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Subject: (exotica) calling musicians
Date: 01 Apr 1999 09:27:58 -0500


I am trying to get bumper stickers made for my band.  Anybody out there
know where I can get a good deal?  Please reply off-list. Thanks ever so,
Jane Fondle




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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Vagabond Cinema Pops Arkestra: new address & URL
Date: 31 Mar 1999 19:40:52 +0200


[e-mail]
http://home.att.ne.jp/blue/zubai/




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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Paradise Found comment
Date: 01 Apr 1999 15:02:39 +0200


The worst sounding "mastered-from-original-vinyl" CD I ever heard... but
the music is beautiful, classic exotica.




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From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Martinis With Mancini Playlist. 4/1/99
Date: 01 Apr 1999 12:48:18 -0500



"Martinis With Mancini" broadcasting Thursday's from 6-9 AM. WJUL 91.5 in
Lowell Massachusetts.

MwM moving to Friday=92s to help kick off the weekend early! And I=92ll d=
o the
program tomorrow if I can get these tired bones out of bed!

After the first hour playing jazz moved into an April 1st kind of program=
=2E

The web page: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Booth/8007/

Your comments always welcomed. (Especially about the mysterious track 19=92=
s)

The Playlist:

I Could Happen To You, Bjork
Like Someone in Love, Miles Davis
Solar, Pamela Hines Quintet
It Might As Well Be Spring, Johnny Mathis
Valsa De Porto Das Caixas, Antonio Carlos Jobim
Makin=92 Whoopee, Branford Marsalis (Visiting Manchester NH April 11)
3 Little Words, Branford Marsalis
Have You Met Miss Jones, Count Basie Orchestra
Para Jose, Two Bones and A Pick
My Foolish Heart, Karrin Allyson
Can This Be Love, Bobby Short
Nobody Here But Us Chickens, Louis Jordan
The Presidents, Animaniacs
Cruella De Ville, OST 101 Dalmatians
One Mint Julep, Ray Charles
Traffic Jam, Artie Shaw
Not Me, Robert Mitchum
Minnie the Moocher, Cab Calloway
Kiss the Girl, OST The Little Mermaid
I Just Can=92t Wait To Be King, OST The Lion King
Search For Vulcan, Leroy Holmes
Mona Lisa Cha-Cha, The Bobby Havana Boys
Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, Xavier Cugat
La Cucaracha, Perez Prado Orchestra
Mucha Muchacha, Juan Esquivel
Don=92t Be That Way, Ray Ellis and His Orchestra and Chorus
Jungle Madness, Martin Denny
Oink Oink Mambo, Chuv Reves and His Orchestra
All the Words in the English Language, Part One, Animaniacs
Slappin=92 the Cakes on Me, John Pizzarelli
All the Words in the English Language, Part Two, Animaniacs
Slow Boat to China, Holly Cole Trio
All the Words in the English Language, Part Three, Animaniacs
Bananas, M.V.L. Ciccone
The Misfits, Don Costa
Bewitched, Peggy Lee
Enchanted Farm, The Forbidden 5
Track 19 (?) Ultra-Lounge Organs In Orbit
War Dance of the Wooden Indians, Russ Case and His Orchestra
Hello Little Girl, OBCR Into The Woods
I Know Things Now, OBCR Into The Woods
Yellow, Ken Nordine
Do It Again, April Stevens
Baby, Won=92t You Please Come Home, Louis Prima and Keely Smith
Track 19 (?) Ultra-Lounge Cha Cha De Amor
High Hopes, Frank Sinatra (W/Kids Chorus)
Accidental Slip on an Oriental Rug, Robert Maxwell Harp And Orchestra
Rock Gently, Alvino Rey
Cadillac, Combustible Edison
=46rom A Logical Point Of View, Robert Mitchum
Jack, You Dead, Joe Jackson
Destination Moon, Dinah Washington
Romeoville, 4 Piece Suit





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From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Asking that musical question...
Date: 01 Apr 1999 14:50:41 -0500


I always see these Jayne Mansfield graced record covers...unlike the Bettie
Page though, I have suspicions they might be schlock inside...Anybody have
any good, or bad ones, to tell me/us about, before I ever shell out money
for one?  What about the MUSIC FOR BACHELORS by Henri Rene(whom I like very
much)?
"Jayne" Fondle




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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Asking that musical question...
Date: 31 Mar 1999 11:58:50 -0800



> I always see these Jayne Mansfield graced record covers...unlike=20
> the Bettie
> Page though, I have suspicions they might be schlock inside...Anybody =
have
> any good, or bad ones, to tell me/us about, before I ever shell out =
money
> for one?  What about the MUSIC FOR BACHELORS by Henri Rene(whom I=20
> like very
> much)?

I am no big fan of that particular record - I am working from memory =
here, but I recall it being very boring and fulla strings that come off =
like a mouth full o mush. Nice cover though. I would not be suprised if =
there are some who like the music contained therein. It's just not my =
bag. I THINK I have mansfield cover record... I see orange and yellow =
and a VERY heavy miss mansfield.... My brain is not cooperating this =
morning - I will have to go home and look for that one, but whatever it =
is, I suppose I was not impressed enough to remember much about it.

Ron



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Exotica, Moog, IncrediblyStrange
Whacked-Out, Space-Age Weirdness
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From: Angela <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: hacking at Haack/Sid & Marty
Date: 01 Apr 1999 15:16:05 -0500


    I was under the impression that the Sid & Marty Krofft cd hadn't been
released yet, and my link to http://www.livingisland.com works okay.
    Also, for those of you on this list who live in the Boston, MA area.
I'm told that a large collection of exotica and related ephemera has just
arrived at Cheapo records (645 Mass. Ave/354-4455).  They were pricing it
yesterday, so it should have hit the floor by now.  Happy Hunting.
     I'm also compelled to spew onto just a bit of bandwidth on the
forthcoming Beck remix of Haack- although I wish Beck no undue bodily harm
(and indeed, always thought the Nelson/Haack records were full of 'beats'),
there's something slightly repugnant to my (admittedly rather puritanical)
sense of propriety here.  Why not spend the same energy getting the
Dimension 5 catalog reissued?

--
-Angela
http://www.musicfile.com/sunshine
"The Biggest Little Record Store In The World"

-----Original Message-----
>Can anyone tell me if the rumour is true that Beck has bought all rights
>to Bruce Haacks recordings? If he has will he reissue them or will he =
>not?
>>There is a remix project involving Beck and others in the works, =
>however.

>Does anyone know where I can find this cd?
> >>* Sid & Marty Krofft: Greatest Hits (Interscope) -- finally!
>> They produced a roster of bizarre kid's TV shows in



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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Asking that musical question...
Date: 01 Apr 1999 16:11:10 -0500


OK, so if Music for Bachelors is not the one, how is 'Romesville"?



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From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: hacking at Haack/Sid & Marty
Date: 01 Apr 1999 16:51:13 -0500


Hi, exots,

I have what i believe is accurate information about the beck/haack
thing,
can someone say where the info that beck is 'remixing' haack came from??

i don't think this is true, and i will check further...

citizen kafka


...I'm also compelled to spew onto just a bit of bandwidth on the
> forthcoming Beck remix of Haack-

> -Angela


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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Asking that musical question...
Date: 01 Apr 1999 19:38:57 -0500


At 02:50 PM 4/1/99 -0500, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>I always see these Jayne Mansfield graced record covers...unlike the Bettie
>Page though, I have suspicions they might be schlock inside...Anybody have
>any good, or bad ones, to tell me/us about, before I ever shell out money
>for one?  What about the MUSIC FOR BACHELORS by Henri Rene(whom I like very
>much)?

Are you implying that records with Bettie on the cover do NOT contain
schlock?
I could quickly disavow you of that notion if I played you that "Best
Musical Comedy Songs" record which for some reason has Bettie and her
"cats" on the cover.  Speaking of famous cover-babes, I have a lovely photo
of a very young Carole Lynley on the cover of a record called "Indian Love
Call" by Rudolf Friml.  Looking at the picture of Mr.Friml on the back, I
hope he never got near his cover model.  Finally, until someone tells me
I'm crazy, I've convinced myself that it's Bridgitte Bardot who's pouting
on the cover of this Fred Hartley record I have.
But all these records that I'm mentioning with the hot babes on the outside
have lukewarm porridge on the inside and I'd hasten a guess that the same
would go for "Music for Bachelors".  Especially if it's anything like
Mr.Rene's "Music for the Weaker Sex".  (And I usually like Henri too.)

Nat





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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Asking that musical question...
Date: 31 Mar 1999 16:29:59 -0800


While we are on the subject of cheesey-cake album covers, Ya GOTTA love =
the extra heapin' helpin' of FIRMented curves in the most recent Exotica =
Etcetera from our good friend Preston at http://vinyllives.com.  =
plug,plug,plug...  LOVE that zine!  Dig the regular contributions from =
our own King Kini and Br. Cleve.

Ron

Listen to FeelthyMonkeyRadio=20
http:www.xtabay.com/feelthyradio.htm=20
Exotica, Moog, IncrediblyStrange
Whacked-Out, Space-Age Weirdness



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Groovy Soundtracks
Date: 01 Apr 1999 19:53:27 EST


Found today at Mars Records, Cambridge: "Groovy Soundtracks" LP
    Its all good and appears all booted from BeatHead Records (BeatHead
#101)

-Dave Grusin-Gasoline Alley-from "Winning"
-Tedd Smith-Time To Run-from "Time To Run"
-Artie Butler-A Bird In The Hand-from "Harrad Experiment"
-Emil Stern-Bein' The Jerk-from "Marry Me, Marry Me"
-Gianni Machetti-Un' Ultra Benna-from "Disposta A Tutte"
-Franco Micalizzi-Vodka Per Due-from "L'Ultima Neve Di Primavera"
-Michel LeGrand-Un Homme De Mort-from "The Outside Man"
-Kenyon Hopkins-Westside Radio-from "Mr. Buddwing"
-Galapagos Duck-The Removalists Theme-from "The Removalists" (shudder)
-House Of Representatives-Caged-from "Brewster McCloud"
-Bruce Smeaton-Bad Lunch-from "Bad Macarthy (sic)"


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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: hacking at Haack/Sid & Marty
Date: 02 Apr 1999 04:10:31 -0500


At 4:51 PM -0500 4/1/99, Citizen Kafka wrote:

>I have what i believe is accurate information about the beck/haack
>thing,
>can someone say where the info that beck is 'remixing' haack came from??
>
>i don't think this is true, and i will check further...

It's true..........Combustible Edison is involved in this project as well.

br cleve


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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) obits: Angelo LaPietra,    Gary Morton, Gil Perkins
Date: 02 Apr 1999 10:26:23 -0600


                          *Angelo LaPietra
    CHICAGO (AP) -- Angelo LaPietra, a former high-ranking Chicago mobster who
ran the so-called ``26th Street Crew,'' died Sunday. He was 80.
    He was one of five mob leaders convicted in 1986 of skimming $2 million in
unreported gambling profits from Las Vegas casinos and was sentenced to 16
years in Leavenworth federal penitentiary for the crime. At the time,
organized crime experts called the conviction the biggest blow to the
Chicago mob since the 1940s.
    After his release from prison, LaPietra returned to Chicago and founded the
Old Neighborhood Italian-American Club. The club grew to more than 800
members and later also included members of Irish, Chinese, Mexican and
Croatian ancestry.

    RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) -- Gary Morton, the Borscht Belt comic who
married Lucille Ball and became her executive producer, has died. He was 74.
    Morton died Tuesday at Eisenhower Memorial Hospital, said John Caranci of
Wiefels & Son Funeral Directors in Palm Springs. The cause of death wasn't
disclosed, but Daily Variety reported he died of lung cancer.
    Morton, a stand-up comic, married Miss Ball after she divorced Desi Arnaz,
her ``I Love Lucy'' sidekick. Morton and the actress were married for 29
years; Miss Ball died in 1989.
    He was executive producer of Miss Ball's ``The Lucy Show,'' which aired
1962-68, ``Here's Lucy'' from 1968-74 and ``Life With Lucy,'' which was
canceled after two months in 1986.
    Morton also had supporting roles in films, including ``Lenny'' in 1974 and
``Postcards From the Edge'' in 1990.
    Born Morton Goldaper in New York City, Morton became a popular nightclub
comedian in New York, Miami, Chicago, Las Vegas and the Borscht Belt before
Miss Ball brought him to Hollywood and television.
    After their marriage, Morton became involved with Miss Ball's TV career as
warmup comedian for her second CBS sitcom, ``The Lucy Show,'' for which
ex-husband Arnaz was executive producer for a time.
    Upon Miss Ball's sale of Desilu to Paramount in 1967, she formed a new
company, Lucille Ball Productions, naming Morton vice president. That
company produced ``Here's Lucy.''
    Over the years, Morton continued to do the warmups for the series. Morton
also produced several Lucille Ball television specials through the 1970s,
and other specials and films for television, including ``Bungle Abbey'' in
1981 and ``Sentimental Journey'' in 1984.
    In motion pictures, he was executive producer of the 1983 ``All the Right
Moves,'' which starred Tom Cruise as a high school football star.
    He is survived by his wife of three years, Susie McAllister.

                            *Gil Perkins
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Actor-stuntman Gil Perkins, a familiar face on such TV
shows as ``Perry Mason,'' ``Here's Lucy'' and ``Wagon Train'' and co-founder
of the Stuntmen's Association of Motion Pictures, died Sunday. He was 91.
    Perkins was a stunt double for Spencer Tracy, Yul Brenner and Gene Hackman.
    Perkins arrived in Hollywood in 1928 and got parts in movies like ``King
Kong,'' ``Moby Dick,'' ``Robin Hood'' and ``Mutiny on the Bounty.''
    In the 1950s and 1960s, Perkins was a familiar TV face with appearances
ranging from ``Batman'' to ``The Virginian.''
    In 1960, he co-founded the Stuntmen's Association, which got stunt workers
recognized as entertainers deserving the title of industry professionals.





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From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Beck's not all dreck
Date: 02 Apr 1999 10:20:51 -0500


Is it just me, or am I the only person on this list NOT incensed that Beck
would have anything to do with Bruce Haack?  This is coming from somebody
who buys very little new music, but I think Beck is at least one of the
better sounding and more interesting artistes out there (I admit I only
have one of his albums, but I like all I've heard by him.) I am far-less
offended by Beck having something to do with this than I am, say, the Spice
Girls or somebody.  Does anybody know, btw, which Beck single uses the
unholy image of Heino on its cover?
Jane Fondle, who thinks Beck is also, "Cute."




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From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Beck's not all dreck
Date: 02 Apr 1999 18:08:29 +0200


[e-mail] wrote:

> Is it just me, or am I the only person on this list NOT incensed that Beck
> would have anything to do with Bruce Haack?  This is coming from somebody
> who buys very little new music, but I think Beck is at least one of the
> better sounding and more interesting artistes out there

I can only agree: to me Beck is the only interesting 'new' artist of the 90s.
The idea that he is going to do something with the music of Bruce Haack sounds
very interesting to me.

> Does anybody know, btw, which Beck single uses the
> unholy image of Heino on its cover?

It's called 'Steve threw up' and I'm still looking for a copy...

Marco




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Beck's not all dreck
Date: 02 Apr 1999 08:46:49 -0800


Let's not get started on the Spice Girls (or better yet, let's do!). The=
 Spice
Girls are the best thing to happen to popular music since I don't know when.
I'm serious here - in pop music with all the Marylin Hansons, Madonnahues,=
 and
Beastie Street Boys taking themselves so seriously and trying to establish
"cred" or "honesty" or "serious" lyrics about depression and heartfelt crap,
doing drugs, being poor, being "spiritual,"  being "in love" (gack!) as a
commercial selling point while the dollars roll in, isn't it refreshing to=
 see
a group being unabashed about having one hell of a time and being just as
commercially crass as possible? Isn't it refreshing to see a group with=
 songs
about having fun? Isn't it refreshing to see sex(uality) and kitsch as an=
 open
and primary selling point? The many millions of girls age 6 to 12 worldwide
can't be wrong.

David Beckham can't be wrong either.

The Spice Girls, ironically, are the most honest and straightforward=
 pop/rock
outfit I can think of.

I'd personally love to hear them remix Bruce Haack - talk about hybrid
music!!!
Talk about Exotic! What could be more outre than Sporty, Scary, Baby and=
 Posh
gettin' all spicy with Bruce Haack posthumously backing? Hello!

Girl Powah!

Y'all better watch out or Sporty's gonna march right over there and get ya
in a
scrum.

Oh yeah - and I think Beck'll do nicely. I'm 100 percent in agreement with
Laura on that one...

Clark

At 10:20 AM 4/2/1999 -0500, Jane Fondle wrote:
>
I am far-less
>offended by Beck having something to do with this than I am, say, the Spice
>Girls or somebody.=A0 Does anybody know, btw, which Beck single uses the
>unholy image of Heino on its cover?
>Jane Fondle, who thinks Beck is also, "Cute."



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From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Beck's not all dreck
Date: 02 Apr 1999 11:52:12 -0500






cc:





>>>Let's not get started on the Spice Girls (or better yet, let's do!). The
Spice
Girls are the best thing to happen to popular music since I don't know
when.
... isn't it refreshing to see
a group being unabashed about having one hell of a time and being just as
commercially crass as possible? Isn't it refreshing to see a group with
songs
about having fun? I

Hmmph!  You are missing one very essential point here.  Musically, they are
100%, absolutely useless and dreadful, and are about as hip as Celine Dion
or Mariah Carey.  So, no, there is never anything refreshing to me about
people putting out lame music, especially under this false marketing guise
of "girl power."

Jane Fondle, who could single-handedly take on all those Spice Twits with
both hands tied behind her back...jealous?  only of the money!










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From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Beck's not all dreck
Date: 02 Apr 1999 17:21:13 +0000


Beck isn't Beck without the Dust Brothers and Beck shouldn't be allowed to
remix Bruce Haack without the Dust Brothers. And talking of the Spice
Girls, after my evening of musical torture* last night, they're superb!

Charlie


* I spent last night with a friend listening to club compilations on CD
from around the world. Highlights (or were they low lights) included a
Russian club CD of house and techno (!), another equally shocking CD from
Belgrade, a few from Italy (one with a banging Spice Girls cover version of
2 become 1, with all the lyrics wrong) and one from Tokyo (which was truly
bizarre)





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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Beck's not all dreck
Date: 02 Apr 1999 12:22:30 -0500


At 10:20 AM 4/2/99 -0500, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>Is it just me, or am I the only person on this list NOT incensed that Beck
>would have anything to do with Bruce Haack?  This is coming from somebody
>who buys very little new music, but I think Beck is at least one of the
>better sounding and more interesting artistes out there

I'm sure you're not the only one.  I'm especially NOT incensed because I
don't  know who Bruce Haack is, except that he gets mentioned here all the
time and he has something to do with moog....???.  In fact I've been
meaning to ask someone to make me a tape or tell me how to get some of his
stuff.
But no matter who he is, I don't understand why anyone would be incensed
unless for some reason they believe that artists of the past are inherently
superior to artists of the present.
Whether you like Beck's output or not, it's clear that he has a deep
knowledge and love for all kinds of "music of the past" and does a much
better than average job of demonstrating and incorporating those influences
in his music.  I don't have any of his records but I always like hearing them
There's so much questionable dredging up of the past, sampling, slavish
copying and missing the whole point going on in contemporary music right
now, I'd think that anything Beck might do would be a breath of fresh air.
And he seems like a respectful young man to boot.

Nat



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From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bruce Haack tapes (was beck/dreck)
Date: 02 Apr 1999 13:20:57 -0500


Here is Miss Nelsons site address, where several of their collaborations
are available on cassette:

http://www.kidscornucopialtd.com/Dimension5.htm

it's a brand new site and not listed in the search engines yet...

Also, my information was incomplete. Yes, the tribute project is
a remix project by various artists (should i say 'artists?').

- citizen kafka


Nat Kone wrote:

> ...In fact I've been meaning to ask someone to make me a tape or tell me
> how to get some of his stuff.


Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air"
every Wednesday 7-8 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM & WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM
http://www.megasaver.com/page2/smradio.html
http://wfmu.org/ then go to 'listen to wfmu'


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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Beck's not all dreck
Date: 02 Apr 1999 14:25:46 -0600


At 08:46 AM 4/2/99 -0800, Clark wrote:
>
>Oh yeah - and I think Beck'll do nicely. I'm 100 percent in agreement with
>Laura on that one...

Speaking of Beck and re-mixing, here's a Press Release from those guys who
did that plunderphonic Deconstructing Beck CD:

ILLEGAL ART PROPAGANDA
March 30, 1999
NEW RELEASE

Extracted Celluloid
Illegal Art 002/Seeland 509

official release date - April 9, 1999, but available now via mailorder!!

19 artists, 20 tracks.  A sequel, of sorts, to Deconstructing Beck, this
compilation is another co-release between Illegal Art and Seeland and is
the second in a planned series of releases.  This time every track is
constructed entirely of music and sounds from the big screen.  Among the
victims are Titanic, Dr. Strangelove, Saturday Night Fever, Wizard Of Oz,
Ennio Morricone, Cheech and Chong, and many more.  A brief preview of the
release is available at www.detritus.net/illegalart/preview.html

sponsored by RTMARK - www.rtmark.com
__________________________________________________
STILL AVAILABLE

Deconstructing Beck
Illegal Art 001/Seeland 507

After threatening letters from BMG, Geffen, and Beck's own lawyer, this
RTMARK-sponsored disc escaped untouched from any real legal action.  It has
since sold thousands of copies and received substantial media attention.
Tracklisting and audio clips may be found at
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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) =?iso-8859-1?B?RWzka2Vs5GlzZXQgIA==?=
Date: 02 Apr 1999 22:08:41 +0200




Not for the faint of heart but you can download a couple of MP3's from th=
e
brand new CD of Finnish humppastars El=E4kel=E4iset's at
http://www.lpg.fi/kela/. Listen to their version of Hotel California!
The Humppa karaoke section is quite fun too...



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Subject: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish)
Date: 02 Apr 1999 15:33:20 -0500


Enough with this Spice Girls thing I inadvertedly began(woe to me)...I =
gots
 some other
burning questions...One is about the luxurient Brasil '66.  I found the=
se
on their web page, and
the following are albums I know nothing about, and hope you, dear reade=
r,
can educate me!

Capitol ST2294 Brasil '65 (1965) Brasil '65
Atlantic SD1434 The Swinger From Rio (1966) Sergio Mendes
Atlantic SD8112 In Person At El Matador! (1966) Sergio Mendes & Brasil =
'65
Atlantic SD1466 The Great Arrival Sergio Mendes
Atlantic SD1480 The Beat Of Brazil (1967) Sergio Mendes
Atlantic SD8177 Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things (1968) Sergio Mendes
A&M SP4284 Stillness (1970) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
A&M AML66 Live At The Expo '70 (1970 Jpn) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
A&M SP4315 Pa=B0s Tropical (1971) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77
A&M SP4353 Primal Roots (1972) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77
A&M AMLS64378 In Concert (1973 Uk) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77
Bell 1119 Love Music (1973) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77
SomLivre 404.7053 I Believe Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77
Bell 1305 Vintage '74 (1974) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77
Elektra K52014 Sergio Mendes (1975) Sergio Mendes
Elektra 7E1055 Homecooking (1976) Sergio Mendes
A&M SP8110 Night And Day (Promo) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77
Elektra 7E1102 Sergio Mendes & The New Brasil '77 (1977) Sergio Mendes =
&
The New Brasil '77

Also, two "will they ever be re-released in my lifetime" questions:  TH=
E
GIRL FROM UNCLE, and
 SPACE 1999?
Jane Fondle...always wanting more.....records!
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Subject: (exotica) Bas Sheva?
Date: 02 Apr 1999 15:50:12 -0500


I am posting chronically today, but I ain't got nothin' else to do until
5:30.  I have scoured my copy of JUNGLE JAZZ( a desert island record if
there ever was one) to see who the wailing babe is...it sounds a heck of a
lot to me like it could be Bas Sheva...If not, is it the woman on the LOST
EPISODEs...Just WHO is singing? Btw, where did they get the cover for that
record, straight out of National Geographic?
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Subject: (exotica) "The Box of Mystery" with Brian Phillips (Long, Shelley!)
Date: 02 Apr 1999 16:53:47 -0500


Hey, gang!  Did you ever do something so wild, so nutty and just plain
darned WIGGY that everyone around you said, "Will you get to the point of
this post, Phillips?"

Well I did.  As the readers of this list remember, I purchased a large
collection (his father worked in radio in the 50's and 60's) and posted
reviews of the records that were of interest to the group.  The same fellow
that I bought these from is moving and while packing discovered another box
of records.  He told me some of the artists who were in this box, but I
have essentially bought this box, sight unseen.

What I am about to do may not have been done on this list before.  I am
about to open this box of discs right now for the first time, listen to
excerpts of the ones I feel are of interest to this list and let you know
what I think.

Going into the other room...

(hold music)

Past Frampton's Camel, John Denver (Yikes!) and we stop at

Visions of Eight (soundtrack) - Henry Mancini (RCA)

This is from 1973 (the film is about the 1972 Olympics, one which I recall
for both tragic and exciting reasons) and I am currently listening to
"Ludmilla's Theme" which not only features the piano of Mancini , but it
also brings back memories of my piano teacher, Ludmilla Berkwic.  The theme
is piano and strings, mid-tempo and pleasant enough, but not enough to send
me.  Next track is called "Pretty Girls", which is, once again, pleasant
enough, with prominent horns.  None of this prepares me for..."Spaced Out",
the third song.  This is an atmospheric synthesizer and theremin number.
Most impressive, as I had never heard any switched-on Mancini.  The next
track is a winner.  "Warm Up" features organ and full orchestra .  Uptempo
and catchy.  The next track is "Soft Flight" which is properly ethereal,
with strings and harpsichord (which I like almost as much as Ms. Fondle
digs Theremin, Hello, Jane!)  The side finishes with "The Race" which is
uptempo and very enjoyable.

The record is a "dynafex", which is RCAspeak for "less vinyl than we used
to use".  I shake it a couple of times with both hands on the edges and the
couple next door break into a quick rendition of "Tie Me Kangaroo Down,
Sport".

Rating: This is at worst, average Mancini and at best, woo woo!  I give it
Eight Directors, which is what this film had.


(Hold Music)

The Wonderful World of Make Believe - Johnny Mathis (Mercury) (Year not
stated)

Liner Notes excerpt "...just pull up your dreamin' chair...and...away we go!"

Mercury!?  How did Columbia let Mathis get away?  I would love to know the
executive that made him take a break from the label.  Talking about this
record is not done with an unbiased ear, as some of you know, due to an
obscure statute of the sixties, all homes had to have a Johnny Mathis in
them.  Those that did not have him had Ray Conniff.  I grew very tired of
him because of my mother's nine albums of his from the 70's.

Since I am now older, I can say that his voice is no less than
unbelievable, but outside of his first album, I probably would not buy any
of his records in a thrift store.  I have heard him too many times.  So
given that, I will approach this record with the air ofd someone who bought
a record with a handsome fellow on the cover.

Allyn Ferguson is the arranger on this album and his arrangements are lush
and not intrusive, but not necessarily as grabbing as, say, esky's.

The songs are pleasant affairs, not "exotic", per se.  (I told you that I
was bringing these out and hearing these for the first time!).  The closest
feeling to that we get is the title track, which begins with effective
reverb on Mathis' vocals, however the song is not weird enough for the
title for me to make it a classic, although I like the song.  Shangri-La is
appropriately dramatic as it's declarations ("Everywhere you are is
Shangri-la!").

"When Wish Upon a Star".  Oh, no, not again.  Anyone that has grown up
watching TV in the 1970's has heard this song enough times to say that
there is very little to sway me to enjoy it, but there is a nice Bas
Sheva-style woman's vocal singing along with him at the end of the song.

The side closes with "Beyond the Blue Horizon", a song I have heard in
cartoons as an instrumental.  It finishes off with a wonderfully discordant
orchestral wash of strings, but once again familiarity breeds a small
nodule of contempt against the song.

Rating:  Like his voice, still not wild about the material.  My dreamin'
chair stayed fairly rooted.  Two barcaloungers.

(hold music)

Exotica 1970 - Kokee Band (Solid State 18004) (1966)

Firstly, this album clears up who was behind the Solid State moniker
(United Artists).  For those who don't know, which would include ME, Solid
State seems to have been UA's attempt to reach the audiophile audience.  It
even features a Telefunken U-47 mike, a Frank Zappa favorite.

The producer is Sonny Lester, so a good time is darn near guaranteed, if
Jack Diamond has anything to say about it (Hello, Jack!).  From the very
first crack of Latin percussion on "Love for Sale", I was a goner.  This
track alone warrants reissue.  This arrangement pulls out all of the stops
(wild percussion, tempo shifts and a sinister piano) and takes it's
rightful place alongside Stan Kenton as one of the all-time amazing
renditions of this song.

"Baia" I know from listening to harmonica player Max Geldray's version from
the Goon Show(Hello Phil Clark!), again great arrangement, with a cuica (I
am guessing) that sounds like a Bronx cheer.

"The Lady in Red" once again sets off my cultural trigger (Bugs Bunny
skipping down a road singing,, "The Rabbit in Red"!), but again, the
percussion and full orchestra are using their wiles on me.  It is useless
to resist!

What would one of my mile-long posts be without a small rumination on yet
another version of "Moon of Manakoora"?  Once again, the Kokeeheads (one of
you thought it, admit it!) come through again with another latin-tinged
arrangement (best touch a sliding horn figure near the beginning) that is
just...OK, that's IT!  Which Latino did the arrangements on this record
This guy know his stuff!

...Arthur Baum?

The liners have nothing too entertaining about them, save that the
technical data outweighs the notes about the music four-to-one!  Bonus
ponts for actually featuring a picture of Sonny Lester on the inside of the
gatefold.  Minor carp: 10 songs, all under three minutes make for a short
album.

Rating: This rekkid is the @#$!  It's gooood!  10 Jack Diamonds (Hello,
Stars!)

(hold music)

His Way! - Frank Sinatra, Jr. (Daybreak) (1972)

One cannot help feel badly for this fellow.  Look who his Daddy was.  YOU
try and have a career with that looming over your head   From the liners:
"No matter how you shaket, Sinatra might well have had an easier path to
trod as a professionl singer had his name been Frank Presley, Frank
Kristofferson or Frank Lennon."  However, it is only fair that we judge him
on what he recorded.  Besides, Frank Lennon is one goofy name.

This album (his second for this label) benefits from the talents of
arranger Nelson Riddle, who's now sound arrangements come into full
awareness on "Now Is The Time" (not the Charlie Parker standard).  This
album has one difficulty and I must confess...

...it is Frank Sinatra, Jr.  He voice does indeed sound like his father's,
but it is thinner (which is still not bad, timbre-wise) and his vibrato
sounds as if at the end of a line, producer Sonny Burke puts a block of ice
on Sinatra's back.  I might have forgiven this, save the fact that when he
left to hit that note, that note that is the high note of that particular
verse, he misses it.  He misses it admirably, but he is flat.  He fares
best on the song "Have a Nice Day", a mid-tempo song.

Rating:  One half Nelson.

(hold music)

For Animals Only - Baja Marimba Band

My first BMB record.  Arranged by the late Julius Wechter (Hello Lou Smith)
and Herb Alpert  The liner notes by broadcaster Gary Owens are postively
lousy with animal puns ("Hoggy" Carmichael...the works of Charles
Lamb...Simian Legree") and ends with the phrase, "The result is nothing
short of sycophantic." (?)

A "Tijuana Brass with Marimba" feel permeates the album, the song "Elephant
Soul" is rather enjoyable and Gnu Bossa Nova is also rather nice.  There
isn't much to inveigle to buy more BMB.

Rating: MOOt, if you are a BMB completist.  My feelings are neutral about
this record.

(hold music, a couple of hopeful clicks and back to hold music)

Manny Albam - Brass on Fire (Solid State 18000) (1966)

Liner notes: "Brass on Fire" by Manny Albam showcases naked brass."  These
notes beat the Kokee Band's as they have notes about each song and
personnel!  Favorite musician's name: "Howard Howard"(!)  This album also
has more bang for the 1966 buck, since it has 12 songs, as opposed to the
10 of Kokee's.

I guess this is the first album on this label (any discographies about?).
I suppose that UA got jealous about Enoch Light and Command, so they
decided to start this series, which is indeed quite well recorded, with the
Telefunkens and the Altec Lipsticks, etc.

Given that, this is a rather nicely arranged albeit, unspectacular record.
There is brass and lots of it and it is played well. but it is essentially
Big Band Jazz with almost no improvisation.  If you are looking for
Exotica, it would be best to look elsewhere, but that is not to say that
this is a bad album, just that it aimed for a middleground and hit it, dead
on.

Rating: Solid.

Thus endeth that fab epic of...the Mystery Box!

Starring (in alphabetical order)
Brian Phillips.....Brian Phillips

Produced by Brian Phillips in collaboration with Qualcomm Software ("If you
love our e-mail software, you'll love our stadium)

Directed by Brian Phillips

Key Grip...Brian Phillips

This soundtrack is not availble on anyone's label

MPAA Approved

Recorded in Dolby Digital

All rights reserved because my left hook is a MONSTER.
Brian Phillips
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Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Jimmy's Easy" 3.30.99
Date: 02 Apr 1999 17:42:40 EST


Jimmy's Easy" airs on 88.1 WMBR-FM, Cambridge on Tuesdays from 6-8 a.m.
----------Billy Taylor Orchestra-David Frost Theme----------
Ted Auletta Orchestra-Makaha-LP Exotica (Cameo label)
Warren Barker-Flute Route-LP Warren Barker Is (jazzy/moody/Shearing like)
Arthur Lyman-Ring Oi Wake-CD Taboo (Ryko)
Cecil Holmes Soulful Sounds-Across 110th St-CH Plays The Movies
Billy Mure-What Is This Thing Called Love-LP Supersonics (Living Stereo, '58)
Creed Taylor Orchestra-It's A Lonesome Old Town-LP Lonelyville (crime rock)
Jane Morgan-Good Lovin'-LP Sounds Of Silence (was she a cross dresser?)
-Full Moon-Malibu-LP Full Moon (Nice e-z jazz from Buzzy Feiten/Neil Larsen)
-Chim Kothari-Looking Thru The Eyes Of Love-LP Sound Of Sitar (Pitney classic)
-Dick Hyman-Aquarius-LP Age Of Electronicus (Adjunct to Electric Eclectics?)
-Ferrante & Teicher-Va Va Voom!-CD Blast Off
-Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra-Landing On The Moon-CD Rampartouille
-Tom Jones-Things Go Better With Coke-CD Coke Commercials 1965-69
-Mandingo-Black Rite-CD Sound Gallery (orange one from Scamp)
-David Shire-Manhattan Skyline-LP OST Saturday Night Fever (forgotten goodie)
-Burt Bacharach-Promise Her Anything (Reprise)-LP OST Promise Her Anything
-Henry Mancini-It Had Better Be Tonight (vocal)-LP OST Pink Panther
Bernie Green Orchestra-I Love Paris-LP Futura (RCA Stereo AaCcTtIiOoNn)
Mongo Santamaria-Workin' On A Groovy Thing-LP Workin' On A Groovy Thing ('68)
Ulf Sandberg Trio-Watch What Happens-CD Scored! (James Taylor produced)
Chittra Neogy-Woman Is Like A Fruit-CD Basic Hip Unswitched! (Thanks Basic)
El Coco-Got That Feelin'-LP Cocomotion (ooooh, aaaah, got that feelin')
MFSB-Human Machine-LP Universal Love (second LP from Philly's finest playaz)
-Katha Ebstein-Ein Haus Suf Einer Insel-CD Get Easy-German Pops Collection
-Sammy Davis Jr.-Ballad Of Johnny Cool-LP OST Johnny Cool
-Dick Hyman-The Cat-LP Man From O.R.G.A.N. (Lalo's tune from "Joy House")
-Ventures-Moon Journey-LP Runnin' Strong (Venturaholism developing here)
-Davie Allan &The Arrows-Experiment In Terror-CD Shots In The Dark (grinder)
-Dick Schory's New Percussion Ensemble-Caravan-LP Percussion (Living Stereo)
-Unidentified Orchestra-Perdido-LP Perspectives In Percussion (Hollywood
stuff)
-Eydie Gorme-The Gift-LP Blame It On The Bossa Nova (excellent LP throughout)
----------Wayne Newton-Wives & Lovers----------


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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish)
Date: 02 Apr 1999 17:52:30 -0500


>Atlantic SD8177 Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things (1968) Sergio Mendes
I like this one quite a lot!  It was part of my big score of a year ago and
despite the fact that Dave Grusin's name is on it (Not that he isn't
talented, but during the seventies, almost every other danged soundtrack
seemed to be Tom Scott or Dave Grusin).  If you see it, buy it!
Brian Phillips
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From: Bump <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Beck's/Peter
Date: 02 Apr 1999 19:43:42 -0500


>Is it just me, or am I the only person on this list NOT incensed that Beck
>would have anything to do with Bruce Haack?

i am not incensed. although i have to agree with Charlie on 1/2 of this one...
>Beck isn't Beck without the Dust Brothers and Beck shouldn't be allowed to
>remix Bruce Haack without the Dust Brothers.

i like beck both with and without the dust bros. but it seems to me he is
pretty much a avant folk singer with a guitar without a production crew.
but it will be interesting to see what happens, so i do believe he is "allowed"
to try it.

 Does anybody know, btw, which Beck single uses the
>unholy image of Heino on its cover?
>Jane Fondle, who thinks Beck is also, "Cute."

yeah, i got that one even before i knew who that weirdo with the hair and
glasses was!
it is Steve threw up bw/ mutherfucker
it is on Bongload Records BL 11
might try them direct like...
(nope, just looked over their website. no go. but vinyl available of his lp's)

plus, this will give Bruce Haack some 90's, next millenium exposure to
those like me who really have not heard much or none at all.

lets hear it for the boy.

AND
as far as not being allowed to remix.
that should have been the case with the new Peter Thomas remixes.
what a bunch of boring stuff.
Disc 2 of the original unreleased stuff is wonderful
Bungalow also offers (in very small print) everyone to try their own remix
of the unreleased tracks and send them to the label for a chance to win a
free trip to Germany to hang with Mr. Thomas!!!

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) tiki sightings
Date: 02 Apr 1999 20:35:06 -0500


For you tiki boys...
As some of you may know, there's a new talk show after Letterman, replacing
Tom Snyder.  The host is some slicko named (Craig??) Kilborn.
The other night Jeff Goldblum was a guest and he played a song for Kilborn
which he and a friend had written especially for the occasion.
The lyrics basically consisted of words that rhymed with "freaky".
And at one point he sang (something like):

"He's carrying a torch
not a tiki"

I think that was it.  Maybe it was "BUT not a tiki".  I took it to mean
that he's carrying a torch but it's not a tiki torch as opposed to he's
carrying a torch but he isn't carrying a tiki.  But that could only be true
if there's such thing as a tiki torch and I don't have the tiki expertise
to figure that out.

Anyway, thought you might like to know, whoever you are, that tikis are
still running through the "culture".

Nat



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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) "The Box of Mystery" with Brian Phillips (Long,
Date: 02 Apr 1999 21:03:14 -0500


At 04:53 PM 4/2/99 -0500, Brian Phillips wrote:

>Exotica 1970 - Kokee Band (Solid State 18004) (1966)
>
>Firstly, this album clears up who was behind the Solid State moniker
>(United Artists).  For those who don't know, which would include ME, Solid
>State seems to have been UA's attempt to reach the audiophile audience.  It
>even features a Telefunken U-47 mike, a Frank Zappa favorite.

I have to admit that one of the reasons I'm responding to this megapost is
because from painful personal experience I know that often these megaposts
go by without list reaction and I don't want any other listmembers to
experience the empty "Is that all there is?" feeling that I have suffered
through - in silence - on so many occasions.
I know you need closure Brian and I'm doing my best.

I'm also responding because I love the Kokee band.

And because I love the Solid State label - and Sonny Lester too - even
though it put out some dreck.

But I do wish that their liner notes would occasionally mention the
musicians in the band or something about the tunes.  The Kokee band is one
of my favourite quasi-modern exotica bands but for all I know they were as
faceless an aggregation as this record suggest.

If you like this record, look for their other one.  (Or maybe there's more
than one). It's called "Hawaii and other exotic movie themes" and has a
very cool version of Bacharach's "After the Fox".

>
>Manny Albam - Brass on Fire (Solid State 18000) (1966)
>
>I guess this is the first album on this label (any discographies about?).

>Given that, this is a rather nicely arranged albeit, unspectacular record.
>There is brass and lots of it and it is played well. but it is essentially
>Big Band Jazz with almost no improvisation.

I agree that it's unspectacular but I don't think it's the first record on
the label.  I have another FAR superior Manny Albam record, also on the
label.  I posted about it not that long ago.  It's called "Soul of the
City" and I don't think it's much of a stretch to call it a pretty cool
"quasi-crime jazz" record.  I'm not sure what the number means but the
number on "Soul" is lower than the number on "Brass on Fire".

Anyway, thank you for that not-really-too-long post.

Happy Easter to my Christian friends.   And in case you were wondering, my
family were all at home the day that thing happened to your Lord.  We had
nothing to do with it.

Nat



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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish)
Date: 02 Apr 1999 21:11:59 -0500


At 03:33 PM 4/2/99 -0500, [e-mail] wrote:
 I found these
>on their web page, and
>the following are albums I know nothing about, and hope you, dear read=
er,
>can educate me!

>A&M SP4315 Pa=B0s Tropical (1971) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77

I have yet to find a Sergio record post-66 that compares with their bes=
t
stuff so now I just ignore anything where the number is in the seventie=
s.
But maybe there's a good one in there somewhere.  It was post Lani-Hall=
,
wasn't it? So that could be part of the explanation for the quality dro=
p.
Also I seem to remember that one of the Brasil 77 records had Fender Rh=
odes
or something and as much as I have come to tolerate that keyboard sound=
,
the thing I love most about Brasil 66 is the sound of the piano.


>Also, two "will they ever be re-released in my lifetime" questions:  T=
HE
>GIRL FROM UNCLE, and
> SPACE 1999?

I'm not the reissue guy on this list but I just saw an ad for Girl from
Uncle so that is apparently reissued, in some form.
As far as Space 1999 goes, you just reminded me how sexy Barbara Bain w=
as
but I don't know about the music.

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From: Fish Wich <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Brief intro and tiki offering
Date: 02 Apr 1999 18:41:29 -0800 (PST)


Hello, I'm Mark and I've been following the discussions on the list for
about 8 months.  Rather than go on about my musical tastes or records, I
thought I would make a small offering to the high priests and
priestesses of the list.

I recently received the EMI Music Distribution May 4, 1999 release
catalogue and was pleasantly surprised to see three full pages dedicated
to the Ultra Lounge Tiki Sampler.  At the risk of starting another
thread about the new disc, I have scanned the pages and placed them on
the web at:

http://www.angelfire.com/me2/fishwich/

While the track listing and cover art may or may not be news to you, I
found Capitol's marketing plans intriguing.  The martini glass dump bins
kind of pretty cool, though the name "dump bin" sort of ruins the magic.
 Wouldn't it be nice if we could all buy the disc at dealer price
($12.75)?

Although a few scanned pictures can't compare to an online radio show or
tiki shaped dildo, I hope they are acceptable...

"A knife of obsidian flashes in the sun, and the victim's heart is held
high before the prostrated multitude.  Their god appeased, they slowly
disperse."
(Les Baxter - Sacred Idol)


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Bas Sheva?
Date: 03 Apr 1999 00:24:07 EST


<< I have scoured my copy of JUNGLE JAZZ( a desert island record if
 there ever was one) to see who the wailing babe is...it sounds a heck of a
 lot to me like it could be Bas Sheva...If not, is it the woman on the LOST
 EPISODEs...Just WHO is singing? >>

the woman on the Lost Epsiode is Beverly Ford.  Listen for her on LA DOLCE
HENKE, too.  She demonstrates her four octave range on "Woman In Space".  I
have a video of that Baxter "Music Of The Sixties" TV show and she does a
couple of fantastic solos and her bird calls.  No wonder they use those
luscious models for LP covers, poor Bev is pretty homely.

I have no idea who "Tiki" is on THE PRIMITIVE AND THE PASSIONATE, either.  I
just hold on to my fantasy that whenever I hear these voices, the babes
singing them look just like the model on the cover of THE PASSIONS.



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Futurama
Date: 02 Apr 1999 21:53:32 +0000


I agree with what has been said so far.  The curse of an opening program
for what is going to be a continuing story line is that most of its work
is establishing the premise, which is often not very hilarious.

Fox basically promoed all the good stuff and the rest was set-up.

The voices are little blase for me.  As new characters emerge, this may
change.  The Nixon voice was awful.

I am very bothered by the prospect of a continuing story line.  I think
this will make it difficult to really exploit the possibilities.

I am going to give it a chance and see what happens.

Byron

Byron Caloz
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
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From: Matt Hinrichs <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Three Suns sampled on Ben Lee CD
Date: 02 Apr 1999 22:49:03 -0700


Hi!

Not totally exotica-related, but the new disc by Ben Lee, "Breathing
Tornados", contains samples of not one but two 3 Suns songs - cool!!

Anyway, I was just wondering what Three Suns albums these tracks came
from:
C'est Si Bon
There Goes My Heart

Mucho thanks in advance!
- Matt


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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bas Sheva?
Date: 03 Apr 1999 11:19:10 +0200




[e-mail] wrote:

>
>
> I have no idea who "Tiki" is on THE PRIMITIVE AND THE PASSIONATE, either.  I
> just hold on to my fantasy that whenever I hear these voices, the babes
> singing them look just like the model on the cover of THE PASSIONS.
>

Are you saying this woman is NOT Bas Sheva? How disappointing!

-Mo


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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) tiki sightings
Date: 03 Apr 1999 11:20:29 +0200




Nat Kone wrote:

> For you tiki boys...

...and girls

>   But that could only be true
> if there's such thing as a tiki torch and I don't have the tiki expertise
> to figure that out.

Yes there is. In my opinion it's this stick with a cone (Nat!)-formed straw
roof with a flame on top.

> Anyway, thought you might like to know, whoever you are, that tikis are
> still running through the "culture".

And it's getting bigger and bigger....

-Mo


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From: Paul Dean <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fantastic Planet
Date: 03 Apr 1999 04:49:48 -0600



I just watched a video of the French animation Fantastic Planet, made in
1973.   A
great movie and a fantastic soundtrack.   Does anyone know any details
about the
music, like who made it and has it been reissued lately.   If not, I say
it should be!



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From: "Jill Mingo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish)
Date: 02 Apr 1999 16:54:25 PST






>
> Capitol ST2294 Brasil '65 (1965) Brasil '65
> Atlantic SD1434 The Swinger From Rio (1966) Sergio Mendes
> Atlantic SD8112 In Person At El Matador! (1966) Sergio Mendes & Brasil =
'65
> Atlantic SD1466 The Great Arrival Sergio Mendes
> Atlantic SD1480 The Beat Of Brazil (1967) Sergio Mendes
> Atlantic SD8177 Sergio Mendes' Favorite Things (1968) Sergio Mendes

All the Brasil 65 stuff is pretty good, but fairly straight jazzy-Brasili=
an bossa renditions. Not that fat A&M lush production. As for these Atlan=
tic relases by Sergio, such as Favorite Things, I thought these were in =
a similar vein, and that Favorite was a compilation. But maybe not, someo=
ne, help us out.

> A&M SP4284 Stillness (1970) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

After many years of searching, I finally found this LP a couple years ago=
. Now I see it fairly regularly, but not in the $1 bins as expected with =
the other Sergio stuff. Usually in collector shops for upwards of $10. =
There are a few amazing moments on it. It's maybe getting into the realm =
of less of a groovy lounge sound to more prog-sounding stuff.

> A&M AML66 Live At The Expo '70 (1970 Jpn) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

I heard a tape of 66 live once, and they sounded fairly god awful. Girls =
sounded flat and the arrangements were just not there. I was disappointed=
. The tape was probably this LP.

> A&M SP4315 Pa=B0s Tropical (1971) Sergio Mendes & Brasil '77

I'm told the 77 stuff has brighter moments from time to time. I might sta=
rt picking it up when I see it cheap, but I've always been told (and from=
 what I've heard too) that is just doesn't compare with 66.

My opinion, for what it's worth.

Jill "Mingo-go"



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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Sid & Marty Krofft
Date: 03 Apr 1999 15:55:05 +0200


that CD is not released yet (according to EveryCD).




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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: bruce haack on CD??
Date: 03 Apr 1999 15:58:07 +0200


At 13:47 -0700 99/04/01, Citizen Kafka wrote:

>If the original label Dimension 5 would re-issue any of their original
>titles, would folks be interested??

    i think so, especially if they focus on these 3 titles:

    The Way-Out Cassette For Children
    Dance to the Music
    The Electronic Cassette For Children

    especially the first one lives up to its title!

        Johan


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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
Date: 03 Apr 1999 10:49:04 +0000


There's Music To Be Murdered By on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour
webcast - introduced by the Merchant of Menace himself, Alfred
Hitchcock.  Also, bossa nova that's downright dangerous by Tony
Mottola (his famous "Danger" theme, done as a bossa);  Kenyon
Hopkins' classic "Shock"; and crime jazz by Leith Stevens.

You'll also find rare exotica by Axel Stordahl ("Jasmine and Jade"),
Ted Auletta, Tito Puente and and Warren Barker; a couple of Charles
Albertine's wonderfully witty arrangements for the Three Suns and for
the Al Nevins Orchestra (from "Dancing with the Blues");  "Blues
for the Guru" by 101 Strings and much more.

To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the Web, just go to:

http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html

You'll need a minimum 28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer, which
you can download for free at:

http://www.real.com/products/player/50player/index.html?src=download

As always, if you dial up our weekly Retro Cocktail Hour webcast,
please drop us a line and let us know you're out there.

Next week, our special guest is Dana Countryman, editor of "Cool and
Strange Music Magazine"!

Thanks for the space.

Darrell Brogdon
[e-mail]
The Retro Cocktail Hour
KANU FM 91.5
Broadcasting Hall
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
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From: "B. Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Solid State Discog.
Date: 03 Apr 1999 14:30:11 -0800


Brian queried:

>
> I guess this is the first album on this label (any discographies about?).
> I suppose that UA got jealous about Enoch Light and Command, so they
> decided to start this series, which is indeed quite well recorded, with the
> Telefunkens and the Altec Lipsticks, etc.

I can supply a partial discography for Solid State.  Additions most
welcome!

18000 "Brass on Fire" - Manny Albam
18002 "A Bag Full of Soul" - Jimmy McGriff
18004 "Exotica 1970" - Kokee Band
18011 "Best of Broadway" - Will Bronson Singers
18013 "Music for Wives and Lovers" - Nelson Riddle

In addition, I have a label sampler record that has photos of these
records, but I can't read the catalog numbers because the print is too
small:

"Percussive Mariachi" - Ted Sommer (looks like 18002)
"Hawaii and other exotic movie themes" - Kokee Band
"The Soul of the City" - Manny Albam
"Introducing..." - The Passion Guitars (looks like 18007)
"Cherry" - Jimmy McGriff (18006?)
"Presenting Joe Williams et al and the Jazz Orchestra"
"Presenting Thad Jones, Mel Lewis and the Jazz Orchestra"

The label has a reasonably nice look, with gatefold LPs and consistent
cover art.  Sonny Lester and Phil Ramone seem to be the creative force
behind the label.  I pick them up when I see them because they do tend
to sound great.

-- Brad




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Hell's Belles
Date: 03 Apr 1999 14:52:02 EST


I just saw a newly minted OST copy LP of "Hell's Belles", music by Les
Baxter. Is this soundtrack worth buying? Anyone? Thanks.......  Jimmy
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From: "Tim @ World Wide Wax" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Solid State Discog.
Date: 03 Apr 1999 14:10:47 +0000


> I can supply a partial discography for Solid State.  Additions most
> welcome!
>
> 18000 "Brass on Fire" - Manny Albam
> 18002 "A Bag Full of Soul" - Jimmy McGriff
> 18004 "Exotica 1970" - Kokee Band
> 18011 "Best of Broadway" - Will Bronson Singers
> 18013 "Music for Wives and Lovers" - Nelson Riddle
>

List of 60 here:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=ISOLID|STATE

Tim Barron
World Wide Wax - Your source for classic vinyl
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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Next Stop wrong album cover
Date: 03 Apr 1999 16:17:17 -0500


Something maybe only an exoticat might notice and/or appreciate..
There's this newish movie out on tape, "Next Stop Wonderland".  It's
actually a pretty "nice" romantic film but you can judge for yourself.
The female protagonist likes Brasilian music and the music is virtually all
Jobim, Astrud Gilberto and other similar stuff.  Even a little Walter
Wanderley.  "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars" and other songs are performed not
only on the soundtrack but is sung by characters in the film.
When the musical "motif" is first introduced in the film, the heroine is
seen in her apartment listening to an LP and the camera pans over to the
turntable and the record cover leaning near it.
You can't see the whole record but you can see the title.  "After Hours.
South America".
Now wait a minute.  "After Hours".  Isn't that a series of records that
Sonny Lester made?  I have "After Hours.  Middle East" and it's one of my
favourite records.  And I know there are other records in that series like
"After Hours. Italy".  So you'd think there might be a "South America" one.
But when you see that record cover, the music playing is Astrud Gilberto.
Why would they choose that record cover, assuming I'm right?
I guess they needed the words South America or Brazil and they couldn't
find that on an Astrud Gilberto or Jobim record.  I guess they figured that
the name Jobim wouldn't say "South America" to the audience or at least not
clearly enough.
It's kind of disappointing.  Then again, who else would notice something
like that?

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From: "Amanda Cavataio" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Movie Titled "The Beat Generation"
Date: 03 Apr 1999 13:32:24 PST


First of all, I'm happy that this is my first post! I've been on the list
for a couple of weeks now and I absolutely dig it, baby!!

I saw a picture for a 1950s-60s movie called "The Beat Generation" (I'm
pretty sure that's it) and it featured Mamie Van Doren.  Does anyone here
know something about this movie, or even if I have this right?  It sounds
like something I must get my paws on.  Please advise!

Keep it swingin'
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From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Citizen Kafka live in NYC
Date: 03 Apr 1999 17:35:42 -0500


Hi, All,

The Wretched Refuse String Band (Citizen Kafka, Jon Sholle,
Bob Jones, Jeff Berman, Roger Mason) will appear THIS WEDNESDAY
at The Cooler, 416 W.14th St. (9th Ave) at 9:30 PM (1 big set).
The Dutels, Peter Stampfel and Gary Lucas, will be closing for us.
$7 admission. Original Citizen Kafka material, string band madness,
and more. See you there!

Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air"
every Wednesday 7-8 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM & WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM
http://www.megasaver.com/page2/smradio.html
http://wfmu.org/ then go to 'listen to wfmu'


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Subject: Re:  (exotica) Movie Titled "The Beat Generation"
Date: 03 Apr 1999 21:32:10 EST



In a message dated 4/3/99 5:33:36 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>I saw a picture for a 1950s-60s movie called "The Beat Generation" (I'm
>pretty sure that's it) and it featured Mamie Van Doren.  Does anyone here
>know something about this movie, or even if I have this right?  It sounds
>like something I must get my paws on.  Please advise!

Hi. I have a copy of the poster ad for the movie, also starring Steve
Cochran, reportedly a member of the "B" movie royalty brigade and I think it
contains the song "Beat Generation" (and I can take it or leave it each time)
later made into "Blank Generation" by Richard Hell and the Voidoids. Have yet
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From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, April 4
Date: 03 Apr 1999 23:53:08 -0500


Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can
be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal,
Canada, and (FINALLY!)on RealAudio (www.ckut.ca) All comments,
questions, and feedback welcome.

Space Bop #42   Cover This!!

This week, we're featuring cover versions of songs, ranging from
super-cool to super-cheesy!

Alan Tew:  These Boots Are Made For Walking  "Dig It!"  (Thanks, Johan!)
Rene Touzel:  Baby Elephant Walk  "Cocktail Mix 2: Martini Madness"
Chris Waxman:  Mas Que Nada  "Dig It!"
Peter Thomas:  Jumping Jack Flash  "Organic"
Sounds Orchestral:  Black Is Black  "Sounds Rare"

Montefiori Cocktail:  So What's New  "Raccolta No. 1"
Lalo Schifrin:  Quiet Village  "Black Widow"
Trax 4:  Coming Home Baby  "Dig It!"
Synthesonic Sounds:  House Of The Rising Sun  "The Easy Project: 20
Loungecore Favourites"

Frank Chacksfield:  Route 66  "Dig It!"
The Bob Crewe Generation:  Music To Watch Girls By  "Music To Watch
Girls By"
Arthur Lyman:  The Shadow Of Your Smile  "Sonic Sixties"
Mrs. Miller:  Downtown  "Mrs. Miller's Greatest Hits"

Edmundo Ros:  This Nearly Was Mine  "Latin Love-In"
Enoch Light:  Get Back  "Spaced Out"
Johnny Keating:  Jesus Christ Superstar  "The Sound Gallery" (It is
Easter Sunday, after all!)
Gotz Alsmann:  Va Ba Ba Boom  "Gestatten"


Thanks for reading.

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Solid State Discog.
Date: 04 Apr 1999 12:25:03 -0400


At 02:30 PM 4/3/99 -0800, B. Yost wrote:
>
>I can supply a partial discography for Solid State.  Additions most
>welcome!

>In addition, I have a label sampler record that has photos of these
>records, but I can't read the catalog numbers because the print is too
>small:

I don't know which sampler record you have but on mine - "You've got to
hear it to believe it" - the catalog numbers are eminently legible even for
a guy fighting the fact that he needs glasses.

>"Hawaii and other exotic movie themes" - Kokee Band

I have this record so I don't have to look on the sampler.
Catalog number: 18010

>"The Soul of the City" - Manny Albam

Cat.no 18009  Or if it's mono, like my copy, it's 17009.  I just noticed
that all the mono copies have 17000 catalog numbers so I guess I was wrong
yesterday when I said that "Soul" came out before "Brass on Fire".

>"Introducing..." - The Passion Guitars (looks like 18007)

Correct!

>"Cherry" - Jimmy McGriff (18006?)

Correct again.  There's also Jimmy McGriff "I've got a new woman" catalog
number 18030 and Jimmy McGriff "The Big Band", catalog number 18001.

>Presenting Joe Williams et al

Cat no: 18008

>Presenting Thad Jones, Mel Lewis...

Cat no: 18003

There's also another Will Bronson Presents the In Crowd Singers.

I pick these up too but not all that enthusiastically.  I think it's kind
of a strange, more-bland-than-it-had-to-be label and kind of reminds me of
Bob Shad's "Mainstream" label in that way.  It seems to me that Sonny
Lester (and Bob Shad) were involved in much more interesting records when
they didn't have their own labels.  I like the Jimmy McGriff records though
they're not the best organ jazz records I have.  The only semi-unique thing
on the label is the Kokee Band.

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie Titled "The Beat Generation"
Date: 04 Apr 1999 15:56:07 -0400


>I saw a picture for a 1950s-60s movie called "The Beat Generation" (I'm
>pretty sure that's it) and it featured Mamie Van Doren.  Does anyone here
>know something about this movie, or even if I have this right?  It sounds
>like something I must get my paws on.  Please advise!

I have not seen any part of this movie for getting on 20 years, however, I
do recall that Louis Armstrong sang the main title ("You beat generation/I
think you're headed for the Blues").  Maltin disliked this move, (although
"he" gave a long post of mine five stars and thank you :^), although, in'
it's favor, Richard Matheson co-wrote the script, Vampira's in it and once
again, Louis Armstrong!

Another movie from the same year, which is on video is "A Bucket of Blood",
which takes place mostly in a coffeehouse and has quite a lot of great
beatnik atmosphere.

Brian Phillips

P.S. Thanks for the replies to my loooong post and thanks to the All Music
pointer.
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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie "The Beat Generation"
Date: 04 Apr 1999 16:05:06 -0400


>I saw a picture for a 1950s-60s movie called "The Beat Generation"

I haven't seen it... woe-is-uh-me-bop, it never turns up on TV. But
referring to the trusty "Psychotronic Encyclopedia" we learn (in our own
words, as the teacher used to specify):

"Beat Generation" (1959, MGM)

Produced by Albert Zugsmith, which is pretty much a seal of approval,
depending on your tastes. Buddy cops (Steve Cochran and Jackie Coogan (yes
-- Uncle Fester -- he gets a drag decoy scene too!)) track a serial rapist
known as The Aspirin Kid (Ray Danton), who frequents the beatnik coffehouse
scene. Probably less along the lines of glorifying the beat scene and more
along the lines of the cops saying, "whatta bunch of freaks."

Such a cast: Mamie Van Doren, Irish McCalla, Maila "Vampira" Nurmi as a
poet with a mouse on her shoulder, Fay Spain, Jim Mitchum, Maxie
Rosenbloom, Grabowski the Beat Beatnik, Charles Chaplin, Jr., Guy
Stockwell, Regina Carrol, William Schallert (Patty Duke's dad) and Louis
Armstrong & his band!

The title song is indeed "The Beat Generation" by Bob McFadden & Dor (or as
he's more commonly known, Rod McKuen). Later converted into "Blank
Generation" by Richard Hell (or as he's less commonly known, Richard Meyers).

Surely a cool movie. Must see it someday. That and the uncut version of
"Sex Kittens Go To College" (another Zugsmith classic).

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Hugo Montenegro "Best Of" CD-R
Date: 04 Apr 1999 18:22:16 EDT


Hello all...

In keeping with the only coherent New Years Eve Resoution I can remember, I
have finally gotten around to summoning the God OF HELLFIRE and forged a
mucho deluxo, el Grandioso 2 Disc collection of the music of the great Hugo
Montenegro.

Entitled, "this is HUGO MONTENENGRO", this is volume one of what will
inevitably become a series much like Verve's "Jazz Masters" series... titled
instead "Space-Age Pop Composers."    For the uninitiated, Hugo was a
cornucopial "jack-of-all-trades" when it came to music.  Composer, arranger,
player... and what a weirdo to boot! (Weirdo meaning "taste" to those in the
know).  He did standard orchestration pieces, boring covers, took Spaghetti
Western themes and made them even MORE strange, worked in the new realm of
"Quadrophonics,"  and develloped a serious
hard-on for the moog somewhere after "tuning in, turning on, and dropping
out" around 1968.  Trust me, you'll hear the difference a good trip of some
narcotic sort may have done for him as he went from Our Fair Lady covers to
Aquarius / Hair and Quadrophonia on the moog!  He even had another of the
Montenegro clan (his son?) get involved with the Arp Synthesizer on his
kick-ass long-players,
Hugo In Wonderland:  Hugo Montenegro Interprits The Genius Of Stevie Wonder
(1973) and Hugo's Diamonds:  Hugo Montenegro Plays Hits Made Famous By Neil
Diamond. (1973-4).  And who can forget Hugo's classic "Moog Power" and "Dawn
Of Dylan" albums?  Trust me... it's ALL good.

The track listing is as follows:
Good The Bad and The Ugly, Tico Tico, Jalousie, La Panse, Secret Agent Man,
Them to "I Spy", Thunderball, Theme to "Get Smart!", Come Spy With Me, Spy
Who Came In From The Cold, Our Man Flint, 007 Theme, Hang Em' High, A Fistful
Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, Theme for "The Valley Of The Dolls",
Theme For Three, In The Heat Of The Night, Tony's Theme, Lady In Cement,
Happy Together, Good Morning Starshine, Hair-Aquarius Medley, Touch Me,
Traces, Moog Power, Dizzy, MacArthur Park, You Showed Me, My Way, Undun, Lay
Lady Lay, Joy To The World, El Condor Pasa, The Godfather Love Theme, Baby
Lephant Walk / Moon River Medley, Quadimodo, I Feel The Earth Move, The
Godfather Waltz, Stutterology, The Look Of Love, Living In The City, Too
High, Shoo-Bee Do-Be-D Da-Day, porcupine Pine, Cracklin' Rose, Higher Ground

Interested parties, gimme' a holla'.

OTHER TITLES IN THE WORKS:
"Something For Cats" - The Coolest Work Of Henry Mancini (3 Discs)
"Robo-Electric Cheese" - Stomping disco electronics from the 1970's...
featuring Giorgio Moroder, Tangerine Dream, Space, YMO, Kraftwerk, Donna
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Subject: (exotica) KUSF Record Swap
Date: 04 Apr 1999 19:07:52 EDT


Anyone know when the next swap is? Thanks.
Gloria


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From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Sandy Warner
Date: 31 Mar 1999 16:44:42 -0500


> I got an update for Netscape at the work cell, and now I can't get that
> fancy Sandy Warner pic to work ........
>
I dont know what that thing Jane Fondle sent was supposed to look like, but
I'm the guy that made those Sandy Warner throbbers.  I regret to say that I
haven't had Sandy wink at me in a while either.  When I upgraded to
NYETscape 4 I kinda gave up.    And I think I blasted those original files
anyways.

So if you got them, hang on to them, Nate.  Maybe somebody more learned,
like the guys at http://www.throbbers.com can help you.  They are the ones
that gave me the idea in the first place, and thay even said that they would
use mine on their web page.  Athough I never checked...

surfing the chaos,
Charlieman


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Subject: (exotica) obits: Jesse Stone,Joseph ``Mighty Joe'' Young,Lionel
Date: 05 Apr 1999 10:04:51 -0500


    ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) -- Jesse Stone, a major influence on 20th
century music who wrote ``Shake, Rattle and Roll'' and helped develop many
of Atlantic Records' biggest hits, has died. He was 97.
    Stone died Thursday after a long illness.
    As a writer, producer and arranger at Atlantic, Stone worked with artists
such as Ray Charles, Big Joe Turner, the Drifters and the Clovers. Among his
other famous songs were ``Idaho'' and ``Money Honey.''
    In 1974, Atlantic Records President Ahmet Ertegun said: ``Jesse Stone did
more to develop the basic rock 'n roll sound than anybody else.''
    Stone's widow, singer Evelyn McGee Stone, said that on April 25, the day
her husband went into the hospital for the last time, he began writing a new
song while she was playing with their dog.
    ``I had been saying to the dog, `That's it, that's it,' and he wrote a song
and that's the title,'' she said.
    The grandson of Tennessee slaves, Stone had a career that spanned the
spectrum: minstrels, folk songs, dance orchestras, rhythm and blues, rock
'n' roll and jazz.
    Stone always was on the cutting edge, never quite achieving fame but highly
respected within the core of the profession.
    He helped build Atlantic Records into a top rhythm-and-blues label in the
late '40s and early '50s, signing such stars as Ruth Brown.
    ``Her first record came out. Bang! It was a hit. We got a group called the
Clovers. Their record came out. Bang! It was a hit,'' Stone said in a 1991
Associated Press interview. ``Everything we touched after that went over
big. Sometimes we had four or five records on the chart at the same time.''
    It was Stone and Bill Haley, who had a Top 10 hit in 1954 with Stone's
``Shake, Rattle and Roll,'' that paved the way for the acceptance among
whites of what had been considered ``Negro music.''
    ``A white man recording black music. That's when white people began to buy
this stuff -- they could hear it on the air,'' Stone said.
    Elvis Presley's nationwide success the following year cemented the R&B-rock
foundation laid by black singers and Haley -- many with Stone's tunes and
arrangements.
    Earlier, Stone's jazz tune ``Idaho'' helped make Guy Lombardo rich and
famous, selling 3 million copies in the mid-1940s. Benny Goodman and Jimmy
Dorsey also had a hit with it.
    Born in Atchison, Kan. on Nov. 16, 1901, Stone -- who also wrote under the
name Charles Calhoun -- started performing at age 5, touring with his
family's minstrel show. In the 1920s, he led a jazz group that included
future saxophone legend Coleman Hawkins.
    In 1936, Duke Ellington helped him get a booking at the Cotton Club in New
York. He also worked at the Apollo Theater, composing and arranging songs as
well as writing jokes and sketches.
    He was inducted into the Rhythm 'n' Blues Hall of Fame in 1992.
    At Stone's 95th birthday party, Ertegun read a letter from famed producer
Jerry Wexler, noted: ``From your vast experience with jazz, blues, country
-- in fact, every facet of American root music, you became one of the
architects of the new urban music of black folk, the music that came to be
known as rhythm and blues. You wrote the tunes and the arrangements; you
assembled the players; you ran the rehearsals; you conducted in the studio.
And it was your own continuing evolution that helped pave the way for the
next great cultural tidal wave -- rock 'n' roll.''

                     *Joseph ``Mighty Joe'' Young
    CHICAGO (AP) -- Blues guitarist Joseph ``Mighty Joe'' Young, who brought a
special passion to the blues and helped introduce the musical form to
mainstream America, died March 24 of complications following spinal surgery.
He was 71.
    He began playing in the early 1950s, working clubs in Milwaukee and then
back in his native Louisiana before moving to Chicago.
    In Chicago, he learned from such artists as Jimmy Rogers and Otis Rush, and
appeared on records with Albert King and Koko Taylor.
    Young was one of the first artists to bring blues to young, primarily white
audiences on Chicago's North Side. He was also a popular draw on the
festival and university circuits.
    He released his final album in 1997, ``Mighty Man.''

   LONDON, April 3 (AFP) - British musical composer Lionel Bart, best known
for writing "Oliver!" based on the Charles Dickens novel "Oliver Twist",
died Saturday from cancer aged 68, his family said.
   The composer, who had been suffering from the disease for six months,
died at the Hammersmith Hospital in west London.
   His most famous legacy is the 1960's hit "Oliver!", which combined simple
melodies and catchy lyrics to produce one of the most popular musicals ever.
   But in his heyday he was also among the most successful pop songwriters,
writing hits for the likes of Cliff Richard ("Living Doll"), and Shirley
Bassey ("As Long As He Needs Me").
   He also wrote the James Bond theme "From Russia With Love", a  hit for
singer Matt Monro in 1963.
   Born Lionel Begleiter to a family of Jewish refugees in 1930, Bart grew
up in London's East End and started his musical career in the 1950s Soho
rock'n'roll and skiffle scene.
   His knack for producing sharp music-hall lyrics soon led him into
composing more ambitious pieces.
   But it was "Oliver!" which cemented his reputation, including songs such
as "Food Glorious Food" and "As Long As He Needs Me".
   Bart became a pivotal figure in the 1960s London scene and befriended the
likes of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.
   After the film adaptation of Oliver! won six Oscars, he became
romantically linked with the likes of Judy Garland and Alma Cogan.
   But after lesser successes of follow-up musicals -- and the total failure
of 1965's "Twang!!" -- Bart began a long-decline into drink and drugs, which
lasted for much of the 1970s and 80s.
   Bart signed away his rights to "Oliver!" and other properties, in part to
finance "Twang!!". He later admitted his mistake and estimated that the move
cost him as much as 160 million dollars.
   "If I hadn't pretended to be such a genius child, King Baby, I would have
paid more attention," he said in interview in 1986.
   In 1972 he filed a petition for bankruptcy with estimated debts of
158,000 pounds (256,000 dollars).
   In 1975 and 1983 he was banned for drink-driving. The drinking also saw
him develop diabetes.
   He began composing again about a decade ago, and saw his profile rise
again through revivals of his work. A family member said Bart had been
working up until his death on a revival of his 1969 musical "La Strada".
   One of the first to pay tribute was fellow British musical composer
Andrew Lloyd-Webber.
   He said: "Lionel was the father of the modern British musical. He was
responsible for one of the greatest musicals of all time and if this wasn't
enough, he wrote arguably the all-time perfect pop song, Living Doll."
See also:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-lionel-bart.html

                           *David Brooks
    NEW YORK (AP) -- David Brooks, an actor, director and producer who starred
in the leading role of Tommy Albright in the Broadway musical ``Brigadoon,''
died Wednesday. He was 83.
    Brooks debuted on Broadway in 1945 in the musical comedy ``Bloomer Girl.''
In 1947, Brooks landed the role in Brigadoon, a musical by Alan Jay Lerner
and Frederick Loewe that went on to play 581 performances.
    He directed and produced in Italy in the 1950s, and in the U.S. helped set
up Rooftop Productions, which was behind the American premieres of James
Joyce's ``Ulysses in Nighttown'' and Samuel Beckett's ``Endgame.''
    Brooks was born in Portland, Ore., and graduated from the University of
Washington. He studied opera at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.




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From: christopher marks <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) secret agent
Date: 05 Apr 1999 07:55:59 -0700 (PDT)



i am new to this list (subscribed today), and while that, in and of itself, is no good reason to post, i do have a question for ya all.
a friend of mine had been looking for an album by chick corea that was released on polydor in 1978(?) by the name of secret agent.  from my understanding, and research, it was never re-released on vinyl or released on CD.  if anyone out there has any information on where i could find it, it would be greatly appreciated.

chris

p.s.  i am also looking for a discography for the mystic moods orchestra.  i have approximately 15 of their albums and am looking to complete my collection. i just don't know what i am missing.


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From: Michael Hibarger <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ruh roh...its go-go, Gap does it again...
Date: 05 Apr 1999 11:06:46 -0400


Ruh roh...its go-go, Gap does it again...
Yep, those hipsters at Gap have gone and come up with a new
"retro" commercial, this time using go-go music and having their
khaki models go-go dancing...nice spot.  They're go-go dancing to
"Wild Elephants", the question is...who did that tune?  Any other
recommends for music in this genre from the members of this
list?  And where can I learn some of those dance steps besides renting
Beach Blanket Bingo and hitting rewind a million times....ha!

Cheers,
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Hell's Belles
Date: 05 Apr 1999 09:49:47 -0400






Please respond to [e-mail]

cc:    (bcc: Laura Taylor/ADM/Boston MA/C&L/US)





I just saw a newly minted OST copy LP of "Hell's Belles", music by Les
Baxter. Is this soundtrack worth buying? Anyone? Thanks.......  Jimmy
Botticelli


>>>YES!  Les Baxter doin' biker rawk as only a fake rocker like he can do!
Plus, the fact that _somebody_ is pressing these again is GREAT NEWS,
because the originalOST is goin' for huge bucks on places like Ebay and
Dusty Groove..You could always preview my copy, too, before you take the
plunge, but I suspect this groovy, wax attack is something you&your
listners would dig hard!
Jane Fondle
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From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Three Suns sampled on Ben Lee CD
Date: 05 Apr 1999 11:31:42 -0400


>Anyway, I was just wondering what Three Suns albums these tracks came
>from:
>C'est Si Bon
>There Goes My Heart

Ah yes. . . both are on the 1962 album _Warm and Tender_.

That LP has the Suns plus a full string section, so it can get a little
sappy even by the standards of a Three Suns fan, which I am. However it
certainly has its warped moments, like the *extremely* peculiar "Poor
Butterfly." My note to myself on the inner sleeve says, "music to have a
mental breakdown to?"

And you gotta love that cover: A woman in a negligee lying on pink
artificial fur,  petting her pussycat.  Eeep!

So personally I can't wait for Brian's live webcast, where he unseals the
lost tomb of Enoch Light! What riches will we find there?!?!?

 --Ross

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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Here Comes Peter Cottontail
Date: 05 Apr 1999 09:15:30 -0700 (PDT)


Spending Easter with my 3 year old inspired me to think of easter
songs.  All I could come up with were Here comes Peter Cottaintail, In
Your Easter Bonnet and Do The Bunny Hop.

I would like to make or buy a cassette/album/cd of this music.  Can
anyone think of any other easter like songs or any albums for sale?
I would be happy to trade if someone has a great cassette/cdr of such
music,

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck


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From: "The Continental Magazine/Double Crown Records" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?
Date: 05 Apr 1999 08:29:01 -0700


Does anyone out there have a discography of all of the Stereo Action LP's.
I am building up my collection (10+, including one issued in mono!) and
would like to know how many there are.

Thanks,

Sean

The Continental Magazine
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From: Indulis R Rutks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Here Comes Peter Cottontail
Date: 05 Apr 1999 11:51:26 -0500 (CDT)




On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, chuck wrote:

>
> Spending Easter with my 3 year old inspired me to think of easter
> songs.  All I could come up with were Here comes Peter Cottaintail, In
> Your Easter Bonnet and Do The Bunny Hop.
>
> I would like to make or buy a cassette/album/cd of this music.  Can
> anyone think of any other easter like songs or any albums for sale?

How about "Jesus Christ, Superstar"?

-Indy Rutks ([e-mail])




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From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ruh roh...its go-go, Gap does it again...
Date: 05 Apr 1999 10:02:02 -0700


>Ruh roh...its go-go, Gap does it again...


Which is it this time?  Opening new sweatshops, clear-cutting  more forests,
buying more public schools, buying another national park, or receiving
millions more in corporate welfare?

Go go go!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) KUSF Record Swap
Date: 05 Apr 1999 10:33:22 -0700




>Anyone know when the next swap is? Thanks.
>Gloria

Sunday, August 18, McLaren Hall, University of San Francisco, 10 AM - 4 PM.
$2.






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Subject: Re: (exotica) Citizen Kafka live in NYC
Date: 05 Apr 1999 16:01:38 -0400









>>Hi, All,

The Wretched Refuse String Band (Citizen Kafka, Jon Sholle,
Bob Jones, Jeff Berman, Roger Mason) will appear THIS WEDNESDAY
at The Cooler, 416 W.14th St. (9th Ave) at 9:30 PM (1 big set).
The Dutels, Peter Stampfel and Gary Lucas, will be closing for us.

Hey, not so fast!  Tell us about your band!
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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) hitting the books
Date: 05 Apr 1999 18:16:11 -0400


Got a couple of relevant old music books over the weekend. I know, I know,
it's not vinyl, but we're so slow right now.

"David Rose Piano Compositions Made Easy
A Collection of Simplified Piano Solos"

48 pages. Published by Bregman, Vocco and Conn, Inc. Issued in 1965, I
think, as several tunes say "This arrangement Copyright 1965 by Bregman..."
[etc, etc]. Most of the tunes date from the 40s. Includes "Holiday For
Strings", "Holiday For Flutes" and "Holiday For Trombones", but not "The
Stripper". Nor "Holiday For The Stripper". There's a dignified composer
photo of Mr. Rose on the cover. See image here (for a limited time only):
http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/davidrosebook.gif

"Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
And Friends
Julius Wechter and The Baja Marimba Band
Chris Montez"

36 pages. Published 1968 by Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc. A collection of
songs performed by Herb and his A&M cohorts, interspersed with fan-clubby
photos and biography pages chock full of rich and hearty PR prose.

From Herb's page:
"His modesty is hard to swallow, painful to convey, impossible to fault,
for Herb Alpert himself has no explanation of the special audience reaction
he arouses. Women love him with their eyes, ears, hearts; men appreciate
him because they cannot deny his charisma and charm and he appears not to
threaten their status."

From the JW & TBMB page:
"The Baja Marimba Band, formed in Hollywood only three years ago has become
one of the great treasures of the performing arts -- musicianly, funny,
strong, robust, handsome, full of color and rippling with mustaches and
cigars they embrace the stage in a wide and warm and smoky hug and no
audience -- no audience ever -- has been less than exhilarated by their
presence."

From Chris Montez' page:
"As the musical turmoil of the middle 50s and the early 60s begins to
subside, a new breed of entertainer is beginning to emerge as the dominant
force in the music world. These new entertainers are professionally
experienced. They are educated in the technical aspects of their craft and
in all the fundamentals of musicology. These musicians, generally youthful
yet mature, are the first popular entertainers in over a generation to
possess that magical quality which appeals to an audience unrestricted by
age."

The song selections are unfortunately a bit disappointing. No "Lonely Bull"
or "Whipped Cream". Instead there's such grandparently fare as "Hello,
Dolly!" and "Mame" (and just generic arrangements at that). But it does
include "Spanish Flea" and "Tijuana Taxi", both with complete lyrics.

Image here:
http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/herbalpertbook.gif

And while we're on the subject of sheet music (also going back to our
thread the other month), the Hal Leonard Corporation has a useful website
here:
http://www.halleonard.com/
Full contents listings of their books are online. And the search engine has
the handy option of searching for a specific song title, and returning
which books it appears in.

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From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Citizen Kafka DJs TONIGHT!! (and what is wretched refuse...)
Date: 05 Apr 1999 19:32:33 -0400


DuDuh, didn't send this out to the list??

Mondays 10pm - 2am
Barmacy
538 East 14th Street (between Avenues A & B)
New York City
No Cover

April 5th  Citizen Kafka
MWM, 51 seeks single or multiple groups, 21+, please,
D & D OK for direct audio stimulation.I am a top.
all races, sexes, styles, newbies OK.

spinning everything... 78s, cylinders, 10", 12", 7", 8",
all of everything, not all at once. Exotica in the broadest
sense featured prominently.

the wretched refuse string band is a bluegrass/old-time/avant
band, together for 29 years. full band: 2 fiddles, elec.guitar,
acoustic guitar, mandolin, drums, bass, banjo, sometimes trombone,
alto sax, clarinet, sometimes theremin, sometimes crappy 60's
keyboard synth. This band mutates to the Citizen Kafka band,
more electric. tv commercial covers, charles ives, traditional
american, klezmer, 50's rock, soft folk covers of fight the power,
atonal minutiae, etc.

again, more kinds of music than i'd care to admit. some members
include andy statman, tony trischka, roger mason, ken kosek,
matt glaser, others. i am the front...

running out to dj, more if needed.

[e-mail] wrote:
>

--
Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air"
every Wednesday 7-8 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM & WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM
http://www.megasaver.com/page2/smradio.html
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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) hitting the books
Date: 05 Apr 1999 20:24:19 -0400


I am stuck at work after 12 hours and this made my day!



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Subject: (exotica) Three Suns Samples
Date: 05 Apr 1999 20:10:11 EDT


Matt Hinrichs sez:

<<Anyway, I was just wondering what Three Suns albums these tracks came
from:
C'est Si Bon
There Goes My Heart>>

Both of theses tracks are from Warm and Tender.  A late effort (1962) and not
one of their best, being cursed with strings, which always kicked the Three
Suns down a rung, but not without some redeeming moments either.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?
Date: 05 Apr 1999 21:20:10 EDT


<< Does anyone out there have a discography of all of the Stereo Action LP's.
 I am building up my collection (10+, including one issued in mono!) and
 would like to know how many there are. >>

you may be pretty close to having em all.  the following was clipped from the
SABPM music site:

RCA Stereo Action Series (a tip o' the hat to Brother Cleve)

Dynamica - Ray Martin, Feb 1961 LSA-2287
It's Magic - Marty Gold, Feb 1961 LSA-2290
Runnin' Wild - Dick Schory, March 1961 LSA-2306
The Music Goes 'Round - Leo Addeo, March 1961 LSA-2353
Sounds Terrific! - Ted Textor (orchestra and chorus) LSA-2365
Crazy Rhythm - Guitars Unlimited + 7,July 1961 LSA-2371
Futura - Bernie Green, July 1961 LSA-2376
Stereo Action Goes Hollywood - Marty Gold, September 1961 LSA-2381
Stereo Action Goes Broadway - Dick Schory, September 1961 LSA-2382
Paradise Regained - Leo Addeo, November 1961 LSA-2414
Excitement, Incorporated - Ray Martin LSA-2422
Sounds Sensational! - Keith Texor LSA-2425
More Double Exposure - Manny Albam - LSA 2432
Dynamic Dimensions - Henri Rene, November 1961 LSA-2396
Stereo Action Unlimited - various artists, December 1961 LSA-2489
Latin-Esque - Esquivel, March 1962 LSA-2418
Holiday for Percussion - Dick Schory, March 1962 LSA-2485
I Had the Craziest Dream - Manny Albam - LSA-2508
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From: Larson/Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) UL Deletions?
Date: 05 Apr 1999 20:26:50 -0700


Saw a bunch of (mostly) sealed UL Leopard Skin Sampler CDs for $8.99 at a
used record store.  (Tower charges $20.99, so $8.99 is not a bad price for
this 24-track comp.)  Question is, why?  Are the ULs being
cut-out/discontinued, or are these probably just promotional copies that
got discarded by radio stations?

Same question for the great 3-CD RCA series, "History of Space Age Pop."  I
recently bought all 3 brand new for $6.99 each, as cut-out items.

Newcomers to this music might want to get their hands on these (especially
the RCA comps) before they disappear, if that's indeed what's happening.

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From: James G <[e-mail]>
Subject: Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie "The Beat Generation"
Date: 05 Apr 1999 20:54:04 -0700


<Such a cast: Mamie Van Doren, Irish McCalla, Maila "Vampira" Nurmi as a
poet with a mouse on her shoulder, Fay Spain, Jim Mitchum, Maxie
Rosenbloom, Grabowski the Beat Beatnik, Charles Chaplin, Jr., Guy
Stockwell, Regina Carrol, William Schallert (Patty Duke's dad) and Louis
Armstrong & his band!>>

"Slapsy" Maxie Rosenbloom even did one of those goofy "Co-Star" records,
which I passed over to co-star with Tallulah Bankhead and Pearl Bailey
instead.

New list members are referred to the internet movie data base
www.imdb.com   You can spend hours there. There's not enough soundtrack
stuff on it, like for the obscure films they show on TCM (turner classic
movies), so I should finally register and contribute my 2 cents.
Examples like the generic but appropriately melodramatic Leith Stevens
score for the early 50's Ida Lupino-directed film "The Hitch-Hiker",
with William Tallman (Perry Mason's whipping boy *wink* DA Hamilton
Burger)as a nasty-ass mass killer (before the term serial killer was
coined.) And last week Mickey Rooney bashed the skins with Lous
Armstrong in "The Strip", which put me to sleep. All i could think of
was how the hell did that squirt Mickey marry the gorgeous young Ava
Gardner ???
Check the TCM website to see what you are missing if you have that
channel available and don't get it. They even replayed "Mr. Buddwing"
last month with Nichelle Nichols shooting craps, but its been almost 3
years since "Bop Girl Goes Calypso" with the Mary Kaye Trio made it into
the rotation.

JB


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Subject: (exotica) Grammy info
Date: 06 Apr 1999 02:50:05 EDT


Does anyone know where I can get a complete history of every grammy ever won
since 1958?? I am interested to know who won and for what in *every* *single*
*category*. Does anything like this even exist??


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Date: 06 Apr 1999 00:06:19 +0000


At 02:50 AM 06-04-99 EDT, Jason wrote:
>Does anyone know where I can get a complete history of every grammy ever won
>since 1958?
I ran across it once on the web when I was looking up Ross Bagdasarian (which,
in fact, may have received a grammy in 1958 or 1959 (around then) for
Witch Doctor I believe.

Anyway, use a search engine on Grammy or even Ross Bagdasarian and it will
probably turn up.

Byron

Byron Caloz
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish)
Date: 06 Apr 1999 09:20:35 +0100


'Also, two "will they ever be re-released in my lifetime" questions:  THE
GIRL FROM UNCLE, and SPACE 1999?'

That is a wierd coincidence, I just ordered both these records and they're
winging their merry way to me from Greece and Maryland respectively.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Fantastic Planet
Date: 06 Apr 1999 09:20:08 +0100


"I just watched a video of the French animation Fantastic Planet, made in
1973.   A
great movie and a fantastic soundtrack.   Does anyone know any details
about the
music, like who made it and has it been reissued lately.   If not, I say
it should be!"


I think that's La Planete Sauvage, by Alain Gorauger (Brigitte Bardot's
occassional band leader). Very expensive and rare, with a very cool cover.

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Subject: FW: Return to (exotica) Hell's Belles
Date: 06 Apr 1999 12:34:53 +0100


> Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 14:52:02 EST
> From: [e-mail]
> Subject: (exotica) Hell's Belles
>
> I just saw a newly minted OST copy LP of "Hell's Belles", music by Les
>
> Baxter. Is this soundtrack worth buying? Anyone? Thanks.......  Jimmy
> Botticelli
>
> Yes.  Heres a copy of my original posting on this,  obviously the
> Saturday is now some time in February.  It still sounds great.  But
> its not very long,  mind.
>
>
> I picked this up on Saturday (all references here to vinyl),  I don't
> know if it is a boot or not.  Its a lot better than the Dick Hyman
> ones.... The Eclectic Electric is truly appalling sounding if it was
> mastered off a record that had regularly been played with a rusty
> nail,  and my copy still had the extruded plastic round the edges from
> where it hadn't been cleaned up after pressing,  giving the whole
> thing the aspect of a circular saw if you try to pick it up without
> stopping the deck.
>
> Anyway back to the point.  I like the Hells Bells soundtrack a lot,
> It says conducted and written by Les Baxter on the cover,  but with a
> standard rock group line up it must have been a sight in the studio
> watching some one conduct bass, guitar,  drums and harmonica.  The
> quality of sound is pretty good,  nice clear production,  all those
> nice breaks someone was talking about a couple of weeks ago coming
> through nice and clearly.  Also the nice touch of a CD style 'bonus
> track'  where there is a locked groove before the last track so you
> have to flick it on to get it.  the bonus track sounds like out takes
> anyway so its no great loss to not play it.
>
> The only thing that keeps crossing my mind is that could this be a
> different Les Baxter?  No lush strings,  no exotic percussion drowned
> in reverb (and you talk about British strings?).  It sounds more like
> Davey Allen than Quiet Village.
>
>
>


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Subject: (exotica) Chris Montez
Date: 06 Apr 1999 09:18:28 -0400


>From Chris Montez' page:
"As the musical turmoil of the middle 50s and the early 60s begins to
subside, a new breed of entertainer is beginning to emerge as the dominant
force in the music world. "

OH YES DADDY!  Is this the first(or in long) time we've brought up that
lil' angelic voiced thang?  He's great, and I love that A&M production.
How many records did he do for A&M, and did he do others in that vein for
other lables(besides "Let's Dance"?)
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Date: 06 Apr 1999 09:31:38 -0400












<< Does anyone out there have a discography of all of the Stereo Action
LP's.
 I am building up my collection (10+, including one issued in mono!) and
 would like to know how many there are. >>

you may be pretty close to having em all.  the following was clipped from
the
SABPM music site:

RCA Stereo Action Series (a tip o' the hat to Brother Cleve)

Dynamica - Ray Martin, Feb 1961 LSA-2287
It's Magic - Marty Gold, Feb 1961 LSA-2290
Runnin' Wild - Dick Schory, March 1961 LSA-2306
The Music Goes 'Round - Leo Addeo, March 1961 LSA-2353
etc...

