Pearl Box Revue Call Me MISSter Private Press 1972 Drag Queen Paris is Burning
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Pearl Box Revue ?– Call Me MISSter Label: Snake Eyes (2) ?– SE-9001, Snake Eyes (2) ?– SE9001 Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 1972 Genre: Non-Music Style: Spoken Word, Comedy Tracklist A At The Party (Side 1) B At The Party (Side 2) C The Serious Side Of Us (Side 3) D The Serious Side Of Us (Side 4) Companies, etc.
Distributed By – All Platinum Record Co.
Credits
Featuring – Clyddie McCoy, Dorian Corey, Jaye Joyce, Tony La Frisky Producer – Billy Guy
Notes Mr. Jaye Joyce, Mr. Clyddie McCoy, Mr. Tony La Frisky and Mr. Dorian Corey (see the documentary "Paris Is Burning") recorded this with the help of Billy Guy (of The Coasters). The four made up the then-touring show "The Pearl Box Revue".
Two-disc record set. Disc One: "At The Party" - comedic throwing of shade and all-around hilarious gossip
Disc Two: "The Serious Side Of Us" - a serious and honest document of early 1970s drag performer life. Storytelling and truths.
Dorian Corey (circa 1937 – August 29, 1993), born Frederick Legg, was an American drag queen and performer who performed in Wigstock and was featured in Jennie Livingston's 1990 documentary about the ball culture of New York City, Paris Is Burning.
Corey grew up in Buffalo, New York. After studying at Parsons The New School for Design, she toured as a snake dancer in the 1960s in the Pearl Box Revue, a cabaret drag act. Corey was one of four performers who appeared on the 1972 Pearl Box Revue LP Call Me MISSter.
Corey was also the founder of the voguing house of Corey. She held over 50 grand prizes from the voguing balls. She was also house mother to Angie Xtravaganza, who later became a mother of her own house (and was also in Paris Is Burning).
Corey also ran and designed a clothing label called Corey Design.[5] At one point, Corey's act involved her wearing a 30-by-40-foot feather cape. Once she shed her costume down to her sequined body stocking, two attendants raised the cape up on poles to produce a feathered tent that covered half the audience.[2] Corey died of AIDS-related complications at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. After Corey's death, the mummified body of Robert Worley (aka Robert Wells), was found in Corey's belongings with a gunshot wound to the head. Investigators determined the body had been dead for about 15 years. It is speculated that Worley was an abusive ex-boyfriend of Corey's, or that she killed him in self-defense during a potential burglar
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