Post #299312 by bigbrotiki on Sat, Apr 14, 2007 9:14 PM

I just discovered this by looking closely at the back of my Quiet Village sheet music for the first time (see at bottom):

Here's all I could find about that:

"American actress Darla Hood is best remembered for being the adorable childhood sweetheart of "Alfalfa" (played by Carl Switzer) in the mid 1930s version of the "Our Gang" series of comedy shorts. She got her start in the series in 1935 when she was only four and went on to appear and occasionally sing in dozens of episodes for the next ten years....

...Hood then went out on her own with singing engagements in nightclubs and guest appearances on TV.... In 1955, she was a leading lady in the act of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (!?). She had a hit record in 1957, I Just Wanna Be Free, and appeared in the movie Calypso Heat Wave singing a duet with Johnny Desmond.... (Sounds good! ed.)

(!) In January 1959, she released a new record, Quiet Village. Joe Rivkin, who discovered her as a child, saw the cover (!)and cast her in her final film role, which was also her first adult role in a movie. She played a secretary in the suspense drama The Bat (1959) with Vincent Price and Agnes Moorehead....

....She did singing and voice-over on TV commercials, which included Campbell Soup and Chicken of the Sea Tuna. And she appeared in her own nightclub act at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, the Copacabana in New York and the Sahara in Las Vegas."

WOW! What a career.
I have the Don Ho (R.I.P.) vocal version, but whooo here has that cover, and the recording of Darla's MY Quiet Village !!?