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Sidney Easton, actor, playwright and songwriter was from Savannah, Georgia, the first born of six children of King and Eva Easton. His father worked on the railroad and for the Merchant and Miners Steamship Company. Easton ventured into show business for the first time at the age of twelve when he and his friends produced an animal tent show with stray cats and a kazoo band. Shortly thereafter, Easton went to work for the John Robinson Circus and later the A.G. Allan Minstrel Show. In 1913, Easton married Sarah Dooley, a fellow performer, who he met while they both worked at the Savannah Theatre. He performed with his wife for a number of years, until she died in the 1920s. Devastated by his loss, Easton took six months off from show business.

During the 1930s and 1940s, Easton's career was on an upswing; he collaborated with Tom Delaney to write a song called "Jump Steady Ball," which was the first recording by Ethel Waters. Easton and Waters went on to collaborate on "Go Back to Where You Stayed Last Night," a song Waters included in her repertoire. Pearl Bailey also recorded this tune in later years. Other songs written by Easton include "When the Melon's Ripe in Dixie, That's When I'm Coming Home," and "Who's Dat Says 'Who's Dat."

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