Chiquita y Chatarra

Chiquita y Chatarra is a garage-rock duo with punk and surf touches, with lyrics mostly in English, formed in 2006 in Gijón (Asturias) and whose members are Patricia Álvarez Alonso (bass and drums) and Amelia Díaz Duarte (vocals, drums and guitar).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chiquita y Chatarra was formed when the initial plan to incorporate Patricia as a bass player into the Subbuteo duo with Amelia and another bandmate failed. The other original member of Subbuteo moved out and Patricia and Amelia decided to go ahead as a duo. Their first gig was opening for the Black Lips.

In February 2008 their first album, "Chiquita y Chatarra", recorded in March 2006 in the Perrotti Studios in Gijón saw the light of day. The album was self-released by the band on vinyl. Their next album came in June 2011 with the title "Animal de amor" on Discos Humeantes. The new songs were recorded over several months at Patricia's rehearsal room and home by Mike Mariconda, who was also in charge of production and mastering.

In February 2012 the band included a song in the compilation "Coloreando a Daniel Johnston", a tribute album to the American composer and artist Daniel Johnston in which they participated with a version of the song "Honey I sure miss you". Their third album, "Niagara fallers", was released on 12-inch vinyl in early November 2013 by Discos Humeantes. Their fourth LP was "Ojos de Miradas" and was self released together with Flexidiscos in 2018.

Doris Duke

Doris Willingham (née Curry, May 18, 1941 – March 21, 2019), known for much of her singing career as Doris Duke, was an American gospel and soul singer, best known for her 1969 album I'm a Loser. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duke was born in Sandersville, Georgia and started singing with gospel groups. By 1963 she was working in New York City on sessions and as a backing singer at the Apollo Theater. She also recorded some demos for Motown Records, but none were ever released. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She recorded her first single, "Running Away from Loneliness" in 1966 under her married name of Doris Willingham .This release on Jay Boy Records was not a success, so she continued working as a session singer, mainly in Philadelphia. She also sang back-up on Nina Simone's live album, A Very Rare Evening, recorded in Germany in 1969. The same year former Atlantic Records producer Jerry 'Swamp Dogg' Williams Jr. signed her as a solo artist, renaming her Doris Duke and recording the album I'm a Loser at the Capricorn studio in Macon, Georgia. The album was eventually issued on Canyon Records, and over the years became regarded, by Dave Godin and others, as one of the finest deep soul records of all time. The first single, "To the Other Woman (I'm the Other Woman)", reached no. 7 in the Billboard R&B chart and no. 50 on the pop chart in early 1970, and the follow-up "Feet Start Walking" also made the R&B chart, but success was cut short when the record company collapsed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duke recorded a second album, A Legend in Her Own Time, with Swamp Dogg, issued on the Mankind label in 1971. However, it was not commercially successfu. In 1973, Duke recorded unsuccessfully for Bob Shad's Mainstream label, before being signed to the British Contempo label in 1974. Her subsequent album Woman, recorded in London and arranged by Gerry Shury, received good reviews but few sales, and thereafter she retired from the music business.

 

 

An album called Funky Fox, issued on the Manhattan label in 1981, was credited to "Sister Doris Duke", although the tracks are in fact by other artists. However, Duke did make one further single, "I'll Make a Sweet Man (Out of You)", on the Beantown label in Boston, in 1981. A CD coupling I'm a Loser and A Legend in Her Own Time, with several non-album tracks, was released by Ace Records in 2005. Doris Curry Willingham, known as Doris Duke, died aged 77 in 2019.

Wendy Wild

Wendy Wild (born Wendy Andreiev, August 31, 1956 - October 26, 1996) was an American singer, musician, and artist who in the 1980s was a well-known presence in New York's downtown music and performance scenes. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Growing up in Northport, New York, Wild moved to Manhattan in the late 1970s, accompanied by John McLoughlin, who would later become known as the performer John Sex. Throughout the 1980s she performed regularly in Lower Manhattan night clubs and art spaces, including the Lucky Strike, Privates, and Club 57. She would become a fixture at the legendary Pyramid Club, where she could often be seen go-go dancing on the bar.

