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8, A Jepp® Production Vol. Donde vas con mi carro Rosita? "[32], After Sportin' Life, DeVille dropped the "Mink" moniker and began recording under his own name. They didn't understand the record, but they understood it in Europe. The host for the episode is Robert Urich, and the musical guest is Mink DeVille. But if you are Mink DeVille fan you might love it. I can put you in touch with him.' He was 58. He spent much of his solo career playing in New York, New Orleans, and Europe, where he was incredibly popular. The '70s Punk Rebellion, Cabretta, and Coup de grâce. What the wiry, dapper DeVille had that tied him to fellow CBGB resident bands like The Ramones, Television, Blondie and Talking Heads was an edge. I figured that since playing music with people I was friends with didn't seem to work out, I would hire some mercenaries, some cats who just wanted to play and get paid. To the symphonic sweetness of the Drifters he added his own Gallic romance and, in his vocal, a measure of punk rock's Bowery grit. Comment Report abuse. THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER is a registered trademark of The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. EMAIL ME. 'When do we start?' They had him. Born in Stamford, Conn., he is survived by his wife, Nina, and a son, Sean Borsey. I put on a live recording and after the first song, the band's version of Otis Redding's 'These Arms of Mine,' Nitzsche motioned for me to stop the tape. Crazy! Looking at music magazines in City Lights Bookstore, DeVille noticed a small ad in The Village Voice inviting bands to audition in New York City (his hometown was nearby Stamford, Connecticut). It was followed by the album "Return to Magenta. | EU Privacy Preferences. These producers were a natural fit for Mink DeVille, whose members' tastes ran to the Ronettes, the Crystals and other 1960s-era New York City bands with their Brill Building sound. Nitzsche said about DeVille, "We hit it off right away. I've got Phil Spector's horn player, Steve Douglas (who also served as producer), on tenor and baritone. [25], "Willy had found a more appreciative reception at Atlantic Records, where head man Ahmet Ertegun signed him to a fat new recording deal and promised to personally shepherd his career ...", reported Rolling Stone in 1980. I walked in (to CBGB) and I saw Hilly (Hilly Kristal) standing there. And he has expanded the scope of his music by adding elements of French cafe songs and Louisiana zydeco to the mixture of rock, blues, Latin and Brill Building soul that was already there. In 1979, Willy DeVille's love of art and French culture led him to relocate to Paris for a short while. "According to Willy—never one to let false modesty intrude on a good story—the Atlantic Records chairman said, 'You got the look, the performance, the writing, you know exactly what to do. Later in life, DeVille had only sour memories of CBGB. We played the Barracks. Recorded in Paris and influenced by his admiration for siren Edith Piaf, the album featured "This Must Be the Night" and "Just to Walk That Little Girl Home.". Willy’s band Mink Deville was one of the original CBGB’s house bands in New York from 1975-77 and his hipness factor has been well documented. Except for frontman Willy DeVille, the original members of the band played only on the first two albums (Cabretta and Return to Magenta). For the remaining albums and for tours, Willy DeVille assembled musicians to play under the name Mink DeVille. [7], DeVille said about their first meeting, "Now here I am at 29, a writer, doing pretty good and I've just been asked if I want to write songs with a guy who helped lay the foundations for the music I fell in love with sitting at my mother's kitchen table when I was only seven years old. "You mean the guy who wrote 'Save the Last Dance for Me'?" During his thirty-five year career, first with his band Mink DeVille (1974–1986) and later… read more So we went into this cheap little studio and did four songs, which Edmonds gave to Jack Nitzsche. [2] On the catchy "Spanish Stroll", bassist Rubén Sigüenza spoke words in Spanish during the break ("Hey Rosita! Then one of the guys said how about Mink DeVille? I met Rubén at a basement jam in San Francisco, and he liked everything I liked from The Drifters to, uh, Fritz Lang. "[1], Mink DeVille was formed in 1974 when singer Willy DeVille (then called Billy Borsay) met