T.C. Jones

Artist: T.C. Jones

LP: T.C. Jones Himself! - at the Crescendo on the Sunset Strip
Song: "I've Got the World On a String"
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Song: "Bette Davis"
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Song: "Louella Parsons"
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In further honor of the Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival going on this week, here are three tracks from a 1959 T.C. Jones album I found in the used bins a few months ago. Funny and vulgar female impersonators are a dime a dozen nowadays, but there weren't too many of them back in the 1950s, so T.C. really was one-of-a-kind—and evidently one of the best. You can read more about Thomas Craig Jones here, find lots of great pictures and news articles about him here, and in case you've never heard the voice of Hollywood gossip columnist Louella Parsons before, you can listen to her hilariously stilted 1947 interview with actress Joan Crawford here.

[ T.C. Jones — Bette Davis as Lady Macbeth ]

The greatest artist in his field, T.C. (Thomas Craig) Jones

is "Caught In The Act" at the world-famous Crescendo on
Hollywood's Gay White Way - The Sunset Strip.

In a completely uninhibited performance before the film-
colony elite, T.C. does all the "bits" he dare not do on
Television or on The Broadway Stage. For your repeated
pleasure - here is unabridged, "The Best Of - T.C. Jones."

[ T.C. Jones: October 26, 1920 — September 21, 1971 ]