>i actually thought about doing this, with over 5000 >records i do not know how long it would take but
it would help me log tracks and get rid of less than good stuff.
One lazy but still partly effective way to do this with CDs is to buy a CD player which will hold tons of CDs.
It took me some time to warm up to the idea, but a couple of years ago I bought a pioneer CD player which holds 101 CDs, 100 of which I often simply listen to on random play, track by track.
I keep a list of what discs are in there. It embarrasses me to say it, but I've discovered a lot of great stuff in my own collection this way which I might never have paid attention to before.
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Listening to ALL your music
Date: 01 Apr 2001 19:18:47 +0100
wow! I want one. how much did it cost?
delicado@cheerful.com wrote:
>
> One lazy but still partly effective way to do this with CDs is to buy a CD player which will hold tons of CDs.
>
> It took me some time to warm up to the idea, but a couple of years ago I bought a pioneer CD player which holds 101 CDs, 100 of which I often simply listen to on random play, track by track.
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Moe Koffman, Canadian Musician Who Applied Flute to Jazz, Dies at 72
ORONTO, April 2 (Reuters) ù Moe Koffman, a celebrated Canadian jazz musician best known for his breezy 1957 flute hit, "Swinging Shepherd Blues," died on Wednesday. He was 72.
The cause was cancer, his publicist said.
Mr. Koffman, a flutist and saxophonist, was one of Canada's jazz institutions. During a five-decade career, he recorded dozens of albums and performed with many of the genre's greats, including Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Dorsey and Doc Severinsen. His music ranged from cool-toned bop to jazz interpretations of pop and classical material.
Born Morris Koffman in Toronto in 1928, he began playing violin at 9 and alto saxophone, clarinet and flute at 13. He studied theory at the Toronto Conservatory of Music before moving to the United States for further study in the 1940's.
Before the release of his signature "Swinging Shepherd Blues," one of the few flute hits in jazz, Mr. Koffman worked on the road with big bands, including those led by Dorsey and Charlie Barnet.
He returned to Toronto in 1955 and divided his career between his own jazz group and session work. In the mid-1960's he appeared several times as a soloist on NBC's "Tonight" show. He released more than 30 albums, the latest, "The Moe Koffman Project" (Universal) just last year.
Mr. Koffman received the Order of Canada in 1992 in recognition of his outstanding work and service to the arts industry.
He is survived by his wife, Gisele; three sons, Herbie, Larry and Elie; and a stepdaughter, Ilya.
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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Theodore McCarty,Henry Brown
Date: 04 Apr 2001 12:03:38 -0400
Theodore M. McCarty
TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- Theodore M. ``Ted'' McCarty, a key figure in the development of the electric guitar and former president of Gibson Guitar Co., died Sunday. He was 91.
In his 18 years as president at Gibson, McCarty transformed the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based maker of acoustic musical instruments into the purveyor of guitars to the stars.
The solid-body electric guitar was considered something of a gimmick when McCarty left the Wurlitzer Co. to join Gibson in 1948. He had a degree in commercial engineering and had been an engineering designer for the military during World War II. Despite not being musically inclined, McCarty saw possibilities in the electric guitar.
At Gibson, he helped bring to life the Les Paul series, named for the blues guitarist who endorsed it, the Explorer series, widely used by both rock and country guitarists, and the radical Flying V.
McCarty later bought the Bigsby Co., which manufactures vibratos for guitars. He sold the company and retired in 1999.
April 4, 2001
Henry Brown, a Chemist Who Made the Metal Shine, Dies at 93
By PAUL LEWIS ,NYTimes
Henry Brown, a chemist who helped make the American Dream a gleaming reality by
finding new ways of keeping chromium plate bright and shiny, died on March 15
at his home in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 93.
In the years just after World War II, Mr. Brown's discoveries made bathroom
fixtures and kitchen utensils silvery and put the gloss on the bumpers of the
finny automotive monsters Detroit turned out in the 1950's and early 60's. But
there had been other earlier and less obvious beneficiaries of his skill at
making dull metals shiny. In the austere war years, he showed the United
States Treasury how to make steel pennies gleam and invented a high-speed
process for brass-plating shell cases so they did not stick in artillery guns.
To prevent chromium plate from losing its shine, said Edwin Hoover, a
metallurgist who worked with him, Dr. Brown used sulfur-bearing organic
compounds, like saccharin, to brighten the underlying layer of nickel plate
placed on the metal before a thin covering of chrome was added.
