Mink/Willy Deville C/D, S/D

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I only have Le Chat Bleu and a few random tracks ("Spanish Stroll" most esp.). I'm thinking classic-ish, in a minor league way. The Crash Davis of post-punk doo-wop?

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I have Cabretta. Pretty good, yeah, in a "minor league way."

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Willy Deville was the American Phil Lynott.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, this minor-classic thing is about right. Unfortunately it is not making for a thrilling thread.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

"Spanish Stroll" is major-league classic, but I don't think he's done anything else quite as good.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

To add a little seediness and salaciousness...

I recall that he was staying in the same fleabag New Orleans hotel as Johnny Thunders when J.T. tied off for the last time. Willy said he didn't know anything about it.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Tuesday, 6 May 2003 23:28 (twenty-two years ago)

i've always liked "coup de grace". and that song he did for the "princess bride" soundtrack is oh so sweet... ;)

― cecilia, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

search - let me dream if i want to

― mig, Wednesday, 7 May 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

CLASSIC. Soooooo underrated. "Savoir Faire", "Spanish Stroll", "This Must be The Night", etc etc. Such great songs. All the Mink Deville albums are great, and some of his solo stuff is too, like the one produced by Mark knopfler "Desire".

― Shlomo Shemesh (Shlomo Shemesh), Thursday, 12 October 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Cabretta," or "Mink DeVille," is still a personal fave from when I was a kid. Nice, er, strut, as we used to say, and really gorgeous ballads -- search "Party Girls," "She's So Tough" (awesome) and "Can't Do Without It."

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Friday, 13 October 2006 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

nine months pass...

he's a shaman now? (dutch language site and commentary, but he talks in english, obv)

http://www.vrtnieuws.net/cm/vrtnieuws.net/mediatheek/1.154858

― StanM, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Pancreatic cancer :-(

http://www.willydevillemusic.com/index.php?page=news&n_id=79

― StanM, Thursday, 25 June 2009 17:48 (sixteen years ago)

wow, that's awful. I'm a huge Mink DeVille fan, grew up with his records playing constantly in my house. I hate it that he seems to be living in such obscurity

― iamwitty (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:16 (sixteen years ago)

I meant THEY'RE records playing constantly, although Willy DeVille albums got played, as well

― iamwitty (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Thursday, 25 June 2009 18:17 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

RIP

― Ludo, Friday, 7 August 2009 13:34 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.openluchttheater.be/var/media/agenda/WillyDV.jpg

― Ludo, Friday, 7 August 2009 13:36 (sixteen years ago)

man. this is the worst summer ever.

RIP Willy

― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Friday, 7 August 2009 14:24 (sixteen years ago)

French/German language news reports here so far:

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=willy%20deville&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 7 August 2009 14:37 (sixteen years ago)

RIP...

George and I discussed him on the Rolling Hard Rock thread earlier this summer, starting with this post:

Rolling Past Expiry Hard Rock 2009

― xhuxk, Friday, 7 August 2009 14:46 (sixteen years ago)

r.i.p.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-BshPidce4

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Friday, 7 August 2009 18:56 (sixteen years ago)

Anyone else love 'Just your Friends' off Return to Magenta?

RIP

― sonofstan, Friday, 7 August 2009 21:28 (sixteen years ago)

RIP. I totally fucking love this guy. Miss you tons, dude.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 8 August 2009 19:59 (sixteen years ago)

Shit, we were listening to "Cadillac Walk" only last night, and "Spanish Stroll" is one of my partner's all-time favourite records. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6wKV2TKanI

― mike t-diva, Sunday, 9 August 2009 10:14 (sixteen years ago)

Just found about this. RIP Willy.

― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan noo an' aw (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 10:49 (sixteen years ago)

My dad played some of his old tracks. :-( Fuck, this has been an awful year.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 19:25 (sixteen years ago)

interesting bit here on toots deville, who sounds ... interesting from a distance, and probably a disaster up close.

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 20:44 (sixteen years ago)

(or maybe not a disaster, exactly -- the final couple of comments to that post give some added perspective.)

― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 20:47 (sixteen years ago)

R.I.P. Wished I had tracked down the dude. one of the few folks left who could tell me about Jack Nitzsche, i reckon.

― beta blog, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 14:28 (sixteen years ago)

RIP

interesting bit here on toots deville, who sounds ... interesting from a distance, and probably a disaster up close.

I highly recommend the Doc Pomus bio by Alex Halberstadt that is quoted in that link.

― Horace Silver Machine (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 14:39 (sixteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

man i have been really jamming on his first two recrods lately. how long does he keep this up? cuz these are fucking great.

― proud teabagger from rim country (arby's), Sunday, 25 July 2010 01:18 (fifteen years ago)

nine years pass...

Wow I started this thread 17 years ago. Astounding. Well, to answer myself then. his mid-'90s solo album Backstreets of Desire is unexpectedly good.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 24 February 2020 05:07 (five years ago)

That Toots DeVille link is still active and quite interesting. One picture of Willie, Toots and his manager sitting in wheelchair had me thinking manager was Doc Pomus for a second.

― Something Super Stupid Cupid (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 24 February 2020 11:12 (five years ago)

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