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Subject: (exotica) SF party tonight, Friday 10/1
Date: 01 Oct 1999 04:12:12 EDT


I will be djing from 6 - 9:30 at

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Subject: (exotica) Michel Legrand's 'Jazzy' piano noodlings at the Jazz Cafe, London
Date: 01 Oct 1999 10:15:30 +0000


Just came back from holiday to find ML playing a couple of nights at the
Jazz Cafe. Even though I had reservations about going, I thought it might
be worth it. It was!

He played alot of material from 'Cherbourg', 'Rochefort', 'Thomas Crown
Affair', a track from 'Yentl', which didn't sound so hot, but a couple of
others from a soundtrack composed with Miles Davis, I think called 'Dingo
Rock', which did. He played well known tracks in a variety of styles and
finished with 'Windmills of Your Mind', singing it in French, which was
nice.

It was a trio of piano, double bass and drums ... sorry I can't remember
the names of the other guys ... the bass player was quite young and
completely adequate, the drummer was much older, though not as old-looking
as Legrand, and was very very good ... i knew that because he had a pair of
tiny silver drumsticks on a necklace over his shirt ;-)

Another thing which made it enjoyable was that it wasn't at all crowded, so
that when, as we walked in he was starting to play we were able to make our
way very easily through the sparse audience to the front and stand directly
behind Legrand about 5 feet away.

Maybe someone else from the list who was also there can add more detail

I thought you'd like to know

friendly

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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Satan Superstar
Date: 01 Oct 1999 11:51:13 +0100



One record I have never seen discussed here is "Satan Superstar" by
Stanley Black. I've never heard it, or seen it, and I'm curious. I'm
told the track "Satan Speaks" is top-notch cheese of high water (if
such a thing exists). Is anyone on the list familiar with the album?

PS -- A few of the things I've picked up lately:

"Soundproof" -- Ferrante and Teicher.

Somewhat of a curate's egg, it's interesting in parts, but the
grooviest thing about it is the cover art of the UFO. Don't expect
really radical sounds, generally the prepared piano parts just involve
heavy damping that gives a percussive effect. But I'm glad to have a
copy, I like it.

"Spaceship Boogie" -- Winifred Atwell

Well, actually on an EP the title of which I can't remember. Three
tracks of standard joanna-bashing tinkle plus this one, which kicks
off with a few electronic noises and proceeds with a spooky spacey
echo on the piano plus the occasional mildly-weird harmonic
progression for extra space feel. (Sort of like a piano version of
Johnny Guitar Watson's "Space Guitar"). Like Soundproof, not
earthshattering, but interesting, and miles away from the bulk of the
catalogue.

"The Ski Full-of-Fitness Theme" -- Manfred Mann and Mike Hugg

It's an advertising jingle for Ski yoghurt, which a thoughtful Ski
released to the world in single format. Really, REALLY cheesy.

"The Fiddling Viking" -- Sven Asmussen

I've had a beat-up copy of this for years, but I found a pristine one,
and listened to it again. This one is brilliant, all kinds of
violinery tricks and effects going on, great arrangments. The
highlights for me are the version of "Tabu", and "Can You Whistle
Joanna", violin matching the whistling and sliding around way up in
the stratosphere. Great!

"Dance To My Fair Lady" -- Helmut Zacharias

More violinery, and this one is also good... I can even listen to the
version of "Wouldn't It Be Loverly" without cringing, that's the
degree of power Mr. Z. has over me.



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) OT Italian film question
Date: 01 Oct 1999 12:26:08 +0100


Don't look back
Spartacus
Death in Venice
The pleasure seekers (Anne Margaret)
Doesn't one of the James Bond films have scenes in Venice?


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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is"
Date: 01 Oct 1999 06:33:56


I picked up the 9-LP Readers Digest boxed set, "Happiness Is," a few weeks
ago at a local junk store (big "Going Out of Business" sign has been draped
over their door for the two years I've lived here).  Mostly dull easy
listening covers of mid-late 60s hits, and I stuck it in the "donate" box
after playing a couple of sides.

Then I decided to give it a thorough listening and found a few choice cuts.
 Hands-down favorite has to be Joe Reisman's cover of "Grazing in the
Grass," a hit instrumental originally by Hugh Masakela.  This one is a
vocal with wonderful lyrics:

    Grazing in the grass is a gas, can you dig it, baby?
    Grazing in the grass is a gas, can you dig it, baby?

    [rapidly]
    I can dig it
    She can dig it
    He can dig it
    We can dig it
    You can dig it
    They can dig it
    Can you dig it, baby?

A few other noteworthy numbers:  several good Billy May covers in his great
now sound "Billy May Today!" style;  Jack Jones doing a nice version of
"Live for Life" and a classic lounge-y "Light My Fire";  Harry James doing
an admirable job on "This Guy's in Love."  On the other hand, you also get
Benny Goodman doing "Spinning Wheel," which is almost as uncomfortable to
listen to as it must have been to Benny to play.

What other treasures lie hidden in RD box sets?  Besides Dick Hyman's
"Alfred, the King of Disco," that is.

Brad


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale
Date: 01 Oct 1999 07:47:20 -0400




Well the Tiki gods came home to roost for me too!  Jane got that excellent
stash. I didn't do as good but got a chance to pick up free records.

Last night we had a pre-volunteer meeting for the WICN record drive and
there was a stack of boxes of what the GM called "Mantovani" stuff that
wasn't going to be takin' over to the record drive.
Picked up about 100 of 'em.  Some Mancini stuff, Dear Heart and a couple of
comps, Martin Denny's A Go Go, A Pete Rugolo with 2 Trombones, Some Sergio
Mendes, 3 Suns comps. Domenic Fontiere Pagan Festival (?) ( going by memory
here) A few Command things.  Mel Heink, A Leo Diamond. Some Leo Addeo
Hawaiian stuff,, you know, stuff I might want to listen too but don't want
to spend the money. If it "looked" good. I grabbed it.

The GM showed me a box of about 100  exotica related thingstheay are
outting out that I would have to pay money  for, but I think I found better
stuff in the "Mantovani" section.  I can get everything 1/2 price 'cause
I'm a volunteer. Cugie/ Prado/Gleason stuff. Saw that Ken Nordine
voice-over record with a small Saturn on the cover mentioned on the list
lately.  EMAIL me before 3PM EST if anybody wants it in trade?

Check out the WICN web page
http://www.wicn.org/current%20events/community.html


Like I said TONS of rock and classical from the radio stacks, Thankfully,
they spared the Jazz section. Lots of 78's but they may not be put out. Saw
a Wanda L. J.S Bach Golberg Variations on 78. A "boxed set" of 7.
Beautifully packaged. I *love* the Goldberg Variations, but what am I going
to do with it?

My favorite used furniture guy is having an auction tomorrow night and he
has 4 lots of records he's putting on the block. I'll have to go and see if
the Tiki's continue to pour out their blessings!

And Jimmy, the record dealers will be their, but we won't let them near the
rekkids until 10AM when we open. That 'el teach them!

Domenic




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is"
Date: 01 Oct 1999 08:22:12 EDT


In a message dated 10/1/99 7:31:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

> What other treasures lie hidden in RD box sets?  Besides Dick Hyman's
>  "Alfred, the King of Disco," that is.

I've had "Alfred..."(Organ Magic) here on a shelf for many months and I'd yet
to listen to him.  You inspired me to take him down and give him a spin.
It's a truely happenin' little tune.

For anyone not familure with "Alfred...", I'd be happy to upload an mp3 or
real audio version of him for your inspection.  Just say the word.

-Roy G. Biv


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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale
Date: 01 Oct 1999 05:54:46 -0700 (PDT)


Well the Tiki gods came home to roost for me too!
> Jane got that excellent
> stash. I didn't do as good but got a chance to pick
> up free records.
> Domenic Fontiere Pagan
> Festival (?) ( going by memory
> here) A few Command things.  Mel Heink, A Leo
> Diamond. Some Leo Addeo
> Hawaiian stuff,, you know, stuff I might want to
> listen too but don't want
> to spend the money. If it "looked" good. I grabbed
> it.

Well, be glad you got that Domenic(Domenic!) Fontiere
PAGAN FESTIVAL, because it's a party all should be
invited to! It's a great, under-rated exotica record!
And it doesn't pop up all that often, ESPECIALLY for
free.  And "Mel Heink"...Mel Heinke, as in LA DOLCE
HEINKE-that guy!??  GOOD SCORE, KID!
Jane Fondle

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale
Date: 01 Oct 1999 09:18:07 EDT


In a message dated 10/01/99 8:20:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Martin Denny's A Go Go >>

i found a copy of this a couple of years ago.  it is most likely one of the
ghosted ablums, but i love it.  i pull it our about 3 times a year and play
it every day for about a week.

any other comments on this ablum?  i know some people gotta hate it.

tiki bob


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Subject: Re: (exotica) AstroSlut Concert Report and Poster Scan.
Date: 01 Oct 1999 09:16:33 -0400




>Well, I will take this opportunity to say YES!  If you
>are very much into late 6ts early 7ts
>now-sound-television-music-porn-soundtracks-moogs-wah-wah
>and bossa nova...then, yes indeed, you will feel at
>home.


Thanks for a description Jane,

I would have to say that AstroSlut is similar to Combustible Edison/Seks
Bomba in that they hit a lot of "lounge" bases. One song "The Quinn Martian
Chronicles" reminiscent of the jazzish Quinn Martin TV themes but a total
reinvention. They did one Bossa-nova tune.


AstroSlut sounds a lot more "rockish" but I attribute this to it being a
live gig. Very Go-Go 60's at times.

At first I was surprised at how modern the group sounded. Talking to Jane
on the list and in person about Pete Rugolo, Jack Jones and Julie London I
was prepared for something else. But I can see, esp listening a 2nd time,
how Jane and Drew are taking their moog/keyboard/vocal influences and
building on them to create their own voice music and songs. I recognized
none of the songs even thought I was told 1/3 of them were covers.

So Bravo to AstroSlut! They embrace the past, but don't totally imitate it.
I think the name say it all. A tip of the hat to "Astrosounds in the year
2000" but with an updated attitude that keeps up with the modern rock
scene.

You Go Girl!

Domenic




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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale
Date: 01 Oct 1999 06:36:57 -0700 (PDT)




> << Martin Denny's A Go Go >>
>
> i found a copy of this a couple of years ago.  it is
> most likely one of the
> ghosted ablums, but i love it.  i pull it our about
> 3 times a year and play
> it every day for about a week.
>
> any other comments on this ablum?  i know some
> people gotta hate it.
>
> tiki bob

Not me, pal!  I diggit, though I suspect it's a ghost
rekkid, too.
Let me ask this though just be certain, while we're on
MOOGS(I have been meaning to contribute to this
discussion, but wanted to see my collection...still
haven't done that...so, how about GENUINE ELECTRIC
LATIN LOVE MACHINE, SPACED OUT, PLASTIC COW GOES
MMOOOOGGGGG, and the two SWITCHED ON BACHARACHS...I
also can't wait to hear the MOOG GERSHWIN I just
got..anyway..)
Did Martin Denny actually *play* and/or *arrange* the
Moogs on his EXOTIC MOOG?  What about Les Baxter with
Paul "Daily Nightly" Beaver?
Jane Fondle

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale
Date: 01 Oct 1999 09:29:02 -0400




Well the Tiki gods came home to roost for me too!  Jane got that excellent
stash. I didn't do as good but got a chance to pick up free records.

Last night we had a pre-volunteer meeting for the WICN record drive and
there was a stack of boxes of what the GM called "Mantovani" stuff that
wasn't going to be takin' over to the record drive.
Picked up about 100 of 'em.  Some Mancini stuff, Dear Heart and a couple of
comps, Martin Denny's A Go Go, A Pete Rugolo with 2 Trombones, Some Sergio
Mendes, 3 Suns comps. Domenic Fontiere Pagan Festival (?) ( going by memory
here) A few Command things.  Mel Heink, A Leo Diamond. Some Leo Addeo
Hawaiian stuff,, you know, stuff I might want to listen too but don't want
to spend the money. If it "looked" good. I grabbed it.

The GM showed me a box of about 100  exotica related thingstheay are
outting out that I would have to pay money  for, but I think I found better
stuff in the "Mantovani" section.  I can get everything 1/2 price 'cause
I'm a volunteer. Cugie/ Prado/Gleason stuff. Saw that Ken Nordine
voice-over record with a small Saturn on the cover mentioned on the list
lately.  EMAIL me before 3PM EST if anybody wants it in trade?

Check out the WICN web page
http://www.wicn.org/current%20events/community.html


Like I said TONS of rock and classical from the radio stacks, Thankfully,
they spared the Jazz section. Lots of 78's but they may not be put out. Saw
a Wanda L. J.S Bach Golberg Variations on 78. A "boxed set" of 7.
Beautifully packaged. I *love* the Goldberg Variations, but what am I going
to do with it?

My favorite used furniture guy is having an auction tomorrow night and he
has 4 lots of records he's putting on the block. I'll have to go and see if
the Tiki's continue to pour out their blessings!

And Jimmy, the record dealers will be their, but we won't let them near the
rekkids until 10AM when we open. That 'el teach them!

Domenic




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From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale
Date: 01 Oct 1999 15:40:27 +0200



>Well, be glad you got that Domenic(Domenic!) Fontiere
>PAGAN FESTIVAL, because it's a party all should be
>invited to! It's a great, under-rated exotica record!
>And it doesn't pop up all that often, ESPECIALLY for
>free.  And "Mel Heink"...Mel Heinke, as in LA DOLCE
>HEINKE-that guy!??  GOOD SCORE, KID!
>Jane Fondle

Heink? Heinke? Are you sure...?
Isn't it Mel Henke like in "La Dolce Henke"?

"Walkin' my baby back home", o yes, Ton



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From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is"
Date: 01 Oct 1999 15:40:43 +0200




>> What other treasures lie hidden in RD box sets?  Besides Dick Hyman's
>>  "Alfred, the King of Disco," that is.
>
>I've had "Alfred..."(Organ Magic) here on a shelf for many months and I'd
yet
>to listen to him.  You inspired me to take him down and give him a spin.
>It's a truely happenin' little tune.
>
>For anyone not familure with "Alfred...", I'd be happy to upload an mp3 or
>real audio version of him for your inspection.  Just say the word.


If you're sure the happenin' little tune will make me happy,
than I'd be delighted making you happy by making me happy.

Ton


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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale
Date: 01 Oct 1999 08:48:01 -0500


> Let me ask this though just be certain, while we're on
> MOOGS...so, how about GENUINE ELECTRIC
> LATIN LOVE MACHINE

I ain't no moog fan, but I do love this record!!!

> Did Martin Denny actually *play* and/or *arrange* the
> Moogs on his EXOTIC MOOG?

Seems to me Denny spilled the beans in one of the "Incredibly
Strange Music" books.  Said he "supervised" the recording of
EXOTIC MOOG but otherwise didn't perform.


Darrell Brogdon
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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale
Date: 01 Oct 1999 06:52:17 -0700 (PDT)




--- Darrell Brogdon <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> >
> Seems to me Denny spilled the beans in one of the
> "Incredibly
> Strange Music" books.  Said he "supervised" the
> recording of
> EXOTIC MOOG but otherwise didn't perform.
>
Well...what does "supervise" mean?  Did he arrange
things and kick back, or just "supervise" with a cigar
a la' Jackie Gleason?
HMM? Ooooo...Jane Fondle

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From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: OT Italian film question
Date: 01 Oct 1999 09:50:33 -0500


> >  Can anybody on the list recommend an American or English film
> > that is set in Italy?
Nicholas Roeg's "Don't Look Now" starring Donald Sutherland was shot
in Venice.  A classic!
Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
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Subject: (exotica) [obit]Eva Israelsen
Date: 01 Oct 1999 10:01:00 -0400


Thursday, Sept. 30, 1999; 10:38 p.m. EDT
Eva Israelsen
LOGAN, Utah (AP)  Eva Israelsen, who lived long enough to have 271 great-grandchildren, died Thursday, five days before her 105th birthday.

Mrs. Israelsen appeared in Life magazine in October 1993 in an article noting the birth of her 200th and 201st great-grandchildren. Since then, her progeny has grown to 271 great-grandchildren and 40 great-great-grandchildren. She had 11 original children, and they had 67 kids.

She was born Eva May Butler on Oct. 5, 1894, at the mouth of Big Cottonwood Canyon in Salt Lake County. She met Victor E. Israelsen while attending Utah Agricultural College, now Utah State University, in the 1920s and later married him.

They spent their lives on a dairy farm. Mrs. Israelsen remained active well past her 100th birthday, walking at least a mile a day.






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From: George Hall <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re: James Brown/Guitorgan
Date: 01 Oct 1999 10:45:09 -0700 (PDT)


 [e-mail] wrote:

> =46unny, I've been trying to track down some info about a poor naked
> Smash record I rescued from a thrift bin in July. It's called James Brown
> Presents the New Breed (The Boo-Ga-Loo) James Brown. What is the title of
> your record?

  I have 2; Handful of Soul and Yesterday & Today (I think the # of the
last disc ends in -82). According to Handful lp jacket, the first was
called Grits and Soul.

> So is this really the
> Hardest Working Man in Show Biznezz playing organ or is it his backup
> band, as one knowledgeable local DJ told me it probably is? The DJ said
> James produced several records for Smash, basically lending his name to
> give the projects greater exposure but not performing himself.

  I'd heard somewhere that JB jumped ship from King to sign with Smash,
before fulfilling his contractual obligations w/the former; a compromise
was reached by releasing only instrumentals on Smash for a time; vocals
came later (which explains why the song title "Papa's got a Brand New Bag"
appear in huge letters on Y&T).
  As for the playing, the stuff I have is pretty rudimentary, esp the 1st;
I like it, certainly, but I doubt he would've hired anyone at that level
to play under his name.

> Anyone
> know the real poop on JBPTNB(BAL)? Any recommend for similar records?
> All info welcome! Thanks.

  The 2 I have are both pretty good, but not great. Sounds like I'll have
to track down JBPTNB tho...

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  [e-mail] wrote:

> the Guitorgan - a combined organ and guitar (not
> that you'd have been able to guess that from the name of course!).

  I've drooled over these for years (that's FIGURATIVELY, Jane; don't
start!) but only seen one up close once; owned by a Berklee student who
wanted to play bad Larry Carlton-esque fuzak on it. The shame!

> moment and this guy Teisco Del Rey has a CD with him playing it (there's
> one of his CDs at CDNow but I'm not sure if it's a real organ or his
> Guitorgan I can hear on the samples)...

  That's a Guitorgan! See also the version of "Fear" on Ventures in Outer
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Date: 01 Oct 1999 09:42:15 -0500


Nat Kone wrote:
>
> At 08:58 PM 9/29/99 -0500, dymaxia wrote:

>   I've also got a Limelight or two
> >in my collection, the Jean[oops, I mean Claude]Denjean
> > with the sexy
> >big lips cover, both Switched-On Bacharachs, and
> >something on Pickwick called "The Happy Moog". Oh,
> >and _The Copper-Plated Circuit_.  Great lp, really
> >great cover! I think I've got more, but my collection needs
> >straightening.  I'd like to hear about other people's
> >Moog lp's....
>
> In my opinion the Switched On Bacharachs are among the best of the genre.

Yeah, I like those, too.

> They use the whole range of cheesy-to-tasteful moog sounds but somehow
> always use them in ways that are appropriate to the tunes.  That thing you
> have called "Happy Moog" is actually a fairly rare - and sometimes
> expensive - J.J Perry record even though it's also a Harry Breuer record.

Yeah, I noticed his name on several of the tracks,
but I didn't know if this was a Breuer record or
a Perrey one.  It has no cover -- I found it in
a thrift store in a plain white cover.  What a find!
I played it last night, and it's pretty excellent --
I especially love Moog Foo Yong.

> The Denjean record is also a "classic".  He had one before that one that's
> also good.  (He has other ones also but they're not that good.)   And the
> Copper Plated one by Walter Sear is also a good one.  He did others - also
> on Command - with Richard Hayman that are considered "essential" moog
> records, if you don't mind that word.

Another one I forgot to mention is Richard Hayman
presents "The Electric People".  This is a totally
mysterious low budget l.p. with a hysterically
banal cover photo of someone's stereo.  I have no idea
who these people are, but the names are Italian, and
the album totally kicks!  It has some moog blues on
it!

>
> I have about 30 moog and moog-related records.  If you're interested in
> hearing about others, I'll name a few.
> I'll skip right past the "godfathers" of the moog, Perry and Kingsley and
> move on to moog-country LP's. My favorite is "Country Moog, switched-on
> Nashville" by Gil Trythall.  You haven't heard moog till you've heard his
> version of "Folsom Prison".

Ohmigod.


> On the other end of the spectrum is John Keating's "Space Experience" which
> is a great record but almost too tasteful and well-arranged to qualify as a
> "real" moog record.  For me this record resurrects "I feel the earth move".
> Then there are the rockin-moog records.  I have two by "The Electronic
> Concept Orchestra" and I can recommend "Moog Groove". Great versions of "Oh
> Happy Day" and especially "Grazin in the Grass".

Yeah, I've been looking for "Moog Groove".  I have the
Electronic Concept Orchestra's make-out record --
I forgot the name of it, "Electric Love" or something.

> Then again, it's silly to recommend any of these since you're almost
> guaranteed to pick up anything called "moog groove".
> In the same category of no-brainers is "Switched-On Rock" by the Moog Machine.
> "Time of the Season", "Yummy Yummy".

Oh, shit.  I've got to have that one.


Thanks, Nat!

--


Kerry
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Date: 01 Oct 1999 10:37:58 -0400





>Heink? Heinke? Are you sure...?
>Isn't it Mel Henke like in "La Dolce Henke"?

Yup! I'll take a closer look and post the title on Monday when I'm back
here at work. It's not La Dolce Henke.

There is a picture in the back of the LP that I also saw in Cool and
Strange Music Magazine when they gave away some Dolce Henke's a while back.
I always thought it was a picture of Ashley Warren (!) because he
generously provided for the CD's for the giveaway. Under the picture was
the caption "Our Hero".


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>Well, be glad you got that Domenic(Domenic!) Fontiere
>PAGAN FESTIVAL, because it's a party all should be
>invited to! It's a great, under-rated exotica record!
>And it doesn't pop up all that often, ESPECIALLY for
>free.  And "Mel Heink"...Mel Heinke, as in LA DOLCE
>HEINKE-that guy!??  GOOD SCORE, KID!
>Jane Fondle

Heink? Heinke? Are you sure...?
Isn't it Mel Henke like in "La Dolce Henke"?

"Walkin' my baby back home", o yes, Ton



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#%&#^$(#$@# Heineken, PABST BLUE RIBBON!
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Subject: (exotica) Polka
Date: 01 Oct 1999 11:41:35 -0700 (PDT)


> > >the ONLY punk-rock polka band EVER

  Seems like every 10 yrs or so, there's a Polka &/or accordion revival
among the hipsters & hipstresses, kind of like those periodic surf/instro
revivals; seems to last a year or so before heading back underground.
Anyone remember Das Furlines?

> >Can anybody on the list recommend an American or English film that is set
> >in Italy?

  Strait to Hell?
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In a message dated 10/01/99 9:51:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< > Seems to me Denny spilled the beans in one of the
 > "Incredibly
 > Strange Music" books.  Said he "supervised" the
 > recording of
 > EXOTIC MOOG but otherwise didn't perform.
 >
 Well...what does "supervise" mean?  Did he arrange
 things and kick back, or just "supervise" with a cigar
 a la' Jackie Gleason? >>

mr. denny hates to admit it, but he does, that some of "his" later albums
were ghosted.  in interviews he indicates that he actually did give direction
to the composure of the Exotic Moog album.

his contract was requiring at least three LP releases per year and when he
could not do it himself he acquiesce to Capitol and let others record and
compose the contents of some LP's.  notice that the phrase used from the
start "The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny" does not say that he played them.
it lended nicely to this ghosting.

mr. denny has expressed some disappointment in how his name was "franchised"
and albums were made without his involvement.  but he also admits that it was
part of his contract and he gained from it financially at the time.  in other
works he makes no excuses and does not blame Capitol.

in final note:  mr. denny says he could have performed on Exotic Moog but
really was uncomfortable on how to work all the electronic controls.  he does
feel that the overall sound of Exotic Moog represents the Martin Denny sound
in Moog form.

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> the Guitorgan - a combined organ and guitar (not
> that you'd have been able to guess that from the name of course!).

  I've drooled over these for years (that's FIGURATIVELY, Jane; don't
start!) but only seen one up close once; owned by a Berklee student who
wanted to play bad Larry Carlton-esque fuzak on it. The shame!

>>>HE!  You know me well-enough George...OK, I won't start...but I will
just point out to those who don't realize on the list that this is the
self-same George of the too-fab Seks Bomba.  He just doesn't go runnin' his
mouth off about his band like some of us do on the list..ahem.
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Subject: (exotica) re: Astroslut
Date: 01 Oct 1999 10:34:31 -0700


Jane Fondle wrote:
> Well, I will take this opportunity to say YES!  If you
> are very much into late 6ts early 7ts
> now-sound-television-music-porn-soundtracks-moogs-wah-wah
> and bossa nova...then, yes indeed, you will feel at
> home.  I would not have been foisting my group on this
> list if I didn't feel it was very much in line with
> the music we discuss here.
> I firmly
> believe our album will be of interest to many on this
> list.  Diggit, baby!
> Jane Fondle

Oh, I wasn't trying to say anything otherwise. :-)  Just trying to see
where your band was on the "vast" exotica musical continum.

(maybe I'm a purist, but I only call Baxter/Denny/Lyman ish stuff
"exotica", but I know most people have a broader definition (which is
fine...))

What you really need is a website with sound samples/photos etc....  :-)

Any chance you'll be touring in California????

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Subject: Re: (exotica) All hail Thee Honourable Tiki King!
Date: 01 Oct 1999 10:40:33 -0700


Jane Fondle wrote:
> you just GOTTA check out the Tiki
> King.
> Check out his website:
> http://members.aol.com./tikistuff/TikiKing.com.html

That URL definitely doesn't work. I did find this one, still looks to be
in test mode.
http://www.tikiking.com/test/

While we're here... I'd also like to say Tiki King's stuff is real nice
and affordable too. T.K. seems real friendly at Tiki events I've been
too (gosh, probably should have introduced myself... oh well).

Kevin Crossman
The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Punk Polka
Date: 01 Oct 1999 20:36:18 +0200


>the ONLY punk-rock polka band EVER

Gives me a chance to say the new El=E4kel=E4iset 10", "Humppaorgiat", is =
a
blast. Side A has five songs remaining from the "Werbung, baby!" -session=
s
(great versions of Mrs Robinson and Sunday Bloody Sunday which work
particularly well polkastyle and Janis Joplin's Mercedes Benz is a fine
campfire ballad). Side B has a couple of livetracks with an attempt at
speedhumppa.

Official website:  www.humppa.com


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is"
Date: 01 Oct 1999 20:38:05 +0200


>For anyone not familure with "Alfred...", I'd be happy to upload an mp3 or
>real audio version of him for your inspection.  Just say the word.

yup! please, put it online :)

bye,
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Subject: Re: (exotica) OT Italian film question
Date: 01 Oct 1999 20:38:12 +0200


>Doesn't one of the James Bond films have scenes in Venice?

dunno, but Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade does. ;)

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Subject: Re: (exotica) AstroSlut Concert Report and Poster Scan.
Date: 01 Oct 1999 11:48:16 -0700 (PDT)




>
> Thanks for a description Jane,
>
> I would have to say that AstroSlut is similar to
> Combustible Edison/Seks
> Bomba in that they hit a lot of "lounge" bases. One
> song "The Quinn Martian
> Chronicles" reminiscent of the jazzish Quinn Martin
> TV themes but a total
> reinvention.
>

> That would be "The Quinn Martian Memorandum."  While
I am pleased to be in such good company, I don't know
that we are similar to either group...but thanks!
>
songs. I recognized
> none of the songs even thought I was told 1/3 of
> them were covers.
>
No,no!  Not quite a third!  Our covers are of
Gainsbourg's "69", "Contact" and "Harley Davidson."
We also do "Come With the Gentle People"-from BEYOND
THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS...and a bang-up "Bedazzled"!

> So Bravo to AstroSlut! They embrace the past, but
> don't totally imitate it.
> I think the name say it all. A tip of the hat to
> "Astrosounds in the year
> 2000" but with an updated attitude that keeps up
> with the modern rock
> scene.
>
> You Go Girl!
>
> Domenic

You go, too!  I wish you were my press agent!:)
And Kevin, I PROMISE that our $#((@)% website will be
up soon!  It's not in my hands...it's TAKING so long
though...because this is gonna be a souped up and lots
o' fun...
OK, ENOUGH about ME...Let's hear about y'all! Jane...

=====
"It's just my nature to do weird stuff." - Les Baxter

Astroslut website:  cuming soon!
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Date: 01 Oct 1999 15:20:34 EDT



In a message dated 9/30/99 10:22:10 PM, [e-mail] writes:

>"Will you be staying after Sunday" and I recognize the
>tune, though I have no idea whether this is the original "hit" version.

I looked it up in my trusty Whitburn and the song is credited only to them,
The Peppermint Rainbow, on Decca, so maybe an English "aggregate". Their
other minor hit off the LP was "Don't Wake Me Up In The Morning Michael". And
as for genre-pinning, I'd throw this onto the harder-edged Soft Pop
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Subject: (exotica) fwd: food safety music
Date: 01 Oct 1999 17:21:14 -0400


 Food Safety Music [RealPlayer]
http://foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/music.html

Carl Winter, a golden-throated Extension Food Toxicologist at the
University of California, Davis, has written and recorded two albums
of parodies of popular songs "with a food safety/ science twist."
Lucky for us, Winter has made a number of these tunes and their
lyrics available at this site. The songs are organized by food
science topic (Food Safety, Pesticides, Biotech, Toxicology, etc.),
and listed with file size, the song that inspired it, and a link to
the lyrics. Highlights include "I Sprayed It on the Grapevine," "We
are the Microbes/ They Might Kill You," "Food Busters," and "Food
Irradiation." Graduate students especially will enjoy Winter's take
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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is"
Date: 01 Oct 1999 17:54:13 -0400


At 06:33 AM 10/1/99, Brad Bigelow wrote:
>
>What other treasures lie hidden in RD box sets?  Besides Dick Hyman's
>"Alfred, the King of Disco," that is.

They're from "Columbia Musical Treasures" - not from Reader's Digest - but
I highly recommend all of Terry Baxter's box sets. "Sounds of the 60's",
"Sounds of 71" etc.  I have two of his box sets and one individual LP and
I've never seen his stuff presented any other way except in these "special
product" settings.
I can't think of anyone who captures the full range of Now Sound
arrangements like he does, going from quiet, simple arrangements all the
way to the full-on attack of something like his version of "Psychedelic
Shack".
Don't know anything about him but he's the king of Now.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale
Date: 01 Oct 1999 17:54:15 -0400


At 07:47 AM 10/1/99 -0400, [e-mail] wrote:

>Picked up about 100 of 'em.  Some Mancini stuff, Dear Heart and a couple of
>comps, Martin Denny's A Go Go, A Pete Rugolo with 2 Trombones, Some Sergio
Mendes, 3 Suns comps. Domenic Fontiere Pagan Festival (?) ( going by memory
>here) A few Command things.

I'm a little jealous.  Not as jealous as I was when I read Jane's recent
list.  And I know that even though those Pete Rugolos have lovely covers,
they're rather tepid.  But still, the very idea of records like that
sitting there for the taking makes me jealous.  Or is it envious?  Probably
both.
In any case, from recent "record find" reports like this one, it does seem
like there's something "happening" out there.   Some kind of zeitgeist.
I know it's crazy to think about some "force" in the world that
occasionally retrieves records from dark corners and sends them out into
the world to be appreciated once again.  Maybe the forces have better
things to do than to put these records into our hands.
But still it feels like there are forces afoot right now.
Or maybe I'm just in a mood to want every record everyone else is getting.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) AstroSlut Concert Report and Poster Scan.
Date: 01 Oct 1999 18:23:40 -0400


At 11:48 AM 10/1/99 -0700, Jane Fondle wrote:
>
>OK, ENOUGH about ME...Let's hear about y'all! Jane...

I had jello today...


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Date: 01 Oct 1999 18:36:33 EDT



In a message dated 10/1/99 5:55:18 PM, [e-mail] writes:

>Don't know anything about him but he's the king of Now.

I have yet to hear him (Terry Baxter), but after scoring Claus Ogerman's
Saxes Mexicanos this week and literally jumping and snapping my head with my
headphones on, Ican only imagine what he must deliver. BTW I saw some early
Frank Chacksfield LPs with exotic covers and Hawaiian music titles. Anyone
know anything about these? I shy away from Frank. I find him a little
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Subject: Re: (exotica) AstroSlut Concert Report and Poster Scan.
Date: 01 Oct 1999 18:35:50 -0500


>I had jello today...


BIAFRA?!




visit...

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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fun@78rpm
Date: 01 Oct 1999 16:41:26 -0700


A nifty site chock fulla shellac bisquits. Lots of stuff to hear. A nifty
juke-box for RA files. WEEE!

I noticed the address at the bottom of Ton's messages. Be sure to check out
the Laughing/Crying records.
(Apologies if this has been mentioned recently - I have not been keeping
up.)

Enjoy!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Fun@mp3
Date: 01 Oct 1999 17:07:43 -0700


Aside from my well-publicized struggles with live streaming MP3 files, I
have succeeded in uploading a MP3 file to a new server I have been goofing
around with. (see link below) It's my own standalone server running Linux.
(I made a friend do all the coding) It should be fun to see what we can do
with the beast as time permits. One of the things I want to do is create a
public area for people to upload their own mixes and soundfiles. I gotta
figger it all out first.

I get lots of email from folks who don't have fast-enough connections to get
the MP3 streams without serious gapping, so here is a low-bandwidth link to
Fantastica program #52.

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From: George Hall <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #508
Date: 01 Oct 1999 13:17:25 -0700 (PDT)



  [e-mail] wrote:

> I'll skip right past the "godfathers" of the moog, Perry and Kingsley and
> move on to moog-country LP's. My favorite is "Country Moog, switched-on
> Nashville" by Gil Trythall. You haven't heard moog till you've heard his
> version of "Folsom Prison".

  see also Tiger By the Tail on Jeff Haskell's "Switched On Buck" (yes,
Buck Owens on the Moog!). LP's maybe not as good as it's title, but how
could it?

>  Hands-down favorite has to be Joe Reisman's cover of "Grazing in the
> Grass," a hit instrumental originally by Hugh Masakela.  This one is a
> vocal with wonderful lyrics:

  this was also a soul hit for the Friends of Distinction in the late 60's

> What other treasures lie hidden in RD box sets?  Besides Dick Hyman's
> "Alfred, the King of Disco," that is.

  wait a minute...I must find this!
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Date: 01 Oct 1999 23:39:11 +0000


At 12:26 PM 01-10-99 +0100, G. R. Reader wrote:
>Doesn't one of the James Bond films have scenes in Venice?
Yes, Moonraker!

Byron

Byron Caloz
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Subject: Re: (exotica) More record finds at radio sale
Date: 02 Oct 1999 14:13:57 +0200


>In any case, from recent "record find" reports like this one, it does seem
>like there's something "happening" out there.   Some kind of zeitgeist.
>I know it's crazy to think about some "force" in the world that
>occasionally retrieves records from dark corners and sends them out into
>the world to be appreciated once again.

must have been that force helping me everytime I go at some flea market...
hehe

>But still it feels like there are forces afoot right now.

sure. Like the one that sent me the Emperor Norton promo I am listening to
now... :)))


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Subject: (exotica) jAMES bROWN organ elpees on Smash
Date: 01 Oct 1999 19:18:59 +0100


hey exoticats

someone was asking about the James Brown organ instrumental LPs on Smash. I
think he defected to that label for a while in the mid 60s? It's a Mercury
subsidiary. Anyway there were a few of these albums AFAIK and I think I
remember reading that they do indeed feature the GOdfather playin' Hammond.
I have one someplace and from what I remember it's more jazzy than 60s soul.
I can dig it out and lay the details on ya if y'interested, haven't played
it in years.

can i count it off?
phil dilemma




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Subject: (exotica) Alfred The King Of Disco
Date: 02 Oct 1999 10:20:27 EDT


Here's Mr. D. Hyman's silly little ditty from the Reader's Digest box set
titled Organ Magic (RDA-207 1977) for anyone who cares to listen, it's disc
5/side 2/track 6 .

http://members.aol.com/thinkmatic/alfred.mp3
or
http://members.aol.com/thinkmatic/alfred.rm

They're both in lowest quality for easiest download/streaming.  The mp3
streamed flawlessly for me, the realmedia worked so-so.

If you'd like a high quality mp3 e-mailed to you just drop me a line.


-Roy G. Biv


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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) jAMES bROWN/scores
Date: 02 Oct 1999 09:53:44 -0500


Phil wrote:
>someone was asking about the James Brown organ instrumental LPs on
>Smash.... >there were a few of these albums AFAIK and I think I
>remember reading that they do indeed feature the GOdfather playin' Hammond.
>I have one someplace and from what I remember it's more jazzy than 60s soul=
.

Yeah, the one I brought up is James Brown Plays the New Breed/The
Boo-Ga-Loo. If you don't have New Breed/Boo-Ga-Loo, I'd recommend it. James
plays some rippin' organ,  & there are some great bari sax solos and a real
mix of music styles -- mostly straight ahead soul with lots of jazz tinges
(bebop), blues, an instructive ballad (Lost in the Mood of Changes), a jump
jive cut, a crime jazz track -- very 1966, so it's not funk but it
definitely presages it. GREAT party music.

There's a huge record convention in town today -- plan to head out. But
beat the rush by picking up some great LPs at a thrift yesterday -- 50
cents a shot:
* Mancini 67  Thanks, Jane.
* I Dig Chicks  Jonah Jones Quartet  Capitol  instro and vocal w/ a
trumpet. Man, it sends me! Terrific cover with four beauties posed on or
around the bucket of a stream shovel. Really.
* Tune In, Turn On  Benny Golson  Verve -- very Now Sound arrangements of
songs used in 60s tv commercials. Now Sound fans, look for this one: on the
front, a dayglo painted console tv in the middle of the desert.
* Sell Like an Ace, Live Like a King   John Wolfe  Success Motivational
Institute   Get that salesforce geeked!
* Monster Christmas Mash  The Christmas Party Players  Peter Pan. With a
game board on the back.
* Wayne Newton Now  Capitol  With Danke Schoen. Damn, Wayne could be a
doppelganger for Billy Tipton.
* Claudine   A&M
* Carpenters  Ticket to Ride  A&M  On advice of an eXoticat. Thanks.
* Julie London  Julie Is Her Name  Liberty
* Dionne Warwick  Here I Am  Scepter
* Burt Bacharach  Sunday Sunshine  Kapp  My first of those Placidyl promo
records.
* Ethel Smith  Latin Fire  Good Music of MCA  Double record set released in
88. Looks like a compilation of earlier stuff.
* Jerry Murad's Harmonicats  Harmonicha Cha-Cha  Mercury  Scratches two
itches for cha-cha and harmonica. Loving it. Ross, you need this record.

OK, stretch exercises completed. I'm ready for the workout, Mr. LaLane.

Mimi







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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Happiness Is ... "Happiness Is"
Date: 02 Oct 1999 12:12:19 -0400


At 06:36 PM 10/1/99 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:

>
>I have yet to hear him (Terry Baxter), but after scoring Claus Ogerman's
>Saxes Mexicanos this week and literally jumping and snapping my head with my
>headphones on, Ican only imagine what he must deliver. BTW I saw some early
>Frank Chacksfield LPs with exotic covers and Hawaiian music titles. Anyone
>know anything about these? I shy away from Frank. I find him a little
>weak...

Terry Baxter is no Claus Ogerman and neither is Frank Chacksfield.  If you
insist that your Now Sound LP's reach the "level" of Claus, then you're
going to be disapppointed most of the time.  Myself I've developed a taste
for a lot of the "easier listening" Now Sound stuff.  It doesn't have to
rock like Claus does.  And Claus surely does.  I only have his "Watusi
Trumpets" but it's a killer record.
But I also like Frank Chacksfield's all-Beatles record on Phase Four and to
a lesser degree his all-Simon and Garfunkel record.
Terry Baxter covers all the bases.  Most of the time he's very easy
listening but occasionally he reaches almost-Claus levels.
I like it all.  Even Ronnie Aldrich.  Kostelanetz.
And Paul Mauriat.  If you can find "The Soul of Paul Mauriat" with his
great sitary version of "You keep me hangin on", grab it.  But only if you
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From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) FWD: earth chord
Date: 02 Oct 1999 19:06:09 +0200


From the Sun Ra mailinglist:


> Hey,
>     My NPR affiliate ran a story yesterday concerning the fact that the earth
> emits a steady sound that is many octaves below the range that would allow us
> to perceive it.  They went on to say that it was a "good thing" that we
> couldn't hear it as it would sound like fourteen organ keys depressed at
> once; this piece of information was followed by a simulation.  They
> elucidated that this earthly sound is really more like those fourteen notes
> plus fourteen more a semi-tone off and this was demonstrated.  I shouted with
> joy immediately-it was a very beautiful space chord. The earth rocks.
>
--
 Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek
+------------------------------------------+
 Record Collector's Heaven
 http://weirdomusic.freeservers.com/
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) 101 Strings: SWING WITH THE HAMMOND ORGAN
Date: 02 Oct 1999 19:03:01 EDT


I saw the album 101 STRINGS: SWING WITH THE HAMMOND ORGAN in a store today
wand was tempted to buy it but I wasn't sure what was on it. The tunes
contained familiar big band hits like SATIN DOLL and others and the cover had
a  picture of a hammond organ with two girls dancing to it dressed in 1960s
clothes. I am assuming this is a "now sound" record. Does anybody have this
and can they offer there thoughts on this album?


Jason


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) harmonica delights
Date: 02 Oct 1999 17:57:42 +0000


Just my luck (which is good today), the Salvation Army store
in Saint Johns Oregon  is now charging only 25 cents for their
LPs! (Used to charge $1.50 each). I would have carted away more...but here
were the picks I could take with my two bills:

The Harmonica Magic of Leo Diamond  RCA  LPM 1042 (1955).  Mix some
sound effects, occasional percussion and usually not overwhelming
strings directed by Harry Geller with the masterful sound of Leo Diamond
and you really do have magic.  Yes, there were a few shmaltzy numbers,
but Mr. Diamonds glissandos and other neat tricks with the occasional
bongos makes this a winner.

The Harmonicats  Design DLP 202  I probably have the tunes on this album
on some other album, but not this cover (two kittens and four harmonicas).
Well recorded and the usual Harmonicats fare.

As if inspired by the latest issue of Cool and Strange Music! Magazine, I
found yet another Bond album.  This one:  Basie Meets Bond, United Artists
UAS 6480.  The music is absolutely cool, but I certainly couldn't refuse
the cover either. There is something about a scantilly clad woman with a
gold machine gun....

Fiesta Time  Percy Faith  Decca DLP 5025 (1949)  The record is pretty beat
up, as all 10 inch discs usually are but it has some cool tunes including
Bim Bam Boom (Bim Bam Bum) and Tico Tico among them and a colorful cover.

Calypso in Hi-Fi Dave Burgess and his Caribbeans  Tops L 1565.  I am not a
big fan of this music and I think I have another Tops Calypso LP I was not
impressed with, but don't ya just love the covers?

Italy   Songs by the Di Mara Sisters  Roulette  R-25005.  Tony Dannon
conducted the orchestra.  Probably nothing remarkable about this album, but
I'm a sucker for Italian anything and you never know if a quarter will get
you something cool.

Cole Porter in Pleasant Percussion  Ted Somner and Bill Lavorgna  Grand
Prix K151.  I have these same tunes on another album but with a different
cover and probably released on another affliated budget label (part of the
K.M. Corp. empire of Freeport, L.I. (Long Island???).

Penncrest Presents your Stereo Command Performance   Terry Snyder and the
All Stars  Command PC 1 SD (which is actually RS 800 SD: Persuasive
Percussion).
Yeah, just what I need...another copy of Persuasive Percussion.  However, I
like the different cover graphics and I like collecting the different
commercial versions of Command LPs.

ByRon


Byron Caloz
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
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From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Harmonicats Score
Date: 02 Oct 1999 21:44:52 -0400


At 6:51 PM -0600 10/2/99, [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer) wrote:

>* Jerry Murad's Harmonicats  Harmonicha Cha-Cha  Mercury  Scratches two
>itches for cha-cha and harmonica. Loving it. Ross, you need this record.

Argh! That one has been at the top of my want-list for at least a year or two.

Once I find that, I can curl up and die a happy person--unless I go
off instead on a binge for this "Now Sound" music you young people
keep mentioning. . .
  --Ross

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) 101 Strings: SWING WITH THE HAMMOND ORGAN
Date: 02 Oct 1999 22:02:20 -0400


At 07:03 PM 10/2/99 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>I saw the album 101 STRINGS: SWING WITH THE HAMMOND ORGAN in a store today
>and was tempted to buy it but I wasn't sure what was on it.Does anybody
have this
>and can they offer there thoughts on this album?

I have it and the fact that I kept it, having "sent back" so many other
organ LP's, means something to me.  But I put it on just in case.  There
are actually tunes here that swing and the strings and organ are an
interesting combination in places.  Of course it would be a much better
record if they were doing "Up Up and Away" and "I know a place" instead of
"Satin Doll" but maybe that's my prejudice.
It would also be better if all the tunes swung but there are ballads and
they get a bit turgid.
I recognize the name of the organ player : Paul Griffin.  Wasn't there a
guy played keyboards with Electric Flag or something with that name?  I
can't find that record right now.  But there's some Paul Butterfield or
Bloomfield connection with that name.

Anyway, I'm grooving to the first cut on Side two - Love for Sale - as I
write this.  But "Body and Soul" just came on and it's done slow and a bit
sucky.

Buyer beware but I kept it.

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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
Date: 02 Oct 1999 21:08:39 -0500


"The Twist Goes Latin" on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast.
We'll hear not only from Perez Prado's famous twist album but also
Roger King Mozian's frantic "El Twist".

Also, groovy Now Sounds by Horst Jankowski, Claus Ogerman (from
"Watusi Trumpets"), Ray Martin and Peter Thomas; Sam Butera and the
Witnesses from "The Rat Race"; passionate percussion by Dick Schory,
Frankie Capp and Les Baxter;  outer space exotica by  Danny Elfman
and Paul Tanner (from "Music for Heavenly Bodies"); plus tunes by
Ursula 100, Mirageman, Dead Ringer and more.

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.

As always, comments, suggestions and requests are most welcome.

Thanks for the space!

Darrell Brogdon
[e-mail]
The Retro Cocktail Hour
KANU Radio
Broadcasting Hall
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Alfred The King Of Disco
Date: 02 Oct 1999 21:53:46 +0000


At 10:20 AM 02-10-99 EDT, Roy wrote:
>Here's Mr. D. Hyman's silly little ditty from the Reader's Digest box set
>titled Organ Magic

That was great!  Thanks for doing that for us listers.  I probably wouldn't
have heard it otherwise.

Byron

Byron Caloz
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Harmonicats Score
Date: 03 Oct 1999 00:54:02 EDT



In a message dated 10/2/99 9:49:17 PM, [e-mail] writes:

>At 6:51 PM -0600 10/2/99, [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer) wrote:

How can you be SO certain that 6:51 was the time??? ;----)


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From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Obit: Lena Zavaroni
Date: 03 Oct 1999 14:07:28 +0100


Discussed in this forum not many months ago, Lena Zavaroni has
died at the age of 35, in hospital.  She had been suffering from
anorexia for 22 years, and weighed 62 lbs.  She was in hospital
for an operation to make her be able to eat, but was very weak
and unable to survive a minor infection.  Very sad.

Whether you liked her act or not, there was no doubt that she
was a natural entertainer with considerable vocal talents.
She came to fame via the talent show "Opportunity knocks",
winning several weeks running.

HP.


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From: "B. Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Cugie LA chateau 4 sale
Date: 03 Oct 1999 09:59:04 -0700


If you've got $3.2 million that is.

>From the pages of Los Angeles Magazine:

"Soon after Edward and Cristina Kahn paid nearly $2 million for the
French Regency house at 623 N. Beverly Drive in 1997, Cristina was
inspired to buy a piano, even though she didn't know how to play.  Yet
music was in the air -- literally -- at the gated, five bedroom, 4631
square foot chateau.  Late at night, says realtor Adrian Grant, spooky
tunes echo through the house.  Creepy pipe organ tones?  No, more like a
thumping Latin dance beat.

Seems that the home's previous occupant was bandleader and 1930s film
star Xavier Cugat, the Rumba King at LA's famed Cocoanut Grove
nightclub.  Born in Gerona, Spain, and raised in Havana, Cugat danced to
the altar five times -- the fifth time was with entertainer Charo, who
shared this house with him.  The Kahns, who may have gotten a little
tired of Cugat's midnight bandstanding, have listed the place at
$3,195,000."

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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Harmonicats Score
Date: 03 Oct 1999 11:47:46 -0500


At 9:44 PM 10/2/99, Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr wrote:

>>* Jerry Murad's Harmonicats  Harmonicha Cha-Cha  ... Ross, you need this
>>record.
>
>Argh! That one has been at the top of my want-list for at least a year or t=
wo.

Well, Bosco, it will be a pleasure to tape a stop-gap copy for you, except
our deck is getting hinky again. Will ask a pal with a high-end sound
system if I can use his equipment -- surely he'll say Yeah!

>Once I find that, I can curl up and die a happy person--unless I go
>off instead on a binge for this "Now Sound" music you young people
>keep mentioning. . .

Oh Ross, you'd like that stuff too. Perhaps I'll stage a taping marathon at
Steve's house, tape Discussion In Percussion (got a clean copy yesterday!)
the Harmonicats Cha-Cha LP and one or two other surprises I've gathered in
my recent record-buying frenzy. A tape I made for you using my beat copy of
Discussion has been on my desk, ready for mailing for the past two months.
I hesitated to put it into the mail because the Discussion sound is so
sucky. Now I can get you a much better copy.

Damn, it HAS been a record-buying frenzy, though. I've gotten some great
LPs, ones you'd really appreciate. With no exaggeration, I'd guess I've
spent 300 to 400 on records alone during the past few months. Most have
been thrift buys, altho as I dive deeper Into the dark waters of
collecting, I've realized I must declare myself a collector as acquisitive
as any other; now I'm driven to seeking vinyl in real used record stores.
=46or me, the scent of mildewed wax has become the headiest of perfumes. I
only hope that you and Margaret can come visit soon so you can hear some of
the glorious music I've gotten -- the experience of finding a must-have
disk is, for me, matched or surpassed by the pleasure of playing it for an
appreciative listener. Or perhaps we'll get to Michigan over x-mas so I can
hear YOUR finds and admire your Wall O' Chrome toaster exhibit.

Catch you soon -- very busy with two back-to-back writing jobs, so the
money is rolling in. Loving it and not flipped by the pressure, either.
Life be good, even while missing Tiger Lil.

Take care,
Mimi




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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: (exotica) So sorry!
Date: 03 Oct 1999 11:52:08 -0500


Eeks, too fast on the send button. Posted a private mail to Ross on the
list. So sorry to eat the bandwidth and subject y'all to a rave.

Red-faced Mimi




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) OT Italian film question
Date: 03 Oct 1999 12:44:02 EDT


In a message dated 10/1/99 11:33:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< >Doesn't one of the James Bond films have scenes in Venice?
 Yes, Moonraker! >>

and it one of the (very) low points that occured during those horrible Roger
Moore Bond films of the late 70's/early 80's.

a motorized/hydrofoil gondola . . . give me a break.

the sound track is pretty good tho.  a very nice version of the 007 theme(not
to be confused with the James Bond Theme)

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) FWD: earth chord
Date: 03 Oct 1999 12:48:29 EDT


In a message dated 10/2/99 10:06:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<<  My NPR affiliate ran a story yesterday concerning the fact that the earth
 > emits a steady sound that is many octaves below the range that would allow
us
 > to perceive it.   >>

and i remember seeing on tv once that moon rocks beep.  maybe together the
earth and moon form some sort of stellar combo.

wink,

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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) cathode ray stuff
Date: 03 Oct 1999 15:13:49 -0400


A heavy platter of exotica-ish tv items this week in the US...

Dark British satire/musical, "The Ruling Class" (1971) Bravo - Sunday
afternoon, 5:00pm (eastern).

"A Shot In The Dark" (1964). Mancini, Sellers, 'nuff said. AMC - Sunday
afternoon, 5:30pm.

Bacharach-themed "Alfie" (1966). TCM - Sunday night, 10:00pm

Speaking of Bowie (Ms. Fondel), "The Man Who Fell To Earth" (1976). Sci-Fi
- Late Sunday, 3:00am.

No logical exotica connection, but PUT THE MASK ON NOW anyway. "The Mask"
(1961). AMC - Monday morning, 7:30am.

"Tarzan, The Ape Man" (1932). Antique exotica? TCM - Monday afternoon, 3:30pm.

Nancy Sinatra (theme song, featured role) and tormented comedy in "The Last
Of The Secret Agents?" (1966). AMC - Tuesday afternoon, 4:45pm.

Stretching it again... "Invaders From Mars" (1953). Some of the Martians
look fairly exotic? AMC - Tuesday night, 6:30pm.

Okay, theremin. Solid, man. "The Day The Earth Stood Still" (1951). AMC -
Tuesday night, 9:00pm, 1:30am.

Exotic in mood, at least. "Picnic At Hanging Rock" (1975). TCM - Tuesday
night, 10:30pm.

"Amarcord" (1974). Fellini, Rota, 'nuff said. Bravo - Wednesday afternoon,
12:30pm.

"The Great Texas Dynamite Chase" (1977). Unrepentant 70s redneck binge. Way
more fun than the (*recently discussed*) Ducks Of Hazard. I seem to recall
the score being kinda nifty. TBS - Wednesday night, 1:40am.

Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche in "Greenwich Village" (1944). Not to mention
the rare sight of William Bendix doing a musical number. In a toga. Now
that's exotic. AMC - Thursday morning, 11:30am.

"The Girl Can't Help It" (1956). Jayne, Jayne, Jayne. And, briefly, Julie
London. AMC - Friday afternoon, 4:00pm.

"The Fall Of The House Of Usher" (1960). Baxter score, I think. Probably.
AMC - Friday night, 10:00pm, 3:45am.

m.ace  [e-mail]
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Amok - Fifth Dispatch
Date: 03 Oct 1999 20:21:29 -0400


I recently purchased the latest Amok book catalog (the fifth dispatch),
and they have a special section labeled as 'Exotica'    I thought you
all might enjoy reading the titles of the books listed under this
category... and give you something else to consider if you ever tire of
listening to all of the exotica records.

- Adventures in Arabia
- Arabian Fairy Tales
- At the end of the Rainbow? Gold, People, and Land in the Brazilian
Amazon
- Bury me Standing: the Gypsies and their Journey
- Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond
- Conversations with Cannibals: the end of the Old South Pacific
- Covarrubias [last name of some artists/explorers]
- The Dances of Africa
- Divine Hunger: Cannibalism as a Cultural System
- Dreams and Reverie: Images of Otherworld Mates among the Baule, West
Africa
- Easter Island, Earth Island
- Easter Island: Mystery of the Stone Giants
- A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat
- Gaugin's Letters from the South Seas
- Going into Darkness: Fantastic Coffins from Africa
- The Good Parsi: the Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society

- The Gypsies
- Harem: the World Behind the Veil
- Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost Gods
- Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia
- The Invisibles: a Tale of the Eunuchs in India
- Island Encounters: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War
- Island of Bali
- The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies
- Kon-Tiki
- The Lemon [takes place in Tangiers]
- Love with a Few Hairs [ tales set in Morroco]
- M'Hashish
- Mambu: A Melanesian Millenium
- Marks of Civilization: Artistic Transformations of the Human Body
- Masks of Bali: Spirits of an Ancient Drama
- Mexico: from the Olmecs to the Aztecs
- Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India
- Noa Noa: the Tahitian Journal
- Nomads of Western Tibet: the Survival of a Way of Life
- Oceanic Art
- Paradise Remade: the Politics of Culture and History in Hawaii
- Paul Bowles by his Friends
- Paul Bowles Photographs: How Could I Send a Picture into the Desert
- Rapanui: Tradition of Survival on Easter Island
- Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey (4 Volumes)
   - Vol 1) Spice Island Saga
   - Vol 2) Dance of the Warriors
   - Vol 3) East of Krakatoa
   - Vol 4) Dream Wanderers of Borneo
- Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanasia
- Sexuality and Eroticism among Males in Moslem Societies
- The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle
- Tales of the Yeti
-Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue (tales by Paul Bowles)
- They Married Adventure: the Wandering Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson
- The Third Eye: Race, Cinema and Ethnographic Spectacle
- "A Trade Like any Other": Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt
- The Traditional Architecture of Indonesia
- Trance and Healing in Southeast Asia Today
- Travels in the Unknown East
- Voyages of Discovery (by Captain James Cook)
- The Way of the Masks
- Wood Carvings of Bali
- Yanomamo: the Last Days of Eden (about Amazon Indians)

Theres also entire sections on Richard Burton (the traveller), Isabelle
Eberhardt, and on Mayan culture.

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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Amok - Fifth Dispatch
Date: 03 Oct 1999 19:46:02 -0700 (PDT)



not on amazon - but for exotic adventure, seek out
ferdinand ossendowski... most famous for 1922's
beasts, men and gods... flight from bolsheviks through
central asia and tibet... homicidal llamas, etc. only
refs. on net to this guy are from "hollow earth"
theory
knurls (agarthi/shambala  - king of the world type of
stuff).cited at least once in umberto eco's
foucault's pudendum. odd no one has brought any of
this back to print. really.

other titles include: man and mystery in asia; the
fires of desert folk; the lioness...


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Subject: (exotica) Amok - Fifth Dispatch
Date: 03 Oct 1999 20:21:29 -0400


I recently purchased the latest Amok book catalog (the fifth dispatch),
and they have a special section labeled as 'Exotica'    I thought you
all might enjoy reading the titles of the books listed under this
category... and give you something else to consider if you ever tire of
listening to all of the exotica records.

- Adventures in Arabia
- Arabian Fairy Tales
- At the end of the Rainbow? Gold, People, and Land in the Brazilian
Amazon
- Bury me Standing: the Gypsies and their Journey
- Cargo Cult: Strange Stories of Desire from Melanesia and Beyond
- Conversations with Cannibals: the end of the Old South Pacific
- Covarrubias [last name of some artists/explorers]
- The Dances of Africa
- Divine Hunger: Cannibalism as a Cultural System
- Dreams and Reverie: Images of Otherworld Mates among the Baule, West
Africa
- Easter Island, Earth Island
- Easter Island: Mystery of the Stone Giants
- A Fez of the Heart: Travels Around Turkey in Search of a Hat
- Gaugin's Letters from the South Seas
- Going into Darkness: Fantastic Coffins from Africa
- The Good Parsi: the Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society

- The Gypsies
- Harem: the World Behind the Veil
- Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost Gods
- Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia
- The Invisibles: a Tale of the Eunuchs in India
- Island Encounters: Black and White Memories of the Pacific War
- Island of Bali
- The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies
- Kon-Tiki
- The Lemon [takes place in Tangiers]
- Love with a Few Hairs [ tales set in Morroco]
- M'Hashish
- Mambu: A Melanesian Millenium
- Marks of Civilization: Artistic Transformations of the Human Body
- Masks of Bali: Spirits of an Ancient Drama
- Mexico: from the Olmecs to the Aztecs
- Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India
- Noa Noa: the Tahitian Journal
- Nomads of Western Tibet: the Survival of a Way of Life
- Oceanic Art
- Paradise Remade: the Politics of Culture and History in Hawaii
- Paul Bowles by his Friends
- Paul Bowles Photographs: How Could I Send a Picture into the Desert
- Rapanui: Tradition of Survival on Easter Island
- Ring of Fire: An Indonesian Odyssey (4 Volumes)
   - Vol 1) Spice Island Saga
   - Vol 2) Dance of the Warriors
   - Vol 3) East of Krakatoa
   - Vol 4) Dream Wanderers of Borneo
- Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanasia
- Sexuality and Eroticism among Males in Moslem Societies
- The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle
- Tales of the Yeti
-Their Heads are Green and Their Hands are Blue (tales by Paul Bowles)
- They Married Adventure: the Wandering Lives of Martin and Osa Johnson
- The Third Eye: Race, Cinema and Ethnographic Spectacle
- "A Trade Like any Other": Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt
- The Traditional Architecture of Indonesia
- Trance and Healing in Southeast Asia Today
- Travels in the Unknown East
- Voyages of Discovery (by Captain James Cook)
- The Way of the Masks
- Wood Carvings of Bali
- Yanomamo: the Last Days of Eden (about Amazon Indians)

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Eberhardt, and on Mayan culture.

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Subject: (exotica) Custom Tiki CD
Date: 03 Oct 1999 22:23:22 -0500


I have rigged up my Tiki bathroom light switch so that a hidden CD
player plays automatically.  Are there any Tiki fans out there who could
make me a custom Tiki CD?  I want the first song to be Disneyland's,
"The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room", and after that, just general Tiki flavored
goodies.  The CD player always starts with the first song of the CD, and
that's why I'd like to have that song first.  If anyone can whip
somethig up for me and all my future guests in my hip crapper, please
contact me personally, at:  [e-mail].  I'm not on the
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Subject: (exotica) [obits]Charles A. Federer Jr.,Sal Salvador,Akio Morita
Date: 04 Oct 1999 09:25:31 -0400


Charles A. Federer Jr.
MYSTIC, Conn. (AP) Charles A. Federer Jr., the editor in chief of Sky and Telescope magazine, died Tuesday. He was 90.

Federer started the magazine for amateur astronomers in 1941 and retired in 1974. The magazine now has a circulation of about 125,000.

Federer taught himself astronomy as a child growing up in Redding. He earned a physics degree from the City College of New York in the 1930s and founded his own magazine by combining two money-losing journals, The Sky and The Telescope.

Sal Salvador
http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=9:21:03|AM&p=amg&sql=B7476
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP)Sal Salvador, a guitarist who performed with some top jazz musicians, died of cancer on Sept. 22. He was 73.

Born as Silvio Smiraglia, Salvador taught himself how to play guitar and became known as a be-bop improviser.

He performed with Stan Kenton, Bill Evans, Phil Woods and other jazz greats.

From 1970 until recently, Salvador taught jazz at the University of Bridgeport and Western Connecticut State University. He also gave private lessons in New York City.

Akio Morita
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/asia/100399obit-morita.html
TOKYO (AP)  Akio Morita, the entrepreneur, engineer and savvy salesman who helped give new meaning to the words "Made in Japan," died Sunday of pneumonia, Sony Corp. said. He was 78.

Morita co-founded Sony in a bombed-out department store after World War II. He was the last of a generation of Japanese industrialists that included carmaker Soichiro Honda and electronics rival Konosuke Matsushita.

Under Morita's guidance, Sony was instrumental in changing Japan's image from a maker of slipshod products to a world leader in high-quality automobiles and electronics. In the process, his company became a multibillion dollar conglomerate.

Born in the central Japanese city of Nagoya on Jan. 26, 1921, Morita retired as Sony's chairman in 1994. A year earlier he had suffered a stroke that left him weakened and in a wheelchair.

The tanned, snowy-haired Morita, who took up water-skiing in his 60s, also pioneered new behavior for corporate Japan. He pushed his engineers to take risks with new products and criticized lavishly paid American executives.

He caused a stir in 1989 by co-authoring "The Japan That Can Say 'No'" with current Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, then refusing to authorize an English translation. In it, Morita criticized U.S. corporate culture as overindulgent.




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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: (exotica) New fiction about music
Date: 04 Oct 1999 09:09:26 -0500


Louis Shiner, rock critic, cyberpunk innovator, small-time musician, and
fine spinner of tales about regenerate losers, just released a new book:
_Say Goodbye_. About a musician and the struggle to make a living when what
you love to do will not pay your bills. More info at amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312241100/qid%3D936064845/sr%3D1-3/0
02-8141783-8198616
I've not read _Say Goodbye_ yet but I've boosted Shiner's _Glimpses_ here.
Shiner's web site is at http://members.aol.com/maryklew/lsdotcom.html

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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [Daniela Blyth: Hello again!]
Date: 04 Oct 1999 15:01:47 +0100


> I have been trying to phone you at the office earlier.  Have you been in
> the library?  I would really like to talk to you because we haven't had
> a chat for ages.  I hope you are O.K.
>

Hi DOO,

I'm fine, I was working at home this morning, and I've only just come
in to check the times when I need to run experiments tomorrow and
Wednesday. And pretty soon I'm going back home again, because I hate
it here, and my computer is down so I am in a shared computer room,
which is crap.

I spent most of yesterday playing "Resident Evil" which is very cheesy
indeed, involves shooting lots of zombies, mad dogs, and the last
thing that killed me was some big GIANT SPIDERS. And there are evil
plants and killer wasps too, it's good fun but all the puzzle solving
is annoying. And then I read some of Charlie Chaplin's autobiography;
he's really annoyingly pretentious in his vocabulary.

I am not going to drink any booze until next cheese night, it's just
pointless and a waste of time and money. I'm sick of it. I am going to
relax with computer games.

> I am going to view a flat tonight at 6.00. It is near the big
> Sainsburys which is very convenient.  I hope it's O.K. and I can move in
> soon.
>

OK, hope it's a good one, and there aren't 10million people after it!

> I have got to go now so I hope to be in touch with you soon.
>

Will keep my ear out for the phone after I get home, take good care of
yourself too, and always remember how much I love you.

XXXXXXXXX





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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Dick Patterson,Chili Bouchier
Date: 04 Oct 1999 10:24:20 -0400


10/1/99 L.A. Times --
 * Dick Patterson; Actor, Stand-Up Comedian
 Dick Patterson, 70, comedian and song and dance man of Broadway musicals, film and television. After making his Broadway debut in David Merrick's "Vintage '60," Patterson appeared in "The Billy Barnes
People," the national touring company of "Bye Bye Birdie" and opposite
Carol Burnett in "Fade Out, Fade In." His most recent musical was
"Smile," a spoof of beauty pageants, in which one reviewer said
Patterson was "hilarious as the coy emcee" and another praised his
portrayal of "the fiendishly smarmy third-rate television personalty who serves as pageant emcee." On the silver screen, Patterson appeared in "Grease" and "Grease II," and Disney's "Strongest Man in the World." On television, the actor was a frequent guest on "The Carol Burnett Show" and had occasional roles on such popular series as "Here's Lucy," "Happy Days" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Patterson, who was a nightclub stand-up comedian, wrote material for the Las Vegas acts of Debbie Reynolds and Rich Little and a song, "Santa's Marching Song." Born in Clear Lake, Iowa, Patterson moved to California in his teens and worked his way through UCLA. On Sept. 20 in Los Angeles.

10/1/99 Variety --
Chili Bouchier
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?UID=10:22:37|AM&p=avg&sql=B121219
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Bouchier,+Chili
   Longtime British actress Chili Bouchier, who became known as BritainÆs answer to Clara Bow in the 1920s and was billed as ôBritainÆs It Girl,ö died Sept. 9 of natural causes in England just three days short of her 90th birthday.
   Born Dorothy Irene Boucher in London, she made her screen debut at
age 17 as a bathing beauty in the 1927 silent film ôShooting Stars.ö
Bouchier was so popular two years later that her marriage to revue star Harry Milton turned into a mob scene.
   She made a smooth transition to talkies, with pics including ôCall of the Seaö (1930), ôThe Kissing Cup Raceö (1931), ôCarnivalö (1931),
ôEbb Tideö (1932), ôThe Blue Danubeö (1932), ôThe Mad Hattersö (1935)
and ôEverything Happens to Meö (1938).
   She eventually signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bros. but
disliked Hollywood and returned home before having made a single U.S.
picture.
   Back in London, she enjoyed a West End hit in the revival ôA Little
Bit of Fluff.ö She toured Egypt entertaining Allied forces during WWII
and, following the war, returned to films with ôThe Case of Charles
Peaceö (1949) and ôThe Counterfeit Planö (1956). In 1952 shared the
stage with Diana Dors in the West End revue ôRendezvous.ö
   She later moved on to character roles, such as a 1975 legit revival
of ôHarveyö starring James Stewart, and sang ôBroadway Babyö in the
West End production of ôFollies.ö In 1991, she appeared in the BBC TV
series ôFlipö and five years later published her memoirs, ôShooting
Star.ö
   She was working on a dramatization of her life with writer David
Collier at the time of her death.
   She left no survivors.







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From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [Daniela Blyth: Hello again!]
Date: 04 Oct 1999 17:34:04 +0200



>> I have been trying to phone you at the office earlier.  Have you been in
>> the library?  I would really like to talk to you because we haven't had
>> a chat for ages.  I hope you are O.K.
>>
>
>Hi DOO,
>
>I'm fine, I was working at home this morning, and I've only just come
>in to check the times when I need to run experiments tomorrow and
>Wednesday. And pretty soon I'm going back home again, because I hate
>it here, and my computer is down so I am in a shared computer room,
>which is crap.
>
>I spent most of yesterday playing "Resident Evil" which is very cheesy
>indeed, involves shooting lots of zombies, mad dogs, and the last
>thing that killed me was some big GIANT SPIDERS. And there are evil
>plants and killer wasps too, it's good fun but all the puzzle solving
>is annoying. And then I read some of Charlie Chaplin's autobiography;
>he's really annoyingly pretentious in his vocabulary.
>
>I am not going to drink any booze until next cheese night, it's just
>pointless and a waste of time and money. I'm sick of it. I am going to
>relax with computer games.
>
>> I am going to view a flat tonight at 6.00. It is near the big
>> Sainsburys which is very convenient.  I hope it's O.K. and I can move in
>> soon.
>>
>
>OK, hope it's a good one, and there aren't 10million people after it!
>
>> I have got to go now so I hope to be in touch with you soon.
>>
>
>Will keep my ear out for the phone after I get home, take good care of
>yourself too, and always remember how much I love you.
>
>XXXXXXXXX






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love letter you send over the internet standard to the exoticalist, so
we'll get a better idea what's at the heart of all these strange tastes
we've come to witness here.

Cheers, Ton


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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Moai Eye
Date: 04 Oct 1999 09:57:50 -0700 (PDT)


I recently heard second hand that the Easter Island
statutes once had eyes and straw hats! (apparently the
source is NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, though I've not
confirmed this.)
Recently discovered on the Island were these black and
white discs...now believed/known to be their eyes!
Apparently straw hats were discovered for them, too!
If that's true, it's JUST
TOO
CUTE!

Can anybody else confirm this?  If true, the Moai is
the ancient equivalent of Mr. Potato Head!
Jane Fondle


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Subject: Re: (exotica) New fiction about music
Date: 05 Oct 1999 01:04:07 +0000


Mimi-
    This looks like a really good book.  I think I'm gonna check it out.  Have
you by any chance read "The Exes" by ex-zinester Pagan Kennedy?  It's about the
creation and ultimate disintegration of a band. (All of whom were once lovers,
hence the name.)  Amazon info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684854422/qid=939056014/sr=1-2/002-5201901-6532642

Michael Z

Mimi Mayer wrote:

> Louis Shiner, rock critic, cyberpunk innovator, small-time musician, and
> fine spinner of tales about regenerate losers, just released a new book:
> _Say Goodbye_. About a musician and the struggle to make a living when what
> you love to do will not pay your bills. More info at amazon.com
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312241100/qid%3D936064845/sr%3D1-3/0
> 02-8141783-8198616
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From: Paul McKay <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Moai Eye
Date: 04 Oct 1999 11:03:11 -0400


> Can anybody else confirm this?  If true, the Moai is
> the ancient equivalent of Mr. Potato Head!
> Jane Fondle

Eyes - yes but they were painted on, maybe a few were inset but I have
never heard of this.

Straw hats - no but they had "hats" of red stone believed (by Thor
Heyerdahl) to represent red hair tied into a top knot in the style of
ancient Peru, some of these "hats" have been discovered. They had to be
quarried at a good distance from the quarry where the Moai were worked
and brought overland so some importance must have been placed on them.

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From: "Robert Quarterman" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) let's talk moog
Date: 04 Oct 1999 18:32:57 +0100


heres a few that were missed (possibly with good reason) off the huge list
of moog titles posted the other day:

great hits of the 70's moog style(includes the wombling song)
moog party time
romantic moog
the moog strikes bach...
magic moog nursery rhymes
clockwork orange   walter carlos
walter carlos by request (includes whats new, pussycat?)
moog superstar (excerpts from jesus christ superstar)
sound 2000 moog  klaus wunderlich

if anyone would like to contact me off list, for a list of moog records im
getting rid of please feel free

cheers!!! Rob



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Moai Eye
Date: 04 Oct 1999 13:41:54 EDT


In a message dated 10/04/99 12:55:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I recently heard second hand that the Easter Island
 statutes once had eyes and straw hats! (apparently the
 source is NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, though I've not
 confirmed this.)
 Recently discovered on the Island were these black and
 white discs...now believed/known to be their eyes!  >>

dr. tiki bob better get on to this.  an "island call" may be in order.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) [Daniela Blyth: Hello again!]
Date: 04 Oct 1999 10:55:15 -0700 (PDT)


>
> How lovely. I would indeed encourage all to cc a
> copy of each and every
> love letter you send over the internet standard to
> the exoticalist, so
> we'll get a better idea what's at the heart of all
> these strange tastes
> we've come to witness here.
>
> Cheers, Ton


Ton, hon...we want to see YOUR letters next!  Funny,
when I saw the subject line, I thought it was about a
soundtrack...something British, like TO SIR, WITH
LOVE!
heheh-JaneFondle

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Subject: Re: (exotica) [Daniela Blyth: Hello again!]
Date: 04 Oct 1999 10:55:18 -0700 (PDT)


>
> How lovely. I would indeed encourage all to cc a
> copy of each and every
> love letter you send over the internet standard to
> the exoticalist, so
> we'll get a better idea what's at the heart of all
> these strange tastes
> we've come to witness here.
>
> Cheers, Ton


Ton, hon...we want to see YOUR letters next!  Funny,
when I saw the subject line, I thought it was about a
soundtrack...something British, like TO SIR, WITH
LOVE!
heheh-JaneFondle

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From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Custom Tiki CD
Date: 04 Oct 1999 10:52:09 -0700


"L.R.S." wrote:
>
> I have rigged up my Tiki bathroom light switch so that a hidden CD
> player plays automatically.
> If anyone can whip
> somethig up for me and all my future guests in my hip crapper, please
> contact me

What a great, useless, use of technology! I wish I could help, but I
will say it is a great concept!

Kevin Crossman


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From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Files
Date: 04 Oct 1999 11:02:06 -0700 (PDT)


If anyone would like to hear Sun Ra doing Pink
Elephants, Tom Waits doing the Dwarf Song (Hi-Ho) or
Yma Sumac doing I Wonder from Hal Willner's Stay Awake
compilation, you can retrieve said files from a place
called www.click2send.com.

The box you want to open is: Knuck's Box
The password is: pickup


The files themselves are MP3s, but I changed the
extension to .zip.  All you need to do to play them is
to download the file and rename the extension back to
.mp3.


Let me know if you have any questions, and happy
listening!

Peter


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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Renaissance question
Date: 04 Oct 1999 19:24:02 +0200


the same issue of ICE mentions a CD by Renaissance ("the BBC sessions
1975-78")... this couldn't be the same group that did that "Bacharach
Baroque" LP that was mentioned here a couple of days ago, or could it?

        Johan


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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Esquivel's "See it in sound" to be rereleased
Date: 04 Oct 1999 19:22:39 +0200


according to ICE, Esquivel's "See it in sound" is to be rereleased on
november 9 by 7N Music. hip hip...



        Johan


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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Moai Eye
Date: 04 Oct 1999 11:19:18 -0700



> << I recently heard second hand that the Easter Island
>  statutes once had eyes and straw hats! (apparently the
>  source is NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, though I've not
>  confirmed this.)
>  Recently discovered on the Island were these black and
>  white discs...now believed/known to be their eyes!  >>


Another little-known fact about the Moai: They had bodies, but only the
heads remain above ground after centuries of sinking into the soft island
earth. One day, only their eyes will peer over the sands of the desolate
Pacific Island, and eventually they will dissapear. (true!)

I never heard of the straw hats, but it begs the question of whether they
had other accessories. Overalls? Wooden shoes?  The hat issue also reminds
me of the "Tiki Cam:" One of the early web-cams originating from somewhere
in Northern California - Some guys trained web-cam on a 10-foot fiberglass
Moai. They dressed it up for major holidays. Somewhere I have a grabbed
frame of this thing in a Santa hat.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See it in sound" to be rereleased
Date: 04 Oct 1999 13:36:18 -0500


>according to ICE, Esquivel's "See it in sound" is to be rereleased on
>november 9 by 7N Music. hip hip...


you mean *RELEASED*

visit...

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            King Kini's  C L U B  V E L V E T
              http://www.tamboo.com
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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) LP frames....
Date: 04 Oct 1999 14:53:48 -0400


Anybody know of a source to buy those plastic LP frames so you hang 'em on =
the wall???

I think this was discussed before?

They shouldn't be expensive as they're just two pieces of plastic that =
snap over the record - my bro had one that somebody gave him.

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From: "Wayno" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Lena Zavaroni Obit
Date: 04 Oct 1999 11:58:58 -0700



>From the Observer (UK):

Anorexia snuffs out the childpop star who never grew up=20

Vanessa Thorpe, Arts Correspondent=20
Sunday October 3, 1999=20

Lena Zavaroni, the child singing star once billed as the next
Barbra Streisand, has died at the University of Wales Hospital
in Cardiff, it was announced yesterday.=20
Her family broke the news with little explanation. Her father
was too distressed to speak, although hospital staff made it
clear that the 35-year-old singer had been recovering from an
operation after being hospitalised several weeks ago.=20

Friends revealed that Zavaroni had been undergoing pioneering
surgery which she hoped would finally cure her anorexia. The
singer had suffered from a serious eating disorder since the
age of 13.=20

Chris Perry, the owner of a caf=E9 in Hoddesdon, Herts, which she
visited every day, said: 'Lena was a lovely person. She was very
warm, caring and in desperate need of getting better. She was
hopeful she would be okay after the operation and she was strong
and positive about it.=20

'Everybody that knew her feels very sad that she has passed away.'


Zavaroni's friends from the world of show business spoke of their
sense of shock that a life which started so brightly ended in
such tragedy.=20

Fellow child star Bonnie Langford, who was at stage school with
Zavaroni in the Seventies, said she was deeply saddened. 'She
was an incredibly gifted and very sweet person. It is a tragedy
that she has died so young.'=20

Former Fleet Street editor and broadcaster Derek Jameson said:
'Only 35. What a tragic waste of a life. She showed incredible
potential in her early years and then she was struck down by
this terrible disease, anorexia nervosa.=20

'She was bright and bubbly, but she was also very nervous. Her
great handicap was that she lacked that vital spark of confidence
that takes you to the top.'=20

Back in 1974, viewers of the television talent show Opportunity
Knocks loved her so much they voted her back for an unprecedented
five weeks in a row. By the age of 12, she had met Frank Sinatra,
sung for the Queen and winked and smiled her way through Top
of the Pops.

But the public fascination was short-lived and her name quickly
became shorthand for an outdated, stage-school approach to popular
entertainment.=20

Earlier this year, living alone in a council flat and suffering
from depression, she talked vaguely of hopes for a normal future
after 'part of her brain was cut out'.=20

Avoiding contact with strangers and living on social security,
Zavaroni's great fear was that people would believe that she
had stolen a packet of jelly from her local supermarket. The
accusation was dropped by the store.=20

The singer grew up in Rothesay, on the Scottish isle of Bute.
Her father, Victor, was part of a big Genovese family and a club
singer. Seizing on the obvious power of his nine-year-old daughter's
singing voice, he and his wife, Hilda, encouraged her to audition
in Glasgow. A few months later she was in Los Angeles sharing
a bill with Lucille Ball and a dressing room with Liza Minnelli.


In 1977, her London agent, Dorothy Solomon, said that Zavaroni's
talent would go on and on. 'If I had to compare her with anyone
it would be Judy Garland.'=20

It is a comparison more poignant than she knew. Attending the
Italia Conti stage school, Zavaroni brought out a couple of records,
Ma, He's Makin' Eyes at Me and Personality, but even at this
early point in her career she felt unhappy with her 4ft 10in
tall body.=20

'When they tried to fit me into these costumes, they would talk
about my weight. I kept wondering how they expected me to fit
into these dresses. I was a plump little girl and I was also
developing into a woman.=20

'I wanted to be just right for them, but I had to go to all these
breakfasts, dinners and lunches. I only became fanatical about
not eating when the pressure got too much. I just wanted to have
a nice shape,' she said.=20

Her weight fell to four stone and in 1979 she was admitted to
hospital in both Glasgow and South London. Performing became
impossible and Zavaroni retired from show business announcing
in 1987 that she was to marry businessman Peter Wiltshire, a
former fan. The marriage lasted only 18 months.=20

There was talk of comebacks but anorexia nervosa took hold again
when her 47-year-old mother, Hilda, took a fatal overdose of
tranquillisers in 1989. In recent years Zavaroni lived alone,
seeing no one but her family.=20

'Our only comfort is that other girls with anorexia will take
something from Lena's death. She is an example of what can happen
when young women develop an obsession with their weight,' her
cousin Margaret said.

Guardian Unlimited =A9 Guardian Newspapers Limited 1999


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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Custom Tiki CD
Date: 04 Oct 1999 21:47:40 +0200


I have the Disney track on cd and a cd burner... only trouble is that I am
far too busy to do anything with it... and I am not much into tiki stuff so
I dunno what else could I put on that cd!

bye,
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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Custom Tiki CD
Date: 04 Oct 1999 21:50:01 +0200


I have the Disney track on cd and a cd burner... only trouble is that I am
far too busy to do anything with it... and I am not much into tiki stuff so
I dunno what else could I put on that cd!

bye,
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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Custom Tiki CD
Date: 04 Oct 1999 21:51:13 +0200


I have the Disney track on cd and a cd burner... only trouble is that I am
far too busy to do anything with it... and I am not much into tiki stuff so
I dunno what else could I put on that cd!

bye,
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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Moai Eye
Date: 04 Oct 1999 21:51:19 +0200


>> << I recently heard second hand that the Easter Island
>>  statutes once had eyes and straw hats! (apparently the
>>  source is NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, though I've not
>>  confirmed this.)
>>  Recently discovered on the Island were these black and
>>  white discs...now believed/known to be their eyes!  >>

I didn't know about the eyes, yet I have seen various pics of some Moai
with "hats", in the past... some of them still have hats. Hehe.

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Renaissance question
Date: 04 Oct 1999 16:14:27 -0400


At 07:24 PM 10/4/99 +0200, Johan Dada Vis wrote:
>
>the same issue of ICE mentions a CD by Renaissance ("the BBC sessions
>1975-78")... this couldn't be the same group that did that "Bacharach
>Baroque" LP that was mentioned here a couple of days ago, or could it?

I'm sure it's not the same, no.  There was a "real" group called
Renaissance in the seventies, one of those British bands that I basically
ignored because I assumed they were like the Strawbs.
The musicians on the Bacharach baroque record were assembled for that
record only, I assume.
But this gives me an opportunity to comment on that Bacharach record which
I hadn't heard when it was first mentioned here.
That's a great great record!   Nothing like other fake-baroque records I've
heard or owned.  What sets this one way apart is the arrangement of the
voices.  I didn't look to see who did the arranging but it was brilliant.
I loved it.
Now there's another record on the mental want-list I was trying to keep as
short as possible.

If it turned out that I was wrong and the Bacharach record WAS made by the
British band Renaissance then I was missing a lot more than I thought I was
in the Seventies.

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From: "telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Mondo Bongos" Oct 6, 1999
Date: 04 Oct 1999 16:14:25 -0400


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

Joe Meek & the Blue Men - Dribcots Space Boat "I Hear a New World"
Brian Benett - Ergon "Electronic Toys"
Silver Apples - Whirly-Bird "Silver Apples"

Silver Apples - The Owl "The Garden"
Claude Denjean - Suzie "Moods"
Electroid 2000 - Moogsters Revenge "Beyond the Valley of the Superbeats"
Okko - East Indian Traffic "Sitar & Electronics"

David Shire - Main Title "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three [ost]"
Lalo Schifrin - Dirty Harry's Creed "The Reel Lalo Schifrin"
Charles Wilp - Busy bee "Bunny"
Peter Thomas Sound Orchester - Space-Patrol "Raumpatrouille"

Percy Faith - First Light "Beyond the Valley of the Ultrabeats"
Mandingo - Savage Rite "Savage Rite"
Dean Martin & Julie London - Sway [remix by the Rip-Off Artist] "Electro
Lounge"

Neotropic - Vacetious Blooms "Mr Brubakers Strawberry Alarm Clock"

Until next time...
Allan



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From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [Daniela Blyth: Hello again!]
Date: 04 Oct 1999 22:51:55 +0200



>Ton, hon...we want to see YOUR letters next!  Funny,
>when I saw the subject line, I thought it was about a
>soundtrack...something British, like TO SIR, WITH
>LOVE!


Oh god, am I easy prey, how am I going to wriggle my way out of here?
Throw in a cooling off period of volontary celibacy, maybe?
Anyway, should you soon notice a dramatic change of character in my
posts, you'll know what's happening. Or better, what's not.

Cheers, Ton

PS

Got this record here, "The Golden Hour of The Searchers" ("Sixty minutes
of entertainment") with the fabulous "He's got no love". Love that song.


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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Moai Eye
Date: 04 Oct 1999 17:21:37 -0500


At 11:03 AM 10/4/99, Paul McKay wrote:
>Eyes - yes but they were painted on, maybe a few were inset but I have
>never heard of this.
>
>Straw hats - no but they had "hats" of red stone believed (by Thor
>Heyerdahl) to represent red hair tied into a top knot in the style of
>ancient Peru.

Before Jim-Bob headed out for three weeks on Easter Island, he said the
eyes for moais were kinda like Mr. PotatoHead's--they could be removed.
Nothing is for certain, since the missionaries did such a good job of
wiping out island traditions but...people who study this stuff are pretty
sure priests would stick the eyes in the moai heads during rituals. Once
the eyes were locked in place, the moais came alive, their power awakened.
So naturally, for Jim's bon voyage party, I made a chocolate rolled cake
carved like a moai. During a climactic moment, Jim dropped in eyes of white
chocolate coins painted with dark chocolate pupils. Did I feel a surge of
power? Not really, but we all had a helluva good time. Thank you, moai.
Ross, you were there -- did you feel a zap of power when the eyes dropped
in?

Yeah, some moai wore stone hats, too. A little knob atop a larger knob.
Most have been knocked off and vandalized.

