QUEER MUSIC 78 PETITE SWANSON MY JOCKEY KNOWS HOW TO RIDE / LAWDY MISS CLAUDY V+
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Oct 19, 2023 Sold Date
Jan 19, 2023 Start Date
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A VERY RARE 78 FROM FEMALE IMPERSONATOR "PETITE SWANSON" (ALPHONSO HORSLEY) ON THE US SUNBEAM LABEL RECORDED IN 1947

MY JOCKEY KNOWS HOW TO RIDE

 b/w   a cover of Luther Williams & Marl Young's LAWDY MISS CLAUDY
TWO GREAT LAID BACK RISQUE BLUES NUMBERS
Petite Swanson was a member of Valda Gray's troupe of female impersonators,

who for much of the 1940s were the main attraction at Joe's Deluxe Club in Chicago.

“Petite Swanson,” a member of Valda Gray's famous troupe of female impersonators, was one of the numerous South Side queers who took advantage of the performance of her identity. Swanson had made a name for herself in Chicago, where she did not hide her ambitions to “become a star." When Billboard announced that Swanson had just been signed to the Sunbeam label, it put her on the road to fame. Yet she never compromised her identity as a female impersonator as the author of the Billboard article acknowledged that Swanson was “a fem impersonator whose real name (was) Alphonso Horsley.”

By clearly embracing her transgender identity (Marl Young, Sunbeam’s owner, printed Swanson's real name right on the record label), Swanson - and many other drag queens - lived comfortably thanks to the night-lounge business and entertainment. During the Depression, professional drag entertainers like Lorenzo Banyard and Jacques Cristion indeed stood out thanks to their relatively well-paying jobs.


DISC DETAILS

US SUNBEAM S 103    10" 78rpm SHELLAC

CONDITION - V+ 

Petite Swanson With Marl Young Trio

Gene Ammons, tenor sax; Marl Young, piano, arranger; Rail Wilson, bass; Petite Swanson, vocal.

Universal Recording, Chicago, IL, March, 1947

 

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THE GREG'S GREAT'S SYSTEM CONSISTS OF A SPECIALLY DESIGNED INNER BOX MADE OUT OF 1" THICK POLYSTYRENE, WHICH THEN GOES INSIDE A DOUBLE CORRUGATED STIFF OUTER CARDBOARD CARTON. THE BOXES CAN TAKE UP TO 21 RECORDS,

 

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