The Allee Willis Museum of Kitsch

Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1968 Right On’s 100 Super-Soul Stars Book and Saturday Night with Earth Wind & Fire and Stevie Wonder, 2010

. My life would have never been the same without Soul music. Growing up in Detroit, my teenage years were spent on the far right of the AM r...

August 2, 2010 by Allee Willis

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1950’s “Sponge Cloth”

Long before Mr. Clean and Magic Sponge promised fewer steps and happy housewives came Harwood’s Sponge Cloth, one of many modern mirac...

July 29, 2010 by Allee Willis

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Beethoven’s Fifth Popcorn

Other than the fact that it’s packaged in a 750ml bottle, the standard size vessel for champagne, the stretch to connect product with ...

July 27, 2010 by Allee Willis

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Japanese Portable Banana Keeper

I’m not sure which kitsch factor I enjoy most about this made in Japan Portable Banana Keeper, the fact that it’s pierced with h...

July 26, 2010 by Allee Willis

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Denny’s Adventure’s In “Willis Wonderland” – this concludes our tour

If I do find other things I did not post, they will show up here of course. This concludes my little tour of “Willis Wonderland”...

July 23, 2010 by denny

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – “Don’t Forget” Paperweight Hand

Every morning I wake up to a pile of notes that I’ve dropped on the floor from my bed the night before as I don’t like to keep a...

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Denny’s Adventure’s In “Willis Wonderland” – part 23

Vintage pool rules! What an incredible cover. Zsa Zsa Gabor – My Story! A gigantic drawer filled with all sorts of vintage ashtrays fo...

July 21, 2010 by denny

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Cootie Game

I can’t remember any game more popular than Cootie when I was growing up. But forget about the game itself, I loved playing with the l...

by Allee Willis

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Denny’s Adventure’s In “Willis Wonderland” – part 21

The very first printing of Pigmy Will’s adventures, produced by Prudence Fenton and Allee Willis. We love you, Pigmy. There should be ...

July 20, 2010 by denny

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Murder, She Wrote Board Game

I never really watched Murder, She Wrote during its run on CBS from 1984-1996. I was in a very heavy songwriting and technology phase and al...

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Denny’s Adventure’s In “Willis Wonderland” – part 20

LP and artwork for Johnny “Guitar” Wilson’s album. Although the lp is quite brilliant, it’s seeing it framed HUGE li...

July 19, 2010 by denny

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Denny’s Adventure’s In “Willis Wonderland” – part 19

Amazing. This is in the studio and every time I walked in here it made me crazy knowing that I don’t play a single instrument. I can s...

July 18, 2010 by denny

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Denny’s Adventure’s In “Willis Wonderland” – part 18

This is a fantastic painting by “Bubbles The Artist”. It’s the “Ike & Tina Tuner Review”. Note the go-go d...

July 17, 2010 by denny

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Denny’s Adventure’s in “Willis Wonderland” – part 17

One of my favorite pics taken in the studio where the magic happens and the ideas flow. Note the tiki head staring at us through the window....

July 16, 2010 by denny

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Denny’s Adventure’s in “Willis Wonderland” – part 16

I should have taken more detailed photos of this since this is the piece I consider “kitsch supreme”. This is the first time I h...

July 15, 2010 by denny

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1950’s Betty Crocker’s “Dinner for Two” Cookbook

Featuring 425 “new” recipes plus a special ‚”When-Company-Comes” section, this cookbook, published in 1958 by Gene...

by Allee Willis

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Denny’s Adventure’s In “Willis Wonderland” – part 15

This is Allee making it a point to show me this fabulous “Certificate of Commendation” awarded to “Bubbles the Artist̶...

July 14, 2010 by denny

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Denny’s Adventure’s In “Willis Wonderland” – part 14

This was done by Mark Blackwell. The following info I nabbed from Allee’s page as I was having a time of it remembering who did this. ...

July 13, 2010 by denny

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Who You Gonna Be??

O.k. so the video itself is not much. Just a pan of Allee’s 1974 album Childstar. The song is pure 70’s, with Allee’s dist...

by Lisa Rios

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CALLING ALL JUNGLE ANIMALS!!!

As some of you may know, I’ve been working with Pomplamoose, an ungodly popular and talented independent band with over 25,000,000 vie...

July 12, 2010 by Allee Willis

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Denny’s Adventure’s In “Willis Wonderland” – part 13

Amazing. A light up frame of Martin Luther King and his family. Who knew, until now that the Supremes had their own line of bread? Personali...

by denny

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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Mislabeled Orange Measuring Cups

Because of their perfect shape and glowing color the orange has captured the imagination of designers since the beginning of time. In this c...

by Allee Willis

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Calling Dr. Kildare…

I always found Richard to be very talented and interesting. These are from the early 60’s I think. They were acquired from a friend wh...

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Denny’s Adventure’s In “Willis Wonderland” – part 12

As some of you may or may not know, Allee was friends with Dusty and even wrote some songs for her such as “Send It To Me” from ...

July 11, 2010 by denny

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Denny’s Adventure’s In “Willis Wonderland” – part 11

These light up foot stools make me absolutely nuts! I have been on the hunt since seeing these. Who wouldn’t want one of these? I phot...

July 10, 2010 by denny

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