{"id":970,"date":"2009-09-23T09:58:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T16:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2009-09-23T09:58:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T16:58:28","slug":"the-sambo-girl-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/23\/the-sambo-girl-today\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Sambo Girl&#8221; Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>September 23, 1905, page 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_971\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/animal-in-the-zoo.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-971\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-971\" title=\"animal-in-the-zoo\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/animal-in-the-zoo-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"I'd Like To Be An Animal in the Zoo\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/animal-in-the-zoo-228x300.jpg 228w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/animal-in-the-zoo.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#39;d Like To Be An Animal in the Zoo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Eva Tanguay, the Holyoke young woman who has won fame as a comedian, will be seen at the Court Square theatre this afternoon and evening in her new musical play, &#8220;<em>The Sambo Girl<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Springfield Republican<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>[Note: though this performance was on schedule in a Springfield theater, Eva Tanguay was a much-loved Holyoke performer.   Canadian born, Eva Tanguay &#8212; the &#8220;I Don&#8217;t Care&#8221; Girl &#8212; started her successful   theatrical career in Holyoke and did return to perform on numerous occasions.   Tanguay had an interesting life, read the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eva_Tanguay\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia biography<\/a> or listen to what I believe may be the only recording of her signature song &#8220;<em>I Don&#8217;t Care<\/em>,&#8221; via YouTube, below.  Over the years I have managed to collect some sheet music, the song above was a piece from &#8220;<em>The Sambo Girl<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CgOGsDXASf0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CgOGsDXASf0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 23, 1905, page 4 Eva Tanguay, the Holyoke young woman who has won fame as a comedian, will be seen at the Court Square theatre this afternoon and evening in her new musical play, &#8220;The Sambo Girl.&#8221; From The Springfield Republican. [Note: though this performance was on schedule in a Springfield theater, Eva Tanguay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,131,38],"tags":[278,267,205,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":975,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}