 

 

 

 





Along with her work as a nightclub performer, Wild performed in several New York-based bands, including the Roll-Ons, Pulsallama, the Wild Hyaenas (with Keith Streng of The Fleshtones), polka-rockers Das Furlines, and most famously the neo-psychedelic Mad Violets. In addition to playing locally in many of Manhattan's rock venues (The Dive, Irving Plaza, CBGB, Danceteria, Andy Warhol's Underground among others), she and her bands toured extensively, including US performance dates at Boston's The Rat, Miami's Club Nu, and the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. Overseas appearances included London (The Venue), Leeds and Manchester (The Haçienda), England with Pulsallama in 1982, and Tokyo in 1988 with John Sex.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During her career, Wild appeared on several recordings. Along with releases for Mad Violets (World of LSD... and the posthumously released Season of the Mad Violets), she sang on records for Bronski Beat, The Fleshtones, Peter Zaremba's Love Delegation, Hoodoo Gurus, and John Sex. She also appeared in two music videos with Mr. Sex, Hustle with My Muscle and Rock Your Body, as well as the 1988 documentary Mondo New York. Wild performed in the stage musicals The Sound of Muzak at Club 57 in 1981 (revived at NYC's Limelight in 1986), and Peter Pan at Danceteria in 1983. She also staged one-woman shows for her booze-addled sex-kitten character Joey Heatherock and was one of the group of East Village performers who created the first annual Wigstock festival. She performed at Wigstock many times and appeared in Wigstock, The Movie, released in 1994. Many of Wild's performances at the Pyramid and other New York City venues have been recorded by the late video artist Nelson Sullivan and have been included in exhibitions of his work.

 

 

Wendy Wild died on October 26, 1996, from breast cancer.

Beki Bondage

Beki Bondage (born Rebecca Louise Bond) is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the frontwoman of the punk band Vice Squad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vice Squad was formed in 1979 in Bristol from two other local punk bands, The Contingent and TV Brakes. The initial line-up consisted of Beki Bondage (vocals), Dave Bateman (guitar), Mark Hambly (bass guitar) and Shane Baldwin (drums), and they played their first gig at Bristol University's Anson Rooms on 12 April 1979. The band took some time to make further impact, only playing six gigs in 1980. Its first single, "Last Rockers" in 1981, was well-received, selling over 20,000 copies and spending almost forty weeks in the UK Indie Chart, reaching number 7. The follow-up, "Resurrection", reached number 4, and the band undertook a tour supporting UK Subs. The singles received airplay and support from BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, and the band went on to record two sessions for his show, in 1981 and 1982. 

In 1981, the band signed with the major label EMI (on their Zonophone subsidiary). Their first album, No Cause For Concern, was released in late 1981, reaching number 32 in the UK Album Chart. A second album, Stand Strong Stand Proud, followed in 1982, and the band embarked on a tour of the United States and Canada. On returning from the US, Bondage announced that she was leaving the band.

In 1983, she left Vice Squad to form the band Ligotage with Steve Roberts of UK Subs. Their only album, Forgive and Forget, was released on the independent Picasso Records label. Following the release of two solo singles in 1985, Bondage formed The Bombshells (often billed as "Beki & the Bombshells") in 1986. The band continued to play on the London club and punk circuit for many years. In 1998, she reformed Vice Squad with a new line-up; the band continues to record and tour. She also released a solo record album of covers in 2000 entitled Cold Turkey.

Carambolage

Carambolage was one of the first German all female rock bands. In the early 1980s, it was considered a pioneer of the so-called "lipstick feminism".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The band was formed in 1979 in Fresenhagen with links to Ton Steine Scherben. Britta Neander, Angie Olbrich and Elfie-Esther Steitz-Praeker got together as early as 1977, but only started performing under the name Carambolage in October 1979. After good reviews of their first produced demo tapes and a successful gig at SO36, Carambolage went on tour for the first time, which took them all over the West Germay, to Italy and Austria. In the summer of 1980 they recorded their first self-titled LP in the Fresenhagen studio of David Volksmund Produktion. After another tour, where Janett Lemmen replaced Angie Olbrich they recorded their second LP called "Eilzustellung-Exprès" in 1982, also in Fresenhagen. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 1983, the producer of Nena and former bassist of Spliff, Manne Praeker became aware of the quite successful combo and planned to sign them to a "major". The recordings for a third album, to be released under the title "Bon Voyage", took place in Praeker's Mad Mix Studio in Berlin. Internal tensions between the members and the artistic influence Praeker had on the new album increasingly disrupted the band. When "Bon Voyage" was finally finished in 1985 and rejected by CBS, Carambolage disbanded. The album was released for the first time 34 years later in summer 2019 on the independent label Fuego.  

After the split of the band Angie Olbrich became tour manager of acts such as Pete York Miller Anderson, Colin Hodgkinson, Zoot Money, Chris Farlowe, Jon Lord and Tony Ashton and has a band  with Kai Sichtermann under the name Angels Blue. Britta Neander played with Lassie Singers in the 1990s, whose lyrics and music were profoundly influenced by Carambolage. In 1998 she founded the band Britta with Christiane Rösinger and Julie Miess. Neander died in December 2004 after a heart operation in Berlin.