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HANOI (Reuters) - Thousands of mourners packed the streets of Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday to pay tribute at the funeral of anti-war musician Trinh Cong Son, Vietnam's most beloved singer songwriter.
Trinh Cong Son, Vietnam-era Antiwar Singer, Dies at 62
By SETH MYDANS
BANGKOK, April 4 ù Trinh Cong Son, an antiwar singer and songwriter whose melancholy music stirred Vietnamese on both sides of the war, died on Sunday and was buried today at a Buddhist temple near Ho Chi Minh City. He was 62.
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GARY, Ind. (AP) -- Lester ``Big Daddy'' Kinsey, a blues singer-guitarist known for his croaky voice, died Tuesday of prostate cancer. He was 74.
Kinsey and his sons Kenneth, Donald and Ralph became known as ``Big Daddy'' Kinsey and His Fabulous Sons.
The sons now form the Kinsey Report and record for Alligator Records, a Chicago blues label. The Kinsey Report has toured with musical groups including the Allman Brothers Band.
In the early 1990s, the elder Kinsey released the album ``I Am the Blues.'' Among the blues standouts backing him up were Buddy Guy, James Cotton, Sugar Blue and Pinetop Perkins.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ed Winter, an actor who played paranoid CIA officer Col. Flagg on the television series ``MASH,'' died March 8 of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 63.
Winter's career spanned more than 30 years, and included appearances in hundreds of television shows and dozens of films.
He made his Broadway debut in 1966, playing Ernest in the musical ``Cabaret.'' He was nominated for a Tony Award for the role.
He also appeared in such movies as ``A Change of Seasons,'' ``The Buddy System'' and ``Porky's II.''
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John Lucas, who overcame physical disabilities inflicted by rheumatoid arthritis to become an active member of Southern California's jazz community for decades, has died. He was 84.
Lucas died of complications from pneumonia March 17 at Arcadia Methodist Hospital, two days after his birthday.
Stricken with rheumatoid arthritis as a boy, Lucas was unable to bend his arms or legs, unable to get his hands within a foot of his face, unable to wiggle his fingers, unable to walk.
Refusing to view himself as disabled, Lucas became an accomplished professional musician, artist, writer and jazz historian.
Playing a trumpet that was stretched out so that his hands could reach the valves, Lucas started his own band called the Blueblowers and became a popular performer during the 1950s and 1960s at Los Angeles-area nightclubs such as the Beverly Cavern, St. Francis Room, Radar Room and the Track in Pasadena.
John C.V. Lucas was born March 15, 1917, in Minneapolis. His family moved to Southern California in 1920 and settled in Pasadena in the 1930s. After graduating from what was then Pasadena Junior College, Lucas enrolled at Stanford. But when many of his friends went into the service in World War II, Lucas quit to work in the military defense industry in Pasadena.
He also worked as a reporter for the East Pasadena Herald and began a lifelong hobby of drawing pen and ink sketches that he made into Christmas cards.
While a student in Pasadena, Lucas formed the Blueblowers, playing for student dances, usually in the school's open-air gymnasium. The Blueblowers continued to perform until Lucas was 75.
Lucas started out playing the drums, a notable feat considering he could not bend his elbows. Then he switched to the marimba, and by his 20s he had developed his stretched-out trumpet and began to sit in with many noted musicians.
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>TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) -- Theodore M. "Ted" McCarty, a
>key figure in the development of the electric guitar and former
>president of Gibson Guitar Co., died Sunday. He was 91.
>In his 18 years as president at Gibson, McCarty transformed the
>Kalamazoo, Mich.-based maker of acoustic musical instruments
>into the purveyor of guitars to the stars.
Players like Charlie Christian not ranking as stars? But seriously, Ted McCarty's tenure (1948 to 1966) was perhaps Gibson's finest run.
>At Gibson, he helped bring to life the Les Paul series, named
>for the blues guitarist who endorsed it,
Huh?!? Les certainly used elements from blues, but I'd put him more in a pop/jazz bag.
The issue of how much of the Les Paul guitar design came from the Gibson staff and how much came from Les will probably always remain murky. As time goes on, Les takes more and more credit in interviews (kind of like Dick Dale (they both have "yeah, I gave Jimi Hendrix some tips" stories)). In an earlier interview, it sounded like Les signed off on their design, while stipulating some detail changes. It does seem pretty certain that the stop tailpiece and tune-o-matic bridge design are McCarty's.
