Tempest Storm Strikes a Blow for Civil Rights 1959 True Burlesque

Tempest Storm Strikes a Blow for Civil Rights  1959  True Burlesque.  Bear in mind the Civil Rights Act wasn't passed until 1964.  You Go Girl!  Social progress often comes in small steps up from the bottom.  We all win.
 

True Burlesque Double Header! Luscious Young Showoffs

Well, I am not sure where the "50" comes from for Tempest Storm measurements.  Seems to me True Burlesque is being exaggerated in this poster for Peep Shows of Paris.  The "luscious young showoffs" could be correct, however.  Dozens of dancers started young.  Tura Santana at age 15...and It was a brutal, horrid business for many.  The second flick sounds good!  . 

The Legendary Tempest Storm Takes in the Applause Following Her Act True Burlesque

You think this is easy? 
The Legendary Tempest Storm Takes in the Applause Following Her Act True Burlesque.
Note sweat.  The lights aren't too hot, but the dance is a serious workout.

Official Queen of the Sweater Girls

As if we had any doubt.  Tempest Storm wins the queen of the sweater girls prize.
Photo by Bernard of Hollywood no date.

Tempest Storm's Big Ten Inch Record True Burlesque for the Blind

Kermit Schaefer is best know for his boners.  I mean his bloopers, which are also known as boners.   Kermit is the father of hilarious mistakes.  The next time your date makes you sit until all the credits roll just so you can see Seth Rogen or his fat little brother Jonah Hill make a mistake and break up, think of Kermit.   Kermit Schaefer invented that.  Now they are known as the "gag reel" but they are bloopers. Kermit put out records of guys making mistakes on the radio. 

Sometimes Kermit even faked his bloopers, so he was a deceptive crook.  They still do that, but now it is to fill out the "Bonus" version of the DVD.

By extension, Kermit is also responsible for the humorous "clip" shows which used to take your submissions in the mail, but now just take them off You Tube.  I don't miss Tosh ever.  Daniel Tosh is funny, maybe one of the funniest comics working today.  Kermit Schaefer isn't.  Working, that is...he croaked.   

I digress.  The point of this post is to question who would want to LISTEN to burlesque.  You go to burlesque to SEE, and if you are lucky, to see Tempest Storm, who is out of place here.  But it was a better idea to put her on the record jacket than it was to put out a record of burlesque SOUNDS, that's for sure. 

Kermit released his novelty records on Jubilee, an early label which dropped race records on white kids (thank GAWD, white music SUCKED) but also some dreck, and when they went broke, and mobster Moe Levy bought them out.

Burlesque Show is a fairly scarce record.  I mean, even with Tempest casting a double shadow over the imaginary first three rows, what the hell are you supposed to get out of playing this record?  No boners here.  The record inside is MINT but I still haven't played it.

Burlesque Show 10" record.  Jubilee Records (also known as Jay-Gee Record Company) Circa 1959 Collection Victor Minx

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Russ Meyer Tempest Storm El Rey Theatre and "A Full Set" True Burlesque

What was magnificently talented early boobs fan and film director Russ Meyer shooting in 1952?  The equally magnificent and talented Tempest Storm, whom Russ shot from below in a soon to be characteristic angle he used in later films.  Who has a "full set" here?  Tempest!  But you can too, for only 25 cents.  Russ partnered with the El Rey to sell photographs of Tempest...and the price was "firm" folks.

Original advertisement for El Rey photograph stills by Russ Meyer 1952. 

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Tempest Storm True Burlesque

 Tempest Storm doing Tempest Storm

Keep practicing, Neo-burlesquers!

300 Pound Burlesque Talent Hound Dave Cohn You want Girls? I Got Girls True Burlesque (Excerpt from Times Square Smut the Book)

Three-hundred pound Dave Cohn knew flesh, and not only because he had so much of his own.  The first "Heavy D" took ten percent of the biggest names in burlesque.  He had the best stable in the business, and it all operated out of a dingy room on the 5th floor of a 17-floor elevator building on West 46th Street.  This was in the late 1950s and early 1960s, but the building has continued to market flesh of a sort…today it is gussied up and houses the headquarters of Actor's Equity.  Several steps from the now squeaky clean Times Square and in the middle of the "Theatre District" but still in my mind the Minnesota meat market…three short walks from Hell's Kitchen, now known as "Clinton"  and two blocks from Bettie Page's apartment.  The old neighborhood.

Show Biz.

At one time big Dave booked 75 strippers a week.  If things got hot in New York (as they tended to for his clients) he booked them over the river in Jersey.  Need a broad to grind in an Oklahoma carnival tent,  a late hours club in Florida for gangsters,  a businessman's stag party in Scranton?  Dial Dave at LO-ng Acre 3-4035, he'll pick up the phone himself.  Dave's dames were in demand all over the country.   

His clients were not only some of the biggest names in the burly business, they were also the most buxom…some extreme buxom,  and they set them loose to get some air for a price.

Jennie Lee the Bazoom girl.  Tempest Storm, actually a Georgia girl named Anne Banks with moneymakers bigger than any southern fruit.  If they didn't have knockers, they had a gimmick.  Jessica Rogers stripped with birds in cages over her tits.  Zorita danced with a snake.  Edy Selwin danced with monkeys.  Winnie Garrett and her thousand dollar rhinestone strip dress.  Irene the Body.  Denise Renault.  Tina Christine.  Gloria Marlowe.  Scarlet Kelly.  Lyn Paige.  They all gave big Dave his cut.  If "Dolly Dawson" wasn't drawing big, he changed her name to a better one.  He represented "Scarlet O'Hara: The Irish Lassie with the Classy Chassis" and "The Wow Girl."  He had "Sally Sweet" of New Orleans, who started as an acrobat at age 14 but was soon stripping like an adult.   

His tools were fountain pens, exclusive contracts, an ashtray to stub out his butts and the telephone.  He had no trouble making the rent. 

Dave didn't have a romantic interest in the talent.  He never married and it was strictly business.  He started peddling girls during the 1930s and  supplied the Minskys with hoofers.   Dames came to Dave in droves and he eyed the talent like a horse trader.  If they needed advice, he had it.  Change your hair color.  Walk this way.  Let them hang and shake, Peacock.  He expected his talent to "be able to walk to music" and not with "two left feet."  He sent his women where "the public want's strippers…and I mean the nice public, not the morons."  Dave thought wives should see the show too "if they want to hold their husbands" and paid the cover.

He opened an Los Angeles office on Third Street  during the war to scope out talent in the sunny state.  West coast talent. 

They weren't all strippers.  Dave handled Dolly Joyce and her vent dummies Cutie and Jerry.  He had one Johnny Dove. He'd take straight men, "clean" dancers and comics, but he preferred the broads.  He would book them into "The Hi-Way Casino"  in Fall River or "Frank's Casanova Club" in Buffalo.  Any act capable of filling a seat and paying his cut was welcome, or he farmed them out to Milt Shuster, his partner, who had additional contacts from Maine to the West Coast.

He placed "Tirza" into Club Fernando and Trudine into the Club Ha Ha.  The 2 O'clock Club in Baltimore.  It was endless. 

At night, the few Dave found to sleep, Dave slept and dreamed of the perfect body. 

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Tempest Storm at the El Rey ADMIT ONE (1955) True Burlesque

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