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Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Mini-Mod Disco Doll Accessories
I love these kind of toy kits that are slapped together to take advantage of some current trend because the contents are usually cheaply mad...
Dusty Springfield “I Wish That Love Would Last” song from Norma Rae
Allee wrote this track , “I Wish That Love Would Last” which was the flip side of a single titled “It Goes Like It Goes...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 14, THE VIDEO
As I’ve been blabbing about for weeks now, I had the extreme pleasure of conducting my high school marching band playing a medley of s...
Allee Willis, Patti LaBelle and the song “Little Girls”
An early collection of Patti Labelle’s greatest hits which features the track, “Little Girls” written by Allee Willis. P...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 12, My Speech
On April 7 I was the closing keynote speaker at the Rust Belt To Arts Belt III conference in Detroit. Every year the conference takes place ...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 9, The City By Car
Wednesday, April 6, had tremendous potential. (L-R) Mark Blackwell and Laura Grover, both of whom worked on putting the whole Detroit extrav...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 7, Fox News and Marching Band Rehearsal
Tues., April 5, started at 7 am. (Kill me now; that’s the middle of the night for me.) Thank God there was a Yum Yum (my dictation sof...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 5, The School and The Hot Dogs
The first time I ever went back to my high school, Mumford, after graduating in 1965 was when my musical, The Color Purple, first came to th...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Allee Willis Marches on Detroit! Part 3, The House
I know… I promised that Part 3 was going to be about finally getting into the house I grew up in on Sorrento Ave. in Detroit after try...
I’m off to Detroit today!
Here’s where I’ll be this coming weekend conducting the bows music to my musical, The Color Purple, and then on Saturday morning...
From Allee on the road…
As much as I look forward to rolling out of bed every morning and choosing wonderful gems of kitsch you all bestow upon me and AWMOK, today ...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – “Why Yes Fly Me”… On My Way To SXSW!
This 18 inch tall plaster stewardess is a stone cold vestige of the late 1960’s spirit of flying, when both planes and the people that...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – If You’re Heading To SXSW….
…come see me and my latest piece of technology, this 1960’s wrist transisitor radio, on the “Indie Success: Caching in on Col...
Allee speaking at SXSW!
For anyone going to SXSW this coming week in Austin, Texas, here’s where I’ll be: “Indie Success: Caching in on Collaborat...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Ghetto Fab Michael Jackson Sphinx Pendant and Storm Lee’s Birthday Soirée
. Sunday night I went to Storm Lee’s birthday party. He’s a great singer and killed it on The X Factor, the British version of S...
Allee Willis & The Earth Wind & Fire Connection – 18 x 24 (a painting by Denny)
I had fun painting this but as you all know by now, I’m not always the best in painting fingers and hands. Oh well. I still can...
I found Allee Willis at the dump. Well sort of……(this post features the skinny on the song “Your Place Or Mine” written by Allee!!!)
I found this cassette at my local “gift hut” here in the town of Orleans. As some of you or may not know, each town dump has w...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Junk Food Supreme At A Kitsch Lover’s Party
Anyone reading my blog long enough knows I’m an unabashed lover of junk food. My conscience has upped through the years but in a perfe...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Del Rubio Triplet Valentine’s Day Cards Progress Report
When I, along with Hidden Los Angeles, put out the call a few weeks ago that for Valentine’s Day we wanted to bring as many V-Day ca...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Vintage Harlem Nightclub Shaker and My Weekend at Vitello’s
Anyone who knows me knows that I’m not an avid club-goer. It used to be that I wanted to hear every detail of a record under headphone...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – High Heel Carrots and Hearts Of Palm
I’m always amazed how all these pickled vegetables end up perfectly arranged in a bottle let alone in a glass high heel shoe. I never ...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – 1960’s “Last Leg O’ The (knee) Trip” Pen
I’m happy to report that my own recently operated on left knee is finally allowing my leg to return to its natural state such as mod...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – The Del Rubio Triplets and a Valentine’s Day Card for Milly
. Join me and Hidden Los Angeles and send a Valentine’s Day card to Milly Del Rubio. Details below. Anyone who knows me knows that two...
Allee Willis’ Soul O’ The Day – I’m Here and so is Oprah, Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia and LaChanze
This isn’t kitsch, it’s art at it’s finest. But it’s my Museum and everything I do impacts my take on kitsch. So I...