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:

    “All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)