Toot toot, hey, beep beep

It's New Year's Eve, and our party beckons...

...and we find that the (somewhat tainted) gay icon Donna Summer would have been seventy years old today!

This being a Tacky Music (New Year) Monday, let us first pay tribute with some - ahem - interesting covers of the great lady's hits...

...courtesy of the unlikely combo of Andy Bell of Erasure and - err - k.d. lang?

KD Lang and Andy Bell - No More Tears (Enough is Enough)

...that tacky music icon Iris Chacon:

Iris Chacon - Bad Girls

...and the fantabulosa Blue Man Group:

Blue Man Group feat Venus Hum - I Feel Love

However, there was ever only one Donna Summer - so here is the lady herself (unfortunately duetting with a rather creepy-looking "porn star"):

Donna Summer - Heaven Knows

What a way to close a year!

Donna Summer (born LaDonna Adrian Gaines, 31st December 1948 – 17th May 2012)

A bongo bongo bongo

Today, we celebrate the 65th birthday of a performer of such - ahem - impressive talents that she is not just adored but revered in her native Puerto Rico (as well as here at Dolores Delargo Towers), the magnificent Iris Chacon!

Inevitably most at home on one of our regular "Tacky Music Mondays", nevertheless here she is shaking that impressive booty - and almost "booty-ing" those poor safety gays off the stage!

Iris Chacon - Cumbanchero

¡Ay, caramba!

More Iris here, here and here.

Thunderthighs!

Bleuuurgh! Back to work again - after a fab week off, a trip to Essex, and pottering in the garden in this lovely Spring weather...

Hey ho. On this Tacky Music Monday, we can always rely on La Bomba de Puerto Rico, Señorita Iris Chacôn to cheer us all up! Here's ol' Thunderthighs herself:

Iris Chacon - La Bamba

Ay, Caramba!

Iris Chacôn on Wikipedia

Cha-cha-cha-ing her tits off

The weekend looms, and we should be getting ourselves in the mood to party!

I realise this clip might well be more at home in my regular "Tacky Music Monday" slot, but as it was the birthday yesterday of house favourite here at Dolores Delargo Towers, Puerto Rico's answer to Charo, the magnificent Miss Iris Chacón, I could not resist the temptation to don some sparkly sequin-trimmed netting and a big wig in tribute...

Here is old "Thunder-thighs" herself, cha-cha-cha-ing her (estimable) tits off with the support of her Hispanic safety gays (maricóns seguridad, perhaps?), and Rayo:

Iris Chacon - Rayo (Noche de Gala)

Now, if that doesn't get you in the right frame of mind, I don't know what will - Thank Calypso Disco It's Friday!

La Bomba de Puerto Rico

Madame Arcati, on one of his forays into the weirder side of the musical world, stumbled across a marvellous triumph of art over nature last week - Señorita Iris Chacon.

Now as you know, dear reader, we at Dolores Delargo Towers are always thrilled at the discovery of a new tacky diva. Miss Chacon is certainly that!

"La Bomba de Puerto Rico" (The Puerto Rican Bombshell) is what I would imagine Margarita Pracatan would have been like when she was younger had she had decided to strip down to her scanties and wiggle her (very ample) behind for the punters. She is a definite influence on J-Lo (they certainly have a similar - ahem - build!).

Despite her stunningly slight musical aptitude Miss Chacon is a phenomenon in her native Puerto Rico. Her variety show was one of the top programmes on their local TV for ten years, and rather like Miss Pracatan she became one of the "novelty acts" dragged out to fill a slot on various US chat shows in the 80s.

Her star has fizzled out somewhat since that however, but "La Bomba" has (inevitably) been adopted as a gay icon. Just this year (at the age of 61) she appeared on stage at Gay Pride in Boquerón resort in Puerto Rico.



On this Tacky Music Monday, here are some shining examples of the lady's "talents" to cheer us into a new week...

Iris Chacon - What a Difference a Day Makes

Iris Chacon - Muchacho Barrigón

¡Ay, caramba!

More about Iris Chacon