78tk album set-JAZZ-JAZZ LTD.-Sidney Bechet and more- 4 disc set- RARE

$

400

This 4 record  album set grades about VG++/E- condition..........all 78s are originals.. ..

all discs are E+ or better.. Ltd Edition of 1000.. This is # 505

Album is VG++/E-.....solid,tight ..surface soiling from storage

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Multi talented writer, photograher, composer, performer Bruz Fletcher, born to one of the wealthiest and most dysfunctional families in Indiana, twice took the difficult journey of riches to rags in his short, turbulent 34 years. His drama filled life was an ever changing saga, a wild and sad story of extremes and incredible plot twists.  He ran away from home at age 8 and attempted suicide as young teen.  While home for the school holidays, his mother and grandmother drank poison committing a double suMulti talented writer, photograher, composer, performer Bruz Fletcher, born to one of the wealthiest and most dysfunctional families in Indiana, twice took the difficult journey of riches to rags in his short, turbulent 34 years. His drama filled life was an ever changing saga, a wild and sad story of extremes and incredible plot twists.  He ran away from home at age 8 and attempted suicide as young teen.  While home for the school holidays, his mother and grandmother drank poison committing a double suicide.  His older sister escaped their family’s high society life and lived as a man, joined a Broadway show, then took off for Germany where she was jilted by a count. Later she was committed to an asylum and was arrested for attacking the fraudulent Lady Bathurst before dying at age 24. His father lost the fortune and prestigious banks his family built over generations a became an elevator operator.  Bruz overcame it all and sparkled as he entertained nightly in glamourous nightclubs, delighting his often well-known patrons with his electric, quick witted, sophisticated and risqué songs. His record 5 run at L.A.'s Club Bali created a bawdy partylike atmosphere in what was a wild oasis for the city's most outrageous celebrities and notables.  

 

Though he killed himself at age 34 in 1941, he left behind three albums of wonderful songs and two novels that give some colorful and candid glimpses into his own world populated by society dowagers, misfits, celebrities, addicts, servants, lovers and eccentrics that covered a wide variety sexualities and mores. Bruz was an early feminist of sorts creating a myriad of bold, powerful, smart, independent, female characters who were often sexual outsiders. These women resonated deeply with homosexuals who related to them on many different levels. Bruz even created a transexual character before such people were possible. Bruz Fletcher's songs make a fascinating study as well as still-heady entertainment. Living as openly as a gay man could, he became a master of gay code and double speak in order to survive and flourish in a very homophobic era. His lyric gender-play reveals the necessity for gay men of his generation to speak out of three sides of their mouths. With lyrics sprinkled with gay code, he also cleverly manages to delight and titillate the general public -- or at least the sophisticated public. 

 

Research has revealed tantalizing clues and many fascinating details about this amazing performer and the goal of this website is to rescue Bruz Fletcher and his music from obscurity.  The website proved to be so successful in collecting data that in 2009, a 186 page book became available that chronicles in detail Bruz's incredible life and documents his work. The latest and last editions grew to 194 pages for the public edition and 246 pages for the private version.

Bruz recorded for the small independent label Liberty Music Shop. His songs have a only a few direct uncoded homosexual references but can be described as sophisticated, energetic, witty, gossipy, campy, bitchy, cosmopolitan, bawdy; in a single word gay. They are full of rhymes, innuendo and amusing puns much in the manner of fellow Hoosier Cole Porter or Noel Coward. The double entendres in "Lei from Hawaii" and "Keep an Eye on His Business" are cheeky and irreverent.

Bruz wrote and performed in an era when homosexuality was considered a perversion by the medical community, a sickness to be cured and was legally a crime punishable by imprisonment. He spoke out against that mentality in the only way he could, guised in metaphor and comedy. Perhaps inspired by the pet monkeys he and Casey kept, the lyrics to "Hello Darling" find Bruz using his fondness of monkeys as a metaphor to mock society’s beliefs that homosexuals were sick perverts and criminals: "The new psychiatrist that I am going to in the Bleeker Building says that I’ve got a primate urge, yens to sleep with monkeys, marmosets - anything with a big tail. I’ll have to marry Gargantua before I get through. Don’t you understand - it’s my only escape! Waiter, it’s coming on me again. Send out quickly and get me an ape!"  The same comic device was later used in Cabaret in the staging of the song "If You Could See Her Through My Eyes" where an ape was substituted for a Jewish girlfriend. Bruz would have to use metaphor and comedy to express that kind of social criticism. No one was publicly challenging the misunderstood nature and harsh treatment of homosexuality in the thirties. I think it may be his most daring lyric!

