Snooks Eaglin
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Fird Eaglin Jr., known as Snooks Eaglin, was an American guitarist and singer based in New Orleans. In his early years he was sometimes credited under other names, including Blind Snooks Eaglin, "Lil"
Eaglin in 2006
The Baby Snooks Show
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The Baby Snooks Show was an American radio program starring comedian and Ziegfeld Follies alumna Fanny Brice as a mischievous young girl who was 40 years younger than the actress who played her when s
Snooks Eaglin
…to play by listening to and playing along with the radio. A mischievous youngster, he was given the nickname "Snooks" after a radio character named Baby Snooks. In 1947, at the age of 11, Eaglin entered a talent contest organized by the radio station WNOE and won it with his performance of "Twelfth Street Rag…
David Stone Martin's illustration of Fanny Brice in the role of Baby Snooks
Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks
Danny Thomas as Jerry Dingle, 1945.
Baby Snooks recording