tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3401140081302413032024-03-13T08:17:24.357-05:00Queer Music Heritage -- The BlogJD Doylehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01338738984827494026noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340114008130241303.post-44311147553497345812018-11-16T12:31:00.002-06:002018-11-16T12:31:45.551-06:00Barney's Beanery - Fagots Stay Out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, not a music post, but one of cultural interest.....<br /><br />Yes, the matchbook above echos the "Fagots Stay Out" message of the sign in the West Hollywood bar of Barney Anthony in the early 1960s. It was still brewing controversy in the mid 1980s, as seen in the article below.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The AIDS Bells -- Sung by Ian Jones, Written by Arthur Jones.<br /><br />
A haunting dirge about the the losses to AIDS. This is a scarce 7"
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Also check out my special radio documentary, Songs About AIDS. </b></span></div>
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<span face=""><b>The year 1975 yielded one of the earliest rock operas that touched gay topics, "Everyhead," an ambitious project inspired by the medieval play "Everyman." It tried to cover the ills of mankind (at least American) all over the map, perhaps a bit too symbolically as the cast wore elaborate masks. According to the show's very active website the masks were "worn to hide the identities of the cast so as not to be recognized and to be possibly arrested by the Hollywood vice squad for performing 'obscenities' in public. And the cast recording was immediately banned from radio, which of course is always good for sales. The show was written by Kenneth Cottrell (who sang lead) and David Maverick Lane. Stan Zipperman produced the LP, which included lead guitar work by Michael Monarch, of the band Steppenwolf.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I could go on several tangents when talking about the 2008 EP released by Billy Newton-Davis. First, Davis is the award-winning Canadian artist and long-time member of the hit group The Nylons. That group formed in 1978 and in 2014 did a reunion concert including every living member of the group (there have been twelve different members over they years, and five have died). Davis joined them from 1991 through 1994. Before and after that time he won several Juno Awards, one being for a duet with Celene Dion, in 1989. The Nylons released over a dozen albums.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>And, note that on the EP the songs were written by "B Kate Amesbury".....she's got <u>Quite</u> a history of her own, releasing several recordings in the 1970's under her then name Bill Amesbury. That's right, Bill became Barbara. <a href="http://www.queermusicheritage.com/aug2008ba.html">More on those records, and on a song about her.</a></b></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Some of you may have heard of Ramblin' Jack Elliott, shown above, who has been a prolific recording artist since the 1950's, winning Grammy Awards in 1995 and 2009. I'll let <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramblin%27_Jack_Elliott">Wiki</a> go into a lengthy bio, or those with interest can visit <a href="http://www.ramblinjack.com/">his own website</a>. <br /></b></span></span></p><p><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Well, This is a Different Jack Elliott, with a minor career and a few 45s on minor labels in the 70s & 80s. <br /><br />And THIS Jack Elliott </b></span></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>in 1979 he had a "gay<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">"</span> song? ...or at least one about gender confusion?</b></span></span><br />
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Rodney Carrington - Dancing With A Man (1998) </span> </span></span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here are two "documentary" LPs on the subject of homosexuality in the 1960s, with definitely different viewpoints than we see fifty years later. In the Schiller study many gay people (always gay men) are interviewed and most reflect guilt, shame and internalized homophobia at their "condition." The second LP is on male homosexuals in French Canada, and as I do not speak French I would be grateful if someone would send me a few sentences of a summary of its findings.</span></b></div>
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<span id="goog_1580585058"></span><span id="goog_1580585059"></span><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340114008130241303.post-60358436505852669542015-02-14T14:46:00.002-06:002015-02-14T14:46:32.167-06:00"Mad About the Boy"....Who Is Singing This Version???<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>I adore the Noel Coward song "Mad About the Boy," and over the years have collected many, many versions of it. But I have one that's a mystery to me, and I need help!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Years ago I acquired a mp3 of a Very camp version, sung by a man, and it was identified as sung by Yul Brynner, from the 1969 film "Magic Christian." Well, I just realized that's not correct, by comparing it to a Youtube clip from the film. It's not the same voice at all. So that leaves me with not knowing who is singing the version I have...that sort of thing drives a collector crazy (not a long drive in my case).</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Can someone please tell me who is singing this, and any other info about it (year, etc) would be helpful. Thanks!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.queermusicheritage.com/MAR2015/mad%20about%20the%20boy-unknown.M3U" target="_blank">"Mad About the Boy" by Unknown Singer</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>I am including the song on my March Queer Music Heritage radio show on "Camp Music" and would really love to be able to identify the singer. </b></span></span></div>
