According to a 1977 article in Creem , DeVille’s wife Toots Deville suggested the name: “…the band looked like it might have been going nowhere, in reverse. So maybe another name change would help—God knows the music was great. Mink Pie … hmmmm. ‘No, it’s gotta be something slick—something sorta French, somethin’ sorta black … poetry. Mink … MINK DE VILLE!’ blurted out Toots, Willie’s omnipresent, black-bouffanted old lady, whose quiet intensity is not unlike his own.” This issue of Creem shows a picture of DeVille driving a car with what looks to be mink on the dashboard.
Toots Deville suggested the name
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