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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Asian Takeways
Date: 01 Jul 2001 13:00:55 +0200


I noticed this compilation in the local recordshop yesterday, recommended?
It's on Normal Records (http://www.normalrecords.de/QDKmedia.htm )

tracklist:

QDK LP/CD 038 Various Artists
Jing Ting - the joke
Yoon Il-Loh - guitar boogie
Chung-Ae Ahn - no mercy blues
Yao Su-Yong - good bye in spring
Chang Loo - at three springtime
Chang Siao Ying - i miss you forever
Che-Hong Beck - blowing the whistle
Traditional (Japan) - shojojii
Yao Su-Yong - love is blooming
Chang Siao Ying - come back to me
Chang Loo - when will you come back again?
Thu Su Yung - you can be anything in life
Yao Su-Yong - bridge of lovers
Yoon Il-Loh - a moody person`s life
Thu Su Yung - what a sound
Yiu Peng - don`t say i`m silly
Wang-Li - my husband run away
Thu Su Yung - great love
Chung Sister - romance family
Yao Su-Yong - scared wind in spring


Arjan



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From: "cheryl" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, July 1
Date: 01 Jul 2001 11:24:17 -0400


Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can
be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time 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 #149   We're Space Bop - And We...Are...Canadian!!

Yes, it's Canada Day, and we're celebrating our rich culture and joyous
heritage in song, as the following hour of music will demonstrate.  And we
even have some non-Canadians celebrating the joys of Canada along with us!

 B.J. Snowden:  In Canada  "Songs In The Key Of Z"

Gilles Gauthier & Marcel Lefebvre:  Mustang  "Mustang o.s.t."
Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk:  Song Of A Three Stringed Fiddle
"Inuit Throat & Harp Songs"
Sir Henry:  Cabin Fever Party Twist  "Ums Nackte Leben"
William Shatner:  Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Crash Course In Science:  Kitchen Motors  "Strange Pleasures"

Gitte Henning:  Winter In Kanada
Madame St- Onge:  Chez Moi  "Les 10 Plus Grands Succes De Mme. St-Onge"
Joe Burghardt Orchestra & Chorus:  Yodel Song  "Gemutlichkeit In Winnipeg"
(thanks, Allan - bet you wondered when we'd have the chance to play
something like this!)
Fuzzy Love:  I Like Beer  "Pagan Schmalz & Other Sacrifices"
Les Maledictus Sound:  The Whistler  "Attention"
Eskimo Women's Music Of Povungnituk:  Song Of A Little Girl  "Inuit Throat &
Harp Songs"

Paul Kuhn:  Ich hab' in Winni-Winni-Peg 'ne Braut
The Incredible Bongo Band:  Bongo Rock  "Bongo Rock"
Les Couche-Tard:  Les Couche-Twistard  "Twist Chez Les Couche-Tard"
Les Couche-Tard:  Viens Danser Le Twist  "Twist Chez Les Couche-Tard"
Les Maledictus Sound:  Inside My Brain  "Attention"

Kids Of P.S. 63, Queens, NY:  We're Good Friends With Canada  "Lou's #1"
(thanks, Lou!)


Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Chet Atkins
Date: 01 Jul 2001 11:26:01 -0400



NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Chet Atkins, whose guitar style influenced a generation
of rock musicians even as he helped develop an easygoing country style to
compete with it, died Saturday. He was 77.

Atkins died at home, a funeral director said.

Atkins had battled cancer several years. He underwent surgery to remove a brain
tumor in June 1997, and had a bout with colon cancer in the 1970s.

Atkins recorded more than 75 albums of guitar instrumentals and sold more than
75 million albums. He played on hundreds of hit records, including those of
Elvis Presley (''Heartbreak Hotel''), Hank Williams Sr. (''Your Cheatin'
Heart,'' ''Jambalaya'') and The Everly Brothers (''Wake Up Little Susie'').

As an executive with RCA Records for nearly two decades beginning in 1957,
Atkins played a part in the careers of Roy Orbison, Jim Reeves, Charley Pride,
Dolly Parton, Jerry Reed, Waylon Jennings, Eddy Arnold and many others.

Atkins helped craft the lush Nashville Sound, using string sections and lots of
echo to make records that appealed to older listeners not interested in rock
music. Among his notable productions are ''The End of the World'' by Skeeter
Davis and ''He'll Have to Go'' by Reeves.

''I realized that what I liked, the public would like, too,'' Atkins said in a
1996 interview with The Associated Press. '''Cause I'm kind of square.''

Chester Burton Atkins was born June 20, 1924, on a farm near Luttrell, Tenn.,
about 20 miles northeast of Knoxville. His elder brother Jim Atkins also played
guitar, and went on to perform with Les Paul. Chet Atkins' first professional
job was as a fiddler on WNOX in Knoxville, where his boss was singer Bill
Carlisle.

''He was horrible,'' Carlisle said at a tribute concert to Atkins in 1997. ''But
I heard him during a break playing guitar and decided to feature him on that.''

Atkins' unusual fingerpicking style, a pseudoclassical variation influenced by
such diverse talents as Merle Travis and Django Reinhardt, got him hired and
fired from jobs at radio stations all over the country. Atkins sometimes joked
that early on his playing sounded ''like two guitarists playing badly.''

During the 1940s he toured with many acts, including Red Foley, The Carter
Family and Kitty Wells. RCA executive Steve Sholes took Atkins on as a protege
in the 1950s, using him as the house guitarist on recording sessions.

RCA began issuing instrumental albums by Atkins in 1953. George Harrison, whose
guitar work on early Beatles records is heavily influenced by Atkins, wrote the
liner notes for ''Chet Atkins Picks on the Beatles.''

Sholes put Atkins in charge of RCA Nashville when he was promoted in 1957.
There, he helped Nashville survive the challenge of rock 'n' roll with the
Nashville Sound. The lavish sound has been criticized by purists who prefer
their country music raw and unadorned.

Atkins was unrepentant, saying that at the time his goal was simply ''to keep my
job.''

''And the way you do that is you make a hit record once in a while,'' he said in
1993. ''And the way you do that is you give the audience something different.''

Atkins quit his job as an executive in the 1970s and concentrated on playing his
guitar. He's collaborated with a wide range of artists on solo albums, including
Mark Knopfler, Paul McCartney, Eric Johnson, George Benson, Susie Bogguss and
Earl Klugh.

At the time he became ill, Atkins had just released a CD, ''The Day Finger
Pickers took over the World.'' He also had begun regular Monday night
performances at a Nashville club.

''If I know I've got to go do a show, I practice quite a bit, because you can't
get out there and embarrass yourself.'' Atkins said in 1996.

''So I thought, if I play every week I won't be so rusty and I'll play a lot
better.''

Survivors include his wife of more than 50 years, Leona Johnson Atkins, and a
daughter, Merle Atkins.

The funeral is Tuesday morning at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, the former home
of the Grand Ole Opry.

    AP-NY-06-30-01 1737EDT
==========
a sidenote: when Homer & Jethro auditioned for the
Grand Ole Opry in 1949 they were denied membership because Jim Denny told
Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns to fire the guitarist.  Jethro refused because the
guitarist was his
brother-in-law.  Denny told Jethro they were making a mistake because Chet
would never amount to anything as a guitarist!

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22chet+atkins%22
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=1CHET|ATKINS




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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [NYTimes obit] Chet Atkins
Date: 01 Jul 2001 11:26:39 -0400


July 1, 2001=20
Chet Atkins, Country Guitarist and Producer, Is Dead at 77
By BEN RATLIFF,NYTimes
Chet Atkins, the versatile guitarist and record producer who was a leader in
the growth of Nashville as a music center in the 1950's and part of the
elite force that transformed country music and affected popular musical
taste in America, died on Saturday at his home in Nashville. He was 77.

Mr. Atkins had battled cancer for several years, undergoing surgery to
remove a brain tumor in June 1997, and had a bout with colon cancer in
1970's, The Associated Press reported.

Nicknamed "The Country Gentleman," Chet Atkins accepted his position in the
music industry with a remarkable lack of arrogance, spending his last years
in his office on Nashville's "Music Row" singing and playing the old songs
with visiting performers whose recording careers he had a hand in shaping
and whose music he influenced.

Though he was directly involved in turning Nashville into a distinct country
music hit-making empire, he played down his own ingenuity as a prime mover.
"All I was trying to do was to keep my job," he recalled in 1988 of the days
when Nashville was becoming the center of country music in the mid-1950's.
"And the way you keep your job is to surprise the friends and neighbors with
each new record."

Chester Burton Atkins was born on June 20, 1924, on his grandfather's 50-
acre farm in the Clinch Mountains near Luttrell, Tenn. He spent his
childhood in poverty, and he said that left him with a sense of insecurity.
"We were so poor and everybody around us was so poor that it was the 40's
before any of us knew there had been a Depression," he wrote in his 1975
autobiography, "Country Gentleman."

Music was central to his upbringing. His grandfather was a champion fiddler,
and his father, James Arley Atkins, was a music teacher, piano tuner and
sometime evangelistic singer. His half-brother, Jim, would become the rhythm
guitarist in the Les Paul Trio in the 1930's, and his other brother, Lowell,
also played guitar.

Asthmatic as a child, Mr. Atkins learned how to play the banjo on days when
he had to stay home from school. "I'd play it until the strings broke," he
recalled. "When that happened, I'd just rip a wire out of the screen porch
and tune 'er up again. It took me 20 years to learn I couldn't tune too
well. And by that time I was too rich to care."

According to stories, he traded either a pistol or a farm wagon for his
first guitar, which was owned by his stepfather, Willie Strevel. He took up
the instrument at age 9, having already learned to play the ukulele and the
fiddle, and he played at local parties and roadhouses. Meanwhile, he was
learning guitar styles by listening to groups like the Sons of the Pioneers
and the Corn Cobblers on radio.

At 11, he moved to Columbus, Ga., where it was hoped that the drier climate
would ease his asthma. He lived with his natural father and his stepmother.
Listening to a Cincinnati radio station, the young Chet Atkins became
enthralled by the playing style of guitarist Merle Travis, and in 1941,
while working for the National Youth Administration in Mountain Hill, Ga.,
he spent his salary on equipment to make his acoustic guitar electric. To
get even closer to the Travis style, he devised a method of picking with a
thumb and three fingers that would later influence other guitarists. He did
not know that Merle Travis got his own sound with a thumb and one finger.

Mr. Atkins was a professional musician by age 17. The outbreak of World War
II spread Southern rural music as Southerners left home for military bases
and defense plants all over the country. Mr. Atkins quit high school and
took advantage of the wider demand for country music, getting a job as a
fiddler with the Jumpin' Bill Carlisle-Archie Campbell program, which was
broadcast once a week from WNOX in Knoxville, Tenn.

Lowell Blanchard, the director of the radio station, heard him idly
practicing guitar and was impressed enough to put Mr. Atkins on the
station's "Midday Merry-Go-Round" program. After the Carlisle-Campbell show
was canceled, Mr. Blanchard made Mr. Atkins the rhythm guitarist in the
radio station's staff band, at $30 a week.

Mr. Atkins was a solitary young man whose shyness was often misinterpreted
as hostility. As a result, he was often fired. He found and lost short-term
jobs at radio stations in Cincinnati; Raleigh, N.C.; Richmond, Va.; and
Springfield, Mo. But the guitarist's luck changed when the Carter Sisters
and Mother Maybelle, among the most popular performers on WNOX, added him to
their touring band.

The troupe traveled extensively and appeared every Saturday night on the
radio program "Tennessee Barn Dance" in Knoxville. They moved to
Springfield, Mo., where "The Carter Family and Chet Atkins Show" on KWTO
proved so successful that it was nationally syndicated.

Chet Atkins was becoming known throughout the country and his reputation
grew even more when he and the Carter sisters began to appear as stars of
the "Grand Ole Opry."

Mr. Atkins capitalized on his radio success with LPs, which he began
recording for RCA Victor in 1946. He had his first hit, "The Galloping
Guitars," in 1949. He moved to Nashville, where he found steady work as a
studio musician and as an artists- and-repertory man for Steve Sholes, the
chief producer of country and western records for RCA Victor.

Mr. Atkins settled into a group of young musicians who played on most RCA
country sessions, a group that included the pianist Floyd Cramer, the
drummer Buddy Harman, the bassist Bob Moore, and the guitarists Ray Edenton
and Grady Martin. Harmonies were provided by the Jordanaires and the Anita
Kerr Singers. The sound of that strong team at work enlivened hit after hit.

In 1957, Mr. Sholes, who had become head of artists and repertory for RCA
Victor in New York, appointed Mr. Atkins the manager of recording operations
in Nashville. "There were an awful lot of sidemen around who could have done
the same thing," Mr. Atkins said in 1988, when asked about his early
promotion to a position of authority at RCA. "But the difference was that I
was friends with Mr. Steve Sholes."

RCA built a recording studio in Nashville, and there Mr. Atkins, who had
left the "Grand Ole Opry" and the Carter Sisters to concentrate on his
recording career, guided many of the most famous country artists to success.
Among the singers whose career-enhancing records were produced by Mr. Atkins
were Don Gibson, Hank Snow, Jim Reeves, Roger Miller, Waylon Jennings, Dolly
Parton and Charley Pride. Don Gibson had failed with four record companies
before Mr. Atkins signed him for RCA. Mr. Gibson's first single for the
company was a recording of two songs he wrote on one day in 1957. The first,
"Oh, Lonesome Me," hit both the country and pop-music charts. The song on
the flip side, "I Can't Stop Loving You," became an American standard.=20

Mr. Atkins also suggested to Mr. Sholes that RCA should outbid Columbia
Records and sign Elvis Presley to a contract. RCA made millions of dollars
from that suggestion.

Mr. Atkins was regarded as possibly the consummate pop professional in
American music. He used his own wide taste, his mastery of every kind of
music, from the classics and jazz to religious music and flamenco, and his
familiarity with electronic instruments and sound to change the sound of
country music in the 1950's and 60's. Rock and roll had made enormous
inroads into country music when Mr. Atkins was operating as a record
producer. Sales of country music were declining and many radio stations were
switching to rock. Mr. Atkins was pivotal in adapting country music to
changing American tastes, initially toward a hard-edged, urban honky-tonk
style, then toward a suburban pop style with strings and vocal choruses.

This softer sound =97 Mr. Atkins liked to call it "uptown" =97 was marketed=
 as
"countrypolitan" but became more widely known as "the Nashville Sound." It
was created so that country music could have an identity separate from
rockabilly, but the softening also took place because Mr. Atkins and a few
other influential producers believed that the sounds of steel guitars and
country fiddles had become too old-fashioned.

Under his guidance, "progressive" country music achieved its intended
commercial crossover. Its admirers believe it saved country music from the
rock 'n' roll juggernaut, brought the music to mid-America in a way that had
not been experienced since Gene Autry, and turned Nashville into Music City
U.S.A.=20

Once success was achieved, however, the the style was derided for its
homogeneity and lack of backbone. "Aren't you going to ask me to define `The
Nashville Sound?' " Mr. Atkins would tease interviewers. Then he would
jingle some coins in his fist over the microphone. "It's the sound of=
 money."

Mr. Atkins became vice president in charge of country music for RCA in 1967,
but three years later he began to phase himself out of that end of the
business. "Producing can be so stressful," he said later. "I couldn't handle
it. It wasn't fun anymore."

Mr. Atkins made concert tours of Europe, Asia and Africa and played at the
Newport Jazz Festival, the White House and on numerous television programs.
He always played with a thumb-pick and his fingers, rather than a flat pick,
and he liked to show off his dexterity by playing two melodies
simultaneously on different strings. He took up the classical guitar and was
a guest artist with many symphony orchestras. Though he was offered honorary
degrees by various universities, he never accepted one; he preferred instead
the degree he bestowed on himself, Certified Guitar Picker or C.G.P.

He recorded duet albums through the 90's, among them sessions with the
singer Suzy Bogguss and the singer-guitarists Mark Knopfler and Jerry Reed.

Mr. Atkins was a tall, slender man who retained his childhood reticence.
Paul Hemphill described him in his book "The Nashville Sound" as "an
icy-veined, wry-humored, conservatively dressed refugee from the mountains"
with the "demeanor of a small-town undertaker."

He had been a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame since 1973 and
received many awards, including being named Cashbox magazine's outstanding
instrumentalist for 13 consecutive years.=20

He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Leona; a daughter, Merle, who was
named after his idol, Merle Travis; and two grandchildren.

In 1995, he told The Los Angeles Times that the reason he was still
performing on guitar was because he was still trying to "get it right."

"I've never expressed myself musically the way I would like," he said
"Because of that, I've had a long career. I've never been able to sit back
and say, `Wasn't I great? Listen to the one I made in 1958!' "





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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Joe Henderson
Date: 01 Jul 2001 11:35:52 -0400


The AP has announced the tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson died
Saturday,June 30th 2001,of heart failure.He had postponed going
to the hospital until the last minute despite a history of
problems.

Joe Henderson died Saturday, June 30, of heart failure following a long
bout with emphysema.
He was born April 24, 1936.

An obituary can be seen at
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Obit-Henderson.html and an
interesting interview published in 1991 can be seen at
http://www.melmartin.com/html_pages/Interviews/henderson.html.

http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Bzyez97w7krst
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22joe+henderson%22




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) denny vs. baxter in the bins
Date: 01 Jul 2001 11:22:06 -0700


At 12:31 PM 6/30/01, basic hip wrote:.
>Each have "lounge" sections, which continue to shrink with every visit.  On
>the other hand, certain artists that were once empty or did not exist at all
>are on the rise.

I have the same experiences in Portland, Oregon.  The stores which I went
to for new CDs of lounge have merged any remaining CDs into Easy Listening,
Jazz and Latin.  It is now much more difficult to find CDs.

The "heyday" of exotica is over.  Long live exotica!

Does this mean I would abandon my own collection of LPs?  No way...I never
collected because it was popular, only because I liked it.

However, I had hoped that the popularity of it would encourage more CDs to
be produced...and now I have lost hope in that.  Yet, maybe it will be
easier to find the records I want...and I can make my own CDs!

Byron



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From: PjB <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Score!
Date: 01 Jul 2001 14:46:22 -0700


well, a bit of thrifting yesterday turned up some great finds, which i will
list without ceremony:

1) ray martin and orchestra / dynamica (stereo action!) / RCA  LSA-2287
    condition vg, $1

2) the hi-lo's in stereo w/ frank comstock orchestra / omega  OSL-11
     nm, $1     (i don't know where this one falls in their discography,
but it is pre-CBS, so early)

3) george feyer / echoes of broadway / vox VX 25.350  (piano w/ rhythm
accompaniment)
     g, $1

4) ames brothers w/ sid ramin orch. / smoochin' time / rca  LSP-1855
     vg, $1

5) phase 4 stereo / demonstration record / london SPD 4  (this is a comp of
various orchestras.  london did a series of these, similar to rca's Stereo
Action! series)
  g, $1

6) the exciting.... lena horne w/ phil moore orch. / craftsmen C8018
(great cover shot)
  nm, $1

7) Time  Series 2000 / new sounds! /  (this is a strange one... a
collection of tunes by bands like 'bongos and brass', 'pin point
percussion', 'flutes and percussion', etc.  the motto on front of the
record is 'for those who dare.... the exclusive sound extra..'  i haven't
been able to find out much about this one, except that it was a division of
Time magazine...)  g, $1

8) hang on ramsey! / ramsey lewis trio / cadet LP-761 /  (this was recorded
live at the light house, hermosa beach, ca.  interesting because he's doing
some pop hits of the day, including 'hang on sloopy', and a couple of
beatles tunes--- 'a hard days night (!)', and 'and i love her'...
g, $1

9) pete rugolo and orch. / an adventure in sound - REEDS / mercury SR 60039
/ (this is great... TEN reed players w/ rhythm section playing some jazz
standards and even a charlie parker tune, where they arranged some of
birds' solo for ten reeds.... a precursor to what supersax would do 20
years later!  features, among others, andre previn, bud shank, and barney
kessel.  another great cover shot...)  nm, $1

10) dinah washington / the queen! / mercury MG20439 /  vg+, $1

all in all, a good thrift score, and cheap!

.02
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From: Kevin Crossman <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) True Story: Desert Island Discs
Date: 01 Jul 2001 17:45:32 -0700


Went over to Tower Records yesterday and picked up the latest issue of
their house-organ magazine Pulse.

I thought to myself - hey I ought to send in a list of "Desert Island
Discs" (a regular feature of the zine) with an Exotica theme - what
better for a desert island, right?  (BTW - in an earlier life I had a
DID list published in 1988)

So, I'm thinking about the selections I would put in there. Gotta have
Denny and Baxter. Check. Drasnin - yeah, he's in there too. Don Tiki
would be a good modern inclusion and of course their album is great and
deserves to be there... check.

I'm thinking away and start to read the issue.  I turn over to the DIDs
and see what's there.  Low and behold I see a photo of the cover of
Capitol's "Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny" comp.  The heading for the
list reads "Exotica A-Z". Full of Denny, Baxter, Drasnin, Ahbez, et. al.
  I look to see who contributed this list.

Lloyd Kandel, Honolulu HI !!

Floyd, Goddamned Floyd beat me to the punch. He even had the balls to
include Don Tiki on his list.  I'm not saying they don't belong, but
(for those in the know only) a little self-serving. Heh heh, I love it.

My only gripe is the exclusion of Arthur Lyman from Floyd's list. While
Lyman lacks a great comp, he should still be there (IMHO).

Anyway, congrats to Fluid Floyd for a great list and a little Exotica
props for the rest of the world!

-Kevdo
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From: PjB <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Score!
Date: 01 Jul 2001 18:29:08 -0700



>5) phase 4 stereo / demonstration record / london SPD 4  (this is a comp of
>various orchestras.  london did a series of these, similar to rca's Stereo
>Action! series)
>  g, $1

this one is excellent!  one of the tunes...'colonel bogey'.... is
incredible. true exotica at its best... has anyone heard of the band that
did this? they are called Johnny Keatings Kombo.
i'd really like to find a whole record of these guys. bongo city...

also, an amazing 'tiger rag', by eric rogers and his orchestra... replete
with gutteral vocal sounds and a damsel in distress.  wild....

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From: "basic hip" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) where's that Mimi?  Got your Sammy song
Date: 01 Jul 2001 20:04:25 -0700


Mimi had asked about Sammy Davis Jr's version of "The Man With The Golden
Arm"

It took some digging - evidently it was never on an LP - only released as a
45 single on Brunswick or Decca.

This is the Decca version, which I stumbled upon today.  Just for you, Mimi
:)

http://www.basichip/sounds/sammy.mp3







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From: "basic hip" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Bad URL (Re: (exotica) where's that Mimi? )
Date: 01 Jul 2001 20:14:33 -0700





Oops, sorry - I gave a bad URL, this should do the trick:

http://www.basichip.com/sounds/sammy.mp3




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From: Dmitri Bender <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: by the numbers...?
Date: 02 Jul 2001 18:30:47 +0400


Hi All,

PjB wrote:

-----

hi all.....
i was just reading an interview with jazz pianist dave brubeck, one that
was done in '95 or so.
at one point, he starts talking about what the jazz scene was like in
eastern european communist countries in the 40s and 50s.

in another paragraph, he talks about doctors using x-ray screens to make
bootleg copies of his music, taken off the VOA radio programs.  very
strange..... sounds incredible.  here 'tis:

DB:  "My music and a lot of jazz was taken off of the Voice of America
      when it was broadcast, by doctors and technicians in a hospital,
        on X-ray screens. They could make a copy some way on an X-ray
     screen and make that into a recording. A lot of my music was done
                                          that way."

comments? additions?  anyone..?
------


I confirm this information. I'm Russian, and although I'm 34 - so
I apparently didnt catch that time - I do aware that back in 50s
people used this very media - X-ray screens - in order to record
music "from the West" and distribute it among likeminded folks - not
only jazz, virtually any kind of popular music (it makes no sense to
record classics this way ;). This kind of recordings were referred to
as "recordings on bones" ;) - due to images on those X-ray screens :)
These recordings were suitable for turntables. As for the method
itself: a taperecorder output was linked with weird macinery equipped
with a crook. The crook had a needle (nail alike) which would produce
curves on a floppy media by scratching out chips and thus in the end
we had a self-made recording. X-ray screens could be picked up in
trach cans nearby hospitals. One screen could fit only one song.

That's it :)


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Subject: (exotica) Oh...my!
Date: 02 Jul 2001 10:14:36 -0400


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From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Score!
Date: 02 Jul 2001 15:38:25


>also, an amazing 'tiger rag', by eric rogers and his orchestra... replete
>with gutteral vocal sounds and a damsel in distress.  wild....
>
>.02
Have you heard (on I think the same phase 4 comp) Stanley Black Orchestra
with rythm and female chorous doing 'Caravan'? Marvellous exotic percussion
and star trek style female wordless vocals. I usually play it on top of an
old African Head Charge 12".
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From: Paul Wages <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Score!
Date: 02 Jul 2001 11:51:29 -0500



> this one is excellent!  one of the tunes...'colonel bogey'.... is
> incredible. true exotica at its best... has anyone heard of the band that
> did this? they are called Johnny Keatings Kombo.
> i'd really like to find a whole record of these guys. bongo city...

Keating's "Colonel Bogey" is on "Percussive Moods" (SP 44005).  I have
several Keating LPs, but this one is my favorite if only for his version of
"Delilah" which is prime Exotica somewhat in the vein of Mel Henke's "Exotic
Adventure".  Not a hard find either, so check it out!



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From: "Maurizio Mansueti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Transistors News! Kid Loco - Gak Sato - Masanori Ikeda in ...Mission on Venus!
Date: 02 Jul 2001 19:04:01 +0200


Greetings Earthling!
Waiting for the new album "Atelier" on Temposphere/Right Tempo rec., we are
pleased to introduce to you:
The "Mission on Venus" adventures!

What subliminal message is hidden behind the vocalize of Miss Ari?
Waiting for an answer, enjoy with these three new Transistors adventures!

1) Mission on Venus - Kid Loco Belleville Carnival Mix
(June 2001 - Temposphere / Right Tempo)
Kid Loco is the most eclectic dj of the Parisian scene.
Since the first time that he listened "Mission on Venus" vynil ep, Kid loved
our track.
So it's a great honour for us to present his Belleville Carnival Mix!
You can listen a preview on-line at kid loco.com

2) Mission on Venus - CDep
(June 2001 - Temposphere / Right Tempo)
And finally on cd, "Mission on Venus"!
This new Temposphere / Right Tempo edition includes
the 2000 original vynil release of Mission on Venus
plus Kid Loco Belleville Carnival Mix.

3) "SPINOUT 2" - Non Stop DJ Mix by Masanori Ikeda - Out now! 2001.5.23
(V2 Records - Japan - http://www.v2records.co.jp)
that includes The Transistors with "Mission on Venus - Gak Sato Custom Mix"
http://www.v2records.co.jp/special/o004_sc/010504/spinout2.html

See also Discography page and Fan Club page on The Transistors Space
Station.

Stay tuned Earthlings!

ErMan
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From: tikiman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) True Story: Desert Island Discs
Date: 02 Jul 2001 10:17:41 -0700 (PDT)


Hey Kev-- mahalo for including us on your mental DID
list... and you're right, Lyman should've been on
mine! Obviously for this group, my list is exotica
101... just wanted to hip the uninitiated to what's
easily available from the past and present artists.
And yeah, although it seems self-serving... gotta plug
the Don every chance we get. here's the list Tower
printed:

Exotica A - Z

My DID list for an imaginary tropical paradise... full
of exotic percussion, evocative jungle sounds, congas,
bongos, vibraphones and sensual vocals.

1. Eden Ahbez- Eden's Island
2. Les Baxter- The Exotic Moods of
3. Combustible Edison- Schizophonic!
4. Martin Denny- The Exotic Sounds of
5. Don Tiki- The Forbidden Sounds of
6. Robert Drasnin- Voodoo!
7. Bebel Gilberto- Tanto Tempo
8. Mondo Exotica- Ultra Lounge/Volume 1
9. Tipsy- Trip Tease
10. John Zorn- The Gift

Lloyd Kandell (aka Fluid Floyd)
Honolulu, HI

--- Kevin Crossman <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Went over to Tower Records yesterday and picked up
> the latest issue of
> their house-organ magazine Pulse.
>
> I thought to myself - hey I ought to send in a list
> of "Desert Island
> Discs" (a regular feature of the zine) with an
> Exotica theme - what
> better for a desert island, right?  (BTW - in an
> earlier life I had a
> DID list published in 1988)
>
> So, I'm thinking about the selections I would put in
> there. Gotta have
> Denny and Baxter. Check. Drasnin - yeah, he's in
> there too. Don Tiki
> would be a good modern inclusion and of course their
> album is great and
> deserves to be there... check.
>
> I'm thinking away and start to read the issue.  I
> turn over to the DIDs
> and see what's there.  Low and behold I see a photo
> of the cover of
> Capitol's "Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny" comp.  The
> heading for the
> list reads "Exotica A-Z". Full of Denny, Baxter,
> Drasnin, Ahbez, et. al.
>   I look to see who contributed this list.
>
> Lloyd Kandel, Honolulu HI !!
>
> Floyd, Goddamned Floyd beat me to the punch. He even
> had the balls to
> include Don Tiki on his list.  I'm not saying they
> don't belong, but
> (for those in the know only) a little self-serving.
> Heh heh, I love it.
>
> My only gripe is the exclusion of Arthur Lyman from
> Floyd's list. While
> Lyman lacks a great comp, he should still be there
> (IMHO).
>
> Anyway, congrats to Fluid Floyd for a great list and
> a little Exotica
> props for the rest of the world!
>
> -Kevdo
>

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Subject: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
Date: 02 Jul 2001 11:42:56 -0700


I ran across this on the NY Times site today, and it's so lame I had to share. They are so right, "kitschy tiki" is, like, so done to death!

Mr. Unlucky
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Is it possible to take the kitsch out of Tiki culture? That is the concept behind Tiki Room, a new, sleekly modern lounge at 4 West 22nd Street in Manhattan. Nancy Mah, who also designed the interiors of hangouts like Lotus and Sushi Samba, did away with the nostalgic Polynesian staples -- thatched huts, flamethrowing pu pu platters and red-eyed tribal totems -- and replaced them with pared-down references. There are abstract sunsets made of backlighted plexiglass, and plasma television screens play surf videos and have Internet access. The tropical cocktails have lost their dry ice mist and have been given names like the Honolulu Hangover and Hawaii 5-Ohhhh! Instead of servers in Don Ho attire, the waitresses wear midriff-baring Hawaiian-print halter tops. The massive Tiki head that traditionally lords it over the festivities is still there, but its forbidding features have been smoothed away, leaving an 18-foot-tall modernist sculpture with a V.I.P. seating area inside. "We w
anted to do something different," said Eddie Dean, co-owner of the lounge with Steve Steckel. Ms. Mah, snacking on jalape~no-glazed pork ribs in front of the sunset, said: "Kitschy Tiki has been done so well for many years at places like Trader Vic's and the Tonga Room. So there was no point in trying that again." -- Julia Chaplin

From "Pulse: On Bali Hai, No Ballyhoo," The Times, 5/27/01.










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Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
Date: 02 Jul 2001 14:54:24 -0400


Here's the Sheckys review of the Tiki Room.
[e-mail]
(I don't know if I'm happy or sad that my office just moved from around the corner from TR to across the street from the main library)

http://newyork.sheckys.com/bar.asp?id=72
Tiki Room
4 W. 22nd St.
(5th & 6th Aves.)
Flatiron
646-230-1444

ItÆs not like you need a hook to get you up off the sofa for the night, but a cutesy, kitschy theme never hurt anyone. And, while youÆll be greeted by a giant tiki icon and a barrage of faux bamboo crafted from cardboard tubes care of Designer Nancy Mah, there are no leiÆs to speak of and over all the Polynesian rendering is subtly toned down to cater to the persnickety downtowners who actually like kitsch but act like they donÆt. So take a seat alongside the tiki torch and order a spiked slurpee (available in eight fruitilicious flavors like raspberry and Hawaiian Punch, $10) and a plate of tropical Cajun cuisine. Coming soon: Sex and The City viewings on Sunday nights.

[e-mail] wrote:
>
I ran across this on the NY Times site today, and it's so lame I had to share. They are so right, "kitschy tiki" is, like, so done to death!

Mr. Unlucky
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From: Mimi Mayer <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica)The Amazing BasicHip (was where's that Mimi?  Got your
Date: 02 Jul 2001 15:47:34 -0500


Ford, you are such a darlin'! Thank you!

Sammy's "Man with the Golden Arm" is as melodramatic, smooth, and sweetly
sung as I'd remembered it. And guess what? You timed the posting
perfectly--it ended up being a sort of an unexpected birthday present to
me.

I'm so grateful. Is that your MP3 or one you found elsewhere? I'm wondering
now about the orchestra performing with Sammy--would love any info you have
to share. And if you did find the Decca record,...well, you are an
astonishingly quick and resourceful collector!

BasicHip: The Best!

Gleefully yours,
Mimi



>>>Mimi had asked about Sammy Davis Jr's version of "The Man With The Golden
>>>Arm"
>>>
>>>It took some digging - evidently it was never on an LP - only released as a
>>>45 single on Brunswick or Decca.
>>>
>>>This is the Decca version, which I stumbled upon today.  Just for you, Mimi
>>>:)
>>>
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From: "Colleen Pyles" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) w.o.w. mirman!
Date: 02 Jul 2001 17:10:14 -0500


Wow and weird...who is eugene mirman?????


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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
Date: 02 Jul 2001 19:01:57 -0400


More importantly, can we stage a kitschy-coup?

I am VERY sorry,
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From: Dymaxia <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) (fwd) Dog releases a single!
Date: 03 Jul 2001 07:10:55 -0500 (CDT)



I haven't actually *heard* this yet - just FYI

---------- Forwarded message ----------

BUFFALO, NY - Sgt. Pepper Endres, a border collie from Western New York
state, has released his debut single, "The Tale of My Soul", on the
Butter-Dog Records label.

The CD single features two tracks, the canine country hit "The Tail of My
Soul (is Waggin')", and a funny musical tribute to dogs of all kinds,
entitled "All You Need (is a Dog)". Details, sound samples and ordering
information can be found at Pepper's website-
http://www.endresnet.com/pepper.html

Sgt. Pepper Endres - The Tale of My Soul
http://www.endresnet.com/pepper.html














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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) (fwd) Dog releases a single!
Date: 03 Jul 2001 13:54:27 +0100


Dymaxia wrote:
>
> I haven't actually *heard* this yet - just FYI

I was disappointed. The dog sings very little on the samples you can
download. Just the occasional yelp.

