OPEN POST: Manor Music Monday With Abbe Lane!

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Are you ready? DJ Li'l Scratch is bringin' the fire to the Manor's "Tube Steak Lounge" tonight with the alluring, the incomparable Miss Abbe Lane. This hot-cha Broadway, movie and nightclub bombshell is the perfect way to heat up the holiday season, though honestly, she's welcome all year-round. 


Did you know? She was called "the swingingest sexpot in show business" during her heyday in the 1950s and early 60s, and once said, "Jayne Mansfield may turn boys into men, but I take them from there." For that quote alone, how can you not like her? Of her marriage to Francesc "Cugat" de Deulofeu, the famed and notoriously volatile Cuban-born bandleader - she was a teenager and he was thirty-years her senior! - she offered this terse sum-up, "Oh, those gossip columnists. He was never really mean to me. Just Latin."


Or was there more to it? In 1992, she wrote the novel "But Where Is Love?" I haven't read it yet, but it sounds like a deliciously campy roman a clef wherein "Julie," a fictional Broadway beauty, falls helplessly in love with..."Paco," a tyrannical and fiercely jealous Latin bandleader. Why didn't she just write her memoirs? Maybe they're coming. 

She's 92 years-old as of this writing, and her last acting gig was in 1987's "The Twilight Zone" movie (as "The Senior Stewardess" in the "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" sequence), but it's her singing which lives on and on. In her 1957, English and Spanish-language LP, "Be Mine Tonight" - with the smashing Tito Puente and his Orchestra - marvel at her vamping and cooing and teasing. She wasn't dubbed "Too Sexy For TV" for nothing.


What are you listening to these days? DJ Li'l Scratch wants to know. 🐾

BTW, looking for Peckerwood's Weekly Lunocracy Post? It's RIGHT HERE.

Photo Credits: Getty Images

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