>>>I don't know if this counts, but I also have a STEREO ACTION compilation
on vinyl, that has the same kind of cover, and songs from each or most of
the actual albums...
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) obits:Deil Gustafson,Lucille Lortel
Date: 06 Apr 1999 10:40:30 -0500


                          *Deil Gustafson
    CANNON FALLS, Minn. (AP) -- Deil Gustafson, a former owner of Summit Banks
in the Twin Cities and the Tropicana Hotel and Casino, a Las Vegas complex
with a history of ties to organized crime, died Friday. He was 67.
    The cause of death was not available.
    The former businessman and real estate magnate spent 40 months in federal
prison in the mid-1980s after being convicted of participating in a
financial scam involving the Tropicana and his banks.
    Gustafson sold the Tropicana in 1979, but was under investigation as
recently as the mid-1990s for allegedly trying to hide millions of dollars
in proceeds from the sale of the casino. He pleaded guilty to bankruptcy
fraud in 1995.
    He was deputy director of Hubert Humphrey's 1960 presidential campaign.

    NEW YORK (AP) -- Lucille Lortel, who earned the title ``Queen of
off-Broadway'' for bringing innovative new actors, playwrights and
productions to the American stage, died Sunday. She was 98.
    Ms. Lortel, whose career in theater spanned more than 70 years, produced or
co-produced about 500 plays, five of which were nominated for Tony Awards.
    Ms. Lortel, born Louise Wadler, began her own acting career in the 1920s
and made her Broadway debut in 1925 with a small role in George Bernard
Shaw's ``Caesar and Cleopatra,'' starring Helen Hayes and Lionel Atwill.
    In 1947, she was asked by the actor Canada Lee and playwright Philip Huston
to help find a place and audience for a staged reading of a new play, ``The
Painted Wagon,'' and the still-thriving White Barn Theater was born in
Westport, Conn.
    In 1955, her husband gave her the Theatre de Lys -- now called the Lucille
Lortel Theater -- in Greenwich Village as a 24th anniversary gift. Its first
production was a hugely popular adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's and Kurt
Weill's ``Threepenny Opera'' that made off-Broadway famous.
    Ms. Lortel's eye for and confidence in young talent boosted the careers of
countless actors, composers, designers, directors and playwrights. She
established numerous funds and fellowships to further the arts.
    ``If you love the theater, you must be innovative,'' she once said. ``You
must try new ideas and new faces. The costs are lower off-Broadway, so you
can afford to take a chance, and you must take a chance.''
    At the White Barn, Ms. Lortel nurtured performers such as Eva Marie Saint
and Zero Mostel and staged plays by Edward Albee, Samuel Beckett and Sean
O'Casey. Peter Falk and George Peppard also performed there.
    When Marc Blitzstein's adaptation of ``Threepenny Opera'' became a success
at the Theatre de Lys, ultimately running for seven years, Ms. Lortel became
frustrated: She wanted to stage more plays at the theater.
    She persuaded the American National Theater and Academy to back an
experimental matinee series, which began in 1956 with a verse adaptation of
Alan Paton's novel ``Cry the Beloved Country'' and ran for 20 years.
    The series featured a dramatization of Langston Hughes poems called
``Shakespeare in Harlem''; adaptations of poetic works by Robert Frost and
Archibald MacLeish; and performances of rarely seen plays by William Inge
and Tennessee Williams. It presented actors such as Richard Burton and Helen
Hayes.
    In 1964, Ms. Lortel oversaw the first U.S. production of a play by South
African playwright Athol Fugard. ``Blood Knot'' starred James Earl Jones and
J.D. Cannon.
    Ms. Lortel's productions of ``A Walk in the Woods,'' by Lee Blessing;
``Angels Fall,'' by Lanford Wilson; ``As Is,'' by William Hoffman; ``Blood
Knot;'' and ``Sarafina!'' another South African import, were nominated for
Tonys but didn't win. They all were produced on Broadway or moved there.
    Ms. Lortel was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 1990. A tribute to
her career is on permanent display at the archives of the New York Public
Library for the Performing Arts.
See also:
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-l-lortel.html
which includes such paragraphs as:
     The Theater de Lys was only one of many unusual gifts that Schweitzer
lavished on Miss Lortel before his death in 1971. A chemical engineer who
made his fortune manufacturing cigarette papers, he also owned the FM radio
station WBAI.
     In 1957, when his wife told him it was sometimes difficult to find a
cab after the theater, he bought a gray Mercedes-Benz. He had been told
there was a cab driver named Louis Schweitzer in town and he arranged to get
a taxi medallion for the car and for his namesake to act as its part-time
driver. When the driver wasn't transporting Miss Lortel, he was free to use
the car as a taxi and split the earnings with the boss.
     In 1956, Schweitzer was the first foreigner in more than 400 years
allowed to buy a gondola in Venice. Although traditionally gondolas were
identified only by numbers, he was given permission to name his purchase
"Lucille." The gondola continued to carry passengers and the gondolier was
told that if American visitors used Schweitzer's name to book a ride, they
were to be charged double. "My friends can afford it," he explained.
     For some years, the Schweitzers spent part of each winter on a
houseboat in Florida. The two-story villa on a raft, anchored off Miami
Beach, had two bedrooms, a kitchen, living room, servants' quarters and a
bar sheltered by a thatched roof.

Death anniversaries for the week of 5 April - 12 April:
Tuesday, 6 April
1992 - Isaac Asimov; science fiction author
1998 - Wendy O. Williams; rock performer
1998 - Tammy Wynette; country & western performer
Friday, 9 April
1988 - Brook Benton; singer
Saturday, 10 April
1991 - Natalie Schaffer; actress, "Gilligan's Island"




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Subject: (exotica) Demographics
Date: 06 Apr 1999 07:57:03 -0700 (PDT)



I received this post from a friend on the Captain Beefheart list.  I
don't think it a good idea for the exoticats but i thought it was
interesting.

When the music gets weird the weird listen to music
Chuck
Hello all,

> You may remember when you first joined the list that you were asked
a few> personal details such as age, sex, location etc.  Below are all
the totals> (less the few of you that didn't fill them in) from the
list population which currently stands at 120.

> One thing that I have been toying with which might be quite fun is
to set up a page at the Radar Station featuring photographs of all of
us, and any other information that anyone would like to include.  I
got the idea from the Tom Waits list, Raindogs, that I used to belong
to and it really seemed to enhance a lot of the friendships that were
formed on the list.  What do you think?  Anyone interested?  If you
are, you could either post me a photograph and I'll scan it and
include it, or just e-mail along your own scan.  If you need my
address, drop me a line.
>
> Mr/Ms
> Value     Number of Responses
> Mr.     101
> Ms.     3
>
> State or Province
> Value     Number of Responses
> Outside US and Canada     37
> Alaska     1
> Arizona     1
> California     5
> Colorado     1
> Florida     1
> Georgia     4
> Guam     1
> Illinois     2
> Indiana     1
> Kentucky     2
> Louisiana     2
> Massachusetts     2
> Michigan     5
> Missouri     2
> New Jersey     1
> New York     7
> North Carolina     1
> North Dakota     1
> Ontario     2
> Oregon     1
> Pennsylvania     6
> Puerto Rico     1
> South Carolina     1
> Tennessee     2
> Texas     1
> Virginia     1
> Washington     1
> West Virginia     1
> Yukon Territory     1
>
> Country
> Value     Number of Responses
> United States of America     50
> Canada     3
> Argentina     1
> Australia     5
> Bahrain     2
> Belgium     1
> Czech Republic     1
> Finland     1
> France     2
> Germany     3
> Ireland     1
> Japan     1
> Lithuania     1
> Netherlands     3
> New Zealand     2
> Norway     2
> Sweden     4
> United Kingdom     27
> United States Minor Outlying Islands     2
>
>
> Age
> Value     Number of Responses
> under 18     2
> 18-25     14
> 26-29     9
> 30-39     26
> 40-49     56
> 50-59     3
> 60 or over     1
>
> Occupation
> Value     Number of Responses
> accounting/finance     3
> executive/senior management     6
> professional/managerial     21
> technical/engineering     20
> administrative/secretarial     2
> sales/marketing/advertising     3
> customer service/support     2
> college/university faculty     7
> K-12 faculty     1
> college/university student     7
> K-12 student     1
> writer/journalist     8
> homemaker     1
> retired     2
> currently not employed     1
> other     25


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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?
Date: 06 Apr 1999 08:05:59 -0700 (PDT)


Ain't Bernie Green's fab Futura and Esquivel's
Latinesque and The Three Suns' Movin' and Groovin'
part of this series?


> << Does anyone out there have a discography of all
> of the Stereo ActionLP's.

> you may be pretty close to having em all.  the
> following was clipped from the SABPM music site:

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?
Date: 06 Apr 1999 08:10:59 -0700 (PDT)


Ain't Bernie Green's fab Futura and Esquivel's
Latinesque and The Three Suns' Movin' and Groovin'
part of this series?

Sorry if this is a 2nd posting - had a message failure
notice.


> << Does anyone out there have a discography of all
> of the Stereo ActionLP's.

> you may be pretty close to having em all.  the
> following was clipped from the SABPM music site:

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Stereo Action Discography?
Date: 06 Apr 1999 11:55:06 -0500


The Continental Magazine/Double Crown Records wrote:

> Does anyone out there have a discography of all of the Stereo Action LP's.
> I am building up my collection (10+, including one issued in mono!) and
> would like to know how many there are.

Thanks to BasicHip you now have a near complete listing.
I'll add one more:
Brass laced with strings - Vic Schoen  LSA 2344

And you probably already noticed the obvious mistake in calling Keith, Ted on
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Grammy info
Date: 06 Apr 1999 12:14:17 -0500


[e-mail] wrote:

> Does anyone know where I can get a complete history of every grammy ever won
> since 1958?? I am interested to know who won and for what in *every* *single*
> *category*. Does anything like this even exist??
>
> Jason

There's a book at my library with some ubiquitous title like "The Grammy". It's
very useful in breaking down all the different categories. I found it especially
useful in researching Mancini recently who won so many multiple categories it's
hard to keep track.
I found out that there was a category of Instrumental Orchestral other than
Classical or some such grammy type category title. Many of our revered recording
artists made it into these categories. And I believe this book also lists the
nominees making it all the more useful in researching easy listening items.

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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Frances Faye/Jimmy Vargas
Date: 06 Apr 1999 09:38:05 -0700 (PDT)



Thought I'd mention these as I don't recall having
seen either referenced here:

Picked up a copy of Frances Faye, Caught In The Act
(live at the Crescendo, 1963). Fantabulous! Sultry,
boozy vocals, saucy/indelicate banter in between sets.
Great version of Fever that morphs into Barney Google.
Wow. And, though I don't really appreciate his various
cha-cha efforts, Jack Costanzo hits the bongos here
like a force of nature.

More: http://www.jtsears.com/fayepage.htm

Jimmy Vargas and the Black Dahlias CD: El Torchura.
Has anyone heard (of) this? They are Australian, with
the Black Dahlia murder as the context of their 40's
torch/noir styled material (wonder if they may not be
a bit like Dutch Boulevard of Broken Dreams?).

http://www.ozemail.com.au/~macpet1/vargas/vargas.html

Thanks,

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Demographics
Date: 06 Apr 1999 11:37:55 -0400


My goodness, I bet a Jack Kirby list would have a more balanced
gender ratio.

Will

Will Straw
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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Hell's Belles
Date: 06 Apr 1999 13:47:53 +0200


At 08:06 -0600 99/04/05, DJJimmyBee wrote:

>I just saw a newly minted OST copy LP of "Hell's Belles", music by Les
>Baxter. Is this soundtrack worth buying?

    yes, i think so. Soulful "now" sound biker flick score.
    Lots of fuzzy guitar.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Frances Faye/Jimmy Vargas
Date: 06 Apr 1999 13:23:57 -0400




Picked up a copy of Frances Faye, Caught In The Act
(live at the Crescendo, 1963). Fantabulous! Sultry,
boozy vocals, saucy/indelicate banter in between sets.
Great version of Fever that morphs into Barney Google.
Wow. And, though I don't really appreciate his various
cha-cha efforts, Jack Costanzo hits the bongos here
like a force of nature.



>>>Ben, and *I* don't think I've ever seen the Frances Faye/Russ Garcia
collaboration FRENZY on here, either!  That's a cool record as well, lots
of wild Garcia arrangements, she's a riot, and there's the coolsville songs
like "Miserlu" on there!  She looks crazed on the cover, truly in a
FRENZY...Sorta like a drag queen, but she's a gal!
Also, whilst we are on Garcia...SOUNDS IN THE NIGHT is a very cool thing
too, lots of wordless vocals and a spacey, avant-feel...
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish)
Date: 06 Apr 1999 17:01:03 -0500



My first post, forgive me if it goes astray.......!

I'm Zach, an Exotica fan for 3 or 4 years now since I bought a turntable at
a garage sale
and went completely berserk for Vinyl.

I just wanted to enter in on the Sergi/Brasil 66 discussion.  I have to
agree.. '66 is one of my
favorite albums in all of my 'exotic' collection.. it's really unlike any
other albums I have.  Some
of Walt Wonderly's are _kinda_ similar but not really.  No one has that
_clean_ pop sound like on the '66 album.
And as someone mentioned, almost all of the stuff that is >66 isn't very
good and doesn't come close to the
'66 sound.  If anyone knows of other Sergio albums that do have 'that sound'
let me know!

Also any other artists that approach that sound would be welcome (other than
old Herb himself, got all those of course!)

Is anyone else postering their walls with Whip Cream and other Delights? My
friend in Deleware is.. he has about 35 on
his wall right now and brings in 2 or 3 each week usually.

p.s. If this post doesn't turn up in the right place, forgive me. I'm
subscribing to the digest to I'm just going
to enter the original subject line and hope everyone gets it and it fits in
with the thread.

Later
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Subject: (exotica) Sheet Music books
Date: 06 Apr 1999 19:28:24 EDT


Speaking of sheet music books, I found this folio called Xavier Cugat's
Tangos and Rhumbas.  Between songs are some of Cugat's original drawings and
they are quite good.  They all depict scenes of Havana circa 1930-1950.

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Subject: (exotica) Martian Benny ? ? ? ?
Date: 06 Apr 1999 15:01:14 EDT


From an ebay auction:

"There's also a great parody of Martin Denny ("Martian Benny") called "Noisy
Village!"

Anybody heard this?????

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=87522387

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Subject: (exotica) Should be a National Holiday!
Date: 06 Apr 1999 14:09:59 -1000


My fellow exoticans-

It's that time of year again... on April 10, the kahuna of the 88s,
Martin Denny turns 88! So send your Birthday wishes to the list and I'll
print 'em out and deliver them to him this weekend. He recently played a
concert at 1 Kalakaua Center, a senior living center. Just him and a
baby grand... very strong, energetic romp through his hits with great
raconteuring between the tunes. A highlight was his interpretation of
"Tiny Bubbles" as done in the style of Bach, Chopin, Rochmaninoff...
Denny! Quite humorous, standing ovation at the end of his 1 hour
concert. I'm pitching Bravo channel on a Denny Profile ala Booker T and
Little Jimmy Scott, so stay tuned and get those cybercards in.

alohaderci,
Fluid Floyd
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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Martian Benny ? ? ? ?
Date: 06 Apr 1999 17:11:35 -0700


[e-mail] wrote:
>
> >From an ebay auction:
>
> "There's also a great parody of Martin Denny ("Martian Benny") called "Noisy
> Village!"
>
> Anybody heard this?????

um, why, yes!!

:)

that's my auction...

"Noisy Village" was written by Rod McKuen (?!) and is basically a
predictable Denny spoof. The music is denny sound-alike stuff which
starts with bird calls and progresses to a noisy classroom atmosphere,
etc... it's not *mindblowing* but it's funny nonetheless!

lots of other weird stuff on that album...

cheers!
pea


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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Answer this pt.3
Date: 06 Apr 1999 20:31:11 -0400 (EDT)


I've noticed a bunch of new sub-scribers and x-lurkers posting in the past
few weeks. I'd just like to say "Howdy" and invite y'all to play a game
called "answer this!" that some of us played back in '96 and again in July
'98. This questionnaire was originally submitted by Jane Fondle (back when
she was known as Lounge Laura). You can check the archives for the responses
submitted by list-members back then. If you play the game this time, feel
free to add/subtract or modify the questions to taste.
 -Lou

 From: "Laura Taylor"
 Subject: (exotica) answer this!
 Date: 10 Oct 1996 19:52:53 -0400

 1. Are you a musician? Explain...
 2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this?
 3. This list could help you more by...
 4. Other exotica/things you collect
 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like
 6. What are you just dying to tell us?
 7. Own a fez?  If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Describe it or
other lounge-wear of which you are proud?

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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Casino Royale
Date: 06 Apr 1999 21:09:56 -0400


Attention spies, swingers and Bacharach fans... "Casino Royale" (1967) airs
on Bravo - Sunday night, 9:30pm & 3:30am. Why, oh why couldn't they have
shown this *before* their new commercial interruptions policy?

Just a reminder -- I have many more TV picks on my "TV Scavenger" page.
Including picks from TCM, which as JB so correctly pointed out, has quite a
library on hand (not that I get to see it).

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Subject: Re: (exotica) UL Deletions?
Date: 06 Apr 1999 16:43:58 -0400



>>>Newcomers to this music might want to get their hands on these
(especially
the RCA comps) before they disappear, if that's indeed what's happening.

Jerry


What, am I the only one posting today?  And I've actually been busy at
work! OK, also of cheap interest to
ze newcomers is a bunch-o cut outs at Newbury Comics in MA.  I've scored
for well under $5 a half dozen SEQUEL comps, everything from now-sound
stuff to British Rock Instrumentals to one put out by the curators of the
Sound Gallery.  For $7 I got a (shoot, what's that label that puts out
ELECTRONIC TOYS, the BETTIE PAGE cds, etc)...sampler of that label, MUSIC
FOR GRACIOUS LIVING...with a va-va-voom Russ Meyer star on the cover...and
cuts from the aforementioned, plus a few others from that series!  I also
got RAMPATROUILLE(sp?) for $10..Kids, these new record stores can be like
thrift shopping, and no, uh, knee-pads required!
Jane "no-need-for-knee-pads" Fondle
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From: "telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "Mondo Bongos" playlist for April 7, 1999
Date: 06 Apr 1999 17:23:31 -0400


Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wed at 9 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph,
Ontario.Canada. Comments & questions welcome.

Piero Umiliani - Le Ragazze Dell' Archipelago "Svezia - Inferno & Paradiso"
Yank Lawson & Bob Haggart - A Taste of Honey "The World's Greatest Jazz
Band of..."

Henry Mancini - Big Noise from Winnetka "The Blues & the Beat"
Mirageman - Raptus "Thrilling"
Billy May - Mission Impossible "The Crime Scene"

The James Taylor Quartet - In the Park "The Money Spyder"
Mike Jackson & the Soul Providers - Unstoppable Oldsmobile "The Revenge of
Mr Mopoji"
Corduroy - Lovely, Lonely & Loaded "High Havoc"
The Crown Royals - All Night Burner "Excellent 26 Estrus Sizzlers Sampler"

Jimmy Smith - 1-2-3 "Got My Mojo Workin' "
Nino Nardini & the Pop Riviera Group - Pop Riviera "Rotonde Musique"
Bill 'Ravi' Harris - Look a Py Py "Funky Sitar Man"

Mike Jackson & the Soul Providers - Disco Party "The Revenge of Mr Mopoji"
Jerry Allen & His Trio - Blue Streak "House of Loungecore"
Henry Mancini - Theme from Charlie's Angels "The Best of Henry Mancini Vol
3"

Madame X - Love for Free "Excellent 26 Estrus Sizzlers Sampler"

Thanks for reading,
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Subject: (exotica) new Tiki siting
Date: 06 Apr 1999 23:48:41 EDT


This just in from The Islands

(Honolulu, Hawaii, April 5, 1999)   Tikis of Hawaii is proud to announce
the opening of its new site on the web - WWW.TIKIS.NET.  Tikis of Hawaii
offers a full selction of authentic hand-carved Hawaiian Tikis and other
Polynesian wooden sculptures.  Check out all your favoites from Hawaii,
Tonga, Maori (New Zealand), Palau, Raratonga (Cook Islands), Easter Island
(Rapanui), Marquesas Islands and other exotic locale.  All Tikis of
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From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Big Jim Sullivan
Date: 07 Apr 1999 09:52:13 +0100


My mint and as new copy of Big Jim Sullivan's Sitar Beat LP arrived on =
my
mat this morning at last. It has a cool cover but thats all I can say a=
bout
it at the moment because I haven't played it yet. I have to say though =
that
it is the most expensive record I have bought for a long time at =A330 =
(is
that $50?). Fuck!

Charlie
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From: "Brian Tozer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:answer this!
Date: 07 Apr 1999 08:47:36 -0400


Ok, I'll bite.
I joined the list almost a year ago, & posted an intro, but I lurk
more than post so I thought, well here's an opportunity!
>>1. Are you a musician? Explain...
Isn't almost everyone on the list?  Yes, I toured with Canadian band
Gaslight in the 70's, got a real job in the '80's and played in the
lounges, and today I play in an (argh!) swing band.  (Hey, it's better
than endless ZZtop & Arrowsmith covers...if there are any K/W-
Cambridge Ontario musicians on the list who want to do a space-
age pop thing let me know!!)
 >>2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this?
"Bang, Baaroom & Harp" by Dick Schory
>>3. This list could help you more by...
It's great the way it is...
>> 4. Other exotica/things you collect
Old radios and stereos...goes with the music!
>> 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like
Although I'm not currently listening to this stuff, I've always liked
The Tubes, Thomas Dolby, Clannad, City Boy...
>> 6. What are you just dying to tell us?
The great thing about this list is the way, on a particular day, you
can see posts about Zappa, Percy Faith, Johnny Mathis, Beck and
who knows what else?  I have always wished that my friends could
be so open-minded about music.
>> 7. Own a fez?  If so, what color, texture and tassel color?
Gulp, no fez.  But I have a lava lamp.
>> 8. Shaken/stirred?
Stirred...but more often brewed. (There's the Canadian in me!)


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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) obit: Red Norvo
Date: 07 Apr 1999 10:07:09 -0500


    SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Red Norvo, who performed with such greats as
Charles Mingus and Frank Sinatra and is credited with introducing the
vibraphone to jazz, died Tuesday. He was 91.
    Norvo died at the Fireside Convalescent Home, grandson Aaron Corlin said.
    ``He was a fabulous man,'' Corlin said. ``He was always thinking about
music, it was his life. ... His position in jazz history says a lot for
itself.''
    Born Kenneth Norville in Beardstown, Ill., he taught himself how to play
piano and xylophone. By age 17, he was touring with a vaudeville show and
later joined the Paul Ash Orchestra.
    His last name changed to Norvo after Ash mispronounced it to a reporter and
Norvo's manager decided the shorter name was more fitting.
    During Norvo's tenure with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra, which he joined in
1932, he met singer Mildred Bailey, whom he later married. By 1935, he
formed his own sextet that was playing at New York City's Famous Door club.
    In subsequent years, Norvo and his wife formed several groups in New York
and Chicago. Among their hits in the 1930s were ``Rockin' Chair,'' ``Please
Be Kind,'' ``Says My Heart'' and ``Have You Forgotten So Soon?''
    After World War II, Norvo joined the Benny Goodman orchestra. He played in
several bands through the early 1990s, when he suffered a stroke that ended
his public performances.
    Ms. Bailey, whose likeness was featured on a 1996 U.S. postage stamp, died
in 1951. Norvo later married Eve Rogers, who died in 1992.
    Besides his grandson, Norvo is survived by his daughter, Portia. Funeral
arrangements were pending.
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Subject: Re: (exotica) obit: Red Norvo
Date: 07 Apr 1999 10:11:40 -0400









     SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Red Norvo, who performed with such greats
as
Charles Mingus and Frank Sinatra and is credited with introducing the
vibraphone to jazz, died Tuesday. He was 91.


>>Yuck!  How sad!  My fave rekkid of his is Music to Listen to Red Norvo
By....
I hate to loose somebody with such good vibes...Gotta compose that Martin
Denny birthday wish, now.
The artiste formerly known as "Lounge Laura."
p-s....gotta answer that Shaken or Stirred question:  SHAKE!SHAKE!SHAKE!





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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Fez
Date: 07 Apr 1999 16:18:37 +0100


I now have a Fez.  A gift from a friend returning from a visit to
Morocco.  It seems a little large.  How should they be worn?  Perched on
top like Ren?  Resting comfortably above the ears?

    ___
    |   | |
   (  >)

(Best viewed in Ariel,  what a mess in courier)

All advice gratefully received.


El Maestro Con Queso

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From: christopher marks <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) are you a musician, etc.
Date: 07 Apr 1999 08:32:34 -0700 (PDT)



1. Are you a musician? Explain...
2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this?
3. This list could help you more by...
4. Other exotica/things you collect
5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like
6. What are you just dying to tell us?
7. Own a fez? If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Describe it or other lounge-wear of which you are proud?

I think we added this last time around:
8. Shaken/stirred?

1.  No.  Although I love music, i have little talent and less patience.
2.  The Mystic Moods Orchestra
3.  People issuing a list of their favourite space age/exotic albums.
4.  Books are the only other things that i collect...i have a difficult time with having too many things as i am a bit of a minimalist.
5.  Frank Sinatra, the Velvet Underground, Miles Davis, Big Star, Grateful Dead.
6.  Be careful of what you want, you just might get it (I think that it was more elegant when Oscar Wilde said it)
7.  Only baseball caps.
8.  Shaken.

Chris
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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) obit: Red Norvo
Date: 07 Apr 1999 10:37:12 -0700 (PDT)


A ripe old age, if there is such a thing - but what a
loss. I have a Command Jazz Pickers lp, featuring
Norvo on the vibes (and others, but this is my fav.).
I have worn it down to a wafer and it will be doing
hard time tonight.

--- Lou Smith <[e-mail]> wrote:

     SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Red Norvo, who
> performed with such greats as
> Charles Mingus and Frank Sinatra and is credited
> with introducing the vibraphone to jazz, died
Tuesday. He was 91.

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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Exotikitsch Tattoos
Date: 07 Apr 1999 10:44:37 -0700 (PDT)


Way back in the dream time, someone had posted to the
list an enquiry regarding exotic tattoos.

This fine Spring morning, I received the a
taunting/titilating/unsolicited amorous itinerary from
one of my remaining bachelor cronies. Thought I'd
share as far as pertinence & discretion allow (w/o
"value added" commentary):

"seeing gal tonight w/ two-foot long suburban 1950s
lawn-barbecue-scene
tattooed on her thigh. redhead.
(...)
Tattoo: It has a guy in a chef's hat flipping burgers
in an apron, some
other guy mowing a lawn."

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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update
Date: 07 Apr 1999 19:47:29 +0200



A new update to the eXotica Releases Overview is available.
These are the most important recent additions, that where not yet announced
here.

(If you would like to receive the unabridged updates by e-mail,
 just let me know)




            - April 4: new (1999) releases, announcements & corrections -


 * Sergio Mendes And Brasil '66: "Equinox"
       LP, AML 902, UK, 1999

 * Soundtrack: "Hell's Belles" [by Les Baxter]
       LP, Sidewalk ST-5919 (Bootleg), USA, 1999

 * Soundtrack: "Rosemary's Baby" [by Christopher Komeda]
       LP, ? DLP25875, UK, 1999

 * Various Artists: "2069 Spaced Oddity"
       LP, Grand Gruyere, UK, 1999




            - April 4: other interesting finds I stumbled on -


 * Wilson Das Neves E Conjunto: "Juventude 2000"
       LP, ?, Brazil, 199?

 * Walter Wanderley: "Cheganca"
       CD, Verve, Japan?, 199?

 * Walter Wanderley: "Moondreams"
       CD, Verve, Japan?, 199?

 * Walter Wanderley: "When It Was Done"
       CD, Verve, Japan?, 199?



         >>> Additions & corrections are more than welcome!
         >>> The XRO is a discography, NOT a sale catalog!

         For the online version of the eXotica Releases Overview,

         visit "Dada'quariums Exotica": http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/

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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Free Association-The Yellow Balloon
Date: 07 Apr 1999 13:24:21 -0700 (PDT)





Another nice '60's easy pop album, recently released on cd by Sundazed
(1998), is "The Yellow Balloon" s/t.  It is very similar to 65/66
Beach Boys and the Free Design, Harpers Bizarre. I have always enjoyed
my 45 hit single of the same name and its flip side (same song played
backwards).  The album is a pleasant surprise, nothing as wonderful as
their single but its full of bright up pre Pet Sounds beach boy pop.
Other contemporary bands such as Sagittarius explored the later '66/67
Beach Boy sound.

Great liner notes capture the connectivity of the California music
scene of that time.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [news] music giants make their move to the net
Date: 07 Apr 1999 17:04:19 -0500


NEW YORK, NEW YORK, U.S.A., 1999 APR 7 (NB) -- By Martin Stone, Newsbytes.
Seagram Co. Ltd.'s [NYSE:VO] Universal Music Group and Bertelsmann AG's BMG
Entertainment joined forces today to create an Internet content and commerce
alliance aimed at cornering the lucrative online music market.

The joint venture will be known as GetMusic, and will create communities of
music fans, promote artists and sell CDs online. The offering will consist
of online music channels and an e-commerce site, http://www.getmusic.com .

The union is seen as an attempt to regain control over the digital
distribution of music on the Web. Copying and distribution of digitally
recorded music has posed a threat to recording copyrights and revenues.

The specialized channels hope to establish closer links between artists and
fans, create awareness of new music, and help to drive sales through all
channels of distribution.

Dennis Petroskey, BMG Entertainment's corporate communications spokesman,
told Newsbytes, "The strategy is to gather music fans based on genre of music."

Visitors to Universal and BMG individual artists' sites on the music
channels will have a "one-click-away" ability to purchase those artists'
recordings for mail order delivery through getmusic.com, which will also
offer titles from other music companies.

The network of genre-based music channels is seamlessly linked to
getmusic.com. For example, visitors to peeps.com who want to purchase R&B
and Hip-Hop music can click on the "buy" button go directly to the peeps.com
section of the getmusic.com online store.

Petroskey explained that each of the genre-oriented sites will stand alone,
but will be linked to getmusic.com as well. Likewise, each individual site
will be shown as hot links from the getmusic.com site.

The getmusic.com site will also offer about 250,000 albums from other
companies, both new titles and a substantial repertoire of catalog.

Hard-to-find recordings will be accessed through the store's search function
that classifies titles by genre, artist, and album.

Those who prefer to buy through traditional retail outlets can use a search
function of their nearest retail outlets.

A number of initiatives to drive traffic to the sites are planned and
include both online and traditional marketing such as print and broadcast
advertising; printing URLs for the appropriate sites on CDs, and "connected
CDs" that, once loaded into computers, will launch users directly to the
artist's site.

BMG, Universal, and their record labels collectively represent nearly 200
artists whose latest album releases have each sold more than 1 million
copies worldwide.

The channels will build on the foundation of BMG's existing genre-based
music Web sites. Each of the sites has built significant traffic, recording
as much as 60 percent monthly audience growth.

Universal and BMG hope to capitalize on the momentum by adding access to a
deep roster of Universal artists, developing new channels, and equipping the
sites with a range of community-building tools including chat, interactive
Webcasting, and message boards.

Petroskey said new channels will be added as demand and interest commands.

Strauss Zelnick, President and CEO of BMG Entertainment, says the timing is
right for BMG and Universal to unite to build bridges between artists and
music lovers and generate record sales with the click of a mouse.

Edgar Bronfman, Jr., who heads up Seagram Company Ltd., Universal's parent,
calls the venture a major step in building the interactive music channels of
the future. The Internet, he says, offers tremendous opportunities to build
the entire market for music by reaching new consumers and by offering deeper
catalog that is hard to find in traditional outlets. "The Internet's
interactivity and immediacy will change the way fans find, share and relate
to music and artists."

Music sales on the Internet will grow to $3.93 billion by 2005 from $28.7
million in 1997, according to London-based researchers Market Tracking
International. The industry enjoys annual total sales of about $38 billion,
according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.

BMG Entertainment grossed $4.1 billion worldwide, and owns more than 200
record labels in 53 countries, including Arista Records, RCA Records and
Ariola Music. BMG also owns a music club, one of the world's largest music
publishing companies, and has interests in home video, television, and
compact disc and cassette manufacturing.

Universal Music Group has wholly-owned record operations or licensees in 59
countries around the world. Its businesses also include Universal Music
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From: Jeff Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Fez
Date: 07 Apr 1999 14:06:42 -0700


El Maestro Con Queso wrote:

> I now have a Fez.  A gift from a friend returning from a visit to
> Morocco.  It seems a little large.  How should they be worn?  Perched o=
n
> top like Ren?  Resting comfortably above the ears?

Your fez should be worn early and often.  By all means, perch it proudly
atop your pate, definitely above the ears but not so high as it gets
mistaken for a yarmulke.  It should fit snugly enough to withstand
several martinis.

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish)
Date: 07 Apr 1999 16:32:25 -0400




>>> No one has that
_clean_ pop sound like on the '66 album.
And as someone mentioned, almost all of the stuff that is >66 isn't very
good and doesn't come close to the
'66 sound.  If anyone knows of other Sergio albums that do have 'that
sound'
let me know!Also any other artists that approach that sound would be
welcome (other than
old Herb himself, got all those of course!)


Welcome to the list, Zach!  IM-never-really-H-O, I'd say you could start
with a cat I just brought up, Chris Montez, also on A&M.  It's what you
seek, pal.  Also, just about any Astrud Gilberto work from that time
period, and zillions of Brasilian and bossa records!  They're easy to find
and in-print many of them!  Speaking of which, the astounding album by
Frank Sinatra and Tom Jobim rarely gets enough props, so it gets a biggun
from me, ol' Jane Fondle....








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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ortolani/Legrand
Date: 07 Apr 1999 14:56:27 -0700 (PDT)


I picked up a copy of his Ortolani's score to a film I
had never heard of, but will now seek out: Ecco ("An
Incredible Orgy of Sights and Sounds. Side 1 is drippy
waltzes, but 2, for the most part is bluesy, swinging
stuff (some of which reminds me of Rugolo's Richard
Diamond ST): memorable tracks include Twist 84, The
Hungry Beat, The Steam Bath, He Or She (?), The Rites
Of Sex.

I saw a J-L Goddard film a few weeks back. I stuck
around to catch the composer and was surprised to see
Michel Le grand's name. The music to this film was
wild menacing beat jazz: I had never heard anything by
Legrand that went at this pace and was free of sugary
strings. I have forgotten the name of the film and the
rental shop swears they not only do not stock it now,
but have never had a Goddard film in stock. The basic
story involved two youngish petty thug types who meet
a girl in an English clash and lure/strongarm her into
a shabby scheme to burglarize the rooms of her
guardian (who is accidentally killed in the botched
job). I go into all this in hopes someone out there
knows this film and can help me land the ST.

Thanks

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Subject: (exotica) Summertime and the listening is e-z
Date: 07 Apr 1999 17:09:26 -0400


With apologies to several folks fo my subject line, I pose the probing
question of you...
Does anybody else like to sorta reserve their exotica music records for the
warmer months(this would apply to areas where there are indeed
_seasons__...when I lived in Tampa, Fl, it was hot all year_)?  In the
AstroSlut pad, we like to wait until it gets warmer here in Boston to pull
out the Baxters(exotica ones) Dennys, Surfmen, Chaino, etc(we positvely
have enough to last all Summer)...and just sorta soak in the jungle primal
aspect of it all.  That doesn't mean I wouldn't WANT to hear this stuff all
year 'round, nor does it mean these records don't see the light of day in
Winter, but I think of it as a tropical treat, at a time of year when
mangoes are in season and begging to be mixed with rum in tiki mugs.  And
hey, when you like on the third floor with NO a/c...you gotta do SOMETHING
to delude yourself!
Hotly(well, not yet, it's still 40s in Boston)- Jane Fondle




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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re:answer this!
Date: 07 Apr 1999 18:07:45 -0400


At 08:47 AM 4/7/99 -0400, Brian Tozer wrote:
>
>>>1. Are you a musician? Explain...
>Isn't almost everyone on the list?  Yes, I toured with Canadian band
>Gaslight in the 70's,

I have to ask.  Gaslight.  Was that an Ugly Ducklings tribute band?

If so, are you going to the see the Ugly Ducklings reunion concert?  I
wouldn't mind seeing Luke and the Apostles again but I'm not sure I want to
see Lighthouse again, if they're playing too.

(I'm trying to come up with some kind of "exotica content" vis a vis
legendary Ontario rock bands of the sixties.  Well, there was the Laurie
Bower Singers.)

And by the way, I'm not a musician.

But I'm sure that you can find someone in one of the thousand polka bands
in  Kitchener to moonlight in a space-age pop band.

(Sorry, had to say that.  It's a responsibility that goes with living in
Toronto.)

Nat



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Sheet Music books
Date: 07 Apr 1999 20:16:05 EDT


>I don't assume it's still in print!??!?!

No, this was a used thrift store item

Sean


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Summertime and the listening is e-z
Date: 07 Apr 1999 16:58:03 -0700


Jane Fondle wrote:

> Does anybody else like to sorta reserve their exotica music records for=
 the
> warmer months(this would apply to areas where there are indeed
> _seasons__...when I lived in Tampa, Fl, it was hot all year_)?  In the
> AstroSlut pad, we like to wait until it gets warmer here in Boston to p=
ull
> out the Baxters(exotica ones) Dennys, Surfmen, Chaino, etc(we positvely
> have enough to last all Summer)...and just sorta soak in the jungle pri=
mal
> aspect of it all.  That doesn't mean I wouldn't WANT to hear this stuff=
 all
> year 'round, nor does it mean these records don't see the light of day =
in
> Winter, but I think of it as a tropical treat, at a time of year when
> mangoes are in season and begging to be mixed with rum in tiki mugs.  A=
nd
> hey, when you like on the third floor with NO a/c...you gotta do SOMETH=
ING
> to delude yourself!

Yes indeedy, Jane...I used to live very close (on Verona between
Carolina and Child in JP) to where I believe your current pad is, and I
can attest that even the second floor was Aitsh Oh Tee HOT!  On
Wednesday evenings we'd fire up the balcony grill and attempt to chill
to the suave sounds of Peter Lebedur's Music For Better Living, and
reserve the Polynesians for the weekend.  Remember, the best deals in
Boston to be had on limes and mangos for your rum cocktails are at Hi-Lo
Foods on nearby Centre Street!  It's fun to try to block out the noise
of the T (or simply pretend it's Hawaiian Airlines overhead) and make
believe you're on the veranda in Kahului.

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips
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From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Should be a National Holiday!
Date: 07 Apr 1999 17:27:18 -0700


Lloyd Kandell wrote:
>
> My fellow exoticans-
>
> It's that time of year again... on April 10, the kahuna of the 88s,
> Martin Denny turns 88! So send your Birthday wishes to the list

Man! I was going to post a message on Friday on this...

Mr. Denny,
Wishes to you for a very, very happy birthday. Your music continues to gain new
fans! Will definitely sip a Mai Tai in your honor, while playing all your
wonderful records on Saturday.
Kevin Crossman
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From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Answer this pt.3
Date: 07 Apr 1999 17:33:16 -0700


Lou Smith wrote:
>  1. Are you a musician? Explain...
Not unless turning on the CD player counts...

>  2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this?
Robert Drasnin Voodoo! (mentioned in Wired Magazine)

>  3. This list could help you more by...
Gosh, it is already so highly useful... how much more useful could it be?

>  4. Other exotica/things you collect
Fake plastic tikis from the Islands. Mai Tai recipes. Exotica CDs... and now
records.

>  5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like
Oingo Boingo and Danny Elfman soundtrack stuff
Pet Shop Boys and other Eurodisco...
Heavy metal, grunge, 80's new wave, a bit of reggae. Almost anything except rap,
country, and most jazz.

>  6. What are you just dying to tell us?
I have really enjoyed the discussions here and geeking out into exotica this
year. I keep a file with bits of facts that people submit, and integrate it with
stuff from the Web, articles from magazine, old issues of Tiki News, etc.

>  7. Own a fez?  If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Describe it or
> other lounge-wear of which you are proud?
I like Hawaiian shirts...


>  8. Shaken/stirred?
Shaken!

Kevin Crossman
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Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish)
Date: 07 Apr 1999 20:33:23 EDT



In a message dated 4/7/99 5:24:09 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>sound like on the '66 album

the ALMIGHTY year for pop, garage, soul, and the swingin'
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From: "Brian Tozer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re:answer this!
Date: 07 Apr 1999 20:48:17 -0400


Nat Kone wrote:

<italic>>I have to ask.  Gaslight.  Was that an Ugly Ducklings tribute
band?


</italic>No.  We were called "The Cult" (yes, 10 years before that other
band!) and one day our agent called and said, "I can't sell the band
under that name.  You're Gaslight as of today."  Of course he got
the name from the Ugly Ducklings song.  We were playing that
"Research at Beach Resorts" circuit and he wanted a less
offensive name to sell.


<italic>>(I'm trying to come up with some kind of "exotica content" vis a vis

legendary Ontario rock bands of the sixties.


</italic>Ontario wasn't exactly a hotbed of exotica, but Mckenna
Mendelson Mainline did "Misty" on their "Live at the Victory
Burlesque" album.  And, of course, Mendelson Joe has always had
a streak of kitsch running through his music!

By the way, if any non-Canadian listers ever spot "Stink" by
Mckenna Mendelson Mainline, it's certainly worth a spin.  Not the
normal fare for this list, but bawdy, dirty, swing/rock/jazzy blues
with a healthy dose of humor thrown in.


Brian T

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Subject: (exotica) Hawaiian Shirts
Date: 07 Apr 1999 20:46:09 EDT



In a message dated 4/7/99 8:33:37 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>I like Hawaiian shirts...

I really hate to say this, particularly in light of all that has been said
about the Gap, particularly from our resident optometrist, Robert Brooks, but
The Gap has managed in their own way to come up with some spectacular
replicas of 50's Hawaiian shirts. There are several models to choose from.
Two struck my fancy. One has that "little grass shack" theme, palm trees,
beach, sand, skies. and the proverbial shack, all in a 50's styled repetitive
pattern. Another has the "Newer Hawaii" theme--same beach, same trees, same
skies, but a corporate hotel in place of the l'il grass shack. The hotel is
tastefully placed behind all the trees, and off the beach which lies in front
of it (all still in that inimitable 50's pattern). I'll admit it; I bought
the two I liked and I just know the fellas are all gonna ax me can I get 'em
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Summertime and the listening is e-z
Date: 07 Apr 1999 21:27:07 -0400


> Does anybody else like to sorta reserve their exotica music records for the
> warmer months(this would apply to areas where there are indeed
> _seasons__...when I lived in Tampa, Fl, it was hot all year_)?

I think it might be more fun to listen to them in the winter.  That's to
re-create the whole 'fakeness' of the exotica sounds, which was originally for
the ex-WW2 soldiers trying to add an element of the South Seas to their
surburban lives.  If you had money back then, you travelled to Hawaii in the
dead of winter to get away from the cold and the snow.....else you were limited
to putting those Martin Denny records on the turntable.

For me, the exotica scene isn't about recreating the Polynesian experience.....
it's about recreating the atmosphere of someone in the early 60's recreating
the Polynesian experience.

And playing exotica music in the dead of winter does a good job of doing this.

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Afro cuban question
Date: 07 Apr 1999 22:38:30 -0400


What's the name of that guy who sort of introduced Dizzy Gillespie to that
latin sound?  Is that Chano Pozo?  Whoever he was, did he make his own
records?  And what are other examples of mambo or afro-cuban music of that
type?  I'm not looking for music like Tito Puente or Perez Prado where the
tunes are usually shorter and tighter but more for the more sort of
"jazz-oriented" stuff with much longer cuts and a bit of soloing?  If that
makes it clear...

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Subject: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist
Date: 07 Apr 1999 22:38:33 -0400


I saw that go-go Gap commercial that someone posted about the other day here.
In the last few months when people asked me to describe the kind of
sixties, "Now Sound", instrumental rock I had become obsessed by, I was in
the habit of saying "You know how on some sixties variety show, like
Laugh-In, they'd have some go-go dancer sequence?  And they'd have their
version of groovy go-go rock.  And of course, back then I'd get all upset
because their version of rock music was like nothing I recognized as rock
music. Well now, that fake rock is basically the centre of my taste".
So it's doubly shocking to see that commercial.  Not only have they got the
music right but except for the clothes, they've got the dancing right too.
Once upon a time, I might have thought "they read my mind" but by now I
have gotten used to the fact that everything - no matter how obscure - gets
"co-opted".
Of course I don't think they got it from me.  It's part of the zeitgeist.
But it is strange when something you considered an example of your "bad" taste
is identified as somehow cool and young and commercial.
I always knew I was ultra-cool but it's a real stretch to use the other two
words with me.
Oh and as far as where you can get music like that, it's all over the
place.  On old LP's anyway.  Can't speak for CD's.  (Ask Cheryl or Brian)
On LP you can get that go-go-Gap sound with the T-Bones, late Sandy Nelson
(but not those "beat" or "drum" records), "Batman" records (like the
Batboys or the Marketts) and even some Brass Ring.  If you want the same
feel but you don't need the organ sound, there's the Ventures.  And then
there are countless, nameless, faceless records with words like go-go on them.

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From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More Kriminalfilmusik
Date: 07 Apr 1999 22:51:24 -0500


Just listening to Peter Thomas' Kriminalfilmusik with much
relief after that last Warp Back to Earth 2CD set that I still don't
know what to think about...  Anyway, seems the same label,
SCC/Prudence is responsible for two volumes of similar material with
the identical title but by another German musical heavyweight, Martin
Bottcher.  Anyone heard these yet as they're must haves on my list?
I hear they promise more Edgar Wallace film material.



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Physical Planner
McGill University
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Subject: Re: (exotica) More Kriminalfilmusik
Date: 08 Apr 1999 10:11:17 +0200




Brian Karasick wrote:

> Just listening to Peter Thomas' Kriminalfilmusik with much
> relief after that last Warp Back to Earth 2CD set that I still don't
> know what to think about...  Anyway, seems the same label,
> SCC/Prudence is responsible for two volumes of similar material with
> the identical title but by another German musical heavyweight, Martin
> Bottcher.  Anyone heard these yet as they're must haves on my list?
> I hear they promise more Edgar Wallace film material.
>
>

I only wish I knew so much about German music as Brian does. I always
considered Martin Bottcher as a real lightweight, although he wrote the film
music of "Winnetou" and provided me with one essential childhood melody. But
anything else I heard since sounded really lame and sleepy-easy. Would
surprise me, if there was something hidden of real interest.

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From: Jean Leneutre <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Ortolani/Legrand
Date: 08 Apr 1999 10:16:41 +0200 (MET DST)


It could be "BANDE A PART"  (US title: BAND OF OUTSIDERS), 1964
featuring Anna karina, Claude Brasseur and Sami Frey.

This film seems to have influenced some contemporary american
film directors such as Hal Hartley (the scene of the dance to a jukebox
in a cafe from "simple men" comes from this film), or Quentin Tarantino
(his production company is called "A band apart").

To be sure whether it's the film you are refering to, you can check at
http://allmovie.com/
there must be an entry for this film.

Jean.

> Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 14:56:27 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
> Re: Subject: (exotica) Ortolani/Legrand

> (...)I saw a J-L Goddard film a few weeks back. I stuck
> around to catch the composer and was surprised to see
> Michel Le grand's name. The music to this film was
> wild menacing beat jazz: I had never heard anything by
> Legrand that went at this pace and was free of sugary
> strings. I have forgotten the name of the film and the
> rental shop swears they not only do not stock it now,
> but have never had a Goddard film in stock. The basic
> story involved two youngish petty thug types who meet
> a girl in an English clash and lure/strongarm her into
> a shabby scheme to burglarize the rooms of her
> guardian (who is accidentally killed in the botched
> job). I go into all this in hopes someone out there
> knows this film and can help me land the ST.

> Thanks


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From: Robbie Baldock <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update
Date: 08 Apr 1999 10:26:11 +0100


Johan Dada Vis wrote:

>  * Various Artists: "2069 Spaced Oddity"
>        LP, Grand Gruyere, UK, 1999

Has anyone heard this?  I saw it in a shop at the weekend and was
curious.


Robbie


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From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Big Jim Sullivan
Date: 08 Apr 1999 10:44:04 +0100


Big Jim Sullivan's Sitar Beat LP is excellent. Sunshine Superman is on the
Further Inflight Entertainment LP. Most other tracks are very laid back
sitar over gentle pop tunes. Very heavy with the sitar and quite serious
unlike the Lord Sitar LP which is far more trivial. Big Jim obviously takes
his work very seriously.

Big Jim Sullivan - Sitar Beat
Lord Sitar - Lord Sitar
Chom Kitari - Sound of Sitar
Segram - Pop Explosion Sitar Style
Anandar SHankar - And his Music
Anandar Shankar - Anandar Shankar
Bill Plummer and His Cosmic Brotherhood - Journey to the East



Anybody else care to recommend and other Western/pop sitar LPs?


Thanks all


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Subject: Re: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update
Date: 07 Apr 1999 17:37:08 PDT




----------
>
> Johan Dada Vis wrote:
>
> >  * Various Artists: "2069 Spaced Oddity"
> >        LP, Grand Gruyere, UK, 1999
>
> Has anyone heard this?  I saw it in a shop at the weekend and was
> curious.

It's a bootleg. There are a few classic hard to find tracks on there like=
 "Bodybuilding" by Orchester Werner Mueller, which was sampled by some =
beatz type band recently. Someone will know who. I don't care. But it's =
pretty much a compilation of hard to find sought after stuff - some sough=
t after by markets different from the exoticatz. Mainly a DJ tool more =
than a listening extravaganza,if you know what I mean.

x Jill "Mingo-go"



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From: Robbie Baldock <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Big Jim Sullivan
Date: 08 Apr 1999 12:17:55 +0100


Charles Moseley wrote:

> Anybody else care to recommend and other Western/pop sitar LPs?

Ananda Shankar - Melodies from India (EMI India)

I know Vinnie Bell released at least 2 sitar LPs.

And how could you forget:

Rajput and the Sepoy Mutiny - "Flower Power Sitar"?!


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From: "Bryan J. Cuevas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) RE: Sitar/Big Jim Sullivan
Date: 08 Apr 1999 08:05:46 -0400


>Big Jim Sullivan - Sitar Beat
>Lord Sitar - Lord Sitar
>Chom Kitari - Sound of Sitar
>Segram - Pop Explosion Sitar Style
>Anandar SHankar - And his Music
>Anandar Shankar - Anandar Shankar
>Bill Plummer and His Cosmic Brotherhood - Journey to the East

>Anybody else care to recommend and other Western/pop sitar LPs?
>Charlie

Sure, also check out
Alan Lorber Orchestra - The Lotus Palace (1967)
The Golden Leaves - A Love Affair (1968?)
Martin Denny - Taste of India (1967) *this one is underappreciated, I
really dig it.
Jackie Gleason - The `Now' Sound...For Today's Lovers (1967)

bryan c.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) I'm feelin' a little vocal today
Date: 08 Apr 1999 08:35:58 EDT


Good morning or good(insert daytime here)________ everyone,

Would anyone like to yammer for a bit about any of these vocal groups or any
other similar wailin' groovies that come to mind,

Novi Quartet
Paris Studio Group
Singers Unlimited
The Association

My exposure to the above groups is limited to a few songs by The Paris Studio
Group that I've heard on various compilations, and of course the standard
popular songs by The Association.  As for Singers Unlimited, my interest in
them was peaked by the fact that Dusty Groove sells a 7 CD/14 album set,
which is impressive in and of itself.  So if anyone might like to compare and
contrast for me, I would be (as usual) greatly in your debt.

Thanks,

-Roy

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Summertime and the listening is e-z
Date: 08 Apr 1999 09:23:45 -0400






For me, the exotica scene isn't about recreating the Polynesian
experience.....
it's about recreating the atmosphere of someone in the early 60's
recreating
the Polynesian experience.
And playing exotica music in the dead of winter does a good job of doing
this.
Vern



And Vern, on that point, I totally agree with you!  That's why my pad
      explores that ideology:  I have a tiki/jungle exotica room, and a
      "space/age" room in my apartment.  And, I also find the "Crime Jazz"
      genre very warming on those cooolllldddd days!
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From: [e-mail] (Eric Marvin)
Subject: (exotica) Re: Answer this pt.3
Date: 08 Apr 1999 07:12:17 -0700


     1. Are you a musician? Explain...
      - Former piano teacher.  Not really a performer, just like to
     experiment.

      2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this?
      - UL Bachelor Party. From there straight to Denny and Baxter and now
     soundtracks.

      3. This list could help you more by...
      - Good as it is.

      4. Other exotica/things you collect
      - Dust

      5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like
      - Monk and other Jazz. Mostly Piano oriented.

      6. What are you just dying to tell us?
      - How wonderful the soundtracks to early 70's cop/action TV shows are
     and how frustrated I am that they were never released.

      7. Own a fez?  If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Describe
     it or
     other lounge-wear of which you are proud?
      - Sorry, no lounge wear.  Never even ben in a "lounge."

      I think we added this last time around:
      8. Shaken/stirred?
      - Neither.  I prefer punch.


     Eric


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Subject: (exotica) more obits: Red Norvo
Date: 08 Apr 1999 10:07:47 -0500


    SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 7 (UPI) -- Jazz vibraphonist Red Norvo, who
pioneered the use of mallet instruments in the field of jazz, is dead at 91.=
=20
    Norvo, who began his career in the 1930's, died Tuesday at the Fireside
Convalescent Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif.=20
    In addition to stints with Paul Whiteman's big band, Benny Goodman's
orchestra and Woody Herman's band, Norvo also led several small groups of
his own. One of his trios in the early '50s featured legendary bassist
Charles Mingus.=20
    Norvo also toured with Frank Sinatra and appeared on television with
Sinatra, Dinah Shore and Johnny Carson.=20
    While playing with Whiteman, Norvo met singer Mildred Bailey. They
eventually married, and formed a series of small jazz groups, billing
themselves as ``Mr. and Mrs. Swing.''=20
    Born Kenneth Norville in Beardstown, Ill., Norvo was a self-taught
musician. He switched from the xylophone to the vibraphone in the early '40s
and developed a light, gently swinging sound that made him a favorite in Las
Vegas throughout the 1950s.=20
    He also became a regular performer at international jazz festivals in
Newport, Montreal, Berlin and Monterey throughout the '60s and early '70s.=
=20
    His recordings included ``Vibes a la Red'' and ``Back to the Roots.'' =20
    Norvo retired briefly in the early '70s, but resumed playing limited dates
until a stroke forced him to stop playing altogether in the early '90s.=20
    After his first wife died in 1951, Norvo married Eve Rogers. She died in=
 1992.=20
         =09
April 8, 1999
Red Norvo, 91, Effervescent Jazzman, Dies
By PETER WATROUS,NYTimes
Red Norvo, one of jazz's early vibraphonists and a gifted band leader whose
groups greatly influenced American music and backed singers like Mildred
Bailey, Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra, died on Tuesday at a convalescent
home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 91.=20

Norvo helped introduce the xylophone and later the vibraphone as legitimate
jazz instruments. But playing an unusual instrument was not what earned him,
early in his career, spots in some of jazz's most important orchestras,
including the groups of Paul Whiteman, Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet and
Woody Herman. Norvo was a genuine improviser, effervescent, intelligent and
searching, and even his early solos reflect a literate sensibility,
embracing both the classical and jazz worlds.=20

A typical Norvo solo dives and turns, nudging the harmony with astringent
dissonances. He had a way of keeping his lines happy; they bounce with a
firm sense of swing. But underneath was an element of darkness, an
exploratory urge that led his improvisations into corners where most
improvisers would not venture. On "Blues =E0 la Red," from 1944, Norvo's=
 solo
uses odd figures and a streamlined swing that mix perfectly: riffs and lines
and melodies all combining for a powerful statement.=20

Norvo, who was born Kenneth Norville in Beardstown, Ill., sold his pet pony
to help pay for his first instrument, a marimba. He started his career in
Chicago with a band called the Collegians in 1925. In the late 1920's he
joined an all-marimba band, playing the vaudeville circuit. (He also
tap-danced and played xylophone.)=20

He changed his name after a vaudeville announcer pronounced it incorrectly,
and it appeared that way in Variety. "It stuck," he told an interviewer, "so
I kept it."=20

When he graduated to the Whiteman orchestra, he met Bailey, a singer in the
band, whom he married in 1930; they were nicknamed "Mr. and Mrs. Swing" and
remained together for 12 years. They were still friends when Bailey died in
1951.=20

The couple formed their own band in 1936, using the innovative arranger
Eddie Sauter to write much of their material. They had several hits,
including "Rockin' Chair," "Please Be Kind" and "Says My Heart," and their
work was well respected by musicians, who found the arrangements=
 sophisticated.=20

But Norvo was not simply producing pop music with his wife. He was one of
the earliest musicians to take refuge in the jazz clubs that once lined West
52d Street in Manhattan, and he worked there at the Famous Door with a group
that had neither a drummer nor a piano. The group and the music it played
helped set Norvo's reputation as a leader with experimental ideas, a jazz
musician who liked to play quietly. The music quickly came to be called
chamber jazz.=20

In 1933, the year he first recorded under his own name, he produced some of
the most unusual recorded jazz of the time, including Bix Beiderbecke's "In
a Mist" and his own "Dance of the Octopus," using a group that included
Benny Goodman on bass clarinet and himself on marimba, accompanied by guitar
and bass. And he was cultivating his own bands, with a fine ear for talent.
In 1934 he led a group with Artie Shaw and Charlie Barnet as sidemen, and
recorded with Chu Berry, Teddy Wilson, Bunny Berigan and Gene Krupa.=20

Norvo offered a singing spot to Frank Sinatra in 1939, but he turned them
down as he had just signed a contract with Harry James. Sinatra and Norvo
remained friends, however, and the Norvo band influenced Sinatra's music.=20

In 1944 Norvo joined Benny Goodman's sextet, and a year later played with
the First Herd of Woody Herman, an orchestra that was proud of its harmonic
innovations. It was in the middle 1940's that Norvo moved from the
xylophone, an acoustic instrument, to the vibraphone, an electrified
version. At that point he undertook an innovative recording project, merging
some of the best of the swing-era improvisers with the leaders of the be-bop
movement, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.=20

The session, recorded for Comet records, included Norvo, Gillespie on
trumpet, Charlie Parker and Flip Phillips on saxophones, Teddy Wilson on
piano, Slam Stewart on bass and Specs Powell and J. C. Heard on drums. They
recorded "Hallelujah," "Get Happy," "Slam Slam Blues" and "Congo Blues," and
the result was some of the most highly regarded music of the era.=20

Two years later, having moved to California from New York with his second
wife, Eve Rogers, Norvo decided to form a small group.=20

(It was hard for him to find good musicians in California at that time.) He
brought together Tal Farlow on guitar and Red Kelly on bass. The bassist
Charles Mingus, who had worked with Norvo when his group backed Billie
Holiday, replaced Kelly in 1950, and the three produced extremely light but
swinging and complicated music that was almost shocking in its virtuosity,
full of rapid tempo changes and sophisticated harmonies.=20

The band, regarded as one of the finest small groups in jazz history,
recorded for two years; later trios included the guitarist Jimmy Raney and
the bassist Red Mitchell.=20

Norvo kept busy even during jazz's slack periods. He worked with Goodman in
1959 and 1961, and recorded regularly in the late 1950's, for Contemporary,
Victory and Fantasy Records. And in 1957 he resumed his relationship with
Sinatra, who would come to Norvo's shows at the Desert Inn in Palm Springs,
Calif.=20

A year later Sinatra hired Norvo for the Sands in Las Vegas. It was there
that Sinatra came up with the idea of touring with Norvo, which they did in
1959. The association lasted nearly 20 years. Sinatra liked to have Norvo
and his band at the Sands, so that he could perform with a jazz group
whenever he wanted. Norvo often toured under the auspices of the jazz
entrepreneur George Wein as well.=20

In the 1960's Norvo suffered partial hearing loss after an infection and
compounded the problem at a shooting range when a gun discharged next to his
ear. Surgery and a hearing aid helped him regain some hearing. Then in the
1970's, after his wife and one of their two sons died within a short time,
he stopped playing for two years.=20

He is survived by a daughter, Portia Corlin of Santa Monica; a son, Mark,
and one grandchild.=20

He began to work again at a club in Las Vegas and for the rest of his career
kept recording and touring regularly. A stroke in the mid-1980's, forced him
into retirement, but even in his last years his performances were often
marvels of intelligent swinging.=20


See also:
http://elvispelvis.com/rednorvo.htm




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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update
Date: 08 Apr 1999 16:39:54 +0100



> From: Robbie Baldock <[e-mail]>
> Johan Dada Vis wrote:
>
> >  * Various Artists: "2069 Spaced Oddity"
> >        LP, Grand Gruyere, UK, 1999
>
> Has anyone heard this?  I saw it in a shop at the weekend and was
> curious.
>

The first track, Werner Muller's "Bodybuilder" was plagiarized in a
vastly more boring version as "Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out" by
Bentley Rhythm Ace. Basically, they constructed that song by sampling
a part of Bodybuilder, leaving a bunch of interesting scary voice
snippets out. IMHO, that track is a stone-cold jaw-dropping
classic. (It's on Muller's "The Strip Goes On" album, which may be a
German-only release, dunno). If the rest of the tracks are up to that
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From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Big Jim Sullivan
Date: 08 Apr 1999 11:42:50 -0400


> Anybody else care to recommend and other Western/pop sitar LPs?

Bill "Ravi" Harris and the Prophets: Funky Sitar Man


cheryl


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Big Jim Sullivan
Date: 08 Apr 1999 16:48:47 +0100


> From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
>
> Big Jim Sullivan's Sitar Beat LP is excellent. Sunshine Superman is on the
> Further Inflight Entertainment LP. Most other tracks are very laid back
> sitar over gentle pop tunes. Very heavy with the sitar and quite serious
> unlike the Lord Sitar LP which is far more trivial. Big Jim obviously takes
> his work very seriously.
>
> Big Jim Sullivan - Sitar Beat
> Lord Sitar - Lord Sitar
> Chom Kitari - Sound of Sitar
> Segram - Pop Explosion Sitar Style
> Anandar SHankar - And his Music
> Anandar Shankar - Anandar Shankar
> Bill Plummer and His Cosmic Brotherhood - Journey to the East
>
> Anybody else care to recommend and other Western/pop sitar LPs?
>
>

Not really pop, but "Curried Jazz" by the Indo-British Ensemble is
laid-back East/West jazz (e.g. sitar and fluegelhorn grooving
together) circa 1968, and I think it's really fucking cool. A
combination of Indian and British musicians, as you might (not)
expect. And it's on that bastion of musical values, the Music For
Pleasure label!



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From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update
Date: 08 Apr 1999 16:54:25 +0100


Werner Muller's And the Strip Goes on is a good one. Body Building gets
about 9/10, Sex Machine 8/10 (very German), The Beat Goes on 8/10. The rest
of the tracks are not stone classics but the whole LP has that
easy/instrumental pop sound that I love. IMO, The Strip Goes On has all the
necessary criteria to be a killer LP and it comes with a nude on the cover.
My copy's on the Ace of Clubs label that also houses Mark Wirtz who I think
has a very similar sound.

And that Spaced Oddity 2069 looks crap. A poor mixture of funk/easy tracks
and a missing Serge Gainsbourg track they obviously had to remove from the
LP after the compilers got scared of reprisals from his record label.

Charlie





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Subject: Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist
Date: 08 Apr 1999 11:41:01 -0400





>>>Once upon a time, I might have thought "they read my mind" but by now I
have gotten used to the fact that everything - no matter how obscure - gets
"co-opted".
Of course I don't think they got it from me.  It's part of the zeitgeist.

Have you or anybody else on the list ever considered that maybe our "dirtly
lil secrets" about a lot of this music may not be so secret anymore,
because of this list,and mags like COOL&STRANGE and the popularity of
Combusitble Edison?  Maybe we think we're so obtuse...but THEY could be
watching us!  Seriously, we could both pat ourselves on our backs and blame
ourselves for certain surges in popularity...
That Jane Fondle...always thinkin'!(or being paranoid, not sure which!)






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From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Big Jim Sullivan
Date: 08 Apr 1999 17:03:57 +0100


'Bill "Ravi" Harris and the Prophets: Funky Sitar Man'

This LP is a fake. Its all new and frankly, I thought the quality of the
musicians was very very poor. The drumming is lame and the music far too
loose. Production wise, its just too 1990s and not near enough 1970s
(especially if you read the liner notes and appreciate the amateur status
of the performers and the limitations they would have had to face in their
choice of recording set-ups).

Rant rant rant



Charlie





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Subject: Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist
Date: 08 Apr 1999 09:08:03 -0700


Or further, have any of you considered that the Gap people may lurk on this
list??? We have no idea who listens in... The Internet, especially listservs
and newsgroups, is a *big* part of marketing these days - it's a direct way=
 to
measure the tastes of a very narrow demographic of consumers with mostly=
 above
average incomes and mostly younger than the mid-30s.

But I'm one of you - check my email address - totally not for profit and as
paranoid as Ms. Fondle, man.=20

This trend (of corporate culture and advertising co-opting non-mainstream
culture for its effect) is not a new one, it's just one that has now hit our
region of musical interest. That in no way negates the function of this=
 list,
which continues to introduce me to new material for my listening pleasure=
 that
I won't find in a Gap commercial or anywhere else.

Clark

At 11:41 AM 4/8/1999 -0400, Jane Fondle wrote:
>Have you or anybody else on the list ever considered that maybe our "dirtly
>lil secrets" about a lot of this music may not be so secret anymore,
>because of this list,and mags like COOL&STRANGE and the popularity of
>Combusitble Edison?=A0 Maybe we think we're so obtuse...but THEY could be
>watching us!=A0 Seriously, we could both pat ourselves on our backs and=
 blame
>ourselves for certain surges in popularity...
>That Jane Fondle...always thinkin'!(or being paranoid, not sure which!)



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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Big Jim Sullivan
Date: 08 Apr 1999 12:20:07 -0400


> Anybody else care to recommend and other Western/pop sitar LPs?


Great International Hits - V. Balsara and his Singing Sitar.

Made in the fabulous city of Dum Dum, this features "Lemon Tree",
"Edelweiss" and "These Boots Are Made For Walkin' ", amongst others.  Full
orchestra with Sitar leads.  I can safely say this is the best sitar pop
album I have.  It is also the only one I have been able to find, too!

Brian Phillips



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Subject: Re: (exotica) RE: Sitar/Big Jim Sullivan
Date: 08 Apr 1999 12:38:03 -0400




> >Anybody else care to recommend and other Western/pop sitar LPs?
> >Charlie

A favourite of mine is the "Sitar and Electronics" lp by Okko for the BASF
label. In addition to the Sitar, the album also has plenty of moog and even
a cover version of "A Day in the Life".

A near perfect lp.

Allan




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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Part one.
Date: 08 Apr 1999 13:04:27 -0400


Bum, bum, bu-bum, bum, bum, bu-bum, bum, bum.



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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Part two.
Date: 08 Apr 1999 13:05:00 -0400


Bum, bum, bu-bum, bum, bum, bu-bum, bum, bum.



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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Part Three.
Date: 08 Apr 1999 13:06:46 -0400


As you may have gathered from parts one and two, I am on my way to San
Jose' next week.  Any cool and teenbeat stores I should keep my eyes peeled
for?

Deon Warwick



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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist
Date: 08 Apr 1999 13:40:09 -0400


I hear there's also a new one with the "khaki kids" country line-dancing
(to appropriate music), so I wouldn't take any of it too seriously. They're
just systematically darting and tagging all possible demographics.

Please let me know when they do the serialist composer version.

m.ace  [e-mail]
OOK   http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/


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Subject: [Charles Moseley: Re: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update]
Date: 08 Apr 1999 18:45:06 +0100


> From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
>
> Werner Muller's And the Strip Goes on is a good one. Body Building gets
> about 9/10, Sex Machine 8/10 (very German), The Beat Goes on 8/10. The rest
> of the tracks are not stone classics but the whole LP has that
> easy/instrumental pop sound that I love. IMO, The Strip Goes On has all the
> necessary criteria to be a killer LP and it comes with a nude on the cover.
> My copy's on the Ace of Clubs label that also houses Mark Wirtz who I think
> has a very similar sound.
>

My copy's on German Decca. "Sex Machine" I find pretty horrible, and
horribly funny; but all-round this LP has to get very high marks. The
laughter on the version of "The Stripper" freezes my blood...

Mark Wirtz is all over the place. "Latin A Go Go" is on the Ember
label (top album, BTW); "Ten Again" is on World Record Club; "Mood
Mosaic" is on EMI Studio Two, "Teenage Dancing Made In England" is on
German Decca, and that's all I'm aware of. What's the album on Ace of
Clubs, "Teenage Dancing" or not?

I'm going to have to hunt down that Wirtz CD.

> And that Spaced Oddity 2069 looks crap. A poor mixture of funk/easy tracks
> and a missing Serge Gainsbourg track they obviously had to remove from the
> LP after the compilers got scared of reprisals from his record label.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist
Date: 08 Apr 1999 14:05:40 -0400



>Please let me know when they do the serialist composer version.

Ha!  That is a great suggestion.  They could have six women and six men in
different colored pants, faces painted white, moving about while
Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" plays in the background and at the end a
graphic could pop up and say, "The Twelve Tones of Gap".


This is too easy,
Brian PrettyCity



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Date: 08 Apr 1999 14:36:02 EDT



In a message dated 4/8/99 12:13:02 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>This trend (of corporate culture and advertising co-opting non-mainstream
>
>culture for its effect) is not a new one

I'm in total agreement.......Jimmy  Chemicalbank Botticelli


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From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 4 Piece Suit
Date: 08 Apr 1999 16:11:24 -0400


Has the group 4 Piece Suit ever come up on the list? I  just went ga-ga when
I first heard these guys play last summer at the outdoor Boston Globe Jazz
Festival.

Their first album "Ready To Where?" a mixture of Surf, Spy Jazz, Mancini and
originals.

Their latest CD "Matinee Idylls" of mostly original compositions  hitting
all the lounge bases with only a few standards thrown in.

DJJimmy mentioned on his program that they are playing in Cambridge MA this
Friday and Br. Cleve is the host!




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From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Kriminalfilmusik
Date: 08 Apr 1999 15:13:53 -0500


Moritz wrote:

> I only wish I knew so much about German music as Brian does. I always
> considered Martin Bottcher as a real lightweight, although he wrote the film
> music of "Winnetou" and provided me with one essential childhood melody. But
> anything else I heard since sounded really lame and sleepy-easy. Would
> surprise me, if there was something hidden of real interest.
Hmm...I don't know how to take that first comment...  but in any case I
used the term heavyweight to mean he's well known not to describe
the musical style.  It is true the Motor compilation of his music is
lighter-easy sounding material as are the two LPs of his tv scores
I recently found. These two new ones look promising at least if
the cover art is any indication! Of course the Peter Thomas -
Kriminalfilmusik isn't quite as "Kriminal" as say the Erwin Halletz
album also of the same name, but I liked it nonetheless. I'm still
not sure about that P. Thomas  - Warp back to Earth set and am
curious to see Johan's impressions once he gets it reviewed.
There are sound clips at the BSC site but I can't seem to get them
to work. Check out the site:

http://www.bscmusic.com/artists.html

Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki's and Hula girls dolls in record store
Date: 08 Apr 1999 16:23:33 -0400


I was in  Newbury Comics in Burlington MA looking for more SEQUEL cut-outs
and what do I see?

Tiki's and dashboard ready hula girl dolls!

Getting ready for 8 questions
Domenic



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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) new sixties comps
Date: 08 Apr 1999 22:39:40 +0200



>*****v/a-Land Of 1000 Dances (Ace cd). Do you
>know how to Pony ?. Whenever I'm asked to man the "wheels of
.steel" at a party or club this is exactly the kind o' stuff I bring along
>to entertain the crowds, late 50s/early 60s dance tunes to get
>those feets a-tappin' and those wings a-flappin'. It's all here, just
>pick your fave; the Duck, the Shag, the Walk, the Stroll and 26
>other dancefloor fillers that are a sure cure from whatever it's called
>that goes around for dance music these days. Are you ready
>?.*****v/a-Twistin' Time vol.2 (Knight lp). And while we're out on the
>floor why not twist the night away with Tyrone A'Saurus And His
>Cro- Magnons ?, one of the 18 bands on here that took a stab at
>bein' the next Chubby Checker. Most of this stuff is cheesy as
>heck, but as King Curtis states here; "the Arthur Murray Twist
>made me a hero, before I learned to twist I was a social
>zero".*****


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From: Risser Family <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) LP Questions
Date: 08 Apr 1999 17:40:34 -0400


Does anyone know if the Johan Frisch - Symphony of the Birds is the same LP
Jack D raves on and on about?

Just wondering.


Also, is Discotheque b Doc Severinson any good?
It's on Command, has Dick Hyman and Tony Mottola...
>From 1965...


Also, which Anita Kerr LPs are the ones to get?
Just wondering.
Thanks!
Peter



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Subject: (exotica) {news} wapin
Date: 08 Apr 1999 18:07:19 -0500


    CINCINNATI, April 8 (UPI) -- Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, played by
University of Cincinnati piano professor Richard Morris, has been downloaded
350,000 times since January from an Internet web site -- making it the most
popular composition on mp3.com.
    Morris told United Press International the 5-6 minute sonata was placed on
the website that offers free downloads by about 7,000 musicians to
demonstrate the Wapin -- a new invention by his colleague, former UC College
Conservatory of Music piano tuner Mike Wathen.
    Wapin, which Morris calls ``the most important invention for the piano in
the last century, combines Wathen's name and the word ''pin.`` It uses
special vertical pins attached to piano strings to allow an improvement of
tone clarity and a richer harmonic spectrum.
Has anyone heard (of) this wapin thingy? Can someone describe it? The
description above makes it seem to be like a reverse prepared piano - a
gimmicked piano that sounds more like a piano rather than less like one.
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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) LP Questions
Date: 07 Apr 1999 15:04:37 -0700



>=20
> Does anyone know if the Johan Frisch - Symphony of the Birds is=20
> the same LP
> Jack D raves on and on about?

I forwarded the message to Jack, as I do not think he's been around the =
list much. Dunno if this is the one that flips his lid or not.=20
As you probably know, There are two records with this title, One by J. =
Dalgas Frisch, and one by Jim Fassett of "Strange to your ears" fame.

In my estimation, both are worth having. They are both exceedingly odd - =
as only a  record comprised of songs that were constructed from the =
calls of birds can be. It's an acquired taste. Both great for mixes, but =
a bit hard to take in larger doses.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Shirts
Date: 08 Apr 1999 18:12:34 EDT


In a message dated 04/07/99 8:53:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< In a message dated 4/7/99 8:33:37 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

 >I like Hawaiian shirts...

 I really hate to say this, particularly in light of all that has been said
 about the Gap, particularly from our resident optometrist, Robert Brooks,  >>

I know, I know.  My disgust for the Gap is well known.  And that makes it
soooooooo hard to admit that I like their freaking commercials.  Yes, the new
Country Khaki one prompted me to write.  Why can't they do something we/I
really hate?

Oh yeah, those freaking drawstring pants commercials for Old Navy.  OK, I'm
back to hating them.

Robert


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Shirts
Date: 08 Apr 1999 18:14:35 EDT


In a message dated 04/07/99 8:53:01 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I'll admit it; I bought
 the two (shirts from the GAP) I liked and I just know the fellas are all
gonna ax me can I get 'em
 one >>

Yeah and get me a few pairs of those drawstring pants while you are at it.
Send them to:

Jack Diamond . . . . . .





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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist
Date: 08 Apr 1999 18:34:53 -0400


At 11:41 AM 4/8/99 -0400, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>Have you or anybody else on the list ever considered that maybe our "dirtly
>lil secrets" about a lot of this music may not be so secret anymore,
>because of this list,and mags like COOL&STRANGE and the popularity of
>Combusitble Edison?  Maybe we think we're so obtuse...but THEY could be
>watching us!

Nothing is secret.  Or maybe something is.  Actually it would be
interesting to ask people if they think they have a secret little area of
musical taste which they really believe is theirs and theirs alone.
But once something is written about or re-issued on CD, it certainly isn't
secret.
One of the thing that's interesting to me, with something like the Gap ad
in question, is the process by which the ad agency picked up on the "secret".
And do they think that they're actually ahead of the curve or are they
trying to ride a wave that they know is already headed for shore?

The thing that's most interesting to me about all this is how "narrow" the
trends they exploit can be.  In other words, they can't think that a lot of
people will "relate" to the go-go music ad.  Not like it was hip-hop or
even swing.
Most of the people seeing that go-go ad wouldn't know that that kind of
music is part of a narrow little trend right now.
What's frightening is that the ad people don't seem to care.
That's frightening because not caring is actually kind of cool and if
they've become genuinely cool, then we are really in trouble.

Or maybe I'm wrong and it's actually not that narrow a trend.  It's
"retro".  Anything retro and sixties-feeling is part of the broad
definition of "cool" right now.  And if they're following that version of
things, that would make them uncool.
And if they're uncool then I can relax.

Nat (wondering who "they" are, wondering if I am they)




the way it's changed in my lifetime.  When I was a teenager, it seems that
they never got it and any attempt to be "hip" failed miserably.  (The fact
that those miserable failures now occupy the center of my taste is another
issue.)
Not only did they not get it but they were always picking up on things way
too late and the things they picked up on were very..... broad (?).




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Subject: Re: (exotica) LP Questions
Date: 08 Apr 1999 18:48:03 -0400


At 05:40 PM 4/8/99 -0400, Risser Family wrote:
>
>Also, which Anita Kerr LPs are the ones to get?

Her "We Dig Mancini" record.
Another one called "Sounds" including a cool version of "The Beat Goes On".

And on a whole other vein, apart from the Anita Kerr Singers, I quite like
those Sea, Earth etc. spoken word collaborations with Rod McKuen in which
Ms.Kerr did the orchestration and arrangement.
But I might be alone on that.

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Subject: (exotica) (no subject)
Date: 08 Apr 1999 19:36:12 EDT


>I'm not looking for music like Tito Puente or Perez Prado where the
>tunes are usually shorter and tighter but more for the more sort of
>"jazz-oriented" stuff with much longer cuts and a bit of soloing?  If that
>makes it clear...

Nat,

Fantasy has re-released some Mongo Santamaria material on CD which might be
what you're looking for.  You might want to check out Skins.

Also on the Fantasy label, Ray Barretto's Carnaval CD is excellent material
from the same period (early 60's)

There is also a good CD compilation on Verve called 'The Best of Latin Jazz''
with good cuts by Machito, Willie Bobo, Candido Camero, Chico O'Farrill and
others.

Sean


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Subject: Re:  (exotica) 4 Piece Suit
Date: 08 Apr 1999 19:50:52 EDT



In a message dated 4/8/99 3:09:49 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>DJJimmy mentioned on his program that they are playing in Cambridge MA this
>
>Friday and Br. Cleve is the host!

Its true--along with The Strangemen and some others I don't know yet. Well
worth checking out. (At The Middle East Downstairs on Friday)


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Subject: Re:  (exotica) Tiki's and Hula girls dolls in record store
Date: 08 Apr 1999 19:52:53 EDT



In a message dated 4/8/99 3:22:17 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Getting ready for 8 questions

How about "13 Questions" (by Seatrain)


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From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Bombay Beach Boys
Date: 08 Apr 1999 19:58:32 -0400


Does anyone know anything about a group called The Bombay Beach
Boys? They have a sitar version of the surf chestnut "Pipeline" featured
in the movie 200 Cigarettes, and apparently it was also released on a
Rhino comp CD called "Tales from the Rhino" (1994). Did they ever put
out anything else or was it just a one-off?


Thanks in advance,

Peter
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Wed. 6-7pm -- WZBC 90.3fm Newton/Boston
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) The Thing About The Gap
Date: 08 Apr 1999 19:59:31 EDT


What these guys do is replicate in a more comfortable way all the threads we
didn't have to dread when we boomers were coming up through the Army/Navy
Surplus Stores dressing in acceptable hippie garb. So love 'em, heat 'em, but
you can't ignore 'em toatlly. And you can get clothing there that doesn't
have Sloganspeak and Corporatespeak smeared all over them..Jimmy ChemicalBank
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From: James G <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Film Score,Mannix, Lalo et al
Date: 08 Apr 1999 18:13:17 -0700


The March 1999 issue of Film Score magazine (which i just discovered)
says that Lalo's label will be reissuing Mannix soon, but it isnt out
yet. Lots of his stuff is available relatively cheap at his web site:
http://www.schifrin.com

the guy that does Lalo's site does another one that covers Gabor Szabo,
Boogaloo Joe Jones and Gary McFarland among others:

http://siteworks.com/szabo/schifrin.htm

BTW, the March Film Score print mag @$4.95 has a long guide to Jerry
Goldsmith's scores of te 80's, a profile of Wendy Carlos, Hammer film
scores, reviews and lots of cool stuff in 48 pages. Neat features are a
list of record labels showing upcoming releases,and a list of composers
and what films they are currently working on. (What? Angelo Badalamenti
isn't working on Lynch's proposed "Mulholland Drive" TV series ? Well, I
don't think they've shot the pilot yet supposedly with, gulp, Billy Ray
Cyrus, I kid you not !!!)

Film Score also puts out limited edition CD's (like "Fantastic Voyage"
and have a website at of course

http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/

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From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Thing About The Gap
Date: 08 Apr 1999 17:47:04 -0700


Just remember, my good meng Jimmy, that even if your Gap shirt sez MADE IN
USA, it could very well come from the sweatshops of Saipan, technically a US
territory, but with no oversight and appalling conditions, child labor, etc.
I urge people not to support a company that profits off of human misery and
robs kids of their childhoods.  That's just a little TOO exotic if you ask
me.

And if Gap people ARE reading this--quit your fucking jobs, you dweebs.

Now--back to da music!

C. "Ratso" Russo
www.ratso.net







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From: Bump <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist
Date: 08 Apr 1999 21:55:45 -0400


in the words of Bill Hicks...
"If anbody here is working in the field of Marketing or Advertising...
I only have two words for you....KILL YOURSELF!"

Don't, Mind the Gap.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) LP Questions
Date: 08 Apr 1999 21:45:04 EDT


<< Does anyone know if the Johan Frisch - Symphony of the Birds is the same LP
 Jack D raves on and on about? >>

No, this is not the one - the one he raves about is THE ARTEL ORCHESTRA "The
Canaries".  I have tracks from both of these LP's on my "Whistling For You"
comp.

Jack sold me the Johan Frisch LP and I continue to badger him for the other,
which I only have a tape of.  Until then, my daily routine includes typing
keywords "Artel" and "canaries" into Ebay's search engine.

I'd go out and get that Frisch LP right now, if I were you, Peter.  Sukiyaki,
Tico Tico, Emperors Waltz, Santa Lucia...it's all there in an incredibly
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie "The Beat Generation"
Date: 09 Apr 1999 00:25:50 EDT


I saw _The Beat Generation_ at the Roxie here in SF, on a double-bill of
"Beatnik Noir" (with _The Rebel Set_ or _The Bloody Brood_).  The cool cast
is a smidge disappointing, as Ms. Nurmi is *not* in anything like Vampira
gear (and is otherwise unrecognizable as a beat girl with rat), and Irish
McCalla plays a cop's wife - very gal next door and not va va voom.  Still,
there were some cool coffee house bongo scenes and it looked lovely and ripe
(even if their notion of beat jazz was Louis Armstrong and Ray Anthony.)

--David (collecting Beatnik exploitation at every opportunity)


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From: King Kini <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fwd: ROBERT DRASNIN in MINNEAPOLIS
Date: 08 Apr 1999 23:29:37 -0600


>"VOODOO!"
>MCE LIVE WITH  3 LEGENDS OF L.A. MUSIC AND A MPLS ICON:
>ROBERT DRASNIN, SKIP HELLER AND D.J. BONEBRAKE, WITH KING KINI
>
>Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis Minnesota
>Friday, April 23rd 1999 - Doors open at 8PM
>Tickets $13 advance / $15 day of show (available at all Ticketmaster outlets)
>
>Minnesota Contemporary Ensemble (MCE), called "one of the country's leading
>advocates of the new in music" by the Dallas Morning News and "a 70 minute
>blast of brilliance" by Pulse, will present three living legends of the Los
>Angeles music scene accompanied by 14 members of MCE.
>
>Robert Drasnin, you have heard his music a million times!   He was the head
>of music at CBS Television for 17 years and scored episodes of Twilight
>Zone, Mission Impossible, Man from UNCLE, Wild Wild West, I Spy, and many
>MANY more! The 1959 album "Voodoo" is his only recorded work released under
>his own name and is considered a masterpiece of the "exotica/lounge" genre.
>With Robert Drasnin conducting, MCE will present the first ever live
>performance of "Voodoo" in its entirety, a once in a lifetime opportunity!!
>
>If Robert Drasnin is California's old master, Skip Heller is it's new
>vision!  His set will focus on his patented 50's Hollywood noire and
>feature his new release "Couch Los Angeles", a baffling eclectic overview
>of vintage and contemporary space age pop. A journalist, composer,
>guitarist, arranger, and producer,  Skip Heller is the only living
>contemporary composer to have worked with "exotica" masters Les Baxter, Yma
>Sumac, Korla Pandit, and Robert Drasnin.  His work shows influences of such
>progressive figures as John Zorn, Frank Zappa, Gustav Mahler, and Don Byron
>as well as works by American composers Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Allen
>Toussaint, and Reverend James Cleveland.
>
>D.J. Bonebrake is the drummer of the seminal and legendary Los Angeles punk
>band "X".  He also performs with the Heller, Drasnin, Bonebrake combo and
>is a percussionist with the Palisades Symphony Orchestra.
>
>In between sets,  audience members will be treated to Minneapolis' own
>"lounge/exotica" expert, King Kini, spinning vinyl from his truly unique
>and unmatched collection of vintage recordings.
>
>
>
>*************
>MCE
>classcial music that doesn't suck
>
>515 Ontario St. SE
>Minnepaolis MN 55414
>www.newmusicmce.org
>[e-mail]
>[phone]
>fax [phone]
>




visit...

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Free Association-The Yellow Balloon
Date: 09 Apr 1999 00:29:38 EDT


Yeah, I've got this collection.  I actually like "Stained Glass Windows" even
better than the single.  Gary Zekley was the main move in this group (and
several others like the Clique - he wrote "Superman" which REM covered).  It
also featured the actor who played Robbie on _My Three Sons_.  Excellent
feature on Gary Zekley in Dominic Priore's _Dumb Angel Gazette_ #3.

--David


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From: Graham Newton <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Looking for old vinyl album...
Date: 08 Apr 1999 16:50:24 -0400


Does anyone have a copy of an old vinyl album called FULL MOON by a
group of the same name?

It was issued around 1972 by Douglas Records, # KZ31904

I'll beg borrow steal or buy it if you have one.

Please respond off list to: [e-mail]


... Graham Newton

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From: "paul moshay" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist
Date: 08 Apr 1999 23:55:34 +0100


> Or further, have any of you considered that the Gap people may lurk on this

Trust me, if not on this list in actuality, "they" (their mrtkng ppl, ad
adgency dir's) are "on" it figuratively.   They are the un-easy latecomers
toting up a mountain of import comp cds to the counter at your loca indie
store, whisking away in a new 525i...they are the unbelievable 'insiders'
whispering in the bouncers ear at the head of the line...and they are taking
notes in hopes of shaping perceptions of their products to "meet your
needs".

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Subject: Re: (exotica) LP Questions, Mottola
Date: 09 Apr 1999 09:01:31 -0400




Also, is Discotheque b Doc Severinson any good?
It's on Command, has Dick Hyman and Tony Mottola...
>From 1965...

YES!(x3)....It's groovy-ass NOW SOUND and it's fer you!  Plus, look at the
all-star cast of Cark, Dick and Tony, how can you go wrong!

Speaking of Tony Mottola, I have two questions about him. First of all, in
the heartbreak that befalls all thrift-store denizens, I bought the COVER
of Tony's ITALY TODAY, and it had another lesser of his inside.  Is ITALY
TODAY as fab as I imagine?  Also, is he related to record magnate Tommy
Mottola, the late Mr. Mariah Carey?
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Subject: Re: (exotica) While we're Mambo-ing
Date: 09 Apr 1999 09:09:46 -0400





>

Nat,
Fantasy has re-released some Mongo Santamaria material on CD which might be
what you're looking for.  You might want to check out Skins.
Also on the Fantasy label, Ray Barretto's Carnaval CD is excellent material
from the same period (early 60's)
There is also a good CD compilation on Verve called 'The Best of Latin
Jazz''
with good cuts by Machito, Willie Bobo, Candido Camero, Chico O'Farrill and
others.
Sean

Those same folks appear on two GREAT mambo CDs I have...One is called THE
MAMBO KINGS(not the movie soundtrack..although I'd like to know mo' about
the film and it's OST)...and the other is one of those TALKIN' VERVE-Mambo.
Just stellar, killer stuff!  OK, does anybody agree(perhaps disagree) with
me that Billy May's mambo arrangements on Yma's MAMBO record just about
knock a lot of the Latin arrangements out widda BANG?  That's one of the
best mambo records I've ever heard, faux-Latin or no!
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From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Shirts
Date: 09 Apr 1999 10:46:52 -0400


>Oh yeah, those freaking drawstring pants commercials for Old Navy.  OK, I'm
>back to hating them.
>
I *love* that commercial.  The idea that Morgan Fairchild can actually type
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Subject: Re: (exotica) LP Questions, Mottola
Date: 09 Apr 1999 14:59:28 +0100


Madame Fondle wrote:

> Also, is Discotheque b Doc Severinson any good?
> It's on Command, has Dick Hyman and Tony Mottola...

Ooh yes - it's good.  The Discotheque series are among my favourite
Command LPs.

> Speaking of Tony Mottola, I have two questions about him. First
> of all, in the heartbreak that befalls all thrift-store denizens,
> I bought the COVER of Tony's ITALY TODAY, and it had another lesser
> of his inside.  Is ITALY TODAY as fab as I imagine?

Much as I love Tony's contribution to Command all-star albums I've
always found his solo LPs quite soporific but I don't know anything
about this particular LP...

> Also, is he related to record magnate Tommy Mottola, the late
> Mr. Mariah Carey?

My memory's hazy on this but I *think* I asked him about this and he
said he wasn't related but I'm sure there must be a family connection
somewhere in there...


