5 Years of Fun
T H E F U N Y O U ' L L H E A R !
STARBOOTY - RUPAUL
from RuPaul Is Starbooty
produced by The Pop Tarts
"eat dirt Madonna!" Bruce Dessau, Blitz
NAPPY - NOW EXPLOSION
from Funtone's debut 45, 1985
produced by Popular Sex
"sex-u-lating, stimulating, and funkier than a mosquito's tweeter!" Fred
Schneider III, Paper
THE PLAYBOY - LA PALACE DE BEAUTE
from Funtone's Double Value 12", 1987
produced by Larry Tee
"the soundwaves of the 70's deviating off infinity and turning homewards"
Louise Gray, New Music Express
MUSCLE OF STEEL - POPULAR SEX
from Power of Suggestion, 1985
produced by Popular Sex
"The musical quality resembles the musings of an early Eno. Multi-layered
sound that holds numerous intrigues, distant chilly vocals, and a spooky sense
of wonder." Claudia Stanten, Rockpool
IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD - RUPAUL & WEE WEE POLE
from RuPaul Sex Freak, 1985
produced by Wee Wee Pole
"Jam hot!" Phillip Puckett, Rockpool
ARTY CHICKS - COCKTAIL GIRLZ
from Kinetic Cirkus, 1987
"moves like a supersonic steamroller laying down a wall-to-wall crush
groove!" WARD Report
RHYTHM WITHIN' 'EM - NOW EXPLOSION
from Bringing' It On Home To Daddy, 1986
produced by Brant Mewborn
"the smile can't help but spread across your face" Andy Dunkley,
Rockpool
WHAT AM I GONNA DO? - LARRY TEE
Larry Tee's debut dance single
"Single: Pick of the Week" Cashbox
FOLLOW ME - RUPAUL
from RuPaul Is Starbooty
"All out fun!" Ali Lexa, Dance Music Report
SHAME - THE POP TARTS
from Age of the Thing, 1988
produced by The Pop Tarts
"one smokin' dance song!" Kathy Nizzari, Dance Music Report
SIN - LA PALACE DE BEAUTE
from Pleasure Seekers, 1989
produced by Larry Tee
"a major underground classic" j. poet, WARD Report
STARBOOTY'S REVENGE - RUPAUL & LARRY TEE
from Starbooty III - ASequel
produced by Larry Tee
the only place you'll find this cool song
RHYTHM WITHIN' 'EM - THE SINGING PEEK SISTERS
orchestration by Tim Smith, 1990
"sounds real professional" Maxine Odum, Odum's Newspaper
DeAundra Peek is all the way live in this exciting musical extravaganza recorded
at
Odum's. Maxine Odum has done beautified the Community Room up real nice for
DeAundra's concert which features classic melodies like Everythang's Comin'
Up Roses,
Cabaret, & Theme from Cats; modern hits like What Have I
Done To Deserve
This?,
Starbooty, and New York, New York; and DeAundra's own brand new
chart-toppers
like
Shake Your Booty (Starr Booty), Another Gray Day in Hapeville, &
her
international
smash cover version of Deee-Lite's What Is Love? (I Think I Know).
Also included are DeAundra's mega-hit music video Disco Paradise 2000
written
and
produced especially for DeAundra Peek by The Fabulous Pop Tarts,
stimulating and
appetizing Vienner Sausage recipes and the most interesting news and views from
Odum's.
Along with DeAundra, you'll be treated to the likes of her official sidekicks
Duffy
Odum and Candi Suntop.
NTSC VHS video, color, hifi sound, 63 minutes of nonstop fun!
BILLBOARD MAGAZINE'S
The Critics' Choice
BILLBOARD'S EDITORS AND WRITERS PICK THEIR TOP 10 RECORDS, VIDEOS, AND CONCERTS
OF 1993
Larry Flick - Dance Music Editor
ONE LOVE
"Hush I hear the snow, falling to the ground
the satellites in heaven, singing on their rounds"
produced by Martyn Phillips
WIGGY MOUSE
"You're a mouse, a wiggy mouse, in the house of love"
THEME FROM VOYEURVISION
"Put your ass up against the TV screen so I can Kiss it"
featuring RuPaul and Lynn Muscarella
COME CIRCLE AROUND
"Can you save the city from its savage hate
Can you save the witch from burning at the stake?"
