I spent most of Wednesday afternoon being photographed and interviewed for “Born in Detroit,” a book by Jenny Risher “celebrating...
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Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 150 – August 2010)
This makes me nuts! All male stylist convention in Texas! Oh my god, her hat!...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – ‘Can Ya Dig It’ Patch
Other then “Right on!”, there was no more popular phrase in the late 60’s and early 70’s than “Can Ya Dig It?̶...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Jukebox Tip Tray and My First Time Singing On Stage In Mannnnny Years TONIGHT!!!
Racing out of Willis Wonderland for sound check so no new posts today other than the confessional I’ve written below. Back tomorrow wi...
Inez & Charlie Foxx “The Dynamo Duo” – LP
I am currently listening to this album. 60’s soul is one of my favorite genres of music and I never tire of the sound! So much mor...
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...
Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 124 – August 2010)
At least all you had to do was paint this guy. I was always good at that but when it involved putting something together AND painting, IR...
The Adventures of Allee Willis in Detroit! Allee Willis Marches on Detroit!
This was taken in Detroit on April 8th, 2011 on our first day of meetings with Allee. We were all there to work with Allee on her tour of ...
wattstax
I was reading about the Wattstax Music Festival today (trying to find the documentary actually) and I came across this on youtube….Whi...
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 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...
Wooden Wall Plaque with little girl reading…
This was a 50 cent item that I did not buy but felt that because she had a face made out of a rock, I had to photograph it. Almost 8×10...
Preacher Man – 8 x 10 (a painting by Denny)
If I told everyone who I wanted this to be when I started, you would all fall off your chairs. I originally was going for Dave “Baby...
Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 109 – August 2010)
This is “Pair O Pussies”, another fabulous painting by “Bubbles The Artist”. I believe the paintings in this post ar...
Rap in the wrong hands is a dangerous thing…
This clip speaks for itself: http://www.break.com/index/whiterapper21.html...
Big-eyed Boy Black Velvet Painting
I call this one: “Small Bowl-cut haired towhead boy with Giant Brown eyes holds on to log for dear life in a green sweater that is eat...
Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 101 – August 2010)
I believe the Jazzman plays tunes but I’m not sure what Sammy Davis does if he does anything at all. The small white statue kills me. ...
Denny’s Adventures in Allee Willis’ “Willis Wonderland” (Part 99 – August 2010)
I’ve been looking for this film ever since I came across it in the archives at “Willis Wonderland”. Another piece of kitsc...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Dinah-Mite and the Dyn-O-Miteness of Jenifer Lewis
I love things that are ‘off’ but born of popular trends and then spin off into their own orbit, making a firm landing on the ter...
Afro Jesus, 2010 – a painting by Denny
This is “Afro Jesus” and I think he had a bit too much caffeine but I’m not entirely sure Jesus’ lips were this red....
Afro Mouse – 2010 (a painting by Denny)
This one even kills me. Here is one of the paintings in my “afro series”. I love how he’s twirling his whisker....













