Eric Coates' light orchestral serenade 'By The Sleepy Lagoon' is the appropriately titled introductory music to which long running radio show?
By the Sleepy Lagoon waltz for full orchestra lasting roughly four minutes in duration. Michael Jameson suggests that the piece is "elegantly orchestrated" with "a shapely theme for violins presented in the salon-esque genre entirely characteristic of British light music in the 1920s and '30s". In 1942, Coates's original orchestral version was chosen (with added seagulls) to introduce the BBC Home Service radio series "Desert Island Discs", which it still does to this day on BBC Radio 4. In early 1940, songwriter Jack Lawrence came across the piano solo version of "By the Sleepy Lagoon" and wrote a song lyric, then took it to
By the Sleepy Lagoon Lagoon" by local youths. The name became permanent (although the reservoir itself has since disappeared) after the media's extensive use of the song title when reporting on the 1942 Sleepy Lagoon Murder. By the Sleepy Lagoon "By the Sleepy Lagoon" is a light orchestral valse serenade by British composer Eric Coates composed in 1930. In 1940, lyrics were added with Coates's approval by Jack Lawrence, and the resultant song "Sleepy Lagoon" became a popular music standard of the 1940s. Coates had originally been inspired to write the piece in 1930 while overlooking a beach in West Sussex. His son, Austin