MY KITTY IS A MARTIAN
"My Kitty is a Martian, she came from outer space
Came to start a rock band, to save the human race"
additional production by Jimmy Harry and RuPaul
VOODOO
"Sleep, I sleep no more - baby
Sinking I swim for shore - save me"
backing vocals Claudjia Fontaine
DESIDERATA
"Compare yourself with others and you may become vain and bitter
For always there will be greater and lesser than yourself"
produced by Martyn Phillips
INTERNATIONAL TWINKIE SONG
"Jet set twinkie vogue"
WHORE
"Cash fame lovey - c'mon play the game!"
produced by Kissing The Pink
RING MY BELL
"Mmmmmm, I love it"
PLANET POP
"Supercolor saturation, telebrite infatuation"
PARTY LINE
"Push 3 for kinky and her friends,
4 to listen to she males - and 6 for Mistress Diane"
SMILE
guitar by Nile Rogers
backing vocals Tish and Snooky Bellomo
original production Dan Hartman, remixed by Bill Coleman and Jimmy Harry
VOODOOBEDO
mixed by Martyn Phillips
DISCO MUSIC PARADISE
"Your lips, my heart beats a serenade
Moonlight and roses, the music fades
THE PASTORAL MIX
mixed by Martyn Phillips
COMPACT DISC ONLY - you'll love it!!!!
Throughout the 80's, DJ Tennessee spun at most of the major spots, like Mars,
the World, Red Zone, M.K., Pyramid and Save the Robots. These days you'll find
the 31-year-old making sound for RuPaul's radio show, doing a public-access show
(Tuesdays at 11:30pm on Channel 34) and DJing at Mona Foot's Star Search at
Barracuda, Club Soda at Marco Art and Robots on Fridays. It's hard to describe
the man who hails from Old Fort, Tennessee. He's a DJ with a true sense of
community who identifies with the Lower East Side in a way that few of its
yuppie developers can comprehend. . . .
His first DJ gig, at the World in 1988 for Dean Johnson's Rock 'N' Roll Fag Bar,
convinced him of his calling. . . .
From there he went on to become a production assistant for Wigstock, work with
the Pyramid's Blacklips theater troupe, perform with popular drag queen Ebony
Jet, do voiceovers for RuPaul and The Lady Bunny, make remixes for the
Repercussions and Phoebe Legere and create mix tapes that currently circulate in
NYC's house music circles. When asked about his single greatest influence, he
replies, "I got to go to the Paradise Garage and hear Larry Levan before it
closed, and that's what really blew me away."
- from ON WHEELS OF STEEL, DJ TENNESSEE'S 21ST CENTURY SOUL MUSIC by Paul
D. Miller, PAPER MAGAZINE 12th Anniversary Issue!
CLUB SODA DANCE PARTY is 90 minutes of extreme dance action infused with the intensity of the used-to-be Tunnel club and rocked with DJ Tennessee's own dance beat.
(Nelson Sullivan/Dick Richards, 1995, USA, NTSC VHS video, color, sound, 58 minutes)
Nelson knew, because he was witness to it, that Downtown NYC was a new society being
born, It wasn't just another Bohemia, but a post-pop society driven and unified by the
desire for fame. In documenting this birth he created a video equivalent of Vasari's
Lives of the Artists, especially valuable given the ephemeral nature of club culture.
Nelson's work is the portrait and analysis of this new society. Because we have been
conditioned by the glut of media coverage that skates over the surface to think of
Manhattan as a trendy "off-shore boutique" (as Tom Wolfe described it), rather than as
a place where real people actually live, we in fact know about as much about Downtown
as we do about a tribe that has lived undisturbed deep in the Amazon jungle. Within
this context Nelson's work is an anthropological documentary that takes us beneath the
fashionable surface and shows us the reality. In the early hours of July 4, 1989 - his
38th birthday - Nelson Sullivan died of a heart attack. Over a period of ten years, he
built up a library of over 3,000 hours of material, and finally quit his job to realize
his dream of editing the material into a weekly cable television series. It was the
week before he died. And so the most captivating and poignant part of Nelson's work is
not the famous who have emerged from Downtown, but the people who are left behind and
who strive in vain for the limelight. One of them himself, Nelson filmed the wannabes,
the never-will-bes and the has-beens. While he captured the glorious orgy of
self-invention of those seeking fame and fortune, he also captured the price it often
exacted, the despair and self-destruction that followed repeated frustration and
failure.
-Adapted from a biographical note by Fenton Bailey
This tape, edited by Dick Richards, combines a perfect evocation of the extreme anxiety of taking a bus across town to wait for a friend with knockout performances by the Pop Tarts and Lahoma van Zandt. Its world premiere was at the Mix 95 9th New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival.