Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Just got this request forwarded to me. Anyone know?
I have a patron who is trying to find out which 1960s pop musician (male) just came out of the closet within the last month and made a comment that he should have done this 40 years ago. So far 2 librarians have searched the internet, Google news, Infotrac, etc. and can't come up with anything! I am hoping someone may just know this off the top of their head. If you do please let me know! Thanks!
The only out '60s pop musician I can think of offhand is Lesley Gore. Who came out several years ago and, of course, is not male.
I think Johnny Mathis is out, but I'd call him a '50s singer.
When did JM come out?
Wikipedia says he came out in 1982, went back in, then came out again about 3 years ago.
Thanks, FP. That could be the answer.
It's so funny thinking that JM ever actually thought he was "in" a closet.
I never knew Johnny Mathis was gay.
Really??!!
Nope. I guess I've never really considered Johnny Mathis' private life at all. But my friends and I did go through a phase when we listened to a lot of that 50s/60s pop, like Mathis and Doris Day.
...I didn't know Mr. Mathis played for our (MY!) team.
But then, I'm so far out of the gay "mainstream" I live on Mars. The club that Jilli and I dance at is in the basement of the largest gay disco in Seattle. I've been going there for 20 years. I never knew there was a basement until the Vogue moved there.
(sigh)