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history I learned only last year, of the transgender kind. It may remind you of
the story of Billy Tipton, a jazz musician who only at his death it was found
that he was a woman, passing as a man for decades (see my <a href="http://queermusicheritage-theblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/songs-about-billy-tipton.html" target="_blank">blog entry</a> and <a href="http://www.queermusicheritage.com/feb2003bt.html" target="_blank">website page</a>). The same
secret truth existed for Willmer Broadnax, known as Little Axe. Born and raised
in Houston, he started his career young. During the 1940s and 50s he sang with
some of the finest groups in gospel music, including the Golden Echoes, the
Fairfield Four and the Blind Boys of Mississippi. By the 1960s the popularity
of the gospel quartets was fading and he retired to Philadelphia, though he did
perform once in a while during the 70s and 80s. He met a violent death at age
75 in 1994 when he was stabbed by his girlfriend. It was only then discovered
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plays a hand when you compare the Tipton and Broadnax stories. Tipton's death
received a lot of publicity, a big article in People magazine, and a book on him was written, despite him being
almost unknown as a musician when alive. Tipton released only two albums, on a budget label. Broadnax, in his genre of gospel,
performed in several very prominent groups, recorded for decades, and died five
years after Tipton. Little publicity, no book...but then he was black.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In 2002 John Leitham became Jennifer Leitham, and of course her talent transcended that journey. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since 1979 this artist has performed with a who's
who of the jazz world, from Mel Torme, Woody Herman, George Shearing, Doc Severinsin,
Peggy Lee, Cleo Laine, and on and on. She has played on over 125 albums. You've got to be pretty talented
to work that long in those circles. Her very public transition was difficult
enough without also facing the unknown reception she would get in the
less than liberal jazz world. <span style="font-family: Arial;">It hasn't always been easy, for a left-handed bassist, and a woman. </span>That hasn't slowed her down though, as
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">If ever there was a CD that I was predisposed to absolutely adore before hearing it, well, it's this one. And I do. Jesse Hultberg has remained a favorite artist of mine for many, many years, despite accomplishing that by only releasing one CD, in 1994. That CD was just called "Jesse Hultberg" and I loved his style, his voice, and those out-of-the-closet lyrics, especially in the song "Constant Thing (I Was Raised a Straight Boy)." A bonus was a just gorgeous cover of the Bee Gees song "If I Can't Have You."</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">But, like I said, that was 1994, before I even had a radio show. It took me several years after I started producing Queer Music Heritage to track him down...as he had moved to France and pretty much dropped out of the music scene, but I finally got to interview him for my May show in 2005. <a href="http://www.queermusicheritage.com/may2005.html">Click to hear it.</a></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">He did have some music output before that, in 1982, though quite different...as founding member of the band </span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Teens_Kill_4">3 Teens Kill 4</a>. I've seen their music described as "post-punk" and it is quite a departure from the folksinger style that came later. And he appeared in the 1989 film "Longtime Companion," where as part of the fictional group The Fingerlakes Trio he did an amazing ballad cover of "YMCA."</span></span></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.deidremccalla.com/"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Deidre McCalla Website</span></span></b></a><br />