Jim camped for several days at the quarry where the moai were mined and
carved before they were hauled to the ritual platforms. He reports it was
the eeriest place he's ever been--he could stand it for three nights only.
And that the tomatoes grown on Rapa Nui are simply delicious.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Harmonicats
Date: 04 Oct 1999 22:40:34 EDT


>>* Jerry Murad's Harmonicats  Harmonicha Cha-Cha  ... Ross, you need this
>>record.
>
>Argh! That one has been at the top of my want-list for at least a year or t=
wo.

I must say I don't understand the fuss over The Harmonicats.  I have several
harmonica records I'm fond of (by Leo Diamond, Johnny Puleo, George Fields,
etc.).  I bought The Harmonicats in the Land of Hi-Fi and expected it to be
great, but I didn't care for it at all.  The recording quality was bad and I
found the music unadventurous compared to the other stuff I mentioned.  Did I
just buy the wrong Harmonicats record?

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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Renaissance question
Date: 04 Oct 1999 22:55:34 -0400


>>the same issue of ICE mentions a CD by Renaissance ("the BBC sessions
>>1975-78")... this couldn't be the same group that did that "Bacharach
>>Baroque" LP that was mentioned here a couple of days ago, or could it?
>
>I'm sure it's not the same, no.  There was a "real" group called
>Renaissance in the seventies, one of those British bands that I basically
>ignored

Yeah, with that title ("the BBC sessions 1975-78") I'm sure it would be the
British prog-rock Renaissance. On the quasi-classical side of the prog
tree. Sort of in the Moody Blues vein, with pompy strummery and orchestral
backing on much of the material. Multi-octave female lead singer, but not
an Yma Sumac for the 70s. And I'd bet my finest pair of crushed velour
bellbottoms that there's no connection to the Bacharach album.

(And no, I don't actually have a finest pair of crushed velour bellbottoms
-- I was just trying to be proggy in tone).


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re, List of record finds.
Date: 04 Oct 1999 09:52:29 -0400




Well this is some things I picked up at the WICN record sale, I was a real
dummy for now jumping on some other things earlier in the sale. Wasn't
thinking straight. Only listened to a few so far.

Some of what I got:
Mel Hehke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound, A spectacular musical extravaganza.
Architecturally constructed to induce the maximum in audio sensation. (WB
Workshop Series Exploring Uncharted Patterns of Sound)
Buddy Cole, Ingenuity in Sound a new technuque for dual hammond organ  (WB
Workshop Series Exploring Uncharted Patterns of Sound)
Domenic Frontiere, Pagan Festival
Johnny Williams, Rhythm in Motion (listened to sound one, Great Rugolo-esk
busy listening, LP looks mint but hit   a few skips, may need a washing)
Art Van Damme Quintet Manhattan Time (GREAT cover)
Passionate Percussion, (dynamic directional stereo label, whoever they are,
looks too good)
Mike Simpson and Orchestra, Discussion in Percussion (Mercury High Fidelity
perfect presence sound series)
Si Zentner and his Orchestra [Big band plays the big hits:vol 2] Up a Lazy
River
Jack Burger, The end on Bongos
Al Hurt Latin in the Horn (Arranged and Conducted by Lalo Schifrin)
Herbie Mann, Push Push (Jazz make-out album)
Pam Garner Sings Ballads for broken hearts (Orchestra under Johnny
Williams)
Heath vs Ross Round 2, Phase 4 Stereo
Martin Denny Hawiaa A Go-Go (I like it TIKI BOB! Girl from Ipanema is cool)
Dick Schory's New Percussion Ensemble , Percussion From Melody to Madness
Leo Diamond, Musical Magic with, Subliminal Sounds (Sounds like a thememin
in their somewhere, but it's a harmonica)
Leo Diamond, Exciting sounds from romantic places
Leo Diamond, Harmonica sounds in country and western music (This on
Reprise. He used to be with
ABC/Paramount, A Ray Charles insprired C&W set?)
Three Suns, Fever and Smoke (Aduplicate with some scratches, available for
trade)
Three Suns, Warm and Tender, (Aduplicate, available for trade)
Three Suns, Fun in the Sun
Henry Jerome, Brazen Brass Goes Hollywood, (decca)
More Jungle Drums, Morton Gould
Pete Rugolo, Ten Trumpets and Two Guitars
Pete Rugolo, Ten Trombones Like 2 Pianos
Leona Anderson, Music to suffer by (linear notes describes her as "the
worlds most horrible singer) (unique records subsidiary of RKO Teleradio
pictures)
George Cates, Hawaii
Sammy Davis Jr. Something For Everyone. (Not listened to it yet, Motown
label, funky 60's NOW photos)
David Carroll, Percussion Parisienne  (Mercury High Fidelity perfect
presence sound series)
Perez Prado, Mambo Mania (cover in bad shape)
Xavier Cugat, The Beautiful New Sounds of Strings, (2lp's) (Strings?)
Hugo Wintherhalter Goes Continental (is this his only good one?)
Trini Lopez at PJ's Recorded live (Finally a decent copy, will that help me
like this guy??)
The Best of Martin Denny (yah, greatest hits but it's mint!)
Solid State Exotica 1970 Kokee Band
The Swingle Singers, Anyone for Mozart?
Mexican Leather and Spanish Lace, 50 guitars of Tommy Garrett (Liberty
label)
Living Guitars play
Rhythm and Brass, The Young Brass (Dor records)
Living Brass Plays a Heny Mancini Tribute
Living Brass What Now My Love
Living Brass, A Taste of Honey and Other favorites,  Has 3rd Man theme!!)

And from the Enoch light people, Stuff I think is rarer. (At the sale one
older fellow scoffed up every Command LP he could find)

Boxed Set. The Many Moods of Enoch Light
Super Solo Enoch Light Presents Outstanding Selections Containing Solo
Preformances by THE GREAT ONES
Tony Mottola Guitar A Latin Love-inConcerto Electro The Dick Hyman Piano
Concerto
Bongos Bongos Bongos
Leonid Hambro and Jascha Zayde Magnificent Two-Piano Performances.
(classical on Command)
It's Happening...So Let's Dance Enoch Light's Action
Perspectives in Precussion Volume 1 (gray light blue cover)
OFF BEAT Percussion Starring Don Lamond and his Orchestra
Sentimental Enoch Light orchestra and the Fontanna Orchestra
Hey Good Looking Enoch Light and the Light Brigade Jimmy Wellington and his
orchestra.
The Big Band's Back in Town Starring Doc Severinson
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Subject: (exotica) Moai Eye
Date: 05 Oct 1999 08:52:19 +0100


I saw a documentary a while ago where they did computer mockups of the eyes
in place and is was scary I tell you.  These statues in long lines staring
out to sea with these mad eyes.  You'd never land there.


El Maestro Con Queso

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I recently heard second hand that the Easter Island
statutes once had eyes and straw hats! (apparently the
source is NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, though I've not
confirmed this.)
Recently discovered on the Island were these black and
white discs...now believed/known to be their eyes!
Apparently straw hats were discovered for them, too!
If that's true, it's JUST
TOO
CUTE!

Can anybody else confirm this?  If true, the Moai is
the ancient equivalent of Mr. Potato Head!
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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Ton Rueckert: Re: (exotica) [Daniela Blyth: Hello again!]]
Date: 05 Oct 1999 09:11:41 +0100


>
> How lovely. I would indeed encourage all to cc a copy of each and every
> love letter you send over the internet standard to the exoticalist, so
> we'll get a better idea what's at the heart of all these strange tastes
> we've come to witness here.
>
> Cheers, Ton
>

Ouch!

Boy am I red. Does it suit me?



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Emperor Norton CD
Date: 05 Oct 1999 09:57:05 +0100


Thanks to whoever it was that posted about the free Emperor Norton CD a
couple of weeks ago,  mine just turned up and from a first listen,  very
enjoyable too.  I also notice that they have a Bruce Haack release scheduled
for this month,  and on vinyl and very reasonably priced.

For anyone who didn't get the posting,  I don't have the URL anymore,  but
it should be in the archive.  Its well worth getting the CD if like me
you're not really familiar with the modern easy sounds. (and if you're tight
like me as well).  I suspect you may end up on a mailing list forever,  but
at least it'll be more relevant than the usual 'make money' crap.


El Maestro Con Queso

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Subject: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound
Date: 05 Oct 1999 07:52:33 -0400





OK, folks on the list were curious about this.  I have not played it
because the record looks mint, (except for static lint and some spots of
what looks like glue that could be washed off). I want to lend it to an
Exoticat  who will burn it on CD and get the best sound out of it.

The Title:

Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures In Sound , A Spectacular Musical
Extravaganza. Architecturally Constructed To Induce The Maximum In Audio
Sensation. (WB Workshop Series Exploring Uncharted Patterns Of Sound)
Copyright 1962.


Side one:
Adventures with a TV Western- "William Tell on the Hoof"
Adventures on the Vaudeville Stage- "Me and My Shadow"
Adventure at the Circus- "Flying Trapeze"
Adventure in the Alps- "Little Sir Echo"
Adventure on the Carnival Midway-"Every Little Moment" and "Streets of
Cairo"
Adventure on the Lake- "Row, Go, Go Your Boat"

Side Two
Adventure in the Back Forty-"Old MacDonald Had A Girl"
Adventure in the Steaming Tropics-"Exotic Adventure"
Adventure on the Mason-Dixon Line-"South Meets North"
Adventure on the Rails-"Sentimental Journey"
Adventures of Two Swinging Kids-"Jack and Jill Went Over the Hill"
Adventure on the Highway-"See the U.S.A. in your Chevrolet"

"WB workshop series exploring uncharted patterns of sound" seems to be a
series a 4 LP's
Besides the Mel Heink includes,
Buddy Cole, Ingenuity in Sound a new technique for dual Hammond organ
(found this one too)
"New Perspectives in Piano Sound" by David Swift
"The Fourth Dimension in Sound" by Shorty Rogers

Nifty covers with a 3D cube pattern on the top 1/4 of the albums.

I'll furnish brief descriptions of these albums, that are on the Mel Henke
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re, List of record finds.
Date: 05 Oct 1999 09:06:05 -0400



<<Hugo Wintherhalter Goes Continental (is this his only good one?)>>

Hey, finally somebody mentions this guy - I brought him up once before =
with nada response.....

Firstly, his covers almost always (always?) feature a babe on the cover, =
surrounded by a cheesy studio set.

Case in point, Hugo's "Wish You Were Here" LP which has a *few* choice =
cuts on it - even one VOCAL track which I think is fun.  The cover has a =
babe on a tropical island with paper waves in the background.  I think her =
panties are flying from a pole also.....

Didn't he also do "Goes South of the Border?"  That's a great album all =
the way around, and again, features a nude babe on the beach in a giant =
sombrero (that covers the "dirty bits").

- Nate




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Subject: (exotica) [OBITS]Bernard Buffet,Tony Miller,Emil Schumacher,Doreen Valiente
Date: 05 Oct 1999 09:46:26 -0400


AP,Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1999; 6:13 a.m. EDT
                  PARIS ûû Bernard Buffet, one of France's major contemporary painters,killed himself Monday at his home in southern France, police said. He was 71.
                  Buffet was found dead by his wife with a plastic bag over his head, police sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
                  Gallery owner Maurice Garnier, who had worked with Buffet for 51 years, said the artist was suffering from Parkinson's disease and had been unable to work for some time.
                  Buffet, a millionaire who basked in fame since he was 20, was an outspoken advocate of figurative painting at a time when abstraction was the rage. He remained faithful to the distinctive, black vertical brushstroke he used to recreate emaciated faces, imperial Russian palaces and sad-faced clowns.
                  Buffet was roundly ignored by the French art establishment. The Georges Pompidou Center, France's most prestigious collection of modern and contemporary art, never purchased any of his work.
                  Still, Buffet was a superstar abroad, His work was the subject of two separate museums in Japan, one featuring more than 600 of his works.


                  Tony Miller
                  LOS ANGELES (AP) û Tony Miller, an actor and writer who began his career on Broadway and appeared in films including "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and "Return to Peyton Place," died Sept 12 from complications of cancer and Parkinson's disease. He was 72.
                  Miller's stage debut came at age 14 in "Life with Father." After serving in World War II he returned to the theater, replacing Marlon Brando in "I Remember Mama," and appeared on live television programs including "Playhouse 90."
                  Later TV work included guest appearances on series including "Three's Company," "Dallas" and "General Hospital."
                  Miller's writing career stretched from radio ("Superman," "Henry Aldrich") to television ("Silent Majority" for CBS) to novels ("Starting Now" and "Night Calls").
                  In 1962, Miller and his then-wife, Patricia George, founded the Film Industry Workshops as a training center for actors and directors. The pair, who divorced, co-wrote "The Craft," a book on acting and directing.


                  Emil Schumacher
                  BERLIN (AP) û Emil Schumacher, one of postwar Germany's leading abstract expressionist artists, died Monday. He was 87.
                  Schumacher began drawing and sketching his surroundings and family members in his youth. In 1939 he became a technical draftsman at a nearby battery-works.
                  He resumed painting after World War II and in 1947, along with Gustav Deppe, Thomas Grochowiak, Ernst Hermanns, Heinrich Siepmann and Hans Werdehausen, he founded the group "The Young West."
                  In the early 1950s he broke with tradition and adopted a completely abstract style that became known as "informal art," where the workmanship and application of paint and other materials becomes the image.
                  His paintings hang in museums around the world, including the Guggenheim in New York and the Tate Gallery in London.

                  Doreen Valiente
                  LONDON (AP) û Doreen Valiente, self-styled witch and a central figure in the revival of paganism in Britain, died Sept. 1. She was 77.
                  Mrs. Valiente was the author of several books, including "The Rebirth of Witchcraft." Her verse and prose, such as "The Charge of the Goddess," is recited by pagans all over the world.
                  Born in London and brought up as a Christian, Mrs. Valiente claimed to have experienced psychic episodes in her youth and was a practicing clairvoyant in her teens.
                  In 1952, a year after Britain repealed its Witchcraft Act, Mrs. Valiente was introduced to Gerald Gardner, who ran a coven practicing what he called traditional witchcraft û a religion whose devotees worshipped the god and goddess of fertility. She was initiated as a witch in 1953 and became the coven's high priestess.




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Subject: Re: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound
Date: 05 Oct 1999 10:16:42 EDT


<< OK, folks on the list were curious about this.  I have not played it
 because the record looks mint, (except for static lint and some spots of
 what looks like glue that could be washed off). I want to lend it to an
 Exoticat  who will burn it on CD and get the best sound out of it. >>

I have this one and as many of you know do the CDr thing.  I had no idea
somebody was asking about this, must have deleted if by mistake.  :)

I was about to post an announcement that I'm putting Miriam Burton's
haunting, brilliant and beautiful (and quite rare) wordless vocal MASTERPIECE
"African Lament" on CD-R.  Perhaps the Mel Henke above is the other LP to
pair it up with.

You tell me.  I'll use the number of private email replies I receive as a
gauge of interest.

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Date: 05 Oct 1999 10:14:05 -0400





From Nathan Miner:
<<Hugo Wintherhalter Goes Continental (is this his only good one?)>>

>Hey, finally somebody mentions this guy - I brought him up once before
with >nada response.....
>Firstly, his covers almost always (always?) feature a babe on the cover,
>surrounded by a cheesy studio set.
Ah, now I remember. I also have Hugo Wintherhalter Goes Hawaiian. Another
cheezy cover that must have been airbrushed. Looks like it was shot on a
beach. maybe L.A.

I played Hawaiian War Chant from the LP on my show once so it *must* be OK.
  ;')

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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Moai Eye
Date: 05 Oct 1999 10:10:34 -0500


Here ya go -- a few good web sites about Rapa Nui/Easter Island.

=46rom NOVA, the PBS science program. "Secrets of Easter Island" Home page
shows a behatted moai.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/easter/civilization/giants.html

Own yer own jr. moai -- 6 inches tall, 3 inches wide, plastic, US$18.50.
=46rom T Scott Design, crafter of gargoyles, who lives here in Austin.
http://www.compugarg.com/html/moai_man.htm

Several photos of Easter Island and the moai.
http://www.raingod.com/angus/Gallery/Photos/SouthAmerica/Chile/Pascua.html

More on moai and Rapa Nui by someone who seems to know his or her stuff.
http://www.bu.edu/jgfox/moai.html

Easter Island Home Page. Lots o' links and a fine pix of a moai in a hat
with the eyes in place. Oh an RA sample of Rapa Nui music -- I didn't
listen, but suspect it's haunting harmonic chorals music. Very Polynesian,
more medieval chant-like than exotica.
http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/rapanui.html

GORGEOUS wooden moai and rangorango boards dispalying the Rapa Nui script.
(Rapa Nui developed the only written language in Polynesia). Carved by
native islanders, sold by the Easter Island Foundation. $20-65 US? Web
ordering. Some of you have probably seen the rangorango board in the
British Museum -- one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen.
http://www.netaxs.com/~trance/crafts.html

Easter Island/Isla de Pascua en espanole. Pagina en construccion. Photos.
http://www.isla-de-pascua.com/

Easter Island/South America for Visitors. Links list from About.Com,
formerly the Mining Company.
http://gosouthamerica.about.com/travel/latinamcaribbean/gosouthamerica/msubE
aster.htm

OK back to work. Happy cruising!
Mimi




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Subject: SV: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound
Date: 05 Oct 1999 17:54:31 +0200


Basic Hip wrote:
>
>References on the quality of my work furnished upon request.  :)



Basic Hip makes wonderful CDrs! Highly recommended! Nice man too.

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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) keep watching the bins
Date: 05 Oct 1999 14:01:44 -0400


I believe there really is a synchronistic wave of good stuff bubbling up
for all of us. I just snagged one I never thought I'd see: Edie Adams'
"Music To Listen To Records By" (with Mancini running the band and hubby
Ernie Kovacs getting a hand in too -- includes another "Autumn Leaves,
BTW). Yowee. Get out there while the universe is spinning in our favor.
Must be an endsign.

Also in the bag:

Herb Alpert & The TJB - "What Now My Love"
"Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington"
Jo Basile - "Accordion de Paris" (dynamite cover)
"Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band" (no cover :(
"A GI's Germany"
Jackie Gleason "Oooo!" (recently discussed here)
Bert Kaempfert - "Afrikaan Beat"
Pigmeat Markham - "Tune Me In"
and another hot dawg find:
"Nancy & Lee"


m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: 05 Oct 1999 14:07:50 EDT



In a message dated 10/5/99 12:01:53 PM, [e-mail] writes:

>Basic Hip makes wonderful CDrs! Highly recommended!

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Date: 05 Oct 1999 14:27:26 EDT


In a message dated 10/5/99 12:01:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Basic Hip wrote:
 >
 >References on the quality of my work furnished upon request.  :)


I just wanted to add my praise for BasicHip's CDRs.  Of all the trades I have
made his CDRs are by far the best!!!!!!!!  Excellent sound.  Beautiful
graphics.  I know that he puts lots of time and energy into making his CDRs
the best they can be.  I's sure there are others on the list who have his
fantastic comp of great Moog recordings which are unreleased on CD.

I am very much looking forward to this newest CDR.

Best wishes,
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound
Date: 05 Oct 1999 15:54:15 EDT


In a message dated 10/5/99 10:22:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

> References on the quality of my work furnished upon request.  :)

Basichip, Basichip, he's our man.  If he can't do it no one can.  Fabulous
album cover scans, and nice music, too.

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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fantastica #37 Mp3
Date: 05 Oct 1999 14:32:15 -0700


Things here at FeethyMonkey studios are going quite well in the past few
days. Our experimental server is performing wonderfully. To Celebarate, here
is another randomly-chosen Fantastica program for y'all to enjoy.
http://216.112.66.38/ron/fan37.m3u (requires, Winamp, Macamp, Sonique or one
of the endless varieties of Mp3 player.)

It's a Ferrante and Teicher special featuring Sparky and the Magic Piano
sprinkled throughout... The first cut is a BLAZING version of Tico Tico

Dig the playlist here. http://myplace.to.be/fantastica/PL_FF/37.htm

This link takes you directly to the playlist #37. The site is designed to be
used with a  framed index of other shows. To get the other lists, scroll to
the bottom and click  "playlists." This site seems awful sluggish for North
America, so be patient.


(NOTE: I just noticed MY version of #37 is different than the playlist
version. I guess he updated it, so the playlist will be helpful, but not
wholly accurate.)

Reception reports, questions, comments are always welcome.

Ron




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Subject: Re: (exotica) Moai Eye
Date: 05 Oct 1999 17:55:43 EDT


OK Mr. Tiki, so your wife says you have a "stoned" look to your eyes?  Well,
just sit back and relax . . . . . good now tell me, which looks better, one
or two?  Oh, I see the problem, you have a freaking straw hat covering your
eyes.  There, that is better now, isn't it?  What do you say we ditch this
clinic and hit the beach bar for some Mai Tais?  Just remember . . . it is
better to go into a bar optimistically that to come out of a bar misty
optically.

Tiki Bob, OD -- optometrist to the stoned and stone eyed.


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Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound
Date: 05 Oct 1999 13:03:20 -0400


OH HAPPY DAY!  Magy is back!
And yes, Basic Hip's CDrs are too beautiful!  Amazing!  I'd hire him again!
;)
Jane Fondle!!!




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From: Wayno <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
Date: 05 Oct 1999 19:53:29 -0400


    Promotional copies are floating about! I walked into my regular
music shop this afternoon (to pick up the newly-issued CD of Roy Ayers'
"Stoned Soul Picnic") and the owner held up a copy of "See It In Sound"
asking "Any interest in this?" I nodded dumbly.

    Haven't listened to it yet, but here's a track listing:

    The Peanut Vendor
    Amazon Paddle Boat
    Honky Tonky Cha-Cha (the only tune written by Esquivel on this album)
    Cumana
    Brazil
    Chubasco
    Walk to the Bull Ring
    Aurora
    Similau
    Inca's Dream
    Latingo

    The booklet has a four-page essay written by Sam Wick of Lounge
Magazine, and includes complete personnel listings. The liner notes
describe SIIS as "a big band FX laden record... [i]n the tradition of
Zounds! What Sounds!, Shock, and La Dolce Henke."

    Oh yeah, there's "A tip of the hat to Br. Cleve for rediscovering
this album." Seems to me Cleve deserves a LITTLE more credit than a mere
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
Date: 05 Oct 1999 21:20:53 EDT


In a message dated 10/5/99 4:48:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Zounds! What Sounds!, >>

you think it is this off the wall?  can't wait for a more in depth review.

tb


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From: George Hall <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Seks Bomba/Sweetest Punch
Date: 05 Oct 1999 16:10:27 -0700 (PDT)


[e-mail] wrote:

> >>>I will
> just point out to those who don't realize on the list that this is the
> self-same George of the too-fab Seks Bomba. He just doesn't go runnin' his
> mouth off about his band like some of us do on the list..ahem.
> Jane Fondle
>

  It's true...F'rinstance you would never catch me mentioning that Seks
Bomba was playing...oh say, Johnny D's in Somerville MA (tel [phone])
with the Electric Logs this thursday...or even that the Logs perform the
greatest disco version of the Exorcist Theme I can recall...or that their
bassist is also one of the most (& one of the only) accomplished Theremin
players in the city, playing actual melodies & stuff...

      (Or even that Seks Bomba's next gig will be at the Astroslut
    CD release -I'll let Jane handle the details at the appropriate
    time)

  No, but I will say that I picked up Bill Frisell's The Sweetest Punch
(covering Burt & Elvis' Painted From Memory), & love it. EC apparently
gave Frisell a copy of the voice & piano demos along w/some sheet music, &
instructed him to arrange it himself without any further input. May be a
little mellow for some tastes, but I actually enjoy it a little more than
PFM -only because EC's vocals struck me as a bit overreaching (imhfo) on
that one. EC does sing one song on this as does Cassandra Wilson, & they
duet on one more.
  Nice to hear the jazz-guys-cover-pop-record thing (ala Eddie Harris'
Breakfast at Tiffany's, Shelley Manne's Peter Gunn, etc...) is alive &
well.
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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Risser Files
Date: 06 Oct 1999 23:02:06 -0700


Peter Risser was kind enough to upload some files to the Floyd server at
FeelthyMonkey studio's. Some fun stuff! Ames brothers doing a rippin'
version of Hawaiian War Chant, A vocal version of Hernando's Hideaway, Some
Yma, and Several OS Mutantes tracks. Maybe Peter will be so kind as to check
the track order that I posted them in and type the list as I am all typed
out after wrassling with the server to get these tracks to work.

(Peter, I had to rename the files so the damned computer would server 'em
up. Sorry to butcher your careful labeling.)

The stuff is all HIGH bandwidth and sounds GREAT if you can get it.

http://216.112.66.38/ron/risserfiles.m3u

Ron





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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
Date: 06 Oct 1999 04:35:19 -0400


At 7:53 PM -0400 10/5/99, Wayno wrote:

>The liner notes
>describe SIIS as "a big band FX laden record... [i]n the tradition of
>Zounds! What Sounds!, Shock, and La Dolce Henke."

uh.......kind of. I wrote a review of this album 2 years ago in Exotica/Et
Cetera magazine. The first time I heard the album I was in Esquivel's
bedroom, along with The Millionaire; it was the first time Esquivel had
heard the album in 37 years. Needless to say, it was a transcendental 45
minutes. I have had many experiences with Esquivel where I've played tracks
for him that he hadn't heard in years ( and he has played many for me as
well from his tape collection of live shows and radio broadcasts), but
there was something very different about this album. He had almost
completely forgotten recording it.

>Oh yeah, there's "A tip of the hat to Br. Cleve for rediscovering
>this album."

Irwin Chusid was actually the first to learn of the album's existence, from
Neely Plumb, who produced it and who, according to Esquivel, had come up
with the concept for it. I spoke with Neely about it many times, as he and
Esquivel tried to remember what it sounded like, what songs were on it,
etc. I kept calling Neely about it until one day when he called me to say
he had found an acetate of it in his closet (the only known copy). We got
it transferred to DAT (it had never been played); it had a matrix number in
the run off groove which was trackable in the RCA vault, which is located
somewhere in West Virginia. That's how they tracked down the unmarked
master tapes. The cassette copy of the DAT arrived at Esquivel's home the
very day we arrived there.

It's great that Paul Williams has decided to finally release this, after
BarNone dropped out of the Esquivel reissue business a couple of years ago.
The album does not sould like any other Esquivel album you've ever heard;
in fact, for the most part you'd be hard pressed to know it's him, although
the piano playing gives it away on some tracks. There are the only known
instinces of Esquivel playing  exotica on this album. Every track is sound
effects driven, but it in now way resembles "Zounds" or "La Dolce Henke".
It's a bit closer to the Creed Taylor records. The standout track is the 7
minute version of 'Brazil', which follows a pub crawler through a number of
barroms, all of which have a different band playing a different version of
'Brazil'. It is unique, to say the least. Esquivel himself will tell you
the album is as much Neely Plumb as it is him. I'm glad they're both still
alive to see it being issued.

It'll be interesting to hear everyones reaction come November. The record
was pretty much the beginning of the end of Esquivel's recording career at
RCA (this was the second album of his they wouldn't release, although the
other, "You & The Night & the Music' , was eventually released as a Living
Strings record). He began recording "Infinity In Sound Vol. 2" about 2
months after  SIIS was completed.

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From: Robbie Baldock <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Free Design lyrics
Date: 06 Oct 1999 10:20:46 +0100


Just to let y'all know that Chris Dedrick was kind enough to send me
copies of the actual lyrics to all Free Design songs over the weekend
and I transferred these to the Free Design site last night, replacing
the previous, varyingly accurate, versions.

And for the first time there are now lyrics on the site to songs from
their last album "There Is A Song".


Robbie

PS  Great news about the "new" Esquivel issue!  I can't wait to
    hear it.

Free Design - NOW is the time!
http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/freedesign


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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) This is Cult Fiction???
Date: 06 Oct 1999 06:16:18 -0400


Can someone explain this??
I saw this ad in a magazine.
"The best selling international album finally available in America".
It's called (I think) "This is Cult Fiction" and they say it has "17 Cult
TV and Movie Classics".
Unfortunately there's no way to demonstrate my confusion except by listing
the tracks.
Dick Dale "Miserlou"
Steppenwolf "Born to be Wild"
Chuck Berry "You never can tell"
The Marketts "Batman theme"
Bobby Vinton "Blue Velvet"
Stealer's Wheel "Stuck in the middle with you"
Henry Mancini "Theme from Charlie's Angels"
Mike Post "Theme from Hill Street Blues"
Bob James "Angela (theme from "Taxi")"
Angelo Badalamenti "Theme from Twin Peaks.. Fire Walks with me"
Trance Atlantic Air Waves "Crockett's Theme"  (Davy or Sonny????)
Lalo Schifin "Mission Impossible"
The Ventures "Hawaii Five-O"
John Barry "The James Bond theme from Dr. No"
Isaac Hayes "Theme from Shaft"
Harry Nilsson "Everybody's Talking"
Iggy Pop "Lust for Life"

Where do I begin?  Who came up with this doggy's breakfast?  Was this
really a bestseller?  And does a song instantly become a "movie classic"
when it's used in a movie?   I guess most people know "Stuck in the Middle"
only from Reservoir Dogs but it depresses me to think of "Lust for Life" as
that song from Trainspotting (was that it?)  And "Born to be Wild" was a
huge hit before Easy Rider, wasn't it?

I guess the thing that made me shake my head the most was trying to figure
out which ones were the "cult TV classics".  Were Charlie's Angels and Hill
Street Blues "cult" favorites?
And what movie was the Chuck Berry song in?

If someone gave me this as a mixed tape, I wouldn't be too thrilled the
next time they made me one but this is supposed to be an international
bestseller.

This bothers me for some reason.  I can't quite explain it.

Nat



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
Date: 06 Oct 1999 06:37:20 EDT


In a message dated 10/6/99 1:35:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< We got
 it transferred to DAT (it had never been played); it had a matrix number in
 the run off groove which was trackable in the RCA vault, which is located
 somewhere in West Virginia.  >>

Cleve,

Can you detail what a "matrix number in the run off groove is"?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) This is Cult Fiction???
Date: 06 Oct 1999 07:31:06 -0400


Dear Nat:

The "This is Cult Fiction" album has been out for a couple of years or so
in the UK, and pretty available here.  Yes, it tried to capitalize on the
best-selling
Pulp Fiction soundtrack, presumably grabbing anything for which rights
could be
had and a link, however vague, to hip movies claimed.   It's one of those
covers
that's imprinted on my brain from repeated exposure.

Will

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From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Cassette Players
Date: 06 Oct 1999 06:40:21 -0700 (PDT)


Hey, I know this is WAY off topic, but I thought I'd
appeal to some of the audiophiles on this list.

What's a good dual-deck component cassette player in
the mid-range price of, say, 200 bucks?  Mine is
finally shot and I need another, as I can't listen to
albums or CDs in the car.  Natch, I'm not looking for
something high-end, just something that will do a good
job and last a long time.

Any suggestions?  Please email me off list at:

[e-mail]

And if anyone else wants to know what I find out, let
me know and I'll forward it to them.

Thanks!
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From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Cheese Blotto, Art Farmer
Date: 06 Oct 1999 09:48:39 -0400


 From the Saratoga Daily Gazetteá
á http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=9:37:46|AM&p=amg&sql=B12398
Keith Stephenson, 43, played bass guitar with band `Blotto'á
SARATOGA SPRINGS - Authorities ruled Monday that a well-knownáá
area musician whose body was found in his truck early Sunday in theá
Saratoga Spa State Park died of natural causes.á

The body of Keith Stephenson, 43, bass player for the group "Blotto"áá in the 1980s, was found lying on the floor of a truck in the Hathorná Spring parking area in the park at 3:20 a.m. Sunday.á

While with the band, he performed under the name of "Cheeseá
Blotto." The band played in Saratoga and Albany clubs and touredá
in this country and in England.á

Lt. Edward Moore of the city police department said a park nightáá
watchman noticed the truck and tried to awaken the man without success.á

"We have ruled out foul play, he died of natural causes," Moore said oná Monday.á

An autopsy on Stephenson's body was performed at Saratoga Hospitalá and his death was caused by cardio myopathy [a disease of the heartá muscles] brought on by a diseased liver, said Saratoga County Coronerá Thomas A. Salvadore.á

Salvadore said Stephenson's body had slid down onto the floor ofá
the pickup truck and he couldn't be seen through the vehicle's windowá unless a person got very close to the truck. He was dressed casuallyá in a T-shirt and shorts, the coroner said.á

Stephenson, of Middleline Road, was born in Ballston Spa, and was aá 1974 graduate of Ballston Spa High School. He attended Berklee Schoolá of Music in Boston.á

He was the former owner and operator of the former Edible Express iná Saratoga Springs.á

Stephenson earned his pilot's license through Flight International Schoolá in Vero Beach, Fla., and owned his own airplane.á

He was a member of Simpson United Methodist Church, Rock City Falls.á

Stephenson was a member of the National Rifle Association.á
---------------
áArt Farmer, 71, Be-Bop Master of the Trumpet and Fluegelhorn
ááááááááá By BEN RATLIFFá ,NYTimes
http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=9:37:46|AM&p=amg&sql=B6486
áááááááááááááá Art Farmer, one of the more important second-generation be-bopá musicians, an improviser who could say a great deal in a few notes on the trumpet and fluegelhorn and later on his own hybrid instrument, theá "flumpet," died on Monday in Manhattan.áá

ááááááááá He was 71 and lived in Manhattan and Vienna.áá

ááááááááá The cause was cardiac arrest, said his manager and companion, Lynneá Mueller.áá

ááááááááá Farmer was considered a master of ballad playing.áá

ááááááááá His tone was soft and even and sure, with no vibrato and with cannyá silences built into his improvisations.áá

ááááááááá He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and when he was 4 his familyá moved to Phoenix. He studied piano and violin in grade school there. Asá a teen-ager he joined a dance band playing big-band arrangements, andá he often invited members of whatever swing band happened to pass through town to come to his house and jam with him and his twin brother,á Addison, the bassist, who died in 1963.áá

ááááááááá In 1945, when they were 16, the Farmer brothers moved to Los Angeles, having promised their mother that they would finish school. Itá was a time when great musicians were coming out of the city's integratedá high schools; at Jefferson High Farmer studied with the well known musicá teacher Samuel Browne, who also taught Frank Morgan, Hamptoná Hawes and Don Cherry, among many others.áá

ááááááááá Farmer worked in Los Angeles with Horace Henderson, Johnny Otis and others, leaving school to join Otis's group on tour.áá

ááááááááá He recorded a be-bop classic, "Farmer's Market," with Wardell Gray's band.áá

ááááááááá In 1952 Farmer went on tour with Lionel Hampton, and in 1953 he settled in New York, joining bands led by Gigi Gryce and Horace Silver.á In 1958 he was hired by the saxophonist Gerry Mulligan for one of hisá bracing new pianoless groups.áá

ááááááááá At the end of the 50's Farmer formed the Jazztet, a sextet, with the saxophonist Benny Golson. Together they wrote a deep repertory of harmonically sophisticated, tightly arranged music, and the group definedá the state of the art for mainstream jazz until the music's prevailing winds began to grow wilder.áá

ááááááááá The group broke up in 1962, and Farmer started another jointly edá group, with the guitarist Jim Hall. The Jazztet reunited in 1982 and playedá through most of the 80's.áá

ááááááááá In the early 60's he often used the fluegelhorn, which has a warmer, creamier sound, suiting his lyricism and terseness.áá

ááááááááá Then in the early 90's he designed a mixture of the two instruments, theá flumpet, which combined projection with warmth.áá

ááááááááá When work grew sparse in New York, he moved to Vienna in 1968 toá join a radio jazz orchestra.áá

ááááááááá He ended up staying and starting a family but traveled constantly, playing with local pickup rhythm sections around the world. For the last few years, he had a residence in Manhattan and was dividing his time equallyá between Vienna and New York.áá

ááááááááá Farmer's discography as a leader is large and as a sideman larger, encompassing work on the Blue Note, Contemporary, Soul Note, Enjaá and Arabesque labels, among others. His most recent album, from 1997,á was "Silk Road" (Arabesque).áá

ááááááááá Besides Ms. Mueller, Farmer is survived by his sister, Mauvolene Thomas, of Tucson, and his son, Georg, of Vienna.áá



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Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's
Date: 06 Oct 1999 10:32:40 -0400


It's great that Paul Williams has decided to finally release this, after
>BarNone dropped out of the Esquivel reissue business a couple of >years ago.


BarNone says they were more or less forced out by RCA who didn't realize there was money to be made with these things.  Of course there wasn't as much as they'd hoped....

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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) This is Cult Fiction???
Date: 06 Oct 1999 07:49:11 -0700 (PDT)


Nat

This is the tip of the iceberg.   I believe there are 3 other volumes though I can only
recall "This is Son of Cult Fiction" and "Cult Fiction Royal" right now.
I saw "This is Cult Ficton"  for sale at Tower or Virgin the other day and it said "as
seen on TV"
Calling this music cult movie themes bothers me also, because it is  depresssing to see
the number of soundtracks released that are merely rereleases of songs which were never
intened for the movie.

Sometimes when the products are sold in the US they are commerciallized, marketed and
advertised in ways best determined by someone to make money.  Calling these songs "cult
fiction"  seems ridiculous to me but I'm not surprised,

The other volumes have more exotica cuts on them then This is Cult Fiction which for me
is the weakest of the lot.

Also it seem there is a whole series of "This Is"  compilations released for all kinds
of music.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

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> Can someone explain this??
> I saw this ad in a magazine.
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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) This is Cult Fiction???
Date: 06 Oct 1999 10:55:19 -0400


At 7:31 AM -0400 10/6/99, Will Straw wrote:

>The "This is Cult Fiction" album has been out for a couple of years or so
>in the UK, and pretty available here.  ...presumably grabbing anything for
>which rights
>could be had and a link, however vague, to hip movies claimed.

all true. But search for the superb "This Is Cult Fiction, Volume 2", which
feaures many hard to find Cult TV (British and American) themes, most of
which are incredible.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
Date: 06 Oct 1999 11:05:35 -0400


At 6:37 AM -0400 10/6/99, [e-mail] wrote:

>Can you detail what a "matrix number in the run off groove is"?

Easy. Pick up any record. Look in the area between the recording and the
label. That's the run off groove. You'll see a bunch of numbers etched in
there. The matrix number, which is different from a records catalog number
is in there. There's an A and a B for each side; that's the number for the
master recording; it is different from the catalog # because those can
change over the years (with reissues, budget pressings, etc). Also in this
area is the pressing number, well known to audiophile knuckleheads (as we
call em in the used rekkid business), especially classical collectors.
Reviews in mags like Absolute Sound will refer to things like "search out
the 1S/12S as these laquers had a superior sound quality" blah blah blah.
(I think it's the 3S of Casino Royale that is the one that sounds like
Dusty Springfield is whispering The Look Of Love in your ear.)

Old punk rock 45 collectors will remember the glory days of little slogans
etched into this area. Right Jimmy?

"A Porky Prime Cut"!!

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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
Date: 06 Oct 1999 11:21:41 -0400


<<Old punk rock 45 collectors will remember the glory days of little =
slogans
etched into this area.>>

It wasn't just the 45's - a LOT of the LP's had these little "quips" on =
'em, everything from "Fuck You" to "Mmmmm the Jelly Smells Good."

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From: [e-mail] (Thom Dibdin)
Subject: (exotica) Re Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
Date: 06 Oct 1999 11:52:15 +0100


Wotcha E-mail originator!

I got passed an E about Esquivel's "See It In Sound".

I write about music (and lots of other stuff) in Scotland and would be
fascinated to find out more about this album. Particularly release date in
UK and contact for company releasing it - to write a tie-in feature or at
least to review.

Thanks very much, if you can be of help.
Sorry to have bothered if you can't - but all-hail at any rate.


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Date: 06 Oct 1999 09:07:24 +0000


At 11:05 AM 06-10-99 -0400, br cleve wrote:
>Old punk rock 45 collectors will remember the glory days of little slogans
>etched into this area.

I have a Bobby Darin LP where he signed his name in this area!  Cool.  Later
reissues of this best of compilation did not have this.

Byron

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Subject: Re: (exotica) matrix messages
Date: 06 Oct 1999 12:14:14 -0400


>>Old punk rock 45 collectors will remember the glory days of little
>>slogans etched into this area.
>
>It wasn't just the 45's - a LOT of the LP's had these little "quips" on 'em,

And then there was Joy Division's "Still" double album which had:

"The chicken won't stop" on Side 1.

chicken footprints circling on Sides 2 & 3.

and "The chicken stops here" on Side 4.

And in direct opposition to their somber image, their bummer classic,
"Closer", has cartoon chicken heads in the runout.

What's your favorite runout graffiti?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
Date: 06 Oct 1999 12:17:29 -0400


Happy to hear that this is coming out. But I'm unclear on who's releasing
it. Details? US release? Will this be commonly available? Or is it another
sassinfrassin bootleg?

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From: Kirsten Noel Whitley <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Shirt / Emperor Norton Sampler
Date: 06 Oct 1999 11:36:19 -0500 (CDT)


Hi All,

I second the recent thank-you post about the
listee who alerted us all about the free
Emperor Norton CD. The music is neato!...
and I would not have found it myself.

In my own attempt to be helpful, I have a
lead for those of you who search out tiki-
wear. There is a tiki shirt, which not
only displays tikis big and bold, but also
is on sale (was $49, is now $40). Go to
http://www.hotshirts.com/index.html
Click on "View Shirts" and then do a search
for "tiki". The one that I am referring to
is called Tiki Warriors.

BTW, if you order anything, you can save $3
by saying that I gave you a Lucky Lei card.
If you give them my name, I get $3 off too.

--Kirsten

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) This is Cult Fiction???
Date: 06 Oct 1999 12:35:19 -0400



>all true. But search for the superb "This Is Cult Fiction, Volume 2", which
>feaures many hard to find Cult TV (British and American) themes, most of
>which are incredible.

I can vouch for this (and I can also add information to a Br. Cleve post,
which darned near NEVER needs to happen!).  I have a two cassette (28
pounds for two CDs was too much) set of "This is Cult Fiction Royale" and
among the many gems of this collection are "Stingray", "The Baron",
"'Tiswas", "Fireball XL5", "Joe90", "E.V.A." (Jean-Jacques Perrey!), "Get
Carter", "Danger Man" and there are others.  All of them sound great,
particularly the "Fireball XL5" which is greatly improved over the take on
"TVT's "Television's Greatest Hits".

Buy, Buy, Buy!

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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Art Farmer, Blotto and LVG-RIP
Date: 06 Oct 1999 10:39:36 -0700 (PDT)


As a person who owns and admires records by both Art
Farmer *and* Blotto, this week marks another sad round
of losses in music for me.  Also, in the RIP category
is the death of another good band, The Bomboras.
But, man, what is the death-count now for Las Vegas
Grind, with Cheese Blotto and Screaming Lord Sutch
both checkin' out early?
Checking my life insurance,
Jane Fondle

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Harmonicats
Date: 06 Oct 1999 13:47:31 -0400



>found the music unadventurous compared to the other stuff I mentioned.  Did I
>just buy the wrong Harmonicats record?

I can't speak to all of it, but I have a "right" Harmonicats record, which
is their original version of the song "Peg O' My Heart", which my wife
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Date: 06 Oct 1999 13:49:11 -0400






>I kept calling Neely about it until one day when he called me to say
>he had found an acetate of it in his closet (the only known copy).

Great story Cleve and glad to have it in print.

"The Dead Sea Scrolls of Space Age Bachelor Pad Music!!"
(The Dead Sea Scrolls are another fascinating story:  2000 year old copies
of the Old Testament found in caves. Fortunately we didn't have to wait
this long for "See It In Sound")

Thank you! To everyone involved in releasing this. Look forward to hearing
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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
Date: 06 Oct 1999 14:22:47 -0400


At 04:35 AM 10/6/99 -0400, Br. Cleve wrote:
>
>Irwin Chusid was actually the first to learn of the album's existence, from
>Neely Plumb, who produced it and who, according to Esquivel, had come up
>with the concept for it.

I just got Bob Thompson's "Mmm Nice" (hi Brad, one parcel arrived) and once
again noticed this name Neely Plumb.
So it seems like an appropriate time to ask who he is.
(If it weren't for Cleve's story, I might have asked who "she" is.)
I know I have other records with his name.  Esquivel for instance.
So I assume this is another one of those unsung producer/auteurs.

I did a search by the way.  Lots of hits but I couldn't find the info that
I'm sure Br.Cleve can provide.

And if this leads to a discussion of the role of producers - like Ethel
Gabriel for instance - on these records we discuss, I won't mind.

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Subject: (exotica) Jo Basile cover
Date: 06 Oct 1999 14:37:02 -0400


Here's the vivid cover of Jo Basile's "Accordion de Paris":

http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/basile_cover.jpg

From the gang at Audio Fidelity.


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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) This is Cult Fiction???
Date: 06 Oct 1999 12:04:43 -0700 (PDT)





--- Brian Phillips <[e-mail]> wrote: particularly the "Fireball XL5" which
is greatly improved over the take on > "TVT's "Television's Greatest Hits"


Brian

I remember the TVT version of this song.   Was the Cult Fiction version a British TV
song while the TVT was the US?

Thanks
Easy listening in the Big Easy
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From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) If the past is another country
Date: 06 Oct 1999 15:05:08 -0400


then this is as exotic as you get!

Check out:

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/092899sci-archeology-china.html

September 28, 1999
After 9,000 Years, Oldest Playable Flute Is Heard Again

          Audio:       The Little Cabbage
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
Chinese archeologists have unearthed what is believed to be the oldest known playable musical instrument, a seven-holed flute fashioned 9,000 years ago from the hollow wing bone of a large bird.

[full article, photos and audio clip at above URL]

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Subject: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999
Date: 06 Oct 1999 21:11:44 +0200


I'm back.

Exotica, Part 1:

While travelling with Katja in Canada and New England, exotic creatures
had escaped from a pack of Indian black rice in our Munich home and
taken over the kitchen.

Exotica, Part 2:

All 215 LPs we had bought and carried on the plane arrived safely, no
overweight charges, no customs, no taxes, no scratches, no losses. This
number of course does not include the 40 disco records I had sent in
advance, nor the about 20 albums I left with Brian and Cheryl in
Montreal. Altogether I have paid about 120 mostly Canadian $$$, which
comes to an average less than 50 cents a piece.
I am extremly happy.

Exotica, Part 3:

The most Indian part of Indian summer was having dinner with Nat Kone in
Little India, Toronto. The leaves of the maple trees were not yet red,
but my face while eating this hothothot meal must have been
tremendously.

Exotica, Part 4:

The "Jardin du Tiki" in Montreal is a fine big Tiki restaurant with very
interesting single art pieces, lots of different lamps, real turtles and
average chinese food. The colorful light chain made of real dried
catfish bodies is just unbelievable. The members of the Montreal Tiki
Appreciation Society, who we meet there are very nice people. The ritual
exchange of Tiki mugs is delayed to a later opportunity.

Exotica, Part 5:

Which takes place 3 weeks later after visiting the "Aloha" in St.Jerome,
45 minutes north of Montreal. Smaller than the "Jardin", but very nice
primitivistic decor (**** stars of 5), average Chinese food (*) and
unbelievable service (---).

Exotica, Part 6:

Boston doesn't like us, too big, too many cars, too expensive and NO
hotel. Only the man on the phone from the YMCA says, he has a room, for
"only" 66$, so we drive all the way through heavy traffic, to learn in
the end, they don't accept girls at THIS time of the year. Thanks for
not telling us on the phone!  So we decide to leave this city (sorry,
Bostoners, we've tried!) heading to Concord, ...and accidently discover
the "Aku Aku", not really spectacular looking from the freeway, but once
you get to the back side of the building, oopsiedaisy! Two 30 feet high
Easter island guys flank the A-frame entrance. Even the wide angle of
the Olympus has its dificulties to get them on one photo. Of course we
go in, although we have eaten already at the S&S. It's half past nine
and NOBODY's there except for the staff! The manager does not at all
understand why in hell we want to take photos of this location. We
explain it to him in detail, but he doesn't get it. No wonder he can't
get people to visit his restaurant. It's a great place, different in
style from anything Tiki I have seen so far. Mint greenish leatherette
seats, a huge painting of volcano and tikis and palm trees and huts on
one side. Some unique mask artefacts and a exotic aquarium. Auwe no ho'i
e! (Colorful Hawaiian expression) If you don't do something about it,
guys, this place will soon close, was my impression. Awiwi!

Exotica, Part 7:

The records are all in my living room at home now and for the first time
I can really get an overview of what I have.
Some are double, some even many, by far the most frequent one is the
"Bimbo Jet" LP, which I bought 15 times, followed by 8 "Whipped Cream
and Other Delights". What would YOU do, if you only had to stuff the
vinyl into bags as many as you possibly can (64), because the entire bag
is 5 bucks no matter what? (Thanks to Nat who brought me there and
thanks to Will Straw who was born in Hamilton and had told Nat about
this in the first place) By the way, I found 6 *different* editions of
"Whipped Cream"...
Some of the records are just famous, such as "Music for bang baroom and
harp" or "Provocative Percussion". Some are simply great like "Burt
Bacharach plays his hits" or "Fever and Smoke", by the 3 Suns. My first
records of them and Bacharach anyway.
Some are better than I thought, like "E=mc2" by Moroder, "One stormy
night" by Mystic Moods Orchestra and  the Carpenter's "Ticket to Ride",
some are worse, like anything by Edmundo Ros, most of them I haven't
heard yet.
Some records I always wanted to have: Les Baxter's "Soul of the drums",
"Hawaiianette", "The versatile Henry Mancini" (his Exotica album),
everything from Munich Machine, which you can't find in Munich as it
happens, just like this "Best of..." Marianne Rosenberg album, which
apparently was only published in Canada. My favorite cover so far is the
"Grover sings the Blues" album, showing my Sesame Street hero saying
"I'm so proud".
Some records I bought only because I knew I could sell them and then
there were of course all kinds of Martin Denny, Les Baxter, Perez Prado,
Arthur Lyman, Herp Alpert, Burt Bacharach, The Three Suns, Hugo
Montenegro, Dick Hyman, Enoch Light, Mancini, Si Zentner, Peter Thomas
etc. you gotta have if you didn't have them already. Plus strange
obscure stuff for the fun of having them. But my last find in the last
thrift shop we wnt in New England, actually in Rutland right at highway
7, that one made me really happy for 50 cents: Marais and Miranda,
"South African Folk Songs". When we returned to Montreal, I showed it to
Brian, and the great man gave me his copy of "Marais and Miranda visit
the African Veld (with the bushveld band)" on top.
Did anybody say, thrift shops are not a good source for finding Exotica
LPs?
North Americans are really lucky.

Exotica, Part 8:

The damn video transfer-from-NTSC-to-PAL-recorder in McGill University
failed to make a playable copy of Alan Zweig's (aka known as Nat Kone)
great great film about record collectors. Glad I watched it already in
Montreal, but I want my $11,50 rental charge back from McGill!!

So far... so long...

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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Harmonicats
Date: 06 Oct 1999 12:21:30 -0700



> >found the music unadventurous compared to the other stuff I mentioned.
Did I
> >just buy the wrong Harmonicats record?

Hmmm...Musta been the wrong rekkit. Admittedly, some harmonica music can be
terribly drab, but I looves me some kooky harmonicat madness. Look for their
version of "Guns of Navarone(sp?)" I put it on a mix-tape that was widely
distributed, and I got more complaints about that tune getting permenantly
lodged in people's heads. ..But that's GOOD, right? I also am partial to
their version of "Apple Pink.."

I also hear that Sinatra HATED the Harmonicats because Peg O' My Heart
dislodged one of his tunes from the #1 spot on the charts. According to the
legend Jerry & Co. was hired to entertain at a party thrown for ol' blue
eye's birthday one year. Sinatra had a FIT.  Apocryphal, yes, but FUNNY!

Now ya got me wondering if the harmonicats ever covered a Sinatra signature
song.

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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fwd: Don't send me no flowers, I ain't dead yet
Date: 06 Oct 1999 12:28:09 -0700 (PDT)


Rumours have been floating for several days that the
Bomboras were splitzville...guess not!  Sorry for the
confusion, Jane Fondle

--- [e-mail] wrote:
> From: [e-mail]
> Date: Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:12:39 EDT
> Subject: Don't send me no flowers, I ain't dead yet
> To: [e-mail]
>
> Hi Jane,
> News of The Bomboras demise is greatly exaggerated!
> They are alive
> and...wellthey are playing CAVESTOMP!'99 and other
> dates! Though you'd like
> to know.
>
> Warmest-
> Trixxxie Trinket
>


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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Harmonicats-v-Sinatra, Beatles-v-Ray Charles Singers.
Date: 06 Oct 1999 14:11:20 -0700 (PDT)


So say Ron:
I also hear that Sinatra HATED the Harmonicats because
Peg O' My Heart
dislodged one of his tunes from the #1 spot on the
charts. According to the
legend Jerry & Co. was hired to entertain at a party
thrown for ol' blue
eye's birthday one year. Sinatra had a FIT.
Apocryphal, yes, but FUNNY!

>>>Also, don't know if ol' Paul Mc got in a snit, but
for ONE WEEK, the Ray Charles Singers' "Love Me With
All Your Heart" was number one ahead of the Beatles.
Can't remember which Beatles song, though...and I've
never heard the Harmonicats!
Jane Fondle

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Subject: SV: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999
Date: 06 Oct 1999 23:14:59 +0200



>While travelling with Katja in Canada and New England, exotic creatures
>had escaped from a pack of Indian black rice in our Munich home and
>taken over the kitchen.

Are they good cooks? Can they make decent Mai Tais? I bet they all have =
a copy of whipped cream by now :)

M



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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Amalia Rodrigues,Leonard S. Shoen,Gorilla Monsoon
Date: 06 Oct 1999 17:38:17 -0400


 http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=5:34:35|PM&p=amg&sql=B28870
  LISBON, Oct 6 (AFP) - Portuguese singer Amalia Rodrigues, the
"diva of fado", died on Wednesday in Lisbon at the age of 79, her
recording company Valentim de Carvalho announced.
   Rodrigues' personal secretary said she died at her home after a
long illness.
   In a career that spanned more than half a century, Rodrigues
became to Portugal what Edith Piaf was to France, or Oum Kalsoum to
the Arab world: an international icon and a roving ambassador for
the popular culture of her country.
   Portugal was cast into mourning at the announcement of her
death, and national radio broadcast innumerable tributes and
testimonies by friends and colleagues.
   Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres ordered three days of
national mourning.
   Rodrigues' supreme gift was for fado, the traditional Portuguese
bar-room singing style centred on Lisbon and Coimbra and based on
"saudade", or sadness for an irrecoverable past, a plangent blend of
nostalgia, sadness, love and death.
   Several years ago Rodrigues, who underwent heart surgery in the
United States, virtually stopped performing because of her poor
health.
   She made an exceptional appearance last year, singing for the
last time in public before thousands at the opening of Expo 1998 in
Lisbon.
   Rodrigues was born in 1920, though her exact date of birth was
not known. The grandmother who raised her to the age of 14 knew only
that she was born "during the cherry season."
   After selling fruit in the streets and working as a seamstress
to help support her nine brothers and sisters -- she remained proud
all her life of her modest origins --  Rodrigues began her
professional career as a tango dancer.
   She then gained notice for singing the tangos of Carlos Gardel
at parties and festivities in the working class districts of Lisbon,
and signed her first singing contract in 1940.
   Her early career brought friction with her family, dismayed to
see her singing songs of disrepute, as tango and fado were then
considered.
   Rodrigues' international career blossomed after World War II,
and she performed regularly in Brazil, Spain, France and Britain as
well as in her home country.
   Her reputation spread as far afield as Japan, the Soviet Union
and the United States during her heyday in the 1950s and 1960s.
   She recorded more than 170 albums that were released in 30
countries, and appeared in numerous films, notably "Les amants du
Tage" (Lovers of the Tagus), by the French director Henri Verneuil.
   After the overthrow of Portugal's fascist regime in 1974 she was
widely reproached for her closeness to dictator Antonio Salazar, a
criticism that she shrugged off as something imposed by
circumstances.
   Fatalistic by nature, she attributed her success to chance. "I
never dreamed of having a career, I was never ambitious," she wrote
in her memoirs.
   Despite being voted one of the world's 10 most outstanding
voices during the 1950s, she constantly professed astonishment at
her celebrity.

    LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Leonard S. Shoen, who revolutionized the
do-it-yourself moving industry by founding U-Haul International
Inc., apparently committed suicide by driving his car into a power
pole. He was 83.
    The Clark County coroner's office ruled Tuesday that Schoen died from blunt force trauma and that his death was a suicide.
    ``There is no reason for the accident,'' Metro Police Detective Rick Hart said. ``Nobody else was around. ``They determined that it looked like suicide.''
    On Monday's Shoen's car left the road for no apparent reason and struck a wooden power pole, police said. Hart said the accident is
still under investigation.
    Shoen founded U-Haul in 1945 and built it into the most
recognized self-moving company in the nation with its signature
orange and white trucks.
    In 1986, Shoen's sons -- Joe and Mark -- forced their father into retirement and pushed for control of the parent company, Reno-based Amerco Inc.
    The move triggered a bitter family feud that ended in a $1.5
billion jury award the company had to pay Leonard Shoen and other
``outsiders.'' A judge later reduced the award to $461 million, and
the company then sought bankruptcy protection from the debt.
    Since the shakeup at U-Haul, Shoen lived in Las Vegas, where he owned the World Trade Center hotel since 1996. He withdrew his
application with the Nevada Gaming Commission for a gaming license
in May.
    At the age of 29, after serving in the Navy during World War II, Shoen came up with the idea to provide do-it-yourself one-way
moving trailers on a nationwide basis.
    With an initial investment of $5,000, he and his then-wife Anna Mary Carty started the company at the Carty Ranch in Ridgefield,
Wash., where they built the first U-Haul trailers in a milk house
in 1945. The company is now based in Phoenix.
    His concept for U-Haul was developed out of a need to provide
inexpensive means of moving a post-World War II American population
that had become migratory, especially to the Western United States,
according to the company's Web site.
    The original U-Haul trailers were painted bright orange and
rented for $2 a day. By 1949 it was possible to rent U-Haul
trailers one way from city to city throughout most of the United
States.
    Today the company has 14,000 independent dealers and 1,100
company-owned moving centers. It is the leading company in the
truck and trailer rental industry and the second-largest
self-storage facility operator. U-Haul also is the world's largest
installer of permanent hitches.

-----------------------
It is being reported on the Pro Wrestling news sites that Robert Marella, better known as Gorilla Monsoon, has passed away at age 62.  Marella died of complications from a Heart Attack suffered in September, according to the news reports.  Last week, he had requested that he be removed from kidney dyalisis.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) This is Cult Fiction???
Date: 06 Oct 1999 18:18:21 EDT


It should be noted that the track listing to the U.S. version varies a bit
from the original UK release.

I agree, the others in this series are infinitely better, but the one to
avoid is the one with the van on the cover, which leans heavily toward ...
ugh ... classic rock.

--Rod

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Harmonicats
Date: 06 Oct 1999 19:32:29 -0400


At 12:21 PM 10/6/99 -0700, Ron Grandia wrote:
>
>. Admittedly, some harmonica music can be
>terribly drab, but I looves me some kooky harmonicat madness

I have come to the conclusion that all harmonica records - with the
possible exception of Toots Thieleman (and even then I way prefer his
guitar playing and whistling) - are too drab.
I must admit that it helps me to come to such conclusions because the more
records I can ignore the better.
Once upon a time I expanded my taste so that I'd always be able to find
things that "interested" me.  Now I'm trying to reduce the scope.
And harmonica fits right in.
It doesn't have enough "bite".  The sound is too "floaty".  You'd think
that the floaty sound would be perfect for exotica but not in my
experience.  Not so far.
You'd think that the Three Suns could have made good use of the harmonica.
Accordion, organ AND harmonica.  But I haven't found that Three Suns record
yet.
So I ignore harmonica.  And polka.

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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Harmonicats
Date: 06 Oct 1999 19:55:52 -0500


At 10:40 PM 10/4/99, [e-mail] wrote:

>I must say I don't understand the fuss over The Harmonicats.... The
>recording quality was bad and I
>found the music unadventurous compared to the other stuff I mentioned.  Did=
 I
>just buy the wrong Harmonicats record?

Good question. You know, I always assume that my lust for harmonica records
is eccentric. It's similar to my taste for bombastic pipe organ or ice
skating records. But I know both tastes are shared by Mr. ExotiFAQ, Our Man
in Treetown, Ross. Plus, he means it when he signs his name "Mambo Frenzy."
That recommend was meant for him and for others who dig the improbable
pairing of tepid Jerry Murad with Latin fire.

That said, why look for HarmoniCha Cha-Cha?
Reason 1: A cha-cha version of the Harmonicat's golden hit, Peg O' My
Heart. Which is not as solid as...
Reason 2: Cocktails for Two Cha-Cha, Blues Cha-Cha, Petite Fleur (I LOVE
Sidney Bechet tunes), Frenesi, Poinciana. Which are not as solid as...
Reason 3: The House of Bamboo
Reason 4: First time I played it, I kept laughing, alarming the cats.
Reason 5: John Sippel's liner notes, which assert, "The cha cha's no
bastard child of some dance instructor's imagination." Ooh! Pretty racy!
Reason 6: I'm a sucker for the wan sound of the mouth harp.
Reason 7: The kids seem to having a great time playing these tunes.

There's also good reason why the 'Cats are so popular with the Placidyl set
-- I agree with you there, Pearmania. They have put me to sleep or at least
made me drowsy. Yet there is more vitality in HarmoniCha Cha-Cha than the
other Harmonicats records I've gotten and disposed of. If you want a really
potent sedative, look for the Mulcays, especially their awful record,
Dolls, Dolls, Dolls. The mere thought of it makes me shudder,then yawn.

Now back to my nap,
Mimi




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Subject: (exotica) African Lament / Mel Henke
Date: 07 Oct 1999 00:01:17 EDT


Thanks to all of you who have received CD-R's from me in the past for your
generous praise.

This all started with a CD-R exchange with a couple of other fellow listees.
It is still all about fun and sharing the music for me - these CD-R's are
available for not a whole lot more than the cost of materials and shipping.
$10 when a master already exists.  Also open to CD-R, commercial CD and vinyl
trading.

Miriam Burton's background ranges from jazz singing to serious Carnegie Hall
Concerts.  She has appeared on Broadway, the BBC with the London Symphony
Orchestra and has performed in several television specials with Harry
Belefonte.  Her astounding (two-and-a-half octave) voice range has a
tremendous flexibility of style.

AFRICAN LAMENT (Epic LN 24011 Mono) is composed by Sascha (Nutty Squirrels)
Burland and Pat Williams.  I cannot locate a date, my guess mid sixties.

It is an album of musical expressions of a continent in dramatic transition.
Burland writes that he and Williams have made no attempt at ethnic
authenticity, but have simply tried to set down musical pictures which relate
to certain African facts and folklore.  The music definitely has a western
feel, it's not "world music".

The instrumentation of the orchestra - African percussive instruments,
flutes, tuipples, marimba, tuned drums, organ and rhythm creates a
fascinating hybrid sound that expresses the coexistence of the old and the
new in Africa.  Miriam Burton's soaring wordless vocals complete the picture.

I first learned of this recording in one of the ISM books.  Mickey McGowan's
section on abstract female vocals, Yma Sumac, Leda Annest, etc.  After a few
years of looking, I came across this near mint copy.  Titles are

Rites Of Passage
Kenscoff
Kalhari Bushmen
Congo Lament
Yoruba Lady
Apartheid
Palm Wine Party

Cover what not what I expected, a very-documentary-like photo of a pair of
lone rhinos grazing in a golden foreground, set against a dark, moody sky and
hills of gray and blue.

Mel Henke speaks for himself.  His Dynamic Adventures is not as zany as La
Dolce Henke, but by all means is just as wonderful.  Wild stereo experiments
and sound effects.   A couple (four maybe) of tracks were bonus material on
Scamp's release of La Dolce Henke.

I've added a couple of bonus tracks of my own.  These three short Henke spots
come from an ad agency promo, The "In" Sound for the Commercial Agency

Chevy Jet Smooth Ride
Jazz Track For Dodge
Ajax Stronger Than Dirt

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Subject: Re: (exotica) African Lament / Mel Henke
Date: 07 Oct 1999 00:10:13 EDT




<< The "In" Sound for the Commercial Agency >>

wrong, i'm tired and usually only write less than four lines...correct title
is

The "In" Sound For The Commercial INDUSTRY  (Charles H. Stern)

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999
Date: 07 Oct 1999 01:15:04 -0400


At 09:11 PM 10/6/99 +0200, n.e.u. / Moritz R wrote:
>
>I'm back.

Herb Alpert fans all over the Eastern U.S and Canada, heave a sigh of relief.

>The most Indian part of Indian summer was having dinner with Nat Kone in
>Little India, Toronto. The leaves of the maple trees were not yet red,
>but my face while eating this hothothot meal must have been
>tremendously.

Yeah, I never believe them when they say something is going to be hot.
That goes for music or food.  I always think they mean "For you, this will
seem hot".

It's like the other night at this record store going-out-of-business sale.
There was this Latin guy there checking out a pile of Latin records.  Maybe
it was none of my business but I didn't like this guy's attitude.  The
clerk had gone into the basement to unearth this pile of records for him,
as a special favor.  The records were fifty cents each.  There were some
good titles there.  And yet the guy had to monopolize the turntable,
listening to each one.  And then he had the balls to ask if that was all
there was.

What's that got to do with hot Indian food?

Well I guess the guy got the message that I found him a bit nervy.  And I
think I expressed interest in one or two of the cha cha records and
expressed an opinion on a Cugat record.
So I'm standing outside with the clerk having a smoke and this guy comes
out, makes a beeline for me and announces:  "I'm the Latin king!"
He then proceeds to tell me that he's THE Latin music collector and that I
don't know anything about Latin music and that maybe I might have a few
Latin LP's but certainly I don't understand or appreciate the music.

I guess when the waiter at the Indian restaurant said the food was going to
be hot, I assumed he meant "Hot for a gringo like you who doesn't really
know what hot food is".  And given that I was at the restaurant with this
very very white man from Germany, I could see how he might have made that
assumption.

But actually he was telling the truth and the food was hot.  Perhaps when
he looked at my companion, he didn't see a white white man.  Perhaps he
noticed the tiki-adorned T-shirt and realized this was a spicy, exotic man.

>The damn video transfer-from-NTSC-to-PAL-recorder in McGill University
>failed to make a playable copy of Alan Zweig's (aka known as Nat Kone)
>great great film about record collectors.

I have to admit that it made me uncomfortable reading that you went to that
Indian restaurant with Nat Kone.  Nat Kone only exists here on this mailing
list.
At the same time, I don't like reading my real name here but when you say
my film is great, it lessens the sting somehow.
(And for those who wonder why I have a fake name here - like I'm the only
one - I don't have an explanation or excuse but if my real name was
something cool like "Will Straw", I don't think I'd have made up a fake
one.  And it's not just for this list; it's an internet thing.)





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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Harmonicats
Date: 07 Oct 1999 10:22:10 +0100


> At 12:21 PM 10/6/99 -0700, Ron Grandia wrote:
> >
> >. Admittedly, some harmonica music can be
> >terribly drab, but I looves me some kooky harmonicat madness
>
> I have come to the conclusion that all harmonica records - with the
> possible exception of Toots Thieleman (and even then I way prefer his
> guitar playing and whistling) - are too drab.
> I must admit that it helps me to come to such conclusions because the more
> records I can ignore the better.

[...]

> It doesn't have enough "bite".  The sound is too "floaty".  You'd think
> that the floaty sound would be perfect for exotica but not in my
> experience.  Not so far.

I understand this "ignore" problem. So, here are a few more harmonica
records no one else mentioned, so that you can ignore the genre a bit
more comprehensively.

There's a record of Larry Adler playing with Django Reinhart + the
Quintette, which is bloody marvellous. I reckon that has a bit of bite
to it. Harry Pitch's "Harmonica Jewel Box" has a rather fruity version
of "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend", which I love; Tommy Reilly
with Kai Warner doing "Quando Quando Quando" on "Latin Harmonica" is
great (but the rest of the album is a bit duff), and Mr. Reilly also
did an album on Argo, two contemporary concertoes for harmonica, which
hopefully takes it a bit beyond its normal limited role (must dig that
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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Slogans on the run off groovwe (was Re: (exotica) Esquivel's
Date: 07 Oct 1999 10:57:24 +0200


>Old punk rock 45 collectors will remember the glory days of little slogans
>etched into this area. Right Jimmy?
>
>"A Porky Prime Cut"!!

LOL! I was thinking to those slogans too! There is some 80's pop record
(maybe a Kylie mInogue single from UK?) who had "Waltz Matilda" etched on
the run off groove... but I have several vinyls with weird slogans like
that... looks like the tradition of writing them on the vinyl passed from
punk to dance and electronic 12" too...
Anyone remembers other funny lines? Is there some crazy guy out there who
compilaed a webpage for those? (I suspect there is) ;)

bye,
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
Date: 07 Oct 1999 10:57:29 +0200


>I got passed an E about Esquivel's "See It In Sound".
>
>I write about music (and lots of other stuff) in Scotland and would be
>fascinated to find out more about this album. Particularly release date in
>UK and contact for company releasing it - to write a tie-in feature or at
>least to review.

oh - if anyone has that bit of info, I'd love to review it for
www.all-reviews.com and other places I write for. :)

bye,
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Subject: Yeeeeeah, Pepsi! (was Re: (exotica) African Lament / Mel Henke)
Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:26:35 +0200


>The "In" Sound For The Commercial INDUSTRY  (Charles H. Stern)
>
>any jingle and radio spot collectors out there??

I collect all sorts of weird vinyls and other sound sources... ;)
and about one year ago I have found this 1960's italian 7" from RCA with a
Pepsi logo on it... no cover, though (and lotsa scratches too).
It turned out to be a crazy promo disc including (not sure about the title
now, I am quoting by memory) "Come alive (you're in the Pepsi generation)"
(i.e. a sort of "funk-big band-not sure if I can define it exotica" piece
by Sid Ramin, with brass, some good bits ready for sampling ;))) and
"Yeeeeeh, Pepsi!" choruses) :))
The other side is an Italian song by Gianni Morandi (who is a crappy
crooner/songwriter that has been around for more than 30 years now and
we're tired of him ;))))))) called "Questa vita cambiera'" ("this life will
change").
The funny stuff is that both tracks after a few bars are overdubbed by a
silly voice screaming: "Allegri, ragazzi! La Pepsi!!" ("Be happy, boys!
Pepsi!" ;))))))))))))))) which not only ruins the beauty of the Sid Ramin
track but also is totally out of contest on the moody, almost sad Morandi
song. Hehe!

And there is a nice story on this disc: I was in contact with Mark of
Negativland, who had released a collage recording called "Dispepsi"
stealing sounds from dozens of old Pepsi commercials. I told him that I
would have  like to make a cd-r of it and send them the cd and/or maybe
make a Dispepsi remix using bits of it too...
Mark told me "we would be actually interested in BUYING the original
record"... ;))))))

I'm not sellign the original but I had no time to make a cd-r yet. And
recently I had the idea of expanding the project putting more stuff on
cd... maybe I will be able to do a compilation of scratched exotic vinyl?
Hope so... (after all I have Brigitte's "Ti amo e io di piu'"... rare
italian version of "Je t'aime..." by Serge Gainsbourg, and more crazy stuff
like a promotional disc with french and german voices introducing Taravana
chants from Polynesia... ;DDDDDD)


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Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista



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Subject: (exotica) [obits] A.L. "Doodle" Owens,Amalia Rodrigues,Gorilla Monsoon
Date: 07 Oct 1999 10:13:52 -0400


The Associated Press
Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1999; 10:49 p.m. EDT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. ûû A.L. "Doodle" Owens, who wrote dozens of country music hits for stars like Charley Pride, George Jones and Moe Bandy, died Monday from a heart attack. He was 68.
                  Owens' hits include "Wine Colored Roses" for Jones, "Johnny One Time" for Brenda Lee and "Hank and Lefty Raised My Country Soul" for Stoney Edwards. Owens got the nickname "Doodle" as a child because he crawled backwards.
                  Owens, a native of Waco, Texas, moved to Nashville in 1965, after being encouraged by singer Ray Price. With Frazier, he co-wrote two No. 1 hits for Pride in 1969, "(I'm So) Afraid of Losing You Again" and "All I Have to Offer You (Is Me)."


                  Amalia Rodrigues
                  LISBON, Portugal (AP) û Amalia Rodrigues, the Portuguese singer whose passionate performances of the country's brooding 'fado' music took her from Lisbon taverns to worldwide fame, died Wednesday at her home. She was 79.
                  Rodrigues' personal secretary, Leonel Henriques, told the news agency Lusa that she was found dead in her bed, adding she had felt unwell in previous days. The singer had suffered two heart attacks, in 1979 and 1980, and increasing health problems caused her to retreat from public life in recent years.
                  Prime Minister Antonio Guterres announced three days of national mourning.
                  Amalia da Piedade Rebordao Rodrigues, known popularly as Amalia, became known at home as the "Ambassador of Fado" for taking Portugal's sad and haunting traditional music out of Lisbon taverns and placing it on a world stage.
                  Her interpretations of 'fado' û which means "fate" or "destiny" û gave the world a glimpse into the depths of the Portuguese character.
                  "Fado" lyrics are sentimental and melancholic, centering on longing, sadness and fatalism, while the guitar accompaniment combines the influences of Arab, African and Portuguese cultures.

Robert Monsoon
    WILLINGBORO, N.J. (AP) -- Robert ``Gorilla Monsoon'' Marella, a true giant of professional wrestling who body-slammed Muhammad Ali
and debated Jesse Ventura, has died of a heart ailment.
    The 62-year-old former teacher, died Wednesday.
    The 6-foot-6, 400-pound Marella turned to the pro wrestling game in 1960 when a promoter offered him $500 per week to don the
tights.
    As Gorilla Monsoon, Marella soon shared world tag-team titles
with Walter ``Killer'' Kowalski and ``Cowboy'' Bill Watts. Playing a villain's role at the time, Marella gained notoriety for his feud with longtime champ Bruno Sammartino.
    Marella's career in the ring lasted until the early 1980s, when he became one of the World Wrestling Federation's top ringside
television announcers. He co-hosted WWF telecasts at a time when the high-flying entertainment genre was booming in popularity.
    Marella frequently shared the microphone with former wrestler
Jesse ``The Body'' Ventura, with whom he often argued over the importance of fair play in the ring. Ventura now is governor of Minnesota.
    The younger generation of wrestlers was honored to have the rotund Marella analyze their moves and holds, said fellow pro wrestler King Kong Bundy.
    ``He was somebody who knew the business,'' Bundy said. ``A great guy, a real class act all the way.''
    Marella also wrote a weekly pro wrestling column for the now-defunct Philadelphia Bulletin.
    A son, Joey Marella, became a WWF referee in the 1980s. He died in an auto accident in Burlington in 1994. Thereafter, Robert Marella appeared on television less frequently.
    ``When his son got killed in a car accident, I think that took a lot out of him,'' King Kong Bundy said.
    Marella did serve as interim president of the WWF in 1997 -- at a time when the industry admitted openly that the outcomes of its
matches are scripted.
    Heart problems forced Marella to scale back his work with the
WWF. He also suffered from diabetes in recent years.
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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Harmonicats
Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:08:26 -0400


Didn't the Harmonicats do that album with the "James Bond" girl dressed in =
a black leather outfit, standing with one bare foot triumphantly over top =
of three men dressed in suits????  (She's also holding a harmonica).

That's a pretty cool record; and no, I don't like harmonica!!  They do =
some spy stuff - been ages since I've listened to it so can't give =
particulates.......

- Nate




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999
Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:17:27 EDT


In a message dated 10/06/99 5:23:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< >While travelling with Katja in Canada and New England, exotic creatures
 >had escaped from a pack of Indian black rice in our Munich home and
 >taken over the kitchen.

 Are they good cooks? Can they make decent Mai Tais? I bet they all have a
copy of whipped cream by now :)

 M
  >>


now THAT is funny.

tb


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999
Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:29:37 EDT


In a message dated 10/07/99 1:14:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< At the same time, I don't like reading my real name here but when you say
 my film is great, it lessens the sting somehow.
 (And for those who wonder why I have a fake name here - like I'm the only
 one - I don't have an explanation or excuse but if my real name was
 something cool like "Will Straw", I don't think I'd have made up a fake
 one.  And it's not just for this list; it's an internet thing.) >>


i find this line of discussion interesting.  everybody knows (at least i
think they do) that my real name is not Tiki Bob.  actually very few people
even call me Bob, but Tiki Robert sounds kinda stupid.  actually to people
not on the list Tiki Bob sounds kind of stupid.

i felt kind of funny using a "signature name" at first but it is kind of fun.
 of course people like Laura who have neat lives that revolve around music
are supposed to have name like Jane Fondle (or Lounge Laura or 69!).

is some goofy optometrist from South Carolina supposed to have a signature
name too?  well i do.

one bad thing about my name that bothers me tho:  the initials for Tiki Bob
(TB) scares me because in my profession,  TB stand for tuberculosis.

hope you enjoyed these misc ramblings,

TB
(which I guess is better than VD)


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999
Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:30:08 EDT


In a message dated 10/07/99 1:14:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Nat Kone only exists here on this mailing
 list. >>

So how did you arrive at this name?

TB
(cough!)


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From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999
Date: 07 Oct 1999 18:45:00 +0200



TB wrote:
>one bad thing about my name that bothers me tho:  the initials for Tiki =
Bob=20
>(TB) scares me because in my profession,  TB stand for tuberculosis.

Magnus is for real but my signature M scares the hell out of me, when =
thinking of a certain Peter Lorre movie. but dont worry Elsie Beckmann, =
I wont hurt you.

Actually I took the M signature when drawing my first comics in the mid =
80s. French comicartist Moebius was my inspiration then and I even =
wanted the signature to look like it came from his hands. (How silly) =
There is also a beautiful Blake and Mortimer album (by belgo EP Jabobs =
who also drew backgrounds in Tintin) where the hypnotized villain draws =
an M after he has made the crimes.=20

So thats Y
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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:25:32 -0400


At 2:22 PM -0400 10/6/99, Nat Kone wrote:

>I just got Bob Thompson's "Mmm Nice" (hi Brad, one parcel arrived) and once
>again noticed this name Neely Plumb.
>So it seems like an appropriate time to ask who he is.

Neely Plumb was the West Coast A&R man for RCA Victor Records. Born in
Georgia, he began his carreer as a clarinet player during the big band era.
I'm drawing a blank right now on the name of the well known bandleader he
worked with, but he made records (as a sideman) in the 40's and 50's. He
began working at RCA around 1959. In those days, the A&R person was listed
as the producer, although the term had a different meaning then. Unlike the
rock era, where the producer became a sort of auteur in his/her own right,
in the pop music field, the producer supervised the recording process -
keeping costs within the budget (an impossible thing to do with Esquivel),
acting as liason between the artist, engineer, contractor (who hired the
musicians and watched out for the union interests), and label heads. The
A&R person would always be a musician (for example, the A&R guys for
Mercury in the early 60's were Pete Rugolo and Quincy Jones). They would
often pick the songs to be arranged and work on the album concepts with the
artists and the label chiefs.

Since Neely worked in Los Angeles, you'll see his name on just about every
RCA album recorded there, right up to the Jefferson Airplane. He left RCA
in the late 60's and went to Capitol, where he worked until the mid 70's.
His name appears most often on movie soundtracks on both RCA and Capitol.
He put out an album under the name of Neely Plumb and The 50 Funky Fiddles
(he told me there were really only about 6, overdubbed a dozen times) on
the AVI label in 1975. It's one of those records that is sought after by
break'n'beat collectors, and a couple of the tracks have been bootlegged on
obscure funk collections. Neely retired in the late 70's; he's now about 85
years old.

His daughter Eve Plumb is an actress, best known for her role on TV's "The
Brady Bunch".

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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
Date: 07 Oct 1999 11:59:26 -0400


At 12:17 PM -0400 10/6/99, m.ace wrote:
>Happy to hear that this is coming out. But I'm unclear on who's releasing
>it. Details? US release? Will this be commonly available? Or is it another
>sassinfrassin bootleg?


no, it's legit. (The only person in the world who could've bootlegged it
would have been me....well, or Esquivel or Neely Plumb......and I would
have been a little too easy to trace)

The disc will be released by N7/BMG in November. They are a new company,
run by Paul Williams, who oversaw the 3 collections produced by Irwin
Chusid; their previous issues are an Eartha Kitt anthology and a Hugo
Montenegro spy music collection.

br cleve


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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound
Date: 07 Oct 1999 17:44:50 +0200


[e-mail] writes:

>>Basic Hip makes wonderful CDrs! Highly recommended!


[e-mail] replied:

>Seconding the Emotion here


    yep, i agree for 100 %... what did i say? 101 % of course!

        Johan





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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) LP frames / Shoppinquarium
Date: 07 Oct 1999 13:47:39 +0200


for LP frames, try BAGS UNLIMITED: http://bagsunlimited.com/


        visit the "Shoppinquarium", the Mailorder Links page on
        my web site, for other places where to buy accessories
    like LP frames.
        http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/



        Johan


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's "See It In Sound"
Date: 07 Oct 1999 14:04:52 EDT



In a message dated 10/5/99 7:48:53 PM, [e-mail] writes:

>Oh yeah, there's "A tip of the hat to Br. Cleve for rediscovering
>this album." Seems to me Cleve deserves a LITTLE more credit than a mere
>hat-tip!

Yeah, but can Wick give 'im what he REALLY wants?


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Date: 07 Oct 1999 14:17:27 EDT



In a message dated 10/6/99 11:06:06 AM, [e-mail] writes:

>Old punk rock 45 collectors will remember the glory days of little slogans
>etched into this area. Right Jimmy?

Right, and hopefully influenced by the glory days of Mad magazine when they
put little cartoons above the page's content as if they just happened to be
there...Jimmy "Kaputnick" Botticelli/again wrapping his arms around a memory


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Subject: SV: Re: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound
Date: 07 Oct 1999 20:28:23 +0200


>[e-mail] writes:
>
>>>Basic Hip makes wonderful CDrs! Highly recommended!
>
>
>[e-mail] replied:
>
>>Seconding the Emotion here
>
>
> yep, i agree for 100 %... what did i say? 101 % of course!
>
> Johan

wait a minute.... 101 %?

He makes them 10 times better than any of you can say. Hah!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Indian Summer 1999
Date: 07 Oct 1999 14:34:45 EDT



In a message dated 10/6/99 3:13:05 PM, [e-mail] writes:

>accidently discover
>the "Aku Aku", not really spectacular looking from the freeway, but once
>you get to the back side of the building, oopsiedaisy! Two 30 feet high
>Easter island guys flank the A-frame entrance.

Sorry we missed you Mo. What a time we would have had! But the good news is
that I was able to meet with Bobby Seto, owner of Aku Aku yesterday. He gave
me ALL his promo shots from 1972 - 1982 (gorgeous faux-pastel colors <I'm not
an awtist, I just made that word up>) and the original menu (minus cocktails)
from The Polynesian Village from which Aku Aku sprang  and was located in a
hotel in Kenmore Square, Boston from 1948 thru 1972. Aku Aku itself was
formerly about a mile from where it now sits, on Rte 2 (leading to Concord)
and Bobby told me about Wayne Newton's appearance there as well as Cher and
(he thinks!) The Trammps. But when the rent got too high and they bought the
place they are in now in 1976. Babby sold me the original Tiki (which stands
nearly 4' tall) that graced the entry to Polynesian Village. The tiki has
served as an inspiration for me to convert my cellar to a Tiki Room.....I'll
post when its done....Jimmy Botticelli


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From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Harmonicats
Date: 07 Oct 1999 14:50:53 -0400


>Now I'm trying to reduce the scope.
>And harmonica fits right in.
>It doesn't have enough "bite".  The sound is too "floaty".

The Harmonicats track that originally blew my mind was their version
of "Sabre Dance," off the white _Peg 'O My Heart_ LP. There was
nothing floaty or toothless about that one--it's a full-bore
hyperventilating freakout. (Have you guys heard the story that their
producer used an elevator shaft as an echo chamber?)

But I have to admit, it's basically been downhill from there, with
none of the other Harmonicats LPs I've found so far really living up
to that first one. Hence my high hopes for the Latinized
_Harmoni-Cha-Cha-Cha_ (or whatever the canonical spelling of that
is). I do agree with Ron about "Navarone" (also "El Cid") and "Cherry
Pink" though. . .

Later of course, I learned that goofy cover versions of "Sabre Dance"
were not that uncommon. But I stumbled onto the 'Cats version on one
of the first dozen old records I ever bought. And I had never heard
anything remotely like it before! So I guess they earned a fond spot
in my heart for that reason too. . .

>> Alan Zweig's (aka known as Nat Kone)

>for those who wonder why I have a fake name here - like I'm the only one

Oh sure, like we are going to fall for this bit of disinformation.
You are really named Bruno and we all know it.

I remain, allegedly,


  --Ross

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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Pepsi?
Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:13:02 -0700 (PDT)


Batman sez: I collect all sorts of weird vinyls and
other sound sources... ;)
and about one year ago I have found this 1960's
italian 7" from RCA with a
Pepsi logo on it... no cover, though (and lotsa
scratches too).
It turned out to be a crazy promo disc including (not
sure about the title
now, I am quoting by memory) "Come alive (you're in
the Pepsi generation)"
(i.e. a sort of "funk-big band-not sure if I can
define it exotica" piece
by Sid Ramin, with brass, some good bits ready for
sampling ;))) and
"Yeeeeeh, Pepsi!" choruses) :))

>>I am guessing this isn't the same song on the SOUND
GALLERY, eh?  Does anybody remember that song being
used in an ad?  Can Ashley fill us in on this a bit
more?
Prefers Coke, Jane Fondle



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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Whazzin a name?
Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:21:41 -0700 (PDT)


In a message dated 10/07/99 1:14:04 AM Eastern
Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< .. I don't have an explanation or excuse but if my
real name was
 something cool like "Will Straw", I don't think I'd
have made up a fake
 one.  And it's not just for this list; it's an
internet thing.) >>

I have always thought Will Straw is a cool name, too!
Speaking of coolnames, whatever happened to Pea Hicks?
I think Alan Zweig is neat, actually, because it's one
of those "last-name-in-the-phone-book" kinda things!

>>i felt kind of funny using a "signature name" at
first but it is kind of fun.
 of course people like Laura who have neat lives that
revolve around music
are supposed to have name like Jane Fondle (or Lounge
Laura or 69!).

Well, I'm not sure when I got a "neat life"...but I do
guess Jane Fondle is a better name for a disrobing
space babe than ol' Laura Taylor...
Signed, oh, somebody!



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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Indian Summer Offering
Date: 07 Oct 1999 15:51:00 -0400


>I'm back.

On the same day that I read the account of the raft's grounding in Thor
Heyerdahl's "Kon Tiki". Good exotica timing. Welcome back.

