Welcome, music slores, to another edition of Manor Music Monday! Wheeeeee! It's time to sing, to swing, and to gather up some fun music to play for peeps at Thanksgiving and during all your wintertime celebrations - because jazz vocalists make every holiday better and I won't be told otherwise. You can't live on "Jingle Bells" and Mariah for the entire holiday season, right? So if you're searching for some festive tunes to play during the season that everyone will enjoy, just click the Manor Music Monday tag and thumb through the posts. Meanwhile, tonight at the Manor's "Milf n' Cookies" lounge and dinette (try the classic lasagna!) (it's meaty!), DJ Li'l Scratch will be playing the vocal stylings of a songstress who started her career way back in 1939 during an amateur talent contest at Harlem's Apollo Theater . Did I mention that she won that contest? Because she did. Everyone loved Betty Roche right from the start. With her c...

Greetings, Manor hors, and welcome to a brand-new week and a spanking new Monday just bursting with fresh tunes, all thanks to your favorite hot puss, DJ Li'L Scratch. Tonight, he's spinning at the Manor's exclusive club, "Basement Sex Couch." And yet he's not only spinning tunes, but singing the praises of ladies with big hair. You know the type. There's the always fashion-forward Ann Miller:  The perennially delightful Patti LaBelle:  And, of course, Monster: Which brings us to singer Linda Scott, who Li'l Scratch will be playing tonight for your listening and dancing pleasure. She first came to fame as a bubbly junior high school student when she wrote to Arthur Godfrey in 1959, asked for a singing spot on his wildly popular radio show - and to her surprise, he hired her as a regular guest star. It wasn't long before record label execs came knocking on her door.  And her hair? If you wonder "How big is too big?" wonder no more, because...