But the idea of singing dogs is, obviously, great.

(The samples are via the 'sounds' link)

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
> BUFFALO, NY - Sgt. Pepper Endres, a border collie from Western New York
> state, has released his debut single, "The Tale of My Soul", on the
> Butter-Dog Records label.
>
> The CD single features two tracks, the canine country hit "The Tail of My
> Soul (is Waggin')", and a funny musical tribute to dogs of all kinds,
> entitled "All You Need (is a Dog)". Details, sound samples and ordering
> information can be found at Pepper's website-
> http://www.endresnet.com/pepper.html


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Subject: (exotica) [NYTimes obit] Joe Henderson
Date: 03 Jul 2001 10:26:00 -0400


July 3, 2001
Joe Henderson, Saxophonist and Composer, Dies at 64
by BEN RATLIFF
Joe Henderson, one of the great jazz saxophonists and a composer who wrote a handful of tunes known by almost every jazz student, died on Saturday in San Francisco. He was 64 and lived in San Francisco.

The cause was heart failure after a long struggle with emphysema, The Associated Press reported.

Mr. Henderson was unmistakably modern. "Joe had one foot in the present, the other in the future, and he was just a step away from immortality," said the saxophonist Benny Golson. His tenor saxophone sound was shaded, insinuating, full of layers, with quicksilver lines amid careful ballad phrases and short trills. He had a clean, expressive upper register and a talent for improvising in semi-abstract harmony, and when the far-out years for jazz arrived in the mid-60's, led by musicians like John Coltrane and Miles Davis, he was well positioned to take part. He made a series of records for Milestone that used studio echo, Alice Coltrane's harp, violins, wood flutes and other exotic accouterments.

But Mr. Henderson's greatest strengths were more traditional: the ballad, the uptempo tune, the standard. And by the early 1990's, when he was a respected elder, he made some of his greatest statements on a series of well-produced, nearly theatrical albums for Verve Records.

Born in Lima, Ohio, he was one of 15 siblings. His parents and his brother James encouraged him to study music because of the talents he displayed as a saxophonist in his high school band. He attended Kentucky State College for a year, then transferred to Wayne State University in Detroit, where he was among fellow students like Yusef Lateef, Curtis Fuller and Hugh Lawson. In Detroit he worked with the saxophonist Sonny Stitt, and eventually formed his own group before joining the Army in 1960. He played in the Army band at Fort Benning, Ga., and toured military bases in the Far East and Europe with a revue called the Rolling Along Show.

In 1962 Mr. Henderson, who soon became a distinctive presence with his rail-thin body, thick black glasses and bushy mustache, was discharged and headed for New York. He quickly joined the young musicians recording for Blue Note records, especially the trumpeter Kenny Dorham, who was acting as a talent scout for the label. He made his recording debut in 1963 on Dorham's "Una Mas," one of the classic Blue Note records of the early 60's.

Mr. Henderson was entering jazz at a fertile moment, when a few ambitious, challenging albums, like John Coltrane's "My Favorite Things" and Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue," had broken through to a wide audience. A new self-possessed intellectualism was widespread in black music, and the experimental and traditional factions hadn't yet hardened their positions. Within the same four- month stretch as a Blue Note session regular, Mr. Henderson found himself playing solos on Lee Morgan's "Sidewinder," an album full of bluesy, hard-bop tunes, and Andrew Hill's album "Point of Departure," with its opaque, knotted harmonies and rhythmic convolutions. He played more roadhouse riffs on Morgan's record, more abstract thematic improvisations on Mr. Hill's, and sounded perfectly natural in both contexts.

After making five albums with Dorham, Mr. Henderson replaced Junior Cook in Horace Silver's band from 1964 to 1966. Again he was on hand for a milestone album, "Song for My Father." He was also a member of Herbie Hancock's band from 1969 to 1970.

During the 60's he made several first-rate albums under his own name, including "Page One" and "Inner Urge," and wrote tunes ù among them the blues pieces "Isotope" and "A Shade of Jade," the waltz "Black Narcissus," the bossa nova "Recordame" and the harmonically complex "Inner Urge" ù that earned lasting underground reputations as premium modern-jazz improvisational vehicles.

Mr. Henderson briefly joined the jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat and Tears in 1971, and his albums for Milestone, where he recorded until 1976, started to change from mystical Coltrane-inspired sessions to grooves and near jazz-rock. By the end of the 70's, he was working with the pianist Chick Corea. Then, after a five-year silence, he came back with the two volumes of "The State of the Tenor." The first of his moves to redefine his career, these excellent mainstream jazz sets were recorded live at the Village Vanguard.

In the early 1990's he signed a new contract with Verve, which led to three Grammys. "Lush Life," from 1991, used Billy Strayhorn tunes. With its first-rate playing and narrative arc ù it began with a duet, expanded to a quintet and ended with a saxophone solo ù it has sold nearly 90,000 copies, reports Soundscan, a company that tracks album sales.

Other songbook albums, only slightly less successful, included "So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles)," a treatment of pieces associated with Miles Davis; "Double Rainbow," an album of Antonio Carlos Jobim's music; and Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess," recorded with an all-star jazz lineup as well as the pop singers Sting and Chaka Khan. His 90's discography also included "Joe Henderson Big Band," a lavish rendering of his compositions.

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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) at last! FLABBY mp3s and more APERITIVO
Date: 03 Jul 2001 20:41:32 +0100


the first Flabby tracks are finally appearing on Mp3.com :-)
http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/172/flabby.html
the express Url http://www.mp3.com/flabby is currently inactive for
technical reasons but should be back in a few hours together with a couple
more downloads.

If you take a look at http://www.mp3.com/aperitivo you'll notice almost all
volumes 1 & 2 are online now. One track is missing since the site keeps
saying it has bad encoding (?). I will give you more infos as soon as
possibile. DAM CDs and more tectual infos i.e. full credits should appear
soon. :)

The Flabby page can also be used to send messages to the group; none of the
members seem online at the moment but messages will be printed and passed
to Soul Trade which will give them to the band.

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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) at last! FLABBY mp3s
Date: 03 Jul 2001 11:55:50 -0700 (PDT)


Thanks Nicola for the heads up!

Flabby gets played, Babluba Shake and Mambo Italiano, by me on
Mardis Gras Day(Carnival Day) in a parade I'm in called Mondo Kayo.

Love these songs and know this band is capable of more great romps
into party dance music!

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck
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> the first Flabby tracks are finally appearing on Mp3.com :-)
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Subject: (exotica) Cafe Apres
Date: 03 Jul 2001 13:16:33 -0700 (PDT)


There is a whole series of these Cafe Apres cds from Japan.  Maybe
10 or so.  I think I have them all.  I can't recommend them enough.
 The Japanese know how to pull out those obscure songs.  The comps
generally mix Brazil music with obscure soft pop tunes generally
from the 1960s.   I have learned about many obscure soft pop and
bossa bands from these cds. The song selection is well thought out.
To be sure there are famous songs on these comps, but with their
length there's always plenty of gems on each.  Put in the words
Cafe Apres at dustygrooves search engine and they will appear.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

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Subject: (exotica) without a doubt
Date: 03 Jul 2001 16:25:40 -0400


I was poking around the archives of Internet Update and found a few sites of possible interest.

(To find Internet Update, go to http://www.newsbytes.com/ and Search for "internet update")

[e-mail]
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The Music Of Chromosomes
Imagine being able to convert DNA sequences into musical notes. That is what some Welsh programmers have done with ProteinMusic, a Java-based program that takes data from DNA sequences and plays music from it. The authors say they developed the first version of this downloadable, free program, written in C, on an Apple Mac together with a MIDI connection to a synthesizer in 1996. This program is a complete re-write of the original program in Java. World Wide Web: http://www.aber.ac.uk/~phiwww/pm/index.html

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Gig Posters Memorialized In Web Collection

Gigposters.com collects images of those posters bands use to promote their upcoming gigs. While college students can only manage to collect and display a few posters in their dorm rooms, this site can store and archive thousands in digital form. From the groovy through to the scary and bizarre, these gig posters may bring back some memories to some. They've certainly become an interesting modern art form. Watch out ... the collectors are already hunting for, or arguing over the best poster ever! World Wide Web: http://www.gigposters.com/ .
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8-Ball Answers By Live Webcam

Why buy an 8-ball when you can consult one live and in person on the Web? The "Public 8 Ball" by Jim Studt is "not some cheesy imitation 8-ball written in a Web script. This is a real 8 ball being shaken and read just for you," he tells us, offering up a list of competing sites, which he says are cheesy imitations . His 8-ball is a recently Mattel-manufactured model number 3048AA, we're told, housed in a custom built Lego Mindstorms shaking cradle, triggered and watched by a Linux computer. Just type in that burning question and presto - there's your answer: Reply Hazy. World Wide Web: http://8ball.federated.com





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From: "Domenic Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) For Boston types
Date: 03 Jul 2001 20:06:13 -0400



For Boston List members,

Chucks comment about CafΘ Apres reminded me about a store on Newbury Street
in  Boston called "Boston Beat Records". I would never have found this if it
was not for a helpful clerk at one of the other places on  Newbury.  Felix,
the proprietor, was nice (A rarity for specialty records stores in Boston)
and he stocked mostly foreign dance, techno, nouveau lounge sound.

He even offered to let me listen to CD's in the store before buying them.
Unfortunately I was in town for a meeting and was almost late and had to
leave pretty quick.
But next time.

Any comments about the Serge remix CD "I Love Serge"? Any good? Saw it
there.

Domenic


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Marcy
Date: 04 Jul 2001 00:19:27 -0400


Alan wrote:

> My question is this.  When I first made the CD, I listened to it a bunch
of
> times. I think I genuinely enjoyed it.  I don't think I was just
tolerating it.  I
> don't think it was all about ironic enjoyment.  I think it was genuine.
> But it doesn't really make sense.  She's not "good".  In fact she's bad.
> But she's bad in a way that I seemed to enjoy.  And I wouldn't say "she's
> so bad, she's good".  She's never really good..
> I want to know why I like her records in spite of her "bad-ness" (and I
> don't mean James Brown badness.)
I had much the same experience and can't get that kids song "Dad Aren't You
Glad that I'm a Mormon" out of my head!  Not go figure, as religious
indoctrination of young kids is one of the most loathsome things I can
imagine, but I just can't forget that song, and worse yet, I know there are
several records of these that are probably going to have much the same
effect once I hear them! It has to be the novelty value and especially the
subverted use of what is essentially popular music that does it for me.
It's that or a genuiely sick sense of humour! call it a weakness...

> stening to that CDR kind of reminded me of listening to Gavin Byrar's
> Jesus Blood".  But maybe it also reminded me a bit of the Shaggs.
Now you're making me think of the South Park episode where the kids
performed the Philip Glass piece! But The Shaggs... why not.. look no
further than Mrs.Miller or Lucia Pamela for a comparable "adult"
comparison...

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Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
Date: 04 Jul 2001 00:29:18 -0400


>  Ms. Mah, snacking on jalape~no-glazed pork ribs in front of the sunset,
> said: "Kitschy Tiki has been done so well for many years at places like
> Trader Vic's and the Tonga Room. So there was no point in trying that
again."
It all fits into the argument I've made many times that you can't recreate
history as you cannot recereate the context, ie. the time and place. As to
whether this "artier" rip-off is more valid than a K-mart equivalent, who
can say?  Its all a bit muddled what with Michael Graves doing product
design for Target stores and all, but somehow the concept of this place
smells of snob appeal and I would have no part of it.  Its like trying to
make Route 66 into higher art by fine tuning it a bit... Or better yet like
what has happened to Las Vegas (or Disneyland for that matter!) in order to
"broaden" its appeal... No, for me it's either all art or all kitch, but
nothing in between...

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Marcy
Date: 03 Jul 2001 22:21:35 -0700 (PDT)


The thing I enjoy about Christian records is that they
are in earnest, authentic. These things are relics,
monstrosities, bizarre artifacts - but that is only
because my world is not that world. They are foreign,
odd, opposed. I hesitate to compare little Marcy to
Islam, or the Eleusinian mystery cults for that
matter, but no matter how absurd the comparison
sounds, there is a link. "Religious indoctrination" is
a foreign phrase among those who go on missions,
circulate vipers and wail at walls. Marcy's God (and
Charlie the Hamster's) is life, like bread and aeresol
dispensed cheddar. Before the Little Marcy website, we
are infidels, profane, outside the temple.

Then again, I identified Popeye with JHVH very early
on.

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From: "Maurizio Mansueti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Transistors - "Mission on Venus" (Gak Sato & Kid Loco remixes) - Press release
Date: 04 Jul 2001 09:31:25 +0200


The Transistors
'Mission on Venus'
(Gak Sato & Kid Loco remixes)
TSPH 0701/2 CDS & TSPH 0702 10"
(Temposphere)

While we wait for their debut album 'ATELIER'  (TSPH 0700) and as a follow
up to the success earned by their first single release, The Transistors
delivers a further rivisitation of their classic 'Mission on Venus'.
In the 10" version (TSPH 0702 10"), we find three versions by great artist
and producer Kid Loco (vocal, Instrumental and bonus beat).
The so called 'Belleville Carnival mix' versions, as the name itself
implies, have a dancefloor arrangement performed by  the Parisian master.
While keeping the inspired vocals by Miss Ari and the swinging Hammond work
of Davide Pistoni, Kid Loco has added to it an irresistible rhythm structure
which doubles up in the final for an eruption of colors and beats. Needless
to say, the solid Royal Belleville style brass section comes out here and
there. 'Mission on Venus' Belleville Carnival mix is destined to be one of
the club anthems for the summer 2001.
In the CD Single version (TSPH 0701/2 CDS), we can finally find the original
version of 'Mission on Venus' (never previously released on CD format) along
with Gak Sato's 'Custom mix' (recently licensed to V2 Japan and on CD for
the first time), Kid Loco's vocal version and the track 'Cocktail di neve in
oro' (also never available before on CD format).
'Mission on Venus' remix is a fancy presentation of this trio from Rome
(Maurizio 'ErMan' Mansueti, Luca 'Luke' Cirillo e Arianna 'Miss Ari' Lacqua)
The Transistors who very soon will please the world with their debut album
'ATELIER'.
Available in CDS and Vinyl:
Bar code CDS                           8019991210895
Bar code  Mix 10"                     8019991210888
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From: Matt Marchese <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Marcy
Date: 04 Jul 2001 09:11:54 -0500


Ben Waugh wrote:

> I hesitate to compare little Marcy to Islam, or the Eleusinian mystery cults
> for that

I always wondered how many children might have been convinced to seek out an
alternate religious belief after being creeped out by Marcy. Maybe Malcolm X
and Louis Farrakhan were driven to Islam after a traumatic exposure to Little
Marcy in their childhood?

> Before the Little Marcy website, we are infidels, profane, outside the
> temple.

One of my oldest friends and her first husband were deeply involved in a
Christian puppet ministry. It was as serious as a heart attack to them. As far
as they were concerned, these bits of cloth and plastic were far more than just
puppets, they were masks that covered the face of a benevolent God.

> Then again, I identified Popeye with JHVH very early
> on.

You and Todd Schorr would probably get along very well then. Did you make this
association based on Popeye's miraculous resurrection via spinach? And did you
later come to identify Brutus with Satan and Olive Oyl with Sophia the Mother
Goddess?

And if Popeye was YHWH, then why couldn't he create a more attractive
girlfriend for himself and get rid of those mutated forearms?

Theological mysteries of the ages, to be sure...

--
Matt Marchese
"I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a
nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate)
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From: Mimi Mayer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Marcy
Date: 04 Jul 2001 11:44:13 -0500


>Matt wrote:
>>I always wondered how many children might have been convinced to seek out an
>>alternate religious belief after being creeped out by Marcy. Maybe Malcolm X
>>and Louis Farrakhan were driven to Islam after a traumatic exposure to
>>Little
>>Marcy in their childhood?

Tell you what: I attribute my pagan leanings to a childhood spent in the
alpine paradises and Mormon strongholds of American Fork and Provo, Utah.
Blessedly, I escaped exposure to Little Marcy until adulthood. Can't speak
for Malcolm and Farrakhan, however. BTW, fans of bizarre architecture
should tour Utah's small towns just to view the outre designs of the Mormon
temples and wards (sect-ese for "churches".) Plus you'll see many Space Age
buildings that resemble birthday cakes. Strangely enough, these structures
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Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
Date: 04 Jul 2001 21:39:40 +0100




Brian wrote:

> you can't recreate history as you cannot recereate the context, ie. the time
> and place.

If one thinks of it as history, one would have to try and recreate it (kitschy
Tiki Places f.e.). That might be an enterprise of little hope. The Trader
VicÆs people didnÆt have their minds set that way, and opened a great
restaurant here in Hamburg, Germany last year. Just donÆt regard your
interests as history. I never did.

Recent record purchases (all fantastic!):
Mosaic of The Orient ? Nai, Buzuk & Guitar composed, arranged and conducted by
Elias Rahbani. (EMI PARLOPHONE Beirut, Lebanon)

Light my Fire ? Bob Thiele & Gabor Szabo (Impuls; stereo, gatefold sleeve)

Big Sixteen Guitar Favorites ? Vinnie Bell (Musicor)

Guitar Twangy with a Beat ? Dean Hightower (ABC Paramount; stereo; 1959)

Solid Gold Guitar Goes Hawaiian ? Al Caiola (United Artists)

Hawaiian Swing ? Werner Mⁿller and his Orchestra (Decca; 1963)

Shake Sauvage ? V.A. french soundtracks (themes) 1968 - 1973 (Crippled Dick)

Voodoo Drums ? Chaino (Metro)

The Best Of Hugo Montenegro (RCA)

Pop Shopping juicy music from german commercials 1960 - 1975 /Crippled Dick)

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Chusid news
Date: 04 Jul 2001 17:42:50 -0400


Here's a few items (lifted from the latest WFMU newsletter) concerning our
Ol' Pal IC.



Wednesday, July 18, 2pm
BRUTE FORCE
The inexplicable phenomenon Stephen Friedland, a.k.a. Brute Force discusses
his curious career, including his 1968 John Simon-produced album,
Confections of Love (a strange mixture of cabaret-rock, outsider humor, and
mystifying pop songcraft) and the songs he wrote for The Chiffons, The
Cyrkle, Del Shannon, and The Creation.  He'll also talk about the
controversial 45 rpm single he recorded for Apple Records, which is listed
in the censored song database of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt.
Tune in to hear the guy who wrote the songs "Tapeworm of Love" and "To Sit
on a Sandwich," and find out why.  On Irwin Chusid's show.
http://www.wfmu.org
(IIRC, when Friedland was considering his new identity, it was a toss-up
between Brute Force and Terry Cloth. -Lou)

IRWIN CHUSID and MICHELLE BOULE are soliciting material for their next
Incorrect Music
Video extravaganza at Fez, which takes place October 27.  They're looking
for horrendous music videos/films/soundies from any decade; old vaudeville
clips; bad/sexist commercials; vignettes from classic or justifiably
forgotten films; public access TV egregiousness; bad talent show
auditions; non-singing celebs "singing"; industrial/corporate/educational
presentations; outsider avatars; racially/ethnically insensitive vignettes,
or brain-damaged cartoons.  If you have something to recommend, please email
them at: [e-mail]

IRWIN CHUSID has produced THE LANGLEY SCHOOLS MUSIC PROJECT album,
"Innocence and Despair," for release this fall on Basta.  It includes the
charmingly twisted version of "Space Oddity," a recent fave on WFMU.  The
Langley Schools Music Project is a 60-voice chorus of rural school children
from western Canada, untrained but captivated by melodic magic. They sing
tunes by the Beach Boys, Paul McCartney, David Bowie, The Bay City Rollers,
and others in an enchanting and bittersweet collective voice. Recorded in
the mid-1970s, the students accompany themselves with gamelan-like Orff
percussion, and elemental rock trimmings arranged by their itinerant music
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From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
Date: 04 Jul 2001 21:46:45 -0400


At 09:39 PM 7/4/01 +0100, SH wrote:
.>
>Recent record purchases (all fantastic!):

>Light my Fire ? Bob Thiele & Gabor Szabo (Impuls; stereo, gatefold sleeve)

This was one of my "holy grails".  If you like this and you don't have Bill
Plummer's record, then you must get that too.

>Hawaiian Swing ? Werner M=FCller and his Orchestra (Decca; 1963)

This is also a great record.  I have the version with the other cover.
(Other than the one Brian, Cheryl and Will have.)
Hawaiian Eye is a classic cut.

>The Best Of Hugo Montenegro (RCA)

Another great record.  It's two records, right?  You get a really good
taste of his moogadelic material.



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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) betalounge
Date: 05 Jul 2001 11:05:43 +0200


For whoever likes to listen to some new stuff I've got some links here for you out of my mailbox:


link of the week:
rainer trⁿby & peter kruder live rootdown set from http://www.betalounge.com

into somethin' radioshow
>>> livestream @ radio M94,5 munich: http://m945.afk.de/m/live.ram
on air every wednesday  22.00 to 00.00 cet  >>> click here  to find out your actual local time

to listen to the last show go here:
http://www.intosomethin.com/sounds/010704.ram

playlist:

bugge wesseltoff: yelow is the colour (jazzland lp-tr: moving)
spacek: how do i move (island lp-tr: curvatia)
idnia arie: strength, courage & wisdom (motown lp-tr: acoustic soul)
domeniko ferrari: commute (straight ahead 12")
ugly duckilng: oasis (oasis lp-tr: journey to anywhere)
daennac: dynamic masses (ur 12")
hi tek feat mos def: get ta steppin (rawkus lp-tr)
fauna flash: free - salvador group rmx (compost cd-r)
as one: undefeated (ubiquity 12")
daniel paul: para los pinchas (mermaid 12")
fernanda porto: sambaism - dj patiphe rmx (v records 12")
calibre: james' twitch (thermal 12")
llorca: the novel sound (f-communications 12")
soulpatrol: love variatons - charlie dark rmx (infra com 12")
new sector movements: free as (virgin cd-r)
basement jaxx: sfm (xl 12")
n.e.r.d.: tape you (island lp-tr: in search of)
bilal: sometimes (interscope lp-tr)
leon thomas: song for my father (flying dutchman lp-tr: )



Mo

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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
Date: 05 Jul 2001 13:17:13 +0200


toobad no homepage is displaying any pix from that place. I'm all for going new ways, and if kitsch by definition is a senseless repetition of old forms, then, yes, it would mean "taking kitsch out of tiki". All-too-often however the fear of kitsch is articulated by people who simply don't have good humour and despise the creative play with popular art forms as a way to question the ever freezing forms of so called serious high art, which as a category can never be defined either. I mean, since Marilyn Monroe made it onto an Andy Warhol silk screen, you cannot be sure what kitsch is anymore. When you hear the word "kitsch", you seem to know what it is, but when you think closer, you often cannot grab it. (Just like the ever mysterious term "camp")


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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) at last! FLABBY mp3s and more APERITIVO
Date: 03 Jul 2001 22:00:27 +0200


Great stuff, Nicola, really. And the way you promote it, is equally great. I love it, when real new music is directly coming into the exotica list. To each discussion there should always be links directly to MP3s, so you get to know what you are talking about. It's fresh! Thanks

And... who is... Flabby?            Looks like I missed a thread.

Mo

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Mystery Song
Date: 05 Jul 2001 21:38:50 +0900


Please folks

put me out of my misery and tell me what this brilliant song I MD'ed
from Luxuria is ... i've put a realaudio file up here:

http://www.eat78rpm.co.uk/snd/mystery.ra

Incidentally i noticed Luxuria's site has changed ... anyone got any
up-to-date news on that?

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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Little Marcy
Date: 05 Jul 2001 05:47:56 -0700 (PDT)



--- Matt Marchese <[e-mail]> wrote:
emple.
>
> One of my oldest friends and her first husband were
> deeply involved in a
> Christian puppet ministry. It was as serious as a
> heart attack to them. As far
> as they were concerned, these bits of cloth and
> plastic were far more than just
> puppets, they were masks that covered the face of a
> benevolent God.

Exactly, just like the Catholic mystery of
transubtantiation. And, in a sense, Christ on the
cross and those saint stautues are puppets - just not
very cool ones. marcy would be an advanced model -
like GI Joes with life-like hair and kung fu grip.
> > Then again, I identified Popeye with JHVH very
> early
> > on.
>
> You and Todd Schorr would probably get along very
> well then. Did you make this
> association based on Popeye's miraculous
> resurrection via spinach? And did you
> later come to identify Brutus with Satan and Olive
> Oyl with Sophia the Mother
> Goddess?
 "I yam that I yam." And yes, I did see Popeye and
Brutus, at first, as a Manichean parable - the
struggle of the light aginst the dark - but then I
realized that they were essentially one, friends at
heart and equal lovers/beloved of the constantly
fickle Olyv Oyl (chrism of life): Pistis Sophia,
madonna and whore.

> And if Popeye was YHWH, then why couldn't he create
> a more attractive
> girlfriend for himself and get rid of those mutated
> forearms?

Heretic.

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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) CD internet site.....
Date: 05 Jul 2001 09:15:33 -0400


Okay, not exotica related, but what's that GEMM site where you can locate =
out of print CD's..........??

I'm looking for Art.Indust "Amatoria" a *great* trance/house CD from =
India.  Evidently, Art.Indust was one of the early "innovators" in this =
type of music.  The label folded years ago, leaving behind some hard-to-fin=
d yummie music!!

Thanks -

Nate




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Atkins funeral, Johnny Russell
Date: 05 Jul 2001 10:47:27 -0400


July 4, 2001
Guitars Gently Weep as Nashville Pays Tribute to Chet Atkins
By DAVID FIRESTONE
 NASHVILLE, July 3 ù Chet Atkins was as lean and spare and intense as Nashville is boisterous, a reticent musical craftsman who shaped and defined a city of showmen. At his funeral today, a worshipful country music industry tried to define its debt to him, finally giving up on superlatives and expressing itself as he did in the gentle picking of a Gretsch electric guitar.

Full story at http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/04/national/04ATKI.html

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/Entertainment/Chet_Atkins
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http://www.country.com/news/feat/jrussell.070301.jhtml
Grand Ole Opry Star Johnny Russell Dies at 61
The songwriter, singer and comedian died at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday (July 3) at a Nashville hospital from complications of diabetes. He was 61.

Russell was the guy who wrote Act Naturally, amongst a slew of other hits.



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Subject: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of Tiki Room
Date: 05 Jul 2001 11:52:34 -0400


http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/11510929/?p=1

There's a not very large or helpful photo of the joint at this URL.

The review does not encourage me to make a special visit to the place.
And, of course, if this place fails it will be seen as the end of tiki-themeing in NYC.

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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of Tiki Room
Date: 05 Jul 2001 09:10:51 -0700 (PDT)


things have tapered off here: dc's "politiki" is now
just a theme bar in the basement of a brewpub. their
website is dead. sigh.
--- [e-mail] wrote:

> And, of course, if this place fails it will be seen
> as the end of tiki-themeing in NYC.
>
> [e-mail]


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Subject: Re: (exotica) ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Mystery Song
Date: 05 Jul 2001 19:03:02 +0100




[e-mail] wrote:

> Incidentally i noticed Luxuria's site has changed ... anyone got any
> up-to-date news on that?
>
> Sem Sinatra

Sem,
you might check ouòt the Luxuriamusic.com Club at Yahoo! clubs:

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Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
Date: 05 Jul 2001 19:12:02 +0100


Hi,
I would be really grateful for the definetive track by track  and/or  album
lowdown on Szabo/Thiele/Plummer material on Impulse! Since I would like to
make compilation suggestions to my employers/or at least encourage rerelease
of this great stuff. The impulse Exotica Jazz comp CALIFORNIA DREAMING can
never be the end to that chapter at Universal Music Germany.
And Alan: The Hugo Montenegro is only one LP (pinkframed mugshot sleeve).

Thanks,

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Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
Date: 05 Jul 2001 14:13:43 -0400


At 07:12 PM 7/5/01 +0100, SH wrote:
>
>Hi,
>I would be really grateful for the definetive track by track  and/or  album
>lowdown on Szabo/Thiele/Plummer material on Impulse! Since I would like to
>make compilation suggestions to my employers/or at least encourage rerelease
>of this great stuff.

Hmm, I can't be definitive.
But I can tell you what I have.
Bob Thiele recorded a few other records with that same general group of
folks and under his own name.  Bob Thiele and his new happy times orchestra.
But I can't really recommend them. They're not quite the same as Light My
Fire.
There's one called "Thoroughly Modern Millie" which I can never bring
myself to buy.  But I have another one called "Do the Love" featuring the
Sunflower Singers and Steve Allen which has a couple of great cheesy fake
sixties anthems.
(In fact when I debut as a DJ one of these months, I think I'll start my
set with "Do the  love" maybe like someone here always starts with "Come on
in" by the Association)
Gabor Szabo has a whole slew of records on the Skye label.  But the two on
Impulse "Wind Sky and Diamonds" and "Jazz Raga" definitely fit in with the
sound of that Bob Thiele record.  And he produced them.
And then there's the Bill Plummer record.  BP and the Cosmic Brotherhood.
Since this subject still refers to tiki, it's worth noting that Bill is
pictured on the front cover next to these three papier mache figures which
aren't tikis but remind me of them.
This is a great record if only for the cut "Journey to the East".
Truth is that Bill Plummer's sitar playing is almost too "real" - not
cheesy enough - but still, he's one of a kind.
(He's way cheesier on Mancini's "The Party" soundtrack.  I prefer the cheese.)

Undefinitively yours,

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Subject: (exotica) putting the kitsch back into Tiki Tom's
Date: 05 Jul 2001 16:44:27 EDT


this "Tiki Room" thing sounds very Manhattan.
Meanwhile, back in the SF Yay area suburbs...

IT'S NOT A LITTLE grass shack, but Tiki Tom's will take you back to
beau-ti-ful Hawaii, with its pond, air-misters and tropical foliage. The
Walnut Creek restaurant -- featuring hula dancers on Friday nights and a
pirate band on Tuesdays -- opened three weeks ago and is serving up
Polynesian pupus, full meals for lunch and dinner, and a 24-drink (and
growing) specialty drink menu.
You can have your three-rum mai tai at the bamboo bar or hang out on the
patio. Or, better yet, order the Mt. Diablo Fire Bowl (and three straws,
please) and slurp down the 36-ounce citrusy-vodka concoction (with friends)
at one of the dining room's red mahogany tables.
Owner Tom Davies, who also owns Piggy's Pizza and Ribs on Locust Street in
Walnut Creek, is offering up a dozen pupus, including Island Prawns, Maui
Onion Strings and (going fast) teriyaki flank-steak skewers. These appetizers
run $5-$10 while lunch items -- such as fish tacos and tuna-stuffed papaya --
run $7-$10. The $10-$17 dinner menu features Tropical Chicken and mahi-mahi
cooked on the hibachi.
Tiki Tom's. 1535 Olympic Blvd., Walnut Creek. 925-932-9202.

I haven't made it there yet, but I bet it'll be right up there with Hawaii
West or Trad'r Sams!
("pirate band"?)
-dave


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From: Erik <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Asian Takeways
Date: 05 Jul 2001 22:46:38 +0200


Arjan Plug wrote:

>
> I noticed this compilation in the local recordshop yesterday, recommended?

This is from the Pizzicato 5 mailing list:

> i recently bought a cd called asian takeaways with pop songs
> form the 50ies or 60ies from hongkong, malysia, seoul, singapore etc.
> these songs just beg for a konishi remix.

I think that's a recommendation!

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Subject: (exotica) Playlist Martinis With Mancini 6/29/01
Date: 05 Jul 2001 20:15:11 -0400


Hi folks,

Been ages since I've posted a playlist. So here's last weeks. Seems I hit a
lot of the exotica list artists last week.

Domenic Ciccone
"Martinis with Mancini" WJUL 91.5FM Friday's 6-9AM EST
http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/
http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/misc/wjul/wjul.html (On Real Audio)


Playlist Martinis With Mancini 6/29/01

Brief And Breezy. Henry Mancini
Lilac Wine, Eartha Kitt
Witchcraft, Gabor Szabo
Joanna, Scott Walker
Misty, George Shearing
The Face I Love, Astrud Gilberto
Peppermint Patty, Vince Guaraldi
Temple Bells, Frank Hunter, White Goddess
Why Don't You Do Right, Peggy Lee
I'll Dance At Your Wedding, Peggy Lee
Fugue In C Minor, Swingle Singers
Summer Samba, Walter Wanderly
They Cant Take That Away From Me, Super Sax And L.A. Voices
Mighty Quinn, Trombones Unlimited
Opus In Pastel, Stan Kenton
Makin Whoopee, Rosemary Clooney
Round Midnight, Cal Tjader
Suddenly You, Steve And Eydie
Green Peppers, Herb Albert
Secret Love, Jonah Jones
Le Me Donne A Qui Me Pait, Briget Bardot
Negre Setin, Jack Bongo
Hippie Version Of The 23rd Psalm, Silhouette Segments
Hot Toddy, Gloria Wood
Boo Qui Woo Qui, Hugo Montenegro
Liza, Larry Elgart
Lets Dance, David Carroll
That's Amore, Dean Martin
I've Got You Under My Skin, Sammy Davis Jr
Love And Marriage, Frank Sinatra
Make Me Rainbows, O.S.T. Fitzwilly
Holiday For Strings, Series 2000
Lillions Lust, O.S.T. Bedazzled
Taboo, The Whodads
Peter Gunn Theme, The Revelairs
Miserlou, Exotia 1970
Fried Bananas, Benny Golson
Dem Jive New Yorkers, Babs Gonzales
Bombasteroid, Four Piece Suit
Dog, Bob Dorough
At The River, Groove Armada
Marriage Is For Old Folks, Nina Simone
Marry Me, Nina Simone
Milano Cool, Arling And Cameron
Happy Hour, Seks Bomba
So Danco Samba, Sambossa
Goldfinger, Shirley Bassey Propellorheads Remix
The Man With The Harmonaca, Apollo 4-40
Sweet Cinnamon Punch, Tipsy
Cha Cha On The Moon, Seksu Roba
Je Vous Emmerde, Katerine
Hi Fi Trumpet, Stereo Action Unlimited
Moon River, Henry Mancini



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Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
Date: 05 Jul 2001 22:09:26 -0700



>Gabor Szabo has a whole slew of records on the Skye label.  But the two on
>Impulse "Wind Sky and Diamonds" and "Jazz Raga" definitely fit in with the
>sound of that Bob Thiele record.  And he produced them.
>And then there's the Bill Plummer record.  BP and the Cosmic Brotherhood.


and there is also the Tom Scott "Honeysuckle Breeze" on Impulse that was a
part of the "jazz raga" and "wind Skye and Diamonds" sessions which includes
pretty much the same players minus Gabor and Bernard Purdie and maybe a few
others, but includes Emil Richards, and of course The California Dreamers,
which I cant figure out if I like or not, they are pretty bad, but not
really in a good way, but definetely cheesy. I dont know, cant quite put my
finger on them, they pretty much run right up the middle for me, not bad,
not good..............

good record, mostly covers, a beatles one, a Donovan, a Jefferson Airplane,
a Joan Baez etc etc... Great for the hippy dippy album cover of Tom lying in
what looks like a patch of fried out Southern California beach weeds with
some dried up old flowers placed strategically around, wearing some fine
Tijuana tire sandals I might add. Pretty bad ass!  though Bill Plummers
sitar is way too low in the mix, same with the Wind Sky Diamonds.

