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Carl Wilson

Arts Music

‘I Bet Your Mama Was a Tent-Show Queen’

Fifty years ago, a gay, cross-dressing, black singer named Jackie Shane scored a surprise radio hit. A few years later, he disappeared.

Carl Wilson Hazlitt Apr 2013 Permalink