Excuse me but am I the only one who thinks this wors vocalists thread is somewhat belabored? I mean we have several volumes of "Golden Throats" don't we?
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> Excuse me but am I the only one who thinks this wors vocalists thread is somewhat belabored? I mean we have several volumes of "Golden Throats" don't we?
And there are plenty of Les Baxter CDs and records on the rack as well. Does that mean we shouldn't discuss his music anymore? There are lots of topics that
cross this list that I have absolutely no interest in. I just delete them and move on.
As for the alleged GT connection, a careful reading of my deviation from the original thread will reveal that I was looking for worst vocal performances in
a *film musical*. The "Golden Throats" series is primarily a comp of various celebrity vanity recordings of popular songs, most of which originally appeared
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Harold Lee Clayton,Mort Ruby
Date: 01 Sep 2000 14:48:56 -0400
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Harold Lee Clayton, a soul musician who co-wrote the 1980s R&B hit ``Take Your Time (Do It Right),'' was killed Thursday in a hit-and-run crash. He was 53.
Clayton was pronounced dead at the scene after the collision. Police said a sport utility vehicle struck his car at an intersection.
A Los Angeles native, Clayton wrote or collaborated on dozens of R&B songs since the 1970s. ``Take Your Time (Do It Right)'' was his most enduring hit, selling 2 million singles for The SOS Band and frequently copied by other artists.
During his 30-year career, Clayton has been listed as a writer on albums by such artists as DJ Jazzy Jeff, Salt N Pepa, ex-Fugee Wyclef Jean and the late Eddie Kendricks, former lead singer for The Temptations.
Most recently, Clayton had been recording songs with his nephew Darryl Jones for an album on Joclay Records. Jones plans to finish the album.
Mort Ruby
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mort Ruby, who managed Nat King Cole early in the singer's career, died Monday. He was 97.
Ruby had worked as an advance man for Spike Jones and other entertainers when he saw Cole playing piano at the Swannee Inn in Los Angeles in the early 1940s.
As Cole's road manager for five years, Ruby helped guide the young pianist toward his lasting career as leader of the King Cole Trio and as a singer.
Ruby wrote a book, ``The King and Me,'' about the experience.
Ruby, who owned his own theatrical booking agency in Hollywood, worked as a volunteer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after retiring.
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Subject: Re: Was: (exotica) Onion LP article - Now: who's parent had the worst albums
Date: 08 Sep 2000 07:53:04 EDT
My parents, fond of playing the Four Roses whiskey promo LP and "Remember How Great" (remember the commercial on Bonanza? If you sent in 12 empty Lucky Strike packages, you got the LP free, which could explain the preponderance of their presence in thrifties. Yours truly was seen for several days as a young lad scouring bushes and gutters for discarded Lucky Strike packs) eventually Devoed to Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream" LP every holiday gathering. Today they play "The Music of Your Life" and Mom tinkles out "The Very Thought Of You" on the ivories when I visit her in retirement in Florida. JB/L.S.M.F.T.
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Subject: Re: Was: (exotica) Onion LP article - Now: who's parent had the worst albums
Date: 08 Sep 2000 07:53:14 EDT
My parents, fond of playing the Four Roses whiskey promo LP and "Remember How Great" (remember the commercial on Bonanza? If you sent in 12 empty Lucky Strike packages, you got the LP free, which could explain the preponderance of their presence in thrifties. Yours truly was seen for several days as a young lad scouring bushes and gutters for discarded Lucky Strike packs) eventually Devoed to Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream" LP every holiday gathering. Today they play "The Music of Your Life" and Mom tinkles out "The Very Thought Of You" on the ivories when I visit her in retirement in Florida. JB/L.S.M.F.T.
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Subject: (exotica) Re: who's parent had the worst albums
Date: 08 Sep 2000 08:29:23 -0400
Even though we had a stereo, I can't ever remember my parents actually putting a record on this stereo. I think they bought the whole thing more as an amusement for us kids.
We had very few LPs that could be considered best-sellers. Instead we had lots of LPs that were bought from the cut-out bins for only 50 cents, and stuff that might have been bought in bulk during the closing minutes of a yard sale. Our collection featured stuff like 'The Lonseome Valley Singers play the hits of Hank Williams', 'Today's Pop Hits' by some unknown cover band, the cash-in LP titled 'Ballad of the Green Berets' with the beret on the cover - not the original by Barry Sadler, and those fake Beatle Lps that didn't quite really sound like the Beatles. Also featured were Grade B and C country
performers, quite a few polka records, and those Christmas LPs that one could buy really cheap from your local Firestone dealer.
Yet, I consider myself fortunate. Much worse would be those parents who didn't bring any stereo or Lps into their house.
Vern
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Subject: (exotica) Re: who's parent had the worst albums
Date: 08 Sep 2000 09:04:03 -0700 (PDT)
hagar@mindspring.net wrote:
Lord". Which translation did these folks get?