Teresa Nervosa

Teresa Taylor (born 1962), also known as Teresa Nervosa, is an American musician and actress. She is best known as being a drummer for the American punk band Butthole Surfers. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taylor was born in Arlington, Texas. She began drumming by playing for various high school marching bands in Texas' Fort Worth and Austin areas. King Coffey, another Surfers drummer who remains with the group to this day, was one of her fellow performers in high school. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The band was formed in San Antonio, Texas, by singer Gibby Haynes and guitarists Paul Leary and Jonathan Grisham in 1981. The band has had numerous personnel changes, but its core lineup of Haynes, Leary, and drummer King Coffey has been consistent since 1983. Teresa Nervosa served as second drummer from 1983 to 1985, 1986 to 1989, and 2009. The band has also employed a variety of bass players, most notably Jeff Pinkus. Emerging from the 1980s hardcore punk scene, Butthole Surfers quickly became known for their chaotic live shows, black comedy, and a sound that incorporated elements of psychedelia, noise rock, and punk as well as their use of sound manipulation and tape editing. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shortly after leaving the band in 1989, Taylor was diagnosed with an aneurysm and subsequently underwent brain surgery. She also started to suffer from strobe light-induced seizures. Taylor had a small role in director Richard Linklater's 1991 film, Slacker. She played a woman who was trying to sell a pap smear from Madonna.



In 1995, Coffey indicated that Taylor was employed at the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and was working on a book about her experiences touring with the Butthole Surfers. As of 2007, Taylor was living in Austin and still recording music with Gibby Haynes, who has a home studio there. In 2008, she returned to the Butthole Surfers: the band's website announced tour dates for 2009 including Taylor.

Debora Iyall

Debora Kay Iyall (born 29 April 1954), is a Cowlitz Native American artist and was lead singer for the new wave band Romeo Void. Iyall got her surname from her family adopting their ancestor Iyallwahawa's "first" name written at the time as Ayiel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While attending the San Francisco Art Institute, she joined Frank Zincavage and Peter Woods to create Romeo Void in 1979. The band was remarkable for their modernization of the punk sound, and for Iyall's forceful, half-spoken delivery. They reached hit status on college radio stations with the suggestive and multi-leveled song "Never Say Never" in 1982. Their song "A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing)" landed them in the top 40 of Billboard's Hot 100 chart, and an appearance on Dick Clark's American Bandstand in 1984.

 

 

 

 

 





Romeo Void parted ways in 1985, and the following year Iyall released her debut solo album Strange Language on Columbia Records. After a lukewarm reception of the album, Iyall returned to her first love, as an artist and art instructor. 

Since late 2009, Iyall has been performing new material written with Peter Dunne at a variety of local venues in Northern California. In 2010 Iyall's second solo album, Stay Strong was released, and in January 2012, an EP, Singing Until Sunrise was released. On 2 November 2019, Debora Iyall was awarded as a Lifetime Achievement Honoree at the 19th Annual Native American Music Awards.

Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper Thornton (born June 22, 1953) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and activist. She  was born in Brooklyn, New York City and her career has spanned over 40 years. Lauper is known for her powerful and distinctive four-octave singing range.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Her album She's So Unusual (1983) was the first debut album by a female artist to achieve four top-five hits on the Billboard Hot 100—"Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "Time After Time", "She Bop", and "All Through the Night"—and earned Lauper the Best New Artist award at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards in 1985. Her success continued with the soundtrack for the motion picture The Goonies and her second record True Colors (1986). This album included the number one single "True Colors" and "Change of Heart", which peaked at number three. In 1989, she had a hit with "I Drove All Night".

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since 1983, Lauper has released eleven studio albums and participated in many other projects. In 2010, Memphis Blues became Billboard's most successful blues album of the year, remaining at number one on the Billboard Blues Albums chart for 13 consecutive weeks. In 2013, she won the Tony Award for best original score for composing the Broadway musical Kinky Boots, making her the first woman to win the category by herself. The musical was awarded five other Tonys including Tony Award for Best New Musical. In 2014, Lauper was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album for the cast recording. In 2016, the West End production won Best New Musical at the Olivier Awards. 

Lauper has sold over 50 million records worldwide. She has won awards at the Grammys, Emmys, Tonys, the New York's Outer Critics Circle, MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), Billboard Awards, and American Music Awards (AMAs). An inductee into both the Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Lauper is one of the few singers to win three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT). She won the inaugural Best Female Video prize at the 1984 VMAs for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun". This music video is recognized by MTV, VH1 and Rolling Stone as one of the greatest music videos of the era. She is featured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Women Who Rock exhibit. Her debut album is included in Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, while "Time After Time" is included in VH1's list of the 100 Best Songs of the Past 25 years.

