Ernie K-Doe vs. Lee Dorsey

Message Bookmarked
Bookmark Removed

I only have a handful or so tracks from both of these artists. I realized I love everything I've heard by both. I've decided to become a completest for both. But who do I start with?

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Lee Dorsey 9
Ernie K-Doe 0


serious sockpuppet here (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:37 (seventeen years ago)

I don't think you can lose here, but I'm in about the same boat.

Velma can stay (Oilyrags), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:42 (seventeen years ago)

Lee Dorsey for more songs I know and love. Which seems unfair to EKD, but so beet.

Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:43 (seventeen years ago)

Mother In Law vs. Working in a Coalmine alone is impossible.

Factor in one man's cape and one man's funk and I'm just overwhelmed.

serious sockpuppet here (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:51 (seventeen years ago)

Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 00:54 (seventeen years ago)

dorsey is better for this time of year.

ian, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 01:15 (seventeen years ago)

feel like i should pick dorsey because there's way more, but there's probably nothing i like as much as mother in law. i think i might've only heard the b-side to it for my full knowledge of e k d

schlump, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 02:08 (seventeen years ago)

The best part of "Mother-In-Law" being the hook bass vocal by Benny Spellman is kind of another reason not to vote for Ernie.

ilx chilton (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 03:14 (seventeen years ago)

yes we can vote for Lee Dorsey (one of my all-time favorite singers ever), revered by everyone from Van Dyke Parks to Devo to Pointer Sisters to O himself.

beta blog, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:18 (seventeen years ago)

Dorsey's got a much more impressive body of work, but "Mother in Law" is the balls.

Jazzbo, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:28 (seventeen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Sunday, 1 February 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 2 February 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

From Offbeat magazine:

The End of an Era: The Mother-In-Law Lounge Closes

Sadly the Mother-In-Law Lounge, named after the Allen Toussaint-penned song that was performed by the late Ernie K-Doe, will soon close its doors.

K-Doe passed away in July 2001, and his widow Antoinette kept the bar as a tribute to her late husband and a quirky barroom that not only hosted R&B acts, but young performers, such as Quintron and many more. It was a gathering place for many a New Orleans music cognescenti, and was even included in a recent episode of HBO's Treme as the meeting place for the captains of the Krewe du Vieux.

Antoinette K-Doe died on Mardi Gras day in 2009, and it was hoped that the legacy of the bar would be continued by Mrs. K-Doe's family. But that was not to be. Betty Fox, Antoinette's daughter, has not been able to keep the bar operating, and she's closing it, according to recent Times-Picayune report.

Perhaps the Mother-In-Law should be added as one of those historic spots in New Orleans musical lore. Historic Landmarks Commission...get busy!

curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 June 2010 20:58 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

This was a Sunday March 25 panel at the EMP Pop Conference

New Orleans
Venue: KC 804/5
Moderated by: Blake Leyh(music supervisor for Treme tv show)
Featuring:
Ben Sandmel, "Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans ('Mother-In-Law,' 'Ma-Naughahyde,' and Grassroots Surrealism)"

Sandmel is working on a K-Doe book, I hear

curmudgeon, Monday, 26 March 2012 12:03 (fourteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://blog.nola.com/entertainment_impact_music/print.html?entry=/2012/04/ernie_k-doe_biography_tells_ta.html

Sandmel's book on K-Doe is out. Book signings in the Big Easy today and Saturday.

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:03 (fourteen years ago)

Awesome, want that book. I would have loved a bonus cd of K-Doe's spiels on WWOZ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNSdf9i0ixA

I made it to the Mother-In-Law lounge twice; if I can ever find and scan my photos I'll put some up.

Hey Jude, don't make it BAD MENTAL HEALTH (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:40 (fourteen years ago)

If June, 2001 was his last public appearance, I'm guessing my second time seeing him at his club was spring of that year during Jazzfest.

Hey Jude, don't make it BAD MENTAL HEALTH (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:44 (fourteen years ago)

Would love to read that

zing left unguarded, the j/k palace in flames (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:30 (fourteen years ago)


You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.