Greetings, music sluts, and welcome to another edition of Manor Music Monday. Did you know, it's also National First Ladies Day, which celebrates American President's wives. This is not to be confused with Ella Fitzgerald, who was known as The First Lady of Song , but if you'd like to celebrate First Ladies and Ella, who am I to stop you? Meanwhile, DJ Li'l Scratch has a surprise for you tonight at the Manor's "Low Hangers Lounge," where he'll be spinning tunes by a two-time Grammy-nominated artist who got her start singing with her local church choir, then won a talent contest as a fourteen-year-old at the legendary Barrelhouse Club in Watts, Los Angeles, co-owned by the equally legendary musician, composer and bandleader, Johnny Otis . He promptly recorded her first songs and insisted she join his tour. Esther Phillips, or "Little Esther" as she was first known on an early handbill, was a master at R&B, blues, jazz, pop, soul and...the ...