Robbie

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) obit: Bob Peck,Sam Shaw
Date: 09 Apr 1999 10:17:12 -0500


                             *Bob Peck
    LONDON (AP) -- British actor Bob Peck, who played a game warden in Steven
Spielberg's 1993 dinosaur adventure ``Jurassic Park,'' died Sunday of
cancer. He was 53.
    During his career, Beck acted for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the
National Theater and starred in more than 20 television dramas. He was best
known in Britain for his role in the 1985 television series, ``Edge of
Darkness,'' about the threat of nuclear pollution.
    He made his international debut as game warden Robert Muldoon in the hugely
popular dinosaur movie ``Jurassic Park.''
    Known as a highly adaptable actor, Peck had always been widely respected by
his colleagues.
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?USR=9:47:04|AM&p=avg&sql=B55739

April 9, 1999
Sam Shaw, 87, Film Producer and Photographer (NYTimes)
Sam Shaw, a film producer and photojournalist famous for his photographs of
Marilyn Monroe standing over a subway grate with her skirt billowing, died
on Monday at a hospital in Westwood, N.J. He was 87 and lived in Tappan, N.Y.

Born and reared on New York's Lower East Side, Shaw's artistic talents were
evident even as a young boy when, without money to buy supplies, he would
gather up tar from the streets and make sculptures of animals. By the time
he finished high school, he had turned to painting and was offered either a
scholarship to study at the Pratt Institute or a studio in which to work. He
chose the latter, which he sometimes shared with the artist Romare Bearden.

After a brief stint as the art director for the Brooklyn Eagle, Shaw began
his career as a photojournalist with Colliers magazine in the 1940's.
Alongside the journalist Harry Henderson, he traveled through the United
States to create memorable photographs of West Virginian miners, Southern
sharecroppers and New Orleans jazz musicians at work in their environs. His
name became synonomous with the covers of Life and Look in the 1950's and 60's.

Gradually, he moved into film. In 1951, he created the photograph of Marlon
Brando in a ripped T-shirt that came to symbolize "A Streetcar Named Desire."

It was while shooting Brando on the set of "Viva Zapata!" in 1952 that he
met Monroe. A struggling contract player, she had been assigned to drive
Shaw to film locations, and their friendship quickly ignited.

Her star had risen by 1955, when Shaw was hired to shoot a poster for Billy
Wilder's "Seven Year Itch." Before a crowd of thousands, Monroe re-enacted
the scene from Wilder's script in which she left the Trans Lux theater on
Lexington Avenue and crossed a subway grate, as a rush of air from an
oncoming train caused the skirt of her white dress to fly up. "You've got to
give Marilyn credit, too," Shaw said in an interview years later of that
moment. "She was very inventive. She loved the camera."

In recent years, Shaw had filed a $100 million suit againist his son, Larry
Shaw of Piermont, in which he claimed that his son, then acting as his
agent, made deals to illegally reproduce images of Monroe and pocketed the
proceeds. His son denied the accusations, saying he had permission.

In 1961 Shaw tried his hand at producing with "Paris Blues," starring Paul
Newman, Joan Woodward, Sidney Poitier and Louis Armstrong. He went on to
produce films for John Cassavetes, including "Husbands," "A Woman Under the
Influence," "The Killing of a Chinese Bookie," "Opening Night," "Gloria" and
"Love Streams."

His survivors include his daughters, Meta Shaw Stevens of Manhattan and
Edith Shaw Marcus of Tappan, N.Y.; seven grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?USR=9:52:31|AM&p=avg&sql=B111056









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Subject: (exotica) Tommy Mattola
Date: 09 Apr 1999 07:29:46 -0700 (PDT)



Some interesting trivia:

Tommy Mattola plays the guitar lick on COnnie Francis' "Who's Sorry
Now".....so I guess he goes back a long way.

DH!
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Subject: (exotica) Kay Starr/Lee Wiley
Date: 09 Apr 1999 07:30:53 -0700 (PDT)


Someone, I don't remember who, asked me about some really old Kay Starr
and Lee Wiley stuff.

I found a great web-site that has it,
http://baldwin-streetmusic.hypermart.net

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) The DEFINITIVE Answers to all your Gap related questions!!!
Date: 09 Apr 1999 11:06:05 EDT


There is only one true comprehensive source for information on coolness and=20
how to posses this elusive trait. =20

That would be me and my upcoming book tentatively titles, =93The Gap Is A=20
Clothing Store, And Coolness Is A Whole Lot More=94. =20

I liked this phrase so much in fact that last month I had it tattooed up and=20
down both of my legs in three inch letters.  I=92m hopping it will be a real=20
conversation piece at the beach this coming summer.=20

Anyway, my new book will help clarify the difference between something that=20
is cool and something that is just plain dangerous, like wearing a chain=20
between your pierced nostril and your pierced vas deferens.  As a side note,=20
I do believe that The Gap is now offering free vas definers piercing with th=
e=20
purchase of and pair of chinos. =20

I=92ll notify you all when the book is available.  Pick up a copy, it may he=
lp=20
you avoid some painful fashion choices.

Regards,
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Subject: (exotica) Martinis With Mancini Playlist. 4/9/99
Date: 09 Apr 1999 12:26:25 -0400



"Martinis With Mancini" now broadcasting Friday's at from 6-9 AM. WJUL 91=
.5
in
Lowell Massachusetts.

Besides honoring Martin Denny who will be 88 on April 10th. Today=92s pro=
gram
was our =93Lets Make A Millennium Baby Special Edition=94. Biologists say=
 that
couples who want a baby born on January 1, 2000 should seek to conceive o=
n
April 9. If conception occurs there is a six percent chance (the highest)
that the baby will be born on January 1st.

The exotic music of Martin Denny interspersed with lush romantic vocals.
Mood music for happy couples planning on a happy delivery to usher in the
next millenium!

The web page: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Booth/8007/

Your comments always welcomed.

The Playlist:

I Could Happen To You, Bjork
The Folks Who Live On The Hill, George Shearing
Temptation, Martin Denny (LP)
Sway, Julie London
A Taste Of Honey, Martin Denny (LP)
Love Is Here To Stay, Nat King Cole
Beyond The Reef, Martin Denny (LP)
How Deep Is The Ocean, Diana Krall
Makin=92 Whoopie, Frank Sinatra
Return To Paradise, Martin Denny (Scamp CD)
Hong Kong Blues, Martin Denny (Scamp CD)
Busy Port, Martin Denny (Scamp CD)
Lotus Land, Martin Denny (Scamp CD)
Satin Doll, Martin Denny (LP)
Save Your Love For Me, Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley
Blue Paradise, Martin Denny (LP)
Love, Your Magic Is Everywhere, Johnny Mathis
Soshu Night Serenade, Martin Denny (Scamp CD)
Island Dreams, Martin Denny (Scamp CD)
Japanese Farewell Song, Martin Denny (Scamp CD)
Singing Bamboos, Martin Denny (Scamp)
Misty, Dakota Staton
Cast Your Fate To The Wind, Martin Denny (LP)
Baby, Baby, All The Time, Nat King Cole
Take 5, Martin Denny (LP)
Easy Living, Dinah Washington
Stranger In Paradise, Martin Denny (LP)
Real Live Girl, Matt Monroe
I Love Your Loving Ways, Nina Simone
Clair De Lune, Martin Denny (LP)
How Sweet It Is To Be In Love, Johnny Hartman
My Reverie, Martin Denny (LP)
I Don=92t Want To Set The World On Fire, The Ink Spots
Like Young, Martin Denny (LP)
Our Love Is Here To Stay, Natalie Cole
More, Martin Denny (LP)
Love Me, Love Me, Dean Martin
Route 66, Martin Denny (LP)
I=92m In The Mood For Love, Julie London
Violetta, Martin Denny (LP)
Cool, Martin Denny (LP)
Charade, Sarah Vaughan
America, Martin Denny (LP)
Since I Fell For You, Jimmy Witherspoon
The Wild One, Martin Denny (LP)
The Nearness Of You, Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong
Wedding Song, Martin Denny (Scamp CD)
They Say It=92s Wonderful, Johnny Hartman/ John Coltrane
Exodus, Martin Denny (LP)
This Is My Beloved, Etta Jones
Ebb Tide, Martin Denny (Scamp CD)
S=92Wonderful, Sarah Vaughan (Request!)
Harlem Nocturn, Martin Denny (LP)
Makin=92 Whoopie, Dr John
Candy, Dr John
Quiet Village, Martin Denny (Scamp CD)





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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Shirts
Date: 09 Apr 1999 08:52:46 -0700 (PDT)


Another source is the lovely Walmartish Target chain
(refered to by some Denver locals as "Target
[pronounced, Tar-jee] Boutique) is selling them.
Picked one up that was festooned with little martini
glasses and spitted cocktail olives. Dirt cheap; no
compunction. Odd place, though - they have a little
postal thing, a food court and an ATM. Lacking only a
bar to effect a tacky, insular world.
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From: Jeff Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Me, the Gap and the damn zeitgeist
Date: 08 Apr 1999 16:31:58 -0700


Nat Kone wrote:

> Most of the people seeing that go-go ad wouldn't know that that kind of
> music is part of a narrow little trend right now.
> What's frightening is that the ad people don't seem to care.
> That's frightening because not caring is actually kind of cool and if
> they've become genuinely cool, then we are really in trouble.

Don't worry, Nat--they're uncool.  It's a year-and-a-half-old response
to Austin Powers, that's all.

Methinks you thinks too deeply sometimes (but keep it up!).

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips
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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie "The Beat Generation"
Date: 09 Apr 1999 12:18:08 -0400


At 12:25 AM 4/9/99 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:

>--David (collecting Beatnik exploitation at every opportunity)

I don't know anything about beatnik exploitation material so this might be
"old hat" (should that be "beret"?) for you beatnik collectors but the only
piece of beatnik cheese is by Spike Jones and I have it on this
quasi-stereo demonstration LP.
I can't find the record at this moment.  (Or I just don't want to do the
necessary excavation.) But I've seen it around.  It's got a picture of an
unusually happy woman wearing headphones.
Anyway the piece starts off with an interview with a mad scientist and then
he introduces his creation which is a two-headed beatnik.  And then the
very dumb-sounding beatniks sing a tune, one word at a time, bouncing back
and forth between the two speakers.
If somebody doesn't immediately respond with the name of that tune and
where you can find it, I'll "dig" out that record.

And while I'm on the subject of Spike Jones, don't you just love "Pimples
and Braces"?  It's kind of amazing that Spike Jones could do a tune that
would remind me so much of the Hombres' "Let it all hang out".

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tony Schwartz
Date: 09 Apr 1999 13:00:02 -0500


At 10:07 AM 10/6/98 -0400, Randall Rothenberg wrote:
>    Yes, I know about the Tony Schwartz records -- and I'm proud to
>say I know Tony Schwartz himself. Tony, who is now in his 70s, is one of
>the great bridgers of the gap between media theory and media practice.


The LostAndFoundSound Project folks put together a nice portrait of and
interview with Tony Schwartz. Here's the URL for the RealAudio link:
http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/onair/990226.schwartz.html

February 26, 1999
Tony Schwartz
A profile of Tony Schwartz, an innovative and inspired sound gatherer,
recording the sounds of America since 1945. A man who will venture no
further than his postal zone, Mr. Schwartz has made more than 30,000 home
recordings in the streets, delis, cabs, playgrounds and stoops of his New
York neighborhood.

"30,000 Recordings Later"
Listen with RealAudio in 14.4 or 28.8 flavors.
Produced by The Kitchen Sisters, Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva

This week on Lost & Found Sound, a profile of Tony Schwartz, an innovative
and inspired sound gatherer, recording the sounds of America since 1945.

 TONY SCHWARTZ:
"New York 19" was the non-commercial musical life of my postal zone. And the
postal zone was New York 19 at that time. It's 10019 now. That was the area
I could travel in. I'm not able to travel far. I have agoraphobia and in
walking I could just go around my postal zone in the midst of Manhattan.

I made the first portable recorder. I brought the VU meter from inside the
case to the top so I could look down at it and see how loud things were and
I put a strap on it so I could hang it over my shoulder, that was in 1945. I
could go record children in the park doing jump rope rhymes. And I recorded
the street festivals. I made fourteen records for Folkways records you can
see them up there. The children's games of the streets -- I called it "1-2-3
and a Zing-Zing-Zing." "I won't go to Macys any more more more. There's a
big fat policeman at the door door door..." I was interested in the sound
around us.

To order Tony Schwartz's Folkway recordings, or to contact Mr. Schwartz:
[e-mail]

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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Napoleon Complex?
Date: 09 Apr 1999 19:20:57 +0200


The CD (on Vampire Records) , not for the faint of heart,
is available from Midnight Records (www.midnightrecords.com)

tracklist:

napoleon XIV - They're coming to take me away, ha-haa!
Josephine VX - I'm happy they took you away, ha-haa!
Henry the IX - Don't take me back, oh-nooo!
The Emperor - I'm Normal
Napoleon XIV - The place where the nuts hunt the squirrels
Malepertus II - Ich glaab', die hole mich ab
Josephine XIII - Down on the funny farm (oy vey)
Napoleon Puppy - Ellos me quieren lievar
Floris VI - Ze nemen me eindelijk mee, ha-haa!
Kim Fowley - They're coming to take me away, ha-haa!
Rose Brooks - They're coming to take me away, ha-haa!
Teddy and Darryl - They took you away, i'm glad i'm glad
I Balordi - venqono a portarci via ah, aah!
Los Ovnis - Napoleon XIV
Hugo de Groot - Ze nemen me eindelijk mee, ha-haa!
Napoleon XIV - They're coming to get me again, ha-haa!
Mad Dog Society - They're coming to take me away, ha-haa!
Inhuman Orchestra -  They're coming to take me...
Snopek & the Unexploded Bomb - They're coming to take me away
Lard - They're coming to take me away



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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: I'm feelin' a little vocal today: Novi Quartet
Date: 09 Apr 1999 16:49:11 +0200


[e-mail] wrote:

>Would anyone like to yammer for a bit about any of these vocal groups or any
>other similar wailin' groovies that come to mind,


     Novi Quartet: "Novi In Wonderland" CD:
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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: More Kriminalfilmusik: Martin Bottcher
Date: 09 Apr 1999 16:42:25 +0200


At 10:48 -0600 99/04/08, Brian Karasick wrote:

>..........two volumes of similar material with
>the identical title but by another German musical heavyweight, Martin
>Bottcher.  Anyone heard these.....


    Very disappointing. Sounds like intermission music: gentle,
friendly, cautious, sleepy and restrained (not really sophisticated
though)... instead of dangerous and action-packed. It's rather boring and
uninteresting, (even for cocktail music standards), not just over-relaxed.
Sounds like Bert Kaempfert conducting while sleepwalking. From track 10
onwards, it gets a bit better, at one point it even swings. There's almost
no jazz influence here, in big contrast with  Peter Thomas' music. Speaking
of Mr. Thomas: "Besonders in der Nacht" could have been written by him: a
lunatic laughs and screams, and several zounds turn it into a mad, demented
piece of music. Several tracks feel outdated, with an antique Glenn Miller
"swing" sound. Not really recommended. my rating: 2/5

        Johan


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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [PR] "Tiki Sampler" the best  from ULTRA-LOUNGE!
Date: 09 Apr 1999 13:40:17 -0500


  Hollywood And Vine <[e-mail]>

 WHAT'S ONLINE AT HOLLYWOOD AND VINE

 Thursday, April 8, 1999
  ----------------------------------------------------
  "TIKI SAMPLER" COLLECTION FEATURES
 HIGHLIGHTS FROM LATEST ULTRA-LOUNGE ALBUMS

For fans of nostalgia, of vocal pop, of the weird and the exotica of the
lounge scene and the underground swing culture, of artists such as Big Bad
Voodoo Daddy, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, and Cherry Poppin' Daddies, the
Grammy Award-winning Ultra-Lounge Series is back with another round of
intoxicating sounds.  From the million-selling
album series that propelled lounge higher than a chimp-driven space pod
comes the the Tiki Sampler (Capitol Records), released May 4, 1999,
distributed by EMI Music Distribution. Specially packaged in an exotic
Polynesian bamboo motif, Tiki Sampler is the new counterpart to
Ultra-Lounge's wildly popular Leopard Skin Sampler, released three years ago
and winner of a Grammy Award.  It's also the 23rd title added to this
ever-widening CD collection since its launch in 1996. In the blender for
over two years, the Tiki Sampler features 23 full-length selections--17 from
Volumes 13-18 of the Ultra-Lounge Series (TV Town, Bossa Novaville, Wild,
Cool & Swingin' Too, Mondo Hollywood, Bongoland and Bottoms Up!) and the
"Ultra-Lounge Presents" releases On The Rocks Part I & II, The Romantic
Moods Of Jackie Gleason, The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny,The Exotic Moods
Of Les Baxter and Baxter's Best, plus six bonus tracks previously unreleased
under the Ultra-Lounge banner. (There are also two hidden tracks. Shhhhh!)
From musical greats such as singers Peggy Lee, Lena Horne, Nancy Wilson and
Mel Torme, to legendary bandleaders/arrangers Nelson Riddle and Billy May;
from the well-known Louis Prima to the obscure Wanda de Sah; from exotica
icons Les Baxter and Martin Denny to comedian Jackie Gleason; from TV theme
songs to lounge versions of '60s rock songs, the Tiki Sampler is the
ultimate musical lava lamp.

Song Title/Artist

1.  The Munsters Theme - Jack Marshall
2.  My Three Sons - Nelson Riddle
3.  So Danco Samba - Wanda de Sah
4.  The Look Of Love - Billy May
5.  The Boy From Ipanema - Peggy Lee
6.  Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody - Louis Prima
7. Theme From "The Apartment" - Tito Rodriguez
8 . Moon River - Henry Jerome
9.  The Inch Worm - Jack Costanzo
10. Brazil - Tino Contreras
11. Oh, Honey - Gloria Wood
12. Guys And Dolls - Terry Snyder
13. Light My Fire - Zacharias
14. Happy Together - Mel Torme
15. Go Chango - Les Baxter
16. Cubano Chant - Martin Denny
17. A Taste Of Honey - Jackie Gleason
18. Come On-a My House* -    Julie  London
19. Wives & Lovers* - Lena Horne
20. Get Smart/Casino Royale* - The Agents/Frank Pourcel
21. Wave* -    Nancy Wilson
22. My Baby Just Cares For Me* - June Hutton
23. I Dig Chicks* -   Jonah Jones

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From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More Twistin'
Date: 09 Apr 1999 13:51:43 -0500


Arjan wrote:

> (exotica) new sixties comps
> >?.*****v/a-Twistin' Time vol.2 (Knight lp). And while we're out on the
> >floor why not twist the night away with Tyrone A'Saurus And His
> >Cro- Magnons ?, one of the 18 bands on here that took a stab at
> >bein' the next Chubby Checker. Most of this stuff is cheesy as
> >heck, but as King Curtis states here; "the Arthur Murray Twist
> >made me a hero, before I learned to twist I was a social zero".*****
While we're on the subject, there's a new Bear Family release called
"Twist in Germany" for all you Germanophiles out there.  Cover art
looks to be top notch and Bear family is among the best reissue labels
in existance when it comes to thorough notes.   I've heard
some of the cuts on an old Schlagerparade record I have and they're
among my favourites. Granted it's an acquired taste... but try it...
you may be pleasantly surprised!

V/A - TWIST IN GERMANY - BEAR FAMILY - BCD 16186 AH

CHUBBY CHECKER : Der Twist beginnt  BILLY SANDERS : Hallo Mister Twist
 CATERINA VALENTE & SILVIO FRANCESCO : The Peppermint Twist  JOEY DEE
: Bitte bitte Baby  FREDDIE DAVIS und die COLIBRIS : Peppermint Twist
Time  GRANT TRACY : Ya Ya Twist  YVONNE CARR=C9 : Geisha Twist  OLIVER
TWIST & THE HAPPY TWISTLER : Der Twist  CHARLY COTTON und seine
TWIST-MAKERS : Der Liebestraum als Twist
 JIMMY BANK und die MARKS : Little Twisting Star  JACK HAMMER :
 Kissin=92 Twist  PAUL W=DCRGES : Twist ist gut f=FCr die Linie  VIVI BACH=
 :
Tivoli Twist  JOEY DEE mit FATS AND HIS CATS : No, No  FREDY BROCK und
seine TWIST-MAKERS : Schaut, schaut das ist meine Braut  JOHN LAMERS :
Bitte bleib bei mir!  CATERINA VALENTE & SILVIO FRANCESCO :
Popocatepetl Twist  RONNY BAER : Twist, Twist Senora  NORA NOVA :
M=E4nner gibt=92s wie Sand am Meer  TEDDY PARKER : Nachtexpress nach St.
Tropez  PEPPINO DI CAPRI : St. Tropez Twist  CHUBBY CHECKER : Autobahn
Baby  MAX GREGER : Twist Around The Clock  JIMMY BANK und die MARKS :
Der Twist der nie zu Ende geht  NINA WESTEN : Karussell Twist  OLIVER
TWIST & THE HAPPY TWISTLER : Twist f=FCr Gina  RALF BENDIX :
Babysitter-Twist  BENNY QUICK : Twist um Mitternacht mit Susi  PETER
VAN ECK und sein QUINTETT : Spiegel Twist  LES CHAKACHAS : Der Twist
ist pass=E9

Here is the BF site but be warned, this is not an easy label to find in
stores!  I've managed to find the Canadian distributor who happens to
be in Quebec and he told me these things are rarely stocked as they are
so specalized.  Any decent store should be able to special order though.

http://www.bear-family.de

Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Spaghetti Western soundtracks -- part I
Date: 09 Apr 1999 20:35:27 +0200


The following review below was posted on the Cowabunga-list (surf and oth=
er
instrumental music) last week, thought it might be of interest to this li=
st
too. I'm sending it in two parts, hope it doesn't bounce again...

Arjan

<><><><><><><>


---Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: L White <[e-mail]>
Datum: zaterdag 3 april 1999 22:44
Onderwerp: Spaghetti Western soundtracks -- warning: long post




Review them All and Come Back Alone:
The Moon Dawg Guide to Spaghetti Western Soundtrack CDs

key:
***** =3D brilliant, essential even for non-collectors of the genre
**** =3D highly recommended
*** =3D good, well worth having
** =3D fair, worth having for collectors
* =3D yawn, only if you have money to burn
(#) =3D # of instrumental tracks from the film included, typically 2-4
mins. long each
s =3D suite, i.e. medley of themes from the film, typically 5-8 mins.
long
v =3D vocal with lyrics

Note:  Full spaghetti soundtrack albums typically contain some number
of non-melodic =93suspense=94 tracks interspersed with multiple repetitio=
ns
of the main theme.  Some have a few =93saloon music=94 tracks.  If you ha=
ve
no patience for such music, stay away from the
full soundtrack albums and stick with the compilations. Coming from a
grounding in surf music, I have a strong preference for hummable
melodies, and I=92ve rated the soundtracks accordingly.

ENNIO MORRICONE
The originator and master of the spaghetti western.  In contrast to the
grand, herioc scores that composers like Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer
Bernstein, and Dmitri Tiomkin provided for grand, heroic Hollywood
westerns, Morricone provided scores to match the bleak, grotesque, and
often over-the-top westerns of Italian directors like Leone, Corbucci,
Tessari, and Sollima.  His innovative arrangements characteristically
featured electric guitar (an instrument Morricone reportedly could play
himself, and whose specific tones in
each arrangement he carefully chose), acoustic guitar, harmonica, solo
trumpet (sometimes recalling Nino Rota=92s scores for Fellini, sometimes
mariachi music), oboe or ocarina, and of course the incredible
whistling of Alessandro Alessandroni.

The Legendary Italian Westerns (RCA 9974-2-R) *****
[31 tracks, 73:31]
Gunfight at Red Sands (v); Guns Don=92t Argue (2+v); A Fistful of Dollars
(7); A Gun for Ringo [aka A Pistol for Ringo] (4); For a Few Dollars
More (8); Ringo Rides Again [aka The Return of Ringo, aka Pistolero]
(1); 7 Guns for the MacGregors (2); Death Rides a Horse (1); Once Upon
a Time in the West (4)
-- Essential.  Best place to get the genre-defining scores to =93Fistful=94
(includes everything on the original soundtrack LP except the
reprise-it-all suite on side B) and =93Few Dollars More,=94 both of which
are strong from start to finish.  Plus you get the gorgeous title track
to the pre-Leone western =93Guns Don=92t Argue=94 (later covered by late,
great spaghetti-surf band Death Valley), and a sample of  =93Once Upon a
Time in the West.=94 Widely available at $10 or less, a real bargain.
Informative liner notes are included.

Western Quintet (DRG 32907) ***
[2 CDs, 54 tracks, 156:41 --hey, how does DRG fit
more than 74 minutes on each disc?]
Il Mio Nome e=92 Nessuno [My Name is Nobody] (10); Occhio all Penna [A
Fist Goes West] (15); Giu=92 la Testa [A Fistful of Dynamite/ Duck you
Sucker] (11); Tepepa [Blood and Guns] (10); Vamos a Matar, Companeros
[Companeros!] (8)
-- The first three films are comedic, the last two set in Mexico, and
the scores reflect this. They=92re not as bleak/grotesque/compelling as
the famous scores to the Eastwood-Leone trilogy, and to me not nearly
as memorable, with the exception of a couple of tracks from My Name is
Nobody.  As with all DRG releases, and unlike the Beat releases listed
below, there are informative liner notes.

Death Rides a Horse / A Pistol for Ringo / The Return of Ringo (RCA
Italy OST 107)***
[26 tracks,  56:01]
Death Rides a Horse (7+v); A Pistol for Ringo [aka A Gun for Ringo]
(9+v); The Return of Ringo [aka Ringo Rides Again, aka Pistolero] (7+v)
-- Death Rides a Horse is a memorable and dramatic flute-dominated
score (the movie is great, too).  Pistol for Ringo is okay; I can=92t say
much for the third one.

Once Upon a Time in the West ***
[13 tracks, 38:23]
--I have the LP; I know there=92s a CD version available, but I don=92t
have release data.  I personally don=92t care much for the
saccharine-strings title track, but there=92s some great gnarly fuzz
guitar and harmonica on the incidental tracks.

Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo [The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly ]/ La
Resa dei Conti [The Big Gundown] (Vivimusica VCDS 70060) ****
[24 tracks, 58:27]
Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (10+v); La Resa dei Conti (12+v)
--The title theme of the first score is, of course, definitive and
indispensible.  Yes, even if you got tired of the 30 seconds of it
behind that Microsoft commercial about the schoolkids measuring saguaro
cactuses (ironically, the movie was filmed in Spain, where unless I'm
wrong there are no saguaros).  The rest of the score is okay, but not
up to Fistful or Few
Dollars More.  La Resa dei Conti has gnarly guitar work on a few
tracks.

Il Mercenario [A Professional Gun]/ Faccia a Faccia [Face to Face]
(Vivimusica VCDS 7018) ***
[31 tracks, 60:54]
Il Mercenario (15); Faccia a Faccia (16)
--The first score has the most incredibly virtuosic whistling of
chromatic scales; the second
has a lot of nonmelodic filler =93suspense=94 tracks.

Navajo Joe (Legend CD 21) ** [16 tracks]
--Title track is memorable; much of the rest is restatements or
=93suspense=94 filler.

DOMINIC FRONTIERE: Hang =91em High / ENNIO MORRICONE: Guns for San
Sebastian (Sony AK 47705) **
[24 tracks, 66:12]
Hang =91em High (10); Kelly=92s Heroes (Schifrin)(1); Guns (13)
--Quick, which other Morricone theme does the overture to Guns sound so
much like?  I do believe it=92s the secondary theme (=93Mucchio Selvaggio=
=94)
to My Name is Nobody.  Hang =91em High sounds better here, as done by
electric guitar and harmonica than in the Booker
T & the MGs organ-led cover version.  The pairing isn=92t really so odd,
even though the movie wasn=92t produced in Europe, so isn=92t *technicall=
y*
a spaghetti western, because Frontiere=92s work was clearly
Morricone-inspired.

BRUNO NICOLAI
After Morricone, Nicolai was the most Morricone-like and my favorite of
the maestri degli spaghetti.  He started out as Morricone=92s conductor,
so the resemblance isn=92t surprising.

Buon Funerale Amigos ... paga Sartana / Gli Fumavano le Colt ... Lo
Chimavano Camposanto (Beat CDCR 39) ***** [21 tracks, 50:25]
Buon Funerale Amigos ... paga Sartana (aka Have a Good Funeral, My
Friend) (11); Gli Fumavano le Colt ... Lo Chimavano Camposanto (10)
-- All killer, no filler!  These are two of the few scores that bear
repeated listening from start to finish.  =93Buon Funerale Amigos=94 (fro=
m
1970) is my single favorite spaghetti western soundtrack, Morricone
notwithstanding.  Great melodic theme (which has been
rearranged inventively for guitars and covered by Rick Mills=92 great
spaghetti-western band The Hellbenders), great moody variations.  =93Gli
Fumavano le Colt=94 is also very cool.  Two tracks from each score appear
on the compilation =93My Delicious Spaghetti Western=94 (see below), but
there=92s much more to hear.

Land Raiders (Prometheus 128) *** (Prometheus PCD 128) [14 tracks,
42:38]
-- Made a year earlier, this score strongly anticipates the melody and
arrangements of =93Buon Funerale Amigos=94. (Or, you could say that BFA
almost recapitulates Land Raiders.) Rightly considered one of the great
spaghetti soundtracks, and essential for the completist, but if you
have BFA, you can pass on it.  (Of course, you=92re
unlikely to run across it unless you *are* a completist looking for
it.)

Il Mio Nome e' Shangai Joe / I Giorni della Violenza ** (EMI/ Point
CDCR 123)
[15 tracks, 72:59]
Shagai Joe (14), I Giorni (37:45 suite)
-- Made in 1973, =93Shangai Joe=94 shamelessly recycles the main theme fr=
om
BFA, but the far-eastern-sounding incidental music adds new melodies
and interesting variations. =93Giorni=94 is a forgettable Hollywoodish
score.

Un Uomo Chiamato Apocalisse Joe / Lo Chiamavano Tresette **** (Beat
CDCR 45)
[31 tracks, 76:57]
Apocalisse Joe (17); Tresette (14)
-- The stars are almost entirely for the first score, which is melodic,
compelling, listenable all the way through, and -- best of all -- heavy
on the fuzz guitar.  The 17 tracks move back and forth nicely between
varied statements of a moody theme (featuring fuzz guitar, harpsichord,
some kind of flute or ocarina, and oboe) and a galloping theme (guitar,
brass, and strings).  The second is a lighthearted orchestral score
with bluegrass (banjo and fiddle) and honky-tonk passages.

100,000 Dollari per Ringo (Pan CDS 2501) **
[16 tracks, 41:20]
--A couple of guitar-led pieces are good, but the rest is more
orchestral and Hollywoodish than Nicolai=92s better scores.

FRANCESCO DE MASI
The most prolific spaghetti maestro after Morricone, De Masi had one
foot in the camp of pre-spaghetti (Hollywood) westerns and one foot in
the Morricone camp.

Western Soundtracks (Beat CDCR 22) ***
[28 tracks, 69:42]
Vado ... L'ammazzo e Torno (8+v); Sartana non Perdona (5+2v); Ammazzali
Tutti e Torna Solo (7+2v); Ben & Charlie (3)
-- The best all-around De Masi collection.  The most melodic tracks are
also on the compilation =93My Delicious Spaghetti Western,=94 but the
remainder is also listenable.

L'Uomo Della Valle Maledetta / La Sfida dei MacKenna / ...E Venne il
Tempo di Uccidere (Beat CDCR 47) ***
[33 tracks, 70:42]
L'Uomo Della Valle Maledetta (15); La Sfida dei MacKenna (10); ...E
Venne il Tempo di Uccidere (8)
-- The first score is ho-hum in a pre-spaghetti style; the second is
one of De Masi=92s best, very much in the Morricone vein; the third is
pretty good.

Il Segno del Coyote / C'e Sartana ... Vendi la Pistola e Comprati la
Bara (Beat CDCR 40) **
[21 tracks, 49:21]
Il Segno (13); C=92e Sartana [aka Fistful of Lead] (7); bonus jingle
track
-- Il Segno was a Zorro-clone movie, and the score is forgettable.  C'e
Sartana is a great movie, but after the cool main theme (comped on
MDSW), there's not much added by the rest.

Il Ranch degli Spietati / Una Bara per lo Sceriffo (Beat CDCR 44) **
[25 tracks, 47:10]
Una Bara per lo Sceriffo (7+v); Il Ranch degli Spietati [aka Oklahoma
John] (16+v)
--Un Bara varies between (a) melancholy harmonica over acoustic
strumming, and (b) grand brass and strings over reverbed guitar and
snare drum providing hoofbeat rhythms. Il Ranch continues the same
formula.

Lone Wolf McQuade (Beat CDCR 26) ** (24 tracks, 58:00)
--Okay, the movie (set in the present, made for US television) isn=92t
technically a spaghetti western, but the soundtrack is in that style
(with Alessandroni=92s whistling and de Gemini=92s harmonica), =93updated=
=94
with synthesized keyboards.  Good main title, but inconsistently
interesting after that.

7 Dollari sul Rosso / Quella Sporca Storia nel West (CAM CSE 800-124)
***
[33 tracks, 71:15]
7 Dollari (13+v); Storia (18+v)
--Not only lotsa minutes on the CD, but two very hummable scores.

DE MASI: Ringo il Caviliere Solitario / GIAN PIERO REVERBERI: Una Colt
in Pugno al Diavolo / BRUNO NICOLAI: L=92Ultimo Mercenario (Beat CDCR 32)
**
[19 tracks, 57:49]
Ringo il Caviliere Solitario (7); Una Colt in Pugno al Diavolo (4);
L=92Ultimo Mercenario (8)
-- Odd combination.  De Masi=92s score is very good.  The few tracks from
Reverberi=92s (what a great name!) are even better.  But Nicolai=92s
doesn=92t belong here, as it goes to a WWII movie, so you don=92t get all
that much spaghetti per dollar spent.  I don=92t know why
Beat didn=92t instead include De Masi=92s =9315 Forche=94 (see next).

ANGELO FRANCESCO LAVAGINO: Gli Specialisti / FRANCESCO DE MASI: 15
Forche per un Assassino (Beat CDCR 28) ** [22 tracks, 58:08]
Gli Specialisti (11); 15 Forche per un Assassino (11)
-- A bit of fuzz guitar on one incidental track of =93Gli Specialisti,=94
otherwise pleasant but nothing special.  =9315 Forche=94 has a catchy tit=
le
track and some lively Mexicana incidental tracks.








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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Spaghetti Western soundtracks -- part 2
Date: 09 Apr 1999 20:35:45 +0200


LUIS BACALOV
Bacalov=92s incidental tracks tend toward less melody, more dissonance
than Morricone=92s.

The Italian Western of Luis Bacalov (Vivimusica 7014) ***
[28 tracks, 73:10]
Django (5+v); Quien Sabe [aka A Bullet for the General] (5); La Piu
Grande Rapina del West (5); L=92Oro dei Bravados (4); Si Puo Fare ...
Amigo (s+v); Sugar Colt (6)
--A good-value-for-money sampler of Bacalov=92s work.

Il Grande Duello / Si Puo' Fare ... Amigo (EMI/ Point PRCD 120) ***
[24 tracks, 57:11]
Il Grande Duello (10); Si Puo=92 Fare ... Amigo (13+v)
--The main theme to the first movie is one of the great spaghetti
melodies, arranged for lonesome harmonica, woodwinds, and moody
whistling.  It is inventively restated and varied throughout the score.
The second movie is a comedy, but the score is less lightweight than
you might expect.  The rrangements are an interesting mix of harmonica,
woodwinds, and strings, with occasional glockenspiel and fuzz guitar.

La Piu Grande Rapina del West / L'Oro dei Bravados (EMI GDM 2008) **
[22 tracks, 62:00]
La Piu Grande Rapina (13); L'Oro (9)
--The first score is lightweight.   The second offers three versions of
a simple title theme, masterfully arranged for acoustic and fuzz
guitars, harmonica, harspichord, jew=92s harp, whistling, and clarinet.
The incidental tracks are unusually varied and listenable.

Django (Alhambra A 8930) ***
[15+3v tracks, 41:12]
--A fine main theme (interestingly placed as track 9) and Mexicana
incidental music.

A Man Called Noon (Alhambra A 8935) *
[13 tracks, 31:02]
--The main theme is kinda saccharine; the rest is fairly bland (perhaps
appropriately, given
that Richard Crenna was the star of the movie -- although the movie is
pretty good).

PIERO PICCIONI

...Si Incontri Sartana Prega per la tua Morte ** (EMI/ Point PRCD 124)
[27 tracks, 58:16]
--The organ-led main theme (=93Sycamore Trails=94) and reprises sound
almost like Booker T.
doing a spaghetti western (except for the additional harpsichord),
which is cool enough.  The rest is mostly piano-dominated background
music.

PICCIONI: Quel Caldo Maledetto Giorno di Fuoco / Attento Gringo ... E=92
Tornato Sabata / MANUEL DE SICA: Lo Chiamavano Verita (Beat CDCR 31) *
[19 tracks, 45:21]
Quel Caldo (12); Attento Gringo (3); Verita (4)
--The jazzy, organ-led main theme for Quel Caldo (you also get 5
reprises, plus a bunch of virtually tuneless =93suspense=94 tracks)
foreshadows Piccioni=92s later work on Italian soft-core films (check out
the comps Beat at Cinecitta, vols. 1&2), though there is spaghetti-ish
harmonica on some tracks.  Nothing special in the other two scores.

STELVIO CIPRIANI
The Bounty Killer / Un Uomo, Un Cavallo, Una Pistola / Nevada (CAM CSE
800-147) ***
[27 tracks, 62:22]
Bounty Killer (9); Uomo (11); Nevada (6+v)
-- The first two scores are very Morricone-like and catchy.

LALLO GORI
Buckaroo [Il Winchester che non Perdona] *** (Beat CDCR 42) [19+v
tracks, 46:05]
--Good galloping main theme with trumpet; the best incidental tracks
feature acoustic guitars, electric bass, and the great harmonica of
Franco de Gemini.

BENEDETTO GHIGLIA
Adios Gringo / Un Dollaro tra i Denti [A Stranger in Town] (CAM 1CSE
800-119) **
[25 tracks, 56:13]
Adios (16); Dollaro (9)
--The title theme to the first movie is good, but do you really need 10
(!!) versions, arranged for different instruments?  And 4 versions of
the secondary theme?  The second score is almost as repetitive, but
features cool guitar tones.

DANIELE PATUCCHI
Los Amigos (CAM CSE 075) * [9 tracks, 26:54]
--The mellow trumpets and flutes make this sound more like music for a
=9170s British TV show than for a spaghetti western.  Maybe it=92s mercif=
ul
that it=92s so short.

VARIOUS ARTISTS

KOJUCHAROV & MANCUSO: Una Lunga Fila di Croci / RUSTICHELLI:  Tutti per
uno Botte per Tutti / MIGLIARDI: Prega il Morto e Ammazza il Vivo (Beat
CDCR
35) ***
[31 tracks, 74:50]
Una Lunga Fila (6+2v); Tutti per Uno (13); Prega il Morto (8+2v)
--This disc starts slowly but gets better.  Two tracks made it on to
the MDSW comp, but it=92s all pretty good. The first score is fairly
standard; the second is a curious mix of Mexicana and Orientalia, with
a little bit of Circus thrown in.  The third -- for a Chuck Connors
vehicle -- is dark, dissonant, and percussive, in interesting ways.

My Delicious Spaghetti Western (Dago Red 102-2) ***** [16 tracks,
41:25]
DE MASI: C=92e Sartana ... Vendi la Pistola e Comprati la Bara [aka
Fistful of Lead] (1); Vado ... L=92Ammazzo e Torno (3+v); Ammazzali Tutti
e Torna Solo (v); Sartana non Perdona (1); Il Segno del Coyote (1);
NICOLAI: Buon Funerale Amigos ... Paga Sartana [aka Have a Good
Funeral, My Friend] (2); Gli Fumavano le Colt ... Lo Chiamavano
Camposanto  (2); GORI: Buckaroo (2); MIGLIARDI: Prega il Morto ed
Ammazza il Vivo (1); KOJUCHAROV - MANCUSO: Una Lunga Fila di Croci (1)
-- If you=92re looking for an introduction to the greatest spaghetti
composers after Morricone, this is the perfect place to start.  If
you=92re already prepared to take a big plunge, you could skip this disc
and just buy the Nicolai, De Masi, Gori, and Kojucharov-Mancuso
soundtracks on the Beat label that are excerpted here.

The Fantastic World of Spaghetti Western (Vivimusica 7016) ***
[30 tracks, 64:14]
MORRICONE: Vamos a Matar Companeros (v), Tepepa (v), I Crudeli [aka The
Hellbenders] (4), Che C=92entriamo noi con la Rivoluzione? (1); ORTOLANI:
Una Ragione
per Vivere e Una per Morire (4); PICCIONI: Se Incontri Sartana Prega
per la tua Morte (4); Trovaioli: I Lunchi Giorni della Vendetta (5); DE
MASI:  [Sette] Winchester per un Massacro (3+v); ABRIL: Texas, Addio
(5+v)
--Only place I know to get four tracks from Morricone=92s percussive
cool-jazz-spaghetti score to =93The Hellbenders=94, plus some other good
stuff.

Wanted Dead or Alive (CAM 900-020) ***
[20 tracks, 68:25]
MORRICONE: Duello nel Texas (s), La Banda J&S - Cronaca Criminale del
Far West (2); LAVAGNINO: 5,000 Dollari sull=92Asso (1); PICCIONI:
Minnesota Clay (2);
FERRIO: Un Dollaro Bucato (1); Vivi or Preferibilimente Morti (v);
GHIGLIA: Adios Gringo (1); CIPRIANI: The Bounty Killer (s); Un Uomo, Un
Cavallo, Una Pistola (1); DE MASI: Arizona Colt (v); Quella Sporca
Storia nel West (v); RUSTICHELLI: Dio Perdona ... Io No (s); NICOLAI:
Corri, Uomo Corri (2); COLAROSSI: All=92Ultimo
Sangue (1); BACALOV: Il Prezzo del Potere (1); PATUCCHI: Los Amigos (2)

--Good compilation of highlights from soundtracks available on the CAM
label.

Spaghetti Westerns vol. 1 (DRG 32905) *****
[2 discs, 77 tracks, 152:06]
DI STEFANO: Shango [aka The Invincible Gun] (3); DE MASI: Quanto Costa
Morire (2+v); DONAGGIO: Amore Piombe e Furore (2); BIXIO: Ed Ora
Raccomana L=92anima a Dio [aka And Now Recommend Your Soul to God] (1+v);
IGANTE, NADIN, & BASCERANO: Wanted Johnny Texas (3), Prega Dio e
Scavati la Fossa [aka Pray to God and Dig your Grave] (3); FERRIO: Quei
Disperati che Puzzano di Sudore e di Morte [aka Los Desperados] (4),
Amico Stammi Lontano Almeno un Palmo [aka Ben and Charlie](6);
SIMONETTI: Kid il Monello del West (1); PREGADIO: Deserto di Fuoco
(2+v); BIXIO, FRIZZI, & TEMPERA: Carambola (3), Carambola Filotto Tutti
in Buca (2); MORRICONE: Giu=92 la Testa [aka Duck you Sucker, aka A
Fistful of Dynamite](1); LAVAGNINO: Uno Straniero a Paso Bravo (2+v),
Requium per un Gringo (4); Johnny West il Mancino (3+v); ORTOLANI: La
Notte dei Serpenti (5+v); RUSTICHELLI: Vado Vedo e Sparo (2); UMILIANI:
Roy Colt & Winchester Jack (s); MARTELLI: Sartana nella Valle degli
Avvoltoi (3), Ancora Dollari per i McGregors (1)
--Essential.  Where else are you going to hear themes to so many
obscure spaghetti westerns?  Some of the composers are equally obscure,
but here you get just the high points of their Morricone-style film
work.

Spaghetti Westerns vol. 2 (DRG 32909) ****
[2 discs, 63 tracks, 150:49]
NICOLAI: 100,000 Dollari per Ringo (1); SAVINA: I Due Gringos del Texas
(3); PREGADIO & RIZZATI: Django, L=92Ultimo Killer (4); BACALOV: Si Puo=92
Fare ...
Amigo (2+v), La Piu=92 Grande Rapina del West (1), L=92Oro dei Bravados
(1), Il Grande Duello (2), Quien Sabe? [aka A Bullet for the General]
(1), Sugar Colt (1), I Quattro del Pater Noster (3), Monta in Sella,
Figlio di ... (4), Lo Chiamavano King [aka His Name was King] (1+s), La
Morte Sull=92Alta Collina (2), Partirono Preti e Tornarono Curati (2+v),
Django (v); Lo Chiamavano Mezzogiorno [aka A Man Called Noon] (1);
MORRICONE: Tepepa (1), Vamos a Matar, Companeros (1), I Crudeli [aka
The Hellbenders] (1), Che C=92Entriamo noi con la Rivoluzione? (1), Il
Mio Nome e=92 Nessuno [aka My Name is Nobody]; ORTOLANI: Una Ragione per
Vivere e Una per Morire [aka A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die](1);
PICCIONI: Io non Perdona ... Uccido (3), Nel Nome del Padre, del Figlio
e della Colt (2), Una Colt in Mano al Diavolo (2), Se Incontri Sartana,
Prega per la tua Morte (2); TALLINO: Killer, Adios! (4); TROVAIOLI: I
Lunghi Giorni della Vendetta (1); ABRIL: Texas Addio (v); DE MASI:
Sette Winchester per un Massacro (1); PES: Professionisti per un
Massacro (s); PREGADIO: Un Buco in Fronte (7)
--One fewer star than vol. 1 because more of these tracks are available
elsewhere.

A note on web CD sellers:  I found the following sources reliable --
they filled my entire order
promptly, or consulted me before shipping when they couldn=92t:
Rodeo Records, http://www.eburg.com/~rrecords/strack-a.html
CheapThrills Records http://www.cheapthrills.ca
CAM Soundtracks Italy, http://www.cam-ost.it ($15 per disc, s&h
included)
Qualitron, http://www.qualitron (only source for many of the Beat
(Italy) discs, $17 each,
10% off for 10 or more)
Mass Music, http://www.massmusic.com
Intrada, http://www.intrada.com.
Less reliable source (i.e. sent a very partial fill without
consultation):
http://www.everycd.com (although they are cheap, if you use the free
trial month and don=92t pay the annual membership fee).

--Moon Dawg







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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Free Association-The Yellow Balloon
Date: 09 Apr 1999 14:52:21 EDT



In a message dated 4/8/99 8:50:43 PM, [e-mail] writes:

<<Yeah, I've got this collection.  I actually like "Stained Glass Windows"
even
better than the single.  Gary Zekley was the main move in this group (and
several others like the Clique - he wrote "Superman" which REM covered).  It
also featured the actor who played Robbie on _My Three Sons_.  Excellent
feature on Gary Zekley in Dominic Priore's _Dumb Angel Gazette_ #3.

--David>>

I have the original album by the Yellow Balloon and a solo album by "Robbie",
Don Grady, aka: Don Agrati, called "Homegrown". Very nice California pop.
Gloria




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From: Michael Hibarger <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Gap marketing ploy...
Date: 09 Apr 1999 15:16:10 -0400


The Gap is a shrewd marketing machine.  How else could they sell clothes
that are that unflatteringly bland...Anyhow, here's the basic gap marketing
ploy.  They were such a hit with the swing ad, they decided to spawn off
three more ads working various dance themes. They want to appeal to as
many people from different segments as possible, so for the hipsters (like us)
they enlisted, Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth, hanger-onner, Mike Mills.  Mike
Mills directed the go-go ad, which by the way is a 1973 James Clark track
called "Wild Elephants",  Anyhow here's what the gap website said about him...
And if you want to view the commercials they are also at www.gap.com

About the director.
Mike Mills' graphic designs have appeared
on CD covers for bands like Beck, Sonic
Youth, Cibo Matto, Deee-Lite, and the
Beastie Boys; and on advertisements for
X-Girl. In 1996, Mills released A Visual
Sampler: Posters by Mike Mills, a CD
compilation of graphic designs to promote
his art tour of Tokyo, London, and Sydney.
He has also directed documentaries,
television commercials and music videos.

The second area they are trying to appeal to is the hip hop/soul.Latino/African
American audience.  So for that, they could've enlisted someone to do a George
Clinton P-Funk workout...but they got someone who is a Keith Harring, Basquiat
hanger onner...here's his street crud, er cred...(his name is Hype Williams)...
as P.E. says, "Don't believe the hype!"

Inspired by Basquiat and Keith Haring, Hype
Williams started his visual career as a graffiti
artist. His sensual, vivid imagery appears in
over 200 music videos, including Missy
Elliott's "The Rain," and Busta Rhymes',"Put
Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See," as
well as clips for Will Smith, Mariah Carey,
and Puff Daddy. Williams made his film
directorial debut with the release of last
year's Belly.

The third in this triumvirate of marketing coup de tat is, the country swing ad,
for which they're trying to appeal to rural and small town America and the
macho Urban cowboy throwbacks out there...and for that you need someone
with real MTV experience...voila!  Here's the  middle American resume of a guy
alled McG...where'd they find this guy at Mickey D's????

McG began his music career shooting still
photographs of his friends in local bands,
and established himself through G
Recordings, his production company. His
signature style can be seen in music videos
like Smash Mouth's "Walking on the Sun"
(awarded Best New Artist Clip of the Year at
the 1997 Billboard Music Video Awards) and
Sugar Ray's "Fly" (winner of the 1997 Music
Video Production Association's Best Pop
Video). These honors led to a series of
number-one hits, including Fastball's "The
Way," Korn's "Got the Life," The Offspring's
"Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)," Barenaked
Ladies' "One Week," and Sugar Ray's
"Every Morning."

That being said, I like the Mike Mills ad.  I like the music and the dancing.
The clothes suck and are the antithesis of hip and cool.  BTW, there's a
sequel to the Austin Powers movie due out this summer called "The Spy
who Shoved Me" (or something like that) that should continue to resurrect
Bond St. hipness....now will one of you people tell me where I can learn
how to do the frug????

Cheers,
Mike.








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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) From the surf dudes....
Date: 09 Apr 1999 16:00:02 -0400


Hey, can any of you geniuses confirm that "Theme From The Wild Angels" --
the opening track of this soundtrack LP -- credited to a mysterious
"Visitors Featuring Barbara" is indeed sung by Nancy Sinatra (whose mug
features prominently on the back of the jacket)? And might that be the
Arrows backing her?

Listeners to tonight's "Two Wheel Show Stoppers: RRR's Spring Scooter
Scramble" need to know!

Thanks,

Ron




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From: Lloyd Kandell <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Should be a National Holiday... last call
Date: 09 Apr 1999 10:26:54 -1000


=A1muchos mahalos to DJ JimmyBee, Tiki Bob, Ms. Fondle, et al who've sent
along warm birthday greetings to Mr. Denny! I'll print 'em out and
deliver them to the kahuna himself ma=F1ana. any last well wishers, send
them in now. last call...

ha'ale'ale i ka pu'uwai
a heart full to the brim,
Fluid Floyd
Don Tiki/Taboo Records


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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [news] key to Glenn Miller's disappearance to be auctioned
Date: 09 Apr 1999 16:18:55 -0500


    LONDON (AP) -- A military logbook that sheds light on the mysterious
disappearance of American bandleader Glenn Miller during World War II will
be up for auction next week, offering a chance to own a clue to one of
aviation's most captivating puzzles.
    Miller, who created the 1940s big band sound, was en route to France to
organize concerts for Allied troops when his plane disappeared over the
English Channel on a foggy December day in 1944.
    No trace has ever been found of the single-engine aircraft or its passengers.
    Bad weather was the chief suspect until the flight log was produced, which
suggests a more haunting -- and now largely accepted -- theory: Miller's
plane may have been blasted out of the sky by bombs jettisoned by a Royal
Air Force squadron returning from an aborted raid on Germany.
    ``There are many theories ... and we'll never know for sure what happened.
But this is certainly an intriguing possibility,'' said Stephen Maycock, an
aeronautical specialist with Sotheby's, which is auctioning the logbook
Tuesday.
    The book, which belonged to the late Royal Air Force navigator Fred Shaw,
will be sold along with a letter from Britain's Ministry of Defense
bolstering the theory and a bundle of newspaper clippings and other materials.
    The items are expected to fetch $960 to $1,300.
    ``Glenn Miller is an extremely important character and this is a
fascinating story that has captured people's imaginations,'' said Rachel
Aked, a Sotheby's spokeswoman.
    The trombonist's fans have spent decades trying to determine what happened
to him on Dec. 15, 1944.
    It wasn't until the mid-1980s that Shaw dug out his logbook after going to
see the film ``The Glenn Miller Story,'' which chronicles the life of the
man who wrote such songs as ``In the Mood'' and ``Moonlight Serenade.''
    In a single entry -- ``Ops. Siegen Canceled. Jettison Southern Area'' --
the logbook confirmed what Shaw suspected: Miller's plane disappeared on the
same day Shaw's squadron aborted a bombing raid on Siegen, Germany, and let
loose their 4,000-pound bombs over the English Channel.
    The bombs, which had to be discarded before the bombers could safely land,
exploded just above the water.
    Shaw remembered seeing a small plane spiraling out of control after the
bombs were dropped.
    ``Around it, I could see the sea bubbling and blistering with the exploding
bombs. As each bomb burst, I could see the blast wave from it radiating
outwards. ... It was obvious to me that airplane below was in trouble,'' he
once said. ``Eventually, I saw it disappear into the English Channel.''
    The downed plane was not reported, but Shaw's story was corroborated by
other squadron members. And in 1985, Britain's Ministry of Defense wrote a
letter to Shaw conceding his theory ``is certainly possible.''
    ``In retrospect, we now lean towards this being the most likely solution to
the 'mystery,'' the department concluded.




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) While we're Mambo-ing
Date: 09 Apr 1999 16:53:34 EDT



In a message dated 4/9/99 9:12:08 AM, you wrote:

<<OK, does anybody agree(perhaps disagree) with
me that Billy May's mambo arrangements on Yma's MAMBO record just about
knock a lot of the Latin arrangements out widda BANG? >>


  I love that Yma Sumac record. I just wish I could play it when other people
are around .

As for Tony Mottola, I have his "Rome Today" LP which is pretty swinging (and
has a great cover).  Haven't heard "Italy Today", but I have to agree with
whoever said that his records are frequently disappointing.

Bob



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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Now, on to music I __dig__(longish)
Date: 09 Apr 1999 13:59:17 -0700 (PDT)


The only year that came close to '66 for pop, garage, soul and the
swingin generation was the also "almighty" year of 1965.  I couldn't
agree with you more about 66.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck





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> >sound like on the '66 album
>
> the ALMIGHTY year for pop, garage, soul, and the swingin'
> generation....Jimmy/Class of '66
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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Project Comstock
Date: 09 Apr 1999 14:11:12 -0700 (PDT)


Assuming Project Comstock finally is released on a cd2fer, what would
be the best choice for the second album?   Some of the recommendations
previously were outstanding!

Thanks for any recomendations.  I own a copy of Fantastica/Twilight
Zone and the sound quality on both is really Fantastic!!!  I really
think Fanastica on cd sounds better then lots of ddd cds I own.

Chuck
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From: "Robert Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More Big Jim
Date: 09 Apr 1999 22:55:47 +0100


Just seen this at CDNow:

Big Jim Sullivan Band - Test Of Time

Anyone know it?  Is this Sitar Jim or some other Jim?


Robbie


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From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Answer this pt.3
Date: 09 Apr 1999 19:24:13 -0400




> 1. Are you a musician? Explain...

The accordian when I was 9-16. Picked up the piano 5 years ago in my mid
30's, was having fun playing Bach Inventions when I stopped taking lessons
to concentrate on night school again.  The piano and the future is always
there.

> 2. Space-age/exotic LP/CD that turned you on to this?
It's going to have to be those wacky UL disks..... but it started with a
radio program called Joe's Place on WICN in Worcester Ma.  Joe Slezik
started his DJ career in 1958 and his program has not changed much since.
Mostly middle of the road. Sinatra, Les Elgart, Les Brown, Jack Jones, Polly
Bergman.  But he gave me a taste of some unusual stuff like the Pete King
Singers doing "You are Woman: I am Man".
So I am facinated by this "lost music of the 50's-60's" which led me to the
UL, RCA and Rhino comps.

> 3. This list could help you more by...
It's great! I like the more middle of the road lounge discussions better but
that might change.

> 4. Other exotica/things you collect
Nothing exotic.


> 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like

Bach, classical (mostly chamber) and post war, Jazz of course, Nina Simone,
John Adams, Bela Bartok, jazz vocals, Joe Jackson, Thelonious Monk (big
time), Sergie Prokofiev.

> 6. What are you just dying to tell us?
See #8. More into the music than the culture.

> 7. Own a fez?  If so, what color, texture and tassel color? Describe it or
>other lounge-wear of which you are proud?
None. Boring dresser.


> I think we added this last time around:
> 8. Shaken/stirred?
I'm ....I'm.... I'm a martini virgin! Can you believe it? Let's just say I'm
saving myself for that special martini...



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From: "B. Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Martinis With Mancini
Date: 09 Apr 1999 17:22:33 -0700


> "Martinis With Mancini" now broadcasting Friday's at from 6-9 AM. WJUL 91
> .5
> in
> Lowell Massachusetts.


Um, with the new early a.m. broadcast time, maybe the show should be
re-titled "Martinis with Gleason."  He's the first quasi-exotic/ez guy
who comes to mind as a person who might be found sipping a martini at 6
a.m.  :)


> Besides honoring Martin Denny who will be 88 on April 10th. Today=92s pro=
> gram
> was our =93Lets Make A Millennium Baby Special Edition=94. Biologists say=
>  that
> couples who want a baby born on January 1, 2000 should seek to conceive o=
> n
> April 9. If conception occurs there is a six percent chance (the highest)
> that the baby will be born on January 1st.


Lord help us all.  Another baby boom in the making.  (But on the bright
side, a new target audience for the marketing execs and merchandisers,
as we ourselves slide into irrelevance and oblivion).

Seriously, the playlist looked like a good show.  Wish I could set my
clock radio to wake me up with it.

-- Brad




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From: James G <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Afro Cuban jazz
Date: 09 Apr 1999 19:16:24 -0700


Re Nat's question:

So much of this is pouring out on many labels, lots straight from
Cuba,its impossible to keep track of, but my old faves are:

Art Blakey - Orgy in Rhythm Vols 1 & 2 on Blue Note: With Sabu Martinez
leading a five piece latin percussion section, 3 drummers, bass, piano
and Herbie Mann on flute. A little chanting and lots of drumming. Liner
notes say there was no rehearsal, no score, Blakey told em what he
wanted and BOOM, off to the races.

Shorty Rogers - Manteca & the Afro-Cuban Influence: Big band
arrangements with all the west coast guys, but shorty lets the
percussionists stretch out on two long cuts. And what about Shorty and
Prado's Voodoo Suite album, cant' forget that, or their Exotic Suite of
the Americas ?

Herbie Mann - Flautista-Herbie Mann Plays Afro Cuban Jazz (makes it easy
doesnt it?): I wrote about this recently, and later saw some of the good
longer tunes like Amazon River appear on one of the longer Verve comps
of Herbie.

FORGET - Chano Pozo - Legendary Sessions with Machito: Pre-Diz
recordings, Chano's barely noticeable on only half the songs, which are
standard latin vocals, stay away !  I haven't heard the cd of his live
Carnegie Hall(?) concert with Dizzy. I think Sabu Martinez replaced
Chano in Diz's band after Chano took a few bullets. Something about a
woman being involved.....

JB


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Shirts
Date: 09 Apr 1999 22:17:34 EDT


In a message dated 4/9/99 9:43:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I *love* that commercial.  The idea that Morgan Fairchild can actually type
 fascinates me.  :>)
  >>

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Gap marketing ploy...
Date: 09 Apr 1999 22:46:42 EDT


In a message dated 4/9/99 3:11:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< The Gap is a shrewd marketing machine.  How else could they sell clothes
 that are that unflatteringly bland.. >>

I got news for ya . . . . . . I ain't wearing no freakin' cargo or drawstring
pants ! ! !

Loving my thongs,

robert


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Subject: Re: (exotica) The Thing About The Gap
Date: 09 Apr 1999 22:52:37 EDT


In a message dated 4/8/99 9:25:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< quit your fucking jobs, you dweebs. >>

Ooooooooo. Da man said the "F" word.  I like it.

Robert


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Subject: Re: (exotica) The Thing About The Gap
Date: 09 Apr 1999 22:51:40 EDT


In a message dated 4/8/99 9:25:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I urge people not to support a company that profits off of human misery and
 robs kids of their childhoods.  That's just a little TOO exotic if you ask
 me.

 And if Gap people ARE reading this--quit your fucking jobs, you dweebs.

 Now--back to da music!
  >>

Ooooooooooooooo Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.  I agree with dis one.  Them bastar's at
the Gap is working them chilrens fingers to da done.

All kidding aside, they really do exploit the labor "force" where ever they
are.  And you can take that to the Drawstring Pants Bank.

Robert


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Subject: Re: (exotica) The Thing About The Gap
Date: 09 Apr 1999 22:56:37 EDT


In a message dated 4/8/99 8:29:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< And you can get clothing there that doesn't
 have Sloganspeak and Corporatespeak smeared all over them >>

Huhhhhhhhhhhhhh????

At least half the stuff say GAP 1999 or Old Navy 1949 or something.  Geeeze
it's like a walking billboard.

Robert


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Subject: Re: (exotica) LP Questions
Date: 10 Apr 1999 00:07:34 EDT


In a message dated 4/8/99 5:42:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

> Also, which Anita Kerr LPs are the ones to get?
>  Just wondering.
>  Thanks!
>  Peter

"Anita Kerr Reflects on the Hits of Bacharach & David" is the one!!!!  It is
one of my all time favorites.  Also "Anita Kerr Today" has a really good song
called "Wine IN THe WInd" which makes it worth getting.  The Anita Kerr
Quartet record of Mancini covers is also great!

Larry


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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica)Nina Simone
Date: 10 Apr 1999 01:54:53 -0400


At 07:24 PM 4/9/99 -0400, Dom Ciccone wrote:
>> 5. Unrelated music genres/acts you like

> Nina Simone,

Speaking of Nina Simone....

The only other mailing lists that I'm on are all on the subject of sex.
They're discussion lists, not personal ads or pictures, in case you were
wondering.
(Not that there's anything wrong with that.)

Anyway, on those mailing lists, the subject of "what's the best music to do
this or that to?" comes up and usually the answers range all the way from
Enigma to Loreen McKinnet (or however you spell it).  I've tried on
occasion to expand their view of background music but it's no use.

I only mention that because this friend of mine once said something to me
about Nina Simone and I've never been able to forget it.  I think of it
everytime I hear her music or see her name mentioned.

But maybe you want to stop reading before I tell you what he said.

Or maybe I could be more coy about it.

He said that Nina Simone was the perfect music to put on in the background
when he and his girlfriend engaged in a certain act.

And now whenever I hear Miss Simone, I feel a drop on my face and look up
to see if it's raining.

Nat



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Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) The Thing About The Gap
Date: 10 Apr 1999 01:57:48 EDT



In a message dated 4/9/99 10:55:26 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>All kidding aside, they really do exploit the labor "force" where ever they
>are

'EY!  Who the frig don't?..Jimmy


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Bob's "Denny Birthday Tribute"
Date: 10 Apr 1999 09:56:49 EDT


Well, it is a beautiful morning here in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.
Still, I am sure it is no match for the sight that Mr. Denny sees every
morning as he rises in his Honolulu condo.  I wonder what he will be thinking
about as he rises on this morning of his 88th birthday.

One has to marvel at the many things Mr. Denny has contributed to the world
of Exotica.  What a thrill it must be for those out there who have seen him
perform in person.  Particularly in the early years when the percussion was
so "primitive" and new.

Can you really imagine what it would be like to sit aside some tiki hut
cabana, the sun setting over the beach and watch Mr. Denny and his group come
on stage and start to play?  Think of honeymooners that in the 1950s visited
Hawaii and saw him play.  Those folks are now, hopefully, married 40+ years.
If we could ask, I am sure they would remember it like it was yesterday.
Unfortunately, we can't ask and so this day will pass with them not even
thinking of those long past days -- much less the remote idea that this could
be Mr. Denny's birthday.  Still, in the little rooms where we keep our
computers we celebrate for them.

As I said, it is a beautiful morning here.  A comfortable 74 degrees at 9:30
AM and the high will be in the low 80's on one of those crystal clear
southern spring days.  I awoke this morning and got my soon to be 2 year old
out of bed and asked him what his favorite music was.  "Martin Denny" he
said.  I have taught him well.  "And today is his birthday so wish him happy
birthday."  He garbled a "happy birthday" and then said "music".   "You bet
-- music,"  I said.

So as I type this note I have playing "Martin Denny In Person".  A rather
later recording done live at Duke Kahanamoku's in Honolulu.  The people clap
like on other live albums.  I wonder were those folks are now?  I wonder if
they even know what day it is.  Do they still have the albums?  Do they still
listen to the music?  Well I do.  We all do.

So on this day I hope that all on this list, and of course Mr. Denny also,
has a wonderful day.  Pick your favorite Martin Denny tune and enjoy it.

I am truly grateful for the contributions this man has made to our beloved
music genera.

Happy Birthday Mr. Denny from all of those, both present and past, that have
enjoyed your music -- where ever they are.

Warmest regards,

Robert Brooks
(AKA Tiki Bob)
Charleston  SC




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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Spike Jones' two-headed beatnik
Date: 10 Apr 1999 14:47:49 +0200


originally from Spike Jones & The band That Plays For Fun: "In Stereo (A
spooktacular in screaming sound!)" - Warner Bros. 1332 stereo, USA, 1959

One of my favorite Spike LP's! Produced by Alvino Ray, arranged by Carl
Brandt; voices by Luli Jean Norman, Paul Frees, Thurl Ravenscroft, George
Rock, Ken Stevens. Must be the best novelty horror concept album ever.

the two-headed beatnik song is called: "Two heads are better than one
(Beatnick duet)"

        Johan


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From: Risser Family <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Sampler Trade
Date: 10 Apr 1999 10:01:28 -0400


If any of you get the Tiki Sampler, would you be interested in trading MP3s of the last few songs?
I have the whole rest of the series and am not interested in picking up another 20 dollar CD for six songs.

Thanks!
Peter


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Still sealed 1960's LPs for you
Date: 10 Apr 1999 16:08:47 EDT


Exoticats and kittens,
I recently scored several great 1960 original pressing still sealed LPs while
on a cross country road trip.  However, I bought several more of them than I
could afford.  So, I am offering them to all of you at auction, openining bid
$20 (which is what I paid for them).  Most will probably sell for $20 so
please contact me even if that is the highest you can go.  Tuesday night at
midnight I will alert the winners.  The remaining LPs will then be put on
E-Bay (my first ever E-Bay auction!).  I decided to offer them to you on the
list first as I love being on this list.  I have references avaliable from
other list members.  Good luck.

All LPs are still sealed original releases:
"Across 110th Street" OST Blacksplotation soundtrack written by Bobby Womack
and J.J. Johnson.  Stereo.  United Artists LP.

"Salt And Pepper"  Original Soundtrack of film with Sammy Davis and Peter
Lawford.  Music composed by John Dankworth.  2 vocals by Sammy which are not
avaliable on CD.  Stereo.  United Artists LP.  Beautiful cover!

"Three The Hard Way"  Original Soundtrack by The Impessions.  Blacksplotation
film. Stereo. Curton Records.  Still Sealed..

"Lord Love A Duck"  Original Soundtrack LP.  Music by Neal Hefti, theme sung
by The Wild Ones.  The film was a dark comedy starring Roddy McDowell and
Tuesday Weld.  United Artists.  Stereo.  Still sealed.

"The Cowboy And The Lady"  Lee Hazelwood and Ann Margaret.  Still sealed,
stereo LP.

"Joe" the original sountrack recording of the great film which was Peter
Boyle and Susan Sarandon's first film.  Anyone who has not seen it should.
There were two soundtracks released to this film.  One was all dialogue, and
one was music.  This is the music one with songs by the band Exuma and Jerry
Butler.  I love this film, and love the photos on the back cover.  It is a
stereo Mercury LP.  Still sealed.

I can provided references from other list members.

Please reply off-list.

Thanks,
Larry


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Gloria Wood
Date: 10 Apr 1999 13:54:56 +0000


If you have heard the Ultra Lounge series of CDs, you may have
heard Gloria Wood's rendition of "Hey, Bellboy!"  Well, I did...
and I always wanted to hear more of her.

I just got two 78 singles featuring Gloria Wood.
Hey Bellboy! is paired with Anybody Hurt?  Capitol 2471. Ms. Wood is
backed by Pete Candoli and his Orchestra.  Both sides are extremely
fun: Ms. Wood really goes wild on Anybody Hurt?

Another Wood/Candoli single is Capitol 2625.  Unfortunately, my 78 came
with a nice bite out of it, so I could only hear 75 percent of each song.
Both "By the Waters of Minnetonka" and "Oh, Honey" are great, but "Oh, Honey"
is definitely the A side.

Does anyone know anything about Gloria Wood?  Has any more of her stuff been
released on either LP, 10 inch LP, 45 or CD?  I'd even look for 78s if I could
be sure they were whole (the problem with buying in a mail/internet auction
sight unseen).

Byron

Byron Caloz
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
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From: "Brian Tozer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Gloria Wood
Date: 10 Apr 1999 17:40:50 -0400


Ditto re info on Gloria Wood.  I really like the snippets of her in the
UL series, and, if Capitol had at one time hoped to "cash in" on the
UL series with future re-issues of vault albums there must be at
least an album or two somewhere.
If you try some web searching, you get absolutely nothing but
references to the UL series.  Even the Space Age Pop site has no
hint on her. (Guy Lombardo, but not Gloria Wood.  Hmmmm....)

Surely someone knows something about her.  And a pic or cover
scan would be interesting.

Brian T


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Gloria Wood
Date: 10 Apr 1999 15:30:32 +0000


Brian T. wrote about Gloria Wood after my initial inquiry.  I went
websearching and learned some more:

Ultra Lounge #8 Cocktail Capers has "Hey Bellboy!"
Ultra Lounge #18 Bottom's Up has "Oh Honey" (the other 78 single I mentioned).

She was the vocalist for one of Kay Kyser's big hits, recorded 31 December
1947
and the big hit of 1948: "The Woody Woodpecker Song."  The song was also
featured on a Warner Brothers cartoon "Wet Blanket Policy" in 1948.

Gloria Wood sang with Harry Babbitt in Kayser's 1948 song "On a Slow Boat
to China."

She apparently did put out an album, for Columbia (1286) called "Wood by
the Fire."

With a number of other singers, including Paul Desmond's favorite Loulie
Jean Norman, she appeared on Desmond's Quintet album, October 1954, Fantasy
3-21.
That same year was one of the vocalists on the GNP 10 inch release by Buddy
de Franco "Buddy De Franco Takes You To the Stars, Volume 2"

You can hear her sing "River, Stay 'Way from My Door" from Spike Jones
Liberty album "60 Years of Music America Hates Best."

She was listed with 6 other women for a song called "Love Can Change The
Stars" in a 1997 CD called "Hollywood's Best: The 50's."

Gloria Wood was one of the many vocalists which sang with the Horace Heidt
Big Band.

She sang with Ricky Nelson (!) in a #14 hit "You're My One and Only Love."

Her voice was featured with Mel Blanc's in a 1961 cartoon "Nelly's Folly"

And, her voice is one those on Mel Henke's La Dolce Henke, although I know
not which selection is her (although I could guess).

Any other info?  I still have yet to see a picture of Ms. Wood.

Byron

Byron Caloz
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
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From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: More Kriminalfilmusik: Martin Bottcher
Date: 10 Apr 1999 18:32:23 -0500


Johan Dada Vis wrote:

>
> Sounds like Bert Kaempfert conducting while sleepwalking.
>

What a brilliantly descriptive  and frightening descriptive sentence. Now for
the opportunity to use it in everyday conversation.

Frank





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From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Citizen Kafka in Sunday New York Times
Date: 10 Apr 1999 18:47:39 -0400


Hi, all,

An article starting on page 74 of this Sunday's New York Times Magazine
has a group picture including moi and a nice write-up, including mention
of the Secret Museum radio show (78s). Thought you'd like to know...

ck
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From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Gap marketing ploy...
Date: 10 Apr 1999 18:48:02 -0500


Michael Hibarger wrote:

> The Gap is a shrewd marketing machine.  How else could they sell clothes
> that are that unflatteringly bland...

But, bland is what THEY want.
My response to all this Gap-trap is, where can I buy some pants that AREN'T baggy?!

I need some tight peg-leg wear to show off my sexy butt.

Frank ( aware that this "loose" thread is becoming un-exotica.)







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From: Lloyd Kandell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Bob's "Denny Birthday Tribute"
Date: 10 Apr 1999 09:28:14 -1000


Tis a beautiful thang Tiki Bob wrote on Mr. Denny's eternal musical
contributions to all of our primordial tropical/jungle fantasies from
statehood honeymooners to his 2 year old son. It's a beautiful morning
here in paradise (again), a perfect day to spread the warmth of Martin's
music by playing it with your windows open... drink some grog, bang a
gong, emulate bird sounds, shake the left arm of Buddha. Again, many
mahalos to all who sent heartfelt messages to "the man."

Fluid Floyd/Martin Luther Denny Day Committee


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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Gloria Wood
Date: 10 Apr 1999 22:54:09 -0500


> She apparently did put out an album, for Columbia (1286) called "Wood by
> the Fire."

"Wood By the Fire" is a collection of ballads in which she exhibits
none of the vocal pyrotechnics  of "Hey, Bellboy", though the liner
notes suggest the album was spawned at least in part by the
popularity of "Bellboy".  Despite the less incendiary material,
however, the album's really nice.  Jerry Fielding's the arranger and
conductor.

BTW, the liners also say Gloria Wood once sang with Les Baxter's
orchestra (!) and dubbed the singing voices for Marilyn Monroe, Vera-
Ellen and Betty Grable, in addition to appearing in "countless
commercials for radio and television".


Darrell Brogdon
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From: Matt Hinrichs <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Gloria Wood
Date: 10 Apr 1999 22:20:52 -0700


Byron wrote:

> Her voice was featured with Mel Blanc's in a 1961 cartoon "Nelly's Folly"

This is interesting, because it was one of the few times that another
voice talent beside's Mel Blanc was credited on a Warner Bros. cartoon.
I think there was some kind of stipulation in Blanc's contract thtat
prevented other voice people to take credit, except in this case
obviously.

This was the one about a singing giraffe, directed by Chuck Jones.

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Date: 11 Apr 1999 03:28:01 EDT



In a message dated 4/10/99 6:49:42 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>I need some tight peg-leg wear to show off my sexy butt.

Just send us a jpeg of your tight ass Mr. Man!


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From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Citizen Kafka NYT article link...
Date: 11 Apr 1999 03:57:21 -0400


Hi, all,

Here's a link to the Sunday Times magazine article. It might be
necessary to sign up with the times to see it (no charge!). Enjoy.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/041199wolf.html

I'm the bald one in the bright colors on the ladder in the back left,
holding a "White sisters" LP...

enjoy!

ck
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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) INDIAN VIBES Newsletter
Date: 11 Apr 1999 09:57:37 +0200


(I'm only forwarding this...)

Hallo,

hier sind einige Radio- und Clubtips f=FCr alle, die sich f=FCr New Asian=
 Dance=20
Music interessieren:

INDIAN VIBES!-Clubnacht
Mi, 14. April 22 h @NACHTLEBEN, Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 45, Frankfurt

DJ:  Eastenders - Petra Klaus
Visuals & Scents

VORSCHAU
12. Mai JOI Soundsystem + Tablapercussion aus London live zu Gast.bei Ind=
ian=20
Vibes!

Hier noch einige Radiotips

So. 11. April, 19.15 - 21 h HR 1 schwarzwei=DF:  =20
New Asian Dance Music
Interviews mit State of Bengal, JOI, Osmani Soundz, New Breed, Friedel=20
Lelonek u.a. =FCber ihre Neuver=F6ffentlichungen, ihre Arbeit in den Comm=
unites,=20
Rassismus in GB und die gegenw=E4rtige Situation in der New Asian Dance M=
usic=20
und nat=FCrlich jede Menge Neuvorstellungen.
Mit Klaus Walter und Petra Klaus


INDIAN VIBES on air bei Radio X 97.1
Mi, 14. Apr. 13 - 14 h
Interview mit STATE OF BENGAL:
=FCber sein neues Album "Visual Audio", seine Zusammenarbeit mit Ananda=20
Shankar, den Massive Attack-Remix, Rassismus in Gro=DFbritannien, Communi=
tywork=20
im Londoner Eastend und vieles mehr
Und jede Menge Musik von SOB


MIXED Masala
Mi. 14. Apr. 14 - 15 h
India on air mit Choosy uneJan-Malte. Informationen aus Indien, Sketch mi=
t=20
Upma und Sanjay; Special: Hinduismus 2. Teil



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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Techno Humppa
Date: 11 Apr 1999 14:05:19 +0200


Don't think I mentioned this before but the German compilation "Humppa goes
tek oh-no!" has to be one of the most  idiotic things I've heard in years.
Released last year on the German Humppa records label it features remixes of
Elakelaiset material by a number of European techno luminaries.  Finnish
humppa get remixed in ambient or full frontal techno assault mode with
sometimes jawdropping results. There's even a "gabber" (surely the most
irritating music the Netherlands ever produced) remix. Anyway, a complete
hoot all the way.

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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Aavikko
Date: 11 Apr 1999 14:51:23 +0200


This amazing Finnish band have a homepage at
http://tuli.cc.lut.fi/~tinkala/aavikko.html
Check out the  sound samples!

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From: d th <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Della Cha Cha Cha
Date: 11 Apr 1999 07:19:15 -0700 (PDT)


Once again, I lost the address for whoever asked me about Kay Starr/Lee
Wiley stuff from the 40's/50's.....A fairly decent web-site at
http://baldwin-streetmusic.hypermart.net has a bunch of stuff like
that.

Does anyone here have (or has heard) the Lee Wiley+Bongoes LP? I've
been looking for years.

Also: Can anyone give me a rating on the Della Della Cha Cha Cha LP?

DH!

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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour This Week
Date: 11 Apr 1999 11:57:18 +0000


On this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast, our special guest is Dana
Countryman, editor of "Cool and Strange Music".  Dana talks about how
the mag got its start, the upcoming CD project and about the new Cool
and Strange Music website!

Also on the show, two sides of Dean Elliott - from the inspired
zaniness of "Zounds! What Sounds" to the edgy crime jazz of "College
Confidential";  Jack Webb (aka Sgt. Joe Friday) goes all mushy on us
with "You're My Girl";  Sascha Burland swings the "Chiquita Banana"
jingle;  Billy Ward (of the great '50s R&B group The Dominoes) tries
out his Exotica chops on the album "Pagan Love Song";  plus Les
Baxter, Eden Ahbez, George Duning (from "1001 Arabian Nights"),
Shorty Rogers and Buddy Cole!

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As you listen to the show, please drop us a line and let us know
you're out there.  It helps us keep these webcasts going!

Thanks for the space.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Beauty Bar this Tuesday
Date: 11 Apr 1999 19:02:04 EDT



tues apr 13
9 - close

our guest dj this week is Steve Mak
spinning new sounds from around the globe

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Pardon my (temporary) silence
Date: 11 Apr 1999 19:34:52 -0400


I will be out of town for a week and this will be a WORKING vacation, so if
I don't respond to anything, that is the reason.  I will not have too much
time to post.  To the listmasters, no I will not be turning on a vacation
message.  See you when I get back into town and all will know if I find any
cool discs (I am making time for that :^)

If silence is golden, my wife has a ring due her,
Brian Phillips
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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Two and a half Collector's records
Date: 11 Apr 1999 23:50:40 -0400


I don't know what came over me on Saturday but I bought two "collector's
records" each for 15 bucks (Canadian though).
I try not to do that and usually succeed but in each case, there I was with
a few f five dollar records that I didn't really have to buy and in each
case decided to put those away and go for so-called "quality" over quantity.
At the first store I bought...
The Soundtrack for John Cassavettes' "FACES", arranged and conducted by Teo
Macero.
I've always been jealous when I saw this record in other people's
collections, not because I knew the music but because Cassavettes was the
filmmaker that made me want to make films myself.
I knew about Cassavettes well before I saw any of his films.  One of the
first records I ever bought was "The Best of the Animals" and in the liner
notes, Eric Burdon mentions Cassavettes and "Shadows" as the kind of film
he wanted to make with the Animals.  At 13, if Eric Burdon had said "jump!"
I would have.
The music alternates between jazz, quasi crime jazz and atmospheric
soundtrack jazz.  I don't associate all the music with my memory of the
film but some of the music is (only) inspired by the film.
I would have bought this even if the music had been composed by Little
Marcy but it's a nice bonus that it's pretty good.

At the other store, I bought
"GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION HITS" by Neil Norman with Les Baxter
I guess I bought this because of all the space stuff on the list lately and
the fact that one of the cuts is "Space 1999".  And because Mr.Norman is
credited with playing moog and theremin.
This record has a lot of nice moments but it's actually a bit too
"contemporary" sounding for my taste.  It came out in 1979 and I guess
that's too late for me.  For this kind of stuff anyway.
But I think I'm going to sample some of the theremin before I decide what
to do with it.
(You guys made me buy that one!)

I also bought this curious-looking BOB CREWE GENERATION record but it was
five bucks so I don't call it a "collector's record" though maybe it is.
It's called "Let me touch you" and one of the curious things about it is
the "Crewe 4, 2, 1" label that's all over it.  It's a reference to the fact
that the record can be played in "quad", stereo or mono.  Except they don't
call it quad. They call it "decoded 4 channel for true 4-Track"
This is another one of those records with what I consider somewhat strange
track selection.  The last two tracks on side one are "Barbarella" followed
by "Moon River".
I think it came out after but this record is not as "modern" or exotic as
his "Music to Watch Birds By".
Two collector's records but I'm still not going near ebay.  Of course the
fact that no one would give me a credit card influences my decision there.

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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) (off-topic) Celebrating Y2K at Chuck E. Cheese!
Date: 11 Apr 1999 21:25:36 -0700


Howdy all!

this is a little off-topic, but thought some of you might enjoy this:

i went to my nephew's 2nd birthday party today at Chuck E. Cheese. (for
those of you who don't know what Chuck E. Cheese is, it's a pizza place
with lots of arcade games and stuff for kids and they have these big
animatronics shows hosted by Chuck E. Cheese- a big pizza-eating rat.)

anyway during one of the animatronics shows one of the characters (the
big purple keyboard-playing monster guy- can't remember his name) came
on and started talking about the Y2K problem and was wondering whether
or not they would be affected by it. so Chuck E decides to turn the
clocks ahead to test out the system, and what follows is a test-run
countdown to new years, 2000... after that, everything seems fine for a
few seconds and then the monitors go fuzzy and all the animatronics go
haywire and then shut down EXCEPT for the purple guy, who's left
wondering what the hell happened. then a few seconds later everything
comes back on and of course it turns out they were playing a joke on the
purple guy and everything's fine in pizza-land!

maybe i didn't do a great job of conveying this story, but it was
EXTREMELY surreal, given the fact that Chuck E Cheese is totally
kid-oriented and the joke was sure to be way over most of their
heads....... i'm gonna go back and videotape it so when my grandkids
have to do a termpaper in their history class on Y2K, I'll have some
interesting cultural documentation of the craze...

my guess is that the Chuck E. Cheese techies were genuinely working on
Y2K problems, and decided it might be funny to build a little skit out
of it...

anyway! if you have a Chuck E. Cheese near you, you might want to go
check it out........

cheers!
pea


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Tiki Bob's "Denny Birthday Tribute"
Date: 12 Apr 1999 02:04:32 EDT


Robert, I don't read everything on the list but I took the time to read your
message and gotta say thanks a lot

hope you and you're son enjoyed the day

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From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) sadie: Citizen Kafka NYT article link...
Date: 11 Apr 1999 03:57:21 -0400


Hi, all,

Here's a link to the Sunday Times magazine article. It might be
necessary to sign up with the times to see it (no charge!). Enjoy.

http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/041199wolf.html

I'm the bald one in the bright colors on the ladder in the back left,
holding a "White sisters" LP...

enjoy!

ck
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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) FMR in Salon Magazine
Date: 11 Apr 1999 02:45:41 -0700


Well, It looks like a banner week for publicity for listees. If you have =
not seen the excellent article on WFMU and Citizen Kafka, take the time =
to read it. Amazing! Few radio stations ever reach the level of =
excellence of WFMU. Fewer manage to maintain that level.

M.ace was kind enough to point out an article in Salon Magazine in which =
FeelthyMonkey gets mentioned briefly. (Thanks, M!)
Though not about FMR, it tells of what's going on with the new wave of =
internet broadcasting.=20
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/04/09/shoutcast/index.html

Listen to FeelthyMonkeyRadio
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From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Andre Williams concert
Date: 12 Apr 1999 15:13:51 +0200


The concert with Andre Williams turned out to be rather strange...

I have known about Andre Williams since the late 80s when I bought The =
"Wawy Grawy" (or "Four hairy policemen") compilation and i fell in love =
in the song "greasy chicken", it took me several years to find his stuff =
on LP, but when i did i found that most tracks wasnt that satisfying to =
me. The same trouble for me as with Screaming Jay Hawkins, In the 80s I =
bought his LP called Frenzy which is really great, but trying to find =
more gems has been hard. (Not to find LPs and CDs, but to like the stuff =
i have bought -They are not that good. After 6 albums I decided not to =
explore his world any further, the classic stuff on Frenzy is still the =
best I have heard by him)

Anyway, Andre Williams is one of a the chosen few that i have thought =
would be very thrilling to see perform live, even though i didnt think =
he was alive until i heard that he was going to play on Becks gig in =
Stockholm last year.
I missed that gig, and it was probably lack of money, because like many =
of you i like what Beck has done, even though i probably wouldnt listen =
to it at home if i got his records.

So here is Andre Williams going to perform in Stockholm again. Not =
before Beck or some other guy. He is THE main event for the evening, and =
there is even a swedish band called "the Blacks" warming up the audience =
as we arrive to enter "Studion". We are about 100 people there, 6-7 is =
friends of mine.

I feel great at the club, the effect of the joint i shared with a friend =
earlier makes it even better. I buy a beer and wait...

Then... heawy drums... electric guitars... Whats this? I go down the =
stairs to see better. Four young white guys is on stage. They is called =
"the Countdowns" and they are the band that Andre Williams is going to =
perform with. I get a bad feeling at first. The band sounds very very =
white, if you agree that is possible. I dont really like it, but i might =
have earlier in my life so I wait for Andre Williams to arrive on stage, =
I start imagine how they will play with him singing...

But what? The Countdowns keep playing, and to give them credit for =
something there must be for their ENERGY. And the drummer is doing a =
good job, but it IS NOT the music to accompany Andre Williams. This is =
hard rock. Where is the groove...? The sleazy Rhythm n Blues...??

After 5-6 songs, the audience seem a little confused... -Where is Andre =
Williams? -Is this Andre Williams?
-Who is Andre Williams? -Is'nt Andre Williams going to enter the =
stage???=20

Finally the man shows up, in a fancy white suit and a hat that looks =
really neat. He looks like "that guy in the movies". The audience is =
giving him a warm velcome as they clap their hands.

So, are the Countdowns going to slow down a little, I kind of think that =
would be a nice idea, because they play with a man in his 70s, who is =
the main event for this evening, and who has devotees in this far-away =
town... No, the band keep pounding out their own stuff, and Andre =
Williams is supposed to sing along with them. I begin to dislike the =
Countdowns. They seem arrogant. It seems they do not really like to =
accompany Andre Williams.=20

Sometimes it works, and Andre Williams actually seem to enjoy it, but i =
must say his voice isnt making it with this kind of music. But it is =
quite sleazy sometimes. But not sleazy funny.

Finally there is a 1 minute medley of the classics... Bacon Fat, Greasy =
chicken, Jail Bait and some more favorites of mine... And thats that. =
Then some more Countdowns.

The conert is ended. And I feel robbed. Max, a friend comes and ask if i =
need some Andre Williams Fortune singles... He is not sure if he wants =
them any more... I says no...

But... at least i got to be confused, and maybe that is good, think of =
it, to actually hear Andre Williams perform the stuff he made in his =
youth today, wouldnt satisfy me either with a band like the countdowns.=20

He should have played with my swedish musician friends. That would have =
been an amazing experience. AND they would have treated Andre Williams =
with RESPECT. And Andre Williams would have loved it, That I am sure of.

The night ended with a jamsession, I tried the sitar... Which must have =
been the worst performance on this instrument in years. So who am I to =
complain? I am just a mad artist. And a silly recordcollector.
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From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Della Cha Cha Cha
Date: 12 Apr 1999 10:27:28 -0500


d th wrote:

>
> Also: Can anyone give me a rating on the Della Della Cha Cha Cha LP?
>
> DH!
>

This is a pretty fun record. I have to admit I'm not the biggest Della fan,
her showy schmaltz can be a little too Broadway-ish, which in my book is a
detraction.
The band cooks, the arrangements a good standard cha chas and it's a great
party record, meaning that you can feel at ease in putting this on with
guests, knowing that there won't be any embarrassing clunkers.
The only thing I have against it is that there is nothing tin the arrangements
to bring it up over the top, unless you think Della's style is weird enough to
make it stand out.

An aside: This is probably coincidental but as I was listening to this album I
couldn't help thinking that Della Resse's vocal stylings were very similar to
a male vocalist that I was listening to just the other day. Tony Newly! Ok,
it's probably my hallucinating imagination but, listen to the way both of the
vocal stylists enunciate their words. It seems they both have this way of
adding three or four extra syllables on a key word in a song for added
emphasis. It's difficult to explain this one so I hope that if you've hear
both of these singes that you can hear what I'm talking about.

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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Citizen Kafka in Sunday New York Times
Date: 12 Apr 1999 07:34:20 -0700 (PDT)


I hope everyone was able to get their hands on
Sunday's NYT(tangibly, or otherwise): both for the
article on WFMU and the article on the resurgence of
"Home-Grown Radio" (RIP WGTB, WHFS) in the US.

While I enjoyed the articles and was happy to read
that  Exotica@xmission's own Citizen Kafka and others
are working to give listners not only a choice of
musical diet, but providing exposure to entire
expressions of human experience that might otherwise
have utterly vanished - as though they, or the desire
that produced them never existed, I am a bit envious.
I'd love to be able to turn on the radio in DC and
hear The White Sisters (what ever it is they do) or
Inuit song swapping, etc....

Thanks, Citizen K.!


