes with Pagliacci as necessity dictates that something rhyme in the specific meter. If you watch the above, you will note two appearances by Rock Hudson who was quite the draw to ladies of the period and who was quite gay. Now that could be controversy!

  3. Randy X. Porter says:
    February 28, 2014 at 1:19 am

    Back in “the day” as they call it, Liberace was a huge star. In the 1950s he had a hit TV show and was considered quite the sex symbol to millions of women who had no idea how gay he was. My grandpa died in 1962, so I never met him, but according to my mother he took one look at Liberace and said “that man has to squat to pee”. Rock Hudson was also a major sex symbol, and the studio even arranged a fake marriage to cover up his gayety.

    Here’s how I see it. I was born in 1967. Throughout my early years, I’d say right up to the time I was twelve or so, I was a huge Queen and Village People fan, and I had no idea what was going on. A prissy guy in a black and white skin-tight harlequin suit? Sure, whatever. No clue. None. I wasn’t dumb, I was just a kid. Things were different then.

    • Landmark95 says:
      February 28, 2014 at 2:14 pm

      Randy, everything that’s old is new again. When the lead singer of the metal band “Judas Priest” comes out of the closet – all bets are off. We can now begin to wonder if we’re really in the minority, and that we should be protesting for our rights…

      http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/judas-priest-s-rob-halford-i-m-not-one-of-these-gay-guys-with-a-cause/

      • Art Stone says:
        February 28, 2014 at 3:39 pm

        It’s not a shock that homosexual men are drawn to performing in public or involved in fields that benefit from men not being distracted by the pursuit of women.

        The unsettled question in my mind is whether the presentation of male images on TV and movie was a deliberate attempt to skew young people’s perception of normal or just a side effect of who is drawn to be in the business.

        I’m fairly far leaning to the notion that this was inspired by a variety of Cold War anti-American forces with the goal of convincing Americans to not pair up and raise healthy children to sustain the economic engine that rebuilt the world after World War II

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