>Some are better than I thought, like
>...
>the Carpenter's "Ticket to Ride",

This one seems to be in the air right now. Has anyone ever seen the
original release version, titled "Offering"? Thanks.


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From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 180 and the Letter G
Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:55:01 -0700 (PDT)


Not exactly exotica, but similar:

I have it on good word that the Weatherman's house is
for sale.  For those of you familiar with
Negativland's output, this is the famous house where
Weatherman grew up, the directions to which form the
last track on the album, Big 10-8 Place.

A classic piece of underground lore and a mecca for
the many (well, maybe you wouldn't call us "many")
Negativland fans.

In any case, thought some of you would like to know.

Peter


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Pepsi?
Date: 07 Oct 1999 16:13:44 EDT



In a message dated 10/7/99 3:08:56 PM, [e-mail] writes:

>"Yeeeeeh, Pepsi!" choruses) :))
>
>>>I am guessing this isn't the same song on the SOUND
>GALLERY, eh?  Does anybody remember that song being
>used in an ad?

I think it has reappeared on the TV commercials LP and CD released nearly a
decade ago if its the one I'm thinking of, "Come Alive, You're In the Pepsi
Generation..Think smart, stay bright, have fun, drink right..Come Alive, etc
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Subject: (exotica) Italian Now!
Date: 07 Oct 1999 16:20:02 EDT


I found an interesting LP yesterday called "Ciao Ragazzi" (Goodbye Boys) by
Dom Cortese &Co circa 1970. All Italian hits from the 6T's with that Now
Sound treatment furnished by the presence of Phil Bodner on winds and Al
Caiola on guitar. Also Dom Cortese on accordian, giving it that Continental
A-Go Go sound. Thought you'd like to know....Jimmy Botticelli


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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Whazzin a name?
Date: 07 Oct 1999 23:12:00 +0200


Jane Fondle wrote:

> I do guess Jane Fondle is a better name for a disrobing
> space babe than ol' Laura Taylor...

Dis... robing??? Gee... I *did* miss something in Boston!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Whazzin a name?
Date: 07 Oct 1999 17:34:28 EDT


In a message dated 10/07/99 3:17:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< but I do
 guess Jane Fondle is a better name for a disrobing
 space babe than ol' Laura Taylor... >>

i got news for you.  if a space babe is disrobing for me i really don't give
a damn what the gals name is.

tb


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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Pepsi?
Date: 07 Oct 1999 23:48:14 +0200


>I think it has reappeared on the TV commercials LP and CD released nearly a
>decade ago if its the one I'm thinking of, "Come Alive, You're In the Pepsi
>Generation..Think smart, stay bright, have fun, drink right..Come Alive, etc
>etc. The Sound Gallery one is "Talkin' 'Bout Pepsi" as I recall

ahem! allow me to correct u!
the song I have is basically an instrumental with those "Yeeeeah, Pepsi!"
chorus and at some point the stops and
you have Sid Ramin (or whoever):)))) screaming "Pepsi!"... no other lyrics
included!
It could be a sort of "dub version" ;) of another jingle, though...
bye,
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Subject: (exotica) Eve's Plumb
Date: 07 Oct 1999 14:20:13 -0700 (PDT)


From Nat:
I just got Bob Thompson's "Mmm Nice" (hi Brad, one
parcel arrived) and once
again noticed this name Neely Plumb.
So it seems like an appropriate time to ask who he is.

Among other credits, Neely Plumb is the father of Eve
Plumb of BRADY BUNCH-(in)fame!
Jane Fondle

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Subject: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions
Date: 07 Oct 1999 18:01:20 EDT


I was wondering about Esquivel's work on albums as the 60s progressed. Did he
ever take on the 60s "now sound" in his recordings? I am very curious to give
a listen to his two late 60s albums in particular.

Also..

I read on the web (WISH I COULD REMEMBER WHERE!!) that Esquivel actually made
an appearance on THE TONIGHT SHOW starring Johnny Carson in 1968 and the tape
was destroyed in 1972. Can anyone confirm or deny this? Maybe some of you
"old timers" (kidding) or Esquivel fans from way back when could help me on
this. If its true does anybody remember  what took place? And is there
perhaps an 8 mm tape of this appearance available?

And Finally...

Have any of our favorite performers from exotica and the like ever made
appearances on the old late night talk and/or variety from the 50s and 60s
(like Ed Sullivan and such)? I am curious in particular to know if Esquivel,
Martin Denny, Les Baxter and those types ever did.



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Harmonicats
Date: 07 Oct 1999 18:27:48 -0400


At 02:50 PM 10/7/99 -0400, Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr wrote:
>
>Later of course, I learned that goofy cover versions of "Sabre Dance"
>were not that uncommon. But I stumbled onto the 'Cats version on one
>of the first dozen old records I ever bought. And I had never heard
>anything remotely like it before! So I guess they earned a fond spot
>in my heart for that reason too. . .

Not that anyone has to make excuses for their taste, not on this list of
all places, but I understand that completely.  It's kind of interesting to
trace your journey in this genre especially since there really was no
"official" way to get into this stuff.
For instance I'm always struck when people talk about "Zounds what sounds"
because that was one of the first three or four "lounge" LP's I bought and
of course I had no idea at the time, that it was a rarity or a classic
either.  I just liked the cover.
And sometimes I wonder how much my tastes have been influenced by the de
facto "canons" that have been developed by this very list.
Anyway, when I started buying this stuff, virtually anything that "fit"
into the general genre was interesting to me.  But that's also a factor of
not knowing how much of this stuff you're eventually going to come across.
When you're not looking for something, you can get the impression that
there's not much of it to find.
It's silly to say "harmonica sucks".  (But that didn't stop me from once
upon a time declaring that "Edmondo Ros sucks!")
It's just that at this point - when I get rid of four out of every five
LP's I pick up - it's nice to be rifling through a pile of records, come to
an immediate, automatic halt at the words "el cumbanchero and dismiss the
record anyway.

BTW, it seems to me that EVERY version of Sabre Dance is over-the-top.  My
Sabre Dance experience began with a version by... uh... some English guitar
god rock band.  Help me out here.  Some Rory Gallagher type.  Maybe he
wasn't English.  Somehow the name Mike Pinera rings a bell here.  Before he
joined the Iron Butterfly.
Somebody must know this.  It was a ten or fifteen-minute version of Sabre
Dance, probably filled a whole album side and I loved it.
And then I heard Dick Contino's version.

Any of you repeated-versions-of-the-same-tune guys have a list for Sabre
Dance?  That would be a crazy hour or two.

(Alan wouldn't go on like this but Nat has absolutely no boundaries when it
comes to rambling and free association.)

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Whazzin a name?
Date: 07 Oct 1999 18:41:07 -0400


At 12:21 PM 10/7/99 -0700, Jane Fondle wrote:
>
>
>I have always thought Will Straw is a cool name, too!
>Speaking of coolnames, whatever happened to Pea Hicks?
>I think Alan Zweig is neat, actually, because it's one
>of those "last-name-in-the-phone-book" kinda things!

And then there's the "A to Z" factor.  Actually some guy who I interviewed
for my film was overly-fascinated by that factor and kept saying stuff like
"The alphabet must be very important to you".
Of course, this was someone who went by the name "Zack McBuick" and he had
even less reason to "hide" than me.
The other pseudononymous (or however you say it) guy I interviewed, went by
the name "Hank Sinatra".  I'm betting there's a musician calling himself
that in practically every city in North America but maybe not.
It's a cool name anyway.  I think it was somehow more appropriate when he
was in a rockabilly band but by the time I met him, he was born again and
only performed in churches.

And I think the name "Laura Taylor" is cool.  Kind of reminds me of "Laura
Petrie" and I can definitely imagine Laura Petrie in tight clothes dancing
onstage.  Pedal pushers come to mind for some reason.

It all comes down to the age-old question, "If you were a contract player
in the old Hollywood studio system, would they let you keep your name or
would they make you change it?"  Laura Taylor and Will Straw would probably
get to keep their names.  (One of those names already sounds made up.)

When my brother put out a solo record, he had to go by "Michael Zee".
(It's obviously different for novelists.)  On the other hand, when my old
buddy Eddie Schwartz made his record, they told him that it was a perfectly
good rock n roll name.

I hope I've discussed this to death by now.

Nat



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Subject: (exotica) Mad Magazine
Date: 07 Oct 1999 20:24:14 -0400


> Right, and hopefully influenced by the glory days of Mad magazine when they
> put little cartoons above the page's content as if they just happened to be
> there...

I recently stopped at a computer store.  I was very happy to see this following
item which is now available to add to my Christmas wish-list.

http://www.dccomics.com/mad/totallymad/index.htm

Vern (my real name, if you know what I mean)



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From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Shirt / Emperor Norton Sampler
Date: 07 Oct 1999 17:30:03 -0700


Kirsten Noel Whitley wrote:
> In my own attempt to be helpful, I have a
> lead for those of you who search out tiki-
> wear. There is a tiki shirt, which not
> only displays tikis big and bold, but also
> is on sale (was $49, is now $40). Go to
> http://www.hotshirts.com/index.html
> Click on "View Shirts" and then do a search
> for "tiki". The one that I am referring to
> is called Tiki Warriors.

All of those Tiki shirts are really cool... but for $40-75 they ought to
be! Thanks for the tip

Kevin Crossman


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Whazzin a name?
Date: 07 Oct 1999 21:49:57 EDT


In a message dated 10/7/99 3:38:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< "Zack McBuick" >>

i love this for the obvious reasons.

tb


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) where records hide in DC
Date: 07 Oct 1999 23:18:37 EDT


Greetings all,
I just found out today that I will probably be in Washington DC on Sunday and
Monday and I plan on spending atleast half of my time there searching for
vinyl.  If anyone knows of good places to get records in the DC area please
let me know.  It would be greatly appreciated.  Contact me either on or off
the list.  I'll be glad to update everyone on any outstanding or previously
undiscussed records I might find.

Thanks,
Larry


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Whazzin a name?
Date: 08 Oct 1999 00:36:31 EDT



In a message dated 10/7/99 6:38:59 PM, [e-mail] writes:

>When my brother put out a solo record, he had to go by "Michael Zee".
>(It's obviously different for novelists.)  On the other hand, when my old
>buddy Eddie Schwartz made his record, they told him that it was a perfectly
>good rock n roll name.
>I hope I've discussed this to death by now.

Can't get enuf...do-dap, do-dap, unhhh, of that funky stuff!  "Jimmy"
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Subject: (exotica) Fwd: the TRUTH about the Bomboras!
Date: 07 Oct 1999 12:10:13 -0400


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alright, so maybe some of you know me, but most of you don't.
my name is paul buck, i have been playing guitar for the bomboras since =
greg
left.  i find some of the information running around this little discussion=
 to
be 100% wrong.  as of this moment, the bomboras have not broken up.  in =
san
fransisco, jake, (organ) quit the band in a fit of childish rage.  he TOOK =
$300
dollars from us and fled to the airport where he then flew home.  san =
francisco
was our LAST show with jake ever!  our tour is cancelled.  there is no new
record.  the last recording that was ever made by the bomboras, and will =
ever
be made by the bomboras is the Monsters of Surf comp.  the facts are kids =
that
we are discussing our situation and attempting to come up with a solution. =
 it
is probable that we will play our last six shows that we are booked for at
universal studios without jake and after that call it quits.  keep in mind =
here
that none of this is 100%.  so don't go starting any blasphemous rumors.

i will inform you guys that when this is all over with, you can expect the
remaining four members of the bomboras to do something NEW and EXCITING.=20=

before i was a member of this band i was a fan, and i would be bummed when =
i
founf out the band was no more...  but have no fear, those of us that =
remain
loyal and true to making music our life will prevail and rock once more,
bomboras or not.  look for new releases on Zombie a Go Go, MAYBE sometime =
from
the remaining four of us doing something completely different.

those of us that remain bomboras at this time appreciate your support
throughout all of this bullshit.  i hope that if our new band ever comes
through your town you'll say hi.

finally, i don't have a computer, so if you wish to respond or say hi, =
email
me, paul buck, at [e-mail], or go look at the bomboras website =
if
that address is wrong.

sincerely,

Paul Buck



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From: "Irwin Chusid/Raymond Scott Archives" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Raymond Scott News Update 10/99
Date: 07 Oct 1999 23:16:41 -0400


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
RAYMOND SCOTT  NEWS UPDATE
        -- 1999 OCTOBER --
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This month:

#  RECKLESS NIGHTS AND TURKISH TWILIGHTS
   remastered US edition released by Sony Legacy

#  RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE to perform
   Animated Music Festival, Belgium, Dec. 1999

#  MANHATTAN RESEARCH, INC.
   2-CD set of Raymond Scott unreleased electronica

#  RAYMOND SCOTT CHESTERFIELD ARRANGEMENTS
   performed by the Metropole Orch. w/ Beau Hunks Saxtette
   released on Basta

#  RAYMOND SCOTT SHEET MUSIC
  for Symphony Orchestra now available

* * * * *

RECKLESS NIGHTS AND TURKISH TWILIGHTS
-- remastered US edition released by Sony Legacy --

    ''RECKLESS NIGHTS is a collection of the music
    Raymond Scott wrote and recorded between 1936 and 1939.
    It is totally inspiring; high energy music with tempos
    that rival any speed garage techno-schmecno dance music.''
                 --Avant Magazine

Sony Legacy has released the remastered edition of the landmark 1992
Raymond Scott CD, RECKLESS NIGHTS AND TURKISH TWILIGHTS.

This 22-track package features the original 78 rpm recordings of the
Raymond Scott Quintette, including the best-known RSQ titles (esp.
those used in WB cartoons) such as "Powerhouse," "The Toy Trumpet,"
"The Penguin," "In an 18th Century Drawing Room," "Twilight in
Turkey," etc. The compilation was produced by Irwin Chusid, with Hal
Willner as Executive Producer.

On the new version, all tracks were 24-bit remastered at Sony Studios,
NYC (i.e., the latest technology was used to extract better sound from
the original 1937-40 metal master discs). Two tracks ("Oil Gusher" and
"At An Arabian House Party") have been replaced by different, newly
discovered -- and more exciting -- performances.

The remastered RNTT was released outside the US on Basta in late 1998.
Liner notes for the Legacy edition have been further revised since the
Basta release.

Legacy's RNTT can be ordered for only $11.49 from Amazon.com. The
easiest way to find it is to click on the Scott website NEWS link
below and then click on the RNTT album cover, which will take you
right to Amazon's new RNTT page:
http://RaymondScott.com/News.html

* * * * * * *

RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE
in Belgium - December 1999

The seven-man RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE (RSO) has been invited to
perform at the ANIMATED MUSIC FESTIVAL (of cartoon music) in Brussels,
Belgium, on December 3.

The RSO, which performs modernistic arrangements of Scott tunes,
debuted at the Jewish Museum in February 1999, and performed at
Central Park SummerStage last June.

The Brussels program includes, on December 2, a special video
presentation by RS Archives director Irwin Chusid of Raymond Scott and
his music in cartoons and film.

The RSO consists of Wayne Barker (piano, arrangements); Brian Dewan
(electric zither, piano, accordion, electronics); Michael Hashim
(saxes); Will Holshouser (accordion, arrangements); George Rush
(bass); Rob Thomas (violin); and Clem Waldmann (drums). These
musicians (and dozens of others) first performed Raymond's music at
the Bottom Line tribute shows in 1996 and '97.

The RSO recently recorded a 7-tune album demo and is seeking a record
deal. Performance dates in NYC and a possible tour are being explored.

For booking info, contact Irwin Chusid <[e-mail]>

* * * * * * *

RAYMOND SCOTT CHESTERFIELD ARRANGEMENTS
performed by the Metropole Orchestra
featuring the Beau Hunks Saxtette
released on Basta Records, October 1999

On a 1997 US research expedition, Beau Hunks leader Gert-Jan Blom
discovered a collection of large-scale orchestral arrangements for 17
Scott Quintet titles. These had been commissioned by noted bandleader
Paul Whiteman for his late 1930s Chesterfield radio program. The
catalog included two very different treatments of "Powerhouse," along
with familiar RS tunes like "War Dance for Wooden Indians" and "The
Toy Trumpet." Blom also found scores for an unknown and never-recorded
tune called "Suicide Cliff," and charts for the rarely heard "Tia
Juana" and "Mexican Jumping Bean." These works were performed on the
Chesterfield series from late 1937 to late 1938, but Whiteman recorded
only a few.

Blom has now recorded these works with the Metropole Orchestra, one of
the finest large European jazz ensembles. (The MO has worked with
Brian Eno, among others). The orchestra is accompanied by the virtuoso
Beau Hunks "Saxtette." The Chesterfield arrangements are very unlike
the original RSQ versions -- they are radically re-arranged, almost
CARL STALLING-like in their majesty.

Will Friedwald writes in the liner notes: "The Whiteman Orchestra was,
in some instances, better equipped to carry out Scott's artistic
vision than his Quintette. Where the six-piece group can simulate only
a handful of "wooden Indians," the full band gives you the entire
tribe. The Whitemanites expand "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry
Cannibals," "Twilight In Turkey," and "Egyptian Barn Dance" to Cecil
B. DeMille-like proportions."

* * * * * * *

RAYMOND SCOTT SHEET MUSIC
FOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

In an ongoing series of Raymond Scott titles arranged for full
symphony orchestra, Robert Wendel Music, in association with Music
Sales Corp., now has three releases:

  *  "Powerhouse"
  *  "Dinner Music For A Pack Of Hungry Cannibals"
  *  "The Toy Trumpet"

These arrangements are available from Robert Wendel Music on a
per-performance, rental-only basis. Full details, including
instrumentation and pricing, can be obtained by calling 212-362-9094,
or visiting: www.pipeline.com/~bobwen (audio samples are on the site).
Wendel is a supplier of high quality Pops charts, whose client list
includes the Cincinnati Pops, Boston Pops, and nearly 300 professional
orchestras in the US, Canada, UK, and Europe.

* * * * * * *

MANHATTAN RESEARCH, INC.
2-CD set of Raymond Scott unreleased electronica

In early 2000, Basta Records will unveil MANHATTAN RESEARCH, INC., a
2-CD edition of Raymond Scott's unreleased electronic recordings. This
collection will feature first-time releases of archival Scott
recordings from the 1950s-60s.
      These works feature such RS inventions as the Electronium,
Clavivox, Circle Machine (early sequencer), Rhythm Modulator,
Bass-Line Generator and more. The album includes collaborative works
with Jim Henson, and a 135-page booklet featuring interviews with
people who knew and worked with Scott (e.g., Mitzi Scott, Robert Moog,
Tom Rhea), along with countless previously unseen photos, lab notes,
and RS scrapbook items.
      A sequel, THE ELECTRONIUM YEARS (late 1960s-70s), is already in
the planning stages.

* * * * * * *

SOOTHING SOUNDS FOR BABY

Scott's groundbreaking 1964 three-volume set of electronic lullabies
for infants (now considered a forerunner of modern electronica) is
still in stock. The price is $30 total for 3 individually packaged CDs
(plus $3.00 for US shipping). For ordering by mail (check & MO only),
contact: <[e-mail]>.

To purchase via credit card, we suggest CDNow.com or Amazon.com.

If you would like obtain the limited vinyl edition of SSFB, contact
Forced Exposure: http://www.ForcedExposure.com

* * * * * * *

This mailing list has been compiled from those who have inquired about
RAYMOND SCOTT over the past few years. Occasional news about RS will
be issued, but this list will not be given to *anyone* for *any*
reason. Let us know if you do not want to be included in our
infrequent mailings.


Best regards,
Irwin Chusid
Director, Raymond Scott Archives
<[e-mail]>

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Eve's Plumb
Date: 08 Oct 1999 01:24:44 -0400


At 02:20 PM 10/7/99 -0700, Jane Fondle wrote:

>Among other credits, Neely Plumb is the father of Eve
>Plumb of BRADY BUNCH-(in)fame!

I was never a Brady fan but nonetheless had the hots for Eve.
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions
Date: 08 Oct 1999 01:30:36 -0400


At 06:01 PM 10/7/99 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:

>Have any of our favorite performers from exotica and the like ever made
>appearances on the old late night talk and/or variety from the 50s and 60s
>(like Ed Sullivan and such)? I am curious in particular to know if Esquivel,
>Martin Denny, Les Baxter and those types ever did.

If I was obsessed with this, I probably would have a decent collection of
such stuff by now.  And then maybe I could put it out for rent, like that
amazing collection of "garage bands on TV" which I saw, the highlight of
which was Question Mark performing "solo" on the Dick Clark show.
Jack Jones - my and Laura's hero - did a few numbers on the recent Jerry
Lewis telethon.
And about a year ago I saw an amazing performance by Ferrante and Teicher -
not just performing with prepared pianos but also explaining them - on a
Canadian variety show from the fifties.  Wish I'd kept that tape, in
retrospect.
There was also a pretty good two hour documentary on A&E recently about the
history of talk shows which gave me the impression there's lots and lots of
"archival material" somewhere.
It's hard to believe somebody somewhere hasn't started to collect this stuff.





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Subject: Re: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions
Date: 08 Oct 1999 00:20:18 -0700



> It's hard to believe somebody somewhere hasn't started to collect this stuff.

To generalize....lots of it is "out there" to be had.  Pick up a copy of Big
Reel Collector Mag at your local newstand, probably perched on a lower
shelf somewhere near Goldmine (same format, publisher), and scan the
classifieds and small ads for catalogs.   Loads of stuff circulates amongst
collectors if you're wont to spend the time pursuing it.  I'm slowly
amassing a collection of every Morey Amsterdam TeeVee appearance, starting
with his hosting the first late night talk show "Broadway Open House" in
1948.   Someone had to, I guess !

Here's one guy with lots of amazing stuff to write to for a catalog;

Kinescope Video
1563 Solano Ave., #446
Berkeley, CA 94707


Paul M.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions
Date: 08 Oct 1999 05:24:03 EDT


In a message dated 10/7/99 3:04:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Have any of our favorite performers from exotica and the like ever made
 appearances on the old late night talk and/or variety from the 50s and 60s
 (like Ed Sullivan and such)? I am curious in particular to know if Esquivel,
 Martin Denny, Les Baxter and those types ever did.
  >>

There is a fairly famous clip of Martin Denny on the Diana Shore show.  The
clip is in black and white and has Diana practicing monkey calls.  I think
she later used this technique with Burt and their bedroom antics.

TB


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Zounds was Harmonicats
Date: 08 Oct 1999 05:28:22 EDT


In a message dated 10/7/99 3:25:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< For instance I'm always struck when people talk about "Zounds what sounds"
 because that was one of the first three or four "lounge" LP's I bought and
 of course I had no idea at the time, that it was a rarity or a classic
 either.  I just liked the cover. >>

and you just happened to run across Zounds in a thrift store and bought it?

now i am curious, how many people on the list have ths LP?

wow.

robert


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Subject: (exotica) Italian Now!
Date: 08 Oct 1999 06:31:34 EDT


<>

With this lineup and this theme, it can't go wrong!

Sean


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Subject: (exotica) Plumbs
Date: 08 Oct 1999 06:33:31 EDT


<<Among other credits, Neely Plumb is the father of Eve
Plumb of BRADY BUNCH-(in)fame!>>

And the inspiration for the obscure band Eve's Plumb

Sean


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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) That Rory Gallagher-like English guy who did "Sabre Dance"
Date: 08 Oct 1999 06:47:52


Was Dave Edmunds, when he was leading a band called Love Sculpture.  "Sabre
Dance" is one of the favorite "classical kitsch" numbers space age pop
artists loved to cover.

For examples of others, check out:

http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/classkit.htm

Brad

P.S.--The reason I started the Space Age Pop website in the first place was
to have a place to put useless trivia like the above that otherwise just
clutters up my mind.  Hasn't worked so far.


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From: "Phil Clark" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Pepsi Ad Music
Date: 08 Oct 1999 13:45:29 +0100


Jane said, about a Pepsi promo song:

">>I am guessing this isn't the same song on the SOUND
GALLERY, eh?  Does anybody remember that song being
used in an ad?  Can Ashley fill us in on this a bit
more?
Prefers Coke, Jane Fondle"

WOW I need a tape of that Italian pepsi song!! Pretty please ?!?!?!?

Meantime I can fill in a bit about the cut on the Sound Gallery album for
ya: it's "Shout about Pepsi" and it was taken from "Non-Stop Pepsi Party" by
(I think) veteran EMI session muso Alan Hawkshaw, released on UK budget
label MFP c.1976. I found this LP in a junk (thrift) store for 25 pence,
which is about right. The cover features the usual dolly bird in garish pose
and the vinyl is AFAICR less than essential listening. Mighta bin some
promotional tie-in or soemthing but then I'd have expected it to have been
on a custom label rather than MFP.

Prefers root beer,
phil dilemma










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Subject: Re: (exotica) Zounds was Harmonicats
Date: 08 Oct 1999 08:58:21 -0500


>and you just happened to run across Zounds in a thrift store and bought it?
>
>now i am curious, how many people on the list have ths LP?


i lucked upon it recently...  mint...  stereo...  $5.

felt like i was robbing a bank.

  - kk

visit...

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            King Kini's  C L U B  V E L V E T
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Subject: (exotica) intergalactic flea market
Date: 08 Oct 1999 10:01:24 -0400


http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=172185933

Take a peek at this watercolor, up on eBay now.
(This isn't my auction - it's just an FYI.)

Here's the description:
From galaxies beyond our own, strange beings come to mingle under the archway for a rare look at items taken (more likely stolen) from the planet Earth. The tall, gray character with a friendless stare holds in his hand an authentic aboriginal star map. At his feet is a model of the Earth, along with the first microscope of that world. The stuffed bird is entitled "Dodo Mounted on Wood." Nearby, a green-skinned alien mischievously eyes a parrot boy, causing the youngster to hug his mother's leg. The parrot woman studies an oddity called a "bird cage." The cage-thing sits atop Marconi's first radio...No, she hasn't yet noticed the bird bath (a bargain for only 50 Gruens). The parrot man gazes toward a touring car in the distance; closer to him is a fifteenth century cannon and an early telescope, one purportedly first owned by a human named Galileo. Twin sisters from Sirius glide along in unison to orbit the unusual artifacts, while a blond alien watches from behind sunglasses.!
!
 Sitting on a velvet Louis XIVth chair is a piggish-looking, "poorly dressed" creature who appears to be openly annoyed at our presence. The foreground is littered with more earthly treasures...We see the elongated skull of an earthling and, tooled in clay, an ancient accountant's record of someone's financial history; an Assyrian stone carving; an eighteenth century porcelain doll; Thomas Edison's first phonograph; a painting by Renoir (supposedly genuine); a golden Egyptian cartouche fragment; a Grecian ornament stone (slightly chipped); and an eary radio from the Art Deco period. Contrasting the Polynesian clay figure and the wooden Byzantine statue, there stands a tiny toy mouse. With arms raised, he welcomes the arrivial of incoming cargo ships.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Zounds was Harmonicats
Date: 08 Oct 1999 10:17:31 -0400



>i lucked upon it recently...  mint...  stereo...  $5.
>
>felt like i was robbing a bank.

I looked upon it earlier this year and bought it...mint..mono...$13.

Felt like robbing my own bank.

Brian "Bing Bini" Phillips


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Subject: Re: (exotica) intergalactic flea market
Date: 08 Oct 1999 10:37:06 -0500


[e-mail] wrote:
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=172185933
>
> Take a peek at this watercolor, up on eBay now.
> (This isn't my auction - it's just an FYI.)
>
> Here's the description:
>
> !

ohmigod.  This is one of the five billion reasons
why this is my favorite lists.  Only my fellow
exoticarians are capable of seeing the beauty in
such a work. If I were just the slightest bit wealthier,
I'd snap it up in a minute!

--


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Subject: (exotica) The World Cup Exotica/Shibuya-kei cd
Date: 08 Oct 1999 08:36:10 -0700 (PDT)




A truly strange and wonderful listening experience is "Bend It!  u.s.a. '94"  Harp
Records 199?

This is one wild ride of music, all kinds of styles.  It reminds me of Johan Dada Vis's
compilations.    The songs all share  the love of football/soccer.

The cd starts with the field recordings of a World Cup goal in 1966 followed by
Cornelius, who  contributes one of his best songs "Pele".  A nice bouncy shibuya-kei
song, this is great Cornelius song.
Kahimi Karie soon follows with a wordless vocal modern now sound classic called "World
Cup Football Jazz"   This is Kahimi with a very upbeat now sound and this is a great
great song by her.

Louis Philippe does "Eusebio"  another good song by a leader of modern soft pop.
Other groups I never heard of do wonderful soft pop exotica songs.

Theres a definite exotica feel to this collection.   This cd explores world of
fottball/soccer fasicnation/fantacism and sounds with even high schoolish football
chants and there is hardly a looser in this group of songs.

On the inside jacket it says "World Cup Bend It! USA 94 is licenced from exotica"

On the back of  the cd it says 25 soccer-boppers.

It also advertises a London address for ordering "Bend It,91, 92 or 93.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions
Date: 08 Oct 1999 01:06:39 -0400


At 6:01 PM -0400 10/7/99, [e-mail] wrote:

>I was wondering about Esquivel's work on albums as the 60s progressed. Did he
>ever take on the 60s "now sound" in his recordings? I am very curious to give
>a listen to his two late 60s albums in particular.

'Miniskirt' in particular has that sound, but not much else from the last 2
RCA albums has it. Two of his Mexican '45's from '69 have it - 'Mah Na Mah
Na' and 'Pais Tropical' - - but good luck finding them. His  unreleased Lex
DeAccevia sessions from '72, including an arrangement of Donovan's
'Atlantis', have more of a Sunshine Pop kind of sound.

>I read on the web (WISH I COULD REMEMBER WHERE!!) that Esquivel actually made
>an appearance on THE TONIGHT SHOW starring Johnny Carson in 1968 and the tape
>was destroyed in 1972. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

confirm

> If its true does anybody remember  what took place?

They performed 'Malaguena'  to a rousing ovation

>Have any of our favorite performers from exotica and the like ever made
>appearances on the old late night talk and/or variety from the 50s and 60s
>(like Ed Sullivan and such)? I am curious in particular to know if Esquivel,
>Martin Denny, Les Baxter and those types ever did.

Esquivel appeared on the Danny Kaye show and a Pat Boone special. No known
copies exist.

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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Fantastica #37 Mp3: correct playlist
Date: 08 Oct 1999 15:17:09 +0200


Ron Grandia wrote:

>(NOTE: I just noticed MY version of #37 is different than the playlist
>version. I guess he updated it, so the playlist will be helpful, but not
>wholly accurate.)

    Yep, i changed a couple of tracks lately...

    here is the playlist of the version of this episode
    that Ron has:


                             Fantastica # 37


       title: SPECIAL: Ferrante & Teicher - identification: Sparky

 1. Ferrante & Teicher: "Tico tico"
       o album "Dos Amigos"
       o CD, Bainbridge 6280, USA & France, 1988, deleted | +++
 2. Ferrante & Teicher: "Oye negra"
       o album "Fireworks"
       o LP, Columbia Harmony HS 11227, USA, | +++++
       o info: Electronically re-channeled for stereo reissue of
         "H-Fireworks" with 2 tracks less.
 3. LEITMOTIV: Sparky: "Sparky's magic piano"
       o album "Sparky's Magic Piano"
       o LP, Golden Guinea GGL 0297 mono, UK | +++
       o info: Written and produced by Alan Livingston, music by Billy May,
         talking piano by Sonovox, narrated by Verne Smith. "Sparky and the
         talking train" is on the B side, by Henry Blair and Cast.
 4. Ferrante & Teicher: "In the rain"
       o album "Blast Off!"
       o LP, ABCS 285 stereo, USA, 1959 | +++++
       o info: Exists on CD, see details in my "eXotica Releases Overview".
 5. Ferrante & Teicher: "Chopstick cha cha"
       o album "Blast Off!"
       o see above mention of this record for more details.
 6. Ferrante & Teicher: "Over the rainbow"
       o album "Easy listening favorites"
       o CD, MCA 20733, USA, 1993 | +++++
 7. Ferrante & Teicher: "Cumana"
       o album "Soundproof"
       o LP, Westminster WST 15011 STEREO, USA | +++++
       o info: SoundPROOF in STEREO has the same titles as SoundBLAST in
         MONO.
 8. Ferrante & Teicher: "The lady is a tramp"
       o album "Dynamic twin pianos"
       o LP, United Artists WWS 8504 stereo, USA | +++++
 9. Ferrante & Teicher: "African echoes"
       o album "Around the world with Ferrante and Teicher"
       o LP, United Artists UA-LA681-G, USA, 1976 | +++
10. Ferrante & Teicher: "A bee and his honey"
       o album "Dynamic twin pianos"
       o see above mention of this record for more details.
11. Ferrante & Teicher: "Caravan"
       o album "Fireworks"
       o see above mention of this record for more details.
12. Ferrante & Teicher: "The nearness of you"
       o album "With Percussion"
       o LP, ABC-Paramount 248 mono, USA, 1958 | +++++
13. Ferrante & Teicher: "Stardust"
       o album "Heavenly Sounds In Hi-Fi"
       o LP, ABC-Paramount 221, USA, 1958 | +++++
       o info: Exists on CD (as "Easy listening favorites", minus 2
         tracks), see details in my "eXotica Releases Overview".
14. Ferrante & Teicher: "Jungle drums"
       o album "Pianos in Paradise"
       o LP, United Artists UAS 6230 stereo, USA | +++
15. Ferrante & Teicher: "Brazil"
       o album "Soundproof"
       o see above mention of this record for more details.
16. Ferrante & Teicher: "Gonna fly now (theme from "Rocky")"
       o album "Rocky and Other Knockouts"
       o LP, United Artists | +
       o info: "Rocky" is good, but the rest is crap.
17. Ferrante & Teicher: "Lay lady lay"
       o compilation "Instrumental favourites: Pop Pleasures"
       o CD, Time-Life Music TCD-452 R986-09, USA,1996 | +++
18. Ferrante & Teicher: "Cielito lindo"
       o album "With Percussion"
       o see above mention of this record for more details.




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From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Zounds was Harmonicats
Date: 08 Oct 1999 19:40:14 +0200


>>i lucked upon it recently...  mint...  stereo...  $5.
>>
>>felt like i was robbing a bank.
>
>I looked upon it earlier this year and bought it...mint..mono...$13.
>
>Felt like robbing my own bank.
>
>Brian "Bing Bini" Phillips


I almost feel ashamed!
I paid $60, only Fantastica has been more expensive for me.
=20
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Plumbs
Date: 08 Oct 1999 14:30:22 EDT


<< <<Among other credits, Neely Plumb is the father of Eve
Plumb of BRADY BUNCH-(in)fame!>>

And the inspiration for the obscure band Eve's Plumb
 >>

anyone remember those 2 late 70s classics..."Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage
Runaway"('76) and the sequal "Alexander: The Other Side of Dawn" (77) great
flicks starring our new friend of the list Eve Plumb, She runs away to
hollywood to 'make it big' but instead becomes a prostitute. hehe.

-the Sensation


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) The Electric Logs
Date: 08 Oct 1999 15:50:50 EDT


I had the opportunity to catch The Electric Logs last night in the Boston
area as they opened for Seks Bomba. George was right. Listers will be
interested in their sound which consists of Keyboards, Percussion, Theremin,
Drums and Bass. Some vocals. Their cassette contains "Mad Pad" (cover of
"Kookie's Mad Pad"), "Logs' Luv Theme", an original jet set-styled piece, a
wild, cool and swingin' version of "Sugar Sugar", a burnin' version of "Our
Man Flint" and "The Hump Dance" by some little known bizarre S.F.-based
songwriter back in the day...Keep your ears out for 'em...Jimmy Botticelli


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Zounds was Harmonicats
Date: 08 Oct 1999 16:01:25 EDT


In a message dated 10/08/99 10:21:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I looked upon it earlier this year and bought it...mint..mono...$13.

 Felt like robbing my own bank.

 Brian "Bing Bini" Phillips
  >>


i hate to ask this, but what is the purpose of this record in mono?

i listened to it with head phones the other day for the first time (don't
know why i haven't earlier@!@#!!?)

that stereo effect is a BLAST ! ! !

Boing . . . . .boing . . . .boing . . . . . boing  . . . . . boing

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From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Classics
Date: 08 Oct 1999 13:06:39 -0700 (PDT)


Hey all,

The millenium is coming up and I had a little pet
project I'd like to embark on.

What are the 100 (or so) CLASSIC exotica albums; those
albums that every Exoticat who's halfway serious
should have in their collection; The milestones and
yardsticks that all other Exotica is measured by.

Now for this list, I'm not looking for your personal
faves.  For example, while Vampyros Lesbos is not my
favorite, I would definitely put it in the "classics"
category and list it on my list.  Similarly, I'm not a
big Yma Sumac fan, but I think some of her work is
canonical.


The SECOND list I want to create is the top 100 (or
so) *underrated* exotica albums.  Basically, the
albums that, had the you ability, you'd bless every
person on the list with at least a copy of so they
could be exposed to this amazing find.  Basically,
things that really should find their way into the
canon.

For example, I'd include Hawaiian Swing by Hugo
Winterhalter. (I hope that's the right name.)  I
wouldn't say that it's a canonical work, but it's
bizarre and cool and I would certainly hope that
someday everyone would hear it.



Anyway,

I'm sure that these lists will cross over, and maybe
it's folly to try to even divide it, so if you are
having trouble deciding where something falls, don't
worry about it.


In the end, what I plan to do is coallate all the
lists, see what common albums bubble to the top, and
produce a final list, just in time for the turning of
the millenium.

(Yeah, I know the millenium REALLY changes a year from
now, but the rest of us non-astrophysicists are very
excited.)

Oh, and this is for ALBUMS, not compilations.
Although if you really think some compilations should
be part of the canon, let me know, and maybe I'll toss
in a third category.

Oh yeah, also, this is the BROAD category of exotica
including Hawaiian, exotica, now sound,
blaxploitation, go-go, ya ya, humpa, soft pop and
whatever else the hell we all listen to, right?

Also, there's NO age limit, as I'd include Combustible
Edison and Air in the canonical repetoire.  Or at
least the "Should Be" pile.


Anyway, the only way this is going to work is to play
early and OFTEN.  If everyone only submits one or two
albums, it's never gonna cut it.  We need lots of data
to do this right.  So think about this over the next
few days and if you think of any, forward them to me,
even a few at a time:

[e-mail]


Thanks!
Peter

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Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Zounds was Harmonicats
Date: 08 Oct 1999 16:13:15 EDT


In a message dated 10/08/99 2:35:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I almost feel ashamed!
 I paid $60, only Fantastica has been more expensive for me. >>

most i ever paid was 40 bucks + shipping for a denny exotic moog.


tiki bob is a cheap ass


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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The World Cup Exotica/Shibuya-kei cd
Date: 08 Oct 1999 23:57:53 +0200


=FF wrote:

> A truly strange and wonderful listening experience is "Bend It!  u.s.a.=
 '94"  Harp
> Records 199?

It's great stuff! The publisher behind "bend it" is the same who's behind=
 the "Exotic
Beatles" compilations, the legendary "=E9l"-label and numerous other prod=
uctions, that I
mentioned on this list a dozen times (mainly because of my admiration for=
 Simon
Fisher-Turner...) : Mike Alway. Anything Mike Alway has touched is someho=
w interesting.
The man himself is a mystery... I keep hearing stories about him, like, h=
e's hiding from
the police, disappearing, reappearing on the scene with a new label etc. =
I guess these
compilations haven't really cleared all copyrights, which isn't possible =
anyway, as
anybody knows, who ever put together a compilation album like this. How m=
any "Bend it"
volumes are there anyway? 5?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions
Date: 08 Oct 1999 23:58:54 +0200


 In a message dated 10/7/99 3:04:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time,[e-mail]
writes:

> << Have any of our favorite performers from exotica and the like ever made
>  appearances on the old late night talk and/or variety from the 50s and 60s
>  (like Ed Sullivan and such)

Arthur Lyman appeared in an episode of Hawaiian Eye...

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions
Date: 08 Oct 1999 01:06:39 -0400


At 6:01 PM -0400 10/7/99, [e-mail] wrote:

>I was wondering about Esquivel's work on albums as the 60s progressed. Did he
>ever take on the 60s "now sound" in his recordings? I am very curious to give
>a listen to his two late 60s albums in particular.

'Miniskirt' in particular has that sound, but not much else from the last 2
RCA albums has it. Two of his Mexican '45's from '69 have it - 'Mah Na Mah
Na' and 'Pais Tropical' - - but good luck finding them. His  unreleased Lex
DeAccevia sessions from '72, including an arrangement of Donovan's
'Atlantis', have more of a Sunshine Pop kind of sound.

>I read on the web (WISH I COULD REMEMBER WHERE!!) that Esquivel actually made
>an appearance on THE TONIGHT SHOW starring Johnny Carson in 1968 and the tape
>was destroyed in 1972. Can anyone confirm or deny this?

confirm

> If its true does anybody remember  what took place?

They performed 'Malaguena'  to a rousing ovation

>Have any of our favorite performers from exotica and the like ever made
>appearances on the old late night talk and/or variety from the 50s and 60s
>(like Ed Sullivan and such)? I am curious in particular to know if Esquivel,
>Martin Denny, Les Baxter and those types ever did.

Esquivel appeared on the Danny Kaye show and a Pat Boone special. No known
copies exist.

br cleve


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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The World Cup Exotica/Shibuya-kei cd
Date: 08 Oct 1999 09:34:23 -0700 (PDT)


A truly strange and wonderful listening experience is
"Bend It!  U.S.A. '94"  Harp Records 199?

This is one wild ride of music, all kinds of styles.  It reminds me of Johan
Dada Vis's compilations.    The songs all share  the love of football/soccer.

The cd starts with the field recordings of a World Cup goal in 1966 followed by
Cornelius, who  contributes one of his best songs "Pele".  A nice bouncy shibuya-kei
song, this is great Cornelius song.
Kahimi Karie soon follows with a wordless vocal modern now sound classic called
"World Cup Football Jazz"   This is Kahimi with a very upbeat now sound and this is a
great great song by her.

Louis Philippe does "Eusebio"  another good song by a leader of modern soft pop.
Other groups I never heard of do wonderful soft pop exotica songs.

Theres a definite exotica feel to this collection.   This cd explores world of
fottball/soccer fasicnation/fantacism and sounds with even high schoolish football
chants and there is hardly a looser in this group of songs.

On the inside jacket it says "World Cup Bend It! USA 94 is licenced from exotica"

On the back of  the cd it says 25 soccer-boppers.

It also advertises a London address for ordering "Bend It, 91, 92 or 93.

I got this wonderful cd on recomendation from Tom at 212  477-8150
http://www.othermusic.com

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Zounds was Harmonicats
Date: 08 Oct 1999 20:38:53 EDT


In a message dated 10/8/99 2:00:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< then found a mint copy (still in shrink) of Jack Contandino's "Music From
a
 Surplus Store" for a buck about a week later. >>

i hope i am not ungrateful, but that Surplus Store stuff kinda bores me.

tiki bob


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) intergalactic flea market
Date: 08 Oct 1999 22:00:30 EDT


In a message dated 10/8/99 8:32:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=172185933
 >
 > Take a peek at this watercolor, up on eBay now.
 > (This isn't my auction - it's just an FYI.)
 >
 > Here's the description:
 >
 > !

 ohmigod.  This is one of the five billion reasons
 why this is my favorite lists.  Only my fellow
 exoticarians are capable of seeing the beauty in
 such a work. If I were just the slightest bit wealthier,
 I'd snap it up in a minute!

 --

  >>

reminds me slightly of the Garden of Earthly Delights --- so that is where
you get flowers.

tb


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From: Craig Carlson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sabre Dance
Date: 08 Oct 1999 08:36:05 -0700 (PDT)



>Sabre Dance experience began with a version by...
>uh... some English guitar
>god rock band.  Help me out here.

It was Love Sculpture. The guitarist (extrodinaire)
was Dave Edmunds, later a power-pop god with Nick Lowe
and Rockpile.

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From: "Karl Engel" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999)
Date: 08 Oct 1999 23:54:11 -0400


Apologies if the list has already covered this, but....

I just saw a new film by Robinson Devor called "The Woman Chaser" at the New
York Film Festival. It's based on the novel of the same name by Charles
Willeford and it's a wonderful 90's look at the old "noir" movie. The movie
is quite good and I think we'll see interesting things from Devor in the
future, but the soundtrack will be a real joy to readers of this list;
original music by Daniel Luppi along with many old exotica greats...Denny,
Baxter, Yma Sumac to name a few....they're all on there and sounding great.
After the screening, the director was asked if there would be a soundtrack
CD....he "certainly hopes so."  So do I.

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From: "Craig L. Carlson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Classics
Date: 09 Oct 1999 01:12:18 -0400


Peter Risser <[e-mail]> wrote:

>What are the 100 (or so) CLASSIC exotica albums

So glad you asked! My top 1,000 lp's (in no particular order) are:

Sabre Dance! Because it makes me want to spin plates on sticks in front of
a live audience!

Craig

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999)
Date: 09 Oct 1999 01:21:52 -0400


At 11:54 PM 10/8/99 -0400, Karl Engel wrote:

>I just saw a new film by Robinson Devor called "The Woman Chaser" at the New
>York Film Festival. It's based on the novel of the same name by Charles
>Willeford and it's a wonderful 90's look at the old "noir" movie.
>original music by Daniel Luppi along with many old exotica greats...Denny,
>Baxter, Yma Sumac to name a few....they're all on there and sounding great.

Even if the great "lounge revival" is over in terms of the music business,
it's still with us in the film business.  And I suspect it will continue to
be for a long time to come.  There's probably a lot of reasons for it.
Some kind of shared demographics in terms of people who bought lounge
reissues and people who work in film and film music.  The fact that
soundtrack music has always been closely associated with lounge and/or
exotica.  The fact that this music lends itself to soundtracks so easily.
The fact that things become "hip" about five years after they're finished.
The fact that a lot of the DJ-types who sample this kind of stuff are
producing CD's that sound like soundtracks for films that were never made.
But any way you cut it, this music is coming up a lot lately.  (Or maybe I
just recognize it more than I used to.)
Just the other day I rented "Office Space" - the first half of which I can
recommend - and it begins with a classic Perez Prado cut, used to very
humorous effect.
Then there's Breakfast of Champions with all the Martin Denny stuff.
And a couple of years ago there was "First the World then the Fireworks" (I
think that was the name) with Pete Rugolo aping his own film noir scoring
style.
And of course, once upon a time there was Four Rooms where the music was by
far the best part of the film.  A film which could only have gotten worse
if Roberto Benigni AND Robin Williams had been in it.
I'm a Willeford fan and I'd like to see this film but this exotica
soundtrack thing is getting a bit old, fast.
And if that Esquivel biopic is ever made (or "lensed" as they say in the
trades) then that'll just keep it going for another decade.
(I shouldn't be so glib.  The soundtrack to my own film is also heavily
slanted in the same direction.  My excuse is that these records are
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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 09 Oct 1999 11:32:44 +0200


 Peter Risser wrote:

> I had a little pet project ...
>
> What are the 100 (or so) CLASSIC exotica albums...

"Little", eh? Wouldn't a Top 20 do as well? I mean, to know that "Hawaiian
Swing" by Werner Mueller is the 87th favorite Exotica LP of altogether 20-30
people likely to participate in this poll, for, like, one vote that it got,
does that really make sense? I mean, compared to the effort it takes to type
100 titles... Not that I don't want to know which are the favorite records of
the members of this list, but don't you have some smaller change?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999)
Date: 09 Oct 1999 06:35:49 EDT


In a message dated 10/8/99 8:58:28 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I just saw a new film by Robinson Devor called "The Woman Chaser" at the
New
 York Film Festival. It's based on the novel of the same name by Charles
 Willeford and it's a wonderful 90's look at the old "noir" movie. >>

could a brief summary of the movie (with out giving away anything too major)
be provided?  what is the distribution of this thing going to be?  and when?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 09 Oct 1999 06:36:43 EDT


In a message dated 10/8/99 10:16:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Sabre Dance! Because it makes me want to spin plates on sticks in front of
 a live audience!
  >>


but before that ladies and gentlemen:  TOPO GEGEIO ! ! ! ! ! !


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Subject: (exotica) Uh Oh -- Death of Lounge Thing Again
Date: 09 Oct 1999 06:43:06 EDT


In a message dated 10/8/99 10:19:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Even if the great "lounge revival" is over in terms of the music business,
 it's still with us in the film business.  And I suspect it will continue to
 be for a long time to come.  There's probably a lot of reasons for it.
 Some kind of shared demographics in terms of people who bought lounge
 reissues and people who work in film and film music.  >>

and the same thing with commercials.  Lounge music (loosely applied term
here) and even strange music lends themselves so nicely to "background" music
for commercials while not taking the attention away from the product.

For instance, Esquivel's Sentimental Journey (you know -- the one with the
guy whistling) plays for a Publix Grocery Store commercial here in the South.
 Baby elephant walk plays on a bathroom tissue commercial and there was a
Combustible Edison cut on a Tide commercial that was mysteriously replaced by
some other loungy like standard (reason Cleve???)

We are going to continuer to hear the lounge, exotic, sapb, etc. but we are
not going to get the reissues.

i have always preferred smaller, more intimate parties if you will, anyway,

tiki bob

the swing stuff, and more particularly vocals, do not lend to good commercial
background music.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999)
Date: 09 Oct 1999 06:47:06 EDT


In a message dated 10/8/99 10:19:43 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< And if that Esquivel biopic is ever made (or "lensed" as they say in the
 trades) then that'll just keep it going for another decade. >>


I like that Lensed phrase.  I am going to use it in my trade (profession)
too.  As in "Have you lensed that patient yet?"  Meaning have you put contact
lenses on her.

An old saying some optometrists would use is "hanging glass".  As in when one
optometrist asks another, "So what have you been up to lately."  "Nothing,
just hanging glass."

Sorry for the non-related observations.

Tiki Bob


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 09 Oct 1999 06:49:39 EDT


In a message dated 10/9/99 2:33:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< "Little", eh? Wouldn't a Top 20 do as well? I mean, to know that "Hawaiian
 Swing" by Werner Mueller is the 87th favorite Exotica LP of altogether 20-30
 people likely to participate in this poll, for, like, one vote that it got,
 does that really make sense?  >>

Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians Christmas album is number 93 on my list.

tb


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 09 Oct 1999 06:52:38 EDT


Opps!  What a fool I am, I meant to say 94.

I know that everybody is interested in this information so I wanted to post a
timely correction.

Of course in the area of fairness, I will accept and carefully consider
reasons it should stay at 93.

Damn, now I am confused.  I will be spending my weekend rearranging my albums
in order of favorites.  I have them lined down the hall, thru the den, into
the kitchen and out the door.

Tiki Bob


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 09 Oct 1999 06:56:00 EDT


In a message dated 10/9/99 2:33:47 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Not that I don't want to know which are the favorite records of
 the members of this list, but don't you have some smaller change?
  >>


Yeah, why don't we just list our favorite album and then we can all shoot
down each other.

BTW, as EVERYBODY knows, my favorite album of all time is that Art Lyman
album . . . oh I forget the title at the moment but you know the one I am
taking about.  Hawaiian something.

tb


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 09 Oct 1999 15:10:39 +0200


[e-mail] wrote:

> BTW, as EVERYBODY knows, my favorite album of all time is that Art Lyman
> album . . . oh I forget the title at the moment but you know the one I am
> taking about.  Hawaiian something.

Hawaiian pepper's lonely hearts club band.

Marco (who is going to watch Monthy Python on BBC 2 tonight)

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From: "Karl Engel" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Movie: The Woman Chaser (1999)
Date: 09 Oct 1999 09:32:15 -0400


 In a message dated 10/9/99 6:35 AM, [e-mail] writes:
> could a brief summary of the movie (with out giving away anything too
major)
> be provided?  what is the distribution of this thing going to be?  and
when?

They are still seeking distribution. They've been talking to a lot of
people, but no deals are set yet. Apparently it will be showing at the
Sundance Film Festival and the director wasn't yet sure if he would sell it
before or after that.

As for a summary....I always dislike revealing too much about a film, but
with a a bit of a SPOLIER WARNING, here is what the NY Film Festival says
about the film in their listings:

"Debut writer/director Robinson Devor has crafted a film noir spoof as good
as they get. our hero, Richard Hudson, on a quest for true meaning in his
life, is played to deadpan, macho perfection by Patrick Warburton (Elaine's
boyfriend, Putty on Seinfeld). Richard runs a crooked used car lot and lives
with a family of misfits until the urge to make the great American movie
thrusts him into new worlds. Like a ringleader engineering a crime, he
eventually completes his grand opus but events soon take a monsterous twist.
Devor has assembled a hilarious assortment of oddball characters struggling
to make their mark in a low-down LA with glimpses of an unattainable glamour
that cruelly beckons. "

And I just stumbled upon this website about the movie:

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~jtlin/twc/

For any New Yorkers, it is playing at the Festival one more time at Alice
Tully Hall today (Saturday the 9th) at 3pm.

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From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SV: (exotica) Classics
Date: 09 Oct 1999 15:34:20 +0200


philosphically:
I would like to think that the best albums is still undiscovered, In =
fact thats part of my ideology. Imagination creates. If you long for =
something really much, sooner or later it will show up.
However, I would like to be a part in choosing the 20 or 50 (not 100) =
exotica classics rediscovered by most of us __until now__. It sounds =
really interesting actually and would keep us occupied for a long time =
to come.

Magnus





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From: d th <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Terry Baxter/Boots
Date: 09 Oct 1999 07:34:30 -0700 (PDT)



Does anyone know the name of the Terry Baxter LP that
has "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" on it?
Trying to find it, can't.

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Subject: (exotica) Re: Rhino Handmade Early Warning #6
Date: 09 Oct 1999 12:47:46 EDT


In a message dated 10/9/99 8:50:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Greetings Earthling!

 This Monday, 11 October 1999, at Noon Pacific Daylight Time
 [1900 UTC], Rhino Handmade will begin taking orders for our
 sixth release.
 The Rhino Handmade Institute Of Petromusicology is very
 pleased to announce the release of MARK MOTHERSBAUGH's new
 Christmas album (yes, you can stop rubbing your eyes, a
 Christmas album) entitled 'Joyeux Mutato'. >>

Has anybody on the List been buying these hand jobs?

Any ideas/comments on the one above?

tb


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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 09 Oct 1999 18:57:10 -0400


At 06:56 AM 10/9/99 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:

>Yeah, why don't we just list our favorite album and then we can all shoot
>down each other.

I thought that was the point of the list.  Oh well.

Maybe the list has changed in the relatively short time I've been here but
when I joined, you'd hear about certain records so frequently that
eventually you'd have a de facto list of classic "must-have's" floating
around in your head, even if such a list was never actually collated and
presented.
So if someone wants to actually write the thing down and present it, that's
not too surprising... or threatening for that matter.
He'd probably have had an easier time, for some reason, if he'd asked us
for our favorite versions of "El Cumbanchero".
(To which I would respond Eddie Osborn on "Organs and Bongos")

Sorry if I can't remember who wanted the lists in the first place.  I was
planning to leave the first list to others.  But I liked his question about
the second list, the "lost classics" or "What are your favorite records
that you'd like to give to every member of the list if you could?"
I like the idea that people here have favorite records that they never hear
about on the list.  Somebody mentions Arthur Lyman and they think to
themselves "If you like that, you should hear this.... Peter Appelyard
record I have"
I like the idea of finding some record in your local thrift and thinking
you must be the only person in the world who has it or who values it.
That's one of the cool things about this list; finding out that you aren't
the only one.  Sometimes.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Terry Baxter/Boots
Date: 09 Oct 1999 19:05:13 -0400


At 07:34 AM 10/9/99 -0700, d th wrote:
>
>
>Does anyone know the name of the Terry Baxter LP that
>has "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" on it?
>Trying to find it, can't.

Geez, a Terry Baxter question.
I've never seen a Terry Baxter LP per se.  I have three of his "boxed
sets", comprising eight LP's but surprisingly "Boots" is not on any of them.

I'd be interested to know about his individual LP's if they exist.  Too bad
you weren't asking about "Psychedelic Shack".  That I could have helped you
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From: "B. Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mystic Moog Orchestra
Date: 10 Oct 1999 10:22:41 -0700


Does anyone know anything about the Mystic Moog Orchestra, or heard
their CD?  I like the clever name but am curious what they actually
sound like.

Thanks.
Brad


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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New Releases (Partch, The Monks)
Date: 10 Oct 1999 13:08:19 +0200


More New Releases in this week at Forced Exposure:
http://www.forcedexposure.com.


INNOVA:

PARTCH, HARRY: Enclosure Six: Delusion of the Fury CD
(INNO 406).  Finally, the major missing piece of the Partch
discography has been reissued! "To mark the 25th anniversary
of the composer=B9s death (on September 4, 1974),  and just in
time for his centenary (June 24, 2001), Delusion of the Fury, the
monumental work of ritual-theater that propelled Harry Partch
into the limelight, is being released on CD.  Originally recorded
for Columbia Masterworks and long-since out of print, Innova, in
conjunction with Sony Music Special Products, has reissued
this central item of American musical history.  With the
appearance of this recording, the complete works of Harry
Partch (1901-1974), one of the most important of American
artists, are available for the first time (the remaining works are
published largely by innova=B9s Enclosure series and the CRI
Partch Collection). Like composer Conlon Nancarrow, Partch
had to wait until late in life for his radical contributions to the
arts to receive wide attention. With the 1969 production of
Delusion he was 'discovered', idolized, and gurufied, as a
43-tone-to-the-octave, ex-hobo, eccentric, maverick, iconoclastic
instrument-builder, and a 'philosophic music-man seduced into
carpentry.'  Hippy hyperbole notwithstanding, Partch was a
genuine far-out radical whose time has come.  Again. Delusion
of the Fury is a 72=B9 totally-integrated, corporeal, microtonal,
elemental work of ritual theater, incorporating almost all of
Partch=B9s hand-built orchestra of sculptural instruments. Using
mime, dance, music, vocalizations, lighting, and costume, Partch
presents two tales concerning reconciliation of life and death,
one after a Japanese Noh drama, the other after an Ethiopian
folk tale. The vidoe release Enclosure Four: Harry Partch
(Innova 404) features the film version of Delusion, but this is the
first time that the high-quality stereo sound version is available
on CD.  Perhaps the most astonishing, seductive and compelling
of Partch=B9s works, Delusion stands as the 'Choral Symphony' or
'Ring Cycle' do to other composers: a culminating testament to
a lifetime of 'doing your own thing.' The 16-page illustrated
booklet features Partch=B9s introduction and a new text by
conductor Danlee Mitchell."  $13.00

_____________________________________________
OMPLATTEN:

MONKS: Five Upstart Americans CD (FJORD 005). "Five
American GI's are stationed in West Germany in 1964. They form
a rock group to entertain their fellow soldiers at their army base.
They name the band the Five Torquays and play a selection of
cover songs. In 1965 the band members are discharged from the
army. Something very odd happens to their artistic pursuit. The
band declares themselves the anti-Beatles, they start dressing in
black, wearing heavy work boots, shaving tonsures on their heads,
wearing nooses around their necks, reducing their music to a
throbbing, rhythmic noise. The lyrics are chanted: "I hate you with
a passion baby", "Shut up don't cry", "We don't like the army, what
army, any army, Pussy Galore is coming down and we like it". The
band name is the Monks. They tour Germany for two years, fueled
by amphetamines and a monk-like discipline. In 1966 they play
364 dates, in 1967, 362. This lead to the implosion of the band.
"We'd go from town to town to town, jumping up and playing two
sets and off to the next one. We got attacked: People would jump
up onstage and try to hit us -- try and kill you. These were young
working class men, thinking that their religion had been smeared,
or maybe they thought we were Americans taking advantage of
their disadvantage." The sessions restrained within this shiny
compact disc were recorded at Hilversum in Germany in 1965,
almost a year before the Black Monk Time album. They are more
primitive, more Back From the Grave sounding, but no less
handsome than the versions on Black Monk Time. As pointed out
by Mr. Burger and Mr. Shaw in the sleeve notes, they were demos
the band cut with the hope of getting a deal, which as we know fell
into place with Polydor Records.  What is beat? What is beat
today? And what is over-beat? And who the hell is going to melt
the hot and cold worlds of tomorrow? Listen as Roger beats,
Gary plucks, Dave pummels. And Eddie dreams hell's bass part.
And Larry fingers the keys of the day after tomorrow. The Monks
believe in nothing. The Monks believe that everything is possible.
The Monks give everything. The Monks demand everything.
Words are the outline of lies. Lying is the art of pleasing others.
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From: "B. Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Liner notes revisited
Date: 10 Oct 1999 14:03:37 -0700


While scanning a Dick Contino LP that I have more for the cover than the
music, I came across this in the biographical liner notes:

"At the tender age of 7, after much begging, Dick was allowed to follow
his strongest desire, to play the accordion.  The family later moved to
San Francisco and it was there that Dick decided he wanted a better
accordion.  This request would not be granted by the parents, however,
until it was decided that young Dick had "what it takes".  The family
discovered an old master accordionist, Angelo Cagnazzo, who said he'd
find out if Dick had the "stuff".  This was a crisis in Dick's young
life, for if he failed to impress the teacher he would have to return to
the butcher shop where he had been working and learn the meat-cutting
trade.  The instructor was not only impressed, but it wasn't long after
that Dick actually moved in with the instructor in order that he may
study full time, a move that literally assured him of success."

That is just...so...beautiful <sniffle>.
And they say show biz can be so cruel.  ;)

-- Brad


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Moai Eye
Date: 10 Oct 1999 21:55:27 +0200



Anyone familiar with a CD called  Rapa Nui - Osterinsel (TP9012)?
Music from the most mysterious place on earth apparently, it's on a German
label.
I know Tug Records (www.tug-rec.de) sells it.

Arjan



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Subject: (exotica) Tabu, the movie
Date: 10 Oct 1999 22:03:41 +0200


Some more exotic advice needed. Murnau's "Tabu" has a one off showing later
this month at a local cinema, with accompanying real live music no less. Is
this worth catching at all cost (hate to give up my chess night for it!) ? I
don't know the movie at all I'm afraid.

Arjan





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From: "B. Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Liner notes revisited
Date: 10 Oct 1999 14:03:37 -0700


While scanning a Dick Contino LP that I have more for the cover than the
music, I came across this in the biographical liner notes:

"At the tender age of 7, after much begging, Dick was allowed to follow
his strongest desire, to play the accordion.  The family later moved to
San Francisco and it was there that Dick decided he wanted a better
accordion.  This request would not be granted by the parents, however,
until it was decided that young Dick had "what it takes".  The family
discovered an old master accordionist, Angelo Cagnazzo, who said he'd
find out if Dick had the "stuff".  This was a crisis in Dick's young
life, for if he failed to impress the teacher he would have to return to
the butcher shop where he had been working and learn the meat-cutting
trade.  The instructor was not only impressed, but it wasn't long after
that Dick actually moved in with the instructor in order that he may
study full time, a move that literally assured him of success."

That is just...so...beautiful <sniffle>.
And they say show biz can be so cruel.  ;)

-- Brad


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From: Indulis R Rutks <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Le Canzoni Dei Ricordi
Date: 10 Oct 1999 19:38:00 -0500 (CDT)


I just flew in from Rome, and boy are my arms tired...

While I was there, I picked up volumes 1-5 of "Le Canzoni Dei Ricordi".
These CD's appear to be compilations of various Italian orchestras from
the 1940's (with a few from the late 30's and early 50's). I've listened
to some of the tunes already, and the music is terrific! Italian
big-band/vocals, with a few covers thrown in (like "Pennsylvania Polca"!).

Has anyone out there (especially the Italian list members) heard of this
series of CDs? Are there any more volumes besides the 5 I bought? Any info
would be appreciated, per favore.

-Indy Rutks ([e-mail])



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Straight from Breakfast to Video
Date: 10 Oct 1999 22:59:24 EDT


A review from Reel.com about the Breakfast movie.  This gives away a few=20
plots so be aware.

BTW, it is really bad if Reel.com, obviously in the bidness of selling=20
videos, could not find a better review of this movie.  And you know they had=
=20
to of tried.

Tiki Bob

Breakfast of Champions (1999)=20
=20
Starring: Bruce Willis, Albert Finney
Director: Alan Rudolph
 Rating: R
Runtime: 110
Genre: Comedy
=20
=20
    From an artistic viewpoint, bringing the Kurt Vonnegut novel Breakfast o=
f=20
Champions to the screen probably seemed like a good idea =97 when they start=
ed=20
filming, anyway. It's got a stellar cast (Nick Nolte, Bruce Willis, Albert=20
Finney, Barbara Hershey) and an acclaimed director (Robert Altman prot=E9g=
=E9=20
Alan Rudolph), but something went terribly wrong. Only a special type of=20
eccentric will enjoy this eclectic muddle, which is full of interesting idea=
s=20
but missing anything resembling dramatic focus.=20
Bruce Willis is Dwayne Hoover, car salesman extraordinare. He's the financia=
l=20
nucleus of his small town, Midland City. Local people constantly ask for his=
=20
autograph. He's a star. He's also on the verge of a nervous breakdown. His=20
wife, Celia (Hershey), is suicidal. His son, Bunny (Lukas Haas), is a freak.=
=20
His boss (Nolte) likes to dress in women's clothing =85 particularly red sil=
k.=20
His oddball mistress (Glenne Headly) won't leave him alone. Let's face it:=20
Beneath the surface, Dwayne's a mess.=20

Enter Kilgore Trout (Finney), an impoverished writer with some critical=20
cachet. Though he's unpaid for his work (which appears only in girlie mags),=
=20
he is the object of critical acclaim. In fact, he's travelling cross-country=
=20
to be honored at Midland City's first Arts Festival. At the event, Dwayne's=20
and Kilgore's lives collide, creating a rippling effect for all those around=
=20
and disrupting Midland City's placid atmosphere.=20

Breakfast of Champions probably would have worked had it been made in the=20
'70s, but its themes =97 pollution overtaking Earth's eco-structure,=20
commercials polluting one's thought processes, people becoming robotic =97 s=
eem=20
terribly dated now. Furthermore, Rudolph tries to tell too much. So many=20
characters' storylines are introduced that only snippets of them are=20
explored. Throw in some metaphysical bunk about mirrors containing a paralle=
l=20
universe (or is it heaven?) and it's as though two movies were spliced=20
together.=20

While Finney gives a worthy performance as Trout, he sadly looks old and=20
bloated (foreshadowed in Under the Volcano). Hershey is little more than a=20
china doll with a fixed, drug-induced gaze. Haas erases any memory of the=20
cute kid from Witness with a bizarre turn as the effeminate lounge lizard=20
Bunny. Only Nolte's turn is hysterical: Sure that everyone knows what's=20
beneath his staid suit, he weaves a fine patchwork of comic paranoia. Willis=
=20
is functional as the pouty Dwayne, but the repetitive theme of him putting a=
n=20
unloaded (or is it?) gun in his mouth grows tiresome at best. By the film's=20
end, you'll be wishing someone would just give him a bullet.


=20
  - Barbara Teasdall =20
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Uh Oh
Date: 10 Oct 1999 23:02:53 EDT


Ole Tiki Bob made a mistake.

The review of Breakfast of Champions accompanies Reel.com's selling of the CD
Soundtrack, not the video as of yet.

The picture on their page is long and vertical -- like that of a VHS box.

Sorry for any confusion.

TB


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Mystic Moog Orchestra
Date: 10 Oct 1999 18:52:37 +0200




B. Yost wrote:

> Does anyone know anything about the Mystic Moog Orchestra, or heard
> their CD?  I like the clever name but am curious what they actually
> sound like.
>
>

I only know the Mystic Moods Orchestra... they're OK, if you like strings.

Mo




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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: The Songs of Memories (was: Re: (exotica) Le Canzoni Dei
Date: 11 Oct 1999 09:48:48 +0200


>Has anyone out there (especially the Italian list members) heard of this
>series of CDs? Are there any more volumes besides the 5 I bought? Any info
>would be appreciated, per favore.

uhmm my ram memory can't find any bit  of info on this... can you tell me
on which label are they?

bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista



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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie
Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:19:32 +0200


Arjan Plug wrote:

> Some more exotic advice needed. Murnau's "Tabu" has a one off showing later
> this month at a local cinema, with accompanying real live music no less. Is
> this worth catching at all cost (hate to give up my chess night for it!) ? I
> don't know the movie at all I'm afraid.

I'd say yes, especially if you know the story behind it. I wrote about it here
on the list some time ago, as quoted below. It's an old film, so if you can't
stand old silent movies at all, you better not go. There was in fact a
documentary about the filming of Tabu and Murnau, which might be interesting to
you.

Mo


(exotica mailing list, 19.7.1999:)

..."OK, I hope I remember all of this correctly:

When you transform the native languages of Tonga, Hawaii and other South sea
cultures into Western Latin letters, you have to do this based on how the
sounds  are spelled in a specific Western language. If you take English for
example as the reference language you have to spell the word "taboo". However
Hawaii, Tonga etc. chose German as their reference way back; the word
pronounced as the English "taboo" would be spelled "Tabu" in  German, which is
how Hawaiians etc. actually write this word in their own languages today.

In the special case of the actual word "Tabu" another fact might be
interesting:
The word came into Western culture by mistake: When Murnau made his film "Tabu"
in  Bora Bora in 1931, a little island next to Bora Bora played a significant
role: It was the island of the gods and no man was allowed to enter it. It was
called Tapu. Despite native threats Murnau did enter the island and built a
house for himself on it. Because he did not die immediately he was seen by the
natives as a kind of god after that. Later though, the hut burnt down
mysteriously (none of the natives admitted having done it, they claimed "it was

the gods"), and after his return to America Murnau died in a car crash soon
after the making of this film, his last one, "Tabu". The word however became a
synonym for "forbidden, sacred" from then on."...



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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Pepsi Ad Music
Date: 11 Oct 1999 11:31:06 +0100


Phil Clark:

>
> Jane said, about a Pepsi promo song:
>
> ">>I am guessing this isn't the same song on the SOUND
> GALLERY, eh?  Does anybody remember that song being
> used in an ad?  Can Ashley fill us in on this a bit
> more?
> Prefers Coke, Jane Fondle"
>
> WOW I need a tape of that Italian pepsi song!! Pretty please ?!?!?!?
>
> Meantime I can fill in a bit about the cut on the Sound Gallery album for
> ya: it's "Shout about Pepsi" and it was taken from "Non-Stop Pepsi Party" by
> (I think) veteran EMI session muso Alan Hawkshaw, released on UK budget

My brain has been straining to recall... wasn't it by "Denny Wright and
the Hustlers"? That doesn't sound right. But that's what I'm thinking.

> label MFP c.1976. I found this LP in a junk (thrift) store for 25 pence,
> which is about right. The cover features the usual dolly bird in garish pose
> and the vinyl is AFAICR less than essential listening. Mighta bin some
> promotional tie-in or soemthing but then I'd have expected it to have been
> on a custom label rather than MFP.
>

It's not really distinguishable from any other run of the mill
non-stop partying party dance party-non-stop kind of album.

Last week I found a 7" of Manfred Mann and Mike Hugg performing their
own "Ski Full-of-Fitness Theme". From about 1971, this is a jingle
for Ski yoghurt, informing you over and over again about the virtues
of Ski in a nasty little jingle. Pretty scary thing, on the Ski label
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From: "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) book recommendation
Date: 11 Oct 1999 14:26:38 +0200



Last month I read a book of Arthur Grimble called "a pattern of Islands" =
about his adventures as a colonial worker on the salomon islands =
1915-55. Firstly, I recommend it for Mr Grimbles descriptions of the =
natives on the islands, which is full of love and sympathy, probably =
quite uncommon in those days among the sent out europeans. secondly for =
the religious content. The englishman calls himself an agnostic, but has =
a hard time explaining what he himself faces among the natives. The word =
Tiki gets mentioned several times, mostly when black magic is involved.  =
But Tiki doesnt mean a sungod, The sungod has another name among these =
people.

Unfortunately the preparations of the dead isnt described, which is =
scary, because the preparations is crucial when it comes to pass the guy =
with the big net while the soul is on its way to paradise.=20

Oh, this was written in the 50s and I dont know if its still available, =
but since I read it in a swedish translation it most certainly was a =
bestseller, so a little effort in some used books store would probably =
get result.

(Read while listening to any record with the name "Withcraft", "Voodoo", =
"Exotic" in the title.  ;)
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From: Indulis R Rutks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: The Songs of Memories (was: Re: (exotica) Le Canzoni Dei Ricordi)
Date: 11 Oct 1999 08:28:00 -0500 (CDT)




On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Nicola Battista wrote:

>
> >Has anyone out there (especially the Italian list members) heard of this
> >series of CDs? Are there any more volumes besides the 5 I bought? Any info
> >would be appreciated, per favore.
>
> uhmm my ram memory can't find any bit  of info on this... can you tell me
> on which label are they?

The box states: "Warner Fonit, A Division of Nuova Fonit Cetra S.p.A., A
Warner Music Group Company"

The volumes I have (and the label numbers) are:

Vol. 1 - Ma l'amore no (CDM 2083)
Vol. 2 - Venezia la luna e tu (CDM 2084)
Vol. 3 - Pippo non lo sa (CDM 2085)
Vol. 4 - Abbassa la tua radio (CDM 2086)
Vol. 5 - C'e un' orchestra sincopata (CDM 2087)

Hope this helps...

-Indy Rutks ([e-mail])




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Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie
Date: 11 Oct 1999 09:41:14 -0400


>after the making of this film, his last one, "Tabu". The word however >became a
>synonym for "forbidden, sacred" from then on."...


The film wasn't the cause of this.  "Taboo/tabu" was first used in English in the late 18th century (1777) and had become fairly common--at least among naturalists and historians, which at that time of course included a good bit of the literate public--during the 19th century.  And check Anger's "Hollywood Babylon" for a lurid story about Murnau's death which may or may not be true.

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Subject: (exotica) weekend
Date: 11 Oct 1999 14:40:33 +0100


I got the Blow up OST at the weekend,  mainly for 'Bring down the Birds',
which had the bassline sampled for 'Groove is in the heart'.  Its still a
great track,  theres only one other track with anything like that sort of
groove.  So it was a bit of a disappointment.  Enjoyed the Yardbirds track
though.  and only ten pounds so it could have been worse.

Then the gods continued to smile as I found a mint copy of 'Uniquely
Mancini'  worth having for the way he gets 'Green Onions' to sound just like
the Pink Panther theme,  If nothing else.  But the rest of it is enjoyable
indeed.  Also got a copy of 'Beyond the Reef' by Wout Steenhuis.  Its from
'74,  and I found a lot more enjoyable than other LPs by him.  Bit more
lush.  Nice cover (that is if anyone out there appreciates covers without
unclad women on them).

I'm out to get the Frank Comstock boot tomorrow,  and a copy of Harry
Stonehams 'Solid Gold Hammond'  if the gods will only keep them in stock for
me.


El Maestro Con Queso

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) underrated exotica
Date: 11 Oct 1999 16:37:17 +0100


For this (the underrated exotica) chart surely it should be the bottom 100.
As more of the list will know the top.  And I suspect that however hard the
rest of us try,  the most bizarre will come from Citizen Kafkas collection.

putting a vote in for 'people laugh at me cos I like weird music' by the
Instant Automatons (should allow 45's as well,  surely)

El Maestro Con Queso

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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie
Date: 11 Oct 1999 18:00:47 +0200




[e-mail] wrote:

> >after the making of this film, his last one, "Tabu". The word however >became a synonym for "forbidden, sacred" from then on."...
>
> The film wasn't the cause of this.  "Taboo/tabu" was first used in English in the late 18th century (1777)

Then either you or this documentary about the filming of Tabu is wrong. Where did you read this 1777 thing?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie
Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:07:01 EDT


In a message dated 10/11/99 12:01:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Then either you or this documentary about the filming of Tabu is wrong.
Where did you read this 1777 thing?
  >>

webster dictionary (at least the one on AOL) has this date too.

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From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Classics
Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:07:07 -0400


Peter Risser wrote:
>What are the 100 (or so) CLASSIC exotica albums; those
>albums that every Exoticat who's halfway serious
>should have in their collection

Well there are a few things everyone would probably agree about, like
Denny's _Exotica_ (mono). . . . But my experience is that some of the
records that have somehow acquired this legendary "must-have"
reputation were disappointments when I finally heard them. Like, I
found Hugo Montenegro's _Moog Power_ at a thrift store, and I thought
a couple of tracks were pretty entertaining--but I think I would have
felt ripped off if I had paid real money for it.

I'd hate to see a list like this contribute to a few records becoming
even scarcer and more overpriced. I would basically tell people,
"listen to a bunch of random stuff you come across, trade
compilations with other people, and make up your own mind."


But, I do like the idea of a list of *underappreciated* albums, ones
that people might not know to look out for.

Like, everyone knows about _Persuasive Percussion_--and that's one of
the few Enoch LPs that's been reissued on CD. But I think his _Far
Away Places_ and Cha Cha records are a lot more consistently fun. And
even speaking of percussion records, people forget that Harry
Breuer's amazing _Mallet Magic_ hit the shelves two years before
_Persuasive_ did.

I always think it's great to come across some really warped
minor-label gem, like the Lonely Harpsichord _Rainy Night in
Shangri-La_ . That one has pop harpsichord versions of "Quiet
Village," "Bali Hai," etc. complete with Mystic-Moods style
thunderstorm sounds. Amazing. (I just noticed this is another Snuff
Garrett project, like that _Bacharach Baroque_ album people were just
talking about here. He also produced the truly frightening Telly
Savalas celebrity album. . . So who was this guy?)

Yours in obscurity,
  --Ross

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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Louis Jordan news
Date: 11 Oct 1999 09:21:47 -0700 (PDT)



CLEVELAND (AP) _ The music of rhythm and blues pioneer
Louis  Jordan was revived, studied and celebrated over
the weekend here.

On Saturday, scholars and music industry insiders
gathered at  Case Western Reserve University to
discuss the life and legacy of  the singer and
sax-playing bandleader. That night, musicians tipped
their hats to Jordan in Cleveland's Flats nightclub
area.

The events were part of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
and  Museum's fourth annual American Music Masters
series. Jordan, who  died in 1975, was inducted in
1987 into the hall.

"Mr. Jordan taught me about women, wine and definitely
song,"  said John Bunkley, lead singer of the Atomic
Fireballs, an  eight-piece Detroit ensemble.


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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie
Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:16:42 -0500


>[e-mail] wrote:
>> >after the making of this film, his last one, "Tabu". The word however
>>>became a synonym for "forbidden, sacred" from then on."...
>>
>> The film wasn't the cause of this.  "Taboo/tabu" was first used in
>>English in the late 18th century (1777)

Mo queried:
>Then either you or this documentary about the filming of Tabu is wrong.
>Where did you read this 1777 thing?

Not to speak for wtl, but the Oxford Dictionary of English says "taboo"
passed into English in 1777 with Captain Cook's _Voyage to the Pacific_.
It appears spelled (anglicized) as "tabu" in several Micronesian and
Melanesian languages. Cook reports first hearing it on Tonga, where it's
spelled "ta'bou". Other Pacific 'explorers' used it in their accounts as
did naval writers. Within 50 years, "taboo" had become a synonym for
"forbidden", appearing in _Blackwell's Magazine_, etc. etc. In French,
spelled "tabou". OED says also spelled "tambu", "tapu" and "tabou".
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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tabu, Tamboo! and you....
Date: 11 Oct 1999 11:34:21 -0700 (PDT)


While we are on this word-root trip...what about
TAMBOO! and the similarly-titled rekkid TAMBU'?  Does
those mean either the same thing, or anything period?
Jane Fondle...ranking JUNGLE JAZZ in her top-10
Exotica classiques...


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Date: 11 Oct 1999 14:56:16 EDT


In a message dated 10/11/99 1:06:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Yours in pedantry,
 Mimi
  >>


also pronounced "pedamtry"


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Classics
Date: 11 Oct 1999 15:03:52 EDT


In a message dated 10/11/99 12:13:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Well there are a few things everyone would probably agree about, like
 Denny's _Exotica_ (mono). . . >>


Oh, oh!  I was wrong about that Alfred Lyman "Hawaiian Something" album being
my favorite.  The first Exotica album by Martin Denny is the tops on my list.
 It is laying right on the floor by my chair and thus is at the top of the
list.

This time I am sure about it.  No, really!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, Tamboo! and you....
Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:27:12 PDT





>From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>

>
>While we are on this word-root trip...what about
>TAMBOO! and the similarly-titled rekkid TAMBU'?  Does
>those mean either the same thing, or anything period?
>Jane Fondle...ranking JUNGLE JAZZ in her top-10
>Exotica classiques...
>

I think tamboo comes from the root word tambor which is "drum" in spanish
and I think a few other latin based languages.

I could be wrong

I have been known to be on occasion

-jonathan
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From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Tabu, the movie
Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:52:51 -0700


Freud published "Totem and Taboo" in 1913 or so; James G. Frazer wrote
extensively about "the taboo doctrine" in "The Golden Bough," which was
written in the 1890s. Why the Polynesian word "taboo" became the standard
anthropological term for "activities / people / objects which should be
shunned out of holy dread" is unclear, since taboos are pretty universal.

Later,
Ben

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From: "jonathan richardson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) M Frog
Date: 11 Oct 1999 12:53:27 PDT


Heres a call out to all you Moogified Moogsters

Can anybody out there tell me about the 70s Moog/Synth record called M Frog.
i think it has something to do with a  french guy named Jean Yves Labat (who
also called himself Mssr. Frog). If anyone can recommend this record or if
anyone has it, gimme a shout.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, Tamboo! and you....
Date: 11 Oct 1999 16:09:36 -0400


> While we are on this word-root trip...what about
TAMBOO! and the similarly-titled rekkid TAMBU'?  Does
>those mean either the same thing, or anything period?


"Tambu" can be a variant for "taboo" (depending upon which islands you're from) but generally not in English.  It more commonly is a West Indian word for a type of small drum in which case it would have a completely different derivation.

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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Esquivel-tv and...
Date: 11 Oct 1999 13:33:51 -0700 (PDT)


Oh, man!  Rather than responding to a skidillion
posts-I first gotta ask Cleve why that particular
Johnny Carson Show with Esquivel as guest was
destroyed?  SO CLOSE!  I wonder what song he did on
it.

Also, to Paul Moshay..does the Kinescope Kat have an
email address?  Is the catalog free?  ME WANNA!

Exotica-on-TV hath turned up before on this list, but
it has been awhile.  We have new people here now, so
maybe they can add their knowledge.  I have never seen
the Ernie Kovacs show with Yma and Esquivel on
it...but I have heard they exist....
I would love to see those Korla Pandit shows.
I would also WISH that Dionysus had put out viddies of
the LOST EPISODE and POPULAR REQUEST Les Bax-tahs to
accompany the EPs!  :(

What about Julie London, other than EMERGENCY, of
course?  Surely, she and Barney Kessell did some
shadowy-minimalist-stage acoustic performances?!
Please?

Jane Fondle!


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From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Classic List
Date: 11 Oct 1999 13:41:33 -0700 (PDT)


No, you tiddly-winks!!!

I wasn't asking people to submit their ranked top 100
exotica LPs...

I was looking for major brain dumps as to classic LPs,
which I would then turn into a list, ranked or not,
which basically spoke to the "Exotica Canon".

A good turn of the millenium project I thought, but so
far, only two people have participated.  Not a very
good statistical sampling.  :(

Anyway, please forward whatever thoughts you may have
along these veins.

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel-tv and...
Date: 11 Oct 1999 18:09:38 -0400



>Oh, man!  Rather than responding to a skidillion
>posts-I first gotta ask Cleve why that particular
>Johnny Carson Show with Esquivel as guest was
>destroyed?  SO CLOSE!  I wonder what song he did on
>it.


I am not Brother Cleve.
I cannot be Brother Cleve.
I am not a role model.
I am not a Berliner.

I can tell you what I remember from one of Johnny Carson's specials,
though.  He was reminiscing about his early days with the Tonight Show and
he said, "The first show we had Groucho Marx and...[faulty memory - Ed.]
they've been wiped off the tape".  Videotape back in the day was cheap AND
reusable.  So quite a lot is gone for good, unless it shows up in private
collections.  Edie Adams, Ernie Kovacs' widow heard that the various
networks that Kovacs had worked for were erasing his shows, so she worked
long and hard to buy back the existing material.

This practice is also one that goes overseas as well.  The Goon Show (a
fantastic radio show from the fifties starring Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers
and Spike Milligan), from the Fifth Series on is archived by the BBC, in
some form.  Everything earlier than that is catch as catch can.

In fairness to the networks, a great deal of material was being videotaped
and they had to save space.  Can you imagine all the video that Arthur
Godfrey ALONE would have used up?  Yes, we have lost a lot of great stuff,
but there was also a great deal of junk, too.  Of course, the networks
tended to lean on the side of ALL of it being junk, which is wrong, of
course.  Who knows, maybe Esquivel or one of his wives has it.  The pilot
of "I Love Lucy" resurfaced when the widow of one of the stars revealed
that she had a copy, which she used to entertain dinner guests and didn't
think of it as any more important than just a record of her husband's work.

Now, on the record finding trail, remember some time ago, that I said, "Was
I wrong in bypassing Panic, the Son of Shock by Kenyon Hopkins, to which
one Ms. Fondle replied, 'Why, yes, you may have indeed  made an error in
judgment", but not in those words.  Well, at the record show (a bi-monthly
event here in Atlanta), I found the same vendor and he still had the
record, plus "Wired for Sound" by Marty Gold.  Needless to say, I got it
this time and it is indeed a gem, although it is a rather short album at
25:08 seconds.

So for those who have not taken advantage of the Sprites of the Find, do
so, before they are wiped off the videotape!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel-tv and...
Date: 11 Oct 1999 20:03:40 EDT


In a message dated 10/11/99 1:26:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< What about Julie London, other than EMERGENCY, of
 course?  Surely, she and Barney Kessell did some
 shadowy-minimalist-stage acoustic performances?!
 Please? >>


I think Julie London has been on a lot of the variety shows of the 50s and
60s. I seem to recall someone saying that she was on Ed Sullivan, and I think
she was also on Dinah Shore as well as Perry Como. I personally have never
seen any of her TV appearances except on "EMERGENCY!."


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Date: 11 Oct 1999 20:08:08 EDT


In a message dated 10/11/99 3:16:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Who knows, maybe Esquivel or one of his wives has it.  >>


Was he married to anyone famous??

Jason


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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
Date: 11 Oct 1999 20:06:18 -0500


Organist Buddy Cole's blistering cover of "Powerhouse" kicks off this
week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast, along with the stratospheric
vocals of Gloria Wood, Mel Henke's "Dynamic Adventures in Sound" and
"Music from a Surplus Store".

Also -- Domenic Frontiere's exotica classic "Pagan Festival"; Yma
Sumac from "Voice of the Xtabay" (plus Slim Galliard's 1951 send-up,
"Soony Roony"); Les Baxter, Martin Denny and Si Zentner join forces
for the famous "Exotica Suite"; plus bongos and brass, very Mancini-
esque music from "Mad Monster Party", guitarist Vinnie Bell's spaced-
out take on "Fever", passionate percussion from Marty Gold and Bobby
Christian...and Sgt. Joe Friday shows us his romantic side.

