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Saturday, August 10, 2002
GenePool Migration :: Ev writes, I don't think The Beach Boys' California Girls adequately considers the fact that there are tremendous numbers of Northern girls and Midwest farmer's daughters right here in California. I don't know that that makes them California girls, exactly, but if the reason you wish they were California girls is because you're here in California, which, I think, is the point of the song, well, that's a pretty good thing to consider. They & their mothers came to California because that's where blonde-blue-eyed babes were/are in demand. Just like bloggers, they wanted to be discovered. Raised in the Mid-West, Grable was groomed to be a star by her mother. As a child, she learned to sing, dance and play the saxophone. After a family vacation to California in 1929, Grable and her mother decided to move to the West Coast to try their luck in Hollywood, leaving her father and sister behind. Grable's first professional work came as a chorus girl at Fox studios. Though only thirteen at the time, she lied about her age. Precocious?
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