“when liberace winks at me” – lee & libby morris
“Respectfully dedicated to LIBERACE, America’s favorite performer”, “When Liberace Winks at Me” is just as catchy. I found it here in this “Liberace Medley”. The song begins at 6:49, but you’ll want to see the whole thing. via The Dusty Bookcase
FUCK YEAH alexander geist! LOVE!!!
his website BUTT magazine interview
Part Evelyn Waugh novel, part silver screen star, Alexander Geist is the velvet voice of a new epoch in pop music. Embracing the dry wit of Morrissey, the soundscape of Moroder, and the sensibilities of Manet, he was born for the spotlight. Cinematic, lush, wry, with his melodramatic lyrics and insistent melodies, he has created the genre he calls, “morose disco soul.”
Recorded between New York, Berlin, London and Dublin, his songs capture the flavour of a certain international demi-monde; the glamour, the tears, the raucous parties and the untimely deaths. Compared to everyone from Bowie to Dietrich, Alexander Geist has nevertheless created out a unique sound for himself, at once nostalgic and contemporary.
Backed by saxophonist Matthias Hofmann and violinist Anna Mimouni, he has consistently wowed his audience with a live show that is energetic, dark and always compulsively danceable. Having played throughout Europe from Paris to Zagreb, in the chicest hot spots, the most roaring nightclubs, and all the dens of iniquity along the way he has acquired a taste for success. But that was just breakfast; now he is ready for the rest of the world.
wilma burgess (via jeffery k.)
Burgess opened a bar called The Hitching Post – described as Nashville’s first women-only bar – where she regularly performed. Burgess was openly a lesbian and preferred to record love songs with no gender-specific references. She did sometimes agree to record songs such as “Ain’t Got No Man” on condition that her producer Owen Bradley let her record a song she liked but he didn’t. LOVE HER! Thanks for the heads-up Jeffery k.
Wilma Burgess (born Wilma Charlene Burgess June 11, 1939 – August 26, 2003) was an American country music singer. She rose to fame in the mid 1960s and charted fifteen singles on the Billboard C&W charts between 1965 and 1975. In 1960 a songwriter friend of Burgess persuaded her to go to Nashville to record some demos of his compositions. One of the publishers Burgess sang for asked to manage her singing career and Burgess cut her first single in the fall of 1962 for the United Artists label.
Eventually Burgess came to the attention of Owen Bradley who heard in Burgess’ voice the potential for a successor to the recently deceased Patsy Cline who Bradley had produced. Bradley arranged for Burgess’ signing with Decca where she had her first session in June 1964.
Continuing to record with Owen Bradley, Burgess placed seven more singles on the C&W chart but only the first two of these: “Fifteen Days” (#24) and “Tear Time” (#15) both 1967 reached the Top 40.
Burgess association with Bradley and Decca Records ended in 1971; that same year she signed with Shannon a label owned by Jim Reeves Enterprises (Burgess was a close friend of Reeves’ widow Mary Reeves). Five of Burgess’ single releases on Shannon appeared on the C&W chart with the 1973 duet with Bud Logan “Wake Me Into Love” providing a on-off return to the Top 40 at #14. In 1975 Burgess left Shannon signing with RCA Records where her uneventful tenure lasted until 1978. In 1982 she ended her recording career with the album Could I Have This Dance on 51West a Columbia Records label.
Wilma Burgess died unexpectedly Monday, August 26, 2003 at 4:05 a.m. at Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, after suffering a massive heart attack. She was 64, and had been hospitalized for a week for tests, and had seemed to be on the road to recovery.
what a piece of work is man (via homotography)
The second issue of F.O.D, the Tel Aviv man loving magazine, features the story “What a piece of work is man”, a reflection on masculinity and gender perceptions. The pride-themed issue is out on June 1st. Photographer: Asaf Einy | Styling: Shiran Mania | Hair: Sagi Dahary | Make-up: Eran Pal | Models: Asaf Youbiner, Idan Roll, Matan Akerman & Guy Lubelchik @ yuli / Morten @ elinor shahar / Moran @ ADD
The Singing Peek Sisters “Steppin’ on the Clouds” with intro (via miss. erin)
“Atlanta, Georgia’s cable access shows are some of the best in the country and most were made via FUNTONE USA. In this clip the Singing Peek Sisters are guests on Ralph Bailey’s TURN YOUR LIFE AROUND. The sisters are interviewed and then they perform a jaw dropping number entitled “Steppin’ On the Clouds”. These sisters are so unique and talented that they have created their own key AND time signitures!!!! Mrs. Miller, outta the way…the sisters are back on the airwaves.”
Priklyucheniya Buratino (1975) aka The Adventures of Buratino
Watch Priklyucheniya Buratino (1975) aka The Adventures of Buratino in Entertainment
From the Soviet children’s musical film “The Adventures of Buratino” (on russian “Приключения Буратино”). USSR. 1975
Based on Alexei Tolstoy tale “The Golden Key, or Adventures of Buratino”.
the queen 1968
Jack is 24, sometimes he’s a drag queen named Sabrina. In 1967, as Sabrina, he’s the mistress of ceremonies at a national drag queen contest in New York City. The camera goes behind the scenes, recording the rehearsals leading up to the contest, the conversations in the dressing room (about draft boards, sexual identity and sex-change operations, and being a drag queen), and the jealousies that emerge before and after the competition. Jack introduces us to Richard, a young man who becomes Jack’s protégé. As Miss Harlow, Richard enters the contest. One of his principal competitors is Miss Crystal, who’s from Manhattan. Who will win the crown?
The Legendary Crystal LaBeija