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

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

Requires a minimum 28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer.

As always, your comments, suggestions and requests are welcome.

Coming soon -- stereo!

Thanks for the space.

Darrell Brogdon
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KANU Radio
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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) M Frog
Date: 11 Oct 1999 21:00:31 -0400


At 3:53 PM -0400 10/11/99, jonathan richardson wrote:

>Can anybody out there tell me about the 70s Moog/Synth record called M Frog.
>i think it has something to do with a  french guy named Jean Yves Labat (who
>also called himself Mssr. Frog). If anyone can recommend this record or if
>anyone has it, gimme a shout.

yes, recommended. Jean-Yves Labat was the synth player in Todd Rundgren's
original Utopia. He's all over the "A Wizard, A True Star" and "Todd"
albums. Basically, he was the French Eno, using EMS equipment (Synthi A,
Synthi AKS, Putney) to treat sounds and produce voltage controlled
sequences. He made 1 solo album for Bearsville around 1974. I last spoke
with him about 2 years ago; he now records (and samples) pipe organs in
churches in France, where he returned in the late 80's after 20 years or so
of living in New York.

For those of you who've seen Spinal Tap (and I hope that's everyone) - the
'pods that won't open' scene is based on an actual event : the first Utopia
show, which took place around '74 or so. Jean Yves was in the pod that
wouldn't open.

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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel-tv and...
Date: 11 Oct 1999 20:50:38 -0400


>Oh, man!  Rather than responding to a skidillion
>posts-I first gotta ask Cleve why that particular
>Johnny Carson Show with Esquivel as guest was
>destroyed?  SO CLOSE!  I wonder what song he did on
>it.

NBC bulk erased the vast majority of their shows during the '70's. I guess
they figured no one would ever care. Only a few 'historic' Tonight shows
were saved.

AS I stated in an earlier post, the band performed "Malaguena". Juan's
recollection of this show is very vivid. He told me that the band performed
exceptionally well, and that the reaction from both the audience and Carson
was wildly enthusiastic. While watching the show on TV later that night,
though, he saw that vocalist Maria Caruso was caught frowning on
camera..........so he had to fine her the next day.

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From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More Files
Date: 11 Oct 1999 21:09:03 -0700 (PDT)


Okay, so I just downloaded Don Ho doing vocal versions
of the Hawaii 5-0 theme and Quiet Village.  How could
I not share that with you all?

I posted the files to www.click2send.com.

The box is Knuck's Box
and the password for pickup is: pickup

Too clever, I know.

Anyway, while you're there, you'll also find the vocal
version of Hawaiian War Chant, Hernando's Hideaway,
and a tune by Lancelot Link and the something
something's.  I forget.

Anyway, it's the chimp band some folks was talking
about.  Now you can hear it.

Please feel free to download these all day long,
although I'd hurry, because apparently there's a
history of them scrubbing mp3s.

Please let me know if they do.

Thanks!
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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Classics
Date: 12 Oct 1999 02:43:18 -0400


At 12:07 PM 10/11/99 -0400, Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr wrote:
>
>But, I do like the idea of a list of *underappreciated* albums, ones
>that people might not know to look out for.

Okay here's a few.  I don't know if they're underappreciated but you don't
see them on lists that often:

David Carroll - I pick up everything I see by him and even his
lamest-looking records have surprises.  But his "percussion" records like
"Latin Percussion" and "re-percussion" are special.

Sonny Lester "After Hours Middle East" - a unique combination of fake
Middle Eastern tunes played by a surf band with great percussion.

and in a similar vein...

The Fortune Tellers "Song of the Nairobi Trio"  - actually a Robert Maxwell
record but no harp, just lots of great electric guitar.  I've never been
(too) disappointed by Robert Maxwell

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Subject: RE: (exotica) Tabu, the movie
Date: 12 Oct 1999 02:43:22 -0400


At 12:52 PM 10/11/99 -0700, Benito Vergara wrote:
>
> Why the Polynesian word "taboo" became the standard
>anthropological term for "activities / people / objects which should be
>shunned out of holy dread" is unclear, since taboos are pretty universal.

When you hear the word "taboo" nowadays, it's essentially become a synonym
for "forbidden".  I am way out of my depth here but I'm speculating that
the word became popular because its "double meaning" - sacred yet forbidden
- made it more ambiguous and therefore somehow more powerful.
It's also a fun word to say.
Anything with "boo" in it is fun to say.
In fact I'm wondering whether the most popular phrase for ghosts - "Boo!" -
comes from the same root word.

Bu to yu,

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Subject: Re:  (exotica) Tabu, the movie
Date: 12 Oct 1999 03:56:07 EDT


It is pretty good and apparently racey for the time but it is not Taboo in
the sense of Arthur Lyman/Exotica

it is more like a national geographic documentary


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Subject: SV: (exotica) Tabu, the movie
Date: 12 Oct 1999 11:53:10 +0200


Nat wrote:
>Anything with "boo" in it is fun to say.
>In fact I'm wondering whether the most popular phrase for ghosts - =
"Boo!" -
>comes from the same root word.


Wouldnt it be terribly fun to hear ghosts scream "Taboo!".

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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, Tamboo! and you....
Date: 12 Oct 1999 14:48:08 +0200


>I think tamboo comes from the root word tambor which is "drum" in spanish
>and I think a few other latin based languages.

not sure. Btw, yup, drum in Italian is "tamburo".

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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Classics (underrated, underappreciated)
Date: 12 Oct 1999 15:47:57 +0200


> But, I do like the idea of a list of *underappreciated* albums, ones
> that people might not know to look out for.

Yeah, that sounds like fun...

1. Marais & Miranda "Go Native"
This is my favorite underrated album, that only I seem to know. Josef Marais
and Miranda (Marais) are special: Apparently they were a couple that travelled
a lot and researched the music of the primitive people, mainly in Africa and
South America. At home in the US they recorded these songs (most of them are
vocal), using their tape material in one or another way. Sometimes they would
translate the lyrics into English, sometimes they tried to sing in the
original language, sometimes they would just make up their own idea of
primitive music; they are hilarious. It's not the glamorous, loungy type of
Exotica, but its simplistic beauty is striking.
On my recent trip to New England I found another album, "South African Folk
Music" and Brian gave me "Revisit the South African Veld" as a present, which
he got from Nat. These records are very hard to find.

2. "Hawaiianette", Anette sings songs of Hawaii. Speaking of "groovy"... Of
all Exotica records this one is the No.1 for "having fun", you just have to
dance! Anette's version of "Hukilau" is my favorite Exotica vocal piece, but
there's more on the album. "Luau Cha Cha Cha" f.i., or "Pineapple Princess"...
Paaarty!

3. This Moondog record from 1956, where he sounds almost like Martin Denny.

4. "Bimbo Jet", a compilation album with 3 all-time favorite tropical disco
summer-hits: "El Bimbo" by Bimbo Jet, "Slag Solution" by Buffalo's Band and
"La Balanga" by Bimbo Jet. Hard to put in words... there's something about
these pieces, that you want to play them over and over again. They are purest
mainstream pop on one hand, but have strange and melancholic elements too;
like all good art they keep a secret. A DJs quiet tip.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie
Date: 12 Oct 1999 09:48:26 EDT


In a message dated 10/11/99 11:40:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< When you hear the word "taboo" nowadays, it's essentially become a synonym
 for "forbidden".  I am way out of my depth here but I'm speculating that
 the word became popular because its "double meaning" - sacred yet forbidden
 - made it more ambiguous and therefore somehow more powerful.
 It's also a fun word to say.
 Anything with "boo" in it is fun to say.
 In fact I'm wondering whether the most popular phrase for ghosts - "Boo!" -
 comes from the same root word.

 Bu to yu,

 Nat
  >>

This is off subject a little but on the "Boo" line that Nat started.

There was as show called Not Necessarily the News on HBO in the 80's.  They
had a shot of the Pope walking down the isle in a church swinging one of
those incense things and when he would swing the thing towards the people
they had dubbed in "BOO!"  Like the Pope was trying to scare people.

I know this sounds so dumb but it was hilarious.  I remember it fifteen years
later.  Can anyone back me up here?

tb


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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, Tamboo! and you....
Date: 12 Oct 1999 15:52:53 +0200


> I think tamboo comes from the root word tambor which is "drum" in spanish
> and I think a few other latin based languages.
>

How about tambourine? The drummer in a military band is called Tambour Major
(German)

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Subject: (exotica) Death LP......
Date: 12 Oct 1999 10:05:16 -0400


Saturday at a flea market I flipped to a really weird LP that I didn't =
really want to own but wanted to ask about here.

It's in the category of "Scary Religious Records" and has a crude "High =
Schooler" drawing of a passenger jet careening out of control on the =
cover.  It says something like "A musical interpretation of the last hours =
of life" or something equally bizarre.

Evidently, it's a choral "movement" documenting the "rise and fall" of an =
airline flight and great fodder for the "are you saved or going to hell?" =
preaching tactic.  I *think* this album was made after someone's son was =
killed in a plane wreck but my warped brain can't pull out the details. =
=20

Does anybody own this?  What's it like?

Oh yeah, also, a few weeks ago I got a 78 Hartz training parakeet record =
that features parakeets chirping it up to musical accompaniment.  Now to =
find a 78 player......

- Nate




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Subject: SV: SV: (exotica) Tabu, the movie
Date: 12 Oct 1999 16:02:11 +0200


><< Wouldnt it be terribly fun to hear ghosts scream "Taboo!".
>=20
> Magnus  >>
>
>the german one's would say Yah-BOO ! ! !=20
>
>tb


Notice the similarity to Yahoo. (arabian? for "I have touched God")

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Subject: SV: (exotica) Death LP......
Date: 12 Oct 1999 16:09:08 +0200



>Oh yeah, also, a few weeks ago I got a 78 Hartz training parakeet =
record that features parakeets chirping it up to musical accompaniment.  =
Now to find a 78 player......
>
>- Nate


....And a parakeet? look for ads in the paper that reads "78 player and =
parrot for sale"

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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Death LP......
Date: 12 Oct 1999 10:39:53 -0400


How 'bout I give you the bird?!? :-0  ;-)

- Nate


>>> "Sandberg Magnus" <[e-mail]> 10/12 10:09 AM >>>


>Oh yeah, also, a few weeks ago I got a 78 Hartz training parakeet record =
that features parakeets chirping it up to musical accompaniment.  Now to =
find a 78 player......
>
>- Nate


....And a parakeet? look for ads in the paper that reads "78 player and =
parrot for sale"

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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jack Webb croons for you........
Date: 12 Oct 1999 10:59:47 -0400


Someone mentioned that they were looking for a lounge LP that Jack Webb =
did!

The cover features him in a cardigan with some babe.  I think this was his =
first and last attempt to give Sinatra a run for his money.

They said the results are badly hilarious.

Has this been released on CD or anything??

- Nate




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From: <Charles_Moseley/LON/Europe/[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Faith LP
Date: 12 Oct 1999 15:14:40 +0100


Prompted by the Death LP, I thought I'd mention an LP i've recently hear
don the Universal Sounds label - responsible for the superb 100 and 200%
Dynamite reggae comps. The double LP is called Faith and it is a
compilation of religious recordings by various indigenous peoples from
around the world. Included are a variety of voodoo style chants, funeral
songs, exorcism rituals and other bizarre musical outpourings.

Very very wierd but well compiled and ready for sampling.



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Jack Webb croons for you........
Date: 12 Oct 1999 12:20:58 -0400


"Try a Little Tenderness" from that album is on "Golden Throats".  He
recites over music, so the effect is more "Well!"  than "Tee hee" for me.

>Someone mentioned that they were looking for a lounge LP that Jack Webb did!



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Subject: (exotica) Re: Mystic Moog Orchestra
Date: 12 Oct 1999 15:43:30 +0200


Brad wrote:

>Does anyone know anything about the Mystic Moog Orchestra, or heard
>their CD?  I like the clever name but am curious what they actually
>sound like.


    horrible noise, that's what they sound like

        Johan


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From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Finds/T+W/Ruth Wallis
Date: 12 Oct 1999 18:58:02 +0100


Hello all,

Your expertise is requested....

A colleague has just given me a copy of Jackie Gleason's
album "Music for lovers only/music to make you misty".
Capitol W475, this looks like a reissue on 12" of two
10" releases.  Can anyone give me an estimated year of
issue please?  1957ish?  My colleague also asked given
Gleason was well known as a comedy actor, how much of
the musical arrangement etc. was really down to him?
W475 is a wonderful album, by the way.

Next, Capitol albums have a variety of number prefixes,
but they are broadly T/ST or W/SW.  Any idea what
differentiates these please?

Finally, can anyone shed any light on a lady called
Ruth Wallis?  She had a string of albums listed in the
1961 Schwann catalog, one on King, and the rest on her
own Wallis label.  Titles are intriguing: eg
 .  For underwater listening
 .  French post cards set to music
 .  For sophisticates only
 .  That saucy redhead
I don't think this lady has been discussed but in my
dotage forgetfulness is becoming a finely honed skill..

Yours,
er, oh yes,
Hugh.




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Subject: (exotica) "Ski Lodge Serenade" Barry Gemso
Date: 12 Oct 1999 11:08:02 -0700 (PDT)



Has anyone heard of this, "Ski Lodge Serenade" by the Barry Gemso Experience.  An
imaginary soundtrack to an imaginary ski movie??   I'm still waiting on my copy to
arrive.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

Also Nat's post reminds of the Karla Pundit's imaginary "Journey to an Ancient City".
What a spoof of a spoofy guy.


--- Nat Kone  wrote:
>
> The fact that a lot of the DJ-types who sample this kind of stuff are
> producing CD's that sound like soundtracks for films that were never made.
> But any way you cut it, this music is coming up a lot lately.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel-tv and...
Date: 12 Oct 1999 14:13:39 EDT



In a message dated 10/11/99 8:06:09 PM, [e-mail] writes:

>I think Julie London has been on a lot of the variety shows of the 50s
>and
>60s. I seem to recall someone saying that she was on Ed Sullivan, and I
>think
>she was also on Dinah Shore as well as Perry Como. I personally have never
>
>seen any of her TV appearances except on "EMERGENCY!."

Not to date the old self, but I can remember her TV appearance on a
commercial for Marlboro cigarettes. Cast in a smoky haze, she crooned in her
inimitable manner:"You get a lot to like with a Marlboro; filter (pause),
flavor (pauser), flip-top box...Jimmy Botticelli/never forgot the milieu


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics (underrated, underappreciated)
Date: 12 Oct 1999 14:23:19 EDT



In a message dated 10/12/99 9:49:03 AM, [e-mail] writes:

>"Bimbo Jet", a compilation album with 3 all-time favorite tropical disco
>summer-hits: "El Bimbo" by Bimbo Jet

Cool and Strange Disceau is what it is..and Herb Alpert also covered this
tune for a 45 7" (and maybe on an album) Jimmy Botticelli


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Subject: Re: (exotica) The World Cup Exotica/Shibuya-kei cd
Date: 12 Oct 1999 11:28:09 -0700 (PDT)



Mo

I understand othermusic has carried five versions but one is a "Best Of" which sounds
like a let down to me since all the football announcements on the album help create the
atmosphere.  4 of the versions they carried were on Tratatorria out of Japan.

On the "Bend It USA 94" which cuts are the Mike Alway ones?  Is the Rainbow Choir
another one of his creations?  Polystar?  The Magnificent Andersons?

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck



--- "n.e.u. / Moritz R"  wrote:
> It's great stuff! The publisher behind "bend it" is the same who's behind the "Exotic
> Beatles" compilations, the legendary "Θl"-label and numerous other productions, that
> I
> mentioned on this list a dozen times (mainly because of my admiration for Simon
> Fisher-Turner...) : Mike Alway

. How many "Bend it" volumes are there anyway? 5?

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Subject: (exotica) [obits]Zeze Macedo,Manfredo Fest,Lee Richardson,Morris West,Milt Jackson
Date: 12 Oct 1999 15:05:45 -0400


Zeze Macedo
                  RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) û Zeze Macedo, whose rail-thin frame and squeaky voice made her one of Brazil's most beloved comic actresses, died Friday of a stroke. She was 83.

                  Macedo was discovered in the 1950s reading poetry for a radio station. It was the golden era of Brazilian cinema, and Macedo made 108 films with top-line comedians such as Oscarito, the Brazilian Groucho Marx.

                  She later moved to television, where she had success playing aging ingenues and credulous wives.

Manfredo Fest
                  PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) û Manfredo Fest, a jazz pianist and a pioneer of the Brazilian bossa nova movement that swept the world in the 1960s, died Friday while awaiting a liver transplant. He was 63.

                  Fest, a native of Brazil, had lived in the Tampa Bay area since 1987.

                  Critics credit Fest and other musicians such as Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfa with helping revolutionize Brazilian and international pop music by refining bossa nova from samba in the early 1960s.

                  He arrived in this country in 1967 and set about developing a blend of Brazilian and American jazz.

                  "It's important to have a trademark," Fest said in 1997. "If I came to the United States to play American jazz, I'd be only one more in the crowd."

                  Legally blind since birth, he worked for two years as arranger and keyboard player for Sergio Mendes' Brazil 66. He also played with Lee Ritenour and Floria Purim.

Lee Richardson
                  NEW YORK (AP) û Lee Richardson, an American actor in stage, film and television work noted for his English accent, died Oct. 2 of cardiac arrest after complications from a perforated ulcer. He was 73.

                  Richardson was a fixture on the New York stage and in regional repertory roles for more than 40 years. He was born in Chicago but performed in so many roles with an English accent that he was widely assumed to be British.

                  Richardson read the works of Shakespeare and Noel Coward as a soldier in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He moved to the Goodman Theater School in Chicago after the war.

                  By 1954, he was appearing regularly on the television drama anthologies "Playhouse 90" and "Studio One." He performed with George C. Scott in Central Park in the 1962 production of "The Merchant of Venice."

                  He later became a founding member of the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, working with Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn and Rita Gam, among others.

                  Richardson was nominated for a Tony Award in 1973 for his performance in "Vivat! Vivat Regina!" and appeared in John Huston's "Prizzi's Honor."

Morris West
                  SYDNEY, Australia (AP) û Morris West, a best-selling Australian thriller writer, died Saturday of heart failure while working on his latest novel, his son said. He was 83.

                  The creator of novels including "The Devil's Advocate," "Children of the Sun" and "Shoes of a Fisherman" died while working "The Last Confession."

                  Born in Melbourne, West wrote 27 novels, as well as screenplays, radio dramas and plays. His works, which have been translated into 27 languages, have sold more than 60 million copies worldwide.


Robert Waite
                  GLASTONBURY, Conn. (AP) û Robert Waite, a Williams College historian who brought the psychoanalytic approach to books about Hitler, died Oct. 4. He was 80.

                  Waite was one of the first proponents of analyzing events in Hitler's early life in Freudian terms to explain his behavior later in life. His most influential book was "The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler" (1977).

                  Waite was criticized for undervaluing external influences such as European history, Christian anti-Semitism and ideology in explaining Hitler.

                  Some of the evidence presented and analyzed by Waite, including claims about Hitler's sexual preferences and an autopsy report that Hitler had only one testicle, were suspect, critics have said.

Milt Jackson
                  NEW YORK (AP) û Milt Jackson, a jazz vibraphonist who made the instrument sing like the human voice as a longtime member of the Modern Jazz Quartet, died Saturday of liver cancer. He was 76.

                  Jackson was considered one of the best improvisers in jazz and an outstanding blues player.

                  Jackson originally was a singer in a Detroit gospel quartet. In the 1940s, he created a new sound by slowing the motor on his Deagan Vibraharp's oscillator to a third of the speed of Lionel Hampton's. The result was a warm, smoky sound with a vibrato approximating his own singing.

                  Jackson's style came from Charlie Parker, whose rhythmic traits he adopted. He was one of the first bona fide be-bop vibraphone musicians, and he became a jewel in Dizzy Gillespie's band. He recorded be-bop classics with the band, such as "A Night in Tunisia," "Anthropology" and "Two Bass Hit."

                  In 1951, Jackson teamed with Thelonius Monk, recording "Criss Cross" and "Straight, No Chaser," among others.

                  When a pianist in Gillespie's band, John Lewis, decided to form a new group, one going beyond soloists with a rhythm section, Jackson signed on. In 1952, the Modern Jazz Quartet was born.

Bruce Ritter
                  NEW YORK (AP) û The Rev. Bruce Ritter, who founded the Covenant House shelters for homeless teen-agers but was forced to resign after several young men accused him of seducing them, died Thursday. He was 72.

                  The Roman Catholic priest had suffered from Hodgkin's disease, cancer of the lymph nodes.

                  Ritter had denied the accusations of sexual misconduct and was never formally charged. He resigned from Covenant House in 1990; in August 1991, Ritter left the Franciscan order.

                  At its peak, Covenant House was the largest private child care agency in the country. It sheltered 2,000 homeless teen-agers a night and took in $92 million a year.

                  It operated shelters in six U.S. cities and in Toronto, Canada, four orphanages in Central America. Ritter was visited by Mother Teresa; President Reagan hailed him as a hero in his 1984 State of the Union address.

                  Covenant House started in 1969, when Ritter was living in a shabby apartment in the East Village of Manhattan, an area teeming with flower children and drug addicts.

                  Six homeless teen-agers asked if they could stay in his living room during a snowstorm. "I didn't have the guts to throw them out so I kept them," he once said.

                  By 1972, hundreds of youngsters were seeking shelter in Ritter's informal group homes. He obtained a license to run a child care agency and opened a crisis shelter in Times Square.

                  The scandal that led to his downfall broke in December 1989, when a former prostitute said he had had an affair with Ritter. Ritter denied it, but several other young men came forward with similar stories, saying he seduced them after they sought his help.

                  Questionable financial transactions surfaced. In February 1990, the Franciscans ordered Ritter to take a leave of absence. Later that month, he resigned from Covenant House.




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Subject: (exotica) [obit] George Forrest
Date: 12 Oct 1999 15:38:46 -0400


 October 12, 1999
 George Forrest, Songwriter for Broadway, Films and Clubs, Dies at 84
 By ROBERT HANLEY,NYTimes

 George Forrest, the songwriter who collaborated with Robert Wright on the words and music for the songs "Stranger in Paradise" and "Baubles, Bangles and Beads," died on Sunday in Miami, where he lived. He was 84.

 Wright, who was Forrest's writing partner for the last 72 years,
 survives him. The music for "Stranger in Paradise" and "Baubles, Bangles and  Beads," were part of the score of the 1953 hit Broadway musical "Kismet,"  which was based on music by Borodin. The two men's other musicals included the  1944 musical "The Song of Norway." They wrote the words and music for the song  hit "It's a Blue World" (1940) and the lyrics for "Donkey Serenade" (1937).

 Among the other Broadway musicals that the team collaborated on were
 "Gypsy Lady" (1946), "Magdalena" (1948), "Kean" (1961), "Anya" (1965) and "Grand Hotel" (1989).

 At the time of Forrest's death, he and Wright were working on
 another musical, "Betting on Bertie," a project they had begun years ago with P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, who wrote the book for the show.

 Robert Lantz, Forrest's agent, said yesterday that the body of work
 that Forrest and Wright created "ranges from cabaret work and nightclub work to movies in the early days of Hollywood and to musicals for which they adapted musical works by Borodin, Rachmaninoff, Strauss, Villa-Lobos and others, and for which they also wrote lyrics."

 Forrest, whose name was originally George Forrest Chichester Jr.,
 was born in Brooklyn. In the early 1920's he and his family moved to the Miami area.

 Although his formal musical training was minimal, he mastered the
 piano before he entered kindergarten.

 Wright, an accomplished pianist who met him in the late 1920's, said
 in a 1974 interview: "He always was marvelous. He was a natural. He could play by ear."

 By the time Forrest was 13 he was already playing piano and
 accompanying singers in Miami night spots and singing second tenor in the glee club at Miami High School. Wright, a year older and the conductor of his own radio show and Sunday concerts, was the glee club's pianist.

 In 1934, before either of the two was 20, they left on an
 eighth-month tour, playing cabarets from New York westward until they reached Hollywood for a tryout with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

 Their audition with the best dozen of their 80 songs from the tour
 won them a seven-year contract. Their first major task at MGM was to create, in 1937, a new score for the MacDonald-Eddy movie "Maytime" after the studio had discarded almost all the songs that had been prepared.

 Forrest and Wright produced some new lyrics and a new score that was
 a blend of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, Verdi and French folk songs. Their work won them immediate esteem.

 By the time they wrote the songs for "Grand Hotel," the pair had
 written "lyrics and music of more than 2,000 compositions for 16 produced stage musicals, 18 stage reviews, 58 motion pictures and numerous cabaret acts," the show's Playbill said.

 By then they had won Tony Awards for "Kismet" and had been nominated
 for three Academy Awards for the songs "Always and Always," "It's a Blue World" and "Pennies for Peppino." In 1995 they received the Ascap/Richard Rodgers Award for their contribution to the American Musical Theater.



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From: "telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Mondo Bongos" Oct 12, 1999
Date: 12 Oct 1999 16:28:09 -0400


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

Fantastic Plastic Machine - Bachelor Pad "Space Baby Blast Off"
Neu! - Hero "Neu! 75"

Ananda Shankar - Light My Fire "Ananda Shankar"
The Inner Thumb - Citroens 'n' Sitars "Soul Ecstacy"
DJ Me DJ You - Glassbong "Space Baby Blast Off"

Carrie Nations - Come with the Gentle People "Beyond the Valley of the
Dolls"
The Vampires Sound Incorporation - The Six Wisdoms of Aspasia "Vampyros
Lesbos..."
Improved Sound Ltd - Leave this Lesbian World "Electrick Loosers"
Xhol Caravan - All Green "Electrip"

The Inner Thumb - Jungle Lust "Soul Ecstacy"
Placebo - Balek "Nitrogen - trip hop sources from the past"
Slapp Happy - Scarred for Life "Ca Va"

Until next time...
Allan



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Subject: (exotica) Basic Hip in computer crash
Date: 12 Oct 1999 17:41:05 EDT


Greetings,
Our pal  BasicHip has asked me to inform the list that his computer has
crashed and that he will be off line for a few more days.  He wanted me to
let everyone know that he will reply to their emails as soon as he is cyber
connected again.
Informatively yours,
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Date: 12 Oct 1999 18:18:40 EDT



In a message dated 10/12/99 5:42:56 PM, [e-mail] writes:

>Our pal  BasicHip has asked me to inform the list that his computer has
>crashed and that he will be off line for a few more days

I wish him a speedy recovery. He should drink lots of good fluids, and use
stereo headphones as a withdrawal medication. ...   Jimmy/ has a Mac expert
coming in Thursday night to determine why I can't post my punk singles on
E-Bay without a System 11 error occuring every single time I try, and why
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From: "B. Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Death LP
Date: 12 Oct 1999 18:56:37 -0700


It sounds suspiciously like "Flight F-I-N-A-L:  A Dramatic Comparison to
Death."  I don't know why, but I too have seen this popping up in the
bins lately.

I can actually recommend it pretty strongly for entertainment value.
It's pretty funny and loaded with things that would make great samples
if you do DJ mixes or even home compilation projects with creative
touches.  Don't think I would spend a great deal of money on it though.
They take the whole "flight as metaphor for journey from earth to
heaven" thing about as far as it can go, to comic effect.

-- Brad

> Saturday at a flea market I flipped to a really weird LP that I didn't =
> really want to own but wanted to ask about here.
>
> It's in the category of "Scary Religious Records" and has a crude "High =
> Schooler" drawing of a passenger jet careening out of control on the =
> cover.  It says something like "A musical interpretation of the last hours
> =
> of life" or something equally bizarre.
>
> Evidently, it's a choral "movement" documenting the "rise and fall" of an =
> airline flight and great fodder for the "are you saved or going to hell?" =
> preaching tactic.  I *think* this album was made after someone's son was =
> killed in a plane wreck but my warped brain can't pull out the details. =
> =20
>
> Does anybody own this?  What's it like?



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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 12 Oct 1999 19:30:02 -0400


A top albums list *is* a good idea... it's just that history shows that
this group is much better at open-ended exploration than hard-nosed
quantification. Also, the core canon is pretty well established isn't it?
Baxter's "Ritual", Denny's "Exotica", Sumac's "Voice Of The Xtabay", etc, etc.

I dunno, if I had the time to get a serious list together, maybe I'd feel
differently.

Like all of the other troublemakers, I'm more drawn to the "unsung
classics" list. On the other hand, praising unsung finds is part of our
normal routine, no?

So I guess what I'm really doing here is praising a new one (to my ears),
"That's Life" by The Living Brass (RCA Camden, 1967). True it's partly a
TJB clone, but there's more going on here than that. With arrangements by
RCA vet, Ray Martin, and production by label guiding light, Ethel Gabriel,
you also get a nice dollop of classic space age pop ornaments sprinkled
here and there like chrome-plated jimmies. Great "now sound" drive, too.
Altogether more aggressive than the TJB tend to be. Zingy electric guitar
and combo organ also make it stand out from the pack. The organ
occasionally makes me think, "garage!" Some tracks even work up a ska-like
groove. "Sunshine Superman" is here, but is actually a bit conservative
compared to the wild "Que Sera, Sera" and "Besame Mucho". Of course, this
is all just subjective opinion. You mileage may vary.

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Subject: SV: (exotica) Classics
Date: 13 Oct 1999 01:39:00 +0200



I just played Milt Raskin's Exotic percussion, now Robert Maxwell's =
Shangri La is on. In fact I just came back from a near Shangri La =
experience while drawing and I just want to scream: Love conquers all!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 12 Oct 1999 19:59:40 EDT



In a message dated 10/12/99 7:29:36 PM, [e-mail] writes:

>So I guess what I'm really doing here is praising a new one

And that is about as accurate an assessment as we're liable to get here.
After all, how many times can one listen to Esquivel's "Sentimental Journey"
and emit a healthy "Whoa Baby Doll" in reaction? Not that there's anything
wrong with the track. Quite the opposite. But I suspect that here at exotica,
inc.  we're all about discovery here as opposed to discography. Were you to
ask me today what my favorite is I'd have to answer "Up With People" mainly
because I found an LP inside another "Up With People" LP cover (mismatched)
in a barn in the boonies that has a real fine mix of "Now Sound" arrangements
coupled with semi-righteous "its a new day" sentimentality that I only wish I
had the "real" (read fake authentic) cover for!  But tomorrow I may wake up
with the lustre gone ...Jimmy Botticelli/"Jimmy's Easy" airs on WMBR-FM, 88.1
in Cambridge, MA, USA on Tuesdays from 6-8am EST. We can be heard in Real
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Baroque-pop (was Classics)
Date: 12 Oct 1999 20:49:25 -0400


>I always think it's great to come across some really warped
>minor-label gem, like the Lonely Harpsichord _Rainy Night in
>Shangri-La_ . That one has pop harpsichord versions of "Quiet
>Village," "Bali Hai," etc. complete with Mystic-Moods style
>thunderstorm sounds. Amazing. (I just noticed this is another Snuff
>Garrett project, like that _Bacharach Baroque_ album

Speaking of the quasi-baroque stuff, there's...

The 18th Century Concepts - "In The 20th Century Bag" (Sidewalk). This is
the Mike Curb thing. The liner notes go into a yarn about him recording
them in a haunted Austrian castle... and they disappeared after he took
their photo (whooo, scary stuff kids). Then they say, nah, only kidding,
they're really California schoolteachers who do this in their spare time.

But I think that's also a fib. To me it sounds like session players on a
quick paycheck.

The music really isn't very baroque to my ears. It's more pop instrumental
covers played with a faintly classical busyness. Some wordless female
vocals that are said to be a "semi-madrigal choral effect," er, sure,
whatever you say. Some cheap electronic keyboards, even rhythm box for
drums on some tracks. That said, it is good, goofy fun... a strange little
hybrid that is neither fish nor fowl. "Have You Seen You Mother, Baby,
Standing In The Shadows" is especially fun, with booming drums suddenly
bursting out now and then.

Mariano Moreno - "Mariano & The Unbelievables" (Capitol). Rather more
rigorous than the 18thCC, with instrumentation focused on harpsichord, with
a small string section. Some light drums and percussion, maybe occasional
flute and organ. Still not especially baroque, but a lot closer. Sometimes
gets a little Muzaky on the more downtempo numbers. Includes soft pop hits
like, "Up, Up And Away", "Windy", "Sunday Will Never Be The Same". Another
"Sunshine Superman" too. Has a curious "As Tears Go By" with a male voice
speaking occasionally in Spanish or Italian (me stoopid American).

The most rigorously serious entry in this genre must be that Beatles one
(can't remember title or artists). They really sliced and diced those
Beatles tunes into Baroque correctness. Barely recognizable at times.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 12 Oct 1999 20:59:39 EDT


How about Leo Addeo conducting and arranging The Living Marimbas Plus Voices
in "Songs Made Famous By Johnny Cash".  What in Christ's name inspired this?
I got it just to hear "Ring of Fire", which is a thing of beauty.

How about "Folsom Prison Blues" with marimba and the whitest white men
singing, "I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.", it ain't going to get
much more EXOTIC then this.  While the vocal songs about prison are great
shower listening, the others vocal tunes are pretty bad, but I think there
should be a classic category based on insane, misguided concept alone.

Misguidedly,
Roy G. Biv


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Subject: (exotica) Ish-ta-bay Smish-ta-bay
Date: 12 Oct 1999 23:13:17 EDT


Back to this one guys:

In a message dated 10/12/99 5:12:04 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I used to say IX-ta-bay 'til I read the discussion on the exotica
 list.  Don't remember details exactly, but I was pretty well
 persuaded it ought to be ISH-ta-bay.  Dunno for sure.  Somebody
 oughta ask Yma.
  >>

Darrell and I have been discussing the pronunciation of Xtabay (again!).  Can
anyone confirm how either Les Baxter or Yma Sumac pronounced this?  It is
driving me Xcrazy.

Tiki Xbob


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From: "Andrew Grant" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jack Webb croons for you........
Date: 12 Oct 1999 23:28:10 -0400


I am fortunate (?) enough to own this record.  I found it in a second-hand
shop in Kansas about 2 years ago.  It's absolutely brilliant -- Webb doing
ballads in a pure Joe Friday style narration.  Imagine a cold montonous
reading of the Otis Reading hit 'Try a Little Tenderness'.  Even better are
the liner notes written by Jim Bishop, author of 'The Day Christ Died'.  If
I have some time, I'll transcribe them -- they are hillarious.

I doubt it's been released on CD, though I think one track might be on one
of the Golden Throats compilations.



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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ish-ta-bay Smish-ta-bay
Date: 12 Oct 1999 20:45:39 -0700



> << I used to say IX-ta-bay 'til I read the discussion on the exotica
>  list.  Don't remember details exactly, but I was pretty well
>  persuaded it ought to be ISH-ta-bay.  Dunno for sure.  Somebody
>  oughta ask Yma.
>   >>

That's the strangest thing - I came away from that thread thinking EXtabay
or it's red-headed cousin IXtabay were the more probable of all the
proffered pronunciations.  I can't remember why either...

PS - Anyobody want to buy a domain name that nobody know how to pronounce?

Ron Grandia



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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics (underrated, underappreciated)
Date: 13 Oct 1999 10:26:55 +0200


[e-mail] wrote:

> In a message dated 10/12/99 9:49:03 AM, [e-mail] writes:
>
> >"Bimbo Jet", a compilation album with 3 all-time favorite tropical disco
> >summer-hits: "El Bimbo" by Bimbo Jet
>
> Cool and Strange Disceau is what it is..and Herb Alpert also covered this
> tune for a 45 7" (and maybe on an album) Jimmy Botticelli
>

I also heard two vocal versions, one was in German...
Nobody knows who Bimbo Jet really are, the copyright credit names Cl.Morgan
(Bimbo Jet), Babel Son, T.Ranzzano (Buffalo's Band) don't even hint into a
clear national direction. Other names on the album sound more French...
The net doesn't produce much enlightment either...

Mo



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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: SV: (exotica) Classics
Date: 13 Oct 1999 10:36:23 +0200


Sandberg Magnus wrote:

> I just played Milt Raskin's Exotic percussion, now Robert Maxwell's Shangri La is on. In fact I just came back from a near Shangri La experience while drawing and I just want to scream: Love conquers all!

What's a "Shangri-La-experience"?

Mo



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Basic Hip in computer crash
Date: 13 Oct 1999 10:37:27 +0200




[e-mail] wrote:

> Our pal  BasicHip has asked me to inform the list that his computer has
> crashed

PC or Mac?

Mo



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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Baroque-pop (was Classics)
Date: 13 Oct 1999 11:43:23 +0100


> From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
>
> The most rigorously serious entry in this genre must be that Beatles one
> (can't remember title or artists). They really sliced and diced those
> Beatles tunes into Baroque correctness. Barely recognizable at times.
>

"The Baroque Beatles Book" on Nonesuch. I can't remember the artists
either... Joshua Rifkin?



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics (underrated, underappreciated)
Date: 13 Oct 1999 07:12:34 -0400


At 03:47 PM 10/12/99 +0200, n.e.u. / Moritz R wrote:
>
>1. Marais & Miranda "Go Native"
>This is my favorite underrated album, that only I seem to know.

How would you compare them with Nina and Frederik?



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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 13 Oct 1999 07:41:10 -0400


At 07:30 PM 10/12/99 -0400, m.ace wrote:
>
>So I guess what I'm really doing here is praising a new one (to my ears),
>"That's Life" by The Living Brass (RCA Camden, 1967). True it's partly a
>TJB clone, but there's more going on here than that

I don't get this "TJB" clone thing.  I heard it about The Brass Ring -
which being a Phil Bodner thing, is essentially the same as "Living Jazz" -
and now about Living Brass.
I guess you can compare any small instrumental group with some brass to the
TJB but that's about as far as it goes for me.
I'm a big fan of the whole collection of "Living" bands.  Brass, Jazz,
Guitars, Marimbas, The Living Trio, even the the Living Voices.
Some of my favorite records are "Living".  And I might as well name a few
while we're here.
The Living Brass's "Tribute to Henry Mancini" often gets mentioned.  I'd
also recommend their "Music of the Graduate" which is essentially all Simon
and Garfunkel.  A couple of amazing cuts there.
"Living Jazz" isn't jazz at all but they're still somewhat "jazzier" and
often groovier than the L.Brass records.  The best Living Jazz by far - of
the four I have - is "Memphis Underground"
(And like I said, if you like them, try the Brass Ring - another TJB
clone... NOT. I like all their records but give special marks to "The Now
Sound of.." and to their record on Project 3 with it's stunning version of
"Ain't no Sunshine".)
"Living Guitars" are all over the place but they made at least one classic
must-have psychedelic Now Sound record, "San Franciscan Nights".  Almost as
good, but not nearly so electric sitar-drenched is "Let it be and other hits".
And then, speaking of electric sitar, there's "Living Percussion" with
amazing versions of "Green Tambourine" and of all things, "Quiet Village".

Some of this stuff cries out to be reissued.  Or maybe it has been.  I'm
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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 13 Oct 1999 07:50:27 -0400


At 07:59 PM 10/12/99 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
>. Were you to
>ask me today what my favorite is I'd have to answer "Up With People" mainly
>because I found an LP inside another "Up With People" LP cover (mismatched)
>in a barn in the boonies that has a real fine mix of "Now Sound"
arrangements
>coupled with semi-righteous "its a new day" sentimentality that I only
wish I
>had the "real" (read fake authentic) cover for!

I wondered if you (even) considered "Up with People" to be included in the
"soft pop" category.  But you're calling them "Now Sound", not "soft pop".
Either one of them is a bit of a stretch for me.  On the other hand, I do
have three of their LP's, all with proper covers, and I have them in the
same section with The Living Voices, The Enoch Light Singers and other
similar things like that Les Reed LP on Phase Four where they do "Something
in the Air".
On the other hand, I don't keep them near the Kirby Stone Four, the Hi-Los,
the Clef-Tones or the Four Freshmen.
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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Baroque-pop (was Classics)
Date: 13 Oct 1999 07:56:37 -0400


At 08:49 PM 10/12/99 -0400, m.ace wrote:
>
>The 18th Century Concepts - "In The 20th Century Bag" (Sidewalk). This is
>the Mike Curb thing.

I've been know to curse the odd Mike Curb thing but I have to give him
credit for a great record "The Rolling Stone Songbook".

And because I ran across it as I looked for the name of that record, let me
recommend a classic NON-baroque record "The Soul of Paul Mauriat" with a
great version of "You keep me hanging on".



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Baroque-pop (was Classics)
Date: 13 Oct 1999 08:04:27 -0400


At 11:43 AM 10/13/99 +0100, Peter Hipwell wrote:

>"The Baroque Beatles Book" on Nonesuch. I can't remember the artists
>either... Joshua Rifkin?
>
That may be a good record if you like earnest attempts at a "baroque" sound
but otherwise it's a boring record.

But there's a category if you want to list your "classics"

"ALL BEATLES COVERS".

(I like them much more than the originals myself)

I'll start you off.

On Phase Four there's

Frank Chacksfield plays the Beatles Song book  and..
Bob Leaper (who?) Big Band Beatles

then there's at least five Hollyridge Strings records.

then there's an organ one by "The Mustang"

and a Percy Faith one

and the 101 Strings one which features the classic "Blues for the Guru".

then Buddy Morrow

then....?



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 13 Oct 1999 08:04:00 EDT


If you are looking at a "Living" record and want to know if it is any good
before plunking down some cash on it look at the back.  That's where you'll
find the name of the arranger.  If it's Ray Martin you've got a winner in
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From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiny Tim
Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:14:42 +0100


I happened across

http://www.tinytim.org

which is a very nice site, and
certainly exotica....

Hugh.



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) sort of classics and on again
Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:29:19 +0100


Nat Kone <[e-mail] said

On the other hand, I don't keep them near the Kirby Stone Four, the Hi-Los,
the Clef-Tones or the Four Freshmen.
I like to keep the well-arranged singers away from the choirs.

Thats what I like about this list,  the sense of order and the proliferation
of micro-genres (I though it and thought what a word,  I must use it,
micro-genres.....still sounds good......micro-genres......er, sorry).

I always hoped his real name was Bruno Hammer.


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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Finds/T+W/Ruth Wallis
Date: 13 Oct 1999 08:34:27 -0400


Well, back in impoverished pre-exotica-revival  times, Ruth Wallis'
 "The Cutest Little Dinghy in the Navy" turned up on just about every tape
compilation I made for friends.  Saucy, it is.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Smiling Gods
Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:39:21 +0100


The gods of vinyl,  have been keeping their benevolent gaze on me,  I did
manage to get the Project: Comstock boot and the 'Solid Gold Hammond' LP.
The Comstock cover is bizarrely printed on rather interesting textured
paper,  I don't know if that reflects the original sleeve at all.  Its very
nice too.  Almost exactly pin-pointing what I imagined 'space age exotica'
to sound like.

The Harry Stoneham LP is the one with him on a motorbike with some dodgy
bint sat in from of him on the petrol tank.  I'm afraid dodgy bint is the
only phrase that does this picture justice.  Its all very 1971.  Great LP
though.  They also had another Stoneham LP 'Latin on the Lowrey',  or
something along those lines.  I just didn't have the money,  does anyone
know if I should go back for this (at 7 pounds)?  It does sound tempting.

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From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Listen to the Retro Cocktail Hour...
Date: 13 Oct 1999 14:42:00 +0200


This is from the Mencken list. It's one of my favourites,
along with Exotica, of course.  For a European guy like
me who wants to learn a bit about America this man Mencken
is a hell of a source... Ton

"The radio, I take it, is quite satisfactory to the wowsers who
now propose to make the movies safe for morons. That is to say,
it is as devoid of ideas as a Kiwanis orator, and as bare of
beauty as a city dump. For hour after hour its customers sit
listening to bad music, worse speeches, and other entertainment
so dreadful that it cannot be described... Music, if it be
instrumental, is supplied mainly by gangs of union men sawing
away dismally in the dining rooms of second-rate hotels; if it
be vocal, it is performed by decayed fugitives from third-rate
church choirs and fourth-rate opera companies. As for the
speeches, they seem to issue, with few exceptions, from gentlemen
trained as ballyhoo men at county fairs."

H.L. Mencken
Baltimore Evening Sun
June 29, 1931


PS Gerard Jansen of "The Easy Alohas" was on the tele yesterday. Apparantly
he studied with one of the Dutchmen who've just won the Nobel Prize for
Physics.

The real prize, not the Ig Nobel Prize...

PHYSICS:  Dr. Len Fisher of Bath, England and Sydney, Australia
for calculating the optimal way to dunk a biscuit.
..and...
Professor Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck of the University of East
Anglia, England, and Belgium, for calculating how to make a teapot
spout that does not drip.



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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Smiling Gods
Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:57:00 +0100


> The Harry Stoneham LP is the one with him on a motorbike with some dodgy
> bint sat in from of him on the petrol tank.  I'm afraid dodgy bint is the
> only phrase that does this picture justice.  Its all very 1971.  Great LP
> though.  They also had another Stoneham LP 'Latin on the Lowrey',  or
> something along those lines.  I just didn't have the money,  does anyone
> know if I should go back for this (at 7 pounds)?  It does sound tempting.
>

It's only a polite enquiry, but are you off yer bleeding rocker, mate,
or wot, eh, eh? I mean, really, *7* POUNDS for a HARRY STONEHAM ALBUM?
And it sounds tempting? I'm really curious, what is the going rate for
dodgy hammond platters down there in the swingin' wing-dingin'
house-price-inflatin' Wild Wooly Sarf? "Lowrey" does have a couple of
good tracks on it, but let's face the sorry truth, it *doesn't* have a
motorcycling bint and/or Michael Parkinson on the cover! Good grief!

Ach, maybe I'm just not enough of a HS fan.



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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Listen to the Retro Cocktail Hour...
Date: 13 Oct 1999 09:00:57 -0400


The Mencken quote sounds like a manifesto for the music I like, and I'd
like a compilation devoted to each of his categories.

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From: Jean Leneutre <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) INSTANT AUTOMATONS
Date: 13 Oct 1999 14:32:54 +0200 (MET DST)


Hello,
   Although the INSTANT AUTOMATONS music is not really related
to this list, I take profit from the message below to ask
whether someone could give me some info about them.

In particular, here's the related EPs/LPs I know about
- "peter paints his fence" EP (Deleted records)
- V/A "Weird Noise" EP  (Fuck Off Records)
- V/A "Angst in my pants"

Is there something else ?

Were the members involved in other bands?


Thanks,

Jean


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As more of the list will know the top.  And I suspect that however har
d the
rest of us try,  the most bizarre will come from Citizen Kafkas collec
tion.

putting a vote in for 'people laugh at me cos I like weird music' by t
he
Instant Automatons (should allow 45's as well,  surely)

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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hot....
Date: 13 Oct 1999 09:18:19 -0700 (PDT)


...mail question!  I might need an addiontal email
address to this and the one I have at work(should the
latter ever expire), and I have a question about
Hotmail.  Is that an account only through
PCs/IBM/Windows, etc?  Or can anybody use a Hotmail
account, say, on a Mac(you can tell I am not Miss
Computer!)  If not, then are there other free accounts
besides Hotmail and Yahoo?
A yahoo herself, Jane Fondle
ps-not that I am being self important, but if anybody
has written me individually in the last week, I have
been extremely busy...so, I ain't being a joik or
nuttin.


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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics (underrated, underappreciated)
Date: 13 Oct 1999 18:09:27 +0200


Nat Kone wrote:

> >1. Marais & Miranda "Go Native"
> >This is my favorite underrated album, that only I seem to know.
>
> How would you compare them with Nina and Frederik?

Hmmm... if Frederik was Josef Marais, he'd record Dutch cows, translate it
into German and make it to Number 1 in the Volksmusikantenhitparade. If
Miranda was Nina, she'd kill Frederik and start a solo career as Belgian
Exotica domina with the name of "Mademoiselle Lumumba"...

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From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Finds/T+W/Ruth Wallis
Date: 13 Oct 1999 18:32:51 +0200


Hugh Petfield wrote:

> Next, Capitol albums have a variety of number prefixes,
> but they are broadly T/ST or W/SW.  Any idea what
> differentiates these please?

ST is for Stereo, T are the mono albums. It appears to me that the SW/W prefix
was for reissues, but I'm not sure. SW again is the stereo edition, while W is
the mono edition.

Marco


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics (underrated, underappreciated)
Date: 13 Oct 1999 18:38:43 +0200


"n.e.u. / Moritz R" wrote:

> Hmmm... if Frederik was Josef Marais, he'd record Dutch cows,

Huh? What?

Marco

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From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) pioneer women
Date: 13 Oct 1999 09:40:48 PDT


can anybody help me with the names of women electronic music pioneers.
daphne oram at the bbc radiophonic workshop-[she developed a light
controlled synthesis system] and wendy carlos and theremins virtuosa are as
far as i can think at the moment. i would hope to include pop / hip hop as
well as more accepted experimental forms.
thanks
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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Virtual Fantastica terminated
Date: 13 Oct 1999 19:05:31 +0200


"Virtual Fantastica" - my site with "radio fantastica" playlists - has been
terminated by the "MyPlace.To.Be" web site owners, due to the audio content
(realaudio verfsions of 2 half shows...)

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Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:39:06 -0400


Robert McKenna <[e-mail]> wrote:
> can anybody help me with the names of women electronic music pioneers.
daphne oram at the bbc radiophonic workshop-[she developed a light
controlled synthesis system] and wendy carlos and theremins virtuosa are as
far as i can think at the moment.


Top of head:
Laurie Anderson
Bebe Barron
Pauline Oliveros
Priscilla McLean
Ruth White
Suzanne Ciani
Mother Mallard
Enya

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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) pioneer women/Beat Girl
Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:04:57 -0500


>can anybody help me with the names of women electronic music pioneers.
>daphne oram... and wendy carlos and theremins virtuosa are as
>far as i can think at the moment.

Brain fog won't stop me here. Wasn't one of the creators of the "electronic
stylings" music used on the Forbidden Planet soundtrack a female?... OK,
IMDB says Bebe Barron and Louis Barron. Was there ever an OST made of this
music? It's the only film music credit the IMBD lists for Bebe Barron.

Which leads me to another movie recommend: Beat Girl, aka Wild for Kicks --
John Barry's first soundtrack, with songs by the John Barry Seven. The
combo might even perform in the movie but the credits are too terse to say
for sure. A wild teenage girl, mad for music and adrift in London's 1960
caves and coffee houses...and flirting with a career as a stripper. Fab,
fab for the music, the melodramatic plot, the Bardot-like aura of the star
Gillian Hill. Plus there's one eyepopping exotica-modern sex bomb dance
number that will leave you panting. Racy for its time. Distributed by Kino
International, so should be available in shops with good cult movie
stashes.

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Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:36:45 -0500


Nat Kone wrote:
>
> At 03:47 PM 10/12/99 +0200, n.e.u. / Moritz R wrote:
> >
> >1. Marais & Miranda "Go Native"
> >This is my favorite underrated album, that only I seem to know.
>
> How would you compare them with Nina and Frederik?

I don't know Nina and Frederick, I just wanted to
add that I'm a big fan of Marais & Miranda's
_Songs of Science and Nature_ LP's.

"We are all solid members of the rock family /
 metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary"

"I'm not a fossil / and neither are you"
 (from "What is a Fossil")

Also, I'm thinking of putting a lot of my
LP covers online, but I don't have a scanner
big enough.  Do I have to photograph all of
them first?  Rats.

--


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Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) pioneer women/Beat Girl
Date: 13 Oct 1999 15:10:23 -0400


>music? It's the only film music credit the IMBD lists for Bebe Barron.
>

The Barrons did music for a few obscure avant-garde films, all shorts I think.  About 3-4 were done before "Forbidden Planet" (and yes there's a soundtrack CD available) and some afterwards.  One of the later ones was a documentary about Kirlian photography or some such unfortunately topic.

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From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Exotic Trilogy Question
Date: 13 Oct 1999 12:16:40 -0700


I think I asked this a while back, but it more of an interest now.

So I found a record store on the Web which had Exotic Trilogy vols 1-2
in stock and ordered them. EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT!! Really
loving these.

Did vol 3 (or 4...) ever make it out?
Any other bootle.., er... "limited edition imports" with this kind of
Exotica material?

I'm mostly drawn to classic Baxter style orchestral stuff or
Denny-style, less drawn to the stuff using organs and whatnot.

If you haven't decided to take the plunge I can heartily recommned the
Exotic Triology CDs!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Trilogy Question
Date: 14 Oct 1999 03:36:02 +0000


Kevin-
    Where did you get this?  I'd be very interested.  Someone gave me a
bootleg of one of them many years ago which sort of spurred my interest in
exotica.  The quality is not that good, so I'd love to get a new one.
Thanks,
Michael Z

Kevin C. wrote:

> I think I asked this a while back, but it more of an interest now.
>
> So I found a record store on the Web which had Exotic Trilogy vols 1-2
> in stock and ordered them. EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT!! Really
> loving these.
>
> If you haven't decided to take the plunge I can heartily recommned the
> Exotic Triology CDs!
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Date: 13 Oct 1999 14:33:13 -0500


HOME BOOTLEGGING IS KILLING BOOTLEGGING.



>    Where did you get this?  I'd be very interested.  Someone gave me a
>bootleg of one of them many years ago which sort of spurred my interest in
>exotica.  The quality is not that good, so I'd love to get a new one.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) pioneer women
Date: 13 Oct 1999 12:53:52 PDT





>From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
>can anybody help me with the names of women electronic music pioneers.


Someone that comes to my mind is Argentinian (I think)  60's musique
concrete/tape music artist, Pauline Oliveros. There is little on her, but as
of late there has been renewed interest in her work. I think some of her
works are being re-issued. There was a big article on her in Wire magazine
about 2-3 mos. ago. I believe that she is still in the loop, so to say, and
is still creating her music.

Hope this helps a bit.

bleep bloop bleep bzzzzzzzz

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Date: 13 Oct 1999 16:10:00 EDT


In a message dated 10/13/99 3:30:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Kevin-
     Where did you get this?  I'd be very interested.  Someone gave me a
 bootleg of one of them many years ago which sort of spurred my interest in
 exotica.  The quality is not that good, so I'd love to get a new one.
 Thanks,
 Michael Z
  >>


I love the Trilogy CD's but the quality is pretty bad.  Some of the cuts they
used are/were available on remastered CD's but the chose to use the vinyl
(some of which was scratched badly.

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Subject: (exotica) name-maim
Date: 13 Oct 1999 13:28:16 -0700 (PDT)


Nat said:
And I think the name "Laura Taylor" is cool.  Kind of
reminds me of "Laura
Petrie" and I can definitely imagine Laura Petrie in
tight clothes dancing
onstage.  Pedal pushers come to mind for some reason.

Have 'em! But not for stage...too long! ;^<>

>It all comes down to the age-old question, "If you
were a contract player
in the old Hollywood studio system, would they let you
keep your name or
would they make you change it?"  Laura Taylor and Will
Straw would probably
get to keep their names.  (One of those names already
sounds made up.)

And Jane Fondle doesn't?  Laura Taylor is one of those
"Charlie Brown" names...everybody who knows me by that
calls me "Laura Taylor"...not just the first name...or
I even have friends now who call me "Jane Fondle."
DOn't ask ME who I am! :)
Love,
Nico

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Date: 13 Oct 1999 15:25:40 -0500


>It all comes down to the age-old question, "If you
>were a contract player
>in the old Hollywood studio system, would they let you
>keep your name or
>would they make you change it?"  Laura Taylor and Will
>Straw would probably
>get to keep their names.  (One of those names already
>sounds made up.)


(when i'm not King Kini) i work clubs as DJ Dean Vaccaro and get
asked all the time what my "real name" is.  Considering that IS my
real name, i guess it sounds made up enough to keep, huh?

(don't tell anybody)

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Subject: (exotica) Latin and Hip
Date: 13 Oct 1999 16:45:48 -0400


Here's a buried classic for you.  A record I would want everyone on the
list to hear.
"The Brothers Castro"
(The record actually has an asterisk next to the word "Castro" and in small
letters it says "no relation".)
They're "four swinging youngsters from Mexico City" and their first record
for Capitol is called "Latin and Hip"... which is almost redundant, no?
It's a vocal quartet with great harmonies and they add a Latin flavor to
standards like "Tenderly" and "Summertime".
The orchestra is conducted by the sometimes great Jack Marshall.
They also have great matching suits.
Especially recommended for anyone into Kirby Stone or even Lambert,
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From: "Jane Fondle" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) It's ME!
Date: 13 Oct 1999 17:21:23 EDT


Hey, thanks to Ron Grandia, I now have this account. I am not using
[e-mail] for exotica no' mo'!  You can still reach me
there, here or at [e-mail]
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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Forbiden Planet
Date: 13 Oct 1999 14:22:53 -0700 (PDT)



--- Mimi Mayer <[e-mail]> wrote: stylings" music used on the Forbidden Planet
soundtrack a female?... OK, IMDB says Bebe Barron and Louis Barron. Was there ever an
OST made of this music?

Sure was and its on GNP/Cresendo and its redily availabale.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) name-maim
Date: 13 Oct 1999 16:40:33 -0500


Believe or not, there's another Mimi Mayer in Austin. Thank god no one gets
us confused since my real name is Minnie Mayhem.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) It's ME!
Date: 13 Oct 1999 14:29:27 -0700




>
> Hey, thanks to Ron Grandia, I now have this account. I am not using
> [e-mail] for exotica no' mo'!  You can still reach me
> there, here or at [e-mail]


Can you believe that astroslut@hotmail has been taken already? I say we
deluge the phony astroslut and  shame her (if she has any) into returning
the moniker to the ONLY astroslut, the lovely Lounge Laura!



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Subject: Re: (exotica) It's ME!
Date: 13 Oct 1999 17:35:49 EDT



>
>Can you believe that astroslut@hotmail has been taken already? I say we
>deluge the phony astroslut and  shame her (if she has any) into returning
>the moniker to the ONLY astroslut, the lovely Lounge Laura!
>
>
Yes, I can...but that's OK.  We got the suckah Trademarked!
HARHAR-screamed in a loud Yosemite Sam voice!

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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Spooks In Space
Date: 13 Oct 1999 14:43:35 -0700 (PDT)


Now that Halloween is approaching it seems natural to play creepy scarry spooky scifi
monster space music.

Recently been listening to cheapo Halloween Monster/Ghost cd compilations, one is even
shaped like a Haunted House (it plays fine)   Also have been playing:

The Thing OST
The Day The Earth Stood Still  OST
The Outer Limits (original tv show)
Not Of This Earth   the music of Ronald Stein
Journey To the Center of The Earth  OST
Blood Simple  OST
Black Angels by Kronus Quartet
Forbiden Planet OST
Destination Moon OST
Sci Fi's Greatest Hits vols 1-3 on Tee Vee  Toons
They Came From Outer Space  V/A
Passion Ost
Passion Sources v/a
Carnival of Souls (and watched the video, thanks Paul)

Theres a lot more to listen to in this vain.  Any suggestions are very welcome.

There are more creepy horror soundtracks form Morricone and others  I haven't gotten to
yet and the space music albums like Fantastica and Project Comstock..

Easy listening in the Big Easy
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions
Date: 14 Oct 1999 00:34:50 +0200


[e-mail] wrote:

> Have any of our favorite performers from exotica and the like ever made
> appearances on the old late night talk and/or variety from the 50s and 60s
> (like Ed Sullivan and such)? I am curious in particular to know if Esquivel,
> Martin Denny, Les Baxter and those types ever did.

Martin Denny appears in a 1959 edition of the Dinah Shore Show.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) The World Cup Exotica/Shibuya-kei cd
Date: 14 Oct 1999 00:35:24 +0200


"Everlasting Gobstopper" is Momus and his Wife. Mike Alway may have
invented the band name and the artistic concept, but he's not involved
in the music, doesn't sing and doesn't play an instrument; in fact he
hates musicians, as label bosses usually do.

Mo



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Subject: Re:  (exotica) Spooks In Space
Date: 13 Oct 1999 18:48:48 EDT



In a message dated 10/13/99 5:46:31 PM, you wrote:

<<Theres a lot more to listen to in this vein.  Any suggestions are very
welcome.
>>

Try Harry Partch's "The Bewitched".


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics (underrated, underappreciated)
Date: 14 Oct 1999 00:51:19 +0200


[e-mail] wrote:

>  I just wanted to
> add that I'm a big fan of Marais & Miranda's
> _Songs of Science and Nature_ LP's.

Is that a series? Never heard of 'em. But hey! Friends! Another one who's into
Marais and Miranda! What's "Songs for Science and Nature" about? BTW: There's
a film, where M&M appear; don't know which it was. Maybe someone knows!!??

> "We are all solid members of the rock family /
>  metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary"
>
> "I'm not a fossil / and neither are you"
>  (from "What is a Fossil")

Sounds like music for children or something. Educational stuff... how's the
music? Can you still find these records? What's on the covers?

> Also, I'm thinking of putting a lot of my
> LP covers online, but I don't have a scanner
> big enough.  Do I have to photograph all of
> them first?  Rats.

Well, you can scan the cover in two halves and put them together in Photoshop.
After some practice it's pretty easy.Where does "rats!" come from? Snoopy?

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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica)TJB clones (was Classics)
Date: 13 Oct 1999 19:00:38 -0400


>>"That's Life" by The Living Brass (RCA Camden, 1967). True it's partly a
>>TJB clone, but there's more going on here than that
>
>I don't get this "TJB" clone thing.

The term is maybe thrown around a little too freely. For myself, I don't
see it so much as a concrete musical designation as a lasso for stuff that
the record companies (at the time) saw as a way to get a little slice of
Alpert's action. Whether it was a tight copy or just something vaguely
related, the TJB had opened up a window of opportunity that was there to
exploit while the exploitin' was good.

But on the whole, I would prefer to defer to Brad Bigelow on this subject.

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Subject: (exotica) idiot boxed
Date: 13 Oct 1999 19:00:56 -0400


A few more teevee things...

"The Big T.N.T. Show" (1966)
AMC - Saturday night, 10:00pm, 4:00am (eastern)
Sequel to "The T.A.M.I. Show" with Bo Diddley, The Ronettes, Ike & Tina
Turner, David McCallum, and many more.

"Carnival Of Souls" (1962)
A&E - Sunday morning, 7:00am
Some pleasant organ music for your Sunday morning.

"Mysteries Of Easter Island"
History - Sunday afternoon, 2:00pm
Eyes? Straw hats? I'd like to see them sporting brown derbies, meself.

Biography: Pablo Picasso
A&E - Sunday night, 8:00pm, 10:00pm, Midnight, 2:00am
Are we saturation programming yet?

"Chang" (1927)
TCM - Sunday night, Midnight
Antique documentary in the Thai jungle. Shot by the gang that later did
"King Kong".

Profiles: David Bowie
Bravo - Monday night, 11:00pm, 3:00am
Not exotica at all, but I know he has some fans on here.

"In Like Flint" (1967)
AMC - Tuesday night, 6:00pm
The second Flint movie. No "Exotica" beauty cream, but he does talk to
dolphins.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Listen to the Retro Cocktail Hour...
Date: 13 Oct 1999 19:28:19 EDT



In a message dated 10/13/99 8:42:58 AM, [e-mail] writes:

>H.L. Mencken
>Baltimore Evening Sun

Where he was fond of saying "Journalists are like birds on a wire. When one
takes off, the rest follow."


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Latin and Hip
Date: 13 Oct 1999 19:33:12 EDT



In a message dated 10/13/99 4:43:48 PM, [e-mail] writes:

>A record I would want everyone on the
>list to hear.
>"The Brothers Castro"
>(The record actually has an asterisk next to the word "Castro" and in small
>letters it says "no relation".)
>They're "four swinging youngsters from Mexico City" and their first record
>for Capitol is called "Latin and Hip"... which is almost redundant, no?

I'm lucky enough to own this record as well (in mono :--() and additionally
recommend "I'll Remember April" from it


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Subject: (exotica) Louis Therouxs Weird Weekend
Date: 13 Oct 1999 16:50:45 -0700





> "Brilliant...Wildly funny."
>  Entertainment Weekly
>
>  "Disarming."
>  Details
>
>  "[Theroux] has a knack for connecting with the weirdest of the weird."
>  New York Magazine
>
>  "Not your average wacky-happy TV newsmag."
>  Philadelphia City Paper
>
>  From the back-breaking world of pro wrestling to the heart-breaking
cattle calls of New York theater; from the landing site of a UFO to a
televangelist's religious revival; Bravo's redefining the "weekend getaway."
LOUIS THEROUX'S WEIRD WEEKENDS is Bravo's new original series in which
journalist and host Louis Theroux dives into a singular American subculture
every weekend and emerges on Monday with an entirely new point of view.
>
>  Last week, the series premiere took our gangly reporter to Atlanta's
Power Plant to infiltrate the back-breaking world of professional wrestling.
Upcoming WEIRD WEEKENDS premieres in October include: OFF-BROADWAY (Friday,
October 8 at 8:00PM/ET); PORN (Friday, October 15 at 8:00PM/ET);
INFOMERCIALS (Friday, October 22 at 8:00PM/ET); and UFOs (Friday, October 29
at 8:00PM/ET).
>
>  For more programming information, check out the official WEIRD WEEKENDS
website http://weirdweekends.bravotv.com or contact
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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Spooks In Space
Date: 13 Oct 1999 20:05:32 -0400



>Try Harry Partch's "The Bewitched".

I think that the beginning to the "Delusion of the Fury" by Partch is
pretty scary.  Also Imaginary Landscape (#3?) by John Cage is out there
(theremin alert, J.F.!).  Exuma has no less than a Zombie Revival Ritual on
"Paul Simon Nontooth", Black Mass by Lucifer (Mort Garson) and then, there
is always "Shock, the son of Panic" :^)

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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Switched-On Basic Hip!
Date: 13 Oct 1999 18:53:49 -0700


In response to the recent posts about 1) The Moog, and 2) BasicHip's
compilation CD's, I just posted BasicHip's epic moog-mix Switched-On
BasicHip here:

http://216.112.66.38/ron/som/basichipmoog.pls

It's 24kbps for all you modem-surfers, and SHOULD be mac-compatible.
(crossing finglers)

28 tracks of synthesized wonderfulness.  I've been typing all day, and am
too pooped to post the playlist. I PROMISE one before Friday if YOU promise
to post a reception report, so's I can see how the server is getting along.

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From: "Elisabeth Vincentelli" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The World Cup Exotica/Shibuya-kei cd
Date: 13 Oct 1999 22:14:25 -0500


Actually, I believe Momus and his wife Shazna are (or were) Milky.
Everlasting Gobstopper is rumored to be a teenage girl--not Momus' wife!

Elisabeth
----------
>From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
>To: exotica mailing list <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: (exotica) The World Cup Exotica/Shibuya-kei cd
>Date: Wed, Oct 13, 1999, 5:35 PM
>

>
> "Everlasting Gobstopper" is Momus and his Wife. Mike Alway may have
> invented the band name and the artistic concept, but he's not involved
> in the music, doesn't sing and doesn't play an instrument; in fact he
> hates musicians, as label bosses usually do.
>
> Mo



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From: "Elisabeth Vincentelli" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 13 Oct 1999 22:18:45 -0500


> I wondered if you (even) considered "Up with People" to be included in the
> "soft pop" category.
And Glenn Close sings and plays guitar on at least one of them! Notice she
never discusses that part of her career in interviews.

Elisabeth


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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Help me find......
Date: 13 Oct 1999 12:51:45 -0400


A dance/trance comp. put out by Bad Taste Records called "Egg '94."

I've searched on the company name but turn up nothing.

Thanks!

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From: "Keith E. Lo Bue" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #519
Date: 13 Oct 1999 20:49:17 -0400


Okay, kids, this is my last posting of this nature...in my frenzy to get
packed up for the move to Australia at month's end, I've posted oodles of
good vinyl from my collection on eBay, including a honkin' passel of my MOOG
LP's, the SATAN IN HIGH HEELS sdtk, and tons more.  Maybe I'll soon
specialize in posting wacky obscurities from Down Unda, but I ain't there
yet, so....here's my last hurrah!

You can see da stuff here:

http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItems&us
erid=seasob&include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=25

Have fun looking, and I'll be in touch with lots of you when I'm upside
down!

Keith


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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) They's MO!
Date: 13 Oct 1999 19:51:59 -0700


Some nameless "knucklehead" sent me some Mp3 files to sample and then
delete, but in flagrant disregrard for the law, I posted them in mix form
here:
http://216.112.66.38/ron/rissermix.m3u
He then sent me two more files, Spike Jones's Hawaiian War Chant, ( a fave
of mine) and Piero Umiliani's Mah Na Mah Na. They have been added.

May the Lord have mercy on my wicked soul.

Ron

You too can FTP sound files to ftp://216.112.66.38/incoming if you so
desire.  Email me to let me know they are there. You can also peek at what's
there, and download it to your own hard-drive, but that MIGHT be illegal
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From: Jim Gerwitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Conniff's 'Dance The Bop/En Espanol" & Simply Faboo
Date: 13 Oct 1999 20:19:43 -0700


The Collectables label continues to spew out the unusual two-fers,
including the supposedly rare "Dance the Bop" (which I've only seen once
but at a $20 "collectable" price for rabid dog favorite frisbee
condition), now combined with "En Espanol" that I've never heard or seen
anywhere. Anyone think this two-fer might be worth the $10 it would cost
at CDNow (after $5 off coupon, shippin & taxes?)

I already bought the Japanese import of the Gentle People's "Simply
Faboo" (with a $20 coupon, natch). Had i been patient, CDNow has a US
Faboo release date of 10/19(@ $12.99), and using a $5 e-coupon its out
the door and onto your doorstep for a little over $10 after shipping &
tax. (But I still prefer "Soundtracks for Living)."
Its only a fin, but....
http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/redirect/leaf=campus

JB LeNoir


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions
Date: 14 Oct 1999 03:18:09 EDT



In a message dated 10/13/99 11:35:12 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>
>Martin Denny appears in a 1959 edition of the Dinah Shore Show.

and a 1969 special edition of Hawaii Calls


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Subject: Re:  (exotica) Exotic Trilogy Question
Date: 14 Oct 1999 03:17:44 EDT



In a message dated 10/13/99 8:17:56 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Did vol 3 (or 4...) ever make it out?


No, Gordon and Laura (the core of KBZ) can be found in Berlin performing at
their club Schmaltzwald (Schmaltz - or "Cheese" - world) but have yet to
release the third installment of their series which has plans for ten CDs!!


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) INSTANT AUTOMATONS
Date: 14 Oct 1999 10:18:19 +0100


I would say that as purveyors of murky electronic pop,  they fit quite
nicely on the list alongside Bruce Haack.  Here is a URL for the Street
level site,  with them and other Fuck Off Records related bands.

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Pit/6644/


El Maestro Con Queso

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http://www.shitola.freeserve.co.uk/cheese/cheese.htm

Hello,
   Although the INSTANT AUTOMATONS music is not really related
to this list, I take profit from the message below to ask
whether someone could give me some info about them.
<snip>

Thanks,

Jean




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) pioneer women
Date: 14 Oct 1999 10:29:52 +0100


There was Anne someone from the Age of Chance,  who has done some
soundtracks,  stuff with Jaz Coleman,  (and I believe the Spice Girls).
Now,  thats a CV.
Although I don't if she counts as a pioneer, as its 80s stuff.


can anybody help me with the names of women electronic music pioneers.

El Maestro Con Queso

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) wout steenhuis
Date: 14 Oct 1999 10:43:54 +0100


A while ago someone was asking about background for this musician,  a friend
has scanned a set of sleevenotes for me,  which I can have anyone who's
interested have.  Basically,  He's Dutch,  was in the resistance and a
concentration camp during the war,  and is now (1964) an international jazz
musician with a family.

The file is a not very big jpeg.  and quite interesting.


El Maestro Con Queso

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic
Date: 14 Oct 1999 05:55:16 -0400


I'm watching "American Photography..." on PBS and it's evoking endless
thoughts and images.
But one idea in particular seems relevant here.
They talked about "National Geographic" magazine, how it began to publish
photographs and the fact that those photographs defined the way "we" looked
at the world.
But as one of the commentators said "You didn't see shots of Africans
getting up and going to the office".
This made me think about the relationship between those images and the very
idea of the "exotic" that developed after that.
I'd be willing to bet that you could connect National Geographic with the
boom in (supposedly) exotic music.
But if the photographs presented a distorted view, well...

Not that I thought exotica was exactly ethnographically accurate.

Just a thought...




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Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Trilogy Question
Date: 14 Oct 1999 07:37:37 EDT


In a message dated 10/14/99 :

<< No, Gordon and Laura (the core of KBZ) can be found in Berlin performing
at
 their club Schmaltzwald (Schmaltz - or "Cheese" - world) but have yet to
 release the third installment of their series which has plans for ten CDs!!
 >>

I thought Schmaltz was more referring to something sickeningly sweet?
Literally, schmaltz means "pig (or pork) drippings"?

Aren't Gordon and Laura also the inventors of the "Schmaltsalarm"?  A
so-called devise that would go off whenever the music got too sentimental?

TB

schmaltz also schmalz (noun)

[Yiddish shmalts, literally, rendered fat, from Middle High German smalz;
akin to Old High German smelzan to melt -- more at SMELT]

First appeared 1935

 1 : sentimental or florid music or art

 2 : SENTIMENTALITY

 -- schmaltzy (adjective)


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Some Esquivel and other questions
Date: 14 Oct 1999 07:38:16 EDT


In a message dated 10/14/99 12:20:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< and a 1969 special edition of Hawaii Calls >>

is this available on video tape?????

tb


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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Louis Therouxs Weird Weekend
Date: 14 Oct 1999 12:45:00 +0100


Ron Grandia wrote:
>
> > "Brilliant...Wildly funny."
> >  Entertainment Weekly

> LOUIS THEROUX'S WEIRD WEEKENDS is Bravo's new original series in which
> journalist and host Louis Theroux dives into a singular American subculture
> every weekend and emerges on Monday with an entirely new point of view.

These have been on UK tv for a few years now, but I thought they were
pitched at a british 'look what those crazy Americans are doing' angle.
Very funny some of them, anyway.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic
Date: 14 Oct 1999 07:48:45 EDT


In a message dated 10/14/99 2:52:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I'm watching "American Photography..." on PBS  >>  and <<as one of the
commentators said "You didn't see shots of Africans
getting up and going to the office".>>

I was watching the show and thought the same thing.  Of course now there are
many "educational" magazines out there to peruse.  At the turn of the century
and in the teens to the 40's NG was the "bible" of what other cultures in the
world were like.

It became very popular for the "gentleman" of the day to be a subscriber to
NG (not unlike Playboy in the 1960s -- geez -- now there is a contrast -- of
course both have pictures of naked women in them -- the Playboy ones had a
little more "tone" though as I remember).

Anyway, I agree that the "exotic" explorations of NG helped to spur the
interest in things exotic and Exotica.

The show on photography is excellent btw.  One other similarity between
Playboy and NG -- both are magazines that one never throws away.

TB


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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More Brothers Castro
Date: 14 Oct 1999 06:57:06


Thanks, Nat, for mentioning the Brothers Castro and their first Capitol LP,
"Latin and Hip."  Their second is also worth looking for.  Titled simply
"The Brothers Castro," it's "recorded on stage at Harrah's Club" in Lake
Tahoe.  They do a wild mix of stuff--"Malaguena," "Cubano Chant," "O Sole
Mio," "One Note Samba."  There's a great version of "Malaguena Salerosa"
that includes a spoken part that makes it sound like a lounge lizard's
mating call:  "Hey baby ... Look over here now ... Don't be shy ... I luuuv
yew!"  It ends with an epic medley of "Caravan" and "Exodus."

As the liner notes say, "Listen.  They must be heard to be believed."

God, it's wonderful what used to find its way onto vinyl.

Brad


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From: "Phil Clark" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) harry Stoneham (et al)  LPs
Date: 14 Oct 1999 13:36:57 +0100


Someone said:

"It's only a polite enquiry, but are you off yer bleeding rocker, mate,
or wot, eh, eh? I mean, really, *7* POUNDS for a HARRY STONEHAM ALBUM?
And it sounds tempting? I'm really curious, what is the going rate for
dodgy hammond platters down there in the swingin' wing-dingin'
house-price-inflatin' Wild Wooly Sarf? "Lowrey" does have a couple of
good tracks on it, but let's face the sorry truth, it *doesn't* have a
motorcycling bint and/or Michael Parkinson on the cover! Good grief!

Ach, maybe I'm just not enough of a HS fan.  "

Wow, I agree - I'd think 50p would be about right for any of the MANY elpees
by keyboard wizzo
Harry Stoneham. They are standard junk/charidee shop fare, at least here in
the smoke. There are dozens ofem by the way. Nearly all feature dolly birds
on the cover and some also feature TV interviewers!

I would say buyer beware whatever price you pay -in my experience there are
usually only one or two half-decent cuts on this genre of albums and they
are usually the ones where the musos were allowed to rock out a bit, perhaps
at the end of sessions, rather than just play (for example) bossa versions
of contemporary tooooooooonz.

Paying seven Earth pounds for yer Stonehams, Hawkshaws, Mantovanis etc smaks
of the EZ-listening "boom" of the mid-90s when suddenly previously
bargain-bin items were escalated to "rarity" status in London's second-hand
reckud stores, regardless of the fact that actually most of them contained
90% junk.And now I notice that they're back in the bargain bins. Funny,
that.

Just my opine of course.

groovily
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From: "Jane Fondle" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic
Date: 14 Oct 1999 08:57:27 EDT






>From: [e-mail]
>To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic
>Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:48:45 EDT
>
>
>In a message dated 10/14/99 2:52:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>[e-mail] writes:
>
><< I'm watching "American Photography..." on PBS  >>  and <<as one of the
>commentators said "You didn't see shots of Africans
>getting up and going to the office".>>

Wow!  Are we not an educated bunch, eh?  I was also watching that...and they
were talking about this photog who used to dress up American Indians in
feathers, etc., if he didn't think they looked, er, *authentic* enough...and
I thought it was just like fake exotica music, that analogy...
You can tell we're like-minded!
Jane Fondle

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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) harry Stoneham (et al)  LPs
Date: 14 Oct 1999 13:57:27 +0100


Can I recommend, in a similar vein, 'Howard Beaumont plays the Hammond
M100' which has one of the best versions of 'Ain't No Sunshine' I've
heard. But still, anything above a pound is a bit excessive for most of
this sort of hammond stuff.  I notice Intoxica still had Big Jim H's
Hammond party at 10 quid. Am i missing something? This appears to just
yer bog-standard 'hits' hammond (i.e. Tie a Yellow ribbon etc). Now Duke
Grant's Hammond Disco (in the same series) was well worth the 10p i
paid... fantastic stuff, and that's only the liner notes and cover...


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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) harry Stoneham (et al)  LPs
Date: 14 Oct 1999 14:28:06 +0100


> From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
>
> Can I recommend, in a similar vein, 'Howard Beaumont plays the Hammond
> M100' which has one of the best versions of 'Ain't No Sunshine' I've
> heard. But still, anything above a pound is a bit excessive for most of
> this sort of hammond stuff.  I notice Intoxica still had Big Jim H's
> Hammond party at 10 quid. Am i missing something? This appears to just
> yer bog-standard 'hits' hammond (i.e. Tie a Yellow ribbon etc). Now Duke
> Grant's Hammond Disco (in the same series) was well worth the 10p i
> paid... fantastic stuff, and that's only the liner notes and cover...
>

One of those Big Jim H. albums has "Jungle Fever" on it, a torrid
Hammond exploration accompanied by female moans (caused, of course, by
the oppressive heat of the jungle). That's the one worth getting. In
fact, it's so good I would recommend you stretch all the way to 50p
for it.

I'd recommend T.W. Ardy's "Hammond In Gold" if you ever run across a
copy (side-spitting swinging cheese). And Howard Blake's "Hammond In
Percussion" (Studio Two), simply for the staggeringly brilliant
super-heavy version of the James Bond theme. And there's a Richard
"Groove" Holmes album in which he covers "American Pie" uptempo... I
think it's time to dig back down into that pile again.



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Subject: (exotica) [obits] David A. Huffman,J. Franklin Hyde,Jules Glazer
Date: 14 Oct 1999 09:38:16 -0400


The Associated Press
Thursday, Oct. 14, 1999; 12:14 a.m. EDT


                  David A. Huffman
                  SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) û David A. Huffman, who turned his college term paper into a computer coding procedure still in use four decades later, died of cancer Thursday. He was 74.

                  Huffman developed the Huffman Coding Procedure, a mathematical technique still vital to data storage and transmission. The procedure assigns strings of 0's and 1's to each character in a file.

                  The codes are used to manage files in large computer systems; compress text, image and audio files; and compress data for transmission by fax machines, modems and high-definition television broadcast.

                  Huffman created the system while a graduate student in the 1950s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

                  J. Franklin Hyde
                  CORNING, N.Y. (AP) û J. Franklin Hyde, an organic chemist whose glass-making method made the fiber-optics revolution possible, died Monday. He was 96.

                  Hyde's pioneering work with ultra-pure glass at Corning Glass Works in 1934 was used in radar during World War II. It didn't gain wide use until the 1960s when it led to durable spaceship windows, galaxy-gazing telescopes, precision lenses to build computer chips and signal-carrying optical fibers.

                  Optical fiber is now Corning Inc.'s biggest business.

                  "I'm surprised at some of the things it has gone into, but I'm not surprised at the versatility of such a beautiful and useful material," Hyde said in an interview with The Associated Press last November.

Jules Glazer
                  LOS ANGELES (AP) û Jules Glazer, an accountant who handled finances for entertainers such as Abbott and Costello and for leading Democratic political candidates over a 40-year career, died of cancer Oct. 7 in Palm Desert. He was 77.

                  Glazer handled tax returns and other finances in Hollywood for motion picture personalities, including comedy duo Bud Abbott and Lou Costello.

                  Glazer quickly segued to political accounting and developed a reputation for integrity.

                  A staunch Democrat, he eventually served as national treasurer for the presidential campaigns of Jimmy Carter and the Rev. Jesse Jackson. He also handled regional finances for John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy during their presidential campaigns.




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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Baroque-pop (was Classics)
Date: 14 Oct 1999 07:48:05 -0700 (PDT)





--- Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> "The Baroque Beatles Book" on Nonesuch. I can't remember the artists
> either... Joshua Rifkin?


Yes, Joshua Rifkin.  It should still be avaiable.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
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Subject: (exotica) Thee Swinging Eye
Date: 14 Oct 1999 13:14:18 EDT


Heeeellllo!
I am soliciting opinions on Si Zentner's THE SWINGING EYE.  His work is real
mixed to me, some swingin', some tepid.  Is this another great cover/so-so
music deal, or does the music relfect the cover?
Cool, thanks, Jane

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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic
Date: 14 Oct 1999 10:12:28 -0700 (PDT)


Great special!  I really enjoyed the historical perspective of it.

I agree with Nat's hypothesis that National Geograhic may have influenced  exotica.  I
also think Look and Life magazines where quite influential in creating a perception of
the coctail culture.  I wonder if Esquivell, Baxter, Denny or other exotica musicians
were ever featured in the magazines?

I wonder how many time Sinatra made it?

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck
Now playing: The Anita Kerr Singers "Reflect on the Hits of Burt Bacharach & Hal David

> >In a message dated 10/14/99 2:52:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> >[e-mail] writes:
> >
> ><< I'm watching "American Photography..." on PBS  >>  and <<as one of the
> >commentators said "You didn't see shots of Africans
> >getting up and going to the office".>>
---Jane Fondel wrote:
> Wow!  Are we not an educated bunch, eh?  I was also watching that...and they
> were talking about this photog who used to dress up American Indians in
> feathers, etc., if he didn't think they looked, er, *authentic* enough...and
> I thought it was just like fake exotica music, that analogy...
> You can tell we're like-minded!
> Jane Fondle

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 14 Oct 1999 14:27:23 EDT



In a message dated 10/13/99 10:21:11 PM, [e-mail] writes:

> I wondered if you (even) considered "Up with People" to be included in
>the
>> "soft pop" category.

I put it into that category for my own thoughts on it. Does it fit into that
category for all? I don't have the answer to that one

>And Glenn Close sings and plays guitar on at least one of them! Notice
>she
>never discusses that part of her career in interviews.

True, she is listed as Gleen Close on one of them, but there's no mistaking
her face in the pic of the happy singers



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From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Trilogy Question
Date: 14 Oct 1999 12:10:43 -0700


Michael Zadoorian wrote:
>     Where did you get this?  I'd be very interested.  Someone gave me a
> bootleg of one of them many years ago which sort of spurred my interest in
> exotica.  The quality is not that good, so I'd love to get a new one.
> Thanks,

http://manifoldrecords.com/  (I think...)

This is a store in Canada, so the prices are all in Canadian dollars. I
think the total, including shipping, was about $35 for both collections.

-Kevin Crossman


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From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) pioneer women
Date: 14 Oct 1999 13:34:14 PDT


that's anne dudley i seem to remember. she of the art of noise and suchlike,
quite a surprise to me she worked with jaz... she now does quite mainstream
soundtracks (the likes of the full monty). i seem to remember she was
judging the mercury music awards (and this years award for the whitest band
is....)
narky bob

>
>There was Anne someone from the Age of Chance,  who has done some
>soundtracks,  stuff with Jaz Coleman,  (and I believe the Spice Girls).
>Now,  thats a CV.
>Although I don't if she counts as a pioneer, as its 80s stuff.
>
>
>can anybody help me with the names of women electronic music pioneers.
>
>El Maestro Con Queso
>
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Subject: Re: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic and tabu
Date: 14 Oct 1999 13:44:30 PDT


>were talking about this photog who used to dress up American Indians in
>feathers, etc., if he didn't think they looked, er, *authentic*
>enough...and
>I thought it was just like fake exotica music, that analogy...
>You can tell we're like-minded!
>Jane Fondle
>
which reminds me. by sheer coincidence i happened to be looking at murnau's
tabu in the video shop last sunday before i read about it here considering
whether to get it or not and the copy i saw was credited to murnau/ robert
o'flaherty. he's famous for nanook of the north where they got an eskimo
family to live in half an igloo for the cameras. at least one died of
pneumonia. they still tell stories on the aran islands (in the delightfully
wordy dialect of english they speak when they have to) about all the mad
dangerous shite people did for his cameras that they never would do in real
life.

reminds me of that french(?) anthropologist living carefully with these
people in australia with unique art apparantly uninfluenced by any people
knew. by the time he left 3 months later they had ditched their old motifs
for the design from camel cigarettes....
sad rob

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Subject: Re: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic
Date: 14 Oct 1999 16:47:14 EDT


In a message dated 10/14/99 8:57:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< and they
 were talking about this photog who used to dress up American Indians in
 feathers, etc., if he didn't think they looked, er, *authentic* enough...and
 I thought it was just like fake exotica music, that analogy...
 You can tell we're like-minded! >>

and the lady telling the story made it sound like she was GLAD he dressed up
her ancestors.  which i thought was kind of funny.  she like that they were
fake.

then they showed another photographer that just photoed the injuns in
"regular" clothes.  like suits and dresses.  that actually looked more exotic
to me.  i mean think of jane fondle in a smartly cut business suit -- that
would be REAL  different and thus . . . . exotic.