<a href="http://www.equalrightshouston.com/"><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Equal Rights Houston</span></span></b></a><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/EqualRightsHouston">Equal Rights Houston on Facebook</a> </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Brown has been getting a lot of recognition, including being asked to perform for President Obama, and she's going for her dream...a concert at Carnegie Hall, to be appropriately called "Stonewall to Carnegie Hall." To be accepted to perform at that famous venue is an honor itself, but it also takes raising a sizable amount of money, and she has been doing that by social media fundraising. She currently has a fund drive at <a href="http://www.gofundme.com/8wt2t8">GoFundMe. </a> And, a lengthy <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/23/tona-brown_n_5373411.html">article at Huffington Post</a> gives more of her background, links to videos...the article's headline says she's the "First African-American Transgender Performer to Take the Stage at Carnegie Hall." And you can find more videos at her <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGb3cnbTPLQ23hJcPYFYXMg">YouTube Channel,</a> along with her video blog. The vlog gives her "It Gets Better" message and many interview clips. And she has a <a href="http://tonabrown.wordpress.com/">regular blog.</a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Montrose Men were a short-lived local Houston group, and at least on this rare recording they were Very influenced by The Village People and the disco sounds of the day. Below are every mention of them from the publication This Week in Texas (TWT), spanning 9/21/79 to 3/21/80. The flip side was an instrumental version. You can't get much more "gay Houston" than this 45.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.queermusicheritage.com/JUN2014/Montrose%20Men/montrose%20men-men%20of%20montrose-1979.M3U" target="_blank">Listen</a></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Members were: Bo, Calvin, Charles and Greg<br />I've not seen any mention of last names, if you can provide<br />them, or any additional information, photos or clippings, <br />please let me know, at <a href="mailto:jd@qmh101.com">jd@qmh101.com</a> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>I have been following the music of Micah Barnes for quite a few years, starting with his stint with the Canadian a cappella group The Nylons in 1989, on to his more rock and award-winning 1998 CD "Loud-Boy Radio," though several released in the 2000s ("Hard," "Micah Barnes," and "Domesticated). The "Micah Barnes" CD by the way made my Best of the Year show for 2007, with what he called a cabaret noir style. Every few years he would come out with something, I would love it, and then wait impatiently for the next one.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The next one is almost here. At least the first single from his next album is. Micah has just released a more jazz-styled arrangement of a track called "New York Story," and you can check it out on his YouTube page.</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-york-story-single/id853877233" target="_blank">iTunes Link </a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://micahbarnes.com/index.html" target="_blank">Micah Barnes Website</a></span></b></div>
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<a href="http://houstonsvoice.com/video/the-trouble-with-ray-2/" target="_blank">Watch the Preview "The Trouble With Ray" </a></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[ I've been thinking of Ray a lot this week after watching the wonderful preview of the documentary film on him ] </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I met Ray Hill on April 20, 1981, and I even took notes. You may wonder how I know that so specifically and what I was doing. I lived in Norfolk, Virginia, from 1978 to 1981 and my last year there I decided to take a cross-country trip, and I kept a journal, 110 hand-written pages. From April 1 to August 17 I trekked through the south, southwest, west coast and back to Norfolk via a northern route. I visited 25 cities and tried to soak up the gay culture wherever I went. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As I had just finished a stint as editor of the gay newspaper in Norfolk I had some entree to other gay newspapers and visited them and tapped right away into what was going on and what to experience. I also tapped in the night life, going to 160 gay bars (23 in Houston) and it was during that trip I decided to move to Houston, which I did by the end of that year. So as luck would happen, I met Ray Hill. Here's my journal entry from April 20, 1981.</span></b></div>
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<![endif]--><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This afternoon I visited the radio station that airs the gay
programs here in Houston, station KPFT, 90.1 fm. They broadcast on Thursday
nights normally, but were having a special all-day program as a fundraiser, and
they had open house at the studio, which is just three or four blocks from the
guest house (Houston Guest House). Ray Hill is station manager and is also known as the father of
Houston's gay movement. I didn't really talk with him--he was very busy, but I
watched him in the studio give part of a news broadcast. He is very articulate,
and to hear him talk on the air, you would swear he had the copy written in
front of him, but he didn't. He is very involved in the court hearings in a
case in which a gay activist (Fred Paez) was shot at point blank range by a
cop. The activist had been doing a lot of research into police discrimination