This set includes;

Mrs. Litchenfall

The Simple Things in Life

My Doctor

Nympho-Dipso-Ego-Maniac

Keep an Eye on his Business

Hilly Brown

Lei from Hawaii

Spring in Manhattan

*****************************************************icide.  His older sister escaped their family’s high society life and lived as a man, joined a Broadway show, then took off for Germany where she was jilted by a count. Later she was committed to an asylum and was arrested for attacking the fraudulent Lady Bathurst before dying at age 24. His father lost the fortune and prestigious banks his family built over generations a became an elevator operator.  Bruz overcame it all and sparkled as he entertained nightly in glamourous nightclubs, delighting his often well-known patrons with his electric, quick witted, sophisticated and risqué songs. His record 5 run at L.A.'s Club Bali created a bawdy partylike atmosphere in what was a wild oasis for the city's most outrageous celebrities and notables.  

 

Though he killed himself at age 34 in 1941, he left behind three albums of wonderful songs and two novels that give some colorful and candid glimpses into his own world populated by society dowagers, misfits, celebrities, addicts, servants, lovers and eccentrics that covered a wide variety sexualities and mores. Bruz was an early feminist of sorts creating a myriad of bold, powerful, smart, independent, female characters who were often sexual outsiders. These women resonated deeply with homosexuals who related to them on many different levels. Bruz even created a transexual character before such people were possible. Bruz Fletcher's songs make a fascinating study as well as still-heady entertainment. Living as openly as a gay man could, he became a master of gay code and double speak in order to survive and flourish in a very homophobic era. His lyric gender-play reveals the necessity for gay men of his generation to speak out of three sides of their mouths. With lyrics sprinkled with gay code, he also cleverly manages to delight and titillate the general public -- or at least the sophisticated public. 

 

Research has revealed tantalizing clues and many fascinating details about this amazing performer and the goal of this website is to rescue Bruz Fletcher and his music from obscurity.  The website proved to be so successful in collecting data that in 2009, a 186 page book became available that chronicles in detail Bruz's incredible life and documents his work. The latest and last editions grew to 194 pages for the public edition and 246 pages for the private version.

Bruz recorded for the small independent label Liberty Music Shop. His songs have a only a few direct uncoded homosexual references but can be described as sophisticated, energetic, witty, gossipy, campy, bitchy, cosmopolitan, bawdy; in a single word gay. They are full of rhymes, innuendo and amusing puns much in the manner of fellow Hoosier Cole Porter or Noel Coward. The double entendres in "Lei from Hawaii" and "Keep an Eye on His Business" are cheeky and irreverent.

Bruz wrote and performed in an era when homosexuality was considered a perversion by the medical community, a sickness to be cured and was legally a crime punishable by imprisonment. He spoke out against that mentality in the only way he could, guised in metaphor and comedy. Perhaps inspired by the pet monkeys he and Casey kept, the lyrics to "Hello Darling" find Bruz using his fondness of monkeys as a metaphor to mock society’s beliefs that homosexuals were sick perverts and criminals: "The new psychiatrist that I am going to in the Bleeker Building says that I’ve got a primate urge, yens to sleep with monkeys, marmosets - anything with a big tail. I’ll have to marry Gargantua before I get through. Don’t you understand - it’s my only escape! Waiter, it’s coming on me again. Send out quickly and get me an ape!"  The same comic device was later used in Cabaret in the staging of the song "If You Could See Her Through My Eyes" where an ape was substituted for a Jewish girlfriend. Bruz would have to use metaphor and comedy to express that kind of social criticism. No one was publicly challenging the misunderstood nature and harsh treatment of homosexuality in the thirties. I think it may be his most daring lyric!