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From: "Jane Fondle" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Spooks In Space
Date: 14 Oct 1999 16:49:57 EDT



Chuckaruck wrote(btw, Chuck, I'll write you back off-list from yesterday,
sorry, bizzzyyyy)..
>
>Now that Halloween is approaching it seems natural to play creepy scarry
>spooky scifi
>monster space music.
>
>Recently been listening to cheapo Halloween Monster/Ghost cd compilations,
>one is even
>shaped like a Haunted House (it plays fine)   Also have been playing:
>
>The Thing OST
>The Day The Earth Stood Still  OST
>
How about BARON BLOOD/BLACK SUNDAY and DUNWICH HORROR(the latter I don't
have...but!...) by our pal Les Baxter!
The MONSTROUS MOVIE MUSIC comps...with Mancini, Max Steiner, etc.
any of the DARK SHADOWS lps/cds
THE ADDAMS FAMILY ost
anything by ZARCHARLY
"Halloween Spooks", by Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
the entire RETRO COCKTAIL HOUR Halloween Special(DJJimmyBee, you gonna do
one? )
BOO!-Jane Fondle

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From: "Jane Fondle" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) nat'l exotica
Date: 14 Oct 1999 17:11:29 EDT


From Tiki Bob


> >then they showed another photographer that just photoed the injuns in
> >"regular" clothes.á like suits and dresses.


CAREFUL, there Tiki Bob..your RED NECK is showing!

>
>áá that actually looked more exotic
> >to me.á i mean think of jane fondle in a smartly cut business suit --
>that
> >would be REALá different and thus . . . . exotic.

> >tb

Not really!á You should see what I am wearing now...but I guess with the cut
of the jacket I look like Ray Davies in his DANDY era...
Jane Fondle, a Dedicated Follower of Fashion.

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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Politics and Up With People
Date: 14 Oct 1999 14:12:32 -0700 (PDT)





> In a message dated 10/13/99 10:21:11 PM, [e-mail] writes:
>
> > I wondered if you (even) considered "Up with People" to be included in
> >the "soft pop" category.

>DJJimmyBee wrote:
> I put it into that category for my own thoughts on it. Does it fit into that
> category for all? I don't have the answer to that one
>
All Music has the album "Up With People" in the genre of "easy"  and the style of "pop"
This album, the Anita Kerr Singers and the Ray Coniff Singers generally fit for me in
that "easy vocals" world.

I was stunned to hear DJJimmy put the Ray Coniff Singers on his soft pop show doing a
sunshine pop song in true sunshine pop fashion.  I think the song was Guantanamera and
they out sunshined the Sandpipers.

"Whats New Pussycat" by the Anita Kerr Singers could easily (excuse the pun) have been
sung by the Free Design in the same fashion.  That is not to say that Anita Kerr
Singers are as soft poppy and sunshiny as Free Design, just on this song.   Anita Kerr
Singers generally are less pop than this song and certainly less pop than Free Design.


Up With People were marketed as I remember as a far right band to rally around to stop
that evil rock music influence.  I seem to remember somebody like Nixon or Billy Graham
endorseng them.  Or was it Art Linkletter.  I guess it was kinda like Pat Boone all
over again.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

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Subject: (exotica) Femmine Insaziabilli
Date: 14 Oct 1999 14:36:01 -0700 (PDT)


This is one fantastic soundtrack!   Really one my favorites in a while and cetain to
appeal to fans of worldless vocals and cool sexy Italian soundtracks.   The melodies
are great and and the vocalist is wonderful.  Lots of cool breezy
instrumentals,(generally not hard and funky)  in that late 60's early 70's style help
make this a notch above a lot of what I've purchased recently.  Bruno Nicola out does
himself on this one.  And thanks to those wonderful people at Easy Tempo for this
release.   There are some real gems on this soundtrack.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Carmen Miranda Emergency!
Date: 14 Oct 1999 14:52:39 -0700


Can anyone point me to some online images of Carmen Miranda?

A pal of mine is working on a Man or Astroman poster, and needs some CM
images. His online search has been fruitless. (Pun not intended, but now
that I see it there... teeheee.)

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: you and your vinyl
Date: 14 Oct 1999 18:26:06 -0400


At 06:57 AM 10/14/99, Brad Bigelow wrote:
>
>God, it's wonderful what used to find its way onto vinyl.

I have been to known to be less than positive in my attitude towards all
this vinyl accumulating but a couple of lines from a couple of articles
recently gave me a warm feeling of recognition.

First there was an interview with Tom Waits where they asked him what new
music he was listening to lately and he said something to the effect of
"The great thing about records is that you can catch up with something from
30 years ago and it can be as new and exciting to you as something recorded
yesterday".  He then went on to list a couple of pop records from the
sixties that he had missed the first time around but that he was listening
to incessantly lately.

The second article was about Howie B. having a huge piece of his record
collection stolen.  Some seven thousand LP's.  Apparently his LP's were in
storage while he was between residences.  He lost all his reggae, all his
R&B and who knows what else?
He said he's been looking in the shops to see if any of it turned up but
none had so far.  I could somehow relate to the idea of going to used
record stores to see if any of "your" records had shown up.

But the line that got to me came when he said that he felt like the loss
had literally made him "a different person".  Without those records, he was
no longer the person he had been.
As long as he wasn't saying that he'd been a better person before the
records were stolen, I could relate.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) harry Stoneham (et al)  LPs
Date: 14 Oct 1999 18:39:26 -0400


At 01:57 PM 10/14/99 +0100, Michael Jemmeson wrote:
>
>Can I recommend, in a similar vein, 'Howard Beaumont plays the Hammond
>M100' which has one of the best versions of 'Ain't No Sunshine' I've
>heard. But still, anything above a pound is a bit excessive for most of
>this sort of hammond stuff.  I notice Intoxica still had Big Jim H's
>Hammond party at 10 quid. Am i missing something?

Well I don't know Harry Stoneham from Howard Beaumont (and how come you
didn't mention Howard Blake's "Hammond in Percussion" on Studio 2?) but in
principle I can see how one person's 10p LP can be someone else's 10 quid LP.

Like everything, it has to do with how seldom (or often) you see it and how
much you want it.
Someone picks up an LP for fifty cents and it turns out that it's pretty
good.  Especially for fifty cents.  He/she mentions it a couple of times.
Someone develops an interest in it but they never see it.  Then one day,
there it is for 10 dollars.  At that moment being told that "you can find
this for 50 cents" might not be helpful.  Or the fact that if you buy it
for 10 bucks today, you'll certainly find it for fifty cents tomorrow.

To me that's part of the story of this list.  All the names of records I've
never seen running around in some part of my brain.  One person's thrift
store find becoming another person's holy grail.

And one more thing... If the record's "only" got two good cuts, that's
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From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 14 Oct 1999 16:29:18 -0700 (PDT)


So, I have this sort of uber-image of this song in my
head, but I can't ever seem to find the right one.
It's not Vaughn Monroe or the Outlaws or Johnny Cash
or Peggy Lee.  The closest I've heard is Sons of the
Pioneers, with their very cowboy harmonies and some
semblance of horns.


Are there any other versions I may have heard, but
don't know about?

Are there any other versions I may not have heard, but
should know about?

Just wondering,
thanks,
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 14 Oct 1999 19:47:42 EDT


In a message dated 10/14/99 7:30:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< So, I have this sort of uber-image of this song in my
 head, but I can't ever seem to find the right one.
 It's not Vaughn Monroe or the Outlaws or Johnny Cash
 or Peggy Lee.  The closest I've heard is Sons of the
 Pioneers, with their very cowboy harmonies and some
 semblance of horns. >>

Frankie Laine had a big hit with the song, and I think his recording of it is
by far the best.  I think he was the one who first recorded it.  Anyhow, that
very well may be the one you want.  There are two slightly different versions
avaliable, but both recorded at the same session.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) hi gang
Date: 14 Oct 1999 21:20:58 EDT


hi gang -

just a brief note to let you know our computer is home safe and sound.
thanks to Larry for letting you know.

my apologies that this caused a break in communication.  The Miriam Burton /
Mel Henke disc is intact and I'll get back to all that wrote between now and
the end of the weekend.

PC JimmyB, no MAC.  And did I tell ya I had a dream that i met you?  My
second exotica related dream, I recall Dear Jane was in the first.  Family
rated, both of them.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 14 Oct 1999 21:42:08 -0400


>Are there any other versions I may have heard, but
>don't know about?
>
>Are there any other versions I may not have heard, but
>should know about?

The Ramrods (1964).


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Subject: Re: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic
Date: 14 Oct 1999 21:54:50 -0400


> I'd be willing to bet that you could connect National Geographic with the
> boom in (supposedly) exotic music.

Interesting question.  I wonder if the number of subscribers to National
Geographic rapidly rose during the years 1955-65 to correspond with the peak
years of exotica music, or whether a rise in one of the items (either the music
of NG subscription rate) set the path for the rise of the other.

which came first? the dodo or the egg of the dodo.  (and maybe the question is
reversed - what was the last to survive?  a lone dodo in search of eggs to
hatch, or a lone dodo egg waiting to be hatched?)

I'm thinking too much at the moment...
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 14 Oct 1999 22:01:01 -0400


>>Are there any other versions I may have heard, but
>>don't know about?
>>
>>Are there any other versions I may not have heard, but
>>should know about?
>
>The Ramrods (1964).

Whoops, duuuh, make that 1960.

I meant to do that.



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Politics and Up With People
Date: 14 Oct 1999 22:14:36 -0400


> Up With People were marketed as I remember as a far right band to rally around to stop
> that evil rock music influence.  I seem to remember somebody like Nixon or Billy Graham
> endorseng them.  Or was it Art Linkletter.  I guess it was kinda like Pat Boone all
> over again.

The first 'Up With People' had front cover endoresements from John Wayne, Pat Boone, and
Walt Disney.

I made the following comments in my zine 4 years ago......

"This album had to be marketed towards the parents.  Could you imagine any hip teenager
buying this record because of a recommendation from these three?  It would be like today's
listeners of Pearl Jam and the Red Hot Chili Peppers being persuaded to buy a CD today by
putting a recommendation from Pat Robertson on the cover.

Pat Boone's quote includes
"I'm so proud to have performed with young Americans who simply won't stand still until
they build a new tomorrow for the world.  And what talent!"

The Walt Disney quote includes
"the happiest most hard-hitting way of saying what America's all about"

I think they have gotten the quotes mixed around.  Waly Disney talking about 'hard
hitting?'   That sounds more like something from John Wayne's mouth.  And should it be
Disney, not Pat Boone, talking about 'building a new tomorrow' after all, he did design and
build Tomorrow-land."

that's all for now,
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From: "Phil Clark" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Cheesy Hammond
Date: 14 Oct 1999 16:17:49 +0100


Intoxica in Portobello Rd?  I can believe that! No you're not missing
anything - see my previous note on the list about the fantasy price league.

I have a pile  of about 40 of these "Joe Schmoe And His Sound Play Hammond
Hits of KISS", "The Greatest Ice-Cream Van Album In The World" cheapo albums
by various artistes in my attic which I've never actually gotten around to
playing - they were given to me yonks ago by an acquaintance. Should I
dig'em out and offer them up for sale I wonder.

groovily
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> Can I recommend, in a similar vein, 'Howard Beaumont plays the Hammond
> M100' which has one of the best versions of 'Ain't No Sunshine' I've
> heard. But still, anything above a pound is a bit excessive for most of
> this sort of hammond stuff.  I notice Intoxica still had Big Jim H's
> Hammond party at 10 quid. Am i missing something? This appears to just
> yer bog-standard 'hits' hammond (i.e. Tie a Yellow ribbon etc). Now Duke
> Grant's Hammond Disco (in the same series) was well worth the 10p i
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From: George Hall <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #519
Date: 14 Oct 1999 18:19:32 -0700 (PDT)


 [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer) wrote:

> Brain fog won't stop me here. Wasn't one of the creators of the
> "electronic stylings" music used on the Forbidden Planet soundtrack a
> female?... OK, IMDB says Bebe Barron and Louis Barron. Was there ever an
> OST made of this music? It's the only film music credit the IMBD lists
> for Bebe Barron.

  Yes & in print on GNP/Crescendo I think. Also an excellent interview in
the first volume of RE/Search's "Incredibly Strange Music"

  also, female pioneers (possibly); Anne Dudley from Art of Noise

> Which leads me to another movie recommend: Beat Girl, aka Wild for Kicks --
> John Barry's first soundtrack, with songs by the John Barry Seven. The
> combo might even perform in the movie but the credits are too terse to say
> for sure.

  they're in it, sort of...mostly close-ups of the bassist's fingers as I
recall; these guys were probably a little old &/or square looking for the
teensploitation market, so no full shots of the musicians.

 A wild teenage girl, mad for music and adrift in London's 1960
> caves and coffee houses...and flirting with a career as a stripper. Fab,
> fab for the music, the melodramatic plot, the Bardot-like aura of the star
> Gillian Hill. Plus there's one eyepopping exotica-modern sex bomb dance
> number that will leave you panting. Racy for its time. Distributed by Kino
> International, so should be available in shops with good cult movie
> stashes.

  have to agree - great opening credits, fine wooden acting (maybe they're
just english), excellent period slang & pleasing strip scenes involving
removal of extremely silly clothing. I think it was re-released at the
same time & by the same people as the excellent "Expresso Bongo," which
stars Cliff Richard & features the Shadows.
  Speaking of which -has anyone ever seen the "Thunderbirds" episode where
the Shadows perform (as marionettes)? Is is available somewhere?
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Subject: (exotica) Scott Walker on new 007 soundtrack
Date: 15 Oct 1999 01:16:21 +0000


I know there are some Scott Walker fans on this list. You
might be interested in this story -
http://www.ianfleming.org/007news/articles/twine-tracks.s
html

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Politics and Up With People
Date: 14 Oct 1999 23:12:04 -0400


At 02:12 PM 10/14/99 -0700, chuck wrote:

>I was stunned to hear DJJimmy put the Ray Coniff Singers on his soft pop
show doing a
>sunshine pop song in true sunshine pop fashion.  I think the song was
Guantanamera and
>they out sunshined the Sandpipers.
>"Whats New Pussycat" by the Anita Kerr Singers could easily (excuse the
pun) have been
>sung by the Free Design in the same fashion.
>Up With People were marketed as I remember as a far right band to rally
around to stop
>that evil rock music influence.

There's no doubt that there are pleasant surprises on many "choir" records.
 You can put a Ray Conniff Singers or Up with People cut on a "soft pop"
tape and it can work.  (As JimmyB's tape proved to me.)
And I don't really want to bring politics into my musical appreciation but...
Even if the results are similar, I do think you can discern a difference in
the music when there's a difference in the approach or in the intention.
Up with People and to some degree Ray Conniff, were about "softening" rock
music for their audience.  It was almost a repudiation of rock.
Now this isn't to say that my other "soft pop" heroes were "pure".  In some
cases, they too were attempting to imitate a certain sound.  And sometimes
with hilarious results.
This is a complicated argument to try and have, especially on this list
where much of the music discussed was about trying to cash in on trends.
So I'm not going to try and make the argument.
But there's a difference between the Sandpipers or the Lettermen or even
the New Christy Minstrels and Up with People or the Young Americans or the
Gold Diggers or any other "Christian choirs singing about the joys of Pepsi
and capitalism".

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Beat Girl/Thunderbirds & Shadows
Date: 14 Oct 1999 23:18:40 -0400


>> Which leads me to another movie recommend: Beat Girl, aka Wild for Kicks --
>>
>> Gillian Hill. Plus there's one eyepopping exotica-modern sex bomb dance
>> number that will leave you panting.
>
>just english), excellent period slang & pleasing strip scenes involving
>removal of extremely silly clothing.

Some prints (mine, for example) seem to have this spicy stuff missing.
Caveat Emptor.

>Speaking of which -has anyone ever seen the "Thunderbirds" episode where
>the Shadows perform (as marionettes)? Is is available somewhere?

They're in the 1966 feature film, "Thunderbirds Are Go". They appear in a
wacky musical sequence in a dream of one of the characters. Now there's an
odd gig: doing a song in a dream in a puppet's head.

I dunno, maybe having constructed the Cliff & The Shadows puppets they also
used them in a regular TV episode at some point.

Turner shows the movie on one or another channel now and then.

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From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic
Date: 14 Oct 1999 21:32:12 -0700


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of [e-mail]
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 6:55 PM

> Interesting question.  I wonder if the number of subscribers to National
> Geographic rapidly rose during the years 1955-65 to correspond
> with the peak
> years of exotica music

Kind of. 2M subscribers in 1957, 5.6M in 1967, 7.2M in 1971. The way
Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins (in _Reading National Geographic_, The U. of
Chicago Press, 1993) put it, "_National Geographic_ helped white, upwardly
mobile Americans to locate themselves in a changing world, to come to terms
with their whiteness and relative privilege, and to deal with anxieties
about their class position, both national and international" (38). I believe
that article in "The Wire" a few months back also argued the same thing
about exotica in general -- that exotica, at a time when evil Commies were
lurking in every corner, was a way for suburbanites of domesticating the
other.

Later,
Ben

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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic
Date: 15 Oct 1999 13:27:35 +0200


Most important however was what Sven Kirsten called the "National
Geographic Eroticism", the fact that in an established magazine like the
National Geographic  it was possible to print photos of full nudity if
it was about far away places. Till today for many Exotica = Erotica. The
semi-documentary way, the photos of these "noble savages" were
presented, made it hard for morality enforcing censorship to ban them.
So for the Tiki/Luau/cocktail/Hawaiian holydays-worshipping American
middleclass majority the stealthy, nonetheless curious look into the
Exotic pages of National Geographic was their way of a half-way sexual
revolution, at least an approach to their own hedonistic desires. When
sexual revolution really happened some years later with the next
generation in the psychedelic context however, Exotica/Tiki was suddenly
seen as an embarrassment and - as big as it once was - disappeared with
breathtaking speed.

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Subject: (exotica) pioneer women
Date: 15 Oct 1999 13:38:57 +0100


narky bob said:

that's Anne dudley I seem to remember. she of the art of noise and suchlike,

quite a surprise to me she worked with jaz... she now does quite mainstream
soundtracks (the likes of the full monty). i seem to remember she was
judging the mercury music awards (and this years award for the whitest band
is....)
narky bob

The Anne Dudley / Jaz Coleman (Killing Joke frontman) thing I have is a 12,
synthy 'arabic' mid 80's thing.  The arabic connection having something to
do with Jaz being Lebanese I think.  My as usual dodgy memory throws up the
possibility of an LP,  its one of those collaborations thats more
interesting as a mental exercise than in real life.  But I will dig it out
at the weekend and play it.

Sorry about the ethno-geographic looseness.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics
Date: 15 Oct 1999 08:36:41 -0400



> >And Glenn Close sings and plays guitar on at least one of them! Notice
> >she
> >never discusses that part of her career in interviews.
>
>True, she is listed as Gleen Close on one of them, but there's no mistaking
>her face in the pic of the happy singers

Here is another fact to be "gleened":  There was an episode of the sitcom
"Cheers" that featured a children's singer named Nanny Gee (one of those
O.G. singers.  Word :^).  Emma Thompson ended up with the role, but the
person who was first considered was the person who was dating Close at the
time, one of the show's stars, Woody Harrelson.  A return to her pop roots,
perhaps?

For those who have not heard the "Up With People" record and for those who
didn't hear and see her on the Tracey Ullman Show, she has a very good
(seemingly trained) singing voice.

You'll be free also-o-o,
Brian Phillips


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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Baroque-pop (was Classics)
Date: 15 Oct 1999 13:20:21 +0100


chuck wrote:
>
> --- Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > "The Baroque Beatles Book" on Nonesuch. I can't remember the artists
> > either... Joshua Rifkin?

I've rejoined the list half-way through this thread, but if it hasn't
been mentioned before then there's a sheet music book called 'The
Well-Tempered Lennon and McCartney' which is Beatles numbers in a
harpsichord/clavier style. And I think even my uncoordinated fingers
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Cheesy Hammond
Date: 15 Oct 1999 14:17:11 +0100


>From Cheesy Hammond to a few Cheesy Hammond Sleeve Notes: (I've always
enjoyed people posting sleeve notes but it seems to be less frequent at
the moment than a while back)

(Warning - i have a bad sense of humour - these may not be funny to
you...)
______________________________________________________________________

The Four Instants - Discotheque (Saga/Society, 1966)
[Not strictly hammond but...]

"Ever held a party and suddenly found that all the gramaphone records
have been lost, burnt, stolen or just plain worn out?  And the booze
running a bit low, too? One by one people start muttering polite
nothings and staggering off to the door.  You are about to be left with
around two hundredweight of fishpaste sandwiches and four large bowlfuls
of crisps.

What to do?

Well, first of all detain the guests by some delicate strategem or
other, like locking all the doors and windows or tying them into their
chairs, then nip out to your nearest all-nite diskerie [I want one of
those near me!!] and buy a copy of 'Discotheque'.

Why? you may ask.

'Discotheque', folks, contains miracle ingredient N.I.B.  For years,
hundreds of serious men in spectacles and white coats have been toiling
with guitars, electronic organs and drum kits at the task of isolating
and presenting to the waiting world this elusive formula.  Then
suddenly, one day in the laboratory a piercing howl was heard followed
by a rhythmic thudding and the wail of tortured guitar amplifiers.
Hurriedly recording machines were wheeled forward and the long battle to
capture N.I.B. on tape began.  Hours later, having been fortified by
nothing more than extract of malt and stale cigar smoke, the weary white
coated men came forth, their work done, N.I.B., or New Instant Beat, was
on tape!  there remained the simple tasks of devising a new
disc-pressing material able to withstand large quantities of N.I.B.,
commissioning Van Gogh to knock out a sleeve design (unfortunately he
was out of town and we couldn't get hold of his agent) [cover is
standard dancing girl type photo] and selling enough copies of the
record to pay off those blasted men in spectacles and white coats who
thought of the thing in the first place.

So, if you ever find yourself about to be left alone at a pary with two
hundredweight of fishpaste sandwiches and four bowlfuls of crisps or
you're looking around for a sure-fire way of enlivening any gathering -
then try 'Discotheque' - the only disc with New Instant Beat guaranteed
to last the whole party through [eh? what, 35 minutes?]

Oh, and by the way, if you do happen to know of anyone who wants hundres
of serious men in spectacles and white coats..."

[The record is fantastic in parts. The line-up says
Cattini/Winters/O'Neal/Keen so i guess that's Clem Cattini. Caravan,
Night Train, Curtis Mayfield's 'Monkey Time', and a self-penned one
called 'Discotheque' are great, but it's Watermelon Man that really
sounds like it should be on a late sixties Blue Note album. Outstanding.
One of the tracks 'Bogattini' (complete with oh-so-amusing toilet
flushing noises, naturally) is on Las Vegas Grind i think.]
______________________________________________________________________

Duke Grant - Disco Hammond - (Stereo Gold Award)

"The Incomparable hammond Orgam of Duke Grant at your Disco Dance Party"
"Dance Party! Hammond Disco - The POUNDING PEDALS and FLYING FINGERS of
DUKE GRANT and his band.  When Duke Grant goes a-disco, it's all rhythm
and Hammond heat! Hits that have set the world dancing again. ... Disco
Hammond at it's best!"

[Not great notes, but it's the idea of 'Disco Hammond' as a musical
style that intrigues me. Surprisingly listenable, too, or perhaps I have
a high pain threshold.  The cover is great - an out-of-focus photo of
people looking like rejects from a Russ Meyer film (there's a blond
Charles Napier-type in khaki) and a background of either clingfilm or
shrink wrapping plastic]
____________________________________________________________________

John Patton - Accent on the Blues (Blue Note 53924)

[Formerly 'Big' John patton, i think this is a fantastic album, and
great sleeve notes:]

The blues is personal.

It's a wail of trouble, a well of loneliness, a wealth of emotional
outlet.  It is a thread of hope and a curtain-going-up. City life.
COuntry lanes. Sunshine. Rain.  It is a statement of fact beat out of
yesterday's times, flailing into tomorrow's promise.

The blues is fire and water and ashes - and layers of love. It is
restless. Relaxed. Aroused. No stranger to suffering. No sinkhole. As
full of tragedy and dull despair as it is, it has an undertone of spirit
and aspiration. Golden dreams. Good omens.

The blues is music. Inspired players get its message through. And
listeners personalize it.

[The best bit:]
John Patton puts 'Accent On The Blues.' His organ is plugged into tales
of today and tempos of the time, experiments to demonstrate the power of
music over matter, lyrical impressions. Lilt. He and his group
graphically express their feelings. Scrupulously. Soaringly. They swing.
They romp. They play with purpose and poise. Moving. Moving. Moving.

[It goes on for another four paragraphs...]

[I think reading liner notes like that gives me a reminder of the reason
for collecting records, but i don't know why... Apologies for taking up
so much of your time and space...]



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Subject: (exotica) [obits]Richard B. Shull,Sam Cohen
Date: 15 Oct 1999 09:49:02 -0400


Richard B. Shull

                  NEW YORK (AP) û Richard B. Shull, veteran character actor who was appearing in the Broadway comedy "Epic Proportions," died Thursday of a heart attack. He was 70.

                  Shull, whose craggy, hangdog face and impeccable comic timing, made him a favorite of theater directors, portrayed D.W. Dewitt in the play, which spoofs the making of an extravagant biblical movie in 1930s. He played both performances Wednesday, said Pete Sanders, a spokesman for the show.

                  Among Shull's Broadway musical credits were "Victor/Victoria," "Minnie's Boys," "Oh, Brother!", "Ain't Broadway Grand" and "Goodtime Charlie," for which he received a Tony nomination.

                  Shull also appeared in such notable off-Broadway productions as Christopher Durang's "The Marriage of Bette and Boo" and the Roundabout Theater Company's "A Flea in Her Ear," starring Bill Irwin.

                  His films included "Private Parts," "Housesitter" and "Splash." He had continuing roles on Diana Rigg's television series "Diana" and on "Holmes & Yo-Yo."

The Associated Press
                  Friday, Oct. 15, 1999; 5:21 a.m. EDT
                  NEW YORK ûû Sam Cohen, known to New Yorkers as a master lox slicer who held the No. 1 slot at the gourmet grocery Zabar's, died Oct. 9 of lymphoma.

                  Believed to be 86, Cohen's true age was unknown because he was orphaned as a young child. He also survived conditions while consigned to a concentration camp under Adolf Hitler's regime.

                  His penchant for flirting and friendship, the ability to speak Russian, Polish, Hebrew, Spanish and English, and a willingness to explain the basics as well as the finer points of enjoying lox û all made Cohen a personality favorite in the Upper West Side neighborhood where he worked.

                  Cohen was born in Poland, and worked as a book dealer, the secretary of a small bank and a dealer in animal feed before World War II. He came to U.S. shores in 1952, tried out television repair and then settled into Zabar's, where he weighed salmon, sturgeon, gefilte fish, and pickled lox with a smile.



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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 15 Oct 1999 10:19:54 -0400


Oooo, Oooo, Oooo - there's one version of this song that's soooo wacked =
out - it's a lot of fun......Ummmmmm, c'mon braincells........it's on a =
Command album........somebody help me out......the album has theremin and =
other "exotic" instruments on it, it's called something like "Fantastic =
Sounds" or something.

Really fun.

Help?

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Subject: (exotica) I just found out...
Date: 15 Oct 1999 09:19:30 -0700 (PDT)



...that today is the birthday of Brian Phillips!
A tiki mug full-o-grog raised in your honour, sir!
Jane Fondle, admirer


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Subject: Re: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic
Date: 15 Oct 1999 09:36:46 +0000


At 09:54 PM 14-10-99 -0400, Vern wrote:
> I wonder if the number of subscribers to National
>Geographic rapidly rose during the years 1955-65 to correspond with the peak
>years of exotica music, or whether a rise in one of the items (either the
music
>of NG subscription rate) set the path for the rise of the other.

I have a slightly different theory...the music and the magazine both
originate from what happened after World War II.  Men and even women who
probably wouldn't have ever travelled out of their own time zone had
returned from exotic adventures (and risked their lives) to entirely
different parts of the world.  When they got back, they wanted the good
life back home, but also wanted a taste of what they experienced
overseas...hence the interest in magazines which dealt with the more exotic
and the music which wasn't quite the norm.

...and no more C rations!

Byron

Byron Caloz
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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Exotic Trilogy Question
Date: 15 Oct 1999 15:16:34 +0200


Kevin C. wrote:
>
>Did vol 3 (or 4...) ever make it out?

    3: yes, 4 not yet i think.
    quality is indeed not always perfect, but the music is great!

        Johan


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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic and tabu
Date: 15 Oct 1999 19:20:52 +0200


Robert McKenna wrote:

> reminds me of that french(?) anthropologist living carefully with these
> people in australia with unique art apparantly uninfluenced by any people
> knew. by the time he left 3 months later they had ditched their old motifs
> for the design from camel cigarettes....

They were into "Exotica", too  ...   :)

Mo



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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) obit: Lord Uli
Date: 15 Oct 1999 19:34:44 +0200


Last weekend Lord Uli of The Lords died on stage. After a collaps he hit
his head, fell into a coma and never awoke again.

Uli was the charismatic singer of The Lords, one of two German beat
bands, that got nationwide interest in the 60s. Their greatest hit was
"Over in the Gloryland".

I saw him 4 years ago performing in a disco in Essen, grey hair, but
otherwise in good shape.

Mo

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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Exotic Trilogy at solielmoon.com
Date: 15 Oct 1999 12:32:08 -0700 (PDT)


Also, I forgot to add the prices are $16 something

http://www.soleilmoon.com

!-800-678-6886

In Portland Oregon, Soleilmoon carries  Vols 1 (6 copies left) and Vols 2 (14?)
copies left.

Now does anyone know where to get Vol 3 of the exotoc Trilogy?  Johan??

Easy listening in the Big Easy
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Exotic Trilogy Question
Date: 15 Oct 1999 15:40:05 EDT


In a message dated 10/15/99 1:22:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< 3: yes, 4 not yet i think.
    quality is indeed not always perfect, but the music is great! >>

when did 3 come out????  is it available in the states???

tb


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Exotic Trilogy at solielmoon.com
Date: 15 Oct 1999 15:42:17 EDT


In a message dated 10/15/99 3:34:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< In Portland Oregon, Soleilmoon carries  Vols 1 (6 copies left) and Vols 2
(14?)
 copies left.

 Now does anyone know where to get Vol 3 of the exotoc Trilogy?  Johan??
   >>

if they really have copies of vol. 1 and anyone wants one i would move fast.
i thought the vol. 1 was long gone.

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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 15 Oct 1999 15:05:10 -0500


>>>Are there any other versions I may have heard, but
>>>don't know about?
>>>
>>>Are there any other versions I may not have heard, but
>>>should know about?

Tom Paxton wrote a parody of it called "Yuppies in the Sky." Heard it once,
gad, 7, 8 years ago -- I remember something about people dressed in cotton
sweaters.




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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) I've been found out...
Date: 15 Oct 1999 15:58:51 -0400


 >...that today is the birthday of Brian Phillips!
 >A tiki mug full-o-grog raised in your honour, sir!
 >Jane Fondle, admirer

Thank you, everyone, kindly re-adjust your fezzes.  My birthday is
to-morrow, but since I don't read e-mail on the weekends, I am, quite
honestly, touched to receive a public acknowledgement (and a couple of
private ones!) of it to-day.  Thanks very much.  Thanks to everyone that
has entertained and imparted information on this list, which is present
enough, but this is one of the nicest birthdays, since this little nod came
mostly from people I have not even met!

My tiki mug contains Root Beer but the sentiment is no less heartfelt.

If I do make any interesting birthday finds, I will let all of you know.

My age = Astro-Sounds beyond the Year 2000's artist(s) minus Count Basie's
Whirly-bird '65

Swinging like 60,
Brian Phillips


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Subject: Re:  (exotica) Politics and Up With People
Date: 15 Oct 1999 16:03:15 EDT



In a message dated 10/14/99 8:55:02 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>I was stunned to hear DJJimmy put the Ray Coniff Singers on his soft pop
show doing
>a
>sunshine pop song in true sunshine pop fashion.  I think the song was
Guantanamera
>and
>they out sunshined the Sandpipers.

Actually I think it was a Conniff-ized version of "Angel Of The Morning", a
soft pop "standard", but it seems to fit...Jimmy


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Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Politics and Up With People
Date: 15 Oct 1999 16:06:22 EDT



In a message dated 10/14/99 11:09:46 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>But there's a difference between the Sandpipers or the Lettermen or even
>the New Christy Minstrels and Up with People or the Young Americans or the
>Gold Diggers or any other "Christian choirs singing about the joys of Pepsi
>and capitalism".

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Subject: Re:  (exotica) hi gang
Date: 15 Oct 1999 16:10:05 EDT



In a message dated 10/14/99 11:50:48 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>PC JimmyB, no MAC.

Your accident caused me to have a guy come over last night and force my
computer to throw up all it had stored in unhealthy places. He also gave me a
disc to "compartmentalize" fragmented bits of info..AND enabled me to become
a lotttt faster

 And did I tell ya I had a dream that i met you?  My
second exotica related dream, I recall Dear Jane was in the first.

I'll bet the first dream was a lot more fun!

Welcome back Basic Hip..JB


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From: "Jane Fondle" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) hi gang
Date: 15 Oct 1999 16:45:58 EDT






>From: [e-mail]
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: (exotica) hi gang
>Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 21:20:58 EDT
>
>
>
>PC JimmyB, no MAC.  And did I tell ya I had a dream that i met you?  My
>second exotica related dream, I recall Dear Jane was in the first.  Family
>rated, both of them.
>
>  ;>)
>

Trust me, DJJimmy, it wasn't a fun dream for him...I was roughly handling
THE SWEET RIDE-Pete Rugolo...I can't believe he still writes me after that!
Jane Fondle...hide yer sons and records...

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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) DJ radio broadcasts from the 1960's on real audio
Date: 15 Oct 1999 14:01:10 -0700 (PDT)


http://www.realradio.com

It seems that WLS hired the Anita Kerr singers to do all of their radio jingles in the
Sunshine Pop days of the  late 1960's

I found it somewhere on here checking out Art Roberts a DJ or WLS radio in 1967-69

Its one of my favorite things I've ever heard on real audio.  Radio broadcasts exactly
as they were back in the 60's

Hope you enjoy it

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Subject: (exotica) Anita Kerr Radio Jingles in the 60's
Date: 15 Oct 1999 14:20:39 -0700 (PDT)


http://www.realradio.com/rook/index.html#wlsjings1

Heres the link for the Anita Kerr Singer's jingles on WLS Radio in Chicago in the late
60's.
I find it curious that an easy listening group, Anita Kerr, was chosen to do jingles on
a rock and roll staion.  I guess chalk it up to the ever present exotica influence in
European/American culture.

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Politics and Up With People
Date: 15 Oct 1999 17:56:12 -0400


At 04:06 PM 10/15/99 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>But there's a difference between the Sandpipers or the Lettermen or even
>>the New Christy Minstrels and Up with People or the Young Americans or the
>>Gold Diggers or any other "Christian choirs singing about the joys of Pepsi
>>and capitalism".
>
>But they sure sound an awful lot alike an awful lot of the time

I think you'd have to admit that this p.o.v. is specific to someone who
makes a lot of tapes or like you, has a radio show.
I'm not convinced that you could do a soft pop tape and just sneak in a cut
by "Up with People" without anyone noticing some kind of shift.
And even if the odd cut would "fit" on a tape or in a show, that's not the
same as saying they qualify for the genre.
To be honest, I think that my accumulating habit is based more upon my
habit of making compilation tapes than anything else.  The most important
question for a record is "Is there a cut that will fit on a cool tape?"
Listening to a record all the way through is virtually a non-consideration
at this point.
So I can understand your pov all too well.
Having said that, if someone asked me for some "soft pop" recommendations,
I wouldn't recommend the Ray Conniff Singers (or Percy Faith or Billy
Vaughn or the Living Voices) in the same sentence as The Love Generation or
Elephant Candy or the brilliant Association or almost equally brilliant
Cowsills.
Unless I was convinced they were as sick as me anyway.

Which leads us to the "Up with People" theme song:

Up up with People
You meet em wherever you go
Up up with people
They're the best kind of folks we know
If more people were for people
All people everywhere
There'd be a lot less people to worry about
And a lot more people to care

I have a lyric sheet from "Up with People III" so next time maybe I'll
include some lyrics from "Gee I'm looking forward to the future".




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Subject: Re: (exotica) Cheesy Hammond
Date: 15 Oct 1999 18:11:54 -0400


At 02:17 PM 10/15/99 +0100, Michael Jemmeson wrote:
>
>John Patton - Accent on the Blues (Blue Note 53924)
>
>[Formerly 'Big' John patton, i think this is a fantastic album, and
>great sleeve notes:]

I'm not sure too many people made it this far in this post so I'm just
highlighting this entry.  It's so rare someone here mentions big John.
This of course does not belong on a list of "Cheesy Hammond" stuff unless
you think all Hammond stuff is cheesy (which I sort of do...)
I have to admit I first came to John Patton through John Zorn who used him
on his fantastic Morricone tribute, specifically in that excellent
exotic/erotic cut "Erotico".
I'd trace my interest in "exotica" to that specific cut as much as anything
else.
As you may know, a LOT of John Patton stuff was reissued in Blue Note's
"rare groove" series and while he is my favorite jazz organ player, I can't
recommend all of it.
I'm not sure my favorite of his "That Certain Feeling" was even reissued.
Among the definitely reissued, I can recommend "Let em Roll".
One thing that sets Big John apart from all the other jazz organists of the
time is that he wrote a lot of what he performs.
Even if you love jazz organ like I do, the sameness of the tunes covered
can get tiresome.
Big John also made at least one new CD with Zorn.
If you remember my pal "Herb", he did the liner notes on one of them.



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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Politics and Up With People
Date: 15 Oct 1999 15:11:44 -0700 (PDT)


Nat

There is something very sick about the lyrics to up up with people that still turns the
stomach of this rock and roll fan from the 60s turned exoticat open viewed in the 90's.
 I don't think you are as old as I am but this was a red flag that was hung up in front
of rock and roll bulls in the 60's and it seemed especially revolting for rock and roll
fans, more so than any other group, Ray Coniff, Andy Williams etc.  (Whom I like now)

Up Wit People   = YUK!!

Now, I wonder if I hear it now if I'll like it???

But I mean it still gives me chills to hear those words reprinted.

I haven't heard this though since the 60's

Thanks for your input about this whole subject

Chuck

--- Nat Kone <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Unless I was convinced they were as sick as me anyway.
>
> Which leads us to the "Up with People" theme song:
>
> Up up with People
> You meet em wherever you go
> Up up with people
> They're the best kind of folks we know
> If more people were for people
> All people everywhere
> There'd be a lot less people to worry about
> And a lot more people to care
>
> I have a lyric sheet from "Up with People III" so next time maybe I'll
> include some lyrics from "Gee I'm looking forward to the future".

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) National Geographic and the exotic and tabu
Date: 15 Oct 1999 18:20:33 -0400



>Robert McKenna wrote:
>
>> reminds me of that french(?) anthropologist living carefully with these
>> people in australia with unique art apparantly uninfluenced by any people
>> knew. by the time he left 3 months later they had ditched their old motifs
>> for the design from camel cigarettes....

I'm going to recommend a film that you probably will have trouble finding,
especially since I don't remember the title.
It was about a family of aboriginals in Australia, the patriarch of which,
was a famous "primitive-style" artist.  (An Aussie "Norval Morrisseau" for
the Canucks.)
Anyway, the father was now dead but his family carried on in his tradition,
creating and selling "original" paintings for the tourists who continued to
visit the shrine of his birthplace.
They maintained the shack he originally lived in and pumped out copies of
his paintings using paint-by-number grids.
But they didn't exactly live in that shack.
It was an illusion.
Maybe Keith can find it for us when he moves down under.  It's not as good
as the movie about the cane toads but it's close.



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From: Jim Gerwitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) What's Opera, Doc? - Oh, Skip it.
Date: 15 Oct 1999 15:24:20 -0700


<re Gleen Close, Brian said "she has a very good (seemingly trained)
singing voice...">

I haven't seen the film, but Glenn starred as an opera singer in
"Meeting Venus" a while back, singing a lot of Wagner's very beautiful
opera "Tannhauser". The Tannhauser overture is on Skip Martin's
"Scheherejazz" LP (guessing at the spelling).  I dig how Skip slips from
classical to swingin jazz and back, and also does a fine job on the LP's
Rimsky-Korsakoff piece, definitely a classical exotica classic.
 Wondering if Glenn ever sang that other Wagner ditty that Elmer Fudd
blustered in "What's Opera, Doc?" You know, "Kill the wabbit, kill the
wabbit..."

JB LeNoir
(speaking of potboilers, I'm off to Lana Turner night on TCM...as if Ava
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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 15 Oct 1999 17:57:47 -0500


At 10:19 AM 10/15/99, Nathan Miner wrote:
>Oooo, Oooo, Oooo - there's one version of this song that's soooo wacked
>out - it's a lot of fun......Ummmmmm, c'mon braincells........it's on a
>Command album........somebody help me out......the album has theremin and
>other "exotic" instruments on it, it's called something like "Fantastic
>Sounds" or something.

Strange Interlude. Lew Davies and Orchestra. No theremin that I recognized,
but some nice hammer dulcimer. And the clop clop of ghostly hooves made by
what sounds like someone tapping a balloon with a drum stick. Oh, those
Command fellas! Endlessly inventive.
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From: "Tim Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dates of spacey albums
Date: 15 Oct 1999 18:50:40 -0400


Does anybody know when these albums came out?

Thanks!

Tim

Strings for a Space Age, Bobby Christian
Music in Orbit, Ron Goodwin
Exploring the Unknown, Walter Schumann
Electrosonic Music, The Electrosoniks
Music from Out of Space, Harry Revel
Soundproof, Ferrante and Teicher
Countdown!, Jimmy Haskell and his Orchestra
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From: "Elisabeth Vincentelli" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What's Opera, Doc? - Oh, Skip it.
Date: 15 Oct 1999 20:24:35 -0500


And let's not forget Glenn Close's musical theater career: most recently
Sunset Boulevard, but also Barnum! I actually saw her in Sunset Boulevard,
and though it wasn't much musically, she more than held her own.

Elisabeth
> <re Gleen Close, Brian said "she has a very good (seemingly trained)
> singing voice...">
>
> I haven't seen the film, but Glenn starred as an opera singer in
> "Meeting Venus" a while back, singing a lot of Wagner's very beautiful
> opera "Tannhauser". The Tannhauser overture is on Skip Martin's
> "Scheherejazz" LP (guessing at the spelling).  I dig how Skip slips from
> classical to swingin jazz and back, and also does a fine job on the LP's
> Rimsky-Korsakoff piece, definitely a classical exotica classic.
>  Wondering if Glenn ever sang that other Wagner ditty that Elmer Fudd
> blustered in "What's Opera, Doc?" You know, "Kill the wabbit, kill the
> wabbit..."


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From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Up With People redux
Date: 15 Oct 1999 20:54:29 -0400


Up with People also produced local concerts with songs written for the
locale... one great one is called (of course i can't find the disc, it's
in one of my four new storage rooms) something like 'up with people
Nutley' (new jersey) with songs written about the local area, including
new york.  very bad, very boss.

i am embarking on a (semi) commercial project of (semi) private
compilations. More info as i figure it out...

i am now back in circulation and back to work (radio and record
production) after 10 weeks of moving my studio. Later -

ck


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Albums Found At Estate Sale
Date: 15 Oct 1999 21:55:47 EDT


I found some albums at an Estate Sale today and two of them I've not heard of
and would like some feedback on them before I play them. Thanks.

Carioca by Russ Garcia and Call of the Midnight Sun by Arthur Lyman.

Any comments would be appreciated.
Gloria


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) RCA Space Age pop Vol 3
Date: 15 Oct 1999 22:43:34 EDT


found some of these on the shelves of my local Tower outlet store

I know its been out of print for a while so maybe some of you would want a
copy

it is a cutout and has a gauge in the top edge
it is dicount priced at $8.99 + tx
Shipping would be another couple bucks

they also had a few copies of Vince Guaraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas
original soundtrack from the TV show

I don't think this is the original pressing but it in on vinyl from Fantasy,
sealed for $3.99 + tx


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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dates of spacey albums
Date: 16 Oct 1999 00:35:23 -0400


At 6:50 PM -0400 10/15/99, Tim Taylor wrote:
>Does anybody know when these albums came out?

>Strings for a Space Age, Bobby Christian - 1962
>Music in Orbit, Ron Goodwin -1957
>Exploring the Unknown, Walter Schumann - 1955
>Electrosonic Music, The Electrosoniks - 1998
>Music from Out of Space, Harry Revel - 1953
>Soundproof, Ferrante and Teicher - 1956
>Countdown!, Jimmy Haskell and his Orchestra - 1959
>Moon Gas, Dick Hyman/Mary Mayo - 1962

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From: Paul Moshay <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Politics and Up With People
Date: 15 Oct 1999 23:56:17 -0700



>
> There is something very sick about the lyrics to up up with people that
> still turns the
> stomach of this...

Strictly ala "There's A Revolution Going at Sears'!"

Radio tag phrase from one of their late 6T's ads :)



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From: King Kini <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Albums Found At Estate Sale
Date: 16 Oct 1999 02:51:09 -0500


>I found some albums at an Estate Sale today and two of them I've not heard of
>and would like some feedback on them before I play them. Thanks.


WHY?  i don't get this!!   why don't you play them?!!   are you just
looking at the covers waiting for an exotica list approval?!   put
'em on the goddam turntable already!




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From: Paul Moshay <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Albums Found At Estate Sale
Date: 16 Oct 1999 01:30:35 -0700



>>I found some albums at an Estate Sale today and two of them I've not heard of
>>and would like some feedback on them before I play them. Thanks.


The one with the grrl in the pink capri's on the cover isn't much good,
you could mail it to my house.  The others were highly regarded at the
time, I think it was in the schwann catalog, but have fallen from favor
with the downtown set.  Best time to play them is during those late night
ironing sessions on saturday night ;)


:)  Paul M.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) RCA Space Age pop Vol 3
Date: 16 Oct 1999 07:50:28 EDT


In a message dated 10/15/99 7:44:57 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< found some of these on the shelves of my local Tower outlet store

 I know its been out of print for a while so maybe some of you would want a
 copy

 it is a cutout and has a gauge in the top edge
 it is dicount priced at $8.99 + tx
 Shipping would be another couple bucks >>


Vol. 3 if in my opinion the best of the 3 CDs.  Great stereo ping pong
effect.  If there are some new folks out there on the list that are just
getting into Space Age Pop music, I highly recommend it.  I actually just got
a copy recently and have been wearing it out.

TB


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Politics and Up With People
Date: 16 Oct 1999 07:52:01 EDT


In a message dated 10/15/99 11:58:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< > There is something very sick about the lyrics to up up with people that
 > still turns the
 > stomach of this... >>

Well, what are the lyrics???????

TB


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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update
Date: 15 Oct 1999 19:40:16 +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")



           - October 13: new (1999) releases, announcements & corrections -


* Brigitte Bardot: "Brigitte Bardot Show"  (Digipack)
      CD, MAM 3, ?, 1999

* Corduroy: "In Mini!"  (The Best Of)
      CD, Music Club MC CD 363, UK, 1999

* The Dave Pike Set: "Noisy Silence - Gentle Noise"
      CD, Polydor, Japan, 1999?

* Leonard Slatkin & The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra:
  "The Typewriter - Leroy Anderson Favorites"
      CD, RCA 68048, USA?, 1999

* Mel Torme: "The Best Of The Concord Years"
      Double CD, Concord Jazz, USA, 1999

* Various Artists: "Betty Page, Private Girl"
      CD/LP/LP Picture Disk, Q.D.K. Media 031, Germany, 1999

* Various Artists: "Even Mo' Mod Jazz"
      CD, Kent CDKEND 171, UK, 1999

* Various Artists: "KPM Soundclash"
      LP, Mono Records, Switzerland, 1999

* Various Artists: "La Guepe Volume 2"
      CD/LP, Dare Dare, France, 1999

* Various Artists: "La Guepe Volume 3"
  (Bananaticoco. European Airlines To Rio)
      CD/LP, Dare Dare 4, France, 1999

* Various Artists: "Latin Party Vol. 1"
      CD, Marginal LP 001, Belgium, 1999

* Various Artists: "Mighty Mellow: Some Other Kind Of Funk"
      Double LP/CD, Future Record, Italy, 1999

* Various Artists: "Mo'plen Brazilia"
      CD, Irma/La Douce 494875, Italy, 1999

* Various Artists: "Mojo Club Presents Dancefloor Jazz Vol. 8"
      CD/Double LP, Motor 564931, Germany, 1999

* Various Artists: "The Basic Principles Of Sound 3"
      CD/Double LP, Soundsational 9 (Bootleg), Italy, 1999

* Various Artists: "The Mood Mosaic 8: Funky In A Minor Mode"
      CD/Double LP, Future Record, Italy, 1999

* Various Artists: "Trains & Boats & Covers"
   (The Songs Of Burt Bacharach)
      CD, Sequel NEMCD 409, UK, 1999

* Various Artists: "Up, Up & Away"  (The Songs Of Jimmy Webb)
      CD, Sequel NEMCD 410, UK, 1999




           - October 13: more or less recent (1998) stuff -


* Gary McFarland: "Soft Samba"
      CD, Verve POCJ-2610, Japan, 1998






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

        For the online version of the eXotica Releases Overview,

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

        or, if this server is down, go directly to:
        http://gallery.uunet.be/Quiet/disq/disq.htm



        Johan Dada Vis


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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Exotic Trilogy Question: correction
Date: 16 Oct 1999 13:51:34 +0200


correction: only 1 and 2 are out, 3 not yet, sorry for that blooper!

        Johan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Politics and Up With People
Date: 16 Oct 1999 11:12:20 -0400


> << > There is something very sick about the lyrics to up with people that
>  > still turns the stomach of this... >>
>
> Well, what are the lyrics???????

again, from the same zine article I wrote 4 years ago on 'Up With People'
Pardon my liberal  hyberbole........
==============
The lyrics for the song 'Freedom Isn't Free' say
"You've got to pay a price,
 You've got to sacrifice,
 for your liberty.'

It's strange though that as much as the conservatives talk about sacrificing, it
is they who are constantly crying for more tax cuts so they can keep a higher
percentage of their paycheck.

My favorite lyric of the song is ......
 " In ancient Rome they felt so free
     Doin' what comes naturally
   They were so busy being merry ones
     That they didn't notice the barbarians."

Oh those wild and wonderful and wacky conservatives.  Do you detect a little
paranoia here?  The same type of paranoia that convinces some of the people who
don camouflage for their weekly militia meetings?  What will they come up with
next?
====================================
and then I went on to write my next article, which was about the  Dr. Jack Impe
and his LP 'The Coming War with Russia according to the bible  Where?  When?
Why?"

Vern
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From: Michael Toth <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Getting Hip w/ Beyondo Mondo Record Party
Date: 16 Oct 1999 12:23:30 -0500



FYI:

In this Sunday night's special "Get Chip Hip" installment of The Beyondo
Mondo Record Party, I, Tothar, undertake the benevolent quest of making
my friend Chip more hip by introducing him to important musics, while
leaving the mics on the whole time to capture his spontaneous reactions
and my additional commentary.

(11:00-midnight Eastern on WAPS 91.3 FM for those in the greater Akron
area, or in streaming Real Audio at www.913thesummit.com for anybody
else; every Sunday night, with me heading up a small, rotating pool of
DJs...would that be an "eddy?")

Included in this pre-recorded wonder are incomparable veterans like
Esquivel, Ennio Morricone, Enoch Light, Dick Hyman, Ray Martin, Mel
Henke, Perez Prado, Lucia Pamela, The Shaggs, and Mrs. Miller. Plus,
there's a sampling of hip 90s acts like Combustible Edison, Seks Bomba,
Man or Astro-Man?, Operation Re-Information, and NE Ohio's premiere
spy-instrumental combo, Spy-Fi. AND *MORE*! You wouldn't believe what you
can squeeze into an hour when you talk over all of the music!

Classics for the initiated, essentials for the uninformed. Be there, or
be doomed to squaresville. Tell all your friends!

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From: "Kevin Kovelant" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Help Needed - Caravan
Date: 15 Oct 1999 18:25:56 -0400


Hello everyone,

I'm soon to be embarking on a project of immense proportions, and I'd like
to ask for your help.  I am in the midst of designing a website that will
essentially be "The Caravan MP3 of the X".  I'd like to have a new version
of Caravan available for download every day.... but may have to do it once a
week, etc.

In any event, seeing as everyone and there mothers seems to have performed
Caravan at one time or another, I am soliciting donations of mp3's of any
versions of Caravan you may be able to supply.  I have  a few that I'll be
starting out with, but need help obtaining a lot more.

So, what's in it for you?

Well, first and foremost, if you'd like to complete your Caravan Collection,
you'll be able to.  Second, you'll have a warm fuzzy feeling like Chewbacca
for helping me out.  :)  And finally, if you would like your name in lights,
I'll be happy to give you credit for your donation when it comes time for
that particular version of Caravan.

Why am I doing this?

Boredom, mostly.  Also, I've heard some rather funky versions of Caravan out
there, and it seems to keep popping up whenever I turn my head.  So, I
figured, why not consolidate everything into one central place?

Please e-mail me at my other address: [e-mail] for any other
info I can provide you with, or to send your favorite versions of Caravan
to.

Thanks!
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From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Help Needed - Caravan
Date: 16 Oct 1999 19:23:53 +0200


Kevin Kovelant wrote:

> I'm soon to be embarking on a project of immense proportions, and I'd like
> to ask for your help.  I am in the midst of designing a website that will
> essentially be "The Caravan MP3 of the X".  I'd like to have a new version
> of Caravan available for download every day....

Oh geeez, I LOVE CARAVAN. Why are you doing this to me? Anyway, I'd love to
help. Here's a list of all the Caravans in my collection:

80 Drums Around the World
Beesley,John
Berigan,Bunny/Orchestra
Berry,Leon
Black,Stanley
Borghuis,Henk
Burry,Lloyd
Buzon,John/Trio
Carroll,David/Orchestra
Chaquito
Cole,Buddy
Cyril Jazz Band
Denny,Martin
Various ("Bamboobar")
Ellington,Duke (3 different versions)
Elliott,John/Diatonic Four
Fontaine,Brigitte
Gold,Marty
Gould,Morton/Orchestra
Great Traditionalists
Holloway,Red
Jones,Jonah/Quartet
Light,Enoch
Living Guitars
Lowden,Robert
Lyman,Arthur
Merrill,Buddy
Montgomery,Wes
Mooney,Hal/Orchestra
Novelty Quintet
Pray,Fernandez
Rhythem HΘritage
Roelens,Puccio
Schifrin,Lalo
Sir Julian
Slatkin,Felix
Southern District Band (live recording of a big band that I played with!)
Three Suns,the
Wright,George
Vreden,Benny (jingle)
Skatalites,the
Stargazers,the

So now you expect me to make MP3's of all these tracks.... I'll see what I can
do.

Marco


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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Cheesy Hammond
Date: 16 Oct 1999 19:33:21 +0100


Nat Kone wrote:
>
> At 02:17 PM 10/15/99 +0100, Michael Jemmeson wrote:
> >
> >John Patton - Accent on the Blues (Blue Note 53924)
> >
> >[Formerly 'Big' John patton, i think this is a fantastic album, and
> >great sleeve notes:]
>
> I'm not sure too many people made it this far in this post so I'm just
> highlighting this entry.  It's so rare someone here mentions big John.
> This of course does not belong on a list of "Cheesy Hammond" stuff unless
> you think all Hammond stuff is cheesy (which I sort of do...)

The Cheesy part meant was the liner notes. No way is that album cheesy.
I'm over my typing urge now. Back to the one line posts...


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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) wout steenhuis
Date: 16 Oct 1999 19:43:36 +0100


[e-mail] wrote:
>
> A while ago someone was asking about background for this musician,  a friend
> has scanned a set of sleevenotes for me,  which I can have anyone who's
> interested have.  Basically,  He's Dutch,  was in the resistance and a
> concentration camp during the war,  and is now (1964) an international jazz
> musician with a family.

Are they the sleeve notes on 'Guitars for Girl Friday'? My copy's
signed, so i guess that probably doubles its value up to the full
pound...
'Hammond in Hawaii' has a couple of nice tracks IMO.


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Subject: (exotica) Up With (John Wayne?)
Date: 16 Oct 1999 15:49:31 EDT


>  Up With People were marketed as I remember as a far
>  right band to rally around to stop
>  that evil rock music influence.  I seem to remember
>  somebody like Nixon or Billy Graham
>  endorseng them.  Or was it Art Linkletter.  I guess
>  it was kinda like Pat Boone all
>  over again.


It was John Wayne parnder...


-- Mr. Fodder

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From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Betanix
Date: 16 Oct 1999 12:02:03 -0700


I'm going to break character and actually post something here...  The
article linked below is a very good assessment of Beat recordings in
circulation, written by an authentic North Beach beatnik who was like there,
dad!

 Go to:
http://www.sfbg.com/AandE/34/02/read.html


Carl "Ratso" Russo
www.ratso.net

P.S.:  Ferlinghetti is alive and well and I see him all the time driving
his pickup through North Beach.  His bumper sticker reads "HOWL if you love
City Lights Bookstore."





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From: Jim Gerwitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tube Bar Tapes on the web
Date: 16 Oct 1999 18:10:59 -0700


http://missioncreep.com/mw/tubebar/index.html

The Tube Bar tapes came up a while back. While I already have the CD,
today I found the above site where you can hear all 25 minutes of Red in
realaudio or mpeg format. (If someone posted this already I'll subject
myself to a Battle of the Blands - Up With People vs The Mike Curb
Congregation). Listen to Red straight through and let the momentum carry
you along. A lengthy story at the site about the origin of the tapes
mentions a shady-sounding scamp named Ashley Warren.

Speaking of Scamp, I swear that was a cut from "Music for TV Dinners-the
50's" playing behind a Wall Street Journal commercial on CNBC during
Friday's market swoon. For some reason I can't recall if there was any
music used in Anna Kournikova's TV commercial for Charles Schwab.

Al Coholic


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Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #522
Date: 16 Oct 1999 19:23:01 EDT




All this talk of Up With People lately!  Well, this week's show of "friendly persuasion" has Up With People doing "A New Dimension".  Quite groovy.  yea yea yeaaahhhhhh!

http://www.antennaradio.com/punk/friendlypersuasion/index.htm

enjoy!

and be sure to hear 'the extra dry chorale' singing "the perfect martini blend".

-- mr. fodder


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Subject: Re:  (exotica) Up With People redux
Date: 16 Oct 1999 23:03:04 EDT



In a message dated 10/15/99 8:54:26 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Up with People also produced local concerts with songs written for the
>locale... one great one is called (of course i can't find the disc, it's
>in one of my four new storage rooms) something like 'up with people
>Nutley' (new jersey) with songs written about the local area, including
>new york.  very bad, very boss.

Interesting! (good word, eh?) My "Up With People" LP found in a NH barn in
the wrong "Up With People" LP cover contains three xerox (circa 1969) copies
of their New Hampshire itinerary.  Very ibm selectronic. Very humble xerox
copies...Jimmy Botticelli/makin' mo' copies


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Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) RCA Space Age pop Vol 3
Date: 16 Oct 1999 23:08:11 EDT



In a message dated 10/16/99 7:51:15 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>I actually just got
>a copy recently and have been wearing it out.
>
>TB

OK, I'll take the plunge...How does it look on you?  (Ba Da Boooom!)


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From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Help Needed - Caravan
Date: 16 Oct 1999 23:12:34 -0400


Kevin, Marco said:

> > I'm soon to be embarking on a project of immense proportions, and I'd like
>> to ask for your help.  I am in the midst of designing a website that will
>> essentially be "The Caravan MP3 of the X".  I'd like to have a new version
>> of Caravan available for download every day....
>
>Oh geeez, I LOVE CARAVAN. Why are you doing this to me? Anyway, I'd love to
>help. Here's a list of all the Caravans in my collection:

Caravan Fight!

I think Caravan has got to be the most-covered tune in all the
records I have. . . Here's all the Caravans in *my* collection:

Jack Anderson from _Electronic Organ_ (otherworldly)
Three Suns _Movin' & Groovin'_ (insane)
Lenny Dee _Dee-Lirious_ (freaky bass, you know you need this)
Ventures _Walk Don't Run_ (lean & clean)
Irv Cottler _Percussion Around the World_ (credibly jazz-oriented)
Billy Mure _Supersonic Guitars in Hifi_ (Billy is God)
Eddie Layton _Caravan_ (eh)
John Buzon _Bachelor Pad Royale_ [UL vol. 4]
George Wright _The Wright Touch_ (wonderfully overblown)
Art Mooney _Cha Cha Cha with Art Mooney_ (jazz-oriented)
Francis Bay _Francis Bay's Latin Beat_ (maximum hysteria)
Robert Maxwell _Spectacular Harps_ (cool and spacey)
Evelyn Scott _30 Guitar Favorites_ (part of surfy medley!)
Gene Rains _Far Across the Sea_ (jazz noir)
David Carroll _Percussion Orientale_ (starting to blur together now)
Martin Denny _Exotica vol. III_ (Augie goes tribal!)
Don Elliot & Diatonic 4 _Organ Rhythms_ (nasal "Arab" Hammond)
George Cates _Take Five_ (don't remember)
Enoch Light _Percussion 1966_ (eh but nice organ)
Ferrante & Teicher _Exotic Love Themes_ (okay)

Via modem I think it would take about seven hours to upload all that. . .

your Caravan brother,
  --Ross

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From: kendoll <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hello
Date: 17 Oct 1999 01:40:26 -0600


Allow me to introduce myself: Mike Ewanus here. I came across this list
while researching an artist for my radio show & I've been avidly reading
the archived entries as time permits.

My radio show is "All Sales Are Vinyl" on CJSR in Edmonton, Canada. It's
not available on RealAudio as yet (it's been in the works for the last
year) but I have a website at
http://fn2.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca/~kendoll/Welcome.htm with playlists,
galleries of record covers and other stuff. The show is not strictly
Exotica -- I play all sorts of vinyl (only vinyl) from thrift stores and
garage sales -- though much of what I play is the kind of music that's
discussed here.

Today at the Goodwill I came across a stack of Quadrophonic 8-tracks.
Now I don't own an 8-track player much less a Quad 8-track, but somehow
I felt this was something I couldn't pass up. I picked up these 7
titles:

Shirley Bassey: Carnegie Hall Concert
The Ventures: Only Hits
Burt Bacharach: Make It Easy On Yourself
Enoch Light & The Light Bridgade: Future Sound Shock
Enoch Light & The Brass Menagerie: '73
Live & Let Die (OST)
The Moog Strikes Bach (Hans Wurman at the Moog)

Can someone tell me if Quad 8-tracks can be played on regular 8-track
decks the way Quad records can be played on regular turntables? Or will
I be missing two channels of sound?

Mike




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From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Quad
Date: 17 Oct 1999 11:40:50 +0100


Mike Ewanus wrote
>Can someone tell me if Quad 8-tracks can be played on regular 8-track
>decks the way Quad records can be played on regular turntables? Or will
>I be missing two channels of sound?

Yes. Normal 8 tracks play 1+5, 2+6, 3+7, 4+8, whereas quads
play 1+3+5+7  and 2+4+6+8.  So you'll hear each track twice, and they
should sound quite differently too.

Hugh.


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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 16 Oct 1999 19:54:51 +0200


the Chaps did a fun version of "Rawhide" (on a 7" single) which features
"Ghost riders in the sky" (2 songs in 1).

        Johan


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Hello
Date: 17 Oct 1999 11:02:27 EDT



In a message dated 10/16/99 11:41:24 PM, [e-mail]
writes:

<< My radio show is "All Sales Are Vinyl" >>

That would make a wonderful name for a record store. Can't wait until your
radio show is available on the web, I'm going to check out your web site now,
thanks.
Gloria


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From: "Kevin Kovelant" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Up With People
Date: 17 Oct 1999 11:18:30 -0400


heehee

I had a friend in college who *almost* took a year off from school to
actually join and tour with Up With People

*shudder*

-Kev



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From: Fish Wich <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Rusty in Orchestraville
Date: 17 Oct 1999 20:53:06 -0700 (PDT)


I went to a some sales this weekend and picked up a
few records.  The one I'm most curious about is a 78
rpm box set on Capitol called Rusty in Orchestraville.
 I'm curious because my turntable doesn't play 78s and
it'll probably be a while before I get one that does.
Normally I steer clear of 78s because of that but the
"talking instruments" advertised on the cover
intrigued me (and it was only a dollar).  I'm
wondering if someone could give me an idea of what the
album is like.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has a short sound
sample on their "CBC 4 Kids" page
(http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/music/the-music-stand/introduction-to-classics/5.html)
but it doesn't feature any "talking" by the
instruments!

Thanks in advance.

Mark



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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Up With People Message (warning)
Date: 18 Oct 1999 02:16:21 -0400


A bunch of papers fell out of one of my U.W.P. records.

Lots of lyrics, programs, etc.

One thing you should note - or at least those few who are following this -
is that there were five different "international" troupes simultaneously
touring the world.

(I wish Astroslut and my other rockband pals such success that they have to
create four more "shadow" bands to deal with all their demands.  Not even
Saga, at their height, needed four more Sagas!)

If you force yourself to read the lyrics, the overriding message seems to
be "There's something happening in the world right now and we're part of it!!"

They have some "positive" messages about racism.  They don't like it when
we put people down.  They want you to know that "Anything's possible".
They were ahead of their time with their tune "Hole in the Sky" and it's
lyric:

"Seems the stuff called ozone's been eaten away
By fast food containers and ozone spray"

They want us to get to know each other and appreciate our differences.
(Like we're doing right now)

"Face to face we can get to know each other
Seein through the old assumptions and the fears
What can we lose when we are
sisters and we're brothers
And more alike than it appears"

And they certainly like to rock.  Or at least they want YOU to...

"Put the "be" in the beat that moves your feet
And the "fun" in the funky groove"

But mostly their message is that something's happening and I guess, if you
come to their shows then you become part of it.

"We are here, we are now
We are all together
In our time, in our place
We are on the way
We are tomorrow, we have today"

Who can argue with that?  Apparently they just want you to leave your house
- and your old assumptions - and check out the world around you.

"Out in the street
That's a place you gotta be
To really see it all in action
Every corner there's a show
Almost everywhere you go
And you know, it's all worth catchin....

Watchin the whole parade
The whole hypnotic scene
You feel the joy and pain
The masquerade just takes you over"

I don't know what they mean by "the masquerade" but their big colorful
pamphlet states the obvious , that "the aim of Up With People is to promote
understanding between individuals and nations"
And that "music is our passport".

I searched the thick, colorful pamphlet looking for some mention of Jesus
or something similar and the only vaguely suspicious detail I found is that
the kids not only didn't get paid but had to pay themselves to be part of
the "cast".  And there was a surprising amount of merchandise available.

An LP or cassette of the new show was nine bucks
A video, 24
An "Up with People" Recipe Collection, 8
A Ball point pen and pencil set, 55 (?)
And a satin jacket, which I would kill for now, 45

The most amazing fact is that even though most of the records are from the
early seventies, this pamphlet is from 1987!

Who knew?

Okay, go out on the street now and enjoy the parade.  Or the masquerade
anyway.





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From: "Mail of the Apocalypse" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "When Birthdays Attack!" - New on Fox (long and so what ELSE is new?)
Date: 18 Oct 1999 04:22:28 -0700


So I am now 36.  Truth be told, I didn't do that much (which was fine by
me), although I finally got to see a Trader Vic's, which was very nice, on
the outside, however, the dinner prices were hoo-boy!

However, the day after, I went to a porch sale of a mega-collector and
suffice it to say that one can do well on what he gets rid of.  Last time
there, I bought the One Step Beyond soundtrack and THIS time...

Riot in Rhythm - Henri Rene' and his Orchestra RCA Victor(LPM-2002) "Man, it
Swings!"*

Well, I found that "Hansel and Pretzel" was on this record AFTER I got it
home and that is one of my favorite cuts on the Chusid "Space Age Bachelor
Pad Music" collections, but even that has "Chinatown, My Chinatown" to
compete with, as well as one of the most manic versions of "Oh, Lady Be
Good" I have EVER heard (I checked the turntable speed).  It's a great
album.  Three complaints:

1. It's kind of short (in it's favor, no song is over 3 minutes)
2. It's mono and while I have no problem with mono, I rather like the Living
Stereo version of "Hansel..."
3. According to the liners, "First of all, it should be understood from the
start that this album does not contain music to start a riot by."  This is a
shame, as I had a vision of exoti-cats and kittens with tiki mugs full of
Molotov Cocktails at the ready.  Hmph!  Some birthday.

*Made you look!  Just kidding.  This is what it says at the top of the
album, above the label's logo.  The Isley Brothers' "Shout" album says,
"Rock, Brother".  I wonder what other catchy phraseology lives above the RCA
Victor logo and did women EVER figure in to it?

Mister Percussion - Terry Snyder and the All Stars United Artists (WWS 8500)

A delight.  I am something of a drum hound, so this album was ready made for
the likes of me.  It's one of those albums that gives you recording
information, notes on each song and personnel!  As an added bonus, there is
a full color picture of Snyder on the back cover.  25% of the credited
musicians are percussionists and the two most interesting credits are: Moe
Wechsler - Piano (brother of the late Julius, of the Baja Marimba Band, I
guess) and on trumpet, Carl H. Severinson.  So, Doc IS a nickname!

Oh, yes, the music.  Snyder is one heck of an arranger.  A real sneaky
version of "Once in a While", yet another great version of "Oye Negra" (viva
Ferrante and Teicher, my favorite) and "Binga Banga Bongo" gets my vote for
worst title, but still a great song.  If you see this (the inaugural album
in UA's Ultra Audio series), buy and buy hard!  There was a previous
recommendation of Snyder and I am going to actively seek him out.  The
records, not him.  I'm spoken for.  Hi, Sweetheart!

Zizi - Zizi Jeanmaire Sings with Michel Legrand and his Orchestra and Andre'
Popp and his Orchestra. Columbia (WL 108)

I bought it for the presence of Popp, who is on four of the songs.  Also, it
is on the Adventures in Sound series, same as "Delirium in Hi-Fi" by Popp.
I am not the world's biggest Francophile (the largest one, according to
Guinness, measures 5 feet across), but I am also not averse to French
musics; I just tend to go for the Latin styles more.  Having said that, this
is a pleasant album, sung by no other than the temperamental ballerina from
"Hans Christian Andersen" (once again, something I read when I got HOME, not
at the sale!).
If liner notes are fact, then according to Boris Vian, "Her legs are longer
than her body, her teeth circle her mouth three times; her eyes would empty
a monastery of Trappist Monks in five minutes [saving sect, what else would
one find in a monastery? - Ed.]..."  So, all of you, beware of the
spider-legged woman with 192 teeth!  She shoots bolts from her eyes!

All of the songs are in French, with deliciously weird translations on the
back.

The first one I will give the benefit of a doubt "La Croqueuse de diamont
(I'm a diamond-eater)..." [With that many teeth, one can easily... - Ed.,
grimly], going further we find "!Qu'on est bien" (It feels so good in the
arms of someone of the opposite sex...of the gender you are not...This is
the true grammar...)

Then, things get really interesting.  "La Brave Fille" (What's everyone
doing in my bed?...At least they could come one by one) and Je suis la
femme(I am the woman) "At my feet fortunes will crumble, palaces are built;
I'm the woman; I go to bed and you pay."

Well!

For those of us who have grown up on the "Hans Christian Andersen"
soundtrack, it is a pleasure to hear her sing other material, which she does
with great zeal.  The music itself is fine, but it isn't an album that I
will be going back to for repeated listenings.  Pleasant but not essential.

Total price for all three albums; ten dollars.

Happy boitday to me, happy boitday to me...

Brian Phillips



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From: "Jane Fondle" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Albums Found At Estate Sale
Date: 18 Oct 1999 09:44:14 EDT





>From: [e-mail]
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: (exotica) Albums Found At Estate Sale
>Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 21:55:47 EDT
>
>
>I found some albums at an Estate Sale today and two of them I've not heard
>of
>and would like some feedback on them before I play them. Thanks.
>
>Carioca by Russ Garcia and Call of the Midnight Sun by Arthur Lyman.
>
>Any comments would be appreciated.
>Gloria
>
Personally, I'd like YOUR or anybody else's comments on  CARIOCA.  ANother
good Garcia that rarely gets mentioned is the extra sssppooookkyyyyy SOUNDS
IN THE NIGHT...but everybody is usually FANTASTICA-FIXATED...Jane F!

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Subject: (exotica) [obits]Van Arsdale France,Josef Locke,Jim Zolman,Irving Siders,Jean Shepherd,Glen Payne,Leo Lionni,Ella Mae Morse
Date: 18 Oct 1999 10:28:52 -0400


Van Arsdale France

                  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) û Van Arsdale France, the sunny optimist who created the training program that taught Disneyland employees how to sell happiness with a smile, died Thursday of pneumonia at 87.

                  Walt Disney told France to come up with lessons that would help employees avoid a carnival image. The result was France's employee training manual, which became legendary in the retail industry because of its instructions to  treat customers as guests who were buying the product of happiness.

                  France was so cheerful, fellow employees at the self-described Happiest Place on Earth called him Disneyland's Jiminy Cricket. France went into semi-retirement in the 1980s. He continued to work as a consultant until his death.

Josef Locke
                  DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) û Singer Josef Locke, whose romantic tenor voice and colorful life inspired the 1992 film "Hear My Song," died Friday after a long illness. He was 82.

                  He was born Joseph McLaughlin in the Creggan district of Londonderry, Northern Ireland, son of a cattle dealer.

                  After serving with the British army in North Africa in World War II, he made a flourishing career as a singer in Britain in the 1940s and '50s.

                  A stocky man with a plump face, he was not an obvious candidate for matinee idol. But he had great charm and a voice that could melt a heart of stone with such songs as "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen," "Tobermory Bay" and "Hear My Song."

                  Locke fled to the Irish Republic in 1958 just ahead of British authorities threatening prosecution for tax evasion.

                  After he fled, rumors started that he was still in England, performing under the name of "Mr X." Police eventually arrested "Mr. X" for tax evasion, slapped him in jail û and then discovered he was not Locke at all, but an impersonator.

                  The admired film "Hear My Song," in which actor Ned Beatty played Locke, was based on the "Mr. X" confusion and introduced the tenor to a new generation.

                  Jim Zolman
                  DULCE, N.M. (AP) û Jim Zolman, rodeo professional, died of complications following knee surgery on Monday. He was 45.

                  The lanky, 6-foot-4 cowboy had wrestled steers from New York's Madison Square Garden to San Francisco's Cow Palace and had competed on the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association circuit for 27 years.

                  When he wasn't wrestling steers, Zolman was counseling people with substance abuse problems on the Jicarilla Apache reservation, which is headquartered in Dulce, just south of the Colorado state line.

Irving Siders
                  NEW YORK (AP) û Irving Siders, a producer who took Broadway shows on the road across the nation, died Wednesday at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 81.

                  For 20 years, Siders organized national tours of Broadway productions, from serious drama like Athol Fugard's "Master Harold ... and the Boys," to rollicking musicals like "Ain't Misbehavin'." In 1987 he brought a tour back to New York, staging a revival of Michael Bennett's "Dreamgirls," which received a Tony nomination for best revival.

                  Over the course of his career, Siders worked with many of the major stars and star makers of the American theater.

                  At 16, Siders first took to the road when he left Boston to work as a band boy for pianist Fats Waller. Working the city-a-day job introduced him to the gritty and seductive world of jazz, clubs and show people.

                  After World War II, Siders developed a career as a talent manager and booking agent for performers including Ella Fitzgerald and the Count Basie Band. He later joined the jazz label Verve as a manager, and worked briefly as entertainment director for Playboy Clubs.

Jean Shepherd
see:http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-shepherd.html
                  NEW YORK (AP) û Jean Shepherd, the prolific radio raconteur whose easy storytelling style earned comparisons to fellow Midwesterner Mark Twain, died Saturday. He was 78.

                  Shepherd, once described by media critic Marshall McLuhan as "the first radio novelist," died in a hospital near his home in Sanibel Island, Fla.

                  Shepherd spent 21 years on WOR-AM in New York City, attracting a large, loyal following along the Eastern seaboard. He worked without a script, conjuring tales based on his Indiana upbringing, creating characters like his alter-ego, Ralph Parker, and his neighbors, the Bumpuses.

                  In a move that likely inspired the climactic scene in the movie "Network," Shepherd would tell his listeners to crank up the volume on their radios and scream along with him. "Drop the tools, we've got you covered!" was one of Shepherd's favorite shout-along phrases.

                  Shepherd, while best known for his radio work, excelled as a multimedia performer. His films included the 1983 classic "A Christmas Story," a sardonic look at the holiday that he wrote and narrated. He had hoped to call it "Satan's Revenge."

                  His writing appeared in a vast assortment of publications, from The New York Times to National Lampoon. He wrote several books, including 1966's "In God We Trust" and the 1971 story collection, "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters."

                  Shepherd did a pair of syndicated PBS TV programs, "Jean Shepherd's America" and "Shepherd's Pie," and often sold out Carnegie Hall for his live shows.

Glen Payne
                  FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) û Gospel singer Glen Payne, the lead vocalist of the Cathedrals, died Friday. He was 72.

                  Payne was diagnosed with liver cancer six weeks ago.

                  "He passed away peacefully without any pain, with his family near him. He spent yesterday singing 'Victory in Jesus,'" Debbie Bennett, a producer and family friend said in a note to fans posted on the group's Web site.

                  During Payne's nearly 60 years in gospel music, his group won numerous awards and was nominated for 11 Grammys.

                  His work was honored by inductions into the Gospel Music Association's Hall of Fame, the Texas Music Hall of Fame, the Southern Gospel Music Association's Hall of Fame and the Radio Music Hall of Fame.

                  From 1951 to 1957, Payne sang in the Stamps-Ozark Quartet before leaving to join the Weatherfords.

                  In 1963, Payne formed a trio to perform at evangelist Rex Humbard's Cathedral of Tomorrow in Akron, Ohio. George Younce joined the trio and it changed its name to the Cathedral Quartet.

                  Payne and Younce became constants in the group that would feature 17 other members over the next 35 years on its way to becoming one of the preeminent southern gospel groups.

The Associated Press
                  Sunday, Oct. 17, 1999; 8:12 p.m. EDT
                  ROME ûû Artist Leo Lionni, who devoted his versatile talents to everything from philosophical children's books to high-profile ad campaigns, died Oct. 11. He was 89.

                  Lionni was born in the Netherlands on May 5, 1910, and immigrated to the United States 10 years later, showing an early enthusiasm for drawing.

                  In 1925, he moved to Genoa, Italy, where his abstract paintings won him an invitation to exhibit with the then-cutting-edge Futurists. He worked on his first graphic design projects in Milan.

                  Mussolini's Fascist racial laws turned Lionni away from Italy and toward the United States in 1933, when he wove his artistic and business talents into a successful career in advertising.

                  As art director of N.W. Ayer in Philadelphia, Lionni designed ad campaigns for clients including Ford and General Electric, employing respected contemporary artists such as Fernand Leger and Willem De Kooning as illustrators.

                  In the 1950s, he became art director for Fortune magazine and edited catalogs for New York's Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum.

                  In 1959, Lionni published his first children's book, "Little Blue and Little Yellow." The idea û the book's protagonists are a blue dot and a yellow dot whose adventures blend them together into Little Green û sprung from a story he once improvised for his grandchildren.

                  Lionni went on to write and illustrate another 30 children's books, which have been published in 11 languages.

                  Ella Mae Morse
see:http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-morse.html
                  BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. (AP) û Ella Mae Morse, whose classic 1942 recording "Cow Cow Boogie" became Capitol Records' first million-selling single, died Saturday. She was 75.

                  She had been suffering respiratory problems following a long illness, according to her publicist.

                  The Texas-born Morse combined boogie woogie, blues, jazz, swing and country influences in the 1940s and 50s, helping to create a pioneering "pop" sound that would later grown into rock 'n' roll. Elvis Presley even praised her for teaching him how to sing.

                  Describe as a black-trained, white "hepchick," her songs earned her 10 gold records. One song was the "The House of Blue Lights," which is regarded as one of the most influential songs in the evolution of rock 'n' roll, said Alan Eichler, her publicist.

                  Morse stopped recording in 1957, but continued performing until 1987.

October 18, 1999
Lee Lozano, 68, Conceptual Artist Who Boycotted Women for Years
see:http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-l-lozano.html

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Death Becomes Someone in "Star Wars" Novel

Star Wars fans take heed: If you don't want to know which beloved series stalwart dies in the new, George Lucas-approved novel, don't read any further.

Yes, while facing yet another terror from the Dark Side in Vector Prime, R.A. Salvatore's just-released first installment of The New Jedi Order series, one of the original band of Star Wars heroes runs out of luck.

And unfortunately, it's not Jar Jar.

The un-Forceful one is everybody's favorite Wookiee, Chewbacca.

About two-thirds of the way through Vector Prime, the ferocious but cuddly crusader bites it, sacrificing his big hairy self to save his pals, especially Han Solo.

Evidently, publisher Del Rey and Lucasfilm wanted to "crank up the heat" with this new book, which is set after Return of the Jedi and some 25 years after the first Star Wars (aka Episode IV: A New Hope).

"It seemed that after all the characters had been through, there was
nothing left to scare anyone or get [readers] worried. You knew they were going to be fine," Del Rey editorial director Shelly Shapiro tells USA Today.

Lucasfilm's Howard Roffman adds that the demise of a main character would be "a clear signal of the gravity of the situation."
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Mark Hanna (1959-1999) who piloted the L39 Plane during the pre-credit sequence for the James Bond film  'Tomorrow Never Dies', was killed in a aircraft crash on the 26th September.

The accident took place at Sabadell near Barcelona where the aircraft
was due to participate in a large flying display. It occurred on approach to landing and there was a major fire.

Mark was flying an Hispano Buchon, a Spanish-built version of the Second World War German Messerschmitt Bf109 fighter. The aircraft had appeared at air shows throughout the UK and Europe.

Major films in which he acted as both aerial advisor and chief pilot
included Empire of the Sun, Air America, Tomorrow Never Dies, Memphis
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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Up With People Message (warning)
Date: 18 Oct 1999 10:50:01 -0400


You win, Nat.

It's true that, for almost everyone of my generation, and especially if
you were Canadian, Up With People were at best wimpy
Peace-Corps-like-well-meaning-
mood-terrorists and that, at worse, and most of the time, we imagined them
as Jesus-freak-Nixonian-blissed-out-Amway-dealers-in-waiting.  But
now I see them as the last inheritors of the Popular Front, of the heroic
traditions of Paul Robeson and the Almanac Singers.

Will

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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Up With People Message (warning)
Date: 18 Oct 1999 10:05:09 -0500


At 2:16 AM 10/18/99, Nat Kone wrote:
>A bunch of papers fell out of one of my U.W.P. records....And there was a
>surprising amount of merchandise available.
>An "Up with People" Recipe Collection, 8

My my, is this an international cookbook? Any recipes named, Nat? After
all, the passing masquerade/parade must eat to stay upright and marching.
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Date: 18 Oct 1999 11:07:03 EDT


In a message dated 10/18/99 2:13:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Okay, go out on the street now and enjoy the parade.  Or the masquerade
 anyway. >>

should we all hold hands and sing "We Are the World" too?

tb


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 18 Oct 1999 08:46:55 -0400


Yeah, that's the LP - Thanks Mimi..............

- Nate

>>> Mimi Mayer <[e-mail]> 10/15 6:57 PM >>>

At 10:19 AM 10/15/99, Nathan Miner wrote:
>Oooo, Oooo, Oooo - there's one version of this song that's soooo wacked
>out - it's a lot of fun......Ummmmmm, c'mon braincells........it's on a
>Command album........somebody help me out......the album has theremin and
>other "exotic" instruments on it, it's called something like "Fantastic
>Sounds" or something.

Strange Interlude. Lew Davies and Orchestra. No theremin that I recognized,=

but some nice hammer dulcimer. And the clop clop of ghostly hooves made by
what sounds like someone tapping a balloon with a drum stick. Oh, those
Command fellas! Endlessly inventive.
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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Garcia Fantastica (was Albums Found At Estate Sale)
Date: 18 Oct 1999 11:34:01 -0500


At 9:44 AM 10/18/99, Jane Fondle wrote:
 ANother
>good Garcia that rarely gets mentioned is the extra sssppooookkyyyyy SOUNDS
>IN THE NIGHT...but everybody is usually FANTASTICA-FIXATED...Jane F!

Call me everybody. Just picked up Garcia's Fantastica at the Austin Record
Show--the real prize of my hunt (except for an NM Ros plays Hair for $5!).
Grimy wax is cleaning up. Hifi, so the sound lacks depth but the music is
bewitching. Garcia seems to have listened pretty closely to Holst's Planets
while composing this. Any one know a vest pocket history of this disk?  Not
even listed on All Music.

Why not share this find with y'all exoticats? Would love to find someone
burning CD-Rs who'd swear, swear, swear on his or her momma's love to
return it to me...and put it on a twofer with a space music match. Anyone
up for this project? Contact me offlist.

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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Garcia Fantastica (was Albums Found At Estate Sale)
Date: 19 Oct 1999 08:45:20 -0700



This is coming out soooooon!


Major scores, though... Weeheee!


At 9:44 AM 10/18/99, Jane Fondle wrote:
ANother
>good Garcia that rarely gets mentioned is the extra sssppooookkyyyyy SOUNDS
>IN THE NIGHT...but everybody is usually FANTASTICA-FIXATED...Jane F!

Call me everybody. Just picked up Garcia's Fantastica at the Austin Record
Show--the real prize of my hunt (except for an NM Ros plays Hair for $5!).
Grimy wax is cleaning up. Hifi, so the sound lacks depth but the music is
bewitching. Garcia seems to have listened pretty closely to Holst's Planets
while composing this. Any one know a vest pocket history of this disk?  Not
even listed on All Music.

Why not share this find with y'all exoticats? Would love to find someone
burning CD-Rs who'd swear, swear, swear on his or her momma's love to
return it to me...and put it on a twofer with a space music match. Anyone
up for this project? Contact me offlist.

Mimi





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From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotic Trilogy
Date: 18 Oct 1999 12:39:27 -0500


>Ottotemp wrote:
 >Did vol 3 (or 4...) ever make it out?

