OPEN POST: Manor Music Monday With Tiny Irvin!

Welcome, hors and horlettes, to Manor Music Monday. DJ Li'l Scratch has his claws out. Trouble ahead? Hiss! Hard times? Hiss-hiss! Only good times are allowed at the Manor's exclusive "Pink Torpedo Lounge." And, yes, Li'l Scratch will move you body and soul, 'cause tonight he's spinning Miss Tiny. That's Tiny Irvin, for those in the know. Tiny's talent was huge. She was only a wee teenager when she began singing on tour for Dizzy Gillespie's band. And her voice? She once very accurately compared her vocal style to "Billy Eckstine. I love the deep tonal qualities of his voice (and) the rhythmic hitting and missing of sounds." Yet mass-market fame was not in Tiny's future - and by her own design. She was intensely private by all accounts. After she toured with Dizzy, and performed with the likes of Sammy Davis, Jr., amongst other stars, she returned to hometown Pittsburgh and continued singing at a variety of local clubs for deca...