>the Explorer series, widely used by both rock and
>country guitarists, and the radical Flying V.
Country?!? On what planet? Actually, when the Explorer & Flying V were originally produced in 1958, they flopped. With the occasional exception (Lonnie Mack), it was the metal boys who made them a hit a decade or so later.
An immediately (and long-term) successful design was the thin-body semi-hollow guitar -- the ES-335 and relatives (like Chuck Berry was playing in the 60s).
And there was the SG series, the googie-look Firebird series (just the thing for Thunderbirds to play) and the bass guitars.
A whole lot of good designs came out of Gibson during McCarty's stint, and to be honest, they've been living off of those designs ever since.
Sorry to go on so... my guitar train-spotting syndrome got set off, I guess.
--m.ace
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<P>I hope I may ask a question: I'm running out of space for all my cd's and want to inquire if there is any good reason for not stacking them flat. I've read it's recommended to shelve them upright, but I'd buy some time before I have to get new shelving if I could stack some flat to take up the rest of the shelf space. I'd be interested if any of the experts have an opinion. Thanks, </P>
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"The Swinginest Hammond Organ Album Since The Birth of Psychedelia"
(Somerset SF-28600)
A decent batch of organ-dominated soul-a-gogo tracks from circa 1967. Sort of a budget substitute for when you can't get Booker T. & The MGs. Track titles like "Golden Gate Freakout", "Tennessee Waltz Frug", "Old Time Religion Gone New", "The Acid Test". Follows the budget label habit of deriving the tunes from public domain sources such as spirituals ("Joshua Got Busted") or slightly altered lifts from hits ("Wild Flowers '67" = "I Walk the Line"; "California Time" = "Shotgun"). Cover features five frugging women surrounding an organist with his back to the camera.
I think this one was discussed on the list not very long ago, but I can't recall if we ever established The Mustang's true identity. Anyone? And are there other Mustang albums out there?
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I saw the post about Paul Griffin and '60s organ music and just wanted to post some info on an organist I feel is the quintessential '60s rock organist: spanish keyboard magician Pablo Herrero, organist with the '60s Spanish instrumental rock band, Los Relampagos -
Go to www.losrelampagos.com to download one of the band's exotic numbers from about 1965, "La Leyenda del Beso" - "Nit de Llampecs," also available for download at the site, has a clavioline playing the melody
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> I saw the post about Paul Griffin and '60s organ music and just wanted to post some info on an organist I feel is the quintessential '60s rock organist: spanish keyboard magician Pablo Herrero, organist with the '60s Spanish instrumental rock band, Los Relampagos -
>
> Go to www.losrelampagos.com to download one of the band's exotic numbers from about 1965, "Nit de Llampecs," also available for download at the site, has a clavioline playing the melody
How come nobody told me Joe Meek had a side-line while he was in Benidorm?
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Subject: (exotica) song recommendations website - psychedelicado.com
Date: 09 Apr 2001 12:50:49 -0400 (EDT)
I did some more work on my songs website, and would be very grateful if people could check it out.
The URL is www.psychedelicado.com
The idea is to have a repository for recommendations about individual songs/tracks. These are categorized not by 'genre', but simply by the person who recommended them. Anyone can register and recommend any song of any genre.
Kind of like a way to post an annotated playlist, even if you don't have a radio show.
You can register and post song recommendations, which are then immediately searchable. You can also post comments on songs which others have recommended.
Any feedback would be enormously appreciated; I think this could be quite useful, but I have done it completely on my own (only 15 or so users so far), so it could definitely be improved based on comments.
Please let me know what you think,
thanks,
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>i bought one of these industrial records once -- i >can't remember the
>corporation but the song that caught my attention was >about nuclear
>energy & how clean it was compared to fossil fuels. >it was done as a
>skit with a cowboy theme -- the fossil fuels were the >bad old
>gunfighters & nuclear energy was the new gun in town >that was going to
>clean up the bad guys, or some such hokum. i didn't >keep it because it
>was badly recorded, like they only had one >microphone, and i thought it
>was boring. had i only known...