I recently put together a comp of the best tracks of the 3 records on one
cd, I also included some of the Bob Thiele's  "Light My Fire" songs however
the Szabo "Jazz Raga" is the best of them all. (why hasnt that one been
re-issued???) The song "Walking on Nails" is the TITS!! it's a song that I
have always wanted to cover, but felt I could never match Gabor's outtatune
vocal style. WAY TOO CRAAAZY!!! Pretty fat version of Caravan as well.

anyway good luck with the re-issues, im sure the European public would
appreciate them more than we Americans.

-jonathan

ps Bob Thiele put out some great stuff after he left Impluse on his Flying
Dutchman label, check it out!!
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Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
Date: 06 Jul 2001 03:11:36 -0400


At 10:09 PM 7/5/01 -0700, jonathan richardson wrote:
> "wind Skye and Diamonds"  which includes  The California Dreamers,
>which I cant figure out if I like or not, they are pretty bad, but not
>really in a good way, but definetely cheesy. I dont know

I understand your confusion.  It's not quite cheesy enough.  It's not quite
good enough.  It's hard to understand why he made it.
It's hard to understand why it's not better.  Two of the singers are the
Bahler brothers who did a lot of stuff like this.  There's another record
like this - it slips my mind at the moment (anybody???) - where these guys
formed the choir but there was much more going on in terms of harmonies and
arrangements.
They also had the band the Love Generation who were great (if a touch cheesy).
But anyway, yeah I keep this record too but it ain't Jazz Raga.

>
>ps Bob Thiele put out some great stuff after he left Impluse on his Flying
>Dutchman label, check it out!!

But don't check out "I saw pinetop spit blood".  I had such hope.  First
there's that title.  Then there's the musicians.  All the usual suspects.
Tom Scott, Dennis Budimir, Bud Shank...
Then there's the presence of Oliver Nelson.
And Willie Bobo on percussion!!!

But it just lays there.

So disappointing.

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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ernie K-Doe:  The Official Mother-in-Law Site - The Official Site
Date: 06 Jul 2001 07:17:06 -0700 (PDT)


Sorry to say that Ernie K-Doe has passed away.  I have hung out at
his Lounge with my friends quite often.  Ernie K-Doe was always
there and ready to sing his biggest hit "Mother in Law"  His
lounge, which was also his house, was one of the more surreal
places in New Orleans.  Here's the official site:

http://www.k-doe.com/




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Subject: (exotica) TV "Party"
Date: 06 Jul 2001 22:22:02 -0400


List perennial, "The Party" (1968) airs on TCM Saturday afternoon at 4:00pm
(eastern). Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, sitar music and the whole shebang.

Long, long ago, there was a tiny thread about the 80s series (set in the
early 60s), "Crime Story". A&E starts a rerun of the series this coming
Monday night at 9:00pm (eastern). A cops vs. mobsters story, it took the
plot through more changes than the average series, starting off in Chicago
and moving to Las Vegas partway through season one (two seasons total). I
recall it as being entertainingly over the top, perhaps a predecessor of
the Pulp Fiction groove. Of course, if I watch it now, I might not think
so. It was wonderfully out of hand though, capable of going from gritty
character conflicts to Three Stooges knuckleheaded comedy in a single
bound. Lots of nifty period (or fake period) architecture and furniture
too. Can't recall the music, other than Del Shannon doing a remake of
"Runaway" for the opening titles. So, there you go... take a chance if you
want. The really whacked out stuff developed in season two (a prosecutor
gives up, flips out and goes out into the desert to be a peyote head --
little things like that).

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Subject: (exotica) question
Date: 06 Jul 2001 19:28:54 -0700


where can i access the list archives?  i mean the real old ones, from the
beginning.

thanks,

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Subject: Re: (exotica) question
Date: 07 Jul 2001 06:51:57 -0700



>where can i access the list archives?  i mean the real old ones, from the
>beginning.
>
>thanks,
>

the archives are here:

http://www.xmission.com/pub/lists/exotica/archive/

Not sure if its complete and i cant quite figure out the order, but you
gotta do some clicking around to find stuff.

some are dating back to 1972!! WOO HOO!! Thats some archive!!!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) TV "Party"
Date: 07 Jul 2001 09:20:53 -0500


I loved that show!  I was so disappointed when it was canceled.  It
WAS over the top.  But then, I'm a "wise guy" junkie.  Can't get
enough of those "good fellas".  Dennis Farina was excellent in this.
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List perennial, "The Party" (1968) airs on TCM Saturday afternoon at
4:00pm
(eastern). Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, sitar music and the whole
shebang.

Long, long ago, there was a tiny thread about the 80s series (set in
the
early 60s), "Crime Story". A&E starts a rerun of the series this
coming
Monday night at 9:00pm (eastern). A cops vs. mobsters story, it took
the
plot through more changes than the average series, starting off in
Chicago
and moving to Las Vegas partway through season one (two seasons
total). I
recall it as being entertainingly over the top, perhaps a predecessor
of
the Pulp Fiction groove. Of course, if I watch it now, I might not
think
so. It was wonderfully out of hand though, capable of going from
gritty
character conflicts to Three Stooges knuckleheaded comedy in a single
bound. Lots of nifty period (or fake period) architecture and
furniture
too. Can't recall the music, other than Del Shannon doing a remake of
"Runaway" for the opening titles. So, there you go... take a chance
if you
want. The really whacked out stuff developed in season two (a
prosecutor
gives up, flips out and goes out into the desert to be a peyote head -
-
little things like that).

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Subject: (exotica) [obit] Delia Derbyshire
Date: 07 Jul 2001 15:24:58 -0400


Delia Derbyshire

Pioneer of electronic music who produced the distinctive sound of Dr Who

Brian Hodgson
Saturday July 7, 2001
The Guardian

In 1963, soon after joining the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Delia Derbyshire,
who has died of renal failure aged 64, was asked to to realise one of the
first electronic signature tunes ever used on television. It was Ron
Grainer's score for a new science fiction series, Dr Who.
Grainer had worked his tune to fit in with the graphics. He used expressions
for the noises he wanted - such as wind, bubbles, and clouds. It was a world
without synthesisers, samplers and multi-track tape recorders; Delia,
assisted by her engineer Dick Mills, had to create each sound from scratch.

She used concrete sources and sine- and square-wave oscillators, tuning the
results, filtering and treating, cutting so that the joins were seamless,
combining sound on individual tape recorders, re-recording the results, and
repeating the process, over and over again.

When Grainer heard the result, his response was "Did I really write that?"
Most of it, Delia replied. She deserved at least half the royalties,
insisted the composer. She did not get them. At that time the BBC preferred
to keep members of the workshop anonymous and uncredited.

Shortly after Delia had arrived at the workshop in 1962, I was also invited
to join. I was stunned by her beauty, awed by her talent, and we began a
friendship and a working partnership, within the BBC and outside, which was
to delight and infuriate us for 40 years.

Delia was born in Coventry and educated at Coventry Grammar School and
Girton College, Cambridge, where she took a degree in music and mathematics.
After briefly working for the United Nations in Geneva, she joined the BBC
in 1960 as a studio manager.

In those days BBC career progression was a slow affair, but before long she
was sitting in, off-duty, at the new Radiophonic Workshop in Maida Vale. The
senior studio manager, Desmond Briscoe, realising that the tall, quiet,
auburn-haired young lady was not only enthusiastic but enormously creative
and talented, invited her to join the department on attachment; she was to
remain until 1973.

Delia used, he realised, an analytical approach to synthesise complex sounds
from electronic sources. "The mathematics of sound," he said, "came
naturally to her."

Delia thought that perhaps she just had a very strange mind. She analysed
everything: the pace, the cutting, the editing of a film, every inflection,
every comma, the subtleties in the human voice. "I suppose in a way," she
observed, "I was experimenting in psycho-acoustics."

Although Dr Who made Delia and the Radiophonic Workshop nationally famous,
it was her other drama and features work that showed her true talent. Her
collaborations with the poet and dramatist Barry Bermange for the Third
Programme showed her at her elegant best.

He put together The Dreams (1964), a collage of people describing their
dreams. It was set by Delia into a background of pure electronic sound. In a
second 1964 Bermange piece about people's experience of God and the devil,
Amor Dei, he asked her to create a gothic altarpiece of sound. She composed
this with snippets of archive and voices, again with only the simplest of
equipment and facilities, often working through the night, for weeks on end.

Among her outstanding television work, one of her favourites was composed
for a documentary for The World About Us on the Tuareg people of the Sahara
desert. It still haunts me. She used her own voice for the sound of the
hooves, cut up into an obbligato rhythm, and she added a thin, high
electronic sound using virtually all the filters and oscillators in the
workshop.

"My most beautiful sound at the time was a tatty green BBC lampshade," she
recalled. "It was the wrong colour, but it had a beautiful ringing sound to
it. I hit the lampshade, recorded that, faded it up into the ringing part
without the percussive start.

"I analysed the sound into all of its partials and frequencies, and took the
12 strongest, and reconstructed the sound on the workshop's famous 12
oscillators to give a whooshing sound. So the camels rode off into the
sunset with my voice in their hooves and a green lampshade on their backs."

In those days, the Radiophonic Workshop received a stream of visiting
musicians, composers and writers - from Berio to Brian Jones - and she
entranced them with her intellect and the joy of her company. But Delia was
never starstruck; she cheerfully devoted as much time to encouraging young
students as to talking with celebrities.

In the mid-1960s she and I worked with Peter Zinovieff, the composer and
visionary pioneer of synthesisers, in a company called Unit Delta Plus.
Delia became involved in an early electronic music concert at the New Mill
Theatre in Newbury that also featured a pioneering light projection show by
Hornsey College of Art and magnetic sculptures by Paul Takis.

She worked on Guy Woolfenden's electronic score for Peter Hall's 1967 Royal
Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth with Paul Scofield, and on Hall's
film Work is a Four Letter Word (1967). It was at Zinovieff's Putney studio
that she first met Paul McCartney.

Later, Delia, her protege David Vorhaus and I set up Kaleidophon, a Camden
Town-based independent studio. There she worked on the album Electric Storm
(1968), now considered a classic, which was credited to White Noise and
released on Island Records.

At Kaleidophon we put together electronic music for the London theatre of
the late 1960s. There was Medea and Alan Dobie's Macbeth for the Greenwich
Theatre; On the Level, a musical by Ron Grainer; and Tony Richardson's
Hamlet at the Roundhouse.

She also took part in a Roundhouse concert of electronic music including
early electronic works by McCartney. She even recorded a score for an
ICI-sponsored student fashion show, which was the first in the world to use
electronic music.

H er 11 years and nearly 200 programmes at the workshop represented probably
the most productive times of her life. They also took their toll. To work
with Delia during the late 1960s and early 70s was to witness the joy and
energy-sapping pain of creation. "I think I must have reverse adrenalin,"
she said. "As the deadline gets closer most people speed up - I just get
slower."

By 1973 Delia had become progressively more unhappy with her life at the
workshop and she left to join me at Electrophon, an electronic music studio
I had set up in Covent Garden. There, unfortunately, she found little relief
from her unhappiness and decided to leave London. She became involved,
bizarrely, in the laying of the national gas main as a radio operator, she
worked in a Cumbrian art gallery, and she worked in a bookshop.

In 1980 she met Clive Blackburn, who was to be her partner for the rest of
her life. Probably for the first time, she found happiness and settled into
what, for her, was a normal existence.

For others it still appeared to be organised chaos - yet she did have a tidy
and organised mind. She was still fascinated by the act of creation; still
encouraging, scolding and praising her many friends.

In the last few years she was beginning once more to take an interest in
electronic music, encouraged by a younger generation to whom she had become
a cult figure. The technology she had left behind was finally catching up
with her vision.

One night many years ago, as we left Zinovieff's studio, she paused on
Putney bridge. "What we are doing now is not important for itself," she
said, "but one day someone might be interested enough to carry things
forwards and create something wonderful on these foundations." Her partner
survives her.

=95 Delia Derbyshire, composer and arranger, born May 5 1937; died July 3=
 2001

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Subject: (exotica) [NYTimes obit] Ernie K-Doe
Date: 07 Jul 2001 15:26:01 -0400


July 7, 2001
Ernie K-Doe, 65, Who Sang 'Mother-in-Law' Is Dead
By NEIL STRAUSS
Ernie K-Doe, the eccentric rhythm-and-blues singer best known for his 1961
No. 1 hit "Mother-in- Law," died on Thursday at a New Orleans hospital. He
was 65.

The cause was cirrhosis, said his wife and manager, Antoinette.

Mr. K-Doe's career peaked in the early 1960's with a series of catchy,
sing-along rhythm-and-blues hits, but afterward his career floundered and he
became an alcoholic. In the 1990's, however, he sobered up and reinvented
himself as one of the most memorable cultural figures in New Orleans, where
he lived. He became a fixture there in 1995 when he opened the Mother-in-Law
Lounge, where on almost any night Mr. K- Doe could be found entertaining
customers with renditions of his songs and his self-worshiping maxims.

"There aren't but three songs that will last for eternity," he used to tell
patrons. "One is `Amazing Grace.' Another is `The Star-Spangled Banner.' And
the third is `Mother-in- Law,' because as long as there are people on this
earth, there will always be mother-in-laws."

The son of a Baptist minister, Mr. K-Doe was born Ernest Kador Jr. at
Charity Hospital in New Orleans. He began singing in church choirs and
gospel groups, including the Golden Choir Jubilee of New Orleans and the
Divine Traveler.

As a teenager he performed regularly at local talent shows, where he met
singers like Little Richard. Mr. K-Doe always said that he cobbled together
his style from a combination of the energy, singing and marching of Baptist
church services and performers he shared the stage with, like Little
Richard, Sam Cooke, Huey (Piano) Smith and, later, James Brown. He is
believed to have toured briefly with the Flamingos and the Moonglows before
returning to New Orleans to join the Blue Diamonds. In 1959 he recorded his
first local solo hit, "Hello, My Lover."

Recording for the Minit label at the time, he stumbled across a song in a
studio trash can that would forever be associated with his name. The song
was "Mother-in-Law." Its producer and writer was Allen Toussaint, who was
only 23 at the time. Mr. Toussaint played piano on the song and a bass
vocalist, Benny Spellman, who happened to be rehearsing in the studio,
performed the memorable bass backing. The song reached No. 1 on the
rhythm-and- blues and the pop charts in 1961.

Mr. K-Doe also recorded many minor hits, including "Te-Ta-Te-Ta- Ta," "A
Certain Girl," " 'Taint It the Truth" and "Later for Tomorrow."

In the late 60's Mr. K-Doe fell into a depression, fueled by whiskey and the
realization that while he was earning fame the business people handling his
career were earning most of the money. His career came to a halt in the 70's
and 80's as he wandered the streets in an alcoholic fog, often singing for
spare change and occasionally appearing on radio.

Then in the mid-1990's he met his future wife, Antoinette Fox, who helped
turn his life around. She weaned him from alcohol, and they found a vacant
building on Claiborne Avenue in a seedy New Orleans neighborhood. Friends
helped the couple convert the place into a lounge, and Mr. K-Doe became an
active member of the New Orleans community again.

The lounge soon became a favorite haunt for locals and visiting music fans.
Outside, Mr. K-Doe's touring van was usually parked, with his name
emblazoned on it surrounded by stars. Inside, he typically stood behind the
bar, with nails jutting several inches past his fingertips; long, curly hair
(which some said was a wig); and a bright jacket covering the ruffled lapels
of his shirt. The jukebox was full of Mr. K- Doe's songs. If a customer
played one, Mr. K-Doe would usually pick up a cheap microphone behind the
bar and sing along, often having dialogues with his recorded voice. "Really,
K-Doe?" he'd ask, and then exclaim, "I'm cocky, but I'm good."

At least once a week he would step out from behind the bar and perform with
a keyboardist in front of a giant mural of himself. After he married
Antoinette, his flesh-and-blood mother-in-law could often be found watching
television in a back room of the lounge. As word leaked out of Mr. K-Doe's
rehabilitation, music fans embraced him. He was inducted into the Louisiana
and New Orleans music halls of fame, and then accepted a Rhythm and Blues
Foundation Pioneer Award in Manhattan in 1997. In May he received a lifetime
achievement award from Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster.

Mr. K-Doe flourished in the limelight, nicknaming himself the Emperor of the
World. His appearances at events were always memorable: he would show up in
a limousine with a "Mr. Mother-in-Law" sign on the side, and he would wear
outrageous clothes tailored by his wife, including a bright pink tuxedo, a
gold-colored crown or a cape reading "Emperor K-Doe."

Besides his wife, Mr. K-Doe is survived by four children from previous
marriages.

His last release was a two-song compact disc with a stay-in-school anthem,
"Children of the World," and the racial-harmony plea "White Boy, Black Boy,"
which he recorded and sold in his lounge. He also appears in a forthcoming
movie, "Happy Here and Now."

"Tell all his fans that they can send flowers to the lounge," Mrs. K- Doe
said. "And if they can send money, it should be cash money." She added that
the money would be used to promote his legacy.





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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) new Lee Hazlewood interview
Date: 07 Jul 2001 15:37:36 -0400


Here's a good, long, new Lee Hazlewood interview:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2001-07-05/music.html

Looks like he's playing a show in Phoenix on Monday night!

Spotted this via the Scrubbles weblog ( http://scrubbles.net/ ). I suspect
that the proprietor is on this list.

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From: "tiki kiliki" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) TV "Party"
Date: 07 Jul 2001 16:13:42 -0400


Miles Davis sighting!!!

I can't believe that Crime Story will air again!! I bought the box set on
Ebay a couple of years ago for way too much money.  Michael Mann did this
series in conjunction with Miami Vice.  It was much better in my opinion but
I still have a soft spot for Miami Vice due to the special guest artists.
Great music!!  Spot some of the tunes playing, Chet Baker was a favorite.

Just the other night flipping channels and a Miami Vice marathon was on and
featured James Brown as an Evangelist with psychic powers.  He really didn't
have to act at all, just his always cool self with that slight pompadour.

I would definitely recommend watching Crime Story if you want to catch a
glimpse of Miles Davis.  I believe it is the 5th or 6th episode in which
Luca ( the main wiseguy ) takes Abrams ( the do-gooder attorney ) for a
drink at a jazz club that was in the groove to convince him to join his
posse.  Pam Grier also has a great role in this series.  It's worth to watch
for other surprise guest artists.

Dennis Farina was excellent in this series.  David Caruso actually had a
wonderful role and did an equally great job.  He was really young and a punk
wiseguy, perfect. Lots of great acting!!  The Phil Bartoli character should
be getting some work these days in the Sopranos!!

The wallpaper and furniture is to die for in this series.  The clothes, the
cars!!  Just one flaw - if you are watching - the department store robbery
scene!  This is not the scene of a 60's department store!

Can you tell I've watched the show a couple of times!!

Aloha,
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From: PjB <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) question 2
Date: 07 Jul 2001 15:38:21 -0700


is there any interest in near mint copies of many of the early original TV
spy jazzand the like, and also many records by tv stars singing,  like ben
casey etc etc?  i was at a shop today that had a TON of these kinds of
records, all in great shape, and cheap.

are these worth procuring?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) question 2
Date: 07 Jul 2001 19:36:15 -0700


> is there any interest in near mint copies of many of the early original TV
> spy jazz and the like, and also many records by tv stars singing...

You mean you are seeing near mint copies of stuff like Staccato, Richard
Diamond, M Squad, Mike Hammer, 77 Sunset Strip, I Spy, Mannix, etc etc.  And
could you be so lucky as to find a Burke's Law or Honey West or  in there,
too?

Most of those I mentioned are "private eye" jazz, which in my mind is more
of a cop, late 50s, black and white thing.  I always think of "spy jazz" as
when 007 hit the scene with the international espionage / secret agent
thrillers.

Two different kinds of sounds, but if you like one, you'll like the other.

It's all great and well worth picking up.  Mancini's Peter Gunn and More
Music From Peter Gunn, Mr Lucky, are great.  Common, but great.   Mission
Impossible is great - get it.

I bought all of these during the surge of interest a few years ago and never
found any really cheap, except the Mancinis.  It seems to have quieted down
now.  Pete Rugolo's Music From Richard Diamond regularly dies on ebay
without a bid and it's superb.  But certain others still create quite a
stir.

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From: "cheryl" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, July 8
Date: 08 Jul 2001 00:28:41 -0400


Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can
be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time 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 #150   Brazilectrotiki


This week, lots of great new tunes - with musical influences from around the
globe.

Sunny Face:  Merci Du Cool  "Temptation"  (thanks, Jimmy B!)
Nicola Conte:  Missione A Bombay (Ursula 1000 Remix)  "La Coda Del Diavolo /
Missione A Bombay"
Mr. Alfa & Senor 45:  Moulinex  "Popshopping Mixed Up"

Nicola Conte:  La Coda Del Diavolo (Karminsky Remix)  "La Coda Del Diavolo /
Missione A Bombay"
Buscemi:  Ramiro's Theme  "Glucklich 4"
Balanco:  Theme From Cocktail Nova (Nicola Conte Jet Sounds Rework)  "Theme
From Cocktail Nova / Mrs. Beat"

Balanco:  Mrs. Beat (Mr. Minute-Mix Le Hammond Inferno Remix)  "Theme From
Cocktail Nova / Mrs. Beat"
Mo'Horizons:  Prince Charles' Latest Affair  "Virtual Brazilia"

Le Hammond Inferno:  Move Your MP3 (Edit)  "Move Your MP3"
The Bad Examples:  Let's Pretend We're  Sequencer  "Merino EP" (thanks,
Frank!)


Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening

[e-mail]
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Subject: Re: (exotica) question 2
Date: 08 Jul 2001 15:17:58 +0200





> > is there any interest in near mint copies of many of the early original TV
> > spy jazz and the like, and also many records by tv stars singing...

I would like to have "Rockford" and "The Odd Couple"!!!

Mo




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Date: 08 Jul 2001 16:50:04 +0200 (MEST)


please ignore just a test

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From: "william" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) la casa azul and other things
Date: 09 Jul 2001 00:53:54 +0800


hi all,

   well, yesterday i picked up this disc by a spanish band called la casa
azul. they were on a listening station at this one cd shop so i gave it a
listen. they reminded me of the free design some. i was impressed enough to
buy it immediately.  now, after listening to it more closely. i don't feel
it sounds so much like the free design but more like hideki kaji. but very
good.  i think some on this list would really enjoy this(alan and chuck
spring to mind among others). i'm not sure if this qualifies as soft pop or
not. but some of the best new stuff i've heard in awhile. now i'm curious
about this label "elephant records" anyone have any other bands on this
label to reccomend to me? they have a website here:   http://www.elefant.com
but i haven't investigated the sound samples yet.

    i also picked up one of those apres-midi comps chuck had recently posted
about. the one i have is called ecru and quite nice.  one of the tracks on
here is called "montage from how sweet it is" by the love generation.  the
writing credit is "j. webb". would this be jack webb? and what's the story
on the love generation? it seems like this may of been discussed recently
and i have forgotten what was said.

   oh, and i saw a disc by preston epps called "bongo rock". it seems like
this may of been mentioned recently too. but i can't remember.  is this
something i should go back for?

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From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dean Elliott CD out now
Date: 08 Jul 2001 19:59:39 +0200


Dean Elliott's Zounds! What Sounds! has officialy been reissued by Basta
Audio/Visuals.

This is from Bastamusic.com:

ZOUNDS! WHAT SOUNDS!, the legendary 1963 album by Dean Elliot & His Swinging
Big, Big Band, is now on CD as part of Basta's Essential Reissues series.
The album is a wild collaboration between orchestra director Elliot and
cartoon sound effects wizard Phil Kaye. The inspiration for Zounds! came
when the L.A.-based bandleader was tooling around Woodland Hills, and
stopped for a traffic light. His ears caught the rhythm of a cement mixer
nearby, and he started snapping his fingers in synch with the mixer's
gyrations. "This has a terrific beat," thought Elliot. "How would it go with
a melody?" Thus was born the woofer-wasting, tweeter-trashing Zounds! What
Sounds! Elliot's arrangements combine the orchestral explosiveness of Nelson
Riddle with the percussive deviltry of Spike Jones: brass and reeds compete
for soundspace against short-wave signals, mechanical teeth, squeaking
doors, bowling balls, hoot owls, pogo stick springs and underwater
detonations. The sound effects were courtesy of Phil Kaye, a sonic alchemist
whose mayhem underscored Tom & Jerry cartoons.

The master tape of Zounds! that Basta received from Capitol was in excellent
condition. Inferior-quality bootlegs have been circulating for years,
reflecting the collector's status of this legendary LP. Sadly, Elliot passed
away in 1999 and did not live to see the commercial re-release of this
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Date: 08 Jul 2001 14:52:39 EDT


> His ears caught the rhythm of a cement mixer
nearby, and he started snapping his fingers in synch with the mixer's
gyrations. "This has a terrific beat," thought Elliot. "How would it go with
a melody?"

That's two songs inspired by L.A. cement mixers - the other being "Cement
Mixer (Puttee Puttee)" by Slim Gaillard.


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Date: 08 Jul 2001 15:00:35 EDT



In a message dated 7/7/1 3:15:02 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

>James Brown as an Evangelist with psychic powers.  He really didn't
>have to act at all, just his always cool self with that slight pompadour.

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From: Paul Penna <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Pervasive Percussion - what is it?
Date: 08 Jul 2001 14:02:55 -0700


Any info about this album would be appreciated.

It's a reel-to reel tape on the Encore label (catalog number E 28), an
outfit renowned for scarfing recordings from other budget labels and
repackaging them in an attempt to cash in on whatever fad was popular at
the time. The title and the cover graphics are an obvious knockoff of the
PP percussion albums of the time, but the tracks themselves seem to be
aimed at the Martin Denny market. It's a small ensemble, piano, prominent
percussion, vibes or xylophone, bass plus sax and trombone. Three tracks
feature prominent "bird calls" in the Denny vein, and one ("Eso es el
amor") have guys roaring and snarling like lions or panthers. Here's a
track listing:

Temptation
An Occasional Man
Mambo Inn
Eso es el amor
Mambo Italiano
The Bad and the Beautiful
Return to Paradise
Cool Mambo
Caravan
Cuban Caper

I suspect these tracks were issued at other times, perhaps in different
combinations, on other albums with different titles. Any idea who was
behind it, or the performers involved?




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From: Paul Wages <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Pervasive Percussion - what is it?
Date: 08 Jul 2001 17:24:16 -0500


Sounds like "Exotic Percussion and Brilliant Brass" by John Evans
(Directional Sound DS 5006).  Apparently it is actually the Francis Bay
orchestra re-produced by Kirby Allan with Chaino.

This album has some nice moments.

> From: Paul Penna <[e-mail]>
>
> Any info about this album would be appreciated.
>
> It's a reel-to reel tape on the Encore label (catalog number E 28), an
> outfit renowned for scarfing recordings from other budget labels and
> repackaging them in an attempt to cash in on whatever fad was popular at
> the time. The title and the cover graphics are an obvious knockoff of the



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Subject: Re: (exotica) la casa azul and other things
Date: 08 Jul 2001 17:40:15 -0400


At 12:53 AM 7/9/01 +0800, william wrote:
>
>    i also picked up one of those apres-midi comps chuck had recently posted
>about. the one i have is called ecru and quite nice.  one of the tracks on
>here is called "montage from how sweet it is" by the love generation.  the
>writing credit is "j. webb". would this be jack webb? and what's the story
>on the love generation? it seems like this may of been discussed recently
>and i have forgotten what was said.

The Love Generation would probably be included in the "soft pop" category.
(I believe that one song by them - at least - is on the exoticaring CD
called "Dieingly Sad".  I guess it hasn't gotten to you yet william.)
The Love Generation were mentioned here recently by me actually.  The
context was the Wind Sky and Diamond record by Gabor Szabo. The "choir" on
that record and a number of other records of the same period was led by the
Bahler brothers who were also the main force behind The Love Generation.
As far as "Montage from How Sweet it is" and J. Webb, please pardon me if I
find some humor in the idea that you saw J.Webb and guessed Jack instead of
Jimmy.
"How Sweet it is" was a movie with James Garner and Debbie Reynolds with a
mildly groovy soundtrack by Pat Williams.
But there are two tunes written by Jim Webb and sung by - according to the
liner notes anyway - "the Picardy Singers".  That's obviously yet another
name for those pesky little Bahler brothers, who are also known as The
California Dreamers on other records.
As to whether you should buy it, depends on your taste.  I kind of doubt
you'd like it but then again, there's that soft pop/pizzicato five connection.

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From: "Colleen Pyles" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) question 2
Date: 08 Jul 2001 17:10:52 -0500


Anything from Hawaiian Eye?  Or 77 Sunset Strip?
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is there any interest in near mint copies of many of the early
original TV
spy jazzand the like, and also many records by tv stars
singing, =A0like ben
casey etc etc? =A0i was at a shop today that had a TON of these kinds o=
f
records, all in great shape, and cheap.

are these worth procuring?

pb/




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Subject: (exotica) [obit] H.S. Grossbardt
Date: 09 Jul 2001 10:14:28 -0400


July 9, 2001
H. S. Grossbardt, 85, Record Store Founder, Dies
By MATT SEDENSKY,NYTimes
Harold S. Grossbardt, a founder of Colony Records, the famed collector's store now on Broadway at 49th Street in Manhattan, died on June 10 at his home in Aventura, Fla. He was 85.

Mr. Grossbardt, who was known as Nappy, helped make Colony a fixture of Tin Pan Alley, the center of New York's music publishing industry. He founded the store in 1948 with his partner, Sidney Turk, and the first shop fast became popular with music lovers and musicians.

In the 1950's, with nightclubs like the Copacabana and Birdland nearby, Colony, then at 52nd Street and Broadway, became a frequent late-night stop for concertgoers and nightclub patrons. Hundreds of musical artists, from Frank Sinatra to John Lennon to Michael Jackson, have passed through its doors.

The store underwent a number of expansions, moving in 1970 to its current location. Mr. Grossbardt also operated Nappy's and Tin Pan Alley, two offspring of Colony, in the 1950's and 1960's.

Mr. Grossbardt was born in Brooklyn, and went to work after the seventh grade. He was a salesman at the Melody Music Shop in Brooklyn and at Colony Sporting Goods. When that store closed, Mr. Grossbardt took it over and renamed it Colony Records. He worked there until his retirement in 1988.

He is survived by his wife, Estelle; two sons, Michael J., of Roslyn, N.Y., and Alan R., of Great Neck, N.Y., who is an owner of Colony Records; a brother, Jerome, of Manhattan; a sister, Dorothy Capobianco, of Delray Beach, Fla.; and a grandson.



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From: Bruce Lenkei <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) recent finds
Date: 09 Jul 2001 11:57:42 -0400 (EDT)



Stopped by a thrift store recently that I've been to half a dozen times.
They never had anything besides classical, opera and show tunes, but all
of a sudden this time they had a bunch of decent albums.

Edmundo Ros - Hair Goes Latin
Heard about this for a long time. Nice to finally find a copy. Its crazy
ideas like this that make me keep buying this stuff. Fun.

Quincy Jones - Big Band Bossa Nova
Been looking for this for years. Even though it's out on cd now, it's
still nice to get the original Lp. Some great funky tunes on this one.

Kokee Band: Exotica 1970
A Sonny Lester project. From 1966, actually. A bunch of exotica classics
are covered. Some very nice music.

Ray Charles - Something Special
Bright, shiny silver cover. Completely insane version of "Music to Watch
Girls By", along with some slightly less insane songs.

Lenny Dee - Relaxin'
Some fairly mellowed-out goings on here, vocals on some tunes, punctuated
by a few slightly more up-tempo tunes.

Marty Gold - Skin Tight
Wow. Great music, great half-naked-woman cover.

The Brass Ring - Lara's Theme
Extremely E-Z listening.

Joe Bushkin - Night Sounds
Light, relaxing jazzy sounds, mostly.

George Shearing - Latin Escapade
Great stuff here. I think this may be my favorite Shearing album so far.

Nelson Riddle with 101 strings - Brass, Reeds & Strings
Damned if this isnt one of the best 101 strings albums Ive heard. Packed
with power and swing, no doubt thanks to Mr. Riddle. A big, bold sound.
Some great titles too, like "Playboys Theme" and "Indiscreet".

The Organ Masters
The title of this escapes me, but it doesn't really matter as this was the
cheesiest of the bunch. An all-organ combo plods through the hits of the
day. Slightly amusing, but not a great album.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds
Date: 09 Jul 2001 12:04:32 -0400



> Edmundo Ros - Hair Goes Latin
> Heard about this for a long time. Nice to finally find a copy. Its crazy
> ideas like this that make me keep buying this stuff. Fun.

I don't have the original of this, but have heard a number of tracks from it
on the Va-Ba-Boom! compilation of his stuff. Brilliant. Absolutely
brilliant.  Hare Krishna with a latin beat. Who'd a thought?

