Turkey Pulp?

I need an extra coffee "hit" to wake up on such a dark and gloomy morning - and WTF happened to another weekend?!

Hey ho. Sharing this day with a miscellany of "names" including Agnes Moorehead, Dave Brubeck, Osbert Sitwell, Jonathan King, Henryk Górecki, King Henry VI, Lynn Fontanne, Will Hay, Nick Park, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Ira Gershwin, it would have been the 90th birthday today of an old fave - the first "exhibit" in the Dolores Delargo Towers Museum of Camp, no less - "Turkey's answer to Liberace", Zeki Müren!

On this Tacky Music Monday, in this clip he appears to be inviting the viewer into his wardrobe [closet?] - maybe this is a "ululating version" of I Am What I Am..?

Zeki Müren - Bir Demet Yasemem

Much more fun is this clever mash-up, between the "coiffeured one" and the theme from Pulp Fiction (Miserlou)!

Zeki Müren - Pulp Fiction (Yaralı GönüL (O)mix )

That should help with the waking-up process...

Have a good week, dear reader.

Zeki Müren (6th December 1931 – 24th September 1996)

[More Zeki here]

Seasonal Turkey

It's a frozen, grey scene out there this morning, and I really am not looking forward to venturing out into it to crawl to work.

Let's cheer ourselves up a little on this Tacky Music Monday, in the glittering be-quiffed world of the faboo Zeki Müren ("Turkey's answer to Liberace", and my first ever "exhibit" in the Dolores Delargo Towers Museum of Camp six years ago)!

It translates as "Ah, damn these (love) songs". Apparently.

Zeki Müren - Ah bu şarkıların gözü kör olsun

Zeki Müren (6th December 1931 - 24th September 1996)

Have a good week, chaps and chapesses...

Bouffants-a-go-go!

It's not so much a Tacky Music Monday as a "Big Hair Monday" today!



We bade a fond despedido on Friday to the fabulously-named Fabiola (Fernanda Maria de las Victorias Antonia Adélaïda Mora y Aragon), the Spanish Dowager Queen of the Belgians, proudest-of-the-proud Royal bouffant-wearers. {Read a great tribute to the great lady over at Cafe Muscato.]



On Saturday, it would have been the birthday of the be-quiffed and faboo Zeki Müren (who was my very first "exhibit" in the Dolores Delargo Towers Museum of Camp four years ago).

And today (for no reason at all but for the fact I need some cheering up), to assist our passage back into that "lovely" place called the office, here's the fantabulosa Dolly Parton, resplendent in what can only be described as a purple sausage skin, and one of her very biggest wigs, with Love Is Like A Butterfly:

Dolly Parton - Love Is Like a Butterfly

Hope your week is as "soft and gentle as a sigh". I doubt mine will be.

PS Dolly Parton on losing a drag queen contest:

“They had a bunch of Chers and Dollys that year, so I just over-exaggerated - made my beauty mark bigger, the eyes bigger, the hair bigger, everything. All these beautiful drag queens had worked for weeks and months getting their clothes. So I just got in the line and I just walked across, and they just thought I was some little short gay guy... I got the least applause.”

Our first exhibit at the Museum...

Today, I am proud to announce the inaugural blog of the much-anticipated Museum of Camp!

Of course you only have to look back through the annals [sic] of the evolution of Dolores Delargo Towers to find that it already exists in reality - but over in the Museum, I plan to create a more permanent home for our more cherished icons. It is merely a "work in progress" as we speak (many articles are just "parked" there at present), but with luck, determination and good old British spunk [!], this is the start of something fantabulosa...



And so, my salivating reader [sic], let us explore the wondrous world of Mr Zeki Müren, "The Turkish Liberace"!