>
>mike
This is Perspective for the 70s, from the Westinghouse Sixth Future Power Forum. The Nuclear Kid is the cowboy who represents nuclear power, that everyone is afraid of because of his "unruly youth". It is pretty silly, though the Nuclear Kid song is one of the better ones on it. This musical had such songs like "Urbanopolstein", "Urbanopolis: Oratorio", and "Power Flower". Overall there's a strong notion of a utopia that is going to arise due to nuclear energy. Very silly. I think the best thing about it though is the cover, an odd tree-like structure of a rainbow of colors on a black background.
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>Hi. What can folks tell me about a self titled record >by Lulu Cortez and Ze
>Ramhalo? It's twisted Brazilian
>semi psych sounds with lots of animal sounds in the >background.
>
>Brian Linds
Ze Ramalho is from Northeastern Brazil. His recordings from the 70s remind me of Blood on the Tracks era Bob Dylan. He still has a great voice, but my friend Jorginho says that hes become too spiritual, whatever that means, which may account for the psych elements. I don't know too much about him though. I could ask around if you'd like.
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> The Mayan theater in downtown Los Angeles is the closest I
> can think of. It has a huge Mayan calendar on the ceiling,
> and weird South American gargoyles everywhere. Yma Sumac
> should play there!
That would fit perfectly. The Mayan imho is a major cultural milestone of the 20th century, but it's not tiki. It has carved wooden doors, reliefs on the floor, painted relief colums etc. etc. It's unbelieveable that it is a sleazy porn theater today. Someone should buy it the sooner the better. BTW: It appears in this Ramones film Rock'n'Roll Highschool or so. Actually I have seen it in many films.
The only tiki film theater that I know is really the one of the Kontiki museum in Oslo, Norway. But I guess that doesn't count. And it isn't embedded in any kind of art deco style.
Yeah, I've been hoping that the next LateNight CD would be a selection of stuff from the "Record Collection." Can't see it happening anytime soon, though...
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Goldfrapp is the name of a new British band which consists of singer/composer Alison Goldfrapp and arranger/composer Will Gregory. They've created an album of songs that are intimate and panoramic, somewhat electronic and very human. Complexities and ambiguities enrich these finely crafted songs. Goldfrapp and Gregory are interviewed by phone from London.
More info at their website.
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny, McArthur's Park and the Surfmen
Date: 12 Apr 2001 16:32:27 +0200
Nathan Miner schrieb:
> if she wants cheese to go pick-up
if she wants cheese... well, no, I don't say it. Just this: America has passed a new law defining the size and number of holes that cheese must have to get the permission to be imported. Now, if there is just one hole in the cheese plus the cheese is black....
No seriously, Alan, you were way to friendly to that woman, but you certainly had your reasons.
, Martin Denny's orchestrations are 'experimental lounge tiki torch Esquivel style orchestrations'. Amazing what people will say to try and sell a beat up record.
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I like when people try to sell dime-a-dozen thrift store records on eBay as though they had discovered something utterly precious that thousands of people are looking for. I think more than anything the people that do this, the people that offer up "rare" dime-a-dozen copies of Sound of Music or Around the World in 80 Days or A Star is Born, simply haven't done any sort of homework and have no clue. How could anyone who has spent any time in thrifts or flea markets or garage sales NOT know that Whipped Cream and Other Delights could probably be found in 9 out of 10 thrifts? That it's one of the more hated albums just because of its omnipresence (though it's certainly not a bad album) in used bins? That even in stellar mint condition it's still not going to be worth more than say, what, a few dollars? Every time I run across an eBay seller offering up a "rare" copy of the dread Sound of Music soundtrack, I want to send an email to them and say, Look, this isn't rare by any stret
ch of the imagination! Sometimes, for entirely personal reasons, when "browsing" through soundtracks on eBay, I wish there was a way for certain LPs to be banned from sale, simply to save time for both the buyers and sellers. I'm talking the top level dime-a-dozen old LPs that people can't send to the trash heaps fast enough. Okay, rant finished.
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Roger Nichols, Gimmicks (was Third Wave, sweet pop)
Date: 20 Apr 2001 00:48:06 -0400 (EDT)
>Thanks for any comments on these
Hi,
happy to weigh in on these:
-Roger Nichols & The Small Circle Of Friends -- Complete
I think this is excellent; I picked it up recently after someone mentioned it in passing on this list a very long time ago. It's a lovely mix of late 60s pop vocals with something subtley magical about them. Some people might recognize the opener 'Don't take your time' from the 'a new light' album by The Match, also mentioned on this list. There are some really glorious and uplifting summer pop songs here - 'love so fine' and 'just beyond your smile' are the stompingly great standouts. Also great are the covers of the beatles 'I'll be back', bacharach's 'don't go breaking my heart' and Carole King's 'Snow Queen'.