>
> The worst record that either of them bought was...Jo Basile's "My
> World",
> my brother and I's nomination for worst record issued in the
> Western
> Hemisphere.
I borrowed a few Jo Basile's LPs from a friend. the covers looked great and promising...any good Jo Basile out here? Accordion player, right?
Oh...about the "4 Corners of the World" by Esquivel. My dad used to play "Torna a Sorrento" on the accordion all the time. I just love the piano playing on that cut..and I wish my parents were into audio and buying records. Because they were not maybe that's why I'm such a fiend.
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>It contained a mint copy of Esquivel's Latinesque, which has never
> been re-released on CD as far as I know (and probably my favorite
> Esquivel.
Has there been any comments here about the apparent CD release of Latinesque. "Litlgrey" in the Luxuria chat room (he is trying to join this list) told he has a CD release and it's in mono! Can you believe that. Considering the lengths Esquivel went to record this in stereo it seems unbelievable!
Have not done this in a long time...here is today's playlist. Not an exotic listing in the bunch. But next week....a secret Exotica list member coming in with his/hers rekkids! Gonna be fun!
Brief And Breezy, Henry Mancini
What Is This Thing Called Love, Billie Holiday
Nothing In The World, Dinah Washington
How Deep Is The Ocean, Etta Jones
Criminal, Elvis Sinatra
IÆm Glad There Is You, Julie London
IÆsnt It Romantic, Chet Baker
Love Is Here To Stay, Carmen Mcrae
How Little It Matters, Frank Sinatra
Everything IÆve Got Holly Cole Trio
The Touch Of Your Lips, Tony Bennett
This CanÆt Be Love, Diana Krall
Dedicated To You, Johnny Hartman And John Coltrane
Like Someone In Love, Karrin Allyson
It Could Happen To You, John Pizzarelli
SÆwonderful, Ella Fitzgerald
The Very Thought Of You, Nat King Cole
The Nearness Of You, Nancy Wilson
1 CanÆt Stop Loving You, Ray Charles
At Last, Etta James
If Ihad My Life To Live Over, Lou Rawls
That Is This Thing Called Love, Keely Smith
Wives And Lovers, Vic Damone
Fever, Peggy Lee
Make Love To Me, Louie And Keely
Takes 2 To Tango, Tray Charles And Betty Carter
A RockinÆ Good Time, Dinah Washington And Brook Benton
Peel Me A Grape, Diana Krall
Love Scene, Tony Bennett
Easy To Love, Johnny Mathis
Home CookinÆ Man, Karrin Allyson
Understanding, Ray Charles
My Baby Cares Just For Me, Nina Simone
L.O.V.E., John Pizzarelli
IÆm In The Mood For Love, Polly Bergen
Love And Marriage, Frank Sinatra
Could Write A Book, Sarah Vaughan
I Got Lost In Your Arms, Billy Eckstine
The Look Of Love, Dusty Springfield
The Look Of Love, Stan Getz
My One And Only Love, Johnny Hartman And John Coltrane
True Love, Patsy Cline
Our Love Is Here To Stay, Louie Armstrong Ella Fitzgerald
Bewitched, Julie London
Three Little Words, John Pizarelli
Moon River, Henry Mancini
Domenic Ciccone
"Martinis with Mancini" WJUL 91.5FM FridayÆs 6-9AM EST
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Classics for the Exotica crowd
Date: 11 Sep 2000 12:22:05 -0400
Here's a book for those with an interest in this subject:
-lou
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The Exotic in Western Music
by Jonathan Bellman (Editor)
Price: $25.00
Paperback - 416 pages (December 1997)
Northeastern Univ Pr; ISBN: 1555533191 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x 8.90 x 5.95
Other Editions: Hardcover
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Exoticism has flourished in western music since the seventeenth century. A blend of familiar and unfamiliar gestures, this vibrant musical language takes the listener beyond the ordinary by evoking foreign cultures and forbidden desires.
In this pioneering collection, distinguished musicologists explore the ways in which western composers have used exotic elements for dramatic and striking effect. Interweaving historical, musical, and cultural perspectives, the contributors examine the compositional use of exotic styles and traditions in the works of artists as diverse as Mozart and George Harrison.
The volume sheds new light on a significant yet largely neglected art form, and it makes a valuable contribution to music history and cultural studies
About the Author
Jonathan Bellman is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Northern Colorado. He is the author of The Style Hongrois in the Music of Western Europe, also published by Northeastern University Press. He lives Greeley, Colorado.
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Subject: (exotica) [obit] Joseph H. Lewis,Alan Caddy
Date: 11 Sep 2000 13:07:06 -0400
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Joseph H. Lewis, who directed ``Gun Crazy,'' ``The Big Combo'' and dozens of other B movies, died Aug. 30. Lewis was believed to be 93, although some reference books list his birthday as April 6, 1900.
Between 1937 and 1958, Lewis made 38 pictures with names like ``Singing Outlaw,'' ``Bombs Over Burma'' and ``Retreat, Hell!''
