Sleepy Lagoon

"Sleepy Lagoon" can refer to:

  • "(By the) Sleepy Lagoon", a piece of light orchestral music written in 1940 by Eric Coates, used as the title theme for the BBC Radio series Desert Island Discs and adapted into a song by Jack Lawrence.
  • The 1942 Sleepy Lagoon murder, which led to the Zoot Suit riots.
  • Sleepy Lagoon, a 1943 movie.

Famous quotes containing the word sleepy:

    “That spring, briefer than apple-blossom’s breath,
    Summer, so much too beautiful to stay,
    Swift autumn, like a bonfire of leaves,
    And sleepy winter, like the sleep of death.”
    —Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)