This set includes;

Mrs. Litchenfall

The Simple Things in Life

My Doctor

Nympho-DMulti talented writer, photograher, composer, performer Bruz Fletcher, born to one of the wealthiest and most dysfunctional families in Indiana, twice took the difficult journey of riches to rags in his short, turbulent 34 years. His drama filled life was an ever changing saga, a wild and sad story of extremes and incredible plot twists.  He ran away from home at age 8 and attempted suicide as young teen.  While home for the school holidays, his mother and grandmother drank poison committing a double suicide.  His older sister escaped their family’s high society life and lived as a man, joined a Broadway show, then took off for Germany where she was jilted by a count. Later she was committed to an asylum and was arrested for attacking the fraudulent Lady Bathurst before dying at age 24. His father lost the fortune and prestigious banks his family built over generations a became an elevator operator.  Bruz overcame it all and sparkled as he entertained nightly in glamourous nightclubs, delighting his often well-known patrons with his electric, quick witted, sophisticated and risqué songs. His record 5 run at L.A.'s Club Bali created a bawdy partylike atmosphere in what was a wild oasis for the city's most outrageous celebrities and notables.  

 

Though he killed himself at age 34 in 1941, he left behind three albums of wonderful songs and two novels that give some colorful and candid glimpses into his own world populated by society dowagers, misfits, celebrities, addicts, servants, lovers and eccentrics that covered a wide variety sexualities and mores. Bruz was an early feminist of sorts creating a myriad of bold, powerful, smart, independent, female characters who were often sexual outsiders. These women resonated deeply with homosexuals who related to them on many different levels. Bruz even created a transexual character before such people were possible. Bruz Fletcher's songs make a fascinating study as well as still-heady entertainment. Living as openly as a gay man could, he became a master of gay code and double speak in order to survive and flourish in a very homophobic era. His lyric gender-play reveals the necessity for gay men of his generation to speak out of three sides of their mouths. With lyrics sprinkled with gay code, he also cleverly manages to delight and titillate the general public -- or at least the sophisticated public. 

 

Research has revealed tantalizing clues and many fascinating details about this amazing performer and the goal of this website is to rescue Bruz Fletcher and his music from obscurity.  The website proved to be so successful in collecting data that in 2009, a 186 page book became available that chronicles in detail Bruz's incredible life and documents his work. The latest and last editions grew to 194 pages for the public edition and 246 pages for the private version.

Bruz recorded for the small independent label Liberty Music Shop. His songs have a only a few direct uncoded homosexual references but can be described as sophisticated, energetic, witty, gossipy, campy, bitchy, cosmopolitan, bawdy; in a single word gay. They are full of rhymes, innuendo and amusing puns much in the manner of fellow Hoosier Cole Porter or Noel Coward. The double entendres in "Lei from Hawaii" and "Keep an Eye on His Business" are cheeky and irreverent.

Bruz wrote and performed in an era when homosexuality was considered a perversion by the medical community, a sickness to be cured and was legally a crime punishable by imprisonment. He spoke out against that mentality in the only way he could, guised in metaphor and comedy. Perhaps inspired by the pet monkeys he and Casey kept, the lyrics to "Hello Darling" find Bruz using his fondness of monkeys as a metaphor to mock society’s beliefs that homosexuals were sick perverts and criminals: "The new psychiatrist that I am going to in the Bleeker Building says that I’ve got a primate urge, yens to sleep with monkeys, marmosets - anything with a big tail. I’ll have to marry Gargantua before I get through. Don’t you understand - it’s my only escape! Waiter, it’s coming on me again. Send out quickly and get me an ape!"  The same comic device was later used in Cabaret in the staging of the song "If You Could See Her Through My Eyes" where an ape was substituted for a Jewish girlfriend. Bruz would have to use metaphor and comedy to express that kind of social criticism. No one was publicly challenging the misunderstood nature and harsh treatment of homosexuality in the thirties. I think it may be his most daring lyric!

This set includes;

Mrs. Litchenfall

The Simple Things in Life

My Doctor

Nympho-Dipso-Ego-Maniac

Keep an Eye on his Business

Hilly Brown

Lei from Hawaii

Spring in Manhattan

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Keep an Eye on his Business

Hilly Brown

Lei from Hawaii

Spring in Manhattan

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