drummer Thomas R. "Manfred" Allen, Jr. and bassist Rubén Sigüenza in San Francisco. This one guy—Jesus Satin he called himself—he'd dance on the pool table. We just fell in love with each other. Two days later the elusive producer was sitting in my office. [12], However, Mink DeVille had in common with the CBGB bands an aversion to the hippy aesthetic (what Willy DeVille called "electric this and strawberry that"[4][13]); moreover, the band brought an eclectic New York sensibility to its music that the other bands didn't have and that New York City rock fans recognized and appreciated. They favoured castanets over tom-toms, and accordion over distorted guitars, and Willy delivered his vocals with a sweet, tuneful flexibility that brought out the emotional resonance beneath his nasal sneer. He bought me a beer and it got around to 'Would you like to come back?' [18] AdChoices Mink DeVille discography and songs: Music profile for Mink DeVille, formed 1974. 'I tried to get him for years.' Unlike Television, the Ramones, or Blondie, at heart Mink DeVille was an R&B band, and Willy an old-fashioned soul singer. Mink DeVille / Willy DeVille ‎– Greatest Hits Label: EMI ‎– 7243 8 38030 2 6 Format: CD, Compilation Country: Europe Released: 1996 Genre: Rock. [18] Steve Douglas played saxophone, and the Immortals, a cappella singers whom Willy DeVille discovered at a reggae concert at Max's Kansas City, sang background vocals. As well, musicians who played in The Mink DeVille Band sometimes played on Mink DeVille and Willy DeVille albums. "[2] On Return to Magenta, Willy DeVille and producers Nitzsche and Steve Douglas employed lavish string arrangements on several songs. "Unlike Television, The Ramones, or Blondie, at heart Mink DeVille was an R&B band, and Willy an old-fashioned soul singer ..."[7] Wrote Mark Keresman, "Mink DeVille's earthy, streamlined sound, rejecting the mainstream high-gloss that ruined much of 1970s rock, was accepted by the same folks who'd go to see Blondie, The Shirts, and Television."[8]. For this album, DeVille wrote several songs with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Doc Pomus. Willy pulled out his record collection, he started playing things, that was it. '"[26], By this time, no members of the original Mink DeVille save Willy DeVille remained in the band, but DeVille continued recording and touring under the name Mink DeVille. 4.0 out of 5 stars 22 tracks covering the great singer's capitol years. FACEBOOK Some musicians who backed up Willy DeVille in The Mink DeVille Band played and toured with him for decades. Onstage, Willy's band, Mink DeVille, had nothing in common with the new wave CBGB bands that the press had lumped them with. Elvis Presley's rhythm section, Ron Tutt and Jerry Scheff, want to play with me. 254. '"[17] Wrote Ben Edmonds, who paired Nitzsche with Mink DeVille: It has always been assumed that our pairing was based on his (Nitzsche's) Spector accomplishments, but to me that was secondary. He sat at his usual table and watched an empty spotlight. That's all we were. They're professional, precise, but they're full of fire, too.[28]. He was drawing on some of the same musical areas that Bruce Springsteen's epic rock dipped into, but Willy was an entirely different creature, a macho dandy in a pompadour and pencil mustache, with the dangerous air of a New York gangfighter and an underbelly vulnerability that came out through the romanticism of his music. A punk is somebody who picks a fight with you and then never shows up. "[4] DeVille also remarked about the name, "What could be more pimp than a mink Cadillac? he said. This issue of Creem shows a picture of DeVille driving a car with what looks to be mink on the dashboard.[3]. After a while they would take their clothes off. "[5] Another story about the Mink DeVille name says that it originated with Fast Floyd, who owned an old Cadillac with a cracked dashboard. 