of gays. The shooting was just before Gay Pride Week last year. </span></b></div>
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look up in Houston. Kent happened to be the first person I talked to at the
station, so it was kind of coincidental that we met that way. The station of
course is all volunteer (except for Ray) and as expected, they program gay
news, interviews, group discussions, records, and about anything else they can
think of. It seemed like they had their shit together.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Above, January 2014, with Ray at <a href="http://www.queermusicheritage.us/banner1.html" target="_blank">The Banner Project</a> display at Hilton Americas, during Creating Change 2014.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Houston gay bars I visited during my trip:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Montrose Mining Company</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Wildwood Saloon</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Brazos River Bottom</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Baja Sam's</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Mary's</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Dirty Sally's</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Hole</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Parade</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Venture 'N</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Midnight Sun</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Mary's II (Galveston)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Bunkhouse</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Copa</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Briar Patch</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Different Drum</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Barn</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Babylon</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>The Loading Dock</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Grant Street Station</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Miss Charlotte's</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Montrose Pub</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How's the rest of the album? I like it a lot, it's VERY pop. You can hear full versions of almost all of it on their <a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGDtPaoYyDD07dharHpfZBA?feature=watch" target="_blank">youtube channel,</a> and find them at their <a href="http://agreatbigworld.com/" target="_blank">website</a>. And for the record Ian is straight and Chad is gay. Their career will be interesting to watch.</span></b><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340114008130241303.post-700871500321258402014-02-05T09:52:00.000-06:002016-02-05T07:08:47.126-06:00Downton Abbey: The Inspiration of the Jack Ross Character<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am one of those totally addicted to "Downton Abbey," and as a fan of old music I could not help noticing the direct inspiration of the character Jack Ross to cabaret legend Leslie "Hutch" Hutchinson.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Leslie Hutchinson was one of most famous cabaret singers in the world in the 1920's and 1930's, and was a toast of society both in the U.S. and England. He was also known for his scandals and his bisexual affairs with high profile people including Ivor Novello, Tallulah Bankhead, Edwina Mountbatten (of the Royal Family), and Cole Porter, and he recorded a number of Cole Porter's songs.<br /><br />This Youtube clip shows an apt Cole Porter song choice, "Just a Gigilo," from 1929.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Hutch and his affairs with celebrities of both sexes were the fodder of English tabloids, which must have been working over time trying to keep up with him. It is difficult to read about him without a mention of his reportedly huge, er, endowment. In fact, that's what google thinks as well. If you type in the name Leslie Hutchinson one of the first search prompts that show up is "well endowed." </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Another search result, "gigolo," leads you to the fact that in the UK in 2008 a documentary was produced with the title "High Society's Favourite Gigolo." </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>And searching in Youtube will get you a lot more to sample. I like his singing style, and have a couple of the many CD collections now available, with him doing many of the classics of our best composers.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>But, if you want more scandal, check out this <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/downton-abbey/10377794/The-scandalous-truth-about-Downton-Abbeys-royal-gigolo-Jack-Ross.html" target="_blank">UK article,</a> entitled "The scandalous truth about Downton Abbey's royal gigolo Jack Ross."