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From: Kirsten Noel Whitley <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Advice Please re: Ray Martin / Quartette Tres Bien
Date: 12 Apr 1999 09:49:06 -0500 (CDT)



Howdy everyone,

After several months on a business trip of intensive work
(yuk!), I am getting to go home (yeah!).  I'm really excited
about getting back to my home.

Before leaving for home, though, I have a few days left to
make 2 LP purchasing decisions. I need your help in deciding
whether to buy:

Both of these are at a the kind of record store that thinks
that every LP (trashed or not) is worth at least 10$. They
have a lot of LPs marked 50$ or up... which leaves me feeling
unsure about:

* Ray Martin, Dynamica (or whatever the LP is that has the
"Shadrack" track on it), 15$  -- I like "Shadrack" (thanks,
Nat!) but I know nothing about the rest of the album.
Is that an album that I would be able to find elsewhere, or
should I be willing to pay 15$ on the basis of that one zesty
little song?

* Quartette Tres Bien, Kilamanjaro, 20$ -- I don't know much
about this jazz ensemble, either. I have heard one track ("Boss")
off of a different LP. This is the first time that I have come
across any of their LPs, which makes me want to buy it...
but, on the other hand, no one on this list has ever mentioned
them, which makes me wary.

Thanks,
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Assuming Project Comstock finally is released on a cd2fer, what would
be the best choice for the second album?   Some of the recommendations
previously were outstanding!


Groggy Morning to all:...Hmm...does it have to be a Space rekkid per se, or
can we lick the "boots" of those whom have the BEDAZZLED OST, which I would
like to see "released" in some form, legit or no.  Or, were there any BeBe
and CeCe Baron pre-synth electronic albums besides FORBIDDEN PLANET, that
will ever see the light of day?
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Advice Please re: Ray Martin / Quartette Tres Bien
Date: 12 Apr 1999 11:30:50 -0500


>
> * Ray Martin, Dynamica (or whatever the LP is that has the
> "Shadrack" track on it), 15$  -- I like "Shadrack" (thanks,
> Nat!) but I know nothing about the rest of the album.
> Is that an album that I would be able to find elsewhere, or
> should I be willing to pay 15$ on the basis of that one zesty
> little song?

While Shadrack IS the standout song on this record the rest of the album is
truly wonderful. So I would say it was a tough call as to whether or not the
rest of the LP will click with you. As for the price.... I myself am used to
paying $1-$5 for albums at thrift stores or at record shows but if I see
something for $10 that I've been looking for for years and know for a fact
that it's a great album I'll grab it. So, if you are used to spending $8-$10
for records $ 15 might not seem too steep, or think of it as a CD purchase.
I've tried to make the price relative to your situation. I know in the past on
this list there has been much debate on how much you should pay for a
record....so, I'm busy working out a formula that relates a record price to
yearly income...

> * Quartette Tres Bien, Kilamanjaro, 20$ -- I don't know much
> about this jazz ensemble, either. I have heard one track ("Boss")
> off of a different LP. This is the first time that I have come
> across any of their LPs, which makes me want to buy it...
> but, on the other hand, no one on this list has ever mentioned
> them, which makes me wary.
>

After my exposition on relative price let me say point blank that this is a
ridiculous price for this record.
This group is quite fun though they straddle that line that demarks real/fake
jazz, the preference,  in our case, being toward fake. So the fact that they
are borderline takes them down a peg. I routinely see QTB records for a
dollar, even in record shops they are never priced over $7.

Hope this helps,
Frank





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Subject: (exotica) MeL Blanc
Date: 12 Apr 1999 10:37:43 -0400





>This is interesting, because it was one of the few times that another
voice talent beside's Mel Blanc was credited on a Warner Bros. cartoon.
I think there was some kind of stipulation in Blanc's contract thtat
prevented other voice people to take credit, except in this case
obviously.

Not so fast!  What about June Foray, the gravely-voiced, uh, voice, who is
also oft credited?

>This was the one about a singing giraffe, directed by Chuck Jones.

Who is GOD, btw...(ok, let's not start a wrasslin' match over who is
better, Jones or Tex Avery, cuz I love him,too!)
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Subject: (exotica) obits: Helen Mayer,Brother John Sellers
Date: 12 Apr 1999 11:43:24 -0500


                            *Helen Mayer
    NEW YORK (AP) -- Helen Aberson Mayer, who wrote the children's story that
inspired the 1941 Walt Disney cartoon ``Dumbo'' died Saturday. She was 91.
    Mrs. Mayer, known as Helen Aberson when she wrote ``Dumbo, the Flying
Elephant,'' moved from Syracuse, N.Y., to California in 1939 at the request
of the Walt Disney Company.
    Disney, following the 1940 release of the animated film ``Pinnochio,'' used
Miss Aberson's tale of a flying elephant to create one of the most easily
recognizable cartoon characters and stories.
    In the story, Dumbo the baby elephant is teased for his oversized ears, but
eventually becomes a circus star when he realizes his ears allow him to fly.

 *Brother John Sellers
    NEW YORK (AP) -- Brother John Sellers, a blues and gospel singer who
started his climb to fame at age 5, died March 27. He was 74.
    Sellers performed regularly in the early 1960s at Folk City, a Greenwich
Village nightclub where musicians including Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Joan
Baez sang early in their careers.
    He was born in Clarksville, Miss., where he was inspired by street
performers like Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson. By age five, he
had begun singing, dancing and playing the tambourine in church-organized
tent shows.
    Four years later gospel singer Mahalia Jackson saw Sellers perform, and
brought the boy, whose parents had abandoned him, to Chicago with her. As
Jackson's fame grew, they sometimes sang together, and Sellers occasionally
filled in for her at concerts.
    Sellers made two recordings for Vanguard Records' new jazz line in the
mid-1950s, teaming up with musicians like Sonny Terry, Johnny Johns and Jo
Jones.
    It was during a Folk City performance in 1961 that choreographer Alvin
Ailey noticed him. The two later collaborated on Ailey's ``Blues Suite'' and
``Revelations.''
    Sellers' final performance with the well-known Ailey company was in 1997.
At his death, he was involved in litigation with the troupe over royalties
and the copyright to ``Revelations,'' one of Ailey's most famous compositions.




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From: VANESSA COX <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) MeL Blanc
Date: 12 Apr 1999 16:48:45 +0100


[e-mail] wrote:
>
> >This is interesting, because it was one of the few times that another
> voice talent beside's Mel Blanc was credited on a Warner Bros. cartoon.
> I think there was some kind of stipulation in Blanc's contract thtat
> prevented other voice people to take credit, except in this case
> obviously.
>
> Not so fast!  What about June Foray, the gravely-voiced, uh, voice, who is
> also oft credited?
AFAIK June Foray has never appeared in the credits for a CLASSIC Warner
Bros. cartoon. If you know better, then enlighten me.
> >This was the one about a singing giraffe, directed by Chuck Jones.
>
> Who is GOD, btw...(ok, let's not start a wrasslin' match over who is
> better, Jones or Tex Avery, cuz I love him,too!)
Nah- Bob Clampett is the best.


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From: VANESSA COX <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) MeL Blanc
Date: 12 Apr 1999 16:52:55 +0100


VANESSA COX wrote:
>
> [e-mail] wrote:
> >
> > >This is interesting, because it was one of the few times that another
> > voice talent beside's Mel Blanc was credited on a Warner Bros. cartoon.
> > I think there was some kind of stipulation in Blanc's contract thtat
> > prevented other voice people to take credit, except in this case
> > obviously.
> >
> > Not so fast!  What about June Foray, the gravely-voiced, uh, voice, who is
> > also oft credited?
> AFAIK June Foray has never appeared in the credits for a CLASSIC Warner
> Bros. cartoon. If you know better, then enlighten me.
Actually, I can think of several examples now. Sorry.
> > >This was the one about a singing giraffe, directed by Chuck Jones.
> >
> > Who is GOD, btw...(ok, let's not start a wrasslin' match over who is
> > better, Jones or Tex Avery, cuz I love him,too!)
> Nah- Bob Clampett is the best.


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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Project Comstock
Date: 12 Apr 1999 09:05:01 -0700 (PDT)


Jane Fondle
I also would like to see Bedazzeled OST finally released. For me this
would make a perfect twofer.   Also, I don't know anything about  Bebe
and Cece Baron's albums besides Forbidden Planet but I sure would like
to hear them.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck


 >
> [e-mail] wrote:
>
>  Assuming Project Comstock finally is released on a cd2fer, what
would be the best choice for the second album?   Some of the
recommendations previously were outstanding!
> > >
> > >
Groggy Morning to all:...Hmm...does it have to be a Space rekkid per>
se, or can we lick the "boots" of those whom have the BEDAZZLED OST,
which I would like to see "released" in some form, legit or no.  Or,
were there any BeBe and CeCe Baron pre-synth electronic albums besides
FORBIDDEN PLANET, that will ever see the light of day?

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From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Project Comstock
Date: 12 Apr 1999 18:01:31 +0200


>
>
>Assuming Project Comstock finally is released on a cd2fer, what would
>be the best choice for the second album?   Some of the recommendations
>previously were outstanding!

Richard Marino -Out of this world.=20



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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Citizen Kafka NYT article link...
Date: 12 Apr 1999 12:09:40 -0500


At 03:57 AM 4/11/99 -0400, Citizen Kafka wrote:
>Hi, all,
>Here's a link to the Sunday Times magazine article. It might be
>necessary to sign up with the times to see it (no charge!). Enjoy.
>
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/041199wolf.html
>
>I'm the bald one in the bright colors on the ladder in the back left,
>holding a "White sisters" LP...

Which points to an unusual oversight by the Times - they didn't identify
anyone in the group photo! I recognize a few but not all of y'all, so how
about IDing everyone??

BTW, I thought it was a fine article and an interesting pairing with the one
on Ira Glass/TAL. How do you feel about it, CK? Did they get it right? Were
you misquoted or anything?

-Lou
PS I can't wait to get my hands on your Vox Populi Americana CD as part of
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Della Cha Cha Cha
Date: 12 Apr 1999 11:01:14 -0400






>An aside: This is probably coincidental but as I was listening to this
album I
couldn't help thinking that Della Resse's vocal stylings were very similar
to
a male vocalist that I was listening to just the other day. Tony Newly!


I agree Della ain't for everbody...but I love her!  I have this great live
record where she sounds like a drag-queen hosting a night!  You may think I
am crazy, but there's another man I think she sounds like:  Johnny Mathis!
Play her album with Neal Hefti back-to-back with Mathis/Nelson Riddle, I'LL
BUY YOU A STAR(which is a swingin' mutha-%(#!)(@&% of an album if I've ever
heard one!)...and only an expert can tell them apart (especially on "The
Best is Yet to Come")!  Other celeb matches:  Nancy Wilson=Lil' Jimmy
Scott!
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From: "Jody, Ruth and Michael Rosen" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "Bella Neurox"
Date: 12 Apr 1999 12:57:30 -0400


For those interested, I did an interview with Miss Murgatroid and Petra
Haden with regard to their new album, "Bella Neurox." The article can be
found in this week's LeisureSuit.net, or by clicking on the URL below:

http://www.leisuresuit.net/Webzine/cgi-bin/kdlinks.cgi?articles/murgatroid_p
etra.shtml

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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Warp back to Earth
Date: 12 Apr 1999 15:57:26 +0200


The double CD contains both 17 "remixes", and 29 unreleased Peter Thomas
tracks, which I haven't heard yet, as I went for the LP version - alas!
That double LP contains ONLY the 17 "remixes": new tracks on the basis of
never released bits and pieces by peter Thomas that are/were electronic
sound-experiments from the beginning seventies.

With: Stockhausen & Walkman, Tipsy, Stereolab, Saint Etienne, High Llamas,
Coldcut, Momus, Yoshinori Sunahara, Mr. Scruff, Dauerfisch, Ronnie & Clyde,
Stereo Total, Sons Of Silence, Schneider TM, Mina, Tortoise.

Doesn't sound at all like any other Peter Thomas material that is available
on cd. This is contemporary, industrial?/electronic/sample/loop
techno-minded music, with accent on rhythm, and little melody.

I didn't like it at all, but I'm not "in to" today's modern music...

        Johan


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From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki
Date: 12 Apr 1999 19:02:03 +0200


I know that the cd has been around for quite a while, but i just got my =
own copy of it from amazon.com.

The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki is WONDERFUL! VERY VERY WONDERFUL! One =
of my best records.
"Terminal" is my fave track.=20

Thanks to all who participated in making this wonder. I love you!

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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Wild Angels...frwarded
Date: 12 Apr 1999 13:05:56 -0400


The Visitors are Davie Allan & the Arrows, but I don't know who
"Barabra" is.

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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Helen Mayer, Dumbo & Denny
Date: 12 Apr 1999 10:08:05 -0700 (PDT)




I have really enjoyed the OST to Dumbo with all the bonus tracks added
on.  Very wonderful and strange children"s music.  My 3 year old
daughter has it on cassette and she doesn't seem to like it as much as
I do.   I think genes are the number one influence on your taste in
music.  As much as I have exposed her to Martin Denny, she's shown no
inclination to really like it as Tiki Bob's son does.   If I put on an
upbeat "Now Sound" recording she'll ask me to dance.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck



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>
>
>                             *Helen Mayer
>     NEW YORK (AP) -- Helen Aberson Mayer, who wrote the children's
story that
> inspired the 1941 Walt Disney cartoon ``Dumbo'' died Saturday. She
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Subject: (exotica) Wild Angels.....
Date: 12 Apr 1999 13:12:54 -0400


Phil Dirt is indeed right that the the backup band is Davie Allan and the
Arrows.  As far as the singer, I asked Davie who it was.  He said it was
Barbara Pittman who had some minor hits with Sun Records back in the =
'50's.
She is currently living in Memphis.
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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ashphodelic
Date: 12 Apr 1999 10:26:52 -0700 (PDT)




Saw this remix cd with 3 songs remixed by the great and wonderful
Tipsy for sale at cdnow for $5.95 or some ridiculously low price.  The
Cdnow computer actually recommended it to me as a cd I should like!?

Its a remix of songs I presume on the Ashphodel label.  Does anyone
own this and have any recommendations.  From what I heard at cdnow
real audio the 2 Tipsy songs were pretty Tipsyish.

When is Tipsy ever going to release their sophomore effort?  It seems
like years since their first release!

And the same goes for the Gentle People, I mean here is shibuya-kei
exploding all over the world and their fans are just waiting for more
gentle sounds.  I love the Gentle People, I love the Gentle People, I
love the Gentle People..............

I saw Medium Rare is carrying the Gentle People's great compilation
cd, "Music to Watch Comets By" and also Lorraine Bowens 2nd cd.  I got
my Comets cd from othermusic which I also understand will be carrying
both of the Lorraine Bowen cds.

When the music gets weird, the weird listen to music
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Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki
Date: 12 Apr 1999 13:55:04 EDT


In a message dated 04/12/99 9:10:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Thanks to all who participated in making this wonder. I love you! >>

Have you been hanging around the Oscars?  And are you standing on some chair
backs??  Life is Beautiful !!!!!!


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Andre Williams concert
Date: 12 Apr 1999 14:25:43 -0400



>>The concert with Andre Williams turned out to be rather strange...

EXACTLY,
your experience sounds the same as mine. that was the same lame white bread
R+R band from Cali that backed him when i saw him.

it is unfortunate. but what has saved me from andre dissappointment is
 andre's newest release RED DIRT on Bloodshot. CD only :(
it is awesome!
the backing band is a really great R+B roots country twang group called the
SADIES,
now on tour with Flat Duo Jets.
the album "sounds" great and is what i would dub an instant classic.
he is doing renditions only andre could do (with his rawness, humor and
experience) of some of his favorite country tunes.
Busted
Pardon Me (I've Got Someone to Kill)
Psycho
I'm an Old Old Man (Tryin' to Live While I Can)
Easy on the Eyes
Queen of the World

including originals that are simply a must hear/have.
Tramp Trail
Hey Truckers
My Sister Stole My Woman
Weapon of Mass Destruction (my favorite)
and more...only 40 minutes long (perfect for vinyl if only they would press it)
but it does not matter to me in this case.

i must have listened to it 5 times in one night. pretty rare considering
all the records i have that i have not even heard all the way through once!

do give up on him...he keeps getting better.
he just needs the right band behind him.

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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ashphodelic
Date: 12 Apr 1999 14:37:22 -0400


At 10:26 AM -0700 4/12/99, chuck wrote:

>And the same goes for the Gentle People, I mean here is shibuya-kei
>exploding all over the world and their fans are just waiting for more
>gentle sounds.  I love the Gentle People, I love the Gentle People, I
>love the Gentle People..............

Their new album is completed and should be out on Rephlex (UK) sometime
this summer, I believe. It's very groovy, continuing in the mellow
electronic sound of the first album but with some more discofied songs as
well.

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [news] MP3 players
Date: 12 Apr 1999 14:37:27 -0500


SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, 1999 APR 11 (NB) -- By Martyn Williams, Newsbytes.
     LG Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced a new range of MP3 digital audio
players that incorporate FM radio and magnetic tape players into the same
package. The company will begin selling the machines in Korea in late May
and plans international sales in the second half of this year.
     The three machines go under the name "MP Free" and include the
AHA-FD770, an MP3 player with combined portable mini cassette player and FM
radio tuner; the MF-FD350, an MP3 player with FM tuner; and the MF-PD350, an
MP3 player.
     Each model in the range comes with 32 megabytes of base memory - -
enough for around eight songs -- and can be expanded through the inclusion
of two MMC (multimedia card) slots.


LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1999 APR 12 (NB) -- By Sylvia Dennis,
Newsbytes.
     On the same day that IBM and RealNetworks announced they are working on
a secure music distribution system for the Internet, Creative Labs has taken
the wraps off its killer portable system for MP3 digital audio files, called
the Nomad.
     The Nomad breaks new ground for MP3 playback devices, Newsbytes notes,
since it not only plays back MP3 files downloaded across the Internet, but
also includes an FM stereo tuner and the ability to record the spoken word
at half-MP3 sampling rates.
     Coming in a magnesium solid state casing that tips the scales at just
2.5 ounces, the Nomad is available in two versions: 32 megabytes (MB) of
memory and 64MB of memory.
     At standard MP3 playback rates, this means the machines can support,
respectively, 60-minute and 120-minute playback times. When used in voice
recording mode, these recording times are doubled, Newsbytes notes.
     Like a portable minidisk player, the Nomad also features a liquid
crystal display (LCD) screen with scrolling text to view artist name and
song title. Power to the unit comes from two AAA-sized rechargeable
batteries that drive the system for up to 10 hours, Newsbytes notes.
     According to Creative Labs, it is shipping software (the Creative
Digital Audio Center) that allows the output of CDs from a PC's CD-ROM drive
to be converted into MP3 files for download to the Nomad personal music player.
     Hock Leow, Creative's vice president of multimedia, said that the
company goal is to continue leveraging its expertise to offer solutions for
portable digital audio and to make the experience accessible to consumers
worldwide.
     "As we move forward with future products, we intend to support all
popular formats for playing back Internet music and digital audio. Today
that format is MP3 and there is an abundance of support from Internet audio
and music enthusiasts," he said.
     The 64MB Nomad will sell through retail outlets in the US at $249.95
and comes complete with a hi-fi set of earphones, docking cradle (for
parallel port connection to a host PC), MP3 compilation CD, the Creative
Digital Audio Center software, and batteries.
     The 32MB version of the Nomad will sell through the company's Web site
at http://www.soundblaster.com for $169.95. Newsbytes notes that the 32MB
standard unit can be upgraded to 64MB using a plug-in memory card.
     Backing up the Nomad is a dedicated Web site called NomadWorld at
http://www.nomadworld.com . Creative says it plans to ship car adapters for
the Nomad, which is roughly the same size as a deck of cards -- about the
same size as a minidisk player, Newsbytes notes.




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From: Bump <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bobby Conn/Wayne Cochran?
Date: 12 Apr 1999 15:17:10 -0400


hey y'all.
i just gazed upon the countenance of a man named Bobby Conn and i was
mezmerized! (in the Multiball zine) he is doing supposedly doing some
strange music.
can anyone tell me something about this thing.

speaking of being transfixed. i watched a really cheesy biker flick last
nite called CC and Company (1970) starring Joe Namath and Ann-Margaret.
basically an Elvis movie.
to its credit it also starred William Smith, Sid Haig and Bruce Glover
(Crispin's Dad)
but one swinging funky scene is a concert scene of Wayne Cochran and the CC
Riders LIVE at the Flamingo Lounge in Vegas...i was blown away by this red
sequined jumpsuit wearin' bleach blonde
mullet haired from the hills freakazoid with wannabe james brown foot
moves, singing a high energy R+B tune...wow!
repleat with go go dancers, Ann-Margrock jamming out and rhythmless
Broadway Joe's boyish grin trying to keep up.
seemed abit like an american Heino.
if this i all i ever see of him i am truely satisfied.


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From: Lloyd Kandell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki
Date: 12 Apr 1999 10:00:43 -1000


Magnus- shoots, bra' as we say in hawaii nei... mahalo for the rave! any
listers who ever thought of buying our cd (s.o.s... please help Don's
kids) can now get it from amazon for $11.67 ($16.99 here in the
islands!) and you can hear 5 tracks first. and Mr Denny was thrilled to
receive your WONDERFUL birthday messages, 'bout 12 in all. we're
currently working on "Don Tiki Goes Latin" and a reissue of "Duke
Kahanamoku Presents A Beachboy Party"... a legendary record over here
orignally released in 1963. as the exotic Michael Jackson would say...

WE LOVE YOU TOO!
Fluid Floyd

Sandberg Magnus wrote:
>
> I know that the cd has been around for quite a while, but i just got my own copy of it from amazon.com.
>
> The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki is WONDERFUL! VERY VERY WONDERFUL! One of my best records.
> "Terminal" is my fave track.
>
> Thanks to all who participated in making this wonder. I love you!


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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki
Date: 12 Apr 1999 15:07:02 +0000


>we're currently working on "Don Tiki Goes Latin" and a reissue
> of "Duke Kahanamoku Presents A Beachboy Party"... a legendary record
> over here orignally released in 1963.

Hey, Floyd...

I'm so PLEASED to hear of these upcoming releases.  I play "Forbidden
Sounds" regularly on The Retro Cocktail Hour.  When "Goes Latin"
comes out, would you be interested in doing a phone interview and
perhaps coordinating an on-air giveaway w/us here at The Retro
Cocktail Hour?

Always get a huge response to giveaways here--we feature your CD, put
it up on our website and the calls just pour in.  Did one with Cool
and Strange Music last weekend and got about 100 calls in 45 minutes.
Anyway, I'm interested if you guys are.  Thanks for the great
sounds!

Darrell Brogdon
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KANU FM 91.5
Broadcasting Hall
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Girls in the Garage
Date: 12 Apr 1999 13:16:33 -0700 (PDT)



Girls in the Garage, Oriental Special, A Collection of Asian Girl
Sound from the '60s, Volume 9 (Romulan 199?) Boot?

The now sounds of Singapore and Indonesia!  Two versions of the great
1966 hit , Hanky Panky one punked up in english and the other in
Chinese.  Sugar Town, Love Potion #9, Yummy Yummy, As Tears Go By,
Fever and a few other great songs I'm not familiar with.  This is a
rocking now sound collection!  Reasonably priced from medium rare
records.

This is much better then I thought it would be, the songs have an
originality and feeling that make this a great collection!

Does anyone know about the first 8 volumes?

When the music gets weird, the weird listen to music
Chuck


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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hitchcock Centennial: Remembering the Master of Suspense
Date: 12 Apr 1999 14:17:21 -0700 (PDT)


A very good article on Hitchcock in the nytimes, you may need to get a
password but its free.

http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/artleisure/hitchcock-film.html

Easy listening in te Big Easy
Chuck

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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki
Date: 12 Apr 1999 16:16:38 +0000


Oops.  Sorry, folks--posted a private message to the list.  Apologies
for the interruption.  Too fast on the reply key.

Darrell Brogdon
Program Director
KANU FM 91.5
Broadcasting Hall
The University of Kansas
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) McCoy Tyner: from Bacharach to Latin
Date: 12 Apr 1999 17:34:30 -0500


McCoy Tyner's latest release is:
Mccoy Tyner & Latin All Stars (Telarc)

As part of the promo, there's an interview with him at CDnow.com . Here's
just one of the Q/A's:


Q: The Latin All-Stars seems like an abrupt turn from your last recording,
the Bacharach album on Impulse!

A: I veer off and do stuff. I never do things just because somebody wants me
to do it. If I think it's a good idea, I do it -- and I wanted to do Burt's
music. I try to pick stuff that I really think would fit, so I could
rearrange it so that it would maintain its integrity, yet would be my song
too. Some people get offended if you step across the line and do something
different, not for the sake of money, but for the sake of doing something
different. I had never done anything with an orchestra quite that big. A lot
of people say, "Why'd you pick his music?" Well, I had my reasons. "A House
Is Not a Home" is one of my favorite songs, and "The Look of Love." Burt is
a real nice man, and what he's done in his genre will be here forever.




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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Andre Williams concert
Date: 12 Apr 1999 18:25:13 -0400


At 02:25 PM 4/12/99 -0400, Bump wrote:
>it is unfortunate. but what has saved me from andre dissappointment is
> andre's newest release RED DIRT on Bloodshot. CD only :(
>it is awesome!
>the backing band is a really great R+B roots country twang group called the
>SADIES,

Toronto's own.
I haven't heard the record.  Maybe with Mr.Williams, they turn up the R&B
but otherwise they're basically known as a "country rock", mostly
instrumental band.
They're actually part of a "country music dynasty" in these parts.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Bobby Conn/Wayne Cochran?
Date: 12 Apr 1999 18:31:26 -0400


At 03:17 PM 4/12/99 -0400, Bump wrote:
>but one swinging funky scene is a concert scene of Wayne Cochran and the CC
>Riders LIVE at the Flamingo Lounge in Vegas...i was blown away by this red
>sequined jumpsuit wearin' bleach blonde
>mullet haired from the hills freakazoid with wannabe james brown foot
>moves, singing a high energy R+B tune..

This must be my day for hometown references.  I saw Wayne Cochrane at least
four times back in the seventies at the semi-legendary El Mocambo here.
It's a pretty small place and I wasn't much further from him than I am from
the keyboard right now.
We used to think of him as basically a James Brown wannabe but since there
was little or no chance we were going to get to see James - and certainly
not in a small club - we thanked our lucky stars.
He not only did the dance moves; he basically did the whole James Brown act
including that whole thing where he falls down and his bandmates try and
take him offstage but he comes back.
But he was great and it was probably the best "big band" I ever saw.
Nice memories.  Thanks.

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From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki
Date: 12 Apr 1999 16:43:20 -0700


Sandberg Magnus wrote:
>
> I know that the cd has been around for quite a while, but i just got my own copy of it from amazon.com.
>
> The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki is WONDERFUL! VERY VERY WONDERFUL! One of my best records.
> "Terminal" is my fave track.
Yes!!! Terminal is very, very cool.

Looking forward to more Don Tiki!!
-Kevin


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Random Thoughts
Date: 12 Apr 1999 19:54:05 EDT


Having recently purchased a few Bobby Goldsboro albums, I have to ask:
Does anyone else find him kind of creepy? Does anyone know what became of
him?  I was very happy to rediscover the fabulous song "The Straight Life"
which I haven't heard in a very long time and had completely forgotten about.

Thank you to whoever praised Jack Jones, as I wouldn't have bought one of his
albums but now I can groove along to "The Letter" and "By The Time I Get To
Phoenix".

Anyone heard Pat Boone sing "Honey Hush"?  It's unbelievably bad. At least on
his metal album he swings a bit.

Love those low budget "discotheque" albums. I have yet to find one that
didn't have at least a few really swinging and/or totally wacky cuts.


Bob


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From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Frank Comstock
Date: 12 Apr 1999 20:13:20 +0000


My 2 coins for a 2fer mate for Comstock's LP would be The Richard Marino
Orchestra's OUT OF THIS WORLD.  Right along the same lines!

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From: [e-mail] (kevin leeeeee)
Subject: (exotica) music minus one
Date: 12 Apr 1999 17:23:13 -0700 (PDT)


hey,
any of you folks know if the "Music Minus One" series is still in print?
and/or where one can order them?

i recently found a great record from them called "Ultra-Drums" which
features nothing but 80's style drum patterns for you and your friends to
jam along with or record your high quality demo with. it's... cool/stupid.

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Subject: (exotica) Re:  Gentle People Comp
Date: 12 Apr 1999 22:21:47 EDT



In a message dated 4/12/99 1:26:28 PM, you wrote:

<< saw Medium Rare is carrying the Gentle People's great compilation
cd, "Music to Watch Comets By" and also Lorraine Bowens 2nd cd.  >>

Would you mind describing these two? I have the Gentle People and think its
wonderful. I have never heard of Lorraine Bowen.


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From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Satan In High Heels
Date: 13 Apr 1999 01:28:37 -0400


Can anyone tell me about this record?   It's by Mundell Lowe, and has
just been reissued on (probably bootleg) CD.  Recommendations?

cheryl


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From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) anyone read japanese??
Date: 13 Apr 1999 06:19:44 -0400


Hi, all,

a friend just purchased an old geisha wig which comes with a label in
Japanese. i have a .jpg of the label. He'd love to have a translation,
even a rough one. i can e-mail privately, just let me know if you'd like
to help.

thanks!!

citizen kafka
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Citizen Kafka, Producer, "The Secret Museum of the Air"
every Wednesday 7-8 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM & WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM
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From: "Jill Mingo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Warp back to Earth
Date: 09 Apr 1999 19:18:30 PDT




----------
>
> The double CD contains both 17 "remixes", and 29 unreleased Peter Thoma=
s
> tracks, which I haven't heard yet, as I went for the LP version - alas!

I didn't know this either and bought the LP which is going straight back.

> Doesn't sound at all like any other Peter Thomas material that is avail=
able
> on cd. This is contemporary, industrial?/electronic/sample/loop
> techno-minded music, with accent on rhythm, and little melody.
>
> I didn't like it at all, but I'm not "in to" today's modern music...
>

I AM into today's modern music and know electronica well, and I still thi=
nk this one is pretty boring. I wound up recording the Stereolab mix and =
the High Llamas - and it isn't even a very good High Llamas mix. I really=
 have no time for electronic noodling. And that is what this LP is to me.=
 But saying that, I think the "Space Patrol" LP is very noodly too so I =
really wonder what the original tracks sound like that are remixed...

Jill "Mingo-go"



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Subject: Re: (exotica) anyone read japanese??
Date: 13 Apr 1999 08:23:15 EDT


In a message dated 4/13/99 5:20:17 AM EST, [e-mail] writes:

<< Hi, all,

 a friend just purchased an old geisha wig which comes with a label in
 Japanese. i have a .jpg of the label. He'd love to have a translation,
 even a rough one. i can e-mail privately, just let me know if you'd like
 to help. >>

The translation is: "Made in Japan"







just kidding!

Ashley


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Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Project Comstock,Marino
Date: 13 Apr 1999 09:07:35 -0400




>Richard Marino -Out of this world.

OK!  Y'all got me, mack!  TELL ME ABOUT THIS RECORD!  When was it recorded?
Theremin?  Ondioline?  Tape effects?  WHAT!?  Stylograph(is that what it's
called?)))
WHAT!?!??!!?  Jane Fondle!!!





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Date: 13 Apr 1999 09:32:59 -0400






Please respond to [e-mail]

cc:





>Can anyone tell me about this record?   It's by Mundell Lowe, and has
just been reissued on (probably bootleg) CD.  Recommendations?

cheryl


DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THIS RECORD AND MUNDELL LOWE!  OK, better yet, do,
because it's one of my ALL-TIME Favorite crime-jazz(well, B-film noir is
more fitting) OSTs!  Mundell Lowe, the briliant guitar player and arranger
behind TV ACTION JAZZ 1&2(where he does his takes on TV themes of the 50s)
wrote and arranged this album, and, as one of the players on it says in the
liner notes "This album is gonna turn some heads" (something like that!)
It's not a boot, either, it was released by the Collectibles label, which
tends to put out a lot of 50s music.  I cannot emphasize to you, Cheryl AND
EVERYBODY ON THIS LIST, what a NECCESITY this record is!  It swings, it
swaggers, it sins and it sings of all the trials and tribulations of being
a night-club stripper.  If you like records such as MIKE HAMMER and THE M
SQUAD, this East Coast record is as Hollywood as any other grind-house
jazz!  TAKE IT INTROVENIOUSLY!
The movie is really good, too, especially for a B-film...it ending sorta
rings of that "we ran out of money" thing, but it's entertaining and
sleazy!
YOW-Jane Fondle







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Subject: (exotica) [obit] BoxCar Willie
Date: 13 Apr 1999 10:02:16 -0500


    BRANSON, Mo. (AP) -- BoxCar Willie, whose gentle country voice and songs of
life on the road evoked memories of a time when hobos watched America pass
by from the door of a freight car, died Monday of leukemia. He was 67.
    He died at home, a family spokeswoman said.
    He had recently announced he was canceling his 1999 season of shows when
the disease, first diagnosed in 1996, returned.
    Until his health began to fail, he was not only a Branson performer but one
of the music town's elder statesmen.
    Roy Clark became the first nationally known entertainer to put his name on
a Branson theater in 1983. But BoxCar Willie liked to boast that unlike
Clark, who often booked other people into his venue, he became the first
name entertainer to work the town year-round when he arrived in 1987.
    He did six or more shows a week nine months of the year until his health
failed.
    He took it upon himself to mentor performers as they arrived in Branson,
telling them what worked and what didn't in a conservative, heartland town
of 3,700 residents and millions of tourists.
    And he fumed about performers who left Branson.
    ``There's been about 30, 35 artists that came into this town and then left
since I've been here,'' he said in 1996. ``They don't pay their taxes here,
they don't vote here. Doggone it, it just kind of bothers me. So when
somebody says they're leaving, I don't get all teary-eyed and panicky.''
    Born Lecil Martin in Sterrett, Texas, in 1931, BoxCar Willie was the son of
a railroad man who used to play his fiddle on the porch while his son sat in
on guitar.
    By his teens he had graduated to playing in jamborees all over the state,
but then he gave up show business to enlist in the Air Force. He spent 22
years there, logging some 10,000 hours as a flier.
    After retiring from the service he returned to performing, and by the 1970s
he had developed the singing hobo persona, complete with overalls, a
battered old hat, worn suit jacket and two days' growth of beard.
    Although he never had a hit single, his albums sold well over the years and
he built a loyal following that would later make him one of the most popular
performers in Branson, where he operated a motel and train museum as well as
his theater.
    He said he took the BoxCar Willie look, as well as the name, after seeing a
freight train pass him by one day in Lincoln, Neb., as he was stuck in traffic.
    ``And there was an old boy sitting on a boxcar, dressed the way I dress
today, and he looked just like a buddy of mine named Willie Wilson,'' he
told The Associated Press in 1997. ``I said, `There's Willie in a boxcar,
and that's where it came from.'''
    Although he had traveled by freight train as a young man himself, BoxCar
Willie said in that interview, he had long since given it up as America
changed and it became too dangerous.

    BRANSON, Mo. (AP) -- He adopted a hobo persona and won a national following
as he sang of life on the road. But BoxCar Willie found a home in Branson,
where he died after a long battle with leukemia.
    The 67-year-old singer died Monday evening, surrounded by his wife, two
daughters, two sisters and close friends, said Chisai Childs, a family
spokeswoman and friend of 31 years.
    BoxCar Willie was diagnosed with leukemia three years ago. After a brief
remission, the disease returned last year.
    Family friend Dick Ringler, who was with the entertainer when he died, said
BoxCar Willie knew he was losing the battle since being hospitalized for two
weeks in February, but never mentioned it.
    ``He told me how tired he was, and I had to help him get out of his chair,
which embarrassed him,'' Ringler said.
    Until his health began to fail, he had performed as many as six shows a
week at the BoxCar Willie Theatre in this Ozark mountain town that is home
to dozens of music theaters and scores of performers.
    But he was more than one of Branson's most famous performers. He was also
one of its most beloved. As a member of the Taney County Child Welfare Board
he raised thousands of dollars for needy children, Ms. Childs said, as well
as $40,000 a year for police programs to fight crime and drugs.
    ``BoxCar Willie is a friend to many of us and a good citizen of Branson,''
Mayor Lou Schaefer said, breaking down as he announced the entertainer's
death during a Board of Alderman meeting.
    He was devoted to singing and promoting old-fashioned country music,
including the sorrowful train songs for which he was best known.
    The mayor has ordered flags throughout this tourist town of 3,700 flown at
half-staff until the funeral, which Ms. Childs said would be Saturday or
Sunday.
Death anniversaries for the week of 12 April - 18 April:
Monday, 12 April
1989 - Abbie Hoffman; activist
Wednesday, 14 April
1995 - Burl Ives; singer & actor
Thursday,  15 April
1980 - Raymond Bailey; actor, "Beverly Hillbillies"
1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre; writer/philosopher
1990 - Greta Garbo; actress
Friday, 16 April
1995 - Arthur English - actor, "Are You Being Served?"
Saturday, 17 April
1991 - Jack Yellen; songwriter
1998 - Linda McCartney; photographer




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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels
Date: 13 Apr 1999 10:59:27 -0400


>The movie is really good, too, especially for a B-film...it ending sorta
>rings of that "we ran out of money" thing, but it's entertaining and
>sleazy!

But you've gotta admit... her *baggy* leather pants look sort of odd!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Advice Please re: Ray Martin / Quartette Tres Bien
Date: 13 Apr 1999 10:56:40 -0400


* Quartette Tres Bien, Kilamanjaro, 20$ -- I don't know much
about this jazz ensemble, either. I have heard one track ("Boss")
off of a different LP. This is the first time that I have come
across any of their LPs, which makes me want to buy it...
but, on the other hand, no one on this list has ever mentioned
them, which makes me wary.



Actually, I mentioned them about a year ago.  I enjoyed the record of theirs
that I have, but I am not too certain about paying 20 bucks for it.  It
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Subject: (exotica) disc wars
Date: 13 Apr 1999 11:21:49 -0400


It seems that the new DVD-audio standard isn't such a done deal. Watch for
a Beta vs. VHS style battle:

http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=3615579&p_section_na
me=Sci-Tech&p_art_type=1312347

(hope that 'extended dance-mix' URL works alright)

Betcha the masses just stick with regular CDs.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) MeL Blanc
Date: 13 Apr 1999 11:24:11 -0400


I must agree that Mel Blanc is usually the one credited, even though June
Foray, Billy Bletcher (better known for his work as Bluto), Stan Freberg,
Jim Backus and Arthur Q. Bryan (Elmer Fudd) did work for Warner Bros. as
well.  Incidentally, Fudd was a voice that Blanc could not duplicate
accurately.  I don't believe that Blanc was credited for "Norman Normal",
although that was done after 1963.

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From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Some unlikely country/western
Date: 13 Apr 1999 11:54:57 -0500


Nat wrote:

> Toronto's own.
> I haven't heard the record.  Maybe with Mr.Williams, they turn up the R&B
> but otherwise they're basically known as a "country rock", mostly
> instrumental band.
> They're actually part of a "country music dynasty" in these parts.
I've discovered that Quebec has its own country/western dynasty,
however unlikely this would seem, with its best known star being one
Willy Lamothe (who looks a bit like Wayne Newton).  I saw this weird
Quebecois modern spaghetti western last week on TV called "Mustang"
which starred him and then found the soundtrack LP in a store yesterday.
It's a good partner for Madame St. Onge for music you would never
otherwise hear elsewhere!  Gotta do more listening as Quebec has a
long an illustrious history of producing its own homegrown (Francophone)
knock-offs in both music, film and TV in addition to (Celine Dion aside)
having perhaps Canada's strongest identifiable film, music, theatre
and dance culture.

Brian Karasick
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From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: SV: (exotica) Project Comstock,Marino
Date: 13 Apr 1999 18:07:59 +0200




>>Richard Marino -Out of this world.
>
>OK!  Y'all got me, mack!  TELL ME ABOUT THIS RECORD!  When was it =
recorded?
>Theremin?  Ondioline?  Tape effects?  WHAT!?  Stylograph(is that what =
it's
>called?)))
>WHAT!?!??!!?  Jane Fondle!!!


You wanna hear about Marino? Marinos LP is "Music Pover from Denny's =
Music City" At least the sticker says so on my LP copy :)


I have written down the liner notes from the backcover, they very well =
explain what we are talking about here, this is a fantastic album.

My copy has four round holes in the cover that lets the innersleeve =
shine through. A very futuristic design with psychedelic images. One =
side of the innersleeve is a picture of blue smoke.

I love it, I think I play this most of my outer space albums, it seems =
that i can never get tired of it.

A unique and Startling musical adventure
Out Of This World
With The Richard Marino Orchestra
Liberty Visual Sound Stereo LSS 14007
Producer: Si Waronker
Engineer: Ted Keep


Just as the ancient stargazers dreamed he would, man has finnally burst =
free of the bonds of earth and gone soaring into space. He has looked =
down in awe from the heavens to behold the fantastic beauty of our =
spinning planet, like an emerald glowing on black velvet in the fierce =
rays of the sun.
What is it like out there in the deeps of space? Inspired by the =
astronauts, arranger-conductor Richard Marino has created this highly =
impressionistic album to take you voyaging Out Of This World on the =
rockets of your imagination.
Nothing quite like this felicitous blending of musical impressionism and =
electronic ingenuity has ever been heard before. The songs within have =
retained the familiarity of favorites, yet they seem curiously =
unfamiliar at the same time, clothed as they are in the sounds of outer =
space.
There are "star" songs... Stella By Starlight ... Stars In My Eyes... =
When You Wish Upon A Star... Staiway To The Stars... And that universal =
of the universe, Stardust.
There are "moon" songs too... The Moon Was Yellow... Full Moon... Full =
Moon And Empty Arms... and Moonlight Becomes You.
Musically, conductor Marino calls upon a full span of woodwinds from the =
piccolo to the contrabasson. Violas and cellos, two harps, percussion =
instruments and a rhytm section complete the orchestra. And the voices =
of three sopranos were blended in for ethereal effects. The incredibly =
complex task of electronic interpretation  was achived by Liberty=B4s =
chief enginer. Ted Keep, working closely with Mr Marino.
What the poets have called "the music of the spheres" the sounds =
celestial, await you now in this journey of the imagination. this voyage =
Out Of This World.

Into space,
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Subject: SV: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki
Date: 13 Apr 1999 18:20:28 +0200




>Magnus- shoots, bra' as we say in hawaii nei... mahalo for the rave!=20

You are well worth it! And you got more stuff planned. I wanna live!

 "Duke Kahanamoku Presents A Beachboy Party"... a legendary record over =
here
>orignally released in 1963

Can you tell us about it please?=20

And if you meet Adam say hello from me! I hope he congratulated Martin =
Denny on behalf of all of us fans in Stockholm.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki
Date: 13 Apr 1999 12:27:06 EDT


In a message dated 04/12/99 5:20:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:


Magnus (in regards to his discovering Don Tiki):  "I love you!"

Robert (in regards to being the smart ass I am):  "I want to make love to ALL
of
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Subject: RE: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki
Date: 12 Apr 1999 09:41:12 -0700


> Robert (in regards to being the smart ass I am):  "I want to make=20

Can I watch?

Listen to FeelthyMonkeyRadio
http://www.xtabay.com/feelthyradio.htm=20
Exotica, Moog, IncrediblyStrange
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Helen Mayer, Dumbo & Denny
Date: 13 Apr 1999 12:43:20 EDT


In a message dated 04/12/99 1:07:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< As much as I have exposed [my daughter] to Martin Denny, she's shown no
 inclination to really like it as Tiki Bob's son does.   >>

You have to remember though, I have one of those full size Magnovox
Phono/Stereo consoles in his room (shouldn't every child have one???) which I
have played a near daily dose of Denny on for him over the past two years.
(I like the sound of that:  "Daily dose of Denny"  -- words to live by my
friends.)

Back to the console, my wife loved it when I brought it home and told her
where it was going.  Like I needed another one.  I have 2 other consoles in
the house and a table top Magnavox (which takes up a whole table top) also.
My wife is understanding but I am under threat not to bring home any more (at
least that will go IN the house). There is still a corner in my
garage/workshop that I could squeeze one in.

Like the Magnavox folks say, "You've got to admit it's getting better --
getting better all the time."


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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Spider-Man 1968
Date: 13 Apr 1999 10:06:09 -0700 (PDT)


A friend has me interested in finding music that was in the original Spider-Man cartoon
from '68., not just the theme but the funky jazzy BACKGROUND music.   My friend seems
to remember reading in an old marvel comic about a spider man jazz album?

Does anyone have any information on this?  It may be needle drop music that is
unavailable.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck
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Subject: (exotica) Oscars? Chair Backs?
Date: 13 Apr 1999 19:08:08 +0200


><< Thanks to all who participated in making this wonder. I love you! >>
>
>Have you been hanging around the Oscars?  And are you standing on some =
chair=20
>backs??  Life is Beautiful !!!!!!
>

HI! I'm sorry, but I dont understand what you mean... Oscars? Chair =
Backs?=20

Life is beautiful, I agree. But it is hard to always think so in =
everyday life, when it is so cold outside! It feels like I have been =
indoors for almost 2 years. And I am a Nature Boy!=20

I think I will move to a more healthier place. My country sold its =
little paradise island in the carribeans to France a long time ago. Now =
why did they do that? I could have been the town mayor and made it a =
real paradise for us.=20

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Oscars? Chair Backs?
Date: 13 Apr 1999 14:20:33 -0500


At 07:08 PM 4/13/99 +0200, Magnus wrote:
>><< Thanks to all who participated in making this wonder. I love you! >>
>>Have you been hanging around the Oscars?  And are you standing on some=
 chair=20
>>backs??  Life is Beautiful !!!!!!
>HI! I'm sorry, but I dont understand what you mean... Oscars? Chair Backs?=
=20

The reference was to Roberto Benigni walking from seat back to seat back as
he headed to the stage to accept his Academy Award Oscar when his movie
"Life Is Beautiful" won for  Best Foreign Film.
W I N N E R=97F O R E I G N L A N G U A G E=A0=A0=A0F I L M
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Italy
FILM: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
DIRECTED BY Roberto Benigni
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
Roberto Benigni: Thank you! Sophia (Loren, who announced the winner), I
leave(?) it here the Oscar but I want you. I want to be rocked by the waves
of your beauty. Come here. Thank you! Thank you! This is a moment of joy and
I want to kiss everybody because you are the maker(?) of the joy. He who
kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity sunrise, said [the] poet. And
this is wonderful to be here. Wonderful! I feel like, now really, to dive in
this ocean of generosity, this is too much. Your generosity, this is, uh,
how do you say when the rain, the hailstorm, it's a hailstorm of kindness,
of gratitude for you. And really I would like to thank everybody that did
the movie because, without them, I couldn't fly with this movie. Everybody
who did -- the producer, the screenwriter Cerami, Elda Ferri, Gianluigi
Braschi, Nicola Piovani, Vittorio Cecchi Gori. Harvey Weinstein of Miramax
Film[s], thank you very much for what you did. And also I would like to
thank my parents in Vergaio, in a little village in Italy. They gave me
their biggest gift, their poverty, and I want to thank for the lesson(?) of
my life. Really, but thank you mamma and babbo. Thank you! And thank you for
your love. Because if I am here it's because people love the movies. So it's
always a question of love. I would like to dedicate this prize to those,
because the subject the movie, those who are not here, they gave their life
in order [that] we can say 'life is beautiful.' And I would like to also
say, a kiss to Giorgio Cantarini, Giorgio the little boy. And because we are
talking love, Dante said "l=92amore che muove il sole e le altre stelle,"=
 love
will move the sun and the other stars. Love is a divinity, and sometimes if
you have faith, like all the divinities it can appear. That's why I want to
dedicate this prize to Nicoletta Braschi. Thank you.

MAKING HISTORY
This is Italy's tenth Oscar and twenty-sixth nomination. No other country
has won more Oscars for Foreign Language Films.=20


Then he won again for Best Actor:

W I N N E R=97A C T O R=A0=A0=A0I N=A0=A0=A0A L E A D I N G=A0=A0=A0R O L E
ACTOR: Roberto Benigni
FILM: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
NOMINATED ROLE: Roberto Benigni portrays Guido in LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH
Roberto Benigni: Thank you! This is a terrible mistake because I used up all
my English. I don't know! I am not able to express all my gratitude, because
now, my body is in tumult because it is a colossal moment of joy so
everything is really in a way that I cannot express. I would like to be
Jupiter! And kidnap everybody and lie down in the firmament making love to
everybody, because I don't know how to express. It's a question of love. You
are really -- this is a mountain of snow, so delicate, the suavity and the
kindness, it is something I cannot forget, from the bottom of my heart. And
thank you for the Academy Awards for the, who really loved the movie. Thank
you to all in Italy, for the Italian cinema, grazie al Italia who made me. I
am really, I owe to them all my, if I did something good. So grazie al
Italia e grazie al America, land of the lot of things here. Thank you very
much. And I hope, really I don't deserve this, but I hope to win some other
Oscars! Thank you! Thank you very much! Thank you!

MAKING HISTORY
Benigni is only the second person in Academy history to win an acting award
for a foreign language film. Sophia Loren did it in 1961 with her
performance in TWO WOMEN.=20


I hope this helps!
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Jean Vander Pyl
Date: 13 Apr 1999 14:34:36 -0500


    DANA POINT, Calif., April 13 (UPI) -- The woman who gave voice to Wilma
Flintstone on the 1960s cartoon show ``The Flintstones'' has died. Jean
Vander Pyl was 79 years old.
    Vander Pyl was the last of the original cast of the Flintstones, a
self-proclaimed ``modern stone-age family.'' The animated show ran in prime
time from 1960 to 1966. The original episodes have run in syndication ever
since.
    Vander Pyl, who also was the voice of Rosie the Robot and Mrs. Spaceley on
``The Jetsons,'' died of lung cancer. The Orange County Register newspaper
quotes her son, Michael O'Mera, as saying she wanted to do a television
commercial as Wilma warning children not to start smoking.
    ``Everybody on the Flintstones smoked and all of them ended up dying of
smoking related diseases,'' O'Mera said.
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?USR=2:31:10|PM&p=avg&sql=B58122
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Vander+Pyl,+Jean
 -------------------------------
In alt.obituaries, [e-mail] (Lawrence Person) wrote:

Hear that train a'comin
Comin' from K-Tel. Hobo
Boxcar Willie dead

Lecil Marvin croaks.
He did a lot of that, like
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Subject: Re:  (exotica) Satan In High Heels
Date: 13 Apr 1999 14:34:23 EDT


Satan is Crime Jazz Jazz if you catch my drift. More jazzier that swingin'
crime jazz, but still "accessible". Its on Collectibles I think, and legit,
decent remastering and a decent jazz-leaning crimey/smoky supperclub kind of
sound.......Hope that helps..Jimmy Botticelli/"Jimmy's Easy" airs on WMBR-FM,
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From: "David J. Strauss" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Wayne Cochrane/Joe Namath
Date: 13 Apr 1999 14:41:39 -0400 (EDT)



Jaco Pastorious was in Wayne Cochran's band around the time of CC and
Company. I wonder if he's int he film doing the Thorazine shuffle?

DS
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From: Lloyd Kandell <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A Beachboy Party
Date: 13 Apr 1999 08:57:14 -1000


Sandberg Magnus wrote:
>  "Duke Kahanamoku Presents A Beachboy Party"...
> Can you tell us about it please?

thanks for asking! the extensive liner notes will appear on the
re-release and are too long to post here... but this info comes from the
book "Waikiki Beachboy" by Grady Timmons:

"...in 1959... popular nightclubs such as the Barefoot Bar at Queen's
Surf were successfully using the beachboy-party format (an intimate
gathering where guests take part in the show) as an entertainment
concept. In 1964, the concept became the theme for an album, "A Beachboy
Party," produced by Hawaiian-fashion entrepreneur "Waltah" Clarke. Like
many men of his generation, Clarke was a mainland haole who fell in love
with Hawaii and yearned to be a beachboy. After arriving at Waikiki in
1937, he worked an assortment of odd jobs, including writing a gossip
column called "Hawaiian Holidays," which ran in the Los Angeles Times
and the Chicago Tribune and which he wrote from Waikiki Beach- "third
umbrella from the left." In 1952, he opened up a shop that specialized
in Hawaiian imports and became successful in the filed of Hawaiian
resort wear. Eventually, he opened up twenty-six stores nationwide and
built a house in Palm Springs next to houses owned by Frank Sinatra and
Spiro Agnew. It was with money from his clothing empire that Clarke
financed "A Beachboy Party," a tribute to the music of the beach.

Featured on the album are... Chick Daniels, Squeeze Kamana, Splash
Lyons, Panama Dave, Kalakaua Aylett, Fat Abraham Kala, and others. In a
wonderful cover photograph they are seated with Duke around a torchlit
canoe, attired in aloha shirts and holding their guitars and ukes.
Bottles of beer serve as props in the foreground (Diamond Head in the
background)... it begins with Owens' Hawaiian drinking song, "Okole
Maluna" (Bottoms Up) and ends with the beachboy anthem, "We Love You,
Hui Nalu." In between, everybody gets in on the act. Kalakaua delivers a
soulful rendition of Andy Cumming's "Waikiki"... Squeeze's ukelele soars
on "The World is Waiting for the Sunrise"... Chick croons "Lei Aloha"...
Panama, in his best scratchy tenor voice sings "Cafe Life".... and on
and on.

> And if you meet Adam say hello from me! I hope he congratulated Martin Denny on behalf of all of us fans in Stockholm.

I met Adam Axelson a few weeks ago (drummer for his dad's Swedish
exotica band, Bo Axelson & His Exotic Sounds). Bought him a mai tai at
Arthur Lyman's show. Great, enthusiastic guy! I just spoke with him on
the telephone to pass your greetings along and to have him call Martin
Denny to express birthday wishes on behalf of all his fans in Sweden.

alohaderci,
Fluid Floyd
Don Tiki/Taboo Records


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From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Johnny Cool Soundtrack Memories
Date: 13 Apr 1999 15:50:45 -0400


DJJimmyBee has been playing a few cuts from this on his program. Music by
Billy May.

This week he mentioned that it was a mob movie and Elizabeth Montgomery was
in it.

I remember seeing it on TV as a boy. Scenes where Johnny Cool(?) getting rid
of someone by throwing a suitcase filled with explosives from a hill into
his swimming pool.  And the dramatic (for an 8 or 9 year old) ending.

It seems possible that lounge/exotica music could be rolling around in the
back of our heads from watching so many old movies and TV shows?

To resurface as an interest  later in adulthood?

Another example would be Esquivel who wrote music for a lot of 70's TV shows
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From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Oscars? Chair Backs?
Date: 13 Apr 1999 20:50:55 +0200


Yeah I saw that. I understand  :)

I scream for Ice cream,
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels
Date: 13 Apr 1999 16:00:11 -0400



-----Original Message From: [e-mail]

>Its on Collectibles I think, and legit,

For a fuzzy picture of the cover and track listings check out  the
Collectables web page.

http://www.oldies.com/jazz.htm

Lots of other good stuff too.

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From: Lloyd Kandell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki
Date: 13 Apr 1999 09:10:28 -1000


Ron Grandia wrote:
>
> > Robert (in regards to being the smart ass I am):  "I want to make
>
> Can I watch?

we've been known to inspire pagan mating rituals at our better shows,
plus the singapore slings and kava root help loosen one's inhibitions...
watch, writhe, join in, whatever... but feel the jungle sounds!

nothing is forbidden,
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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Satan In High Heels
Date: 13 Apr 1999 12:21:35 -0700 (PDT)


Its goes for $9.21 at http://www.everycd.com

Get your  free one month membership.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck


[e-mail] wrote:
>
>
> Satan is Crime Jazz Jazz if you catch my drift. More jazzier that
swingin'
> crime jazz, but still "accessible". Its on Collectibles I think, and
legit,
> decent remastering and a decent jazz-leaning crimey/smoky supperclub
kind of
> sound.......Hope that helps..Jimmy Botticelli/"Jimmy's Easy" airs on
WMBR-FM,
> Cambridge on Tuesdays from 6-8 a.m.
>
>

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: (exotica  All those crooners
Date: 13 Apr 1999 16:02:13 -0400


At 07:54 PM 4/12/99 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>Having recently purchased a few Bobby Goldsboro albums, I have to ask:
>Does anyone else find him kind of creepy?
>
>Thank you to whoever praised Jack Jones, as I wouldn't have bought one of
his
>albums but now I can groove along to "The Letter" and "By The Time I Get To
>Phoenix".

A year ago, I could have scoffed at Jack Jones.  Now I must have eight of
his records including this seventies one -"Harbor" - with an immaculate
piece of cheese called "Do Me Wrong, But Do Me"
Of all the changes in my vinyl accumulating habits which have occurred in
the last few years, the most surprising is the "arrival" of all these
crooners and lounge singers.  As strange as it might have been - at first -
to fill my house up with instrumental lounge records, I didn't really have
an antipathy towards them.  I didn't grow up with Martin Denny showing up
everyday on Merv, Mike and Ed Sullivan.  The scourge of my youth was the
singers not the orchestras.
I blame the arrival of all these singers in my collection on Jane Fondle
and Burt Bacharach.  Burt, because I made all these "all-Bacharach" last
Fall and I just had to admit that a good song well-sung was enjoyable, no
matter what associations I had with the singer.  And Jane Fondle because
she made a comparison between Scott Walker and Andy Williams... and
suddenly I had six Andy Williams records.  He nails "God Only Knows".
But actually the more proper Scott Walker comparison, I believe, is Jack
Jones.

Nat



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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Random Thoughts of Bobby G.
Date: 13 Apr 1999 16:49:42 -0500


At 07:54 PM 4/12/99 EDT, Bob, House O' wrote:
>Having recently purchased a few Bobby Goldsboro albums, I have to ask:   =
=20
>Does anyone else find him kind of creepy? Does anyone know what became of=
=20
>him?  I was very happy to rediscover the fabulous song "The Straight Life"=
=20
>which I haven't heard in a very long time and had completely forgotten=
 about.

I don't know what's creepier - the Mr. Spock Jr. look he had back then, or
that he makes his money these days by creating programming for kids.=20

Check out his induction into the  Alabama Music Hall of Fame (1999 Inductee
Lifework Award for Performing Achievement) at:
http://www.alamhof.org/goldsbor.htm

There's a Japanese fan page (with vintage photo) at:
http://www.chichibu.ne.jp/~keiki/


Then there's this exchange between Bobby G. and Jerry Osborne:

http://www.jerryosborne.com/mr.music.htm
FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 29, 1998
DEAR JERRY: I just want to thank you for the nice words (about me) in your
column recently. I am glad you like my CD, =93The Best of Bobby Goldsboro:
Honey.=94=20

Nowadays my big project is =93Bobby Goldsboro's The Swamp Critters of Lost
Lagoon,=94 a children's television show which we film at WEDU-TV, in Tampa.=
 It
airs from 11 a.m. to noon on the Learning Channel, Monday through Friday. We
just finished our 52nd episode.=20

If you're in our area next time we're filming, you are welcome to drop by.
Thanks again!=20
=97Bobby Goldsboro, Ocala, Fla.=20

DEAR BOBBY: I appreciate you taking the time to write, and thank you for the
offer to meet. Next time I'm in Florida I promise you a visit. I'll tell you
the (1965) story of how I once overruled my fellow dee jays and made =93If
You've Got a Heart=94 our station's Pick to Click.=20

One impressive detail regarding =93The Swamp Critters of Lost Lagoon,=94=
 which
you modestly omitted, that I'd like to share with readers, is the magnitude
of your involvement. In this live action series, Bobby writes the scripts,
composes and arranges all the music, plays all of the instruments, and even
does all the animal character's voices.=20

Readers always enjoy learning what their favorite music stars of the past
are now doing. Especially when the update comes right from the horse's =97=
 er,
make that swamp critter's =97 mouth.=20

Well, you asked...

-Lou




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From: "telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "Mondo Bongos" playlist for April 14, 1999
Date: 13 Apr 1999 16:56:03 -0400


Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wed at 9 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph,
Ontario.Canada. Comments & questions welcome.

Enoch Light - In a Persian Market "Persuasive Percussion"
Martin Denny - Fire Cracker "The Exotic Sounds"
Robert Drasnin - Mirage "Voodoo!"

Laurie Johnson - Happy Go Lively "Music for TV Dinners"
Grantby - Time Booth "Coffee Table Music"
Massive Attack - Heat Miser "Protection"

Amon Tobin - Toys "Permutations"
Julee Cruise - Kool Kat Walk "The Voice of Love"
Oranj Symphonette - Beat Girl "The Oranj Album"

John Barry - Beat Girl "The EMI Years Vol 1"
Anandji & Kalyani Shah - Uptown Bollywood Nights "Bombay the Hard Way"
Anandji & Kalyani Shah - Kundans Hideout "Bombay the Hard Way"

Goblin - Phenomena(M15) "The Goblin Collection"
Mike Jackson & the Soul Providers - Angry Mob "The Revenge of Mr Mopoji"
Don Julian - Theme from Savage! "Badmutha's"

Thanks for reading

Allan


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Subject: Re:  (exotica) Johnny Cool Soundtrack Memories
Date: 13 Apr 1999 17:57:30 EDT



In a message dated 4/13/99 2:53:00 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>This week he mentioned that it was a mob movie and Elizabeth Montgomery was
>
>in it.

Produced by Peter Lawford(!) it was supposedly "about" the mob. I understand
that Rykodisc either has or is shortly about to re-release this excellent
soundtrack which has all good tunes on it as well as excellent titles..Jimmy
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Subject: (exotica) Re: All those crooners/Jack Jones
Date: 13 Apr 1999 18:13:17 EDT


Nat & everyone else,
I recently attended a Jack Jones concert and he sounded fantastic!  As good
as ever.  And he was quite amusing, and sang the hell out of some great
songs!  If you get the chance check him out.  My personal favorite Jones LP
is "Live For Life".  And you are right about the Scott Walker comparison.
There is a song on that LP called something like quiet whispers (?) that
sounds as if it came off of Scott 1, 2, or 3.
Best wishes,
Larry


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Subject: Re:  (exotica) Re: (exotica  All those crooners
Date: 13 Apr 1999 18:02:55 EDT



In a message dated 4/13/99 4:03:24 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>I blame the arrival of all these singers in my collection on Jane Fondle
>and Burt Bacharach

The very scourges of your existence? ;-)


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From: Elisabeth Vincentelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Girls in the Garage
Date: 13 Apr 1999 22:01:46 -0500


I have the first 7 volumes of Girls in the Garage, and I highly recommend
them if you enjoy, well, girls playing garage rock. It's raw, it's a
rockin', it's a lot of fun. Most are in English, though it's often quite
accented. I can't particularly direct you to a particular one, they're
all equally good.

I've seen a CD compiling the first 2 albums (I think) but I don't know
about the CD availability of this series. Also, I've never seen volume 8.
Does anybody know where I could find it?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels
Date: 13 Apr 1999 22:21:40 EDT


<< DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THIS RECORD AND MUNDELL LOWE!  >>

if you don't already have it, you should head over to the jazz section of
your local CD mart and pick up the Original Jazz Classic "The Mundell Lowe
Quartet" (Riverside).  From '55 and with Dick Hyman on piano, organ and
celeste.  Great photo of Lowe with his guitar, stool and a cuppa coffee.

Mundell Lowe also appears as one of the "secret agents" on the studiotrack
"Thunderball And Other Secret Agent Themes", by the Jazz All Stars.  My copy
is a release from England on Allegro.  Keep an eye out for it.

In the bragging department, i finally scored Miriam Burtons "African Lament",
a wordless female vocal affair that is truly wonderful.

A couple of interesting new finds include a bunch of funny oddities on "Songs
Of The Pogo" (Walt Kelly) and collection of radio commericals with a great
Chun King spot done up like a racy new car commercial (thanks for tip-off
Jack).

Spotted Augie Colon's "Sophisticated Savage" for the first time ever and let
it go.  Maybe I was feeling guility for too much record buying lately.  But
if somebody thinks a fifteen dollar, VG++, mono copy is worth going back for,
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From: James G <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Simply Faboo Gentle People, Wild Barbara & Bobby G
Date: 13 Apr 1999 19:29:56 -0700


1. I Loooooove the Gentle People, whose infrequently updated web page
says their next release's working title is "Simply Faboo." I even
e-mailed them just yesterday asking to be notified of the release date.
"Comets" doesn't flow like their own CD, but I haven't had it long
enough to really give it a chance. I've probably played Soundtracks at
least 200 times, and never get tired of it - puts me to sleep every
night. Is that good or bad? Try it on  headphones at the dentist with
the nitrous on. Root Canal? What root canal ?

2. Listened to the Wild Angels OST and that could indeed be a
watered-down Barbara Pittman, nowhere near the intensity of some of the
records she made for Sun like "I Need a Man."  "I'm Gettin Better All
the Time" is one of my top ten all-time favorite songs, as it gave some
hope to this hormone-crazed 11 year-old in the late 50's. And it was the
first song i ripped to MP3.

    "Well practice will make perfect so they say,
    A few more days and I'll be doin' fine,
    Tho i'm just an amateur, it won't be long for sure,
    I'm gettin' better all the time."

Exactly what an adolescent boy wants to hear. Think a rockin growling
very horny Wanda Jackson with a sexy country hiccup in her voice.
Barbara has a few songs on Sun's "Those Rockin Girls" compilation and a
low-priced Cd of just her. Fine, fine, fine.

3. Bobby Goldsboro - "Me Japanese Boy, I Love You" turned up in the MP3
newsgroup along with many of his other hits like "See the Funny Little
Clown. Definitely grated cheese, but quite enjoyable now.

4. Re: Obits - Hmmmmm, weren't Boxcar Willie, Slim Whitman, Roger
Whitaker and of course Zamfir pioneers of home music shopping via their
ubiquitous late-night TV commercials ?

JB    (watching Scotty grow)


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Girls in the Garage
Date: 13 Apr 1999 21:36:08 -0500 (CDT)




On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote:

>
> I have the first 7 volumes of Girls in the Garage, and I highly recommend
> them if you enjoy, well, girls playing garage rock. It's raw, it's a
> rockin', it's a lot of fun. Most are in English, though it's often quite
> accented. I can't particularly direct you to a particular one, they're
> all equally good.
>
> I've seen a CD compiling the first 2 albums (I think) but I don't know
> about the CD availability of this series. Also, I've never seen volume 8.
> Does anybody know where I could find it?


Have you tried BOMP?

The thing about BOMP is that you usually
have to order from their shorter list,
and then, when you're on their "a-list",
they will send you the longer list.

I have seen *most* of the GITG LP's
on that list, as well as the CD's.
The CDs are on Romulan.

I have volume one.  It's worth it for
"Chico's Girl alone!"


--

Kerry




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From: David Brock <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Girls In The Garage
Date: 13 Apr 1999 22:17:36 -0700 (PDT)


Hey All!

This is my intro post to the list. I just jumped on
board tonite, thanks to a few forwards from Laura AKA
Jane Fondle. Anyway, I just wanted to comment on the
"Girls In The Garage Series". All are absolutely fab
if you dig garage rock, especially if you dig 60's
punk, as almost all of it leans this direction. I
guess I should clarify this. All of the records have a
few GREAT cuts and the rest is so-so. They all have
enough to justify purchasing them though, which is why
I have continued to snatch them up (oops..no pun
intended). Vol. 8 is the newest and IMHO, the
kitchiest. Most of the tracks are not en Anglais, but
have their appeal. The best track (once again, IMHO)
is the fuzzed-out version of "Hanky Panky" (English
language version- there is also one in Chinese). This
is my least fave of the series, though it has it's
attraction. Very kitschy and I don't really regret
picking it up, though I don't really spin it that
often either. Easy to get through Dionysus.

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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Bonnett)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels
Date: 14 Apr 1999 04:09:41 -0400


>The movie is really good, too, especially for a B-film...it ending sorta
>rings of that "we ran out of money" thing, but it's entertaining and
>sleazy!
>YOW-Jane Fondle


The movie is available from Something Weird Video.  I have no site address
or other contact info for them at this time but I will have it handy
tomorrow in case anyone's interested in picking up the flick.

My Grandfather wrote the original story on which the film is VERY LOOSELY
based.  I'm not even sure he received any credit for it at all.  Not only
that ... my Dad is IN the movie.  Only about five minutes, this is the only
footage of him I know of from when he was an aspiring actor in NYC long
before I was born.

We've had this OST lying around on vinyl for years.  We bring it out now and
then to play in our shop, Bonnett's Bookstore
(http://members.aol.com/kbonnett/bonnetts.htm [click the logo to visit our
site]).  It's nice to know this bit of family nostalgia means something to a
few other folks as well.  : )

My Grandpa was a writer of detective novellas for the pulp magazines of
yesteryear.  One pulp, Black Mask, was considered the cream of the detective
pulp crop and there has been a book published entitled "The Black Mask Boys"
wherein he is mentioned.  He was published in quite a few other titles as
well, but he tends to brush it off saying "I was only trying to put bread on
the table".  He also wrote some "spicy" tales under pseudonyms he claims he
can't recall.  One however was T. Tennob (Bonnett in reverse) and we are
looking for original mags or paperbacks containing his work.  Any help or
actual items would be greatly appreciated!

My Father was married to his first wife back then.  His wife worked as a
secretary in a photography studio, possibly Irving Klaw's.  She knew Betty
Page, but not well.  Dad once missed meeting Betty by a matter of minutes.

Grandpa was a busy man back then, writing, starting up our bookstore, and as
a photographer.  He has mentioned in passing that he is in possession of
negatives from a Betty shoot.  He has no clue where they have ended up over
the years but they are presumed to still be in the family's possession,
somewhere.

Dad and Grandpa are technologically challenged but I've printed your posts
to share with them.  I know they'll get a kick and a half outta this!  If
anyone has anything they'd like to ask them about this let me know.  I'll
happily get them your questions and return the replies.  : )

Ciao 4 now!
Kevin  : )



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From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Alan Lorber Orchestra - Lotus Palace
Date: 14 Apr 1999 09:52:10 +0100


Does anybody know this LP by Alan Lorber. Does it have the sitar version of
Mas Que Nada on it? And is the lp generally any good?





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From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) music to watch comets by
Date: 14 Apr 1999 14:26:59 +0000


Chuck from NOLA wrote:

> I saw Medium Rare is carrying the Gentle People's great compilation
> cd, "Music to Watch Comets By"

Is this exotica music from the 50's and the 60's or is it music
played by contemporary bands, like Gentle People?
Chuck/someone could you please provide a short review of it?
Thank you.
The londoner listee Phil Clark once told (wrote, I mean) me that he
works with ex Clash bassplayer Paul Simonon's sister, and that she is
in the Gentle People. Where's the exotic link? Paul, after the Clash,
had a group called Havana 3 a.m. (Perez Prado's album title, for the
very little few of all you ex-ex [exotic experts] who don't know).
Ciao
Gionni (ex Clash fan)
And "London Calling" is just the best album of the eighties
(although it was released on december 1979).
Second is "Neither Washington Nor Moscow" by The Redskins.
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Alan Lorber Orchestra - Lotus Palace
Date: 14 Apr 1999 08:26:14 EDT


In a message dated 4/14/99 3:50:48 AM EST,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Does anybody know this LP by Alan Lorber. Does it have the sitar version of
 Mas Que Nada on it? And is the lp generally any good? >>


Yes it has a rather tastefully laid back sitar version although it is
somewhat hard to keep a straight face. A pretty decent record that is also
available on CD.

Ashley


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Oscars? Chair Backs?
Date: 14 Apr 1999 08:27:54 EDT


In a message dated 4/13/99 1:13:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< HI! I'm sorry, but I dont understand what you mean... Oscars? Chair Backs?
 >>

In summary to Lou's post, he also told one group of reporter "I want to make
love to all of you!"

A curious thing to say.  Only a slightly kooky foreigner could get away with
that statement in America.

Oh, give us more details on where you are and why you have to stay inside too
much.


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Subject: (exotica) music to watch comets by
Date: 14 Apr 1999 07:28:58 -0700 (PDT)


Greetings Giovanni:

Comets is contemporary released in '97 (I think)  and starts off with the great
Lorraine Bowen doing "Space is the Place"  Its full of contemprary artists Linberg
Hemmer comes in with a great soft gentle people like instrumental. I don't have the cd
with me but it has stood the test of time for me and gets the laser put on it about as
much as any cd I own.  Its very soft music, much in the same vain as the Gentle People.
 Somebody from the list once told me that after I bought the cd I would start looking
for the albums by the individual artists.  He was right.  This cd was definitely
marketed for the shibuya-kei crowd in Japan but there's nothing club about it.  Its
Gentle.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck



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> Is this exotica music from the 50's and the 60's or is it music
> played by contemporary bands, like Gentle People?
> Chuck/someone could you please provide a short review of it?
> Thank you.

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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Jean Vander Pyl, Jim V. Blevins , BoxCar Willie
Date: 14 Apr 1999 10:39:26 -0500


    DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) -- Jean Vander Pyl, the voice of Wilma in ``The
Flintstones'' and the last surviving original cast member of the pioneering
animated series, has died. She was 79.
    Ms. Vander Pyl died Saturday of lung cancer, said Michael O'Meara, one of
her three sons.
    ``The Flintstones,'' a Hanna-Barbera cartoon that humorously chronicled
family life in the Stone Age, ran from 1960 to 1966 and has been in
worldwide syndication ever since.
    Ms. Vander Pyl played the sometimes stern but always loving wife of Fred
Flintstone.
    ``She was an anonymous celebrity,'' O'Meara said. ``You could go out with
her and nobody would recognize her.
    ``All she'd have to do was go `Fr-ed!' and people would say: `Wilma
Flintstone! I grew up with you!' She'd light up the room,'' her son said.
    Ms. Vander Pyl also voiced Rosie the Robot and Mrs. Spacely on ``The
Jetsons'' -- until she became too ill about six months ago. She also made an
appearance in Steven Spielberg's 1994 live-action movie based on the series.

In alt.obituaries, [e-mail] (Lawrence Person) wrote:
Jean Vander Pyl Memorial Haiku
>The Flintstones (cough), meet
>The Flinstones (hack), a modern
>Death age family.
>
>Hey, for a badly
>Animated cartoon femme,
>Wilma was a babe.
>

           NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Jim V. Blevins, the self-proclaimed
``Popcorn King'' who marketed a corn that produced a fluffier, tastier
popcorn to movie theaters and grocery stores, died Monday. He was 87.
    Blevins was operating a Nashville food brokerage business in the 1940s when
he noticed the movie industry boom was boosting sales of popcorn, but
suppliers hadn't caught up.
    Blevins signed a contract to supply all the popcorn for a Middle Tennessee
movie chain, marketing a hybrid corn that produced better-tasting, fluffier
popcorn that allowed operators to get more volume per ounce of corn.
    Blevins Popcorn Co. then helped introduce the Pops-Rite brand to the rest
of the world, marketing the snack in jars of oil ready to pop, in sacks and
with a low-fat buttery seasoning developed in his own kitchen.
    Blevins sold the company in 1961.
    In 1952, he took popcorn to Japanese baseball stands, creating an entity he
later sold to Frito Lay.

April 14, 1999
Boxcar Willie, Country Music's 'Hobo,' Dies at 67
By JON PARELES, NYTimes
     Boxcar Willie, a country singer and songwriter who fashioned himself as
a hobo, died on Monday at his home in Branson, Mo. He was 67.
     The cause was leukemia, his family said.
     With an image built through performances and television commercials,
Boxcar Willie turned a lifelong fascination with trains, train songs and
hobos into a career. He was a country traditionalist whose trademark was an
imitation of a train whistle and whose most popular song was "Train Medley."
In 1986 he settled in Branson, the emerging country music center, and became
a mainstay there, performing year-round at the Boxcar Willie Theater and
often playing six shows a day. One of his hobo outfits now hangs in the
Country Music Hall of Fame.
      Boxcar Willie was the name adopted by Lecil Travis Martin, who was
born in Sterrett, Texas, in 1931. His father was a railroad man who played
the fiddle, and the family home was said to be six feet from the tracks. He
began performing in jamborees across Texas, and at 16 he was appearing
regularly in the Big D Jamboree in Dallas. Then he enlisted in the U.S. Air
Force, where he spent two decades.
      When he retired from the Air Force, he went into radio with the
"Cowtown Hoedown," which was broadcast from Fort Worth. He began performing
in the 1950s as Marty Martin. In the mid-60s in Lincoln, Neb., he saw a hobo
on a freight train who looked like Willie Nelson. He wrote a song about it,
"Boxcar Willie," and went on to adopt the name and image for himself.
Onstage he wore overalls, an old jacket, a crumpled hat and two days' worth
of stubble.
     He kept working as a disk jockey until the mid-70s, when he went into
performing full time. Nelson made a guest appearance on an album he made in
1976. After a 1977 deal with a Scottish booking agent, Boxcar Willie began
touring Britain regularly. He became the most successful country music
performer there. He also began appearing on the country circuit in the
United States and in 1981 joined the Grand Ole Opry. He was named World
Ambassador for the Hobos at a hobo convention in Britt, Iowa, in 1981.
     Bypassing mainstream record labels, Boxcar Willie marketed his 1982
album "King of the Road" (Suffolk Marketing) through television commercials.
He was a regular on the television show "Hee Haw" in the early '80s, and
appeared in "Sweet Dreams," the 1985 movie based on Patsy Cline's life.
     In Branson he became one of the town's most dependable tourist
attractions, operating a motel and a train museum along with the theater.
The Associated Press reported that flags are to be flown at half staff in
Branson until his funeral this weekend. He is survived by his wife, Lloene,
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Subject: (exotica) [fwd] 2 for U
Date: 14 Apr 1999 10:48:39 -0500


Neat-o Suburbia

Greg Knight's Patio Culture site takes us back to those simpler times of
backyard barbecues and the Cold War complete with a recipes for Jello
Vegetable Salad and Meat Loaf.  Sample a clip of the Tiki Lounge's tropical
musical offerings, reminisce about Banana Bikes or find out more about those
fighter planes that helped to keep the Cold
War hot.
http://home.texoma.net/~kgreg

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Spinal Tap

Whatever happened to Spinal Tap?  You know, the band that conquered
Hollywood with the cult film "This Is Spinal Tap."  Well, they may not be
touring, but they do have an Internet presence, which provides Tap Heads
with "reports from the road," behind the scenes scuttlebutt and some
absolutely essential merchandise; and, they are threatening a comeback.
http://www.spinaltap.com




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Subject: (exotica) Hawaiian Exotica- recommendations?
Date: 14 Apr 1999 08:13:37 -0700


I finally got my record player working again (jeez! it's no wonder the lp is
dying when it takes months to get these things repaired!).

Picked up and am liking George Cates' "Polynesian Percussion"... a classic
exotica beat, with vocals and some Hawaiian slide guitar. Definitely liking the
more "hawaiian" sound on this. Any other albums in this genre?

Also, I like some of the Arthur Lyman stuff, especially the Taboo album (and to
a lesser extent "Taboo 2"). A bit more vibey than the Denny stuff (obviously...)

The question is, any recommendations for further exploration? I know there are
some Lyman comps, but I'd rather go the full album route if they are
consistently good like Taboo. I see "Leis of Jazz" which I assume is more jazzy
and thus not to my liking?

Thanks for any recommendations!
-Kevin Crossman
The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai
http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [fwd] 2 for U (Spinal Tap ghost site)
Date: 14 Apr 1999 12:24:13 -0400


>Whatever happened to Spinal Tap?  You know, the band that conquered
>http://www.spinaltap.com

Heh. The Spinal Tap site made it onto the current (March 17) edition of
Ghost Sites:
http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/
Check it out -- very amusing description. I'll just quote his ranking here:

"5 Ghosts -- Site is Stuffed, Embalmed, and Ready for Internet Museum"


m.ace  [e-mail]
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From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Exotica- recommendations?
Date: 14 Apr 1999 12:32:13 -0500


"Kevin C." wrote:

> Picked up and am liking George Cates' "Polynesian Percussion"... a classic
> exotica beat, with vocals and some Hawaiian slide guitar. Definitely liking the
> more "hawaiian" sound on this. Any other albums in this genre?

Are you kidding? I would have no hesitation in saying that as far as finding
exotica related material in thrift venues, Hawaiian albums dominate. Unfortunately
what  50's & 60's Hawaiian record have in quantity the lack in quality. There are
some good pickin's, for instance I enjoy the Webley Edwards series of
instrumentals. I have to admit though I find the sung Hawaiian language somewhat
irritating, so perhaps there are other enthusiasts who can field this one better
than I.


> Also, I like some of the Arthur Lyman stuff, especially the Taboo album (and to
> a lesser extent "Taboo 2"). A bit more vibey than the Denny stuff (obviously...)
>
> The question is, any recommendations for further exploration? I know there are
> some Lyman comps, but I'd rather go the full album route if they are
> consistently good like Taboo. I see "Leis of Jazz" which I assume is more jazzy
> and thus not to my liking?

Yes, Leis of Jazz is more jazzy and therefore, in my book, not as exciting as other
Lyman albums.
Some of my favorites are "Bwana A", "Isle of Enchantment", and "Polynesia".  There
are some adamant Lyman supporters on this list and I'm sure they will be more than
happy to speak up on Lyman recommendations

Frank




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From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Oscars? Chair Backs?
Date: 14 Apr 1999 18:59:34 +0200


>
>Oh, give us more details on where you are and why you have to stay =
inside too=20
>much.


Let me put it like this: Sweden never got spring and summer last year, =
and we have tough winterseasons.
But now! Spring is nearly here! The sun shines!=20

I just washed up my aloha shirts. I am getting ready for mysterious =
felines, robot sea monsters and everything else that may be on my trail. =
:) Its TIKI TIME AGAIN!

M





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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 2 for U (Spinal Tap ghost site)
Date: 14 Apr 1999 13:04:02 -0500


At 12:23 PM 4/14/99 -0400, m.ace wrote:
>Heh. The Spinal Tap site made it onto the current (March 17) edition of
>Ghost Sites:
>http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/
>Check it out -- very amusing description. I'll just quote his ranking here:
>
>"5 Ghosts -- Site is Stuffed, Embalmed, and Ready for Internet Museum"

Well, that's one obit that I missed!! Thanks for the pointer to Ghostsites
-- I haven't been there before.

-ls




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From: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Spider-Man 1968
Date: 14 Apr 1999 22:33:36 -0700


>Does anyone have any information on this?  It may be needle drop music that
is
>unavailable.


I don't remember much about the credits, but the music was credited to a
service, not an individual.




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Spiderman jazz album?
Date: 14 Apr 1999 12:06:48 -0800



Chuck wrote:

A friend has me interested in finding music that was in the original
Spider-Man cartoon from '68., not just the theme but the funky
jazzy BACKGROUND music. My friend seems
to remember reading in an old marvel comic about a spider man
jazz album?

Does anyone have any information on this?  It may be needle drop
music that is unavailable.

************************************

I don't know if this is the music used in the cartoon series,
but check this info on a Freddie McCoy album (available from
www.dustygroove.com):

Freddie McCoy -- Spider Man! . . . CD . . . $19.99
Prestige (Japan), 1966 One of the rarest of the Prestige sides
by the great funky vibist Freddy McCoy! This one never turns
up on vinyl -- perhaps because the cover has a big image of Spider
Man on the front, which might have led Marvel Comics to stop
pressing on this one. The record is one of McCoy's best, and
it's filled with nice groovy soul jazz tracks, all with his heavy
vibes sound in the front of the mix. The album includes a nice
groovy take on "Girl From Ipanema", plus the soul jazz classics
"Speak Out, Deagan!" and "Hav' Mercy". Very nice stuff, and another
reason to buy Japanese reissues!

****************************************

And, from www.allmusic.com, here's the track listing:

1.   Love for Sale (Porter)
2.   Hav' Mercy
3.   Yesterdays (Harbach/Kern)
4.   Girl from Ipanema (DeMoraes/Gimbel/Jobim)
5.   Spider Man
6.   That's All
7.   Speak out Deagan!

*******************************

I can't verify the accuracy of any of the above -- just passing
it along. I'm not an employee of either Dusty Groove or All-Music
either, although I've ordered from DG many times and can recommend
their services.

Informatively,

Wayno





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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Motorbooty #9
Date: 14 Apr 1999 15:15:31 -0500


Hey, it's on the stands!!!


http://www.motorbooty.com/

-ls




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki
Date: 14 Apr 1999 15:23:01 EDT


In a message dated 04/13/99 3:03:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes regarding Ron writing about "watching" some pagen
mating ritual:

<< but feel the jungle sounds! >>

I don't know about "feel[ing] the jungle sounds" -- Ron would want to
feelthemonkey!!!!!  as long as it HIS OWN monkey I have no problem with this.


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From: David Brock <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) RE: Girls In The Garage
Date: 14 Apr 1999 12:38:55 -0700 (PDT)


OOPS!

I made a booboo. The "Girls In The Garage" series is
on Romulan Records, and is available through Get Hip!
and maybe Bomp! But I know for a fact that Get Hip!
does distro for Romulan. Sorry to anyone I sent on a
wild goose chase to Dionysus!

Dave


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Exotica- recommendations?
Date: 14 Apr 1999 15:37:54 EDT


In a message dated 04/14/99 11:12:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Picked up and am liking George Cates' "Polynesian Percussion"... a classic
 exotica beat, with vocals and some Hawaiian slide guitar. Definitely liking
the
 more "hawaiian" sound on this. Any other albums in this genre? >>

i discovered this about 9 months ago and took a very strong liking to it.  i
especially like his "moon over manakoora"  (sp???) arrangement.  his other
lp's are not as exotic.

there were a few comments on the list that were negative on this lp.  i will
be curious to see if they come up again.


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From: King Kini <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Satan in High Heels
Date: 14 Apr 1999 21:17:08 -0600


i just stubled on a pretty good review of this LP:

http://www.visionx.com/jazz/REVIEWS/R0298_29.HTM

enjoy!

 - kk



visit...

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From: [e-mail] (kevin leeeeee)
Subject: (exotica) lust in space
Date: 14 Apr 1999 23:55:17 -0700 (PDT)


hey,
for those in the LA area... i'm dj'ing this shindig saturday as well as
providing video projection.  think sexy psychedelic sci-fi funky
retro-future spaced out audio/visual experience.  plus there's a bunch of
bands including Astro Panties which is sort of like missing persons/blondie
new wave punk.  they are quite cool.

i can't vouch for the other dj but i can guarantee from me a very
space-sex-themed set that will be both sensual and danceable.

by the way, in my quest for the ultimate sex in space movie clips i came
(?) across some really interesting films you may want to check out
sometime:

Future Woman (Jess Franco,1968?)
The Love Factor (?-British, 1969)
Love Drones (???, 1970's hardcore space porn)
Galaxina (1980 spoof of star wars/trek)

i really dug Future Woman.  extremely hot eurobabes in future-tights with
huge guns rule an all-female island called "Femina".  look for this.  i
think it's available from sinister cinema.

hope to see you there l.a. people,
kevin leeeeee

>LUST IN SPACE!
>
>
>
>April 17, 1999
>Doors Open 9:00 p.m.
>Gallery B-12, 1645 N. Ivar, Hollywood
>$5.00 suggested donation
>
>************************************************************************
>
>DRESS CODE:  Barbarella goes Y2K meets the Jetsons using a space-age
>polymer
>*************************************************************************
>
>DJ's Perry Bathous and Kevin Leeeeee
>Theremin performance by Charlie Lester
>Match Game 2076
>Artworks from the cryogenically frozen head of master cartoonist and
>pedophile Bil Keane
>Accolades for sartorial brilliance/Future Shock fashion show
>The space-age musical stylings of BRAIN GARDEN
>-and-
>Matty SparTAYcus Mutator and his dancing Space-Kittens!
>Vide-O-Ho HO
>Other Surprises...?
>
>
>Mayor "Jupiter" Jim King, Wayne "Mercury" Manous and "Rocket" Robson
>will be waiting to greet you upon impact
>
>Drink Tatooine Tang with Eric "Mork" Howard and "Martian Princess"
>Milena
>
>Your prime directives:  (1) decide what to wear (futurefuck attire IS
>mandatory)  (2) RSVP to [e-mail]!
>
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From: [e-mail] (kevin leeeeee)
Subject: (exotica) lust in space (update)
Date: 14 Apr 1999 23:58:21 -0700 (PDT)


sorry,
here's the updated, better written info:


Saturday, April 17, 9 p.m.
The Los Angeles Cacophony Society Presents

L U S T   I N   S P A C E

It's spring and time for all jetboys and astrogirls to awake from their
frozen hypersleep to obey the gene-spreading imperative.  Across the
galaxy, bug-eyed daredevils just like you risk burnout on reentry to fill
dangerous cantinas crawling with potential spawn-mates. Join them Saturday,
April 17 at Gallery B-12, 1645 North Ivar, Hollywood.  Don't forget your
spacey duds for admission discount ($4.00, $6.00 without.)

SCHEDULED FOR REENTRY:

* Hyperwave Glamour Pop of ASTROPANTIES, vibrating with the magnetic
astrophysicality of Space Siren Vylette.

* Electrified monkey marching band APE HAS KILLED APE performing "Conquest
of Ape has Killed Ape" on trombone, sax, Moog, surge, and Theremin along
with guest appearances by Bill Blake * of the '70s Planet of the Apes
television show) and Natalie Trundy, * veteran of Conquest of... Beneath
the.. Escape from...and Battle for.... The Planet of the Apes).

* Electronic hypno-stim by BRAIN GARDEN.

* Outerworldly oscillations by Thereminist CHARLIE LESTER.

* Percussionist MATTY THE MUTATOR hammering out cosmic cadences on assorted
space junk along with squirming astral bodies Electra and Fiery Felines.

* Punk electronique ROBOT MONSTER unleashes terrifying anal-ogue assault.

* Bad girl KARI KAOS, aka. the "Pussy Print-cess," performing a Spacetease.

* DJs PERRY BATHOUS and KEVIN LEEEEE spinning out-of-orbit tunes.

* Light & multimedia effects by MUTECH.

More info:
e-mail [e-mail], [phone]

More info on Show:
http://www.cacophony.org/la/thismonth.html#event2

Map to Show
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=1645+North+Ivar&csz=Los+Angel
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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Independent article on the Theremin
Date: 15 Apr 1999 05:46:35


I thought the list might find the following interesting.