``Gun Crazy,'' shot in 30 days in 1949 for $400,000, was Lewis' favorite and became a cult classic. The film noir tale of a couple on a robbery spree won the acclaim of director Martin Scorsese.
Lewis, who was born in New York City, came to Hollywood in the 1920s. He was directing films by the mid-1930s, and for the next three decades cranked out everything from Westerns to war movies to science fiction films.
He directed all the musical sequences for ``The Jolson Story,'' the 1946 biopic of entertainer Al Jolson, and during World War II he made instructional films for the Army.
Lewis also directed episodes for television shows, including ``The Rifleman,'' ``Gunsmoke'' and ``The Defenders.''
http://allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?p=avg&sql=B99636
Alan Caddy
Guitarist who found fame with the Tornados
Friday September 8, 2000
Alan Caddy, who has died aged 60, was a founder member of the Tornados, the only serious challengers to the Shadows as most popular British instrumental unit of the 1960s. The quintet are best remembered for 1962's million-selling Telstar.
If unable to build on a number one in the US - where no UK outfit had ever made much headway - the Tornados scored three more entries - Globetrotter, Robot and the Ice Cream Man - in 1963's domestic Top 10 before the advent of Merseybeat, with its emphasis on vocals. Suddenly rendered passΘ, they soldiered on with a still impressive workload while largely repeating earlier ideas on disc.
Unlike the others, Caddy, who was born in Chelsea, London, was classically trained, having served as a boy soprano in Westminster Abbey, and studied violin as leader of the orchestra at school in Battersea, before the onset of puberty found him looking for an opening in pop as a guitarist. It came when he joined a skiffle group, the Five Nutters, who were omnipresent at their own KKK Club in Willesden.
After a transitional period as Bats Heath and the Vampires, they went professional as Johnny Kidd and the Pirates in 1958. Among few homegrown rock 'n' rollers regarded with awe, they made a television debut on ITV's Disc Break, with 1959's Please Don't Touch. Much of its charm emanated from Caddy's galvanising riffing.
However, because Caddy was riven with self-doubt about his ability, another guitarist picked the staccato lead on Kidd's climactic Shakin' All Over - which, while it knocked Cliff Richard from the top in August 1960, netted Caddy only a standard session fee of 15 guineas.
Within a year, Johnny Kidd was becalmed outside the Top 50, and Caddy and his fellow Pirates had abandoned the apparently sinking ship, retaining their stage costumes to be the Cabin Boys behind Tommy Steele's brother, Colin Hicks, a huge attraction in Italy.
Hicks proved a difficult employer, and Caddy flew home to land on his feet as mainstay of the Tornados, assembled in the first instance to back Ken Charles, Pamela Blue, John Leyton and Mike Berry and similar protΘgΘs of the console boffin Joe Meek, in his RPM studio in Holloway Road, London.
Following a miss with Popeye Twist, written by Caddy and drummer Clem Cattini, the ethereal Telstar was taped as a routine backing track - albeit with a poignant "second subject" plucked by Caddy - hours before a show with Billy Fury in Great Yarmouth. Overnight, Meek transformed it into the quintessential 1960s instrumental. Though dismissing the RPM sound as "unadulterated lift music", Caddy remained a Tornado throughout their period of greatest celebrity as both respected sidemen, hit parade contenders and patron saints of myriad combos created in the same image - notably the Volcanos, with Polaris.
The first perceptible sign of danger occurred with Dragonfly, a comparative flop, coinciding with the exit shortly before of bass player Heinz Burt - and, with him, most of the group's teen appeal - in autumn 1963. As injurious a departure in its way was that of Caddy, after the release of 1964's Away From It All, an album containing four of his compositions. By then, Caddy was well-placed to make a living as a session musician, and even become a star in his own right, but, said Clem Cattini: "He never achieved his potential because he didn't believe in himself."
Caddy took a job as house arranger and producer for Avenue Records, a budget label specialising in covers of current hits. Next, he moved to a similar post in Canada. Back in England by 1975, Caddy was involved in a remake of Telstar by a reconstituted Tornados, but chose not to return to the public stage - although he was persuaded to pitch in occasionally when attending RPM Appreciation Society evenings - as he was a few months ago when he gave his last performance, which included a game, if ragged, crack at the timeless Telstar.
Alan Caddy is survived by his wife and daughter.
Alan Caddy, guitarist and song arranger, born February 2 1940; died August 16 2000
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Subject: (exotica) [obit] Joseph H. Lewis,Alan Caddy
Date: 11 Sep 2000 13:07:17 -0400
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) -- Joseph H. Lewis, who directed ``Gun Crazy,'' ``The Big Combo'' and dozens of other B movies, died Aug. 30. Lewis was believed to be 93, although some reference books list his birthday as April 6, 1900.
