Just in time for the weekend comes this 1950’s plastic drink guide, the must-have bar accessory in any respectable Space Age home. Spi...
Kitsch » May 2009
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Home Bar Guide
Just in time for the weekend comes this 1950’s plastic drink guide, the must-have bar accessory in any respectable Space Age home. Spi...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Real Tire Ashtray
Made of real Firestone tire rubber, these ashtrays hit their peak in the 1950’s but have remained a Kitsch accessory staple through th...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Beatles Nylons
Yea, you got the Beatles lunchbox, the Beatles tray and Beatles dolls but do you have the hosiery? The lads and their guitars are text...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Happy Friday Foster!
If only for the polyester bellbottomed poolside fashion shows and the razor blades embedded in Pam Grier’s afro, Friday Foster has att...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Watering Can Purse
Almost didn’t buy this because a) it wasn’t vintage and b) it was SO good I thought it would germinate like weeds in shopping ma...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – James Brown, Me & How To Write for Money
Here I am with James Brown in my studio in 1984 as we peruse one of my favorite Kitsch books, How To Sing For Money. The Godfather an...
Warm Cover Of Toilet Bowl
Boasting that it’s to be “applied in modern families, hotels, various round toilet bowls”, the packaging for this “w...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Blue Jean Pitcher
Blue jeans were SO popular in the 70’s they not only were wrapped around every inappropriate body shape imaginable but also around eve...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Ice Cream Cone Radio
Although the ice cream looks more like dry wall spackle this radio, made in 1977, still plays beautiful static-y music like the day it was b...
BRILLIANT Jr. High Performance of “September”
The competition for my favorite version of September, which I co-wrote for Earth Wind & Fire, not to mention the dozens of other songs ...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Mosaic Clown
Like the vaunted Poodle, the Clown is another species who attains almost instant Kitsch status just by existing. Especially if they’re...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Poodle Vase
If it’s vintage and involves a Poodle there’s a 90% chance it qualifies as pure Kitsch. In the 1950’s and 60’s there...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – String Art Owl
In the 1970’s, more owls lived on wood paneled walls than in trees. The owl is clearly the National Bird in the state of Kitsch as flo...
The Del Rubio Triplets!!!
With the spectacular mini-skirted, go-go booted guitar playing singing stars, who I’m credited with discovering, in the living room of...
Geraldine & Ricky “Trees Talk Too!” LP
Long before I co-wrote the musical The Color Purple, in which trees are a powerful symbol, I believed these lumber providers were among natu...
Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Disco Luggage
Fits just enough polyester for the weekend. Very rare Disco collectible though I’ve managed to find 3 pieces over the years. Still mis...