> No, Gordon and Laura (the core of KBZ) can be found in Berlin
> performing at their club Schmaltzwald (Schmaltz - or "Cheese" -
> world) but have yet to release the third installment of their series
> which has plans for ten CDs!!
Having met Edy Roger of KBZ in Berlin last week and asking the same
question of him, I can confirm there are only two out presently but
they do have plans for more.  Now many of you may not know they have
a new "Schlager" single out...

Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
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From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Indian Summer
Date: 18 Oct 1999 12:41:25 -0500


Moritz wrote:

> While travelling with Katja in Canada and New England, exotic creatures
> had escaped from a pack of Indian black rice in our Munich home and
> taken over the kitchen.
No sign of any here... They obviously didn't originate from our
kitchen!

> The "Jardin du Tiki" in Montreal is a fine big Tiki restaurant with very
> interesting single art pieces, lots of different lamps, real turtles and
> average chinese food.
Depends on your interpretation of average food but my my standards
dreadful would be more appropriate. And the place was packed with
people that obviously thought otherwise!.  Chinese buffets are
usually a sign of trouble... when hot dogs, macaroni, jello and the
like find their way into the menu.  I like to think we had much
better food experiences with Moritz & Katja and this should not be
indicative of Montreal food culture, tiki decor aside!

>... But my last find in the last
> thrift shop we wnt in New England, actually in Rutland right at highway
> 7, that one made me really happy for 50 cents: Marais and Miranda,
> "South African Folk Songs". When we returned to Montreal, I showed it to
> Brian, and the great man gave me his copy of "Marais and Miranda visit
> the African Veld (with the bushveld band)" on top.
Who would have guessed...  this record originally was given to me by
Nat who though of my interests in things German when he was he
was last in town. I though it appropriate that this record should end
up with Moritz who knew it so well. So,  it is mostly thanks to Nat.

> Did anybody say, thrift shops are not a good source for finding Exotica
> LPs? North Americans are really lucky.
After returning from Paris, Prague & Berlin, I have to agree Moritz
is correct. I didn't so much as see a thrift shop let alone one
filled with records!  With real estate costs being what they are in
these places, I suspect a trip to the suburbs may have unearthed
something, but somehow the thought of going to these places to visit
suburbs seems impossible to fathom, for us anyway! The stores we did
find in Paris (Bimbo Tower, Born Bad) and Berlin (Staalplaat, Gelbe
Musik) did not disappoint though...

> The damn video transfer-from-NTSC-to-PAL-recorder in McGill University
> failed to make a playable copy of Alan Zweig's (aka known as Nat Kone)
> great great film about record collectors. Glad I watched it already in
> Montreal, but I want my $11,50 rental charge back from McGill!!
That's twice this !%$#* machine has failed me!  I'm going to get this
looked into and get the tape transferred one way or another.  The
film is just too good to let a piece of defective machinery get in
the way!

Of course we will have to soon post the results of our trip, begun
the day before Moritz & Katja left us and ending only yesterday.
Amazing discoveries in both Paris & Berlin, highlighted without any
question by a visiit to the new Schmatlzwald in Berlin!  More to
come...

Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Message Bounce: Re: (exotica) Rusty in Orchestraville
Date: 19 Oct 1999 08:57:41 -0700




>>
>> OMIGOD!  That's a KILLER find. The "talking"records with a sonovox, and
the
>> effect is pretty neat, considering the time in which they were done. I am
>> goin' blank here, but is this one of the kid's rekkids done with Billy
May?
>> I think so.
>>
>> I can't guarantee that you will go as wild for it, but I LEEERVE the
stuff.
>> BTW, "Sparky's Magic Piano" is another in the same series of records with
>> the same effect, AAAAND you can hear it via streaming MP3 on my website
>> www.xtabay.com/feelthyradio.htm It's mixed into one of the two fantastica
>> programs, and I do not recall which one, durnit, and barely have time to
>> type this message. I'll post it later, but in the mean-time, if you try
the
>> two streams, you will hear the first samle of sparky within the first 45
>> seconds of the 1-hour program.
>>
>> So, yeah...  Congratulations. You scored.  If you decide you don't like
it,
>> I'd be happy for a chance at a trade.
>>
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>> >
>> >I went to a some sales this weekend and picked up a
>> >few records.  The one I'm most curious about is a 78
>> >rpm box set on Capitol called Rusty in Orchestraville.
>> > I'm curious because my turntable doesn't play 78s and
>> >it'll probably be a while before I get one that does.
>> >Normally I steer clear of 78s because of that but the
>> >"talking instruments" advertised on the cover
>> >intrigued me (and it was only a dollar).  I'm
>> >wondering if someone could give me an idea of what the
>> >album is like.




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From: dan hill <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) new motion reviews ---+ date: 18.oct.99
Date: 18 Oct 1999 18:02:11 +0100



---+ new reviews ---+ http://motion.state51.co.uk/reviews/

     Jon Hassell - Fascinoma (Water Lily Acoustics)
     The Beach Boys - Greatest Hits Vol's 1 & 2 (Capitol)
     Mr. Bungle - California (Warner Bros.)
     Arto Lindsay - Prize (Rykodisc)


thanks, and apologies for cross-postings

the motion team

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From: M H Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) wout steenhuis
Date: 18 Oct 1999 16:00:02 +0100


[e-mail] wrote:
>
> How do you get an LP signed by Wout Steenhuis?  did someone recognise him in
> the street,  stop him, saying 'Hey,  you're the great Wout Steenhuis,  could
> you sign this LP I happen to be carrying?'?

I suppose the hawaiian guitar and daisychains of exotic flowers round
his neck would help him stand out in the street...
I've got plenty of signed records, but mostly they're (presumably) local
musicians and i guess were signed after gigs. It's nice when they come
with tour dates and list all the dives they're playing in.

> I'm not sure if that was the LP,  its a great title though,  and I'm not a
> big fan,  but I think I'd fork out a pound for that,  even unsigned.  But
> then I obviously have a reputation as a spendthrift on this list.

I forked out a whole pound for Wout's Paradise Island (64? 66?) the
other day, mainly for the cover I have to admit (fetching young lady in
skimpy 'exotic' costume). It's rare to find 'proper' exotica LPs in the
UK, and this cover is definitely styled like a 50s US sleeve (the
writing and everything). There is one great track on it though, a lively
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From: kendoll <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hello
Date: 18 Oct 1999 12:20:46 -0600


Gloria wrote:
>[All Sales Are Vinyl] would make a wonderful name for a record store.

That was my original thought, though i'm much too anal to sell any of my
records. I thought i invented the name but i found a record store online
with that name that predates my show.

On the subject of Ghost Riders: It's one of those songs whose presence
will make me buy an album i otherwise wouldn't look at. Some of the
versions in my collection:

Tom Jones (Funny Familiar Forgotten Feelings)
The German baritone Ronny (in German -- Geisterreiter)
A French version (Les cavaliers du ciel) by suave-looking Armand Mestral
(he sounds operatically trained)
A disco version by the Dutch (?) Boots Clements (in English)

Mike
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: exotic Trilogy
Date: 18 Oct 1999 15:16:50 EDT


In a message dated 10/18/99 12:50:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Edy Roger of KBZ in Berlin last week and asking the same
 question of him, I can confirm there are only two out presently  >>

yeah, i thought the gun was jumped on the report of the Vol. 3.  i do hope
they are working on it tho.

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From: "Kevin C." <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) exotica movie - Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.
Date: 18 Oct 1999 12:21:03 -0700


Caught this movie on cable over the weekend: Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.

A "modern" telling of the classic tale with Dick Van Dyke at Crusoe, a
chimp in the Friday role, and the obligatory romance with a lost island
girl he names Wednesday. Very nice scenery from stock footage, location
shoots, and studio recreations. Nice, large stone idol which plays a
major part in the story.

Average story, somewhat predictable, but made an ok viewing and it was
reasonably funny. Van Dyke is good as always. One of the screenwriters
was Retlaw Elias Yensid (AKA Walt Disney).

The best part was an Baxter-esque soundtrack Disney composer Robert F.
Brunner.

If you're into Giligan's Island style exotica, this is a pretty good
one. Kevdo says check it out!

Kevin Crossman
The Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai
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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) "When Birthdays Attack!"
Date: 18 Oct 1999 16:20:39 -0400


>Riot in Rhythm - Henri Rene' and his Orchestra RCA Victor(LPM-2002) "Man, it
>Swings!"*
>
>*Made you look!  Just kidding.  This is what it says at the top of the
>album, above the label's logo.  The Isley Brothers' "Shout" album says,
>"Rock, Brother".  I wonder what other catchy phraseology lives above the RCA
>Victor logo and did women EVER figure in to it?

Well, The Three Suns "On A Magic Carpet" says, "King-Sized Tour", so
there's another male biased blurb.

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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Walker, on by?
Date: 18 Oct 1999 14:23:27 -0700 (PDT)


Hi!  It was mentioned on the exotica list a new Scott
Walker song(is it new?) would be in the new Bond
film...whaazzupwithit? Anybody know?
Jane Fondle


Updated: Oct 14
Originally posted 0200 GMT October 13, 1999
We've known for a long time now that Garbage would
sing the title song, but we didn't know what music
would play over the title credits.
007 NEWS has now learned that the Scott Walker song
that is on the TWINE soundtrack will not be in the
movie. The song that plays over the closing credits
will either be a re-mix of the Garbage title song or
an instrumental version.
For Tomorrow Never Dies, k.d. Lang's Surrender ushered
audiences out of the theater and when the track list
came out for the TWINE soundtrack, every indication
was that the last song titled "Only Myself to Blame"
would do the same.
The song however got in the album after David Arnold
and Don Black decided to put lyrics to a melody they
had written for a casino scene in the film. Thus,
Scott Walker, of Walker Brothers fame, will croon
"Only Myself To Blame" on the CD.


Buy it from Amazon.com
 According to a brief biography on Amazon.com, Walker
had a series of hits in the UK in the late '60s "with
rueful, heavily-orchestrated pop statements that
sounded like Engelbert Humperdinck crossed with
Louis-Ferdinand Celine."
And in one Bond connection found on his resume is that
Hal David co-wrote "Make it easy on yourself" for
Walker. Hal David also wrote the lyrics to
"Moonraker."

The site names 18 tracks on the soundtrack that, as
they generally do, describe scenes from the movie.


Track names

Only Myself To Blame - Scott Walker

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Rusty in Orchestraville
Date: 18 Oct 1999 14:39:07 +0000


At 08:53 PM 17-10-99 -0700, Fish Wish wrote:
>I went to a some sales this weekend and picked up a
>few records.  The one I'm most curious about is a 78
>rpm box set on Capitol called Rusty in Orchestraville.

While I can play 78's, my recently acquired copy is the
45 rpm boxed set version. I think there is also a 10 inch
version (a lot of albums in the media format transition years
were released in all three formats and sometimes making it
on the 12 inch LP format as well).

This is just another one of those
stories where different orchestra instruments demonstrate
themselves to a child (Rusty).  A few of them use the Sonovox thing
to talk...but this really is not as prevelant as the hype
might lead you to believe.  I find the whole thing a
curiosity, but that is about it.  I am glad I have it but
probably won't play it again for years!

Byron

Byron Caloz
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Big TNT Show
Date: 18 Oct 1999 14:45:34 -0700 (PDT)




Thanks to one of mace's tv posts I caught the TNT Show  (1966) with a host of bands
popular in that day (or a little earlier), Byrds, Lovin' Spoonful, Ronettes, Ike &
Tina, Roger Miller, Pet Clark, Donavan, Bo Diddley and Ray Charles.

What was most exotic was the the opening and closing numbers done by the house band,  I
believe it was Phil Spector regulars led by Jack Nitzschie, though Ian McCullum  from
the Man  from U.N.C.L.E.  was waving his hands around like a conductor.   The opening
song after the credits was such a now sound version of Satisfaction, it was hard to
recognize the song.  At the end, the same house  band did the mid 60's country flavored
song "Still", in a totally utempo now sounds and with a great set of GO GO Dancers to
add that 60's flavor.

Also of interest was the opening song (during the credits), This Could Be The Night,  a
sunshine pop song produced by Spector, trying to update his sound, and sung  by the
Modern Folk Quartet.  It was never released until the Phil Spector Box set, "Back To
Mono". In the MFQ was Jerry Yester who once produced the Association and  who also made
an album, "Farwell Aldebaron" with his wife in the late 60's.  I'd just would love to
hear this.  Also in the MFQ band was Cyrus Faryar, who narated Zodiac's Cosmic Sounds.

Check this out if it comes on again and leave your tape players running for a zany
interview with Gary Lewis and a weird video for the Night Has A Thousand Eyes, Bobby
Vee (on a motorcyle in shorts)  Also dance to the "Fly" with Chubby Checker and a
little Annette and Four Seasons to spice up the tape.   Its playing on AMC.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck.









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Subject: Re: (exotica) The Big TNT Show
Date: 18 Oct 1999 17:49:44 EDT


In a message dated 10/18/99 5:46:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Check this out if it comes on again and leave your tape players running
for a zany
 interview with Gary Lewis >>


I did not see the show but a friend of mine did.  I think they asked Gary
Lewis "why don't you have a haircut like the Beetles?"  What a stupid
question.

Was this on the TNT show or did my friend happen to see some other zany Gary
Lewis interview at about the same time?

TB


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From: Paul Penna <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Help Needed - Caravan
Date: 18 Oct 1999 17:19:55 -0700


Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr said:

>Caravan Fight!

>I think Caravan has got to be the most-covered tune in all the
>records I have. . .

While my paltry, count-them-on-the-fingers-of-three-hands collection of
Caravans cannot compare with those thus far enumerated, I was thrilled the
other day when two of my obsessions converged and I found CD with a Bobby
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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Help Needed - Caravan
Date: 18 Oct 1999 17:30:19 -0700


Now THAT's  what this list is all about!!!  Whoopeeee!

> While my paltry, count-them-on-the-fingers-of-three-hands collection of
> Caravans cannot compare with those thus far enumerated, I was thrilled the
> other day when two of my obsessions converged and I found CD with a Bobby
> Darin version.
>
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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Rusty in Orchestraville
Date: 18 Oct 1999 17:37:44 -0700



Here is a direct link to Radio Fantastica #37 with snippets of Sparky's
Magic Piano

http://216.112.66.38/ron/fan37.m3u

>
> I went to a some sales this weekend and picked up a
> few records.  The one I'm most curious about is a 78
> rpm box set on Capitol called Rusty in Orchestraville.
>  I'm curious because my turntable doesn't play 78s and
> it'll probably be a while before I get one that does.
> Normally I steer clear of 78s because of that but the
> "talking instruments" advertised on the cover
> intrigued me (and it was only a dollar).  I'm
> wondering if someone could give me an idea of what the
> album is like.
>
> The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. has a short sound
> sample on their "CBC 4 Kids" page
>
(http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/music/the-music-stand/introduction-to-classi
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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Indian Summer
Date: 19 Oct 1999 03:01:38 +0200


 Moritz wrote:

> > While travelling with Katja in Canada and New England, exotic creatures
> > had escaped from a pack of Indian black rice in our Munich home and
> > taken over the kitchen.

Brian Karasick wrote:

> No sign of any here... They obviously didn't originate from our kitchen!

How can you be so sure?  What if they secretly looked into our plane tickets,
while we were, say, in St.Gerome, to check out where we're from, then booked
flights to Munich behind our backs and broke into our house, while we were
still in Canada? Of course you wouldn't see a glimpse of them in your kitchen
now! Never underestimate those bastards! However... I killed them all.

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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 19 Oct 1999 03:02:01 +0200


Just saw "Dr. Strangelove" again...  there's a version of Ghost Riders
under all the sequences in that bomber plane. Does anyone have the
soundtrack per chance? Would like to know, who did this version.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) The Up With People Message (warning)
Date: 18 Oct 1999 21:03:41 EDT


A few years ago, a local band, Loving Kindness, did their comic lounge
version of
Up with People album, complete with protesters, etc at a local pub.

When I had told a friend about the happening, this arch-conservative friend
remarked that Up With People was a group of subversives that wasn't really
conservative.
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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
Date: 18 Oct 1999 20:51:10 -0500


It's another mixed bag on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast,
from groovy Now Sound tunes by Tony Mottola, Ted Heath and Warren
Kime to steamy exotica from Les Baxter, the Markko Polo Adventurers
and the Chico Hamilton Quintet (his "Gongs East" is an exotic gem!).

There's also music for belly dancing by Jack Costanzo and David
Carroll;  "Mad Drums" by Rolley Polley; TV tunes; bossa nova; and
Basie meets Bonds.

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.

Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.  A stereo feed of
The Retro Cocktail Hour will be available any day now.  Stay tuned
for details!

We're planning our annual Halloween show this week, available at the
website on or about October 30.  Any requests?

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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Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 18 Oct 1999 22:19:51 EDT


just wanted to mention my favorite version of this standard is by Scatman
Crothers..probably not what you are looking for, however


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 18 Oct 1999 23:12:02 -0400


>Just saw "Dr. Strangelove" again...  there's a version of Ghost Riders
>under all the sequences in that bomber plane. Does anyone have the
>soundtrack per chance? Would like to know, who did this version.

Hmm? I don't remember ever hearing that. I *do* remember heavy use of "When
Johnny Comes Marching Home Again".

Must watch it again myself. Due for a fresh dosage.


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Big TNT Show
Date: 18 Oct 1999 23:18:47 -0400


>I did not see the show but a friend of mine did.  I think they asked Gary
>Lewis "why don't you have a haircut like the Beetles?"  What a stupid
>question.
>
>Was this on the TNT show or did my friend happen to see some other zany Gary
>Lewis interview at about the same time?

It was not in the movie. It was one of AMC's short subject fillers.

I'm a bit confused about the Modern Folk Quartet. They were listed in the
opening credits, complete with an onstage shot, but (unless I really spaced
out) they didn't appear in the body of the film.

Petula Clark was a lot cooler than Joan Baez (give the vibrato a break
already, Joan), but Bo Diddley was farging monumental!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 18 Oct 1999 20:39:30 +0000


At 10:19 PM 18-10-99 EDT, PrimoChuck wrote:
>my favorite version of this standard is by Scatman
>Crothers.

Yes!  I totally agree, I almost forgot about that one.

Byron

Byron Caloz
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Mad Magazine LP?
Date: 18 Oct 1999 20:15:37 GMT



Hi - can anyone out there point me in the direction of a record I've been
trying to find out about for ages. (One of those records heard when I was
younger & have never since seen)

Its a MAD Magazine LP and I was *sure* it was one of the RCA Stereo Action
series (based on what I can remember of the cover art) but I've been unable to
find it on the published RCA discography.
I know it was a full sized LP and not one of the smaller flexi-disc style ones
that were sometime given away with MAD itself.

>From what I can dimly remember it was largely percussion type numbers done with
extra MAD Magazine type touches.

Any clues?  Is it any good? I really liked it when I was 12!

Mike!
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From: "The Brimstones" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Beat Girl soundtrack
Date: 18 Oct 1999 17:55:59 -0400


Hey all,
    I DESPERATELY NEED a copy of John Barry's MASTERFUL theme from the 1960
British J.D. film Beat Girl...although I'm DYIN' for the entire soundtrack,
I need the title track right away for a *special project*...Can anyone help
me out?

Baron Len

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From: "Matt Hinrichs" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Pam Am - "Get into this world!"
Date: 18 Oct 1999 20:55:31 -0700


I've totally, totally been getting off on an LP called "The Name of the Game
is Go" put out by Pan-Am airlines in the mid 60s. It was a promotional album
for their splashy new jingle - "for once in a lifetime/get into this world"
Very addictive song!!

Side one is variations on the jingle (called "Go") with different
lyrics/voices/styles. There's a bossa-nova version, a male chorus version, a
male/female version, etc. The side ends with versions in Spanish, French and
Portuguese. Very cool, even if this section's badly edited together into a
medley.

Side two begins with instrumental "interpretations" of the theme, done in
different styles - orchestral, groovy rock, etc. There's also a swinging
Sammy Davis Jr. vocal version and a surprisingly good Steve Allen
instrumental done in faux-Bacharach fashion.

All of it is done in high "Now Sound" style. The arrangements are
absolutrely fantastic! Unfortunaltely, no personnel is credited, except for
one "Appelbaum" who is listed on the label for composing "Go".

Anybody know anything else about this??

I was wondering if anybody else has interesting "ad campaign" albums. Do
tell! I've been thrifting for years, and this is the only one of this type
I've ever come across.

- Matt



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Mad Magazine LP?
Date: 19 Oct 1999 00:02:09 EDT


Musically Mad by *somebody* and the stereo mad men.  It does have cool stereo
panning sound and if memory serves you are correct about it being on RCA.  I
don't really recommend this LP, certainly not for the big dollars it usually
sells for.  There are a couple of fun pieces, like a parody of percussion
records and a parody of Kenton type modern jazz, and one song with the melody
played by hands being squeezed together to make farting sounds.  Apart from
those 3 songs I was very bored by this record.

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From: King Kini <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Beat Girl soundtrack
Date: 18 Oct 1999 23:37:12 -0500


the Beat Girl title track is available on the Ultra-Lounge CD "Mondo
Hollywood" (Capitol) as well as on the John Barry comp "The EMI
Years, Vol. 1" (Scamp).

-kk


>Hey all,
>    I DESPERATELY NEED a copy of John Barry's MASTERFUL theme from the 1960
>British J.D. film Beat Girl...although I'm DYIN' for the entire soundtrack,
>I need the title track right away for a *special project*...Can anyone help
>me out?
>
>Baron Len




visit...

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From: Indulis R Rutks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 19 Oct 1999 01:05:18 -0500 (CDT)




On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, m.ace wrote:

>
> >Just saw "Dr. Strangelove" again...  there's a version of Ghost Riders
> >under all the sequences in that bomber plane. Does anyone have the
> >soundtrack per chance? Would like to know, who did this version.
>
> Hmm? I don't remember ever hearing that. I *do* remember heavy use of "When
> Johnny Comes Marching Home Again".

It is "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" that's playing during
"Dr. Strangelove", though "Ghost Riders" does sound similar to "When
Johnny..."

WHich reminds me of the Spike Jones version of "Ghost Riders". At the end
of the song, The City Slickers break into a rendition of "When Johnny...":

"When Johnny comes marching home again, hooray, hooray,
We'll make the guy who wrote this song pay and pay.
'Cause all we hear is 'Ghost Riders' sung by Vaughn Monroe...
Yippee Yi Ayyyyyyy... *BANG*"

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Sony Minidisc adaptor
Date: 18 Oct 1999 21:18:30 +0000


Folks

after a recent trip to Japan, where my human companion bought a minidisc,
we now are having difficulty finding a Sony adaptor  ... i've been offered
non-Sony adaptors

can anyone confidently re-assure me that these won't damage the minidisc

thanks

Sem Sinatra




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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 19 Oct 1999 13:33:55 +0200


m.ace wrote:

> >Just saw "Dr. Strangelove" again...  there's a version of Ghost Riders
> >under all the sequences in that bomber plane. Does anyone have the
> >soundtrack per chance? Would like to know, who did this version.
>
> Hmm? I don't remember ever hearing that. I *do* remember heavy use of "When
> Johnny Comes Marching Home Again".
>
> Must watch it again myself. Due for a fresh dosage.

Really? Hmm... could be. I don't know "When Johnny Comes..."; must be pretty
similar then. So who did it?

Mo



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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Politics and Up With People
Date: 19 Oct 1999 07:51:32 -0400



>Which leads us to the "Up with People" theme song:

This reminds me of the Simpsons parody, Up With Everybody:
(to the tune of the Lou Reed song, "Walk on the Wild Side")

"Hey, world!  Take a walk on the wild side!
And all the races of the world go doo, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo, d-doo..."

I suppose that we can all point to "Up With People" and have a laugh, but
if you want just as big of one, I refer all of you to the Krofft Revue,
which Nickolodeon showed as part of Puff-A-Palooza some years back.

Johnny Whittaker.  Singing.  I couldn't sleep the next night.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Sony Minidisc adaptor
Date: 19 Oct 1999 07:56:56 EDT


In a message dated 10/19/99 1:54:26 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< after a recent trip to Japan, where my human companion bought a minidisc,
>>

as opposed to a non-human companion?

curious,

tb


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Subject: (exotica) Puff-N-Stuff
Date: 19 Oct 1999 08:00:08 EDT


In a message dated 10/19/99 4:54:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I refer all of you to the Krofft Revue,
 which Nickolodeon showed as part of Puff-A-Palooza some years back.

 Johnny Whittaker.  Singing.  I couldn't sleep the next night. >>

Does anybody remember the song "Oranges Parnges" which was sung by Witchy-Poo
on the Puff-n-stuff show?  For some reason, that song just popped into my
head.  I am sure it was the Johnny Whittaker refrence.

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Puff-N-Stuff
Date: 19 Oct 1999 08:04:55 -0400



>Does anybody remember the song "Oranges Parnges" which was sung by Witchy-Poo
>on the Puff-n-stuff show?  For some reason, that song just popped into my
>head.  I am sure it was the Johnny Whittaker refrence.

Witchiepoo sings it with her band for a talent show:

Oranges Poranges,
That's another one,
Oranges Sloranges,
That's another one!
Oranges Coranges,
You cain't tell me,
There ain't no rhyme for oranges!

Unlike the Beatles, she did NOT pass the audition.

I can't do enough,
Brian Phillips


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From: M H Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 19 Oct 1999 13:44:51 +0100


n.e.u. / Moritz R wrote:
>
> Really? Hmm... could be. I don't know "When Johnny Comes..."; must be pretty
> similar then. So who did it?

I thought it was an English folk song that was carried across to the US
at some point. I've got lyrics in a book somewhere: Johnny never does
come marching home, but all the lyrics i could find on the web for the
song are of a more recent US version from 1863 which are pro-war stuff
and very different. The Clash did a version under the title 'English
Civil War'.

However, the following complicates matters:

Posted by E. Smith-Carroll on May 15, 1999 at 20:36:48:

In Reply to: ...We hardly knew ye posted by Todd on March 29, 1999 at
17:38:53:

Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye. It comes from an Irish anti-war song sung to
the tune of "Johnny Comes Marching Home" (there's
disagreement about which song came first): "With your guns and drums and
drums and guns, hoo-roo -- hoo-roo, With your guns and
drums and drums and guns, hoo-roo, -- hoo roo. With your guns and drums
and drums and guns, The enemy nearly slew you, Oh my
darlin' dear, you look so queer, Oh, Johnny, I hardly knew you." This
information is from "The Folk Song Abecedary" by James F. Leisy,
Hawthorn Books Inc. "Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye -- While many of the folk
have celebrated Johnny's return from the war with 'When
Johnny Comes Marching Home,' others have greeted him with the Irish
anti-war version, 'Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye.' While the two songs
share the same tune, and they're both concerned with a soldier's return
from war, that's all they have in common. Not only is the spirit of
each text opposed to the other, but the spirited supporters of each text
frequently dispute which text had the tune first...In 'The Folk Songs
of North America,' Alan Lomax states, 'When the Irish bandsman, Patrick
Gilmore, arranged this best of all American marches (When
Johnny Comes Marching Home) in the early days of the Civil War, he made
use of an Anglo-Irish folk tune already firmly established in
the States. The shape of the air indicates that it belongs to the
Captain Kidd family, whose lineage has been traced back at least as far
as
the sixteenth century, but Johnny's immediate ancestor is probably the
Irish anti-war song which runs...With yer guns and drums and
drums and guns...' In his 'Irish Minstrelsy,' Spurling suggests that
this song (Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye)of soldier's protest dates back to
1802, when Irish regiments were recruited for a campaign in Ceylon."


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Puff-N-Stuff
Date: 19 Oct 1999 08:47:45 EDT


In a message dated 10/19/99 5:07:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Oranges Poranges,
 That's another one,
 Oranges Sloranges,
 That's another one!
 Oranges Coranges,
 You cain't tell me,
 There ain't no rhyme for oranges!
  >>


Thanks Brian,

I used to love that tune.  Did you recall it from memory?  Is it on an LP
somewhere?

TB


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From: "jonathan richardson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mad Magazine LP?
Date: 19 Oct 1999 06:40:26 PDT



>Musically Mad by *somebody* and the stereo mad men.


I believe that *somebody* is Bernie Green. I just saw that record on ebay a
few days ago, it might still be there. have never heard it but I always
liked the cover. Bernie was also responsible for the Stereo Action album-
Futura  which I have been on the hunt for for a while. It is a very elusive
record that keeps escaping my grasp whenever I see one. Someday,
someday.......

hope I have helped a bit

-jonathan

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From: Michael Toth <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mad Magazine LP?
Date: 19 Oct 1999 09:40:06 -0500


[e-mail]

>Musically Mad by *somebody* and the stereo mad men.

Wasn't Bernie Green ("Futura" fame) associated with this, or some other
MAD LP? I believe Rhino recently issued some sort of MAD-related CD(s). I
never paid enough attention to see if this LP was reissued as part of it
though.

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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Hamilton H. "Terry" Gilkyson III,Irene Heskes,Christine Mason,Jim Moran,Pierre Moulin,
Date: 19 Oct 1999 10:13:15 -0400


Hamilton H. Gilkyson III
                  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) û Singer-songwriter Hamilton H. "Terry" Gilkyson III, who wrote an eclectic range of music spanning folk to calypso to Disney animation, died Friday. He was 83.

                  Gilkyson's 1968 song, "The Bare Necessities," for Disney's "Jungle Book," was nominated for an Academy Award.

                  During the 1960s, he wrote a song a week for "The Wonderful World of Disney" television show and later wrote theme songs for Disney movies including "The Swiss Family Robinson," "Thomasina" and "The Aristocats."

                  Gilkyson songs were recorded by Johnny Cash, Tony Bennett, The Kingston Trio, Mitch Miller, Spike Jones, Marlene Dietrich, Doris Day, Harry Connick Jr. and Louis Armstrong.

                  He also co-wrote with his group, Terry Gilkyson and the Easy Riders, such classics as "Everybody Loves Saturday Night," "Marianne," "The Sea is Green" and "Memories are Made of This," the hit recorded by Dean Martin. "Greenfield," recorded by The Brothers Four, was a Top 10 hit in 1960.

                  Born in Mont Clare, Pa., Gilkyson served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and broadcast for Armed Forces Radio as a folk singer.

                  After the war, Gilkyson moved to Los Angeles to pursue a songwriting career. His first hit was the 1950 "Cry of the Wild Goose," recorded by Frankie Laine.

                  He recorded five albums with the Easy Riders.

                  Irene Heskes
see:http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-i-heskes.html
                  NEW YORK (AP) û Irene Heskes, a historian and author who specialized in Jewish music died Thursday of aplastic anemia. She was 76.

                  Ms. Heskes worked as a researcher, writer and lecturer for the Theodor Herzl Institute of the Jewish Agency from 1964 to 1976. She also was the director of the National Jewish Music Council from 1968 to 1980 and was a consultant to the American Jewish Historical Society and to libraries and academic institutions.

                  In 1980, she founded the American Yiddish Theater Music Restoration and Revival Project, which assembled, catalogued and microfilmed a comprehensive collection of Yiddish theater music. The collection is now available for study at the Library of Congress.

                  Christine Mason
                  BALTIMORE (AP) û Christine Mason, a hairstylist whose behemoth beehives and other outrageous coiffeurs were comic highlights in five of Baltimore director John Waters' most popular films, died Sunday of cervical cancer. She was 49.

                  Her best-known works were those she created as hairstylist and wigmaker for a series of Waters' films, including "Female Trouble," "Desperate Living," "Polyester," "Cry Baby" and "Hairspray."

                  Among the performers for whom Mason created hairstyles were the late Divine, a female impersonator who starred in Waters' early films, Ricki Lake, Deborah Harry and Patricia Hearst.

                  Jim Moran
                  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) û Jim Moran, known for outrageous publicity stunts in the 1940s and '50s to promote products, Hollywood films û and himself û died Monday, He was 91.

                  Sell an icebox to an Eskimo? Moran traveled to Alaska and did just that, at the behest of a refrigerator company.

                  Change horses in midstream? Moran performed the feat during the 1944 presidential election, in the Truckee River at Reno, Nev. To bring attention to a property for sale, Moran spent 10 days finding a needle in a haystack.

                  "He was maybe the last of the great, flamboyant press agents," said Bob Thomas, who has covered Hollywood for the past 55 years for The Associated Press. "He loved publicity himself, as well as making it."

                  Before entering the publicity business, Moran had been an airline executive in Washington, D.C., and operated a studio where congressmen recorded speeches for their local radio stations.

                  Pierre Moulin
see:http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/national/obit-moulin.html
                  NEW YORK (AP) û Pierre Moulin, who with his business partner, Pierre LeVec, created the Pierre Deux fabric shops and the mix of colorful cotton, glazed tile and antique armoires known as the Pierre Deux look, died Sunday of prostate cancer. He was 73.

                  Moulin's father owned a rug factory and his grandmother was friends with designer Coco Chanel.

                  In 1949, he met LeVec. Later, when LeVec worked in Washington, Moulin set up a farm in Winchester, Va., where he raised 25,000 broiling chickens û and won prizes for doing so.

                  In 1970, Moulin had some pillows made from decorated French peasant fabrics and scattered them around their upholstered furniture. The partners began importing the fabric and customers came in droves. Before long, there were 22 Pierre Deux shops around the world.

                  The men retired in 1989, selling all but one of the shops. LeVec died a year and a half ago.



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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Big TNT Show
Date: 19 Oct 1999 07:28:54 -0700 (PDT)


Bo Diddley and especially the three girls with him were truly as you say "farging
monumental".   I was really enthralled with their style of dance:  arms down, palms up
and fingers curled towards their bodies.  The girl on the right was also the coolest
looking guitar player though not as cool as Bo Diddley.

Joan Biaz was lame. It was amazing seeing her sitting next to Phil Spector who was
actually playing the piano.

Pet Clark always seems to have a bit of now sound  even on her pop hits.

I did not see the MFQ in the body of the film.  I know the T.A.M.I. Show had different
versions with some of the acts cut out.   I saw the TNT Show a long time ago and can't
remember the MFQ in it back then either.   From what I understand  the sunshine pop
"This Could Be the Night" is much different than their earlier folk releases.

Easy listening  in the Big Easy
Chuck


--- "m.ace" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> I'm a bit confused about the Modern Folk Quartet. They were listed in the
> opening credits, complete with an onstage shot, but (unless I really spaced
> out) they didn't appear in the body of the film.
>
> Petula Clark was a lot cooler than Joan Baez (give the vibrato a break
> already, Joan), but Bo Diddley was farging monumental!

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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jane Fondle needs  ya', baby
Date: 19 Oct 1999 08:03:35 -0700 (PDT)


I know, I know.  I am seen as the world's biggest
TEASE about our album and website...but really, they
are due out in about a week or so.

Does anybody have suggestions of websites that we
could hock this thing on, or that would link us, etc?

Also, in case you are wondering, the album will first
be available for purchase at:
cdalley.com

Please email me off-list...as I will be on vacation
from tonight until Monday, and unsubscribed from both
lists...
Love, Jane Fondle



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From: "Phil Clark" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) minidisc adaptor
Date: 19 Oct 1999 13:58:02 +0100


someone wrote:

"Folks

after a recent trip to Japan, where my human companion bought a minidisc,
we now are having difficulty finding a Sony adaptor  ... i've been offered
non-Sony adaptors

can anyone confidently re-assure me that these won't damage the minidisc

thanks

Sem Sinatra"

do you mean a power adaptor? I have a minidisc walkman  MZR35 (great little
machine!) which I recharge with a standard multi-voltage adaptor available
from just about any high street market here in the UK for about gbp5.00
Providing you match the input voltage and amperage and the plug polarity
exactly, you sohuld have no problem using such a device. These details will
be given in the unit manual and/or will be written on the machine itself.

In fact several retailers here in the UK sell MD equipment with these
generic power units and not the original Sony units (which are expensive).

hth
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From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mercury war of the worlds
Date: 19 Oct 1999 08:42:00 PDT


Does anyone know of an online source (mp3 preferably) for the orson welles
mercury theater performance of war of the worlds? extracts would be cool
either, and yes i know that mass hysteria didn't actually break out on its
broadcast (he did manage to get himself picked up by the coppers as a
publicity stunt though).
thanks in advance
save my arse
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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Big TNT Show
Date: 19 Oct 1999 12:09:10 -0400


At 07:28 AM 10/19/99 -0700, chuck wrote:
.
>
>Pet Clark always seems to have a bit of now sound  even on her pop hits.

It's funny that you'd see "now sound" and "pop" as any kind of potential
contradiction.  This reminds me how inexact a term "Now Sound" is,
especially when used by me.
I use it as an umbrella term to describe virtually any instrumental cover
of a sixties pop or rock hit.
But I think it has a more specific meaning, having more to do with
arrangement and instrumentation and sound and less to do with the songs
that are covered.
And in that context, I consider Petula Clark to be absolutely "Now"
sounding.  And Tony Hatch, the composer of at least one of her biggest
hits, virtually defines the sound on his "solo" LP's.
Just as DAVID McCallum - not Ian - does on his LP's.
It's basically big band music with a rock beat and a bit of extra guitar
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From: Maurizio Mansueti <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Il Giaguaro - The New Editorial Entertainment Magazine from Italy!
Date: 19 Oct 1999 18:38:25 +0200


Il Giaguaro
Editorial Entertainment Magazine

Il Giaguaro is a periodical publication with a quarterly deadline,
composed of a minimum of 56 color pages, with a centerfold poster and an
audio or video bonus included in each issue.  The cover-price is 15,000
Italian lire.
Il Giaguaro's topics are various: art, fashion, music, cinema,
photography, comics, theatre, design, motors, etc.  A magazine made to
truly divulge and entertain at the same time.  But the peculiarity of Il
Giaguaro lies in the fact that, out of the various arts, what is taken
into consideration is all that which was truly revolutionary and
avant-garde.  In particular, everything which emerged from the two most
productive decades of the twentieth century, the 60's and 70's.  Inside,
we will once again be able to read Michael Pergolani's interviews with
Cassius Clay, when he was still the undisputed king of the ring, with
Francis Bacon at the peak of his artistic enthusiasm, but also Lewis
Coates's interviews with Roger Corman, when he had just finished
shooting Wild Angels with Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra.  Il Giaguaro
will reprint the first Italian horror comics, by Alfredo Castelli (who
is now the scriptwriter for Martin Mystere), we will speak of TV serials
produced by RAI between the end of the 60's and the 70's, such as Il
Segno del Comando, Ritratto di Donna Velata, A.. come Andromeda, Dr.
Jekyll by Giorgio Albertazzi, etc.  We will publish interviews with Ugo
Pagliai and other stars of this stimulating television season.
We will hear the words of film-music authors such as Trovajoli,
Piccioni, Umiliani and Alessandroni, who will introduce us themselves to
the magic world of the "made in Italy soundtrack", which, nowadays, is
going through a second period of youth.
The centerfold poster is dedicated to the history of erotic
photography.  There will be room for the photographers who, through
their shots, decidedly accelerated the emancipation process of the
sexual customs of the Italians.
The most prestigious motors, the most luxurious automobiles, the fastest
ones, the various models and their perforinances, will all be covered in
a section especially dedicated to this issue.
"Metti una sera a cena con...": in this section, the chef of Il Giaguaro
will give us a taste of ecstasy with recipes and fiavors inspired by
various movie sets, where cuisine, especially in Italian cinema, is
ever-present.  Plus, record and film reviews.  Ample space will be
dedicated to Italian cinema, from Fellini to Mario Bava, with articles,
interviews and never seen before photographs of the main characters.
Il Giaguaro is a magazine which looks back, but with an eye on the
present-day, through a historical recovery filled with irony and passion
for the themes being covered.  The revival can be made with good taste
and depth.
.... may Il Giaguaro be with you....

IT'S OUT NOW!
(Inside "Il Giaguaro n=B0 0" an EP with some unreleased tracks of Ennio
Morricone and
an interview with Byron Werner about the origin of Space Age Bachelor
Pad Music.)

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From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ghost Riders in the Sky
Date: 19 Oct 1999 09:53:30 PDT


> >the sixteenth century, but Johnny's immediate ancestor is probably the
>Irish anti-war song which runs...With yer guns and drums and
>drums and guns...' In his 'Irish Minstrelsy,' Spurling suggests that
>this song (Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye)of soldier's protest dates back to
>1802, when Irish regiments were recruited for a campaign in Ceylon."
>

interesting post, i have always wondered how this tune was used in a gung-ho
context. also i knew they intended it ironically in dr. strangelove but i
couldn't see how. the only verse i can remember offhand from my youth goes-

ye haven't an arm, you haven't a leg aroo, aroo
you haven't an arm you haven't a leg aroo, aroo
you haven't an arm you haven't a leg
you're an eyeless, noseless, chickenless egg
sure you have to put in a bowl to beg
ach johnny i hardly knew you


kind of strong stuff, other verses about a husband going out to war and a
baby coming back and references to his impotence. i just couldn't imagine
soldiers actually being allowed to play this song (armies, of course, banned
many songs, such as the rather innocuous long way to tipperary, during the
first world war) as i've seen in american films.
rob

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Walker, on by?
Date: 19 Oct 1999 13:31:33 -0400


At 02:23 PM 10/18/99 -0700, Jane Fondle wrote:
>
>Hi!  It was mentioned on the exotica list a new Scott
>Walker song(is it new?) would be in the new Bond
>film...whaazzupwithit? Anybody know?

I could make a phone call and get you the exact info but I'm lazy.  There
IS a new soundtrack out by Scott.  I don't remember if it's all
instrumental or if he sings on a track.  This might be the same soundtrack
that has the Tindersticks on it.
If you can't find this and you don't know the Tindersticks records, you
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From: M H Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) minidisc adaptor
Date: 19 Oct 1999 19:39:34 +0100


Phil Clark wrote:

> do you mean a power adaptor? I have a minidisc walkman  MZR35 (great little
> machine!) which I recharge with a standard multi-voltage adaptor available
> from just about any high street market here in the UK for about gbp5.00
> Providing you match the input voltage and amperage and the plug polarity
> exactly, you sohuld have no problem using such a device. These details will
> be given in the unit manual and/or will be written on the machine itself.

You should also try an get one that says 'regulated' which should keep a
more constant voltage (still only 5pounds or so).

The problem with some companies is that they try and use a unique plug,
forcing you to buy the power supply from them too. If you can find a
plug that fits then you're fine. There's nothing special otherwise about
the power supply.


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From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Indian Summer
Date: 19 Oct 1999 14:44:10 -0500


Moritz wrote:

> > > While travelling with Katja in Canada and New England, exotic creatures
> > > had escaped from a pack of Indian black rice in our Munich home and
> > > taken over the kitchen.
> > No sign of any here... They obviously didn't originate from our kitchen!
> How can you be so sure?  What if they secretly looked into our plane tickets,
> while we were, say, in St.Gerome, to check out where we're from, then booked
> flights to Munich behind our backs and broke into our house, while we were
> still in Canada? Of course you wouldn't see a glimpse of them in your kitchen
> now! Never underestimate those bastards! However... I killed them all.
We'll have to look out for them I think... but there's maybe a chance
they took to your excellent stuffed pepper or potato salad recipes
and decided to go with you.   If this is the case they may have come
out back home when you were making a fresh batch. Mysteries abound!!!

Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Switched-On Basic Hip playlist
Date: 19 Oct 1999 12:00:33 -0700


Overdue and hastily-typed....

Switched-On Basic Hip can be found here:
http://www.xtabay.com/feelthyradio.htm
A mix prepared by the venerable BASIC HIP

Harry Breuer - March of the Martians; The Happy Moog
Hot Butter - Song of the Nairobi Trio; Popcorn
Rick Powell- I Walk the Line; Switched-on Country
Sid Bass - Spanish Flea; Moog Espana (how does one put a "~" over the n?)
Christopher Scott - Wives and Lovers; Switched-on Bacharach
Electronic Concept Orchestra - Grazin' in the Grass; Moog Groove
Marty Gold - Norwegian Wood; Moog Plays the Beatles
Mort Garson - Hair; Electronic Hair Pieces
Claude Denjean - Sugar, Sugar; Moog!
Enoch Light - Marrakesh Express; Permissive Polyphonics
Hugo Montenegro - Sunshine of My Life; Hugo in Wonderland
Gil Trythall - Pold Salad Annie; Switched-on Moog
Dick Hyman - Time is Tight (!) Age of Electronicus
The Zeet Band - Moogie Boogie; Moogie Woogie
Ron Frangipane - Smile a Little Smile For Me; Rated X for Xcitement
Christopher Scott - Wishin' and Hopin'; More Switched-On Bacharach
Electric Concept Orchestra- Je T'aime...Moi Non Plus; Electric Love
Gershon Kingsley - Nowhere Man; Music to Moog by
Mort Garson - The Ride of Aida (Voodoo); Black Mass Voodoo
Claude Denjean - Hony Cat; Open Circuit
Enoch Light - What the World Needs Now...; Spaced Out
Hugo Montenegro - Porcupine Pie; Neil's Diamonds
Ruth White - Polka From "The Age of Gold;" Short Circuits
Richard Hayman - Dansero; Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine
Gil Trythall - Folsom Prison Blues; Switched-on Nashville
The Moog Machine - Spinning Wheel; Switched-on Rock
Walter Carlos - What's New, Pussycat; By Request
Walter Sear - Hey Jude; The Copper-Plated Integrated Circuit: Plugged-in Pop



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Subject: Re:  (exotica) Re: Indian Summer
Date: 19 Oct 1999 15:02:47 EDT



In a message dated 10/19/99 2:45:52 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>While travelling with Katja

How come I don't get a chance to travel with a woman named Katja?  James
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From: "Jeff Chenault" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Russ Garcia's "Fantastica"
Date: 19 Oct 1999 16:38:04 -0400


Hello Everyone,

Russ Garcia's album is already available as a Japanese import.  Very
expensive but still cheaper than if you found a mint stereo copy of the
vinyl.  In addition the sound was taken directly off the masters and it is
truly INCREDIBLE.  Hopefully someone here in the states will put this out
domestically.

Ciao,
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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) more darned tv
Date: 19 Oct 1999 18:24:17 -0400


AMC's rock 'n' roll movie this Saturday night (10:00pm and 4:00am, eastern)
is "Let The Good Times Roll" (1973) a documentary of an early-70s
50s-reunion concert, which makes for odd vibes in the late 90s.

Now with Halloween approaching, the programmers are really cutting loose
the gates on Halloweeny movies. I'm not even going to try condensing it for
on-list consumption. If you're interested, just go here, okay?
http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/tvscavenger.html

A couple of items of particular interest...

Sunday night, TCM is showing the full eight hour "Les Vampires" -- a 1915
French serial. From the little bit I can gather, it's not actually about
vampires, but rather a femme fatale-led gang of high-tech jewel thieves.
Supposedly pretty cool and full of street location footage.

Monday night, TCM goes nuts with everything from "Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari"
(1919) to Polanski's "The Fearless Vampire Killers" (1967). Bela's "White
Zombie" (1932) too -- great atmosphere in that. Don't miss the mill scene
-- talk about food impurities!

Same night, AMC has "Mad Monster Party" (1967), a Rankin & Bass animated
puppet thing. It's kind of like a kiddie monster record cover come to life.
A little juvenile, but fun. MAD magazine founder, Harvey Kurtzman, was
involved and one can see his hand here and there, like in the design of
some of the characters (especially the cute babe character).

And there's plenty of non Halloweeny material, like another showing of
"Little Fugitive" (you haven't seen it yet? after Basic Hip gave you the
woid?) and... "Laura".

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From: "Elisabeth Vincentelli" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Beat Girl soundtrack
Date: 19 Oct 1999 19:00:08 -0500


The whole thing (18 tracks) is paired with the Stringbeat soundtrack on a CD
released in 1990 by Play it Again (Play 001, UK). I highly recommend it. And
I believe it is indeed the John Barry Seven appearing in the club scenes.

Elisabeth

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>From: King Kini <[e-mail]>
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: (exotica) Beat Girl soundtrack
>Date: Mon, Oct 18, 1999, 11:37 PM
>

>
> the Beat Girl title track is available on the Ultra-Lounge CD "Mondo
> Hollywood" (Capitol) as well as on the John Barry comp "The EMI
> Years, Vol. 1" (Scamp).
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From: Paul Penna <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) RE: Sony Minidisc adaptor
Date: 19 Oct 1999 16:28:15 -0700


[e-mail] wrote:

>after a recent trip to Japan, where my human companion bought a minidisc,
>we now are having difficulty finding a Sony adaptor  ... i've been offered
>non-Sony adaptors
>
>can anyone confidently re-assure me that these won't damage the minidisc

What exactly do you mean by "adaptor"? Something which actually plays the
MiniDisc? Something to convert the power to your standard?




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From: "Craig L. Carlson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More TNT
Date: 19 Oct 1999 19:50:14 -0400


m. ace wrote:

>Petula Clark was a lot cooler than Joan Baez (give the vibrato a break
>already, Joan),

Petula was in fine voice, it was great to hear her version of "You're the
One". As to Joan Baez, well giver her credit for taking a shot at "Lovin'
Feeling"; her take on "There But for Fortune" gave me chills (she's an
underated fingerstyle guitarist, too). Is it just the way my mind works
(from the gutter) or was that whole "Lovin' Feeling" production staged by
Mr. Spector in hopes of getting in Joan's pants? Sitting next to her on the
piano bench...and he hardly ever took his eyes off her...

>but Bo Diddley was farging monumental!

Truly awesome! And the matching free-form Gretsch guitars didn't hurt
either...

And what a tight band the Spoonful were!

I'll watch it again.

Craig

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Subject: Re:  (exotica) More TNT
Date: 19 Oct 1999 19:57:30 EDT



In a message dated 10/19/99 7:54:58 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Bo Diddley was farging monumental!

Speaking of whom, I just came across a 45 on RCA by the Joe Reisman Orchestra
and Chorus...a fake-latinized version of Bo Diddley.  Monumentally crazed and
a song for this list!  Use some today


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Musically Mad
Date: 19 Oct 1999 20:12:03 EDT


Musically Mad is by Bernie Green and His Stereo Mad Men.  Bernie Green also
brought us Futura (one of the best from the stereo action series).  Musically
Mad is also very good.  He has one other essential LP called Bernie Green
Plays More Than You Can Stand in Hi-Fi.

Musically Mad reminds me a bit of Spike Jones murdering the classics at time,
but not nearly as obnoxious.

Sean


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) more darned tv (clarification)
Date: 19 Oct 1999 21:33:14 -0400


>Sunday night, TCM is showing the full eight hour "Les Vampires" -- a 1915
>French serial. From the little bit I can gather, it's not actually about
>vampires, but rather a femme fatale-led gang of high-tech jewel thieves.
>Supposedly pretty cool and full of street location footage.

Duuuh, and that would be street location footage of 1915 Paris. That being
the point of saying it in the first place. I'll make sense eventually,
someday.

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From: [e-mail] (Tosh)
Subject: Re: (exotica) more darned tv (clarification)
Date: 19 Oct 1999 18:40:39 -0700 (PDT)


>"Les Vampires" -- a 1915
>>French serial. is simply fantastic!  Do see it!!!

-----------------
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TamTam Books
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Subject: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 19 Oct 1999 21:53:46 EDT


I have been having limited success sending some newly burned CDs to a friend
of mine.  I have experimented with all different brands, colors, etc. of
blank CDs and they all seem to perform the same on my equipment.

Can some of the list members post their opinions/experiences using different
brands and "colors" of blank CDs?

BTW, I am working on a killer CD which will have the original cuts from the
Tiki Room and Jungle Cruise.  Totally exciting.

Thanks,

Tiki Bob


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Date: 19 Oct 1999 22:15:19 EDT


In a message dated 10/19/99 6:54:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I have experimented with all different brands, colors, etc. of
 blank CDs and they all seem to perform the same on my equipment. >>

By this I mean they are working fine on my equipment.  On one friend's
equipment he is reporting wierd problems.  Nothing played with one CD and
another only played on one channel.

Thanks again,

Tiki Bob


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From: Jim Gerwitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Big TNT Show and more
Date: 19 Oct 1999 20:24:56 -0700


m.ace wrote <Petula Clark was a lot cooler than Joan Baez (give the
vibrato a break already, Joan), but Bo Diddley was farging monumental!>

Gary Lewis was positively Dork-A-Delic in the post movie interview(thank
god my VCR timer shut off). In the TNT Show the Ronettes were
bee-hived-to-heaven gorgeous and danced up a storm to "Shout,"  thought
I saw Phil himself sitting at the piano for a bit, Joan Baez utterly
massacred "You've Lost That Lovin Feeling"(the horror...the horror), and
Bo Diddley as always rocked, no 4-cornered guitar but three girl
singers, one playing rockin rhythm gee-tar!! Throw in the Raelettes(with
Ray) and the Ikettes(with Ike & Tina) and quite a show. The occasional
orchestra "conducting" by David McCallum(aka Illya Kuryakin) made
Lawrence Welk look like Toscaninini, but David was probably just pushing
one of his cash-in instrumental LP's for the teenyboppers that had his
photo on the cover and little else. Now where the hell is the full
version of the TAMI show with THE classic good-footin cape-flinging
James Brown, the Miracles dancing a wild monkey, hitch-hikin' Marvin,
Lesley Gore and the Stones with Brian?

AMC repeats everything. "Don't Knock the Twist" was a pleasant surprise
a few weeks back, lots of old farts like me and kids dancing to
surprisingly decent twist music. The hep cats that hung out with Chubby
Checker were calling him "Chub."  Soon AMC will repeat the lame "Beach
Ball" with the Supremes singing Motown surf music and Scott Walker
batting his eyelashes. The insanely curious should tape and fast
forward.

JB Le Noir


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Black Velvet Exotica
Date: 20 Oct 1999 04:12:19 EDT


the MUSEUM of VELVET PAINTING, SEATTLE has a website with
Photos of the "VILLA VELOUR the Masterpieces of Edgar William Leeteg" show
that happened at BUMBERSHOOT in SEATTLE in early September 1999.
The show exhibited the Bob Brooks Collection of 25 Leetegs that used to hang
in
the 7 Seas Nightclub on Hollywood Boulevard for many years. Go to

http://www.scn.org/arts/villavelour

and click on 'events' to see some highlights of the show.
Under 'products' there is a LEETEG year 2000 calendar, and the new LEETEG
book available
by mailorder.

in conjunction with this show and to promote John Turner's new book
about Leeteg Tiki News is co-sponsoring a film night in Oakland on Thursday
Dec 9, 1999
more info on that as the date approaches



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Il Giaguaro - Italian magazine
Date: 20 Oct 1999 04:12:26 EDT


Il Giaguaro

Editorial Entertainment Magazine


Il Giaguaro is a periodical publication with a quarterly deadline,

composed of a minimum of 56 color pages, with a centerfold poster and an


audio or video bonus included in each issue.  The cover-price is 15,000

Italian lire.

Il Giaguaro's topics are various: art, fashion, music, cinema,

photography, comics, theatre, design, motors, etc.  A magazine made to

truly divulge and entertain at the same time.  But the peculiarity of Il


Giaguaro lies in the fact that, out of the various arts, what is taken

into consideration is all that which was truly revolutionary and

avant-garde.  In particular, everything which emerged from the two most

productive decades of the twentieth century, the 60's and 70's.  Inside,


we will once again be able to read Michael Pergolani's interviews with

Cassius Clay, when he was still the undisputed king of the ring, with

Francis Bacon at the peak of his artistic enthusiasm, but also Lewis

Coates's interviews with Roger Corman, when he had just finished

shooting Wild Angels with Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra.  Il Giaguaro

will reprint the first Italian horror comics, by Alfredo Castelli (who

is now the scriptwriter for Martin Mystere), we will speak of TV serials


produced by RAI between the end of the 60's and the 70's, such as Il

Segno del Comando, Ritratto di Donna Velata, A.. come Andromeda, Dr.

Jekyll by Giorgio Albertazzi, etc.  We will publish interviews with Ugo

Pagliai and other stars of this stimulating television season.

We will hear the words of film-music authors such as Trovajoli,

Piccioni, Umiliani and Alessandroni, who will introduce us themselves to


the magic world of the "made in Italy soundtrack", which, nowadays, is

going through a second period of youth.

The centerfold poster is dedicated to the history of erotic

photography.  There will be room for the photographers who, through

their shots, decidedly accelerated the emancipation process of the

sexual customs of the Italians.

The most prestigious motors, the most luxurious automobiles, the fastest


ones, the various models and their perforinances, will all be covered in


a section especially dedicated to this issue.

"Metti una sera a cena con...": in this section, the chef of Il Giaguaro


will give us a taste of ecstasy with recipes and fiavors inspired by

various movie sets, where cuisine, especially in Italian cinema, is

ever-present.  Plus, record and film reviews.  Ample space will be

dedicated to Italian cinema, from Fellini to Mario Bava, with articles,

interviews and never seen before photographs of the main characters.

Il Giaguaro is a magazine which looks back, but with an eye on the

present-day, through a historical recovery filled with irony and passion


for the themes being covered.  The revival can be made with good taste

and depth.

.... may Il Giaguaro be with you....


IT'S OUT NOW!

(Inside "Il Giaguaro n=B0 0" an EP with some unreleased tracks of Ennio

Morricone and

an interview with Byron Werner about the origin of Space Age Bachelor

Pad Music.)


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From: Craig Carlson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Musically Mad
Date: 19 Oct 1999 12:42:28 -0700 (PDT)


[e-mail] wrote:

>Musically Mad by *somebody* and the stereo mad men.
>It does have cool stereo panning sound and if memory
>serves you are correct about it being on RCA.  I
>don't really recommend this LP,

I agree with Larry; any Enoch Light percussion lp is
as much fun as this one. However, "Mad Twists (Rock
and Roll)" and "Fink Along With Mad" are squarely in
the Mad magazine jugular vein (ca. early '60s). "She
Got a Nose Job", "Agnes, the Teen-age Russian Spy"
(she gets executed!) etc, are all on my adolescent top
40.

BTW, all three of these lp's in their entirety were
recently posted to alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1960s.

Craig
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Henke / Burton CD-R
Date: 20 Oct 1999 01:22:44 EDT


Sorry for the delay getting back to all that requested this CD-R

It survived my computer's "illness" and is complete and ready to ship.

The complete African Lament and Dynamic Adventures In Sound LP's, plus 4
short Mel Henke bonus tracks from The IN Sound For The Commercial Industry.

Please let me know if still interested.  Look for future postings of upcoming
projects soon.  Probably one a month.

Bye for now -

ford



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Musically Mad
Date: 20 Oct 1999 01:02:44 EDT


sean writes:

<< Musically Mad is by Bernie Green and His Stereo Mad Men.  Bernie Green
also
 brought us Futura (one of the best from the stereo action series).
Musically
 Mad is also very good.  He has one other essential LP called Bernie Green
 Plays More Than You Can Stand in Hi-Fi >>

Hey!  I have another, although not necessarily in the essential category,
"NFL Marching Songs" (RCA).

Very early sixties, featuring all of the NFL team logos and a marching tune
for each.  Every track starts off with a brief intro from a coach, QB owner,
etc.

I think he is "Bernard Green" on this one.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Sony Minidisc Mains adaptor
Date: 20 Oct 1999 10:31:18 +0000


Folks (Paul Michael Phil Ron)

thanks for your info :-)

>> do you mean a power adaptor? I have a minidisc walkman  MZR35 (great little
>> machine!) which I recharge with a standard multi-voltage adaptor available
>> from just about any high street market here in the UK for about gbp5.00
>> Providing you match the input voltage and amperage and the plug polarity
>> exactly, you sohuld have no problem using such a device. These details will
>> be given in the unit manual and/or will be written on the machine itself.
>
>You should also try an get one that says 'regulated' which should keep a
>more constant voltage (still only 5pounds or so).

a guy in Tottenham Ct Rd (electrical goods heaven in London) tried to sell
me a non-Sony one for about 19 quid but i was unsure at that time

i found one in the house, which although it had the right plug bit wouldn't
work ... checked the polarity and voltage was correct but only got a
strange clicking noise ... Phil, what make of adaptor do you use?

i'm going to get a sign made for our house ... "House of Clicks" ...
knowing my luck i'd get a load of short-sighted horny blokes turning up

friendly

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Subject: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 20 Oct 1999 10:10:57 +0000



>I have been having limited success sending some newly burned CDs to a friend
>of mine.  I have experimented with all different brands, colors, etc. of
>blank CDs and they all seem to perform the same on my equipment.
>
>Can some of the list members post their opinions/experiences using different
>brands and "colors" of blank CDs?

>By this I mean they are working fine on my equipment.  On one friend's
>equipment he is reporting wierd problems.  Nothing played with one CD and
>another only played on one channel.

i use BASF 'blue' CDs ... Lacie writer ... the only time I've had a problem
is when I wrote too close to the edge of the topside of the CD ... after a
while, that CD clicked all the time (but out of time, dammit) it was playing

sounds like your friends are playing tricks on you ........... or is it
your mind?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

friendly

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From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) British schoolgirl pushed past boiling point by Welsh pelvis
Date: 20 Oct 1999 11:58:34 +0200


 Tom Jones sends his audience running for the aisle to throw
 underwear. Is this a wholesome orgy or an intergenerational
 sacred rite?

 Panty Raid - By Virginia Vitzthum

 Oct. 19, 1999 | Seeing Tom Jones in concert revealed new
 dimensions in the semiotics of panty-throwing. I'd witnessed the
 ritual only once before, at my first Cramps show in 1989. Like
 Jones, the Cramps are a sexual cartoon; they make black-leather,
 gender-bending, rockabilly that Betty Boop or Jessica Rabbit
 might dance to. That night guitarist Poison Ivy played with bent
 legs spread and an Elvis sneer on her gorgeous lips, while her
 husband, front man Lux Interior, panted and hiccuped and
 howled in a leather G-string and four-inch stilettos, fellating the
 microphone, humping the speakers and rubbing his sweat
 orgiastically into his chest and crotch. It was a ridiculous,
 adolescent spectacle, but I was swept up and turned on, as was
 everyone else around me.

 Etcetera, etcetera.

 http://www.salon1999.com/health/sex/urge/1999/10/19/tomjones/index.html



 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
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 ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~
 ~~~ ~~~     Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected.    ~~~ ~~~
 ~~~  http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/Xbe3975.ram  ~~~
 ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~


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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 20 Oct 1999 20:37:45 -0700



Some CD players HATE CDR's.  If your CDR works well in your equipment -
meaning your CD player, not the 'puter - and you can play it successfully in
other decks, then I would start suspecting his player. I have taken
suspicious CDR's to electronic stores to get a bigger sampling of players
before. You might try the same.

I have a good one, I just spent hours recording some voice-tracks that I
delivered on CD. I got a call saying the tracks sounded like Mikey Mouse. I
re-burned the CD and checked it again. No problem. A few hours later I get
the same call, only this time  slightly less polite. I take back the disks
and this time play them in my car cd player...Mickey Mouse accompanies me
back to the studio. When I get back, I open the individual files and play
them without the famous rodent rearing it's ugly head. After 20 minutes of
head-scratching, I notice that the tracks were recorded as MONO WAV files.
My computer did not care, since I was reading the CD info as data files, not
CD tracks. DUH!!! Had I taken the time to check the disk in a regular CD
player, I could have saved myself 2 days, 45 miles, and some face.I returned
again with a working CD, and mumbled something about corrupt data, blah,
blah,,,,


Ron Grandia




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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 20 Oct 1999 12:01:52 +0200


I've recorded some blue BASF CDRs for Brian and most of them didn't play
on his really old CD player. On newer equipment apparently no problems.

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From: Michael Davidson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mad Magazine LP?
Date: 20 Oct 1999 17:38:45 +0100


In message , [e-mail] writes
>Musically Mad by *somebody* and the stereo mad men.  It does have cool stereo
>panning sound and if memory serves you are correct about it being on RCA.  I
>don't really recommend this LP, certainly not for the big dollars it usually
>sells for.  There are a couple of fun pieces, like a parody of percussion
>records and a parody of Kenton type modern jazz, and one song with the melody
>played by hands being squeezed together to make farting sounds.  Apart from
>those 3 songs I was very bored by this record.

A big "thank you!" to all those that answered this!
Nice to have one of those mystery musical memories finally solved.

The LP I remember is indeed "Musically Mad" by Bernie Green and His
Stereo Mad Men (RCA)

The hand squeezing farting type track I remember well.

I've actually now found a copy of the Liner notes for a Rhino
compilation of MAD Magazine songs @
http://rhinorecords.com/Albums/72435lin.html
These mention this album & compares it to similar stuff by Spike Jones.

I've just started a project scanning LP covers from obscure New Zealand
LP's - stuff that probably had very limited distribution even here.
I seem to collect crap records like this - in house restaurant bands
etc.

First up its "Shaun at Wairakei" (Volume 2)
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~pinwhiz/shaun.htm

There are in fact at least 3 volumes of this (its all fairly dull
cocktail piano.)  Nice Tiki logo thou.

ta.

Mike


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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Beat Girl soundtrack
Date: 20 Oct 1999 08:48:49 -0500


At 7:00 PM 10/19/99, Elisabeth Vincentelli wrote:
>The whole thing (18 tracks) is paired with the Stringbeat soundtrack on a C=
D
>released in 1990 by Play it Again (Play 001, UK). I highly recommend it. An=
d
>I believe it is indeed the John Barry Seven appearing in the club scenes.

Thanks to all who wrote about the Beat Girl soundtrack. Will track it down.
Now will try to get the IMDB to post that info about the JB7 playing in the
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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Russ Garcia's "Fantastica"
Date: 20 Oct 1999 08:48:51 -0500


At 4:38 PM 10/19/99, Jeff Chenault wrote:

>Russ Garcia's album is already available as a Japanese import.

Label name, please. Thanks. Mimi




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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Blue Sands/Chico Hamilton
Date: 20 Oct 1999 08:48:44 -0500


At 8:51 PM 10/18/99, Darrell Brogdon wrote:
>It's another mixed bag on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast,
... >steamy exotica from...the Chico Hamilton Quintet (his "Gongs East" is
an exotic gem!).

Is Blue Sands on "Gongs East"? Heard the cut on a radio show where the DJ
plays superb music but seldom IDs the albums/CDs he's pulled them from.
Hamilton's Blue Sands is well worth checking out, too -- very moody and
sinuous. The Sorocco set to music. The cut appears on the West Coast Jazz
Box (Contemporary/Fantasy, 4 CDs, US 54.99 on sale at CDNow), but I'd love
to hear the entire album. Any background info about the song appreciated.
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From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 20 Oct 1999 10:26:05 -0400


"n.e.u. / Moritz R" wrote:
>
> I've recorded some blue BASF CDRs for Brian and most of them didn't play
> on his really old CD player. On newer equipment apparently no problems.

Gee, Mo, we don't exactly have an antique CD player!  However, the blue
CDs do not play on our machine - it has something to do with the
reflectivity of the colour, and the laser on the machine.  Yes, the
newer machines seem to read these just fine - as does our computer - but
our CD player will not read them at all.  Gold CDs work just fine - but
the blue ones can be problematic - not just in our machine, but in many
that are more than a few years old.

cheryl


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From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 20 Oct 1999 10:54:48 -0400


>Can some of the list members post their opinions/experiences using different
>brands and "colors" of blank CDs?

I've always just bought whatever was cheapest (Maxell, Imation)
without apparent ill effects. (Using Sony-based burner.)

I think there is a little too much "urban legend" going around about
different brands/colors of CD-R media. . . the key point is that at
the red wavelengths used by  pickup lasers in CD players, essentially
all brands/colors have similar reflectance. How they look to your eye
in white light just doesn't tell you that much.

There are a few older CD players that do choke on CD-Rs (any of which
are slightly less reflective than mass-produced CDs)--but I wonder if
*any* brand of media would make a difference?

>On one friend's
>equipment he is reporting wierd problems.  Nothing played with one CD and
>another only played on one channel.

The "one channel" part makes me wonder if something else is going on.
On an audio CD the left and right channels are interleaved in a
single data stream--I don't see how one channel could be decodable
and the other one not.

yours bit-fully,
  --Ross

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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 20 Oct 1999 08:15:55 -0700 (PDT)


Cheryl

I heard of this and experienced this problem also.  The GOLD cds that worked best for
me were really gold colored, like an ultra disc, and I thought they said maxell on
them.

My first bad experience with cds was with the Ursula 2000 blue original release.
Ursula plays fine at the office "new" cd player but doesn't play at home.    I've had a
similiar experience on 3 other cds fom exoticats that I love and wish I could play at
home.

Are these blue/green cds considered to increase in the number of dropouts as time
goes by??

Thanks for any info
Chuck
> --- cheryl <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > "n.e.u. / Moritz R" wrote:
> > >
> > > I've recorded some blue BASF CDRs for Brian and most of them didn't play
> > > on his really old CD player. On newer equipment apparently no problems.
> >
> > Gee, Mo, we don't exactly have an antique CD player!  However, the blue
> > CDs do not play on our machine - it has something to do with the
> > reflectivity of the colour, and the laser on the machine.  Yes, the
> > newer machines seem to read these just fine - as does our computer - but
> > our CD player will not read them at all.  Gold CDs work just fine - but
> > the blue ones can be problematic - not just in our machine, but in many
> > that are more than a few years old.

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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 20 Oct 1999 12:19:06 -0400


At 10:54 AM -0400 10/20/99, Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr wrote:

>I've always just bought whatever was cheapest (Maxell, Imation)
>without apparent ill effects. (Using Sony-based burner.)

>I think there is a little too much "urban legend" going around about
>different brands/colors of CD-R media. . .

I agree with Ross here. I've used a variety of different discs, and found
no audible difference between any of them. I've played them on a number of
different CD players as well. I have found, however, that Pioneer CD-R's,
which require a special 'for consumer use only' type of disc, oftentimes
won't play CD-R's burned on other machines.

For straight audio purposes, the cheapest ones work as well as their more
expensive bretheren. But for data, the cheaper ones are not as good and can
chew up your files.

>On an audio CD the left and right channels are interleaved in a
>single data stream--I don't see how one channel could be decodable
>and the other one not.

This is true as well. Sounds like faulty cabling to me.

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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Mad Magazine LP?
Date: 20 Oct 1999 13:53:58 +0200


Mike wrote:

>Its a MAD Magazine LP and I was *sure* it was one of the RCA Stereo Action
>series




    Bernie Green with the Stereo Mad-men: "Musically MAD"
    RCA LSP-1929
    i'd give it 5 stars, but i'm a novelty nut ;-)

        Johan


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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Puff-N-Stuff
Date: 20 Oct 1999 13:50:03 +0200


while on this subject: was the announced CD by Sid & Marty Krofft, "H.R.
Pufnstuf & Other Favorites" (Interscope) ever released?

        Johan


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Date: 20 Oct 1999 14:28:30 EDT



> >I think there is a little too much "urban legend" going around about
>  >different brands/colors of CD-R media. . .

Maybe brands, but color of media can make a slight difference, if you have an
older CD-R (older like 2 years) and you're having problems.  The older lasers
frequently are designed to optimally write to a specific color.  The CD-R
drive's manual should tell you what color the drive writes best with.  Most,
newer drives love the discs of all colors, races and creeds.

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Big TNT Show and more
Date: 20 Oct 1999 14:50:45 -0400


At 08:24 PM 10/19/99 -0700, Jim Gerwitz wrote:

>The occasional
>orchestra "conducting" by David McCallum(aka Illya Kuryakin) made
>Lawrence Welk look like Toscaninini, but David was probably just pushing
>one of his cash-in instrumental LP's for the teenyboppers that had his
>photo on the cover and little else.

I've never heard a definitive explanation about what role Ilya played on
those records of his but I have the four I know about and there are
wonderful cuts on each of them.  They may have been cash-ins but they have
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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 20 Oct 1999 15:06:20 -0400


At 12:19 PM 10/20/99 -0400, Br. Cleve wrote:
>
>I agree with Ross here. I've used a variety of different discs, and found
>no audible difference between any of them. I've played them on a number of
>different CD players as well.

Getting some kind of CD recording system now seems like an inevitability,
if for no other reason than to get rid of a whole bunch of records that
have that one cut that I keep for tapes I might someday make.
But have we reached the point yet that the technology is worked-out, that
the prices have come down etc?
And I still don't understand the difference between burning CD's in your
computer and the stand-alone machines that you record through your amp.  I
don't see myself doing the computer thing but is that still the better way?
I'm on the verge of making my first four CDR's using my friend's machine.
Two Now Sounds and two quasi-Crime Jazzes.  One of the reasons I resist
getting a CD recorder is that I fear the obsession growing a new tributary.
But what's the common wisdom, is there any and if the stand-alone machines
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 20 Oct 1999 15:40:57 -0400


At 3:06 PM -0400 10/20/99, Nat Kone wrote:

>....... I still don't understand the difference between burning CD's in your
>computer and the stand-alone machines that you record through your amp.  I
>don't see myself doing the computer thing but is that still the better way?

It probably is, but it isn't necessarily more cost effective. If you
already have some good recording software, you're all set and can buy one
of the cheap ass burners which run on the SCSI chain (none of this stuff
runs solidly over USB just yet). In my case, I'm running ProTools, Peak and
StudioVision in a digital recording environment, so I can get away with it.
From what I've heard from friends who have used the stand-alone machines,
you pretty much get what you pay for, and that the machines in the $1K and
up price range furnish the best results. I'm a little wary of the
Pioneer/Philips models that you have to buy special discs for, as we've run
into problems with them reading other discs at my friends studio (although
this would probably be less of a headache to the average person; but we've
run into problems during mastering sessions if the client brings in their
material on CD-R's made on other burners, as these machines won't play
those). Plus, those discs are not as ubiquitous or cheap as the standard
650MB discs.

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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices + my ebay stuff
Date: 20 Oct 1999 22:24:07 +0200


>But what's the common wisdom, is there any and if the stand-alone machines
>are good, what's a good one?

stand-alone cd recorders are better than pc cd burners.
Not even a direct SCSI copy (ie a physical copy from SCSI cdrom to SCSI cd
burner) is like that... and believe me, I know people who have been doing
serious tests with external recorders and pc burners.

p.s. if ya wanna take a look at my new ebay stuff... not much yet but
hopefully in a week or so I will put more online. I really have no time now :/

http://cgi3.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=djbatman@su
pereva.it
bye,
Nicola (Dj Batman) Battista

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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Long Live the Salvation Army!
Date: 20 Oct 1999 23:48:16 +0200


Record finds, September in Montreal, Toronto and New England
Average price 50 cents

Petula Clark                                  66
Ventures                                       Telstar
Al Green                                       Explores Your Mind
Al Green                                        Greatest Hits
(Compilation)                                 Happening Sounds
Jean Yves Labat                               Underwater Electronic
Orchestra
Roger Williams                               Plays the Hits
Chuck Sagle                                     Ping Pong Percussion
Jonah Jones                                    I Dig Chicks
(Compilation)                                Music to Wear Tee Kays By
The Sandpipers                              Gunatanamera
Martin Denny                                  !
Si Zentner                                      The Best of...
Bert Kaempfert                                Love That
Marais and Miranda                       South African Folk Songs
Martin Denny                                 Golden Greats
Edmundo Ros                                    Arriba
Ames Brothers                                Destination Moon
(Stereo Action)                                Crazy Rhythm
Henry Mancini                                The Latin Sound Of...
Henry Mancini                                Mancini Magic
Henry Mancini                                Our Man In Hollywood
Henry Mancini                                '67
Edith Hancke & Helen Vita               Wir sind suess, aber doof
Mataji et Swami                                Relaxation
Tom Clay                                         What The World Needs
Now...
(Stereo Action) Leo Addeo              Paradise Regained
Don Ho                                              Suck 'Em Up
(Living Stereo)                                Living Guitars
Edwin Hawkins Singers                     Let Us Go Into The House Of
The Lord
Chris Bruhn Disco Sound                   Dance In
Ferrante & Teicher                           Pianos In Paradise
Andre Kostelanetz                             Lure Of Paradise
Sounds Orchestral                             Cast Your Fate To The Wind

Bimbo Jet etc.                                   Bimbo Jet
Herb Alpert                                      Whipped Cream a.o.
The 3 Suns                                        For Listening &
Dancing
The 3 Suns                                      Twilight Memories
The 3 Suns                                        Fever& Smoke
Ray Conniff                                      'S Wonderful
Arthur Lyman                                   Greatest Hits
Ray Conniff                                      'S Marvelous
Hugo Montenegro                                This Is...
Annette                                             Hawaiiannette
Les Baxter                                         Strings, Guitars,
Voices
Les Baxter                                        Kaleidoscope
Mystic Moods Orchestra                    One Stormy Night
Enoch Light                                       Big Band Bossa Nova
The Hawaiian Serenaders                  Hawaii
Marais and Miranda                          ...Visit The African Veld
Perez Prado                                       Our Man In Latin
America
Burt Bacharach                                  Greatest Hits
Burt Bacharach                                  Btch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid
Burt Bacharach                                  Close To You
Burt Bacharach                                  Make It Easy On Yourself

Burt Bacharach                                  Reach Out
Burt Bacharach                                  Plays His Hits
(Compilation)                                    Disco Devil
Munich Machine                                 Body Shine
Munich Machine                                 A Whiter Shade Of Pale
Munich Machine                                  MM
Giorgio                                                E=Mc2
Giorgio                                                In White Satin
Penny McLean                                       Lady Bump
Ennio Morricone                                  L'Orchestra La Voce
Grover                                                 Sings The Blues
The Mighty Moog                                  Everything You Always
Wanted To Hear...
Edmundo Ros                                         Dance Again
The Charles Singers                             Something Wonderful
Carpenters                                            Ticket To Ride
Werner Mueller                                  Hawaiian Swing
Bacha Marimba Band                           Heads Up!
The Brass Ring                                     The Now Sound Of...
The Brass Ring                                     The Disadvantages Of
You
Moondog                                                Moondog
Dick Schory                                          Music For Bang
Baroom And Harp
Les Baxter                                             The Sacred Idol
Les Baxter                                            The Soul Of The
Drums
Henry Mancini                                      The Versatile....
(Command)                                          Provocative
Percussion
Nilsson                                                The Point

& 150 others

Mo

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 20 Oct 1999 18:11:00 EDT


In a message dated 10/20/99 12:26:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I agree with Ross here. I've used a variety of different discs, and found
 no audible difference between any of them. I've played them on a number of
 different CD players as well. I >>

this has been my experience but i can notice a "feathery" edge at the far
periphery of the cheaper CDs (like Dysan).  still i have not had playback
problems.

still yet, i am the one that started this thread because a friend of mine is
having wierd problems with playback.

there is some question if the "gold" colored cds will playback better on
older machines.  i have not even seen gold cds.  i usually use maxell,
imation, dysan or verbatim (the verbatim are very blue!).

so where are these gold cd's?  and another question, why aren't these things
just silver?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 20 Oct 1999 18:12:38 EDT


In a message dated 10/20/99 11:14:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Gold CDs work just fine  >>


a gold cd, a gold cd -- my kingdom for a gold cd.

any news on which ones are gold yet?

tb


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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) (Fwd) Enoch Light included in new Moog Compilation
Date: 21 Oct 1999 00:11:10 +0100


Just got this from The Disinformation Company (not sure whether
that means it's disinformation though!)

------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
I am writing to inform you that The Disinformation Company, Ltd.,
has released a compilation album with the help of Bob Moog which
includes "Bond Street" as recorded by Enoch Light and the Light
Brigade.  For additional information check out
www.bestofmoog.com.

Our site contains a statement from Bob Moog himself regarding the
time period between 1964 and 1970.  This essay is from the liner
notes to DisinformationÆs new compilation album released Tuesday
October 19th, appropriately titled "The Best of Moog."

...

Viva Analogue!!

Ron Butler
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
|d|i|s|i|n|f|o|r|m|a|t|i|o|n|
http://www.disinfo.com/
S. Ron Butler
The Disinformation Company Ltd.
107 Grand Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10013
tel. [phone] ext. 6661  fax [phone]
Books, CDs and Videos...The Disinfo Headshop
http://headshop.disinfo.com/
Free e-mail your boss can't read
http://www.disinfo.net/
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
------- End of Forwarded Message -------


** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** **
** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/  * ** ** **


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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) British schoolgirl pushed past boiling point by Welsh pelvis
Date: 20 Oct 1999 16:35:01 -0700


Thanks for the article. Though it was a bit... Hard to Handle.


(But I guess that's... Not Unusual.)


Eeeeeheeeheehehehehe! Somebody STOP me!



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Enoch Light Spaced Out CD
Date: 20 Oct 1999 19:37:01 -0400 (EDT)


If anyone's interested, I noticed that this place:
http://musicgraveyard.com/graveyard/pop.html
has Enoch Light's 'Spaced out' on CD available for $3.99

regards, Jonny

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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 20 Oct 1999 17:30:30 -0700


Ther reason I love my stand-alone machine is because I also have a minidisk
player and a DAT, so I am able to create master recordings on other more
forgiving media - the minidisk offers some basic editing features- then I
transfer digitally to the standalone CD recorder.  The downside of the CD
recorder is that there is no second chance if you blow-it by up-cutting a
track or if the levels are wrong, or whatever. Once it's there, it's there.

As for some of these machines that require "special" (read expensive) disks,
These can be fooled into using the cheap ones very easily. The
"special"disks are only special in that they have a little code on them to
tell the recorder "Yes, I am a special disk that was purchased for WAY to
much money" To which your recorder responds, "What a rube that guy/gal
is...Okay, I'll record on you."  But all one needs to do is remove the
"special" disk from the machine and substitue an "ordinary" (read: about 3
bucks cheaper) disk and record away! And I bet the machine will start
respecting you for your resourcefulness.

But for most applications, the PC-based burners are in my estimation the
best buy if you already have reasonably fast PC (233 mhz or faster) There
are some cheap, effective editing packages out there like CoolEdit that are
easy enough to learn. Once you have one good CD, you need not save the info
on the hard disk to make another, just put the disk in the CD player tray
and blank in the recorder, and WHAM-O you'll have a copy in a quarter of the
time it takes to listen to it.  The problem with these? If you don't keep
your system running tipity-top, you may end up pulling your hair out in
clumps with the frustration of making lotsa little gold frisbee/coaster/big
earring/no-worky cd's.
Just ask Basic-Hip.

Ron





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Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices + my ebay stuff
Date: 20 Oct 1999 20:49:14 EDT


In a message dated 10/20/99 4:29:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

> stand-alone cd recorders are better than pc cd burners.
>  Not even a direct SCSI copy (ie a physical copy from SCSI cdrom to SCSI cd
>  burner) is like that... and believe me, I know people who have been doing
>  serious tests with external recorders and pc burners.


It's just not a fair comparison.  A PC/Mac with a decent sound card can do
amazing things with digital audio manipulation.  A stand-alone recorder may
make great copies of other CDs, but it can't do a fraction of what a properly
tuned and equipped (software/hardware) computer can do, especially with
vinyl.

-RGB


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Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 20 Oct 1999 20:59:04 EDT




<< a gold cd, a gold cd -- my kingdom for a gold cd.

 any news on which ones are gold yet? >>

I found gold ones at the Guitar Center.  Apgoee is the brand.  I think
Quantegy makes gold ones too.  Marketing seems to be for the "audio
professional", so they are not on the shelves at Office Depot or Comp USA.

I don't know if they work any better or not.  The noontime, underground SF
MUNI trip I take down to 9th and Mission from the financial district to stock
up fills me with the sense that I am using something special when I strip the
wrap from one.

You can order them online if you can't find them locally...






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From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 3 Gals in Orchestraville
Date: 20 Oct 1999 17:22:33 -0700


I do hope this hasn't been mentioned:  A clever and totally creepy use of
the Sonovox in a film is A LETTER TO THREE WIVES (1949), directed by Joseph
L. Mankiewicz.  It occurs 3 times (once for each wife).  Check the flick out
regardless--Mankie won two Oscars for Best Director and Best Screenplay.
BTW, I still own my childhood Rusty LP the folks bought for us chillun back
in the 60s.  Beat to shit, it is.

C. "Ratso" Russo
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From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More on CD-R Media
Date: 20 Oct 1999 22:21:15 -0400


For those who want to read more about different CD-R media, here are
a couple of links:

http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/faq07.html
(From the massive and indispensable "CD-Recordable FAQ")

http://www.mitsuigold.com/tech_papers/manufa.htm
(From CD-R media manufacturer Mitsui)

Interestingly, it is Mitsui gold blanks to which people most often
ascribe magical powers. Yet their web site says:

"Visual differences between various media types are irrelevant from
the standpoint of their actual operation. At 75O nm, where CD-R
recorders and CD-ROM readers function, the media are, for all intents
and purposes, indistinguishable from an optical standpoint")

cheers,
  --Ross

|| Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr  <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 20 Oct 1999 23:28:08 EDT




<< I found gold ones at the Guitar Center.  Apgoee...>>

sorry, that is APOGEE.


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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Long Live the Salvation Army!
Date: 21 Oct 1999 11:17:50 +0200


Ron Grandia wrote:

> WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH
> YEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAHYEAH
>
> Now THAT's a shopping spree!
>
> Can you send the list again indicating Mono/Stereo and Condition of each?

 LOL. Well... as soon as my fingertips stop bleeding from typing this damn
list....

Seriously: Most records were in a good condition. From about 250 I bought I had
to dump 3 right away, because they were actually broken. Then there were about
5 records that were really scratchy, but no skips. The rest ranged from  OK to
almost mint. The Martin Denny Golden Greats was in fact Stereo and I replaced
my own Mono version with it.

Mo
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From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Plain Jayne
Date: 21 Oct 1999 11:36:54 +0200




I knew that Jayne Mansfield was no dumb blond
and that she had a degree in literature, and I
knew that she could sing, but I had no idea she
played the violin (and apparantly the piano too),
until I saw a fragment last week of her playing
a violin concerto (Mozart?), I mean, I'll treat
you all to a round of Gulpen Framboise if that
was playback. No, it was not great, but by no
means something to be ashamed of, it still beats
Vanessa Mae all the time, and Jayne certainly was
infinitely more sexy.

Cheers, Ton


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 ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~
 ~~~ ~~~     Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected.    ~~~ ~~~
 ~~~  http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/Xbe3975.ram  ~~~
 ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~


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From: Robbie Baldock <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Enoch Light Spaced Out CD
Date: 21 Oct 1999 11:45:55 +0100


Jonny wrote:

> If anyone's interested, I noticed that this place:
> http://musicgraveyard.com/graveyard/pop.html
> has Enoch Light's 'Spaced out' on CD available for $3.99

That's incredible news!  I've ordered 3 copies... ;-)


Robbie

Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website
http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/


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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Tonga Homepage
Date: 21 Oct 1999 13:04:00 +0200


I just discovered this: http://www.tiki.to

It's actually run by someone I know from Frankfurt, Germany, but
registered in Tonga.

Mo

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From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dick Schory
Date: 21 Oct 1999 04:27:52 -0700 (PDT)


Hey all,

I happen to have a copy of Dick Schory's Runnin' Wild,
but it's missing the inner liner; you know, the part
with the neato design that shows through the cut out
and all the liner notes and stuff?