Between 1937 and 1958, Lewis made 38 pictures with names like ``Singing Outlaw,'' ``Bombs Over Burma'' and ``Retreat, Hell!''
``Gun Crazy,'' shot in 30 days in 1949 for $400,000, was Lewis' favorite and became a cult classic. The film noir tale of a couple on a robbery spree won the acclaim of director Martin Scorsese.
Lewis, who was born in New York City, came to Hollywood in the 1920s. He was directing films by the mid-1930s, and for the next three decades cranked out everything from Westerns to war movies to science fiction films.
He directed all the musical sequences for ``The Jolson Story,'' the 1946 biopic of entertainer Al Jolson, and during World War II he made instructional films for the Army.
Lewis also directed episodes for television shows, including ``The Rifleman,'' ``Gunsmoke'' and ``The Defenders.''
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Alan Caddy
Guitarist who found fame with the Tornados
Friday September 8, 2000
Alan Caddy, who has died aged 60, was a founder member of the Tornados, the only serious challengers to the Shadows as most popular British instrumental unit of the 1960s. The quintet are best remembered for 1962's million-selling Telstar.
If unable to build on a number one in the US - where no UK outfit had ever made much headway - the Tornados scored three more entries - Globetrotter, Robot and the Ice Cream Man - in 1963's domestic Top 10 before the advent of Merseybeat, with its emphasis on vocals. Suddenly rendered passΘ, they soldiered on with a still impressive workload while largely repeating earlier ideas on disc.
Unlike the others, Caddy, who was born in Chelsea, London, was classically trained, having served as a boy soprano in Westminster Abbey, and studied violin as leader of the orchestra at school in Battersea, before the onset of puberty found him looking for an opening in pop as a guitarist. It came when he joined a skiffle group, the Five Nutters, who were omnipresent at their own KKK Club in Willesden.
After a transitional period as Bats Heath and the Vampires, they went professional as Johnny Kidd and the Pirates in 1958. Among few homegrown rock 'n' rollers regarded with awe, they made a television debut on ITV's Disc Break, with 1959's Please Don't Touch. Much of its charm emanated from Caddy's galvanising riffing.
However, because Caddy was riven with self-doubt about his ability, another guitarist picked the staccato lead on Kidd's climactic Shakin' All Over - which, while it knocked Cliff Richard from the top in August 1960, netted Caddy only a standard session fee of 15 guineas.
Within a year, Johnny Kidd was becalmed outside the Top 50, and Caddy and his fellow Pirates had abandoned the apparently sinking ship, retaining their stage costumes to be the Cabin Boys behind Tommy Steele's brother, Colin Hicks, a huge attraction in Italy.
Hicks proved a difficult employer, and Caddy flew home to land on his feet as mainstay of the Tornados, assembled in the first instance to back Ken Charles, Pamela Blue, John Leyton and Mike Berry and similar protΘgΘs of the console boffin Joe Meek, in his RPM studio in Holloway Road, London.
Following a miss with Popeye Twist, written by Caddy and drummer Clem Cattini, the ethereal Telstar was taped as a routine backing track - albeit with a poignant "second subject" plucked by Caddy - hours before a show with Billy Fury in Great Yarmouth. Overnight, Meek transformed it into the quintessential 1960s instrumental. Though dismissing the RPM sound as "unadulterated lift music", Caddy remained a Tornado throughout their period of greatest celebrity as both respected sidemen, hit parade contenders and patron saints of myriad combos created in the same image - notably the Volcanos, with Polaris.
The first perceptible sign of danger occurred with Dragonfly, a comparative flop, coinciding with the exit shortly before of bass player Heinz Burt - and, with him, most of the group's teen appeal - in autumn 1963. As injurious a departure in its way was that of Caddy, after the release of 1964's Away From It All, an album containing four of his compositions. By then, Caddy was well-placed to make a living as a session musician, and even become a star in his own right, but, said Clem Cattini: "He never achieved his potential because he didn't believe in himself."
Caddy took a job as house arranger and producer for Avenue Records, a budget label specialising in covers of current hits. Next, he moved to a similar post in Canada. Back in England by 1975, Caddy was involved in a remake of Telstar by a reconstituted Tornados, but chose not to return to the public stage - although he was persuaded to pitch in occasionally when attending RPM Appreciation Society evenings - as he was a few months ago when he gave his last performance, which included a game, if ragged, crack at the timeless Telstar.
Alan Caddy is survived by his wife and daughter.
Alan Caddy, guitarist and song arranger, born February 2 1940; died August 16 2000
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Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit] Joseph H. Lewis,Alan Caddy
Date: 11 Sep 2000 14:33:35 -0500
nytab@pipeline.com wrote:
> ``Gun Crazy,'' shot in 30 days in 1949 for $400,000, was Lewis' favorite and became a cult classic. The film noir tale of a couple on a robbery spree won the acclaim of director Martin Scorsese.
And was more or less remade by Terrence Malick as "Badlands" with Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen...also a cult film.
