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OPEN POST: Manor Music Monday With The Ravishing Rhonda Fleming!

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Greetings, music-loving sloots, and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday, today with a flame-haired Hollywood beauty who acted, sang and danced up a storm, and though she was known as "The Queen of Technicolor" given her eye-popping beauty and luxurious red locks in a series of popular Westerns, today she's remembered most for her roles in B&W film-noir thrillers. I know you'll be excited to hear her sing, and you can, tonight only, at the Manor's exclusive "Dry Docking!" after-hours lounge and salad bar. Dress to impress, because our singing lass always knows what to wear, or not. Can you guess who it is? If you guessed Rhonda Fleming, you're right! Collect your gift in the alleyway behind the north wing of the Manor (and bring lube). Anyhoo, our Rhonda was born Mary Louis in 1923 in Hollywood and trained in light opera while only a wee one, then entered - and won - several singing contests. It's no big surprise that she was sign...

OPEN POST: Happy Manor Music Monday (and Indigenous People Day) With The Marvelous Mildred Bailey!

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"Xest sx̣lx̣alt," music hors, or "Good day" in the highly-endangered Salishan Indigenous American language. After all, it's Indigenous People Day in the U.S. (Columbus who? We don't know her). Confused? Curious? If it makes you horny, don't worry, you're a hussy and you're in the right place.  Welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday, today with a lass who popularized the swooning, bluesy, "Lover Come Back To Me" in 1938, though it was her versions of "Georgia On My Mind" and "Rockin' Chair" that really made her famous. DJ Li'l Scratch and I just love her to bits, and tonight at the Manor's "Pink And Sloppy" bar and taco dinette, he'll be spinning her tunes for all to savor.  So rejoice jazz fans  - and Indigenous Americans, too! Mildred Bailey, a jazz chanteuse extraordinaire who was known as "The Queen Of Swing" in her day, is here at last. Born in northwestern Idaho on...