Skippy Haha Vintage Theme Song - "Dominique" by The Singing Nuns

This song encapsulates the spirit of Skippy Haha Vintage.

Please enjoy while you are browsing the t-shirts. There's a link on the right sidebar to the video, so you may come back time and time again.



A little song history from songfacts.com, including lesbian drug scandal:

The singing Nun was Sister Luc-Gabrielle (born Jeanine Deckers), from a Fichermont, Belgium convent. Not to be confused with The Flying Nun. That was Sally Field.

The nun wrote several tunes that won prizes at religious youth retreats. One of the order's elders asked her to record an LP, of which the convent could make a few hundred copies to distribute as gifts. Luc-Gabrielle and a chorus of 4 recorded her songs at the Phillips studios in Brussels, but when the executives of the record company heard the songs, the LP was commercially released (with the credit to "Soeur Sourire" - Sister Smile) in Europe to great success.

The LP was released in the US as "The Singing Nun," but there was no American reaction until this was released as a single, then both the LP and the single worked their way up to the top of the albums and singles charts. It was the first time that a single topped the Hot 100 as the same time that its LP topped the Billboard album chart. 

"Dominique" eulogizes the founder of the Dominican order. It had the stamp of approval from Luc-Gabrielle's mother superior, stating that the song treated St. Dominic "with familiarity and a touch of impertinence."

In 1966, a movie about the nun's life starring Debbie Reynolds was made. It bombed. 

After the release of the movie, Sister Luc-Gabrielle left the convent and tried to maintain her recording career, this time under her real name - Jeanine Decker. She became a bit of a rebel, with singles like "Glory Be to God for the Golden Pill," a hymn to birth control. She embraced her lesbian sexuality and was pursued by the Belgian government over unpaid taxes relating to this song. Drug problems complicated matters even more.

In 1985, Jeanine Decker and her partner of 10 years, Annie Pecher, committed suicide. Their center for autistic children had closed its doors, and they "lost all courage in the face of a losing battle with the tax people."