Brad
--------
Arts: Woooo-eeeee The theremin was the first electronic instrument.
Invented by
  a Russian  spy, it defined the sinister score of Hitchcock's Spellbound
and
  gave a groundbreaking sound to the Beach Boys' `Good Vibrations'. By
Robert
                                      Webb

                   (Independent - London; 04/13/99)

   In 1945, Alfred Hitchcock was searching for a new sound. His Freudian
chiller, Spellbound, required a score that would really raise goosebumps.
Hitchcock's composer, Miklos Rozsa, suggested using the theremin. Hitch
agreed
to give it a go although, Rozsa recalled later, he wasn't exactly sure if you
"ate it or took it for headaches". In fact, the theremin had been around
for 25
years and could lay claim as the earliest viable electronic musical
instrument.
Its ethereal wail was perfect for the psychotic terror that seeped through
the
film.

   The theremin was named after its inventor, Leon Theremin, born in Russia
in
1896. The leading authority on both man and machine is Albert Glinsky. "He
was
an extraordinary inventor," says Glinsky. "He supported the Bolsheviks in
1917
and after the Revolution was in Leningrad working on surveillance equipment
and
pioneering an early form of television. The instrument that bears his name
was
developed in 1920 while he was experimenting with radio apparatus to measure
the dielectric constant of gasses."

   This seems as improbable as Adolphe Sax stumbling across the saxophone
whilst plumbing in a U-bend, but no less sensational is the invention itself.
It resembles no more than a plain box of coils and wires with a couple of
aerials protruding. Operation is quite simple, but fiendishly difficult to
master.  Glinsky explains: "Two high- frequency oscillators generate an
identical note beyond the reach of human hearing. The theremin allows the
natural body capacitance of the hands to control electrical fields in the air
between the antennae."

   Astonishingly, the theremin is unique as the only musical instrument
played
with no actual physical contact. With one hand controlling the pitch, and the
other the volume, the chaotic whines and groans can be modulated to produce
discrete musical pitches. Played proficiently, the sound is not unlike the
human voice, a kind of ghost in the machine. Imagine listening to the Star
Trek
theme on shortwave radio.

   Leon Theremin unsurprisingly attracted the attention of the KGB and his
invention was classified as top secret. To escape the restrictions on his
work,
he fled Russia for the United States in 1927. "In America it was announced
as a
magical device which heralded a new era in electronic music," says Glinsky.
RCA
were quick to see the novelty value and manufactured 500, backed by a fierce
publicity campaign. Many people were unsure what to make of the new gadget.
Even more baffling was how to play it. "I almost don't like to say this, but
it's really the most difficult musical instrument in the world to play,"
admits
Glinsky.

   At home, the untutored player simply had to imagine the notes and grope
around in the air, hoping for the best. "Most people found it impossible,
managing little more than a police-siren squeal. So they gave up and left
it to
gather dust in the garage." Only a few budding players became skilled. One
virtuoso was Samuel Hoffman, a New York chiropodist. The theremin became a
trademark in the NBC band, for whom Hoffman, when he wasn't shaving corns,
played the violin. It attracted his attention and before long Hoffman was
transforming himself into Hal Hope, celebrated bandleader and theremin player.

   For a while, Hoffman was famous in Manhattan dancehalls, where his
orchestra
was billed as the "casino in the air". Eventually though, the theremin was
just
another gimmick: it failed to bring about the expected revolution in
electronic
music. "The anticipated technical developments just never happened," says
Glinsky, "so people lost interest." Hoffman went back to his day job and,
despondent, Leon Theremin returned to the Soviet Union in 1938, where he was
imprisoned for "un-Soviet activities".

   When Hitchcock's composer phoned the Hollywood musicians' union in 1945
for
someone to play his score, there was only one thereminist listed who could
read
music: Dr Samuel J Hoffman. Hoffman's performance on Spellbound revived his
thrilled cinema-goers. In 1947, he teamed up with British songwriter Harry
Revel and full orchestra to record Music Out Of The Moon, the first in a
series
of 78s for Capital records, now the subject of a repackaged CD set. With
selections entitled "Lunar Rhapsody", "Celestial Nocturne" and "Radar Blues",
it presented music which, according to the sleeve notes, "can affect the
sensitive mind in a way that is sometimes frightening... always fascinating".

   It was followed by two more recordings in 1948 and 1950: Music For Peace
Of
Mind and Perfume Set To Music, with arrangements by Billy May and the carpet-
slipper king of lounge music, Les Baxter. The theremin was back. Dr Hoffman's
career took off: he remained in Hollywood and through the Fifties tingled
spines on many classic sci- fi soundtracks, notably Bernard Herrmann's The
Day
The Earth Stood Still.

   Twenty-one years after Hitchcock first took the theremin to the movies,
Brian Wilson was also in Hollywood, recording one of pop's greatest three-
and-
a-half minutes. "Good Vibrations" was the Beach Boy's second song to feature
the theremin: the first being "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times". A vital
contribution to an astonishing record, it quickly became a pet sound. The
following year Captain Beefheart reputedly drafted in none other than Sam
Hoffman to electrify his first album, Safe as Milk. The theremin, in various
customised forms, has since provided a background hum for artists as
diverse as
Kraftwerk, Paul Weller and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. Jimmy Page has a
special
fondness for it, using it on Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" and on the
recent Page and Plant tour. Hawkwind's thereminist, it is rumoured, even
fashioned an axe-shaped version to fit in with his local music scene. The
ultimate air guitar, you might say.

   A few models have even found their way into museums. This month, the
Science
Museum in London is staging The Aetherphon, a dramatised history of the
instrument. The organiser, Geraint Thomas, is excited. "We were one of the
first to show a practical interest in the theremin. Our player, Andrew
Mackay,
studied under Lydia Kavina, a niece of Leon Theremin and a skilled player in
her own right."

   And Leon Theremin himself? In the early Nineties, Albert Glinsky met him
in
New York, filming a documentary about his long and improbable life. "Most
people assumed he was dead," recalls Glinsky. "In fact, he'd been working at
Moscow University but was shunned because of his work for the KGB. Although
he
had played in Europe in the mid-Eighties, this was the first time he had been
in the US since he left in 1938. It was a very moving occasion." In 1991, two
years before his death at 97, Leon Theremin was publicly honoured as the
godfather of electronic music. Without him, we would have had no good
vibrations.

   Other Early Electronic Instruments:

   Ondes Martenot Invented in 1928, it was the first successful electronic
instrument that is still regularly used by orchestras today. Its primitive
tones were first harnessed by Edgar Varese, the pioneer of artificial
sound, on
his Ecuatorial (1933-4), paving the way for experimental works by John Cage,
Stockhausen and Messiaen (notably his exuberant Turangalila Symphony).

   Rhythmicon American avant-garde composer Henry Crowell built the first
electronic rhythm machine in 1930. In the Fifties it pulsed on producer Joe
Meek's early recordings. Later, it was sampled by Tangerine Dream and
reputedly
used by Pink Floyd on Atom Heart Mother (1969).

   Clavoline The clavoline arrived in 1947 and was used by composer John
Barry
before becoming the sound of the future thanks to the Tornados' hit "Telstar"
(1962), produced by Joe Meek. It was used, incidentally, by Stanley Kubrick
in
Dr Strangelove (1963).

   Electronium and Clavivox A couple of the many gizmos developed in the
Fifties and Sixties by the composer, engineer, and electro genius Raymond
Scott. The Clavivox was one of the first polyphonic sequencers and the
Electronium was used on his album of ambient lullabies, Soothing Sounds For
Baby (1963), which was recently reissued on Basta records. Scott also wrote
merry melodies for Warner Bros cartoons and in the Seventies he was hired
as an
electronics whiz-kid at Motown Records.

   Moog Synthesiser Robert Moog developed his ideas for an electronic
instrument from building and selling theremin kits in 1961. After the success
of Walter Carlos's Switched On Bach (1968) everyone seemed to be using a
moog.
Except Queen, who declared in their credits "no synthesisers!".

   Mellotron Built by West Midlands firm Streetly Electronics, the first
mellotron arrived in 1963. Its most famous appearance was on the Beatles'
"Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967) and it was beloved of Seventies prog
rockers. A set of keys triggered taped recordings of musical instruments.
Most
models had to be junked when the tapes stretched and the distortion became
too
much.

   Stylophone This monophonic xylophone had all the musical sophistication
of a
klaxon. Manufactured by Dubreq in the late- Sixties, it was heavily
promoted by
Rolf Harris. David Bowie radioed Ground Control with it on "Space Oddity"
(1969).

   `Dr Hoffman and the Theremin' is available from Basta Records/Direct
Distribution. Albert Glinsky's biography of Theremin, `Out of the Air' will
be
published next year. The Aetherphon is on at the Science Museum, London, 17
and
18 April

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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "The Sound of Speed"
Date: 15 Apr 1999 05:49:35


If anyone on the list has a copy of "The Sound of Speed" by Bob Thompson,
can you do me a favor?  Send me a note telling me who's listed as the
producer.

I just interviewed Bob for "Cool & Strange Music" magazine.  He's living up
near Grass Valley, California.  I asked him if he considered himself
retired.  "I consider myself out of work!" he replied.

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Anthony Newley, Jean Vander Pyl, Bill Wendell
Date: 15 Apr 1999 10:09:54 -0500


                          *Anthony Newley
    STUART, Fla. (AP) -- British entertainer Anthony Newley, known for the
stage hit ``Stop the World -- I Want To Get Off'' and the 1967 film version
of the children's classic ``Doctor Doolittle,'' died Wednesday of cancer. He
was 67.
    The actor, playwright, author, composer, lyricist and singer was first
diagnosed in 1985 with renal cell cancer and had one kidney removed. After
years of good health, the cancer returned in 1997.
    Newley had lived in Surrey, England, about 35 miles outside of London, for
years and moved to Florida permanently in December.
    The former husband of actress Joan Collins, Newley shot to fame as the
Artful Dodger in the 1948 film version of ``Oliver Twist.''
    He became an international star and during his heyday had a series of hit
records, appeared in a string of films and was a major live performer in Las
Vegas.
    Newley co-wrote the score for the hit musicals ``Stop The World -- I Want
To Get Off,'' ``Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory'' and ``The Roar of
The Greasepaint -- The Smell of the Crowd.''
    He also wrote a number of best-selling hit singles, including ``What Kind
Of Fool Am I?'', ``The Candy Man'' and ``Goldfinger.''
http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?p=amg&sql=B109501
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?p=avg&sql=BP104367
http://elvispelvis.com/anthonynewley.htm
Jean Vander Pyl, 79, the Voice of Wilma on `The Flintstones'
By REUTERS
DANA POINT, Calif. -- Jean Vander Pyl, the voice of Wilma Flintstone, whose
trademark yell, "Fre-e-e-ed," was heard in homes around the world as she
shouted at her husband in the popular Hanna-Barbera television cartoon
series, died on Saturday at her home here. She was 79.

The cause was lung cancer, said her son Michael O'Meara.

Ms. Vander Pyl, who played a host of characters in various radio shows and
animated television series, was also the voice of Pebbles, the Flintstone's
daughter, and did extra duty as Mrs. Slate, the wife of Fred Flintstone's boss.

After graduating from Beverly Hills High School, Ms. Vander Pyl got her
start as a radio actress in the radio series "Calling All Cops," the
precursor to television's "Dragnet," mostly playing damsels in distress. She
went on to play the mother on radio's "Father Knows Best" and Andy's many
girlfriends on "Amos 'n'Andy."

In addition to "The Flintstones" she was featured on that show's space-age
counterpart, "The Jetsons," in which she performed the voices of seven
characters, including George Jetson's mother-in-law, George's secretary,
Rosie the robot maid and Mrs. Spacely, the boss's wife.

But she was known around the world as the voice of Wilma Flintstone. The
show ran for six years, from 1960 to 1966, and was seen in more than 80
countries in syndication.

Even today it is estimated that not a minute goes by in which "The
Flintstones" is not being watched somewhere in the world.

"She was an anonymous celebrity," O'Meara said. "You could go out with her
and nobody would recognize her.

But while people everywhere were listening to Ms. Vander Pyl's voice, she
was not hearing the ring of the cash register.

She told an interviewer in 1995 that she received $250 an episode for making
the show and that when the series ended, she rushed to accept $15,000 in
lieu of residual payments from syndication.

At that time she lived in nearby San Clemente and ruefully observed: "If I
got residuals I wouldn't live in San Clemente. I'd own San Clemente."

In addition to her son Michael, of Dana Point, she is survived by two other
sons, Timothy O'Meara of Northridge, Calif., and Roger DeWitt of New York;
two stepsons, Anthony DeWitt of New York and Peter DeWitt of June Lake,
Calif., and three grandchildren.
April 15, 1999
Bill Wendell, 75, Announcer on David Letterman Show
By ANTHONY RAMIREZ, NYTimes
Bill Wendell, a radio and television announcer whose crisp authoritative
voice provided an ironic foil to entertainers from Ernie Kovacs to David
Letterman, died Wednesday at a hospice in Boca Raton, Fla. He was 75.

The cause of death was complications from cancer, said one of his daughters,
Francette Nunziata.

Until his retirement in 1995, Wenzel was most recently known for the
off-stage introduction of guests at the beginning of Letterman's show at NBC
and later CBS. The introductions typically began with a municipal
characterization like, "From New York, mountain fortress of the ancient
Incas, it's 'Late Night With David Letterman . . .' "

But Wendell also worked with Bob Hope, Dave Garroway, Jack Paar, Merv
Griffin, Gary Moore, Alan King, Tom Snyder, Billy Crystal and Jerry
Seinfeld. But what brought him the earliest and widest attention was his
work in the 1950's as the on-air sidekick for Ernie Kovacs, Mrs. Nunziata said.

"They were always playing practical jokes on each other," his daughter
recalled. "One time Ernie was supposed to gulp a big martini, but it was
supposed to be filled with water, only it was really filled with vodka. He
spit it out and started coughing like crazy on live national television. Dad
and his cronies were laughing their heads off."

Wendell was born William Joseph Wenzel, Jr. on March 22, 1924, in New York
City to William J. Wenzel , a beverage distributor and an owner of several
Manhattan fruit stands, and Mildred S. Wenzel, a housewife. After serving in
the United States Army Air Corps in World War II, he worked in radio and
early television. He had taken the professional name of Wendell "because he
wanted to give his family some privacy and maybe a German name at that time
wasn't that popular," Mrs. Nunziata said.

Wendell then went on to work as a staff radio and television announcer for
NBC, on call for network promotions, special news bulletins and network
identifications.

In addition to his daughter Mrs. Nunziata of Pelham Manor, N.Y., Wendell is
survived by his wife, Anne Wenzel; two other daughters, Anne Wenzel Markgraf
of Burbank, California, and Elizabeth Hansbury of White Plains; two sons,
William J. Wenzel 3d of Southport, Conn., and Richard Eustace Wenzel of
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Subject: (exotica) Speaking of the Theremin...
Date: 15 Apr 1999 09:26:31 -0500


I'm wondering if there is any discography
of *available* recordings on which
theremin is featured prominently.

I'd like to add more theremin to my
collection, but I'm having trouble
finding stuff -- it's not as if a
keyword search for "theremin"
produces results.

Also, are there any web sites that
are dedicated to the *music* of the
theremin (as opposed to, say, the
construction of one)?


Thanks for any info!


--

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Subject:  Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Exotica- recommendations?
Date: 15 Apr 1999 10:32:04 -0400


>> Picked up and am liking George Cates' "Polynesian Percussion"... a classic
>> exotica beat, with vocals and some Hawaiian slide guitar. Definitely
>>liking the
>> more "hawaiian" sound on this. Any other albums in this genre?
>
>Are you kidding? I would have no hesitation in saying that as far as finding
>exotica related material in thrift venues, Hawaiian albums dominate.
>Unfortunately
>what  50's & 60's Hawaiian record have in quantity the lack in quality.


About every six months, another listee discovers _Polynesian Percussion_,
and is totally blown away by it--asking, "why have I never heard of this
before?"  I know, because I was one of them!

Now, Frank is right, there is a ton of budget-label "Hawaiian" dreck out
there--in fact the real problem is that the same tracks (by some anonymous
Nashville session men, IMO) get endlessly recycled under different album
and track names. But it would be a big mistake to put Cates' album in the
same category.

To my mind, there are a few things that make _PP_ an Exotica classic: It
mixes the Hawaiian guitar sound with crisp Latin percussion and wordless
vocals, all beautifully recorded. And the totally unique element is the use
of the Novachord organ--which especially in the bass registers simply has
the most odd, wonderful tone of any keyboard. So I don't know if Kevin will
ever find another album exactly "in this genre."

Maybe somebody else knows more about the Novachord, but apparently it was
Hammond's 1939 attempt to make an organ using all tube oscillators, rather
than the usual rotary tone wheels. So in that sense it qualifies as one
of the earliest multiple-timbre synthesizers. Unfortunately an organ that
used about 100 vacuum tubes was not exactly reliable, so Hammond abandoned
it a few years later.

I don't know if anyone really was too negative about _Polynesian
Percussion_, but it's true that on first listen it doesn't come across as
particularly energetic (e.g. compared to Martin Denny). But after a couple
of listens, I find that the spaciousness and uncanny "rightness" of the
sounds is really wonderful. The big mystery is why the rest of Cates'
career (as music director for the Lawrence Welk organization) was so
forgettable.

cheers,

 --Ross

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Subject: (exotica) Theremin
Date: 15 Apr 1999 10:33:31 -0400


It's funny that the article Brad posted didn't mention Clara Rockmore once.
She was Leon's own protege, and I think they toured together in the US
to demonstrate the Theremin.

A while back I got her CD _The Art of the Theremin_ (?)--out of the library
and it was kind of interesting. Produced by (and with liner notes from)
Robert Moog. But I wouldn't call it exotica. It was basically classical
music with Theremin taking the vocal parts. (In some places you wouldn't be
able to tell the difference between the Theremin and a female singer with a
head cold.)

oooeeeeee,

 --Ross

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Subject: (exotica) Who mentioned Bobby Conn?
Date: 15 Apr 1999 10:54:57 -0400


I spoke too soon saying I had never heard of Bobby Conn.
Just before I threw out one of the weekly papers, I noticed that in fact
Bobby Conn played here in town this week.
I can't tell much about him from the article but the opening line is:

"Bobby Conn is indie rock's first ever Jewish glam-funk Antichrist".

Sorry I missed him.

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Subject: (exotica) Speaking of the Theremin...
Date: 15 Apr 1999 11:04:33 -0500


At 09:26 AM 4/15/99 -0500, Kerry wrote:
>I'd like to add more theremin to my collection, but I'm having trouble
finding stuff -- it's not as if a keyword search for "theremin" produces
results.

Well, you could check the list of Bob Moog's clients at his Big Briar site:
http://bigbriar.com/artists.htm

http://www.telalink.net/~theremin/TBandsNZ.html
- This page lists some bands believed to be currently using theremins. For a
list of past recordings (The Beach Boys, etc...), go to the Theremin
Recordings page.

The Theremin Home Page - Recordings
http://www.telalink.net/~theremin/TRecordings.html
- This page lists known recordings of theremins as well as appearances on
radio, film, etc. For current performances, click here. "Final Alice" This
work by David Del Tredici is inspired by "Alice in Wonderland" and features
a theremin in a section entitled "Alice's Growing Music".


>Also, are there any web sites that are dedicated to the *music* of the
theremin (as opposed to, say, the construction of one)?

You didn't say which sites you've already seen, so here's a bunch to check out:

"Theremin": Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
http://www.nd.edu/~astrouni/zhiwriter/spool/95121705.htm

http://www.theremin.com/

http://www.nashville.net/~theremin/library.html
This page will contain pointers to various online articles, stories,
thoughts, etc. It will also server as a general index to articles in other
portions of the Theremin Home Page.

http://adsr.com/Instruments/Theremin/

CDeMUSIC: Mastering the Theremin
http://www.cdemusic.org/videos/master.theremin.html
- Mastering the Theremin This is an instructional videotape in which Robert
Moog guides you through six lessons in theremin technique as virtuosa Lydia
Kavina performs.

Covenant - Theremin EP
http://www.cyberden.com/cyberden/21st/Covenant/Theremin/Theremin.html

http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/~kskeldon/PubSci/exhibits/E9/
http://www.physics.gla.ac.uk/gusto/pubsci/exhibits/e9/index.htm

http://www.onr.com/user/kknippa/theremin.htm

http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/leadheads/leadheads-mail/09-94/msg00072.html

http://www.exploratorium.edu/xref/exhibits/theremin.html

Folk Stuff
http://rogo.com/folkstuff/
A web site dedicated to providing how to and where to information for folk
musicians and those designing and building folk and experimental musical
instruments; including dulcimers, autoharps, kalimbas, theremins,
didjeridus, pennywhistles and flutes.
(I love that theremins are included in a list of folk instruments! - Lou)

Ishibashi-Music / Theremin.
http://www.ishibashi.co.jp/theremin/theremin.htm

King of the Hillbilly Theremin
http://www.ipahome.com/hillbilly.html

Neil's Theremin Page
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~flook/theremin.htm

Ojai Film Society's Theremin Festival |~
http://www.137.com/ojai/

Out of Thin Air, Theremin and the Age of Ether
http://www.he.net/~enternet/teci/glinsky/glinsky.htm
- I am the author of "Out of Thin Air: Theremin and the Age of Ether," to be
published by University of Illinois Press. This book was originally my PhD.
dissertation at NYU, completed in 1991.

http://pat.nyser.net/powderworks-archive/Jul-98/0235.html

Sagebrush Systems Home Page for audio, sound card software
http://www.sagebrush.com/
Innovative audio software and sound card application shareware for Windows,
including  mouse theremin

TELMIN'S Theremin Page
http://www.ifnet.or.jp/~fujino/theremi5.htm

http://www.ccsi.com/~bobs/lkav.html
- Lydia Kavina new CD availability Mode Records (http://www.mode.com) has
announced an upcoming CD of music written for the theremin, and says that it
will be the first ever ever devoted to music written expressly for the
theremin.

THEREMIN
http://www.ccsi.com/~bobs/therbib.html
http://www.ccsi.com/~bobs/shewell.html
http://www.ccsi.com/~bobs/howerca.html

THEREMIN: AN ELECTRONIC ODYSSEY
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_reviews/1995/12/1011551.html

http://www.he.net/~enternet/teci/bible/content/content.htm

The Paul Tanner Electro-Theremin Page
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/4611/tannerin.html

The Theremin Home Page
http://www.nashville.net/~theremin/

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Subject: (exotica) My favorite theremin photo
Date: 15 Apr 1999 11:43:34 -0500


Check out the "Jews of the '50s in 3D" page at:
http://www.users.interport.net/~edrys/jews.html
Scroll down to the "OOOOEEEEOOOO... (The Theremin)" link.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Who mentioned Bobby Conn?
Date: 15 Apr 1999 10:47:41 -0500


Nat Kone wrote:
>
> I spoke too soon saying I had never heard of Bobby Conn.
> Just before I threw out one of the weekly papers, I noticed that in fact
> Bobby Conn played here in town this week.
> I can't tell much about him from the article but the opening line is:
>
> "Bobby Conn is indie rock's first ever Jewish glam-funk Antichrist".
>
> Sorry I missed him.
>

You should get a load of his *threads*, his hair
and his shades.

--

Kerry


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From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Software Theremin
Date: 15 Apr 1999 16:56:41 +0100


If anybody wants a software theremin operated by the mouse (up/down volume
- Left/right pitch ), email me and when I'm less busy I'll mail it.

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Subject: (exotica) my second favorit theremin photo
Date: 15 Apr 1999 12:02:32 -0500


If you go to the "Theremin Recordings and Appearances" page at:
http://www.telalink.net/~theremin/TRecordings.html#BANDS
and scroll down a bit, you'll find this band bio with accompanying photo:

 The Baskervils
The Baskervils were a four-piece new wave glam band in the spirit of
everything from Blondie and the Damned to the New York Dolls and Brian Eno.
The Baskervils released a vinyl EP in 1994-HEAR ARE THE AIR RAIDS, and
produced a CD compilation of Florida bands called YOUNG SAVAGE FLORIDA
(including two cuts from founding Badfinger drummer, Mike Gibbins.)
The Baskervils were (left to right): Craig van Orsdale (drums, percussion),
Tom Gagnier (bass), the ever-groovy Lounge Laura Taylor (former member -
vocals, keys, theremin), and Rob Keith (guitars, vocals, keys).

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Subject: Re: (exotica) "The Sound of Speed"
Date: 15 Apr 1999 12:08:31 -0400




I just interviewed Bob for "Cool & Strange Music" magazine.  He's living up
near Grass Valley, California.  I asked him if he considered himself
retired.  "I consider myself out of work!" he replied.

Brad


>>>WOW!  That's depressing...He's so amazing...Speaking of him, and this is
something that would hopefully elevate both his status and state, wasn't
there supposed to be some reissues or best-ofs released of his work?
Cleve? or somebody told me that, and I think it was to be put out by one of
the WFMU crew...
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Theremin
Date: 15 Apr 1999 13:35:01 -0400


>It's funny that the article Brad posted didn't mention Clara Rockmore once.
>She was Leon's own protege, and I think they toured together in the US
>to demonstrate the Theremin.
>
>A while back I got her CD _The Art of the Theremin_ (?)--out of the library
>and it was kind of interesting. Produced by (and with liner notes from)
>Robert Moog. But I wouldn't call it exotica. It was basically classical
>music with Theremin taking the vocal parts. (In some places you wouldn't be
>able to tell the difference between the Theremin and a female singer with a
>head cold.)
>
>

It's on Delos Records. A mostly classical label (lots of Howard Hanson,
David Diamond)
Released 1987.
http://www.delosmus.com/de10/de1014.html
Also has a review by the Patriot Ledger here in Massachusetts.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) my second favorit theremin photo
Date: 15 Apr 1999 12:24:40 -0400


While we are on, uh, me...there is also one of my former band, Thee
Cryptkicker 5, on that and the Theremin home page...Thanks for the
memories, Lou!
Jane Fondle, aka Lounge Laura, or Laura Taylor, or ...uh..braggart, I
guess! ;0






Lou Smith <[e-mail]> on 04/15/99 01:02:32 PM

cc:    (bcc: Laura Taylor/ADM/Boston MA/C&L/US)





If you go to the "Theremin Recordings and Appearances" page at:
http://www.telalink.net/~theremin/TRecordings.html#BANDS
and scroll down a bit, you'll find this band bio with accompanying photo:

 The Baskervils
The Baskervils were a four-piece new wave glam band in the spirit of
everything from Blondie and the Damned to the New York Dolls and Brian Eno.
The Baskervils released a vinyl EP in 1994-HEAR ARE THE AIR RAIDS, and
produced a CD compilation of Florida bands called YOUNG SAVAGE FLORIDA
(including two cuts from founding Badfinger drummer, Mike Gibbins.)
The Baskervils were (left to right): Craig van Orsdale (drums, percussion),
Tom Gagnier (bass), the ever-groovy Lounge Laura Taylor (former member -
vocals, keys, theremin), and Rob Keith (guitars, vocals, keys).

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Subject: (exotica) gentle people/medium rare
Date: 15 Apr 1999 11:52:56 -0500


All this raving about the gentle people has me eager to hear more.  How can I get in touch
with Medium Rare. Are they on the net?


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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 7" Sleeve Gallery
Date: 15 Apr 1999 19:10:30 +0100


I just stumbled over this site

http://3rdSE.com/ac.htm

Which is a fantastic gallery of 7" US-release picture sleeves, and
there's some real crackers in there -- I was particularly fond of Hub
Kapp and the Wheels, as well as Bob McFadden doing the "Dracula Cha
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Subject: (exotica) gentle people/othermusic/medium rare
Date: 15 Apr 1999 11:31:07 -0700 (PDT)




If you are looking for The Gentle People Cd it is carried by both
Other Music http://www.othermusic.com [phone] ask for Tom and
Medium Rare at http://www.neucast.com/mediumrare/mrrmore1.html  (415)
255-7273.

Music To Watch Comets By is also carried at both stores.  This is a
pretty dificult cd to find compared to Gentle People  I have seen the
vinyl version of the GP's  1st album for sale, maybe it was other
music but I think it was Secret Sounds.

Other Music generally has better prices then MR, a larger selection
and  Other Music carries vinyl, I am not sure if Medium Rare carries
vinyl.  However Medium Rare displays all the goodies very seductively
with little descriptions of the music. Medium Rare is a very nice
store to "window shop" at.

One of my favorite quirks at the medium rare site is they still list
"Dig It, The Sound of Phase 4" compiled by the Karminsky Experience
for sale even though its been out of print for some time and they
don't have a copy to sell.  Look at the bottom for it in the small
print.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

---Paul Dean  wrote:

  All this raving about the gentle people has me eager to hear more.
How can I get in touch with Medium Rare. Are they on the net?

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Date: 15 Apr 1999 16:01:23 -0400


To all my friends and flame/foes:  The network at my office will be down
from Friday, 3pm until sometime Mon.pm. I'm just letting you know this in
case you write me, and it bounces back.
Thanks, Jane Fondle
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Who mentioned Bobby Conn?
Date: 15 Apr 1999 18:59:26 -0400



>"Bobby Conn is indie rock's first ever Jewish glam-funk Antichrist".
>
>Sorry I missed him.
+
>You should get a load of his *threads*, his hair
>and his shades.

that was me Nat.
wow, on tour even. too much. too much. (said in best Snagglepuss voice)

my eyes are peeled!

i'm telling ya this guy has got to be something to check out.
i am going by just by how he looks and described.
could be our 00's answer to Heino. we can only hope.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Who mentioned Bobby Conn?
Date: 15 Apr 1999 22:09:02 -0500


>i'm telling ya this guy has got to be something to check out.
>i am going by just by how he looks and described.
>could be our 00's answer to Heino. we can only hope.
I have Bobby Conn's two albums, and I actually saw him perform live a few
months ago. He put on an incredible show, wearing a very tight, white,
70s style ski *thing*. The violinist wore leather or rubber, I couldn't
really see; the very tall bassist kept kicking the air in mock kung-fu
moves, while making demonic faces to the audience. Oh yes, they rocked
too. I wouldn't call them "exotic"--though if your definition of "exotic"
stretches to include anything really weird, then they were exotic. Lyrics
are full of pseudo-religious imagery and the music has somewhat of a
"prog" bent sometimes, though it stays under control.

Elisabeth


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Subject: (exotica) Re: Attn: Martini fans
Date: 15 Apr 1999 22:50:26 -0600


bah.  once again Club Velvet is snubbed by the strib.

 - kk

>Today's Taste section in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune features an article
>on martinis. It can be found at the Star-Trib's website:
>
>http://www.startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?template=taste&slug=
>mar15
>
>There are some fun quotes ( "You see, the important thing is the rhythm.
>You always have a rhythm in your shaking. With a Manhattan you shake to
>foxtrot time. A Bronx to two-step time. A dry martini you always shake to
>waltz time." -- Nick Charles, the Dashiell Hammett character from "The Thin
>Man."), and a killer recipe for something called a Stoli Doli (simply soak
>a couple of pineapple's worth of rings in a liter of Stoli for 5 days,
>strain, chill & serve).
>
>-Indy Rutks ([e-mail])




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Date: 16 Apr 1999 00:32:41 EDT



In a message dated 4/15/99 10:08:12 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>though if your definition of "exotic"

the crux of the situation: As a guy trying to be unique in programming a
radio show of this "stuff" every week,  the definition of "this" music is
elusive.....No actual standards exist except in the mind of the dj!~ (at home
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Subject: (exotica) Re: "The Sound of Speed"
Date: 16 Apr 1999 00:07:05 -0600


no "producer" listed, but...  "recorded stereophonically with almost
frightening actuality by Jim Cunningham of the Robert Oakes  Jordan
Sound Laboratories"

that's it other than:

composed by Bob Thompson
performed by the Orchestra dei Concerti di Roma, Paul Baron conducting


 - kk


>If anyone on the list has a copy of "The Sound of Speed" by Bob Thompson,
>can you do me a favor?  Send me a note telling me who's listed as the
>producer.
>
>I just interviewed Bob for "Cool & Strange Music" magazine.  He's living up
>near Grass Valley, California.  I asked him if he considered himself
>retired.  "I consider myself out of work!" he replied.
>
>Brad




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Subject: (exotica) Drew Carrie = Herb Alpert
Date: 16 Apr 1999 05:07:59 EDT


flipped through the dial for a few minutes tonight (a very rare occasion) and
caught Rev Horton Heat on the Drew Carrie show along with the musician guy
from Buffy The Vampire

but the funny part was Drew's band introduced their tune as one that Herb
Alpert first made a hit
Then they played Taste Of Honey
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Subject: (exotica) music of Herb Alpert
Date: 16 Apr 1999 05:08:04 EDT



Friday April 23, 1999
Hi Ball Lounge, San Fran
$8.00
Liftoff! SpaceCapades, Tiki News and Wildebeest Records are proud to present:

"Surfin' Senorita", a tribute to the music of Herb Alpert.

Featuring:
The Mariachi Madness of Herb-- The World's Greatest Herb Alpert cover
band!

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named after Tuna Fish.

Plus:
A festive Mexican Mercado and Authentic Mexican Jail! A prize filled
"Pipeline Pinata" and "El Mexican Hat Dance Mas Boracho Del Mundo!"

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From: Bump <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Who mentioned Bobby Conn?/whats up in SF?
Date: 16 Apr 1999 09:22:20 -0400


I have Bobby Conn's two albums, and I actually saw him perform live a few
months ago. He put on an incredible show, wearing a very tight, white,
70s style ski *thing*.

WOW, colour me green!

 I wouldn't call them "exotic"--though if your definition of "exotic"
>stretches to include anything really weird, then they were exotic.

that is exotic enough for me.
i believe we all decided that really weird qualifies.
i gotta see this guy.

i have not checked on a website for info/tour dates yet but i am gonna do
it after mailcheck.

also y'all out there in San Fran, gotta question...
what is going on, like fun wise, from the 21st to may 1st?
i will be visiting your groovy town then.
mr. otto already tuned me into some healthy music kicks, but some of you
may have some other clues. music and cinema are my lifefood.
maybe mr. conn will be there!
                    ...my cat is named kon. (and he has some tight white fur!)
email me personally

cheers

also, otto is graciously offering to share his tuesday nite dj gig at the
Beauty Bar with me. so come say hello on april 27th 9 to 1:30am.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) work weirdness
Date: 16 Apr 1999 09:33:13 EDT


In a message dated 04/15/99 4:08:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< To all my friends and flame/foes:  The network at my office will be down
 from Friday, 3pm until sometime Mon.pm. I'm just letting you know this in
 case you write me, and it bounces back.
 Thanks, Jane Fondle >>

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Who mentioned Bobby Conn?/whats up in SF?
Date: 16 Apr 1999 07:04:43 -0700 (PDT)


oh-la-la!
>                     ...my cat is named kon. (and he
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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mambo Kurt
Date: 16 Apr 1999 16:16:21 +0200


http://www.mambokurt.de/

Anyone's familiar with this guy's output? He seems to be doing
Hammond-versions of Radiohead, Nirvana et al.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Who mentioned Bobby Conn?
Date: 16 Apr 1999 09:49:50 -0500


Bump wrote:
>
> >"Bobby Conn is indie rock's first ever Jewish glam-funk Antichrist".
> >
> >Sorry I missed him.
> +
> >You should get a load of his *threads*, his hair
> >and his shades.
>
> that was me Nat.
> wow, on tour even. too much. too much. (said in best Snagglepuss voice)
>
> my eyes are peeled!
>
> i'm telling ya this guy has got to be something to check out.
> i am going by just by how he looks and described.
> could be our 00's answer to Heino. we can only hope.


Here's a page for Bobby Conn:

http://www.southern.com/southern/band/BCONN/

and another one:

http://huitzilo.tezcat.com/~nailhead/conn.html

He's got another show in Chicago soon,
if anyone's interested.

--

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Subject: (exotica) Words, that never were true
Date: 16 Apr 1999 11:01:12 -0400


Jane Fondle, back from a "I have nothing to add" hiatus.  But while we are
on spoken word-weirdness on the Bomp! list, how about that "I like" MIKE
DOUGLAS!  He's got at least two that I know of, "The Man in My Little Girls
Life," (getcher hankies out)...and the star-striped patriotic pathos in
"What is a Square?"...where he gladly proclaims himself a "square" because
of his love of God and country, etc.!
On to biker films and Jane Birkin:  Nobody, much to my amazement, has
mentioned the Russ Meyer MOTORPSYCHO...much underrated, I believe(and
thanks for bringing up PYSCHOMANIA, a true, uh, classic.)  Re: JBirkin, I
have a dubbed copy of her and Serge's wacky-comedy caper, "Seduction
Squad!"  Too goofy and not what you would expect from a couple who has an
S&M layout in an early 70s OUI magazine!  A great soundtrack, too, by
Serge, for you fans of the dubios Moog synth.  Does anybody know where I
can get a copy of ROCK AROUND THE BUNKER, too, for under $20(reissue,
obviously!)
Jane Fondle, who wishes she was Serges' ex!
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From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Martinis With Mancini Playlist. 4/16/99
Date: 16 Apr 1999 13:13:39 -0400


Martinis With Mancini" now broadcasting Friday's at from 6-9 AM. WJUL 91.=
5,
Lowell Massachusetts.

The web page: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Booth/8007/

Your comments always welcomed. Don=92t expect a reply soon.
Out on vacation April 17-25.

The Playlist:

It Could Happen To You, Bjork
Experiment In Terror, Henry Mancini (LP)
The Best Is Yet To Come, Nancy Wilson
Satin Doll, Duke Ellington
Stardust, Nat King Cole
The Great Race Overture, OST By Henry Mancini
One For Ken, Paul Combs
Prelude And Fugue In C Major, J.S. Bach, Swingle Singers  (LP)
Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You, George Shearing (R&T)
One Morning In May, George Shearing (R&T)
Moonsong George, Shearing (R&T)
Cabin In the Sky, Johnny Mathis
Blues and The Abstract Truth, Oliver Nelson
Para Jose, 2 Bones And A Pick
Arnett Is Coming To Town, Nat Simpkins
Nica=92s Dream, Hatrack Gallagher
My One and Only Love, Hatrack Gallagher
At Sundown Dave Whitney
Dinah, Thelonious Monk
Adios, Perez Prado
Music To Watch Girls By, Xavier Cugat
Fooling Around, Esquivel
Saludos Amigo, Disney=92s Saludos Amigo
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Lionel Hampton
So Nice Samba, Wanda De Sah and Sergio Mendes (UL)
La De La, Milky
Fly Me To The Moon, Jack Jones
Wives And Lovers, Ted Heath

Rat Pack Six Pack
Come Back To Me, Sammy Davis Jr. with Buddy Rich
The Birth of The Blues, Sammy Davis Jr. with Buddy Rich
That Certain Party, Dean Martin with Jerry Lewis
Powder Your Face with Sunshine, Dean Martin
Love Is Here To Stay, Frank Sinatra
I=92ve Got You Under My Skin, Frank Sinatra

Roys Guitar Boogie, Roy Smeck (LP)
Days Of Wine And Roses, Karl Swoboda (Pop Goes The Zither!) (LP)
It Dosen=92t Matter Anymore, John Barry (Scamp)
I Hear A New World, Joe Meek and the Blue Men
Penny=92s Archade, OST Penelope, Johnny Williams (LP)
Peter Gunn, OST Peter Gunn
The Pink Panther Theme, The Hollywood Studio Orchestra (UL)
San Diego Party, OST I Want To Live
In The Limelight, Music for TV Dinners The 60=92s (Scamp)
Happy Go Lucky, Music for TV Dinners The 60=92s (Scamp)
Manhattan Tower, Gordon Jenkins
I) Magical City
II) The Party
III) New York=92s My Home
IV) Love In A Tower
You=92r Mine You, Gordon Jenkins And Artie Shaw
Sticks And Stones, Ray Charles
I Just Want To Make Love To You, Etta James
Baby Elephant Walk, The Jigsaw Seen
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Attn: Martini fans
Date: 16 Apr 1999 13:30:42 EDT


In a message dated 04/15/99 10:04:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< There are some fun quotes ( "You see, the important thing is the rhythm.
 You always have a rhythm in your shaking. With a Manhattan you shake to
 foxtrot time. A Bronx to two-step time. A dry martini you always shake to
 waltz time." -- Nick Charles, the Dashiell Hammett character from "The Thin
 Man."), >>

A few of my favorite quotes on drinking:

1.  Never drink and drive -- you might hit a bump and spill your drink.

2.  The only time I ever refused a drink I misunderstood the question.

And from W. C. Fields:

3.  Some scoundrel stole the cork out of my lunch.

4.  I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.

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Subject: (exotica) Cates Slammer -- Reveal yo'self ! ! !
Date: 16 Apr 1999 13:40:50 EDT


In a message dated 04/15/99 10:39:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< I don't know if anyone really was too negative about _Polynesian
 Percussion_, but it's true that on first listen it doesn't come across as
 particularly energetic (e.g. compared to Martin Denny). >>

OK, I want the bastar who called this ablum "pedestrian" when I discovered it
about a year and a half ago to reveal his (or her) self ! ! ! !    And there
were a couple of other negative comments.

Sorry for the "yo'self" stuff -- I have been hanging around Fondle lately.

Tiki (Cates) Bob   [Shit! another Fondle-like trait -- those damn nickname
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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Music To Go To Sleep By
Date: 16 Apr 1999 11:34:29 -0700 (PDT)


I enjoyed the exoticat's post that said he likes to go to sleep
listening to the Gentle People.  What a great group to listen to at
bedtime.   I've tried them myself with wonderful results.

These days my number one choice is Alpha's "ComeFromHeaven"
(Melancholic 1997)
Soft exotica vocals from a modern diva, mixed with gentle electronics.
  It puts me off in la la land very quickly.    Thanks to Vic for a
great suggestion at a great site.

I don't like Alpha's "Pepper" album.  Too much noodling electronica
remix.  This has been done before, too many times.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
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From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Best name?
Date: 16 Apr 1999 14:44:58 -0500


[e-mail] wrote:

The Sonic Sub-Sea Surf Sounds of Pollo Del Mar--The World's Greatest Band
named after Tuna Fish.
Well my vote for the best best record name goes to the Tiki Tones
for "Songs for the Suburban Savage"!  For added benefit the music's
first rate too!


Brian Karasick
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McGill University
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From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Theremin-O-Rama
Date: 16 Apr 1999 15:02:11 +0000


While there's a 'Thera-Flu' going on in these pages, thought I'd share
pix of my homemade instrument with whoever's interested:

http://www.lobue-art.com/Ondes.html

If you go to the site, be sure to read about the most memorable gig I
ever had with this little gizmo!  I won't soon forget it....

The Ether Bunny,

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Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Jimmy's Easy" 4.13.99
Date: 16 Apr 1999 15:09:29 EDT


"Jimmy's Easy" airs on WMBR-FM, 88.1 in Cambridge, MA Tuesdays from 6-8a.m.
        ----------Billy Taylor Orchestra-David Frost Theme----------
Alberto Bembo-Oce 1-LP OST IO e Mara (Right Tempo, Italy)
Gionni Ferrio-Ipoles/Un Giomo In Piu-CD Easy Tempo 2
Ray Brown-Coming And Going-Mood Mosaic (Sexploitation Volume)
Ronnie Aldrich-Where Is The Love?-LP Best Of The 70's
Peter Moore-Lazy Day-CD Hotel Easy (Paco's Poolside Bar)
Soul Mann & The Brothers-Cafe Regio's-LP Soul Mann & The Brothers play "Shaft"
Eydie Gorme-Moon River-LP Blame It On The Bossa Nova (nice blouse on Eydie)
-Franco Micilizzi-Vodka Per Due-LP Groovy Soundtracks
-Georges Garvarentz-Jasmine's Dance-LP OST The Corrupt Ones
-Elliot Easton's Tiki Gods-Bullwinkle Part II-CD Delphonic Sounds Today
(Del-Fi)
-101 Strings-Orbit Fantasy-LP Astro Sounds Beyond The Year 2000
-Ventures-Vamp Camp-LP The Ventures (various TV themes and incidentals)
-Henry Mancini-Experiment In Terror Twist-LP OST Experiment In Terror
-Three Suns-Smoke-LP Fever & Smoke
-Lew Davis & Orchestra-Wild Goose-LP Strange Interlude (Command)
-Squibb Pharmaceuticals Convention-New Generation-CD Product Music
J.B.'s-Blow Your Head-LP Damn Right I'm Somebody
El Coco-Brighter Shade Of Blue-CD Best Of....
Santo & Johnny-It Must Be Him-LP Golden Guitars (Vicky Carr song)
Mello Cads-An Afternoon Affair-CD Delphonic Sounds Today (best track on the
CD)
Teddy Randazzo-April-LP OST Girl From Uncle
Joe Harnell-So Soon-LP Bossa Now! (highly recommended LP)
Mongo Santamaria-My Cherie Amour-LP Workin' On A Groovy Thing
El Chicano-What's Going On-LP El Chicano (smokin' version of Marvin's tune)
Brainstrom-Don't Let Me Catch You With Your Groove Down-12" from '78
-Billy May-Johnny Cool Theme-LP OST Johnny Cool
-Ray Conniff-Danke Schoen-LP World Of Hits
-Brass Ring-Moment To Moment-LP Flight Of The Phoenix
-Guitars Unlimited-Expresso-LP Crazy Rhythm (RCA Stereo Action Album)
-Dave Grusin-Its Always Because Of A Deformity-LP OST Candy
-Leonard Rosenman-Naomi & The Musician-LP OST The Chapman Report
-Al Hirt-Run For Your Life-LP A.H. Plays Popular TV Themes
-Bob Crewe-Barbarella Psychedella-LP OST Barbarella (request)
-Steve Karmen Big Band-Breakaway-CD Sound Gallery (Volume 2-Scamp)
-Domenic Modugno-Ciao Ciao Bambina-LP Modugno Sings Modugno (fab version)
            ----------Wayne Newton-Wives & Lovers----------


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From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Music To Go To Sleep By
Date: 16 Apr 1999 12:12:30 PDT



>These days my number one choice is Alpha's "ComeFromHeaven"
>(Melancholic 1997)
>Soft exotica vocals from a modern diva, mixed with gentle electronics.

surely that's a 'divo', he looks like a model too. bastard.
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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Music To Go To Sleep By
Date: 16 Apr 1999 12:43:00 -0700 (PDT)


Its the wonderful Helen White doing the vocals on a lot of the tracks for Alpha. She
really does have a great voice.  The music is a little bit "devo"

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck


--- Robert McKenna  wrote:

> >These days my number one choice is Alpha's "ComeFromHeaven"
> >(Melancholic 1997)
> >Soft exotica vocals from a modern diva, mixed with gentle electronics.
>
> surely that's a 'divo', he looks like a model too. bastard.
> 'bad tempered' bob mckenna

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From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "Lounge" Star Wars music
Date: 16 Apr 1999 13:01:21 -0700


About 2/3 down this page... details of a CD with Lounge versions of all your
favorite Star Wars themes...
http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/directorscut/homepageFramed.html

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) IncStrMu
Date: 16 Apr 1999 16:07:22 -0500


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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) George Cates.......
Date: 16 Apr 1999 16:30:28 -0400


Ahem......

Let's clarify things here a little bit.......

George Cate's "Polynesian Percussion" is PEDESTRIAN, there are only a few =
tracks that are worthy of a second listen.......

That said, I promise to re-listen to the entire album this weekend - =
remember what happened when I gave Stanley Blacks' (Awwww, what the hell's =
the name of that album, "Exotica" or something.........on Phase 4, =
gatefold, etc.......) anyway, "that" album.  I slammed it, but now like it =
a lot.

- Nate (not Nat - always up for a good fight!!!)  And also, the Three Suns =
SUCK!  It's just "cool" and "trendy" right now to like them - and if you =
live in Baltimore, you remember they used on of their songs for the =
opening of "Captain Chesapeake."

And you know those "Space Age Pop" comp. CD's - They suck too!
They're PEDESTRIAN, a real yawn fest.  Those "percussion" gimmick albums =
are a bore...........

(Okay, attack! Attack!............everybody have a great weekend......)

:-) Nate





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Subject: Re: (exotica) "Lounge" Star Wars music
Date: 16 Apr 1999 22:49:05 +0100


Kevin C

> About 2/3 down this page... details of a CD with Lounge versions of all
> your favorite Star Wars themes...
> http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/directorscut/homepageFramed.html

Two I like are Tomita's funky little version and the recently issued
version by former Command alumni Lounge Brigade on their CD
"Put Some Style In It" - though this vocal version does veer quite
close to being stomach-churning...


Robbie


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Subject: Re: (exotica) "Lounge" Star Wars music
Date: 16 Apr 1999 22:49:05 +0100


Kevin C

> About 2/3 down this page... details of a CD with Lounge versions of all
> your favorite Star Wars themes...
> http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/directorscut/homepageFramed.html

Two I like are Tomita's funky little version and the recently issued
version by former Command alumni Lounge Brigade on their CD
"Put Some Style In It" - though this vocal version does veer quite
close to being stomach-churning...


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Subject: Re: (exotica) "Lounge" Star Wars music
Date: 16 Apr 1999 18:05:05 -0400


>About 2/3 down this page... details of a CD with Lounge versions of all your
>favorite Star Wars themes...
>http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/directorscut/homepageFramed.html

    But my favorite version of the main title is the one with "words" by
 "Nick" (Bill Murray) the "best" lounge singer ever.
i don't think its on there ;}

cheers
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Subject: Re: (exotica) "Lounge" Star Wars music
Date: 16 Apr 1999 16:04:49 -0700


Bump wrote:
>
> >About 2/3 down this page... details of a CD with Lounge versions of all your
> >favorite Star Wars themes...
> >http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/directorscut/homepageFramed.html


on a related note, until recently i had a record called "Empire Jazz"
which was recorded in 1980 and featured some fairly well known jazz
musicians doing small-combo versions of Star Wars music. the best part
about the album was the cover: a painting of Darth Vader sipping
cocktails at a lounge watching a band consisting of Chewbacca on piano
(?!), C3PO on upright bass, R2D2 on drums and a Stormtrooper on sax!!!

I think i kept a scan of this cover if anyone wants to see it....... i
just have to dig it up first.....

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Attn: Martini fans
Date: 16 Apr 1999 19:47:58 -0400


> A few of my favorite quotes on drinking:

I have to add my favorite....

"if you're going to drink and drive, then drive really really fast so you spend
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Date: 17 Apr 1999 02:30:33 EDT


I received this email and not being able to help am asking if someone out
there may know. If so please email Lorrie and cc me
thanks
Otto

I grew up in Tulsa and moved away about 12 years ago. Since moving away
from Tulsa I have gotten into Tiki Bars.  I have vague memories of a
Chinese/Polynesian restaurant at the corner of 41st and Memorial. I
think it might have been called "Jade East".  When I lived in Tulsa I
happen to step inside this place to see if I could find a phone to use
and thought it was very unusual. But, not knowing what a Tiki bar or
restaurant was at the time I did
not appreciate it for what it was. Years later I went to Tulsa for a
visit and tried to track this place down and found to my great
disappointment that it had been torn down and replaced by a Burger King.
Can anyone give me some background on this place?  Did they serve Tiki
Drinks like Zombies, Blue Hawaiians, Mai Tai's?-(Well probably not
alcoholic ones since Oklahoma did not have liquor by the drink when I
was growing up there.)  If they did serve some type of Tiki Drinks were
they served in fancy mugs?  I would be interested in memories, photos,
or stuff like matchbooks, mugs, etc... from this place.   You can reach
me at:
Lorrie Akins
5152 W. Wolfram
Chicago, IL  60641
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Date: 17 Apr 1999 02:30:06 EDT


On Sunday April 25 Baby Doe and Otto will be setting up a completely illegal,
guerilla Tiki Bar complete with fire, live vibe music from Brian Lease,
Polynesian cocktails from The Grog Log and Tiki News' for sale.
This "Tiki bar" is a stop on the meandering theatrical foray called Popcorn
Theatre, a series of vignettes.


What is Popcorn Anti-Theater?
Read Summer Burkes review  http://www.sfbg.com/Dilettante/36.html

Popcorn Anti-theater sells out every month.
This month is All New with 5 New, Comfortable and Healthy acts,
a New "Conductor" (louie was deported),
a New bus(the Mexican bus was NOT deported).
And, we are happy to Announce!!
**A Secure/Clean Lavatory**
it is still miserably cold outside so we suggest wearing warm clothes and
sturdy shoes.

April 25th and April 26th
8pm(to reserve seats call [phone]-the bus always sells out!)
16th and Potrero on 16th street
sliding scale $15-25$ (unemployed couch surfers special price 10$)


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Subject: (exotica) Shag does Australia
Date: 17 Apr 1999 02:29:15 EDT


Premiere Tiki artist

Shag

will have a gallery opening in Australia
August 29
at
Outre/Toon-In Gallery
249 Elizabeth St
Melbourne 3000
VIC
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Subject: (exotica) With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming
Date: 17 Apr 1999 17:54:43 -0400


According to the Enoch Light web page, this one's a 1959 release.
But the question is, is it any good?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Three Suns
Date: 17 Apr 1999 18:05:05 -0400


At 04:30 PM 4/16/99 -0400, Nathan Miner wrote:
>
>- Nate (not Nat - always up for a good fight!!!)  And also, the Three Suns
SUCK!  It's just "cool" and "trendy" right now to like them

I'm not sure you can call something "trendy" when there's less than a
thousand people on the planet who are into something.

Having said that, I put up my fists and declare "They do NOT suck!"

Of course "WHEN they suck, they suck bigtime.  When they suck, they suck
bigger than anyone else"

But when they don't suck, they can blow your mind.  The first time I heard
"Danny's Inferno" it was on some tape and I didn't know it was them and I
was asking everyone "who the hell is this???"

I don't know if the fascination with them comes from the amazing tunes like
that or from the mystery over how a band who so often SUCKS, comes up with
such shocking gems.  I can't think of any other band who can go from utter
crap to sheer inspiration and back to utter crap in the course of a single
album side.

It was like the Devil possessed them on occasion.

But did the Devil inspire the utter crap or the shocking gems?

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Skip Spence
Date: 17 Apr 1999 19:58:24 -0400 (EDT)


from SF Chronicle
Skip Spence -- Jefferson Airplane Original Member
by James Sullivan
Saturday, April 17, 1999

Skip Spence, an original member of the Bay Area rock groups the
Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape, died yesterday afternoon at
Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, where he had been fighting a number
of ailments. He would have been 53 tomorrow. His death comes just
weeks before the release of ``More Oar,'' a CD tribute to Mr. Spence
featuring Beck, Robert Plant, Tom Waits and members of R.E.M., among
others. The record was inspired by ``Oar,'' Mr. Spence's unique,
folk-psychedelic solo album from 1969, which will soon be reissued.

The musician, who had long battled schizophrenia and alcoholism, was
living near Santa Cruz with his girlfriend.

The official cause of death was advanced lung cancer, said Mr.
Spence's son Omar, although Mr. Spence was was found to have
pneumonia, congestive heart failure and other afflictions and had been
on a ventilator since entering the hospital April 5.

``His body just gave out,'' said Omar Spence. ``We tried our best to
extend him, but it got to the point where it would have been inhumane.
Anybody can live on life support, but that's not living.''

Before Mr. Spence's death, some members of his inner circle were
suggesting that his health care had not been adequate, but Omar Spence
denied that.

``He was treated like a president the last week and a half. He got
ultimate medical care.''

In 1965, Alexander Lee ``Skip'' Spence, born in Ontario, Canada, was
set to audition as a guitar player for Quicksilver Messenger Service
when another local musician, Marty Balin, invited him to play drums in
his new band, the Jefferson Airplane. Mr. Spence had never played
drums before but learned quickly; on ``Oar'' he plays every
instrument.

After being tossed from the Airplane for irresponsibility, Mr. Spence
became a founding member of Moby Grape, for a time the most celebrated
rock band in America. Later, he gave another Bay Area band, Pud, a new
name -- the Doobie Brothers.

In recent years, Mr. Spence was a conservatee of Santa Clara County
because of his mental health, and he was often homeless. But he was
sober for almost two years, said his son.

``He licked alcohol,'' said Omar Spence. ``In his schizophrenic state,
that was quite a feat, a very strong thing to do.''

Reprise Records executive Bill Bentley, an avowed fan who helped
compile the tribute album, said he traveled to Santa Cruz a few days
ago to give Mr. Spence a copy of the record.

``He was unconscious. He looked very peaceful.''

Mr. Spence's four children -- Omar, 31; Aaron, 34; Adam, 33; and
Heather, 29 -- his ex-wife and his current girlfriend were all with
him at his time of death. They played the tribute record during Mr.
Spence's final hour.

``My dad knew he was good,'' said Omar Spence. ``He was still a star,
to the day he died.''

Those interested can make donations to help defray medical costs:
Comerica Bank-California, Attn: Marilyn Guzman, 1960 41st Ave.,
Capitola, Calif. 95010. Checks should be made out to Omar
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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
Date: 17 Apr 1999 22:06:02 -0500


It's a wild ride from Latin spice to outer space on this week's Retro
Cocktail Hour webcast!

Lenny Dee, Esquivel and Pablo Beltran serve up some below-the-border
faves, while we move off-world with crazy space age pop by Leith
Stevens and the Voices of Walter Schumann, Sid Bass and Dick Hyman.
Right in the middle is Richard Hayman's classic "Genuine Electric
Latin Love Machine"!

Also this week -- Shorty Rogers' pounding Afro-Cuban jungle jazz from 
"Tarzan the Ape Man";  another excerpt from the amazing "Portrait of
Leda", with Leda Annest and Phil Moore;  crime jazz by Mundell Lowe,
Billy May (from "The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown"), Si Zentner and Irving
Joseph ("Murder, Inc."); plus "auto-erotica" by Mel Henke and Les
Paul plays with himself.

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streams available in two flavors -- RealAudio G2 or 5.0.  If you tune
us in, please drop us a line and let us know what you think!

Thanks for the space!


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From: Bump <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Three Sucks
Date: 18 Apr 1999 05:30:27 -0400


  And also, the Three Suns
>SUCK!  It's just "cool" and "trendy" right now to like them.

this is just retarded.

>Of course "WHEN they suck, they suck bigtime.
>I can't think of any other band who can go from utter
>crap to sheer inspiration and back to utter crap in the course of a single
>album side.

i could not agree more. then again i find this to be the case with alot of
people like Robert Maxwell, Enoch Light, Leo Addeo, Dick Schory, and Marty
Gold
among others. and i like the pack rat i am will keep an album for just one
of those songs of sheer inspiration.

the two albums where you get more bang for your suck are "Movin' + Groovin"
and "Fever + Smoke"
do they have any more titles with two words added together...
they might be pretty good too?

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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More new comps
Date: 18 Apr 1999 12:24:24 +0200


Again a few interesting compilations on Forced Exposure new release list
http://www.forcedexposure.com.


____________________________________________
QDK MEDIA (GERMANY):

VA: Doob Doob O'Rama: 70=B4s Filmsongs from Bollywood, India CD (QDK 033 =
CD).
"Bombay Bombshells doing great moviesongs from Bollywood, India. As you
might know, India is the biggest producing filmindustry. There is an awfu=
l
lot of music in all these films. They use every style you can imagine. Fa=
st
rhythms, exotic instruments, howling organs, cheap synthesizers and amazi=
ng
vocals. This is pure High Speed Music." Just think, inside Alan Bishop's
head, it rains like this all the time!  $17.00

_____________________________________________
REPERTOIRE (GERMANY):

MORODER, GIORGIO: From Here To Eternity CD (REP 4759). New reissue of thi=
s
1977 classic (originally issued by Casabalanca, previously reissued by
Castle Communications). Italian producer Giorgio Moroder is best known fo=
r
his "computer disco" productions in the late 70s, most famously displayed
on Donna Summer's legendary track "I Feel Love" (if you don't own at leas=
t
one double-digit length version, you're missing a piece of the puzzle). H=
is
career as a producer of music dates from about 1966 on into the 90s but
most of his music is pretty dismissable -- even a popular series of movie
soundtracks that are spotty at best. But in 1977 he peaked with this
awesome, all electronic album (originally issued by Casablanca). Taking t=
he
sequencing pulse strategies of prime Kraftwerk and adding an inexplicable
Italian cheesiness via vocoders, synth washes & ridiculously happy lyrics=
,
he came up with a rhythmically intense, futuristic and maddeningly
accessible work. You can hear the roots of Air and and a lot of other
contemporary electronic producers within the studio details found here --
and if you're willing to allow just one Moroder album into your consensua=
l
reality, this has got to be the one.  $13.00

_____________________________________________
SEELAND:

VA: Extracted Celluloid CD (SEE 509). "A sequel of sorts to Deconstructin=
g
Beck, this compilation is another co-release between Seeland and Illegal
Art and is the second in a planned series of releases. This time out ever=
y
track is constructed entirely of music and sounds from the big screen.
Among the victims are Titantic, Dr. Strangelove, Saturday Night Fever,
Wizard of Oz, Cheech and Chong and many more. 20 tracks in all and in
Seeland's opinion, an even better listen than Deconstructing Beck.
Inexpensively packaged in the Illegal Art series white cardboard envelope=
."
Mostly unknown "aritists" like Huk Don Phun, Pine Street State Mind
Control, Wet Gate, Wobbly, etc.  $10.00


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From: Risser Family <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Barbi in Bali
Date: 18 Apr 1999 10:16:57 -0400


Not particularly exotic, but
Barbie's little sister Kelly has a series of friends, one of whom is dolled up in a Hawaiian Grass skirt.
Very cute.

Looks nice next to my Tiki.

Peter


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From: Risser Family <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) three Suns/Celluloid
Date: 18 Apr 1999 12:02:08 -0400


As for the three suns, they have a few more two word titles (Warm and Tender comes to mind) but on these the suck factor weighs heavily.

As for extracted Celluloid, it's far better than Deconstructing Beck, but still has some suck moments as well.
Just fewer.

My two cents.

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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Johnny Cool Soundtrack Memories
Date: 13 Apr 1999 17:16:57 +0000


>I understand that Rykodisc either has or is shortly about to
> re-release this excellent soundtrack

It's out already and way cool it is!  Rykodisc has also reissued the
"I Want to Live" soundtrack.  It's got not only Johnny Mandel's
great film score, but the small combo stuff from the film, too.  And
if you've got a CD rom you can also see the film's original trailer.
Get it!!

Played from both "Johnny Cool" and "I Want to Live" on The Retro
Cocktail Hour recently.  It's program #161 for those of you
RealAudio-enabled.

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Date: 15 Apr 1999 11:49:22 -0400






cc:


It seems possible that lounge/exotica music could be rolling around in the
back of our heads from watching so many old movies and TV shows?
To resurface as an interest  later in adulthood?Another example would be
Esquivel who wrote music for a lot of 70's TV shows
I used to watch.


>>>>>Dom, et. al..I JUST ___HAVE__TO GO ON AND ON(again...) about a record
sorta relevant to your question...The Skipjacks, a FINE vocal jazz group
along the lines of the HiLos, Honey Dreamers and Lambert, Hendericks& Ross,
have a SUPERB album I just picked up for a mere 33(1/3!) cents, SWEET, HOT
AND BLUE...It's funny, because when I listen to highlife, swinging vocal
jazz, I feel so "adult,", and as we were getting ready to go celebrate
Martin Denny's birthday, we had that on.  Without thinking, I said, "This
sounds like Flintstone jazz, music Fred&Wilma (RIP) would go out and listen
to..."  Funny how those associations creep in...of course, upon borrowing
the wonderous Hanna-Barbera box set, I see the likes of the Candoli
Brothers and Shelley Mann are cold kickin' it, WEST COAST STYLE!
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Martinis With Mancini
Date: 16 Apr 1999 11:59:35 -0400



>Um, with the new early a.m. broadcast time, maybe the show should be
>re-titled "Martinis with Gleason."  He's the first quasi-exotic/ez guy
>who comes to mind as a person who might be found sipping a martini at 6
>a.m.  :)

Brad, Ya, It's a corny title. Hope the martinis at that hour are more
figurative than literal.   Getting commuters into a "martini state of mind"
before doing the last 8 hours of the week.

Also WJUL plays a lot of indie rock and metal. Programs with titles like
"High Voltage Circumcision" and "Morning Wood".  I wanted something that
went against type and screamed lounge.

Next step: The station has a Metal/Music director. I want to become the Easy
Listening Music Director! That will look good on the bulletin board!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Satan In High Heels
Date: 13 Apr 1999 09:56:29 -0400



-----Original Message-----

>Can anyone tell me about this record?   It's by Mundell Lowe, and has
>just been reissued on (probably bootleg) CD.  Recommendations?
>
This record, along with what looks like a lot of other cool music  is
reissued by Collectables Records. Their web page: http://www.oldies.com/
Check out the jazz listings. Pete Rugolo, Art Van Damm, Jimmy McGriff.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Exotica- recommendations?
Date: 15 Apr 1999 20:17:38 -0700


I am looking for the song "Tahiti", which is the song that is played by the
Royal Samoans before "Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle" cartoon.  All of the
Hawaiian and Hawaiian-flavored records I have seen don't have this song.
Who does?

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From: "Mark D. Head" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) RE: Ashphodelic
Date: 13 Apr 1999 11:32:14 -0500


Chuck wrote:

>When is Tipsy ever going to release their sophomore effort?  It seems
>like years since their first release!

>And the same goes for the Gentle People, I mean here is shibuya-kei
>exploding all over the world and their fans are just waiting for more
>gentle sounds.  I love the Gentle People, I love the Gentle People, I
>love the Gentle People..............about waiting for the Gentle
People's next release

I agree - and the good news is, per Dougee Dimensional, that GP will
release their next effort sometime this summer - I for one will be
keeping a keen eye out!

--

Mark D. Head
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Subject: (exotica) B.R.A.
Date: 12 Apr 1999 09:27:02 +0100


     >The first track, Werner Muller's "Bodybuilder" was plagiarized in
     >a vastly more boring version as "Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out" by
     >Bentley Rhythm Ace.

     Is everything on this album basically just an uncredited cover
     version of an obscure song?  On first listen, I detected tracks I
     had heard on the 'las vegas grind' and 'nymphomania' compilations,
     but now keep hearing about more.

     And is it true that Bentley Rhythm Ace are in fact Pop Will Eat
     Itself?

     Jonny


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Subject: (exotica) New (ish) Serge Gainsbourg biography
Date: 12 Apr 1999 11:36:40 +0100


     In case no one noticed, there is a new Serge Gainsbourg biography
     out (published in the UK and written by someone called Alan
     Clayson).

     I splashed out the 13 pounds (it's a paperback book) for this last
     week when I was in London.  I have read about half of it so far.

     Although big on facts I didn't previously know, I found the style
     unnecessarily wordy, with irritatingly long sentences.

     And the author does not seem to have a very open mind about music,
     dismissing much of Serge's early work (which incidentally is the
     stuff I like most) as 'dull jazz' or 'musak'.

     That said, it seems quite well researched, and there is nothing
     else available in English about him, so it's probably worth a look
     if you are as fascinated by Gainsbourg as I am.

     There is a cover scan of the book here:
     http://www.havic.com/Artist/A_Clayson/AC_serge.jpg

     Has anyone read Gainsbourg's novel, 'Evguenie Sokolov'?

     regards
     Jonny


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From: Angela Sawyer <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Nancy 'n' Rod
Date: 13 Apr 1999 16:25:16 -0400


    I do indeed believe that Nancy is the singer on The Wild Angels.  It's
actually one of her most 'experimental' moments, unless you count whichever
pop snippets constitute the remaining instances of her off-key singing.
     On another topic, once you've got your copies of The Sea, The Earth, &
The Sky, don't forget the lesser San Sebastian Strings titles like Home to
the Sea, The Soft Sea, La Mer, For Lovers, Bouquet, Spring, Summer, Autumn,
Winter, & With Love.  Also, I thought I might take this opportunity to
remind you of the existence of the Rod McKuen webcam, which gives you a
fresh image in the inimitable Stanyan style every 15 seconds:
http://members.aol.com/stanyanr/WebCam.html
    And should you exhaust the McKuen catalog (that'll take some time),
there's always Alan Burke's or Victor Lundberg's records.  Both are more of
that spoken word with mild orchestral backing, but Victor makes topical
Vietnam commentary, while Alan is more inclined to moisten housewife
underclothes.  Alan's quasi-philosophical poems about planet circumferences
and clouds of nebulae should especially please the Sea/Earth/Sky fans out
there.

others wrote:
I quite like those Sea, Earth etc. spoken word collaborations with Rod
McKuen in which
Ms.Kerr did the orchestration and arrangement.
But I might be alone on that

Hey, can any of you geniuses confirm that "Theme From The Wild Angels" --
the opening track of this soundtrack LP -- credited to a mysterious
"Visitors Featuring Barbara" is indeed sung by Nancy Sinatra (whose mug

--
-Angela
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) net music industry
Date: 16 Apr 1999 16:49:50 -0500


I subscribe to Iconocast, an Internet tip-sheet. Here's excerpts from the
latest issue.
-Lou

I  C  O  N  O  C  A  S  T   b y  M i c h a e l  T c h o n g
         "More concentrated than the leading brand"
++++++++++++++++++++++++ 15-Apr-99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
___________________________________________M a c r o v i e w
Rock and Row --> The Net music industry coalesces behind MP3
______________________________________T h e  J a c o b y t e
Foundation Room, "Behind the Blue Door"

___________________________________________M a c r o v i e w
Rock and Row
************
Two years ago, we wrote that the music business was in a slump due to
changing tastes. At the time, the top 10 all-time best-selling albums list
showed a definite bias
toward boomer tastes, with six out of the top 10 positions occupied by such
70s stalwarts as The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin, Boston and Bruce
Springsteen.

Things are worse now. Among the top 10 is only one nineties phenom, Alanis
Morissette's Jagged Little Pill in 10th place, although the next 15 do
feature seven 90s acts, such as Garth Brooks.

The onset of the slump was partially masked by a huge lift created as
millions of consumers converted their record collections to CDs, a process
that began in 1983 and continued well into the 90s. But just as the
rollercoaster ride came to a grinding halt, another playback medium
appeared, the Internet.

It took society 105 years to replace Thomas Edison's analog technology with
digital recordings. But as is increasingly the case, the modulation of
technology waves is getting shorter and shorter.

Consumers will soon face the choice of no fewer than four audio standards,
including Minidisc (primarily Sony), SACD (Super Audio CD, a standard backed
by Philips and Sony),
DVD-Audio (a video derivative supported by everybody else) and, finally,
MP3, a standard propelled by the Internet.

Moreover, a host of digital download formats are being bandied by folks such
as AT&T, Microsoft and Real Networks (blissfully, Liquid Audio says its
system is "Switzerland,"
and will work with any codec).

But the music business has yet to recover from its malaise. Unit sales
declined 2.4% in 1997, equivalent to $12.2 billion in U.S. sales and $38
billion worldwide. Even the renewed interest in swing was insufficient to
stem the negative tide.

The crux of the problem lies with aging boomers, whose shifting tastes are
depressing rock music sales. That category slid from 33% of sales in 1997 to
26% in 1998. Saving the day are female buyers, who now account for more unit
sales than men, and whose tastes tend to favor pop and country.

There's a distinct possibility that the music economy's buoyancy will return
as the 60 million children born since 1979 (also known as Generation Y or
"echo boomers"), enter their teen spending years.

One thing that could also help is the adoption of the Net as a digital
distribution medium. Showing off the Net's multi- connected marketing power,
"MP3" moved to the forefront so forcefully that it reportedly has replaced
"sex" as the most popular search term. The technology was barely on the
radar screen when we wrote our first music analysis in 1997.

Despite MP3's runaway popularity, the record labels and their performing
rights and mechanical rights organizations have mounted an all-fronts
assault on the new standard. The studios' position is best summed up by
Sony's online music vice president, Mark Wachen, who says the company is not
philosophically opposed to MP3, but is concerned about artist's works being
stolen.

Taking the opposing view is mp3.com founder and CEO Michael Robertson, who
thinks the MP3 is enjoying so much success because it's an open standard. If
the crowds that mobbed Michael after his Internet World presentation were
any indication, the pendulum has clearly swung to the MP3 camp. mp3.com,
which already features 10,000 artists with 125 new ones joining each day,
recently received $11 million in funding, led by savvy Sequoia Capital Partners.

But don't count Sony out. The company can now lay claim to uniquely being
able to influence playback hardware design (both Sony VAIO and Minidisc,
which is a far superior storage device than so-called MP3 players), content
(Sony Music), distribution channels (Sony Music sites, investments in both
Launch.com and Spinner.com) and now, e-mail marketing (InfoBeat).
Unquestionably a formidable player that everyone has to reckon with.

Some other industry snapshots:

* Installed base -- Real Networks says that it has more than
  55 million registered users. Meanwhile, the MP3 camp
  claims 5 million Winamp users, 11 million Real Networks G2
  users plus Windows 98 users.

* Online sales volume -- The RIAA reports that 1.1% of music
  buyers made purchases via the Internet. While instances of
  online purchasing are still relatively low, this number
  has tripled from last year (0.3% to 1.1%) and now equals
  buying from television offers.

* Online sales growth -- In July 1998, a Cyber Dialogue
  survey found that 3.3 million had bought music online, a
  269% growth from the same time last year. Jupiter predicts
  that online music sales will increase to $1.6 billion by
  2002, or 7.5% of the overall music market. Forrester is
  slightly more optimistic, believing that online music
  sales will represent $1.9 billion by 2002.

One thing is for sure. The music business will look quite different five
years from now.


______________________________________T h e  J a c o b y t e
<*> Speaking about Internet economy, the attention this week was focused on
good ol' Tinsel Town where Internet World was being held. First stop on the
party circuit was Microsoft's extravaganza for "Audisee" at the House of
Blues, which featured band leader Mick Fleetwood shamelessly plugging their
MP3 technology.

The funniest part came when, after he had repeated for the umpteenth time
that Microsoft's MP3 technology was better than Real Network's, he muttered:
"I don't even know why I'm up here really." Because you're being paid, meathead!

Kinda reminds Jaco of that very funny comedy skit where, in a take-off on
those mind-numbing New York TV commercials for CATS, patrons, asked what
they think of the famous Broadway play, say in an obviously deep hypnotic
trance: "It was the greatest musical I've ever seen, I'll see it again...and
again...and again." Hey, Mick, can you pass some of that Ecstasy?

<*> Speaking about ad campaigns that go awry, The Jacobyte hears Intel is
being sued by an "adult entertainment" site (http://www.bluedoor.com) for
using their trademarked imagery in their latest ad campaign.

Apparently, Intel's legal eagles overlooked their four-year-old trademark
before kicking off a multi-million dollar ad campaign. Unless Intel coughs
up some big bucks, the blue door is out of the window!

<*> More Intel scuttlebutt. The person responsible for that serial code
identifier in the new Pentium chip has been fired. After doing a study on
the implications of including the identifier in the chip, this brilliant
seer said there would be no impact. Looks like the award for chip design
brilliance will have to be given posthumously!
................ S U B S C R I P T I O N S .................
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   To subscribe or unsubscribe: http://www.iconocast.com
Distributed by MessageMedia Inc. http://www.messagemedia.com
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Independent article on the Theremin
Date: 15 Apr 1999 11:34:35 -0500


I bounced a copy of the Independant article to Irwin Chusid.
Here's his comments on it.
-Lou



Jeez....this article is LOADED with mistakes. Here's just the ones I
noticed immediately....


> American avant-garde composer Henry Crowell

That should be "Cowell"


>  The Clavivox was one of the first polyphonic sequencers

Not true. It was a keyboard theremin.


> Scott also wrote merry melodies for Warner Bros cartoons and
> in the Seventies he was hired as an electronics whiz-kid at Motown
> Records.

He never worked for WB, never wrote for cartoons.
"Whiz kid"? He was 64 when Motown hired him.

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From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #368
Date: 16 Apr 1999 20:44:02 +0000


Hey, kids!  I thought some of you might be interested in this LP I've
put up on eBay...KATIE LEE: SONGS OF COUCH AND CONSULTATION from the
Incredibly Strange Music comp!

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=92053026

The tunes were arranged by BOB THOMPSON (Mr. "Sound of Speed").  I hope
I haven't offended by putting this link up.  If any of you don't want me
to do this again, please do let me know privately, and I won't repeat
it.  I simply figured that they appear from time to time on here, so you
must not mind it.

Anyhow, there's no reserve on it (as usual).  Good luck!

Keith



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From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) George Cates.......
Date: 18 Apr 1999 19:15:05 -0400


"Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]> writes:

>the Three Suns SUCK!  It's just "cool" and "trendy" right now to like
>them - and if you live in Baltimore, you remember they used on of
>their songs for the opening of "Captain Chesapeake."

"Stumblin'," to be precise!


Peter
Music for Better Living
Wed 6-7pm -- WZBC 90.3fm Newton/Boston
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From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Three Sucks
Date: 18 Apr 1999 18:59:46 -0500




>   And also, the Three Suns
> >SUCK!  It's just "cool" and "trendy" right now to like them.
>
> this is just retarded.
>
>

Yes, this is retarded, I was assuming that the original poster was kidding
around.

My question is, if the Three Suns suck does that mean that Arthur Lyman bites
and Esquivel blows?

The English language has the potential to be incredibly articulate and I enjoy
seeing it in action with caring descriptions of this wonderful music.


Sarcastically yours,
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From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Esquivel the Squirrel
Date: 18 Apr 1999 19:14:41 -0500


I get a laugh when ever my spell checker tries to substitue Esquivel
with squirrel.

An easile ammused Frank



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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Johnny Cool Soundtrack Memories
Date: 18 Apr 1999 20:38:34 -0400


At 05:16 PM 4/13/99 +0000, Darrell Brogdon wrote:
>
>>I understand that Rykodisc either has or is shortly about to
>> re-release this excellent soundtrack

Speaking of Johnny Cool, I just bought this LP which is part of a series
called "Superalbum" in which fairly hefty chunks of four soundtrack records
are put on each LP.  The one I have is Volume five and puts together "Taras
Bulba", "Johnny Cool", "The Big Country" and "Dr.No."
Talk about strange bedfellows.

I'd need a magnifying glass to read the other LP's but I can see that one
has "Never on Sunday" and "I want to live" as two of the four and another
one has "Paris Blues" among the four.  Too bad they didn't put Johnny, I
want to.. and Paris Blues together.

The Johnny Cool cuts are  J.C. Theme, The Lizard, Morning in Balboa, Juan
Coolisto and The Coolest Pad.

Am I missing any of the best tunes?

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From: [e-mail] (Tosh)
Subject: Re: (exotica) New (ish) Serge Gainsbourg biography
Date: 18 Apr 1999 20:28:37 -0700 (PDT)


Hi,

In my opinion, the bio is very so-so.  I gather the author is not really
into Gainsbourg - which is a drag.  But the novel I think is great... well
I publish it!  If anyone is interested one can purchase the book via
Amazon.com (U.S.) or have your local bookstore special order it.  Enclosed
is the press release for the book.  If anyone has any questions, don't
hesitate to write:  Anyway here it is:

Evguenie Sokolov  by Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991)
ISBN  0-9662346-1-8     Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-80957
Translated from the  French by John and Doreen Weightman  103 pp.  $17.00

"I have  the decency to write and sing only my defeats in love. " Serge
Gainsbourg

        This is the one and only novel by the 20th century provocateur of
=46rench pop music and film  - the legendary Serge Gainsbourg .   This
prototype lusty punk tore into the threads of French society with his
numerous films, music projects, and outlandish persona.   He made
recordings with Brigitte Bardot, Jane Birkin  and a scandalous recording of
"Lemon Incest" with his own daughter Charlotte.   If that wasn't bad
enough, he told Whitney Houston  live on French TV that he would love  'to
fuck' her.

        Evgu=E9nie Sokolov  is a novel about an artist who uses his
intestinal gases as the medium for his scandalous artwork.  What once was a
huge smelly and noisy problem in his social and sex life becomes a tool for
success in the early eighties art world.
        Some quotes about Gainsbourg and the novel:

 "Gainsbourg is both the best and the worst, yin and yang, white and black.
This Jewish little Prince from Russia whose dreams were probably fueled by
Andersen, Perrault and Grimm, became, when confronted by the tragic reality
of life, a moving or repugnant Quasimodo, depending on his and your state
of mind.  Hidden deep within this fragile, shy and aggressive man lies the
soul of a poet craving tenderness, truth and integrity."   Brigitte Bardot

"Serge Gainsbourg is one of the world's great eccentrics.  His kinky
obsessions, smothering fashion with tastelessness have catapulted him into
super stardom in France.  This is his only novel and you have never read
anything like it  Evgueine
Sokolov will make you squirm.  It will make you laugh.  It also may very
well make
#
you sick.  Gainsbourg's vision is his own: authentic and convulsive.  But
don't forget to hold your nose."   John Zorn

Gainsbourg takes one childish, cheap and tasteless one-joke idea and
manages to keep it entertaining enough to last for a whole book. he has an
envious command of adjectives and adverbs." Mark Webber, Pulp


It's a parable of a guy who's got a serious farting problem. I know it
sounds ludicrous, but it's one of the most well-written books I've ever
read. It's really
serious in tone because this guy has this malady and uses it to create art.
It's not for the faint of heart.    Russell Mael, Sparks

        The book also includes an afterword from Russell Mael of Sparks and
an introduction by bart plantenga.

Books are available through:

                                                                AK Press
and Distribution
Small Press Distribution                                        PO Box 40682
1341 Seventh Street                                     San Francisco, CA 94=
140
Berkeley, CA 94710-1409                                 ph:415.864.0892
800-869-7553

-----------------
Tosh Berman
TamTam Books
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From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ultra-cool OUTER SPACE preformance!
Date: 18 Apr 1999 23:41:23 +0000


For anyone in the PITTSBURGH area, or thereabouts, this event promises
to be a memorable one.  Gordon is a filmmaker with a trove of industrial
and institutional films in his collection. I will be performing some
theremin music on tape, which will be incorporated into the soundtrack.
The late late hours of the event should add a little outer space quality
all its own!  Thought some of you might wanna show up.  Ciao!  Keith

Gordon and Sera welcome all to our special film exhibition:

frontal element fungus presents...

                Electrophonic and Photochemical Projections

                Featuring the Sights and Sounds of OUTER SPACE

                Marking Tonight's Opposition of MARS

        WHERE:          Art All Night at the old GC Murphy's building on
Butler St. (at 44th                                            St.),
Lawrenceville. (Pittsburgh)

        WHEN:           Our exhibition begins early Sunday morning,
April 25 at 1:00AM
                                (late Saturday night the 24th), and ends
at 4:00AM.

        ADMISSION:      Free!


We are making a space-environment which allows guests to come and go,
talk, eat, drink, dance, etc. throughout the show without feeling
something important will be missed. We are simultaneously projecting
multiple photochemical movies and filmstips. Electrophonics will be
created by manipulating the soundtracks. Viewers can also participate by
selecting (and possibly projecting) filmstrips. The movies are
scientific in nature containing themes from outer space. In remembrance
of this celestial celebration souvenir "Mars Opposition Magnets" will be
given away... The "opposition of Mars" is a reference to the alignment
of the Sun, Earth and Mars, a rare celestial phenomenom that is going to
happen on April 24.

Here is our f.e.f. web-poster:

http://home.earthlink.net/~serrog/gyrus.jpg

Opposition of Mars website:

http://eclipse.span.ch/24ap99.htm





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From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Soothing Sounds for Baby
Date: 19 Apr 1999 10:44:27 +0100


I just got Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds for Baby on triple vinyl and=
 I'm
confused. I found every track to be repetitive and boring, with almost =
no
variation and few fresh ideas. I realise that the music makes use of
electronic sounds but is that it?
I could understand the excitement of finding the original 78s (were the=
y
originally on 78?) for 50p each but for the asking price of =A336, this=
 music
is just too unimaginative.
So if anybody wants the vinyl edition at a knockdown price, email me an=
d we
can discuss it.


Charlie.

PS. Does anybody else want the software theremin before I bin it?
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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Attn: Martini fans
Date: 19 Apr 1999 10:49:57 +0100


> From: [e-mail]
>
> A few of my favorite quotes on drinking:
>
> 1.  Never drink and drive -- you might hit a bump and spill your drink.
>
> 2.  The only time I ever refused a drink I misunderstood the question.
>
> And from W. C. Fields:
>
> 3.  Some scoundrel stole the cork out of my lunch.
>
> 4.  I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast.
>

"If I had all the money I've spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink."
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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) "Lounge" Star Wars music
Date: 19 Apr 1999 11:01:14 +0100


> From: "Robert Baldock" <[e-mail]>
> Kevin C
>
> > About 2/3 down this page... details of a CD with Lounge versions of all
> > your favorite Star Wars themes...
> > http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/directorscut/homepageFramed.html
>
> Two I like are Tomita's funky little version and the recently issued
> version by former Command alumni Lounge Brigade on their CD
> "Put Some Style In It" - though this vocal version does veer quite
> close to being stomach-churning...
>

For more extraterrestrial fun, I recommend Geoff Love's "Galactic
Disco Themes" album. A marvellous version of S.W. Main Theme/Cantina
Band, and VERY scarily, disco versions of the "Blake's 7" theme, "The
Omega Man", "Logan's Run" (TV series -- anyone remember that?),
etc. etc. which proves that ANYTHING can be disco-fied. Except maybe
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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) New (ish) Serge Gainsbourg biography
Date: 19 Apr 1999 12:01:32 +0100


> From: [e-mail] (Tosh)
>
> Evguenie Sokolov  by Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991)
> ISBN  0-9662346-1-8     Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 97-80957
> Translated from the  French by John and Doreen Weightman  103 pp.  $17.00
>
>
>         Evgu=E9nie Sokolov  is a novel about an artist who uses his
> intestinal gases as the medium for his scandalous artwork.  What once was a
> huge smelly and noisy problem in his social and sex life becomes a tool for
> success in the early eighties art world.

Um, there really was a French guy who made his living through
farting. He was, IIRC, known as "La Petomaine", and he was a big noise
(ha ha) in the French music hall (or equivalent) around the turn of
the century. I think he farted melodies, did animal noises, that kind
of thing. No recordings available, as far as I know...



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From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) George Maciunas fluxus audio!
Date: 19 Apr 1999 08:27:47 -0400


Here is a great interview with a really interesting fluxus artist:

http://www.fluxus.org/FLUXLIST/maciunas/

enjoy...

ck
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every Wednesday 7-8 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM & WXHD (Hudson Valley) 90.1 FM
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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Three Suns
Date: 19 Apr 1999 08:54:25 -0400


Nat:

I haven't heard Danny's Inerno.......but it sounds like you're basically =
saying that they suck 95% of the time.........

Okay, so maybe only a "handful" of people like The Three Suns as some sort =
of mis-led misconception of being "hip" and "in" - but I happen to speak =
to these people and they irritate to no end.  I bet they brag about =
finding all the 3 Suns albums, then go home and listen to their CD of Led =
Zepplin or something......

- Nate




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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) George Cates.......
Date: 19 Apr 1999 08:59:11 -0400


Okay, just listened to this album while dolling up for work, and I can =
empahtically say that Polynesian Percussion is LAME LAME LAME. =20

That said, there is *ONE* shining track, the last one on side A, "Chant of =
the Jungle" or something like that.

This album mixes the irritating "bomp bomp ba-domp domp" bongo rhythm line =
found on just about *every* damn "Percussion" album ever made with poor =
orchestration and annoying "Hawaii sound" thrown into the whole concoction.=


- Nate




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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Three Sucks
Date: 19 Apr 1999 09:00:53 -0400


<<assuming that the original poster was kidding
around.<<

Ah, yes, you did see my tongue lodged in cheek.

Nate (A bitter guy who likes to shake the beehive...........)





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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) three suns
Date: 19 Apr 1999 14:11:30 +0100


You know,  I've never seen a three suns record,  nor heard of them until
I started here.  But I do have a friend who DJ's under the name Danny
Inferno.  Who I blame for single handedly starting the disco revival
over here,  but thats beside the point.

What I want to know is there anyone who has a spare copy (Nate, if you
don't like it, ship it out, mate) or has a tape to swap.  So I'll feel
at least able to take part in this debate whenever it rears it head,
and also so I can play Dannys Inferno to Danny Inferno,  and amuse
myself for a few minutes.

Sorry if this is a little late,  I'm still getting through the weekends
digests.


El Maestro Con Queso

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From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Better living through farting (formerly: New (ish) Serge
Date: 19 Apr 1999 15:17:25 +0200



>Um, there really was a French guy who made his living through
>farting. He was, IIRC, known as "La Petomaine", and he was a big noise
>(ha ha) in the French music hall (or equivalent) around the turn of
>the century. I think he farted melodies, did animal noises, that kind
>of thing. No recordings available, as far as I know...


Vaguely heard about La Petomaine, certainly never heard recordings.
However, there's a present day master of flatulence, Mr. Methane
(member of the gas webring), you can find a few fine samples at

http://www.mrmethane.com/


" Here it is at last...the first ever music CD from the World's only
performing flatulist. We guarantee that all the colon coughs you hear on
this CD were delivered by Mr Methane's reverberating rectum. A mixture
of Pop, Rock, Dance and Classical music styles come together with
selected sphincteral passages from Shakespeare to give you thirty two
minutes of high quality anal madness from the man with the rumbling
ring. A potpouri of pooping pandemonium."

Cheers, Ton


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From: [e-mail] (Eric Marvin)
Subject: (exotica) Suprisingly Bond
Date: 19 Apr 1999 07:29:58 -0700



     I participated in a group fundraising flea market this weekend and
     felt it was a good opportunity to get rid of some of my
     brother-in-law's soul LPs.  I had browsed through the collection of
     400 or so albums, losing hope of ever finding any gems after seeing my
     10th Spinners cover (not my cup o tea).  I stationed myself next to
     the LPs on the day of the sell and was eyeing the first browser to
     come along when the word "soundtrack" on the back of one the covers
     caught my eye.  I immediately lunged forward to discover the original
     soundtrack of "For Your Eyes Only."  Not great, but not bad either. I
     began to flip through the covers in this section and discovered that
     my bro' had a penchant for James Bond and had collected all original
     soundtrack LPs up to "View to a Kill."  I quickly pulled these LPs,
     along with an Enoch Light and a Neil Hefti Orchestra in the same area
     and stashed them in my car.  Needless to say I carefully examined
     every cover before continuing the sale.  Unfortunately these albums
     seemed to be his only foray into Exotica.  I have learned several
     lessons from this experience:  It pays to be careful,  what you're
     looking for in in front of your nose, don't judge a book by its
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) AP notes: Gilberto Gil, Eartha Kitt
Date: 19 Apr 1999 10:40:34 -0500


    RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Grammy award winner Gilberto Gil has
undergone surgery to remove a growth on his vocal chords.
    Doctors told the Brazilian samba singer not to speak for 72 hours after the
operation at a Rio hospital earlier this week, reported the O Globo news
agency Friday.
    Gil has had problems with his voice since a gruelling 40-show European tour
last year.
    It was not immediately clear if Gil's musical career would be affected.
    In February, he won a Grammy in the world music category for his album
``Quanta Live''.

    ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Singer Eartha Kitt turned in a different kind of
performance when she visited Gov. Jesse Ventura, doing a handstand on his
desk while he touted the benefits of physical fitness.
    ``This is amazing,'' Ventura said after Ms. Kitt's stunt Friday.
    ``At the age of 72,'' interjected the performer, who was in the Twin Cities
over the weekend for shows at a nightclub and visited with Ventura, a former
pro wrestler, for about 15 minutes.
    ``I'm here to support his original ideas about supporting common sense,''
she said. ``He's fun because of both his sense of humor and practical common
sense.''
    Ms. Kitt played Catwoman on the 1960s Batman TV show; Ventura had a small
role in the more recent ``Batman and Robin'' movie. But the singer said the
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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Ellen Corby,Morey Bernstein,Rege Cordic,Don
Date: 19 Apr 1999 10:40:30 -0500


                            *Ellen Corby
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ellen Corby, who played the tart-tongued country
grandmother on television's ``The Waltons'' and was an Oscar nominee for the
1948 film ``I Remember Mama,'' died Wednesday. She was 87.
    Corby, born Ellen Hansen, spent 12 years as a script assistant before
turning to acting. After her debut in the 1946 film ``Dark Corner'' she
worked steadily as a character actor, often playing a fussy spinster or
busybody.
    She appeared in more than 100 movies, including ``Shane'' (1953),
``Sabrina'' (1954) and ``Vertigo'' (1958). Her performance as the lovelorn
aunt in ``I Remember Mama,'' starring Irene Dunne, earned her the Academy
Award bid.
    Corby made guest appearances on many TV Westerns, including ``The
Virginian,'' ``The Rifleman'' and ``Wagon Train.'' She received a Golden
Boot award from the Motion Picture & Television Fund in 1989 along with
Robert Duvall, Johnny Cash and Robert Fuller.
    As Esther ``Grandma'' Walton on the popular CBS television show, Corby
created her best-known role. Grandma Walton was part of a close-knit
Virginia family in the drama from writer Earl Hamner Jr., who based it on
memories of his childhood.
    A stroke in 1977 forced Corby to curtail her work on the series. She was
seen only occasionally and made her last appearance on ``The Waltons''
series in 1979, although she was part of the 1997 TV special ``A Waltons
Easter.''

    LOS ANGELES, April 16 (UPI) -- Actress Ellen Corby, who was best known for
her role as Grandma Walton on the long-running TV show ``The Waltons,'' has
died at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Los Angeles. She was 87.
    Corby was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in the 1947 movie ``I
Remember Mama.''
    Among her TV and movie roles were Mother Lurch in the original ``The Addams
Family,'' the thief who sold Barney Fife a bad car on ``The Andy Griffith
Show,'' acting teacher Miss Hanna on ``I Love Lucy'' and the beleagured
woman who withdrew a small amount of money from the Bailey Building and Loan
in ``It's A Wonderful Life.''
    She also appeared in the movies ``Vertigo,'' ``Sabrina,'' ``Hush... Hush,
Sweet Charlotte'' and ``Please Don't Eat The Daisies'' and the TV Westerns
``The Virginian,'' ``The Rifleman'' and ``Wagon Train.''
http://www.cjnetworks.com/~roryb/outta.html#Ellen Corby

 *Morey Bernstein
    PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) -- Morey Bernstein, a hypnotist who wrote the
controversial ``past life'' bestseller ``The Quest for Bridey Murphy,'' died
April 2 of cardiac arrhythmia. He was 79.
    In the 1940s, Bernstein saw a hypnotism demonstration at a party and began
exploring the technique as a way to cure ailments.
    On Nov. 29, 1952, the amateur hypnotist tried an experiment in age
regression on one of his most responsive subjects, a 29-year-old housewife
named Virginia Tighe.
    Bernstein asked her to remember her childhood. After several sessions she
began telling him about a time before she was born, prompting Bernstein to
believe his subject had recalled a previous life.
    The hypnotist said Ms. Tighe spoke in a thick Irish accent and claimed to
have been a woman named Bridey Murphy, who was born Dec. 20, 1798 near Cork,
Ireland.
    Bernstein's book, which disguised Tighe as a woman named Ruth Simmons, was
later made into a movie starring Louis Hayward as Bernstein and Teresa
Wright as Ms. Tighe.
    Various investigations failed to prove that Bridey Murphy ever existed.
Bernstein gave up hypnotism after the Bridey Murphy experience.

 *Bill Wendell
    BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) -- Bill Wendell, the veteran radio and television
announcer perhaps best known for his ``Late Night'' introduction of
``Da-a-avid Letterman!'' died Wednesday of complications from cancer. He was
75.
    The native New Yorker and World War II Army veteran began his radio career
in the late 1940s and playing sidekick to stars such as Jack Benny, Bob Hope
and Ernie Kovacs.
    He studied announcing and English at Fordham University and graduated with
a degree in speech before joining the DuMont television network in the early
1950s.
    His television career also included a 1969-1978 stint with Garry Moore on a
syndicated version of ``To Tell the Truth.''
    Wendell was perhaps best known for his role on ``Late Night With David
Letterman,'' where he announced the lineup of guests and the opening joke
that was part of the distinctive introduction of Letterman's name.
    Wendell stayed with Letterman when the comedian moved to CBS in 1993, but
retired from the program in 1995.

 *Rege Cordic
    PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Rege Cordic, host of one of the city's most popular
radio programs, died Friday of brain cancer and related complications. He
was 72.
    Cordic died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he lived
since leaving Pittsburgh in 1965 to pursue a career in film and television.
    At one point, his ``Cordic & Co.'' show commanded 85 percent of
Pittsburgh's radio audience.
    He launched his career in March 1943 while he was still a high school
student, nagging radio host Davy Tyson to let him go on the air at WWSW.
Cordic became the show's junior announcer and took over for Tyson when he
went to another station.
    He moved to KDKA in 1954, bringing a cast of characters such as the wealthy
Baldwin McMoney, punster Carmen Monoxide and Louie the Garbage Man.
    Cordic himself did two of the show's most famous characters, Omicron and
Neutnicron, by prerecording them on vinyl discs and interacting live with
them as he played them back at altered speeds.
    Cordic's popularity never caught on in Los Angeles, where his show lasted
just two years. He became a prolific network TV announcer and appeared in
such movies as Woody Allen's ``Sleeper'' and Brian De Palma's ``Obsession.''
    Survivors include his wife, a sister, and four children.
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?UID=10:12:42|AM&p=avg&sql=B135049
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Cordic,+Regis

 *Don McGuire
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Don McGuire, a screenwriter, actor and director who
penned ``Bad Day at Black Rock'' and co-created the story of ``Tootsie,''
died Tuesday. He was 80.
    Working in the movie industry since the mid-1940s, McGuire won
Screenwriters Guild awards for ``Bad Day,'' which starred Spencer Tracy as a
mysterious stranger in a desert town, and the cross-dressing comedy,
``Tootsie.''
    McGuire also directed Frank Sinatra to a breakthrough role in the western
``Johnny Concho,'' which portrayed the ultra-cool crooner as a coward
struggling to build courage for a gun fight.
    As an actor, McGuire was Red Skelton's straight man in ``The Fuller-Brush
Man'' and appeared in several other movies in the 1940s.
    Born in Chicago, McGuire joined the Army during World War II, but was sent
home after hurting his back in a jeep accident. He briefly shot photos for
the Chicago Tribune and later worked as a publicist in Hollywood.
    Focusing on screenwriting in the 1950s, McGuire wrote and directed Jerry
Lewis' first film after the comic broke with Dean Martin. The film, ``The
Delicate Delinquent,'' has Lewis playing a juvenile offender who becomes a
police officer.
    In later years, McGuire and writer Larry Gelbart, shared story credit on
``Tootsie,'' which starred Dustin Hoffman as an out-of-work actor who
dresses as a woman to land a female role on a popular TV soap opera.

 *Albert 'Poppy' Popwell
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Character actor Albert ``Poppy'' Popwell, who played
various thugs in Clint Eastwood's ``Dirty Harry'' films, died April 9 of
complications from open-heart surgery. He was 72.
    Popwell appeared as heavies in ``Dirty Harry'' and its sequels ``Magnum
Force'' and ``The Enforcer'' before graduating to a police detective in the
series' fourth installment ``Sudden Impact.''
    Eastwood, as Dirty Harry, trained his magnum on Popwell's character and
challenged him to ``Go ahead, make my day.''
    Popwell's career in entertainment spanned six decades on the stage and in
film. The New York City native grew up during the Harlem Renaissance and
danced in Broadway shows as a teen-ager.
    Popwell also had roles in the films ``Cleopatra Jones,'' ``Coogan's Bluff''
and ``The Buddy Holly Story.'' He made appearances on such TV series as
``The A-Team,'' ``Wonder Woman,'' and ``Night Gallery.''

From 4/17/99 L.A. Times:
     Faith Domergue; Film Star Contracted by Howard Hughes
Faith Domergue, 74, a sultry brunet who starred in low-budget action and
science fiction films of the 1940s and '50s. Born in New Orleans, Domergue
moved to California with her family when she was 6. She was 15 when Howard
Hughes noticed her on the Warner Bros. roster of actors and signed her with
RKO. Called the "champion mystery woman among Hollywood players" by Times
film writer Edwin Schallert in 1950, Domergue was given a big publicity
buildup and kept under contract by Hughes for a decade before he gave her a
starring role. He finally cast her in the lead of "Vendetta," a 1950 release
about a girl sworn to avenge a murder. Other films she made in that era
included "Where Danger Lives," "Cult of the Cobra," "It Came From Beneath
the Sea" and "This Island Earth." She retired in the late 1950s but returned
to the screen in the 1960s and '70s, largely in supporting roles in such
films as "Track of Thunder," "Legacy of Blood" and "House of Seven Corpses."
She was married twice, in 1947 to Argentine director Hugo Fregonese and,
after that marriage ended in divorce, in 1963 to businessman Paola Cossa,
who maintained homes in Switzerland and Spain. She moved to Santa Barbara
after Cossa's death in 1992. Domergue is survived by two children, Diana and
John Fregonese, and two grandchildren. On April 4 of cancer in Santa Barbara.


Peppermint Harris obit page: http://elvispelvis.com/peppermintharris.htm
Death anniversaries for the week of 19 April - 25 April:
Monday, 19 April
1993 - David Koresh; cult leader
Tuesday, 20 April
1992 - Benny Hill; actor & comedian
Wednesday, 21 April
1996 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder; sports oddsmaker
Thursday,  22 April
1978 - Will Geer; actor, "The Waltons"
1984 - Ansel Adams; photographer
1994 - Richard Nixon; U.S. President
1996 - Erma Bombeck; humorist
Friday, 23 April
1983 - Buster Crabbe; swimmer
1985 - Sam Ervin Jr.; U.S. Senator
1986 - Otto Preminger; film director
1995 - Howard Cosell; sportscaster
Saturday, 24 April
1997 - Pat Paulsen; comedian
Sunday, 25 April
1995 - Art Fleming; game show host, "Jeopardy"
1995 - Ginger Rogers; actress/dancer






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From: "Indy Rutks" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) AP notes: Gilberto Gil, Eartha Kitt
Date: 19 Apr 1999 10:32:17 -0500


>     ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Singer Eartha Kitt turned in a
> different kind of
> performance when she visited Gov. Jesse Ventura, doing a handstand on his
> desk while he touted the benefits of physical fitness.
>     ``This is amazing,'' Ventura said after Ms. Kitt's stunt Friday.
>     ``At the age of 72,'' interjected the performer, who was in
> the Twin Cities
> over the weekend for shows at a nightclub and visited with
> Ventura, a former
> pro wrestler, for about 15 minutes.

I saw this on the local (Twin Cities) news, and it *was* astounding. Eartha
looks mighty good for 72!

Her show was terrific as well, according to a review in one of the local
papers. I wanted to go, but I think the cheapest ticket was in the $50
range.

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From: m h jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Bentley Rhythm Ace  / Drinking
Date: 19 Apr 1999 15:58:10 +0100


1)
>      Is everything on this album basically just an uncredited cover
>      version of an obscure song?  On first listen, I detected tracks I
>      had heard on the 'las vegas grind' and 'nymphomania' compilations,
>      but now keep hearing about more.
>
>      And is it true that Bentley Rhythm Ace are in fact Pop Will Eat
>      Itself?

One is. The other member is an ex-tarmaccer (if that's a word) from
Birmingham. Are they covers or just unimaginatively sampled? I heard one of
their tracks when they deejayed on Mary-Anne Hobbs and it was appalling.
Their choice of records wasn't up to much either.

2)
> "If I had all the money I've spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink."
> (from "Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End").

I like what George Best said about how he spent most of his money on cars,
women, drink and drugs, and "the rest I just squandered..."


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From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Katie Lee
Date: 19 Apr 1999 11:31:20 -0400


>I thought some of you might be interested in this LP I've
>put up on eBay...KATIE LEE: SONGS OF COUCH AND CONSULTATION

Post away, but I hafta say I thought this one was fairly disappointing.
Great cover, but the music and the singing were fairly plain.

Her RCA album _Life Is Just a Bed of Neuroses_ was a bit more interesting,
with music arranged and conducted by Ray Martin. That one seemed a bit more
energetic and the music itself had some humor to match the lyrics--which
particularly in "Love that Man" are quite warped.

Of course, no one should listen to me, since I'm one of those hopeless
trendies who actually listens to sucky Three Suns records like _Fun in
the Sun_ . . .

cheers,

 --Ross

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) "The Cates Debate" or "Mental Masturbation"
Date: 19 Apr 1999 12:22:48 EDT


In a message dated 04/19/99 9:00:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Okay, just listened to this album while dolling up for work, and I can
empahtically say that Polynesian Percussion is LAME LAME LAME.   >>

Fasten your lap belts you bastards cuz here I go:

Well, I just have to say that taste differ.  Me for instance?  I can enjoy a
Schlitz (not Bull) as a retro drink on Friday afternoons, Mai Tai's on
Saturday (preferably before breakfast) and (a shaken God dammit) martini at
cocktail hour on Saturday evenings.  The varied opinions on this list will
possibly find one (if not all??) of the drinks unenjoyable (or as some may
say:  "LAME LAME LAME").

Well, I got news for you.  I happen to enjoy the Polynesian Percussion LP
immensely.  I have found it an appropriate bridge between Denny and Baxter.
And I like both of those too.  I have never liked the twangy Hawaiian music
much but this "toned down" Hawaiian LP has some of the merits of Hawaiian
music without the twang.

And get this.  A hard core rock friend of mine nearly lost his lunch when I
played some Denny and Baxter for him.  Baxter was too "orchestrated" and
Denny was too
"stupid and silly" (his words obviously).  He did like the Cates album tho
because it reminded him of the islands without being so "God-awful Hawaiian
tourist-like".  That was about a year ago.

And what has happened to that friend?  Well, I made him a tape of Cates and
he eventually asked for one of Denny and then Baxter.  Go figure.  Now he
loves them both.

My point is this:  there is some real shitty music out there in my opinion
and lots of you jokers just love it.  As Chuck for NO might say,  "OK by me
if it's OK bayou."  I just don't like when one's opinion is "offered" as the
definitive statement.

The next time just add "I think" to the phrases suck, blows or "is lame".

Geez, I get tired of making this same post every few months or so.  So, let's
get out of the bathroom.

Tiki Bob


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From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Soothing Sounds for Baby
Date: 19 Apr 1999 18:44:02 +0200


Charles Moseley wrote:

> I just got Raymond Scott's Soothing Sounds for Baby on triple vinyl and I'm
> confused. I found every track to be repetitive and boring

Well, the music is certainly repetitive, but I don't think it's boring at all.
You have to be in the mood to listen to this. Have tried listening to the
records without doing something else? Just listening and relaxing? Try it!


> I could understand the excitement of finding the original 78s (were they
> originally on 78?)

Nope, they weren't. Not many records were released on 78 in 1964...
I would also love to find the original records, but I'm more than happy with
this reissue.

Marco



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Better living through farting (formerly: New (ish)
Date: 19 Apr 1999 13:09:58 EDT


In a message dated 04/19/99 9:19:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Vaguely heard about La Petomaine, certainly never heard recordings.
 However, there's a present day master of flatulence, Mr. Methane
 (member of the gas webring), you can find a few fine samples at
  >>

I heard his version of "Classical Gas".  It was a  . . . . well you get it.






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Subject: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update
Date: 18 Apr 1999 19:30:20 +0200


A new update to the eXotica Releases Overview is available.
These are the most important recent additions, that where not yet announced
here.

(If you would like to receive the unabridged updates on a regular base by
e-mail, just let me know you want to get on my "XRO updater")



           - April 18: new (1999) releases, announcements & corrections -


* Henry Mancini: "Big Latin Band"
      CD, RCA 62999, Spain, 1999

* Henry Mancini: "High Time"
      CD, RCA 62998, Spain, 1999

* Soundtrack: "Two For The Road" [by Henry Mancini]
      CD, RCA 62997, Spain, 1999

* Various Artists: "Lounge Sensations: Brash & Brassy"
      CD, Pickwick 1419, UK?, 1999

* Various Artists: "Lounge Sensations: Lover's Midnight Rendezvous"
      CD, Pickwick 1420, UK?, 1999

* Various Artists: "Lounge Sensations: Precocious Percussion"
      CD, Pickwick 1421, UK?, 1999

* The Ventures: "Golden Pops/ Pops In Japan '71"
      CD, See For Miles C5 C5HCD 686, UK, 1999

* The Ventures: "Pops In Japan/ Pops In Japan/ No. 2"
      CD, See For Miles C5 C5HCD 685, UK, 1999




           - April 18: other interesting finds I stumbled on -


* Phil Harris: "His Original And Greatest Hits"
      CD, Jasmine, UK?, 199?

* Patti Page: "In The Land Of Hi-Fi"
      CD, Polygram 538330, USA?, 199?

* Shirley Temple: "Oh, My Goodness!"
      CD, Jasmine, UK?, 199?

* Various Artists: "The Best Of Blaxploitation"
      CD, ACE SEWK 124, UK, 199?

* Various Artists: "The Best Of Latin Jazz"
      CD, ACE BGPK 124, UK, 199?

* Various Artists: "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Da"
      CD, Columbia, USA, 199?



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From: [e-mail] (Tosh)
Subject: Re: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update
Date: 19 Apr 1999 10:16:17 -0700 (PDT)



>
>* The Ventures: "Golden Pops/ Pops In Japan '71"
>      CD, See For Miles C5 C5HCD 686, UK, 1999
>
>* The Ventures: "Pops In Japan/ Pops In Japan/ No. 2"
>      CD, See For Miles C5 C5HCD 685, UK, 1999
>
>
I have heard Pops in Japan by the Ventures sometime ago in Tokyo.  It's
rather amusing record!  They cover old Japanese 'enka' pop songs.  Are
there any other "Western" pop music makers who made records totally for the
Japanese market.  My wife, who is Japanese, told me that the lead 'boy'
actor in Death In Venice made a couple of records for the Japanese market.
Also the actress who was in the Tony Danza (sp) tv show made some
recordings ...

-----------------
Tosh Berman
TamTam Books
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Soothing Sounds for Baby
Date: 19 Apr 1999 14:15:10 -0500


Here's a response from Jeff Winner, webmaster at http://RaymondScott.com
-ls


In a message dated 4/19/99 10:45:28 AM, "Charles Moseley"
<[e-mail]> writes:
>>...
>>I'm confused. I found every track to be repetitive and boring, with almost
>>no variation and few fresh ideas. I realise that the music makes use of
>>electronic sounds but is that it?

     Some people find the SSFB LPs interesting because they predate a
'modern' minimalist form of electronic music (called 'ambient') by many
years.  This kind of music, by definition, is extremely repetitive.

     Additionally, these recordings were made using very early electric
music machines that RS designed & built.  (The Moog Synthesizer, for
example, hadn't been invented yet...)

     And others are curious about RS's life & musical projects (other than
his 1930's Quintette).

     SSFB Volumes 1, 2, & 3 are also available - SEPARATELY - on CDs.
Basta's vinyl reissue is limited to only 1500 copies, & I think it is mainly
for the 'hardcore' fans who already knew what SSFB was.

-Jeff<[e-mail]>




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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Katie Lee
Date: 19 Apr 1999 15:02:11 -0400



>I thought some of you might be interested in this LP I've
>put up on eBay...KATIE LEE: SONGS OF COUCH AND CONSULTATION


For another version of "Gunslinger", try the Limeliters.  It's quite funny!
 It's on "The Slightly Fabulous..." I believe.  Another plus is Lou
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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Re: Katie Lee
Date: 18 Apr 1999 12:03:59 -0700



> For another version of "Gunslinger", try the Limeliters.  It's=20
> quite funny!

I spent  a few days with Brian while he spent food-money on records. Do =
yourself a favor, BELIEVE HIM... He has vinyl in his veins.

On the Katie Lee tip. Great record when used PROPERLY. You will get =
metter results one-track-at-a-time.

By the way - Brian, Black Orpeheus OST is KIIILLLEEERRRRRR! Thanks for =
the tip.  =20

Long post about Brian and record shopping coming up soon.

Ron



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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) bringing new meaning to novelty records
Date: 19 Apr 1999 16:09:19 -0400


I was at a record fair yesterday and I will post the "best of" my
acquisitions later in the week for the interested few.
But there's one "record" that I thought was worth mentioning on its own.
This item represents a concept that I either vaguely remember or it's just
something that you see and you go "of course they would have made these".
The front cover has a picture of a horse tied to a tree and on the ground
there's a bunch of women's clothing.  The name of the record is "Famous
Cavalry Riding Songs".
On the back cover there are five photographs of various naked women.
There were other clues on the back but I didn't pick up on them.
You reach in to pull out the record and instead of a piece of vinyl it's a
round, black, record-shaped piece of cardboard.  And on it, it says "I
bought this album for you as a gift... sorry, I couldn't afford the record!"
And then there's a white heart with the word "from" so you can sign it.
The clues?
Well I suppose there's the "record label" which is "High IN-FIDELITY"
records.  But that's not much of a clue.  I'm surprised that label didn't
exist.
But above the supposed song list on the back it says:
"Suggested titles, suitable for enclosure in this Album Cover are as follows":

What????

Then there are a bunch of titles, all of which are real songs but they take
on a double entendre in this context.  Songs like:

Come where my love lies screaming
The Green grass grew all around
One for my baby and one more for the road
Down in the valley
Ridin high
and...
Back in the saddle again

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) bringing new meaning to novelty records
Date: 19 Apr 1999 16:09:19 -0400


I was at a record fair yesterday and I will post the "best of" my
acquisitions later in the week for the interested few.
But there's one "record" that I thought was worth mentioning on its own.
This item represents a concept that I either vaguely remember or it's just
something that you see and you go "of course they would have made these".
The front cover has a picture of a horse tied to a tree and on the ground
there's a bunch of women's clothing.  The name of the record is "Famous
Cavalry Riding Songs".
On the back cover there are five photographs of various naked women.
There were other clues on the back but I didn't pick up on them.
You reach in to pull out the record and instead of a piece of vinyl it's a
round, black, record-shaped piece of cardboard.  And on it, it says "I
bought this album for you as a gift... sorry, I couldn't afford the record!"
And then there's a white heart with the word "from" so you can sign it.
The clues?
Well I suppose there's the "record label" which is "High IN-FIDELITY"
records.  But that's not much of a clue.  I'm surprised that label didn't
exist.
But above the supposed song list on the back it says:
"Suggested titles, suitable for enclosure in this Album Cover are as follows":

What????

Then there are a bunch of titles, all of which are real songs but they take
on a double entendre in this context.  Songs like:

Come where my love lies screaming
The Green grass grew all around
One for my baby and one more for the road
Down in the valley
Ridin high
and...
Back in the saddle again

Nat




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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) New (ish) Serge Gainsbourg biography
Date: 19 Apr 1999 17:45:02 -0400


At 12:01 PM 4/19/99 +0100, Peter Hipwell wrote:
>
>Um, there really was a French guy who made his living through
>farting. He was, IIRC, known as "La Petomaine", and he was a big noise
>(ha ha) in the French music hall (or equivalent) around the turn of
>the century. I think he farted melodies, did animal noises, that kind
>of thing. No recordings available, as far as I know...

I was so proud of myself until I read this.  Yesterday at the record fair,
I passed up a record of a farting contest and I'm almost positive that one
of the participants was called "La Petomaine".
What can I say?  The guy wanted ten bucks.  If it had been five, I guess
I'd be getting private emails now requesting tapes.

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) a few record fair acquisitions
Date: 19 Apr 1999 17:45:07 -0400


I passed it up in Montreal and lived to regret it.
Don't ever forget this "YOU DON'T REGRET WHAT YOU BUY, ONLY WHAT YOU DON'T
BUY".
But at yesterday's record fair I found and bought, at a more reasonable price:

NANCY AND LEE... AGAIN
It's great.  It may not have a "Some Velvet Morning" but on first listen,
it's at least the equal of the first record and it has the added bonus of
Nancy trying to cry at the end of one song.

I'll just mention the best of the rest:

CLAUS OGERMAN  "WATUSI TRUMPETS"
I didn't find much "Now Sound" stuff yesterday but this one sort of made up
for it.  Great covers like "It's not unusual" and even better originals.  I
actually don't know if they're originals but let's just say they're songs I
don't know.
I was afraid it would be all trumpet but there's just enough wacky organ to
make it work.  This is definitely in the right groove for anyone looking
for more "Gap a go go/Austin Powers" music.
This is another one of those moments where a record makes me wish I was a
DJ.  He does this version of "Right Now" which I take it is a Herbie Mann
tune but I only know it from Mel Torme's "Coming Home baby" record, which
was produced by Claus and Shorty Rogers.
Mel does an amazing version of it.  In fact that's a truly great record,
especially the title tune, by the way.
Anyway, I wish I DJ'ed just so I could play Mel and Claus's version back to
back.  Or maybe if I had a radio program, they would be my opening and
closing tunes.
I'd call the show "Right Now:  The Now Sounds of Nat Kone" or something
like that. Or just "Right Now Sounds".
(Sorry for the fantasies there but at least I didn't mention Nina Simone.)

The other record highlight, sort of, was:

KLAUS WUNDERLICH - "SOUND 2000, moog, organ, rhythm"
Or something like that.
This is a strangely inconsistent record, at least on first hearing but
there are some great peaks even if the valleys are a bit too frequent.
I'll have to play it again but I know that the last tune "Krimoogulus" is
going to make it on a bunch of tapes eventually.

I'll include the more dreg-like acquisitions later.  But I am happy to say
that I was reunited with the HOMBRES "Let it (all hang) out" record.

Nat



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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Farting contest/Le Petomaine
Date: 18 Apr 1999 15:37:59 -0700



=20
> I was so proud of myself until I read this.  Yesterday at the record =
fair,
> I passed up a record of a farting contest and I'm almost positive that =
one
> of the participants was called "La Petomaine".
> What can I say?  The guy wanted ten bucks.  If it had been five, I =
guess
> I'd be getting private emails now requesting tapes.
>=20
> Nat

Fret not, Nat.

What you likely passed (heheh) on was a Canadian Comedy record called =
the flatulence contest, or something similar. An ingeniously funny bit =
featuring two commentators describing in detail, and with sound effects, =
the goings on at a fictional farting contest.Towards the beginning, they =
describe one of the contestants entering the ring and give details about =
his attire, saying that the aperture from where the sound emanates, =
called the "Finesse du Breeze" was decorated with fringe. It's pretty =
funny stuff (for an entire record of fart jokes.)

Joseph Pujol, Stage-named "Le petomaine" probably predated the =
phonograph, or at least the popular use of the phonograph, so I doubt it =
could have been him.

One of the RE/search books devotes a chapter to him. Here is the =
Amazon.com link with an interesting  description of the book dedicated =
to bodily fluids: Sweat, saliva, feces and other "excreta."  Enjoy.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/094064228X/ref=3Dsim_books/002-377=
0827-4232424

Ron

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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Farting contest/Le Petomaine
Date: 19 Apr 1999 18:19:55 -0700


Ron Grandia wrote:
>
>
> > I was so proud of myself until I read this.  Yesterday at the record fair,
> > I passed up a record of a farting contest and I'm almost positive that one
> > of the participants was called "La Petomaine".
> > What can I say?  The guy wanted ten bucks.  If it had been five, I guess
> > I'd be getting private emails now requesting tapes.
> >
> > Nat
>
> Fret not, Nat.
>
> What you likely passed (heheh) on was a Canadian Comedy record called the flatulence contest, or something similar. An ingeniously funny bit featuring two commentators describing in detail, and with sound effects, the goings on at a fictional farting contest.Towards the beginning, they describe one of the contestants entering the ring and give details about his attire, saying that the aperture from where the sound emanates, called the "Finesse du Breeze" was decorated with fringe. It's pretty funny stuff (for an entire record of fart jokes.)


********

sorry for the blatant commercialism, but i couldn't pass this one up...

i think what you may be referring to is the "Crepitation Contest"
record, which circulated on bootleg 78s for years. In fact, I have 2
discs of a 3-disc set of just such a bootleg- the third disc was not to
be seen in the thrift where i picked them up. they're just acetates with
hand-written labels.

Anyway, I currently have what I think is a 1970s 33rpm issue of the
classic Crep Contest recording for auction on ebay, if anyone's
interested!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=92923968

again, sorry for the blatant plug, but hey- it seemed relevant!

cheers!
pea


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From: Risser Family <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Three Sucks
Date: 19 Apr 1999 18:33:19 -0400


<<
Okay, so maybe only a "handful" of people like The Three Suns as some sort =
of mis-led misconception of being "hip" and "in" - but I happen to speak =
to these people and they irritate to no end.  I bet they brag about =
finding all the 3 Suns albums, then go home and listen to their CD of Led =
Zepplin or something......

- - Nate
>>

I happen to really dig the three suns.
And I can't really say I'm particularly "hip"
 or "cool" or that I have anyone within 400 miles that
gives a fuck what I listen to.
So I'm not sure who I'm trying to impress.

Ceratinly not Nate.

On the other hand, I really like Led Zeppelin too.

I'm not sure what the problem is...

Sounds like Nate needs a vacation.

Peter


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Three Suns
Date: 19 Apr 1999 21:37:05 EDT


[e-mail] writes:

<< I haven't heard Danny's Inerno....... >>

...and previously wrote:

<<And you know those "Space Age Pop" comp. CD's - They suck too!
They're PEDESTRIAN, a real yawn fest.  Those "percussion" gimmick albums are
a bore...........>>

Nate, Danny's Inferno IS ON one of those volumes!  Must be the Stereo Action
one.

<<Ah, yes, you did see my tongue lodged in cheek.>>

Don't know about that, but your foot is definitely in your mouth, dude!  :)

Nobody came to bat for The History Of Space Age Pop series (3 volumes), so I
will, just in case a newcomer is taking Nate seriously.  This set is a fine
introduction to a number of artists and I recommend it highly.







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From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) HI-INFIDELITY
Date: 19 Apr 1999 22:36:54 +0000



> Well I suppose there's the "record label" which is "High IN-FIDELITY"
> records.  But that's not much of a clue.  I'm surprised that label didn't
> exist.
> But above the supposed song list on the back it says:
> "Suggested titles, suitable for enclosure in this Album Cover are as follows":
>
> What????


Nat, you got yourself a very valuable li'l 'joke'!  There are collectors
that pay thru da nose for those!  There was a whole line of saucy LP
'Greeting Cards' on High IN-FIDELITY.  A shop owner I know has a wall
full of them, and he covets them. (He's a trustworthy barometer of what
is valued in vinyl collector circles).  So rent that safe deposit box,
but don't show the banker what yer stashin'!

Keith


+++++++++++++++++++++
 http://www.lobue-art.com
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A Virtual Gallery and info site
for the artwork and workshops
of KEITH E. LO BUE



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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) HI-INFIDELITY
Date: 19 Apr 1999 23:58:00 -0400


At 10:36 PM 4/19/99 +0000, Keith E. Lo Bue wrote:
>
>
>> Well I suppose there's the "record label" which is "High IN-FIDELITY"
>> records.
>
>Nat, you got yourself a very valuable li'l 'joke'!  There are collectors
>that pay thru da nose for those!  .  So rent that safe deposit box,
>but don't show the banker what yer stashin'!
If we're talking real money, send them over.
I can spend their money on a bunch of crappy records that I'll probably get
rid of eventually and then have nothing to show for my luck.

Nat



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) New soundtracks
Date: 20 Apr 1999 00:55:53 EDT


I was digging my new Johnny Cool CD.  Inside the package, almost as
interesting as the shot of Liz Montgomery, there are a few other new releases
advertised.  Pictured with the 'I Want to Live' soundtrack which is one of
the most legendary soundtracks ever, there is a soundtrack to 'The Misfits'
composed by Alex North.  Can anyone recommend this?  It's described as the
'greatly expanded version of Alex North's jazzy, introspective score.' I've
heard his score to 'The Rose Tattoo' and it is sweet indeed.

Also pictured is Ellington's Paris Blues.  Any comments on that one?

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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Farting contest/Le Petomaine
Date: 18 Apr 1999 22:51:26 -0700




>=20
> i think what you may be referring to is the "Crepitation Contest"

Ahhhh, yes - Lord Windesphere VS Paul Boomer (Brit vs Australian)
Dr. Demento used to like to pair this nugget with the "The Disco =
Crepitation"
with catchy lyrics like,  " It's a dance anyone can do with eaaazzzeeee =
- Just shake your hips and cut the cheeeeeze"  Whoooeee! Now THAT'S =
COMEDY!

>=20
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3D92923968

again, sorry for the blatant plug, but hey- it seemed relevant!

cheers!
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) le petomaine
Date: 20 Apr 1999 09:06:12 +0100


I'm surprised no one has mentioned it,  but there was a film made of the
life of La Petomaine (shouldn't he be a Le?).  With the late Leonard
Rossiter in the title role.  Mid seventies I think,  I remember thinking
it was hilarious,  being a teenager at the time.  I have some
recollection that the original character had to give up performing after
a few unfortunate accidents.... he was getting old, losing the fine
control etc.

I'd also like to say that I really enjoyed the Bentley Rhythm Ace LP,
and I don't think its the place of anyone on the list to go around
criticising anyones (taste in) music.  Thank you.



El Maestro Con Queso

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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) three suns
Date: 20 Apr 1999 09:49:27 +0100


> From: [e-mail]
>
> You know,  I've never seen a three suns record,  nor heard of them until
> I started here.

Well, like a lot of American "exotica" artists, their releases are
either non-existent or painfully hard to find over here. There were at
least a couple of UK 10" records, and a couple of compilation LPs; I
haven't seen any others.

> But I do have a friend who DJ's under the name Danny
> Inferno.  Who I blame for single handedly starting the disco revival
> over here,  but thats beside the point.
>
> What I want to know is there anyone who has a spare copy (Nate, if you
> don't like it, ship it out, mate) or has a tape to swap.  So I'll feel
> at least able to take part in this debate whenever it rears it head,
> and also so I can play Dannys Inferno to Danny Inferno,  and amuse
> myself for a few minutes.
>

It's on one of the RCA spage-age pop CDs, if you can get hold of
those.



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From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) le petomaine
Date: 20 Apr 1999 11:15:51 +0200



>La Petomaine (shouldn't he be a Le?).

I was wondering about that too, petomania seems to be a mainly male
fascination. However, I vaguely remember having seen reports claiming
that women prefer the front bottom, so to speak, as the instrument
for their endeavour at musical flatulence, I couldn't tell, haven't
done much fieldwork lately, I must confess.

Cheers, Ton


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From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) New (ish) Serge Gainsbourg biography
Date: 20 Apr 1999 05:10:49 PDT



>
>     Has anyone read Gainsbourg's novel, 'Evguenie Sokolov'?
>
>     regards
>     Jonny
yeah, it's not really a novel. you could write it in crayon on bog roll and it wouldn't stretch from here to the wall. it's about an artist who uses his violent farting as the motor impulse for his hysteric drawing. it's quite silly but well worth the 1/2 hour it would take to read it. the 2 collages in the edition i saw, which i assume were done by him, were dead good though.
borrow it if possible
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From: Anthony Jackson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Star Wars Samba
Date: 20 Apr 1999 06:50:22 -0700 (PDT)


A few years back I heard a thunderous samba version of
the Star Wars theme at Charlie's, a hip little cave in
Shinjuku. It was done by a Japanese latino-phile whose
name I can't remember.

I've been looking for this track for years and was
wondering if anyone knew of this piece.

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Date: 20 Apr 1999 09:56:06 -0500


                            *James Copp    =09
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- James Copp, a cabaret singer and society columnist who
also wrote children's songs, died April 7 of respiratory problems, the Los
Angeles Times reported. He was 85.=20
    Copp collaborated with Ed Brown, a University of Southern California
graduate, linguist and designer and wrote scripts for the albums. They were
recorded at Copp's Los Angeles home.=20
    The zany songs described quirky characters such as the Glup family who
traveled in a broken-down car with their pet cow. The duo made nine albums,
and they are considered classics among children's recordings.=20
    His act, called James Copp III and His Thing, caught the eye of a Columbia
Records talent scout and Copp soon headlined with performers such as Billie
Holiday, Art Tatum and Lena Horne in New York cabarets.=20
    After serving in the Army during World War II, he returned to Los Angeles
and wrote the column ``Skylarking with James Copp,'' for the Los Angeles
Times, beginning in 1950.=20

Tuesday, April 20, 1999=20
James Copp Dies; Put 'Genius' Into Children's Music=20
By ELAINE WOO, LA Times Staff Writer
  In his first life, he was a New York cabaret artist who shared bills with
Lena Horne and Billie Holiday.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0In his second, he was a society columnist who hobnobbed with=
 Los
Angeles' elite.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0In the third phase of his unusual life, James Copp's=
 assortment of
talents found yet another, more enduring outlet: From the late 1950s to the
early 1970s, he composed, performed and recorded stories and songs for
children, creating a loyal following with albums by such names as "East of
Flumdiddle," "Gumdrop Follies" and "Sea of Glup."=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Called an "unsung genius" of the peculiar idiom of children's
recordings, Copp died at Midway Hospital on April 7 after a long illness. He
was 85 and never married or had children of his own.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0The nine albums he made with partner Ed Brown largely=
 disappeared from
stores in the 1980s after Brown died and Copp lost interest in recording
without him.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0But his compositions, praised for their sophistication and=
 brainy
zaniness in such highbrow publications as the New Yorker and the Atlantic,
found a new audience in the 1990s, when they were reissued in compact disc
and cassette with the help of a Berkeley fan who never grew too old for the
loony tunes.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0The albums are considered classics among children's=
 recordings, called
"deliciously fresh and funny" by the New Yorker in 1958 and "funny . . .
uncondescending, and dark" by the Atlantic in 1993.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0"He was an eccentric genius," said Ted Leyhe, the childhood=
 fan who
became Copp's business partner in 1993 and now runs the company that
distributes the Copp and Brown recordings. "He is as important a person for
children as Dr. Seuss or Walt Disney."=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0From 1958 to 1971, Copp created his "lunatic land," dozens of=
 stories
set to music and peopled with quirky characters. There is, for example, the
feeble-minded Mr. Hippity, who believes his chicken pull toy is dying; Agnes
Mouthwash, the girl who can't milk a cow because she has yellow jaundice;
Miss Goggins, the scariest fourth-grade teacher on Earth who finally gets
her due; Jennie Saucepan, the 8-year-old bride who wears her wedding cake on
her head; and the perpetually provincial Glup family, who travel the country
in a jalopy with their pet cow.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Copp wrote the script for each album, recording them at home=
 in Los
Angeles with a microphone and three Ampex tape recorders. "I didn't know how
anyone made records," he said in a 1996 interview. So he invented his own
form of multitrack recording, achieving what guitarist Henry Kaiser called
"miraculous results with minimal equipment."=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Copp was born in Los Angeles in 1913, the son of a prominent=
 attorney.
He studied political science at Stanford and creative writing in graduate
school at Harvard.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0From an early age, he had a talent for playing the piano and=
 telling
stories. After Harvard, he entered a talent show and won the prize, which
was a stint with the Will Osborne band. That infected him with the show
business bug and soon he formed his own act, called James Copp III and His
Thing, which he described as "wild stories at the piano."=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0He was spotted by John Hammond, the talent scout for Columbia=
 Records
who in a long career discovered many major artists, from Benny Goodman to
Bob Dylan. Hammond booked Copp's act in Manhattan nightclubs, where he
headlined with performers such as Billie Holiday, Art Tatum and Lena Horne.=
=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0But Copp was never comfortable performing in public, his=
 sister, Jayne
Copp Berger, said. Then World War II intervened. Copp joined the Army,
serving in the European theater and ended up commanding an intelligence unit
in Germany.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0After the war, he returned to Los Angeles and applied for a=
 job as a
society columnist at The Times. In 1950, "Skylarking With James Copp" made
its debut, illustrated with Copp's own pen-and-ink sketches and bearing his
brand of offbeat humor. ("We are not going to write about orangutans," he
wrote in his first column.)=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0It was popular with readers, but after about five years he=
 gave it up
because the partying was bad for his health, Berger said. Still interested
in writing music and stories, he decided to take his old nightclub act and
revise it for the grade-school market.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Around 1958, he hooked up with Brown, a USC graduate,=
 linguist and
designer, and the two launched their bizarre enterprise, churning out an
album a year for the next decade.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Copp, a tall, trim man who spoke in a baritone, never shied=
 from using
grown-up words, such as "precipice" or "velocipede" or "vituperative," in
his songs. Admirers say his literate lyrics merit comparison to the verse of
A.A. Milne, Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Brown and Copp created all the voices, and Copp performed the=
 music,
using a motley assortment of instruments, including a piano in the living
room, a pump organ in the bathroom, a celesta in a bedroom. He took pains to
create the sound effects, building a fire in his shower to capture the
crackling, and smashing a barrel of kitchen glasses when he needed the sound
of a falling chandelier.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Once, he overdubbed his voice 90 times to achieve the roar of=
 a crowd.
Using the same technique--"ping-ponging between tape recorders," as the
guitarist Kaiser described it--he could create layers of sound, simulating a
chorus of fourth-graders, some singing off-key, or a gaggle of barnyard
animals entering a room with excited clucks, gobbles and moos. His
techniques, Frederick Ramsey Jr. wrote in Saturday Review when the first
album, "Jim Copp Tales," was released in 1959, "may have opened up a new
medium of expression."=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Copp and Brown also handled the marketing. Every year about=
 three
months before Christmas, they hit the road, selling the albums directly to
such exclusive stores as I. Magnin, Neiman-Marcus, Bloomingdale's and FAO
Schwarz.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0After Brown's death in 1978, Copp continued to sell the=
 albums through
an 800 number. That is how Leyhe, who owned a video company, found him.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Copp, described by his sister as something of a recluse,=
 suffered from
emphysema and never fully recovered from a fall that broke his leg in five
places. He was bedridden the last three years and finally succumbed to
respiratory complications.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0He once said that he chose the medium of children's=
 recordings because
he didn't like being subjected to the fads that often determined success in
the adult recording world. He was less interested in making the Hit Parade,
he said, than in making music that would last.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0"I really did these things just because I liked them. I=
 didn't really
do them for children. However, I thought that maybe that was the best way to
sell them," he said a few years ago.=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0"I thought that if I did [songs] for children, they wouldn't=
 be at the
whim of people who go for the latest tune. I thought potentially they might
go on and on."=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Further information is available from Playhouse Records, Box=
 20547,
Oakland, CA 94620-0547, [phone]. =20


                            *Cao Huoxing    =09
    BEIJING (AP) -- Cao Huoxing, whose best-known song, ``Without the Communist
Party there would be no new China,'' died Friday at age 75, the state-run
Xinhua News Agency said.=20
    Cao began composing at age 16 and wrote more than 1,500 songs. =20
    His most famous song became a standard of party propaganda. It was composed
in the autumn of 1943, before the Communists won a civil war and took power
in 1949.=20

                             *Al Rawley    =09
    BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- Al Rawley, a radio and television personality who was
the star of ``Popeye Theatre'' and co-starred in the ``Al and Aileen Show''
with his wife, died Friday. He was 80.=20
    Rawley's 60-year career included work in vaudeville as well as radio and
television.=20
    He began his career as a vaudevillian and radio star at age 13 and worked
with the Sons of the Pioneers, Liberace, Basil Rathbone and Gabby Hayes. His
also worked on MGM records and the CBS shows for Armed Forces Radio at the
end of World War II. He died Friday.=20
    The Rawleys spent 10 years at Channel 2 -- now WLBZ -- in Bangor before
moving in 1967 to WEMT-TV Channel 7, now WVII. Rawley hosted a popular
oldies program on Ellsworth's WDEA radio station in the 1980s. Mrs. Rawley
died in 1997.=20

                          *Shijaku Katsura    =09
    TOKYO (AP) -- Shijaku Katsura, a popular performer of traditional
``rakugo'' comic monologues, died Monday at a hospital in western Japan. He
was 59.=20
    Katsura had been in a coma since last month, when he tried to hang himself
in his home in Suita, 250 miles west of Tokyo.=20
    Born Toru Maeda in Kobe, Katsura gained popularity with his lively and
innovative performances in a western Japan dialect, though he also performed
in English. He also was known for his humorous looks, characterized by his
bald pate and broad smile.=20
    ``Laughing is a way to release stress,'' he once said. =20
    After dropping out of the literature department at Kobe University, Katsura
made his debut in 1962 under his previous stage name, Koyone. Using his
English skills, Katsura developed his trademark ``rakugo,'' entertaining
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From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Trading minidisks
Date: 20 Apr 1999 15:43:31 +0100


Is anybody on the list interested in trading non-exotica (gasp!) minidisks?

Go on! Show off your knowledge of other genres, you know you want too.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki
Date: 20 Apr 1999 10:49:21 -0400





Sandberg Magnus wrote:
>
> I know that the cd has been around for quite a while, but i just got =
my
own copy of it from amazon.com.
>
> The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki is WONDERFUL! VERY VERY WONDERFUL! O=
ne
of my best records.
> "Terminal" is my fave track.
Yes!!! Terminal is very, very cool.>>Looking forward to more Don Tiki!!=

-Kevin

Ok, Jane Fondle's joining the choir on this!  I just recently got THE
FORBIDDEN SOUNDS, too, and I am glad that I am partaking of the taboo! =
 Oh
crusty old cynics, DROP your "Yeah, rights" into a Mai Tai, and
shake-n-stir 'em away, because this tastes JUST like the real thing!  W=
ould
Martin Denny grace his presence on a bunch o' village posers?!??  COME =
ON!
Denny beautifully updates himself on "Exotica '97", but it sounds dream=
ily
more like "'57."  The master busts the age barriers and plays like he w=
as
blessed with tiki gods and fire goddesses.  I am glad he knows we love =
him.
He rounds out this piece of authentic exotica, with a lilting instrumen=
tal
piece as well.  In the middle of the Dennys, we have a terrific new,
exotica arrangement of an old, jazz standard, "Close Your Eyes," and, y=
es,
the its-everything-you've-heard-it-is "Terminal," with the smooth swagg=
er
of Jimmy Borges...That song should be number ONE everywhere!  To descri=
be
another one of my pick hits on this record, I will quote Sr. Floyd hims=
elf:

" Polyamor=E9... latiny rhythm and abstract vocals by Lana
Warner? flute + moi on what we affectionately call 'craft fair
instrument.' it's actually an ocarina, a double globed ceramic thang
with me doing my best roland kirk breath and sing at the same time."

So, yeah, I'm a Janey-come-lately to this album, but don't you make tha=
t
fatal mistake!
Fondle!

p-s...Regarding Jimmy Borges, he reminds me of another fine Asian loung=
e
singer, Lee Sohn...Anybody know him?  He does a LETHAL "Jezebel"!





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Date: 20 Apr 1999 10:20:58 -0400







My question is, if the Three Suns suck does that mean that Arthur Lyman
bites
and Esquivel blows?

>>>Oh, man!  As a revved-up 30-something, I SURE HOPE SO!
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Please respond to [e-mail]
Nobody came to bat for The History Of Space Age Pop series (3 volumes), so
I
will, just in case a newcomer is taking Nate seriously.  This set is a fine
introduction to a number of artists and I recommend it highly.


Here, hear, Hip!  MA residents might also be interested in knowing you can
get these at (near) thrift-store prices, at Newbury Comics, which is
blowin' the suckas out!
BTW, what are all these BAD VIBES on the list?  I come back from a
three-day weekend, and with all the slagging and scatalogical discussions,
I feel like I need a shower!  Yeesh!  I though easy listenin' was supposed
to lead to more lovin'!
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Subject: (exotica) Life with Eartha
Date: 20 Apr 1999 10:57:06 -0500


I've blatantly stolen the following from this morning's Minneapolis
StarTribune gossip column by CJ...

-Indy Rutks ([e-mail])

====================================================================
C.J.: Kitt rubbed some KARE-TV folks the wrong way

CJ / Star Tribune

Word has it that some folks at KARE-11 were disappointed by Eartha Kitt's
demeanor. Pat Evans, who humored Kitt with wit and charm on "KARE-11 Today,"
was not among them. "Miss Eartha came in wearing sunglasses, sat down and
didn't speak to anyone." To those unhappy with Kitt's star turn, "I said,
'Honey, this is a 72-year-old woman who worked two shows [at Yvette] last
night. She probably didn't have anything to say.' " A master at managing
temperamental types, Evans said, "I took Miss Eartha aside. Miss Eartha is
just not a morning person! I told people, 'Don't be offended.' She's a
DIVA!" Certain people, such as Evans and security guy Dan Seman, have a
higher tolerance for divas. Seman's Avalon Limousine Services, of RaCoon
Rapids, delivered Kitt to KARE; Dan heard no reports of misbehavior from the
driver. "Those are the kind of people I don't mind when they treat me
badly," Seman said. "I think she's kind of like Raquel Welch. Raquel can
treat me like a dog all day long and I'll still love her. Eartha's got that
personality. . . . I grew up watching her on television. She's cool. How old
is she? I still think she's sexy." Charleen Bacigalupo, who handled Kitt for
Yvette, gave her rave reviews. Then again, Charleen knows what side her
bread is buttered on. "I had her in the car all day [Wednesday]; she was
being a lamb," said Bacigalupo. She also went antiquing -- they hit the
snooty J. Oliver -- with Kitt over the weekend. Bacigalupo said a star "at
that level" normally does not condescend to making rounds of local TV and
radio shows, but Kitt did. "She's adorable. Interested in everything. This
woman is powerful and magical and just irresistible. Her show is a study in
power." Bacigalupo didn't really sound like they had become fast friends,
given her constant references to "Miss Kitt." "She said to me in the car,
Eartha. She's kind of in charge. I expect her to grab the wheel but she
doesn't." Of the KARE-11 interview done by Evans and Lauren Glassberg,
Bacigalupo said, "You know those young people did the best they could
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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Re: Katie Lee
Date: 20 Apr 1999 08:41:07 -0400


>I spent  a few days with Brian while he spent food-money on records. Do
>yourself a favor, BELIEVE HIM... He has vinyl in his veins.
>
>On the Katie Lee tip. Great record when used PROPERLY. You will get metter
>results one-track-at-a-time.
>
>By the way - Brian, Black Orpeheus OST is KIIILLLEEERRRRRR! Thanks for the
>tip.

...and may I say in reciprocation that Mr. Grandia is not only one of the
nicest fellows I have met he also has his fingers on the pulse of the San
Jose' record scene!  I will not post out about what I discovered, but I
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Subject: (exotica) Black Orpheus
Date: 20 Apr 1999 14:18:30 -0400






cc:    (bcc: Laura Taylor/ADM/Boston MA/C&L/US)






>
>By the way - Brian, Black Orpeheus OST is KIIILLLEEERRRRRR! Thanks for the
>tip.


While I we are on this, I __also__ thank Brian for suggesting that I watch
the film, which I did this weekend!  For fans of the Jean Cocteau
"ORPHEUS", all I can say is in its gorgeousness and colour, it's a
Brazilian equivalent to the French!  It's funny, because when I got the
soundtrack , I could just imagine what the film was like, and the music is
a beautifully illustrative!  Welcome back, Brian, although you were never
really gone! ;0
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Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki
Date: 20 Apr 1999 14:35:03 EDT


In a message dated 04/20/99 11:09:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Would
 Martin Denny grace his presence on a bunch o' village posers?!??  COME ON!
 Denny beautifully updates himself on "Exotica '97 >>

You betcha!!!!  I just love this cut.  I have just about wore it out (if that
is possible with a CD)

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Date: 20 Apr 1999 14:45:09 EDT


In a message dated 04/20/99 11:57:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< She's a
 DIVA!" >>

I have never like the term Diva.


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Subject: (exotica) new reviews on motion
Date: 20 Apr 1999 19:58:32 +0100



---+ new reviews ---+ http://motion.state51.co.uk/reviews/

     Amon Tobin - Permutation (Ninja Tune)
     John Lurie - African Swim and Manny & Lo (Strange and Beautiful Music)


thanks, and apologies for cross-postings

the motion team

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Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Life with Eartha
Date: 20 Apr 1999 14:58:18 EDT



In a message dated 4/20/99 2:48:05 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>I have never like the term Diva.

I loved the term when it was frequently applied to anonymous 70's disco
singers who sang their guts out with virtually no recognition (Lolleata
Holloway and Barbara Roy come IMMEDIATELY to mind), but when I hear it
applied to Mariah,  Cher, Tina, Celine, and Whitney, I know we need a new
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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Lee Hazlewood interview
Date: 20 Apr 1999 21:10:21 +0200


5 pages recent interview can be found in the May issue of MOJO.
Plus a not to kind review of his new "Farmisht Flatulence, Origam, ARF!!!
And Me" album


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Subject: (exotica) Black Orpheus and my mother's contribution to Exotica
Date: 20 Apr 1999 15:22:40 -0400


Jane, in her attempt to make me blush (no easy feat), said:

>While I we are on this, I __also__ thank Brian for suggesting that I watch
>the film, which I did this weekend!  For fans of the Jean Cocteau
>"ORPHEUS", all I can say is in its gorgeousness and colour, it's a
>Brazilian equivalent to the French!  It's funny, because when I got the
>soundtrack , I could just imagine what the film was like, and the music is
>a beautifully illustrative!  Welcome back, Brian, although you were never
>really gone! ;0

Thanks, as always, JF!  Two things I would like to re-point out about this
film (for the newer folks on the list)

1. It has one of the greatest openings of any film I have seen.  The first
shot is of marble friezes and underneath very solemn soothing music is
being played.  After the credits, the friezes shatter and you see and hear
a carnival scene.  Can't be beat.  Took me a year before I got to the rest
of the movie(Gotta see that intro again)!  Jobim and Luis Bonfa did a great
job on the music!

2. My Mother, may she rest in peace (she's not dead, I just would rather
her sleep in some place quiet than a noisy place, if I am given a choice),
taught Marpessa Dawn (Eurydice) dance while they were attending high school
(Marpessa Dawn gossip: her real name was Gypsy and she had a real "stage
mother").  The school had an interesting setup, in the sense that the
faculty saw an exceptional student and had her teach a class in dance!  She
did not pursue her dancing after that and she married.  I was very loved,
even though I was not um, expected by Mom and Dad and one of the most
surprising things she has ever said to me was, "If I continued dancing, I
never would have had you boys [my brother and I]."

I would like all of you on the list to think on that.  She was a great
dancer, yet she raised two sons (partially on her own, when my Father and
Mother divorced) and while she did still enjoy dancing and tried
(unsuccessfully!) to get me to dance a little, what I quoted to all of you
she never told me until I was well into my twenties and out of the house.
Sexual and social mores of the 40's through '60's aside, I think that is a
pretty amazing thing to do for someone.

Thanks for letting me toot my Mother's trumpet, because so few people know
about this and I think it deserves at very least, mention.

One of these days I will tell you about my Aunt Lottie, who taught piano to
one of the Nicholas Brothers.

Oops, just did.

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Subject: (exotica) [obit] Sr. Wences
Date: 20 Apr 1999 15:39:44 -0500


    NEW YORK (AP) -- Senor Wences, the master ventriloquist who delighted ``Ed
Sullivan Show'' audiences with his puppet-head-in-a-box, Pedro, and his
falsetto-voiced hand-puppet, Johnny, died Tuesday at 103.
    The Spanish-born Wences, whose real name was Wenceslao Moreno, died at his
home in New York City.
    During the Golden Age of television, Wences bickered and bantered with his
puppets while he drank, smoked and juggled.
    He conversed with Pedro, a head in a box (``S'OK?'' ``S'AWRIGHT). And he
was defeated by Johnny, who boasted, ``Deefeecult for you; easy for me.''
    Wences created Johnny by scrunching up his fist, drawing a mouth where
thumb and index finger met, and draping a blond wig over the top.
    His character Pedro was a gravelly voiced head in a box, born out of
necessity when Wences' ventriloquist's dummy was accidentally damaged and
only the head was spared.
    Pedro wore glasses and a Dali-like mustache and beard. His voice became
clearer as the door to his box opened, and muffled as it closed. Audiences
forgot the sound was really coming from outside the box.
    Wences would talk to his puppets with his face right in theirs, as if
daring the audience to watch his lips, which, of course, never moved.
    He would stuff a hankie in Johnny's mouth and have the puppet speak with a
muffled voice while he himself smoked a cigarette. Then he would give Johnny
a drag, and the puppet -- that is, Wences' hand -- would somehow emit
perfect smoke rings.
    ``Most of us were in awe of Wences,'' ventriloquist Jimmy Nelson once said.
``He could get laughs just by saying, `S'AWRIGHT!' And I still don't know
how he got those smoke rings out of Johnny.''
    There were no jokes, just what one writer has described as ``bizarre,
farcical, Spanish-accented patter.''
    In between his many Sullivan show appearances, he entertained four
presidents, toured with Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, did a Broadway show with
Danny Kaye, and played every casino in Vegas.
    He had a precise, economical act: 19 minutes with a one-minute encore. He
would ask the promoter for only a card table and a glass of water.
    He continued touring into his early 90s.
    Wences was born in Penarada, Spain, and discovered his gift for mimicry
amusing his classmates in grade school.
    In 1934, when he came to the United States, Wences was conventional --
``another ventriloquist with a dummy,'' as he put it. But two years later,
en route to Chicago, his act was transformed when his dummy, Pedro, was
crushed in a baggage car accident. Wences bought a box, stuck the head
inside, and -- on stage that day -- inquired if he was OK.
    Pedro replied, in a voice as gravelly as Johnny's was squeaky: ``S'AWRIGHT!''
    A memorial service and burial will be held in Spain this weekend.




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Subject: Re: (exotica) bringing new meaning to novelty records
Date: 20 Apr 1999 15:51:22 -0400


>Come where my love lies screaming
>The Green grass grew all around
>One for my baby and one more for the road
>Down in the valley
>Ridin high
>and...
>Back in the saddle again

Oof!  I think I may have seen another record like this in Los Angeles.  It
showed two men facing each other (from the calves down and dressed) and the
songs all had double-entendre titles leaning toward homosexual themes.  I
don't remember the titles, but I think this company issued several titles.
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Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Life with Eartha
Date: 20 Apr 1999 15:55:53 -0400


Re: Diva

>but when I hear it applied to Mariah,  Cher, Tina, Celine, and Whitney, I
know we need a new
>word..........Jimmy Botticelli

OK.  How about "Xtabay"?

(Juuuuuuuuuuuuuuust kidding!)

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Date: 20 Apr 1999 15:56:29 -0400







>Jane should be a writer besides a music star!  I couldn't agree with her
assssessment
of this cd any more then what she said.  Its definitely not a boot and its
available
cheap.
I like this cd alot.


Thanks, Chuck-truck, but __my__ money's on Brian Phillips as the writer for
Y2K...with that lovely essay on his mum!  Now gang, isn't that nicer than
all this,uh, crepitation?!?
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Date: 20 Apr 1999 14:51:09 -0400




In Hi-Fi is pleased to announce that in addition to our regular guest DJ,
Michelle Boule, of WFMU's "Incorrect Music," we will be featuring several
special guests from out of town.
This Thursday, April 22, Combustible Edison's Brother Cleve (Boston) and
the
Easy Alohas
(Amsterdam) will be joining Jack Fetterman at New York City's Bar d'O.
The music begins at 7:00 p.m. There is no cover charge. Bar d'O is located
at 29 Bedford Street, at the corner of Downing Street, just a block away
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Date: 20 Apr 1999 16:00:07 -0400


Sigh...I am sure many a boy lost his virginity to Sr. Wences...
I'M SORRY-COULDN'T LET THAT ONE GO BY!!
That Naughty Eartha Fondle
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Black Orpheus
Date: 20 Apr 1999 17:06:49 -0400


>While I we are on this, I __also__ thank Brian for suggesting that I watch
>the film, which I did this weekend!

Beautiful music and a wonderful (full of wonder) film. It feels like a
dream, not a movie.

Now *I've* gotta see it again.

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From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki
Date: 20 Apr 1999 15:21:45 -0700


[e-mail] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 04/20/99 11:09:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [e-mail] writes:
>
> << Would
>  Martin Denny grace his presence on a bunch o' village posers?!??  COME ON!
>  Denny beautifully updates himself on "Exotica '97 >>
>
> You betcha!!!!  I just love this cut.  I have just about wore it out (if that
> is possible with a CD)

Would it be blasphemous to say I actually prefer the Don Tiki version over the
Denny original???

Kevin Crossman
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Subject: (exotica) The Three Ring Circus
Date: 20 Apr 1999 17:46:51 -0700 (PDT)


At a local record store I spotted a record by a group called The Three
Ring Circus called Groovin' on the Sunshine on RCA from 1968.  It's got
a sort of scary psychedelic picture of a clown on the front cover.  The
arrangers listed are Ray Ellis and Robert Allen.  According to the
track listing, side 1 is vocals and side 2 is instrumentals.

Anyone know anything about this album?  Thanks.

Mark
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From: James G <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Johnny Cool Wants To live
Date: 20 Apr 1999 18:59:12 -0700


The Johnny Cool OST clocks in at just under 32 minutes of IMHO
relatively lightweight cocktail-style music that I have plenty of. The
two Sammy songs are ok, but if you want good Sam try the 20 song
mid-price Cd on the canadian Pair label: some hits(thankfully not
Bojangles or Candyman) but a killer version of The Tender Trap.(I used
to live across the street from an SF bar called The Tender Trap - the
italian bartender would get a heat on and croon Sinatra and Bennet songs
through a mike and an amp, karaoke style - in 1971 !!)

Meanwhile Johnny Mandel's I Want to Live RYKO OST is MUCH more bluesy
crime jazz percussive weirdness with the bonus of the companion Gerry
Mulligan small group jazz album based on the score, and clocks in at a
wild and crazy 59 minutes. So now you know in case you forgot to ask.

JB
 (looking at the Johnny Cool pics and remembering that Henry Silva was
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Subject: (exotica) NYC Dj gigs
Date: 20 Apr 1999 23:19:50 EDT


Thursday, April 22 (this) at In Hi-Fi, we are pleased to present the "more
better half" of WFMU's Incorrect Music program, Michelle Boule, providing
subtle yet barbed musical pleasantries.

Following, Brother Cleve (trudging all the way from Cambridge,
Massachusettes) graces In Hi-fI
with his brand of traditional and contemporary neo-subgenial combustible
tone poems.

How would we have anticipated that the blessing of Cleve's visitation
would intersect with DJ friends
from Amsterdam, the Easy Alohas? We couldn't, but that's the case...

Michelle Boule, Brother Cleve, and the Easy Alohas

this Thursday

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(the alohas will be at Mondo 107 on Wednesday, April 21, as well!)


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From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Yma Sumac songs
Date: 21 Apr 1999 09:12:34 -0400


Can anyone tell me what LP these two Yma Sumac songs come from -
"Gopher" and "Bo Mambo"?

thanks,

cheryl


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Subject: (exotica) Yma Sumac songs
Date: 21 Apr 1999 09:40:41 -0400



>Can anyone tell me what LP these two Yma Sumac songs come from -
>"Gopher" and "Bo Mambo"?


"Mambo", orchestra conducted by Billy May.



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Subject: (exotica) [obits] John Broome,Flora Carabella,Gordon Hughes,Sr. Wences
Date: 21 Apr 1999 09:59:31 -0500


                            *John Broome
    NEW YORK (AP) -- John Broome, a DC Comics writer whose 25-year career
included the popular superheroes Green Lantern and Flash, died March 14 of a
heart attack. He was 85.
    He died while traveling through Thailand with his wife Peggy.
    Broome, who wrote under his own name and the pseudonyms John Osgood and
Edgar Ray Merritt, was responsible for the colorful writing in The Justice
Society of America. The comic depicted the first team of superheroes, and
Captain Comet, a character with great mental powers.
    Other comics Broome wrote included Detective Chimp, about a chimp who
worked with a sheriff in a small town to solve crime. It was written from
the chimp's viewpoint. He also wrote the comic Atomic Knights.
    Green Lantern, first created during the Golden Age of Comics in the 1940s,
was revised by Broome in the '50s and '60s. He also wrote most of the
stories of Flash, during the same period. Both comic characters survive into
today.
    After retiring in 1970, Broome moved to Paris and later to Tokyo, where he
taught English.

                          *Flora Carabella
    ROME (AP) -- Actress Flora Carabella, the widow of Marcello Mastroianni,
died Monday night after a long illness, Italian news reports said. She was 72.
    ``Flora was not just (Marcello's) wife. She was a joyful, committed,
independent woman, always lively,'' said actress Sophia Loren. ``In the end,
she couldn't bear the pain of Marcello's loss. Marcello was the man of her
life.''
    Carabella worked with the famed director Luchino Visconti at the beginning
of her career. She married Mastroianni in 1948.
    They separated in 1970 but never divorced and remained friends until his
death in 1996.

                           *Gordon Hughes
    SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) -- Gordon Hughes, a director-writer who worked
with such entertainers as Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra and Lucille Ball
during a half-century stage, radio and TV career, died Monday of heart
failure. He was 89.
    Hughes began his entertainment career in 1933 with stage productions in the
Midwest and East Coast. He also directed Reagan in Des Moines, Iowa, at the
Little Theatre.
    Hughes was the first radio director to receive NBC national credits on the
air while directing Arch Obler's ``Lights Out.''
    He later moved to Hollywood and directed the radio soap opera ``The Guiding
Light.'' He also did shows for Sinatra, Miss Ball, Gene Autry and Steve
Allen on the CBS radio network.
    Hughes then moved to television, where he produced, directed and wrote such
shows as ``My Little Margie'' and ``Charlie My Boy.'' He wrote ``This is
Your Life'' and ``Truth or Consequences'' shows.

In alt.obituaries, [e-mail] (Lawrence Person) wrote Senor Wences
Memorial Haiku:
>Senor Wences Dead
>Lived to One Hundred and Three
>Health Fad: Talk to hand
>
>Wences 'snot awright:
>Handy ventriloquist gone
>Long life for old schtick
>
>Talking to own hand:
>"I call that a cry for help."
>MST3K
>
>Ed Sullivan, fame
>Vaudeville, TV, Presidents
>Johnny now silent

April 21, 1999
Senor Wences, Ventriloquist Who Was a TV Regular, 103
By RICHARD SEVERO, NYTimes
NEW YORK -- Wenceslao Moreno, who started his career as an unsuccessful
bullfighter in Spain and then became Senor Wences, a gifted ventriloquist
who was able to transform his thumb and forefinger into a convincing dummy
that endeared itself to millions of American television viewers in the 1950s
and '60s, died Tuesday, his 103rd birthday, at his home in Manhattan.

He and his wife, Natalie, had lived on Manhattan's West Side for more than
60 years. They also lived in Salamanca, Spain, Wences' hometown.

In a career that lasted more than eight decades, Wences repeatedly proved
himself a stellar part of the tradition that included Edgar Bergen, Paul
Winchell and other popular ventriloquists who delighted audiences from the
1920s well into the television age.

What set Wences apart from everyone else was that his main character was not
carved out of wood, as were Bergen's Charlie McCarthy and Winchell's Jerry
Mahoney. Johnny, Wences' dummy, was simply formed by his right hand. He
painted lips on his thumb, draped a ridiculous orange wig across his fist,
stuck eyes on the side of his hand, just below the wig, and let the hint of
a body dangle below. As soon as he began his act, this unlikely creation
came to life as Johnny, a lovable, impertinent little boy, not unlike the
boy Wences had been.

It was shortly after the turn of the century in Spain that Wenceslao Moreno
found that he could imitate others and throw his voice. In school, when one
of his classmates was absent, he would answer for him, and the teacher would
mark the missing student present.

In those days, he had a friend named Paulo who lived next door. The friend's
mother would appear at an upstairs window and call for her boy to come home.

"No, Mama," a voice sounding like Paulo would say. "I refuse to come into
the house." When the mother demanded that her son obey, the voice would
continue in defiance: "Mama, you attend to your own business, and I will
attend to mine."

Poor Paulo got the dickens on several occasions, until it was discovered
that he had not been the culprit.

Other times Wences successfully imitated the voice of the mailman, telling
the tenants of his apartment house that the mail was there and ready for
distribution. (There were no mailboxes.) All of the tenants would dutifully
come down the stairs and assemble at the front door, only to find that no
mailman was there. In one instance, an angry tenant dumped a pail of water
on the real mailman's head to teach him not to trifle with the residents of
that building.

The little sprite of a voice and impish personality emerged to a widespread
audience decades later, in the United States in 1948, when Wences made his
television debut and introduced Johnny to virtually the nation's entire
television audience, which assembled on Tuesday nights to watch Milton
Berle's variety hour.

Shortly thereafter he made the first of 48 appearances on Ed Sullivan's
show. Neither Sullivan nor his audience ever tired of Wences.

Wences' Johnny was not a rake or a wise guy, like Charlie McCarthy. He was a
disembodied insurrectionist whose single-minded purpose was to nettle Wences
in little ways, as small boys are wont to do. And so, if Wences announced to
his audience that a certain trick was going to be "very difficult," Johnny's
little voice would insist that it was "easy." If Wences gave Johnny a dirty
look, Johnny would add, "Difficult for you, easy for me."

In the conversations that ensued, Johnny would seem to be a completely
separate being from Wences, quite capable of saying anything. There were no
jokes, per se. Just snippets of silly but strangely eloquent conversation.
And the exchanges were always polite, gentle; segments ended with kisses
between Johnny and Wences.

Johnny was not the only star Wences developed. The other was Pedro, a
talking head in a covered box. Pedro was grouchy, imperious, raspy. He
almost did not become part of the act. Originally, Pedro had a body that was
crushed in a train wreck near Chicago. Wences, salvaging the head, put it in
a box. At first, those who booked the act resisted; they did not think
people would relate to a head in a box. Wences prevailed and Pedro proved
almost as big a hit as Johnny.

Whatever happened in the act, whatever pandemonium there might be, Wences
would always open the box and say to Pedro, "You all right?" Pedro would
always respond, "S'all right," to which Wences would say, "Very good." If
Wences presumed too much and opened the box when Pedro preferred privacy,
Pedro would demand, "Shut the door!"

When Pedro and Johnny were simultaneously in action, it seemed a wonder that
Wences could get through his shows in full control. He had a palpable
Spanish accent and there were times when some found it difficult to
understand him. The laughs came just the same; his timing and the gentleness
of his message were such that he transcended the bounds of language.

Wences, who was also a formidable juggler, started out as a young torero in
local bull rings near Salamanca. After several bulls got the best of him, he
turned to ventriloquism and juggling. By the 1920s his renown in both fields
was such that he was in demand in Europe and Latin America. He first came to
New York in 1935, where he appeared at the Club Chico in Greenwich Village.

But it was not until he got on television that he became truly famous. In
addition to his appearances on the Berle and Sullivan shows, Wences also
appeared with Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Perry Como and Jack Benny. He was seen
in a specialty act in the 1947 movie "Mother Wore Tights," starring Betty
Grable and Dan Dailey. In 1963 he toured with Danny Kaye's International Revue.

In 1996, Wences received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National
Comedy Hall of Fame for his devotion "to entertaining generations of
audiences and bringing countless hours of joy and happiness to millions
throughout the world." He was also honored by New York City, which erected a
blue street sign alongside the Ed Sullivan Theater designating a block of
West 54th Street from Eighth Avenue to Broadway as Senor Wences Way.

He remained vigorous well past his prime and was still working in 1986, when
he toured with Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller in "Sugar Babies." His wife, who
is his only survivor, said he got that job because she was able to convince
the producers that he was a mere 75 years old, 15 years younger than he
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Oriental Trading
Date: 21 Apr 1999 10:16:45 -0500


I just received the Summer catalog from Oriental Trading Co. You can request
a copy of your own at:

http://www.oriental.com/cgi-bin/otc_cat_rqst.cgi

At least 16 pages of the catalog have tropical and Luau-related items. They
carry stuff like Tiki light strings, plastic Tiki mugs, coconut-bodied
ukuleles, grass skirts, tropical drink umbrellas and straws, decorations, etc.

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Subject: (exotica) Muzak
Date: 21 Apr 1999 11:48:46 -0400


Last night I finished Joseph Lanza's book, "Elevator Music" (worth a read).
And thought, hey, I really should check for Muzak on the web.

Here it so obviously is:
http://www.muzak.com/

And a surprisingly hip looking site it is. I'm surprised no one here has
linked it before -- perhaps Muzak is too scary even for us?

Here's the less spiffy looking site of competitor AEI:
http://www.aeimusic.com/

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Subject: Re: (exotica) The Three Ring Circus
Date: 21 Apr 1999 12:11:21 -0400


At 05:46 PM 4/20/99 -0700, Fish Wich wrote:
>
>At a local record store I spotted a record by a group called The Three
>Ring Circus called Groovin' on the Sunshine on RCA from 1968.  It's got
>a sort of scary psychedelic picture of a clown on the front cover.  The
>arrangers listed are Ray Ellis and Robert Allen.  According to the
>track listing, side 1 is vocals and side 2 is instrumentals.
>
>Anyone know anything about this album?  Thanks.

I don't know anything except that it's one of the "best", most curious
records of that kind that I own.  I say "of that kind" but I'm not sure
what I would compare it to.  The instrumental cuts have the feel of spacey,
electronic psychedelia and the vocal cuts are mostly the same tunes sung in
a kind of "Fifth Dimension" style, which almost seems inappropriate but
somehow works.  I love the vocal version of the song "Lovin Machine", even
the lyrics.
I'm glad I own this record is really all I can say.  I brought it home
hoping it was a certain kind of record and lo and behold, it was.  I
haven't listened to it straight through that often but a few of the cuts
have made it onto a whole load of mixed tapes and they always get the
reaction of "What is this???"

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Subject: (exotica) Slut 4 free!
Date: 21 Apr 1999 12:19:42 -0400


Should you happen to be in the teaming theatre district of Boston this
Saturday night, April 24th, AstroSlut would LOVE to have you!  We are doing
a free show around 10pm, at the Charles Playhouse Lounge, a swank 'lil
spot.
Also, I will be soon using a new email address on these lists:
[e-mail]...although I haven't converted my subscriptions
yet!  Somebody test this out, please! :)
xoxo
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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) organ manuals??
Date: 21 Apr 1999 15:05:36 -0400


I need help from the musicians on the list, particularly the keyboard players.
The composer for my film has bought this not-that-old organ, a Technics U-50.
(I pray I got that right)
Anyway, it looks like we'll be using it extensively for the film but the
problem is that he can't figure out all the stuff it probably does and what
all those buttons do.
Even though it has that old organ "look",  I don't think it's that old and
there are indications it could even be from the eighties.
We went to the Technics website but couldn't find a manual for it.
Can anyone help?  Anyone actually have a manual for this or any Technics
organ? Do you know some mammoth music store that might have stuff like this
catalogued?  Anything online?
Or does anyone actually know how to play this thing?

It shouldn't surprise you that we're looking for the cheesiest sounds we
can get. Right now our model for the soundtrack is the Three Suns version
of "Third Man Theme" from "On a Magic Carpet".  Actually we're trying to
get the rights but probably won't.

Any help appreciated and to the rest of you, this could have been a record
acquisition report, so what does "relevant" really mean?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) The forbidden sounds of Don Tiki
Date: 21 Apr 1999 15:09:30 EDT


In a message dated 04/20/99 6:22:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Would it be blasphemous to say I actually prefer the Don Tiki version over
the
 Denny original???  >>

If you have to ask . . . . . . . . .   yyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssss!


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From: "Albert Fish" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:26:35 PDT
Date: 21 Apr 1999 13:15:42 -0600



 Hello,
  I found an lp called "Voodoo" by R. Hayman. It's $20, which is
about $19 more than I like to spend on serrendipitous lp finds. Does
anyone recommend this lp? Is it worth $20?

Also, I'v been looking for Monique Van Vooren's lp. Anyone know if
it's worth the trouble to find?

Thanks heaps

KDjr.
(I've always wanted to use "serrendipitous" in a sentence. Forgive my
posing).

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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) CD finds....
Date: 21 Apr 1999 15:33:32 -0400


Went on a very rare excursion out of the Hopkins confines to the local =
used CD joint and came across a couple of interesting titles......

1. Los Amigos Invisibles - "The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera"

I haven't read the liner notes, so have no idea what "gozadera" is but =
it's probably something like "club music" or "disco."  Interesting mix of =
jazzy/latin sound with the expected dance rhythm.  Fast and slow songs, =
some sounding very "loungy." =20

2. "Tune in Turn On to the Hippest Commercials of the 60's w/Benny Golson"

On the Verve label, I guess these are all theme songs from various =
commercials (duh!  really?) used as a springboard for cool jazz interpretat=
ion by Benny.  Wordless vocals and upbeat tempos abound.  I guess you =
would call this the "now sound?" I'm not versed in all of these sub, sub =
categories.  Some songs are "Fried Bananas, Cool Whip, and No Matter What =
Shape (Your Stomach's In).

The cover is a pic of a barren, cracked, earthen landscape with a wildly =
painted "hippy" TV set sitting  in the center.

- Nate




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: CD finds....
Date: 21 Apr 1999 14:50:02 -0600


both of these are great...

i couldn't stop listening to Los Amigos Invisibles last summer!!

and you check out the golson LP cover here:

http://www.tamboo.com/clubvelvet/lp/Selections134.html

- kk


>1. Los Amigos Invisibles - "The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera"
>2. "Tune in Turn On to the Hippest Commercials of the 60's w/Benny Golson"

visit...

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             http://www.tamboo.com
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Subject: (exotica) VOODOO!
Date: 21 Apr 1999 15:45:29 -0400


Depends on where you live...I once lived in FL, where my brother got that
record for $1, vg+..I now live in Boston, and was given that as a gift, for
under $20..but not much less.  Is it primo-exotica-YES!  Will you be
disappointed and feel ripped-off, NO!  Is it mint-y?  Those are some
considerations for you...from Ms. Consideration herself, Jane Fondle

 Hello,
  I found an lp called "Voodoo" by R. Hayman. It's $20, which is
about $19 more than I like to spend on serrendipitous lp finds. Does
anyone recommend this lp? Is it worth $20?





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Subject: RE: (exotica) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 09:26:35 PDT
Date: 20 Apr 1999 14:43:05 -0700


I can echo Jane Fondle's sentiments... It's pretty groovy, but whether =
it's a JACKSON worth of groovy is an individual thang. It does turn up =
at garage sales and whatnot, but then again, it's a matter of where and =
when.

If it were me, and the wax was minty-fresh, I'd flip for it, (but not =
before offering $15)

Ron "It never hurts to ask" Grandia

Listen to FeelthyMonkeyRadio
http://www.xtabay.com/feelthyradio.htm=20
Exotica, Moog, IncrediblyStrange
Whacked-Out, Space-Age Weirdness

>   I found an lp called "Voodoo" by R. Hayman. It's $20, which is=20
> about $19 more than I like to spend on serrendipitous lp finds. Does=20
> anyone recommend this lp? Is it worth $20?
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Subject: (exotica) Richard Hayman's "Voodoo"
Date: 21 Apr 1999 19:33:56 EDT


>I found an lp called "Voodoo" by R. Hayman. It's $20, which is
>about $19 more than I like to spend on serrendipitous lp finds. Does
>anyone recommend this lp? Is it worth $20?

This is one of the great, rare exotica records.  I have no doubt whatsoever
that you will love it!  There are many people on the list who would kill to
have it.  Buy it and don't tell anyone where you live.

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Date: 21 Apr 1999 17:49:39 EDT



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In a message dated 4/21/99 3:34:54 PM, you wrote:

>1. Los Amigos Invisibles - "The New Sound of the Venezuelan Gozadera"

Yes-it is interesting, I've been playing some of it on my show. They actually
performed in Boston around January

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From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) VOODOO!
Date: 21 Apr 1999 19:48:54 -0500


[e-mail] wrote:

> Depends on where you live...I once lived in FL, where my brother got that
> record for $1, vg+..I now live in Boston, and was given that as a gift, for
> under $20..but not much less.  Is it primo-exotica-YES!  Will you be
> disappointed and feel ripped-off, NO!  Is it mint-y?  Those are some
> considerations for you...from Ms. Consideration herself, Jane Fondle
>
> > Hello,
>  > I found an lp called "Voodoo" by R. Hayman. It's $20, which is
> >about $19 more than I like to spend on serrendipitous lp finds. Does
> >anyone recommend this lp? Is it worth $20?
>

This is a great album in the Baxter vein of exotica stylings. It's one of
those albums that you can listen to all the way through with no real clunkers
to break the mood. ( a recommended bachelor / bachelorette pad seduction
record. ) I must stress though that this may not be every one's cup o' tea. If
you like exotica for its quirky kookiness ala Danny's Inferno or
Kingsley-Perrey then this album will probably disappoint. If, however, that
you can enjoy the subtle seductive strings of  Les Baxter and are looking for
something more, than this album is for you. Still $ 20 is TOO much. I'd offer
$10 and if they don't accept that you can try my favorite tactic on an
overpriced record and go back once a month and offer $10 each time. They
usually give in on the second or third attempt. The record will never sell at
that price and when you make your offer you are reminding the seller that it
is overpriced. And you KNOW that they only paid $1 or less when they picked it
up.

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From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Raymond Scott sheet music
Date: 21 Apr 1999 21:32:01 -0500


Pardon my slightly off topic request but, knowing that there are Raymond
Scott aficionados on this list, so I have to ask.
Where might I find some sheet music of Scott's quintette compositions?
Any leads?

Appreciated.

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Kenyon Hopkins recommendation
Date: 21 Apr 1999 21:49:51 -0400


Can anyone please tell me about Kenyon Hopkins' soundtrack for
"EAST SIDE WEST SIDE" (with George C. Scott)

Is it in the jazz or crime-jazz genre?

I love Mr. Hopkins jazzy stuff but I don't want to spend 14 dollars for a
bunch of orchestral sludge.

Nat



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Kenyon Hopkins recommendation
Date: 21 Apr 1999 22:19:40 EDT


East Side/West Side is very crime jazzy.  The cut "Extension 6" sounds like
an exotic stripper being chased through a dark alleyway by a brutal brass
section.


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From: "David Gross" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Kelbo's
Date: 22 Apr 1999 14:35:04 +0300


Does anyone know what ever happened  to Kelbo's Polynesian
Palace (or something like that) formerly of Los Angeles, but now
seemingly gone from the face of the earth?  It was a bar/lounge
that was there in the mid 80's but it is no longer listed in the phone
book.

They were famous for their "party drinks" (a big bowl full of whatever
drink you ordered and they gave you as many straws as there were
people in your group)

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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Date: 22 Apr 1999 14:10:27 +0200


Off topic but saw the amazing Godspeed You Black Emperor! in Amsterdam late
last night and I have to say they are truly the bastard offspring of Ennio
Morricone. The new EP is magic.

More at  http://www.gybe.cx/  and others


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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Lucille Vore, Charles "Buddy" Rogers
Date: 22 Apr 1999 10:46:01 -0500


                           *Lucille Vore
    SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Lucille Vore, who starred as ``Baby Lucille'' in the
original ``Our Gang'' comedy films, died April 8 of congestive heart
failure, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. She was 82.
    She was discovered at age 4 by a movie director as she daintily removed a
pair of white gloves while riding on the San Diego Trolley. In 1920, she won
the ``Our Gang'' role after she was chosen over 400 little girls.
    Dubbed ``Baby Lucille,'' Ms. Vore was the youngest in the ``Our Gang''
cast, which was known for its on-screen mischief and ability to escape any
serious consequences.
    In the late 1920s, she appeared in three movies as a stand-in for Barbara
Stanwyck, but left acting soon after to become a registered nurse. In 1970,
she returned to star in a stage production of ``Little Murders'' at the Old
Globe Theatre in San Diego.

[This claim to Our Gang membership may be bogus. There have been many folks
who have falsely claimed to have been in the films. One odd detail in the
obit is the date 1920 -- the first Our Gang short was shot in 1922. -Lou]

    RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif., April 21 (UPI) -- Charles ``Buddy'' Rogers, who
began his movie career during the silent picture era and became the matinee
idol of millions of American girls in the 1930s, has died. He was 94 years old.
    A spokeswoman for the Motion Picture and Television Fund said Rogers died
of natural causes this morning at his Rancho Mirage home in Southern
California. Funeral services were pending.
    Rogers became a star after appearing in the 1927 silent World War I movie,
``Wings,'' which won the first Academy Award for Best Picture.
    He played the perennial handsome college boy in nearly all of his 50 screen
roles.
    The 1937 marriage of Rogers and movie queen Mary Pickford was one of the
top Hollywood stories of the year, joining ``America's boyfriend'' with
``America's sweetheart.'' It was the first marriage for the curly-haired
actor and bigtime swing band leader and the third for Pickford.
    Rogers' first screen role was in 1925 in the silent film ``Fascinating
Youth.'' He followed it up with ``Wings'' and made his talking picture debut
in ``Abie's Irish Rose.''
    He also worked on Broadway in 1933 with Ziegfeld's ``Hot Cha'' and had five
years in vaudeville and on radio.
    Some of Rogers' other film roles included, ``My Best Girl,'' ``Working
Girls,'' ``Old Man Rhythm,'' ``Once In a Million,'' ``Dance Band'' and ``Get
Your Man.''
    Rogers, born the son of a newspaper editor in Olathe, Kan., on Aug. 13,
1904, quit the movies for several years to try to rid himself of the
nickname Buddy and his film roles as the ideal of American youth.
    He formed his own swing band and the group became one of the top dance
bands in the nation, making several tours of Europe.
    Shortly after his marriage to Pickford, however, Rogers disbanded the group
and returned to Hollywood and the movies.
    The Rogers settled down in the fabled Beverly Hills mansion Pickfair, the
``dream castle'' built for Pickford and her second husband, Douglas Fairbanks.
    In the early days of TV, Rogers had a show in New York called ``Meet
Buddy'' and later hosted the Dumont network's ``Cavalcade of Bands'' show.
    After that, Rogers mainly administered the land and commercial properties
the couple owned while his wife kept herself in self-enforced seclusion
until her death in 1979.
    He made few films after his ``college boy days'' because ``they seem to
have forgotten me,'' he once said.
    His last pictures were ``Don't Trust Your Husband,'' retitled ``An Innocent
Affair,'' with Fred MacMurray and Madeleine Carroll in 1948, and ``The
Parson and the Outlaw,'' a western about Billy the Kid, in 1957.
    In October 1987, an 83-year-old Rogers attended a special showing of
``Wings,'' in which he appeared with Clara Bow, Richard Arlen and a bit
player named Gary Cooper. It was shown in the Mary Pickford Theater at the
Library of Congress.
    Directed by William Wellman, ``Wings'' broke new ground in cinematography
for its spectacular aerial combat scenes, in which Rogers, Arlen and others
did their own flying.
    ``We did not have back processes at that time,'' Rogers recalled in an
interview. ``That's where you sit in a chair in the studio and the scenery
runs behind you. I had to learn to fly. They put us on a train to Kelly
Field in San Antonio, Texas.''
    Rogers said: ``They got a second lieutenant and he taught me what he could
in a month or two. I had a camera (on the side of the plane), the controls
in front of me and another camera was on the cowling of the engine.
    ``We had to find our own clouds. We'd shoot one scene with a certain cloud
formation, we had to try to match it up the next day,'' he said. ``It was
different than today, I'll tell you.''
    For his leading role in the film, Rogers was paid $75 a week.
    After marrying his second wife, Beverly, Rogers kept busy with numerous
projects, including serving as chairman of the Pickford Foundation, which
supports the Pickford Theater and other causes devoted to the arts.
    Rogers appeared at the Oscar Awards ceremony in Hollywood in 1985 to
receive the Jean Hersaholt Humanitarian Award, presented by Bob Hope.

    RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) -- Actor and bandleader Charles ``Buddy''
Rogers, the husband of screen legend Mary Pickford and star of the first
film to win the best-picture Oscar, died Wednesday at his home. He was 94.
    Rogers was a student at the University of Kansas when his father persuaded
him to send in his photo to a Paramount Pictures talent hunt. He made his
screen debut in 1926 with Paramount's ``Fascinating Youth.''
    A year later, as the silent-movie era waned, Rogers starred in ``Wings,''
playing a small-town boy who becomes a World War I pilot only to
accidentally shoot down his best friend. The film took Hollywood's top honor
at the first Academy Awards ceremony in May 1929.
    Rogers married Miss Pickford after her marriage to fellow superstar Douglas
Fairbanks fell apart in the 1930s. He was married to her from 1936 until her
death in 1979.
    While his wife's celebrity surpassed his own, Rogers had roles in films
such as ``Young Eagles,'' ``This Way Please'' and ``Mexican Spitfire's
Baby,'' earning the nickname ``America's Boyfriend.''
    Miss Pickford ended her film career after only a handful of talking films,
but Rogers remained active on screen through the '30s and early '40s.
    After television arrived, he became a regular on the ``Cavalcade of Bands''
on the Dumont network in 1951.
    Rogers, who remarried in 1980, is survived by his wife, Beverly.
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?UID=10:23:03|AM&p=avg&sql=B108698

W R E S T L I N G - O N L I N E  N E W S L E T T E R
    L A T E  B R E A K I N G  N E W S
Former heavyweight champion of the World, "Ravishing" Rick Rude passed away
last night in his home. Cause of his death is apperantly a heart attack.
Rude - real name Rick Wood - last competed in the squared circle in the
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From: "Albert Fish" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Richard Hayman's
Date: 22 Apr 1999 07:59:21 PDT


Thanks to all for info on Richard Hayman.