I had a good weekend for thrift store finds too, but will have to post later
tonight, as I'm at work, and they're at home.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds
Date: 09 Jul 2001 15:55:15 -0400


At 11:57 AM 7/9/01 -0400, Bruce Lenkei wrote:
>
>Kokee Band: Exotica 1970
>A Sonny Lester project. From 1966, actually. A bunch of exotica classics
>are covered. Some very nice music.

You got some nice records there.  Thankfully I don't feel jealous since
I've had most of them.  (I agree about the George Shearing.  That's
definitely my favorite one of his.)
Suddenly I question my own motivations but I was going to point out that in
my opinion, the OTHER Kokee Band record - Hawaii and other exotica movie
themes - is the better record.
But maybe you have that one too.
It's just so slow here lately.

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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) recent finds
Date: 09 Jul 2001 13:08:46 -0700 (PDT)


This is good. I had no idea there was a 2nd Kokee Band
lp. That one must be particularly scarce - I've never
seen a ref. to it. Only come across one copy of
Exotica 1970 in all my thrift scouring days.
--- alan  zweig <[e-mail]> wrote:
I question my own motivations but I was
> going to point out that in
> my opinion, the OTHER Kokee Band record - Hawaii and
> other exotica movie
> themes - is the better record.
> But maybe you have that one too.
> It's just so slow here lately.


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Date: 09 Jul 2001 17:44:35 EDT



In a message dated 7/9/1 10:58:31 AM, [e-mail] wrote:

>George Shearing - Latin Escapade
>Great stuff here. I think this may be my favorite Shearing album so far.

anything with the name Shearing and Latin in the same title seems worthwhile.
I have about 4 with him doing latin

>Nelson Riddle with 101 strings - Brass, Reeds & Strings
>Damned if this isnt one of the best 101 strings albums Ive heard. Packed
>with power and swing, no doubt thanks to Mr. Riddle. A big, bold sound.
>Some great titles too, like "Playboys Theme" and "Indiscreet".

this one's a monster i agree..It was released on CD back in '87 and a pal
gave me a copy about 4 years ago which is relegated to "permanent ownership"
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Subject: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 09 Jul 2001 20:06:05 -0400


Alan said:
>It's just so slow here lately.

So okay, maybe we're due for me to roll out this query I throw out every
couple of years. There should be enough new people to make it interesting.
If everyone hasn't fallen asleep or gone off on vacation.

The topic being:

What are your earliest memories of records, record players, record playing,
record buying, etc? What was the earliest favorite record you can recall?

I've answered this twice before, but I guess I'm obligated.

My early records were mostly 45s on the Golden Records label. My folks
probably picked them up on the weekly trips to the Food Fair supermarket or
Woolworth's. Our record player was a 4-speed tabletop model, with the
single speaker in the front and a light-colored, textured vinyl covering. I
can't remember the brand. Of course, playing records at the wrong speed was
a standard fun activity.

The earliest favorite I can determine is a Rocky & Bullwinkle single, "I'm
Rocky's Pal" / "I Was Born To Be Airborne". It's cut by the genuine cartoon
voice artists, and maintains the TV show's sense of humor. "Airborne" is
okay, but nothing too exciting. A song by Rocky about how he loves to fly,
with occasional jet swoops added in. "Rocky's Pal" is the hot side,
basically Rocky and Bullwinkle doing a vaudeville act. Rocky introduces
Bullwinkle. Bullwinkle sings his little song ("I'm Rocky's pal, I'm Rocky's
pal / So greetings, culture buffs..."). They do some standup patter, with
Bullwinkle doing a medium referential stuck needle bit. And on out with
Bullwinkle's juggling act. It's an action-packed couple of minutes. I still
have it, it's very worn, it's still a great side.

So let's get rolling now... what are your early record memories?

thanks,


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Subject: (exotica) Martin Denny "Quiet Village"
Date: 09 Jul 2001 20:58:41 -0400


The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny
"Quiet Village"
(Liberty Records/Stereo)

The trouble with scoring big-name records like this, is that I'm not sure
what sort of comments I can add to what's already been said.

Well, it's a real nice set. Still a small, tight combo, but they seem
settled into a very relaxed (but not lazy!) and confident groove by this
point. I think personally, I prefer these albums with Julius Wechter. For
whatever reasons, I just prefer his work to Lyman's, he seems a little more
colorful to me. When did Wechter take over, anyway? I know Lyman is on the
first two.

A nice balance between easy tunes and busy tunes, and even the slow ones
are inventive enough to maintain interest. Strangely, a few of the fast
tunes strike me as having a sort of prog rock knottiness to the lines
(sorry, I'm sure that comparison is distasteful to some).

Well recorded. The hand drums crack wonderfully on some of the tunes.

As usual, Sandy Warner on the cover, the silent member of the band. Nice
liner notes by film director, John Sturges.

I have to compare the version of "Quiet Village" to the version on
"Exotica" sometime, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. It doesn't sound
like it matches the rest of this album, but I seem to recall the earlier
version sounding different as well. What's the official word on that?

thanks,

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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 09 Jul 2001 19:38:16 -0700



> So let's get rolling now... what are your early record memories?

The very very earliest - I must have been around 3 or 4 - is Bozo Under the
Sea.  Just bought a Capitol Record Reader set of 78s of this not long ago
for that very reason. :)

Then I blank out for a few years and start getting memories again in 1965
starting with Roger Miller's Golden Hits.  "You Can't Roller Skate In A
Buffalo Herd" rocked my nine year old world.

About a year later, I would spend many hours (alone) in our garage with our
1950s German console hi-fi listening to (over and over)

The Lonely Bull

The Smothers Brothers - I think it was "The Two Sides of".  On the funny
side was "Chocolate" and on the singing side was "Stella's Got A Brand New
Dress", among others.

A Sammy Davis Jr. 45 - Hey There

Halloween Spooky Sounds 45

A Buddy Hackett comedy record - one of the tracks was about a diet and being
buried in an envelope

My Fair Lady

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Then I got with it in 68 and 69 and started getting my cool records like:

Creedence
Blood Sweat and Tears
Sly and the Family Stone
The Doors
Buffalo Springfield

And an Animals 45 of Sky Pilot that I played to death.





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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour
Date: 09 Jul 2001 22:15:57 -0500


You'll find music for belly dancing on this week's Retro Cocktail
Hour webcast.  A while back, yours truly was approached by the
artistic director of Troupe Raghsidad, a local dance troupe, about
collaborating on one of their performances.   Instead of the
traditional Middle Eastern tunes, her idea was to feature traditional
dances set to classic exotica by Don Ralke, Enoch Light, Les Baxter
and others.  You can read all about it at:

http://www.ljworld.com/section/living/story/58576

This week's show also features an interview with the troupe's
artistic director, spiced with tunes from Troupe Raghsidad's upcoming
concert.

Elsewhere, you'll find tiki tunes by the Out Islanders and John Zorn;
crime jazz by Stan Purdy, Pete Rugolo and Earle Hagen; bongo jazz by
the great Mike Pacheco;  music from Basta's Dean Elliott reissue;
plus tunes by Arling and Cameron, Combustible Edison and the amazing
"Laid Bare", with noir jazz by Skip Heller and the spoken words of
John Gilmore.

To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the web, just visit:

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

Comments and requests always welcome.  Thanks!

Darrell Brogdon
The Retro Cocktail Hour
KANU FM 91.5
Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at:
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Subject: (exotica) ktel anyone?
Date: 10 Jul 2001 12:09:43 +0800



k-tel anyone? they even have promotional cds you can make. hmm.


http://www.ktel.com/



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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 12:34:27 +0200


It's pretty touching how you try to start a game, Mike. Although I'm not against games, I guess, if theres nothing to say, then there's nothing to say, so why not just say nothing? I mean, I don't want to spoil anything here, but I think the list is not endangered if for a while it's running slower.

If you want to hear it however, my first record was "Marina" by Rocco Granata and I used to play it a thousand times on a "Neckermann" radio with built-in record player. And of course everything was mono, but that didn't matter. I must have been 4 years old by then. The first records I remember I wanted to have and got for christmas were "Puppet On A String" by Sandie Shaw and an album by the Tremeloes called "Silence Is Golden"...

Yes, silence is golden.


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From: bigshot <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New Music Xfer Email Discussion List
Date: 10 Jul 2001 03:47:02 -0700


Hello,

Computers and CD burners have made it possible for music
collectors to create their own professional quality audio CDs.
I have created an email discussion list for people who are
creating CDs to archive their obsolete record and tape
collections. This is a forum to share restoration and sound
digitization techniques, to discuss ways to preserve music
that is not currently available on commercial CDs, and to
share your collections with others. All formats (Reel to Reel,
Cassette, 78 rpm, 45 rpm, and 33 1/3 rpm) and all types of
music are open for discussion.

The group has just been formed, so get in on the ground floor
and help to make it a useful resource.

For more information, or to join the MusicXfer list, visit...
http://www.topica.com/lists/musicxfer

Thanks
Steve


      Stephen Worth
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Subject: (exotica) Physics Yum Yum
Date: 10 Jul 2001 12:44:01 +0200



There's presently a series on Dutch radio called 'Science in
music', today's episode, 'You quark me up', was about physics=20
and music and custum made for exoticats, so I've looked up the=20
URL's of the featured artist's websites and I give them to you
along with some info I found there.

Cheers, Ton


Les Horribles Cernettes are the one and only High Energy Rock=20
Band. They sing about colliders, quarks, microwaves, antiprotons
and Internet. They are known and loved by some 20000 High Energy=20
Physicists worldwide. Check these few songs to have an idea, and=20
if you are music producer, you have found your gold mine!=20

http://musiclub.cern.ch/cernettes/

This group of techies (engineers, scientists, computer geeks,=20
and NASA employees) performs pop and rock covers and original=20
songs inspired by our modern world. The World Wide Web,=20
television, and fast food - they're all subjects of Chromatics=20
originals. The Chromies have also written astronomically-correct
a cappella songs to be used in classrooms for a project called=20
AstroCappella. The Chromatics have presented AstroCappella from=20
Palm Springs, California to Orlando, Florida, from Las Vegas to=20
Space Day on the Washington DC Mall, had their lyrics quoted in=20
the New York Times and their CD has flown in space! No kidding!=20

http://www.thechromatics.com/

Yo! This site is your ultimate resource for information about=20
Stephen Hawking the gangsta rapper. While there are dozens of=20
other sites on the web devoted to Stephen Hawking's scientific=20
achievements, I am unaware of a single site (aside from this=20
one) devoted to his career as a lyrical terrorist. Despite=20
three critically acclaimed albums and nearly ten years on the=20
mic, Stephen Hawking remains virtually unknown as a musician.=20
Well to hell with that noize, this is a new millenium and my=20
boy MC Hawking is gonna be crazy large! So check out the crib.=20

http://www.mchawking.com/

The Physics Chanteuse is a cabaret-style musical act produced=20
and performed by physicist and chanteuse Lynda Williams for=20
scientists at conferences and meetings. For each performance=20
Ms. Williams researches the scientific topic and writes custom
songs and repartee which are usually performed at the event's=20
banquet. She has performed for scientists all over the world=20
and has been featured in the NY Times, People Magazine and Good=20
Morning America. Ms. Williams also performs her musical science=20
shows for the general public in Cosmic Cabaret, and for teens=20
in schools in Science Rave. The 'greatest hits' of the Physics=20
Chanteuse are now available on her CD, Cosmic Cabaret (plus
there's her Maxwell's Equations CD including Maxwell's Equations=20
in Vacuum. T.).

http://www.scientainment.com/pchant.html






 *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** *** ***=20
 *** Ton R=FCckert  Mozartstraat 12  5914RB Venlo  The Netherlands ***
 *** [e-mail]  http://www.plex.nl/~mojoto   31/0 773545386 ***
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 ~~~ ~~~ ~~~  http://www.hammacher.com/s_and_l/index.asp ~~~ ~~~ ~~~
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From: Edward <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 13:06:59 +0200


Aaah yes, you see? Probably all of us enjoyed music in such a way that we played those 3 scratchy EP's
over and over again on the lousiest mono record player you could ever imagine. And remember
how happy we were?   And today?
We are nitpicking about the sound quality of CD vs. Vinyl on our high end Hi-Fi, and as soon as we buy
an album, we are already looking for the next one... [ 'sigh' emoticon here]

I don't remember the brand of the record player (I still coudn't read then) but I do remember the specific smell it had. We got our EP's from our aunt, who used to dance on Top of the Pops every week. (She almost married the manager of Simon & Garfunkel)
My first memories of vinyl was a 'Peter and the Wolf' 10" (scaaarrry) but most of all I played the 7" 'What do you wanna make those eyes at me for? ' by Emil Ford and the Checkmates. Turns out it was a Joe Meek record. Do I get the prize for coolest rugrat or what?

Ed

Moritz R wrote:

> If you want to hear it however, my first record was "Marina" by Rocco Granata and I used to play it a thousand times on a "Neckermann" radio with built-in record player. And of course everything was mono, but that didn't matter. I must have been 4 years old by then. The first records I remember I wanted to have and got for christmas were "Puppet On A String" by Sandie Shaw and an album by the Tremeloes called "Silence Is Golden"...
>
> Yes, silence is golden.



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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 06:30:16 -0700 (PDT)


My father had a large cardboard box filled with 45s
from the 1950s. having lost interest with them, he
left them to my brother, my sister and I to play with.
This was unfortunate, in an adult retrospective way,
because , over time, we ruined them. At any length,
there was everything in that box from Bing Crosby pop
to Hank Williams and His Drifting Cowboys to Elvis &
Little Richard. We would play these on one of those
boxy flip-top children's phonographs with a roofing
nail for a stylus (maybe a few of you had the same).
My favorites at the time were Little Richard's Heebee
Jeebies, Sheb Wooley's Flying Purple People Eater,
David Seville's The Witch Doctor, Bill Justis's
Midnight Man (the flipside of Raunchy), and someone's
(female)version of Boll Weevil. After this came the
dark year or so of Donny Osmond, which led right to
total immersion in the Alice Cooper band (the good and
celibate Sisters of St Joseph nurtured a fascination
with bubblegum perversity and the occult in  the the
clip-on tie waifs, earboxed, knuckle struck and
lectured repeatedly of the link between Satan, Hitler,
Rock music, sex, hippies, protestantism, communism and
Mad Magazine. Heady times, indeed).
--- "m.ace" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> The topic being:
>
> What are your earliest memories of records, record
> players, record playing,
> record buying, etc? What was the earliest favorite
> record you can recall?


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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 16:37:16 +0100



>What are your earliest memories of records, record players, record
>playing, record buying, etc? What was the earliest favorite record you can
>recall?

my first record players were kids record players which usually were square
plastic things in a strange orange (sometimes white) color. they were
called mangiadischi (record "eater"!) and tended to ruin our 7" by
consuming them heavily in the part closer to the central hole. Maybe this
was the reason for the name? the vinyl eater? ;)

>My early records were mostly 45s on the Golden Records label. My folks
>probably picked them up on the weekly trips to the Food Fair supermarket
>or Woolworth's. Our record player was a 4-speed tabletop model, with the
>single speaker in the front and a light-colored, textured vinyl covering.
>I can't remember the brand. Of course, playing records at the wrong speed
>was a standard fun activity.

my early records were mostly themes from tv shows and cartoons... all from
1970s-early 1980s Italian TV. Some of this stuff is now on cheap cds or
illegal mp3s. ;) And of course there were spoken word records with
fairytales and shit like that.
Favourite ones? Difficult to tell. Maybe I can tell you some; one was "mani
mani" (probably a b-side?) on a Loretta Goggi (tv showgirl from the 1970s,
still active) 7". Another was the theme from Atlas Ufo Robot (i.e. Goldrake
or - for the japanese - Grendizer)... there were two 45 rpm singles sung by
"Actarus". He was a front (of course) and one of the producer was Vince
Tempera (film music composer and orchestra director, also often seen
conducting the orchestra at the Sanremo festival), while another (playing
this absurd spacey-bassline on the b-side "Shooting star") was Ares
Tavolazzi of "progressive" cult band Area.
Looks like our kids music at the time was made by some interesting folks
(but this was not an isolated thing: several other interesting names like
Augusto Martelli have composed stuff for cartoons).
"Shooting star" was cool because it was also one of the first songs in
english I can remember (it was used on the cartoon during the end titles,
and it was not so frequent to have english songs in this type of tv programs).

"fly, my ufo robot in the sky..."

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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 10:30:56 -0400


A CD submitted to the Exoticaring jogged my memory - I think I still have =
that damn record too - The Electric Company.  I loved the song about Jelly =
Belly.  The cover had a neat-o wheel set into the front cover.  You turn =
the wheel and various illustrations show up in the die-cut sections of the =
cover.

Also loved my GI JOE book and records.  Secret Mission to Spy Island and =
the like.  Sound bites from these show up with amazing regularity on the =
earlier Man or AstroMan albums.  These are great *kitsch* items, the =
acting is so over-the-top!!  Also Joe's buddy Mike has a killer record =
collection - one instro was used to scare a bunch of head hunters away =
from Joe, blasted from a hovering copter!!

I used my Mom's old portable electric turntable.  It was light blue and =
cased in plastic.  The speakers would flip out from the sides to face the =
listener, and the turntable would plop down from the front.  Folded up, it =
resembled a large suit-case.

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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 16:42:52 +0100



>If you want to hear it however, my first record was "Marina" by Rocco Granata

oh God.
circa 1989 or 1990 I was in a crap department store called Stand (owned at
the time by our now Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi...) and saw a Rocco &
The Carnations "Marina (New Beat Version)" 45.
It said it had a remix (in the "new beat" Belgian style of 1980s) on the A
side and the original (apparently rerecorded since it seems too clean and
stereophonic) on the other.
I bought it because in that period 7" were still relatively easy to find
and cheap (they would have almost disappeared from the mass marker within a
year or so).
I listened to it and thought it was crap. It was #1 hit for months.

There must be a hidden meaning in all this.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) ktel anyone?
Date: 10 Jul 2001 16:48:44 +0100


oh God. Bought some of their house music compilations circa 1989.
but their idea of custom cds is crap because is directed mostly to business
(100 copies minimum quantity).
Unless someone here wants to do the exotica list compilation and have it
pressed by them ;) but I don't like much the fact that most of the titles
are re-recordings (as usually happens with budget cds...)

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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 10:56:08 -0400


Mo wrote:
>It's pretty touching how you try to start a game, Mike.

A game? Do I amuse you? Well, I don't know about touching... nosy maybe.
But, it's been two years. Time to find out how the newer people got started
with the obsession. And it usually turns up some pretty interesting memories.

I need to clarify my own post: my folks went to the market every week, but
didn't buy records every week. There weren't anywhere near that amount of
records in the house. Weekly records came in my teens when I had an
allowance and it all went to my budding vinyl addiction. Had to have a
record a week to stay sane.



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Subject: Fwd: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 10:57:09 -0400


[Forwarding this. I'm sure it was meant for the whole list. Apologies if
wrong. --m.ace]

>Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 21:37:54 -0400
>Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
>From: David KoJen <[e-mail]>
>
>on 7/9/01 8:06 PM, m.ace at [e-mail] wrote:
>
> > So let's get rolling now... what are your early record memories?
>
>My parents bought a bunch of 45's for us kids: Gilbert&Sullivan's HMS
>Pinafore (2 songs from it); and Puff the Magic Dragon were the two I
>remember. And, on 33, Harry Belafonte's Calypso. But my mother had to play
>that one for us; we could only play the 45's ourselves.
>
>Another memory: got some nasty electric shocks from that record player.
>Equipment was poorly designed back then
>(yes, even more poorly than nowadays), and, in my household at least, my
>father was pretty casual about electrical things. When I told him about the
>shock (Standing barefoot on basement concrete floor and touching the metal
>chassis), we got out his voltmeter and said "110 volts; that's potentially
>lethal!" Told me to be careful (Wear shoes, and don't touch the metal
>parts!)
>
>
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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 16:52:50 +0200


Edward schrieb:

> Aaah yes, you see? Probably all of us enjoyed music in such a way that we played those 3 scratchy EP's over and over again on the lousiest mono record player you could ever imagine. And remember how happy we were?

I remember one summer when I took the record player, some red and white plastic thingy, out into the garden for the first time, and managed to make scratches into the end groove of singles, in a way that the arm of the player would automatically swing back into the start groove, so I had a sort of repeat function when clinbing on the trees. Of course the records would not become any better by that procedure, but I still have 'em and play them occasionally.

> And today?

> We are nitpicking about the sound quality of CD vs. Vinyl on our high end Hi-Fi, and as soon as we buy an album, we are already looking for the next oneà

Two of my friends turned into hifi-maniacs recently... it's bananas. They buy this super-expensive equipment, f.i. this box for 500$, that just smoothens the incoming electricity somehow. Speakers absolutely over-dimensioned for a 16 sqm room. An amplifier with an electronic eye in the the middle that shows the temperature of it and so on. One of these guys only touches his record player with special gloves, to avoid static electricity or finger prints or what. Jeesh... once you've got the money, you've got to spend it.

> [ 'sigh' emoticon here] >;-]
>
> My first memories of vinyl was a 'Peter and the Wolf' 10" (scaaarrry)

did you have this version with a 10" booklet and colored drawings with sort of bright lines on dark background?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 17:34:11 +0200




Nicola Battista schrieb:

> >If you want to hear it however, my first record was "Marina" by Rocco Granata
> Rocco &
> The Carnations "Marina (New Beat Version)" 45.
> It said it had a remix (in the "new beat" Belgian style of 1980s) on the A
> side and the original (apparently rerecorded since it seems too clean and
> stereophonic) on the other.

I have that too and was disappointed as well.

"Marina" was a big big #1 hit in Europe, yet it's almost unknown in America.

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Subject: (exotica) record memories etc.
Date: 10 Jul 2001 23:45:31 +0800



>What are your earliest memories of records, record players, record playing,
>record buying, etc? What was the earliest favorite record you can recall?

   my earliest memories are of playing story book 7"s on something like a
playschool record player. i remember listening to the mother hubbard record
a lot. but i don't recall really listening to much pop music. i know it must
of been there, but i don't recall it. i also remember listening to some sort
of storybook record a full length album i think that was about four little
beetles with long hair. they arrive into some kingdom on the tail of a kite,
but other than  that i remember very little about it. i think they left the
kingdom on the tail of a kite too but i'm not sure. anyone have any idea
what this record might of been?

>The Love Generation would probably be included in the "soft pop" category.
>(I believe that one song by them - at least - is on the exoticaring CD
>called "Dieingly Sad".  I guess it hasn't gotten to you yet william.)

   thanks for the info alan.  as it turned out after i wrote that post and
sent it i put on your comp diengly sad and noticed they had  a few tracks on
there. i'm not sure if i would like a full album of theirs'  or just like
them in small doses as part of a comp.

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From: kendoll <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 10:35:02 -0600


Moritz R wrote:

> If you want to hear it however, my first record was "Marina" by Rocco Granata and I used to play it a thousand times on a "Neckermann" radio with built-in record player.

i bought the album recently (Marina & Other Italian Favorites by Rocco Granata) because i'll buy just about any record with 'Volare' on it. as i have no emotional attachment to it, i'd be willing to trade. perhaps you have my childhood favorite? it was a connie francis album about animals. the only song i can remember now is 'Oscar the Octopus' which must have been my favorite. i'm sure this wasn't my first record but it's one that i
played over and over ad nauseum. i think i was taken by the plaintive quality in connie's voice. even though it was a children's record, there was a minor key, depressive quality to it. in ten years of thrift store scrounging i've yet to find this record.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 13:35:17 -0400


I don't remember much.
I thought of making up a story where I was a small child in love with one
particular cut on one of my father's LP's and I knew that it was the third
cut on the side that had five cuts (instead of six) and one day when my
parents were out, I crawled up on the Philips console stereo in the
livingroom where I wasn't allowed and put on the record, swinging that
silly armature thing (what did you call that?) on top of it so that it
would drop nice.  But it wouldn't drop!  It wouldn't get over that bump in
the spindle that was supposed to move out of the way when you hit play.
And I got frustrated and leaned inside to make the record play and fell
into the record player myself.  And the top fell down on top of me.  And I
was trapped inside the record player but I didn't care because somehow my
falling in managed to make the record fall and the needle bumped over to
the third cut and I got to hear my favorite cut from inside the record player.

And that cut was...

I'm actually going to go to the shelves and see if I can find a record my
father might have had and then find something that's the third cut...

Okay our choices are:

1) Admiral Dual Channel Stereophonic Demonstration record.
Side two, the fourth cut looks like the third cut for some reason and it is...
"Delicado, Baia" by Russ Garcia
So that's the exotica choice.  (And actually a nice cut that I never heard
before just now.)

2) A New Beat by the Metropolitan Toronto Police Association Male Chorus
on side two, cut three they do "Hatikva" which is the Israeli national anthem.
I'm not sure I would have appreciated the irony as a child but certainly my
father would have gotten a kick out of a bunch of goyim - and cops no less!
- singing in Hebrew.

3) Songs about Zorro and Other TV heroes
This seems like a good choice since I loved Zorro and there's a great
picture of him here.
Not only that but cut three on side two is "The Ballad of Davy Crockett"
sung by Fess Parker and...
Myself and my best friend Stephen Moses used to sing and act out this song
for school assemblies up until about grade four.  I distinctly remember how
I would pretend to kill him - as if he was the bear that Davy killed when
he was only three or four.

While I'm at it, I might as well admit that the other act I performed for
school assemblies was my imitation of Mahalia Jackson singing "He's got the
whole world in his hands".  Apparently it was so realistic - at six or
seven - that I didn't need to do in blackface.

I think I'll leave it there.

The only true memory I have is when our cleaning woman Maria stacked all my
records and books on top of my "record player" so she could clean my room.
As an experiment and so as to prove to my mother how silly an idea that was
- supposedly so she could explain it to Maria - my brother and I actually
attempted to lift the lid of the record player while keeping all the
records and books on top of it.  It didn't work.

No cleaning woman comments please.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 10:41:05 -0700 (PDT)


My earliest memory of music was (thanks to older
brother and sisters)

1. The Mummy (a parody of Kookie, Kookie, Lend me Your
Comb)
2. a 45 record for a film called Only When I Larf,
which was whistled (I'm 99% sure of this).
3. Age of Aquarius--5th Dimension
4. That Disney Haunted House record with all the sound
effects one one side and the creepy woman narrator on
the other.
5. reader's digest xmas album (some odd stuff on it)

JC

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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 14:01:16 -0400


At 10:41 AM 7/10/01 -0700, J o h n wrote:
>
>My earliest memory of music was (thanks to older
>brother and sisters)
>
>1. The Mummy (a parody of Kookie, Kookie, Lend me Your
>Comb)

Do you know what record it was on?

And was it actually called the Mummy?

It sounds like "Two heads are better than one" by Spike Jones.

I have that cut on the compilation "How to get the most out of your stereo"
and I always assume that for many people their first record was such a
"demonstration" record.

I can totally see how I would have loved this cut as a kid if I'd heard it.
 And it has great stereo effects and even that "third dimension" sound.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 11:04:01 -0700 (PDT)



>
>
> Do you know what record it was on?
>
> And was it actually called the Mummy?

Yep. It was called The Mummy and it was by "Dor" who I
later found out was Rod McKuen. (I'm pretty sure.) The
premise is a mummy walking around scaring people, who
scream-- until he comes across a beatnik who could
care less. The last line of the record is the hipster
saying "like, help."  I recently refound the 45 at a
shop (with a picture sleeve, even!).
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Subject: RE: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 11:31:10 -0700


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of J o h n
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 11:04 AM

> Yep. It was called The Mummy and it was by "Dor" who I
> later found out was Rod McKuen. (I'm pretty sure.)

Yup, it's him and Bob McFadden. There's a fantastic cover of "I'm A Mummy"
done by The Fall on their "Levitate" album as well.

Later,
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Subject: (exotica) second hand: a novel (fwd)
Date: 10 Jul 2001 16:38:31 -0400 (EDT)



Got this sent to my website and it sounds like the sort of thing list
members would be interested in.

- bruce

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Hello-
I know these anonymous e-mailings really make a person feel special,
but I wanted to let you know about the trade paperback edition of my
novel, SECOND HAND, which takes place in the incredibly strange world
of thrift stores and junk culture.

If youre interested in such ephemera -- be it objects, clothing, music,

books, or whatever -- you might want to check out this short press
release. Or my website: www.secondhandnovel.com.

If youre not interested, so sorry to have bothered you with this
one-time-only e-mailing.
Regards,
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as the unexpected garage sale find. Junk, narrator Richard tells us,
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purse or
that 40 copies of 'Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass's Whipped Cream and
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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 22:57:16 +0200




Moritz R schrieb:

>
> "Marina" was a big big #1 hit in Europe, yet it's almost unknown in America.

addition: it has an excellent B-side called "Manuela"

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From: mark koldys <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Pervasive Percussion
Date: 10 Jul 2001 17:26:15 -0400


The reel tape on Encore by this name was another example of this company's
switching around titles and contents. There was an LP on Omega called
"Pervasive Percussion"...depending on what pressing you ended up with it
could have held percussion music or theater organ tunes! The Encore tape was
something completely different--a reissue of most of the Omega release
"Temptation", which did in fact feature Chaino overdubs on tracks credited
to the Francis Bay Orchestra. Not only was Chaino overdubbed but so were the
bird calls, etc. This recording was more widely distributed on "Directional
Sound" as "Exotic Brass and Percussion" and attributed to "John Evans".

The tracks in their original state, minus the overdubs, first appeared on an
Omega LP called "Latin Rock" performed by "Los Gatos Ritmos". Now this group
MAY have been culled from the Francis Bay Orchestra, or not; until I find a
copy of "Latin Rock" I won't know if the notes explain who Los Gatos Ritmos
really were.

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Repost-sistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 17:35:51 -0400


With some variation, this is what I posted about two years ago:

The first memories that I have pertaining to the question are the
Electrophonic record player in my brother's room. It was beige and had a
picture of a conductor holding a baton on a podium. My parents had a
collection of 45's which my brother and I used to plow
through, such as:

Why Do Fools Fall in Love? - Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
The Minotaur - Dick Hyman and his Electric Eclectics
Le Chien (El Perro) - Eduardo Davidson (some name, eh?)
Don't Pat Me On My Back and Call Me Your Brother - Kasandra (that's a man,
folks!)



My mother and father had very eclectic tastes. My mother bought Lady
Madonna (trivia break! This was written for Fats Domino by the Beatles
which explains the odd timbre of McCartney's voice on the record. Domino
recorded it later) for the flipside, "The Inner Light" my first sitar
instrumental.

One day, my Father, a notorious, um...thrifty fellow, to hear my Mother
tell it, bought a new stereo for the living room. It had a Fisher
(pre-Sears) receiver, Garrard turntable, and Acoustic Research speakers
that weighed a ton, to me.  So what was the record I recall listening to on
it? A mono 78 of Cinderella. This version was so short, that it actually
ended at her going to the ball.   Last year, I found out about the glass
slipper thing, thank you Internet (just kidding). I also heard a record of
Hans Christian Anderson's "Little Match Girl". "Here now, you little brat!
Take these matches and don't come back until you've sold every one of them
or you won't get any supper!". With echo, that is pretty scary to a seven
year-old.  So there I was, selling my matches to pay for the stere...I
mean, one day, we dredged up the 78's from the basement. We made a tape of
them and some I can remember were:

Thermopylae - Stan Kenton (my brother's favorite)
Love for Sale - Stan Kenton (my favorite)
Otto, Make That Riff Staccato - Duke Ellington
Tell Me a Story - Frankie Laine/Jimmy Boyd
That was a good one:
"Tell me a story, tell me a story,
Remember what you said.
Tell me about the birds and bees,
How to make the kitten sneeze,
Tell me a story and then I'll go to bed"

It "ends" with a spanking. Incidentally, we used to make tapes off the air
all of the time. We used Kor/Sonic (E.J. Korvettes' house brand), Lebotone
and Memorex compact cassettes (Invented by Philips in 1963 and do they give
me ONE bit of a royalty check, no!) and had a Concord tape recorder that
had a dial and a red button (that was for recording). We taped programs off
the TV (Mom was a soundtrack fiend) and used the same recorder for the
78's, which meant in front of the speaker, everyone be quiet, because the
mike was open.To end this exotica-lly, one of the oddest themes we had was
from "Black Heritage", an old PBS public affairs program that may or may
not have been shown only in New York. It started out with bongos and then a
sax and a bass would play two interlocking melody lines. What made it odd
was that the drums were recorded at regular speed and the sax and the bass
were at double or triple-speed! Humming that theme could have meant a day
away from school nursing one's throat.

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Date: 10 Jul 2001 23:26:31 EDT


In a message dated 7/10/01 11:04:45 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< > Do you know what record it was on?
 >
 > And was it actually called the Mummy?

 Yep. It was called The Mummy and it was by "Dor" who I
 later found out was Rod McKuen. (I'm pretty sure.) The
 premise is a mummy walking around scaring people, who
 scream-- until he comes across a beatnik who could
 care less. The last line of the record is the hipster
 saying "like, help."  I recently refound the 45 at a
 shop (with a picture sleeve, even!).
 > >>

It was also on one of the Incredibly Strange Music compiliation CDs released
by Re/Search around the same time they put out them Incredibly Strange Music
books (which is how I stumbled into the wonderful world of 'Exotica')
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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Fred Neil, John R. "Buddy" Heffernan
Date: 10 Jul 2001 23:28:49 -0400


Monday July 9 11:14 AM ET
Folk Rocker Fred Neil Dies at 64
SUMMERLAND KEY, Fla. (Reuters) - Folk song writer Fred Neil, who penned the
theme song ``Everybody's Talkin''' from the 1969 movie ``Midnight Cowboy,''
has died, police said.

Neil was found dead on Saturday at his home in Summerland Key, Florida,
apparently of natural causes, said Monroe County Sheriff's Office
spokeswoman
Becky Herrin.

``A friend who usually checked on him found the body,'' she said.

Neil emerged from Greenwich Village, New York, in the mid-1960s.
``Everybody's
Talkin''' performed by Harry Nilsson, was featured in ``Midnight Cowboy''
starring Dustin Hoffman and became a Top 10 hit.

In 1970, Neil, a native Floridian, founded The Dolphin Research Project to
stop trafficking and exploitation of dolphins. In 2000, he wrote the music
for
``The Dolphin Project'' video.