11:50 AM PDT 8/7/2009 26-apr-2016 - Bekijk het bord "Willy DeVille - Mink DeVille" van Gerd Quirijnen op Pinterest. | Do Not Sell My Personal Information Both albums featured saxophonist Louis Cortelezzi and had a full-throated Jersey Shore sound that evoked Bruce Springsteen and Southside Johnny. Slow Drain Lyrics. Songwriting with Doc Pomus. From 1975 to 1977, Mink DeVille was one of the original house bands at CBGB, the New York City nightclub where punk rock music was born in the mid 1970s. I mentioned my mission while chatting with friend and Del Shannon manager Dan Bourgoise, who responded 'Jack? Youtube; Slow Drain Mink DeVille. Helpful. Guitarist Louis X. Erlanger had become acquainted with Pomus while frequenting New York City's blues clubs and had urged Pomus to check out the group. [23] Said percussionist Boris Kinberg, "Capitol in the U.S. didn't know what to do with it because they perceived Willy as this punk rocker from CBGBs and he came back from Paris with a very different kind of record. Listen to music from Mink DeVille. [20] Cabretta was elected number 57 in the Village Voice's 1977 end-of-the-year Pazz & Jop critics poll.[21]. "It says something about the state of the American record business—something pathetic and depressing—that Willy DeVille's finest album fell on deaf ears at Capitol," wrote Kurt Loder of Rolling Stone. Terms of Use | How can I go wrong?"[22]. One person found this helpful. I was down in New Orleans and I came up here, kind of going down Memory Lane so to speak. Album Cabretta. DeVille Little Miss Tragedy is so misunderstood She can hear you sniff a whip of a bad drugs a hundred yards away Tracklist . In December 1976, Ben Edmonds (1950–2016), an A&R man for Capitol Records, and previously an editor for Creem, signed the band after spotting them at CBGB. Albums include No Thanks! Wow! Collected is a compilation of Willy DeVille’s tenure as the charismatic frontman of Mink DeVille, and of his later solo work. With Robert Urich, Robin Duke, Christine Ebersole, Mary Gross. Mink DeVille played its last concert on February 20, 1986 in New York City.[33]. It was clear that Willy had realized his fantasy of a new, completely contemporary Brill Building record. Spanish Stroll Lyrics. He borrowed much of his phrasing from Ben E. King and couldn't believe it when someone told him that Doc Pomus wanted to meet him after the show. Critic Robert Palmer wrote, "Mr. DeVille is a magnetic performer, but his macho stage presence camouflages an acute musical intelligence; his songs and arrangements are rich in ethnic rhythms and blues echoes, the most disparate stylistic references, yet they flow seamlessly and hang together solidly. Live At The Savoy - 1986 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Willy-DeVille-Videos/128087130584600 http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_131791920211690 To cover the cracks, Fast Floyd glued an old mink coat he had purchased at a thrift store to the dashboard. Nitzsche produced and arranged the first two Mink DeVille records for Capitol -- Cabretta (1977) and Return to Magenta (1978). Here he took his band in a new direction and recorded an entirely original album called Le Chat Bleu. "Look me up. The song "Italian Shoes" was a hit in some European countries,[30] but some critics thought the album was overproduced. Wrote Allmusic: "Its sound is steeped in mid-'80s studio gloss and compression that often overwhelms quality material. [16], Cabretta, a multifaceted album of soul, R&B, rock, and blues recordings, is generally regarded as one of the best debut albums by a new band of the mid-1970s. He embodies (New York's) tangle of cultural contradictions while making music that's both idiomatic, in the broadest sense, and utterly original."[14]. 3 in the Netherlands. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. DeVille strode out of the wings and snatched the mike. Youtube; Spanish Stroll Mink DeVille. The band's 1978 follow-up album Return to Magenta continued in the same vein as Cabretta, but with a twist. The voice of Willy DeVille did. We weren't ready to make great rock and roll records. I still feel guilty about it, but we were just a good bar band. "I convinced the guys that I could get them work, and we climbed in the van and drove back the other way. In 1985, "Sportin' Life" featured the European hit song "Italian Shoes.". The band with me was a dream come true. Wrote critic Thom Jurek about these albums: (Both) are truly solid albums—despite lukewarm reviews at the time—showcasing much of Willy's theatrical personality and his own desire to provide for the elements of fantasy in rock music that the early rockers and doo-woppers did in the 1950s and 1960s (and that Piaf and Brel did in France). Featuring “Spanish Stroll”, “Demasiado Corazon” & “Hey Joe”, this 2LP set includes a 4-page booklet with extensive liner notes written by ex-band members and DeVille’s inner circle.

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