My only complaints are 1) There are 19 tracks, and 4 or 5 of these are alternate versions. I want more! (alas I don't think there is any more) and 2) some of the material they chose isn't really to my taste - I guess I've just heard 'with a little help with my friends' and 'cocoanut grove' too many times.
basichip, from what I know of your taste, this may not be for you. I say this just because the appeal is quite subtle, and if you're not generally into sunshine pop/A&M this might sound rather ordinary. But I'd highly recommend it to fans of spanky & our gang, mamas and papas; even free design.
The Gimmicks - I have this one too compilation CD. It's pretty good, but I think I know what Brad meant when he described them as a Brasil 66 ripoff group. On this CD, their best songs are the brasil 66 ripoffs; the other ones tend to be later 70s funky things which appeal to me less. I heard a track from a mojo club compliation by them - 'california soul' which was very cool though.
I bought this and a few other Swedish CDs from www.skivhugget.se, which I highly recommend. They were friendly, the 3 CDs came in about 5 days, and cost around 20 USD altogether, including shipping. I'm slowly compiling a list of reliable international CD sellers, and would welcome any input on this. So far the loser for me was amazon.de, who took 2 months to send me something. Dustygroove are pretty cool - they will stock stuff just because you ask them to, it seems, which is nice.
cheers,
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Hiroshi Teshigahara, Avant-Garde Japanese Film Director, Dies at 74
By CALVIN SIMS
TOKYO -- Hiroshi Teshigahara, a celebrated Japanese filmmaker and grand master of the Sogetsu School for flower arrangement, died on Saturday at a hospital here. He was 74.
The cause was leukemia, his family said.
Mr. Teshigahara, who gained international acclaim for his avant- garde films and artwork, sent shock waves through the world of cinema in 1964 with the release of "Suna no Onna" ("Woman in the Dunes"), a haunting, poetic and timeless metaphor made in Japan. The film, written by Kobo Abe and based on a novel by him, won a special award at the Cannes International Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for best director and best picture.
Noted for its technical brilliance, originality and power, the film featured a city-bred entomologist who is tricked into living with a widow whose shack rests at the bottom of a deep, inescapable sand pit, where he is forced to shovel sand endlessly. The detainee finds entrapment and escape into his ultimate destiny.
Mr. Teshigahara became interested in Surrealism and the avant-garde as an art student in the 1940's. In 1962 he made his first feature film, "Otoshiana" ("Pitfall"), also written by Abe. The director established his own production company and went on to make a series of films, often with Abe. In addition to "Woman in the Dunes," his films included "Tanin no Kao" ("The Face of Another") in 1966 and "Moetsukita Chizu" ("The Ruined Map") in 1968.
In the late 1960's Mr. Teshigahara was the toast of the international film community, appearing at festivals, collecting awards and promoting Japanese film. After releasing "Natsu no Heitai" ("Summer Soldiers") in 1972, Mr. Teshigahara withdrew from feature filmmaking and turned his attention to ceramics and experimental cinema.
The director was the son of Sofu Teshigahara, the founder of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, who was a leading figure in the movement that transformed traditional flower arrangement into a highly expressive art form. In 1980, after the death of his father and his sister, Mr. Teshigahara became the third head of the school, which reports 50,000 licensed followers and 450,000 students.
After a 17-year hiatus, Mr. Teshigahara returned to films in 1989 with "Rikyu," about the subtle conflict between a petty warlord and a distinguished master of the ancient art of the tea ceremony. It won the award for best artistic contribution at the Montreal World Film Festival. His last film was "Goh-hime" ("Basara: The Princess Goh") in 1992.
He is survived by his wife, Toshiko Kobayashi, a former actress, and two daughters.
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Subject: (exotica) fwd: Aneurysm Brings on Musical Hallucinations
Date: 20 Apr 2001 17:53:46 -0400
April 20, 2001
Aneurysm Brings on Musical Hallucinations
By REUTERS
Filed at 5:25 p.m. ET
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Bulging blood vessels in the brain of a 61-year-old woman caused seizures that in turn brought on complex musical hallucinations, including Christmas songs during December and tunes with religious overtones at other times.