Anyway, I was wondering if someone somewhere had a
beat dead unplayable copy that they wouldn't mind
selling (or giving) me the liner from.  I'd sure
appreciate it, as it's been buggin' me a while.

Thanks!
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Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 21 Oct 1999 07:32:25 EDT


In a message dated 10/20/99 2:27:55 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< the only time I've had a problem
 is when I wrote too close to the edge of the topside of the CD ... after a
 while, that CD clicked all the time (but out of time, dammit) it was playing
  >>

do you think this is because some blank CD-R brands have a "feathery" edge at
the periphery?

tb


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Date: 21 Oct 1999 07:51:54 EDT


In a message dated 10/20/99 12:03:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<<  I
 don't see myself doing the computer thing but is that still the better way?
 I'm on the verge of making my first four CDR's using my friend's machine.
 Two Now Sounds and two quasi-Crime Jazzes.  One of the reasons I resist
 getting a CD recorder is that I fear the obsession growing a new tributary.
 But what's the common wisdom, is there any and if the stand-alone machines
 are good, what's a good one? >>


if you are wanting to clean up vinyl, make mixes, etc., the computer burning
is the way to go.

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From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Sony Minidisc Mains adaptor
Date: 21 Oct 1999 09:49:49 -0500


A bit more tech talk on power adaptors:

> i found one in the house, which although it had the right plug bit wouldn't
> work ... checked the polarity and voltage was correct but only got a
> strange clicking noise ... Phil, what make of adaptor do you use?
You must match not just the voltage & polarity but the current as
well.  Many items like powered speakers, etc. draw more current than
say a radio. Current requirements/ratings are given in milliamperes
(ma) for small devices. The usual problem is not enough current
rather than too much, at these low voltages. You may never match
exactly but on a device with a motor you may be most likely to notice
problems if the match is incorrect (vs. say speakers).

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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Dallas Bower,Stanley L. Dritz,Thomas Durden
Date: 21 Oct 1999 09:55:55 -0400


The Associated Press
Thursday, Oct. 21, 1999; 5:15 a.m. EDT

LONDON ûû Dallas Bower, a pioneer television producer who also worked in early radio and cinema, died Monday. He was 92.

                  Bower began sound recording in radio when broadcasting was a novelty. He moved to cinema and then to television, where he became the first producer of drama and opera for the British Broadcasting Corp.

                  He also directed feature films and documentaries, and was associate producer of Laurence Olivier's 1944 film "Henry V."

                  One of Bower's first jobs was to record the soundtrack for Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film "Blackmail" for British International Pictures. That year he also recorded the first all-talking British film, "Under the Greenwood Tree."

                  Bower was appointed to the BBC Television Service in 1936. During World War II, he made propaganda films as an executive producer in the government's Ministry of Information.

                  Stanley L. Dritz
                  NEW YORK (AP) û Stanley L. Dritz, who popularized the zipper and other sewing products as part of his family's business, died Saturday in White Plains, N.Y. He was 88.

                  As president of John Dritz & Sons, Dritz raised the consumer appeal of a hookless fastener he had first seen in England. He made the fastener, commonly known as the zipper, out of plastic and rustproof metals.

                  It was one of the hundreds of sewing aids found in his company's catalog, which also included the seam ripper and the electric scissors.

                  Dritz was born in New York City and joined his father's business after graduating from college. He was president in the 1950s and 1960s, and the company was sold upon his retirement.

                  Thomas Durden
    BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) -- Thomas Durden, who wrote the lyrics to one of Elvis Presley's early big hits, ``Heartbreak Hotel,'' has died at age 79.
    ``He wrote a lot of good music that is out there. It's just that `Heartbreak Hotel' is the famous one,'' said his stepson, John
White.
    Durden, who died Sunday at his home in Houghton Lake, met Presley as a result of the song. Presley called him ``sir'' and sent Durden Christmas cards to show his appreciation, White said.
    Durden co-wrote ``Heartbreak Hotel'' with Mae Boren Axton of Nashville, Tenn., who died in 1997. For reasons never explained, Presley also was given writing credit even though it was the work of Durden and Axton.
    Durden was born in Georgia and grew up in Florida, where his older brother had a musical influence on him. Durden had a good voice and a special talent for playing the steel guitar, which he refined throughout his life, White said.
    In 1956, Durden was single and performing with a band in Jacksonville, Fla., when he came across a newspaper account of a man who had committed suicide, White said.
    The man left a note that said, ``I walk a lonely street,''and Durden used it as the basis for ``Heartbreak Hotel,'' which begins:
    ``Since my baby left me
    ``I found a new place to dwell
    ``down at the end of lonely street at
    ``Heartbreak Hotel.''
    Durden continued to write and perform music, playing with Nashville legends like Johnny Cash and touring with Tex Ritter, White said.
    He moved north to the Houghton Lake area and lived there for about 40 years. He performed with bands in northern Michigan, and their sets always included his hit song, White said.
    In a 1982 interview, Durden spoke of the impact ``Heartbreak Hotel'' had on his life.
    ``I wish I had 12 more songs just like it,'' Durden said. ``It
has paid the rent for more than 20 years, but you can't get rich writing songs unless you have a lot of big ones.''


(SALT LAKE CITY) --
The world's oldest living zoo gorilla has died in the Salt Lake City zoo at the age of 50,leaving behind a cat named N'Jina. The entire city is mourning the death of Gorgeous, who was captured as an infant and spent most of her half-century at the Hogle Zoo. Gorgeous seemed to be doing fine after losing her teeth to a gum infection this month. She found dead in her cage over the weekend, apparently from old age. Although she was blind in one eye, Gorgeous lived a good 15-years longer than most zoo gorillas. To keep her company as she got older, her keepers gave her the kitten as a companion. For the past six years, Gorgeous and N'Jina have been inseparable.

   BANGKOK, Oct 15 (AFP) - Thailand's top snake charmer was killed by one of his cobras after it turned on him during a show, reports here said Friday.
   The three meter (10 foot) cobra sunk its teeth into 59-year-old Lod Pramuang's right leg, as he performed a boxing routine with the snake, the Bangkok Post reported.
   Lod swallowed a dose of herbal medicine after finishing his snake charming show in the northeastern province of Khon Kaen, but his condition deteriorated and he died later in hospital.

    NEW YORK (AP) -- A man building shelves in his apartment to store cages for his 12 pet pythons died when he fell off a ladder and
onto a drill, police said Monday.
    The drill bit penetrated the right side of 36-year-old Thomas Giacometti's head Sunday night, police spokeswoman Theresa Farello said.
    Giacometti's brother, who shared the basement apartment, discovered the body and called police.
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Anatomy of a Genius

The Man With the Golden Arm, Psycho, Vertigo, Anatomy of a Murder, and
on and on and on. Great movies with great graphics by Saul Bass. This
is a media-rich homage page and labor of love. And I really want
those fonts used on the site!
World Wide Web: http://www.Saulbass.co.uk/
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StonerSound

StonerSound is an interesting automatic music app that is free. Authored by Andrew Plotkin, it is perfect for low level ambiance of a psychotronic nature. This is critical when you can't bear the conversation coming from the nearest cubicle any longer. You will need a Mac with System 7 or later and the QuickTime musical architecture. The perfect soundtrack for when you roll your eyes back and start whimpering, "I hear those voices again." World Wide Web:
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Stoner_sound/
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Don's Boss Page

Here's a helpful series of applications that let you surf the Web at work and not get caught. There's an instant spreadsheet which can be loaded on a dime, sound files to fool your coworkers that can make it sound like you're hard at work - typing, talking on the phone ...  whipping .... yes, whipping, even whipping and typing!  There are also tutorials for useful boss-deceiving techniques.
Don's Boss Page -- http://donsbosspage.com/







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Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 21 Oct 1999 10:11:16 -0500


Moritz wrote:

> I've recorded some blue BASF CDRs for Brian and most of them didn't play
> on his really old CD player. On newer equipment apparently no problems.
Our computer CD drive plays everything. I should mention that we have
a California Audio Labs  "Icon" CD player complete with a new laser
assembly and 20 bit /HDCD enhancement board and that this is no
cheap machine! The problem, as was explained to me by the company,
is that the output of the lasers of this generation (circa 1992) are
not as high as the newer ones and the reflectivity index on blue (vs
gold or silver) CD's is lower. I have few to no problems with silver
or gold CDR's.  Still, I brought back two blue Japanese recorded
CDR's from France that work perfectly and have had some gold ones
that sometimes miss. so who knows for certain!  Still I'd have a
tough time justifying the $1,000+ (probably closer to $2,000 in our
$%!#* Canadian dollars) for a comparable replacement as the sound on
this thing rivals that of a high end turntable!  And the frightening
thing is that by high end audio standards this machine is right near
the bottom...



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Date: 21 Oct 1999 11:43:55 EDT


In a message dated 10/20/99 11:28:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< sorry, that is APOGEE. >>

apo*gee (noun)

[French apogee, from New Latin apogaeum, from Greek apogaion, from  neuter of
apogeios, apogaios far from the earth, from apo- + ge, gaia earth]

First appeared 1594

 1 : the point in the orbit of an object (as a satellite) orbiting the earth
that  is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth; also : the
point  farthest from a planet or a satellite (as the moon) reached by an
object  orbiting it -- compare PERIGEE

 2 : the farthest or highest point : CULMINATION <Aegean civilization
reached its ~ in Crete>

 -- apo*ge*an (adjective)


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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Enoch Light Spaced Out CD
Date: 21 Oct 1999 12:24:18 -0500


>Jonny wrote:
>> If anyone's interested, I noticed that this place:
>> http://musicgraveyard.com/graveyard/pop.html
>> has Enoch Light's 'Spaced out' on CD available for $3.99

Beware beware, dear exoticats. I picked this CD up last weekend and in
between sloth and work deadlines, didn't send out an alert.

The CD has all the hallmarks of a boot--read that, mediocre recording.

Yup, there's some decent channel separation, but it's hamfisted, crude,
like trimming your hair with a tomahawk. A dull tomahawk. It's not
unlistenable, like the Bollywood CDs we've talked about here. It's just
amateurish and maddening. And it almost seems to be an undeserved blot on
the legacy of a man who labored compulsively to make exquisite recordings.

On the other hand, it IS Spaced Out, an album many would place in their top
20 or higher, a rarity, a grail among collectors. Since I don't have the
vinyl, I was gleeful when I found the CD in a sale rack. I think $4 or the
$6 I paid at the Wherehouse Music chain is a fair price for it, if only for
the fine song selection and the album's place in the EZ canon.

Robbie, you should know it's not the score you hoped for. I'm so sorry.

So music biz insiders or Enoch fans, what's the deal with the label: SPJ
Music Inc., 95 Oser Ave., Hauppauge, NY 11788. 1999 copyright, registered.
Is SPJ a business front for Enoch's heirs? Or is it a boot masquerading as
a legit recording under the guise of a phony street address?

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From: The Millionaire <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Smooth Sounds onLine
Date: 21 Oct 1999 11:40:38 -0700


Thought you all might like to know that there will soon be a new source for
smooth and groovy sounds on the web;go to

www.luxuriamusic.com

to check it out.This is only a temporary, "Test Pattern" page, but there is
currently streaming audio compiled by list members Bro.Cleve and Jack
Fetterman, as well as Byron"Mr.Space Age Bachelor Pad Music" Werner and
myself.Sadly, it is only listenable by windows users(with Windows Media
Player).This <will> change, though;I swear it!

If any of you have suggestions as to features or programming you'd like to
see when we finally go online (ETA:January 4),feel free to email me
offline.I welcome your feedback.

Ciao!

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From: "William Walton" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) speaking of bootleg CDs...
Date: 21 Oct 1999 15:32:54 EDT


Has anyone heard the Hal Blaine "Psychedelic Percussion" CD that's been
floating around? I've been curious about it, but have had resrvations.
There's nothing worse than a bootleg/semi-legit CD with poor mastering.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Plain Jayne
Date: 21 Oct 1999 17:47:34 EDT


In a message dated 10/21/99 5:37:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< I knew that Jayne Mansfield was no dumb blond
 and that she had a degree in literature, and I
 knew that she could sing, but I had no idea she
 played the violin (and apparantly the piano too),
 until I saw a fragment last week of her playing
 a violin concerto (Mozart?), >>

her daughter is on the Law and Order series (special victims unit).

what a jaw line!

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From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Beat Girl
Date: 21 Oct 1999 16:42:13 -0700 (PDT)



I posted a nice MP3 of John Barry's Beat Girl to
www.click2send.com.

The box is: Knuck's Box
and the password for pickup is: pickup

Happy listening!
And if you like it, buy the CD!

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From: Citizen Kafka <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 21 Oct 1999 20:17:56 -0400


Hi, all,

among the mastering engineers and producers i work with in the more
rarified high end world, the consensus is the Plextor 820 burner (i
think it is available only as SCSI but i'm not sure) with any plextor
approved media (often Mitsui Toatsu and some TDK). My setup includes 5
of these drives, which burn at 8x. My dubbing setup is a Mediaform 5400
(there are others just as good i think) with 4 plextors. This burns 4 74
minute CDs in 8 minutes. I've burned hundreds of CD-Rs with no failures,
no returns, no rejects. The BLER error rates on this burner are
incredibly low, and they are upgradable via CD firmware, a big
advantage. This may be more than many folks are willing to do for
burning audio, but it is well worth it in the medium and long run. To
create a home system which will 'do the job' for the next few years,
even if it becomes outdated, it will never be outmoded, and will be more
reliable than 'prosumer' or consumer goods. I don't think plextor is OEM
for other branded burners; it's either a Plextor or something else. the
Plextor 412 is also excellent. There is a website which rates burners
and media error rates which i can provide if anyone wants it.

Note that this is all on the production end. Some CD players, even
really expensive ones, cannot 'read' all types of CD-R. Yes, emulsion
type/color is a good indicator of which ones will work and which
won't... as they say, 'results may vary.' AND, to make things
interesting, most every brand of burner is biased/optimized for a
certain brand/emulsion of CD-R (the service people don't know this info,
but the technicians will... you can try to reach someone knowledgeable
at the tech end of the company which manufactures your burner and ask).

hope this helps.

ck
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NEW!: every Tuesday 6 to 7 PM EST WFMU 91.1 FM
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Cover Art of Sound Tracks
Date: 21 Oct 1999 20:57:39 -0400


One of my favorite 'record cover reproductions' type books is now
available at a very good price.... and I wanted to share the good news
with the rest of you.

'The Album Cover Art of Sound Tracks' by Frank Jastfelder & Stefan
Kassel sold for $29.95 when it first came out.  That was the price I
paid for it.  It's now available for $5.98 (plus $5 shipping on your
total order -- $15 outside the U.S.)  If I was to own multiple copies of
one of the books in my library, this might be the one I'd pick.

To order, visit     http://www.daedalusbooks.com     Enter 91000 in the
search box at top and the book will then come up on a page for you.  The
scan of the book cover used on this site  is scaled wrong.  In real
life, the book is the same width/height as a full size record cover

From the print catalog....see if this whets your appetite.....
"This cinematic book presents a visual history of the great movie and
television soundtracks from the 1950s to the early 1970s, from
'Breakfast at Tiffanys' and 'Thunderball' to 'Mission:Impossible' and
'Barbarella.'  The soundtrack of these and other classic movies are
among the most prized collectibles today - recordings that summon up the
secret agents, starlets, glamor, and exotica of the past and set the
mood for the 'cool modern' lounge scene.  The book showcases art -
rendered in technicolor - from nearly 300 of the greatest soundtrack
covers, including many sought after items by such film music legends as
John Barry, Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, and Lalo
Schifrin"

The homepage also had a set of 12 cocktail themed note cards, originally
priced at $7.95 now on sale for $2.98.  There's probably lots of other
good stuff for sale there, if you have the patience to flip through
their pages.

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From: "Stephen W. Worth" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 21 Oct 1999 18:33:43 -0700


>Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 21:53:46 EDT
>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices
>
>I have been having limited success sending some newly burned CDs to a friend
>of mine.  I have experimented with all different brands, colors, etc. of
>blank CDs and they all seem to perform the same on my equipment.
>Can some of the list members post their opinions/experiences using different
>brands and "colors" of blank CDs? -Tiki Bob

I've had problems with CD-RW disks in older CD-ROM drives, and
I got several IMATION CD-R's that failed to record properly.
Other than that, I have had no problems.

See ya
Steve


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From: Fish Wich <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Pam Am/ad campaigns
Date: 21 Oct 1999 19:04:11 -0700 (PDT)


A little while ago I picked up promo album released by
the the Young & Rubicam ad agency called Buy Buy Baby.
 The cover has miniature images of a little girl in
sunglasses dancing into a shopping bag. It's dated
1966 and has some really good now sound type themes
from various ad campaigns.  My favorite tracks are
Arrow and Eastern - for the shirt company and airline,
respectively.  Others include Plymouth, Hunts,
Remington, Chrysler, Gulf [Oil], Goodyear and Taystee.
 A couple tracks even feature Dick Hyman on organ,
piano and as arranger!

Kind regards,

Mark

>
> I was wondering if anybody else has interesting "ad
> campaign" albums. Do
> tell! I've been thrifting for years, and this is the
> only one of this type
> I've ever come across.
>
> - Matt



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From: Fish Wich <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Albums Found At Estate Sale
Date: 21 Oct 1999 19:13:07 -0700 (PDT)


I don't know about the Arthur Lyman album but Russ
Garcia's Carioca is one of my favorite albums.  I
don't know if your copy is stereo or not, but the
sound quality (at least on the stereo version) is
great.

Regards,

Mark

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> I found some albums at an Estate Sale today and two
> of them I've not heard of
> and would like some feedback on them before I play
> them. Thanks.
>
> Carioca by Russ Garcia and Call of the Midnight Sun
> by Arthur Lyman.
>



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Subject: Re:  (exotica) speaking of bootleg CDs...
Date: 21 Oct 1999 22:19:15 EDT



In a message dated 10/21/99 3:33:37 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>Has anyone heard the Hal Blaine "Psychedelic Percussion" CD that's been
>floating around? I've been curious about it, but have had resrvations.
>There's nothing worse than a bootleg/semi-legit CD with poor mastering.

At one point it was done combined with Emil Richards' "Stones" I believe, and
I was not really moved by the music..I dotted about 4 cuts as playworthy..JB


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Date: 21 Oct 1999 22:21:57 EDT



In a message dated 10/21/99 11:33:37 AM, [e-mail] writes:

<< There's nothing worse than a bootleg/semi-legit CD with poor mastering.
 >>

Boy, you can say that again. Some of my Bob Dylan and Beatles CD's and vinyl
records are horrible. Very disappointing.
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Date: 21 Oct 1999 22:24:43 EDT



In a message dated 10/21/99 6:11:58 PM, [e-mail] writes:

<< I don't know about the Arthur Lyman album but Russ
Garcia's Carioca is one of my favorite albums.  I
don't know if your copy is stereo or not, but the
sound quality (at least on the stereo version) is
great.

Regards,

Mark >>

Hi, Mark. Yes, it's "Stereo Action" and it sounds wonderful.
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Cover Art of Sound Tracks
Date: 21 Oct 1999 22:54:13 EDT


[e-mail] wrote:
>>>'The Album Cover Art of Sound Tracks' by Frank Jastfelder & Stefan
Kassel sold for $29.95 when it first came out.  That was the price I
paid for it.  It's now available for $5.98 (plus $5 shipping on your
total order -- $15 outside the U.S.)  If I was to own multiple copies of
one of the books in my library, this might be the one I'd pick.<<<

I saw it for the same price -- $5.98 -- on the bargain shelves at Barnes &
Noble. (No shipping!) That price is criminally low and they had more than a
dozen of them. It makes me mad I paid full price for it originally, but this
price is so low, I feel like I should pick up an extra copy.

--Rod


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From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Freeway 2
Date: 21 Oct 1999 18:53:40 -0700


May I recommend one more great flick for you people?  The modern
exploitation classic FREEWAY 2: CONFESSIONS OF A TRICK BABY has just been
released on video.  Has nothing to do with FREEWAY, but it's definitely the
SWITCHBLADE SISTERS of the 90s!  Too good to be true!

Dope ST, too!

C. "Ratso" Russo
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From: Michael Toth <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Cover Art of Sound Tracks
Date: 22 Oct 1999 00:23:16 -0500



[e-mail] wrote:

>One of my favorite 'record cover reproductions' type books is now
>available at a very good price.... and I wanted to share the good news
>with the rest of you.

This is *the* single coolest 'record cover reproductions' type book
*I've* ever run across and hoped to get one some day. I placed *my* order.

Thanks,

Michael David Toth
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 22 Oct 1999 07:30:57 EDT


In a message dated 10/21/99 7:12:19 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< The problem, as was explained to me by the company,
 is that the output of the lasers of this generation (circa 1992) are
 not as high as the newer ones and the reflectivity index on blue (vs
 gold or silver) CD's is lower. I have few to no problems with silver
 or gold CDR's.  Still, I brought back two blue Japanese recorded
 CDR's from France that work perfectly and have had some gold ones
 that sometimes miss. so who knows for certain!  >>


And so the (excellent) debate continues.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 22 Oct 1999 07:42:03 EDT


In a message dated 10/21/99 5:17:02 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< among the mastering engineers and producers i work with in the more
 rarified high end world, the consensus is the Plextor 820 burner (i
 think it is available only as SCSI but i'm not sure) with any plextor
 approved media (often Mitsui Toatsu and some TDK). >>

OK, I checked out a few internet sellers and there are about 10 different
Mitsui CD-Rs listed:

Mitsui SG Branded Silver Gold 651.1 74:05 76:30 - Yes *
Mitsui SG UnBranded Silver Gold 651.1 74:05 76:30 - Yes *
Mitsui Gold Branded Gold Gold 651.1 74:05 76:30 - Yes *
Mitsui Gold UnBranded Gold Gold 651.1 74:05 76:30 - Yes *
Mitsui White UnBranded Gold Gold 651.1 74:05 - - No *
Mitsui Printable Gold Gold 651.1 74:05 - - No *
Mitsui White Printable Gold Gold - - - - No
Mitsui Gold Medical Gold Gold - - - - No

this is at http://www.cdmediaworld.com/

and someone tell me which CD-R (amongst the above or others) is considered
the "best" buy the pros?  where to order them on line? and reasonable cost?

sorry if this email sounds so demanding.

Tiki Bob


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From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Beat Girl, Part 2
Date: 22 Oct 1999 04:49:19 -0700 (PDT)


Already, about fifteen people grabbed a copy of Beat
Girl from Click2Send.  I think this is a great and
easy way to spread the joy of the music on this list.

I'd love to see other people setting up boxes and
posting some of their favorite, obscure tracks, just
to whet our appetite.  No longer do we have to settle
for a simple review, when we can actually get snippets
or songs to hear.

In the meantime, if you like the John Barry tune,
search out the CDs.  Either the EMI Years one from
Scamp, or the UL one from Capitol.  I will say the
UltraLounge is one of my favorite volumes (Mondo
Hollywood), but on the other hand, Scamp rules.  So
maybe buy both.  :)

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Mitsui Source and Pricing
Date: 22 Oct 1999 07:58:27 EDT


http://www.disk-o-tape.com/cdr.htm

has:

Mitsui Toatsu MTC74 (Silver Top)
 1.65
 1.60
 1.53

Mitsui Toatsu MTC74G (Gold Top)
 1.88
 1.83
 1.75

prices are each for 1, 10 or 100.

suggestions?

tiki bob


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Sony Minidisc Mains adaptor
Date: 22 Oct 1999 09:46:03 EDT


In a message dated 10/21/99 9:51:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Phil, what make of adaptor do you use?
 You must match not just the voltage & polarity but the current as
 well.  Many items like powered speakers, etc. draw more current than
 say a radio. Current requirements/ratings are given in milliamperes
 (ma) for small devices. The usual problem is not enough current
 rather than too much, at these low voltages. >>

yes, these adaptors vary widely in the voltage out put and amps (usually
something like 100 to 900 microamps).

both the amps and voltage are a concern.

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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Enoch Light Spaced Out CD
Date: 22 Oct 1999 09:54:51 -0500


At 5:38 PM 10/21/99, [e-mail] wrote:

>how would yuu judge the Zounds! or Moog! cd compared to this one.  they see=
m
>pretty good.

Sorry, TB, can't say. Don't have those. Any opinions? Miz Mayhem




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) CDnow sale on eccentrics
Date: 22 Oct 1999 15:46:16 -0400


Below is the URL and text of a page at CDnow where CDs by 10 "eccentrics" are now on sale.
-Lou

http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=1075347126/pagename=/RP/GENRES/cms_genres.html/fid=19452/rframe=Millennium:+Today's+Top+10+List


Greatest Eccentrics        By Tom Pryor

Every field of human endeavor throws up a handful of wild-eyed misfits, eccentrics, and occasional mad geniuses. For every Thomas Edison there's a Nikolai Tesla, for every Stan Lee, a Jack Chick. In some cases these outsiders are later recognized as brilliant innovators who created new paradigms far ahead of their times. In other cases, these figures fade into semi-obscurity, only to be remembered as curiosities and crackpots.

Music, too, has generated its share of eccentrics -- perhaps more than any other art form in this century. This list spotlights some of our obscure, overlooked musical treasures: artists (and we use the term loosely here)whose willful weirdness and determination to follow their own strange muses have led them into uncharted musical territory.

Also, it should be noted that, in the interests of space, some of our own favorites were left out -- apologies to fans of Tiny Tim, Shobee Taylor, Jandek, the Shaggs, and anyone else whose inspired lunacy didn't make the cut.

Note: This list has been compiled with much love and respect to Irwin Chusid. Without his efforts much of this music would have been forgotten.



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) And for a little Exotica break . . .
Date: 22 Oct 1999 19:07:06 EDT


Old Tiki Bob has gotten sort of sentimental in his (near) middle age.  I
guess there is just something about seeing the smiling face of another
person.  When this smiling person is a child it is even more enthralling.
And when it is the child of one of our members ----- well that even better!

For a great picture of our own CK's daughter go to:

http://www.megasaver.com/pix/sarah867.JPG

Hope this was OK CK ! ? !

Tiki Bob


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Subject: Re: (exotica) CDnow sale on eccentrics
Date: 22 Oct 1999 19:12:55 EDT


In a message dated 10/22/99 12:45:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<<
http://www.cdnow.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=1075347126/pagename=/RP/GENRES/cms_ge
nres.html/fid=19452/rframe=Millennium:+Today's+Top+10+List
  >>

what do we know about:

Sun Ra


Sun Ra & His Arkestra
Space Is The Place


tiki bob


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From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 22 Oct 1999 16:12:08 -0700


I'm afraid it all seems to be a toss-up; some color and CD-writer
combinations may work better than others, but ultimately it depends on your
computer (and the stereo you're playing the CDR on) as well. I've burned
probably close to 500 CDs on my HP 7200 CDRW (at 2-speed), and they all work
fine. (The 4 or 5 coasters I've made were due to my stupidity: one had a big
piece of lint on it, the other times I forgot to turn off the screen saver
or the disk defragmenter, etc.) I'm using a Pentium-100, btw, and there's a
lot of editing etc. which can be done via Cool Edit. (Besides, those
stand-alone CD burners are way too expensive.)

Those cheapo blue Hi-Vals (not sure if there's any other color) have worked
great for me; so have Maxells, TDKs, HPs, you name it, but the main thing
going for the Hi-Vals is their price -- 80+ cents each if you hunt on the
net. In this case (so far), you don't get what you pay for.

Having said that, do *not* trust Hi-Vals, particularly their rewritable CDs,
for your data. Entire albums of mp3s were chomped up in 10 seconds.

Later,
Ben

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 22 Oct 1999 19:19:56 EDT


In a message dated 10/22/99 4:13:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I'm afraid it all seems to be a toss-up; some color and CD-writer
 combinations may work better than others, but ultimately it depends on your
 computer (and the stereo you're playing the CDR on) as well.  >>

well, i don't think there has ever been a problem playing any cd-r's on
computers.  these damn cd-roms read anything.

<<Those cheapo blue Hi-Vals (not sure if there's any other color) have worked
great for me; so have Maxells, TDKs, HPs, you name it, but the main thing
going for the Hi-Vals is their price -- 80+ cents each if you hunt on the
net. In this case (so far), you don't get what you pay for.>>

this is tiki bob's opinion also, still, there are those out there that tiki
bob has given cd's to (that play fine on ALL of tiki bob's players) that do
not play well on others players.

and this is where the debate centers.  i want to distribute -- you know --
spread the word (or music in this case).

i don't want to make copies of my Tiki Room comp only to have half the folks
say, "I can't play the bastard!"

so there, more opinion from old TB,

TB!


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From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) War of the Worlds
Date: 22 Oct 1999 16:31:53 -0700 (PDT)



I have posted the entire War of the Worlds broadcast,
in MP3 format, to www.click2send.com.

The box is: Knuck's Box
The password is: pickup


I don't have a record of who actually made the request
on the 20th, but if someone could check their deleted
mail or old digests and send this person a note, I'd
sure appreciate it.

Seeya!
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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) War of the Worlds --YOU BAHHHSTID!!!
Date: 22 Oct 1999 17:05:05 -0700



> I have posted the entire War of the Worlds broadcast,
> in MP3 format, to www.click2send.com.
>
> The box is: Knuck's Box
> The password is: pickup


This is so funny, Peter! I just logged on to my mailserver to send a message
 that *I* have just posted War of the Worlds in it's entirety....hehhehe.
 Your habit thus far has been to encode things for a fairly high bitrate, so
 I imagine my efforts were not in vain - All the cool cats with DSL and
Cable
 can dig your HiFi sound and modem-crawlers can go to
 http://216.112.66.38/ron/warofworlds.pls to hear te direct stream in LoFI.

 It does not suffer from compression though, since the surviving recording
of
 the broadcast is pretty LoFi to begin with.

 Enjoy, kiddywinks!

 Ron
>




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From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) War of the Worlds --YOU BAHHHSTID!!!
Date: 22 Oct 1999 18:09:10 -0700 (PDT)


I gotta admit, I can't take the credit.
So far, I'm just a collector, and a reposter.
At some point, I'd like to post MP3s of old
vinyl and stuff so people can really hear
what they are missing.

Heh.
Thanks,
Peter


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> This is so funny, Peter! I just logged on to my
> mailserver to send a message
>  that *I* have just posted War of the Worlds in it's
> entirety....hehhehe.
>  Your habit thus far has been to encode things for a
> fairly high bitrate, so


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From: Lazlo Nibble <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) pioneer women
Date: 22 Oct 1999 20:38:54 -0600


On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 10:29:52AM +0100, [e-mail] wrote:

> There was Anne someone from the Age of Chance,  who has done some
> soundtracks,  stuff with Jaz Coleman,  (and I believe the Spice Girls).
> Now,  thats a CV.
> Although I don't if she counts as a pioneer, as its 80s stuff.

If Anne Dudley is not a pioneer I will eat a bug!  (Art of Noise is a much
more significant band than Age of Chance, shame on you for confusing the
two. :-)

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) And for a little Exotica break . . .
Date: 22 Oct 1999 23:35:36 EDT


In a message dated 10/22/99 7:08:08 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

> Old Tiki Bob has gotten sort of sentimental in his (near) middle age.

Roberto,

Nice job keeping us all human.

- R. G. B.


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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) tiki lamps
Date: 23 Oct 1999 11:50:21 +0200


Does anybody know a URL for Tiki ceiling lamps? Otto?

Mo



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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Nu Asian Dance soon to be online
Date: 23 Oct 1999 11:50:50 +0200


Hallo an alle Fans von Nu Asian Dance,

sch=F6ne Aussichten f=FCr alle Nicht-Frankfurter: demn=E4chst ist Indian =
Vibes

Radioedit live im Internet zu empfangen.

Indian Vibes Radioedit auf Radio X 97.1 FM (Kabel 99.85) in Frankfurt.
So, 24. Oktober; 12 - 13: 40 Jahre Deutsch-Indische Gesellschaft
Darmstadt-Frankfurt.
Am 31. Oktober feiert die Deutsch-Indische Gsellschaft in der
Centralstation
in Darmstadt ihren 40. Geburtstag. Um die Gschichte und die Aktivit=E4ten
dieses Zusammenschlusses geht es in dieser Sendung - ein klassisches
Thema
also. Die allerneuesten Nu Asian Dance-Tracks bilden hier das
Gegengewicht,
besonders wenn es auch in der Musik um Themen wie Migration geht.

Gru=DF
Petra Klaus
P.S. Ich kann die Website leider nicht updaten, weil ich von
Navigate.org
keinen g=FCltigen Zugangscode erhalte.



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From: M H Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Sony Minidisc Mains adaptor
Date: 23 Oct 1999 11:02:03 +0100


> << Phil, what make of adaptor do you use?
>  You must match not just the voltage & polarity but the current as
>  well.  Many items like powered speakers, etc. draw more current than
>  say a radio. Current requirements/ratings are given in milliamperes
>  (ma) for small devices. The usual problem is not enough current
>  rather than too much, at these low voltages. >>
>
> yes, these adaptors vary widely in the voltage out put and amps (usually
> something like 100 to 900 microamps).
>
> both the amps and voltage are a concern.

The power supplies that say 'regulated' help to alleviate the voltage
problem with low current devices - they try and keep a constant voltage
for any current.


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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) tiki lamps
Date: 23 Oct 1999 19:01:17 +0200


Ron Grandia wrote:

>  >Does anybody know a URL for Tiki ceiling lamps? Otto?

Like a string of party lites?

No, I mean ceiling lamps, fish trap, bird cage or bamboo types, like the ones
you find in Trader Vic's and places like that. There was an article in Tiki
news, but I need a homepage.

Mo



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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 22 Oct 1999 19:46:03 +0200


>From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>

>And I still don't understand the difference between burning CD's in your
>computer and the stand-alone machines that you record through your amp.

    the technology is exactly the same, the discs too, except that the
"consumer" CD-R's cost a little bit more. over here in Belgium the price
difference is only $0.13... many brands (Philips, BASF, TDK) sell CD-R's
with heavy ugly print on the top side, that shines through a label! Philips
is the only one (over here) that sells gold ones;, but they're way too
expensive ($3.50). i currently stick with Lead data: the cheapest around
($1.50), and a near-blanc top.
    the advantage of the stand-alone unit is, that you can use your
computer for whatever you want while recording. if you plan to do a lot of
cd burning, that may be important.
    the disadvantage is, that it uses a copy protection scheme: you
can't make a digital copy of something that was digitally recorded.
    the advantage of a computer CD burner was: the higher recording
speed, but philips now has a double cd/CD-R deck, that can record at higher
speeds. i don't trust the philips mechanism though, especially not in the
cheaper models. i've had 3 machines in 1 year, and none of them worked
longer that a couple of months. eventually, embarrassed with the
situattion, they gave me the top-of-the-line model (860) at reduced price,
and that one works... i think the technology isn't really bug-free yet.


        Johan


        [e-mail]


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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 22 Oct 1999 13:56:00 +0200


chuck wrote:

>Are these blue/green cds considered to increase in the number of dropouts
>as time goes by??

    the gold ones are supposed to last longer. the green ones are more
vulnerable to ultra-violet light and heat, but these green ones are more
compatible with different lasers and speeds. the blue ones are the newest,
are less vulnerable to UV than the green ones, and are supposed to have a
scratch-proof layer... for what it's worth. always play safe: keep those
CD-R's out of the sun, inside their boxes!

        Johan


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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) MP3's: Ames Brothers, Archie Bleyer, Don Ho: where from?
Date: 22 Oct 1999 19:44:43 +0200


i downloaded these 3 MP's from Click2Send:

Ames Brothers - Hawaiian War Chant
Archie Bleyer - Hernando's Hideaway
Don Ho - Theme From Hawaii Five & Quiet Village

can the list member who posted these, let me/the group know what LP's they
were taken from?

thanx!


        Johan


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From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, October 24
Date: 24 Oct 1999 01:09:42 -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 (real time only, for now) at:

http://www.ckut.ca

As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome.  This week (and
in the weeks to follow), we'll be playing a lot of new material, much of
which we discovered on our recent travels in Europe - a lot of it is
pretty obscure, but we'll gladly provide information and ordering
sources to anyone who wants to know more about this music!


Space Bop #69 - Space Bop Goes Japanese

Take Rodriguez And His Exotic Arkestra:  Intro;    Prince Of Mambo Breaks
"Pasion De Ritmo"
United Future Organization:  The Planet Plan  "3rd Perspective"
Take Rodriguez And His Exotic Arkestra:  Jump & Hop  "Riddim A Di
Omniverse"

American Cherry:  Psycho Belly  "Pretty Wild/Baci Baci Baci"
Scorpion Is Snake Is Spider:  Red Star Boogie  "Clones Of Suicide"
American Cherry:  La Notte e Fatta Per...Rubare  "Pretty Wild/Baci Baci
Baci"
Nasca Car:  USA (Space Surfin' USA)  "Clones Of Suicide"
Towa Tei featuring Bebel Gilberto:  Batucada  "Get Easy Vol. 2"

Vomit Lunchs:  Excerpt from "Air Huge One"  "Violent Clash Between
Killer Bastards Of Ear Dot Remix"
Constance Towers:  Great Buddha Air Mail  "Drive To Heaven"
Picky Picnic:  Kutabireta Q - Abgetragener Q  "Ha! Ha! Tarachine"
The Machine Gun TV:  Ballad Of The TV Violence  "Touch"

Jumbo:  The Boy From Ipanema  "Drive To Heaven"
Takako Minekawa:  Milk Rock (Cornelius Remix)  "Space Baby Blast
Off"
Pizzicato Five:  Go Go Dancer  "Made In USA"


Thanks for reading.

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From: Lazlo Nibble <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New Louis Prima biodoc
Date: 24 Oct 1999 00:04:37 -0600


Just got back from seeing "Louis Prima - The Wildest" at the Roxie in SF.
This is apparently just over a week out of the editing room...it was shown on
video and I don't know what its final destination is but it's worth keeping an
eye out for if only for the performance footage -- mostly Ed Sullivan material
with Keely Smith, Sam Butera, and The Witnesses.  If you've only *heard* his
act with Keely, you're missing out on 80% of the fun!

I'd say there were at about a half-dozen performance numbers that ran at or
close to their full length, and bits and pieces of at least twice that many,
with dates ranging from the late '30s to 1974.  You get to see and hear him in
just about every musical mode, from the early New Orleans jazz combo through
his big band, the Vegas period, his Twist movie, The Jungle Book, and finally
back to the lounge in the 1970s.

Weak points -- the biographical material is pretty shallow (if you're
expecting a warts-and-all portrayal this isn't it) and unfortunately the only
Keely footage they got their hands on dates back to the early 1980s (they
tried but couldn't get her to sit for an interview, though she apparently did
one for Vanity Fair that should show up in a month or two).  It's also a
little heavy on the stock footage, which I only forgave when it was in the
"'50s Vegas At Night" mode.  But oh, those performances!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Cover Art of Sound Tracks
Date: 24 Oct 1999 00:22:02 -0600


On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 12:23:16AM -0500, Michael Toth wrote:

> >One of my favorite 'record cover reproductions' type books is now
> >available at a very good price.... and I wanted to share the good news
> >with the rest of you.
>
> This is *the* single coolest 'record cover reproductions' type book
> *I've* ever run across and hoped to get one some day. I placed *my* order.

I have to chime in too!  This book is GORGEOUS!  Every other page is a
full-size reproduction, they picked the best-designed ones to get the
full-size treatment, and every picture in the book looks so clean you'd think
they shot it from the original negatives...

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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tabu, the movie
Date: 24 Oct 1999 13:31:34 +0200


Well, I did see Murnau's "Tabu" eventually on the widescreen last monday and
I quite enjoyed it. A sad ending (I'm not sure if it was the print's fault
but the last couple of minutes were. because of the dark, barely visible
which attributed to the gloomy mood ) but idyllic pictures, it definitely
had a somewhat National Geographic feeling about it.  As said the movie was
accompanied by a trio of musicians: leaded by Dutch jazz improviser Ton van
Erp who was commissioned to specifically write a score for it last year for
an
arthouse anniversary. The score consisted of lots of marimba, a trombone,
slide-guitar, double-bass and a sampler for sea effects, it captured the
mood
of the movie quite good. It was definitely something special. Next month
Erich
von Stroheim's "Greed"  with the same format.

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Subject: (exotica) Doctor Ammondt
Date: 24 Oct 1999 14:24:16 +0200


Small piece on Doctor Ammondt in my Dutch tv guide this week.


The Finnish literatureteacher Doctor Juka Ammondt is the last one to deny
it. Singing Finnish tango's en Elvis songs in Latin is one big joke. But one
with intellectual depth. At the same time he takes his singing career, even
if he only started it round his fiftieth birthday, very seriously. His motto
is: "Don't stop, but always take care of finding new paths to break
barriers - of yourself and of others".  Because: "This is the best way of
promoting creativity".
As teenager Juka Ammondt played the guitar and sang in a popband. Even then
Elvis was his big hero. At university - first as student, later teaching
German literature - he forgot his love of music. Like so many men his
midlife-crisis made for a change. In 1988 his marriage broke en Ammondt
found himself lonely and alone in a big house on one of the Finnish lakes.
There, alone, he rediscovered the power of music.
Five years later it ended in the making of the album "Surun Siivel", where
the university teacher sings songs of the Finnish composer Toivo Karki.
Still in the Finnish language. The same year followed "Tango Triste
Finnicum", with Finnish tango's - yes, there are - and this time sung in
Latin. And once on the Latin way two years later Ammondt made "The Legend
Lives Forever in Latin" on the anniversary of Elvis 60th birthday. On this
Ammondt sings Love Me Tender (Tedere me ama) and Can't Help Falling in Love
(Non adamare non possums) amongst others. And that wasn't enough. In 1997
the album "Rocking in Latin" followed with pieces like Shake, Rattle and
Roll (Quate, Crepa, Rota) and Blue Suede Shoes (Glaudi Calcei). Asking about
Ammondt's fascination for singing in Latin he explains that Latin is an
eternal language. "And what is better suited than an eternal language to
make a living legend like Elvis truly immortal? "


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Subject: Re: (exotica) pioneer women
Date: 24 Oct 1999 11:41:38 -0600


On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 01:38:57PM +0100, [e-mail] wrote:

> The Anne Dudley / Jaz Coleman (Killing Joke frontman) thing I have is a 12,
> synthy 'arabic' mid 80's thing.  The arabic connection having something to
> do with Jaz being Lebanese I think.  My as usual dodgy memory throws up the
> possibility of an LP...

For release and track details, visit

  http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?ztt&search=coleman

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Subject: (exotica) Question for Hawaiian Music Collectors
Date: 24 Oct 1999 17:07:14 -0600


Who are the people in this picture (other than Duke Kahanamoku)?

  <http://www.studio-nibble.com/desktoppers/hawaii-duke-at-waikiki.html>

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From: Lloyd Kandell <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Duke and da boyz
Date: 24 Oct 1999 14:36:53 -1000


Aloha Lazlo-

it's the album cover of "Duke Kahanamoku Presents A Beachboy Party with
Waltah Clarke," the second release on our Taboo Records label (1st being
"The Forbidden Sounds of Don Tiki"). It was recorded on the beach in
Waikiki at the Outrigger Canoe Club in 1963. Those pictured with Duke
are the legendary Waikiki "beachboys" who taught  tourists and Hollywood
hoi poloi how to surf and paddle by day and how to sing, party and live
by night. Sitting from left to right are: Splash Lyons, Fat (Abraham
Kala), and Panama. back row left to right are Squeeze Kamana, Ox, Waltah
Clarke, Kalakaua, Jimmy Hakuole, Harry Robello, Duke Kahanamoku, and
Chick Daniels.

from the original liner notes:
"Waltah Clarke, once the country's leading retailers of Hawaiian
sportswear, was a long time friend of the beachboys. Waltah felt that
the boys and their music were a bit of Hawaiiana that should be
preserved, so in 1963 he gave a party for them and successfully produced
this album".

and so he did... and that's why the boys are all wearing such coool
shirts! you can check it out at cordinternational.com

okole maluna,
Fluid Floyd
Taboo Records

"The perpetual adolescents of the ocean... without these remarkable
people the island would be nothing. With them it is a carnival."
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Duke and da boyz
Date: 24 Oct 1999 22:30:56 -0600


On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 02:36:53PM -1000, Lloyd Kandell wrote:

> it's the album cover of "Duke Kahanamoku Presents A Beachboy Party with
> Waltah Clarke," the second release on our Taboo Records label (1st being
> "The Forbidden Sounds of Don Tiki").

Mahalo, Floyd!  I've been wondering about the origins of this photo since I
bought it...!  And now I'll have the CD to listen to as I look at it on the
wall of my office. :-)

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From: "Matt Hinrichs" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Louis Prima
Date: 24 Oct 1999 21:39:41 -0700


There's a great article on Prima posted here, on the All Music Guide 'Zine:

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) tiki lamps
Date: 25 Oct 1999 02:12:06 EDT


Moritz,
you are so silly
there is no one making these today
you have to make your own

The Trader Vic warehouse in Oakland does not sell to the public
Oceanic Arts does but will only do mail order for very large orders such as
$300.00 or more

here is their number
562-698-6960

there are a number of table lamps being made

Dave Krys in Chicago and Bosko have models

and new string lights are avialable from Oriental Trading Co if you buy a
case of them

_________________________________________________
No, I mean ceiling lamps, fish trap, bird cage or bamboo types, like the ones
you find in Trader Vic's and places like that. There was an article in Tiki
news, but I need a homepage.

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From: "Kristjan Saag" <[e-mail]>
Subject:  ((exotica) Doctor Ammondt
Date: 25 Oct 1999 12:25:28 +0100


 Arjan Plug wrote (Oct 24):

>The Finnish literatureteacher Doctor Juka Ammondt is the last one to =
deny
>it. Singing Finnish tango's en Elvis songs in Latin is one big joke. =
But one
>with intellectual depth
----
The Finnish seem to have a special interest in Latin. The world service =
of Radio Finland is the only station in the world that  broadcasts daily =
news in Latin.
The URL is
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/summary.html
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) more CD Burning
Date: 25 Oct 1999 10:06:26 +0000


Folks

another CD burning issue

I'm using a Mac, Toast 3.5.7 with a LaCie 4x 8x writer and need to make an
copy exact of an audio CD, which contains crossfades between tracks ...
however everytime I try to do this Toast intercepts and sets up the CD to
copy in Audio ... if I do this I'll lose cross fades as in Audio mode my
writer writes "track at once" (write a track, then pause, inserting a 2 sec
gap, then write the next track)

all i want to try to do is make an *exact* copy

can anyone suggest a solution? I believe Taost 4 and Jam (i love these
names) might be able to burn "disc at once" but there is presumably a way
to fool my writer into making a byte for byte copy

i wish i knew what it was

i wait humbly for wisdom to drop

friendly

Sem Sinatra

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From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Baby, baby, baby
Date: 25 Oct 1999 13:52:42 +0200


Barry White is obviously on the comeback trail. Check the
evidence -- a new book ("Barry White: Love Unlimited"), a
new album ("Staying Power") and a new high in the world's
population (recently surpassed 6 billion.)


White paints a benign self-portrait of a believer in peace, love and
astrology. But like a romantic dinner disrupted by an unforeseen
fart, some of White's tales unexpectedly break the spell. They
show a man whose fierce pride is occasionally backed by his
street instincts. "Fed up and angry, I pulled my .357 Magnum out
of the big leather coat I was wearing and without saying a word
laid it in front of me on the table," White says of one meeting with
startled record company executives.

The negotiations concluded to Barry's satisfaction. "I prefer to
deal in truth, not deception," he insists. "Trust, not trickery." Thus
spake Barry White: Speak truthfully, and carry a .357 Magnum.


http://www.salon1999.com/people/feature/1999/10/25/white/index.html



 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
 *** Ton Rueckert   Mozartstraat 12  5914 RB Venlo   The Netherlands ***
 *** [e-mail]   http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto   Ph 31/0 773545386 ***
 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***
 ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~
 ~~~ ~~~     Beware! Your bones are going to be disconnected.    ~~~ ~~~
 ~~~  http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/music/Xbe3975.ram  ~~~
 ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~ ~~~


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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Louis Prima
Date: 25 Oct 1999 08:11:49 -0400


Thanks for the link to the article.  Great info, but...(diversion!  Warning!)




Cub Koda, for all of his erudition, bugs me.  First off, how many
references to pasta can you shove into an article?  Secondly, though not
the case this time, his humor hampers the respect due some subjects.  Oh, well.

Also, the article makes very little mention of any duet sides NOT cut by
Keely Smith.

I am trying to find one that is certainly not Prima-Smith that has the
woman on the side (Gia Maione, I guess) singing some very fast patter,
live.  I think it's, "I want you to be my baby.".  Is that it?


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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
Date: 25 Oct 1999 08:11:05 -0500


There's Latin spice by Tony Hatch, Xavier Cugat, Ramsey Lewis
and The Dancing Voices on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour
webcast.

Also, you'll find beatnik jazz by The Swinging Shepherds, Rod
McKuen, Googie Rene (from the classic "Romesville") and Dominic
Frontiere;  jungle jazz from Robert Drasnin, Les Baxter and Pete
Rugolo;  exotica by The Surfmen and Axel Stordahl;  plus blue
bongoes, soulful strings and other hi-fijinks.

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.
Within days KANU will be streaming its realtime signal onto the
website -- soon you'll be able to hear The Retro Cocktail Hour in
STEREO!

Comments, requests and questions always welcome.

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: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) tiki lamps
Date: 25 Oct 1999 15:25:00 +0200


[e-mail] wrote:

> you are so silly
> there is no one making these today
> you have to make your own

I don't know why you are insulting me here, Otto, but I didn't even say, I
want to BUY one. I need to give an idea of Tiki ceiling lamps to someone who
bought a Tiki painting from me, saw the Tiki wall lamps I built in my house,
and now wants me to build a ceiling lamp for the room my painting will hang
in. All I was asking for is a URL! Thanks anyway for the addresses and
telefone numbers, but neither they nor "Da Tiki Traders of the Lost Arts" have
any ceiling lamps to look at. Why don't you send me .jpgs from that Tiki news
article about lamps?

> The Trader Vic warehouse in Oakland does not sell to the public

I DID buy two really nice 3 feet high Barney West Tikis from the Trader Vic's
stock in Los Angeles. How I did that, will remain my secret.

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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) LP Question...
Date: 25 Oct 1999 09:52:23 -0400


Hmmm, soon I think I'll be getting a reputation as "That guy who never =
buys these really cool records he finds....."  Anyway, came across a =
"sampler" type album (I think on RCA) called "Sounds Out of Space" or =
something like that.  I didn't buy it because it looked like your regular =
"Stereo Spectacular Sampler Recording" with bits from various classical =
music pieces included.  There was mention of a "narrator" on the back of =
the album - so that, along with the "Planets in Outer Space" cover drawing =
got my interest.

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From: Robbie Baldock <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) LP Question...
Date: 25 Oct 1999 14:52:38 +0100


Nathan Miner wrote:

> Hmmm, soon I think I'll be getting a reputation as "That guy who
> never buys these really cool records he finds....."  Anyway,
> came across a "sampler" type album (I think on RCA) called "Sounds
> Out of Space" or something like that.

Sounds like the highly collectable (but by all accounts fairly
disappointing) "Sounds in Space".

That narrator (who I believe is only one Side 1) is the one and only Ken
Nordine...!


Robbie

Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website
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Subject: Re: (exotica) more CD Burning
Date: 25 Oct 1999 10:27:59 EDT


In a message dated 10/25/99 6:39:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< if I do this I'll lose cross fades as in Audio mode my
 writer writes "track at once" (write a track, then pause, inserting a 2 sec
 gap, then write the next track)
  >>

not sure on this one.  most programs have a way to choose track at once or
disc at once.  my adaptec program that came with my HP burner lets me do it
both ways.

i can also merge all tracks into one wav file and use CD Architech in Sonic
Foundry's wav editor to insert tracks and indices (remember those???)
anywhere i want.

most programs have little pop up windows that let you choose these things.
if you want i can make a bit map image of my pop up window and send it to you
but it will be large.  it will show you the disc at once thing.  let me know
because that program is on my home computer and i am at work right now.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Baby, baby, baby
Date: 25 Oct 1999 10:30:31 EDT


In a message dated 10/25/99 7:53:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Fed up and angry, I pulled my .357 Magnum out
 of the big leather coat I was wearing and without saying a word
 laid it in front of me on the table," White says of one meeting with
 startled record company executives. >>

i need to try this with some of my unruly patients.

sorry, that should have been posted to the Irate Optometrist Mailing List.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) LP Question...
Date: 25 Oct 1999 10:38:22 EDT


In a message dated 10/25/99 9:58:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Sounds like the highly collectable (but by all accounts fairly
 disappointing) "Sounds in Space".

 That narrator (who I believe is only one Side 1) is the one and only Ken
 Nordine...!
  >>

this is the one that talks about the US Space program and going to the moon???


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Date: 25 Oct 1999 09:40:11 -0500


><< Sounds like the highly collectable (but by all accounts fairly
> disappointing) "Sounds in Space".
>
> That narrator (who I believe is only one Side 1) is the one and only Ken
> Nordine...!
>  >>
>
>this is the one that talks about the US Space program and going to the moon???


no.  but if you like Nordine, you gotta have it in the collection, i
say.  don't pay too much.

visit...

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            King Kini's  C L U B  V E L V E T
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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) LP Question...
Date: 25 Oct 1999 10:58:49 -0400


Whew!  Okay, so it sounds like "Sounds in Space" isn't one I should worry =
too much about.

I don't even consider "collectability" when looking at LP's - stictly =
personal enjoyment.

Who's Ken Nordine???

- Nate




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From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 25 Oct 1999 11:29:34 -0500


Tiki Bob wrote:

> and someone tell me which CD-R (amongst the above or others) is considered
> the "best" buy the pros?  where to order them on line? and reasonable cost?
I've had good luck with Kodak (gold) although they seem to be more
expensive these days and not as easy to find as they once were.  What
I'm seeing here and its likely the same everywhere, is that stores
typically buy large lots of one type and once they sell out either
can't get them again, or just  find something better or easier to
obtain (that may cost them less).  In any case I sense this is all
being done to boost the bottom line of the vendor and not for the
benefit of the consumer who may wish to loyal to one brand or model
that works.  Although cassette tape models change almost as
regulalry, at least the (major) manufacturers stay reasonably
constant. With CDR's there always seems to be someone new and newer
models.  A bit of advice: Don't get too attached to any one brand or
model because odds are you you may not see them again!  Or you could
replace that old CD player and not need to worry at all, as has often
been suggested to me...

Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: CD Burning and Media Choices
Date: 25 Oct 1999 13:18:30 EDT


In a message dated 10/25/99 11:30:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I've had good luck with Kodak (gold) although they seem to be more
 expensive these days and not as easy to find as they once were.   >>

this is the brand that disneyland and wdw use in their disney forever series
(this is where you choose tracks and they burn them for you while you wait).
i have never seen kodac disc in any stores -- just for sale on the web.

i don't know if disney elected to go with Kodac because of quality or the
fact that 7% of all film used for "snapshots" is done at a disney theme park.
 maybe they were just throwing the kodac folks a bone because "Kodac is the
official film of disney-whatever".

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Subject: Re: (exotica) LP Question...
Date: 25 Oct 1999 13:36:39 -0400



>Who's Ken Nordine???

Ken Nordine is a voice-over professional with a basso profundo voice and a
vivid imagination.  He is best known for two albums, "Word Jazz" and "Son
of Word Jazz" which feature his voice over a Jazz backing (mostly).  He
tells great abstract tales of people obsessed with time, a visit to a sound
museum, you know, the usual stuff!

Later, he did a series of commercials for a paint company that proved so
successful (people called the radio station asking to hear the ads again!),
that these commercials, his discussions about various colors was released
as an album called "Colors".

He is a great favorite of mine and here is a web page devoted to him:

http://www.pipeline.com/~dada3zen/KEN_NORDINE.htm

Colors and a Word Jazz compilation have both been reissued.  There have
been quite a few other releases as well, the most prominent recent one is
"Devout Catalyst", which I don't recommend for a start per se (he rambles
on a bit, even has a guest or two), but do check him out.  He is fantastic!

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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) more CD Burning
Date: 25 Oct 1999 14:20:53 -0400


At 6:06 AM -0400 10/25/99, [e-mail] wrote:

>I'm using a Mac, Toast 3.5.7 with a LaCie 4x 8x writer

>all i want to try to do is make an *exact* copy

you cannot do that with Toast, as it automatically inserts 2 seconds of
blank space between tracks. You will need Jam (or Digidesigns
MasterTracksPro, which is considerably more expensive), in which you can
mark where you want the indexing to change numbers.

If you don't care about index numbers, you can record the entire CD into a
digital recorder and save it all as one stereo track and burn a CD from
there. But the whole thing will be indexed as track 1.

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From: kendoll <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Baby, baby, baby
Date: 25 Oct 1999 14:04:41 -0600


Tony Rueckert wrote:

>Barry White is obviously on the comeback trail. Check the
>evidence -- a new book ("Barry White: Love Unlimited"), a
>new album ("Staying Power") and a new high in the world's
>population (recently surpassed 6 billion.)

Don't know if it's the same in the 'States, but in Canada, Barry White
pitches for Arby's on TV (in voiceover only). Talk about "a romantic
dinner disrupted by an unforeseen fart".

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From: "telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Mondo Bongos" Oct 27, 1999
Date: 25 Oct 1999 17:27:10 -0400


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

Korla Pandit - TV Show Opening "Remembering Korla Pandit"
Korla Pandit - Turkish Dance "Remembering Korla Pandit"

Tipsy - El Bombo Atomico "Trip Tease"
Arling & Cameron - How About the Boys "Space Baby Blast Off"
Hot Butter - Popcorn "Popcorn"
Gershon Kingsley - Hey, Hey "Music to Moog By"

Hugo Montenegro - MacArthur Park "Moog Power"
Gerhard Narholz - Speaking Guitar "Music for TV Dinners"
Henry Mancini - Theme from 'Charlie's Angels' "The Best of Henry Mancini
Vol 3"

Titan - C'mon Feel the Noise "Space Baby Blast Off"
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly "Superfly"
The Inner Thumb - Soul Submarine "Soul Ecstasy"
Neu! - Hallogallo "Neu!"

Red Shift - I Wish I Was a Movie "Live Club Soda 1984"

Until next time...
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Date: 25 Oct 1999 22:10:31 EDT


In a message dated 10/25/99 1:05:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Don't know if it's the same in the 'States, but in Canada, Barry White
 pitches for Arby's on TV (in voiceover only). Talk about "a romantic
 dinner disrupted by an unforeseen fart".

 Mike
  >>


SOS here.  On the bright side,  Arby's also uses Rodney Dangerfield tho.

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Subject: (exotica) Four Rooms
Date: 25 Oct 1999 22:20:32 EDT


Well, I finally got around to renting Four Rooms and watching it over the
weekend.  Interesting movie and the soundtrack is good.  The interests to the
Listees is of course some vintage Combustible Edison and a couple of Esquivel
tracks which really add to that particular "room".

The rare (my choice of words) version of Vertigogo is the lead and closing
track of the movie.  I think the only version I have of it is on a CE Mixer
CD.

As opinion, the movie is only fair and I would probably not like it much at
all without the CE soundtrack (although there is a fair amount of attention
getting qualities in the first "room").

It is worth a rent so those who have been putting it off ought to snap to it.

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Subject: (exotica) TV Crime Jazz
Date: 25 Oct 1999 21:46:55 -0500


Can't remember if this has been mentioned before, but...

Got a promo CD today from Aleph Records -- Lalo Schifrin's "Mannix"
soundtrack plus bonus tracks!  It's not the original soundtrack but a
NEW recording by the West German Radio Big Band, led by Schifrin.
The four bonus tracks were "developed from his Mannix concepts of 30
years ago".  Great late '60s-early '70s TV crime jazz, and released
by Lalo's own Aleph Records (hot on the heels of the "Dirty Harry
Anthology").

Apparently the street date for this CD is tomorrow.  CDNow has it for
$12.99.

Darrell Brogdon
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Louis Prima
Date: 25 Oct 1999 21:39:05 -0600


On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 08:11:49AM -0400, Brian Phillips wrote:

> I am trying to find one that is certainly not Prima-Smith that has the
> woman on the side (Gia Maione, I guess) singing some very fast patter,
> live.

It's Gia.  I don't know the name of the track, but there's a TV performance of
it in the movie.  (It comes at a great point, right about when I was thinking
"who is this teenaged-looking tart, trying to fill Keely Smith's shoes", and
then *WHAM* she's laying down the verbal mayhem. :-)

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Subject: (exotica) Halloweeen in SF
Date: 26 Oct 1999 01:59:09 EDT


&&&&&&&&&&&&___Halloween Horror-rama___.&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

I Know, I know Saturday the 30th, 9:00 there are precisely 100 million things
going on. Halloweeen this, millenium that bla bla bla.     But this is
better,
lemme tell ya why


 because Chicken John is throwing it and THAT'S why it's better.

"Chicken John has spared no expense to bring you this show of schmoes,
liberating as a lobotomy. I can not recommend it enough, and will offer,
personally, a double your money back guarantee if not delighted with the
show.
Iill see you there!!!"           Mayor Willie Brown

Ladies and Gentleman; it is my profound honor to present to you from New
Orleans, La.si 9th Ward: Mr. Quintron and Miss Pussycat! Only bay area
appearance.

 Mr. Quintron is a one-man-band theatre organist . He is an inventor of
electronic novelties and a great showman. His main instrument is a classic
organ from the 50is, and his edrum-buddyi is an odd example of what happens
to
onesi mind in the damp air of New Orleans. His creations and his talent as a
organist make Q very welcome in Europe, Japan and of course right here in the
country we were all blessed to be born in. Q has just recently returned from
Europe and is doing only a short 2-week tour of the US this year and we are
honored he has asked us to do his show.

  Miss Pussycat, Qsi wife, is far and away the finest puppetres this
side of the Pecos. Her show last year, iFree guitar lessons for animalsi, was
smashing. The story of a young squirrel giving guitar lessons to the friendly
forest dwellers until the evil which comes and steals all the drummers.
Amazingly funny and suprisingly well done with minimal props and lights. Last
year their show sold out the Bottom of the Hill, and it was weird to see 400+
persons marveling at 1 woman and her puppets and roaring with delight and
laughter.

The show is at CELL, 20550 Bryant ST @ 18th, and thus canit be advertised in
the traditional wayOie: SF Weakly and Guardian, for important reasons
relating
to the fucked-up city we live in. Last year when they played here, they
received tremendous coverage from the papers and their show faired well. This
year, they wanted to stay away from the big bad rock club, which is
disgusting
and draining. So they booked the show with us. This is a complete departure
form what we usually do. We donit host music shows, and we usually draw on
talent locally. So it will be interesting to see if people support this or
whateverO but their are more performers:
 Rev Hal will tell ghost stories of terror and dinosaurs. He will also
host the event. Rev. Hal is a notable linguistic talent who also hand drew
and
lettered the Halloween hand out I got 10,000 compliments on. Halis a good
drawer. Ask him about dinosaurs, he likes themO
 The amazing Jehrico Reese!!! Dr. Reese will remove the brain of an
unsuspecting audience member with his new iBrain extractor 2000i, and then
put
it back. Dr. Reese has been working at his lab (ACE Junkyard and scientific
laboratories), and has collected an array of medical chachka that would
terrify
the proper authorities. Heis got a 1950is butt vibrator and 4 foot jacobs
laddars. Heis also available for corporate parties and bah-mitzvahsO
 MONGALOID!!!!! The Devo cover band will rock the house and put the 80is
in a better perspective. Mongaloid has gone through some member changes and
have new flowerpot hats for this show. They havenit played in a while and we
welcome them back. Suburban robots are monitoring my reality.
 Insecta was supposed to perform, but she changed her mind (as she will
do). But she said sheid wear her corset and get drunk and be all sluttyO
 The BLACK DWARF. Sizzling speedmetal with a twist. Havenit seen eem but
supposedly the singer wears a bat outfit. I said iThatis enough. Bat outfit
is
good enough.i
 Horror-rama will also feature haunted bathrooms, a hay loft for bad
trick or treaters, DJ Maxxx spinning webs of El Vira compilation CDsi, neo-
neonism by John Law and a door price that canit be beat: $8 or ebobi for
lower
priced apples! Full bar provided by the Cover Wagon saloon, featuring candy
corn flavored schnapps and pumpkin cider. Yea.

Go to the Haunted Barn another night and go to Anon Salon when itis on a
Friday
like itis supposed to be.

This show is brought to you by DAMMIT!! Ltd, the people who bring you: Lost
Vegas, Cirkus Redickuless, You Asked For It! Game shows and Porn-e-okie
(recently cancelled, yeah!).
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Date: 26 Oct 1999 01:59:09 EDT


&&&&&&&&&&&&___Halloween Horror-rama___.&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

I Know, I know Saturday the 30th, 9:00 there are precisely 100 million things
going on. Halloweeen this, millenium that bla bla bla.     But this is
better,
lemme tell ya why


 because Chicken John is throwing it and THAT'S why it's better.

"Chicken John has spared no expense to bring you this show of schmoes,
liberating as a lobotomy. I can not recommend it enough, and will offer,
personally, a double your money back guarantee if not delighted with the
show.
Iill see you there!!!"           Mayor Willie Brown

Ladies and Gentleman; it is my profound honor to present to you from New
Orleans, La.si 9th Ward: Mr. Quintron and Miss Pussycat! Only bay area
appearance.

 Mr. Quintron is a one-man-band theatre organist . He is an inventor of
electronic novelties and a great showman. His main instrument is a classic
organ from the 50is, and his edrum-buddyi is an odd example of what happens
to
onesi mind in the damp air of New Orleans. His creations and his talent as a
organist make Q very welcome in Europe, Japan and of course right here in the
country we were all blessed to be born in. Q has just recently returned from
Europe and is doing only a short 2-week tour of the US this year and we are
honored he has asked us to do his show.

  Miss Pussycat, Qsi wife, is far and away the finest puppetres this
side of the Pecos. Her show last year, iFree guitar lessons for animalsi, was
smashing. The story of a young squirrel giving guitar lessons to the friendly
forest dwellers until the evil which comes and steals all the drummers.
Amazingly funny and suprisingly well done with minimal props and lights. Last
year their show sold out the Bottom of the Hill, and it was weird to see 400+
persons marveling at 1 woman and her puppets and roaring with delight and
laughter.

The show is at CELL, 20550 Bryant ST @ 18th, and thus canit be advertised in
the traditional wayOie: SF Weakly and Guardian, for important reasons
relating
to the fucked-up city we live in. Last year when they played here, they
received tremendous coverage from the papers and their show faired well. This
year, they wanted to stay away from the big bad rock club, which is
disgusting
and draining. So they booked the show with us. This is a complete departure
form what we usually do. We donit host music shows, and we usually draw on
talent locally. So it will be interesting to see if people support this or
whateverO but their are more performers:
 Rev Hal will tell ghost stories of terror and dinosaurs. He will also
host the event. Rev. Hal is a notable linguistic talent who also hand drew
and
lettered the Halloween hand out I got 10,000 compliments on. Halis a good
drawer. Ask him about dinosaurs, he likes themO
 The amazing Jehrico Reese!!! Dr. Reese will remove the brain of an
unsuspecting audience member with his new iBrain extractor 2000i, and then
put
it back. Dr. Reese has been working at his lab (ACE Junkyard and scientific
laboratories), and has collected an array of medical chachka that would
terrify
the proper authorities. Heis got a 1950is butt vibrator and 4 foot jacobs
laddars. Heis also available for corporate parties and bah-mitzvahsO
 MONGALOID!!!!! The Devo cover band will rock the house and put the 80is
in a better perspective. Mongaloid has gone through some member changes and
have new flowerpot hats for this show. They havenit played in a while and we
welcome them back. Suburban robots are monitoring my reality.
 Insecta was supposed to perform, but she changed her mind (as she will
do). But she said sheid wear her corset and get drunk and be all sluttyO
 The BLACK DWARF. Sizzling speedmetal with a twist. Havenit seen eem but
supposedly the singer wears a bat outfit. I said iThatis enough. Bat outfit
is
good enough.i
 Horror-rama will also feature haunted bathrooms, a hay loft for bad
trick or treaters, DJ Maxxx spinning webs of El Vira compilation CDsi, neo-
neonism by John Law and a door price that canit be beat: $8 or ebobi for
lower
priced apples! Full bar provided by the Cover Wagon saloon, featuring candy
corn flavored schnapps and pumpkin cider. Yea.

Go to the Haunted Barn another night and go to Anon Salon when itis on a
Friday
like itis supposed to be.

This show is brought to you by DAMMIT!! Ltd, the people who bring you: Lost
Vegas, Cirkus Redickuless, You Asked For It! Game shows and Porn-e-okie
(recently cancelled, yeah!).
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From: Peter Risser <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Seattle
Date: 26 Oct 1999 04:27:47 -0700 (PDT)


Hello all,

I'm excursioning to Seattle the second week in
November (actually north of Seattle, in La Conner).
Anything cool and hip that I dare not miss while I'm
out there?

Any good record or secondhand stores out there?

Thanks!
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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) TIME records, on CD
Date: 26 Oct 1999 05:57:25 -0700 (PDT)


Hey!  I am back....whaddidI miss?(You mean, you didn't
know I was away?)
So, I just got on CD(lousy packaging, btw) the Irving
Joseph COLE PORTER-TIME RECORDS rekkid, which I
already have on vinyl...I hear-tell that my highly
coveted conquest to get MURDER, INC. is also now on
CD...Yes?  Source please?
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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Four Rooms
Date: 26 Oct 1999 09:02:08 -0400


Waitaminit - Combusitble Edison's old enough to be referred to as =
"vintage????"

- Nate

>>> <[e-mail]> 10/25 10:20 PM >>>

Well, I finally got around to renting Four Rooms and watching it over =
the=20
weekend.  Interesting movie and the soundtrack is good.  The interests to =
the=20
Listees is of course some vintage Combustible Edison and a couple of =
Esquivel=20
tracks which really add to that particular "room".

The rare (my choice of words) version of Vertigogo is the lead and =
closing=20
track of the movie.  I think the only version I have of it is on a CE =
Mixer=20
CD.

As opinion, the movie is only fair and I would probably not like it much =
at=20
all without the CE soundtrack (although there is a fair amount of =
attention=20
getting qualities in the first "room").

It is worth a rent so those who have been putting it off ought to snap to =
it.

TB


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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Weekend finds......
Date: 26 Oct 1999 09:12:51 -0400


The local hospital holds a huge week-long "thrift sale" and they always =
have a smattering of albums.  Once again this year I found some interesting=
 stuff:

"Surfer Girl" - Beach Boys, Capitol re-issue - I just got it for the few =
instros. on it.

"Survival of the Fittest" - The Headhunters - A contemp. jazz band with =
heavy Weather Report influence - some of the vocal tracks are laughable.  =
Can you dig "God Make Me Funky!" backed by the Pointer Sistas......

"Music from Good, Bad & Ugly, Fistful....., and For a Few....." - Hugo =
Montenegro.  Haven't listened to this yet but I remember my uncle had this =
album and I dig the GB&U tune no matter who does it!

"The Happy Moog" - This looks like a re-issue by Pickwick.  Most of the =
songs on side B are by J. Jaques Perry.  I'm not a moog fan as the =
gimmicky sound grows irritating after a while, but these are the best moog =
songs I've heard so far.  Mostly space themed with a twist of humor.  Is =
this a re-issue?  Oh, all the songs are in a "Jumble" on the back, so =
someone plastered a hand-written song list on the back with magic tape =
(now brittle and yellow with age).

"Perspectives in Percussion Vol. 1" - on Stereo Fidelity, a foil cover w/ =
blue triangles on the cover.  I have Vol. 2 which had an interesting =
"original" called Lion Hunt or something - but unfortunatlely, this is =
more of the same stupid "percussion" arrangements.  Not BAD, just cliche'd =
out the ass.

"Fireworks" (Columbia) - F&T:  Finally a decent "prepared/manipulated/bange=
d on" piano album.  I take it this is one of the last LP's with interesting=
 "kerplunking" before they wallowed in themes from Romeo and Juliet and =
the like.  Sabre Dance is included, recalling the recent discussion about =
that song - so what's the big deal about that tune?  Some hyper-frenetic =
pacing on some of these songs!!  Only complaint is that there's NO backing =
music - simply the two pianos.........

"Hawaiian Percussion" - Billy Mure (Strand): A few fun tunes thrown into =
the cliche'd crap that is "percussion."  Namely, Kalua, Sleep Walk, and =
Hawaiian Drums.

"Best of Cugat" (Mercury "Perfect Presence Sound Series):  Not a big Cugat =
fan, a few decent tracks.  Love the LP though, with a blond babe in VERY =
tight wraparound dress looking incredibly happy.  These Mercury LP's were =
a big deal with plastic coated gatefold sleeves; the old Command-style =
song descriptions are inside.

Also recalling a recent discussion here, I found one of those "fake" LP's =
called "Victory at Sea" - The Original Score (on High In-Fidelity =
Records):  Cover has a great vintage pic of a boat with four women =
frolicking on deck (two nude), four guys at their side.  On the back are 4 =
b&w pin-up shots (1 nude, 1 bare ass w/shirt, 1 in bikini, 1 nude lying on =
stomach).  The back reads, "Suggested titles suitable for enclosure in =
this album cover are as follows:"  then you get (snicker, hubba hubba) =
titles like "Blow the Man Down," "Splish Splash," "Lush Life," and "The =
Devil and the Deep Blue Sea."  The LP actually inside looks like a =
hippy-dippy something called "The Emerson's."

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From: "Jane Fondle" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Weekend finds......
Date: 26 Oct 1999 09:22:38 EDT





>From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: (exotica) Weekend finds......
>Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:12:51 -0400
>"The Happy Moog" - This looks like a re-issue by Pickwick.  Most of the
>songs on side B are by J. Jaques Perry.  I'm not a moog fan as the gimmicky
>sound grows irritating after a while, but these are the best moog songs
>I've heard so far.  Mostly space themed with a twist of humor.  Is this a
>re-issue?  Oh, all the songs are in a "Jumble" on the back, so someone
>plastered a hand-written song list on the back with magic tape (now brittle
>and yellow with age).
>

Well, I am a MOOG fan...and I love this record...I have wondered the same
thing, too...because the my cover looks cheap-oh as well...

I have just returned from mum's in FL and got same great stuff!  I would say
the pick-scores would be, for a grand total of $5, SOUNDSVILLE! and THE
THIRTEEN FINGERS OF SIR JULIAN, both in VG+++ shape, thankyou....But I got
some other cool stuff, including a Louis Prima 10" I've never seen, for
.25-.10...Man, I still LOVE Florida!
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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) TV Crime Jazz
Date: 26 Oct 1999 09:47:39 -0400


At 09:46 PM 10/25/99 -0500, Darrell Brogdon wrote:

>Got a promo CD today from Aleph Records -- Lalo Schifrin's "Mannix"
>soundtrack plus bonus tracks!
> Great late '60s-early '70s TV crime jazz

I've been trying to make a "crime jazz" compilation CD recently and I have
to admit that I suddenly don't know what it is.
It gets especially confusing when you don't have enough real soundtrack
stuff and you have to use stuff that reminds you of "crime jazz".
Having said that, you mentioned Lalo Schifrin and I have to put in a word
for the great, strange "Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin On" LP that I just got.
I don't think it's crime jazz but then I don't think "Mission Impossible"
is either.
And I'm not sure I'd call it a "moog" record which is how I've seen it
classified.
But it does sound like a soundtrack in spots.
I can't fit it on the crime jazz CD but I think it'll fit on the next real
and fake soundtrack one.  "Hippies, bikers and go-go scenes"



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Four Rooms
Date: 26 Oct 1999 10:02:17 EDT


In a message dated 10/26/99 5:54:17 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Waitaminit - Combusitble Edison's old enough to be referred to as
"vintage????"

 - Nate
  >>

whatimentwas that the tunes in the movie were tunes also released on CE's
regular CD.  in other words, besides Vertigogo, the tunes would be easily
recognizable by CE fans.

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From: "jonathan richardson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) TV Crime Jazz
Date: 26 Oct 1999 07:29:56 PDT


at Tue, 26 Oct 1999 09:47:39 -0400
Nat Kone sed:

>Having said that, you mentioned Lalo Schifrin and I have to put in a word
>for the great, strange "Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin On" LP that I just got.

I agree, this is one whacked record, especially for the back cover with
syringes poking into pyschedelicalized mushrooms stuck on Lalo's head. ANd
why is he sitting inside a old cabinet holding up a plastic fried egg on the
front cover?  I would definitely call this record spy-fry. And the songs are
all gems to boot! I got mine at an estate sale years ago, you know the type
with nothing but a bunch of grandmas old toilet paper poodles and baby jars
filled with odd sized screws and nuts and just as you are about to leave
WHAM there it is  you happen upon a gem like this and its only10 cents, this
scenario seems to happen alot with me. Anyway, I second the word for this
record,  I dont know if it was ever put on CD or not but it is Schifrin at
his at his most far out. YES! Im excited that someone has this record and
likes it as much as I do.

-jonathan

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Subject: (exotica) Yo-de-la-ee-tee
Date: 26 Oct 1999 16:58:41 +0200


Don't forget, today's World Yodel Day.

So clear your throat with a salt water gurgle,
take a deep breath, and make the most of it...

Cheers, Ton

PS

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Subject: Re: (exotica) TV Crime Jazz
Date: 26 Oct 1999 15:57:57 +0100



IMO Lalo Schifrin is a genre in himself. TV crime jazz sounds like a pretty
accurate description. Being a fan of the late 60s/early 70s, I rate Mannix
as one of the best soundtracks in this genre, closely followed by Bullitt,
More Mission Impossible, Dirty Harry, as well as non Lalo Hawaii Five-O,
The Hanged Man and some others that I cant recall at the moment in no
particular order.

Charlie

PS. I have a load of crap (IMO) records that I want to get rid of soon. If
anybody is interested in The Monkeys' Head, Lalo Schifrin's Maquis De Sade,
Eric Soya's 17, Beat Girl soundtrack as well as a load of other
easy/exotica/soundtrack trash that I'll get round to listing in the next
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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Louis Philippe Concerts - France, New York - New realease
Date: 26 Oct 1999 08:11:48 -0700 (PDT)




Louis Philippe's forthcoming concerts;

 At the Theatre de la Madeleine, Troyes, France, on the 3rd of Nov.,
20:00. Bookings: (+33) - (0)3 25 40 02 03.

At La Maroquinerie, Rue Boyer, Paris, on the 4th of Nov., 20:00. Louis
and Danny Manners will perform with novelist Jonathan Coe; (+33) (0)1 40
33 30 60.

At the Fez, @Time Cafe, Lafayette St., New York City. 4 gigs are planned
on the 9th, 10th (2 gigs) and 12th of December. Other acts on the bill
include Harvey Williams and Stuart Moxham.

 New release: Cherry Red Records has just put out a mid-price double CD
of Louis' 1991 and 1992 albums, "Rainfall" and "Jean Renoir", which had
only been available in Japan beforehand. Cat No. CDMRED 162. Cherry Red'
address: 1st Floor, Unit 17, Elysium Gate, 126-128 New King's Road,
London SW6 4LZ.


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From: "Jane Fondle" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Yo-de-la-ee-tee
Date: 26 Oct 1999 11:14:43 EDT


> > >From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
> > >Don't forget, today's World Yodel Day.


> > Thanks for the info!
Scary...
There is a cool Brian Eno b-side MIT yodeling...but I can't recall its name
at the moment...
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Subject: (exotica) Email address woes
Date: 26 Oct 1999 16:09:32 +0100


PS. Its [e-mail]



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Yo-de-la-ee-tee
Date: 26 Oct 1999 11:17:26 EDT


Everybody cue up Heino! Sing Mit Heino!

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From: Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: more CD Burning
Date: 26 Oct 1999 11:16:20 -0400


Sem Sintatra wrote:
>I'm using a Mac, Toast 3.5.7 with a LaCie 4x 8x writer and need to make an
>copy exact of an audio CD, which contains crossfades between tracks ...
[...]
>all i want to try to do is make an *exact* copy

Cleve answered:
>you cannot do that with Toast, as it automatically inserts 2 seconds of
>blank space between tracks. You will need Jam
[...]
>If you don't care about index numbers, you can record the entire CD into a
>digital recorder and save it all as one stereo track and burn a CD from
>there. But the whole thing will be indexed as track 1.

I think you can only get Toast's gaps down to 1/2 sec or
something--so yep, if you don't have Jam, the "make the whole thing
Track 1" method is going to be the only way.

Do you have 600MB of free disk space? In the "Goodies" folder that
comes with the Toast application is a utility called "Toast Audio
Extractor." Stick in your source CD, then drag out a selection in the
bottom pane which includes all the tracks. Click "Extract" and save
the whole shebang as one giant AIFF file on your hard disk. Then use
Toast to burn an audio CD with just that one audio file.

If there are some tracks that DO have silence between them, you can
make the process a little more manageable by just extracting the
crossfaded tracks as one chunk.

your brother in toasting,
  --Ross

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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Gainsbourg-er
Date: 26 Oct 1999 08:33:30 -0700 (PDT)


OK, Francophiles, some probes.
I am reading VIEW FROM THE EXTERIOR, a Serge bio, and
it's purty good...and it raises a lot of questions for
me....first of all, are any of Serge/Jane's movies
widely available?  I have only seen one.  Also, what
are opinions on the J'TAIME *soundtrack*?  There is a
description of a banjo number on there that sounds
kinda DELIVERENCE-Y.
Finally, I have a viddy-copy of those 4-set
Phillips/Fontana videos, Serge from 50s-90s....on the
third one, there is Serge, Jane and Jacques DuTronc on
a variety show singing this "Gigilo" song, and it's
just so great, sleazy and now-sound...was this a
single for any of them?
Merci! Jane Fondle


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Yo-de-la-ee-tee
Date: 26 Oct 1999 11:37:44 -0400


>There is a cool Brian Eno b-side MIT yodeling...but I can't recall its name
>at the moment...

"Seven Deadly Finns". Hilarious lyrics too... back when he still had fun
(1974).

On my copy it's the A-side, though. The B-side is "Later On" -- "A Collage
of Extracts from Fripp/Eno 'No Pussyfooting'".


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From: "George Hall" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Baltimore/NYC?
Date: 26 Oct 1999 12:51:05 -0400


    Hi! George here...after 5 yrs, Seks Bomba is finally getting its'
lazy-ass...er, ass out of town to play 2 shows, Nov 19-20 in NYC &
Baltimore. Question: does anyone have any idea who we'd send promo stuff to?
For those who don't know, we're a (hyphen-crazy) quasi-Easy, organ-enhanced,
semi-instro rock 5-pc spy-fi rock/fake jazz/etc act from Boston, & I am
guessing very few people know of us, esp in Baltimore. Any leads regarding
press or radio people with an interest in this sort of thing would be
welcomed with open arms, like a long lost puppy...perhaps with a slight
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From: "Ron Grandia" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Weekend finds......
Date: 27 Oct 1999 08:42:31 -0700





>THE
>THIRTEEN FINGERS OF SIR JULIAN, both in VG+++ shape, thankyou....

Great scores in FLAHrida!  Sir Julian ROCKS!  An  excellent rekkid... I love
the thirteen-fingered drawing on the back cover.

My vinyl is in fantastic condition, though the bottom third of the cover was
eaten by bugs. Miraculously, they left the inner sleeve untouched. Weird,
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From: "William Walton" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) the NOW SOUND dance party, in philadelphia
Date: 26 Oct 1999 13:26:39 EDT


s t r o b o s c o p i c a
the NOW SOUND dance party

spinning 60's transatlantic pop, exotica, erotica/film noir soundtracks,
tropicalia and other rare grooves for yr dancing and lounging follies.
glittering guitars and oscillations included.
(white russians w. soy milk are not, but recommended)

700 Club
2nd & Fairmount
Philadelphia PA

Thursday, October 28, 1999
10 PM til 2 AM
no cover

questions?
directions?
fliers?
feel free to email me offlist.
[e-mail]

thank you.
william (aka DJ mohair)

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Weekend finds......
Date: 26 Oct 1999 15:20:56 EDT


In a message dated 10/26/99 9:37:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< My vinyl is in fantastic condition, though the bottom third of the cover
was
 eaten by bugs. Miraculously, they left the inner sleeve untouched. Weird,
 huh? >>

one might say the bugs had "good taste".

tiki bob would not say that tho.    too corny.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) the NOW SOUND dance party, in philadelphia
Date: 26 Oct 1999 15:21:54 EDT


In a message dated 10/26/99 10:27:22 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< thank you.
 william (aka DJ mohair) >>

can we get an explaination of the "DJ mohair" handle?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) the NOW SOUND dance party, in philadelphia
Date: 26 Oct 1999 15:51:50 EDT


<< thank you.
william (aka DJ mohair) >>

can we get an explaination of the "DJ mohair" handle?

tb


What kind of explanation do you need?
It's a silly record-twiddler moniker.
I like to wear old mohair sweaters...
(...or it could read DJ Mo'hair for more hair, cause my folicles are rather
short).

Hope this helps.

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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) stereo tv... no, tv ABOUT stereo
Date: 26 Oct 1999 16:55:57 -0400


The main music-related thing on TV this week is the History Channel
rerunning their History of Stereo program. Thursday night at 10:00pm and
2:00am (eastern). A bit more advance warning this time.

Meanwhile, less relevantly, TCM and AMC continue to pile on amazing
quantities of horror/thriller/sci-fi flicks. Again, you can check out my
scroungy listing here:
http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/tvscavenger.html

I know it seems like I'm pimping for my site, but believe me... there's a
ton of stuff coming up, way too much to inflict via e-mail. And maybe you'd
like to check out the little discussion board I have hooked on too.

Thanks for the space (as someone used to say),

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From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) KBZ  info
Date: 26 Oct 1999 17:18:21 -0500


A bit more info on the new KBZ release:

The new single I picked up in Berlin is called:
  Schlager on Parade
     A: Arizona Man
     B: Eine H=FCtte In Den B=E4uen
  (Plastikray VEB 2000)

There is a contact address included in the liner sheet which may
help as I don't see this one showing up in any store.

[e-mail]

Also, just saw the newest Aki Kauroismaki film - Juha and some great
lounge/surf sounds included within this soundtrack. It's composed by
Anssi Tikanm=E4ki and is supposedly released on Johanna/Bardi
records as a CD but I've had no  luck finding any source to get it.
Anyone out in Scandanavia know more about how to get it.

Thanks,

Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) dust liner musings
Date: 26 Oct 1999 22:55:51 -0400


I was looking over the dust liner from a late 60s Atlantic jazz album, with
the many tiny pictures of other releases, and I spotted a couple of Sergio
Mendes solo releases: "The Great Arrival" and "Favorite Things". Has anyone
heard these? Compare and contrast with the Brasil '66 albums?

So apparently, he had his own contract going with Atlantic at the same time
as Brasil '66 with A&M. Nice work if you can get it. Any other notables who
had pan-label deals going?

