", Better known in Europe than in the U.S., DeVille went solo in 1980 with "Le Chat Bleu." Tracklist . Unlike Television, the Ramones, or Blondie, at heart Mink DeVille was an R&B band, and Willy an old-fashioned soul singer. He was 58. Privacy Policy | For this album, DeVille wrote several songs with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Doc Pomus. The host for the episode is Robert Urich, and the musical guest is Mink DeVille. "[4] Guitarist Fast Floyd and keyboard player Ritch Colbert arrived in New York City several months later. Bekijk meer ideeën over Muziek, Muzikanten, Zangers. They're professional, precise, but they're full of fire, too.[28]. I can put you in touch with him.' 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. [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. 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. When it was finally released in 1980, Le Chat Bleu remixed by Joel Dorn, made nearly every critic's list of the year's best records. Comment Report abuse. In 1977, the band recorded "Cabretta," a rock and roll/rhythm and blues album with renowned producer Jack Nitzsche. Welcome to the official website of singer/songwriter Willy DeVille. [19] The song went to No. Buckwheat performs with his backup singers, Da Dupreems. He was like my crazy uncle. EMAIL ME. Elliott Murphy later asked me incredulously. Its featured song, "Spanish Stroll," was a Top 20 hit in Britain. I thought, 'Holy shit! 254. [6] According to a 1977 article in Creem, DeVille's wife Toots Deville suggested the name: "...the band looked like it might have been going nowhere, in reverse. Wow! Mink DeVille (1974–86) was a rock band known for its association with early punk rock bands at New York's CBGB nightclub and for being a showcase for the music of Willy DeVille.The band recorded six albums in the years 1977 to 1985. Later in life, DeVille had only sour memories of CBGB. [20] Cabretta was elected number 57 in the Village Voice's 1977 end-of-the-year Pazz & Jop critics poll.[21]. Two days later the elusive producer was sitting in my office. 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. The group was a showcase for frontman Willy DeVille (born William… That's pretty cool! TWITTER [4] In 1975, CBGB was the epicenter of punk rock and what would later be called new wave, but Mink DeVille didn't necessarily fit in the scene. "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. All rights reserved. And then one night this blond-headed guy came in to CBGB, Ben Edmonds. 'When do we start?' "[11] "Every f----n' art student that plays out of tune gets a record deal," he said dismissively in 1981, when asked about the punk scene. The '70s Punk Rebellion, Cabretta, and Coup de grâce. Youtube; Spanish Stroll Mink DeVille. "[10], Mink DeVille's last album, Sportin' Life, was recorded for Polydor in 1985. The exposure eventually led to a record contract. You never were fair to me.'"[15]. I've got Phil Spector's horn player, Steve Douglas (who also served as producer), on tenor and baritone. Not to mention Jean-Claude doing the strings. AP The song "Italian Shoes" was a hit in some European countries,[30] but some critics thought the album was overproduced. Directed by Dave Wilson. Said DeVille, "I met Manfred at a party; he'd been playing with John Lee Hooker and a lot of blues people around San Francisco. Albums include No Thanks! Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. I met Rubén at a basement jam in San Francisco, and he liked everything I liked from The Drifters to, uh, Fritz Lang. 'No, it's gotta be something slick—something sorta French, somethin' sorta black ... poetry. "[31] However, David Wild of Rolling Stone praised Sportin' Life, calling it "[t]he most modern, polished sound of (Willy DeVille's) career." "[10] In 2007, Willy DeVille said about the bands that played CBGBs, "We were all labeled as part of this American punk thing but I really didn't see any of us having much in common. Nitzsche produced and arranged the first two Mink DeVille records for Capitol -- Cabretta (1977) and Return to Magenta (1978). by Stand By Me - L'Emission French TV.TV Appearances Vol. rootsrockreggaesoulmusichut. Associated Press The original Mink Deville band was broken up by Willy DeVille after the first two albums, and from 1980's "Le Chat Bleu" recorded in Paris, he would hand-pick musicians for recording and touring under the band name. But where Patti Smith was being produced by John Cale, Willy DeVille was hanging out with Doc Pomus and Jack Nitzsche -- both of whom he wrote with. 