Fixing the two bulges, or aneurysms, ended the woman's hallucinations, Dr. Daniel L. Roberts and colleagues from the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, report in the April issue of the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
The woman had an isolated seizure of an unknown cause 27 years previously. She had been suffering dizzy spells for two years, and the musical hallucinations for one year, when she sought medical attention. While in the hospital with pneumonia, the woman began having ringing in her ears; the ringing progressed into persistent episodes of music that she recognized but could not control.
The researchers emphasize that the sounds the woman reported hearing were not merely disjointed tones, ringing or even rhythmically complex repetitions of noises but rather fully composed songs.
The doctors ran repeated tests using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment to identify the source of the hallucinations.
They found two aneurysms on the right side of the woman's brain. Neither had yet burst, a potentially life-threatening situation in which uncontrolled bleeding occurs in the brain. The patient underwent surgery to clip and remove the aneurysms, after which the hallucinations stopped completely.
Roberts and his team concluded that the patient was a very rare example of someone who had experienced ``psychic seizures''--seizures that strongly involve a person's memory and emotions and tend to occur almost exclusively in the temporal lobes of the brain.
The researchers noted that the woman was a prime example of this psychic interplay, in that she had specifically hallucinated music she had learned at a very young age that had either religious or seasonal connotations. These seizures occur frequently, and can be extremely difficult to diagnose, they note. They cautioned that auditory hallucinations in general can be attributed to a wide range of sources, including inner ear disease or psychiatric illnesses such as schizophrenia.
SOURCE: Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2001;76:423-426.
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Subject: (exotica) [obit] Rupert Nurse, John Stoneman
Date: 20 Apr 2001 18:22:23 -0400
Rupert Nurse
The first musician to write big band arrangements of calypso
Wednesday April 18, 2001
The Guardian
Many British jazz fans in the 1950s had their first introduction to world music through the calypsos of Lord Kitchener, which appeared on the distinctive mauve-and-yellow Melodisc record label. These slice-of-life snapshots provided witty commentary on the circumstances of the new Caribbean arrivants, and through his inventive musical arrangements for these songs, Rupert Nurse, who has died aged 90, lifted them from their traditional community function and transplanted them into the modern world.
Full obit at http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,474375,00.html
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Stoneman Family band member dies
John Stoneman, 77, had traded his full-time singing vocation for farming in recent years.
John Stoneman, 77, one of the original members of the old-time band formed by country music pioneer Ernest ''Pop'' Stoneman, died yesterday morning at his home in Jonesville, Va.
Full obit at http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/01/04/04344307.shtml?Element_ID=4344307
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Hey everyone!! Just got my tickets to Teaseorama 2001 in New Orleans and I need some help!
I'm trying to find some hair salons in New Orleans that could do some 40's and 50's hairstyles. I want to look extra special for the event so help me out!!!!
Email me directly!
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Irwin & Michelle (who coined the term) mean a bit more by this. They include music from industrials and training films, propaganda, music that's polished/professional ("good") but otherwise a bit off.
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Puppets', a trully demented cable program hosted by a
real
multiple-amputee; heÆs missing an arm and a leg. The Creme de la Creme was when the captain broadcast a
segment where he explained how he lost his arm and
leg in a motorcycle accident. The segment was full of
gorey, full-color drawings depicting the whole
incident
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Chusid showed this segment at one of his Incorrect Music Video Shows - truly a mind-altering experience! It took many martinis to wash away those images.
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I should add that the site can also be accessed at the easier to remember www.musicaltaste.net
I picked up two great compilations used on CD last night - 'Buddism' by Roy Budd and 'Mo'plen Brazilia' (irma compilation)
'Buddism' is a nice (and probably superior) companion to the 'Rebirth of the Budd' compilation.
Both contain the classic 'Get Carter, but while 'rebirth' focuses more on the pop instrumental albums which Roy Budd did on the Pye label in the late 60s, 'Buddism' is exclusively cuts from his soundtracks. Some tracks are incredibly modern sounding, and most are extremely cool, slightly in the vein of Lalo Schifrin's best work.