The book, ``American Troubadours: Groundbreaking Singer Songwriters of the
Sixties'' released in the United Kingdom in March, devoted a chapter to
Neil.
----------
http://www.eagletribune.com/news/stories/20010708/OB_006.htm

LEESBURG, Fla. -- John R. "Buddy" Heffernan, 80, formerly of East Derry,
N.H., died June 15.

Born in Amesbury, Mass., and educated in Haverhill, Mass., Mr. Heffernan
worked in restaurant management throughout New England, and was especially
well known at the Colonial Club in Lynnfield, Mass.

Mr. Heffernan served in the Army Air Corps as a staff sergeant during
World War II in Germany, where he ran the base Officers Club. He lived in
East Derry from 1957 to 1999, and was a member of the Derry American
Legion.

Mr. Heffernan, some say, may have been the basis for and inspiration of
the well-known comic character "Archie." Archie's creator, Bob Montana was
Buddy's classmate in Haverhill High and after the war, Mr. Montana created
the comic basing all the characters and situations he wrote of on his
classmates and incidents they experienced in high school.

He leaves his wife of 53 years Herta "Kitty" Weller; children Tina Bruno
of Northport, N.Y., Heidi and Shawn Heffernan of Kingston, N.H., and Tammy
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Subject: RE: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 10 Jul 2001 20:38:15 -0700


My first message to exotica after several months of lurking...

I can remember the first records I listened to and really enjoyed as a kid
around four or five years old, and it's interesting how what I listened to
back then must have shaped in some way what I like now. It was my dad's
music...

1. An Evening With Grandpa Jones - bluegrass from the guy from Hee Haw...
this is good stuff, and I found a great copy of this album while thrifting
about a year ago, to replace the scratchy thing which I ruined (but still
own). Imagine my delight at being able to listen to "Old Rattler's Pup"
without the pops and clicks...

2. The First of the Irish Rovers, Live in Pasadena - similar story as the
first one - I found a mint copy of this while thrifting about two months
ago, and I found out that I still remember all the words!

3. Train Songs, by Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Snow.  Yodel-ay-eee-who! I still
love 'em.

Anyway, I'd like to tell you all that I really enjoy this list. I'm a
compulsive collector of records (for only the past couple of years, so I go
in to thrift stores thinking, what if I had been here ten years ago!), and
didn't know much about "exotica" before I joined this list.  But, I search
for some of the names I've seen here, and I'll be doggoned if I don't dig
it! My wife likes it too (Enoch Light in particular), which makes her a
little easier on my obsession...

Oh, and some thrift store finds - just to prove that thrift stores have yet
to be completely mined to extinction, I found three beautiful Yma Sumac lps
(and a Pete Johnson 12" 78 on Blue Note, among other things) at a St.
Vincent DePaul store in Crescent City, California last month, while on
vacation... that and about 200 lps gathered from dusty corners throughout
Northern California.  25 cents each, too... sigh.

And just yesterday I picked up "1,000,000 worth of twang" by Duane Eddy at a
Sally Ann store... they've received the complete stock from a defunct radio
station or something, and they're putting them on the shelves slowly, just
to torture me, I think!

Ah, well, a lot of topics, but thanks for the great list, folks,

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Subject: (exotica) [obit] fred neil
Date: 11 Jul 2001 10:07:15 -0400


Fred Neil, Folk Singer and Composer, Dies at 64
SUMMERLAND KEY, Fla. July 10 (AP) ù Fred Neil, a folk singer whose hits included "Everybody's Talkin' " and "Candyman," was found dead on Saturday in his home here. He was 64.

His death was attributed to natural causes.

Mr. Neil started his music career in 1955 when he moved from St. Petersburg, Fla., to Memphis. He released his first single, "You Ain't Treatin' Me Right/Don't Put the Blame on Me," two years later.

He became a cult favorite after Roy Orbison released a blues recording of "Candyman" in 1960.

Mr. Neil released his first solo album, "Bleecker and MacDougal," in 1965. After returning to Florida, he became interested in dolphins. He wrote a song called "The Dolphins," released on his 1967 album, "Fred Neil," and in 1970 co-founded the Dolphin Project to help curb the exploitation of dolphins worldwide.

His last big hit was in 1969 when the film "Midnight Cowboy" featured Harry Nilsson singing "Everybody's Talkin' ."


Fred Neil
Reclusive songwriter of Everybody's Talkin' who turned his back on fame

Colin Irwin
Wednesday July 11, 2001
The Guardian

He wrote one of the most famous songs of the late 20th century, but Fred Neil, who has died aged 64 of cancer, remains one of the most mysterious cult heroes of folk music.

Famously reclusive, he was an influential figure on the 1960s New York folk scene, and was occasionally backed by the young Bob Dylan on harmonica at the all-night Cafe Wha? in Greenwich Village.

He took flight almost from the day Harry Nilsson turned his song, Everybody's Talkin' into a global hit in 1970, following its use as the theme of the Dustin Hoffman-Jon Voight movie Midnight Cowboy (1969).

Neil rarely gave interviews, could not stomach fame, and appeared repulsed at the success of his song, a disdainful commentary on human alienation in public life. In fact, it had already appeared on Neil's 1966 solo album, alongside another song, The Dolphins, which reflected his fascination with mammals.

Unimpressed by the trappings of fame, and with no interest in exploiting the opportunities offered by his hit, Neil had withdrawn by 1971 to set up a dolphin rescue project in Florida with marine biologist Richard O'Barry, who trained the dolphins for the television series Flipper. He refused all attempts to persuade him into a comeback, and devoted the rest of his life to protecting dolphins.

Even in the 1960s, he was a fiercely private character. Born in St Petersburg, Florida, he first came to attention in 1956 playing guitar with Buddy Holly, for whom he wrote the single, Modern Don Juan, before Holly cracked the charts. He also wrote Candy Man, the B-side of Roy Orbison's 1961 hit, Crying.

On the back of this success, Neil moved to New York. Dylan later nominated him as one of his primary inspirations: "He had a powerful bass voice and a powerful sense of rhythm. I'd play harmonica for him, and once in a while get to sing a song." Tim Hardin, Tim Buckley and David Crosby were strongly influenced by Neil, and his songs were also covered by Richie Havens, HP Lovecraft and Casey Anderson.

In the early days, Neil performed in a duo with Vince Taylor, with whom he recorded the album, Tear Down The Walls. His first solo album, Bleecker & Mac Dougal (1965), named after streets in Greenwich Village, became a benchmark for many emergent young singer-songwriters, with one of the songs on the album, The Other Side Of This Life subsequently covered by Lovin' Spoonful, Jefferson Airplane and the Youngbloods. It was also the title of a live album recorded in Los Angeles, with the country-rock pioneer Gram Parsons among the backing musicians.

ò Fred Neil, singer and songwriter, born January 1 1937; died July 7 2001

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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 11 Jul 2001 10:30:20 -0400


<html>
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<font size=3>I think I jump in on this thread every couple of years, when
it comes around.  When I was younger, we lived in Northern Manitoba,
on a Native reservation -- my father was an Anglican missionary.  We
had no tv, poor radio, and spent a lot of time listening to
records.  My main memories are of Burl Ives' albums for children,
which we wore out over a couple of years.  <br><br>
I'm just back from Mexico City, the last bit of travelling in a year
which has included too much of that.  I didn't get to the Sunday
flea market (we were only there for four days), but someone finally had
the good sense to tell me about the street full of second hand book and
magazine stores.  This was my 7th visit, and my friends there had
somehow neglected, until now, to mention that such a street
existed.  Anyway, I scored lots of 1950s US crime-and-scandal
magazines at 60-75 cents each.  Some of the streets fanning out from
the main square had many, many old records for sale, but I didn't find
much of interest this time.  I stumbled on a couple of antique
stores with nice old Mexican lobby cards, and bought a few of those, but
no music.  The series of VHS reissues of 1960s Mexican groovy films
seems to have come to an end -- I didn't find any new titles, and the old
ones were gone from any store I visited.  <br><br>
 From Brazil, on the other hand, where I spent much of May and June, I
brought back dozens of vinyl albums, 50 or so CDs, and various old
magazines and paperbacks.  The classic bossa nova labels, to which
Brother Cleve had kindly pointed me, seemed to have disappeared from most
flea markets and 2nd hand stores, but I got nice Brazilian soap opera
soundtracks, tons of 1930s-1940s big band/vocal reissues, and the
tropicalia I still didn't have.  Brazilia was, unsurprisingly, a
strange, strange city, but I got taken to the best second-hand vinyl
store I saw in the whole country.  <br><br>
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Subject: (exotica) LP tote bags
Date: 11 Jul 2001 09:29:46 -0500


Anybody know a good source for LP tote bags?  I've worn out three
of them in a year.  I'd like to find something a little stronger than
the fabric tote bags most places sell.  Can anybody help?


Darrell Brogdon
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Subject: Re: (exotica) LP tote bags
Date: 11 Jul 2001 10:54:44 -0400


Darrell asked:

> Anybody know a good source for LP tote bags?  I've worn out three
> of them in a year.  I'd like to find something a little stronger than
> the fabric tote bags most places sell.  Can anybody help?

I bought a "Schwa" (with a Grey Alien logo) record tote bag from the pages
of Fortean Times. I've had it several years and it has held up beautifully.

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Date: 11 Jul 2001 11:46:41 EDT


Dusty Groove should have them, otherwise an anvil container good for about 100 LP's can be found at any good DJ sound shop or 12" store  in the accessories dept...Sturdy and good-lookin' too


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Subject: (exotica) Triple 5 Soul DJ  lp bag
Date: 11 Jul 2001 11:53:39 -0400


http://www.rocketshop.com/cgi-bin/triple5/slb1913?s4y6xZns;;17

I've got one of these - sturdy & comfortable.

Lou
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From: Bruce Lenkei <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bill (or Bob) Mitchell Orchestra
Date: 11 Jul 2001 12:20:57 -0400 (EDT)



Got this question to my site, but I've never heard of this guy.
If any of you have any info, I'll pass it along.

- bruce

Do you have or do you know of a record from the early 60's entitled
"Where or When" by the Bill (or Bob) Mitchell Orchestra?  It was played
regularly on the old NBC Radio "Monitor" weekend series.  It's an upbeat
instrumental.  I know it exists and have been looking for it for 35+
years!   I believe it may be on a 45 rpm, possibly under the "Monarch(?)"
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From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 11 Jul 2001 15:39:07 -0400


This isn't my story but since it relates to my film, it sort of becomes
partly mine.
And I don't think this will ruin anything for the few people here who are
about to see the film in Washington on July 21.

There's this guy I know named Malcolm.  I actually interviewed him for my
film but he basically isn't in it.
Malcolm's collection seems to be driven by the memories of the rock bands
that came to his high school or local teen dances when he was a kid.
In fact, a lot of Malcolm's conversations are about memories, the past etc.
He's the kind of guy who has lots of stories about the records that got
away, the records he was looking for his whole life and the one week he
DIDN'T go into some store, they got that record and sold it.
But it's more than that.  He has lots of stories about the past.  Period.
Including some good ones about hanging around with Lonnie Johnson and
Booker White when they were in Toronto.

So one night recently Malcolm is driving home from work and for some
reason, some old record from the distant past leaps into his head.
He was a Catholic school boy in Quebec in the sixties and sometimes Father
Steele would take a few of them back into his study and... (Don't go
there!) play records for them.
And on this particular occasion Father Steele played them a record his
brother had made.  Malcolm tried to picture the record, the label, the name
of the artist but all he could remember was that it was instrumental and
had a bit of a country sound.
So he goes up to his apartment and there's a message from a friend of his
about some film on TV that night that deals with record collecting.
So Malcolm figures (correctly) that it's my film so he turns it on but it's
already in progress and anyway, he's got calls to make.
So the film goes on in the background and while he's on the phone, Malcolm
half-listens to the film.
He sees this guy talking about buying records at garage sales.
Then the guy is talking to someone at a garage sale.
The garage sale guy says he used to be a musician.
The guy asks him what his name is.
The garage sale guy - remember this is a movie, not a dream in Malcolm's
head - says his name is Don Steele.

(Malcolm, still on the phone, half-hears that)

The guy says "I have your record!"
The garage sale guy says "I don't think so".
The guy names it.  "Steel Guitar blues"

(That enters Malcolm's brain and he shakes his head, directing his
attention towards the TV)

The garage sale guy confirms that's the name of the one 45 he made some
thirty years ago.

The film cuts to a shot of the actual record held up by the guy who claimed
to have it.

Malcolm stares at the record he was struggling to remember only an hour
earlier!

the end

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Subject: (exotica) pop music recommendations
Date: 11 Jul 2001 15:52:10 -0400


Once upon a time I recommended Lambchop's record "Nixon" here, particularly
for its Bacharach-esque qualities.
Someone thanked me for the tip.
So I'm going to do it again.
The band is called Cousteau.  I hate the name.  And the cover too is a bit
cheesy.  They look a bit like a hipster Holiday Inn band.
The blurb on the record from some review, says they sound like The Walker
Brothers doing Bacharach.
And that's exactly what they do sound like!
But I found it mesmerizing.
If you like the Tindersticks - as I do - they sound a bit like the
Tindersticks except the vocals are way up front and the Bacharachisms are
way way up front.
There's one song that sounds exactly like Walk on By.
But I didn't care.
It was kind of refreshing even.  I argued with someone about whether they
came by these influences honestly or whether they're jumping on a very
small bandwagon.  I think this is just their taste.  They seem too uncool
to have chosen this cynically.

Speaking of cynically though, here's a record some of you will like but
it's totally cynical and clever and gimmick and kind of smarmy.

It's David Candy "Play Power".
There's one cut that's a kind of ripoff of Rod McKuen's "Bathtub Surfing"
though it's hard to believe it's on purpose.
There's lots of smarmy spoken word on top of soft pop ba ba ba wordless
vocal backgrounds (right out of Bathtub Surfing)
There's a cover of "Listen to the Music", not the Doobie Brothers tune but
the psychedelic soft pop classic by... I can't remember.  I think I first
heard it on a soundtrack maybe.
It's all over the place but it's cheesy fun and shows influences some of us
would appreciate.  Somebody here will like it I'm sure.

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bill (or Bob) Mitchell Orchestra
Date: 11 Jul 2001 15:47:39 -0400


There is a whole site dedicated to this show!
http://www.monitorbeacon.com/

There are sounds on it, too.




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From: Hep Cat <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) San Fran retro
Date: 11 Jul 2001 16:15:06 -0700 (PDT)


I'm going to be in SF the 8-13th and am very interested in enjoying any retro-themed martini bars, tiki bars, lounges, etc. Recommendations?

-Ford

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Subject: Re: (exotica) San Fran retro
Date: 11 Jul 2001 18:39:45 -0500


>I'm going to be in SF the 8-13th and am very interested in enjoying any
>retro-themed martini bars, tiki bars, lounges, etc. Recommendations?

Sure. I'm in the Bay Area a lot. Here are my favorites. I've been to all of
them multiple times and can vouch for their tikiness.

Trader Vics - Emeryville (near Oakland)

Tonga Room - located in the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill in downtown SF. I
went there last Sunday and had a really enjoyable time. Expensive, but it's
worth it just for the simulated tropical thunderstorms.

Trad'r Sams - small neighborhood tiki bar on Geary St. near the big Russian
Orthodox church. Beware, this bar can be filled with surly locals and
barkeeps who don't mix the drinks correctly.

Lilo Lounge - another nice neighborhood lounge in the Potrero Hill district
of SF. Eat at Eliza's the chinese restaurant next door. Be sure to try the
stir-fry ostrich!

Other places I've heard of but never been to:

ZamZam - this is a very odd little bar on Haight St. that's run by a guy who
only opens it when he feels like it. He tells you what you will have to
drink (usually a martini) and will throw you out if you ask for anything
else.

Cafe DuNord - a lounge that offers up food, live swing music, and DJs along
with their drinks.

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Subject: (exotica) Ken Nordine interview
Date: 11 Jul 2001 21:33:49 -0400


Salon magazine has a very delightful and magical interview with Ken
Nordine of WordJazz fame.  I love the way his mind works.

http://www.salon.com/people/conv/2001/07/11/nordine/index.html

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From: "Brian" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 12 Jul 2001 00:12:37 -0400


>What are your earliest memories of records, record players, record
>playing, record buying, etc? What was the earliest favorite record you can
>recall?
Although I can't remember it, my parents told me the toy 78 player they got
me was my favourite toy and I played all those same kids records well. I
don't know waht happened to the player but I still have a few of the record!
The first kids LP I ever got (which I still have) was Deputy Dawg, another
of those cartoons with speech so stereotyped you could never show them today
for fear of serious political incorrectness. Not quite Little Marcy mind
you...

But the first record I ever bought, a single, was The Fifth Dimension's
"Aquarius" at age 10 or 11. OK my now 12 year old nephew was buying gangster
rap at that age but c'mom it was the early 60's!  Ironic that I should have
gone the full circle back to this stuff after a run through just about every
other musical style known in the 30 years in between.But  I can't say I've
ever to this day picked up on the broadway musicals my parents played when I
was young though. And just to prove there will always be a generation gap,
my parents now listen to the likes of Celine Dion and Barbra Streisand, and
you can probably guess where I stand on that particular subject...

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Subject: (exotica) Bongos!
Date: 11 Jul 2001 21:59:20 -0700






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Subject: (exotica) RV: Bongos!
Date: 11 Jul 2001 22:13:43 -0700


Well, I'll try this again. Sorry for the double post!

To continue with my post from last night, they put out a bunch more records
at the Sally Ann in town today... I managed to sneak over there on my lunch
break, and walked out with about thirty records under my arm, including
"Music" by Mason Williams, Esquivel's "Infinity in sound Vol. 2" (which I
already had, but this one's in much, _much_ better condition), and a few
other gems... but I've been listening to an album called "Bongos", by the
(ahem) Muchachos Locos... this record swings, the bongos bongo all over the
place, and when I read the back of the album a minute ago I found the
ubiquitous words, "Produced and originated by Enoch Light". So... is this
just the Enoch Light Orchestra with bongos on top? If so, gimme more! Now
I'm off to give a listen to "Rendezvous in Rio" by Fernandez Pray, who's
unknown to me, at least.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) RV: Bongos!
Date: 11 Jul 2001 22:41:51 -0700


>but I've been listening to an album called "Bongos", by the
>(ahem) Muchachos Locos... this record swings, the bongos bongo all over the
>place, and when I read the back of the album a minute ago I found the
>ubiquitous words, "Produced and originated by Enoch Light". So... is this
>just the Enoch Light Orchestra with bongos on top?

This wouldnt happen to be the same album called "Bongos" by Los Admiradores,
produced be Enoch Light would it??

I like the name Muchachos Locos much better than Los Admiradores!!!

a nifty little bongo record, however when it comes to Bongos, nobody beats
ol' Don Ralke!! Got his "gershwin with bongos" record and it really kicks!!
SHEEESSH!!

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From: Michael Clifford <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Persistence of vinyl/ GI Joe
Date: 12 Jul 2001 00:29:45 -0700 (PDT)


I'm not sure if this is the same record or not - but
there's a great record from the 80s incarnation of GI
JOE featuring former Turtles/ Mothers of Invention Flo
& Eddie that I picked up in a thrift years back (some
soundtrack fan had got rid of a ton of mint stuff -
got my copy of Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song in that
pile, too). In any case, the stoned delivery of the GI
Joe dialogue is priceless.
Mike
>
> Also loved my GI JOE book and records.  Secret
> Mission to Spy Island and =
> the like.  Sound bites from these show up with
> amazing regularity on the =
> earlier Man or AstroMan albums.  These are great
> *kitsch* items, the =
> acting is so over-the-top!!  Also Joe's buddy Mike
> has a killer record =
> collection - one instro was used to scare a bunch of
> head hunters away =
> from Joe, blasted from a hovering copter!!
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From: Erik <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Physics Yum Yum
Date: 12 Jul 2001 09:46:32 +0200


Ton R=FCckert wrote:
=20
> Les Horribles Cernettes are the one and only High Energy Rock
> Band.=20

Hey, I've got this cd, it's great! 60's girlpop, basically lovesongs but
different...

Some with silly 'science'-lyricks: "You quark me up", "Give me your
heat/shoot me with your microwaves tonight". "I'll hyperlink to you" "Then
we jumped into hyperspace/and inversed my polarity"...

Other songs are about impossible love because the boyfriend is only
interested in science "Now I spend my days/on your computer games", "You
don't go out with other girls either/you only love your collider"

I don't play this cd more than once a year, but I always have a good laugh
when I do!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) LP tote bags
Date: 12 Jul 2001 10:21:55 +0200




Darrell Brogdon schrieb:

> Anybody know a good source for LP tote bags?

try http://www.protected.de

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From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
Date: 12 Jul 2001 09:48:33


Sorry to annoy anyone, but does anyone out there know where the guitar
melody at the end of Frontier Psychiatrist is taken? Something that would
have been shown on English children's TV in the early 70s I think. It's at
the back of my mind and nagging away.
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Subject: (exotica) great source of record covers
Date: 12 Jul 2001 16:16:00 +0200


http://www.showandtellmusic.com/pages/galleries_main.html

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From: Mimi Mayer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 12 Jul 2001 09:23:08 -0500


It would have to be a Red Raven record of Froggie Went a Courtin' (I think
that was the song.) I can still-picture the glittering, twirling Red Raven
display of duckies swimming, lily pads bouncing, and bull frogs jumping.
Audio only: a 12-inch of Nutcracker Suite and (like you, Ed) Peter and the
Wolf. Had a gigantic pink elephant on the cover.

To expand m.ace's game: how would y'all answer these?
* First 45 I bought: I Want Candy by the Strangeloves or I Had Too Much to
Dream Last Night by the Electric Prunes.

* First LP I bought: Either The Beatles, Revolver or a hits compilation by
a New York DJ called Murray the K. Note to Alan: It included Mr. Dyingly
Sad. I still have that Murray the K LP.

* Life-changing records: The Stooges, Fun House. The Sex Pistols, God Save
the Queen EP. Esquivel, Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (BarNone). Nino Rota,
Rota/Fellini. Enoch Light, I Wanna Be Happy Cha-Chas. Prado, Havana 3AM.
Could list others by Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Coltrane, Mingus,
Scriaben, Bach, Ravel, Holst, Eno, Fripp, Puccini operas featuring De Los
Angeles, ragas for the vina. And Exotica.

It's fun to contemplate this stuff. Thanks for starting this game, m.ace.
Hope some of you fill in these blanks.
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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (game playing)
Date: 12 Jul 2001 10:24:03 -0400


* First 45 I bought: "Freak Out" by someone who I can't recall.......a hit =
disco tune.  I think it was a guy and two girls - Le Sheik or something =
like that?  I used to buy 45's all the time over at Ben Franklin here in =
Baltimore - had the damnest time getting 45's that didn't skip......lots =
of exchanges for a "good" copy - also got KISS' Detroit Rock City.
=20
* First LP I bought: A Flock of Seagulls and DEVO (The cover with 'em =
lined up in matching grey fake leather outfits and red plastic dome hats).

* Life-changing records: The Dead Kennedys

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From: "naile trismegistus" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (game playing)
Date: 12 Jul 2001 10:26:02 -0400


* First 45 I bought: Either "Rhinestone Cowboy" by Glen Campbell, or
"Convoy" by C.W. McCall (hey, I was 5, give me a break *grin*)

* First LP I bought: Kiss: Rock And Roll Over

* Life-changing records: Oingo Boingo- Only A Lad, Dead Can Dance- Passage
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From: Mimi Mayer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 12 Jul 2001 09:42:02 -0500


At 11:04 AM 7/10/01 -0700, J o h n wrote:
>Yep. It was called The Mummy and it was by "Dor" who I
>later found out was Rod McKuen. (I'm pretty sure.) The
>premise is a mummy walking around scaring people, who
>scream-- until he comes across a beatnik who could
>care less. The last line of the record is the hipster
>saying "like, help."  I recently refound the 45 at a
>shop (with a picture sleeve, even!).

A very funny record, and I seldom go for novelty songs. Didn't know this
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Subject: (exotica) [obit] Herman Brood, James Cuminale
Date: 12 Jul 2001 11:03:26 -0400


July 12, 2001
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Herman Brood, an artist and musician in the Dutch rock scene for 30 years, died Wednesday after jumping to his death from the roof of an Amsterdam hotel, police said. He was 55.

Brood, who spoke about the difficulty of ending his daily drug habit, had complained of poor health and depression and told a close friend he didn't want to fade away.

"Brood entered art school at 17 and joined musical groups beginning in the
1960s. He became a sensation with his 1978 hit single ``Saturday Night,'' which
he wrote as leader of the band Wild Romance. Over 25 years he recorded nearly
20 albums, on his own or with a variety of groups, and also acted in Dutch
movies.

"He briefly withdrew from recording in the early 1990s to focus on painting and
poetry. But in one year, 1994, he released a book, a new CD and a film.

"As his success grew, Brood became known as much for his drug-based wild life
style as for his art.

"He quit drugs last summer after his doctor warned him his life was at risk,
but the television reported his mental and physical health quickly
deteriorated.
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=B0z63tr79klox
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James Cuminale

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- James ``Chuck'' Cuminale, a musician whose quirky rock band Colorblind James Experience won acclaim in England in the late 1980s, was found dead in his swimming pool Tuesday. Authorities suspect he suffered a heart attack. He was 49.

Although Cuminale's band never achieved commercial success, it picked up a cult following in parts of Europe after John Peel, an influential radio personality in London, began playing its music in 1987.
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Subject: (exotica) A new fan.......
Date: 12 Jul 2001 11:38:44 -0400


Well, I stopped over Mom's house last Saturday and lo and behold when I =
entered the house, the strains of Arthur Lyman were tinkling forth from =
the stereo speakers!!

It was the album "Yellow Bird" but under the re-release title of "Spectacul=
ar Percussion" or something like that.  She picks up exotica albums for me =
at the thrifts when she goes snooping.

Anyway, she loves the album and wants to hear more.  She's heard Pele' and =
didn't like that one as well (that one leans more towards a Hawaii/Polynesi=
an feel).  She also mentioned that he sounds more "jazzy" than "those =
other guys" (Denny, etc.). =20

Lyman had a weird habit of placing a horrible track on the very end (at =
least we can be glad for that) of his albums.  Mostly stuff like marches =
with trombones or something equally hard on the ears.  Mom said, "I have =
to jump up and take the needle off when those come on!!"

- Nate




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From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 12 Jul 2001 08:53:16 -0700


My earliest memory of vinyl was an LP called "Sesame Street and Other
Children's Favorites" or something like that, with a big yellow rubber
duckie on the cover. (Has anyone come up with a tribute album to Joe Raposo
and/or Jeff Moss yet?)

> To expand m.ace's game: how would y'all answer these?

* First 45 I bought: I didn't buy it myself, but I think it might be "The
Little White Duck" (with maybe "The Tortoise and the Hare" on the
flipside?). It was definitely on Pickwick, because I remember saying the
word "Pickwick" over and over to myself. (The first cassette I bought had
"My Sharona" on it.)

* First LP I bought: probably Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon," I can't
remember.

* Life-changing records: see http://members.tripod.com/~tamad2/albums.htm
and the page after that.

Later,
Ben

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From: "cheryl" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (game playing)
Date: 12 Jul 2001 12:04:10 -0400


My parents had a console stereo (in one of those massive wood cabinets) with
a Garrard turntable, which sat in the living room.  Their collection
included Doris Day and the Tijuana Brass, and a childhood favourite of
mine - Allan Sherman's "My Son The Nut".  My own collection included the
usual Disney standards of the time (Cinderella, Babes In Toyland, Winnie The
Pooh, etc.) and one of Danny Kaye narrating Hans Christian Andersen stories,
which I loved to listen to.  Thankfully, my parents never moved their record
collection to the basement, so all the records were kept in fairly good
condition in the living room, then the family room when they moved, and I
have most of them here now.

When I was very young, my grandparents bought me two Beatles singles. I'm
not sure why they chose them - I couldn't have been more than 6 or so at the
time - but I listened to them constantly (I Want To Hold Your Hand b/w I Saw
Her Standing There and Please Please Me b/w Ask Me Why)  And when my older
cousins came over to babysit, they brought their Beatles, Rolling Stones,
Bee Gees and Hermans Hermits records with them to play.  (I can remember
singing  "Henry the 8th" over and over again as a kid...)

I really can't remember the first LP I bought.  I used to take records out
of the library to tape on my cassette player - Deep Purple and Black
Sabbath, when I was around 12 or 13.  Life-changing records were T. Rex's
"Electric Warrior", Mott The Hoople's "Mott" and The New York Dolls debut
album.  I finally got my own stereo when I was 16, which I kept in my room
(my parents were more than relieved to not have to listen to my music
anymore...) and my record collection began to expand rapidly at that point.
And it shows no signs of letting up anytime soon...

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Subject: Re: (exotica) A new fan.......
Date: 12 Jul 2001 12:09:59 -0400 (EDT)



Ha! Great story. My new girlfriend also seems to like Lyman records a lot.
They're just so relaxing and background-ish. Except for the marching
tracks. It's just a real smooth sound, with only a hint of exotic feeling,
but not so much that you get distracted by any of it.

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Date: 12 Jul 2001 12:22:53 EDT


First 45: "Chantilly Lace" by The Big Bopper

First LP: "Out of Our Heads" by Rolling Stones

First Headpone Revelation: "It Must Be A Camel" by Frank Zappa off the "Hot Rats" LP

Childhood Mammary: "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window" by Patti Page

Lifechangers: Our of Our Heads by Rolling Stones, Disraeli Gears by Cream, first Vanilla Fudge LP, Brian Auger & The Trinity "Whenever You're Ready", JB's "Pass The Peas"LP, First Choice "Armed & Extremely Dangerous,  Skip Mahoaney& The Casuals "Wherever You Go" on A-Bet (1976),  :"We're A Happy Family" by The Ramones, "I'm Bored" by Iggy Pop, forget the 80's, and Exotica, first as a statement against the marketing of music, then as its own entity...JB



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Subject: (exotica) LA
Date: 12 Jul 2001 17:31:07 +0100


I'm off to LA Saturday for a week. Any more recommendations? Drinking dens,
2nd hand stuff, flea markets, record shops, cruise/hot rod/drag (cars not
cross dressers) events, strange things to see?

Thanks all.


Charlie

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From: James Botticelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) great source of record covers
Date: 12 Jul 2001 12:27:00 -0400


on 7/12/01 10:16 AM, Moritz R at [e-mail] wrote:

>
> http://www.showandtellmusic.com/pages/galleries_main.html

der dismaster's mistress is fine! jest a test here



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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (game playing)
Date: 12 Jul 2001 13:48:41 -0400


I want to reply to Mimi's appendix when I get the time to do it right, but
for the moment I have to say...

Cheryl wrote:
>Life-changing records were T. Rex's
>"Electric Warrior", Mott The Hoople's "Mott"

Damn! You seem to be my long-lost sister with different parents, or
something like that. I was just thinking about the "Mott" album a couple of
days ago ("Honaloochie Boogie" had popped into my head)! I hope you got a
copy of Ian Hunter's tour diary book at some point (the printing I have was
titled "Reflections Of A Rock Star", but it's had other titles which I
don't remember).

The odd thing about "Electric Warrior" is that it took me a couple of weeks
to realize it was a gatefold cover.

Did anyone else have the Tyrannosaurus Rex "Unicorn" album? That's the
early, acoustic, very strange album with tunes like "Cat Black The Wizard's
Hat". I had a near hypnotic fascination with that album. And it's another
one I've been thinking about lately. Ain't synchronicity fun?

And, er, yeah, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath were in there too at some point.


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From: SH <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 12 Jul 2001 20:33:14 +0000


To answer m.aceÆs questions about my first vinyl memories here I go:
I must have been five or six, maybe seven and always thought my mom had a
great number of records, today I estimate them to have been around 80 pieces.
Most of them were classical. But also Mirelle Mathieu. Neither of these I
liked to play. My favorites were BONANZA by The Nashville Ramblers (on
Europa). Then she had a nonstop (a gogo) Tijuana trumpet pseudo Herb Alpert
album with a mexican corrida scene on the front cover, and party meal receipts
on the back. I further know she had the famous Popcorn album by Hot Butter
(featuring Moog versions of Apache, Telstar and Pipeline).  She had the
Midnight flyer album by Ray Anthony, when I later decided to ask her for that
(she hadnÆt played it much ever, and stopped listening to records some years
ago) I knew the easy barrier was broken, entering from the rockÆnÆroll
side of
things.
I picked the records that I wanted to play on the strength of their covers,
because I thought they might be story records like my 2 Winnetou LPs. The
cowboy cover, the corrida cover, the funny Pippi Longstocking type girl
on the
Popcorn cover. The guy with trumpet in front of the jet plan. These looked
much more exciting to me, than say the Wiener SΣngerknaben in some big
cathedral. Or Mirelle Mathieu crooning.
So I found out that adults listen to records with no storytelling on them.
Hardly any words.
As I was listening through them I started playing with the pan, bass, treble
and volume knobs on the Dual stereo receiver amp. I remember I liked to turn
the volume up according to the music (rhythm?).

The Bonanza record was the first to enter my personal collection. I also gave
the Mirelle Mathieu records a new home. Are the Wiener SΣngerknaben next???

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Subject: (exotica) Kahiki tribute in NY
Date: 12 Jul 2001 14:48:24 -0700



Been meaning to post this for a while now.  Sorry I didn't get it out in
time for opening night.

from Time Out NY:
"Is it just us, or do the hottest culinary ideas always seem to come out of
Columbus, Ohio? This week, Marion's-in an annual summer ritual-transforms
into a tiki bar to pay homage to the defunct Kahiki Lounge, an Ohio
landmark. The restaurant will be decked out in kitschy tropical decor, and
chef Carlos Ruela will serve a special Polynesian menu including favorites
like the pupu platter and coconut shrimp. Tropical drinks will also be
flowing. On opening night, the staff assures us we'll find "scantily clad
cabana boys"-a touch we're guessing owes more to New York than to Columbus.
Kahiki Lounge at Marion's. 354 Bowery between 3rd and 4th Sts
(212-475-7621). Wed 11 through Aug 13"


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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 12 Jul 2001 12:44:40 -0700 (PDT)


Missed out on this part. Don't know about life
altering - helped fine-skew my world outlook:


> Lifechangers:
Mid teens:

Jimi Hendrix; Doors; The Seeds; VU

late teens-twenties
The Stooges: Funhouse, Open Up and Bleed, Raw Power
The Gun Club: Miami
The Real Kids; Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers;
Mission of Burma; Bunny Drums; Link Wray (pre-hippie);
Flamin' Groovies (with Roy Loney); Forgotten Rebels:
Surfin' On Heroin; The Balenescu Quartet (& M. Nyman);
DI: Johnny's Got a Problem; Agent Orange: Bloodstains;
Bad Manners: Inner London Violence; Radio Birdman;
Johnny Burnette and The Rock 'N' Roll Trio, yawn. So on.