> It came when he joined a skiffle group, the Five Nutters, who were omnipresent at their own KKK Club in Willesden.
Um, would one of our exotica pals in the UK care to translate "KKK Club" for us unruly colonists? I certainly hope that the members of this organization didn't wear of white sheets and hoods.
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I know this records were mentioned before, but everything was so brief... So I saw these Exotica Beatles compilations in a record store and they look fine. Volumes 2 and 3. Is any of those better than the other?
What kind of strangeness should I expect?
Cheers,
Manuel
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> I know this records were mentioned before, but everything was so brief... So I saw these Exotica Beatles compilations in a record store and they look fine. Volumes 2 and 3. Is any of those better than the other?
>
> What kind of strangeness should I expect?
They are all good. Strangeness and non-strangeness. Britishness, groovyness, original sounddocuments of interviews of the Fab 4. All kinds of things...
Mo
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It's an 80s obsessed rawcker ranting against Mtv because they stopped playing Poison, Whitesnake, Twisted Sister, etc.
Until now I though no-one liked that kind of music, except for hairdressers the world over (and even they, I thought, must like them just for hair-style related reasons).
Cheers,
Manuel
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I picked this up the other week. As soon as I saw it, I had a minor freak out, so I had to have it. I'd have to say it's definitely one of the more amazing reissues I've heard in a while. It's a big sort of bleep-bloop-squonk affair. At times it reminds me of Raymond Scott's electronic music, particularly some of the songs on the recent 2 CD set. Some of the songs are sinister. Some of them are cute. Some of them have an air of humor about them. Some are very rhythmic, but not what I would consider funky. It's for sure an interesting thing to hear for people interested in early electronic music. It's also good for Umiliani fans. I would say the more open you are to strange lounge/electronic/jazzy experimentation, the more you will enjoy it. Does that help anyone?
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With so may exotica friends posting about various radio programs I feel funny mentioning another one that you might not have time to listen too. This one has a special significance for me as it led me to dig deeper in the world of old records and artists like Esquivel, Les Baxter and Martin Denny.
WICN just started broadcasting on the web this month. I would like to direct your attention to The Saturday Jazz Matinee on 12 noon to 4PM (EST) is hosted by Joe Slezik.
There web page is www.wicn.org
Joe started DJ-ing as a young man just over 40 years ago. That golden age of records around 1957-1959 and he is still playing the same records! For instance. He has a Jack Jones LP called ôDear Heartö. He played the song ôThank Heaven For Little Girlsö (I hope I got this all right) right after his daughter was born. And he wrote the fact and date on the record cover. This has got to be the early 60Æs right? Well I was there during a pledge drive and he was still playing it!
I think Joe missed the entire Lounge revival, didnÆt know it even happened. When all these compact disk reissues started coming out I noticed that there was this entire black hole of material he seemed to avoid. Since I discovered Baxter and Denny through the UL reissues I noticed that whenever Joe played these artists he always managed to find the least exotic records possible. You wonÆt hear any mamboÆs or cha-chaÆs although he did mention Perez Prado a few weeks ago but didnÆt play him. And the closest he gets to the Bossa Nova is playing Astrud Gilberto and the Frank Sinatra Reprise LP.
But this program really swings. ItÆs still great. And you will get a really good idea what radio sounded like 40 years ago.
But then you not might like it. A list member who visited me on a Saturday to trade records listened to the program in the car for a while. He told me he had to change the station to hard rock for a while to, and I quote: "wash my brain clean of it".
Maybe you can help me figure out why the records we like to talk about here on the list were mostly ignored when they first came out? It's so obvious listening to a time capsule of a program like this one.
Domenic
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Subject: Re: (exotica) That taboo subject again...
Date: 16 Sep 2000 15:08:12 -0400
>on their own. Making the music available through an open medium like the
>internet is just another form of information sharing, and to me this is
>what makes the internet such an amazing thing. One may argue that the fact
>that the internet cannot be controlled by governments or lawyers is in many
>ways a positive thing, but I won't go there as there are two sides to every
>argument...
Well, I don't know if I would bet on that... they've barely begun to make an effort to control it, and control it they might. All of the recent court decisions have been going the way of the corporations.
A solid commentary here:
http://www.suck.com/daily/2000/09/08/
And now they've lobbied the FCC into requiring copy prevention technology on digital tvs, vcrs and set-top boxes:
A rollback of legal home-use taping seems in the works. Along with other concepts in the works (some of the e-publishing schemes), this could be setting up a future where you're not *allowed* to own anything... everything is pay-per-use instead.
Then there's the college kid in Oklahoma who was raided and had his computer equipment seized after the RIAA complained:
"We're doing some forensic review of the hard drive and determining what is there," Eaton said. "After we finish that review, we will evaluate the amount of substance he was distributing."
Substance? Sounds like the "war on drugs". If hard-line laws are passed, and backed up with hard-line enforcement, this will not be a thought-provoking parlor talk issue anymore. It'll just be scary.
