Subject: (exotica) Bobby Byrne, Command and the Spaced Out site
Date: 01 Jun 1999 05:03:29 -0400 (EDT)
Congratulations are due to Robbie, as the Enoch Light site is looking cooler than ever.
I actually visited to check out this record:
Bobby Byrne and His Orchestra - 1966 - Magnificent Movie Themes
, which I dug out of my uk collection when I was over there last week.
I'd forgotten what a fantastic record it is, in spite of its unspectacular title. It has a couple of great Bacharach film themes I didn't know before ('promise her anything' and 'made in paris'), a great 'thunderball', 'spy who came in from the cold' and 'cincinatti kid'.
I think this is from the period just after Enoch Light left the label. It has that great loose, slightly funky sound also found on Dick Hyman's 'Man from O.R.G.A.N.' lp. I wish I had a scanner, as my UK issue of this has a really beautiful cover.
Also on Command, after having it for 3 years, I've finally got really into the Warren Kime 'Brass Impact' LP - great song choices (eg 'mas que nada', 'prelude to a kiss', 'the breeze and I').
Nice to be getting back into Command stuff; as a friend of mine said, just seeing one of those classic command album covers seems to cause some kind of happiness-generating chemical reaction in the brain...
regards, Jonny
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Ah, I knew it had something to do with sound. Moi,
j'ai oublie le definition du mot "poupee."
Bob
===
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I'm Bobcat and I'm new here. I dig exotic stuff and that's why I
joined this list. I come from Texas. Despite the Italian you see in
the subject heading, I'm not Italian. I'm just showing off. :-)
So far.....this is a cool list. exotic names for groups, stuff about
jazz and Peggy Lee, Jewish rock groups....hmm hmm, so far so good!
Lookin' real good here! Plus, "Swedish oddities"....O wow!
Still have some posts to read, but soon I'll have better comentary once
I'v read them. I read a couple of posts about Esquivel. Talk about
people not appreciating him, hell, I didn't even know who he was. But
it sounds like his music would be interesting, considering its exotic
nature and that Frank Sinatra dug him.
catch ya later,
Bobcat
===
Nobody's perfect, and that's something that I'm sure she'll know, 'coz trying to persuade myself not to think about her is like trying to divide ice from the snow....so here I sit, crawling back to bed, knowing love's a hazard that I'd never guessed. But from this side of the morning, I couldn't care less."
> > Seven Golden Men is definately a cool soundtrack,
> reasonably well known and
> > generally quite expensive. I don't know its
> Italian name though.
> >
>
> It's "Sette Uomini d'Oro".
>
> The film itself is great; you could describe it as
> being an Italian
> version of "The Italian Job" (well almost), with a
> goodly dollop of
> hilarious 1960s groovy camp/style.
Italian job or Italian Job? Sorry for the apparently dumb question,
but whenever Job is in capital letters it's ambiguous? And sorry for
my ignorance, but what exactly IS "The Italian Job?"
btw that's another reason I'm here, to find out more about exotic
stuff.
Have a good one!
Bobcat
===
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> My buddy Peter, who is on the list but is quite silent... His baby was baptized in church. Nothing strange with that, I was too when I was little... But... Peter had them play quiet village on the church organ. Now that is the best quiet village i have heard. What a ceremony. No electric parrot was on so the music is now lost forever, except in our memory.
Ritual of the Savage, indeed!
What was the name of the baby? Mumba? Simba? (Though the average Swedish
priest would probably veto those.) Yma, maybe?
My favourite version of QV is by Watermelon on their 1983 (I think)
album "Cool Music". Highly recommended.
Jan
(born in 1959 on the very day that Philip K. Dick in his "Confessions of
a Crap Artist" predicted that the world would end)
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> Harvey Pekar and Robert Crumb has made some comics together involving the self inflicted moral problems in collecting records, Harvey wanted every jazz record in world. He stopped when his greed forced him to steal LPs from a radio station.
> Is there other writers describing the weird situations in collecting lps?
Peter Bagge has mentioned old records/record stores in some of his comics....I know 'Hate' had a few stories that included the characters flipping through the record racks. Highly recommended is his 'Neat Stuff #3', a comic he did back in 1986 where the character Buddy Bradley is criticized by his
friends for looking at records more than ten years old. At one point a Sandler and Young LP is highlighted.
Movie wise, there is the scene from 'Diner' where the husband and wife are driving down the street at night, arguing about the importance of the husband's record collection. That's the scene where the wife is criticized for disrupting the system he has for organizing his records.
Vern
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>Someone on the list about 2 months ago said there was a comp CD that was the only one he had come across in which he liked every song on the CD. Is it one of the Rhino Cocktail Mix CD's???
I believe this was me, and so I would have been talking about Rhino's Cocktail Mix volume 4, 'soundtracks with a twist'. John Barry, Francis Lai, Ennio Morricone, Quincy Jones, George Duning, Henry Mancini, Alex North, Michel Legrand, Burt Bacharach, Lalo Schifrin... It really is a seamlessly brilliant compilation.
The cover is rather ugly, but the disc and liner notes are excellent.
regards, Jonny
PS People who saw Lee, tell me more...
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