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. blurted out Toots, Willie's omnipresent, black-bouffanted old lady, whose quiet intensity is not unlike his own." Willy DeVille, a singer and songwriter and the leader of the group Mink DeVille, whose adventurous forays into rhythm and blues, Cajun music and … He spent much of his solo career playing in New York, New Orleans, and Europe, where he was incredibly popular. 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. 185. Youtube; Slow Drain Mink DeVille. "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. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Finally I got a new recording contract, with Atlantic, and a new manager. In 1979, Willy DeVille's love of art and French culture led him to relocate to Paris for a short while. After a while they would take their clothes off. Although a product of the New York punk scene, at heart Mink DeVille were a soul band with roots in R&B, the blues, and even Cajun music. You've got to be kidding! It was clear that Willy had realized his fantasy of a new, completely contemporary Brill Building record. 4.0 out of 5 stars 22 tracks covering the great singer's capitol years. We were buddies to the end. | California Privacy Rights "[32], After Sportin' Life, DeVille dropped the "Mink" moniker and began recording under his own name. This one guy—Jesus Satin he called himself—he'd dance on the pool table. DeVille recorded two albums for Atlantic, 1981's Coup de Grâce (produced by Jack Nitzsche) and 1983's Where Angels Fear to Tread. Live At The Savoy - 1986 http://www.facebook.com/pages/Willy-DeVille-Videos/128087130584600 http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_131791920211690 "Look me up. , Plus they seemed to contain all the flavors of their New York neighborhood, from Spanish accents to reggae spice. We used to do an Apollo thing. He is recording a new album for Atlantic records, having departed from his previous recording commitment under less than amicable circumstances. Spanish Stroll Lyrics. Some musicians who backed up Willy DeVille in The Mink DeVille Band played and toured with him for decades. [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. '"[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. "[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. The show was the most soulful Doc had seen in ages. These members of different Mink DeVille Bands played with Willy DeVille for ten years or more: This quote comes from the back cover of Mink DeVille's 1978 album. 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. I have seen Mink DeVille several times and was disappointed in this CD Read more. "We were Billy de Sade and the Marquis then. To cover the cracks, Fast Floyd glued an old mink coat he had purchased at a thrift store to the dashboard. We were the five big draws. The only stuff we were doing that people had heard was 'Please, Please, Please' by James Brown. "The rock world has lost another one of its influential pioneers," Kaye said. 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. I've never walked through those doors other than to have maybe a beer once. "I convinced the guys that I could get them work, and we climbed in the van and drove back the other way. With his pedantically trimmed pencil mustache he looked like a cross between a bullfighter and a Puerto Rican pimp. Wrote Alex Halberstadt, Pomus's biographer: One night Doc's pub crawl took him to The Bottom Line just a block east of Washington Square Park (in New York City). And on Friday night he was at the Savoy, where he demonstrated with an almost insolent ease that he is still ready for the recognition that should have been his several years ago. Helpful. DeVille may have been referring to these psychedelic bands: "Mink DeVille: Smooth Running Caddy – The Tale of The Mink", "Mink Deville: Spanish stroll - Positieverloop in de Nederlandse Top 40", "Rolling Stone's 1980 Rock & Roll Awards – Critic's Poll", "Pop Jazz; Willy DeVille and the Mink in Weekend at the Savoy", "Willy DeVille, RIP: Remembering an American Original", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mink_DeVille&oldid=994308374, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Guitar: Ricky Borgia, Freddy Koëlla (also plays, Background vocals: Billy Valentine, John Valentine, Dorene Wise, Yadonna Wise, This page was last edited on 15 December 2020, at 01:44. Mink DeVille, for which DeVille was the principal songwriter, was billed as one of the most original groups on the New York punk scene after an appearance at the legendary CBGB club in Greenwich Village in the 1970s. 26-apr-2016 - Bekijk het bord "Willy DeVille - Mink DeVille" van Gerd Quirijnen op Pinterest. Bass player Bob Curiano, Drummer Shawn Murray for example, backed up Willy DeVille in his 1984 and 2007 European tours. With Robert Urich, Robin Duke, Christine Ebersole, Mary Gross. Capitol Records released Le Chat Bleu in Europe in 1980, but believed that American audiences would not warm to a record featuring accordions and strings. Willy pulled out his record collection, he started playing things, that was it. I'm in the book," Doc hollered before rolling away (in his wheelchair). Because you never treated me right. Slow Drain Lyrics. I didn't get Jack Nitzsche. 