Some other 'listy' looking albums pictured (if anyone wants to comment):

Joe Harriott & John Mayer - "Indo-Jazz Fusions"
Herbie Mann - "Impressions Of The Middle East"
The Charles Lloyd Quartet - "Journey Within" & "Love-In"
Brother Jack McDuff - "A Change Is Gonna Come"
Brother Jack McDuff & David Newman - "Double Barrelled Soul"
"Brazil's Super Hits"
"Killer Joe's International Discotheque"

The latter is surely Killer Joe Piro, "the jet set's favorite dancer," as
seen inside Enoch Light's "Discotheque" cover. AND, spotted him last night
in the credits of the animated puppet movie, "Mad Monster Party". That
credit being: choreography.

Thanks,

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Subject: Re:  (exotica) dust liner musings
Date: 26 Oct 1999 23:26:19 EDT



In a message dated 10/26/99 10:56:31 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>"Killer Joe's International Discotheque"

You asked for an opinion: The music (mostly cover tunes of dance senstations
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From: Jim Gerwitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Book: Heart & Soul Music, Momus and Kahime
Date: 26 Oct 1999 20:45:48 -0700


Took another look at that soundtrack cover book in Virgin Megastore
(still $29) and came home and ordered from Daedalus. I hope there are
some left !
While looking for it earlier today I also checked the SF Border's
remainder table, a favorite haunt - There was a book hitherto unknown to
me ($29 marked down to $3.99) by Bob Merlis/Davin Seay called "Heart &
Soul: A Celebration of Black Music Style in America 1930-1975."
Foreword by Etta James - haven't read much, text seems to be a very
broad overview better handled in many other books, but its chock full of
small & medium size photos, live show posters, record covers,
pompadours, top hats, movie lobby cards, just tons of cool stuff - a
hand fan with a picture of a prayin Mahalia Jackson (good for those hot
days in the choir loft), Cab Calloway hawking Schenley, Louis Armstrong
puffin away on a Camel and a James Brown "Black & Brown" stamp album.
160 pages, 12" by 12".

And now for something completely different......

The Momus tour is scheduled to hit the US starting tonight in Cambridge,
then on to NYC. Kahime Karie joins him in Nov in CA for the left coast
leg, here's the sched, scroll down the page -
http://www.demon.co.uk/momus/news.html

Question - anyone see them perform live last time they were here, and
will i kick myself if i miss them again ?

KK new US Cd called K.K.K.K.K is out today but wasn't priced and on the
shelf yet. CDNOW was supposed to have it today for 11.99, as well as the
GP's Simply Faboo US release for 12.99. Don't forget your e-coupons!

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From:    Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) dust liner musings
Date: 27 Oct 1999 02:23:04 -0400


At 10:55 PM 10/26/99 -0400, m.ace wrote:
>Herbie Mann - "Impressions Of The Middle East"

A very interesting record.  A nice "fusion".  Herbie's got a lot of surprises.


>"Killer Joe's International Discotheque"

I was disappointed that there's so much singing on this record but with
that cover, you can't get rid of it.  I guess the playing is pretty good
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From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Frankie
Date: 27 Oct 1999 12:05:50 +0200


Amy Reiter in today's Nothing Personal:

Mattel's new Barbie Loves Frankie Sinatra doll -- endorsed
by the Chairman of the Board's daughter Tina -- hits stores this
week. Li'l Ol' Blue Eyes is accompanied by his "biggest fan" --
Barbie the bobby-soxer, who comes decked out in scrunched
bobby socks and brown loafers and clutches a 78 Sinatra single.

Should Ken be jealous? Not at all, reassures Mattel P.R. gal
Lisa McKendall, "Ken's been there all along. She loves these
men [Sinatra; Elvis, the first Barbie Loves doll] from more of
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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Bobby Willis,Maria Ley Piscator,Queenie Ashton
Date: 25 Oct 1999 09:53:48 -0400


Bobby Willis
                  LONDON (AP) û Bobby Willis, husband and manager of pop star Cilla Black, died Saturday at age 57.

                  Willis, who had been diagnosed with cancer of the lungs and liver in July, died at a hospital where he was being treated for pneumonia.

                  Willis met Miss Black when she was a 15-year-old waitress in Liverpool who occasionally sang with rock groups. She was signed by Beatles manager Brian Epstein in 1963, and her hits included "Anyone Who Had a Heart" and "You're My World."

                  Willis became her manager after Epstein's suicide in 1967, and they married two years later. As her singing career faded, she and Willis turned their efforts to television, where she became a high-paid fixture as hostess of "Blind Date." In addition to his wife, Willis is survived by sons Robert, 28, Benjamin, 24, and Jack, 17.

Maria Ley Piscator
                  NEW YORK (AP) û Maria Ley Piscator, a theater arts teacher and director who co-founded a drama workshop attended by Marlon Brando and Harry Belafonte, died Oct. 14. She was 101.

                  Mrs. Piscator began her theatrical career as a dancer in Berlin and Paris. She later turned to choreography and helped stage several productions with Max Reinhardt, including "A Midsummer Night's Eve."

                  She met theatrical director Erwin Piscator, who became her third husband, in 1936 while studying literature at the Sorbonne. They moved to the United States and founded the Dramatic Workshop at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan. Their students included Belafonte, Brando and Tony Randall.

                  Mrs. Piscator directed theatrical productions off-Broadway and in Europe. She was the director and founder of small theater programs in New York for the elderly, children and others.

                  She wrote "The Piscator Experiment: The Political Theater," which was published in 1967. Her autobiography, "Mirror People," was published in 1989.


Queenie Ashton one of Australia's most popular and enduring stars has passed away in Sydney aged 95.  Best known for her role as Granny Bishop in Australia's longest running radio serials, Blue Hills, Ms Ashton also had a glittering career on stage and screen.  Born in London as Edith Murial Ashton in 1903, she travelled to Australia in 1927 to take up the starring role in the musical Sunny. She went on to star in a succession of musicals. Ms Ashton played the part of Granny Bishop from 1949 until the serial's end in 1976 after 5,795 episodes. she never tired of playing this role and delivered the last line of the final episode, "People never really die until no-one wants to remember them any more. Goodbye and God bless."  Queenie died at the Yallambi Nursing Home, Carlingford on Thursday. She is survived
by two children, Tony and Janet.

And in newsgroup alt.obituaries comes this question:
On 25 Oct 1999 00:08:41 GMT, in alt.obituaries [e-mail] (DESSCRIBE1) wrote:
>Does anybody have any info on the living and/or health status of either of these two singularly-named kitschy cult musicians?
>Erich










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Subject: (exotica) [obits from the NYTimes]Van Arsdale France
Date: 25 Oct 1999 11:49:15 -0400


October 25, 1999
Van Arsdale France, Who Shaped Training for Disney Workers, Dies at 87
By DOUGLAS MARTIN

              Van Arsdale France, the man who wrote the manual for teaching Disneyland employees precisely how to smile, died on Oct. 13 in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 87.

          France brought a background in industrial relations to Disneyland, which opened in 1955 in Anaheim, Calif. He spent more than a quarter-century developing training programs for what came to be called Disney University. After retiring in 1978, he was a consultant to Disney until his death.

          "He was able to put into effect the way Walt wanted the staff to relate to guests," said Jack Linquist, who worked for the Disney Co company for 38 years, the last five as president of Disneyland. He called France "a real Jiminy Cricket," who acted as the conscience of Disneyland when he saw cost-cutters as threatening the integrity of Walt Disney's vision.

          The Disney vision involved a formula in which all staff members, not just the people who portrayed Snow White and Mickey Mouse, were told to think of themselves as characters playing to an audience.

          France's basic idea was something he called "the looking-glass self," meaning that if staff members smiled, customers would smile, too. No honorifics were permitted in Disneyland. "The only Mister here is Mr. Toad," France's manual commanded.

          The vision was broadly egalitarian. As the manual said: "Every guest receives the VIP treatment. We roll out the red carpet for the Jones family from Joliet just as we would (with a few embellishments) for the Eisenhowers from Palm Springs."

          But the cast members were expected to know their roles and stay in character. Women were to wear scant makeup and men were to be clean-shaven.

          Some saw such commandments as rather harsh social control, and some were even more critical.

          In his 1968 book, "The Disney Version," Richard Schickel wrote that Disney University trained people "in the modern American art forms -- pioneered by the airlines -- of the frozen smile and the canned answer delivered with enough spontaneity to seem unprogrammed."

          Terrie Richards Alden, a jazz singer who worked at Disney parks on and off from 1986 to 1993, said she found it oppressive. "Everything about you had to be Alice in Wonderland," she said, "even if you were a garbage collector making the minimum wage."

          France was born in the Seattle area and moved to San Diego at age 12, said Estelle Webb, his companion of 33 years. He graduated from San Diego State University and worked in labor relations before being asked to set up the Disney employment-training program.

          Dick Nunis, who was hired by France at Disneyland's inception and went on to become his boss as head of Disney Attractions, said France always showed a willingness to learn and adapt. In the late 1960s, for example, France enrolled at the University of Colorado at Boulder to gain exposure to the thinking of the next generation.

          Nunis said that whenever France thought Disneyland was beginning to slip a bit after Walt Disney's death in 1966, not following the original policy of putting quality ahead of costs, he would complain, often successfully. (Disney had refused to post signs asking visitors not to step on gardens, resulting in the loss of tens of thousands of plants a year.)

          In his later years, France wrote articles and pamphlets for older people, including one that advocated bus travel, which he adopted after he stopped driving. It was called "The Bus and I: Diary of a Reformed Autoholic."

          Ms. Webb said that France jogged decades before it became popular and that he was an avid body surfer because his small size had made it difficult to control the heavy surfboards of his youth. Until several months ago, France "ralked" daily; ralking is the word he coined for his combination of running and walking.

          France was married twice and is survived by two daughters, Cheryl France of Portland, Ore., and Sandy Steen of Albuquerque, N.M.

          Ms. Webb said she and France had lived around the corner from each other for 33 years.

          "We believed in long engagements," she said.









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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) obit: Rex Gildo
Date: 27 Oct 1999 21:09:12 +0200


German Schlager singer Rex Gildo is dead. 60 year old Sexy Rexy had been
in koma in hospital for 3 days after he had jumped out of the window of
his Munich home during a psychotic attack. As Rex & Gitte he and his
duet partner Gitte Haenning had become famous in the 60s with Schlager
hits like "Im Stadtpark die Laternen". His biggest hit during his solo
career was "Fiesta Mexicana" ("Hossa! Hossa!"), which he had to perform
again and again in bars all over Europe since. According to friends it
was this stagnation of his career, that drove Gildo first into alkohol
and later into depressions, which led to several suicide attempts in
recent years. He was still looking good, his deep sun teint was his
trademark. His semi-gay/campish appearance had inspired several
double-gangers with names like Rex Dildo or Gildo Horn.

Mo

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Subject: (exotica) London Shops
Date: 27 Oct 1999 16:42:53 +0100


I wonder if some of the London based Listers can help.   A part time lister
from Argentina (Hi, Christian!),  is coming over to London for a week.  Not
really long enough to get out to the suburbs for hardcore charity shop
scouring.  So i was wondering if there were any recommendations of decent
shops to point him at.  I'm a little rusty myself (been living in Brighton
too long),  and the only places I can think of are Berwick St/Oxford
St/Notting Hill/Rough Trade.

Also any nightspots?  Is Karminsky still playing regularly?  Any other
recommendations.

Thanks for your help.


El Maestro Con Queso

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Date: 27 Oct 1999 16:42:53 +0100


I wonder if some of the London based Listers can help.   A part time lister
from Argentina (Hi, Christian!),  is coming over to London for a week.  Not
really long enough to get out to the suburbs for hardcore charity shop
scouring.  So i was wondering if there were any recommendations of decent
shops to point him at.  I'm a little rusty myself (been living in Brighton
too long),  and the only places I can think of are Berwick St/Oxford
St/Notting Hill/Rough Trade.

Also any nightspots?  Is Karminsky still playing regularly?  Any other
recommendations.

Thanks for your help.


El Maestro Con Queso

[e-mail]
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Subject: Re: (exotica) dust liner musings
Date: 27 Oct 1999 09:51:39 +0100



"Joe Harriott & John Mayer - "Indo-Jazz Fusions"


Annoying noodling jazz with tablas and sitars. These two definately did not
take enough drugs, forgot that self-indulgence is not cool and generally
followed the intellectual jazz path into a land of boredom....



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Date: 27 Oct 1999 09:51:39 +0100



"Joe Harriott & John Mayer - "Indo-Jazz Fusions"


Annoying noodling jazz with tablas and sitars. These two definately did not
take enough drugs, forgot that self-indulgence is not cool and generally
followed the intellectual jazz path into a land of boredom....



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Subject: (exotica) obit: Rex Gildo
Date: 27 Oct 1999 17:04:54 +0200


German Schlager singer Rex Gildo is dead. 60 year old Sexy Rexy had been
in koma in hospital for 3 days after he had jumped out of the window of
his Munich home during a psychotic attack. As Rex & Gitte he and his
duet partner Gitte Hanning had become famous in the 60s with Schlager
hits like "Im Stadtpark die Laternen". His biggest hit during his solo
career was "Fiesta Mexicana" ("Hossa! Hossa!"), which he had to perform
again and again in bars all over Europe since. According to friends it
was this stagnation of his career, that drove Gildo first into alkohol
and later into depressions, which led to several suicide attempts in
recent years. He was still looking good, his deep sun teint was his
trademark. His semi-gay/campish appearance had inspired several
double-gangers with names like Rex Dildo or Gildo Horn.

Mo



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Subject: (exotica) obit: Rex Gildo
Date: 27 Oct 1999 17:04:54 +0200


German Schlager singer Rex Gildo is dead. 60 year old Sexy Rexy had been
in koma in hospital for 3 days after he had jumped out of the window of
his Munich home during a psychotic attack. As Rex & Gitte he and his
duet partner Gitte Hanning had become famous in the 60s with Schlager
hits like "Im Stadtpark die Laternen". His biggest hit during his solo
career was "Fiesta Mexicana" ("Hossa! Hossa!"), which he had to perform
again and again in bars all over Europe since. According to friends it
was this stagnation of his career, that drove Gildo first into alkohol
and later into depressions, which led to several suicide attempts in
recent years. He was still looking good, his deep sun teint was his
trademark. His semi-gay/campish appearance had inspired several
double-gangers with names like Rex Dildo or Gildo Horn.

Mo



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Subject: (exotica) [obit] Hoyt Axton
Date: 27 Oct 1999 10:46:50 -0400


The Associated Press
                  Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1999; 1:01 a.m. EDT

    HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Hoyt Axton, a folksy baritone, songwriter and actor who wrote Three Dog Night's No. 1 hit ``Joy to the World'' and songs that were performed by artists from Elvis Presley to Ringo Starr, died Tuesday. He was 61.
    Axton died at his ranch in the Bitterroot Valley, surrounded by family and friends. He moved to the area after playing a sheriff in
the movie ``Disorganized Crime,'' filmed there in 1988.
    He suffered a heart attack two weeks ago and another during
surgery, said Jan Woods, a longtime friend in Nashville, Tenn. He
had never fully recovered from a 1996 stroke and used a wheelchair
much of the time. Axton also had advanced complications from
diabetes.
    Axton's mother, Mae Boren Axton, had her own spot in popular
culture history as the writer of Presley's ``Heartbreak Hotel.''
    ``When Mae died three years ago, she left me Hoyt,'' Ms. Woods
said. ``He was probably one of the most honest, humorous kids that
never grew up.''
    ``There was nobody that didn't like Hoyt,'' said Fran Boyd,
executive director of the Los Angeles-based Academy of Country
Music. ``Oh God, was he fun.''
    Three Dog Night's recording of his novelty ``Joy to the World'' (``Jeremiah was a bullfrog ...'') was on top of the charts for six straight weeks in 1971, making it the top hit of the year. Axton
pitched the song to group members when he was their opening act in
1969-70. He also wrote ``Never Been to Spain'' for the band, a song
also recorded by Presley.
    Axton's own singing hits include ``Boney Fingers'' (``Work your fingers to the bone, what do you get? Boney fingers'') and ``When
the Morning Comes.''
    The native of Duncan, Okla., started out singing folk songs in  the clubs of San Francisco in 1958 and a song he co-wrote,
``Greenback Dollar,'' was a 1963 hit for the Kingston Trio.
    He wrote hits for Starr (``No No Song'') and Steppenwolf (``The Pusher''). Others who performed songs he wrote included Joan Baez, Waylon Jennings, John Denver and Linda Ronstadt.
    Steppenwolf's ``The Pusher'' and ``Snowblind Friend'' were rare forays into a more serious theme. ``The Pusher'' was a powerful,
passionate song that condemned drug sellers.
    And 1975's ``No No Song'' included the lines ``No no no no, I  don't sniff it no more. I'm tired of waking up on the floor.''
    But in 1997, police found slightly more than a pound of
marijuana at Axton's home. Deborah Hawkins, whom Axton wed later
that year, said she gave him marijuana because it relieved some of
the pain, anxiety and stress he suffered after his stroke, her
lawyer said.
    Axton was given a three-year deferred sentence and fined $15,000 for marijuana possession. Hawkins got a one-year deferred sentence and a $1,000 fine.
    A large man, Axton as an actor specialized in playing good ol'  boys on TV and in films, including ``Gremlins'' and ``The Black
Stallion.'' He sang the ``Head to the Mountains'' jingle used to
advertise Busch beer in the 1980s.
    Survivors include Axton's wife and five children.
------------
as seen on usenet/newgroup alt.obituaries:

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 05:03:12 +0000, in alt.obituaries [e-mail] (Arthur van Kruining) wrote:

>DESSCRIBE1 <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> Does anybody have any info on the living and/or health status of either of
>> these two singularly-named kitschy cult musicians?
>
>AFAIK Heino is still alive and singing nazi hymns. The schlagersinger
>you should worry about is Rex Gildo. He jumped out of a second-floor
>window last Saturday, and now floats between life and death in a Munich
>hospital. According to a friend, the 60-year-old has-been acted out of
>loneliness...
>
>U groet,
>Arthur.




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Subject: (exotica) [obit] Hoyt Axton
Date: 27 Oct 1999 10:46:50 -0400


The Associated Press
                  Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1999; 1:01 a.m. EDT

    HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Hoyt Axton, a folksy baritone, songwriter and actor who wrote Three Dog Night's No. 1 hit ``Joy to the World'' and songs that were performed by artists from Elvis Presley to Ringo Starr, died Tuesday. He was 61.
    Axton died at his ranch in the Bitterroot Valley, surrounded by family and friends. He moved to the area after playing a sheriff in
the movie ``Disorganized Crime,'' filmed there in 1988.
    He suffered a heart attack two weeks ago and another during
surgery, said Jan Woods, a longtime friend in Nashville, Tenn. He
had never fully recovered from a 1996 stroke and used a wheelchair
much of the time. Axton also had advanced complications from
diabetes.
    Axton's mother, Mae Boren Axton, had her own spot in popular
culture history as the writer of Presley's ``Heartbreak Hotel.''
    ``When Mae died three years ago, she left me Hoyt,'' Ms. Woods
said. ``He was probably one of the most honest, humorous kids that
never grew up.''
    ``There was nobody that didn't like Hoyt,'' said Fran Boyd,
executive director of the Los Angeles-based Academy of Country
Music. ``Oh God, was he fun.''
    Three Dog Night's recording of his novelty ``Joy to the World'' (``Jeremiah was a bullfrog ...'') was on top of the charts for six straight weeks in 1971, making it the top hit of the year. Axton
pitched the song to group members when he was their opening act in
1969-70. He also wrote ``Never Been to Spain'' for the band, a song
also recorded by Presley.
    Axton's own singing hits include ``Boney Fingers'' (``Work your fingers to the bone, what do you get? Boney fingers'') and ``When
the Morning Comes.''
    The native of Duncan, Okla., started out singing folk songs in  the clubs of San Francisco in 1958 and a song he co-wrote,
``Greenback Dollar,'' was a 1963 hit for the Kingston Trio.
    He wrote hits for Starr (``No No Song'') and Steppenwolf (``The Pusher''). Others who performed songs he wrote included Joan Baez, Waylon Jennings, John Denver and Linda Ronstadt.
    Steppenwolf's ``The Pusher'' and ``Snowblind Friend'' were rare forays into a more serious theme. ``The Pusher'' was a powerful,
passionate song that condemned drug sellers.
    And 1975's ``No No Song'' included the lines ``No no no no, I  don't sniff it no more. I'm tired of waking up on the floor.''
    But in 1997, police found slightly more than a pound of
marijuana at Axton's home. Deborah Hawkins, whom Axton wed later
that year, said she gave him marijuana because it relieved some of
the pain, anxiety and stress he suffered after his stroke, her
lawyer said.
    Axton was given a three-year deferred sentence and fined $15,000 for marijuana possession. Hawkins got a one-year deferred sentence and a $1,000 fine.
    A large man, Axton as an actor specialized in playing good ol'  boys on TV and in films, including ``Gremlins'' and ``The Black
Stallion.'' He sang the ``Head to the Mountains'' jingle used to
advertise Busch beer in the 1980s.
    Survivors include Axton's wife and five children.
------------
as seen on usenet/newgroup alt.obituaries:

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 05:03:12 +0000, in alt.obituaries [e-mail] (Arthur van Kruining) wrote:

>DESSCRIBE1 <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> Does anybody have any info on the living and/or health status of either of
>> these two singularly-named kitschy cult musicians?
>
>AFAIK Heino is still alive and singing nazi hymns. The schlagersinger
>you should worry about is Rex Gildo. He jumped out of a second-floor
>window last Saturday, and now floats between life and death in a Munich
>hospital. According to a friend, the 60-year-old has-been acted out of
>loneliness...
>
>U groet,
>Arthur.




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Subject: (exotica) Ken Nordine
Date: 27 Oct 1999 09:19:59 +0000


>Colors and a Word Jazz compilation have both been reissued.  There have
>been quite a few other releases as well, the most prominent recent one is
>"Devout Catalyst", which I don't recommend for a start per se (he rambles
>on a bit, even has a guest or two), but do check him out.  He is fantastic!

i still have a spare copy of Best of Word Jazz CD on Rhino if anyone would
like to do a swap

friendly

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Subject: (exotica) Ken Nordine
Date: 27 Oct 1999 09:19:59 +0000


>Colors and a Word Jazz compilation have both been reissued.  There have
>been quite a few other releases as well, the most prominent recent one is
>"Devout Catalyst", which I don't recommend for a start per se (he rambles
>on a bit, even has a guest or two), but do check him out.  He is fantastic!

i still have a spare copy of Best of Word Jazz CD on Rhino if anyone would
like to do a swap

friendly

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Subject: Re: (exotica) the NOW SOUND dance party, in philadelphia
Date: 27 Oct 1999 07:27:11 EDT


In a message dated 10/26/99 12:48:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I like to wear old mohair sweaters...
 (...or it could read DJ Mo'hair for more hair, cause my folicles are rather
 short). >>

 i am partial to angora -- especially while directing.

and my follicles are rather short too (that is in number).

tb


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Subject: Re: (exotica) KBZ  info
Date: 27 Oct 1999 07:38:01 EDT


In a message dated 10/26/99 2:19:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time,=20
[e-mail] writes:

<< A bit more info on the new KBZ release:
=20
 The new single I picked up in Berlin is called:
   Schlager on Parade
      A: Arizona Man
      B: Eine H=FCtte In Den B=E4uen
   (Plastikray VEB 2000) >>


Because I am a freak about word origins (ask Mr. Mo'hair).  Where do the=20
initials KBZ and the Plastikray VEB 2000 come from and what do they mean?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Frankie
Date: 27 Oct 1999 07:47:56 EDT


In a message dated 10/27/99 3:07:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Li'l Ol' Blue Eyes is accompanied by his "biggest fan" --
 Barbie the bobby-soxer, who comes decked out in scrunched
 bobby socks and brown loafers and clutches a 78 Sinatra single. >>

yeah, and after the show does one of Sinatra's bodyguards invite Barbie
backstage to clutch another "single"?

sorry to be so snide but i find this type of marketing so ridiculous.

tb


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Subject: Re: (exotica) the NOW SOUND dance party, in philadelphia
Date: 27 Oct 1999 07:27:11 EDT


In a message dated 10/26/99 12:48:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< I like to wear old mohair sweaters...
 (...or it could read DJ Mo'hair for more hair, cause my folicles are rather
 short). >>

 i am partial to angora -- especially while directing.

and my follicles are rather short too (that is in number).

tb


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Subject: Re: (exotica) KBZ  info
Date: 27 Oct 1999 07:38:01 EDT


In a message dated 10/26/99 2:19:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time,=20
[e-mail] writes:

<< A bit more info on the new KBZ release:
=20
 The new single I picked up in Berlin is called:
   Schlager on Parade
      A: Arizona Man
      B: Eine H=FCtte In Den B=E4uen
   (Plastikray VEB 2000) >>


Because I am a freak about word origins (ask Mr. Mo'hair).  Where do the=20
initials KBZ and the Plastikray VEB 2000 come from and what do they mean?

Tiki Bob


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Frankie
Date: 27 Oct 1999 07:47:56 EDT


In a message dated 10/27/99 3:07:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

<< Li'l Ol' Blue Eyes is accompanied by his "biggest fan" --
 Barbie the bobby-soxer, who comes decked out in scrunched
 bobby socks and brown loafers and clutches a 78 Sinatra single. >>

yeah, and after the show does one of Sinatra's bodyguards invite Barbie
backstage to clutch another "single"?

sorry to be so snide but i find this type of marketing so ridiculous.

tb


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From: Paul Penna <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Weekend finds......
Date: 27 Oct 1999 14:51:20 -0700


>>THE
>>THIRTEEN FINGERS OF SIR JULIAN, both in VG+++ shape, thankyou....
>
>Great scores in FLAHrida!  Sir Julian ROCKS!  An  excellent rekkid... I love
>the thirteen-fingered drawing on the back cover.
>
>My vinyl is in fantastic condition, though the bottom third of the cover was
>eaten by bugs. Miraculously, they left the inner sleeve untouched. Weird,
>huh?

I recently got a reel-to-reel of this via eBay. Alas, no 13-fingered
drawing on the back. I like the sound of "Caravan" on the reel (and on the
CD-R I burned, if I do say so myself) better than the cut on "Space Age Pop
Vol. 1" ("Melodies and Mischief"). Much more echo on the organ on the RCA
CD; on the reel, it sounds "liver." Also, the channels are reversed (or
maybe they are on the tape); the bass is on the right on the reel, on the
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From: Paul Penna <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: more CD Burning
Date: 27 Oct 1999 14:57:56 -0700


>Sem Sintatra wrote:
>>I'm using a Mac, Toast 3.5.7 with a LaCie 4x 8x writer and need to make an
>>copy exact of an audio CD, which contains crossfades between tracks ...
>[...]
>>all i want to try to do is make an *exact* copy
>
>Cleve answered:
>>you cannot do that with Toast, as it automatically inserts 2 seconds of
>>blank space between tracks. You will need Jam
>[...]
>>If you don't care about index numbers, you can record the entire CD into a
>>digital recorder and save it all as one stereo track and burn a CD from
>>there. But the whole thing will be indexed as track 1.
>Ross 'Mambo Frenzy' Orr wrote:
>I think you can only get Toast's gaps down to 1/2 sec or
>something--so yep, if you don't have Jam, the "make the whole thing
>Track 1" method is going to be the only way.

Adaptec claims that Toast 4.0 will do disc-at-once.

I use Discribe (came bundled with my Sony CD-R/RW writer). Allows you to
disc-at-once your own home-brew tracks, and also has a built-in selection
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Subject: (exotica) [obit] Hoyt Axton
Date: 26 Oct 1999 16:08:35 -0400


Tuesday October 26 1:38 PM ET

 Hoyt Axton, Wrote Pop Hit 'Joy To The World', Dies

 VICTOR, Montana (Reuters) - Singer-songwriter Hoyt Axton, who penned
a string of pop hits including Three Dog Night's ''Joy to the World'',
has died at his Montana ranch at the age of 61, friends said Tuesday.

 The cause of death was not announced but Axton, a large man who also
acted in movies and on television, had a history of ill health,
Nashville-based associate David McCormick said.

 Axton was literally born to songwriting. His mother Mae Boren Axton
was a co-author of Elvis Presley's ``Heartbreak Hotel.''

 Axton churned out his own list of hits beginning with ''Greenback
Dollar,'' recorded in 1963 by the Kingston Trio. Other chart-toppers
included Ringo Starr's ``No No Song'' of 1975 as well as songs
performed by Elvis Presley, John Denver and Linda Ronstadt.

 But his best-known song remains the 1971 Three Dog Night smash ``Joy
To The World,'' with its unmistakable opening line ''Jeremiah was a
bullfrog, was a good friend of mine...'' The song topped the charts
for six weeks.

 Axton also acted in numerous movies and television shows, stretching
from ``Bonanza'' in 1964 to ``Diff'rent Strokes'' in 1984. He is
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Subject: (exotica) What's going on in London ... (hic)
Date: 28 Oct 1999 00:10:32 +0000


Friends

I was chewing the fat with friends tonight  ... (hic) and realised I know
far too little about what goes on in London these days ...

the places we mentioned were Club Montepulciano in Brockley, South London
and in Tottenham Court Road in London's West End and also the Dive Bar in
Gerrard St, Chinatown, which my neighbour Dave says play good music ...

Madame Jo-Jo's used to be good but I don't know if that's even going any
more ... I need to know more

i'm sick of going to places where they play shitty music, so i don't  ...
but i want to know where they play good music ...

c'mon London .... start rowin'

friendly ... (hic)

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Subject: (exotica) Schifrin's Marquis de Sade
Date: 27 Oct 1999 21:12:59 EDT


In a message dated 10/27/99 1:44:21 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
Charles_Moseley writes:

<< PS. I have a load of crap (IMO) records that I want to get rid of soon. If
anybody is interested in The Monkeys' Head, Lalo Schifrin's Maquis De Sade,
Eric Soya's 17, Beat Girl soundtrack as well as a load of other
easy/exotica/soundtrack trash that I'll get round to listing in the next
few days, please email me.>>

I couldn't let anyone call Schifrin's Marquis de Sade crap and get away with
it!  This is a great record and one of his most original.  It may not have
any babes on the cover or bongos or moogs in the arrangement, but this record
ranks as one of Lalo's greatest achievements.  This is not an exotica record
but an ingenious blend of jazz with baroque and classical styles.

If this is crap, I'm definitely interested in seeing your reject list.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Schifrin's Marquis de Sade
Date: 27 Oct 1999 22:03:27 EDT


<>

Count me in for this piece of shit would ya?




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Subject: Re: (exotica) TV Crime Jazz
Date: 28 Oct 1999 00:43:12 EDT


Hippies, Bikers and Go Go Scenes sounds sort of like my tape The Fabulous Go
Go Bastards.

Crime Jazz: Peter Gunn; Richard Diamond; Staccato; 77 Sunset Street; TV
Action Jazz; Mike Hammer; M-Squad; Burke's Law.

Spy Jazz: (more organ, less walking bass, more tenor sax - more sixties organ
jazz influenced, less arrangements using ex-Keaton, Woody Herman sidemen)
Mission: Impossible; Man From UNCLE; The Silencers; Mannix; Lalo stuff in
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From: "Philip Jackson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) dust liner musings
Date: 28 Oct 1999 15:34:16 +1000


Hello there,

> I was looking over the dust liner from a late 60s Atlantic jazz album, with
> the many tiny pictures of other releases, and I spotted a couple of Sergio
> Mendes solo releases: "The Great Arrival" and "Favorite Things". Has anyone
> heard these? Compare and contrast with the Brasil '66 albums?

I have both of these.
"Favourite Things" has more piano, less vocals than Brasil '66 but is
otherwise in a similar vein. "The Great Arrival" is for piano and orchestra
and has some big arrangements of classic Brazilian songs.

> Joe Harriott & John Mayer - "Indo-Jazz Fusions"

I have "Indo-Jazz Suite" by Harriot and Mayer, the first of three in this
vein the last being "Indo-Jazz Fusions II". This is a fairly serious early
attempt to fuse contemporary jazz with classical Indian musicians and
instruments. It predates John McLaughlin and others by a few years (and in
fact features Rick Laird on bass later of Mahavishnu Orchestra). It is
pretty pedestrian though. No one seems to really break free from the
constraints of a pretty tightly written rhythm section. Interesting but not
quite jazz enough or Indian enough to get too excited about.

> The Charles Lloyd Quartet - "Journey Within"

This is basically some free(ish) jazz with Jack DeJohnette and Keith Jarrett
but recorded live in front of a "rock" audience at the Fillmore San
Francisco.

See ya

Philip


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From: Wayno <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Kahimi Karie's second US release
Date: 28 Oct 1999 06:04:37 -0400


I haven't seen it in stores yet, but Kahimi Karie's "K.K.K.K.K." should be
available in the states now, on Le Grand Magistery Records. The disc was
originally released in Japan in July of 1998, and is a good 'un. This
domestic version also has four remixes tacked on as bonus tracks.

 1.    One Thousand 20th Century Chairs
 2.    What Are You Wearing?
 3.    Qu'est-ce Que Tu Veux?
 4.    Clip Clap
 5.    Kahimie Karie Et Moi
 6.    Harmony Korine
 7.    The Harder They Come
 8.    Symphonies Of Beethoven
 9.    Only-Narita
10.    What Is Blue?
11.    Kahimie Au Telephone
12.    What Are You Wearing? - Shinco Remix
13.    Symphonies Of Beethoven - Add 'N' To (X)
14.    Only Narita - Buffalo Daughter Remix
15.    One Thousand 20th Century Chairs - Hirohisa Horie Remix

Worth checking out, but it'd be even better if her 1997 release "Larme de
Crocodile" were issued in an affordable domestic release. It's the finest
example of her wispy decadent J-Pop, with Karie playing the Birkin role to
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Subject: (exotica) Gilberto & Tjader CDs for the asking.
Date: 28 Oct 1999 08:25:37 EDT


Hello All,

I've recently been experimenting with some new vinyl restoration/noise
reduction software.  In the process, I've ended up with a couple test CDs
that I was going to toss in the trash, but I realized that if you're not
listening with headphones they don't sound bad, so if anyone wants them, send
me your address and $0.99 in postage (in the US, if any of you aliens want
them we can work something out).

The 2 CDs are:

"The Astrud Gilberto Album" (with Jobim) Verve V/V6-8608 & Astrud Gilberto's
"The Shadow Of Your Smile" Verve V6-8629 both on one CD.

Cal Tjader's "Warm Wave" Verve V6-8585 & Cal Tjader & Eddie Palmieri's "El
Sonido Nuevo", Verve V6-8651 (both arranger by Claus Ogerman) are on another
CD.

There won't be jewel cases or liner notes (I'll print you a track listing),
but it's still good music and it's relatively free.  The sound quality is OK
(at least as good as tape - the noise reduction software messed with the high
end harmonics a bit too much)

-Roy


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From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) London Shops
Date: 28 Oct 1999 05:58:11 PDT


>I wonder if some of the London based Listers can help.
welllll... i was london based for some years

   >Also any nightspots?  Is Karminsky still playing regularly?
they play upstairs at 'blow up' at the wag club (i was asking some doormen
directions and one of them thought i was asking for 'the white club', he was
kind of shocked. how we laughed) on saturday. good fun, mod-ish and rare
groove downstairs, they play a lot of moog stuff. was at a halfway decent
club on old street saturday night which was quite cheesarama (had a wheel of
fortune with 'bond music' 'eurodisco' 'andrew weatherall' and other stuff
written on it and they'd play half an hour of whatever) but too hot to dance
in on sundays. there's a couple of great rare groove nights on the go at the
moment, bbe's ben and pete (didn't go to this, but they've good taste) and
keb darge at madame jojo's on a sunday, only a quid in early with your copy
of time out (oh yeah, most of these clubs are pretty cheap especially with a
copy of time out). i really enjoyed the talkin loud night (tuesday or
monday) at bar rhumba, though that is a bit more conventionally dance, as in
they'd play stuff like ufo that i love and play out but more dancefloor
mixes, but there's a big posse in the booth and i found myself giving it
lots at about half four with a foot injury that meant i couldn't walk for
the next 2-3 days (that applies to the karminsky's as well where people
accused me of overdoing the speed - i was one of the few there at 4 not
engaging in recreational smelling salts, but the groove rocked my world at
that hour) so the groove was anaesthetic in the best sense of the word.

  Any other
>recommendations.

avoid camden market though there are great markets around portobello. second
hand record shops with cool collections are even more expensive than dublin
(ie prohibitive) though some stuff is obviously more common in london (there
not having been many black people in ireland untill recently for example).
go to trader vic's, dress up posh so you can go to the bar at the top of the
hotel with the great view afterwards, i think it's not entirely open at the
moment.
gotta go
rob
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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Rex Gildo,Linda F. Pezzano,Abraham Polonsky
Date: 28 Oct 1999 10:14:46 -0400


Rex Gildo
                  MUNICH, Germany (AP) û Rex Gildo, a German pop singer, died of heart failure Tuesday, three days after attempting suicide by jumping from his third-floor apartment window. He was 60.

              Gildo died Tuesday night after three days in an artificially induced coma, the spokeswoman said. She spoke on condition of anonymity.

                   Authorities said Gildo had been suffering from psychological problems.

                   Gildo, whose real name was Ludwig Hirtreiter, rode to fame in the 1960s and '70s with hits like "Fiesta Mexicana" and "Speedy Gonzales." He continued to perform in recent years at events like folk festivals.

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) -
Rex Gildo, once one of the brightest boy stars of German pop music, has died three days after throwing himself from an apartment window, doctors said Wednesday.

Friends said he was despondent about the decline of his show business career as he grew older.

The singer, who turned 60 in July, had been relegated to performing at supermarket openings and office parties. His coffee-colored tan, unnaturally thick black hair and determinedly youthful dress made him a figure of fun for some.

German media, for whom the country's indigenous pop stars are the stuff of exhaustive daily coverage, devoted pages to Gildo's anguish and accounts of heavy drinking.

He died in a Munich hospital on Tuesday night of injuries sustained in Saturday's fall.

``He wore his makeup ever thicker and wiggled his hips like he'd just turned 18,'' pop expert Thommi Herrwerth said. ``Rex Gildo looked like a bad copy of himself.''

Born Alexander Ludwig Hirtreiter, he had his first hit in 1960. One of several Germanized versions of American '60s idols who fused rock with the sing-along traditions of German folk music, his records sold millions of copies into the 1980s.

Best known was the clap-along favorite ``Fiesta Mexicana.''

October 28, 1999
Linda F. Pezzano, Promoter of ┤Trivial Pursuit┤ Game, Dies at 54
By DOUGLAS MARTIN,NYTimes (and a neighbor of mine - Lou)

Linda F. Pezzano, a marketing consultant who helped what was then an obscure Canadian board game, "Trivial Pursuit," achieve sales totaling more than $1 billion, died Tuesday at a hospice in Manhattan. She was 54.

She died of cervical cancer, said her brother David.

Ms. Pezzano's "Trivial Pursuit" campaign changed the way game makers do business. Dorothy Crenshaw, who worked with Ms. Pezzano in marketing games and other products, said the approach was based on drumming up favorable word-of-mouth comments, or "buzz."

For "Trivial Pursuit," she sent 1,800 top buyers who would be attending the 1983 New York Toy Fair a series of teasing messages in the months before the event. She also sent the game to Hollywood stars whose names were mentioned in its trivia questions. When some stars, including Gregory Peck, James Mason, Pat Boone and Larry Hagman, wrote letters of thanks, she used them in her promotions.

She also staged game-playing events at parks, bars, restaurants and ski clubs to stimulate conversation.

One virtue of her campaign was that it was cheap. By giving away a few hundred games at a $12 wholesale cost, a fad was started.

"She knew nobody would play a board game without getting their hands on it," said Chris Byrne, who in 1985 worked with Ms. Pezzano in selling the game Pictionary, a way of playing charades on paper. "She took games to the people," said Byrne, who is now editor of Toy Report, an industry publication.

Byrne said her direct approach to potential players contrasted sharply with what was then the standard -- and expensive -- practice: relying on television, movies and licensing agreements.

"She created the model that everyone now uses," he said. "Today we call it 'viral marketing."'

Giving games away was a major part of the strategy, and she and Byrne would sometimes pass out free Pictionary games to every passenger on a flight they were on. "We estimated that for every complete Pictionary we gave away, we sold between five and 12 more," he said.

Ms. Pezzano was born and raised in Schenectady. She came to Manhattan at 17 to become a folk singer. She attended Elmira College without obtaining an undergraduate degree but later earned a master's degree from Columbia Business School while working full time.

Besides her brother David of Schenectady, she is survived by another brother, Michael of Portland, Ore.

After a short stint with a public relations firm in the early 1980s she founded her own company, which took on "Trivial Pursuit" as one of its first projects. After her company was acquired by Dorf & Stanton in 1986, she moved to Italy, where she advised businesses on international ventures. In 1995, she returned to New York and started a new company, Pezzano Inc.

She continued to work on games, including a new sports trivia game called "Rules of the Game." Among her ideas was to sell it in sporting goods stores rather than toy stores, where board games are traditionally sold.

"You could go to Harvard Business School and learn how to do that," Byrne said, "but to Linda it was always just common sense, and fun."

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -
Screenwriter and director Abraham Polonsky, whose promising career was cut short by the Hollywood blacklist of alleged Communists, has died at age 88, friends said Wednesday.

Polonsky, who waited 21 years between directing films because of the blacklist, was found dead Tuesday at his Beverly Hills home by a housekeeper, the friends said.

Polonsky was a leader earlier this year in protests against Elia Kazan receiving an Oscar for lifetime achievement in filmmaking because Kazan did what Polonsky had steadfastly refused to do -- name names of alleged Communists before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

At the time, Polonsky said, ``If Kazan simply said, 'It was a mistake and I'm sorry I did it,' he would not have to say another word. No one would pay any attention to any of this. It's just that he doesn't acknowledge his role in history and the Academy should not give an award of merit ... to this person.''

Polonsky and Kazan were contemporary filmmakers in the late 1940s when their careers took radically different paths with Polonsky's effectively coming to an end when he refused to testify before the Committee in 1951.

Kazan, who testified, went on to make some of the most celebrated films of the 1950s and 60s, including ``On the Waterfront,'' a film whose hero testifies before a committee investigating union corruption.

By the time Polonsky was blacklisted, he had written the screenplay for one screen classic ``Body and Soul,'' the prize fighting drama starring John Garfield and directed by Robert Rossen, and had directed and written another film widely regarded as a classic of the film
noir genre, ``Force of Evil,'' a blank verse gangster drama also starring Garfield.

Among his other scripting credits in the 1940s were ``Golden Earrings'' and ``I Can Get It For You Wholesale.'' He received an Oscar nominated in 1947 for his script for ``Body and Soul.''

During the period of his blacklisting, Polonsky wrote under assumed names for films and TV and worked as a script doctor before finally writing another script under his own name, ''Madigan'' in 1968 for director Don Siegel.

Then in 1969, he directed ``Tell Them Willie Boy is Here,'' starring Robert Redford, a drama about an Indian hunted down by society, which many critics saw as having parallels with Polonsky's own life.

In January, the New York City-born Polonsky received the Career Achievement Award of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Schifrin's Marquis de Sade
Date: 28 Oct 1999 10:51:46 +0100



'I couldn't let anyone call Schifrin's Marquis de Sade crap and get away
with
it!  This is a great record and one of his most original.  It may not have
any babes on the cover or bongos or moogs in the arrangement, but this
record
ranks as one of Lalo's greatest achievements.  This is not an exotica
record
but an ingenious blend of jazz with baroque and classical styles'


I'm sure it's an excellent record for the jazz purist or musical theorist
but not for me. Its tedious and boring with overtones of extreme
seriousness and intellect - elements that can positively ruin a good
musical project IMO.
Charlie

PS. I am still pulling crap of the shelves with the intention to list LPs
to be sold tonight.

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From: <Charles_Moseley/LON/Europe/[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) London Shops
Date: 28 Oct 1999 14:18:03 +0100



Notting Hill tube: Portobello Road Market: Intoxica & Honest Jons:
expensive but good selection
Notting Hill tube: Music and Video Exhange right outside the tube station:
Shitloads of records, basements of crap, a collectors shop, too much in one
place
Soho: Berwick Street: Selectadisc, Reckless, another exchange, Sister Ray,
various techno and house shops
Soho: Poland Street: Mr Bongo - reissues and hip hop
Soho: Atlas records (small but effective), Deal Real (hip hop), Rare Discs
a specialist soundtrack shop
When you find Virgin on the corner of Oxford Street and Tottenham Court
Road, try to get behind the shop to find 3 wierd little record shops in an
alley.
HMV Oxford Street (2 of them)
Soul Brother Records (rare funk and reissues) and Beggars Banquet (brand
new obscurities, 7" electronic stupidity, etc.) in Putney.
Covent Garden: Rough Trade (brand new obscurities, 7" electronic stupidity,
etc.).


BUT! My advice to the potential London visitor is this (and it is the only
way to find decently priced/condition records). At the Airport (or before
if you can) buy a copy of Record Collector magazine and check out their
record fair diary. Attend a record fair at the Horticultural Halls in
Victoria and you will be L A U G H I N G all the way home!


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Gilberto & Tjader CDs for the asking.
Date: 28 Oct 1999 12:27:08 EDT


To save anyone else the trouble of asking the CDs have been taken by a fellow
list reader.


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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: (exotica) Peckinpah collectible
Date: 28 Oct 1999 12:52:24 -0500


Slightly off topic but for the many eXoticat film buffs...

A local movie house is screening a retrospective of Peckipah's films. The
curator and producers published a meaty, beautifully designed monograph in
connection with the series. Contains essays by Peckinpah biographers and
associates, high-profile film historians and, amazingly, a tough-minded
interview-format piece by Pauline Kael, slated for republication in an
upcoming New Yorker. Read excerpts and an overview at
http://www.auschron.com/issues/dispatch/1999-10-22/screens_feature.html

I'll happily buy copies of this destined-to-become-a-collectible monograph
for any listers--price $5 plus $3.20 priority mail in the US. Overseas
mailings, no problem. One exception: Nat, I already got one for you, from
one Peckinpah lover to another. If anyone else must have, please contact me
offlist. The Wild Bunch tonight!

Let's go. Why not.
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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fwd: Scott Walker Walks
Date: 28 Oct 1999 11:26:01 -0700 (PDT)




 Scott Walker in Charge of Meltdown Lineup

  Thursday, October 28, 1999

  Cult hero Scott Walker will serve as curator of
 next year's

  Meltdown Festival in London.


Walker, 56, rose to fame in the British Invasion
 group the

  Walker Brothers, who were not brothers, not named
 Walker,  and not British. In the late '60s, Walker
> reinvented himself  as a crooner, although his
lyrics often dealt with morose  topics.
>  Although it is doubtful that Walker will perform at
> the festival, he will be in charge of selecting all
the talent. Two possibilities are PJ Harvey and
Serbian composer
> Goran Bregovic.
>  Last year's bill, selected by Nick Cave, included
> Pulp's  Jarvis Cocker, John Cale, Nina Simone, and
Lee  Hazlewood.


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From: M H Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) London Shops
Date: 28 Oct 1999 21:31:46 +0100


Charles_Moseley/LON/Europe/[e-mail] wrote:

> HMV Oxford Street (2 of them)

The larger of the two (on the north side) has EZ/Lounge CDs downstairs,
and LP comps and re-issues (EZ, jazz, soul, funk etc) also downstairs in
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From: dan hill <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) London Shops
Date: 28 Oct 1999 22:51:45 +0100


hi

the motion shopfinder's got a list of 80-odd record shops in london ... you
can browse through them to see which one's are most likely to stock exotica
...

and on places to go, i went to a bar in camden called 'bartok' recently
(opposite the roundhouse, more or less). i think it opened on the premise
that it would be solely classical music-based, but when i went, the dj was
playing a nice set of steve reich, philip glass and then john barryesque
film soundtracks ... not bad listening for a saturday night ... may've been
a one-off though ... anyone else been to bartok?

cheers,
dan.



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Subject: Re: (exotica) London Shops
Date: 28 Oct 1999 17:55:17 -0400 (EDT)


Re: the Karminskys,
they are playing I think every Monday (could be Tuesday, sorry - I also don't live there any more) in a bar called 'Point 101' which is on the ground floor of Centre Point (corner of Charing X road and New Oxford st, by Tottenham Court Road tube).

I went along a few weeks ago, and it was very pleasant, if rather empty.

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Subject: (exotica) The Windy City
Date: 28 Oct 1999 20:31:24 EDT


My sister in law is going to visit Chi-Town for a 5-Day stretch shortly. She
is looking for any cool nightlife suggestions. She's a thrift shop junkie,
but not a vinyl seeker. Any tips would be appreciated....Thanks in advance,
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From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Things to do in Orlando...
Date: 28 Oct 1999 20:59:38 -0400


Hi there;

We're going to be in Orlando for a few days, doing the Disneyworld thing
with our 3-year old.  We would like to check out record/CD stores in the
area, too - does anyone have any suggestions as to what to do/where to
go/things to see?

thanks,

cheryl


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Subject: (exotica) Notes on CD-R Dye Colors
Date: 28 Oct 1999 23:13:57 EDT


I found this interesting:

http://www.cd-recordable.com/truths.html

They give their "truths" about dye colors.

Short read.

Tiki Bob


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From: "Phil Clark" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Astro Sounds From Beyond .....
Date: 29 Oct 1999 09:19:18 +0100


Folks

I'm looking for a copy of 101 Strings "Astro Sounds From Beyond The Year
2000" if anyone has one spare. Or alternatively a MD recording of it would
do.

Re Ken Nordine, he did a show here in London a few weeks back at the Royal
Festival Hall (noted classical music venue). I was busy that night. Did
anyone go? If so, hip me to how it went!

groovily
phil dilemma



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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Astroslut record release!
Date: 29 Oct 1999 06:15:08 -0700 (PDT)


Finally!  Your very own Astroslut album, yours for the
Fondling!
LOVE AT ZERO G will be available as of MONDAY, Nov.
4th!  You can order it through our Soundworks Studios
CD-order webpage...

cdalley.com

Or, you can contact us directly, as we will have
limited quantities to solicit ourselves!

Then, getcherself in a LATHER for our Record Emmission
Party!  Astroslut has the honour of sharing the bill
with Seks Bomba at the Lizard Lounge, Cambridge, MA,
Sat. Nov. 13th!  If you have been MEANING to check us
out, and haven't...well pal, those who don't come are
impotent, as they say! ;0
So, for some aural Viagra, ASTROSLUT!
Thanks so much to awllll of you!
xoxoxoxoox and mental manipulations....Jane Fondle




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Subject: (exotica) [obits]Rafael Alberti,Frank DeVol,Abraham Polonsky,Walter Francis Skees,Wes Berggren
Date: 29 Oct 1999 10:07:45 -0400


The Associated Press
Friday, Oct. 29, 1999; 4:07 a.m. EDT

                  MADRID, Spain ûû Rafael Alberti, a renowned poet and the last survivor of Spain's Generation of '27 artistic group, died Thursday. He was 96.

                  The Generation of '27 was a loosely-knit group that included such writers as Federico Garcia Lorca, Juan Ramon Jimenez and Jorge Guillen, artists such as Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali and filmmaker Luis Bunuel.

                  The group took its name from the year û 1927 û when Alberti and other literary figures met in Seville to pay homage to 17th century Spanish poet Luis de Gongora. Its members became some of the leading protagonists of the Surrealist movement.

                  Alberti became a member of Spain's Communist Party and was heavily involved in leftist politics in the 1930s. He started the revolutionary magazine Octubre (October) in 1934.

                  He is also survived by his wife and daughter.


                  Frank DeVol
see:http://allmusic.com/cg/x.dll?UID=9:59:56|AM&p=amg&sql=B22579
see:http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?UID=9:59:56|AM&p=avg&sql=BP|87249
see:http://us.imdb.com/Name?De+Vol,+Frank
see:http://www.classicthemes.com/otherComposers.html (scroll down)
                  LOS ANGELES (AP) û Frank DeVol, who wrote scores for more than 50 films and won Oscar nominations for "Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte," "Pillow Talk" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," died Wednesday. He was 88.

                  In addition to his motion picture scores, DeVol wrote theme music for the television shows "My Three Sons" and "The Brady Bunch," among others.

                  He also took on roles as a character actor, appearing in "Parent Trap," "Fernwood Tonight," "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" and "Silver Spoons."

                  He later wrote radio studio arrangements for such stars as Rudy Vallee, Ginny Simms and Jack Carson. He then moved to Capitol Records and did arrangements for Doris Day, Kay Starr, Tony Bennett and Vic Damone, among others.


                  Abraham Polonsky
                  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) û Abraham Polonsky, a director and Oscar-nominated screenwriter who worked under pseudonyms and used other writers as fronts after being blacklisted in McCarthy-era Hollywood, was found dead Tuesday after suffering a heart attack. He was 88.

                  Polonsky was blacklisted for nearly two decades and had only nine films to his credit. He earned an Oscar nomination for writing the 1947 John Garfield boxing film "Body and Soul."

                  In the early 1950s, Polonsky's career was disrupted after he refused to testify about his Communist Party affiliations or name party members. His refusal prompted 20th Century Fox to fire him.

                  Though blacklisted, Polonsky never completely abandoned Hollywood. His best known work as an outcast scribe was the 1959 crime melodrama "Odds Against Tomorrow," which he co-wrote under the name John O. Killens. In 1996, the Writers Guild of America restored his real name to the credits.


                  Walter Francis Skees
                  CARMEL, Calif. (AP) û Retired Sgt. Maj. Walter Francis Skees, who sang for seven presidents in the White House as the Army's top vocalist, died Saturday of a heart attack. He was 64.

                  Skees was a soldier from 1955 to 1983. He entertained Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan.

                  In 1954, at 19, he was drafted into the Army, where he won a contest to select the service's best vocalist, following such notables as Eddie Fisher and Steve Lawrence.

                  Nixon was a special fan, according to Skees' wife, Patricia. He would often ask the singing soldier to perform on the presidential yacht.

                  Skees also sang at Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall and on television shows hosted by Bob Hope, Steve Allen, Merv Griffin and others.

                  Skees recorded several albums, including one featuring favorite songs of the president's wives, and another with guitarist Charlie Byrd called "A Little Tenderness."

                           *Wes Berggren
    DALLAS (AP) -- Wes Berggren, a guitarist and pianist for the
psychedelic rock group Tripping Daisy, was found dead in his apartment Wednesday. He was 28.
        Investigators are awaiting the results of toxicology teststo determine the cause of death. Police said foul play was not suspected.
        Berggren's wife discovered his body in their Dallas apartment.
        Tripping Daisy blossomed onto the pop charts in 1995 with ``I
Got a Girl,'' a quirky single that propelled the group's second album, ``I Am an Elastic Firecracker,'' to sales of nearly 300,000.
        Sales of the band's third album, ``Jesus Hits Like the Atom
Bomb,'' were sluggish, though. Island Records dropped them in 1998
as part of its merger between Universal and PolyGram Records, The
Dallas Morning News reported today.
       Their core fans remained true, and the group, which formed in
the late '80s at the University of North Texas, had been performing at clubs around Dallas and Fort Worth in recent years.



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From: Jane Fondle <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Astroslut record release!-revised date
Date: 29 Oct 1999 07:30:00 -0700 (PDT)


DATE IS NOV. 1ST....need more coffee....

Finally!  Your very own Astroslut album, yours for the
Fondling!
LOVE AT ZERO G will be available as of MONDAY, Nov.
1st!  You can order it through our Soundworks Studios
CD-order webpage...

cdalley.com

Or, you can contact us directly, as we will have
limited quantities to solicit ourselves!

Then, getcherself in a LATHER for our Record Emmission
Party!  Astroslut has the honour of sharing the bill
with Seks Bomba at the Lizard Lounge, Cambridge, MA,
Sat. Nov. 13th!  If you have been MEANING to check us
out, and haven't...well pal, those who don't come are
impotent, as they say! ;0
So, for some aural Viagra, ASTROSLUT!
Thanks so much to awllll of you!
xoxoxoxoox and mental manipulations....Jane Fondle






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From: "Jane Tunks" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Quintron show in Los Angeles
Date: 29 Oct 1999 09:19:56 -0700


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Friday, Oct. 29, 9 p.m. - 2 a.m. at THE LAB
The Cacophony Society Presents a

POSTMORTEM MIXER
Featuring Music by Quintron, the Centimeters, and Valley Fever, Miss
Pussycat's Puppet Theater, Magic by Rob Zabrecky, DJ. Don Bolles, Grisly
Art Installations, TerrorMaze, Continuous Horror Videos, Costume
Contest, and more!

Hallucinatory monstrosities, skeletal remains, giant sexy demons,
spectral lights, weird projections, and a maze where you'll be groped by
the dead - they'll all be part of the environment where the Cacophony
Society celebrates Halloween, its most cherished holiday of the year.
Amidst these phenomena, partygoers will be treated to musical
experiments and feats of legerdemain.

Imagine a mad experiment  resurrecting the carefully preserved body of
Kurt Weill. The creature stumbles to life, but with the brain somewhat
decomposed, it cannot express itself. Locked in a dark room fitted out
with speakers, the brain is reconditioned by lengthy music immersion
therapy: a carefully balanced mixture of Nick Cave and cartoon
soundtracks are used to wash the decaying cerebellum.  Gary Numan's
hands are stolen by night and grafted on with partial success. They tear
themselves loose and go wandering over multiple keyboards with
interesting effect.  The creature cries out in pain and is given a mate
to soothe it - the spastically reanimated body of the late Louise
Brooks.  This creature is The Centimeters, a sullen carnival of droning
synths and artful dissonance backing lyrics of a socially dysfunctional
nature.  The onstage theatrics of the singers pit Nora Keyes' soprano
melodrama against the dull ache of Greg Gomberg's narrative, yielding
the sort of fitful blundering elegance that defines a sort of mutant
cabaret.

Hidden away in New Orleans, in a neighborhood where voodoo practitioners
crouch beside dumpsters chopping up roosters, is the laboratory of our
second musical guest: Quintron (aka "the Amazing Spellcaster").  This
mad genius' secretive tinkerings have yielded an army of "Quintraptions"
- tin-can gadgetry, overamped Theremins, and most importantly the Drum
Buddy, a brilliantly low-tech drum machine doubling as an oscillating
feedback generator. Yet these robotic devices are mere henchmen in the
service of the great and ancient Hammond organ, which Quintron lugs
around the country for performances in which the keyboard is bodyslammed
and caressed with smarmy ingenuity by its master.  Seminude, caped and
growling out holy-ghost-style gibberish and extraterrestrial CB
transmissions from dead blues singers, Quintron is occasionally backed
on vocals, maracas, and slide whistle by his coconspirator Miss
Pussycat.  This feral feline cheerleader also performs puppet shows.
Like Punch and Judy on absinthe, her characters ramble awkwardly through
a bizarre foggy universe of mythological creatures, phone bills, and non
sequiturs.

Rounding out the evening will be delirious circus music from SF's Valley
Fever (featuring former members of Boy Scouts of Annihilation), The
Ghastly Griffith (AKA Rob Zabrecky) levitating, teleporting, and
transmutating objects, calling forth phantoms, and performing other acts
of sorcery to stir your jaded sense of wonder, while DJ Don Bolles will
rotate disturbing vinyl and Kevin Lee screens a 4-hour video collage of
cinematic horror.

Where: The Lab, 835 S. Spring St., (In downtown Los Angeles near 8th &
Spring.  Look for "Dancing Girls" sign for taxi dance business
upstairs.).  Park for free in the lot East of building at corner of 9th
& Spring.
Cost: $7
Further Info: Call [phone]






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Art Installations, TerrorMaze, Continuous Horror Videos, Costume<BR>
Contest, and more!<BR>
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Hallucinatory monstrosities, skeletal remains, giant sexy demons,<BR>
spectral lights, weird projections, and a maze where you'll be groped by<BR=
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the dead - they'll all be part of the environment where the Cacophony<BR>
Society celebrates Halloween, its most cherished holiday of the year.<BR>
Amidst these phenomena, partygoers will be treated to musical<BR>
experiments and feats of legerdemain.<BR>
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Imagine a mad experiment  resurrecting the carefully preserved body of=
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Kurt Weill. The creature stumbles to life, but with the brain somewhat<BR>
decomposed, it cannot express itself. Locked in a dark room fitted out<BR>
with speakers, the brain is reconditioned by lengthy music immersion<BR>
therapy: a carefully balanced mixture of Nick Cave and cartoon<BR>
soundtracks are used to wash the decaying cerebellum.  Gary Numan's<BR=
>
hands are stolen by night and grafted on with partial success. They tear<BR=
>
themselves loose and go wandering over multiple keyboards with<BR>
interesting effect.  The creature cries out in pain and is given a mat=
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to soothe it - the spastically reanimated body of the late Louise<BR>
Brooks.  This creature is The Centimeters, a sullen carnival of dronin=
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synths and artful dissonance backing lyrics of a socially dysfunctional<BR>
nature.  The onstage theatrics of the singers pit Nora Keyes' soprano<=
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melodrama against the dull ache of Greg Gomberg's narrative, yielding<BR>
the sort of fitful blundering elegance that defines a sort of mutant<BR>
cabaret.<BR>
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>
crouch beside dumpsters chopping up roosters, is the laboratory of our<BR>
second musical guest: Quintron (aka "the Amazing Spellcaster"). &=
nbsp;This<BR>
mad genius' secretive tinkerings have yielded an army of "Quintraption=
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- tin-can gadgetry, overamped Theremins, and most importantly the Drum<BR>
Buddy, a brilliantly low-tech drum machine doubling as an oscillating<BR>
feedback generator. Yet these robotic devices are mere henchmen in the<BR>
service of the great and ancient Hammond organ, which Quintron lugs<BR>
around the country for performances in which the keyboard is bodyslammed<BR=
>
and caressed with smarmy ingenuity by its master.  Seminude, caped and=
<BR>
growling out holy-ghost-style gibberish and extraterrestrial CB<BR>
transmissions from dead blues singers, Quintron is occasionally backed<BR>
on vocals, maracas, and slide whistle by his coconspirator Miss<BR>
Pussycat.  This feral feline cheerleader also performs puppet shows.<B=
R>
Like Punch and Judy on absinthe, her characters ramble awkwardly through<BR=
>
a bizarre foggy universe of mythological creatures, phone bills, and non<BR=
>
sequiturs.<BR>
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Rounding out the evening will be delirious circus music from SF's Valley<BR=
>
Fever (featuring former members of Boy Scouts of Annihilation), The<BR>
Ghastly Griffith (AKA Rob Zabrecky) levitating, teleporting, and<BR>
transmutating objects, calling forth phantoms, and performing other acts<BR=
>
of sorcery to stir your jaded sense of wonder, while DJ Don Bolles will<BR>
rotate disturbing vinyl and Kevin Lee screens a 4-hour video collage of<BR>
cinematic horror.<BR>
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Where: The Lab, 835 S. Spring St., (In downtown Los Angeles near 8th &<=
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Spring.  Look for "Dancing Girls" sign for taxi dance busine=
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Frank De Vol (LA Times obit)
Date: 29 Oct 1999 12:28:24 -0400


Friday, October 29, 1999
Studio Composer Frank DeVol Dies
Hollywood: Despite many Emmy and Oscar nominations, he was best known for 'Brady Bunch' theme.
By ELAINE WOO, Times Staff Writer


Frank DeVol did not invent the microwave oven. He did not climb the world's tallest mountain. Nor did he write a computer program that people cannot live without. He did more. DeVol wrote theme songs, winsome, bouncing, haunting ditties for television and the movies that invaded Americans' psyches and lodged there--like it or not--for years.

Here's the story of a lovely lady
Who was bringing up three very lovely girls . . .
DeVol wrote the music for those lyrics that have burrowed into pop culture history as the theme song for "The Brady Bunch," the kitschy 1970s sitcom enjoying perpetual life in rerun heaven. One of Hollywood's most popular musical arranger-composer-conductors, DeVol died Wednesday at age 88 in a nursing home in Lafayette, Calif.

His compositions include classic TV themes for "My Three Sons" and "Family Affair," as well as songs for such movies as "Pillow Talk," "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?", "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte," "The Dirty Dozen" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner."

He began to write music for TV and film after a successful career in radio during the big band era, when he also arranged and conducted recording sessions for such stars as Doris Day, Tony Bennett, Jaye P. Morgan and Ella Fitzgerald.

During his seven-decade career, he received five Academy Award and five Emmy nominations. The latter included a nomination for the "Brady Bunch" song, which never failed to elicit the most rousing reaction whenever he mentioned or played his compositions. "People gave him tremendous ovations when they found out what he did," said Bob Weiss, DeVol's former publicist and longtime family friend. "They'd say, 'Oh, you're 'The Brady Bunch,' you're 'My Three Sons.' "

DeVol was born in Moundsville, W.Va., but was raised in Canton, Ohio, where his father was bandleader for the local vaudeville theater. DeVol joined the musicians union when he was 14 and played violin and piano for his father's band. Saving his earnings from $35-a-week appearances at a Chinese restaurant in Cleveland, he bought a saxophone next, learning to play it by watching other musicians.

By the late 1930s, he was playing and arranging for the Horace Heidt orchestra. When guitarist Alvino Rey left that band, DeVol began to arrange for him. By the early 1940s, DeVol was living in California and working the graveyard shift for Lockheed when he received a phone call from KHJ, then a Mutual Network radio station, inviting him to be the bandleader for a musical program. Before long, he was musical director for a host of radio personalities, including Ginny Simms, Rudi Vallee, Jack Smith, Dinah Shore and Jack Carson. That led to DeVol reading parts in comedies and becoming a radio personality himself.

Decades later, he married another figure from the big band era, vocalist Helen O'Connell. That marriage occurred in 1991, after the death of DeVol's first wife, Grayce. O'Connell died in 1993.

DeVol's break into movies and television came in 1954, when a friend got him a job on a low-budget Robert Aldrich film called "World for Ransom." The entire music budget was only $3,500, but DeVol took it because "I never turn anything down," he said. That movie earned him his first Oscar nomination and established him as a Hollywood composer. He wrote music for 16 Aldrich movies alone, including the 1967 box office hit "The Dirty Dozen."

By the early 1960s, DeVol had movie composing down to a science. "I make a chart," he told The Times in 1965. "If I'm scoring a picture and I know I've got to write 85 minutes of music and I've got 15 days to do it, that means I've got to produce five to six minutes of music a day. This way I don't dawdle along."

All together, DeVol wrote music for 47 movies and seven television series. He also acted, making appearances on the Jack Benny television show, the original "Parent Trap" movie and "Fernwood 2-Night," the 1977 sitcom about a talk show on which DeVol played a studio orchestra leader who ran a dental office on the side.

Overshadowing all those accomplishments over a seven-decade career, however, was that 21-line song about a "lovely lady" and "a man named Brady" whose notes DeVol wrote in a day. Although never a ratings hit, "The Brady Bunch" has provided much grist for analysis in the pop culture mill. Its depiction of a family happily solving mundane disputes over who does the dishes or gets to use the phone was so far removed from Vietnam era woes that it generated a camp following. Whenever DeVol, who was popular on the cruise circuit in his later years, spoke of his work to audiences, he found it was always the "Brady Bunch" tune that stirred them most. "When I mention 'Brady Bunch,' " he said a few years ago, "that's when the audience really applauds."

DeVol, a longtime resident of Toluca Lake before moving to San Juan Capistrano and Laguna Hills, is survived by two daughters, Linda Morehouse of Lafayette and Donna Copeland of Denver, and two grandsons.

A memorial service will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Hollywood Hills. Donations may be sent to the Musicians Relief Fund, 817 N. Vine St., Hollywood CA 90038.



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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Psychedelic Percussion (speaking of bootleg CDs...)
Date: 27 Oct 1999 19:13:47 +0200


[e-mail] wrote:

>>Has anyone heard the Hal Blaine "Psychedelic Percussion" CD

    sound quality is - at least - as good as one can expect from a
pirate cd. i find the music itself brilliant: psychedelic exotica, with
percussion instruments run through special effects. 5 points on 5 for me.


        Johan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) fwd: crimeboss
Date: 29 Oct 1999 18:24:00 -0400


Here's something to browse while listening to all that crime jazz.
-Lou
[e-mail]


Crimeboss
 http://www.crimeboss.com/

 Created by Richard Wolfe to share some of the gems of his collection
 of crime comic books from the 1940s and 1950s, this site features a
 gallery of more than 100 crime comic covers in all their lurid and
 exploitative glory. Comic fans and anyone else who gets a kick out of
 trashy titles like "Crimes By Women," "Gangsters and Gun Molls,"
 "Crime Does Not Pay," "Murder Incorporated," and "Teen-Age Dope
 Slaves" will thoroughly enjoy this site. Although thumbnails are only
 available for a few of the titles, all images load quickly and are of
 excellent quality. Wolfe also offers commentary on several of his
 favorites, the text of some articles on the history of crime comics,
 and some related sites.


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also take a look at:
http://www.3garlands.com/davidgarland/recommended/recommended.html



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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tura Tura Tura
Date: 29 Oct 1999 22:54:13 -0400


And speaking of websites:

http://www.turasatana.com/



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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Classic REM
Date: 30 Oct 1999 11:05:06 +0200


Read a reference this week to a recent cd by The Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra with classic REM covers. Anyone knows more?

Arjan




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From: "n.e.u. / Moritz R" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Classic REM
Date: 30 Oct 1999 13:48:20 +0200


Arjan Plug wrote:

> Read a reference this week to a recent cd by The Royal Philharmonic
> Orchestra with classic REM covers.

For heaven's sake!

Mo



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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: more CD Burning: Toast Audio Extractor
Date: 30 Oct 1999 17:03:23 +0200


At 12:43 -0600 99/10/27, Ross wrote:

>[] utility called "Toast Audio
>Extractor." Stick in your source CD, then drag out a selection in the
>bottom pane which includes all the tracks. Click "Extract" and save
>the whole shebang as one giant AIFF file on your hard disk.

    doesn't work on my mac. i've been looking for a utility that can do
this (extract the contents of a cd as 1 big AIFF chunk), and i tried Toast
Audio Extractor, but i always get a set of files: 1 for each audio track on
the cd...

    puzzled,


        Johan


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Subject: (exotica) Re: Sergio Mendes: Favorite Things
Date: 30 Oct 1999 17:06:27 +0200


Sergio Mendes: Favorite Things (out in cd, BTW):

Soulful bossa nova, beautiful melodies, excellent arrangements, with
harpsichord, piano, organ, brass, percussion (of course), a smooth backing
orchestra, and some wordless vocals and hand clapping thrown in here and
there. Very pretty digipack. Only 10 tracks though, with less than half an
hour of music.


        Johan


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From: kendoll <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Classic REM
Date: 30 Oct 1999 11:21:13 -0600


Arjan Plug wrote:

> Read a reference this week to a recent cd by The Royal Philharmonic
> Orchestra with classic REM covers. Anyone knows more?

Don't know about REM but I have The Royal Phil doing Beatles and Queen covers
(on vinyl). On the Beatles record Joan Collins speaks "Imagine." Both were
live concerts for charity.

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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Schifrin's Marquis de Sade
Date: 30 Oct 1999 14:58:41 -0400


>I'm sure it's an excellent record for the jazz purist or musical theorist
>but not for me. Its tedious and boring with overtones of extreme
>seriousness and intellect - elements that can positively ruin a good
>musical project IMO.

Hmmm, I found it playful myself. But, different strokes...

[insert your own Gary Coleman joke/reference here]

Incidently, the album's ridiculously long title* should not be taken too
seriously. It's just a goof on the then current play/movie:

"The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the
Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade"

(Known as "Marat/Sade" for short)

* "The Dissection and Reconstruction of Music From the Past as Performed by
the Inmates of Lalo Schifrin's Demented Ensemble as a Tribute to the Memory
of the Marquis de Sade"

("Schifrin/Sade" for short)

And just what does 80s singer, Sade make of all this?


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From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, October 31
Date: 30 Oct 1999 20:19:23 -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 (real time only, for now) at:

http://www.ckut.ca

As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome.

Space Bop #70   Halloween 1999

Screamin' Jay Hawkins:  I Put A Spell On You  "Screamin' The Blues"
Wall Of Voodoo:  Ring Of Fire  "Wall Of Voodoo"
Laibach:  Sympathy For The Devil (Dem Teufel Zugeneigt)  "Sympathy For
The Devil"
Heino:  Blaue Dragoner  "Hey Capello"

Screaming Lord Sutch:  All Black And Hairy  "Rock & Horror"
Peter Thomas:  The Sinister Monk  "Futuremuzik"
Gotz Alsmann:  Monster  "Gestatten"
Milton Delugg:  Theme From The Munsters  "Monsters, Munsters, Mummies &
Other TV Fiends"
The Ventures:  The Twilight Zone  "The Ventures In Space"

Bruce Haack:  Song Of The Death Machine  "Hush Little Robot"
Monte Cazazza:  Mary Bell  "The Worst Of Monte Cazazza"
Evil Twin:  When Dying Is Saying That You Want To Live  "The Black Spot"
Mychael Danna:  Pagan Song  "Exotica o.s.t."

James Last:  Mr. Giant-Man  "Voodoo-Party"
Anton LaVey:  Honolulu Baby  "Honolulu Baby"
Mrs. Miller:  Strangers In The Night  "Wild, Cool & Swingin'"
Laika & The Cosmonauts:  Experiment In Terror  "Instruments Of Terror"

Thanks for reading.

[e-mail]
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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
Date: 30 Oct 1999 22:03:38 -0500


Ghosts and goblins abound on the next Retro Cocktail Hour webcast!
It's our annual Halloween spooktacular, chockful of creepy TV tunes,
space age spooks and movie monster muzak.

You'll hear uneasy listening music by Kenyon Hopkins ("Shock",
"Panic", et al), Buddy Morrow ("Poe for Moderns"), Raymond Scott, Sid
Bass and others;  theremin virtuoso Samuel Hoffman in "Spellbound";
steamy, spooky exotica by Les Baxter, Martin Denny and Richard Hayman
(from "Voodoo!");  Alfred Hitchock in "Music To Be Murdered By";
themes from "Them!", "Jack the Ripper", "Creature from the Black
Lagoon", "One Step Beyond", "Thriller" and "Mad Monster Party"; Russ
Garcia's "Fantastica";  "Bell, Book and Candle" with lyrics by Steve
Allen; plus Lon Chaney, Jr. sings!

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.

As always, your comments, suggestions and requests are welcome.

Happy Halloween!

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:
http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Bongos and Records
Date: 30 Oct 1999 22:12:06 +0000


Seems these days I rarely find a record I don't already have which is good
from start to finish.  In fact some are only good for the cover and little
else.

My most promising find was not a record at all.  I found in our apartment
trash bin...bongos!  I always told myself I would buy some if I saw them
for sale in a store...now I don't have to!

Ferrante and Teicher Holiday for Pianos  United Artists UAS 6298  (1963)
About the only song on here I like is Mexican Hat Dance and not all that
enthusiastically.  But I like the cover...F&T imbibing Champagne with two
women wearing captain's hats.

Alan King in Suburbia, music by Jack Quigley  Seeco SAW-2101
I never cared for Mr. King that much, but how could I resist this record
with a song called "I Don't Want to Cha Cha Cha!"  The record is comedy
with music  6 songs with monologue/piano in between...all about life in,
you guessed it, Suburbia.

Sweet and Smooth  Dick Haymes/Fontanna Orchestra  Palace M-706
Mr. Haymes only sings two songs...the rest of the LP is filled in by
classical and semi-classical pieces done by a string orchestra.  I knew
this before I bought it, so why did I buy?  Because it features one of the
coolest songs by a male vocalist.  I have a 45 with Mr. H singing "Baby,
Suffer" and have always wanted more.  So, here is "Baby, Suffer" in a less
scratchy version than my 45.  It is paired with "C'est Finis" which is not
quite as good as his other song, but still quite good.  I didn't check my
45 to see if "C'est Finis" is the B side...if it isn't that gives me 3 Dick
Haymes cuts.

Glamorous Holiday  Jean Houben at the Organ  Richmond R 20055
Nothing that interesting here...just organ with rhythm.  I got it primarily
for Houben's rendition of Moritat (Mack the Knife).  I had no idea how it
would sound, I just like to collect different versions of the tune.  This
version was pretty interesting, though, and probably the best cut on the
album.

Art Mooney and his Orchestra  45  MGM K 12847
I got this because the A side was a Christmas song.  I am always looking
for obscure Christmas songs by performers I have previously liked.  It is
usually a shot in the dark because musicians usually do cool stuff UNTIL
they do a Christmas song, then they get all sweet, sappy or reverential and
spoil things.  Such is the case here with Mr. Mooney.  HOWEVER, I was quite
pleased with the B side, which is an interesting crime jazz tune by Mr.
Mooney himself which apparently served as his "theme": Sunset to Sunrise.

Jeri Southern  You Better Go Now  Decca DL 8214
Earlier this week a list member threw up a URL which I followed and ran
into a website which talked up Jeri Southern.  A very interesting story and
intriguing.  The author considered her Decca LPs quite good and hard to
find. Good enough for me, so when I ran across this LP I bought it.  I do
like her voice.  The album notes reflect what I thought about her
"bitter-sweet, tender sort of voice, her true warmth and genuine feeling,
and her ability to communicate a relaxed atmosphere which is alluring but
never too obvious." Luckilly the orchestra is in the background MOST of the
time.  I'm sad that Ms. Southern is no longer with us.

Lani Royal w/the Diamond Head Band  Percussive Pineapples Medallion ML-7516
I have seen this "advertised" on inner sleeves and always wondered if it
was any good.  So I discovered this mono copy with a bump in the vinyl which
prevents playing the first tracks on either side...I still bought it.  The
Hawaiian War Chant was definitely wacky and percussive with a sound all its
own.  Not all the other cuts are that good, but they are still somewhat
fun.   Now I need to find a bumpless stereo version.

Pete King Chorale & Orch.  Percussion Concert   Kapp KS-3256
This is exciting!  Even the unison vocals were fun (I usually shy away from
anything involving multiple voices singing lyrics).  Mr. King uses
percussion instruments quite well, although the Chorale tends to dominate.
I would agree with High Fidelity magazine's assessment of The Pete King
Chorale: "Their records are great fun to listen to...."  There are at least
seven other Pete King records on Kapp.  I am especially looking forward to
Pete King Chorale Goes Latin KS-3197.  Not all cuts on Percussion Concert
are good, but "What is This Thing Called Love" was great!

Byron

Byron Caloz
Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
http://www.hubris.net/zolac
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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Classic REM
Date: 31 Oct 1999 08:51:10 +0100


> > Read a reference this week to a recent cd by The Royal Philharmonic
> > Orchestra with classic REM covers.
>
> For heaven's sake!

Found it!
http://www.yalplay.com/ lists about a dozen others (Prince, Police, Georg=
e
Michael, Oasis etc.) too!

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Plays The Music Of R.E.M.

Format: CD Album
Label: Music Collection
Catalogue Number: MCCD391

=A35.79

Tracks
     1  One I love
     2  Losing my religion
     3  Stand
     4  Man on the moon
     5  Nightswimming
     6  Everybody hurts
     7  Strange currencies
     8  Near wild Heaven
     9  Drive
    10  Sidewinder sleeps tonite
    11  What's the frequency Kenneth
    12  Shiny happy people


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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New Releases (Scott Walker, Piero Piccioni, Ananda Shankar)
Date: 31 Oct 1999 08:59:19 +0100


More new stuff in at Forced Exposure ( http://www.forcedexposure.com ) this
week:


_____________________________________________
BARCLAY (FRANCE):

WALKER, SCOTT: Pola X CD (BARC 547608). 1999
soundtrack to a film by  Leos Carax, only released by Barclay
France. It features 6 new songs composed and performed for
the film by Scott Walker (plus 1 track from Tilt). It also also
features new material from Sonic Youth (a lovely atmospheric
track called "Blink", sung by Kim Gordon) and Smog, plus other
incidental material. The Walker material is in a similar dark &
menacing style as defined by Tilt and an excellent additional
to his sporadic contemporary recording schedule. A very
nice soundtrack overall.  $28.00

_____________________________________________
EASY TEMPO (ITALY):

PICCIONI, PIERO: Colpo Rovente CD (ET 925 CD). "Original
soundtrack recording for an early 70s Italian detective movie.
This is Piero Piccioni's most intriguing and intimidating score;
driving orchestras, crazy rhythms, obscure sensations. This is
the most scary soundtrack from this great master; strong bass
lines, fat drumming, super driving tunes, obscure and spacey
tracks, mellow and jazzy gems. Features 15 previously
unreleased tracks."  $15.00

PICCIONI, PIERO: Colpo Rovente 2LP (ET 925 LP). Full color
gatefold sleeve.  $17.00

_____________________________________________
REPRISE/WARNER (GERMANY):

SHANKAR, ANANDA:  LP (WEA 72631). Limited stock of
this LP version.  $15.00

SHANKAR, ANANDA:  CD (WEA 72632). Mid-line reissue
of this 1970 world-fusion kitsch classic, by the nephew of Ravi
Shankar; his debut and most renowned album. "Now this is
an album which is an all time classic. In order to understand
the importance of Ananda Shankar the artist, it is important
to understand the importance of this album. Ananda Shankar,
is to the modern desi drum-and-bass movement, what
George Clinton and James Brown are to the Hip-hop -- the
mother lode. He pioneered the fusion movement -- seamlessly
blending the east with the west. No one had thought of using
the Mridangam with guitar or backing the Sitar or Sarod with
a rock beat or electronic sound effects. The album features
the sitar-enhanced versions of rock-n-roll classics such as
'Jumping Jack Flash' and The Doors' Light My Fire. For my
money this is a must have album for all desi music lovers."
$17.00



Arjan



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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More Scott Walker
Date: 31 Oct 1999 09:04:05 +0100


SCOTT WALKER will curate next year's Meltdown Festival.

Walker, who has not made a live appearance since the release of his last
album 'Tilt' in 1995, will select the line-up for the event, running  at
the Royal Festival Hall on London's Southbank between June 16-July 2,
2000.

He follows last year's musical director Nick Cave, who selected
performers as diverse as Jarvis Cocker, John Cale, Nina  Simone and Lee
Hazlewood.

A spokesperson for Meltdown said Walker was unlikely to perform  or take
to the stage, but would be "very actively involved" in other  aspects of
the festival and attend each performance.

Walker was interviewed on XFM at the time of 'Tilt' and played tracks by
new artists that he admired including PJ Harvey. Another likely contender
for the Meltdown bill is Serbian composer Goran Bregovic (Walker recorded
a track called 'Man From Reno' on  Goran Bregovic=B9s last album =B9Ederl=
ezi=B9
in 1998).

It has also emerged that Walker has recorded an exclusive track for the
new James Bond film, The World Is Not Enough. The track, 'Only Myself To
Blame', was specially written by David  Arnold, and will appear on the
film's soundtrack, released on  November 22 on Radioactive/ MCA.

Meanwhile, Walker has written a soundtrack album, 'Pola X  OST', which is
due out early next month. The soundtrack is for  French film Pola X,
directed by Leos Carax and starring  Catherine Deneuve. The soundtrack,
which also features  contributions from Smog and Sonic Youth, is released
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From: Jim Gerwitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bongos + Bong = Crime jazz
Date: 31 Oct 1999 01:55:55 -0700


What music WERE those naughty boys listening to ?
Maybe Enoch "hey man gimme a" Light?

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/mcconaughey1.shtml

JB Le Noir


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: more CD Burning: Toast Audio Extractor
Date: 31 Oct 1999 11:12:09 +0000


>>[] utility called "Toast Audio
>>Extractor." Stick in your source CD, then drag out a selection in the
>>bottom pane which includes all the tracks. Click "Extract" and save
>>the whole shebang as one giant AIFF file on your hard disk.
>
>    doesn't work on my mac. i've been looking for a utility that can do
>this (extract the contents of a cd as 1 big AIFF chunk), and i tried Toast
>Audio Extractor, but i always get a set of files: 1 for each audio track on
>the cd...

still on the case on this one ... hope to be able to post some info soon
... i managed to set Toast to make a blind scsi copy of an audio disc by
not loading the Apple CD/DVD Driver on startup but when i came to starting
the writing process i got an error

so close and yet probably not very close

friendly

Sem Sinatra




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bongos + Bong = Crime jazz
Date: 31 Oct 1999 07:07:18 EST


In a message dated 10/31/99 12:55:35 AM Pacific Standard Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< What music WERE those naughty boys listening to ?
 Maybe Enoch "hey man gimme a" Light?

 http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/mcconaughey1.shtml

 JB Le Noir
  >>

and just what were they using to beat their bongos?

tb


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, October 31
Date: 31 Oct 1999 14:33:06 +0200




cheryl wrote:

> Space Bop #70   Halloween 1999
>
> Heino:  Blaue Dragoner  "Hey Capello"

Heino as a Halloween monster, that's cool.

Mo



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From: [e-mail] (Mimi Mayer)
Subject: (exotica) Re: Symphonic pop (was Classic REM)
Date: 31 Oct 1999 10:01:44 -0500


>Arjan Plug wrote:
> Read a reference this week to a recent cd by The Royal Philharmonic
> Orchestra with classic REM covers. Anyone knows more?

"This is the strangest goddamn music you've ever played." That's how my
husband described "A Symphony for Our Time," in which a guy named Joe Scott
wedges 60s rock hits into a symphonic form. Don't know Joe Scott, but
judging from the musicians who play in his orchestra, he was well connected
to NY musicians: Dick Hyman, Phil Kraus and Jo Venuti, Warren Covington,
Jack Holland -- guitarists are Stuart Scharf and Jay Berliner and the bass
guitarist is "Joseph Macho". I assume Hyman provided the harpsichord frills
here, although he's not credited with them. The Symphony is outright bad in
spots and topples into the What Were They Thinking??? category. It made me
laugh.

Symphony for Our Time - Joe Scott    & Orchestra (Mainstream, MRL-307) 66-67?
Sonata Allegro: House of the Rising Sun, Ruby Tuesday, A Day in the Life
    Andante: White Room
Moderato: America=09
=46inale: Dandelion, We Can Work It Out, Yellow Submarine

OK, let's turn the idea inside-out. Also have symphonic suites by Mancini
and Bacharach. The Mancini is a tribute to his youth, includes titles like
"Beaver Falls," his hometown. Bacharach conducts his suite "Woman", the
Houston Symphony strings saw away, and Carly Simon (I think) warbles about
"the River, the River." Should play these for Jim, to see if he'll cuss
again.

Any other hybrids people care to mention?

Mimi





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From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 'Caravan' by Enoch Light - 2 versions?
Date: 31 Oct 1999 17:45:10 +0100


While working on a tape for Kevin's Caravan project (recently mentioned
on this list) I noticed that Enoch Light's version on The Exotica
Trilogy vol.2 is completely different from his version on Musical
Explorations in Sound. Actually, the version on the Exotica Trilogy
doesn't really sound like Light to me. Any clues? Is the version on
Exotica Trilogy incorrectly credited to Light, or did he record two
different versions of the song?

Marco

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