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From: "Mr Fodder" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) SCHWA   /   David Candy
Date: 12 Jul 2001 14:53:53 -0700


> I bought a "Schwa" (with a Grey Alien logo) record tote bag from the pages
> of Fortean Times. I've had it several years and it has held up
> beautifully.

I still have one also from years ago.  Very sturdy, but discontinued as far
as I know.  SCHWA is now SCANWAVE, http://www.scanwave.com



> It's David Candy "Play Power".

If anyone wants to hear a cut, It's the first track on the Friendly
Persuasion show this week.  I dig the David Candy CD.  It's a lot like
"Death By Chocolate" but instead of Angie Tillett it's David Candy.  :-)

Radio show here,
http://www.antennaradio.com/punk/friendlypersuasion/index.htm

David Candy's label, Jetset Records here,
http://jetset.sinner.com/


Cheers,
Otis








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Date: 12 Jul 2001 17:56:21 EDT



In a message dated 7/12/01 4:52:27 PM, [e-mail] writes:

<< If anyone wants to hear a cut, It's the first track on the Friendly

Persuasion show this week.  I dig the David Candy CD.  It's a lot like

"Death By Chocolate" but instead of Angie Tillett it's David Candy.  :-) >>

My personal favortie track off this is at the end -- the cover of the theme
from "Rosemary's Baby." Never has spooky sounded so suave.

--Rod
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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (game playing)
Date: 13 Jul 2001 00:12:01 +0200




Nathan Miner schrieb:

> * First 45 I bought: "Freak Out" by someone who I can't recall.......a hit disco tune.  I think it was a guy and two girls - Le Sheik or something like that?

I suppose you mean "Le Freak" by Chic. Incredible tune, love it!!!

Mo

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Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit] Herman Brood
Date: 13 Jul 2001 00:17:47 +0200




[e-mail] schrieb:

> July 12, 2001
> AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Herman Brood, an artist and musician in the Dutch rock scene for 30 years, died Wednesday after jumping to his death from the roof of an Amsterdam hotel, police said. He was 55.

oops. although i wasn't precisely a fan of his music it's always sad when someone goes before his time. wrong drugs I guess... will Nina Hagen be at his funeral?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl - the mimi variations
Date: 12 Jul 2001 21:35:11 -0400


This is way, way too long. I'm sorry. It's all Mimi's fault.

First, a point Ed made:
 >Aaah yes, you see? Probably all of us enjoyed music in
 >such a way that we played those 3 scratchy EP's over
 >and over again on the lousiest mono record player you
 >could ever imagine. And remember how happy we were?

Yes. This is exactly why I still want one of those Califone portables.
Trying to return to that early bliss.

Now, Mimi's variations. Unfortunately, I think I have to place them in context.

 >* First 45 I bought:

I really got away from records in my later single-digit years, so I didn't
follow through the usual progress of 45s as 'starter buys' or moving
smoothly from kiddie records to pop records. Not that I didn't hear the pop
of the time. There was the radio, and there were Saturday afternoon TV
shows like American Bandstand or The Steel Pier Show (a regional variant
that originated from Atlantic City). But I didn't pursue the music -- it
was just there in the air. I was more interested in stuff like comics or
model cars or etc. Also, somewhere along there, I inherited an old,
portable Concord reel-to-reel recorder (single-track, 7-inch reels) and got
more kicks from recording funny noises than I would from playing records.

But as I approached my teens, that teenage music thing began to kick in.
One Christmas I got a portable cassette deck (mono, built-in speaker, can't
recall the brand (it eventually became the world's greatest fuzzbox)).
Cassettes seemed really modern and cutting edge at the time ('71 or so?)
and my cutting edge choices included The Carpenters "brown album" (the hits
collection), "The Sounds Of Baja" (or something like that -- it was a
generic TJB-style band intercut with the sounds of Baja 1000 off-road
racers) and one of those "Cruisin'" oldies comps (the one with "Beep Beep"
(by I forget who) and Del Shannon's "Runaway" -- "Runaway" lodged so deeply
into my head that I lost a night or two of sleep over it).

A couple of years later, cheap department store stereo systems got to be a
big thing among my relatives, and I wound up with an Electrophonic rig,
complete with record player and an 8-track slot in the receiver. And when
you say 8-track, you know you're talking tapes like: Deep Purple - "Machine
Head", Pink Floyd - "Dark Side Of The Moon" and Neil Diamond's "Jonathan
Livingston Seagull" (huh?!?).

Though with a record player there, I started getting back to vinyl,
especially as I didn't like the weird way albums got chopped up to fit into
8-track programming.

And so I finally bought some 45s, but I can't really remember which were first.
Wings - "Live & Let Die" and Alice Cooper - "School's Out" were pretty
early ones.

 >* First LP I bought:

Is another tough call and would come from that same 8-track/vinyl/cassette
melange era. It might have been "Dick Clark: 20 Years Of Rock N' Roll" -- a
two record set on Buddah. "Contains 30 Original Hits ... Includes Original
24 Page Souvenir Yearbook With Photos ... Plus Bonus Record: Inside Stories
With Dick Clark" which is a cardboard laminate deal with Dick telling
low-content anecdotes about Bandstand. Really, though, it was a pretty
solid oldies comp for a little sprout to take in. Everything from the
expected standards ("Rock Around The Clock") to some tougher stuff like
"Louie Louie". And even new tracks like "Superfly"! These were by the
original artists, yes.

Or maybe it was Brownsville Station - "Yeah!" And I have nothing to say
about that.

 >* Life-changing records:

I'd rather think of them as *key* records. Records that really influenced
me, or got deep into my head, or led to a lot of other records. And I'd
like to add that a lot of my big revelations came through the radio rather
than records, once I discovered WXPN, a then-excellent freeform station out
of Philadelphia.

T.Rex - "Electric Warrior"
Mott The Hoople - "Mott"
Roxy Music "Roxy Music"
I'm not sure of the chronology (probably not linear at all), but these all
helped to tilt me away from the metal / prog rock axis (which exercises
such gravity on the adolescent male).

Deep Purple - "Machine Head"
Black Sabbath - "Paranoid"
Though to give the devils their due, heavy riff music does have a certain
elegance. At least when it was a relatively new idea.

King Crimson - "Larks Tongues In Aspic"
Yes - "Close To The Edge"
And if you can manage some sort of, uhm, objective distance, prog rock can
at least achieve some original oddness. Side 1 of "Close To The Edge"
remains an shockingly unique piece of work (really, check it out, it's so
alien). "Larks Tongues" has an emphasis on atmosphere that's almost
parallel to exotica or soundtrack music. On the instrumental tunes, anyway.

Pink Floyd - "Masters Of Rock"
This was a Dutch compilation of Syd Barrett era material. I played it much
more than "Dark Side". And if you play it while watching "Detour",
everything syncs together.

Eno - "Here Come The Warm Jets"
John Cale - "Fear"
Nico - "The End"
But I did break away from the metal/prog stuff, and these people probably
put the stake in the heart. I started off with Eno albums, which led me to
his Island labelmates of the time: ex-VU's John Cale and Nico. And that led
to maybe the biggest key record of all:

"The Velvet Underground & Nico"
'Nuff said on that one.

Zappa/Mothers - "Uncle Meat"
Then again, around the same time, I sort of majored in Zappa (sung: "when I
was seventeen, it was a very Bizarre Records year"). But this was the album
I really lived in (it was a double set -- lots of room). Such a variety of
styles, from abstract instrumentals to goofy novelty rock. I still think it
contains some of his most beautiful melodies. "Lumpy Gravy" runs a close
second in the 'conk Mike on the head' competition.

Captain Beefheart - "Trout Mask Replica"
And if you're going to dig into Zappa, you're going to wind up here.
Another record that opens your mind to the unexpected things that can be
done with music.

"The Varese Record"
The legendary Edgard Varese album released by EMS Records. My copy was a
reissue on Finnadar. It was good enough for little Francis Vincent Zappa,
and it was good enough for me.

Sun Ra - "Nothing Is"
Ornette Coleman - "Of Human Feelings"
Carla Bley - "Escalator Over The Hill"
Henry Cow - "In Praise Of Learning"
Harry Partch - "Bewitched"
The Residents - "Duck Stab"
More artists of little similarity, who all showed me what wide fields were
out there beyond the norm. These are all records which led to more records
via artist or label associations. A lot of this came to me through the
radio first; also a lot of Kraut Rock, free jazz and so on. I've never had
a Faust or Can record, but I've heard a lot of Faust and Can.

Funkadelic - "One Nation Under A Groove"
Grace Jones - "Nightclubbing"
"Seize The Beat (Dance ZE Dance)"
Material - "Memory Serves"
PiL - "Second Edition"
Education into the possibilities of BASS and BEAT in various ways. "Seize
The Beat" was a ZE Records compilation with early tracks by folks like
Coati Mundi, Was (Not Was), Christina, Material.

The Sex Pistols - "Anarchy In The UK"
Punk time. Now here's another point to note the radio factor. I first heard
"Anarchy In The UK" in early '77 on WXPN -- and what an impact (for me, it
was like the power of rock combined with the intensity of free jazz and the
attitude of dada (which I had been reading much about at the time)). But I
didn't find the single (a wonderfully loud 12" French import) until late
summer. And although I played the whee out of it, it was still somewhat
scooped by:

The Damned - "Damned Damned Damned"
The Saints - "I'm Stranded"
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - "Blank Generation"
Funny thing though... what can you do when you're listening to The Damned
album -- brand-new punk rock, when punk rock was new and dangerous -- and
your mom pops her head in and says (I quote exactly): "I LIKE that. It has
PEP!" Well, actually, I thought that was pretty cool after the shock
passed. Well said, mum.

Narrowing that era down to a few records seems a little hopeless. It was so
much about singles, and listening to college radio stations for the latest
releases. And you have weird exceptions like The Ramones, who were like
cool cousins that you're really proud of, but whose records never really
had a big impact on me. But a few that were very big for me...

"The B-52's"
Mysteriously twangy transmissions from Planet Thrift. Definitely a setup
for the exotica thing.

The Cramps - "Songs The Lord Taught Us"
This record just flattened me. Big. Big! And again, more setup for exotica.
The Lux & Ivy interview in "ISM, Vol. 1" was a big draw.

Gang Of Four - "Entertainment"
I know this one was a biggie at the time, but now its importance seems to
have been temporary. Like it was just hard rock with political correctness
tacked on. Ouch. I can't believe I said that. And I *like* this record!

The Stickmen - "This Is The Master Brew"
Probably just as much for the live shows I saw long before they did the
record. Sorry, New Yorkers, but these guys smoked the Contortions.

Flipper - their early singles
"Ha Ha Ha Ha", "Sex Bomb", who can forget "Brainwash"? The closest anyone
in later years ever got to the elemental primacy of "Surfin' Bird".

Key records seem to drop off in the 80s and 90s. Not that there wasn't good
work being done, not that I didn't have favorites. But it got a whole lot
harder for something to really surprise me and put a ding in my skull.

James Brown - "The CD Of JB"
Okay, I was way behind the eightball here, no possible excuses, but at
least I made JB's scene eventually. A 1985 cd comp covering his career from
the 50s to the mid-70s. One of my first CDs. Re-issues became so much
better (and plentiful) in the CD era.

De La Soul - "3 Feet High And Rising"
When I listen to breakbeat tracks, I always think of this brilliant album.
Rap had such potential... long, long ago. With some of its thriftstore
grooves, another pointer to exotica.

Bongwater - "Breaking No New Ground" and "The Power Of Pussy"
The "No New Ground" ep definitely put a ding in my skull. It seems like
Bongwater was my last "favorite rock band". And "The Power Of Pussy"
remains the last new release rock album to genuinely blow my mind.

Esquivel - "Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music"
"Cocktail Mix, Vol.1: Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy"
"The Exotic Moods Of Les Baxter"
And along with the "ISM" books, these are the CDs that pulled me into this
exotica thing. Surprise! Music could still surprise me!


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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl - the mimi variations
Date: 12 Jul 2001 19:48:01 -0700



> Yes. This is exactly why I still want one of those Califone portables.
> Trying to return to that early bliss.

Oh, you should get one.  Or a Newcomb Audio or Audiotronics.  They are
great.  I had all three at one time.  My Califone is one of those "dance"
machine with detachable speakers - it's a monster.

Its a blast playing records on them and since the stylus is not so
sensitive, they sound great, the surface noise is significantly filtered
out.  Big sound.

You can play 78s too, which opens up a whole new world.

Take them out on your patio, drag it into work and impress your friends.

Califone still makes new ones, I beleive, but why bother?

All of these iron clad classroom portables can be found regularly on ebay
for less than 100 bucks - a small price to pay for a little slice of bliss.
I'll bet there is one on there with your name on it right now, Mike  :)

Yep, there sure is.  Check this little beauty out:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1252355056





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From: "basic hip" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Home record storage
Date: 12 Jul 2001 20:14:13 -0700


how do most of fellow listees with record collections shelve your albums?
I'm looking for ideas or references to online sources, please.

no plastic milk crates or cardboard boxes on the floor, this won't do
anymore.

More along the line of floor to ceiling shelving units.

 I've seen in pictures what look like custom systems just a smidge over the
size of a record and they look great.

Where do people get these or any other suggestons?

I guess I could just check Ikea's catalog...

thanks for any help





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From: Craig Carlson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Persistent Vinyl and question
Date: 12 Jul 2001 23:31:31 -0400


I may have posted this before, these memories are from long ago, and
remember Time Wounds All Heels:

First record I remember playing: "How Much Is That Doggie In the Window" by
Patti Page
First record of my own: "Billy" by Cathy Linden or "Pajama Party" hosted by
Julius LaRosa
First record(s) I bought: "Hot Pastrami" by The Dartells and "Louie Louie"
by The Kingsmen (bought both at the same time)
First LP: "Beach Boys Today"

Our main record player was a huge Zenith console AM/FM/Turntable unit. It
smelled great when it warmed up.

I still listen to Hot Pastrami and Louie Louie (mp3s) on a fairly regular
basis. I still have that original Cathy Linden 45, and side two of "Beach
Boys Today" is one of pop music's finest moments.

There was a yard sale at my old home-stead about 15 years after we moved
out. I went to it and picked up a batch of our old family records (the
vinyl kind) and my sister's old portable record player. It still works 40
years later!

Lost record I'm still searching for: "Robin Hood" Capitol Record Reader on
45 rpm. I see the 78 rpm version on ebay every so often, but the 45 rarely
shows up.

What's your lost treasure?

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From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) portables
Date: 12 Jul 2001 20:44:12 -0700


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of basic hip
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 7:48 PM

> Its a blast playing records on them and since the stylus is not so
> sensitive, they sound great, the surface noise is significantly filtered
> out.  Big sound.

> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1252355056

Those pictures look absolutely stunning. I don't think I've ever seen
anything like it. How do they sound, really? Tinny computer speaker sound,
or James Ellroy-"bigggg" sound? (Sorry, I'm reading his latest novel right
now and his grammar and syntax is lodged completely in my head.)

Later,
Ben

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Subject: Re: (exotica) portables
Date: 12 Jul 2001 21:30:03 -0700



> Those pictures look absolutely stunning. I don't think I've ever seen
> anything like it. How do they sound, really? Tinny computer speaker sound,
> or James Ellroy-"bigggg" sound? go to original sender.

Sound great!  At least I think so.  These are definitely not toys!

They are industrial strength heavyweights designed to plunk down in a school
classroom and be clearly heard by all.  Some have "bi-directional" sound,
meaning sound that comes from the front and back.

They usually have one 1/4 output jack, so if you run your stereo into your
soundcard to digitize LP's for a CD-R burn, you can easily connect one of
these players.  That's how I put 78s on a CD-R.

They fold up like a suitcase and weigh a ton.  So if you pick one up, be
prepared for a hefty shipping cost.  I suppose you can find these in thrift
stores, depending on your luck, location and how fussy you are about
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From: kendoll <[e-mail]>
Subject: re: (exotica) Home record storage
Date: 13 Jul 2001 00:02:07 -0600


basic hip wrote:

> I guess I could just check Ikea's catalog...

just bought $1400.00 worth of ikea bonde shelves. very record friendly,
shelves measure 13" x 13" x 15" deep, stacked 4 or 6 cubes high by 2
cubes
across. it took me about 4 days to shelve all my records -- they were in

cardboard boxes for 7 months since i moved. what a relief to be able to
find
the records i want. i figure these shelves will do me for another 2
years at
which time i'll stop collecting records (or buy more shelves, more
likely).

on another thread, i bought my califone at a thriftstore for $5. i love
the
way 78's sound on it -- very rich & warm. i've heard that you can
sometimes
find them at schoolboard surplus sales.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage
Date: 13 Jul 2001 11:03:07 +0200


http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Moritz.Reichelt/ebay/recordshelve.gif

What do you think of this? Easy to build and you have the opportunity to search through your favorite records like in a record shop. You can have 2 or 3 and always add new ones, when your collection gets bigger.



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Subject: RE: (exotica) Home record storage
Date: 13 Jul 2001 10:48:39 +0100


I built record shelves when I moved into the flat and as I'm moving out
soon, I'll have to build new ones in the new house.
3/4inch thick MDF shelves, 12 inches deep and five foot long sit between
chimney brace and wall butted against the back wall. Chrome tunes separate
the shelves and work as feet. The whole lot took about a week of very slow
work but look great.

Do it yourself - use solid wood and don't go near IKEA!

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Subject: (exotica) re: Home Record Storage.
Date: 13 Jul 2001 05:24:01 -0700


Yes!!!! Check out IKEA. I just bought four shelving units at $250.00 (CDN)
Each unit can hold up to 1,800 records. They come in white and a tanned
version which is $50.00 more. It's called EXPEDIT.
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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (game playing)
Date: 13 Jul 2001 08:37:54 -0400


Yes!  That's them.  It's still in the basement somewhere..........

Ah, memories............thanks Mo!

- Nate


> * First 45 I bought: "Freak Out" by someone who I can't recall.......a =
hit disco tune.  I think it was a guy and two girls - Le Sheik or =
something like that?

I suppose you mean "Le Freak" by Chic. Incredible tune, love it!!!

Mo

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Subject: (exotica) A favor?
Date: 13 Jul 2001 08:51:43 -0400


Does anyone order often from altrecordings.com??

I'm paranoid about using credit card #'s over the net, and never will do =
that.

I can't find a copy of "Feelings" by Stefano Torossi any cheaper - other =
sites that take checks are *incredibly* pricey on this title.

So, if someone could order this along with their next batch o' stuff I =
would gladly send you a check  for it.

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Subject: (exotica) Paging Kevin Crossman.......
Date: 13 Jul 2001 08:54:41 -0400


.....e-mail me, you owe me some Denny CD's.........

- Nate




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Subject: RE: (exotica) A favor?
Date: 13 Jul 2001 09:15:51 -0400


Oops - it's Atrecordings and here's the link:

http://www.atrecordings.com/home.asp=20

Sorry 'bout that.

- Nate

>>> [e-mail] 07/13/01 09:14AM >>>
> Does anyone order often from altrecordings.com??

Nate, I typed in www.altrecordings.com but there was no site?!
(Had never heard of them before, so I wanted to check it out).

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Subject: RE: (exotica) Home record storage
Date: 13 Jul 2001 09:47:21 -0400


>
> Oooh!!
>
> Ich mochte der Plan!
>
> Do you have blueprints in US inches?  A materials list?
> About how many would this thing hold, do you think?  Verrrry
> kool, Mo, verrrry kool.
>
> You could even stick Coop stickers or hand carve some tikis
> into that top faceplate.
>
> $o?`?o$o,,,,o$o?`?o$o,,,,o$o?`?o$o,,,,o$
> Charlieman
> "Everything that can be invented, has been invented."
>         - Charles H. Duell, 1899
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From: Bruce Lenkei <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage
Date: 13 Jul 2001 10:05:06 -0400 (EDT)



I get my shelving the same place I get all my records: Flea markets.
I've gotten some nice, old and super strong, all wood shelf units from all
different places. The only catch is that they cost around $80-&100 bucks,
and you need a big car or a truck to get them home. I've got an entire
shrine to old cheezy culture set up on the top shelf of one.

- bruce

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, basic hip wrote:

>
> how do most of fellow listees with record collections shelve your albums?
> I'm looking for ideas or references to online sources, please.



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage
Date: 13 Jul 2001 10:14:05 -0400


<<The only catch is that they cost around $80-&100 bucks,>>

DAMN, where are the flea markets - Beverly Hills?!?!?!

- Nate




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Subject: (exotica) [obit] Marco Zanuso
Date: 13 Jul 2001 10:15:34 -0400


Marco Zanuso
http://www.io.tudelft.nl/public/vdm/fda/zanuso/index.htm
ROME (AP) -- Marco Zanuso, one of Italy's foremost postwar designers and an accomplished architect, died Wednesday. He was 85.

Zanuso was known for the sleek, understated style he brought to everyday objects like bathroom scales and televisions. A radio he designed for the Brionvega company in 1964, was typical: plastic, in simple colors and with a clamshell cover.

Zanuso was born in Milan in 1916. After the destruction caused by World War II, he said he felt ``called to restructure a disoriented and dissolved society, a space still available for planning.''

In 1954, he was asked to design a factory for the Olivetti company in Argentina that was noteworthy for its lighting and attention to working conditions. Another factory in Brazil soon followed. Other major commissions included IBM office buildings in Milan and Rome and a theater in Milan.

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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) the blue ones...
Date: 13 Jul 2001 10:47:50 +0200


I know Ross doesn't like to hear this, but since I burn CDs myself, the only two I've had playing problems with so far, are the only two in blue.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage
Date: 13 Jul 2001 10:57:08 -0400 (EDT)



Heh. No! The suburbs of NYC. But also, they are BIG!
About 7 feet high and 4 feet wide. It's still way cheaper than even IKEA,
plus these things are made of actual wood as opposed whtever it is they
use to make wood-like shelving these days.

- bruce

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> <<The only catch is that they cost around $80-&100 bucks,>>
>
> DAMN, where are the flea markets - Beverly Hills?!?!?!
>
> - Nate



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Date: 13 Jul 2001 11:04:33 -0400



This is what I want:
http://newdeal.feri.org/images/o56.gif

but here are some alternatives:
http://store.yahoo.com/media-cd-dvd-shelves-racks/vinyl-r-2-24.html

or
http://www.superiorshelving.com/Jaken/JakenPages/RecordArchive.html
(hey, records are records - and utility shelving is ugly yet functional)

http://www.silverflight.com/sc/vinylstorage/
http://www.morrisoncabinetry.com/gallery/bookcases/windowseat.htm

And for a similar question thread in the Acid Jazz Archive, see:
http://www.cmd.uu.se/AcidJazz/Backup/1999-Aug/thread.html#29

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage
Date: 13 Jul 2001 11:10:01 EDT


Shelving albums..I think I found the solution..A portion of my basement had this room half walled off, with a big opening looking out onto the floor. Thinks I: "Great DJ booth, but this ain't no disco." So I took the bull by the horns, called a carpenter in from my Favor Bank and we build a counter that runs around the perimeter of the room with enough room for me to stand in the middle. On that counter I have my two turntables, mixer, CD burner, cassette deck, amp and cabling for speakers which are hooked up outside. My LPs are stored in LP-sized pseudo milk crates two deep around the remainder of the perimeter so I can access by category...They are lined up like a used record shop with the white-tabbed things denoting genre, and all my soul LP's are filed by letter of group/artist's last name. That way I can just flip through and my poly protectors can be kept on sideways for quick and easy access to each rekkid. Next year's project: finish my plans to build a Tiki Room in t!
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage
Date: 13 Jul 2001 13:20:41 -0400


At 11:10 AM 7/13/01 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
 Next year's project: finish my plans to build a Tiki Room in!
> t!
>he basement...

Well I'm not the big tiki guy but if you build it, I will cum.  And I'll
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage
Date: 13 Jul 2001 13:54:19 -0500


At 11:03 AM +0200 7/13/01, Moritz R wrote:
>http://home.munich.netsurf.de/Moritz.Reichelt/ebay/recordshelve.gif
>
>What do you think of this? Easy to build and you have the opportunity to
>search through your favorite records like in a record shop. You can have 2
>or 3 and always add new ones, when your collection gets bigger.

Smart design, Mo (pub intentional). Do you know the dimensions? Or has
anyone who's built (or had built) custom record shelves serve up some
measurements (i.e., width of top bin for flip-through storage, height of
lower or encased shelves for vertical, spine out storage)?

Charles added,
I built record shelves when I moved into the flat and as I'm moving out
soon, I'll have to build new ones in the new house.
3/4inch thick MDF shelves, 12 inches deep and five foot long sit between
chimney brace and wall butted against the back wall. Chrome tunes separate
the shelves and work as feet. The whole lot took about a week of very slow
work but look great.

I bet. Am trying to imagine how you used that chrome tubing, Charles. Did
you need to bend or manipulate the tubing in any way? How did you brace it?
Is there a weight you'd recommend? I still can't picture the chrome feet.
Any photos of your creation available?

Sorry to pepper you two with questions. Your description/diagram inspire
me. I imagine the shelves with a matte black painted finish. And I have two
perfect wall spaces where each version of the shelves could live.

Finally, Jimmy B brought up those white tabbed thingies used to separate
artists by name in record stores. Anyone know where to order these on the
Net? Or even, what the hell they're called? Am currently using cardboard,
which frankly, is too tasty to gigantic Texas roaches to be a permanent
solution.

Thanks for info y'all,
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Subject: (exotica) nice 'bad taste' site
Date: 13 Jul 2001 21:48:22 +0200


Just came across this nice site:

http://www.badtaste.nl/

Includes a 'music room' with some of Holland's finest...

Marco


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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 13 Jul 2001 15:00:46 -0700 (PDT)


The Walt Disney Movie Song of the South with its wonderful sound
track wowed me to tears at the ripe age of 4.

Tammy by Debbie Renolds was too beautiful for my young ears.
How Much is that Doggie in the Window I felt was written for me.

Hound Dog and the Everly's Bird Dog turned me on to tougher sounds.

Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Poka Dot Bikini stirred my
imagination as did Telestar and the Night Has a 1000 Eyes.

I got my first record player in 1962.  With it was my first record,
He's a Rebel by the Crystals (Phil Spector)  It was a grey General
Electric suitcase stereo player that actually folded up into a
suitcase.  Donna the Prima Donna by Dion was the first record I
purchased with my own money.  Shut Down was purchased not long
after.

Shut Down by the Beach Boys had me calling the radio station to
vote it as number one.
I can still remember the first time I heard Surfer Girl and I was
doubly pleased when the announcer said it was the flip of Little
Duece Coup.

Then came the Beatles, I changed my hair style.  And the Beatles
changed my record buying habits, now lps seemed desirable, though
45s were still my main purchases.

But some how the garage music of 1965 & 1966 captured my soul as no
other music ever did.  Gloria by the Shadows of Night and Pushin
Too Hard the Seeds,  I Had Too Much to Dream and the 1000s of other
garage hits nailed me. The Yardbirds seemed like gods.

65/66 saw the release of my 3 favorite albums Pet Sounds, Rubber
Soul, Revolver were released.  Spent the summer with all my friends
swimming and listening to Pet Sounds over and over at Laura's
house.

Went to my first concert outside of my High School and saw Frank
Zappa who asked the audience if they wanted to hear "Louie Louie or
Caravan with a drum solo"
Cream's 1st lp, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix but especially the
Velvet Underground caught my attention next.  By 1968 the Velvet
Underground, Bonzo Dog Band and the Beach Boys were my 3 favorite
bands.  I still enjoyed pop music in 67 68 and 69 though each year
it seemed to ger worse.

Enjoyed funk and disco and especially the band Weather Report in
the 70s.  Held Iggy Pop up on my shoulders at a concert with the
Stooges (all in sun glasses) MC5 and Alice Cooper.

Bob Marley seemed like paradise in Concert in the 1970s

My friends and I didn't go see the Sex Pistols up the road in Baton
Rouge because the drive seemed too far and Baton Rouge seemed too
boring.  Got into New Wave and Punk.

Followed Euro Disco, especially Italy's Hi Energy music in the
1980s plus a little goth and 80s pop 12 inch versions.  Bought my
last 12 inch (for a few years) Pump Up the Volume and got bored
with Techno and Rave.  Went searching for music with my new cd
player. Tried New Age and Classical and jazz.

Finally came home again to when I heard about Combustible Edison.
It was like a band that understood what I thought cool was!

I had Quiet Village since 1972 or so.  Loved it and saw Denny's
Exotic for sale (re-release) new in a record store around 1983 and
bought it.  It was still for sale in 1983!  Quiet Villiage was
played by my friends and I in 1976, we put the speakers on top of
the car playing it full blast as we drove through the Jungle of
Tikal, Guatemala.

When I bought the first Velvet Underground album I remember how
small the rock section was and how large the easy listening section
was.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
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Subject: (exotica) Record Shelves
Date: 13 Jul 2001 15:48:26 -0700


>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:14:13 -0700
>From: "basic hip" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: (exotica) Home record storage
>
>how do most of fellow listees with record collections shelve your albums?
>I'm looking for ideas or references to online sources, please.

I visited the home of a major record collector here in LA last year.
He had one whole wall of LPs and another wall of 78s. He took stock
bookshelves from ikea and reinforced the shelves with brackets
underneath, added a tiny lip at the front of the shelf, and pieces
of wood carefully cut to fit as reinforcing dividers every eight
inches or so. It looked super clean, and with all of the bookcases
bolted to the wall, it would withstand an earthquake too! My envy
for his record collection was matched by my envy for his shelves.

See ya
Steve


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Date: 13 Jul 2001 17:01:35 -0700


At 08:14 PM 7/12/01, basichip wrote:

>how do most of fellow listees with record collections shelve your albums?


I struggled with this for years until I found what I consider the ideal
solution.  At Target they sell these mobile shelves with cubicles just the
size for records.  Wood product covered by melarmine (whatever its called)
they have 9 cubicles each.  I bought two and liked them so much bought two
more.  Would buy more if my ceiling were a bit higher (I would stack them)
or if my room were larger or if I moved my tv elsewhere.

They went for about 150 dollars each.  I didn't put on the large wheel
casters, figuring once I filled them with records I couldn't roll it around
anyway (mobile was not what I wanted).

I saw a store in Portland called Hip Furniture (no kidding) with the same
thing but 4 x 4...and I believe with cubes large enough for LPs
to      comfortably fit.  Probably cost a bit more than Target.

The Target ones are sturdy, carry the weight, look good and are easy to
clean. Of course, Target changes its stock every so often.  These were
purchased last Fall, so maybe they don't carry them...but you might
check.  If you'd like I could take a couple of pictures of mine so you can
get an idea what you would do with them.  They remind me of a similar
cabinetry (for which we paid through the nose) at a public radio station to
house its LP collection.

Against my wall I have two on the floor and I found 2-cube high 4-cube
across shelving unit at my favorite local thrift store which fits up to the
ceiling nicely on top of the Target units.

I also have several accent tables around my house which happen to also be
LP cabinets.  You can usually find these at thrift stores, antique stores
and other places for 35 dollars.  Not efficient storage unless you planned
to put a table there anyway. I put my "mini-collections" there...one has my
Stan Kenton LPs, another one for my Toscanini records. The Kenton cabinet
used to be my entire Mr. Smooth/exotica collection but the collection
outgrew its home!

Byron


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "New Gods Of Tiki"
Date: 13 Jul 2001 20:28:02 -0400


An article from the New Times Los Angeles, about Leroy Schmaltz, Oceanic
Arts and more:
http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2001-07-12/feature.html/page1.html

Or single-page "printable" version:
http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2001-07-12/feature.html/printable_page


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From: Dymaxia <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 13 Jul 2001 20:07:34 -0500 (CDT)




On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, chuck wrote:

> Cream's 1st lp, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix but especially the
> Velvet Underground caught my attention next.  By 1968 the Velvet
> Underground, Bonzo Dog Band and the Beach Boys were my 3 favorite
> bands.  I still enjoyed pop music in 67 68 and 69 though each year
> it seemed to ger worse.

Wow, Chuck - you are so cooool!  You listened to the Velvet
Underground about fifteen years before I did.

I think the first record I had of my own was, uh,
_Journey to the Moon_ - a bad "psychedelic" tribute
to the moon landing.  I used to make up interpretive
tai chi-type dances to it and performed them on my
bed in front of the mirror.  Or maybe I was impersonating
the Buddha on the label. I still have that record,
but I'm afraid to listen to it.

Exotica moment:
stealing my grandparents' "Sabre Dance" and playing
it at 78, whirling like a dervish.  I'm sure a lot
of kids my age did *that*.  My brother got into the
action as well, doing this fake dance with "swords"
- using wiffle bats or something.

I liked bubblegum rock a lot.  I had that "Snoopy and
the Red Baron" record.

Kerry



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Subject: (exotica) a good place to start your whistling collection
Date: 13 Jul 2001 18:23:38 -0700


http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1446734121

I constantly watch for whistling records on ebay and Muzzy Marcellino rarely
comes up and if one does, it's not this one.