20 on the UK Singles Chart; it was to be DeVille's only record ever to chart in the UK. Said Willy DeVille, "You listen to that music and you hear those really high strings, and that percussion, and the castanets; that's all Jack's (Jack Nitzsche's) work. So maybe another name change would help—God knows the music was great. NEW YORK -- Willy DeVille, who founded the punk group Mink DeVille and was known for his blend of R&B, blues, Dixieland and traditional French Cajun ballads, has died, his publicist said Friday. Said DeVille, "We were sitting around talking of names, and some of them were really rude, and I was saying, guys we can't do that. He was even more amazed when Doc asked whether he'd write with him. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songwriter Doc Pomus said about the band, "Mink DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song. DeVille strode out of the wings and snatched the mike. As well, musicians who played in The Mink DeVille Band sometimes played on Mink DeVille and Willy DeVille albums. 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. 3 in the Netherlands. [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. "We auditioned along with hundreds of others, but they liked us and took us on. Doc (Pomus) was elated when he heard it. Link: https://youtu.be/N5LveBIjg3o. For the remaining albums and for tours, Willy DeVille assembled musicians to play under the name Mink DeVille. The tightest black suit clung to his thin frame; he wore a purple shirt, a narrow black tie and shoes with six-inch points. His "Storybook Love," featured in the 1987 movie "The Princess Bride," was nominated for an Academy Award. [2] On the catchy "Spanish Stroll", bassist Rubén Sigüenza spoke words in Spanish during the break ("Hey Rosita! 11:50 AM PDT 8/7/2009 Rocker Willy DeVille died in 2009 at age 58 from pancreatitis and other health problems resulting from his hard-partying lifestyle. "[2] Willy DeVille occasionally sat in with the band Lazy Ace, which included Allen Jr. on drums and Ritch Colbert on piano. I cleaned up my act. In 1976, three Mink DeVille songs appeared on Live at CBGB's, a compilation album of bands that played CBGB (for the recording sessions, drummer Thomas R. "Manfred" Allen, Jr. was credited as Manfred Jones). DeVille Little Miss Tragedy is so misunderstood She can hear you sniff a whip of a bad drugs a hundred yards away These five guys ... were obviously part of the new energy, but I also felt immediately reconnected to all the rock & roll I loved best: the bluesy early Stones, Van Morrison ..., the subway scenarios of The Velvet Underground, Dylan's folk-rock inflections, the heartbreak of Little Willie John, and a thousand scratchy old flea market 45s. We played the Barracks. But if you are Mink DeVille fan you might love it. He did not play any benefit concerts or recordings for the nightclub. We weren't ready to make great rock and roll records. [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. Then one of the guys said how about Mink DeVille? A Pompadour jutted out above his forehead like the lacquered hull of a submarine. The skits for this episode are as follows: Before the show, the cast compares host Robert Urich with Burt Reynolds. He has the songs, he has the voice, and he has the band. 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). Crazy! I didn't even know who Nitzsche was. I said, 'No Hilly and you know why? Nitzsche would, in alternation with Steve Douglas, produce the first four Mink DeVille albums. And those guys turned out to be more devoted to the music than any band I ever had. Terms of Use | 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. 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. In an impressionistic sort of way. 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. © 2020 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. Explained Kenny Margolis, who played piano and accordion in DeVille's early 1980s bands, "I don't think the American public had a chance to experience him because in America at that time you had MTV telling you what to like. He embodies (New York's) tangle of cultural contradictions while making music that's both idiomatic, in the broadest sense, and utterly original."