Bunny Paul

Bunny Paul (21 May 1924, Detroit, Michigan - 2014) was an American singer. Between 1948 and 1963 she laid down in excess of almost fifty titles in a wide-ranging selection of styles. Rockabilly collectors will best remember her for some great rockin' songs like "History" or "Sweet Talk" whilst Rhythm & Blues fans will know her from some early recordings cut with the Harptones. She also laid down some tasty pop recordings and concluded her recording career at the early Motown outfit Gordy Records. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bunny soon showed an interest in music and started singing at age 4. Indeed at the age of 12 she was performing on the stage, singing hit songs of the day with local bands. During the 1940´s she sang with various bands such as Johnny Dicicco Trio, Al Nalli Trio, Baron Bill Kohler & Nova Notes, Bob Hawkins Trio, Manny Lopez Quintet and Nicky Buss plus she appeared as a solo act at the "Chicago Ye Olde Cellar". She soon came to the attention of famous local bandleader Don Pablo, known as Detroit's Lawrence Welk, and in 1946 he offered her the job of becoming the lead vocalist with his orchestra. She took the opportunity, and instead of a few weeks as intended, she stayed for 2 years with the band. In 1948 she recorded her first record together with Don Pablo´s Orchestra for the local VARGO label "Sentimental Rhapsody/ Mickey".

 

 

 

 

 






In 1950 she had her own show on WWJ-TV called 'Fifer Time' which was sponsored by the popular local Pfeiffer´s Brewery. On this she had featured guests such as The Gaylords, Dick Noel, Don Cornell, Merv Griffin and Johnny Johnston. Paul was also a songwriter, with at least 26 publishing credits to her name. Her debut single, on the Dot label in 1953, included one of her songs: “Never Let Me Go.” The same year Dot released "Magic Guitar" which hit the top spot in the Detroit area and so her recording career was off to a good start. The record was also issued on the London label in the UK and in Germany.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Honey Love´, 'Whatcha Gonna Do', and the previously recorded "Lovey Dovey" were included on a various artists album put out on Dave Miller's subsidiary Somerset label. The LP, "Rock & Roll Dance Party", became a popular album because of its artwork and that it was one of the first albums to include early Bill Haley tracks. An interesting point is that it was Bunny's cut of the Bill Haley composition 'Watcha Gonna Do' that was featured on the album and not the recording of the song by Haley.

 

 

A brain tumor in 1960 left Paul’s face partially paralyzed. When she recovered sufficiently to record again, she cut a few sides at Motown that were released on the Gordy imprint in 1963. She largely retired from music after that. Paul continued to live in the Detroit area until she passed away in 2014.

Ruby Starr

Ruby Starr, born Constance Henrietta Mierzwiak in Toledo, Ohio (November 30, 1949 - January 14, 1995), was a rock singer and recording artist who attained national prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, including for her work with Black Oak Arkansas. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Known as "Connie" to her family, Starr began performing at the age of nine, singing country music under the stage name Connie Little. Her early bands included Connie and the Blu-Beats, The Downtowners and the Blue Grange Ramblers. She joined the band Ruby Jones in 1969. In 1971 they were signed to Curtom Records and recorded their first album, Ruby Jones. Shortly after that album's release, Black Oak Arkansas lead vocalist Jim "Dandy" Mangrum was partying after a concert in Evansville, Indiana at a club called the Golden Record, where she was performing. He asked her on the spot to join the band. At this point she assumed the stage name of Ruby Starr.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starr toured with Black Oak Arkansas for several years at the height of their success. She was featured in their 1973 Top 30 single "Jim Dandy". In 1974, she began touring on her own again as Ruby Starr & Grey Ghost (members: Gary Levin, Marius Penczner, David Mayo and Joel Williams) and released an eponymous album in 1975, on Capitol Records. Her second album, Scene Stealer, also on Capitol Records, was released in 1976. During this time she continued to open for Black Oak Arkansas and other acts such as Black Sabbath and Edgar Winter. Starr also toured with Blackfoot from 1977 to 1978. Her third and last album for Capitol, Smoky Places, was released in 1977.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By the late 1970s, Starr had made Milwaukee her home town and was a popular act in clubs in the region. By the early 1980s, Starr had formed a new band called "Grey Star" by joining with a band that performed in and around Mayville, Wisconsin called "Lucy Grey", featuring Dave "Mud Slide" Gruenewaldt on the drums. They issued several recordings which included 1981's Grey Star and 1983's Telephone Sex. Starr formed her final road band, "Henrietta Kahn", in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s, Starr quit the road and moved to Las Vegas, playing at casino/hotels on the Strip such as the Riviera and the Stardust as well as local clubs. During this period, The Ruby Star Band also performed as the opening act for Kansas, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and April Wine. Shortly after she was chosen to perform in the Country Legends show at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, she learned she had cancer.

 

 

After being diagnosed with lung cancer and a brain tumor, Starr returned home to her family in Toledo where she died at age 45. After her death, several archival releases that featured Starr were issued, including the live Black Oak Arkansas recording, Live On The King Biscuit Flower Hour 1976, and a reissue of Ruby Jones's debut album, retitled as Stone Junkie. The song "Ruby", by Raging Slab, is in memory of her.