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What Social Networks And Songwriting Have In Common
What’s to make me join yet another social network when I’m already a member of so many, dragging myself ’round the clock to fulfill my duties as a responsible citizen on each of them? What’s to make...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day update – Disco suitcases temporarily retired
My trip was postponed for a month so the suitcases on are back in the closet and the percussion is resting nicely in its regular bed. Pomplamoose tunes are so hot and I hate to dial it back to simmer...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Vintage Bongos & Pomplamoose
These 1950′s bongos with pearlized crushed ice wrap and heavy chrome hardware have been beaten on just about every song I ever wrote. If it weren’t for their bone crushing girth they would be in my...
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Allee Willis’ Soul O’ Day – Earth Wind & Fire At the Hollywood Bowl with a...
Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t go to concerts. I don’t like the crowds, I don’t like the walking, I don’t like someone singing next to me or standing up in front of me dancing. I understand...
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Allee Willis’“The 365 Days Of September”– Day 9
I’m always happy when my work inspires folks to take on their own creative endeavors. But in this case, the spirit of my song, “September”, just might have inspired a little too much confidence in...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Jukebox Tip Tray and My First Time Singing...
Mere days after my first and only album, Childstar, was released on Epic Records in 1974, I walked on stage in front of 10,000 people to open in Boston for folksinger David Bromberg. The only other...
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Allee Willis’ Soul O’ The Day – R.I.P. Ashford, Leiber and Ragavoy
What are the odds of losing two of the most influential songwriters of all time on the same day? That’s what happened yesterday. First, Jerry Lieber, whose “Hound Dog” got the...
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Me and My Soup To Nuts Party Mix live show...
Show is completely SOLD OUT! Only 4 more days of being the most overworked person on the planet (though I never expect that to diminish). See the LA Weekly article here. Photo credit: Jenny Warren.
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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Dinner And Neutron Dancing With CHARO!
I’m sure any kitsch lover has a similar dream – having dinner with the kitschy-kitschy-cuchi Charo and bonding like you have been best friends for 30 years. Such was my evening at composer Pietor...
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DEtroit Citay! 2013
Just got back from a quickie 2-1/2 day trip to the Motor City to go to the pre-release book signing party for Heart Soul Detroit, Jenny Risher’s fantastic photo essay book coming out in March that I’m...
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Heads Up, Detroit!
Just got back from an amazing trip to Detroit where I was laying the groundwork for the big project I’m coming back in September to do there and the project for which I’ve just launched a fund-raising...
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EYE on Detroit! $$ in da Bank!
It’s no secret to anyone within miles of my mouth that constantly babbles on about it that I love my hometown of Detroit, the city that gets more bad raps than an unpopular war, deadly criminals, and...
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Leg One of “The D” Over and Out!
Got back to LA from leg #1 of “The D”, my song/video/documentary tribute to the SOUL of Detroit, last week sick as a dog, happy as a clam, and just now rising from the dead to finally write this...
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A SNEAK PEEK at “The D”!!
Finally!! Get out the ol’ YouTube and enjoy this sneak peek at “The D”! (This is NOT the music video or film; just a sneak peek at what you can expect!) You can play this now or read a little more as I...
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Blogless, Broke and Happy
Sorry, sorry, sorry for no new entries in an eternity. I’m working around several clocks and all the energy that used to be poured into this blog has to now go into slogging through the close to 5000...
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“The D” update: Computer Hell/Detroit Heaven!
I know. It’s been pathetically long since my last update. This is not due to inactivity! We’ve been having 12 hour days here at Willis Wonderland since January and STILL haven’t quite gotten through...
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