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A friend really liked the music on this label and mentions it every once in a while. Apparently none of this material has been released on CD. This stuff any good?
Who owns the music on this label these days? I would not be surprised if someone here on the list knows this!
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In a message dated Sat, 16 Sep 2000 3:50:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Br. Cleve" <bcleve@pop.tiac.net> writes:
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At 7:43 PM -0400 9/14/00, alan zweig wrote:
I gotta know....... what did this guy say when you brought all these
records up to the counter??
I used to work in a used record store where you'd be greeted with "What are
you buying this crap for?" when you come up with ez/exotica
br cleve
Cleve is referring to S. J's in Cambridge where they smile in your face, all the while they wanna put you in your place.......If it ain't vintage jazz there its just plain shit. And I LIKE them! JB/seen the best minds of Rekkid Collectorship raked over the coals, reamed, steamed and dry-cleaned..Glued, screwed, blewed and tattoed
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Looking for some Pauza info at the Verve web page and found a page with "ecards"
The Bossa Nova ecard is about the new movie called "Bossa Nova". Looks like fun. Amy Irving is in it. The last thing I remember reading about her is that she was starting a new life in Brazil. Nice to see her back in the movies and in something Brazil repated.
http://www.verveinteractive.com/ecards/
Lots of classics on the soundtrack with some new material.
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In a message dated Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:39:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Domenic Ciccone" <djdomdabomb@buzzlink.com> writes:
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The Bossa Nova ecard is about the new movie called "Bossa Nova". Looks like fun. Amy Irving is in it. The last thing I remember reading about her is that she was starting a new life in Brazil. Nice to see her back in the movies and in something Brazil repated.
http://www.verveinteractive.com/ecards/
Lots of classics on the soundtrack with some new material.
Domenic
For another excellent bossa nova soundtracked movie, catch the quirky and quite enjoyable "Next Stop, Wonderland"
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In a message dated Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:39:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Domenic Ciccone" <djdomdabomb@buzzlink.com> writes:
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The Bossa Nova ecard is about the new movie called "Bossa Nova". Looks like fun. Amy Irving is in it. The last thing I remember reading about her is that she was starting a new life in Brazil. Nice to see her back in the movies and in something Brazil repated.
http://www.verveinteractive.com/ecards/
Lots of classics on the soundtrack with some new material.
Domenic
For another excellent bossa nova soundtracked movie, catch the quirky and quite enjoyable "Next Stop, Wonderland"
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In a message dated Mon, 18 Sep 2000 10:39:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Domenic Ciccone" <djdomdabomb@buzzlink.com> writes:
The Bossa Nova ecard is about the new movie called "Bossa Nova". Looks like fun. Amy Irving is in it. The last thing I remember reading about her is that she was starting a new life in Brazil. Nice to see her back in the movies and in something Brazil repated.
http://www.verveinteractive.com/ecards/
Lots of classics on the soundtrack with some new material.
Domenic
For another bossa nove soundtracked film, catch "Next Stop Wonderland", a great little sleeper filmed in Boston
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> Cleve is referring to S. J's in Cambridge where they smile in
> your face, all the while they wanna put you in your
> place.......If it ain't vintage jazz there its just plain shit.
> And I LIKE them! JB/seen the best minds of Rekkid Collectorship
> raked over the coals, reamed, steamed and dry-cleaned..Glued,
> screwed, blewed and tattoed
Ahh.....a must see stop for the record collector exotica enthusiast. When I started getting into this stuff I found a used ôWild Cool and SwinginÆ UL comp. I asked the owner about where he puts ôloungeö stuff (it was new to me) and he said that stuff was hard to categorize and he didnÆt know where to put it. They put Les Baxter on the speakers for me! I didnÆt buy it ôThe Poor People Of Parisö scared me. I still canÆt get used to it.
Well now there is a used CD exotica slot, but itÆs always empty, sold out I assume. But he does have exotica/lounge records and they sell for less than the other over inflated used record stores in the area.
One nice thing he did for me. I bought a used Nina Simone Phillips recording that I thought was a concert but was another of her many comps. I brought it back in for a trade a ╜ year later when I was in town again and in conversation told him I was returning it since I had all the material on her other CDÆs. He gave me full credit for it!
The last time I was in there was this January with another list member. I like talking with these folks because you always learn something, maybe it was the cold weather but I wasnÆt getting anywhere this time. On my way out with my purchase I smiled and said ôSee you next year!ö And it was worth it for the perplexed expression on JÆs face. ItÆs September nowàthe way things look I might not get there until next year.
But itÆs the only place in town, besides CD Spins, where you can still get decent CDÆs for under 8 dollars.
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> Gleason "Ooooh" record on the top of the pile and smiled.
> (I don't know what it is about that record but this was the first
> playable
> copy I've found of that, after five or six previous tries.)
This has happened to me too with this LP..hard to find a decent copy.