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Subject: (exotica) re: home record storage
Date: 13 Jul 2001 21:14:05 EDT



in maintaining over 300 linear feet of lp stock alone, i have had to opt for the cheapest and strongest system of storage i could devise.  let's call it rustic industrial style.  (ikea would probably tag it 'rusindu' ;-))
very simple, i use 2 x 4 for the uprights and shelf supports, and 2 x 12
planks for the shelving.  my storage area is 16' wide so standard scaffolding planks work perfect.  i use 3 1/2" dry wall screws as fasteners; four to each shelf support.
at each end i construct 'ladders' consisting of two upright 2 x 4's with an 11" space between, and 15" long 2 x 4 shelf supports fastened every 14".  at 8', in the middle of the shelving there is a similar 'ladder' but with the 2 x 4 uprights spaced wide enough to allow the shelf planks to lie in between them.  the middle 'ladder' is assembled to the proper dimensions, and then disassembled with all pieces marked for correct reassembly.
when constructing the unit the two end ladders are secured in place, and the rear center upright is attached to the wall as well.  then the shelf planks are all laid into place with a sag in the middle.  then jacking up each plank in the middle with a piece of scrap wood, each center shelf support is fastened back into place in correct order, starting from the floor and working up.  the front center upright needs to be supported until you have two shelves complete and then it will stand on it's own.
finally i place vertical braces at 4' from each end, made from pieces of 2 x 4 (or 2 x 12) cut the standard width between each shelf.
a free standing shelving system can be constructed using the same method but using a three upright brace ladder with a total depth of 30", accessible on two sides.
in actually development and assembly of this shelving system i didn't always have the luxury of 16' planks, for the first two 'walls' i had a hodgepodge of plank lengths, prompting me to be creative in matching lengths.  the one piece of advice i offer about it is that you always have to brace odd or shorter lengths from the floor up.
in addition to the record walls i also have 50+ 'peaches' wooden crates, which will hold 125 lp's apiece.  they are double stacked three high and eight wide.
do you like having a healthy back, free from strain and chronic sprain?  never move records in units above 80 lp's unless you possess enormous strength.  the ideal unit for me is a 4-3 liter wine jug box, which fits 80 or so lp's snugly, which is key.  the 'cube' is capable of being held upright or on it's side and is strong enough to be stacked (temporarily) as many as four high.
i find 'milk crates' awful, ugly and painful. they cut into my hands and ribs, they look for opportunities to fall over and spill out, and they do not like to squeeze in the back of the subaru station wagon like the wine boxes will.
for 78's, i like to find similar snug boxes with a maximum capacity of 100 or so, so about 10" x 10" or 12" loading more than that in a box will make it burst or collapse, and are too heavy to safely carry.
45's are much lighter, i find a box 7" x 24" about the limit, but i do have other boxes that contain up to 400 45'.
in my experience there is an average of 65 lp's per linear foot, 100 78's per 10", and 100 45's per 7", give or take 5 or so.
finally, always store records vertically, and always try to keep them off the floor, specially in places like basements, barns, and garages.

woo hoo!  curtis andrew beckwith, in a finally cooled down a little bit tulsa.

just played:  'voodoo suite' perez prado/shorty rogers, victor lpm-1101 recorded april 1954



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage
Date: 14 Jul 2001 11:51:45 +0200




Mimi Mayer schrieb:

> Finally, Jimmy B brought up those white tabbed thingies used to separate
> artists by name in record stores. Anyone know where to order these on the
> Net?

Again it's http://protected.de
they have everything


Mo
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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates
Date: 14 Jul 2001 19:46:55 +0200


due to health problems, I haven't been able to read an Exotica Digest
since April. Also, The "eXotica Releases Overview" is currently not
really up to date.
I did upload several updates, though, but didn't post them here.
Below is a quick overview of what was added, check the web site for
more details.

the "eXotica Releases Overview" is still the internet's first and
only searchable and annotated hyperdiscography of more than 2500
"exotica" & related CD's and new LP's. With hundreds of ratings,
comments, and reviews by dozens of people.

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1936/disq/disq.htm

If you would like to receive the updates on a regular base by e-mail,
just let me know you want to get on my " eXotica Releases Overview
updater")



* Burt Bacharach: "The Very Best Of Burt Bacharach"
* Big Boss Man: "Humanize"
* Bossacucanova: "Brasilidade"
* Serge Gainsbourg: "Confidentiel"
* Serge Gainsbourg: "Du Chant a La Une!?"
* Serge Gainsbourg: "Initials B.B."
* Serge Gainsbourg: "Jane & Serge"
* Serge Gainsbourg: "No. 2"
* Serge Gainsbourg: "No. 3 / L'etonnant"
* Serge Gainsbourg: "No. 4"
* Serge Gainsbourg: "Percussions"
* Bruce Haack: "Electric Lucifer Book 2"
* Quincy Jones: "Talkin' Verve"
* Bert Kaempfert: "Polydor Singles Collection 1958 - 1972"
* Lalo Schifrin: "Insensatez"
* Shirley Scott: "Talkin' Verve"
* Cal Tjader: "Soul Burst"
* John Zorn: "The Gift"
* Various Artists: "Bollywood Breaks"
* Various Artists: "The Bossa Nova Exciting Jazz Samba Rhythms Vol.4"
* Various Artists: "Brazilian Beats 2"
* Various Artists: "Input 64"
* Various Artists: "Le Jazzbeat, Vol. Two"
* Various Artists: "Mas Mambo Mania! More Kings And Queens Of Mambo"
* SOUNDTRACK: "Batman" by Nelson Riddle
* Vic Mizzy: "Scores & Themes"
* Various Artists: "The Bossa Nova Exciting Jazz Samba Rhythms Vol.2"
* Various Artists: "The Bossa Nova Exciting Jazz Samba Rhythms Vol.3"
* The Bran Flakes: "Hey Won't Somebody Come Out And Play"
* The Bran Flakes: "I Remember When I Break Down"
* Geoff Love And His Orchestra: "Star Wars And Other Space Themes"
* Vigil: "Musica Para Hacer La Digestion"  (B-Movie Soundtracks)


* Air: "10.000 Hz Legend"
* Arling & Cameron: "We are Arling & Cameron"
* The Beau Hunks And The Metropole Orchestra: "Our Relations Suite"
* Death By Chocolate: "Death By Chocolate"
* Lightning Beat-Man and the never heard of' EMS:
* Marcos Valle: "Escape"
* Various Artists: "Funk De Luxe"
* Various Artists: "Music For Dancefloors: The Cream Of The Chappell
Library Sessions"
* Various Artists: "Red Medium"
* Various Artists: "Stereo Ultra Volume 3"
* Various Artists: "Stroboscopica 3"
* Hugh Le Caine: "Sackbut Synthesizer"
* Henri Salvador: "Chambre Avec Vue"
* Various Artists: "Listen Easy: Hits From The 60's"
* Various Artists: "Listen Easy: Hits From The 70's"
* Wolfgang Dauner: "Get Up And Dauner Masterpieces"  (sampler 1964-1975)
* Omar Khorshid and His Magic Guitar: "Belly Dance From Lebanon"
* Various Artists: "Mondo Bossa. Swinga Sambaby!"


* Aavikko: "Multi Muysic"
* Ray Barretto: "Senor 007"
* David Candy: "Playpower"
* Astrud Gilberto: "Astrud Gilberto Album"
* Astrud Gilberto: "Shadow Of Your Smile"
* Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band:
* Antonio Carlos Jobim: "Love, Strings, & Jobim"
* Antonio Carlos Jobim: "Tide"
* Antonio Carlos Jobim: "Wave"
* Antonio Carlos Jobim: "Wonderful World Of Antonio Carlos Jobim"
* Omar Khorshid And His Guitar: "Rhythms From The Orient"
* The Nutty Squirrels: "The Nutty Squirrels"
* Jean Jacques Perrey: "Moog Sensations"
* Perez Prado: "Estas Si Viven"  (The Living End)
* Tito Rodriguez: "Motion Picture Themes Cha Cha Cha"
* Sabu & his Percussion Ensemble: "Sorcery"
* Walter Wanderley: "Batucada"
* Wendy and Bonnie: "Genesis"
* Various Artists: "Between Or Beyond The Iron Curtain. Rare Grooves
=46rom Eastern Europe"
* Various Artists: "Freak Off!"  (Latin Breakbeats, Basslines & Boogaloo)
* Various Artists: "Funky Flute Grooves From The 60's And 70's"
* Various Artists: "Informacion Y Turismo"
* Various Artists: "Italian Bossa-Beat Party. Loungissima Vol 3"
* Various Artists: "Kinky Beats 2: Carry On Kinky Beats"
* Various Artists: "Metti Una Bossa A Cena vol 2"
* Various Artists: "Sunflowers. Mood Masterpieces From The MPS Archives"
* Various Artists: "Up!!!!!! The Third"
* SOUNDTRACK: "5 Bambole Per La Luna D'agosto"
* SOUNDTRACK: "Bug In!"
* SOUNDTRACK: "Music From M Squad/ Music From Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer"
* The Fabulous Jokers: "Guitars Extraordinary"
* Paul Mark And His Orchestra: "East To West"
* Andre Brasseur: "Best Of 60-70"
* Andre Brasseur: "N=B0 1 De L'orgue Hammond"
* Richard Hayman: "Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine"
* Enoch Light: "Spaced Out"
* Ursula 1000: "All Systems Are Go-Go"
* Die Waikikis: "Hawaii Tattoo"
* Various Artists: "Batucada - Capoeira"
* Various Artists: "Educacion Y Descanso"
* SOUNDTRACK: "Belmondo Morricone: Le Casse/ Peur Sur La Ville"


* Serge Gainsbourg: "Gainsbourg... Forever"
* Enoch Light: "Beatles Classics"
* The Love Machine: "Electronic Music To Blow Your Mind By!!"
* Ennio Morricone: "40th Commemoration: Ultimate Soundtrack Collection"
* Ennio Morricone: "Il Gatto"
* Pastor John Rydgren and Peter Tork: "Silhouette Segments"
* Takeshi Terauchi & Bunnys: "Takeshi Terauchi & Bunnys"
* Various Artists: "Asian Takeaways"
* Various Artists: "Ouh La La!! Vol 1"
* Various Artists: "Ouh La La!! Vol 2"
* Various Artists: "The Very Best Bollywood Songs"
* SOUNDTRACK: "40th Commemoration: Ultimate Mood Music Collection" by
Ennio Morricone
* SOUNDTRACK: "L'uccello Dalle Piume Di Cristallo" by Ennio Morricone
* Nicola Conte: "Bossa Per Due"
* Steve Fisk: "999 Levels Of Undo"

         Johan

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From: "Tom Knott" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) LA
Date: 14 Jul 2001 12:36:45 -0700


If you get this e-mail in time here are a couple of LA things:

the international pop overthrough starts on July 21st details at:

http://www.internationalpopoverthrow.com/

There is a Shag/tiki art show in Culver City at the Copro/Nason Gallery,
11265 Washington Blvd (323-398-3643)

On the 21st in Glendale at Brand/Broadway is cruise night - 50's/60's cars
and surf bands. Damion's a tiki-bar-type is also on Brand.

As the main record-related flea markets are the first (Pasadena City
College) and last sundays (Beuna Park) of the month you miss these.

The Dressden Room on Vermont in Silverlake. Down the street a block are a
couple of record stores and a couple of blocks further and around the corner
on Hollywood is Wacko/Soap Plant/La Luz de Jesus Gallery

Atomic Records, 3818 W. Magnolia Blvd, Burbank [phone]. Can be pricey
but a good selection

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From: "Domenic Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist "Martinis With Mancini"  7/13/01
Date: 14 Jul 2001 19:30:06 -0400


Playlist "Martinis With Mancini"  7/13/01
WJUL Lowell 91.5FM Friday's 6-9AM EST
http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/
http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/listen.html (On Real Audio)

Thanks for reading,
Domenic

P.S. There is a discussion at the Yahoo/Luxuriamusic list
(http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/luxuriamusic) About "What is Lounge" I dont
want to get into it. ;')


Brief And Breezy. Henry Mancini
A Sleeping Bee, Mel Torme
Pattern For Evil, Mundell Lowe
The Gals From Joe, Nina Simone
Pardon Me Mss Carmen, Peter Thomas
Quiet Village Bossa Nova, Martin Denny
And I Love Him, Nancy Wilson
French Kick, Blowup Comp
But I Haven't Got Him, Sandy Warner
Babalu, Stanley Black
The Lip, Louie Prima
Chiquita Banana, The T Bones
Cuban Pete, Desi Arnez
Hip Vibrations, Cal Tjader
007, Ray Baretto
Dark Eyes, 4 Piece Suit
Theme From Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
Sway Dean Martin
I've Got You Under My Skin, Frank Sinatra
I've Got A Lot Of Living To Do, Sammy Davis Jr.
Out Of This World, Creed Taylor
Dis-Advantages, Willie Bobo
Disadvantages Of Life, John Rydgren, Silouette Segments
Conga Rock, Henry Mancini
It Had Better Be Tonight, Seks Bomba
Make Me Rainbows, Howard Roberts
Le Temps Du L'amour, Franscoise Hardy
The Coffee Song, Eydie Gorme
Black Coffee, Julie London
Circumstantial Evidence, Laika And The Cosmonauts
The Face I Love, Astrud Gilberto
La Bikina, Esquivel
Music To Watch Girls By, Ray Coniff
Music To Watch Girls By, Willie Bobo
Music To Watch Girls By, John Rydgren, Silhouette Segments
Turn Turn Turn, David McCallum
Mambo Mania, The Whodods
Baja, The Revelairs
Christiansen, France Gall
Slaughter On Tenth Avenue, Lalo Schrifin
Kelly Heroes, Lalo Schrifin
Dreamsville, Br Cleve
Donde Estes Yolanda, Pink Martini
I Want To Be Happy Cha-Cha, Enoch Light
I Get No Satisfaction, David McCallum
Return To Sorrento, Esquivel
The Bullfighter, Ken Nordine
A Dollar Is Your Only Friend, Babs Gonzales
Natacha, Czerkinsky
Theme From Star Trek, Montefiori Cocktail
Samba De Una Notte, Joao Gilgetro
At The River, Groove Armada
Moon River, Henry Mancini


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Subject: (exotica) =?iso-8859-1?Q?Playlist_=22Martinis_With_Mancini=22__7/13/01?=
Date: 14 Jul 2001 19:34:45 -0400


Playlist "Martinis With Mancini"  7/13/01
WJUL Lowell 91.5FM Friday's 6-9AM EST
http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/
http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/listen.html (On Real Audio)

Thanks for reading,
Domenic

P.S. There is a discussion at the Yahoo/Luxuriamusic list
(http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/luxuriamusic) About "What is Lounge" I dont
want to get into it. ;')


Brief And Breezy. Henry Mancini
A Sleeping Bee, Mel Torme
Pattern For Evil, Mundell Lowe
The Gals From Joe, Nina Simone
Pardon Me Mss Carmen, Peter Thomas
Quiet Village Bossa Nova, Martin Denny
And I Love Him, Nancy Wilson
French Kick, Blowup Comp
But I Haven't Got Him, Sandy Warner
Babalu, Stanley Black
The Lip, Louie Prima
Chiquita Banana, The T Bones
Cuban Pete, Desi Arnez
Hip Vibrations, Cal Tjader
007, Ray Baretto
Dark Eyes, 4 Piece Suit
Theme From Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea
Sway Dean Martin
I've Got You Under My Skin, Frank Sinatra
I've Got A Lot Of Living To Do, Sammy Davis Jr.
Out Of This World, Creed Taylor
Dis-Advantages, Willie Bobo
Disadvantages Of Life, John Rydgren, Silouette Segments
Conga Rock, Henry Mancini
It Had Better Be Tonight, Seks Bomba
Make Me Rainbows, Howard Roberts
Le Temps Du L'amour, Franscoise Hardy
The Coffee Song, Eydie Gorme
Black Coffee, Julie London
Circumstantial Evidence, Laika And The Cosmonauts
The Face I Love, Astrud Gilberto
La Bikina, Esquivel
Music To Watch Girls By, Ray Coniff
Music To Watch Girls By, Willie Bobo
Music To Watch Girls By, John Rydgren, Silhouette Segments
Turn Turn Turn, David McCallum
Mambo Mania, The Whodods
Baja, The Revelairs
Christiansen, France Gall
Slaughter On Tenth Avenue, Lalo Schrifin
Kelly Heroes, Lalo Schrifin
Dreamsville, Br Cleve
Donde Estes Yolanda, Pink Martini
I Want To Be Happy Cha-Cha, Enoch Light
I Get No Satisfaction, David McCallum
Return To Sorrento, Esquivel
The Bullfighter, Ken Nordine
A Dollar Is Your Only Friend, Babs Gonzales
Natacha, Czerkinsky
Theme From Star Trek, Montefiori Cocktail
Samba De Una Notte, Joao Gilgetro
At The River, Groove Armada
Moon River, Henry Mancini



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From: Radio Khartoum <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) "bachelor pad" vs "dads in rec rooms"
Date: 14 Jul 2001 16:12:26 -0700


>1) Combustible Edison, the first modern group to play this style of music,

What about Marden Hill circa 1986 to '88?

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) http://www.atrecordings.com/home.asp=20
Date: 14 Jul 2001 13:47:56 +0900


http://www.atrecordings.com/home.asp=20

I love this site ... it's one of a very few sites that allow you to
listen to whole LPs, and interesting ones at that ... Easy Tempo
stuff, soundtracks, Electronica etc ... definitely worth checking out

Sugarmen 3 are also on there

Sem Sinatra


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) mystery ba ba ba song report
Date: 14 Jul 2001 14:11:53 +0900


Folks

>put me out of my misery and tell me what this brilliant song I MD'ed
>from Luxuria is ... i've put a realaudio file up here:
>
>http://www.eat78rpm.co.uk/snd/mystery.ra

Well after some help from the folks at the Luxuria Yahoo Group I
eventually tracked this down as "Road to Nowhere" by Quarteto em
Cy/The Girls from Bahia from the album Revolucion con Brasilia
(Warner Bros. WS-1715)

Unfortunately it seems to be out of print at the moment, which is
very very sad. A perfect song for this hot weather. If anyone knows
otherwise, please shout.

friendly

Sem Sinatra


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Date: 15 Jul 2001 10:40:54 -0400


A report on yesterday's Coney Island Mermaid Parade:
http://www.worldnewyork.org/07-01-01.php

Scooping Lou, imagine that!


m.ace  [e-mail]
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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mo's CDs 7/2001
Date: 15 Jul 2001 16:59:39 +0200


Hi, I thought I post a list of my CDs occasionally, in case somebody wants to swap copies...


Aavikko - multi muysic (for sale)
Adventures In Stereo - alternative stereo sounds
Air - moon safari
G÷tz Alsmann - filmreif (for sale)
Aluminum Group - introducing...
Apollo 440 - electro glide in blue
Arling & Cameron - music for imaginary films
                            - sound shopping
Burt Bacharach - bacharach
Les Baxter - que mango!
Belle & Sebastian - fold your hands child, you walk like a peasant
Bernd Begemann - jetzt bist du in talkshows
Jorge Ben - africa brasil
Maria Bethania - canto do paje
                       - olho d'agua
Chico Buarke - chico total
                    - opera do malandro
Chico Buarke, Ennio Morricone  - per un pugno di samba
                                                - sonho de um carnaval
Kate Bush - the whole story (for sale)
Carlo Fashion - this is carlo fashion
Pericles Cavalcanti - cancoes
Hugo del Carril - alma de tango
                        - 10 mejor de...
Cassius - 1999
Chic - c'est chic
Claudine - the look of love
Petula Clark - downtown (best of)
Combustible Edison - the impossible world
Nicola Conte - jet sounds
Gal Costa - minha historia
Cramps - flame job
Daft Punk - homework
Dick Dale - unknown territory
De-Fenders - drag beat
Paul Desmond - from the hot afternoon
Devo - easy listening disc
De Phazz - death by chocolate
Der Plan - perlen...
              - geri reig/normalette surprise
              - live at the tiki ballroom...
              - die letzte rache
              - die peitsche des lebens
Dimitri From Paris - a night at the playboy mansion
Divine Styler - spiral walls containing autumns of light
Don Tiki - the forbidden sounds of...
Andreas Dorau - immer Σrger mit der unsterblichkeit
                       - ernte
                       - neu!
                       - 70 minuten musik unbekannter herkunft
                       - demokratie
Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - kites
Esquivel - infinity in sound
              - exploring new sound in hifi
              - 4 corners of the world
Merrell Fankhauser - maui
Family of God - we are the world
Luis Frank - tropical christmas
Free Design - cosmic peekaboo
FSK - international (for sale)
       - X (for sale)
Fuzzy Love - pagan schmalz & other sacrifces
Georgie Fame - 20 beat classics
                     - the in-crowd (triple CD)
Free Design - cosmic peekaboo
Galliano - a joyful noise unto the creator
             - in pursuit of the 13th note (for sale)
Joao Gilberto - joao
Gilles Zeitschiff - mr.energy / silver channels
Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto - getz/gilberto
Stan Getz - focus
               - highlights
Nina Hagen - street (for sale)
Richard Hayman - voodoo!
Roy Hargrove's Crisol - habana
Lee Hazelwood - love and other crimes
                       - farmisht, flatulence, origami, arf!!! and me...
                       - poet, fool or bum
                       - the cowboy and the ladies
Pierre Henry - variation
                     - 10. symphonie
High Llamas - cold and bouncy
                   - hawaii
                   - snowbug
                   - buzzle bee
Holger Hiller - holger hiller
David Holmes - let's get killed
                     - this film's crap lets slash the seats
Impala - el rancho reverbo
Ivar - ivar
Antonio Carlos Jobim - jobim
                                 - stone flower
Ethan James - shaking hands w/ kafka
Grace Jones - island life
June & The Exit Wounds - a little more haven hamilton please
Mory Kante - touma
Kahuna Kawentzmann - the tiki & the guitar
The KLF - chill out
            - the white room
Kosmische Kuriere/Sci Fi Party - unser flug durch die kosmische musik
Kronos Quartet - hunting: gathering
Lambchop - nixon
Left Banke - walk away renee / pretty ballerina
Sonny Lester & His Orchestra - music to keep your husband happy
John Lennon - wonsaponatime
John Lennon, Yoko Ono - two virgins
Little Egypt - how to belly-dance for your husband
Edu Lobo - sergio mendez prΣsentiert...
Arthur Lyman - taboo
Karen Mantler - get the flu
Marais & Miranda - go native
Mardi Gras feat. Deodato - single smasher
Money Mark - push the button
Biz Markie - all samples cleared
Soukous Mbalax - african highlife
Gary McFarland - latin lounge
Joe Meek - i hear a new world
Felix Mendelssohn & His Hawaiian Serenaders - best of
Merricks - in schwierigkeiten
               - the sound of munich
               - escape from planet munich
               - silver disc
Moondog - moondog
Ennio Morricone - Mondo Morricone
                         - more mondo morricone
Van Morrison - a sense of wonder (for sale)
                     - days like this (for sale)
Gary Moscheles - shaped to make your life easier
Mark Mothersbaugh - music for insomniacs 1, 2
Massive Attack - blue lines
                        - protection
Moulinettes - 20 blumen
Mouse On Mars - niun niggung
                        - iaora tahiti
                        - autoditacker
Milton Nascimento - nascimento
Neoangin - the year they've been nowhere
New Vaudeville Band - winchester cathedral (for sale)
Ken Nordine - colors
Chico O'Farrill - cuban blues
The Orb - pomme fritz
            - adventures beyond the ultraworld (2 CDs)
Pale Fountains - longshot for your love (for sale)
Paula - himmelfahrt
Pearlfishers - across the milky way
                    - the young picnickers
Petit Mit - petit mittle
Pet Shop Boys - actually
                      - introspective
Astor Piazzolla - verano porteno
Pizzicato Five - made in usa
Baden Powell - os afro sambas
Prefab Sprout - andromeda heights
                    - a life of surprises (best of)
Maurice Pop - power pop
AndrΘ Popp - delirium in hifi
                  - la musique qui fait popp
Portishead - dummy
                 - portishead
Perez Prado - latino
Osvaldo Pugliese - coleccion aniversario
Finley Quaye - maverick a strike
Django Reinhardt - peche a la mouche (double CD)
Residents - wormwood
               - duck stab/buster & glen
Boyd Rice / Spell - seasonS IN the sun
Malcolm Ross - happy boy
Marianne Rosenberg - luna
Sandpipers - guantanamera
Senor Coconut - el baile aleman
Schlammpeitziger - spacerokkmountainrutschquartier
                            - augenwischwaldmoppgefl÷te
Shaggs - philosophy of the world (+best of)
Lalo Shiffren - mission: impossible... and more
Sigue Sigue Sputnic - albinoni / star wars
Raymond Scott - soothing sounds for babies, vol.1
Smashing Pumpkins - mellon collie and the infinite sadness (2 CDs) (for sale)
T.V. Smith - useless, the very best of... (for sale)
Souled American - frozen
Stockhausen & Walkman - organ transplants
Yma Sumac - amor indio
Sunda Africa - 1, 2
Superpop, Stardax - new science
Talbot Brothers - bermuda
Peter Thomas - moonflowers & mini-skirts
Tiki Tones - idol pleasures
Tipsy - uh-oh!
Anibal Troilo, Roberto Grela - taconeando
Simon Turner - creation
                     - sex appeal
Randy Weston - the splendid master gnawa musicians of morocco
Brian Wilson - i just wasn't made for these times
                    - live at the roxy
                    - soul searching
Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks - orange crate art
Walter Wanderly - boss of the bossa nova
Wham - make it big
Roy Wood - the definite album
Yosuke Yamashita - dazzling days
Yazz - wanted



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COMPILATIONS:


A-Music - sonig comp.
American Graffity - 1, 2
Amiga-A-Gogo - 1 deutsch-demokratische rare grooves
                       - 2 deutsch-demokratischer beat
Astralwerks - excursions in ambience/the third dimension
Ata Tak - charles wilp / the bunny remixes
Bear Family - streets of laredo
Beat Psychedelico A La Celluloide
Brain In A Box - 1, 2
Brian Wilson's Rare Works - still i dream of you
Bungalow - pop tics
Classic Hits - hard to find original recordings
Cocktail Mix - swingin' singles
                    - bachelor's guide to the galaxy
Compost - glⁿcklich vol. 1, 3
              - 050
Dance Max - 3 (2 CDs)
Easy Tempo 2 - the psycho beat
╔l - dream topping
Espresso Espresso - a lightly latin brazilian blend
Formation 60 - amiga 1957-69, modern jazz from eastern germany
Gainsbourg... Forever - universal comp 1,2
Golden Throats 4 - clebrities butcher songs of the beatles
Go Right - jazz from poland '63-'75
Hank Williams Revisited - i'll never get ou of this world alive
Hotel Easy - la scandale discotheque
Jingle Cats - here comes santa claws
Karminsky Experience - inflight entertainment vol. 1
KBZ 200 - the exotic trilogy vol.1, 2
Ladomat - welcome insel
L'Amigamore - tanzmusik aus der ddr
La Paloma - 2
La Yellow Collection - 1,2
Love, Peace and Poetry - latin american psychedelic music
Mango - ram "dancehall"
Marina - songs for marshmallow lovers
           - in bed with marina
           - the mad mad world of soundtracks
           - caroline now! (brian wilson tribute)
Mojo Club - dancefloor jazz  vol. 1,2,3,5,6,7,9
                - electric mojo vol. 2
Mo'Plen - brazilia
Mosaico Psychedelico
Motor - get easy vol. 1-4
           - we love the bee gees
           - barjazz vol. 3
           - swing, jazz and sweet from berlin
           - was ist n.e.u.
           - snowflakes 2 CD
           - a trip to brazil vol. 1 (2CDs), vol. 2 (2CDs)
Mo Wax - attica blues (for sale)
MPS - supercool/a musikproduktion schwarzwald compilation
Nuggets - 4 CDs, vintage american garage music of the 60s
Orchestraux No.1
Picky Picnic - drive to heaven - welcome to chaos
Pop Shopping - juicy music from german commercials 1960-75
Ray Baretto - senor 007 / Exotica 1979 Kokee Band - solid state
Ready Steady Boogaloo - amphonic grooves for carnaby chicks and cool steppers
Rebirth Of The Cool 5
Shake Sauvage - french soundtracks 1968-73
Spex - 1, 3,4,
        - the freestyle files (for sale)
Supreme - the cream of supreme
Talking Verve - groovy
The Bossa Nova Exciting Jazz Samba Rhythms - 1, 2
The Easy Project - 20 loungecore favorites
The Exotic Beatles - part 1, 2
Tighten Up - vol.2
Transmitter - dreamed about reefer
                   - crazy & obscure - mama don't allow no novelty songs
Ultra Chicks - 5
Ultra Lounge - 10/a bachelor in paris
Verve - groovy! talking verve
Vrrooommm funk cinematique - high performance 70s turbo sound
2021 - klangwelt moderne (for sale)




EXOTICARING & PRIVATE COMPILATIONS


Brian Karasick - Annette!, best of
Jerry Larson - the big hurt
Brad Yost - smoothness above all else
Magnus Sandberg - jungle romance
                           - the mysterious mountain
Citizen Kafka - red eye x-mas 2d
                     - the secret museum of the air
                     - yick loong fireworks co.
Trevor Rigler - willkommen to mein crazy luau
Philip Jackson - livin' it up
Cheryl Shinfield - them's the breaks!!!
Brother Cleve - ritmos de tropicalia
?? - hippie goddesses
Peter Risser - spooky
Alan Zweig - clark kent's secret identity
                 - dieingly sad
                 - love and maple syrup
Stefan Kassel - sunshine pop
The Captain (Mark D. Head) - an easy groove
                                         - bossa nova 2001
                                         - the captain's vocalesque field trip
William Mellott - beyond shanghai
                        - souvenir 2001
Martin Hemmel - happy birthday 2000
                        - asian pop adventures
                        - do the cherokee dance
Moritz R - friends vol. 1, 2
              - western drama
              - incredibly strange music 1&2 on one CD
              - bacharach
              - jacques dutronc/le mieux
Larry Sparrow - now...sound
                       - you can even take your clothes off
Bump - happy new wave
Frank Jastfelder - jaztel juice/squeeze 1
?? - C'est la fete - vol.1
?? - brain in a box 1, 2



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SOUND TRACKS:

The Avengers - & other top sicties tv themes (2 CDs)
Ennio Morricone - la califfa
                         - ochio alla penna
                         - neun im fadenkreuz
                         - great italian western hits
                         - mondo morricone
                         - more mondo morricone
                         - golden film themes
Luis Bakalov - django
Elmer Bernstein - the magnificent seven
Classic Soundtracks - the man with the golden arm
Antoine Duhamel - le cinema d'...
Benny Golson - tune in, turn on (to the hippest commercials of the 60s)
Jackie Brown
The Jetsons - first family on the moon
Christopher Komeda - rosemary's baby
Michel Legrand - the thomas crown affair
Raymond LevΦvre - les plus belles musiques des filmes de Louis de FunΦs
Alex North - the misfits
Piero Piccioni . 10th victim
Prince - batman (for sale)
Pulp Fiction
Shaft - music from and inspired by...
studio 54 - vol.1, 2
Supercar and Fireball XL5
Super Moonies - sailor moon's welt
John Williams - how to steal a million




COMEDY

Helge Schneider - seine gr÷ssten erfolge
                         - es rappelt im karton
                         - da humm
Dietmar Wischmeyer - logbuch
                                - is mir schlecht
                                - aggi aggi
                                - ekelerregend
                                - sooo sieddas aus!
                                - frieda und anneliese
                                - der kleine tierfreund/feuchtgebiete schauen dich an
                                - der kleine tierfreund/im taumel der wollust
                                - der kleine tierfreund/unsere Σusserst flachen freunde
                                - h÷mma spozzfreund
                                - verchromte eier
                                - gⁿnther der treckerfahrer/heute ist weltuntergang
Max Goldt - komische applΣuse
Friedrich Kⁿppersbusch - kⁿppersbusch (for sale)
Wiglaf Droste - wieso heissen pl÷tzlich alle oliver?
                     - supi! supi! supi!
Sabine Bulthaup - super erwin rettet die welt (for sale)
Andreas Liebold - herr radioven
Frⁿhstyxradio - der sch÷nste weihnachtskalender der welt
                       - die grossen erfolge aus 750 jahren kulturarbeit
Roland Baisch, Otto Kuhnle - der zweite frⁿhling (for sale)
Studio Braun - 1


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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) "bachelor pad" vs "dads in rec rooms"
Date: 15 Jul 2001 17:05:10 +0200




Radio Khartoum schrieb:

> >1) Combustible Edison, the first modern group to play this style of music,
>
> What about Marden Hill circa 1986 to '88?

and: The Fibonaccis in 1982!

Mo
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From: "cheryl" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, July 15
Date: 15 Jul 2001 12:10:38 -0400


Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can
be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time 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 #151    The Big Hurt


This week, a compilation of mostly 50s and 60s music, put together by Jerry
Larson.  A little slow and dreamy - just the sort of thing to listen to on a
quiet warm Sunday afternoon.  Thanks, Jerry!

Miss Toni Fisher:  The Big Hurt
Les Compagnons De La Chanson:  Venus
David Carroll & His Orchestra:  Dizzy Fingers
(from ost. Bedknobs & Broomsticks):  Portobello Road
Peter Appleyard:  There Will Never Be Another You
Charlie Rich:  River, Stay Away From My Door

The Talbot Brothers:  See What You Do
Creed Taylor Orchestra:  The Nervous Beat
Milton Delugg And His Orchestra:  Creature From Under The Sea
Hugo Montenegro:  The Vice Of Killing
Dave Pell Singers:  Thank God The War Is Over
The Mindexpanders:  Cul De Sac

Moondog & The Apollo Saxophone Quartet:  Paris
Casimir:  Das Madchen Lolita
Les Compagnons De La Chanson:  Carioca, Mon Ami
The Impressions:  Moon River

John Lurie:  Tuesday Night In Memphis
Gabor Szabo:  Walking On Nails
Marty Wilson & His Orchestra:  Yumba Marumba
(from The Enchanted Tiki Room):  Hawaiian War Chant


Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening

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From: "Domenic Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Early Bird Gets The Rekkids
Date: 15 Jul 2001 21:03:40 -0400


So driving around town this morning I see a few big cardboard signs..
"Massive Yard Sale". Turns up the place is a whole floor of an old factory.
All the stuff is from abandoned storage or cleaned out apartments from
evictions.

I find only about 30 records in the whole place.  So I ask the guy in the
place where that are. And he boxes and boxes of them all gone by 12:30 in
the afternoon.

He was nice enough to give me the 2 I felt worthy to even pick up "Good
Morning Starshine" by Oliver. (Produced by Bob Crewe, Does not look
promising) and "Pramlatta's Hips" by the Herb Pomeroy Orchestra. Local
Trumpet player from Worcester.

At least found out a few others at my local used place:
"Herb Albert Presents Pete Jolly" I've been borrowing a copy from a friend.
This is a very pleasant mellow LP I like to play in the background on my
radio show when talking.

