Minette - "On a Psychedelic Astro-Flight"

Minette - "On a Psychedelic Astro-Flight", from the LP "Come to Me at Tea-Time" (1968).
Jacques Minette was born in 1928 in Manhattan to visiting French parents and raised in Boston. A child performer, her career as a female impersonator dates from the 1940s. As Minette she played all the big drag clubs of the period.
She, and most drag performers, were driven out of Boston in 1948 when Archbishop Cushing banned them. In New York she was a regular at 82 Club. She put out an LP, "Come to Me at Tea-Time" (1968), and was a guest singer in the seminal film "The Queen" (1968), hosted by Jack Doroshow ("Sabrina"). She was a regular in Avery Willard’s Ava-Graph films and also a member of the Ridiculous Theatre Company. She worked with the underground film director Andy Milligan, even to the point of sewing dresses when he opened a dress shop.
She is a connecting link from the drag shows in the days of vaudeville and burlesque, through the avant-garde of the 1960s to the end of the 20th century. However she says that she made more money as a sex worker than as a singer.
She was an activist in the early Gay Liberation movement in New York. Although she was non-op, she normally wore female clothing off-stage as well as on, and preferred female pronouns for herself. She was also a musicologist and gay historian. She died at age 73 in 2001.

[@jonthesYT]

Minette was a neighbor of mine in Park Slope and told me many stories over the years. Also the star of the unfinished Ridiculous film "The Sorrows of Dolores".

[@elliotreisman4570]

I knew her when she lived on washington ave. brooklyn above the ''fish mongers store''in a floor thru apt ,no heat for about $14 a month eventually the city took over the property and told her 'don;t bother paying rent as it doesn't pay to carry it on the books. ,

[@triciahagoriles3052]

@Epitymbidia - do you happen to know who owns the recordings of this album?

[@Caroilable]

Where can I get a recording of this?

[@yoosernem]

there's a few ppl that share it. . .
on soulseek peer-to-peer. . .

[@neoncherry7235]

type "youtube to mp3" and click on the first result