I guess folks who bought this kind of stuff were not that careful. I picked up a really scratched one the first time just to satisfy my curiosity. What do you think of this album?
Domenic
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> > Lounge.á You can watch selected shows at the Lizard
> > on the web.á Cool, huh? So.....if you want, you can
> > watch Astroslut tomorrow night from the link below.á
> > The camera will turn on at 11p and we'll be on at
> > some point after that.á This link should bring you
> > right there.á If not, find the Lizard Lounge link
> > and click either cam control or real player.... or
> > something.á PC Slut or MacSlut, whichever you
> > prefer.á Either way it's even better than must see
> > TV!
> > http://livewave.com/viewerreal.asp?feed=16
> > <http://livewave.com/viewerreal.asp?feed=16>
> > ASTROSLUT
> > SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23 @ LIZARD LOUNGE
> > 1667 Mass Av., between Harvard and Porter below
> > Cambridge Common map
> >
Wowàsee Astroslut on the studio cam. We donÆt need no stinkinÆ Val Myers. I know for sure that some list members will be listening and watching! Moi?? IÆll be there and in the flesh! Thanks for posting.
We have a great neo-lounge scene going on here in Boston. ôSeks Bombaö will be at the Lizard Lounge this Wednesday and next Saturday ôLars Vegasö..so I assume we will be able to see them too.
IÆm not sure ôLars Vegasö has been mentioned on the list. Imagine a modern day beatnik backed up by a nine piece jazz band with lots of horns and some vibes. They just sent me their older CD which sounds a lot there new one, ôSmokinö. Nice stories about a narcissistic gym lounger named ôSy Sperlingö, A guy trying to pick up a girl in ôPeteÆs Broasted Chickenö and ôIndiansö a song about people who discriminate against Indians yet furnish their homes with authentic Navaho rugs.
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ItÆs the only group I know of that gets played on the punk program ôTwo Minute Warningö hosted by my friends The Crippler and the Porno Queenàand on ôMartinis with Manciniö!
ôPunk and Lounge..creating a new world order!ö
FWIWàtodayÆs playlist, or at least what I wrote down. ItÆs been a nice day. I obtained 2 Sir Julien LPÆs and Henry ManciniÆs Combo. For free! I love free. ;Æ)
Brief And Breezy, Henry Mancini
Smile, Holly Cole
Alice In Wonderland, Dave Brubeck
Dear Miss Lilly, Dave,S True Story
IÆm Going To Laugh, Ann Richards
Once I Loved, Frank Sinatra
Seduction, Combustible Edison
Music To Watch Girls By, Living Marimbas
The Girl From Planet Eros, Astroslut
The Way You Look Tonight, Cal Tjader
Too Young To Die, Love Dogs
Tixuana Taxi, Henry Mancini
Are You Having Any Fun? Tony Bennett/Count Basie
The Kid From Red Bank, Count Basie
Angelina/Zooma Zooma, Louie Prima
Perfidia, George Shearing
Shirley Scott, Soul Sauce
Surfboard, Robert Menescal
The Joker, Sergio Mendes And Brazil 66
Chicken Talk, Bert Kaempfert
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White, Perez Prado
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White, Di Mara Sisters
Just Say, Love Her, Dean Martin
Sabor A Mi, The New Xavier Cugat Orchestra
Sophisticated Mr Sleeze, Astroslut
Wrong Lake To Catcha Fish, Love Dogs
Stompin At The Savoy, Dick Schorys Percussion Orchestra
Bijou, Dick Schorys Percussion Orchestra
The Swinger, Ann Margret
The Knack Can Be Developed, The Knack
Old Mcdonald Had A Little Girk, Mel Henke
My Heart Belongs To Daddy, Julie London
Bright Lights And You Girl, Boddy Troup
Swamp Fire, Haal Mooney
Bright Lights And You Girl, Seks Bomba
Fascinating Rhythm, Johnny Williams
Never On Sunday, Petula Clark
Blame It On The Bossa Nova, Eydie Gorme
Splanky, Joe Bucci
Chain Of Fools, Jimmy Smith
Under The Sea, The Little Mermaid
Kiss The Girl, The Little Mermaid
Galaxy Girl, Astroslut
Lock You Up, Love Dogs
The Windmills Of Your Mind, Dusty Springfield
Tropiande, Les Baxter
Amazon Paddle Boat, Esquivel
Bloop Bleep, Gary Mc Farland
Apache The Ventures
Moon River, Henry Mancini
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Picked up a Perez Prado LP on Camden called ôMambo Happy!ö There is a vocal track with Johnny Hartman on it called ôWildö. This LP seems to be a mish-mash of various sessions. A record ôdesigned for dancingö with the other tracks featuring other vocalists or sax players.
Did Hartman and Prado record anything else? DonÆt you just love it when you find out 2 artists you like have worked together?
A few months ago our friend in Taiwan was asking who might have been the female vocalist on his Prado comp and it was not Rosemary Clooney? This LP has a duet with Abel del Rivero and Cecilia Conzales. Maybe Conzales did a solo number with Prado?