[14]. [10], Mink DeVille recorded their debut album Cabretta (entitled Mink DeVille in the U.S.), produced by Jack Nitzsche, in January 1977. The Oscar-nominated songwriter died at New York's Cabrini Hospital on Thursday of pancreatic cancer, said Carol Kaye at Kayos Productions. 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). Thinking they'd signed a new wave band, Capitol didn't know what to do with Willy's rock and roll chanson and shelved it for a year. Mink DeVille Biography by Jason Ankeny + Follow Artist. DeVille sounded like he couldn't quite decide whether to serenade you or pull a knife on you. "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]. As recorded by Mink Deville, album 'Late Night Tales: Fatboy Slim'. Tu sabes que te quiero, pero ti me quitas todo"), adding a Latin flavor to the album. He added, "Pushed to center stage, DeVille delivers, singing with more passion and more personality than ever before. "We went against strings on the first album—decided it should be outright, raw, and rude. And that was the whole of it, plain and simple. 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. Onstage, Willy's band, Mink DeVille, had nothing in common with the new wave CBGB bands that the press had lumped them with. Nitzsche did all the Phil Spector stuff that we grew up with and loved. [18] It was nuts! And the harsh reality in his voice and phrasing is yesterday, today, and tomorrow — timeless in the same way that loneliness, no money, and troubles find each other and never quit for a minute. From his legendary years fronting Mink DeVille to his critically-acclaimed solo career, Willy has been adding his own unique voice to the larger musical conversation for over three decades. "[10] After Le Chat Bleu sold impressively in America as an import, Capitol finally released it in the United States. "[5] Another story about the Mink DeVille name says that it originated with Fast Floyd, who owned an old Cadillac with a cracked dashboard. AdChoices Sitemap | I was down in New Orleans and I came up here, kind of going down Memory Lane so to speak. Springsteen sounded like he was your friend in desperate times. The album was recorded at the Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, and DeVille and Duncan Cameron producing. Album Le Chat Bleu. Dr. John played keyboards and, once again, Douglas played saxophone. During his thirty-five year career, first with his band Mink DeVille (1974–1986) and later… read more Mink DeVille discography and songs: Music profile for Mink DeVille, formed 1974. Mink DeVille toured the United States in 1978 with Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe. When Lazy Ace broke up, DeVille, Allen Jr., Colbert, Rubén Sigüenza, and guitarist Robert McKenzie (a.k.a. Fast Floyd was replaced by Louis X. Erlanger, who had played with John Lee Hooker and brought a deeper blues sensibility to the band; Colbert left the band and returned to California in 1977 and was replaced by Bobby Leonards (formerly of Tiffany Shade). We just fell in love with each other. Listen to music from Mink DeVille. "[3], In 1975, the band changed its name to Mink DeVille; lead singer Billy Borsay took the name Willy DeVille. They didn't understand the record, but they understood it in Europe. Mink DeVille played its last concert on February 20, 1986 in New York City.[33]. "[22], Willy DeVille hired Jean Claude Petit to supervise string arrangements, and he dismissed the members of the band except for guitarist Louis X. Erlanger in favor of new musicians, including accordionist Kenny Margolis. I called him my mentor and my tormentor. 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. [16], There was the Ramones, Patti Smith, Television, the Talking Heads, and us. Both men, members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had apprenticed under Phil Spector and helped shape the Wall of Sound production technique. 8, A Jepp® Production Vol. Donde vas con mi carro Rosita? There can't be anything cooler than a fur-lined Cadillac can there? Here he took his band in a new direction and recorded an entirely original album called Le Chat Bleu. In the beginning I saw Mink DeVille as a hard-edged rock and roll band, and I wanted the Nitzsche who'd produced "Memo from Turner" (off the Performance soundtrack) and the great first Crazy Horse album ... 'How did you ever get Jack Nitzsche?'

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