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Photocopies of newspaper articles and photographs relating to the country music career of Leslie B. Frost, also known as "Sleepy" and later "Frosty." Frost was part of the nationally known cowboy duo "Sleepy and Swede" with partner Nils "Suede" Nilsson. The duo performed in music halls and on the radio, and cut several records for the CBC between c.1935 and 1948, when they went their separate ways. Frost continued his musical career until his retirement in 1981.
Day by Day, an account of the tour of Scotland, England, and Holland made by the Melfort Kinsmen School Band in July 1968, as recorded by Charles Schwandt, principal, Melfort Public Schools. Printed.
A photograph of the Hillbilly Band, featuring Mike Hagel, taken at the Legion Hall in Saskatoon in 1935. A poster, featuring the same photograph described above of the Hillbilly Band, for the Smiths Stores First Annual Ball Tournament Sports and Picnic, held on July 12th, 1937. Smiths Stores is eight miles south and two miles west of Allan.
Swedish Ballads Sung by Sleepy and Swede and two lithographed pictures of Sleepy and Swede. Sleepy was Leslie B. Frost and Swede was Nils Nilsson, a Swedish immigrant. They broadcast over various radio stations in Saskatchewan--in Saskatoon, Regina, Moose Jaw and Yorkton--and across the country. They were also popular music hall performers, and they cut several records for the CBC.
Photograph of Erling Erickson and Nils "Swede" Nilsson, and clippings from the Oliver Chronicle and the Western People Magazine of the Western Producer about "Swede" Nilsson and the cowboy group he was a member of, called "Sleepy and Swede and the Tumbleweeds."