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Title: Pearl Bailey - The Intoxicating Pearl Bailey
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1956, Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz, Cabaret, Newport News, Virginia 10/26
Matrix #: MGW-12257-W
Condition: VG (LM) | Members: Pearl B (18' - 90')
Cultural Facts:

1. Her First Prize Never Paid Off: At 15, Bailey won an amateur contest at Philadelphia's Pearl Theatre and was promised a paid two-week engagement. The theater closed before she could collect, but she soon won another contest at Harlem's Apollo and kept pursuing show business.
2. She Went Back to College at 59: Decades into her career, Bailey enrolled at Georgetown University as a freshman and eventually earned a bachelor's degree in theology, despite already being an internationally famous entertainer.
3. From Nightclubs to the White House: Bailey spent years performing for U.S. troops and later became a United Nations goodwill ambassador. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her cultural and humanitarian work.