>From: [e-mail]
>Reply-To: [e-mail]
>To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
>Subject: Richard Hayman's "Voodoo"
>Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 19:33:56 EDT
>
>>I found an lp called "Voodoo" by R. Hayman. It's $20, which is
>>about $19 more than I like to spend on serrendipitous lp finds.
Does
>>anyone recommend this lp? Is it worth $20?
>
>This is one of the great, rare exotica records.  I have no doubt
whatsoever
>that you will love it!  There are many people on the list who would
kill to
>have it.  Buy it and don't tell anyone where you live.
>
>Sean


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Subject: (exotica) FW: Esther Nelson Tapes (one more time)
Date: 22 Apr 1999 16:18:11 +0100


> It was my daughters birthday,  so I finally got to listen to the
> Esther Nelson tapes I bought about a month ago. Although they've been
> discussed generally on the list I'd not seen any kind of review,  so
> excuse my indulgence.  Not all the tapes are collaborations with Bruce
> Haack,  the silly songbook series seem are collaborations with someone
> else,  in a similar electronic style but more modern and poppy in
> feel.  With a lot of synth arrangements of Nursery Rhymes.
>
> The Bruce Haack collaborations are quite odd.  Sometimes irritating
> (as you'd expect from a kids tape)  but also quite harsh in places.
> The feel on the Dance Sing and Listen is somewhere between Dick Hymans
> Eclectic Electric's and Kraftwerk,  with a teacher being bossy over
> the top,  some odd versions of folk songs in there too.  The
> Electronica for Kids tape is more bizarre,  being a concept tape
> taking children on a journey through space,  more spacey synths,
> speeded up and slowed down voices.  Some of it is very minimalist and
> generally there is a lot of all round weirdness.  I think my daughter
> is a bit young for it at the moment,  and it freaked out most of the
> adults at her birthday party at the weekend.
>
> These tapes are activity tapes for small children,  they are very much
> of their time (60's and 70's), and remind me of being at infant
> school.  I have to listen to a certain amount of kids music these
> days,  and this stuff is a lot of fun but I wouldn't say it was easy
> listening.  The tapes are quite long and I listened to 3 non-stop and
> it did some funny things to my head I can tell you.  I do like Esthers
> voice though.  Definitely for list use I would say the Electronica
> tape (in full agreement with Johan? a couple of weeks ago) and
> probably the Way Out Tape for Kids,  which is probably the other one
> I'll buy.  The price seems to have gone up recently, too.  It would be
> interesting to hear them on CD quality which someone said was in the
> pipeline.
>
> You have got to wonder what beck will do with this stuff.  Some of it
> I would say is more suited to Nine Inch Nails remixes. Now that would
> be something.
>
> The URL is
> http://www.kidscornucopialtd.com/Dimension5.htm
>
> Now sit down and imagine you're back in your room..........
>
>
> El Maestro Con Queso
>
> [e-mail]
> [e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Jane Tunks)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Kelbo's
Date: 22 Apr 1999 08:26:12 +0100


It is now a strip club called Fantasy Island (Pico Blvd.), supposedly with
inflatable love dolls hanging from the ceiling. I haven't been there since
Kelbo's, but I've heard that most of the tiki accouterments are gone. But
there is still a tropical flavor to the place.

>Does anyone know what ever happened  to Kelbo's Polynesian
>Palace (or something like that) formerly of Los Angeles, but now
>seemingly gone from the face of the earth?  It was a bar/lounge
>that was there in the mid 80's but it is no longer listed in the phone
>book.
>
>They were famous for their "party drinks" (a big bowl full of whatever
>drink you ordered and they gave you as many straws as there were
>people in your group)
>
>n.e.cluz?




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Subject: (exotica) [fwd] gemm.com alternative?
Date: 22 Apr 1999 11:58:55 -0500


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From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bacharach and "Lounge" article
Date: 22 Apr 1999 12:51:28 -0400


Hey all--

A friend off-list pointed out an article to me in the new NY Review of
Books by Geoffrey O'Brien, all about Burt Bacharach's recent rehabilitation
and the "Lounge" phenomenon in general. We've had some discussions on the
list about "nostalgia,"  the media image of Lounge etc., so I thought I
should point it out here.

http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWfeatdisplay.cgi?19990506046R

[Do some stretching excercises on your mouse-finger first--because this one
is, count 'em, 22 screenfulls long.]


Theoretically it's a review of the new Rhino Bacharach Box and the recent
John Zorn Bacharach project--but it really turns into a long meditation on
the difference between hearing music new for the first time vs. listening
to it "ironically" as part of a revival.

I have some serious problems with the article (let's start with the fact
that he cites the _MusicHound Lounge_ book as proof of how ahistorical we
loungies are supposed to be). But he has some pretty sharp comments too,
and I'd be curious what other people think.

cheers,

 --Ross

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Subject: (exotica) "new" Drasnin album review and notes
Date: 22 Apr 1999 10:18:36 -0700


So, I was in the local Tower records and ran across this album... "Exotic
Excursion". Says on the back it was arranged and conducted by Robert Drasnin,
and produced by Dave Pell, copyright 1996, 20 bit high definition mastering. I
look at the song titles and they seem familiar, but hey all of these exotica
albums have songs with similar titles... I love Drasnin's Voodoo! album (the
best exotica record ever, IMHO). The CD was $6 so I took a chance.

Well, how is "Exotic Excursion"?

The Bad:
1) this is a ten song version of the 12 song Voodoo! album already released by
Dionysus in late '95. The missing songs are Jardin de la Noche and Paradise.
Liner notes are substandard but there is at least some info (though it doesn't
say it is a reissue).
2) this thing seems like a ripoff.. with the low price, tacky cover art (sort of
a plus), and lack of full-disclosure of what this actually is.

The Good:
1) I've got to say the sound on this thing is great. Much, much better than the
Dionysus version which was mastered from an LP. There's no pops or hiss on this
thing
2) The price! Duh!  Ok, you lose two songs but the cost is like $5-8 less!

Should you buy this?:
1) If you already have the Dionysus version it's a hard call. The better sound
is a definite plus, especially considering the low cost.
2) If you don't have Dionysus, I'm not sure. this is a really great CD, but I'd
hate to see Dionysus lose a sale... The liner notes are much, much better and
let's face it, Dionysus should get the sale! It's the right thing to do! But, if
you're cheap, Exotic Excursion is a nice way to go.

Amazon.com has it for less than $5 so check it out.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000021PI/

Kevin Crossman
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From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sound Burger
Date: 22 Apr 1999 19:09:36 +0100


Well, after years of searching, I finally found my Audio Technica Sound
Burger. I LOVE it and am so enthusiastic about it that I have knocked up my
 first webpage, with some pictures and some hurried text.

If you're interested, its here:

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Show/3183/index.html


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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Geoffrey O'Brien Bacharach article
Date: 22 Apr 1999 15:31:48 -0400


Geoffrey O'Brien's article isn't perfect, but it's pretty fabulous, I
thought,
and I've been trying to write sentences like the following all my life:

 "Every listener's personal history can be stitched together
from recollections of first encounters, recollections that in
due course become private legends. There is some piece
of vinyl that is forever March 23, 1962. It is the peculiar  faculty
of music to make each such first encounter, in  retrospect, a
snapshot of what the world was at that  moment, as if sound
were the most absorbent medium of  all, soaking up histories
and philosophical systems and  physical surroundings and
encoding them in something so slight as a single vocal quaver
or  harpsichord interjection.

`Will
 -------------------------------------------------
Will Straw, PhD
Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Communications
McGill University

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Bacharach and "Lounge" article
Date: 22 Apr 1999 15:39:34 -0400





>I have some serious problems with the article (let's start with the fact
that he cites the _MusicHound Lounge_ book as proof of how ahistorical we
loungies are supposed to be). But he has some pretty sharp comments too,
and I'd be curious what other people think.

Speaking of books, besides the aforementioned, ELEVATOR MUSIC and
INCREDIBLY STRANGE 1&2, are there any other __good__ books on ze subjects
of "lounge", "exotica", "easy listening,"...the kinds of stuff we
bandy-about here!
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From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Trade List
Date: 22 Apr 1999 15:12:51 -0400


I've got some extra copies of some LPs here--generally ones where there's
Something Wrong and I was thinking of taking them back to the Kiwanis club.
But it occured to me that maybe I should offer them here first.

Apologies if you're not interested--just delete this--but I've tried to add
a bit of editorial comment to keep things somewhat relevant.


* George Cates _Polynesian Percussion_ (Dot)

    Is it the suckiest album of all time? You decide!
    (Mono copy, scratchy, cover thrashed)

* Enoch Light _Plays Happy Cha Chas Vol 2_ (Command)

    I preferred Vol.1, but this is still pretty fun.
    (Vinyl OK, mono release, wrong cover--from Vol. 1 instead)

* Les Baxter _Love is a Fabulous Thing_ (Capitol)

    A bit too lush and soundtrack-y for me.
    (Vinyl/cover fine, mono release)

* _Glenn W. Turner Speaks Out "You Can Better Your Best"_ (SOUNcot)

    The harelipped motivational speaker, as seen in ISM vol. 2.
    Unfortunately, not as weird as advertised--he just sounds a bit
    nasal and gives a standard "believe in yourself" rap. The thought
    that he wound up in prison after this is nice, though.
    (Vinyl/cover OK, mono release)

* Ferrante & Teicher _Pianos in Paradise_ (UA)

    F & T in transition, from prepared-piano madmen to smoothie
    EZ-meisters. Still this "tropical exotica" effort has at least 3
    worthwhile cuts.
    (Mono copy, vinyl somewhat worn, cover OK)

* Edmundo Ros _Dance Again_ (London)

    Probably the punchiest Edmundo LP; features the immortal
    "Colonel Bogey" merengue.
    (Vinyl slightly worn, some stains on cover)

* Enoch Light _Percussion and Brass_ (Grand Award)

    It's got that Enoch sound--but the mildly jazzy repertoire
    just didn't do it for me, compared to the more Latin releases.
    (Vinyl/cover good, mono release)

* _'Lectric Woods_ (ABC)

    I know Nat has mentioned this. I wanted to like it; I almost
    kept it. But instead of being enthusiatically (though cluelessly)
    "Now sound," this seemed lamely "Now sound," and just depressed
    me. Though there really ought to be some kind of award for that
    fruity drivel about Atlantis on the last track.
    (Vinyl/cover fine)

* Werner Mueller _Hawaiian Swing_ (London)

    I saved the best for last. Fabulously overblown, full of weird
    mood swings, this is Hawaiian music on acid.
    (vinyl slightly worn, cover good)


OK--

The ground rules are, no money may change hands. Whoever can send me
another interesting LP, a tape compilation, CDR, etc. gets the item. Email me
offlist and we can work something out.

cheers,

 --Ross

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From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bacharach and "Lounge" article
Date: 22 Apr 1999 15:50:48 -0400


>Speaking of books, besides the aforementioned, ELEVATOR MUSIC and
>INCREDIBLY STRANGE 1&2, are there any other __good__ books on ze subjects
>of "lounge", "exotica", "easy listening,"...

We scrounged up a few others when putting together the FAQ, which are listed at

http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Moritz.Reichelt/exofaq.html#Reading

(Among other swanky web locations)

. . . but I'd have to say that nothing else I know about is in the same
league as the three you name. Anybody have some fresh suggestions?

 --Ross

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Subject: (exotica) Hugh Petfield
Date: 22 Apr 1999 16:16:44 -0400


1.  WHERE THE #%)&W)% HAS HE BEEN LATELY?
2.  The prompt about the books lead me to Hugh's huge web-site,which I have
not seen, and is a nice supplement to the sorely missed VIK TROLA'S LOUNGE
OF SELF INDULGENCE...
Fondly, Jane Fondle
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Subject: (exotica) how to list EXOTICA on eBay
Date: 22 Apr 1999 16:56:08 EDT


Fellow listers,
Who knows the best way to find and/or list exotica/lounge/space age/just
plain odd records on eBay.  I have some that are in great shape and should
sell but I have no idea what to "title" my ad.  Also I can't find a listing
of all of the kind of records I like.  I have to look up each artist
individually which destroys the element of discovery. When I do a title
search under "exotica" all I find is Martin Denny & Yma Sumac and softcore
videos!  Is there a different title category that other listers use to search
for good LPs on eBay?
Thanks for the help!!
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) how to list EXOTICA on eBay
Date: 22 Apr 1999 17:15:18 -0500


At 04:56 PM 4/22/99 EDT, SLarry wrote:
>Fellow listers,
>Who knows the best way to find and/or list exotica/lounge/space age/just
>plain odd records on eBay.

Thats a good question - I never know where to look either!

Here's some of the categories I look in:

Weird Stuff:
General
Slightly Unusual
Really Weird
Totally Bizarre

Music:
General
CDs:
General
Big Band/Swing
Childrens
Comedy
Instrumental
Jazz
Latin
Sound Tracks: Film
Sound Tracks:Theatre
Vocals
World/International

Records:
General
Big Band/Swing
Childrens
Instrumental
Jazz
Latin
Picture
Sound Tracks: Film
Sound Tracks:Theatre
Vocals
World/International

Vintage:
Records

So, where should we look? Also, has anyone played with the auctions at
amazon.com?

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Subject: (exotica) De-Cates List
Date: 22 Apr 1999 17:34:05 EDT


In a message dated 04/22/99 3:57:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< * George Cates _Polynesian Percussion_ (Dot)

     Is it the suckiest album of all time? You decide!
     (Mono copy, scratchy, cover thrashed) >>

See???  Some exoticat just loved this album sooooooooooo much they done woe
the bastard out!!!!

Tiki Bob


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Subject: Re: (exotica) how to list EXOTICA on eBay
Date: 22 Apr 1999 17:36:34 EDT


In a message dated 4/22/99 5:15:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

> So, where should we look? Also, has anyone played with the auctions at
>  amazon.com?

No.  I must confess that I didn't even know they had any.  Are they huge like
eBay?
Larry (full of damn questions today)


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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Trade List
Date: 22 Apr 1999 19:13:42 -0400


At 03:12 PM 4/22/99 -0400, Ross Orr wrote:
>* _'Lectric Woods_ (ABC)
>
>    I know Nat has mentioned this. I wanted to like it; I almost
>    kept it. But instead of being enthusiatically (though cluelessly)
>    "Now sound," this seemed lamely "Now sound," and just depressed
>    me.

It depressed you?  I guess I forgot to mention that I like things that
depress me.

If anyone is going to question my taste, I'm glad it's Ross who I'm sure
understands the vagaries of taste, especially when it comes to this stuff.

The good news and the bad news about this record is that it has pretensions
to "jazz".  It's not jazzy enough to be really good and it's too jazzy to
have that cheesy, bouncy "now" sound.

Then again I like brave failures and big, suspicious messes.  Once upon a
time, that was mainly applied to films.  Now it's trickled down to records
which aren't good enough to keep and aren't bad enough to throw out.

If you want another version of "Time of the Season", you must have this.

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From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) theremin article in 4/22 NYT
Date: 22 Apr 1999 17:28:12 -0700


Real good article on the Theremin in the Circuits section of 4/22/99's New York
Times, including diagrams!

Kevin Crossman


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From: Fish Wich <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) how to list EXOTICA on eBay
Date: 22 Apr 1999 18:32:32 -0700 (PDT)


From the main menu, I generally go Books, Movies, Music --> Music -->
Records and then check BOTH the "Search only within Music : Records"
and "Search within titles and descriptions" boxes.

In addition to searching for specific artists, I use the follwing
search terms:  exotica, moog, theremin, bachelor pad, space age,
lounge, stereo,  hammond, living stereo, easy listening, cheesecake,
phychedelic, sleazy... and whatever else comes to mind to describe the
stuff I'm looking for.  Also, there are a number of modifiers you can
add to search terms to focus searches more -- check the search tips
section.

A lot of people put sentences like "take a look at my other
exotica/weird/lounge auctions" or something in their descriptions which
is why it's useful to search within both titles and descriptions.  If
you do find a record you're interested in, make sure you check the
seller's other auctions to see if they have more like it.


Mark



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Subject: Re: (exotica) how to list EXOTICA on eBay
Date: 22 Apr 1999 21:42:52 EDT


In a message dated 4/22/99 5:16:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Here's some of the categories I look in:

 Weird Stuff:
 General
 Slightly Unusual
 Really Weird
 Totally Bizarre
  >>


Again, don't look -- search.  Check the search descriptions box.

Tiki Bob


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Date: 22 Apr 1999 21:41:41 EDT


In a message dated 4/22/99 4:59:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< When I do a title
 search under "exotica" all I find is Martin Denny & Yma Sumac and softcore
 videos!  Is there a different title category that other listers use to
search
 for good LPs on eBay?
 Thanks for the help!!
 Larry >>

Check the little box under search that says "search descriptions also" or
something to that effect.

When you list something with Ebay at the end of the description type
"Keywords:  Exotica, space age bachelor pad, mambo" or whatever.  Most savy
Ebayers use the "search descriptions" when looking for items.

Good luck,

Tiki Bob


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From: Angela Sawyer <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: benny golson's tv
Date: 22 Apr 1999 17:28:47 -0400


Jeez, I could swear I've seen that tv someplace before but I can't think
where.  Does it show up on other lp covers?  Perhaps it's in an episode of
the Monkees?  Fill me in if you can.

--
-Angela
http://www.musicfile.com/sunshine
"The Biggest Little Record Store In The World"

-----Original Message-----
and you check out the benny golson LP cover here:
http://www.tamboo.com/clubvelvet/lp/Selections134.html



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From: Elisabeth Vincentelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Exotic Minneapolis?
Date: 22 Apr 1999 23:05:32 -0500


I'm going to spend 3 days in Minneapolis next week. Could anybody
recommend interesting/weird places and stores (records and otherwise)?
I've never been there so basic stuff is useful too.

Elisabeth


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Subject: RE: (exotica) how to list EXOTICA on eBay
Date: 21 Apr 1999 21:22:38 -0700


The great and powerful FIsh Wich says:
>>>A lot of people put sentences like "take a look at my other
exotica/weird/lounge auctions" or something in their descriptions which
is why it's useful to search within both titles and descriptions.  If
you do find a record you're interested in, make sure you check the
seller's other auctions to see if they have more like it.<<<

I dig this to be true... Always check up on sellers that have good =
stuff.But even MORE eeerie is that you can look in on what a person =
is/has been BIDDING on! Remember that cat that scooped you on some =
groovy wax? Keep tabs on him and benefit from the fruits of HIS =
searches.  Creepy eh? I watch the known dealers from time to time just =
to see what they will pay (and what they WON'T.)

Ron

Listen to FeelthyMonkeyRadio
http://www.xtabay.com/feelthyradio.htm=20
Exotica, Moog, IncrediblyStrange
Whacked-Out, Space-Age Weirdness

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Subject: (exotica) Lalo Schiffrin - Quiet Village
Date: 23 Apr 1999 08:47:27 +0100


One of my friends (a hip hop and funk DJ) lent me a copy of a Lalo
Schiffrin 12 with Jaws and Quiet Village on it.  I got a chance to play
Quiet Village when he gave it to me.  Now theres a funny one.  Now I'm
not a man for not for note covers of other peoples songs,  but I think
he could have got away with calling it anything (Dam' Noisy Village for
one).  Its got really big drums,  a bass synth that brings to mind
Stevie Wonders' Superstition and String synths all over the place.  I'm
still not sure what I think of it.

My friend also played Klaus Wunderlichts' version of Summertime,  which
is unreservedly wonderful,  Maximum Hammond Action over a nice fat
break.



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Subject: (exotica) DIONYSUS RECORDS 15TH ANNIVERSARY SHOWS
Date: 23 Apr 1999 03:46:34 EDT


HEY GANG!

Come celebrate the DIONYSUS RECORDS 15TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY - COAST TO COAST!
Go to http://www.indieweb.com/dionysus/party/party.html for more info and=20
check out the awesome SHAG poster (which will be available at the shows). We=20
are working on updating the archaic Dionysus Empire web site. We'll let you=20
know when things are ready! If you haven't seen it yet, check it out anyway!

SAN FRANCISCO
Saturday, May 22, 1999 at The Cocodrie in North Beach
1024 Kearny St. [phone]
First 25 paid will get free Dionysus Stuff!
THE TIKI TONES
FRENCHY
DAVIE ALLAN AND THE ARROWS
THE DUKES OF HAMBURG
Special opening ceremony dance by THE DEVIL-ETTES, a 14 woman dance troupe!
Halftime mugging/tiki voodoo concoction!
Presented by Liftoff Productions, Tiki News and Gearhead Magazine

PHILLY
Friday, May 28, 1999 at Upstairs at Nicks, Philadelphia, PA
16 South 2nd Street [phone]
THE 440'S
THORAZINE
MONDO TOPLESS
SIT AND SPIN
Presented by Black Hole productions

LOS ANGELES=85=85
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Kenyon Hopkins recommendation
Date: 23 Apr 1999 10:29:13 +0100



 Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:19:40 EDT
[e-mail] wrote

East Side/West Side is very crime jazzy.  The cut "Extension 6" sounds
like
an exotic stripper being chased through a dark alleyway by a brutal
brass
section.


Now thats what I call a review.  I must find it.


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Subject: (exotica) Cornelius & Savage Pencil Songbook CD
Date: 23 Apr 1999 10:16:09 +0100


Caught Cornelius' London gig the other night ... it was kinda interesting
but more "rawck 'n' roll" than i was hoping ...

yeah he played theremin (well ... not just squeals etc) and some pretty
cool hand held sampling devices and the visuals were good but the sound was
awful and that's important to me ...

i suppose i expected too much ...

i just got a CD in the 'Songbook' series, the Savage Pencil one ... you've
probably seen them ... they look so good (about 28 pages of SP's lunatic
scribblings + CD compilation) and this one even has "Until I Die" by the
Beach Boys, which i LOVE LOVE LOVE and hadn't heard for too long + other
tracks by SP himself, a spoken word pastiche of the "Sir Henry at Rawlinson
End" series by Vivian Stanshall, featuring a character called Dead Duck ...

has anyone seen any of the others in the series? i think it's a greAt idea

friendly

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Subject: (exotica) Mallets in Wonderland
Date: 23 Apr 1999 09:00:07 EDT


There is a comp CD that I saw once that had a Mallets in Wonderland album
excerpted on it.  Can anyone comment on the contents of the LP and the Cd
comp?  Is it worth the price of admission???

Tiki Bob


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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Audio Cassette labels.....
Date: 23 Apr 1999 09:37:57 -0400


Hey you all - how the hell can you set-up a label table or something where =
you can make a print-out w/the name on the spine and the track listings on =
the front (2 columns for sides A and B).

Thanks. =20

And if anybody like to swap tapes please e-mail me....I just got my new =
system set-up and I'm ready to swap!!!

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Subject: (exotica) ? again
Date: 23 Apr 1999 14:42:38 +0100


I know its a bit off topic,  but all these acts have been discussed on
list before.  I have tickets to Psychic TV next weekend and I've just
found out that ? and the mysterians are supporting,  I came over all
excited and just had to tell someone.  I missed them when they were over
in the summer and thought that was be my only opportunity to see them
gone.  I know Ms Fondle recommended them mightily.

Should be an 'interesting' evening all round.

While on the subject of PTV,  one of my friends recently gave me a tape
of a radio show with Genesis P'Orridge saying how similar he thought PTV
were to Martin Denny.  He then played a really barking Denny track with
very heavy percussion and chanting,  and you know,  I could see what he
meant.

Have a good weekend everyone.


El Maestro Con Queso

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Audio Cassette labels.....
Date: 23 Apr 1999 09:43:24 -0400


Go to http://user.mc.net/eda/caselinr.html, if you use a PC.  It's the best
and it takes into account the fold-over flap for a J-Card, so you can list
more songs.  I have yet to find a Mac program that does all of that.



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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Minneapolis?
Date: 23 Apr 1999 09:47:58 -0400


At 11:05 PM 4/22/99 -0500, Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote:
>
>I'm going to spend 3 days in Minneapolis next week. Could anybody
>recommend interesting/weird places and stores (records and otherwise)?
>I've never been there so basic stuff is useful too.

One of the better used record stores I've ever been to is in Minneapolis.
It's called "Hymie's".  Or at least the guy is called Hymie.
There are three stores close to each other on this one street.
I know that one of them is called "Vintage Music" and it's the only really
thorough ALL-78's store I've ever seen.  If you find that, you can find
Hymie.  Then there's another store under Hymie's, I think called "Hazen" or
something to that effect.  This is Hymie's ex-partner, I believe.

It's all kind of vague now.  I love Minneapolis and there's obviously a
zillion record stores there but Hymie's is one of those great rare places
where he's got a bit of everything and he puts it out "priced to sell", not
priced "what he thinks he might be able to get someday".
Hymie introduced me to Perez Prado.  That's sort of when this sickness
started.

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Kenyon Hopkins recommendation
Date: 23 Apr 1999 09:53:28 -0400


At 10:29 AM 4/23/99 +0100, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>
> Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:19:40 EDT
>[e-mail] wrote
>
>East Side/West Side is very crime jazzy.  The cut "Extension 6" sounds
>like
>an exotic stripper being chased through a dark alleyway by a brutal
>brass
>section.
>
>
>Now thats what I call a review.  I must find it.

Trouble is now I'm afraid it won't be there when I go back for it.  It's
one of those small stores catering specifically to "rare
groove/Latin/blaxpoitation" DJ's and the like where any Shirley Scott LP is
going to be 25 bucks and you can get all the Willie Bobo you can shake a
stick at if you're willing to pay 35 bucks each, so I'm afraid that the
cheaper LP's don't last long.

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From: Robbie Baldock <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) ? again
Date: 23 Apr 1999 14:49:21 +0100


[e-mail] wrote:

> While on the subject of PTV,  one of my friends recently gave me a tape
> of a radio show with Genesis P'Orridge saying how similar he thought PTV
> were to Martin Denny.

There's an interview with GPO in the current(?) issue of Wire -
apparently he's about to launch a new musical venture called Thee
Majesty.


Robbie

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Audio Cassette labels.....
Date: 23 Apr 1999 10:04:32 -0500


At 09:37 AM 4/23/99 -0400, Nate wrote:
>Hey you all - how the hell can you set-up a label table or something where
you can make a print-out w/the name on the spine and the track listings on
the front (2 columns for sides A and B).

There's a whole list of J-card formating programs available for download at:
http://www.old-time.com/softw.html

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From: "Paul Moshay" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Audio Cassette labels.....
Date: 23 Apr 1999 07:08:34 +0100


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try a search on the new shareware app 'ultimate label printer pro'
mac os version and it far surpasses any thing of its kind... label templates
pre designed for everything under the... zips, cass, half empty cans of stp
motor oil, etc.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Audio Cassette labels.....
Date: 23 Apr 1999 07:16:42 +0100


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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Audio Cassette labels.....
Date: 23 Apr 1999 10:15:49 -0400


Thanks for all the replies......I'll check 'em out!!

Have a great weekend.

- Nate (in a good mood today!!)  :-)




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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [news] eBay, the magazine
Date: 23 Apr 1999 10:39:46 -0500


     NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 22, 1999--You've seen eBay the
online-auction Web site. Now come July, you can read eBay, the magazine.
Krause Publications, a Wisconsin-based publisher, plans to start publishing
a monthly magazine planned to help readers navigate the ins and outs of
online auctions. Although the name of the magazine is yet to be decided, the
name and brand cachet of eBay will be prominent, says the publication's
executive editor, Kevin Isaacson. Its tagline will be: Your roadmap to
treasures on the Internet. Isaacson says his initial circulation goal is
400,000. Isaacson says Krause has a marketing partnership with eBay, but
eBay hasn't invested in the launch of the magazine.





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From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Sound Burger
Date: 23 Apr 1999 11:01:25 -0400


I bought mine at a discount store for like $20US in 1985.  It doesnt have
the name soundburger on it, it is called a porta-disc.  Same exact design.
Mr. Mosley, have you noticed that it runs faster than 33RPM?  Mine seems to
slow down and get closer if i only use 2 batteries, but I can never get the
right speed out of it.  Any suggestions?

surfing the chaos,
Charlieman

Check out surf and garage damnation at http://www.brimstones.com


Well, after years of searching, I finally found my Audio Technica Sound
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From: King Kini <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Exotic Minneapolis?
Date: 23 Apr 1999 10:06:08 -0600


>Then there's another store under Hymie's, I think called "Hazen" or
>something to that effect.  This is Hymie's ex-partner, I believe.


"Hazen's" has been closed for a few yeaars, unfortunately.  he sold
the whole inventory to some Chicago jazz store and hauled it off in a
semi.




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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) theremin article in 4/22 NYT
Date: 23 Apr 1999 11:17:10 -0500


At 05:28 PM 4/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
>
>Real good article on the Theremin in the Circuits section of 4/22/99's New York
>Times, including diagrams!
>
>Kevin Crossman

The article is on-line at:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/circuits/articles/22howw.html

y'all might also like to read this 'un:
http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+site+66823+6+
wAAA+theremin

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From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) THE BRIMSTONES
Date: 23 Apr 1999 11:29:34 -0400


THE BRIMSTONES PUT THE HELL IN HELL YEAH!!!!

Now available for download, MP3 EXCERPTS from their BRAND NEW self-titled
EP!

Eternal Surf 'n Garage Damnation, cursed upon you by none other than New
Jersey's PREMIERE cloven hoof stompers...THE BRIMSTONES!!!!

http://www.brimstones.com

Who are these "Brimstones"?
The Four Surfers of the Apocalypse?...Maybe
An ancient curse let loose upon mankind?...Perhaps
God's punishment for "progressive" music?...Could be


Gigs up and coming next week and throughout the summer.  THE BRIMSTONES are
one of VERY few Surf bands on the EAST coast, and the only one to bring you
to the EDGE of HELL in a HAIL of WAIL!!!


Check out Eternal Surf and Garage Damnation at
http://www.brimstones.com

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) that Bacharach article
Date: 23 Apr 1999 12:52:54 -0400


Thanks to whoever pointed out that Bacharach article.
I agree with Will.  There were sentences in there that made the hair on the
back of my neck stand up.
And like Will, I too have to quote one:
"Marimba? Theremin? Bossa nova beat? Cheesy echo effects? Hammond organ?
Surf guitar? Close harmony background singers?  Mariachi trumpet? Cowbells?
Tuned bongos? Wind chimes? Press the button for the fantasy combo of your
choice and a mix tape will be generated automatically".

For those of you who didn't bother checking it out, it's not just about
Bacharach.  It's about everything we listen to and discuss here.

It's funny how we ask each other about good books or articles on the
subject of this music and then I read this and it hits so close to home
that I actually find it annoying.  The guy nails my taste and I feel like
yelling at him to back off.

Anyway, if you still have the url, check it out.

Nat



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From: Ron Grandia <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sound Burger
Date: 23 Apr 1999 10:58:26 -0700




"Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" wrote:

> I bought mine at a discount store for like $20US in 1985.  It doesnt have
> the name soundburger on it, it is called a porta-disc.  Same exact design.
> Mr. Mosley, have you noticed that it runs faster than 33RPM?  Mine seems to
> slow down and get closer if i only use 2 batteries, but I can never get the
> right speed out of it.  Any suggestions?

Charlie -

Most turntables have some way of calibrating then. If you are not comfortable
doing it yourself, there is sure to be some fix-it guy in your town that can
do it.

I REALLY want one of these Sound Burgers....  I have a few thrift stores that
I frequent that don't always have turntables
available for previewing, and I am getting pickier (is that a word?) about
what I will take home - even if it's 50 cents or a buck.
One of these gadgets would cut down on the trash-factor tremendously.

Does anyone (Charles, Charlie, anyone else) actually take this thing shopping
with them?

Ron




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From: "otis odder" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Audio Cassette labels.....
Date: 23 Apr 1999 10:12:23 MST



For really pro labels you could do this.  If you have the software
(cause it can get a bit pricey).....

If you have

Pagemaker, Illustrator, FreeHand, CoralDRAW, or QuarkXPress,
You can download label templates for these programs at,
http://www.discmakers.com/music/templates/
they also have templates for vinyl, cd's, & cd-r's.  Plus downloadable
fonts with icons to use (i.e. - compact disc, dolby, copyright,
etc...)
oh yes, for both PC and MAC platforms.

When I do my labels I use pagemaker to lay it out.  Usually doing all
the graphic work in Photoshop and/or Illustrator.  My partner uses
Quark over Pagemaker and he has used the templates on there with great
success.

This is a more expensive way to go, but if you have the software, get
the templates.

Before I had Pagemaker, I used a number of freeware and shareware
programs on the net, which links already mentioned on this list are
GREAT!

My 2 cents on a program not to use is Microsoft Publisher.  Blah!
Just my opinion.

hope this helps,

Mr. Otis F. Odder
(currently residing in the Green Room, Lower East Hall)


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From: Larson/Thomas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mallets in Wonderland
Date: 23 Apr 1999 10:34:42 -0700


Perhaps you saw the RCA CD entitled "History of Space Age Pop, Vol 2:
Mallets in Wonderland."  If so, it's an excellent CD from an equally
excellent 3 volume series.  Highly recommended.

Jerry

At 09:00 AM 4/23/99 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>There is a comp CD that I saw once that had a Mallets in Wonderland album
>excerpted on it.  Can anyone comment on the contents of the LP and the Cd
>comp?  Is it worth the price of admission???



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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Books
Date: 23 Apr 1999 14:23:51 -0400


>Speaking of books, besides the aforementioned, ELEVATOR MUSIC and
>INCREDIBLY STRANGE 1&2, are there any other __good__ books on ze subjects
>of "lounge", "exotica", "easy listening,"...the kinds of stuff we
>bandy-about here!

I can't add any myself, but has anyone yet obtained/read Philip Hayward's
anthology, "Widening the Horizon: Exoticism in Post-War Popular Music"?
That's the book Lou was keeping us posted on a little while back.

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From: "NIELS KREISHOLT" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Roger Nicholls & Small Circle Of Friends
Date: 23 Apr 1999 11:27:32 PDT


Hello there,

Are any you soft-rock (or soft pop - if such a term exists) buffs on
the list aware of Roger Nicholls & Small Circle Of Friends? I had the
joy to acquaint myself with their music through a tape trade
recently. Roger and his chosen few perform music that can be
described as Burt Bacharach in a 60ies California vibe. Kinda like
what the Wondermints are aiming at in their more loungey moments. The
cherubic voiced Roger and his friends are surely a delight. As I
learned of the music through a tape trade I know absolutely zero else
than the name and the sound. When and where this Roger and his
friends were around in the first place, if they're still around or if
they are gone to soft-loungey-rock-heaven I don't know. I don't know
if Roger and his chums wrote any of the music themselves as I
recognize such classics as Don't go breaking my heart (Bacharach),
With a little help from my friends (Lennon/McCartney) and Coconut
Grove.
Well, enlighten me.

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Subject: (exotica) Geoffrey O'Brian article on Bacharach/'Lounge'
Date: 23 Apr 1999 09:05:18 +0100


     I also enjoyed this article tremendously, particularly the section
     which considers Bacharach's songs as heard without lyrics, stripped
     of 'the sonic furniture enabling them to "pass" as acceptable AM
     product'.

     Shame the website makes you keep clicking through the article
     rather than letting you see it all in one go.

     I have pasted the whole thing into a text file so I can send it to
     my brother; if you would like a copy, please email me.

     regards

     Jonny


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From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Johnny Mathis/Midnight Cowboy
Date: 23 Apr 1999 11:04:35 +0100


     Johnny Mathis has been seeping into my consciousness recently.

     I haven't gone as far as buying any records yet, but am interested
     in Johnny's vocal version of the Midnight Cowboy theme, which I
     found out about this morning.

     Can anyone describe this, and maybe tell me which album this is on?


     Midnight Cowboy - Johnny Mathis

     (excerpt from
     http://www.superior.net/~jimligon/lyrics/Misc_pop/Johnny_Mathis/Mid
     night_Cowboy.txt)

     (Midnight cowboy, midnight cowboy)
     (He's a lonesome midnight cowboy)

     Once his hopes were high as the sky
     Once a dream was easy to buy
     Soon his eager fingers are burned
     Soon life's lonely lessons are learned

             Hearts are made for caring
             Life is made for sharing

     Love is all that's left in the end


     Beautiful, eh.....
     thanks,
     Jonny


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) un nouveau "fantasticasynthetisoravagator" pour vous les amis
Date: 23 Apr 1999 13:51:38 EDT


Dear friends of cool, strange, colored and delightful music
 you can know discover online the mighty
 FANTASTICASYNTHETISORAVAGATOR
 http://www.multimania.com/zacham
 a machine designed for you by Chaz'bing, musichien, t=EAte de rien
 check it - enjoy it
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From: Chris Strouth <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Minneapolis?
Date: 23 Apr 1999 14:59:12 -0500


Wow to bad  it's not this weekend, because as been posted here before there
is sort of an amazing show happening tonight ,  With MCE, Skip Heller. DJ
Bonebrake, Robert Drasin, and our very own King Kini. They are playing the
all of Drasinins Voodoo, a goodly chunk of the Fab new Skip Heller record
"Couch" of course I am biased, I put it out but it is really good) and a
lot of other tunes including  A bunch of Martin Denny tracks that have
never been performed live before, two Yma Sumac songs, Soul Bossa Nova, and
a bunch more. and if this wasn't enough in between sets of Dj'ing by the
aforementioned King,   It'' soo cool,

chris

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while online visit:
http://www.futureperfect.org
http://www.alliedchemical.com
http://www.tt.net/ultramodern

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From: King Kini <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Exotic Minneapolis?
Date: 23 Apr 1999 15:30:26 -0600


i will add to this...  anyone in town for the big "Voodoo" show who's
staying through the weekend, be sure to stop in CLUB VELVET for a
fancy cocktail on Saturday night!   two nights of minneapolitan
exotica!

15 NE 4th St. Minneapolis

ciao!

 - kini


>Wow to bad  it's not this weekend, because as been posted here before there
>is sort of an amazing show happening tonight ,  With MCE, Skip Heller. DJ
>Bonebrake, Robert Drasin, and our very own King Kini. They are playing the
>all of Drasinins Voodoo, a goodly chunk of the Fab new Skip Heller record
>"Couch" of course I am biased, I put it out but it is really good) and a
>lot of other tunes including  A bunch of Martin Denny tracks that have
>never been performed live before, two Yma Sumac songs, Soul Bossa Nova, and
>a bunch more. and if this wasn't enough in between sets of Dj'ing by the
>aforementioned King,   It'' soo cool,
>
>chris




visit...

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
          King Kini's  C L U B  V E L V E T
             http://www.tamboo.com
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From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lalo Schiffrin - Quiet Village
Date: 23 Apr 1999 17:03:31 -0400


[e-mail] wrote:
>
> One of my friends (a hip hop and funk DJ) lent me a copy of a Lalo
> Schiffrin 12 with Jaws and Quiet Village on it.  I'm
> still not sure what I think of it.
>
These are also available on a Schifrin CD called "Black Widow" - can't
recommend it highly enough!  They are quite unlike his other stuff,
really funky/Isaac Hayes-inspired - and a version of "Quiet Village"
unlike any other I have ever heard!

> My friend also played Klaus Wunderlichts' version of Summertime,  which
> is unreservedly wonderful,  Maximum Hammond Action over a nice fat
> break.

I believe this is the same version that's featured on a CD called
"Stereo-Cocktail", from Germany - none of the artists are credited, but
it's one of my favourite compilations.

cheryl


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Upcoming releases of note
Date: 23 Apr 1999 18:33:09 EDT


Wow, the "Austin Powers" soundtrack, a new Ultra-Lounge *and* a whole slew
of great reissues from Hip-O, all in two months' time. Looks like it's
going to be a great (and expensive) summer.  --Rod

Upcoming releases, culled from various sources:

MAY 4
The Aluminum Group: Wonderboy Plus (Minty Fresh)
St. Etienne: Places to Visit (remix album) (Sub Pop)
Ultra-Lounge Tiki Sampler (Capitol)

MAY 11
Bobby Darin: Swingin' the Standards (Var=E8se Vintage)
Frank Sinatra: Francis A. & Edward K. (Reprise)
Frank Sinatra: Sinatra-Basie (Reprise)
Frank Sinatra: Swing Along with (Reprise)
Frank Sinatra: The Concert Sinatra (Reprise)

MAY 18
Meco: Star Wars & Other Galactic Funk (Hip-O)
Louis Prima: Beepin' & Boppin'  (Hip-O)
Reel Blockbusters (Hip-O)
Swing-O-Rama: Vol. 1-4 (Pet Rock)

JUNE 1
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (Maverick/Reprise)
John Barry: The Reel (Hip-O)
Del-Fi Surf Monsters (Del-Fi)
Hipsters, Zoots & Wingtips: Vol. 3 (Hip-O)
Quincy Jones: The Reel (Hip-O)
The Look of Love: Classic Love Songs of Burt Bacharach (Hip-O)

JUNE 8
Bobby Darin: Wild, Cool 'N Swingin' (Capitol)
Louis Prima: Wild, Cool 'N Swingin' (Capitol)
Frank Sinatra: '57 in Concert (Artanis/DCC)

JUNE 15
The Art of Noise: The Seduction of Claude Debussy (ZTT/Universal)
Burt Bacharach: (movie music) (Hip-O)
Henry Mancini: Music from "Peter Gunn" (Buddha)
Orbital: Middle of Nowhere (London)
Mel Torm=E9: At the Movies (Rhino)





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From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Minneapolis?
Date: 23 Apr 1999 17:04:01 -0700


Chris Strouth wrote:
>
> Wow to bad  it's not this weekend, because as been posted here before there
> is sort of an amazing show happening tonight ,  With MCE, Skip Heller. DJ
> Bonebrake, Robert Drasin, and our very own King Kini. They are playing the
> all of Drasinins Voodoo, a goodly chunk of the Fab new Skip Heller record
> "Couch" of course I am biased, I put it out but it is really good) and a
> lot of other tunes including  A bunch of Martin Denny tracks that have
> never been performed live before, two Yma Sumac songs, Soul Bossa Nova, and
> a bunch more. and if this wasn't enough in between sets of Dj'ing by the
> aforementioned King,   It'' soo cool,

I don't suppose this show will be recorded... and made available... somehow????
This certainly is a once-in-a-lifetime event...

Kevin Crossman


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From: Ron Grandia <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) FeelthyMonkey LIVE Saturday Night
Date: 23 Apr 1999 18:55:14 -0700


FeelthyMonkeyRadio has been down for a few days due to server problems,
but Saturday Night we will be back in GRAND style with a live netcast.
The live stuff will start around 8pm PST and go 'till someone says
"Uncle!" Recorded programming will be available later tonight (8pm PST
or so) untill then. (maybe live, but I doubt it)

Featured Guest Dj's will be Walter Ego, the powerpop dynamo with all the
greasy kid-stuff that the younsters are diggin' these days. DJ Kronk
will send us into orbit with his special brand of Astro-type-Surf and
raygun-equipped boogaloo,  Enchantress of the airwaves Dusty Bowles
always suprises when she switches-on the Sunbeam Eclectomatic - Maybe
even yours truly will spin some recent thrift-store finds if I am still
standing after manning the barbeque and keeping the super-cooled
cocktails flowing during the pre-netcast nosh. The FeelthyCAM will be
operational until studio decorum dictates otherwise.

To receive the FeelthyMonkey netcast, go to
http://www.xtabay.com.feelthyradio.htm. you will need the latest version
of Winamp (available on the site) Once installed, click on either feed -
One for mortals with modems and the other for the blessed Cable-modem
crowd in  S T E R E O  even!

Users are encouraged to try the new MP3spy program as well - the new
software thingy that let's you easily find netcasts AND CHAT with
listeners an netcasters. (http://www.mp3spy.com) Once loaded, look for
US in the "talk" genre (remember, we have 2 feeds... we will be chatting
in the area associated with our 56k feed... This will all make sense
once you try it.)

Please try to come by the record party in the wire!  Having tech
troubles with the netcast?  Email me at [e-mail]

Be there!



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Kenyon Hopkins recommendation
Date: 23 Apr 1999 20:58:07 EDT


<< Now thats what I call a review.  I must find it. >>

EAST SIDE / WEST SIDE

THE STRANGE ONE

Head on over to Ebay for 'em both, which are up NOW.

Happy bidding :)





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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sound Burger
Date: 23 Apr 1999 18:12:28 +0000


At 10:58 AM 23-04-99 -0700, Ron wrote:
>Does anyone (Charles, Charlie, anyone else) actually take this thing shopping
>with them?
Well, not the SOUNDBURGER, but I have seen battery operated small portables at
the Goodwill where they have absolutely NO electrical outlets.  Usually some
guy or another will bring one to test 45's...never seen anyone try out LPs.

Byron

Byron Caloz
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
http://www.hubris.net/zolac
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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) FeelthyMonkey LIVE / I'm an IDIOT
Date: 22 Apr 1999 20:18:28 -0700


I screwed up the address.. try THIS one...

Also, the feeds are running (yay)
>=20
> To receive the FeelthyMonkey netcast, go to
> http://www.xtabay.com/feelthyradio.htm. you will need the latest =
version
> of Winamp (available on the site) Once installed, click on either feed =
-
> One for mortals with modems and the other for the blessed Cable-modem
> crowd in  S T E R E O  even!
>



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From: Risser Family <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Command Vaults
Date: 24 Apr 1999 08:32:13 -0400


Who holds the keys to the Commnad vaults?
Is there some reason we haven't seen massive comps coming out of them like we have for RCA, EMI and Capitol?

Peter


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mallets in Wonderland
Date: 24 Apr 1999 08:33:23 EDT


In a message dated 4/23/99 1:28:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Perhaps you saw the RCA CD entitled "History of Space Age Pop, Vol 2:
 Mallets in Wonderland."  If so, it's an excellent CD from an equally
 excellent 3 volume series.  Highly recommended.

 Jerry
  >>

This could be it and probably is.  I feel sort stupid because I saw it about
a year ago and then forgot about it.  Are there other comments on the Mallets
album?  Are there lots of xylophone cuts on the CD???

Tiki Bob


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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) D.E.N.: Virtual Fantastica
Date: 24 Apr 1999 13:40:42 +0200


I've just opened a new web page, called "Virtual Fantastica", where you can
find a RealAudio version of parts of episodes #12, #15 and #17 of my
"Fantastica" radio show.
These are the 3 special swap shows I cooked for swapping purpose. They
contain only exotica/lounge/novelty from Belgium, The Netherlands, France
and Germany, mostly on (old) vinyl, staying away from too obvious choices.

visit:

http://myplace.to.be/fantastica/

The playlists for these 3 (and all other shows) are still part of my
"Dada'quariums Exotica" site at:

http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/



        Johan Dada Vis


        [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) New Pizzicato 5
Date: 24 Apr 1999 12:54:37 EDT


This just in my collection; the new Pizzicato 5 CD (its upstairs or I'd
include the title). I gave it a once through this morning while opening mail,
chatting with my kids,  etc. Initial reaction: Where's the beef? This one is
low on melody content, one of their prime stocks in trade. I will listen more
and will be curious to hear what others say about it......Jimmy Botticelli


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From: bump <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) New Pizzicato 5
Date: 24 Apr 1999 13:45:53 -0700



>[e-mail] wrote:
>the new Pizzicato 5 CD

i found it to be rather boring compared to what we know and love about them.
seems rather thin and generic. i am disappointed because i really dig them.
i have listened twice and i will probably not ever listen again.
too much really good stuff to listen to out there.
luckily i did not buy it.

bump



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From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re: Gainsbourg/La Petomaine
Date: 19 Apr 1999 15:21:04 +0100


     >Um, there really was a French guy who made his living through
     farting. He was, IIRC, known as "La Petomaine", and he was a big
     noise
     (ha ha) in the French music hall (or equivalent) around the turn of
     the century. I think he farted melodies, did animal noises, that
     kind
     of thing. No recordings available, as far as I know...


     Yes!  By coincidence, I actually own another book about this
     character.

     BTW, having now finished the Gainsbourg biog, I now retract
     anything remotely positive I might have said about it.  It's a
     terrible, disrespectful piece of writing.  If anyone is interested
     in my copy, please contact me.

     The only thing I did learn from the book is that Jane Birkin was
     married to, and had a child with, John Barry.


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From: "Robert Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Command Vaults
Date: 24 Apr 1999 23:42:21 +0100


Peter wrote:

> Who holds the keys to the Commnad vaults?

MCA.

> Is there some reason we haven't seen massive comps coming out of them like
> we have for RCA, EMI and Capitol?

Money probably.  MCA are probably of the opinion that there is
simply insufficient interest in these titles.

Varese are the only folks who have managed to get Command
titles reissued on CD and this is, I gather, only because they
happen to have a very good relationship with MCA.

But it is amazing that a Command (and of course Project 3) CD
retrospective hasn't happened yet.  And the worrying thing is that
I've heard at least one of the original tapes has disintegrated to
extent that playing it would probably destroy it.

It's the centenary of Enoch Light's birth in 2005.  Let's hope some
major reissue program is launched in time for that.

If I had the money and the clout with MCA I'd love to do it myself
but until I win the lottery and acquire some powerful music industry
friends I feel this is distinctly unlikely.

Maybe we should have a mailing list whip-round...


Robbie


** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** **
** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/  * ** ** **


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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
Date: 24 Apr 1999 23:23:24 -0500


There's music for belly dancing by David Carroll, Sonny Lester and
Martin Denny on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast!

Also, you'll find stereo overkill from The Three Suns and Enoch
Light;  jungle jazz by Carl Stevens (check out his "African Sounds" --
a buried exotica treasure!), Les Baxter and Ferrante & Teicher;
plus, the Skip Jacks sing, Les Baxter pounds the "Skins" and Mel
Torme goes swingin' on the moon (with help from Russ Garcia).

In our second hour, we'll preview "The Golden Age", the newest CD of
pre-apocalyptic pyrotechnics from L'Atome;  and taste some groovy Now
Sound goodies served up by Peter Thomas, George Martin, Henry Mancini
and Syd Dale.

To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the Web, just go to:

http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html

Requires a minimum 28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer 5.0 or G2
(the show's available in both).  As always, if you tune us in, please
take a minute and drop us a line.

Thanks for the space.


Darrell Brogdon
[e-mail]
The Retro Cocktail Hour
KANU Radio
Broadcasting Hall
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at:
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From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, April 25
Date: 25 Apr 1999 00:58:23 -0400


Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can
be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal,
Canada, and on RealAudio:
www.ckut.ca
All comments,questions, and feedback welcome.

Space Bop #45  The Martin Denny (Belated) Birthday Tribute Show

This week, we finally get to do the Martin Denny show - not only his own
music, but also that of other musicians and bands he's influenced.
Certainly not comprehensive (hey, we only have an hour to do this
show!)but a fun overview nonetheless.  And probably the most usage of
the word "exotica" we've ever had in a show listing!!!

Les Baxter:  Quiet Village  "Quiet Village"
Martin Denny:  Quiet Village  "Exotica"
Tipsy:  Something Tropical  "Trip Tease"
Combustible Edison:  Breakfast At Denny's  "I, Swinger"
Martin Denny:  Caravan  "Exotica 3"

Martin Denny:  Exotica  "Forbidden Island"
Arthur Lyman:  Taboo Tu  "Taboo Vol. 2"
Throbbing Gristle:  Exotica  "20 Jazz Funk Greats"
Martin Denny:  Tse Tse Fly  "Afro-Desia"

Pyrolator:  Im Zoo  "Wunderland"
The Bad Examples:  Jaguar E  "Elektro-Tiki"
Martin Denny:  Quiet Village  "Exotic Moog"

The Bad Examples:  Johnny geht von bord  "Elektro-Tiki"
Laika And The Cosmonauts:  Oahu Luau  "Zero Gravity"

Don Tiki:  Exotica 97  "The Forbidden Sounds Of..."


Thanks for reading.

[e-mail]
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Quincy Jones soundtracks
Date: 25 Apr 1999 10:19:25 EDT


There is a new Verve CD release of Quincy Jones soundtracks to The Pawnbroker
and The Deadly Affair.  Can anyone recommend these?

I have Quincy's In Cold Blood and The Slender Thread soundtracks and they are
both quite groovy.  How do these compare?

Any advice on this subject would be appreciated.

Sean


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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Cornelius
Date: 24 Apr 1999 19:43:36 +0200


At 16:38 -0600 99/04/23, [e-mail] wrote:

>Caught Cornelius' London gig the other night ... it was kinda interesting
>but more "rawck 'n' roll" than i was hoping ...

    that's exactly what i thought after hearing his "Fantasma" CD.
    it's good (if you like Sonic Youth, and i do), but -
    except for 1 track, "Micro Disneycal" -    irrelevant to this
    group, imo.

        Johan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Quincy Jones soundtracks
Date: 25 Apr 1999 14:28:43 EDT


<< There is a new Verve CD release of Quincy Jones soundtracks to The
Pawnbroker
 and The Deadly Affair.  Can anyone recommend these?>>

this has been out awhile and although i don't have it and have not heard it,
my experience with Quincy Jones soundtracks is that there are few
disappointments.

Mirage, Cactus Flower, Lost Man, Tibbs / Heat Of The Night twofer, all quite
good.

Bell     1200        Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Bell     1201        Cactus Flower, The
Qwest    25389-2     Color Purple, The
Verve    31233-2     Deadly Affair, The
Reprise  MS-2051     Dollars
Liberty  LOS-17004   Enter Laughing
ABC      ABCS-OC-7   For Love of Ivy
Prophesy SD-6055     Hot Rock
Colgems  COS-107     In Cold Blood
Rykodisc RCD-10713   In the Heat of the Night
UA       UAS-5160    In the Heat of the Night
Paramoun PAS-5007    Italian Job, The
A&M      SP-3040     John and Mary
Uni      73060       Lost Man, The
RCA      LSP-4096    MacKenna's Gold
Mercury  SR-61025    Mirage
Verve    31233-2     Pawnbroker
A&M      4626        Roots [13t]
Mercury  SR-61070    Slender Thread, The
UA       UAS-5214    They Call Me Mister Tibbs
Rykodisc RCD-10713   They Call Me Mr. Tibbs
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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) NYC query
Date: 25 Apr 1999 15:05:51 -0400


Hi, folks:

I'm going to New York Tuesday through Friday of this next week. If there's
anything exotica-ish happening, I'd love to hear about it.

More specifically, does anyone know of magazine collectible stores
in NYC?  I know of Gallagher Paper Collectibles, which is fine, but
I'm looking for 1950s scandal magazines, and, along with those,
the April-May, 1953 issue of Amazing Stories.  That has a short story,
"Mars Confidential," by Lait and Kefauver, the authors of "New York
Confidential", "Washington Confidential" and other best-selling
scandal-mongering books of the 1950s.  I just found out about this
short story and am itching to get ahold of it.  And, while I could troll
through
E-Bay, or get dirty reimmersing myself in sf fandom, I'd prefer to buy it
off a shelf in the Apple.

And as long as I'm off-topic here, I recently  discovered that
www.spree.com is
offering video copies of "New Orleans After Dark," one of the cheesiest films
I've ever seen.  I have a bad copy taped off middle-of-the-night tv a few
years
ago, and an original poster, but I got all excited at getting a commercial
release.
I tore open the package from Spree last week to find "The Frugal Gourmet:
New Orleans,"
and while I'm sure his jambalaya is delicious, this was a bit of a letdown.
But Spree kindly agreed to send me the right one toot sweet and let me keep
the cooking video, too.

And if anyone has access to a video of the same director's "The Invisible
Avenger,"
I'll come and work as their butler for a year out of  gratitude -- er, I
see Sinister
Cinema now has it for sale, so the offer no longer stands.

And if anyone has access to copies of the films  Inside Detroit, Miami
Expose, the Houston
Story, New Orleans Uncensored, Portland Expose or New York Confidential,
I'd be very, very happy.

Cheers,
Will
 -------------------------------------------------
Will Straw, PhD
Associate Professor and Director, Graduate Program in Communications
McGill University

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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Half Man Half Biscuit / I, Ludicrous
Date: 25 Apr 1999 22:41:29 +0200


Two of my favorite funny English bands have webpages devoted to them:

Half Man Half Biscuit:
http://www.btinternet.com/~hmhb/hmhb.htm

I, Ludicrous:
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Arena/9350/


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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Flea Market Weekend....
Date: 26 Apr 1999 10:47:13 -0400


Whew!  Am I stoked.........here's what I picked up Sunday: (From least, to =
most fab....)

1. Sinatra "That's Life" - enjoy this dude once in a while, and I noticed =
that guy Joabim (whole name?) from the Stan Getz jazz stuff mentioned on =
the sleeve so decided to check it out.

2. Don Costa "Echoing Voices and Trombones" - cool voice chorus (male and =
female group) with that smoooooth trombones sound.  For some reason that =
wordless vocals stuff is very appealing so was happy to see "voice" in the =
album title instead of the actual dreaded "singers."

3. Stanley Black "For Latin Lovers" - I must have a huge selection of =
Black LP's, fun piano with surprisingly (at times) competent and full =
backing musicians.  Great cover of "cha cha" girl surrounded by hands =
banging the bongos.

4. Sam the Sham and the Pharos "Wooly Bully" - Never really heard his =
originals, but do have a great tribute CD with the likes of Jackie and the =
Cedrics covering the tunes.  LP itself is a little scratched, but should =
play "ok."  *Another* fun cover with the turban clad band grouped on the =
front, and posing in the back of a hearse on the backside.

5. Mohammad El-Bakken and His Oriental Ensemble - 2 LP's "Sultan of =
Baghdad" and "Port Said".  The latter cover is a white gal made up to look =
"oriental" with pasties on her chest.  This guy's a hoot, holding some =
short-necked, stringed guitar-type instrument and wearing a turban with =
his three-piece suit.  I *thought* I recognized a song from one of my =
"Strip" comps but I'm probably wrong.....haven't listened to any of these =
yet.............the covers are great! - Full-color "harem" scenes with =
babes in silk and our man Mohammad the center of attention.

6. *The FIND of the Day!* - Getting ready to skip outta the flea, I =
dropped by an old guys table to glance at what I expected to be "Sing =
Along with Mitch," etc. spread out on the table.  There were only about a =
dozen albums, but my eye caught a brightly colored one tucked behind some =
marching band albums.  Pulling it out, it was none other than Les Baxters =
"Ritual of the Savage" in MINT, MINT condition!  I asked how much, =
figuring it would be $20-30 and managed to remain standing when he said =
$3.  Further discussion revealed that he was an avid "hi-fi guy" cleaning =
out his house after moving his wife into a nursing home (Alzheimers).  He =
mentioned having four stacks of records and rattled off Yuma Sumak and =
saying he probably had more Baxter, Denny, etc.  So, I got real friendly, =
and got his number.  I'll be stopping by his house early this week to =
(hopefully) score more great vinyl.

He said he only played his LP's once, taping them to play over and over.  =
My kinda guy!  He also mentioned his fancy turntable with separate parts =
(motor, tone arm, etc.) and a cardboard disc that would fit over the =
record label on the spindle so that you could shine a flashlight on it and =
calibrate the record to exactly 33 1/3 rpm.  A primitive strobe speed =
control..........

I'll post about my visit!

How much is "Ritual" selling for?  It's like brand-new vinyl, the cover's =
not *Mint* but very nice shape.  Just curious.

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Subject: (exotica) So how about the "Voodoo" show?
Date: 26 Apr 1999 11:08:31 -0400


No reports on the "Voodoo" show in Minneapolis? Has everyone in attendance
been zombified or something?

There was definitely some voodoo synchronicity in the air this weekend...
Saturday night, AMC aired "Teenage Devil Dolls" with music "composed and
conducted by" *Robert Drasnin*.

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Subject: (exotica) Burt Bacharach Comes Back - GEOFFREY O'BRIEN
Date: 26 Apr 1999 16:19:56 +0100


It is indeed a good article.  Thanks Jonny.

I wonder if this was meant to be intriguing:

(No one has yet
 reissued the album where Yvette Mimieux read the
 poetry of Baudelaire accompanied by Ali Akhbar Khan
 on sarod, but the moment cannot be too far distant.)

Any comments anyone,  or did he make it up to take the piss?


El Maestro Con Queso

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From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Enchanted
Date: 26 Apr 1999 16:36:18 +0100


I was very surprised on Saturday when I entered the Mind Shop (charity =
for
mental health) in East Dulwich and started looking through their only b=
ox
of crappy records. Surprised because the first record I found
(unfortunately sans cover) was The Enchanted Tiki Room on Disneyland's =
own
label. 50p to the stoned looking attendant and it was mine - then  I
happened to see a Speak and Spell for =A31.
What a day!

Charlie
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Subject: (exotica) Playboy Playgirl
Date: 26 Apr 1999 08:32:34 -0700 (PDT)


 Thought you might like to read this review of Plyboy/Playgirl from
British music paper "Melody Maker"

P5-Playboy and Playgirl

    "Never mind letting records soundtrack your life: the point is
bending your life towards records.if you've ever tried at any point
this year to live your life according to the gospel of Japanese
club-pop, you'll know its an expensive business.  Time to change
identities and get a whole new wallet full of store cards again, cos
Pizzicato Five are back with their best album yet.  New boots and
panties all round.

     No reason at all why the Fives dizzy,perfect conflation of
Sixties modishness and warped futurism should still work: just realise
that, in a room full of kool artefacts  "playboy and playgirl" will
seep into the furniture and force your daily commute into funky order.
"la depression" and "rolls royce" are deliciously funksome
openers;"weekend" is beautifully garish psyche-soul; "magic twin
candle tale" a stupendous wall-of-sound bossanova;and the title track
makes the entirety of "gran tourismo" look like a sorry slop.

Praise comes no higher;music gets no more rich with style and vivdly
suggestive as this.Essential."

-Neil Kulkarni
 april 17


Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Quincy Jones soundtracks
Date: 26 Apr 1999 12:53:38 -0400



<< There is a new Verve CD release of Quincy Jones soundtracks to The
Pawnbroker
 and The Deadly Affair.  Can anyone recommend these?>>


I can heartily recommend the Pawnbroker.  Wonderfulness.  Would like to see
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Quincy Jones soundtracks
Date: 26 Apr 1999 12:55:07 -0400


>Prophesy SD-6055     Hot Rock

If you see this one, I would skip it!  Seemingly recorded in safe lined
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [fwd] B J Snowden @ Cooler 5/7
Date: 26 Apr 1999 12:39:57 -0500



the world renowned singer/songwriter/keyboardist

          B. J. SNOWDEN

will perform
Friday May 7 at 10 pm

at The Cooler
416 W. 14th Street
New York
212-229-0785

BJ's son Andres will accompany his mom on electric guitar
Don't miss this historic performance

BJ's album LIFE IN THE USA & CANADA
can be purchased at Venus Records on St. Mark's Place (or on-line at
http://gemm.com)

We urge you not to miss the always uplifting showomanship of this unique
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Date: 26 Apr 1999 13:34:46 -0400





Brian and friends...now, it is _my__  turn to recommend some films to  you!
      YES, the PAWNBROKER is every bit as fabulous a film as it is
      soundtrack.  While this does not always happen to me, I've seen a
      spate of film that equals it's OST and visa-vera:  May I also laud:
THE PARTY(Henry Mancini)
BELL BOOK AND CANDLE(George Dunning)...and I am curious about some others I
      have soundtracks for, such as EIGHT ON THE LAM, THE INTERNS, and TWO
      FOR THE ROAD...
Jane "two thumbs up" Fondle





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the movie one day, which is, by most accounts, quite gripping.







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Subject: (exotica) Mimieux/Khan
Date: 26 Apr 1999 15:46:47 -0400




Regarding:

> (No one has yet
>  reissued the album where Yvette Mimieux read the
>  poetry of Baudelaire accompanied by Ali Akhbar Khan
>  on sarod, but the moment cannot be too far distant.)

It was asked:

> Any comments anyone,  or did he make it up to take the piss?

The album really exists.

Yvette Mimieux/Ali Akbar Khan: Flowers of Evil [Connoisseur Society CS
2007]. You can see a picture of the cover on page 193 of "Incredibly
Strange Music Vol 2".

It's not bad, but I cannot help thinking that this is one of those records
that seem more interesting in the abstract.

Allan

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Subject: (exotica) "Mondo Bongos" playlist for April 28, 1999
Date: 26 Apr 1999 16:55:34 -0400


Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wed at 9 am on CFRU 93.3 fm in Guelph,
Ontario.Canada. Comments & questions welcome.

Funki Porcini - Rockit Soul "Rockit Soul [12"]"
Propellerheads - Better? "Decksanddrumsandrockandroll"
Lalo Schifrin - Jaws "Black Widow"

Morton Stevens - Hawaii Five-O "Hawaii Five-O [ost]"
Hugo Montenegro - Touch Me "Moog Power"
Dr. Rockit - The Lion and the Cucumber "The Spirit of Vampyros Lesbos"

Anandji & Kalyanji Shah - Bombay 405 Miles "Bombay the Hard Way"
The Clifford Gilberto Rhythm Combination - Kula World "I Was Young & I
Needed the Money"
Lalo Schifrin - Danube Incident "Crime Jazz - Music in the Second Degree"
Portishead - Sour Times "Portishead"

Funki Porcini - Teenage Hardon "Rockit Soul [12"]"
Brian Bennet - Ergon "Electronic Toys"
Julee Cruise - Into the Night "Floating into the Night"
Massive Attack - Black Milk "Mezzanine"

Thanks for reading,

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Subject: (exotica) DIONYSUS RECORDS 15TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY
Date: 26 Apr 1999 17:06:27 EDT


You all may know Dionysus from the unbelievably great Chiano comp. CD, the
rediscovery of Robert Drasnin's "Voodoo", Les Baxter 10", the Karla Pundit
spoof/homage, or all their great Surf stuff like Tiki Tones, Boss Martians,
Bomboras,  & vintage reissues and first time releases from the vaults. Here
is their press release

Come celebrate the DIONYSUS RECORDS 15TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY - COAST TO COAST!

SAN FRANCISCO
Saturday, May 22, 1999 at The Cocodrie in North Beach
1024 Kearny St. [phone]
First 25 paid will get free Dionysus Stuff!
THE TIKI TONES
FRENCHY
DAVIE ALLAN AND THE ARROWS
THE DUKES OF HAMBURG
Special opening ceremony dance by THE DEVIL-ETTES, a 14 woman dance troupe!
Halftime mugging/tiki voodoo concoctions served at the bar
Presented by Liftoff Productions, Tiki News and Gearhead Magazine

PHILLY
Friday, May 28, 1999 at Upstairs at Nicks, Philadelphia, PA
16 South 2nd Street [phone]
THE 440'S
THORAZINE
MONDO TOPLESS
SIT AND SPIN
Presented by Black Hole productions

LOS ANGELES
Date, venue and lineup currently unknown! We'll know something late summer!

Go to http://www.indieweb.com/dionysus/party/party.html for more info and
check out the awesome SHAG poster (which will be available at the shows).
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Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Kelbo's
Date: 26 Apr 1999 17:07:15 EDT


Also of note is the sign which still bears the Tiki at the top above the
embarassingly bad addition of the Fantasy Island name

Dave, how did you hear of Kelbo's?
It was functioning well into the 80s but had many leans on it because the
owner (Kelly) had borrowed against it for other ventures such as a beer
vending machine company that failed
Lounge singer Joey Sehee (Wonderful World of Joey) tried to revive it by
having weekly shows there along with dj Senor Amor but to no avail.
Joey had a final show there after it reopened as Fan. Island in the the
"ballroom", The Co-co Bowl, which was once billed as the world's largest
coconut because the concave cieling over the dancefloor was painted to look
like an upside down coconut. that area is now a dungeon room and did have
blowup dolls on the cieling when I went there (for Joey's show)
They did save one of the booths from Kelbo's and the area that it is in is
called the shipwreck room and has other nautical decor. The third room is the
Harem room.

The real tragedy is that before the strip club got in there (the city would
not let them but it despite having the money, permits and a deal with Kelly)
a restaurant went in. Those stupid bastards trashed everything. right into
the dumpster. And then started a list of all the people who trailed in
wanting to buy the decor. they claimed they were going to have a garage sale
but they never did. Much to my joy the ONLY people that ever went to that
restuarant were the fans of Kelbo's who wanted to buy the decor. So the
restaurant closed less than a year after it opened and gutted the place.

The strip club probably would've left most of the decor in place and had a
Polynesian themed strip club

the moral of the story:
Strip clubs are better than restaurants when it comes to preserving history

Otto
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Subject: (exotica) Hawaiiana expo in So Cal
Date: 26 Apr 1999 17:07:29 EDT



We are hosting the South Bay's First Vintage Hawaiiana/Surf Expo featuring
20+ dealers from all over California. Only vintage merchandise will be
available...buy, sell or trade on Sunday, June 27th from 9am-5pm...live
Hawaiian music all day long featuring Sam Kapu and Willy Moku. Merchandise
includes kitschy Hawaiiana, souvenirs, restaurantware, rattan furniture, 60's
longboards and bellyboards, surf paper and posters, music, ukuleles, fine art
and vintage Hawaiian apparel. There will be a special Duke Kahanamoku booth
and display. Many of those featured in the books "Aloha Spirit" and the
recent "Surfing" will be on hand as dealers. There are still a few dealer
spaces available at 60.00 for the day. Please call the number below if you
are interested in dealer space. We are anticipating a fabulous show and a
great turnout...response has been overwhelming. Watch for our ads in the West
Coast Peddler and Collector Magazine for May and June. Lots of local South
Bay advertising is currently running. Hope you  can make it.Thanks for your
support and interest.
Cruz and Art

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Quincy Jones soundtracks
Date: 26 Apr 1999 20:44:26 -0400


At 01:34 PM 4/26/99 -0400, [e-mail] wrote:
> I am curious about some others I
> have soundtracks for, such as TWO FOR THE ROAD...

Great film.  Okay good.  A lot of fun.  Very sixties.  Great clothes.
Great cars.  And a pretty interesting structure to boot.

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From: James G <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Teenage Devil Dolls
Date: 26 Apr 1999 18:18:30 -0700


M. Ace wrote <Saturday night, AMC aired "Teenage Devil Dolls" with music
"composed and conducted by" *Robert Drasnin*.>

For 1953 and even now this is a damn cool score, kind of a transition
from orchestral melodrama towards crime jazz, with flutes and tympani
and I swore I heard a theremin when junkie "Cholo" Martinez was goin
cold turkey in the desert. It's a very gritty 60 minute melodrama with
almost no dialogue, just a well-done voice-over by the cop. Remember
kids, smokin reefer leads to heroin. I think this is out on Mamie Van
Doren's Teen-Age Theater video series. The IMDB doesn't show any other
entries for Drasnin until "The Man From Uncle" around 1964.

BTW, AMC is doing some interesting things, usually on Sat nites in their
semi-lame American Pop format. As filler, they edit songs (Annette,
etc.) out of other movies and show them like music videos. You might see
the Supremes sing a few surfin'(????) songs from "Beach Ball", Scott
walker "Doin the Jerk" or Paul Lynde painfully trying to look interested
while ogling Linda Evans singing. In May AMC has scheduled Casino Royale
(without the annoying commercials that Bravo inserted), Modesty Blaise
and a buncha monster movies. Plus a molten hot young Ava Gardner sings a
song in Hemingway's "The Killers" (great movie!), but its possible she
was dubbed.

http://www.amctv.com/home.html

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Subject: (exotica) SEA AND JUNGLE SHOP BUILDING.....GONE FOR GOOD!
Date: 26 Apr 1999 21:29:13 EDT


Hi

On nights when I'm "On The Town," in LA (usually at the Dresden or some other
Hollywood location, actually I went to the House Of Blues and saw The
Residents which was awesome, worthy of another post on this newsgroup, anyone
else see 'em?) I take a back-road type route home to Burbank, to stay off the
main roads & freeways. Probably the same route one would have taken back in
the 40s and early 50s. When not in a hurry for an appointment, I enjoy taking
the old routes and vibing out on what might have been back in the day.

I always pass buy the beautiful A frame building that once was the Sea And
Jungle Shop, on San Fernando Road in Los Angeles, across from the train
tracks, right between the Atwater and Glendale areas. Don't know if any of
you experienced this place but they were one of the main suppliers to many
Polynesian Restaurants for years. I first heard of this place when I moved
here in '84, and went there...a year or so later they were in the process of
closing and had a 1/2 off sale. At the time I was quite broke; barely had any
money to speak of (and no credit cards) so I was only able to muster up about
$60.00. Got a nice African statue of two warriors, some spears, a mask, lots
of napkins, party favors, and a great bowl with three tikis (I used to use it
to burn powdered incense but these things were mostly used for flaming
drinks), plus two great lamps that have been with me through three different
locations, and currently hang in our living room, over our tiki bar.

They closed but the building remained, leaving lots of great memories. It
became overgrown with weeds but I still loved driving by this landmark, one
of the reasons for my nighttime back-road excursions through San Fernando
Road. A lingerie manufacture moved in there for quite sometime. I used to
have fantasies about getting some kind of windfall and buying the building to
house the Dionysus Records Empire. Man, that would've been great!

So, last night I'm driving the usual route, I turn the corner and feel my
heart drop in my stomach. Where the Sea and Jungle shop once stood, was a
huge plot of empty land...nothing left, nothing but dirt, like it never
existed.

Well, gang, that's it......maybe you can share some of your depressing
'recent history being mowed over' type stories.

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From: Risser Family <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Command Vaults
Date: 26 Apr 1999 20:33:50 -0400


<<
> Who holds the keys to the Commnad vaults?

MCA.

> Is there some reason we haven't seen massive comps coming out of them like
> we have for RCA, EMI and Capitol?

Money probably.  MCA are probably of the opinion that there is
simply insufficient interest in these titles.
>>

Actually, it's probably a good thing, since MCA, in my opinion, is pretty notorious for spotty reissues.  At least in my book.

How does one go about reissuing this stuff, and is it worth it (asking those who've tried, ie: Scamp)?

Peter


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From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Portable record players
Date: 26 Apr 1999 23:50:41 -0400


For those who were looking for portable record players, Dusty Groove
just got two different ones in - the "Vinyl Killer" sound van, and the
Columbia GP-3.  (Standard disclaimer - I don't work for them, I'm just a
satisfied customer...)

Check out their site:

http://www.dustygroove.com

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Subject: (exotica) tomorrow in SF
Date: 26 Apr 1999 23:05:39 EDT


Tuesday April 27

The Beauty Bar
Mission & 19th
San Fran

Dj Bump from Baltimore joins Otto for the regular Tues Night session

9 pm til close
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Subject: (exotica) Maybe it was the ABC Movie of the week?
Date: 27 Apr 1999 08:53:27 EDT


Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't.

Does anyone know the theme song to the ABC movie of the week cir. late '60s -
early '70.  If so who wrote/preformed it and where the hell can I be findin's
me a a copy.  I remember it was rather groovy.  Hearing Dionne Warwick do "Do
You Know The Way To San Jose" actually conjured a "Movie-O-the Week" theme
flashback.  There's bits of the ABC tune hidden in "...To San Jose", most
likely it was vis-versa, but you know what I mean.

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From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Pearl & Dean
Date: 27 Apr 1999 14:03:24 +0100


Do any UK lurkers know if the Pearl & Dean cinema music was ever released?
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba da da etc etc.

Thanks all.




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Subject: Re: (exotica) Maybe it was the ABC Movie of the week?
Date: 27 Apr 1999 08:28:59 +0000


> Does anyone know the theme song to the ABC movie of the week cir.
> late '60s - early '70. Hearing Dionne Warwick do "Do You Know The
> Way To San Jose" actually conjured a "Movie-O-the Week" theme
> flashback.  There's bits of the ABC tune hidden in "...To San Jose"

And no wonder!  They were both written by Burt Bacharach.  The
ABC Movie of the Week theme is "Nikki" which, if I'm remembering
right, is named for Burt's daughter.  This tune has been lodged in my
head since I first heard it on the damn Movie of the Week back in
'69!  It's on one of Bacharach's albums, but I can't remember which
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Pearl & Dean
Date: 27 Apr 1999 14:29:51 +0100



>Do any UK lurkers know if the Pearl & Dean cinema music was ever released?
>Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba da da etc etc.
>

you can find it on 'funky soundtracks vol 1', a fairly recent vinyl
compilation which is full of great stuff

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Pearl & Dean]
Date: 27 Apr 1999 14:59:43 +0100


Charles Moseley wrote:

>
> Do any UK lurkers know if the Pearl & Dean cinema music was ever released?
> Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba da da etc etc.
>
> Thanks all.
>
>

"Asteroid" by Pete Moore.

I think it was on the 2CD "This is Easy" compilation.



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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) How Do You Catch A Girl?
Date: 27 Apr 1999 09:19:23 -0400


Sorry for the open post -

somebody asked me about the Sam the Sham tribute CD - that particular song =
(How do you catch a girl?) is done by The Vacant Lot.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Maybe it was the ABC Movie of the week?
Date: 27 Apr 1999 10:25:09 -0500



   And no wonder!  They were both written by Burt Bacharach.  The
   ABC Movie of the Week theme is "Nikki" which, if I'm remembering
   right, is named for Burt's daughter.  This tune has been lodged in my

   head since I first heard it on the damn Movie of the Week back in
   '69!  It's on one of Bacharach's albums, but I can't remember which
   one at the moment (album's at home).


It's on the eponymously titled album Burt Bacharach, A&M 3501 The one
with Burt  on the front cover in a big ugly white
sweater.




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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Jane Crowley,Rick Rood,Roger and Larry Troutman
Date: 27 Apr 1999 10:33:13 -0500


                           *Jane Crowley
    NEW YORK (AP) -- Jane Crowley, a longtime NBC-TV censor who worked on ``The
Tonight Show,'' ``Late Night With David Letterman'' and ``The Cosby Show,''
died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack. She was 73.
    Johnny Carson, in his ``Tonight'' monologues, would occasionally refer to a
fictional censor named ``Priscilla Goodbody.''
    Michael Mace, who worked for the show from 1968 to 1971 as an assistant to
Ed McMahon, said he believes Carson coined the name with Miss Crowley in mind.
    Miss Crowley retired in 1987 after working for NBC for 40 years. As a
manager for Standards and Practices, she was assigned certain shows and had
the final say, in the tamer TV environment of her early career, on whether a
costume was too revealing or a word like ``toilet'' could be used.
    Miss Crowley also worked for ``Your Show of Shows,'' starring Sid Caesar
and Imogene Coca, soap operas such as ``Another World'' and Hallmark Hall of
Fame specials.

                             *Rick Rood
    ALPHARETTA, Ga. (AP) -- Rick Rood, who as ``Ravishing Rick Rude'' was one
of professional wrestling's biggest stars in the 1980s and early 1990s, died
April 20. He was 40.
    Rood was found unconscious at his home. He was resuscitated, but died later
at a hospital. Autopsy results were pending.
    Police Lt. Randy Johnson said empty prescription pill bottles were found
near Rood's bed.
    Rood was charged April 9 with driving under the influence and blood test
results from that charge were pending, Johnson said.
    In the ring, Rood played a womanizing, conceited bad guy who would often
finish off opponents with the ``Rude Awakening,'' a neck-breaking takedown.
    He was injured in a 1994 match with the wrestler Sting in Japan and then
retired.
    Since then, he was a manager and commentator for Extreme Championship
Wrestling, the World Wrestling Federation and, most recently, Atlanta-based
World Championship Wrestling.

                          *Roger and Larry Troutman
    DAYTON, Ohio (AP) -- R&B star Roger Troutman, had hits such as ``More
Bounce to the Ounce'' and ``I Want to Be Your Man,'' was shot to death
Sunday along with his brother in an apparent murder-suicide, police said. He
was 47.
    Troutman, who with his brother was part of the family group Zapp and
recorded as a solo artist under the name Roger, was found outside his
recording studio. He had been shot several times in the torso and died while
in surgery, police Sgt. Gary White said.
    His brother, Larry Troutman, 54, was found dead in a car a few blocks away
with a gunshot wound to the head, police said. A handgun was found inside
the car, which matched the description of a car leaving the scene of Roger
Troutman's shooting, White said.
    Ken Betz, executive director of the Montgomery County coroner's office,
said authorities believe Larry Troutman shot his brother Sunday and then
turned the gun on himself. The motive for the shooting was not immediately
clear.
    The brothers were part of the Troutman family of performers that formed the
band Zapp and helped pioneer the rock-funk ``Dayton sound'' in the 1970s.
Death anniversaries for the week of 26 April - 2 May:
Monday, 26 April
1973 - Irene Ryan; actress, "The Beverly Hillbillies"
1984 - Count Basie; jazz pianist
1986 - Broderick Crawford; actor, "Highway Patrol"
1989 - Lucille Ball; actress
Thursday,  29 April
1984 - Marvin Gaye; soul singer
1991 - Ken Curtis; actor, "Gunsmoke"
Friday, 30 April
1974 - Agnes Moorehead; actress, "Bewitched"




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Subject: (exotica) New Orleans Jazz Fest A-to-Z List of Performers
Date: 27 Apr 1999 07:33:04 -0700 (PDT)


The following is an a to z list of performers at the New Orleans Jazz
Fest.  Its been a great Festival so far.  Went sunday to Lafayette to
catch the Festival Internatioal, a French heritage festival with a lot
of zouk, soukous acts from Paris and modern rock from Belgium and
Quebec.



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From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Pearl & Dean]
Date: 27 Apr 1999 11:51:53 -0400




Happen to have this comp here at work today. Just picked it up used in
Boston last weekend.

Pop it in the CD player...track 16.....it's 15 seconds long! I now know
what you mean when you call it cinema music. A nice intro before a movie.



>From: Peter Hipwell  Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 9:50 AM
>>
>>Charles Moseley wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Do any UK lurkers know if the Pearl & Dean cinema music was ever
>released?
>>> Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba da da etc etc.
>>>
>>> Thanks all.
>>
>>"Asteroid" by Pete Moore.
>>
>>I think it was on the 2CD "This is Easy" compilation.
>.
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Pearl & Dean
Date: 27 Apr 1999 16:10:36 +0100


> From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>

> >>
> >> Do any UK lurkers know if the Pearl & Dean cinema music was ever
> >> released? Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba da da etc etc.
> >>
> >> Thanks all.
> >
> > "Asteroid" by Pete Moore.
> >
> > I think it was on the 2CD "This is Easy" compilation.
> >
>
> Happen to have this comp here at work today. Just picked it up used in
> Boston last weekend.
>
> Pop it in the CD player...track 16.....it's 15 seconds long! I now know
> what you mean when you call it cinema music. A nice intro before a movie.
>
>

This is the music they used to have for years and years in British
cinemas as the jingle for "Pearl and Dean", the company that handled
cinema advertising seemingly everywhere.

[Cue Indian Muzak] A TASTE OF INDIA THE "TAJ MAHAL" RESTAURANT SUPERB
CURRIES IN A FABULOUS FLOCK WALLPAPER ENVIRONMENT THE TRUE TASTE OF
INDIA SOPHISTICATED, CUTPRICE, JOLLY GOOD LAGER [different, stern
forbidding highly overamplified voice] JUST 25 YARDS FROM THIS CINEMA
ON BALLPONK ROAD.



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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) more swingin' spy tv
Date: 27 Apr 1999 11:25:41 -0400


As JB aptly noted, there's a couple of choice items coming up on AMC.

If you taped Bravo's recent showing of "Casino Royale" (1967), it's already
time for a welcome upgrade (I still can't believe they cut the "Look Of
Love" sequence... there were some other bits missing too). Saturday night
at 10:00pm and 4:00am (eastern). No commercials, hopefully a full cut. And
sometimes their late showings are in widescreen format.

Then Sunday night at 10:00pm and 2:00am, it's the rarely seen "Modesty
Blaise" (1966), starring Monica Vitti. Don't miss it. I'm not sure I trust
that 2:00am time -- it goes against their usual late-night structure, but
maybe they're just feeling reckless. Again, the late showing may be
wide-screen.

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Subject: (exotica) In defense of Burt's sweaters
Date: 27 Apr 1999 11:24:42 -0400





...or maybe you will call me "Geek of the Week", but here goes!



>>It's on the eponymously titled album Burt Bacharach, A&M 3501 The one
with Burt  on the front cover in a big ugly white
sweater.

I do think, you will have to admit, however, that the self-same "big ugly
white sweater" sorta __Defines__ Burt's look!  Burt fits a description that
I believe I made up...he looks very "ski lodge," or like the kind of guy
who'd be just hanging out at a ski lodge, with a cable-knit sweater, some
sherry, a tight 70s perm, perhaps...I know SOME of you know what I mean,
here!
(un?)Fashionably, Jane Fondle

PS(Isn't there always):  I wanna know about an OST I have to THE LOVE
MACHINE, with Burt and Dionne...and the GORGEOUS John Phillip Law
starring...Is the film as good as the soundtrack?







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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) ABC Movie of the Week
Date: 27 Apr 1999 12:56:36 -0500


Go to this URL and you can see a RealVideo clip of the opening sequence
along with the theme tune:


http://www.tvparty.com/vaultmov.html

From the site:
"I was looking for the theme to the "ABC Movies' for a long time and
stumbled across it within the past year. According to the liner notes in the
Burt Bacharach box set released by Rhino recently, this is the melody to a
song which Burt composed for his daughter and recorded in 1966. The tune is
called "Nikki", and was adapted by ABC for use as the Movie of the Week
theme. The 1966 recording is on the Rhino box set. An almost identical
version was recorded by Burt in 1971 and is on A&M album simply called "Burt
Bacharach". I was able to order a Japanese release of this CD from cdnow.com
(A&M POCM 2013). Neither version is as lushly orchestrated as the version
used on ABC. If anyone has any info about the availability of a recording of
the actual ABC version I would appreciate hearing about it."
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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Maybe it was the ABC Movie of the week?
Date: 27 Apr 1999 13:14:56 -0400


>t's on the eponymously titled album Burt Bacharach, A&M 3501 The one
>ith Burt  on the front cover in a big ugly white
>sweater.

It can be seen and heard at http://tvparty.com/vaultmov.html (one of my
favorite sites!) and that way you can dodge the ugly sweater



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From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Pearl & Dean]
Date: 27 Apr 1999 11:26:50 -0400


I happen to have this comp here at work today. Just picked it up used in
Boston last weekend.

I pop it in the CD player...track 16.....it's 15 seconds long! I now know
what you mean when you call it cinema music. A nice intro.


>
>Charles Moseley wrote:
>
>>
>> Do any UK lurkers know if the Pearl & Dean cinema music was ever
released?
>> Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba da da etc etc.
>>
>> Thanks all.
>
>"Asteroid" by Pete Moore.
>
>I think it was on the 2CD "This is Easy" compilation.


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From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Quincy Jones soundtracks
Date: 27 Apr 1999 22:11:16 -0700


The ones to own are DOLLARS, [a.k.a. $] (Reprise) and THE LOST MAN
(Universal).

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Quincy Jones soundtracks
Date: 27 Apr 1999 19:04:56 +0100


The ones to own are The Heist (aka Dollars, aka $), The Italian Job, The
Adventurers and They Call Me Mister Tibbs. 5 stars each makes 20 stars.





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Subject: Re: (exotica) In defense of Burt's sweaters
Date: 27 Apr 1999 13:09:36 -0500


[e-mail] wrote:
>
> ...or maybe you will call me "Geek of the Week", but here goes!
>
> >>It's on the eponymously titled album Burt Bacharach, A&M 3501 The one
> with Burt  on the front cover in a big ugly white
> sweater.
>
> I do think, you will have to admit, however, that the self-same "big ugly
> white sweater" sorta __Defines__ Burt's look!  Burt fits a description that
> I believe I made up...he looks very "ski lodge," or like the kind of guy
> who'd be just hanging out at a ski lodge, with a cable-knit sweater, some
> sherry, a tight 70s perm, perhaps...I know SOME of you know what I mean,
> here!
> (un?)Fashionably, Jane Fondle
>

It's funny that you define his look as "ski lodge".
In the video biography of Dusty Springfield, there
is a brief interview with Burt Bacharach....on the
slopes, with parka, skis, the whole shit and shebang!
I thought that was just so...*Burt* of him.

--

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Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Maybe it was the ABC Movie of the week?
Date: 27 Apr 1999 14:26:18 EDT



In a message dated 4/27/99 9:29:54 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>The
>ABC Movie of the Week theme is "Nikki" which, if I'm remembering
>right, is named for Burt's daughter.  This tune has been lodged in my
>head since I first heard it on the damn Movie of the Week back in
>'69!  It's on one of Bacharach's albums, but I can't remember which
>one at the moment (album's at home).

Nikki appears on the Rhino Bachrach Boxed Set which is a must have IMHO. Not
his best, but for those who like both the best and the rest...............


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Subject: (exotica) (Exotica) Proteus 7 For Your Ears Only
Date: 27 Apr 1999 16:30:34 -0400



Recently pick up music by "Proteus 7" a CD called "For Your Ears Only"

On Dorian, a mostly classical label.

Proteus 7 is a group of 6 horns and one drummer. And they are all active
with symphony or pops orchestras around the globe.

Contents: all arranged by various members of the group.

7 Bond tracks loaded with corny S/F noises. (Done well I just don't go for
it)
also:
The Pink Panther
Mission Impossible
Secret Agent Man
5 Casino Royal tracks (by o' Burt)
Get Smart
And a couple of original tracks "Private Eye" and "Proteak Attack" by the
trumpet leader Anthony DiLorenzo. Who has done music for ABC's Wide World of
Sports and movie trailers.

Nicely packaged CD.





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From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sweater wearin' exoticats
Date: 27 Apr 1999 15:33:55 -0500


Ok, ok, so Burt's sweater isn't "ugly" per se, as just one part of the
whole image excuse me for "knit" picking.
It did get me thinking on the subject....
On the cover of Hit Maker (Kapp 1428) Burt dons a swinging yellow
V-neck. I could have sworn that I've seen a picture of Burt with sweater
draped over his shoulders, you know the style, arms loosely tied around
the neck... BTW did you also notice that all of Burt crew neck shirt
collars are turned up!

But, if you really want to get into sixties sweater wearin' album covers
check out Herb Alpert on the cover of Summertime (A&M 4314). The pose,
the setting is straight out of a J. Crew catalogue. Not to say that
that's good or bad, it's just so...well, it's just so Herb.


Frank, in search of the perfect late sixties swingerwear.




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From: Fish Wich <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New Orleans record stores
Date: 27 Apr 1999 13:30:40 -0700 (PDT)


I'm going to be in New Orleans for business in a few weeks and I want
to do some record shopping while I'm there.  Can anyone tell me the
names of some stores and/or fleamarkets worth visiting?  Thanks.