'Mo'Plen Brazilia' is the CD with Italian and Brazilian footballers on the cover. Although some tracks are duplicated from other Mo'Plen and Easy Tempo CDs, this is definitely one of the more successful compilations of late 60s Italian Bossa-influenced tracks I own. And the sound quality, (which was terrible on 'metti, una bossa a cena') is pretty good. Well worth checking out if you get the chance.
cheers,
jonny
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> I did think about getting on board this train for a while, and for about 6
months bought every organ record I saw.
Its too much, and there is so much crap, I think possibly more than any
other. But it is well sub-genred.
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You left off Organ & Chimes lps. These exist at the intersection of organ/percussion/hifi/holiday (most of them feature xmas carols).
I collected a large handful of these back a few years ago. They were all beat to s!@# implying they were listened to often on not quite perfect systems. Anyone know anything about this sub-genre? Are there stars of Organ&Chimes? Did all the lps come out in a narrow time span. What triggered the fad, if fad it was, and what killed it off?
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SUN LAKES, Ariz. (AP) -- Jazz pianist-composer Isaac Cole, brother of the late singer Nat King Cole who worked on his niece Natalie's multiple Grammy-winning 1991 album, died Sunday of cancer. He was 73.
Ike Cole said he may have benefited from being compared with his more famous brother, who died in 1965 of lung cancer at 45, but that he disliked being accused of ``trying to live off the name.''
Ike Cole said he decided against changing his name because, shortly before dying, Nat asked him not to.
He and brother Freddy toured in 1990 with a show saluting their famous brother.
Ike Cole had played a bass drum in an Army band but in 1957, he formed the Ike Cole Trio in Chicago, where he was born, and went on the road.
Winning major TV exposure, he soon was booked steadily for Las Vegas shows. His trio also regularly toured Japan, Australia and Europe as well as the United States.
Though he often sang a medley of his older brother's hits, Ike primarily was a jazzman.
He played keyboard when Natalie Cole recorded her late father's songs for a 1991 album that won three Grammys.
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Re: Organ music, I would recommend Shirley Scott. She did some great albums on prestige, cadet and Impulse. Some of it could be described as more straight ahead jazz, but a lot of it is very much the type of stuff people on this would like (e.g. her killer version of Mancini's 'A shot in the dark'). The 'Shirley Scott - talkin verve' CD compilation seems quite good.
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>...jonny's musical taste site...
>>I always miss audio examples on sites like this.
>>edward in amsterdam.
I'm happy to announce that there are now audio samples on the site. I added around 20 clips last night (mp3 format); look for the 'LISTEN' button in each individual song recommendation. I will be adding more over the next week.
I hope people find them interesting
cheers,
jonny
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>Speaking of perhaps novelty music, what do you guys >think about Wesley Willis? his music is on one hand >just plain funny, but on another hand, it elicits a >strong cult following that I personally feel pretty >strongly.
>Sure, hearing his vulgar phrases is humorous, but, >the music along with the lyrics always fires me up in >a genuine way. the fact that a schizophrenic
>person can present his thoughts in such a way as to >connect with so many people to me is amazing and >fabulous.
>
>christine
I'll tell you what isn't humorous: listening to Wesley's vulgar phrases repeated over and over and over and over and over again where you work, while he sits there and scares people, and then apologizes, and then does it all over again. But that's Tourettes for you. I wish I could laugh but I've spent too much time around Wesley, and not because I wanted to.
On the one hand, it's nice that he received the fame and money, considering that for years he spent so much of his time sitting outside on the sidewalk, doing these huge drawings with his markers (pretty much like the ones you find on his albums, except far bigger), and selling them to people for so litttle. But on the other, I feel sorry for the guy and his problems, and all the people who have tried to take advantage of him. Sometimes though, you reach the end of one of his songs, get to a commercial catch phrase, and it ties the whole thing together in his own askew brilliance.
Mr. Unlucky
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Can someone give me a few suggestions of organ albums/songs with backing female vocals? As I recall there are some good ones by Lenny Dee but I don't own any, and I'm sure there are other organists out there that went down that path for a while.
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Al Hibbler, a Singer With Ellington's Band, Dies at 85
By BEN RATLIFF
Al Hibbler, the blind baritone singer who came to prominence with Duke Ellington's orchestra in the 1940's and then scored a hit with his version of the Alex North song "Unchained Melody," died on Tuesday at Holy Cross Hospital in Chicago. He was 85 and lived in Chicago.
