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Did you know that:
- The sixth movement of
Claude Debussy's
Children's Corner is titled "Golliwogg's Cake-Walk".
- Golliwog was also World War II British naval slang for a
Gauloise cigarette, which had tobacco which was nearly black in colour.
- The American rock group Creedence Clearwater Revival was
known as "The
Golliwogs" and under this name they released a number of singles on the
Fantasy label before they rose to prominence.
- In the early 1980s, revised editions of Enid Blyton's
Noddy books replaced Mr Golly, the Golliwog proprietor of the Toytown garage,
with Mr Sparks.
- Florence Upton was the first to create a black
children’s hero -
The Adventures of
Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg predated Helen Bannerman’s 1898
"Little Black
Sambo" by three years, although the “Sambo” figure itself goes
back much further.
- The auction sale of many of Florence Upton's original
drawings, manuscripts and dolls bought and equipped an
army
ambulance, called "Golliwog", for use in France during the First Wolrd
War.
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Stan
Laurel (of "Laurel & Hardy" fame) played a golliwog in a 1907
production of the pantomime "Sleeping beauty".
- In 1974
Agnetha
Faltskog, from Swedish supergroup ABBA, released a single called
"Golliwog
- In the 1920s and 30s, de Vigny of Paris made “Le
Golliwog” perfume, which was marketed internationally in a Golliwog-shaped
bottle using sealskin hair on the stopper.
- There is a hardcore punk band called Golliwog based in
Slovenia, who chose the name "so the people would ask us about it, and we could
explain the meaning, the purpose and in our case - the anti-racist idea of the
name Golliwog".
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