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Jane Crowley,Rick Rood,Roger and Larry
Date: 27 Apr 1999 16:27:28 -0400



>                           *Jane Crowley
>    NEW YORK (AP) -- Jane Crowley, a longtime NBC-TV censor who worked on ``The
>Tonight Show,'' ``Late Night With David Letterman'' and ``The Cosby Show,''
>died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack. She was 73.

According to an unnamed source, her last words were, "Oh, BEEP!"

Sorry.

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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sweater wearin' exoticats
Date: 27 Apr 1999 22:09:14 +0100


> From: recliner <[e-mail]>
>
> But, if you really want to get into sixties sweater wearin' album covers
> check out Herb Alpert on the cover of Summertime (A&M 4314). The pose,
> the setting is straight out of a J. Crew catalogue. Not to say that
> that's good or bad, it's just so...well, it's just so Herb.
>

I really dig Andy Williams' groovy jumper choice. Especially that one
that has "ANDY" knitted into it in the middle of some exciting zig-zag
pattern. It rules.



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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Maybe it was the ABC Movie of the week?
Date: 27 Apr 1999 17:18:17 -0400


At 08:28 AM 4/27/99 +0000, you wrote:
>>
>And no wonder!  They were both written by Burt Bacharach.  The
>ABC Movie of the Week theme is "Nikki" which, if I'm remembering
>right, is named for Burt's daughter. It's on one of Bacharach's albums,
but I can't remember which one at the moment (album's at home).

Oh Nikki.  I love that tune but I didn't know it before I heard it on Vince
Bell's "Airport" album.  Great version especially if you like that
gloop-gloop guitar.  The only vocal version I have is by Ed Ames on his
all-Bacharach record but as I'm sure you know, Ed can do more than just
throw a tomahawk.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Sweater wearin' exoticats
Date: 27 Apr 1999 16:06:27 -0400





Ok, ok, so Burt's sweater isn't "ugly" per se, as just one part of the
      whole image excuse me for "knit" picking.
      It did get me thinking on the subject....

Frank, in search of the perfect late sixties swingerwear.


>>>Well, I am no big fan of Perry Como or Andy Williams, but their
sweater-aesthetic is UNBEATABLE, as is Nat King Cole's and Arthur Prysock.
Brian Phillips told me something I didn't know about Prysock, btw...he is
the golden-tones on the "Lowenbrau" commercials of the 7ts!  EEP!
Jane Fondle, Sweater Girl










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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) (Exotica) Proteus 7 For Your Ears Only
Date: 27 Apr 1999 17:20:04 -0500


At 04:30 PM 4/27/99 -0400, Dom C. wrote:
>Recently pick up music by "Proteus 7" a CD called "For Your Ears Only"
>On Dorian, a mostly classical label.
>Proteus 7 is a group of 6 horns and one drummer. And they are all active
>with symphony or pops orchestras around the globe.

Is that the one with EXTREME dynamics and sound effects? Is it all musical,
or a bit gimmicky and goofy?

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From: "Paul Moshay" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sweater wearin' exoticats
Date: 27 Apr 1999 14:35:05 +0100


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the *ultimate* lp cover sweater imho:
Dennis Wilson on Beach Boys (stellar)
"Today" Lp !

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) SEA AND JUNGLE SHOP BUILDING.....GONE FOR GOOD!
Date: 27 Apr 1999 19:06:43 -0500


At 09:29 PM 4/26/99 EDT, Lee Joseph wrote:
>So, last night I'm driving the usual route, I turn the corner and feel my
>heart drop in my stomach. Where the Sea and Jungle shop once stood, was a
>huge plot of empty land...nothing left, nothing but dirt, like it never
>existed.
>
>Well, gang, that's it......maybe you can share some of your depressing
>'recent history being mowed over' type stories.

Well, this isn't my story; it's a bit I just read in Duncan McLean's "Lone
Star Swing: One Scotsman's odyssey in search of the true meaning of Texas
Swing":

I crossed the west fork of the Trinity River, then took Robert's Cut Off
south to White Settlement Road, and turned right. White Settlement was the
site of another landmark in the history of western swing, and the Musical
Brownies in particular, for it was four miles out of town down this road
that Papa Sam Cunningham had his Crystal Springs dancehall -- plus swimming
pool and fishing pond. It was here that the Brownies established themselves
as the biggest draw in Fort Worth, and here that they had the regular, long
gigs that enabled them to experiment with the mix of styles that would
eventually meld and (even more eventually) become known as western swing.

But the dancehall was long gone. A home-painted sign nailed to a telephone
pole claimed that this was Crystal Springs Mobile Home Park - NO DUMPIN'
FISHIN' PARKIN' - but even that facility had disappeared. The birthplace of
western swing was nothing but a weed-infested, rubbish-strewn vacant lot.




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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The love machine
Date: 27 Apr 1999 23:36:17 -0400


At 11:24 AM 4/27/99 -0400, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>PS(Isn't there always):  I wanna know about an OST I have to THE LOVE
>MACHINE, with Burt and Dionne...and the GORGEOUS John Phillip Law
>starring...Is the film as good as the soundtrack?

Well here you would have to define "good" a bit more.  If you like "camp"
of that era, you will probably like it but in that same genre, I don't
think it's as good as "Valley of The Dolls" for instance.

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From: Elisabeth Vincentelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) In defense of Burt's sweaters
Date: 27 Apr 1999 23:50:54 -0500


>I do think, you will have to admit, however, that the self-same "big ugly
>white sweater" sorta __Defines__ Burt's look!  Burt fits a description that
>I believe I made up...he looks very "ski lodge," or like the kind of guy
>who'd be just hanging out at a ski lodge, with a cable-knit sweater, some
>sherry, a tight 70s perm, perhaps...I know SOME of you know what I mean,
>here!
In the BBC documentary about Dusty Springfield, Burt is indeed
interviewed on ski slopes, looking very dapper.

Will the cast album of Promises, Promises *ever* come out on CD?

Elisabeth


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From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Movie of the Week debacle
Date: 28 Apr 1999 02:03:47 +0000


OH NO!  I read the posting of a Realplayer video of the ABC movie of the
week theme, heard the tune in my head, and rushed off to see it....

No sooner does it pop up then...GAG...I was remembering the WRONG TUNE.
The trouble is that the tune I remember is far more precious to me: the
4:30 Movie (is that what it was called??) theme.  OK, now, who remembers
it, and WHERE is THAT video clip???

I was watching the 4:30 movie when Watergate was ruining my weeks, when
Reagan was shot, and lots of other lightly stoned afternoons.  Mmmmmm.
Help me with my jones.

Keith


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From: "David Gross" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) ABC themes and lots more
Date: 28 Apr 1999 14:19:52 +0300


I invite us all to visit David Shield's authoritative site on
early TV themes and other composers of interest to
exoticoids.

www.classicthemes.com

ABC listing:

www.classicthemes.com/50sTVThemes/themePages/abcColorMovi
es.html

(if this URL wraps in your email reader it might not paste
properly in your browser)

David Gross
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) pearl and dean
Date: 28 Apr 1999 12:49:53 +0100


Asteroids was heavily sampled in GoldBugs' version of A Whole Lotta Love
that was released 3 years ago(ish).  They kindly put the full track on
the B Side, going on at great length about how it was the first official
release of it,  and how hard it had been to convince the composer that
they weren't taking the piss.

Charles very good impression,  have you thought of a career in
advertising.


El Maestro Con Queso

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) RE: residents live
Date: 28 Apr 1999 13:00:30 +0100


I saw the Residents live about 15 years ago,  when samplers first came
on the market.  I cant remember what they (the samplers) were called
then,  but the rental was phenomenal at the time.  Anyway,  it was the
first tour they had done (the Mole Tour), as they had apparantly not
been able to tour before due to technical limitations.

They hid away in mole masks for the first part of the show,  but for the
second part came on in the eyeball masks and dinner suits that we love
so much.  A bizarre conceptual evening.  Spoilt only by the fact that
they did an encore,  but I seem to remember that they had Snakefinger
join them for it,  so it was not all doom and gloom.  If any one is
interested one of my friends has a tape of this experience and does
swaps,  I can find the URL for his list if anyone wants to contact me
off list

Another thing that evening was that Deiter (?) Meyer of Yello was there
holding court at the end.  that mans head was nearly as big as my entire
torso,  and I'm not talking ego here.  Physically he has an enormous
head.  And the bloke sat next to me in the auditorium spent the whole
evening looking at things through a multi faced crystal ball.  It was
that sort of night.



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) spike Jonze - Esquivel
Date: 28 Apr 1999 13:42:51 +0100


I taped a Chow Yun Fat film about a week ago, and being my normal
paranoid self set the vid up to start a little early.  I settled down to
watch it last night and caught the end of a programme on Spike Jonze, a
video director who has worked with the Beastie Boys and Fat Boy Slim
etc.  More street vignettes than visits to Rio or Lip synching.  However
one of the videos they showed was a short film of an episode in a novel.
two people dancing down different sides of the street, to Esquivels
Sentimental Journey.  Great,  totally unexpected,  funny,  short and as
it was a wordless film about something else,  without any trappings or
attempts at being hip.  just two people doing silly dancing at each
other across the street.  I liked the Fat Boy Slim video for Praise Me
as well.  More silly dancing.  I like that.


El Maestro Con Queso

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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dick Shory.....
Date: 28 Apr 1999 09:16:21 -0400


Does anyone know if "Music for Bang Barroooom and Harp" was released in =
both a mono and stereo version?

Thanks.

- Nate




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Subject: (exotica) re: Burt
Date: 28 Apr 1999 08:40:44 +0100


     On the subject of Burt, this track 'Nikki' is also on the German
     compilation, 'EASY LOUNGIN': Burt Bacharach', which I honestly
     believe is the best compilation by any artist I have ever bought.

     20 tracks, all of them absolutely brilliant, with that warm
     orchestral sound.  All the recordings are late 60s/early 70s, so I
     guess the version of 'Nikki' on it will be the one from 1971.  Even
     'Raindrops keep falling on my head' sounds good on this CD!

     Anyone know if this CD is still available in Germany?  I picked up
     mine used here in Holland, and would love to buy extra copies, but
     have never found it again...

     regards, Jonny


     >It's on the eponymously titled album Burt Bacharach, A&M 3501 The
     >one with Burt  on the front cover in a big ugly white sweater.


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Subject: re: (exotica) Quincy Jones soundtracks
Date: 28 Apr 1999 12:33:37 +0100


     >Verve CD release of Quincy Jones soundtracks to The Pawnbroker and The
     >Deadly Affair

     I was lucky enough to find this used a couple of years ago.

     The soundtracks themselves are mostly very jazzy and dramatic; slightly too
     much so for my taste.

     Hence the most memorable songs on the cd for me are the bossa nova version
     of the pawnbroker theme with Sarah Vaughan, and Astrud Gilberto's rendering
     of 'Who needs forever', the 'deadly affair' theme.  Both these are great,
     and hard to get anywhere else.

     Any news on a CD reissue of that 'Heist'/'$' thing?
     It's annoying me!  I've heard so much about it, yet I don't know
     how to go about searching for it, since it seems to have several
     different names...

     regards, Jonny


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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Bert Remsen,Al Hirt,Kemistry,Roger Troutman
Date: 28 Apr 1999 10:31:13 -0500


    LOS ANGELES, April 27 (UPI) -- Prolific character actor Bert Remsen, who
appeared in films including ``Brewster McCloud,'' ``McCabe & Mrs. Miller,''
``California Split'' and ``Nashville,'' is dead at the age of 74.=20
    Family members say Remsen died of natural causes in his sleep at his home
in the San Fernando Valley on Thursday.=20
    The versatile performer was severely injured in August of 1964 when an
84-foot crane toppled onto the set of ``No Time For Sergeants'' and broke
his back and one leg.=20
    Thorough months of surgeries, chronic pain and repeated hospitalizations,
Remsen decided to alter his career, becoming a casting director while still
accepting acting roles for himself.=20
                            *Bert Remsen    =09
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Bert Remsen, an actor whose long list of movie credits
included ``Pork Chop Hill'' and the current ``Forces of Nature,'' died
Thursday of heart failure. He was 74.=20
    He thought he was finished in show business in 1964 when an 84-foot crane
toppled on the television set of ``No Time for Sergeants'' and broke his
back. He then decided to become a casting director.=20
    Remsen was casting the part of a psychotic cop in the film ``Brewster
McCloud'' in 1970 when director Robert Altman suddenly looked at him and
said, ``You.''=20
    He later worked in other Altman films, including ``McCabe & Mrs. Miller,''
``California Split,'' ``Nashville'' and ``Thieves Like Us,'' and he soon
abandoned the casting business.=20
    Other credits included ``A Wedding,'' ``Fast Break,'' ``The Sting II,''
``Places in the Heart,'' ``Miss Firecracker,'' ``Dick Tracy,'' ``Only the
Lonely,'' ``The Bodyguard,'' ``The Player'' and ``Maverick.''=20
    He was also known for his TV work: ``Gibbsville,'' ``The Adventures of
Brisco County, Jr.,'' ``Melrose Place'' and the TV movies ``Lansky,''
``Crime of the Century'' and ``Road Ends.''=20
         =09
    NEW ORLEANS, April 27 (UPI) -- Trumpet great Al Hirt has died of liver
failure at his home in New Orleans, where he had been a part of the jazz
scene and entertainment culture for more than 50 years.=20
    The 76-year-old Hirt returned home from the hospital just a week ago after
doctors concluded there was little hope for his recovery.=20
    The famed musician had performed at Chris Owens' Bourbon Street club until
he was first hospitalized last month.=20
    Hirt's close friend, clarinetist Pete Fountain, today called Hirt, ``one of
the greatest trumpet players ever to hit the national scene and one of the
finest musicians I have ever known.''=20
    Hirt was nominated for 23 Grammys during his career and won for ``Java'' in
1964. Other hits included ``Candy Cane,'' ``Sugar Lips'' and ``Fancy=
 Pants.''=20
         =09
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Al Hirt, whose power and technique made him ``The King
of the Trumpet'' in the 1960s when he won a Grammy for his hit ``Java,''
died Tuesday. He was 76.=20
    Members of his family said he died at home, where he has been in failing
health since leaving a hospital a week ago. Cause of death was given as
liver failure.=20
    Hirt's virtuosity led him to 21 Grammy nominations in a career spanning
more than 50 years. In 1964, he won a Grammy for best non-jazz instrumental
for ``Java.''=20
    At his peak in the 1960s, he played for John Kennedy's inauguration,
starred at Carnegie Hall, and headlined numerous television variety shows,
including his own ``Fanfare'' program on CBS.=20
    In all, he recorded more than 50 albums -- four gold and one platinum.
``Honey in the Horn'' reached No. 3 on Billboard's Popular Music Album Chart
in 1963; ``Sugar Lips'' won Billboard's favorite instrumentalist of 1965. In
1962 he was named `best trumpeter' in the Playboy jazz poll, a prize he won
for 15 subsequent years.=20
    ``He represented a certain particular style of New Orleans music -- not
just Dixieland or traditional jazz,'' said George Wein, producer of the New
Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.=20
    ``It was a side of New Orleans entertainment best personified by Louis
Prima -- the waving handkerchief, the dancing, the whole showbiz aspect, all
the time playing good music. It was unique to New Orleans.''=20
    ``He was one of the best trumpet players all around the world,'' said
clarinetist Pete Fountain, a longtime friend who also kept his home in the
Crescent City. ``He had everything -- technique, stamina, education.''=20
    Hirt and Fountain started out together with day jobs as exterminators,
killing rats and roaches by day and playing music at night. In those days,
whoever landed the job would be called leader and wore a bow-tie on the=
 stand.=20
    They played together off and on for more than 50 years, and in recent years
their bands, along with the Preservation Hall Band, toured as a package in
the summers. Hirt missed the trip in 1998 because of bad health.=20
    Born Alois Maxwell Hirt in New Orleans in 1922, he got his first trumpet
when he was 6. Clasically trained at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music,
he spent three years in the U.S. Army as a company bugler, then began his
professional career in 1946 as a member of Benny Goodman's Orchestra. He
later worked with other big bands, including the Dorsey Brothers and Ray
McKinley.=20
    His first big break came in 1950, when he won second place in Horace
Heidt's National Youth Opportuntiy Contest and was named solo trumpet in
Heidt's band.=20
    Real national fame came in 1960 when Hirt's Dixieland Six booked into a
luxury hotel in Las Vegas. As much a showman as a musician, the 6-foot-2,
300-pounder's joyous music caught the attention of Dinah Shore and he became
an instant success on TV.=20
    Hirt didn't call it jazz, although he said he was influenced by Louis
Armstrong, Harry James and Frank Sinatra. His driving power, packed with
dazzling virtuosity, seemed to blow the curtains at the back of the
auditorium, but when the tempo slowed the honey-toned melodies flowed with a
style all his own.=20
    ``I'm a pop commercial musician, and I've got a successful format,'' Hirt
once said. ``If you have the ability to perform your musical idea, you
become a good jazz player. Any performer can think of a musical idea. Only a
well-schooled artist can produce the idea on his horn.''=20
    A real homebody, Hirt tried to arrange his career into short tours so he
could stay put in New Orleans with his wife and eight kids, near good
fishing grounds for sea trout. His base became his club on Bourbon Street.=
=20
    In 1983, he provoked controversy when he said he had had enough of the
crime and filth of the French Quarter and closed the club he had operated
since 1960. He later apologized, but did not reopen the club.=20
    Later in his career he mostly toured and performed on television, with
occasional local appearances at ``Jellyroll's'' in the French Quarter.=20
    He considered one of his most important performances the 1987 solo of
Handel's ``Ave Maria'' for Pope John Paul II during the pontiff's visit to
New Orleans.=20
    Hirt's death coincided with the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival,
which is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Quint Davis, festival producer,
said a special commemoration will be added on the closing Sunday in memory
of Hirt and other musicians who died this year.=20


Al Hirt, 76, Jazz Trumpeter Who Symbolized New Orleans
By NICK RAVO, NYTimes
Al Hirt, the portly Dixieland jazz trumpeter who was a symbol of the
exuberant laissez-faire way of life of New Orleans, died Tuesday at home in
New Orleans. He was 76.=20

Hirt had been hospitalized until last week at East Jefferson General
Hospital in Metairie, La., with liver ailments, said his personal assistant,
Peggy Stegman. He had used a wheelchair for the last year because of edema
in his leg, she said.=20

One of the nation's most recognizable performers in the 1960s, Hirt,
recorded 55 albums in his career and won a Grammy award in 1963 for the song
"Java."=20

Genial, bearded, sometimes topping 300 pounds and known to some friends as
Jumbo, Hirt was a ubiquitous figure in his home town. He had roles in
several motion pictures, was a minority owner in the city's Saints football
team and ran a popular club on Bourbon Street in the city's French Quarter
for 22 years; it closed in 1983.=20

"He's part of New Orleans, like Louis Armstrong," said the clarinetist Pete
Fountain, a fellow New Orleans resident who knew and played with Hirt for 55
years. "When you say Al Hirt, you say New Orleans. When you say New Orleans,
you say Al Hirt. We're just lucky enough to be from here."=20

Alois Maxwell Hirt was born on Nov. 7, 1922, in New Orleans, the son of a
police officer. A child prodigy, he got his first trumpet from a pawnshop at
age 6 and played his first gig in 1938 when he was hired to blow the horn at
a local race track. Besides earning young Hirt $40 a week, the job also
started a lifelong and often -expensive passion for the ponies.=20

Hirt attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music from 1940 to 1943 and,
after a three-year stint in the Army, started his career as a trumpet
player, bandleader and songwriter, touring with big bands, including those
led by Tommy Dorsey and Benny Goodman.=20

He started his own band in 1950 and a combo with Fountain in 1955. In 1960,
he signed with RCA Records, which released his first album the following
year. His most popular albums included "Greatest Horn," "He's the King" and
"Bourbon Street." He also had a pop single hit with "Cotton Candy."=20

Hirt continued to play at local clubs until recently, even though he had to
be wheeled on to the stage. It was a tribute to his feisty spirit. Indeed,
Fountain recalled the time in 1970 when Hirt, riding on a float during Mardi
Gras, was reportedly hit in the lip with a brick thrown by a rowdy
spectator. "I think I was bent over, looking up, about to throw some
doubloons to some kids when the lights went out," he said. "I always told
him I think he fell on a Courvoisier bottle," Fountain recalled. He said
they last played together about two months ago at Fountain's Night Club in
New Orleans.=20

"He sat in and that was a good time that night," Fountain said. "He was
having trouble getting around because his legs hurt him, because he's so big
his knees gave out. But otherwise, he was all right. He played. He tooted
with us, all the old favorites that we have done together through the years
-- 'Muskrat Ramble,' 'When the Saints Go Marching In,' 'A Closer Walk With
Thee,' 'Struttin' with Some Barbecue' and 'Jazz Me Blues.' We played all of
those that night."=20

Though he was adept at many musical genres, Hirt was sometimes derided by
critics and jazz purists for injecting rock into jazz numbers and pandering
to mass tastes.=20

He often responded by saying he was nothing more than a crowd-pleaser. "I'm
a pop commercial musician," he said in a New York Times interview in 1984.
"I'm not a jazz trumpet, and never was a jazz trumpet. When I played in big
bands for Tommy Dorsey and Jimmy Dorsey and Ray McKinley and Horace Heidt, I
played first trumpet. I led the trumpet section. I never played jazz or
improvised."=20

"Hirt's playing style was never progressive, but more of a swing type,"
Fountain said. "But Jumbo could play anything. That's how schooled a
musician he was. He was a good musician, very good. He could read all the
notes off the page."=20

Hirt is survived by his wife, Beverly Essel Hirt, and six children from a
previous marriage: Mary Lee Russo of Bethesda, Md., Rebecca Dickerson,
Bridgid Mearns, Stephen Hirt, Rachel Caron and Jennifer Sammons, all of New
Orleans; a sister, Rosemary Hirt Rost; a brother, Gerald; 10 grandchildren,
6 step-grandchilden and two great-grandchildren.=20

The trumpeter, who was often also called the "Round Mound of Sound,"
considered one of his most important performances to have been his 1987 solo
rendition of Handel's "Ave Maria" for Pope John Paul II during the pontiff's
visit to New Orleans.=20

See Also: http://elvispelvis.com/alhirt.htm

----Nicer News from N.O.:
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Fats Domino has patched up things with his old partner,
trumpeter Dave Bartholomew.=20
    Domino, 71, and Bartholomew, 78, haven't played together since they had a
disagreement about 12 years ago, but they got together for a performance
Sunday at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.=20
    Domino played many of his standards, including ``Blueberry Hill'' and
``Shake, Rattle & Roll.'' He closed his set with ``When the Saints Go
Marching In.''=20
    As the song played out, he bumped the grand piano across the stage with his
thighs, just like the old days. When someone tried to take away his
microphone, Domino mouthed, ``We're not done.''=20
    Domino played a little longer, then headed to his trailer as Bartholmew
urged the crowd to call him back.=20
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Drum- And- Bass DJ Kemistry Dies In Car Accident=A0=20
=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=20
Kemistry, drum- and- bass DJ and co-founder of the=A0famous Metalheadz=
 record
label and club,=A0 died in a tragic car accident early Sunday=A0 (April 25)
morning in England.=A0=A0=20
See: http://elvispelvis.com/kemistry.htm

April 28, 1999
Roger Troutman, 47, Influential Funk Musician
By NEIL STRAUSS,NYTimes

Roger Troutman, a renowned funk-music innovator who recorded with his
brothers in the band Zapp in the early '80s, died on Sunday at the Good
Samaritan Hospital and Health Center in Dayton, Ohio. He was 47 and lived in
Dayton.=20

Troutman had been shot several times on Sunday and died during surgery, Sgt.
Gary White of the Dayton police department said. Troutman's older brother
Larry, a former bandmate and business partner, was found dead of an
apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound the same day in a car nearby. Police
said they were investigating the possibility of a murder-suicide.=20

Zapp is probably best known for its use of the vocoder, or talkbox, a device
that makes vocals sound robotic, and for influencing musicians from rockers
like Lenny Kravitz to rappers like Tupac Shakur. The group's music has been
sampled on dozens of hit rap singles.=20

Roger Troutman grew up in Hamilton, Ohio. Influenced by James Brown, Jimmy
Reed, Duke Ellington and Jimi Hendrix, as well as by the thriving regional
funk scene, he formed Zapp in the late '70s with three of his brothers --
Lester, Larry and Tony (who changed his name to Zapp). Troutman used to say
that he began using the vocoder in concert in order to sing hits originally
performed by women.=20

In 1980, the band's mentors, George Clinton and Bootsy Collins of
Parliament-Funkadelic, took Zapp to Detroit to record its first record for
Warner Brothers records. "Zapp" is considered a sprawling funk masterpiece
and generated the robotic party anthem "More Bounce to the Ounce." Before
recording his next album, Troutman appeared on the Funkadelic album "The
Electric Spanking of War Babies" and recorded a solo album.=20

As the eccentric singer and guitarist became the musical leader of the
family band, his brothers helped turn Zapp into a family business with Larry
in charge. By the end of the '80s, Troutman Enterprises encompassed a
construction company, a bus company, a recording studio, a touring
operation, a booking agency and a music production company. The family's
strategy for long-term success was to avoid crossing over to a white
audience, to use the vocoder on as many singles as possible and to deliver
rousing live shows. In concert, the band's members were master showmen,
working crowds into feverish excitement as Troutman donned flashier outfits
and guitars with nearly each song.=20

Though Troutman's and Zapp's records alternately flopped and generated hits
(like "Computer Love"), he never faded from the pop eye. In the late '80s,
new-wave bands like Scritti Politti recorded hits with him. And in the early
'90s, he was embraced as a rap and rhythm-and-blues father figure. He lent
his computerized vocals to popular songs for 2Pac ("California Love," the
video for which he appeared in); H-Town ("A Thin Line Between Love and
Hate"); Johnny Gill ("It's Your Body"); and Eazy-E ("Eternal E").=20

Troutman had been touring with Zapp and working on an album for Reprise
Records in the months before his death.=20

He is survived by his mother, three brothers and two sisters.=20







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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playboy Playgirl
Date: 28 Apr 1999 07:43:02 -0700 (PDT)


Here's another review of Playboy Playgirl album from the premiere
issue of Nylon Magazine...

On Pizzicato Five's previous American albums (some of which have been
compliations of various Japanese releases), the duo established
themselves as mostmordern take on '60s lounge pop. Like many other
shibuya-kei acts, they heat up breathy vocals and jazzy glissandos
with feverish drum 'n' beast and hyperkinetic edits.

      But on this, their newest album, they sound more like a '60s Las
Vegas lounge act complete with a kickline of chorus girls and a smarmy
announcer. This time out, the percussion takes a backseat to the
pumping piano, orchestral swells, exuberant horns, and Maki Nomiya's
dewy cooing. But while this description might make it seem otherwise,
Playboy & Playgirl isn't really such a radical departure from their
previous work. Though the album is more cohesive, the tracks are
danceable, this would work just fine as a dinner party soundtrack or
midnight-tour listening session. While the la-las and tom-tom rolls
fly by, you can imagine yourself in a high-backed horseshoe banquette,
taking in a glitzy revue where Pizzicato Five is surrounded by leggy
dancer dressed in lame'. Another round of highballs for all of my
friends!


Easy listening in the Big Easy
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Subject: (exotica) Jungle Sounds released from captivity......
Date: 28 Apr 1999 10:49:30 -0400



Well, last night was the Moment of Truth as I sped up the road at 9pm to =
meet the flea market guy who sold me the Les Baxter "Ritual of the Savage" =
for $3.

Here's what I got (all $3 each, vinyl in *great* shape):

1. Laurindo Almeida - sound track to "Maracaibo": Lots of guitar solo =
stuff, some tracks with backing latin sound.

2. Jackie Gleason "Merry Christmas" - yes, *that* album, the prozac =
Christmas in all its sluggish glory.

3. Danny Guglielmi "Adventures in Sound": Alternating tracks with vocals =
by Dena (yeah, she uses *words* but it's ok.....) and instrumentals.  Good =
arrangements but nothing to "adventurous."

4. "Moon Dog" -  A very *weird* LP put out by "Moon Dog" with his Japanese =
wife on some tracks.  Experimental beats per measure in every track - wide =
variety from "Frog Bog" with frog sounds and jungle rhythm to a flipped =
out lullaby accompanied by the couples' crying kid.  The cover has a pic =
of him in a robe and elf shoes....definitely a 60's kinda thing.......anybo=
dy else have this?

5. Yma Sumac "Legend of the Jivaro": Now, I've never been a big fan of =
Yma's....er.....singing - but the cover is great.  Liner notes are a howl =
too.  Does anyone listen to entire LP's of hers in one sitting!?!?!

6. Les Baxter "Tamboo!"

7. Les Baxter "Skins!" - These two were worth the trip alone.....

8. Esquivel "Other Worlds Other Sounds" - Was there a mono and stereo =
release of this????

- Nate




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) A Bullet in the Head
Date: 28 Apr 1999 16:41:38 +0100


While I'm thinking about Hong Kong movies, I watched John Woo's
excellent A Bullet In The Head recently,  and it started with a cracking
version of a Monkees tune, that I would imagine to have been recorded by
a Chinese pop group even though it was sung in English.  Unfortunately
the credits were all in Chinese characters so I've no idea who it was,
can anyone help out?


El Maestro Con Queso

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Subject: Re: (exotica) A Bullet in the Head
Date: 28 Apr 1999 16:48:20 +0100


[e-mail] wrote:

> While I'm thinking about Hong Kong movies, I watched John Woo's
> excellent A Bullet In The Head recently,  and it started with a cracking
> version of a Monkees tune, that I would imagine to have been recorded by
> a Chinese pop group even though it was sung in English.  Unfortunately
> the credits were all in Chinese characters so I've no idea who it was,
> can anyone help out?

Lou'll probably beat me to this one ;-) but the Internet Movie Database
(http://uk.imdb.com/) has this:

> Original music by:
> Romeo Dφaz
> James Wong (I)

Don't know if that helps.


Robbie

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Subject: (exotica) Tomita
Date: 28 Apr 1999 12:06:59 -0400


While browsing the records at the "flea guys" house, he put on some albums =
by Japanese musician Tomita.  This guy uses the moog to great effect, =
creating ominous, moodyn renditions of Debussy, and Holsts' Planets........=
.interesting.

Anybody have comments?

- Nate




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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Movie of the Week debacle
Date: 28 Apr 1999 12:26:26 -0400


Keith opined:
>No sooner does it pop up then...GAG...I was remembering the WRONG TUNE.
>The trouble is that the tune I remember is far more precious to me: the
>4:30 Movie (is that what it was called??) theme.  OK, now, who remembers
>it, and WHERE is THAT video clip???

Is this the movie opening that had the fellow sitting in a chair holding a
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From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tomita
Date: 28 Apr 1999 17:39:01 +0100


Tomita - records everywhere in the electronic section of second hand record
shops. They are interesting and well done but so middle of the road and so
common that you might as well ignore them. I have a Star Wars one and I
never play it to myself, never play it to anyone else and never put it on
tapes for anyone. Tomita is the Dire Straits of electronic music. Maybe if
Dick Hyman/Mort Garson/Richard Sear had taken over the project and kicked
the self indulgent Tomita out, we would be raving about those records.

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Date: 28 Apr 1999 13:25:34 -0400





>

While browsing the records at the "flea guys" house, he put on some albums
by Japanese musician Tomita.  This guy uses the moog to great effect,
creating ominous, moodyn renditions of Debussy, and Holsts'
Planets.........interesting.
Anybody have comments?
>Maybe if
Dick Hyman/Mort Garson/Richard Sear had taken over the project and kicked
the self indulgent Tomita out, we would be raving about those records.
Charlie

I do beg to differ.  While Tomita's albums are not my absolute fave MOOGs
of all time....I think to call him "self-indulgent" and "pedestrian" is
certainly stretching it.  I rather like his treatments of Holst and
DeBussy.  Also, I am never one to complain about a MOOG album being easy to
find!  How many of those are there anymore, especially for under $25!?!
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Subject: (exotica) Exotica I've missed
Date: 28 Apr 1999 13:32:04 -0400



>>Well, gang, that's it......maybe you can share some of your depressing
      'recent history being mowed over' type stories.
      Lee Joseph



Lee...that story choked up even an old cynic like I...My sad tale is that
      *****Tiki Gardens*** existed within a half-hour from my Tampa
      home,and I was probably taken there when I was little...but by the
      time I emersed myself in tikiana...IT HAD BEEN MOWED DOWN INTO A
      PARKING LOT! :(...The worse part is I NEVER heard of any %#(@(^
      liquidation sale, either.  Ah well...at least I have the rekkid and
      the View Masters from Tiki Gardens! :)

Whilst in Boston, proud home to several Tiki restuarants, I've still missed
      some music!  Robert Moog was in town to do a demo/lecture at Berkeley
      School of Music...and I read about it THE NEXT DAY...Then, there's
      the woeful missing of me and every other Boston-list member, of the
      Spagetti-supper performance of Sam Butera last summer.  Count your
      blessings, tikis, and rekkids, kids, we can't win 'em all...

:( - Jane Fondle...crying in an imaginary beer in a downtown office....

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Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) In defense of Burt's sweaters
Date: 28 Apr 1999 14:21:53 EDT



In a message dated 4/27/99 11:50:16 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Will the cast album of Promises, Promises *ever* come out on CD?

Hopefully it will. As the owner of an LP copy I can attest to its
guru-vi-ness. It also features a very tentative Jerry Orbach singing "I'll
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From: Steve Morgan <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Vertigo/Douglas Gordon's 'Feature Film'
Date: 28 Apr 1999 19:26:51 +0100


For those of you into soundtrack music, I can strongly recommend this
installation by video artist Douglas Gordon. It's a re-presentation of
Hitchock's 'Vertigo' in an enormous, dark, cavernous space, in which its
separate elements are divorced and their roles distorted. While the dialogue
is relegated to a distant murmuring in the cathedral-like acoustic,
Herrmann's (re-recorded) score is sent booming across the space from an
array of huge speakers. Eerie, suspenseful, close-up footage of James Conlon
conducting his synchronised performance is back-projected onto a huge screen
hung from the roof, with the film itself being displayed in one dark corner.
It's a great place to spend an hour or more if you happen to be in the Brick
Lane area of London between now and the 3rd of May (I guess it's re-opened
again after the bomb). Its free, and is open between noon and midnight on
Thursday,  Friday and Saturday and thereafter noon-9pm.

Atlantis Gallery
146 Brick Lane
0171 336 6803
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [AP] Rock Beat: XTC
Date: 28 Apr 1999 14:52:29 -0500


    NEW YORK (AP) -- Twenty-five years have passed, so Andy Partridge finally
feels comfortable confessing.
    During his teen-age days in England, the singer for the rock band XTC used
to scatter David Bowie and Iggy Pop records around his room when his friends
came over to visit. He had an image to protect, and Bowie and Iggy made him
look cool.
    What his buddies never realized was that before they came over, Partridge
would be listening to his dad's old albums of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana
Brass.
    Now the story can be told.
    ``You get older and more comfortable with yourself and you say, 'Sure, I
like a lot of the music that my parents liked,''' he said.
    It's a telling admission since Partridge and his partner, Colin Moulding,
have emerged from a seven-year exile with an album his dad could probably
appreciate. ``Apple Venus, Volume I'' leaves the traditional instruments of
rock 'n' roll behind for a sound Partridge describes as ``orchustic'' --
orchestral and acoustic.

(And the story continues from there - Lou)




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Subject: Re:  (exotica) [obits] Bert Remsen,Al Hirt,Kemistry,Roger Troutman
Date: 28 Apr 1999 14:27:01 EDT


Isn't it time for someone to furnish us with a compleat Al Hirt Disco-Graphy?
Anyone?


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tomita - it's Keane
Date: 28 Apr 1999 14:58:14 -0400


>Tomita is the Dire Straits of electronic music.

That's funny... I saw him more as the Walter Keane of Moog.

Or would that be Margaret Keane?

(not to be confused with Bill "Family Circus" Keane)

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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Al Hirt
Date: 28 Apr 1999 12:32:09 -0700 (PDT)


I checked out the Al Hirt "Disco-Graphy"  at
http://www.allmusic.com

There were a lot more releases then I imagined.

I met Al Hirt once and we had time to speak alone.  He seemed to be a
very quiet, soft person, almost sad.   The city of New Orleans is
really mourning his death.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
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Subject: (exotica) Hirt discography,Schory in mono/stereo
Date: 28 Apr 1999 15:38:49 -0500


[e-mail] wrote:

> Isn't it time for someone to furnish us with a compleat Al Hirt Disco-Graphy?
> Anyone?

If you grab your handy copy of  Goldmine Standard Catalogue of American Records
1950-1975, you will see about 50 albums  and 40 singles listed. If I had a
scanner I'd get this right to you, but I'm tellin' ya this book is
indispensable.


I also looked up to see that Schory's B, B&H  and Esquivel's other worlds were
indeed issued in mono and stereo.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Jungle Sounds released from captivity......]
Date: 28 Apr 1999 15:54:23 -0500



Nathan Miner wrote:

> Well, last night was the Moment of Truth as I sped up the road at 9pm to meet the flea market guy who sold me the Les Baxter "Ritual of the Savage" for $3....

Congrats to Nate for such a concentrated score. I'm feeling equal bits
of envy and pride in a fellow exotica collector filling out his vinyl library.

> 5. Yma Sumac "Legend of the Jivaro": Now, I've never been a big fan of Yma's....er.....singing - but the cover is great.  Liner notes are a howl too.  Does anyone listen to entire LP's of hers in one sitting!?!?!

Coming from the same guy who, albeit jokingly, said that the Three Suns
suck, I'm not sure how serious this statement is. I think Nate needs to
warm up to Yma's voice ...Bow down to the Incan enchantress. We are not
fans of her voice we are mesmerized by it. We bathe in the husky low
vibrato and quake to the piercing upper octaves. Yes, we listen to her
albums in one sitting, we listen to
her entire recorded output whilst in a rapturous haze.

I have a 120 min. tape that is all Yma and it hasn't broke yet....

Frankxtaby


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Subject: (exotica) Moondog
Date: 28 Apr 1999 20:56:41 EDT


>4. "Moon Dog" -  A very *weird* LP put out by "Moon Dog" with his Japanese =
>wife on some tracks.  Experimental beats per measure in every track - wide =
>variety from "Frog Bog" with frog sounds and jungle rhythm to a flipped =
>out lullaby accompanied by the couples' crying kid.  The cover has a pic =
>of him in a robe and elf shoes....definitely a 60's kinda thing.......anybo=
>dy else have this?

Yes, Moondog is great!  This was recorded in 1956.  A lot of his material is
available on CD.  You can find a Moondog discography at:

http://www.lesk.demon.co.uk/pages/moondog0.htm

Each Moondog title is a unique experience.  Probably the only characteristic
which unifies his works is his constant use of counterpoint.  He still puts
out an album every now and then.  His latest is called "Sax Pax for A. Sax".
It's all music for saxophone ensembles.

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From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) don' wan Tomita nother boring moog album
Date: 28 Apr 1999 22:04:00 +0000


I've got to agree heartily with Charlie on that count...for sheer
drudgery in the moog milieu, sure don't get much worse than Tomita for
my ($1) dollar.  Yes, yes, yes, you really CAN find his records ANYWHERE
there are more than 100 LP's to be had, usually for $1 to $4.  Even
shrink-wrapped.

I've been seriuosly collecting moog stuff for 2 years, amassed way too
big a collection, and so from having heard the lowest of the low and the
highest (well, hopefully not yet), I feel totally fine laying my neck
out on the line to say:

ISAO TOMITA IS BO-RING!

If you want to hear something to compare it to, just throw on Dick
Hyman's The Age of Electronicus, or in the faux-classical vein, The
Electronic Spirit of Erik Satie.  THEN, you'll trade those cruddy moog
records back in like the person who owned them last did!

Keith

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Tomita
Date: 28 Apr 1999 23:07:44 EDT


In a message dated 4/28/99 12:07:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

> While browsing the records at the "flea guys" house, he put on some albums
> by Japanese musician Tomita.  This guy uses the moog to great effect,
> creating ominous, moodyn renditions of Debussy, and Holsts' Planets.........
> interesting.
>
>  Anybody have comments?

Ah yes Mr. Isao Tomita.

In 1979 or '80, while possibly under the influence of some major hallucinogen
or household cleaning product, I recall reaching total Buddhist
enlightenment.  It happened when upon close study of the planet Mars on the
back of Mr. Tomita's album of Holst's "The Planets".  I saw in a flash the
face of the Creator.  The creator of the album. Hidden in the swirling clouds
of Mars is the image of Mr. Tomita's face.  Man, that was like
so....super......super trippy.  Well, it seemed so then.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) more swingin' spy tv
Date: 28 Apr 1999 23:16:40 EDT


I just saw _Modesty Blaise_ - actually weirder and more fun than the Flint &
Matt Helm movies put together. Wild pop art spy au go go action.  Monica
Vitti isn't really right for the character (too Italian flirty, instead of
brit cool), but there are some moments when she's brunette and has her hair
up where she looks *exactly* like the original comic.  Btw, if you're a fan
of Modesty at all you need to own the Direct Hits neo-Mod tribute to her
titled (modestly) "Modesty Blaise."  The lovely Terence Stamp plays her
sidekick Willy, and token-gay-of-the-sixties Dirk Bogarde is hilariously
intentionally fey as the villain.

--David


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Subject: (exotica) You Rock! - Song Poem for Kinder?
Date: 28 Apr 1999 23:28:54 EDT


As my 2 1/2 year old son drags me out of bed on Saturday at ungodly hours
(truly - no god anywhere at 7am), I've been watching ABC's (aka Disneys) One
Saturday Morning.  This is relevant to this list for two reasons. First, the
estimable Pat Irwin, ex of the Raybeats occasionally scores the show Recess
(which I recommend, a somewhat surreal take on elementary school).  This is
not entirely surprising considering that Mark Mothersbaugh does Rugrats, and
Prudence Fenton, ex Animation Supervisor for Pee Wee's Playhouse oversees One
Saturday Morning.

Closer to home for exotikats, is a featue called You Rock.  Kids video tape
themselves singing songs of their own composing.  (My fav was the Cali kid
who did "Hey Dude, whatcha doin'").  ABC then puts a rock band behind their
little ditty and cheap/cool video effects on the original vid.  So if you're
an MSR or kid-rock fan, check it out.  Also, Pepper Ann has a nice, snarly,
nasal riot grrrly theme.  Try taping from 8am to 9:30 if you can't drag your
ass out of bed that early.

--David


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Subject: (exotica) Davie Allan & The Arrows show, not exotic but maybe of interest to
Date: 29 Apr 1999 01:39:24 EDT


Hi

Anyone in the LA area that likes instro madness should come:
DAVIE ALLAN AND THE ARROWS
Saturday, May 1
Bar Delux
1710 N. Las Palmas Ave
1/2 block north of Hollywood Blvd

Well, they do a Mancini song, does that count?


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Cocktails With Joey Ballet
Date: 29 Apr 1999 04:21:07 EDT



Apologies to those of you on my list who are not in Los Angeles

Los Angeles, Saturday, May 15, 8 pm

Luckman fine Arts Complex
5151 State University Drive

The long-awaited return of Cocktails with Joey,
a ballet set to the music of Joey Altruda's fabulous lp of the same name
along with a live performance by Joey's 18 piece Mambo Noir Orchestra

this is a truly great merging of lounge and theatre

Attendees are in for an evening they will remember and cherish for years to
come

Anyone who is attending please email me

cheers
Otto


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From: "Casey, Lorraine" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Spike Jonze - Esquivel
Date: 29 Apr 1999 09:47:34 +0100


That fab little film of people dancing on different sides of the street was
on a promo tape for a forthcoming skateboard film which should include more
of the same (it's available on video in skateboard shops by a company called
Chocolate.  (Spike Jones is part owner of Chocolate).  That Fat Boy Slim
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Subject: (exotica) Educational film soundtracks
Date: 29 Apr 1999 07:53:58 EDT


I've got a ton (literally) of old 16mm educational films mostly from the
'50s-'70s.   The music on some of them is very cool.  The film credits are
sometimes vague about the source of the soundtracks, but it seems that the
music for some of the films was made and owned by the production companies,
and not just purchased from a library.  Who among us knows more about this
weird little niche of music?  I'm currently researching the music sources
through some of the film companies that still exist.  If anyone else is
interested in this for fun and/or profit drop me a line.

-Roy


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Subject: (exotica) re: A Bullet in the Head
Date: 29 Apr 1999 10:53:37 +0100


>While I'm thinking about Hong Kong movies, I watched John Woo's
>excellent A Bullet In The Head recently,  and it started with a cracking
>version of a Monkees tune, that I would imagine to have been recorded by
>a Chinese pop group even though it was sung in English.  Unfortunately
>the credits were all in Chinese characters so I've no idea who it was,
>can anyone help out?

i have a version by a japanese singer called Nana Kinomi, in which she
appears to sing "Hey, hey we're the monkey" ... i love that, though i
suppose it's unlikey to be the one you heard ... it's on CD and also has a
version of "Baby Elephant Walk" and "Go Kart Twist" co-written by a
Morricone ...

friendly

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Subject: (exotica) Re: Tomita
Date: 29 Apr 1999 10:56:17 +0100


>I rather like his treatments of Holst and DeBussy.

i 2nd that ... esp the spacey voices at the start of the Holst lp ... quite
spooky

okay i've posted twice this week ... i'm going to go and lie down

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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A Bullet in the Head
Date: 29 Apr 1999 13:50:12 +0100


> From: [e-mail]
>
> While I'm thinking about Hong Kong movies, I watched John Woo's
> excellent A Bullet In The Head recently,  and it started with a cracking
> version of a Monkees tune, that I would imagine to have been recorded by
> a Chinese pop group even though it was sung in English.  Unfortunately
> the credits were all in Chinese characters so I've no idea who it was,
> can anyone help out?
>

I dunno. IMDB may not be right: not everything is checked through. The
theme from Bruce Lee's "The Big Boss" is a Peter Thomas track (listen
to that sucker go!!!); it's on the "Easyloungin'" compilation. Yet
IMDB credits someone else with the soundtrack work.

As far as I know, the only Woo film that got a soundtrack release is
"Hard Boiled". I really wanted the music for "A Better Tomorrow" (da
da DAH daaaa... da da da DAH daa daaaa...), but no dice so
far. Possibly there were HK only releases, but I don't know where
you'd go to find out...

While we're on the subject, I do have a couple of HK records, but only
one I stick on regularly: "100% Gold" on Polydor, the top HK hits of
'74. This has a magnificent hard-rockin' tune with outrageously cheesy
synth solo, the theme from "Games Gamblers Play". Also, (bad) cover
versions of "Kung Fu Fightin'" and "You Ain't Seen Nothin'
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Cocktails With Joey Ballet
Date: 29 Apr 1999 10:40:29 -0400



>The long-awaited return of Cocktails with Joey,
>a ballet set to the music of Joey Altruda's fabulous lp of the same name
>along with a live performance by Joey's 18 piece Mambo Noir Orchestra
>
>this is a truly great merging of lounge and theatre



Otto,

Lets hope they take the show on the road someday so those of us on the other
coast get a chance to see it.

Or it gets on TV.

BTW, Played Cha-Cha #69 from the album last night on WJUL. when my punk rock
friend Allison and I subbed on Soul Power.




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Subject: Re: (exotica) Jungle Sounds released from captivity......]
Date: 29 Apr 1999 09:30:44 -0400


Ahhh, Frank perhaps you're right. =20

Now mind you - I haven't actually heard Yma's record so I might be raving =
about it next week.....!  I guess turning down the lights and firing up =
the candles will help me endure those vibratos and octaves.

Don't be envious!  I've been picking fruitlessly through the bargain bins =
for YEARS without much to show for it.  I figure I was about due for a =
reward!

So no comments about that Moon Dog LP huh??  I'll post a review once I =
listen to it.

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) You Rock! - Song Poem for Kinder?
Date: 29 Apr 1999 09:50:57 -0400


>Also, Pepper Ann has a nice, snarly, nasal riot grrrly theme.

...as well as a good sense of humor.  One episode has her volunteering at a
senior-citizen's home, at which time she announces, "Attention, old people!
 I have bran!"

For another peppy theme, for those who have the Disney Channel, "Flash
Forward" is a good 'un.  I am told the show isn't.



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Educational film soundtracks
Date: 29 Apr 1999 10:12:18 -0400


At 07:53 AM 4/29/99 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>I've got a ton (literally) of old 16mm educational films mostly from the
>'50s-'70s.   The music on some of them is very cool.  The film credits are
>sometimes vague about the source of the soundtracks, but it seems that the
>music for some of the films was made and owned by the production companies,
>and not just purchased from a library.  Who among us knows more about this
>weird little niche of music?

I don't really know anything except to say that I assume that then I assume
it was like it is now and that is, there are "stock music" companies which
sell music for films of this type.  Some stock music seems to come from
pre-existing recordings  but some of it is recorded specifically for the
purpose of being stock music... if you get the distinction.  There are some
"famous" musicians making that stock music; Rick Wakeman rings a bell for
some reason but I may be confused.
A friend of mine who works for one of these companies told me about how
they literally dumped tons and tons of vinyl stock music records at the
city dump a few years ago.
I don't want to get into that soundtrack debate again but as disdainful as
the idea of stock music is - generic music made to work in as many
different contexts as possible - I think that for many films, it works just
fine.  Even when composers are hired specifically for a project, they end
up doing their own version of stock music anyway.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) (Exotica) Proteus 7 For Your Ears Only
Date: 29 Apr 1999 10:04:36 -0400





>Is that the one with EXTREME dynamics and sound effects? Is it all musical,
>or a bit gimmicky and goofy?


Yep. the descriptions are a throwback to when LP's started getting better:

"WARNING! This disk contains Wide Dynamic-Range Music and Digital 3-D Sound
Effects, some at extreme dynamic levels. please exercise GREAT CAUTION when
listening to protect your hearing and your equipment."

Also recorded on Dorian's own xCD technology. you can email them for a
description at [e-mail]


I listened to it again. the Bond suite has all the spy action sound effects.
Helicopters, speed boats, guns, people fighting, girls moaning 'Ohhhh
James!!!!" and at the end a computer countdown to a self-destruct explosion
which was more a low rumble. Almost anti-climatic.

On my second listen not as goofy as I originally thought. Maybe just got
used to it.

Have to borrow the Sounds Orchestral Bond disk from a friend for comparison.

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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Melba Liston,Walter Settles,Rory Calhoun,
Date: 29 Apr 1999 10:26:46 -0500


                           *Melba Liston
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Melba Liston, a jazz trombonist, composer and arranger
who worked with bands led by Dizzy Gillespie and Quincy Jones, died Friday
after suffering a series of strokes. She was 73.
    The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz called Ms. Liston ``one of the most
accomplished trombonists of her generation.''
    Ms. Liston was forced to stop trombone playing in 1985 after a stroke left
her partially paralyzed, but she continued to arrange music with longtime
friend and pianist Randy Weston. The two shared billing in 1993 on their
critically acclaimed album ``Volcano Blues.''
    While in her teens, Ms. Liston played in youth bands and joined Gerald
Wilson's band as a trombonist and arranger. When the group disbanded in
1948, she joined Gillespie.
    She briefly left jazz for a job at the Los Angeles Board of Education, but
joined Gillespie again in 1955 for a State Department tour of the Middle
East and Asia. She also worked with one of Gillespie's trumpeters, Quincy
Jones.
    In the 1970s, she taught in Jamaica at the University of the West Indies
and the Jamaica Institute of Music. She returned to the United States in the
early 1980s and worked with bands until she suffered the stroke.

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Walter Settles, former lead and tenor singer for
the Grammy-winning gospel group The Fairfield Four, died Sunday from
complications related to a stroke and diabetes. He was 71.
    The Fairfield Four, founded in 1921 at the Nashville Fairfield Baptist
Church, is known for the songs ``Born Again'' and ``My God Called Me This
Morning.''
    Settles began his career as a soloist. He sang with the Golden Harp Jubilee
Singers and later the Spiritual All-Stars and the Olive Branch Singers
before joining the Fairfield Four in the early '90s.
    Settles suffered a stroke in 1995 after a performance in Boston. Although
he was unable to sing, the Fairfield Four continued to regard him as a
member. His voice is on the group's Grammy-winning 1997 album ``I Couldn't
Hear Nobody Pray.''

 BURBANK, Calif., April 28 (UPI) -- Rory Calhoun, discovered as he was
horse-back riding one day and who went on to appear in dozens of movies and
television shows, has died. He was 76.
    Calhoun died tonight after being hospitalized 10 days ago suffering from
emphysema and diabetes. His rugged good looks and outdoor image had made him
a popular actor in westerns on both the large and small screens.
    A one-time real-life cowboy, Calhoun said he happened to be horse-back
riding one day in 1943 when a man asked him if he was an actor, when Calhoun
said no, the man -- who turned out to be actor Alan Ladd -- asked him if he
wanted to be in films.
    Calhoun went on to appear in dozens of movies beginning with 1944's
``Something for the Boys.'' Other film credits include ``The Great John L,''
``How to Marry a Millionaire,'' ``River of no Return'' and ``Call Me
Bwana.'' Many of his later films were low-budget and low-profile projects.
    He starred in the television series ``The Texas'' and also worked on
programs such as ``Zane Grey Theatre'' and ``Death Valley Days.'' Most
recently he had a role on the CBS television show ``Capitol'' from 1982-87.
    He also produced, directed and wrote movies and TV shows.
    Born Francis Durgin in Los Angeles in 1922, Calhoun grew up in Santa Cruz,
Calif. He was married in 1948 to entertainer Lita Baron, but divorced in
1970. He was married to Susan Langley from 1971-76. Calhoun had three children.

    BURBANK, Calif. (AP) -- Rory Calhoun caught his first acting break while
riding a horse, and his rugged image and handsome face propelled him from
there.
    Calhoun, the lanky lumberjack and a stalwart hero of Western
movies and the TV series ``The Texan,'' died Wednesday at age 76. He had
been hospitalized for 10 days with advanced stages of emphysema and
diabetes, said his longtime friend, Paul Dean.
    Calhoun often told the story of how he was discovered in 1943 while he was
horseriding in the Hollywood Hills. Alan Ladd, then a top star, happened to
be out riding, too.
    ``I met this fellow up in the hills and stopped to talk,'' Calhoun
recalled. ``He asked me if I was an actor, and I said, `Hell, no!' We talked
some more and he asked, `How would you like to be in films?'''
    His face and sturdy physique won him lesser roles in ``Something for the
Boys,'' ``Sunday Dinner for a Soldier,'' ``The Bullfighters'' and other
wartime films. His most important early role came as boxer James Corbett in
``The Great John L.''
    The actor, whose real name was Francis Timothy Durgin, saw his career
accelerate after a meeting with agent Henry Willson, who discovered and
invented names for Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter and Troy Donahue.
    He was considered ideal for such Westerns as ``Massacre River,'' ``Rogue
River,'' ``Yellow Tomahawk'' and ``Four Guns to the Border.'' In the late
'40s and early '50s, he also appeared in ``The Red House,'' ``Ticket to
Tomahawk,'' ``How to Marry a Millionaire,'' ``Meet Me After the Show'' and
``With a Song in My Heart.''
    From 1958 to 1960, Calhoun starred in a CBS television Western, ``The
Texan.'' He played Big Bill Longley, a fast gun who traveled from town to
town helping those who were victimized by bad men.
    In his later career, Calhoun appeared in lower budget films, many of them
made abroad. Among the titles: ``The Treasure of Pancho Villa,'' ``Flight to
Hong Kong,'' ``Marco Polo,'' ``The Colossus of Rhodes,'' ``Young Fury,''
``Black Spurs'' and ``The Adventures of Marco Polo.''
    In 1982-87, he appeared on the CBS soap opera ``Capitol,'' playing Judson
Tyler, head of one of the two feuding families in the show. He also was host
of reruns of ``Death Valley Days'' in the syndicated ``Western Star Theater.''
    Calhoun was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Santa Cruz, Calif. He
dropped out of high school to wander the West.
    ``I'd read about Tombstone (Ariz.) and all of the bad men,'' he recalled.
``I was a wild kid for adventure. So I went to Tombstone, but I arrived 50
years too late.''
    He hired out as a bronco buster and mined silver near Reno before returning
to Santa Cruz.
    In 1948, Calhoun married Latin entertainer Lita Baron, and they had three
children. They divorced in 1970. In 1971 Calhoun married former journalist
Susan Langley. They had a daughter before divorcing after five years.
    Funeral arrangements were incomplete late Wednesday.
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [AP] Tony sues Wayne
Date: 29 Apr 1999 10:26:49 -0500


    KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Tony Orlando sued Wayne Newton on Wednesday for
more than $15 million, accusing his former friend of wrongly throwing him
out of the theater they once shared and damaging his reputation.
    The performers last year shared what was then the Talk of the T.O.W.N.
Theatre in the country music mecca of Branson, until Newton, whose company
held the lease on the building, locked Orlando out, saying Orlando owed him
more than $2 million.
    Orlando denied it and was evicted by Newton, his wife and Newton's
management company, the lawsuit charged.
    That not only cost Orlando $125,000 from 11 canceled shows last year, but
millions more in earnings he would have made over the next two seasons, the
lawsuit said.
    Orlando would not comment. Newton spokesman Howard Cotner said he was
flabbergasted.
    ``Are you serious? Are you sure it's not the other way around?'' he asked.
``This guy walked out of town owing the Newtons $800,000.''




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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Educational film soundtracks
Date: 29 Apr 1999 10:35:48 -0400


To add to what Nat already wrote, a few years ago I interviewed someone =
who used to work for Filmack, a company who produced (and is still in the =
business of selling them) snack bar advertisement trailers for drive-in/har=
d-top movie theaters.

They had a library of stock music to use, and shot a lot of the "made to =
order" advertisement requests (for things like "Glass give-away night" =
etc.) using hand-crank silent movie cameras and glass overlays (static =
(usually GREAT art deco artwork) over which lettering was flipped).

The guy at the Filmack library hated to go back and fetch, say, reel #47 =
when #21 was right out in the front of the rack. Soooooo, you got a whole =
bunch of different ads using the same music due to a lazy worker!

Lots of these ads are on the Something Weird Drive-In comps.....

- Nate




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Subject: Re: (exotica) Educational film soundtracks
Date: 29 Apr 1999 11:21:36 -0400




>I don't want to get into that soundtrack debate again but as disdainful as
the idea of stock music is - generic music made to work in as many
different contexts as possible - I think that for many films, it works just
fine.  Even when composers are hired specifically for a project, they end
up doing their own version of stock music anyway.
Nat

Why on Earth would you call that notion disdainful?  Stock and library
music have changed my life(I want you to hear me, Ashely Warren!)  This
tapping into production music has fostered my love of a whole new field
that I never consciously knew existed, except for just liking it in the
back-ground!  Now, it's in the foreground of some of the music I listen to
the most! I dare say AstroSlut's sound(and I realize 99% of you haven't
heard us) is VERY much influenced by stock, production, sound library
music, etc.
With a tooth-paste grin,
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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Educational film soundtracks
Date: 29 Apr 1999 09:01:26 -0700


>
> >I don't want to get into that soundtrack debate again but as disdainful as
> the idea of stock music is - generic music made to work in as many
> different contexts as possible - I think that for many films, it works just
> fine.  Even when composers are hired specifically for a project, they end
> up doing their own version of stock music anyway.
> Nat

as someone who has been on both sides of the fence with this, i have to
agree. a few years ago i was hired to write music for a video series
designed to train lawyers how to "read" people (ie body language, etc)
in court. very dull stuff, but i figured that this was my opportunity to
really write some "good" industrial (no, not THAT kind of industrial!)
music for a change, and i anguished over the project for much longer
than i should have trying to come up with something that was emotionally
and artistically valid without being so "artsy" as to call undue
attention to itself. bottom line- i couldn't bear the thought of
consciously writing HACK music, whether something more "artisically
valid" was actually called for or not! well, maybe it's just that i'm
not talented enough, but try as i might, the ONLY kind of music i could
come up with that worked AT ALL was stuff that sounded like it came
straight out of a production library. i know this all to well now
because i work at a voice-over production studio, and we use modern
production music every day. and believe me- it's very easy for me to sit
there auditioning cuts saying "oh my god this music is so CHEESY it's
not even so-bad-it's-good it's just so-bad-it's-AWFUL!" but then when i
think back to my attempt at writing industrial music, i remember how
difficult it was and realize that my results were probably much cheesier
(again, NOT in a good way!) than most of the stuff in our production
library. so, as a composer, i've developed a definite appreciation for
the folks who write that production music, because even though it may
sound cringe-worthy on the surface, for the most part they do their jobs
incredibly well.

i guess the main difference between what i'm talking about here and
generally what this thread is referring to is the fact that i'm dealing
with up-to-date, modern production music vs. stuff from the 50s-80s, but
hey- in a few years this stuff will be joining those ranks for sure. we
do have older libraries at the studio, and THAT stuff is GREAT for
so-bad-it's-GOOD purposes!! those 4 second tag stinger versions of
upbeat music cues are especially nice for sampling and using as
between-song filler during live shows!!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Educational film soundtracks
Date: 29 Apr 1999 17:11:28 +0100


> From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
>
> At 07:53 AM 4/29/99 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
> >
> >I've got a ton (literally) of old 16mm educational films mostly from the
> >'50s-'70s.   The music on some of them is very cool.  The film credits are
> >sometimes vague about the source of the soundtracks, but it seems that the
> >music for some of the films was made and owned by the production companies,
> >and not just purchased from a library.  Who among us knows more about this
> >weird little niche of music?
>
> I don't really know anything except to say that I assume that then I assume
> it was like it is now and that is, there are "stock music" companies which
> sell music for films of this type.  Some stock music seems to come from
> pre-existing recordings  but some of it is recorded specifically for the
> purpose of being stock music... if you get the distinction.  There are some
> "famous" musicians making that stock music; Rick Wakeman rings a bell for
> some reason but I may be confused.

But isn't this the stuff that is "just purchased from a library",
rather than being made specifically by the film production company
itself? Stock music a.k.a. library music a.k.a. production music
etc. etc.

I don't recall there being much discussion of this stuff on the list,
although I don't always follow closely. So, a few words from me.

This (library music) is the source for much of the music on the Sound
Gallery compilations, as well as a whole slew of later compilations
(Blow Up's "Executive Blend", the "Bite Hard" De Wolfe sampler,
Trunk's "Bosworth" releases, Virgin's "Hotel Easy" set as well as the
Jack Arel disc, Amphonic's "Ready Steady Boogaloo", the recent Jean
Jacques Perry disc, stuff from Peter Thomas's "Moonflowers and
Miniskirts", etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.). There's a lot of it
about.

It's hard to find the original discs; they were only pressed in small
numbers, and were never comercially available to the public. Some
library discs are now collectors "holy grails". Especially ones done
by people otherwise famous (e.g. De Wolfe's "Electric Banana" are in
fact The Pretty Things).

> I don't want to get into that soundtrack debate again but as disdainful as
> the idea of stock music is - generic music made to work in as many
> different contexts as possible - I think that for many films, it works just
> fine.  Even when composers are hired specifically for a project, they end
> up doing their own version of stock music anyway.

Sure, a lot of the music is deliberately "generic"; just like most
stuff labelled "easy listening", "heavy metal", or WHATEVER. But there
are weird and cool things to be found. It is EXACTLY like soundtrack
music. It's not really made to work in as many contexts as possible
(it's not muzak), but rather it's a whole range of music designed for
highly specific contexts, plus some more undefineable things.

I've picked up about 80 original library music discs going through
charity-shop stuff. A few examples of "wayer-outer" stuff: fantastic
"crime jazz" by German composers, including Gert Wilden, which is at
least the rival of anything else in the genre; a disc by some maniac
called "Archie Gunn" which has some really wacked out combined sound
effect/music tracks; freaked out rampaging wordless chorus music;
pounding cod-funk with grooving flute; 1950s-style light orchestral
music for gameshows, beauty parades, rocket launches, etc.;
synthesizer music by Dave Vorhaus; children's music including songs
made from belch/fart noises; an entire disc of percussive links
lasting a few seconds for flash-back, mounting tension, whatever; and
so on and so on.

In fact, some of these things are "generic" in the sense that you will
recognise them as TV/film background music (e.g. music to put behind
footage of "a busy housewife"), but has probably never been found on
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Subject: (exotica) Tomita
Date: 29 Apr 1999 13:04:03 EDT


>I rather like his treatments of Holst and DeBussy.

>i 2nd that ... esp the spacey voices at the start of the Holst lp ... quite
spooky

i 3rd that.  The only one of his LPs I like (and love) is his Holst's Planets
album.

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Subject: (exotica) Peter Thomas Scat Singer
Date: 29 Apr 1999 13:22:38 EDT


Does anyone know who sings the Shub-a-dooe scat on the song by the same name
that appears on the Peter Thomas, Raumpatrouille album.
I assume it's the same person who sings on the Brooklyn By Night track off
the Thomas 100% Cotton album.

If anyone hasn't heard the tracks, or you want to refresh your memory
I posted them in 32kbit/22khz mp3 format at:

http://members.aol.com/thinkmatic/Shub.mp3
&
http://members.aol.com/thinkmatic/Brooklyn.mp3

You should be able to stream them on a 56kb modem, but they're small enough
to download the whole thing rather fast, too.

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From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Is Tomita boring?
Date: 29 Apr 1999 13:54:20 -0500


Keith wrote:
Keith wrote:

> ISAO TOMITA IS BO-RING!
Even as a long time Klaus Schulze fan I'd be inclined to agree!
I began my moog listening back with 70's "space music" (I think I
gave it up about when the disturbing term "new age" popped into
existance) but have since developed much more interest in the non
"space music" applications.  There are many good examples (and it
seems even more bad ones) but in my mind, Perrey & Kingsley are
undisputed masters and Walter Sear isn't far behind!

Brian Karasick
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From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Looking for more Astro Sounds info.
Date: 29 Apr 1999 16:18:13 -0400


This is all I could find on Brad's Space Age Pop Page:

Astro Sounds from the Year 2000, 101 Strings (Alshire)
Not a violin within a mile of this dense, funky collection of all-electronic
music.

I have a CD from Request Records that pairs the album with Yma Sumac's
Miracles album. No linear notes at all....

Any more info on the net? Any idea what year they were recorded? There was
talk about Astro Sounds on the list a few weeks ago.

I found it on my last CD hunting trip through the Boston stores.

Lent it to my Led Zep buddy who found it to be a total rip off.

Track 7 sounded familiar and he identified the melody as Give Me Some Lovin'
by Traffic.











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Subject: (exotica) Martinis With Mancini Playlist. 4/23/99
Date: 29 Apr 1999 16:52:15 -0400


=93Martinis With Mancini" broadcasting Friday's from 6-9 AM.
WJUL 91.5, Lowell Massachusetts.

Tomorrow=92s program will be broadcast outdoors from Cumnock Field during
UMASS=92s Spring Festival.

Your comments always welcomed.

The Playlist:
It Could Happen To You, Bjork
Tropical Espionage, Joey Altruda
A Martini With Mancini, Joey Altruda
Days Of Wine And Roses, Henry Mancini
I Got My Job Through The Bop, Paul Combs
An Affair To Remember, George Shearing
Gypsy In My Soul, Oscar Peterson
How Hight The Moon, Oscar Peterson
Heartbreak, Verrill Keene
How Insensitive, Frank Sinatra And Antonio Carlos Jobim
Bloomdido, Charlie Parker And Dizzy Gillespie
An Oscar For Treadwall, Charlie Parker And Dizzy Gillespie
Etta Jones, Crazy He Calls Me
The Pink Panther Theme, Proteus 7
Dummin=92 Man, Gene Krupa
Just A Little Lovin=92 Ray Charles
I Dig Chicks, Jonah Jones
Miami Beach Rumba, Xavier Cugat
When The Sun Comes Out, June Christy
Music To Watch Girls By, Al Hurt
What=92s New Pussycat? Tom Jones
Soul Bossa Nova, Quincy Jones
Willie Nillie, Maynard Ferguson
I=92m In Love Again, April Stevens
I=92m Making Believe, April Stevens
Splanky, Count Basie
Fantail, Count Basie
Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba, (My Bambino Go To Sleep), Peggy Lee
Fugue In Eflat Major, Swingle Singers
Sugar (That Sugar Baby O=92 Mine), Peggy Lee
Mannix, Lalo Schifrin
Body And Soul, Billie Holliday
Naked City, Laurindo Almeida
Not I , June Christy
Something Cool, June Christy
Call Me, Walter Wanderly
A Shot In The Dark, Oranj Symphonette
Music To Watch Girls By, Andy Williams
Here=92s Pete, Pete Rugolo
(Get Your Kicks) Route 66, Bobby Troup
Perfida, Perez Prado
Where You In 1982? Astro-Sounds From Beyond The Year 2000
Mon River, Shirley Bassey
You=92re Driving Me Crazy, Jackie Gleason
My Kind Of Love, Patti Page
You Can Depend On Me, Dave Whitney
Dark Eyes, Esquivel
Cry Me A River, Combustible Edison
Save Your Love For Me, Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderly
Cara, 4 Piece Suit





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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Educational film soundtracks
Date: 29 Apr 1999 16:20:16 -0400


At 11:21 AM 4/29/99 -0400, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>
>>I don't want to get into that soundtrack debate again but as disdainful as
>the idea of stock music is - generic music made to work in as many
>different contexts as possible - I think that for many films, it works just
>fine.  Even when composers are hired specifically for a project, they end
>up doing their own version of stock music anyway.
>
>Why on Earth would you call that notion disdainful?  Stock and library
>music have changed my life

It's not that the music itself is disdainful, it's that some people - not
me - are offended by the idea that just about any music, within reason, can
work behind just about any film.
I shouldn't speak for them whoever they are.
At this very moment, I'm putting together "a temp music" track for my film.
 Music that you temporarily use under the film so that you can show it to
people until you actually have your real soundtrack.  It also can help you
figure out what kind of music you want.  Of course, almost every single
film composer in the world, even if they've never done it before, hates it
when you ask them to "imitate" something on your temp music track.
Maybe this film isn't a good example because of its subject matter - which
I will tell you all about as soon as I know it's actually going to be
finished - but right now I have pieces ranging from Eddie Osborne's organ
and bongo version of "El Cumbachero", Curtis Mayfield, John Martyn, Cugat,
Tipsy and the Three Suns doing "Third Man theme"... and it kind of works.
My previous film the temp track was almost all Astor Piazzola and it worked.

What was my point again?

Oh yeah, just about any music, even the stockest of stock music, will
fulfill the role that music plays in a film.

For most films.

Of course, there are many exceptions and for the purpose of this list, I am
excepting every film that someone on this list finds unimaginable without
the soundtrack it ended up with.

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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Preston Epps
Date: 29 Apr 1999 22:33:04 +0200


>"Mr. Bongo Rock", Preston Epps makes a return appearance on Surfwave
>tonight to premiere the just released compilation of his hits on the
>Collectibles label

Anyone seen this yet?


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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Moondog
Date: 29 Apr 1999 17:02:53 -0400


>Yes, Moondog is great!  This was recorded in 1956.  A lot of his material is
>available on CD.  You can find a Moondog discography at:

I can personally recommend Moondog on CBS from 1969, although I would pass
on Moondog 2, which is choral in content, but not as interesting.  My
father used to see Hardin standing outside of his house in full Viking garb
when he was on his way to work.

My brother and I had a devil of a time finding the album, but we got it!
It's orchestral and even features a song dedicated to Charlie Parker.
Incidentally, he was recently interviewed on NPR, having just performed in
the UK.  Not only has age not slowed him down much but he kept time on a
drum for one song and wore some of the younger musicians out!

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Our Gang Imposters
Date: 29 Apr 1999 11:54:26 -0500


The concensus on the Our Gang Online e-list is that that recently deceased
woman, Lucille Vore, who's obit claimed she'd been in the Our Gang shorts
was yet another imposter. This following post just arrived on that list:


I'm starting an Our Gang Imposters web page with all the ridiculous stories
I hear.  I've discarded so many of them over the past couple years.

If anyone wants to share their imposters stories please send them to me at
[e-mail] .  These will be posted at http://www.picking.com
under Our Gang/Little Rascals Imposters on the sidebar.

I remember hearing on here about the "second Darla" a couple times, and the
insurance salesman who used to be Wheezer, in addition to more.

Thanks!
- --
Patrick Picking
http://www.picking.com
mailto:[e-mail]
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You can sign up for OGO at this great Little Rascals page:
http://www.ramseyltd.com/rascals/

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From: Elisabeth Vincentelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) You Rock! - Song Poem for Kinder?
Date: 29 Apr 1999 21:19:35 -0500


>First, the
>estimable Pat Irwin, ex of the Raybeats occasionally scores the show Recess
>(which I recommend, a somewhat surreal take on elementary school).  This is
>not entirely surprising considering that Mark Mothersbaugh does Rugrats, and
>Prudence Fenton, ex Animation Supervisor for Pee Wee's Playhouse oversees
>One
>Saturday Morning.
Pat Irwin used to do the music for Rocko's Modern Life; I think he also
does Pepper Ann. When I did an article on cartoon music for the Village
Voice last year, Pat made me a compilation of various cues and pieces
from Rocko, all very much in a Raymond Scott/surf vein. A shame nobody's
putting that stuff out.

Small World Dept.: Prudence Fenton is a very good friend of Allee Willis,
who wrote the lyrics to the theme from Friends and also discovered the
Del Rubio Triplets. Willis is a genuine eccentric who lives in an old MGM
"party house" in Hollywood. She collects atomic age retro-trinkets and
her house is supposed to be unbelievable.

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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) From RealAudio to CD??
Date: 30 Apr 1999 10:22:48 -0400



Okay, is there any software available to convert the RealAudio signal so =
that you can burn a CD from it?

Or have any of youse figured this out?

(I want the Retro Cocktail hour on CD!!!!)

- Nate




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From: Fish Wich <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) From RealAudio to CD??
Date: 30 Apr 1999 08:28:05 -0700 (PDT)


If you've got the Real Audio stream saved to your hard disk you can use
a program called Ra2Wav to convert it to a Windows WAV file (I assume
you're using Windows).  Your CD recording software should then be able
to convert the WAV file to Red Book CD audio so that you can play the
disc on a regular audio CD player.

You can download the Ra2Wav program at:
http://filedudes.lvdi.net/win95/mencode/ra2wav.html

Regards,

Mark


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>
> Okay, is there any software available to convert the
> RealAudio signal so that you can burn a CD from it?
>
> Or have any of youse figured this out?
>
> (I want the Retro Cocktail hour on CD!!!!)
>
> - Nate

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From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Martinis With Mancini Playlist. 4/30/99
Date: 30 Apr 1999 13:16:34 -0400


=93Martinis With Mancini" broadcasting Friday's from 6-9 AM.
WJUL 91.5 from  Lowell Massachusetts.

Today=92s program was broadcast outdoors from Cumnock Field during UMASS=92=
s
Spring Festival.
During the program activity at the field gradually increased. People were
hanging out or setting up tables.

At the end of the program one kid asked me to sign his Frisbee! WOW!
I got fans!

Future programs (I won=92t post on the list):
May 7th: All Ultra-Lounge to kick off the Tiki sampler release.
May14th: All or mostly Frank Sinatra on the first anniversary of his deat=
h.

The Playlist: (all from CD=92s btw)

It Could Happen To You, Bjork
The Folks Who Live On The Hill, George Shearing
Four, Miles Davis
My Baby Just Cares For Me, Nat King Cole
When Or Where, Erroll Garner
Love For Sale, Al Cohn/Zoot Sims
When Love Beckoned, Bobby Short
Let=92s Dance, Benny Goodman
One For Ken, Paul Combs
Feeling Good, Nina Simone
Bye Bye Love, Ray Charles
The Jumpin=92 Jive, Cab Calloway
Caravan, Duke Ellington
Public Melody #1, Louis Armstrong
I Don=92t Now Enough About You, Peggy Lee
Waiting For The Train To Come In, Peggy Lee
Anything Goes, Frank Sinatra
Thunderball, Tom Jones
Everbody Want To Be A Cat, OST The Aristocats
Jump, Jive And Wail, Louis Prima
Chiquita From Chi-Wah-Wah, Chris Conner
The Freeway Mambo, Perez Prado
Esquivel, My Blue Heaven
Goldfinger, Xavier Cugat
Music To Watch Girls By, Xavier Cugat
The Shake, The Laurie Johnson Orchestra
Mas Que Nada, The Ray Mcvay Sound
Walk On The Wild Side, The Alan Tew Orchestra
House Of The Rising Sun, Synthesonic Sounds
She=92s A Lady, Tom Jones
Theme From The Apartment, Tito Rodriguez
Moon River, Henry Jerome
The Inch Worm, Jack Costanzo
Rock Gently, Alvino Ray
The Girl From Ipanema, Stan Getz With Antonio Carlos Jobim
Spanish Flea, The World Of Tijuana The Mexicans
A Taste Of Honey, The World Of Tijuana The Mexicans
Baby Elephant Walk, Rene Touzet
Soul Bosa Nova, Quincy Jones
Be-Bob The Beguine, Sammy Davis Jr.
I=92m Gonna To Move To The Outskirts Of Town, Ray Charles
Cadillac, Combustible Edison
I Told You Not To Cry, Gert Wilden And Orchestra
Love Scene, Tony Bennett
Sambamba, Pete Rugolo
Caravan, Johnny Mathis
The James Bond Theme, Sounds Orchestral
Spectre, Sounds Orchestral
A Shot In The Dark, Four Piece Suit
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From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Wire
Date: 30 Apr 1999 09:29:27 PDT


just reading the new edition of the wire at dinner and it has interviews
with peter thomas, a certain frank (ex der plan, with moritz mentioned) and
a very positive review of tam tam's issue of 'yevgenie sokolov' if you are
neither a mouldy fig nor an upright intellectual you'll probably dig this
funny, smutty book. if you are either... you need it'. there is also a
review of david toop's book 'exotica: fabricated soundscapes in a real
worl'. does anyone have any opinions on it?

rob


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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Our Gang Imposters
Date: 29 Apr 1999 10:08:51 -0700


> The concensus on the Our Gang Online e-list is that that recently =
deceased
> woman, Lucille Vore, who's obit claimed she'd been in the Our Gang =
shorts
> was yet another imposter

Funny you should mention this... In a recent late-night "baking" session =
with an old pal we wondered what the advantages were for has-been =
Rascals. Is there a tour-circuit? What's the draw for all these =
imposters? Are they getting the best tables in the finest restaurants?=20

Maybe I should look into this... I'm only 32, but I can do the Froggy =
voice.. All I need is the glasses.

Ron "Ridin' that gravy-train" Grandia



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Roy Budd
Date: 30 Apr 1999 13:47:18 EDT


I was reading this blurb about Roy Budd who was described as "The British
Lalo Schifrin" (a moniker equivalent to God in my religion).

Does anyone concur with this title?

There is an import CD out called 'Rebirth of the Budd' which is supposedly a
comprehensive anthology of his work.

Budd was also responsible for soundtracks Get Carter and Fear is the Key
which are both available on CD currently.  Can anyone recommend any of these?

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Garwood Van,Melba Liston
Date: 30 Apr 1999 13:58:02 -0500


                            *Garwood Van
    LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Garwood Van, a longtime bandleader who was the musical
director for several Las Vegas acts including Ronald Reagan, died Sunday. He
was 88.
    Van gave comedian Redd Foxx his first job in Las Vegas and opened the
city's first rock 'n' roll club. Van signed Foxx in 1964 as an opening act
for Dinah Washington.
    He was established as a ``society bandleader,'' playing mostly ballroom
dances, when he took a job at the old El Rancho Vegas in June 1942. He
remained to become one of Las Vegas' best-known musical figures.
    As leader of the house band at The Last Frontier, he was the bandleader for
Ronald Reagan when the future president headlined the hotel showroom in
February 1954.

April 30, 1999
Melba Liston, 73, Trombonist and Prominent Jazz Arranger
By PETER WATROUS, NYTimes

Melba Liston, a trombonist and arranger who worked with some of the best
bands in jazz, died April 23 after a series of strokes, said a friend,
pianist Randy Weston. She was 73 and lived in Los Angeles.

Ms. Liston is best known for her collaborations with Weston, including the
ambitious African-influenced works "High Life" and "Uhuru Afrika" from the
early 1960s. On those albums she created dense harmonies to place over the
percussion that Weston was using. She made his pieces, often harmonically
simple, thick with dissonances and meaning.

Ms. Liston stopped playing in 1985 after a stroke left her partially
paralyzed, but she continued to arrange music with Weston. Their
collaboration continued into the 1990s, and included work on Weston's
"Spirits of Our Ancestors" (1992) and "Volcano Blues" (1993).

Ms. Liston came to prominence in jazz in 1943, when she joined
arranger-composer Gerald Wilson's band in Los Angeles. She recorded with the
tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon in 1947 (he dedicated the tune "Mischievous
Lady" to her) and a year later she began working with Dizzy Gillespie and
his orchestra. In 1957 she took what might be her most famous improvisation
on record, on Gillespie's "Cool Breeze," from "Dizzy Gillespie at Newport."

A few years earlier she had dropped out of music, working in clerical jobs
and as a film extra. She had small parts in "The Prodigal"and "The 10
Commandments."

When she returned to music she worked with Gillespie and with Quincy Jones,
who was the music director of the television show "Free and Easy." In the
1960s she worked with Weston, and during the 1970s she taught in Jamaica at
the University of the West Indies and the Jamaica Institute of Music. She
returned to the United States in the early 1980s.

Her later work for Weston is as dramatic as her early pieces, and on
"Volcano Blues" she produces some shocking orchestral colors. At one of
Weston's concerts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last year, her presence
brought the audience to its feet.

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From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Moondog
Date: 30 Apr 1999 20:25:55 +0200


[e-mail] wrote:

> Yes, Moondog is great!

I've read about Moondog before, but I haven't heard his musis yet. After reading
about him I get the impression that his music is in the same vein as that of the
late great Sun Ra. Is that correct, or am I completely wrong?

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) New Band  of interest
Date: 30 Apr 1999 14:39:52 EDT


Announcing the arrival (May 18) of the new record (CD) by Seks Bomba, a
guru-oovy band from Boston. The album is chock-full 'o' good tunes. Covered
are a wordless "Do You Know The Way To San Jose" (with a wa-wa melody line
sounding very moog-like), "It Had Better Be Tonight" (from Mancini's "Pink
Panther" and a surefire dancefloor packer), "The Cat" (Lalo's goodie), and
several originals, including instrumentals "Rum Holiday", "Theme From "To
Kill '89", and "Operation B.O.M.B.A.") This one's a killer and I believe
listers will dig it's fabulousness. A DJ call will be issued shortly for
mailings as I have been appointed to assist in promotion....Jimmy Botticelli


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From: "Dom Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Roy Budd
Date: 30 Apr 1999 15:55:19 -0400



>I was reading this blurb about Roy Budd who was described as "The British
>Lalo Schifrin" (a moniker equivalent to God in my religion).
>
>Does anyone concur with this title?
>
>There is an import CD out called 'Rebirth of the Budd' which is supposedly
a
>comprehensive anthology of his work.
>
>Budd was also responsible for soundtracks Get Carter and Fear is the Key
>which are both available on CD currently.  Can anyone recommend any of
these?
>

Sean,

I have the Sound Spectrum comp CD that has 4 Budd tracks. All from Get
Carter.

1) Get Carter, (starts off sort of new age and goes into slightly funky NOW
sound territory).

2) Love is a Four Letter Work (kind of 60's rock NOW sound w/vocal),

3) Gettin' Nowhere in a Hurry, (similar to 2 w/ more vocal reverb)

4) Plaything. (Instrumental, slightly funky organ/keyboard). The melody a
cross between 1 and 2. Ends with the intro of track 1.

I never heard any Schifrin that sounds like Budd.

Domenic




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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Looking for more Astro Sounds info.
Date: 30 Apr 1999 15:33:11 -0400


>Not a violin within a mile of this dense, funky collection of all-electronic
>music.

Huh?!? There's strings all over, along with guitars, bass, drums, non-synth
keyboards, etc. Offhand, I'm not sure that I recall any synth.

>I have a CD from Request Records that pairs the album with Yma Sumac's
>Miracles album. No linear notes at all...
>Any more info on the net? Any idea what year they were recorded? There was
>talk about Astro Sounds on the list a few weeks ago.

If you like it, I'd recommend that you get Scamp's legit reissue, which
includes new liner notes and spicy bonus tracks from "The Exotic Sounds Of
Love" (correct? wrong?).

The background of the rock combo backing tracks has been covered here in
the past, but I can't recall the details exactly. Originally appeared on a
"budget rock" album called Electric Egg? Or something like that?

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Moondog
Date: 30 Apr 1999 15:29:46 -0400


>I've read about Moondog before, but I haven't heard his musis yet. After
reading
>about him I get the impression that his music is in the same vein as that
of the
>late great Sun Ra. Is that correct, or am I completely wrong?


Of what I have heard, no.  Moondog's music is melodic and never atonal,
there is no improvisation and more overtly influenced by "classic" genres.
Sun Ra's started melodic and got increasingly dissonant and was almost
always Jazz or Blues based.  I am a fan of both, so please do not take my
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Moondog
Date: 30 Apr 1999 15:44:55 -0500


At 08:25 PM 4/30/99 +0200, Marco wrote:
>I've read about Moondog before, but I haven't heard his music yet.


If you can cram this URL into your browser, you can go to CDnow.com and
listen to RealAudio clips of several tunes each from each of 4 Moondog releases:
http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=909277740/pagename=/RP/CDN/FIND/dis
cography.html/ArtistID=FRN-MOONDOG/

Also see:
http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=3:34:37|PM&p=amg&sql=B84195

And a very confused set of links at the UBL:
http://www.ubl.com/ubl/cards/075/4/41.html

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Wire
Date: 30 Apr 1999 16:23:36 -0500


At 09:29 AM 4/30/99 PDT, Rob wrote:
>there is also a
>review of david toop's book 'exotica: fabricated soundscapes in a real
>world'. does anyone have any opinions on it?
>
>rob

I didn't think the book had been published yet - at least, not yet in the
States. What does the review say? Thumbs up/down/hooked in belt-loops??

They don't have the review up on their web site (
http://www.dfuse.com/the-wire/homefr.htm ), but I assume they'll be kind to
it, since Toop is a regular contributor. In fact, you can read his piece on
Incredibly Strange Music from The Wire 128 (October 94) there at
http://www.dfuse.com/the-wire/out/1197_2p.htm .

-Lou




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Subject: Re: (exotica) New Band of interest
Date: 30 Apr 1999 16:28:20 -0400






>Kill '89", and "Operation B.O.M.B.A.") This one's a killer and I believe
listers will dig it's fabulousness. A DJ call will be issued shortly for
mailings as I have been appointed to assist in promotion....Jimmy
Botticelli

Well, I haven't heard this yet...but I can vouch for the B man in saying
that Seks Bomba is America's best kept secret #1 group!  The singer, Chris,
has just one of these once in a lifetime voices...almost makin' ol Tom
Jones sound like he could be WEARING those panties flung at him. The group
is tight-now-sound, great Hammond Organ, flute, groovin geetars, innovative
rhythm section....Fans of spy, surf, and the loungey-talents of folks like
Combustible Edison, Oranj Symphonette and Joey Altruda(TALK ABOUT
UNDERRATED...) will surely love Seks Bomba!
Jane Fondle, fan club president in training...



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Looking for more Astro Sounds info.
Date: 30 Apr 1999 16:31:19 -0400






>>>The background of the rock combo backing tracks has been covered here in
the past, but I can't recall the details exactly. Originally appeared on a
"budget rock" album called Electric Egg? Or something like that?

It's the Anitmated Egg, and that version of it has no strings attached.
Informatively,
Jane Fondle



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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [fwd] Origins of American Animation
Date: 30 Apr 1999 17:15:47 -0500


Origins of American Animation -- LOC [RealPlayer, MPEG, Quicktime]
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/oahtml/oahome.html

The latest release from the Library of Congress (LOC) American Memory
Project chronicles the history of early American animation. The site
features 21 animated films and 2 fragments from 1900 to 1921, created with
several techniques, including clay, puppet, and pen drawings. As the site
authors argue, in addition to demonstrating the connections between
newspaper comic strips and early animated films, these selections also offer
a glimpse into the social attitudes of the period. Available in RealPlayer,
MPEG, and Quicktime formats, the films are searchable by keyword or
browseable by title or subject. Brief story notes are provided with each film.




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From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) New Band of interest
Date: 01 May 1999 00:01:02 +0200



>Well, I haven't heard this yet...but I can vouch for the B man in saying
>that Seks Bomba is America's best kept secret #1 group!  The singer, Chris,
>has just one of these once in a lifetime voices...almost makin' ol Tom
>Jones sound like he could be WEARING those panties flung at him. The group
>is tight-now-sound, great Hammond Organ, flute, groovin geetars, innovative
>rhythm section....Fans of spy, surf, and the loungey-talents of folks like
>Combustible Edison, Oranj Symphonette and Joey Altruda(TALK ABOUT
>UNDERRATED...) will surely love Seks Bomba!


And fans of The Beatles will like Seks Bomba too..., there's a very
nice Shockwave Flash file of George Harrisons' 'Don't bother me' at

http://www.bomba.com/flash1.html

BTW Tango Night tonight on German TV, already opened the bottle of Norton
PRIVADA.

Cheers, Ton


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From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) New Band  of interest
Date: 30 Apr 1999 22:32:30 -0400


[e-mail] wrote:
>
> Announcing the arrival (May 18) of the new record (CD) by Seks Bomba, a
> guru-oovy band from Boston.

I can hardly wait for this one! I'm assuming this is the same group that
does a groovy version of "The Liquidator" on the "Secret Agent Sounds"
compilation? (incidentally, a superb compilation, featuring such other
notables as Combustible Edison, The Tiki Tones, Laika & The Cosmonauts,
and Man Or Astroman.  It's on Mai Tai records)

cheryl


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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) gbye to taste
Date: 30 Apr 1999 22:47:31 -0400


I bought a Bobby Goldsboro record and I kind of like it.

Nat



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Bobby Goldsboro ! ??  ! ?! ?! ?
Date: 30 Apr 1999 22:53:19 EDT


In a message dated 4/30/99 10:48:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I bought a Bobby Goldsboro record and I kind of like it.

 Nat
  >>

Ho -- Cheeeeee - Mamaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!


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From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) gbye to taste
Date: 01 May 1999 00:38:40 -0400


Nat Kone wrote:
>
> I bought a Bobby Goldsboro record and I kind of like it.

Wake up, Nat!  Repeat after me:  "It was only a bad dream"

(on the other hand, my parents have a whole bunch of his records, if you
really like them that much....)

cheryl


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