</b></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340114008130241303.post-77296605809365028862014-02-03T22:33:00.000-06:002016-02-04T10:46:36.690-06:00Young Jessie's Transphobic 45 RPM Record<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Okay, you're wondering....who the hell is Young Jessie? (You may also be wondering why you might care, but hey, this is a queer music history blog). Obe Jessie is the real name for an artist who got a lot more attention, and a long career, as Young Jessie. Go to Youtube and search that name and you'll find pages of songs. In the 1950's he was with the well-respected group The Flairs, and stepped in briefly as a member of the Coasters around 1957 </b></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>("Searchin'" and "Young Blood"). Just after that he had his main claim to fame for his song "Mary Lou," covered with much success by Ronnie Hawkins, in 1959, and others.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>But then what? Well, not too much until the 1980's when his records began being reissued in Europe and there was demand for his performances there. However the focus of this blog entry is a song he released in 1972 that is quite transphobic. Produced by Jerry "Swamp Dogg" Williams, it appears it was Young Jessie's last single release, and is only widely available now (as a download) as it was part of a compilation CD of Williams' productions.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>And, as you can see, it was not released as by Young Jessie, but under his real name, Obe Jessie. I wonder what prompted that change? When you have a "name" in show business, why use another unless you were unsure of the material or knew it was an outspoken release. And that description fits for this one.</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am always delighted to find a song with gay references from before Stonewall, but this one was even more of a treat as it was from the 1950's. That's rare indeed, and I thank my friend John Trudell for pointing me to it. And better yet, it has a Youtube video.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The group was called the Three Flames, and they were quite successful, even having their own radio and TV shows in the 1940's. They scored a top ten hit in 1947 with "Open the Door, Richard," and performed at the Bon Soir club in Greenwich Village for several years. If the name of that club sounds familiar to you trivia bugs, that's where Barbra Streisand first performed, in 1960. It was an elegant venue where gay and straight clientele mixed, hosted by popular gay entertainer Jimmie Daniels, who gained fame during the Harlem Renaissance.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>But I've gotten side-tracked, back to the Three Flames. The group was led by Tiger Haynes, who was also known as an actor. He was in the Broadway variety show "New Faces of 1956" and was the original actor to portray the Tin Man in the Broadway version of "The Wiz," in 1975, the role taken over by Nipsey Russell in the 1978 film.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>So, yes, this was a lyrically-gay song in 1957, and even more amazing, it was on an LP on a major label, Mercury.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>"Musical accompaniment at the Bon Soir usually was by the Three Flames, an all-black bass (Avril Pollard), piano (Roy Testamark), and guitar featuring Tiger Haynes.
Cruisers who were three-deep at the bar focused on Tiger’s tight pants
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purposely failing to hide the merchandise. His pearly teeth and his
consummate musicianship gained him much notoriety. “No, Mary,” explained
someone ingenuously at the all-male bar one night, “ ‘Big 10 Harmony’
refers to the size of his <acronym title="long player">LP album</acronym>.” The gossip was that, when in <cite class="title">New Faces of 1956</cite> with drag queen T. C. Jones, Tiger had a white wife and, alas, was not bisexual."</b></span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-340114008130241303.post-81733708812528239102013-12-27T13:11:00.000-06:002016-12-29T10:56:48.509-06:00Paul Jabara and Friends, Part 2 (and that includes Whitney Houston)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I did a blog entry in June of 2012 on Paul Jabara, a songwriter and producer genius who died way too soon (in 1992) and gave us monster hits by Donna Summer, Barbra Streisand, The Weather Girls and others, winning a slew of awards, including an Oscar and Grammy. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I did the blog I was missing the album shown above, which usually goes for, I think, outrageous prices. But I just found a copy on eBay for a bargain and grabbed it. Of course I already had the huge hit "It's Raining Men," but the 1983 album also includes a rather unknown track by the soon-to-be superstar Whitney Houston. You can hear her contribution to the LP, "Eternal Love," below.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The LP jacket and disc does not do a good job at identifying the vocalists, so I'll do it:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bad Habits - Paul Jabara</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ladies Hot Line - Weather Girls</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Okay, now go to their Reverbnation page and here's where I found myself listening to the rest of the album and more.</span></b><br />
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