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| - Musical groups disestablished in 1986
- Musical sextets
- Musical groups established in 1974
- American punk rock groups
- Musical groups from New York
- Musical groups from San Francisco, California
- Mink DeVille
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| - US R&B/rock & roll band (1974-1986) fronted by Willy DeVille. Though starting out in San Francisco playing gay leatherbars as %22Billy de Sade and the Marquis%22 (Billy being Billy Borsay, Willy DeVille's original name), the band changed its name To Mink DeVille (and Bosay became Willy DeVille) in 1975 and became on of the housebands in the famous NY club CBGB. CBGB being the epicenter of NY punk - and other house bands being Blondie, Television and Talking Heads got Mink DeVille categorized as part of the punk/new Wave underground which they never belonged to musically. Mink DeVille's music was build on R&B, blues and 60's classic pop blended with streetwise attitudes and back alley romanticism, not unlike the sound heard in early Bruce Springsteen songs like %22Rosalita%22 and %22Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out%22 and heard from Springsteen confreres Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes and Gary U.S. Bonds, with a twist of hispano, New Orleans and Zydeco. Discovered by Capitol Records in 1977 the band recorded three albums for the label. The fresh approach to R&B classicism and rock & roll got producer legend Jack Nitzsche interested in producing the band and he is credited as being major influencial on the development of the bands sound. Hearing the band live in it's early days also caught song writing legend Doc Pomus's attention, and he offered to write with Willy DeVille. In spite of critical acclaim and praise of DeVille's writing talent Mink DeVille didn't make it big in the US, but caught quite an audience in Europe. The original Mink Deville band was let off by Willy DeVille after the first two albums, and from 1980's %22Le Chat Bleu%22 recorded in Paris, he would hand pick musicians for recording and touring under the band name. The album is often cited as the bands best out of the six studio albums.From 1986 Willy DeVille performed under his own name.Band key songs include %22Spanish Stroll%22, %22Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl%22, %22A%22 Train Lady, %22I Broke That Promise%22, %22Just To Walk That Little Girl Home%22 and %22Love & Emotion%22
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| - Mink DeVille (1974–86) was a rock band known for its association with early punk rock bands at New York’s CBGB nightclub and for being a showcase for the music of Willy DeVille. The band recorded six albums in the years 1977 to 1985. Except for frontman Willy DeVille, the original members of the band played only on the first two albums (Cabretta and Return to Magenta). For the remaining albums and for tours, Willy DeVille assembled musicians to play under the name Mink DeVille. After 1985, when Willy DeVille began recording and touring under his own name, his backup bands were sometimes called “The Mink DeVille Band,” an allusion to the earlier Mink DeVille.Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songwriter Doc Pomus said about the band, “Mink DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song. And the harsh reality in his voice and phrasing is yesterday, today, and tomorrow — timeless in the same way that loneliness, no money, and troubles find each other and never quit for a minute.”
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- Mink De Ville
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