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> >The general rule of thumb on Jackie Gleason albums that I follow
> >is, if it has "Brass" in the title it's good... If it doesn't
> >the chances are good that it is sleepy stuff with amazingly
> >lethargic tempos.
Paul Penna wrote:
> No doubt, though, that "Velvet Brass" is my all-time top favorite
> Gleason
> album.
I just picked up this LP last weekend. Listening to it now. It does seem to have more pizzazz, oh myàa lot more ump a, than the regular Gleason LPà Noticed that this LP has drumsàwhere the selections on the UL comp do not seem to have any.
I have the UL 2 CD set and do find the linear notes but by much disliked RJ Smith amusing. From the linear notes: ôWhat he didnÆt want was drums-- maybe thought that adding percussion to a late night sound would wake up the neighborsö.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Lee Erwin, who appeared as a roller rink organist in Woody Allen's ``Radio Days'' and composed scores for classics such as ``The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' and ``Ben Hur,'' died Sept. 21. He was 92.
Erwin provided music to more than 70 silent films and toured into his 90s.
He began his career while still a high school student in Huntsville, Ala., substituting for the regular organists at two local theaters. He continued playing for $20 a week while attending the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
In 1930, he went to Paris to study with French organist Andre Marchal and composer Nadia Boulanger.
He returned to Cincinnati in 1932 and began as a staff organist at WLW-AM radio station. He was well-known for playing the music to ``Moon River,'' a late-night show he once described as ``pretty pop tunes and a man reading love poems.''
After 11 years, Erwin moved to New York and joined CBS where he was an organist and arranger until 1966, appearing as Moneybags Erwin on the ``Arthur Godfrey Show.''
He resumed movie work in 1967. He prepared a score by replaying a movie, timing important scenes and jotting notes on themes and characters.
In addition to 1923's ``Hunchback'' and 1925's ``Ben Hur,'' Erwin's scores include the entire collection of Buster Keaton films and Mary Pickford's ``My Best Girl.''
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Good Vibrations, so to speak
Date: 28 Sep 2000 14:34:16 -0700 (PDT)
Cal Tjader is wonderful. I love his "Sounds out Burt Bacharach" and it's on CD....the first track "Ms Moneypenny Goes for Broke", believe is the track name, is my favorite. That theme drives me nuts! Another version of a "Casino Royale" tune renamed, since that distinction has been brought up and clarified by our Tiki Bob.
And comments on the "Talkin' Verve" comp? That would seem to be a good place to start for a first Tjader CD..
And just got an LP by Cal...but have not listened to it yet. "Last Bolero in Berkeley" Should I rush home and slap it on the turntable?
Domenic
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> Please, OH, Please! Somebody tell Eric that Cal's
> MAMBO album is available on CD! It's a must-have!
> Jane Fondle, who unsealed, last Christmas, a vinyl copy!
>
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I was telling my co-worker Dave about Project Pimento. The theremin playing has got to be the sharpest IÆve ever heard. There mp3's are available at www.projectpimento.com. Darrell played them on the Retro Cocktail Hour so maybe you have heard them. IÆm playing the 4 available tracks on my show tomorrow.
Dave is a hip-hop artist in the process of getting his new CD pressed. He wanted to know what a theremin is so I described it, showed him a picture on the net and lend him my Project Pimento CDr.
He digs the sound and would be interested in mixing it into his ôbeatsö.
So if youÆre a theremin player and your around the Boston area and want to break into the hip-hop scene give me a holler. Be glad to hook you up!
Domenic Ciccone
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It's been a good day for records today. I'm listening to "Hello Amigos" The Ames Brothers under the Direction of Juan Garcia Esquivel.
And it is like listening to any of the Esquivel records, especially when the boys from Boston take a break singing and the man can almost let loose.
"Explosive Brass Impact" Warren Cline and his Brass Impact Orchestra Vol 2. Some friends here have passed on some copies of this series to me, but not this one and they deliver on their promise of Pow!Pow!Pow! POW! An Overwelming Music Experience". Nice wordless vocals. I needed another version of "Gregory Girl".
Henry Jerome "Brazen Brass Zings the Strings" IÆve got some of the other Brazen Brass series... After an adventurous "Holiday For Strings" it seems to be all downhill.
"Sing a Song With Riddle" Ok I've haven't listened to this yet.
The description: ôYOU are the solo star, with big orchestra backgrounds by NELSON RIDDLE (Booklet complete with music and lyrics enclosed)."
Have you, like me, been guilty of speeding down the highway, car speakers blaring and singing along with Frank? "My Baby Cares Just For Meeeee!!!!!!! When they are that loud you think you almost sound good. But thatÆs Frank your hearing! Not You!
I have a voice that will choke an ostrich. IÆll wait until the family goes out. Then IÆll sneak this out and give it a try. And go for the gusto.
Domenic
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