Mr. Hibbler's singing voice was mannered and strange. He used a fast, muscular vibrato; growled and crooned; put on an English accent; and turned songs into emotional rides. Ellington called it "tonal pantomime."
Mr. Hibbler was blind at birth, in Tyro, Miss., and did not attend school until he was 15, when he went to the Arkansas School for the Blind. He sang in the school choir as a soprano, but by the end of his teenage years his voice had dropped, and he was soon singing the blues in Arkansas and Texas bars.
He first tried out for Ellington's band in 1942, but, as he often recalled in what was seemingly his favorite story, he sang a song onstage with the band in Little Rock, Ark., got a good audience response, and then celebrated by getting drunk. The next day Ellington told him he wasn't ready to join the band. "I can handle a blind man," Mr. Hibbler said Ellington told him, "but not a blind drunk." Instead, he wound up working with Jay McShann's band for a year and a half, and returned to Ellington in 1943.
Ellington wrote "Do Nothin' Til You Hear From Me" as a special number for Mr. Hibbler, and it became one of the band's hits.
The eight years that Mr. Hibbler spent with the band were not among the creative high points of Ellington's career, but the audience did not wane; finally, however, Mr. Hibbler left the band over a payment dispute (said to have involved raising Mr. Hibbler's salary).
Toward the end of time with Ellington, Mr. Hibbler's specialties became songs like "Trees" and "Danny Boy" ù oddments in an Ellington show but indicative of the singer's future career as a ballads-and-standards singer.
While with Ellington, Mr. Hibbler also recorded with Harry Carney, Mercer Ellington, Billy Kyle, Billy Taylor and others.
Mr. Hibbler next signed with Verve, and made records for the next four years that included some of his former Ellington-band colleagues, but he hit pay dirt during his next contract, with Decca. In 1955 he recorded "Unchained Melody," from the prison film "Unchained." Though the film was not a hit, North's theme song was, and Mr. Hibbler's version and one by Les Baxter hit the charts the same week in April 1955. Baxter's rose to No. 1; Mr. Hibbler's peaked at No. 3. The next year Mr. Hibbler had another hit with "After the Lights Go Down Low." He filled an odd musical niche in this period because he could croon songbook standards and also sing earthy blues.
When he became involved with the civil rights movement in the 1960's ù marching with protesters and being arrested in 1959 and 1963 ù the luster came off his recording career and labels were afraid to sign him. Frank Sinatra, however, contracted him for one album on his Reprise label, "Monday Every Day."
In 1972 he recorded with the multi- instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk on the album "A Meeting of the Times," but otherwise performed and recorded infrequently. His last public appearance was in January 1999, at a Jazz at Lincoln Center evening of Ellington alumni, when he performed at a late-evening party. Seated, and using a vibrato as over- the-top as ever, he sang "Time After Time."
He is survived by a sister, Christine Noland, and a brother, Hubert Hibbler, both of Chicago.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Ken Hughes, who wrote and directed dozens of films, including the British children's movie ``Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,'' died Saturday from Alzheimer's disease. He was 79.
Hughes' films included 1970's ``Cromwell,'' a lavish historical picture starring Richard Harris; 1960's critically praised ``The Trials of Oscar Wilde,'' starring Peter Finch; and ``Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,'' the 1968 fantasy based on Ian Fleming's popular children's story about a flying car.
He directed the 1967 James Bond spoof ``Casino Royale,'' starring Woody Allen, and 1964's ``Of Human Bondage.''
Born in Liverpool, England, Hughes made his first American film, ``Sextette,'' in 1978. It was screen legend Mae West's last film.
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Subject: (exotica) Goldfrapp live on wnyc.org 5/3 8pm eastern
Date: 30 Apr 2001 16:00:07 -0400
May 3 - LIVE Spinning On Air http://wnyc.org FM
Hear a special Spinning On Air LIVE broadcast, featuring British electronica artists Goldfrapp, from the Museum of Television and Radio at 8PM. eastern time
Goldfrapp
May 3, 2001 on Spinning On Air LIVE
Goldfrapp are only doing 6 public shows in North America, and two live radio events. Hear them right here on WNYC's Spinning On Air (the other is KCRW's Morning Become Eclectic.) The private Spinning On Air LIVE concert from the Museum of Radio and Television starts at 8PM on Thursday, May 3.
http://www.wnyc.org/new/send/index_goldfrapp.html
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