Also found:
Mancinis' Blues and the Beat. Just to have it on LP...hey 50 cents
Ray Anthony "Anthony Italiano" (is there anything this guy *didn't* do?)
Latin based Italian songs. Right up my alley.


Domenic Ciccone
"Martinis with Mancini" WJUL 91.5FM Friday's 6-9AM EST
http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/
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From: "Colleen Pyles" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl (game playing)
Date: 15 Jul 2001 21:37:22 -0500


Ahhhh, record memories.  As one of the "older" members on the list,
my memories go way back:

Earliest record/radio memories are:
1954
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee,  LaVern Baker.  As a little kid, this
appealed to me.  Mr. Sandman, The Chordettes.  Oh Mein Papa, Eddie
Calvert.
In 1956-57 we got a record player!!! Those little boxy kinds,
mentioned by others.  We had tons of kiddie records, mostly by Disney.
Annette Funicello, etc.  You know, wholesome stuff.  But we usually
dipped into my parents records, which was a lot of Fats Domino,
Blueberry Hill, Walkin' to New Orleans, Ain't that a Shame. Bill
Doggett's Honkey Tonk, Stardust Memories, Nat King Cole, So Rare,
Tommy Dorsey(?), Sophisticated Swing...I can still see the song
titles on the records, in my mind. I loved Tequila by the Champs, but
my folks wouldn't buy the record. (On a budget, you know) Then came
Elvis...my earlist memory of rock n roll.  Hound Dog and Jailhouse
Rock.  My mom used to watch American Bandstand every day which bugged
me cuz I wanted to watch cartoons or Howdy Doody.
I remember hearing Swingin' Shepherd Blues on the radio and thinking
I wanted to be a beatnik.  After that, my folks stopped buying recods
for a while...they had more kids instead.
I bought my first record album in 1960 or so, a compilation of
Broadway tunes, including songs from West Side Story.  Then I didn't
buy for a while...didn't know what I liked, folks got divorced and
remarried and puberty came along.  I remember buying a Connie Francis
album and some 45's.  Sam Cooke comes to mind.
Then... the sixties.  I remember the summer of 64-65, I combed out my
boufant hairdo, parted my hair down the middle and ironed it. I also
dyed it blond...suddenly I had dates and to my parents distress, I
prefered musicians!  Groovy.  I loved the Beach Boys and watched
Shindig and Hullaballoo on TV.
Then I bought BOB Dylan, Jimmie Reed and the Beatles, Rolling Stones,
Hermans Hermits.   But, I also loved Frank Sinatra's It Was A Very
Good Year. Red Roses for a Blue Lady, Mas Que Nada, but I didn't buy
their records then, because my peers didn't.  I loved, and still love
Simon and Garfunkel...they moved me.
I could go on and on, but I'll stop. lets just say I bought the
obligitory Janis Joplin, Cream, Crosby Stills and Nash, Neil Diamond
up until I had kids and then it was Sesame Street, The Electric
Company etc.  But as I got older, I started seeking out the exotica,
the ones I missed from my childhood...still seeking.



 Colleen
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From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) weekend thrift scores
Date: 16 Jul 2001 01:16:26 -0400


I generally don't go to thrift stores anymore but my friend wanted me to
show him my favorite thrift store, the one in Hamilton that Will told me
about and which I took Moritz to.
Unfortunately it was a shadow of its former self.  There were still a lot
of records but they weren't taken care of anymore and the quality was way
down.
Still, this is what I got:

Two Sides of Fred Waring with the Pennsylvanians
 - one side is Fred, the other side is Fred Jr..  Fred Jr. isn't as hip as
his Dad thought he was.  But Fred and his choir do "Kites are Fun" and
other hits.  And they make the Living Voices seem like the Staple Singers.

Al Hirt - Trumpet with Strings (arranged by Marty Paich)
 - what a nice record.  The strings are beautiful and Al sits far enough
back in the mix so as not to ruin it.

Bobby Darin - Inside out
 - always wanted this, Bobby's hippie record.

Don Ellis - Connection

Si Zentner - The Big Mod Sound of...
 - this was already one of my favorite records but I never had a copy in
good shape. Now I do.

Manuel and the Music of the Mountains - Carnival  and Shangria
- they're on Studio 2 and in great shape but they're both a tad tame.
Someday a couple of cuts will go on CDR and go back where they came from

Morty Craft and the Singing Strings - The World of Percussion
- this is on "Sight and Sound" and I've had these before but I don't think
I've ever had this one.  It has great sound and in parts sounds like a good
Dick Schory record.

Lester Lanin and his orchestra play the Madison Avenue Beat
- I had one of these before.  He plays all your favorite old commercials.
It's not as good as you'd hope but I'll probably keep it

These last three were the ones that made it worth the trip

Dr. Murray Banks tells Jewish stories mit psychology
- I love that they say "mit" instead of "with".  We've all seen the Murray
Banks record but this one surprised me.  The pychiatric patient pictured on
the couch is a stereotypic Jew.  I guess I knew Dr. Murray was Jewish but I
had no idea he speaks such good Yiddish.

Bob Keeshan and the Honeydreamers - A child's introduction to jazz
 - I wish everyone on the list could hear this.  The benign way they talk
about the African slaves bringing the sound of the drum to America.  And
the way they keep repeating "America is a melting pot" like they're trying
to brainwash the kiddies.
The story here is basically the same as Ken Burns' except that there's that
the Honeydreamers sound like the Ray Conniff singers, not Wynton Marsalis.
(Isn't Bob Keeshan the original Captain Kangaroo?)

And this last one was so out of place, it seemed like a plant:

Moe Koffman goes electric
- right on the cover it says "electric flute, sitar, tamboura".  Apparently
as part of Canada's Centennial celebration, Moe performed in India.  There
he sought out the guy who made sitars for George Harrison and Ravi Shankar
(Just like my dad, he wanted to make sure he got the best!) and brought it
back to Canada even though he couldn't play it.  The bass player plays the
sitar and Moe plays the tamboura.
This is almost as good as you might imagine in your wildest fantasies.  Not
quite.  But still pretty damn groovy.

So yeah I made out okay but still it was disappointing to see how much had
changed.  All the stores in Toronto have also gone downhill.  I may have to
go to Ohio next time.

AZ




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From: "Dowco" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Thrift stores going downhill
Date: 15 Jul 2001 23:01:30 -0700


I did the rounds yesterday... when the lady from the Salvation Army said
that they were putting their records online, I almost cried... and then the
Value Village had a worn out, scratchy copy of some Todd Rundgren album on
the shelf for 10.00 and I knew another thrift store employee was running
around armed and dangerous with a price guide...


Jim



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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage
Date: 16 Jul 2001 11:37:25 +0100


Moritz R wrote:
>
> Mimi Mayer schrieb:
>
> > Finally, Jimmy B brought up those white tabbed thingies used to separate
> > artists by name in record stores. Anyone know where to order these on the
> > Net?
>
> Again it's http://protected.de
> they have everything

I believe Covers33 (http://www.covers33.co.uk/ ) stock them in the UK.


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From: Ton =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCckert?= <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit] Herman Brood
Date: 16 Jul 2001 13:40:20 +0200


=20
=20
>> AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- Herman Brood, an artist and musician in
the Dutch rock scene for 30 years, died Wednesday after jumping to his
death from the roof of an Amsterdam hotel, police said. He was 55.
>
>oops. although i wasn't precisely a fan of his music it's always sad when
someone goes before his time. wrong drugs I guess...=20


The problem wasn't so much wrong drugs as no drugs. Booze was on the menu=20
till the very last, though ("One beef soup with Grand Marnier, please!")


>will Nina Hagen be at his funeral?
=20

Look for yourself, it's live on the internet this afternoon (the service=20
in Paradiso, not sure about the cremation) http://www.hermanbrood.nl/


Cheers, Ton



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From: "Brian" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Please help me find a gameboy!
Date: 16 Jul 2001 10:42:15 -0400


On a related note,  I am looking for an original grey gameboy classic player
which for some reason seems elusive here. Its so old that no second hand
store wants to stock it, yet it seems they aren't yet commonly thrown out so
as to be found at the Salvation Army.  If anyone out there with kids has one
they want to get rid of (good working condition though) I'd be happy to buy
it from you or send something in return.

The reason I want it is that I have this programmed gameboy cartridge that
is in fact a musical instrument.  Though it works in any gameboy model, the
sound quality was supposedly better in the old model as it was larger. If
you can help, please contact me off-list.

If the instrument intrigues you, there is a website, but beware... the
cartridge costs as much as a new GB unit!  Its at:

Http://www.nanoloop.com


Brian





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Subject: (exotica) New Finds
Date: 16 Jul 2001 10:40:44 -0400


One benefit of living in a predominantly French speaking place is that my
new finds tend to be quite a bit different from those of many others on the
list. Yesterday's were no exception:

Roger Simard et son orchestre  - "Drum a go-go - Disco Swing":  You see lots
of similarly titled records here, usually from Germany, with some form of "a
go-go" title, but this one is Canadian. Its full of covers of well known
beat hits but they don't sound at all like the originals.  However, they do
have all the right sounds and instrumentation to grab my interest in the
"now" sound.

The Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - "Viva la feria": This one has a less
promising cover than a few of the other Peter Thomas records, and is a mix
of latin and pop tracks. Not the most inspired but it is Peter Thomas, and
I've never seen it before!

Various - "La super surprise-partie pingouin - Bons skieurs, bons
twisteurs":  Actually only half of this is French, the other by arrangement
with the Pye and Peacock  labels. I'm certain that Vogue is to France what
RCA is to the U.S., or Polydor is to Germany., ie. owners of huge catalogues
with a lot of great (and a lot of less great) material, which has yet to
resurface.  I'm told Vogue is (finally) making some effort to reissue old
material and a number of CD compilations are out, though I have no idea at
all where to find them. Its just too bad that there isn't wider distribution
as even here in Quebec it isn't all that readily available...

Shiny Men - Again:  This is the second release from the "Commercial:"
divsion of the famed United Dairies label from the UK, better known as the
"Nurse with Wound" label. I never see these records, and at the
relatively low cost of CDN$12 I had to pick it up. Slightly offbeat pop,
with (of course) great cover art... a UD trademark..


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Home record storage (yet again)
Date: 16 Jul 2001 11:06:59 -0400


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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrift stores going downhill
Date: 16 Jul 2001 08:10:12 -0700 (PDT)


Yes. The Salvation Army in my area is now auctioning
off lps by the box at their HQ. They're not stocking
it anymore. Gays and vinyl apparently contrary to
their mission these days.

I did however land a copy of Don & Dewey's "Jungle
Hop" on Specialty from the grungiest junkshop on earth
("Manassas Treasures", in large cut-out plywood
letters nailed to a sagging roof. A tinker's den).

--- Dowco <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> I did the rounds yesterday... when the lady from the
> Salvation Army said
> that they were putting their records online, I
> almost cried... and then the
> Value Village had a worn out, scratchy copy of some
> Todd Rundgren album on
> the shelf for 10.00 and I knew another thrift store
> employee was running
> around armed and dangerous with a price guide...


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Subject: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update
Date: 16 Jul 2001 14:07:45 +0200


A new update to the "eXotica Releases Overview" is available.
Below is a quick overview of what was added, check the web site for
more details.

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1936/disq/disq.htm

If you would like to receive the updates on a regular base by e-mail,
just let me know you want to get on my " eXotica Releases Overview
updater")


* Dean Elliot: "Zounds! What Sounds"
* Jimmie Haskell: "Countdown"
* Janko Nilovic: "Chorus"
* Janko Nilovic: "Un Couple Dans La Ville"
* Janko Nilovic: "Vocal Impressions"

* SOUNDTRACK: "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" by Ennio Morricone
* SOUNDTRACK: "Cleopatra Jones" by J.J. Johnson
* SOUNDTRACK: "Dollar$"  (aka "Money", aka "The Heist") by Quincy Jones
* SOUNDTRACK: "The Exorcist 2: The Heretic" by Ennio Morricone
* SOUNDTRACK: "Bullit" by Lalo Schifrin
* SOUNDTRACK: "Dirty Harry/ Magnum Force/ Sudden Impact" by Lalo Schifrin
* SOUNDTRACK: "Enter The Dragon" by Lalo Schifrin
* SOUNDTRACK: "Mannix" by Lalo Schifrin
* SOUNDTRACK: "Rush Hour" by Lalo Schifrin

* Various Artists: "Glucklich IV"
* Joyce: "Hard Bossa"

* Bobby McFerrin, narration by Jack Nicholson: "The Elephant's Child"
* Eilert Pilarm: "Live in Stockholm "
* The Recliners: "Cosa Caliente"

* Various Artists: "Glucklich"
    (A collection of rare German fusion grooves with a Brazilian flavour)
      o CD, Compost Classics 004, Germany, 1994
      o comment:
           + Johan: My rating: Very Good! "10 blunted Brazil tracks made
             in Germany". A series of (currently) 4 CD's with Brazilian
             influenced jazzy/funky/fusion. The first 2 volumes focus
             primarely on smooth German fusion from the 1970's & 80's,
             while volumes 3 & 4 offer more recent stuff.


* Various Artists: "Glucklich II"
    (A collection of European fusion tunes with a Brazilian flavour)
      o CD, Compost Classics 021, Germany, 1996
      o comment:
           + Johan: My rating: Very Good! I had the feeling this one
             sounded a bit more Brazilian than volume 1...


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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jack Davis Article (not too exotic...)
Date: 16 Jul 2001 12:49:38 -0400


My hometown newspaper ran this article about Mad Magazine/Album Cover
artist Jack Davis.   I thought some here would be interested.
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From: tikiman <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) La Mariana
Date: 16 Jul 2001 11:07:36 -0700 (PDT)


http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2001/Jul/16/il/il01a.html
damn, our little secret is out! we hate that, but now
you know where to go when you visit Honolulu. we shot
our music video for "an occasional man" here...the
darling Annette is in it.

alohaderci,
fluid floyd

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From: "ronnie edgar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) For Boston types
Date: 07 Jul 2001 17:27:58 +0100



>
> Any comments about the Serge remix CD "I Love Serge"? Any good? Saw it
> there.
>
> Domenic

I like it very much, some really chilled out remixes, and some upbeat
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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Back from the Netherlands
Date: 16 Jul 2001 23:35:01 +0100


Hi all -

Just back from my Netherlands/Belgium experience and wanted to
thank those of you who made suggestions of places to check out.

I picked up quite a few CDs and LPs while out there:

CDs (from Get Records and Concerto - both Utrechtestraat,
Amsterdam)

Bertrand Burgalat - The Genius Of... (Bungalow)
Erobique - der Sound von Erobique (Deck8)
v/a - Pop Shopping (Crippled)
Nino Nardini/Roger Roger - Jungle Obsession (Pulp Flavor)
Ladytron - 604 (Invicta Hi-Fi)
v/a - Decktronics (Rock8)
Jimi Tenor - Out of Nowhere (Warp)
Andre Popp - Holiday for DJs (Basta)
Pizzicato 5 - Made in USA (Matador)
Arling & Cameron - All-In (Basta)
Tom Waits - Night on Earth OST (Island)
Stereo Total - Monokini (Bungalow)
Harry Revel/Les Baxter/Billy May/Dr Samuel Hoffman - Music Out
of the Moon / Music for Peace of Mind / Perfume (Basta)
v/a - Sushi 4004 (Bungalow)
Jean-Jacques Perrey - Moog Sensations (Pulp Flavor)

I was hoping to get the "Zounds!" CD on Basta but it hadn't been
released - I think it's released this week...

LPs (all from Record Collector, Koepoort, Antwerp)

Several France Gall LPs from 70s and 80s (I was curious to hear
what she sounded like after the 60s)

Several Astrud Gilberto LPs

3 LPs by Belgian harmonica/guitarist Toots Thielemans (all on
Command).  I guess these were always going to be the only
Command LPs I was likely to see in Belgium!  Funnily enough
Toots was playing at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Brugge while I
was over but I didn't make it.

They had a few Yma Sumac LPs but I frankly didn't have time to
look through the several thousand LPs and CDs they have in this
amazing shop...

Also recommended:

Kloosterstraat in Antwerp - loads of antique/retro shops including
http://www.fiftie-fiftie.be/ which isn't actually as good as the website
but plenty of others are...

The Kulminator also in Antwerp - bar with over 600 varieties of
Belgian Beer!

DOM and Edha Interieur in Amsterdam - two great interior design
shops.

Lux (Marnixstraat, Amsterdam) - beautifully retro-designed bar with
comfortable lounging areas and DJs most nights.

In the unlikely event anyone is passing through Veldhoven I can
heartily recommend a meal at "Java Jive" an exotica restaurant I
guess which gleefully mixes cuisine from around the world in a
Javanese/Mexican setting full of kitsch wooden birds, fruit, cacti
etc with a soundtrack to match.

And now I must start saving up for my next visit...!


Robbie


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Empty hall?
Date: 16 Jul 2001 19:20:06 -0400


> Dick Schory's "Music for bang baaroom & harp" was also recorded on a
> concert stage without an audience, and has a nice, big feel to it.

Dick Schory has at least one live LP "Dick Schory on Tour" (1964) that was
recorded before a live audience at Chicago's Orchestra Hall.  I think its the
first time I've heard 'Baby Elephant Walk' performed with the audience clapping
at the end. Dick gives a brief  spoken intro before every song.

I've only listened to a few songs so far, but I like what I've heard.  It has a
good clean sound with typical Schory arrangements ..... The William Tell
Overture with over 55 percussion instruments, 'Sing, Sing, Sing' with a big
drum solo, and a cool exotica track, 'Orinoco'

The cover is rather interesting.  It shows Disck Schory looking into the
camera, with a road atlas in his hands.  In the background is a moving truck
with a whole slew of percussion instruments (bass drum, marimba, tympanis,
glockespiel, xylophone, gong, cahcar horn, etc) waiting to be loaded inside

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Subject: Re: (exotica) by the numbers...?
Date: 16 Jul 2001 19:51:13 -0400


> in another paragraph, he talks about doctors using x-ray screens to make
> bootleg copies of his music, taken off the VOA radio programs.

> comments? additions?  anyone..?

The following is excerpted from Timothy Ryback's excellent 1990 book "Rock
Around the Bloc"
---------
"The emulsion on the surface of X-ray plates provided an adequate surface for
sound reproduction.  In underground studios, enterprising Soviets and East
Europeans recorded Western hits into the emulsion of the discarded X-ray
plates.  The records produced by this process, known as 'Roentgenizdat',
circulated on seven-inch discs recorded at 78 rpm.  Produced by the millions
and facetiously refered to as "recordings on bones," these records became the
common currency of the Soviet-bloc rock scene in the late 1950s.

The ebullient rhythms of Bill haley originally pressed into the vinyl of Decca
records, eventually turned up on a X-ray of a fractured skull in Moscow; the
immortal voice of Elvis Presley lived for a few months atop a broken ankle or
elbow in Yerevan; the rollicking rhythms of Little Richard were captured on a
shattered rib cage in Riga or Tallinn.

By the 1950s, Roentgenizdat was so pervasive that Soviet officials felt
compelled to take action.  This underground industry and the music it
disseminated were blamed for a rising number of assaults, robberies, and even
murders.  In 1958, in a move to curtail Roentgenizdat, it was declared illegal
"to produce home-made records of a criminally hooligan trend."

In September 1958, the Soviet legal journal Sovetskaia yustitia justified the
banning of underground record production by linking viloent criminal acts with
underground recordings of Western rock and roll.  Sovestskaia yustitia cited
one case in which a man allegedly resorted to murder in order to obtain
illegally produced X-ray recordings of "the latest rock and roll, gypsy songs,
scurrilous ditties from the criminal world and drums solos by American jazz
kings."
------------------------

I found one website that also describes the practice of Roentgenizdat, located
at
http://www.powerhat.com/tusovka/tus.ch1.html

A one line excerpt .... "According to rock historian Troitsky, the one-sided
x-ray disks costed about one to one and a half rubles each on the black market,
and lasted only a few months, as opposed to around five rubles for a two-sided
vinyl disk."

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From: "Domenic Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fw: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates
Date: 16 Jul 2001 21:11:31 -0400


 Noticed these were on your list.
 * Quincy Jones: "Talkin' Verve"
 * Shirley Scott: "Talkin' Verve"

 Always been satisfied with the Talkin' Verve series.

 They keep on trying to add to this series.  Just got these and a Talkin
 Verve disk on Buddy Greco. I thought that was a little unusual considering
 he's not funky and they selected late 50's material. About 10 years earlier
 than material the series usually features. he seems to be a cross between
 Mel Torme and Mark Murphy. The linear notes always mentions the early Nat
 King Cole as a influence. Maybe an influence but don't see the connection.
 Except that Greco sings and plays the piano like Cole did.

 "Talking Verve with a Twist"is the best comp in the series Notice they have
 a MamboMania disk so that would get me going.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) by the numbers...?
Date: 16 Jul 2001 19:11:13 -0700


At 04:51 PM 7/16/01, Vern wrote:
>The following is excerpted from Timothy Ryback's excellent 1990 book "Rock
>Around the Bloc"
>---------
>"The emulsion on the surface of X-ray plates provided an adequate surface for
>sound reproduction.
>I found one website that also describes the practice of Roentgenizdat...


Vern, thanks so much for such excellent sharing...a reason I so much enjoy
this list!

Byron



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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sebastien Tellier
Date: 16 Jul 2001 22:14:07 -0400


If you go to the usenet newsgroup alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.bootlegs you can
find a 7 song set recorded at the Mayan Theatre on 7/12/01.
Sebastien is accompanied by Pamelia Kurstin on Theremin. They were opening
for Air at the time.

So, who is Sebastien Tellier anyway? I don't recall his name coming up in
conversation, ever.

Lou




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Subject: Re: (exotica) Sebastien Tellier
Date: 16 Jul 2001 22:27:34 EDT



In a message dated 7/16/01 9:16:31 PM, [e-mail] writes:

<< So, who is Sebastien Tellier anyway? I don't recall his name coming up in
conversation, ever. >>

He's on the French Source label (home also to Air). Some copies of Air's new
album come with a Source 2001 sampler on which Teller appears, in prep for
the forthcoming full-length. There's a Teller track on Astralwerks' excellent
"Source Material" compilation from a couple years ago.

Other than that, I don't know who he is/they are.

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Subject: Re: Fw: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates
Date: 17 Jul 2001 01:44:15 -0400


At 09:11 PM 7/16/01 -0400, Domenic Ciccone wrote:
>
> Always been satisfied with the Talkin' Verve series.
>
> They keep on trying to add to this series.  Just got these and a Talkin
> Verve disk on Buddy Greco. I thought that was a little unusual considering
> he's not funky and they selected late 50's material.

Say what? Buddy not funky?  Have you ever heard his Hank Williams record?
Have you ever heard him play the organ?  Buddy was funky.

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From: Kevin Crossman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Lyman (was Re: (exotica) A new fan.......)
Date: 16 Jul 2001 23:44:40 -0700


Nathan Miner wrote:
> Lyman had a weird habit of placing a horrible track on the very end (at least we can be glad for that) of his albums.  Mostly stuff like marches with trombones or something equally hard on the ears.  Mom said, "I have to jump up and take the needle off when those come on!!"

Yeah, this happened on a bunch of his albums... sad really the way these
tracks ruin an otherwise fabulous vibe...

Kevin
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From: Kevin Crossman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny "Quiet Village"
Date: 16 Jul 2001 23:57:58 -0700


Was on vacation in frigid Alaska but didn't see any response to this one...

"m.ace" wrote:
>
> The Exotic Sounds Of Martin Denny
> "Quiet Village"
> (Liberty Records/Stereo)
>
> Well, it's a real nice set. Still a small, tight combo, but they seem
> settled into a very relaxed (but not lazy!) and confident groove by this
> point. I think personally, I prefer these albums with Julius Wechter. For
> whatever reasons, I just prefer his work to Lyman's, he seems a little more
> colorful to me. When did Wechter take over, anyway? I know Lyman is on the
> first two.

Lyman was on Exotica and Exotica II.

> A nice balance between easy tunes and busy tunes, and even the slow ones
> are inventive enough to maintain interest. Strangely, a few of the fast
> tunes strike me as having a sort of prog rock knottiness to the lines
> (sorry, I'm sure that comparison is distasteful to some).

Yes, a mix of "rock" and oriental music..

> I have to compare the version of "Quiet Village" to the version on
> "Exotica" sometime, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. It doesn't sound
> like it matches the rest of this album, but I seem to recall the earlier
> version sounding different as well. What's the official word on that?

This is an edited version of the stereo version of the song (2:58 vs
3:41).  There is a pretty perceptible difference between Denny's stereo
version and the mono version -- the stereo version is faster.

It's kind of funny how Denny always claimed that the stereo version of
the Exotica album was "recreated note for note, bird call for bird call"
- but it is really easy to pick out some of the tracks based on the
music or calls instantly.  Not that the stereo version is bad mind you,
just different.

-Kevin

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From: "basic hip" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) UK soundtracks MOVEMENTS
Date: 17 Jul 2001 07:09:56 -0700


Thanks to all that came up with all those record storage suggestions!  I
really liked those BOLTZ steel ones, but they are a little too $$$.

I also stumbled upon RACKIT (http://www.rackittm.com/ ) also expensive and,
according to my wife, "very seventies" with that heavy grained light oak
look.

Anybody heard either of these UK soundtracks:

Johnny Harris - Movements (fragments of fear / stepping stones)
Keith Mansfield - Loot (rare)

Worth the time and money to pursue?

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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) UK soundtracks MOVEMENTS
Date: 17 Jul 2001 15:56:49 +0100


basic hip wrote:
>
> Anybody heard either of these UK soundtracks:
>
> Johnny Harris - Movements (fragments of fear / stepping stones)

This has come up before on the list - those two tracks are from the
'Fragments of Fear' soundtrack - the rest of the album is good too.
Stepping Stones is probably the killer - very fast and frenetic,
flute-driven stuff. The lp was reissued (or booted) about a year ago.

His other LP 'All to bring you morning' is growing on me too. It's in
the same vein as David Axelrod etc - moody orchestral stuff with guitar,
bass and drums. Shouldn't be too hard to find cheaply - it has a cover
of a beach (at sunrise?) with the silhouette of a man, and looks like it
should be an easy listening compilation.

Plus he produced or arranged (I forget which) Shirley Bassey's
'Something' (a.k.a '... is really something' in US) and 'Something else'
albums which are great.


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Subject: (exotica) Sabu, Anyone?
Date: 17 Jul 2001 11:31:03 EDT


Anyone know what Sabu Martinez sounds like ? Do you have a cd to reccomend ?
Thanks, Bob


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From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) FW: Bird music on Mappings, week beginning July 17, 2001
Date: 17 Jul 2001 08:50:13 -0700


I'm sure some of you might be interested in this:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Herb Levy
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 11:30 PM
> To: [e-mail]; [e-mail];
> [e-mail]; [e-mail];
> [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> Subject: Bird music on Mappings, week beginning July 17, 2001
>
>
> Hi,
>
> This week Mappings, a weekly new music program on Antenna Internet
> Radio <http://www.antennaradio.com/avant/mappings/index.htm> presents
> music by, for and/or of birds created and/or documented by Paul
> Panhuysen & the Galvanos, Ellen Band, If, Bwana, Leo Kupper, Alvin
> Lucier, George E Lewis, Maciunas Ensemble & Kanary Grand Band, and
> Olivier Messiaen.
>
> The RealAudio recording went online about 10-11 pm (Greenwich -0800)
> on Monday night and will remain online for a week. I hope you have a
> chance to check out the show.
>
> Last week's program (featuring music for gamelan by John Cage,
> Phillip Corner, Lou Harrison, Jeff Morris, Jarrad Powell, Tony
> Prabowo, James Tenney, Ki Wasitodiningrat, Sint Wullur, and Evan
> Ziporyn) is available in the archives:
> <http://www.antennaradio.com/avant/mappings/index1.htm>
>
> See you online.
>
> Bests,
>
> Herb



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Sabu, Anyone?
Date: 17 Jul 2001 17:07:14 +0100


[e-mail] wrote:
>
> Anyone know what Sabu Martinez sounds like ? Do you have a cd to reccomend ?
> Thanks, Bob

Sabu is fantastic. Have yet to hear a bad record by him, although I do
have a suspicion that I now have almost all his 'greats', and the rest
may be just be more standard latin jazz.

'Sorcery' is the most exotic, 'Jazz Espagnole' is great latin jazz,
'Afro Temple' adds banging funk drums, like Pucho or someone, and 'Palo
Congo' is that very percussion orientated, early afro-cuban jazz sound -
just guitar, congas, bongos, african percussion etc. All those four have
been reissued relatively recently.

Info about him here:
http://www.wildsscene.com/sabu/index.html

and discography:
http://www.wildsscene.com/music/latin_sm.html


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Date: 17 Jul 2001 11:38:10 EDT



In a message dated 7/17/2001 11:24:53 AM, [e-mail] writes:

<< David Axelrod etc - moody orchestral stuff with guitar, >>

Is that a description of all his stuff  or are there vocals involved ?



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Subject: Re: (exotica) UK soundtracks MOVEMENTS
Date: 17 Jul 2001 18:19:08 +0100


[e-mail] wrote:
>
> In a message dated 7/17/2001 11:24:53 AM, [e-mail] writes:
>
> << David Axelrod etc - moody orchestral stuff with guitar, >>
>
> Is that a description of all his stuff  or are there vocals involved ?

The two solo albums are all instrumental, save for a section on one of
the tracks on 'All to bring you morning' which has Jon Anderson (from
Yes etc) singing. (Actually two others from Yes are playing on the album
I think, but don't let that put you off).

'Movements' is much harder and faster than the 2nd LP. Sounds more like
Don Sebesky 'Distant galaxy' or something. Would have to listen to it
again to think of a better comparison.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Sabu, Anyone?
Date: 17 Jul 2001 13:38:49 -0400



> > Anyone know what Sabu Martinez sounds like ? Do you have a cd to
> reccomend ?
>
>Sabu is fantastic. Have yet to hear a bad record by him, although I do
>have a suspicion that I now have almost all his 'greats', and the rest
>may be just be more standard latin jazz.

Sabu isn't the leader, but he stands tall on Art Blakey's "Orgy In Rhythm,
Vols. 1 & 2" (reissued on Blue Note a few years back). I raved about it on
here not too long ago. Great romping percussion. Another hot tip from Tony
Wilds.


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Subject: (exotica) Thrift stores going downhill
Date: 17 Jul 2001 10:40:01 -0700


>I did the rounds yesterday... when the lady from the Salvation Army said
>that they were putting their records online, I almost cried... and then the
>Value Village had a worn out, scratchy copy of some Todd Rundgren album on
>the shelf for 10.00 and I knew another thrift store employee was running
>around armed and dangerous with a price guide...
>
>Jim

I was in a Salvation Army the other day in the "antiques" nook. Since the basement is full of vinyl that I've combed through, I thought I'd bother in the special area. I was completely confused. Every time I see John Denver records or Peter Frampton albums in one of those collectable areas, I just shake my head, and I want to say something to someone who works there but what's the point? And in addition to there being more useless crap in the records in the collectable area than in the regular area, the one potentially worthwhile record I found was merely an empty sleeve! It was absurd. Later, a guy came up with a shopping cart full of stuff to be put in this area, and he immediately showed me a Redd Foxx comedy record as though I was supposed to be impressed or want it. I wanted to ask who makes these decisions about what constitutes a "collectable" for the little room, and what those decisions are based on. But I am grateful for the fact that I've only bought two things in th
at room compared to hundreds of other things in the rest of the store. And luckily the tiki mugs never go in that room, nor the albums that should, like the Frank Comstock outer space record I found there (cover in piss poor shape but vinyl nearly immaculate) a year ago.

Online record sales? Great. Will there be Salvation Army auctions? $10 starting bid for this beat up copy of Frampton Comes Alive! Ha ha.

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Subject: (exotica) copy prevention news items
Date: 17 Jul 2001 13:45:49 -0400


"Anti-piracy compact discs that cannot be copied by a computer have gone on
sale in California.":
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns9999998

"Napster to ditch MP3 for proprietary format":
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/20428.html


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From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bruce Haack tribute featuring Beck!
Date: 17 Jul 2001 21:49:53 +0200


From www.beck.com:
------
07.13.01: Bruce Haack Tribute

Beck has recorded the Bruce Haack song "Funky Little Song" with Ross Harris
at Burning Trailer Studios for Ross' forthcoming BRUCE HAACK TRIBUTE RECORD.
Other artists on the tribute include Stereolab, Money Mark, Mouse on Mars,
Cornelius, Sukia, and DJ Me DJ You. Check out THE BRUCE HAACK WEB to learn
more about the late and great BRUCE HAACK.
-------

That's great news, isn't it?

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From: Bruce Lenkei <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrift stores going downhill
Date: 17 Jul 2001 16:45:54 -0400 (EDT)



It always amazes me what some people think is a "rare" record. I was in a
junk store months ago. This woman had maybe 5000 albums in the place, so I
asked how much they were. She said they were all a dollar except if it's
someting rare, like the Beatles. Uh-huh.


> I was completely confused. Every time I
> see John Denver records or Peter Frampton albums in one of those
> collectable areas, I just shake my head, and I want to say something
> to someone who works there but what's the point?



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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrift stores,  a way of life
Date: 17 Jul 2001 14:07:10 -0700 (PDT)


A favorite of mine is the "Carnac" approach to
pricing. There is one thrift shop in my area where the
price for lps is posted as $1. However, when the guy
who runs the place is in (and not one of his
work-release teens who could care less what they
collect), he scrutinizes each lp for a moment and
says, for instance, "this is an old one - $3, that
other is 2.50." Often, after I've kept my tongue and
paid, he'll slip them in a bag and crack them down on
the counter for me, splitting the spines nicely.


--- Bruce Lenkei <[e-mail]> wrote:

> It always amazes me what some people think is a
> "rare" record. I was in a
> junk store months ago. This woman had maybe 5000
> albums in the place, so I
> asked how much they were. She said they were all a
> dollar except if it's
> someting rare, like the Beatles. Uh-huh.


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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) True Story: Desert Island Discs
Date: 17 Jul 2001 22:45:47 +0100


Kevin Crossman wrote:
>
> Went over to Tower Records yesterday and picked up the latest issue of
> their house-organ magazine Pulse.
>
> I thought to myself - hey I ought to send in a list of "Desert Island
> Discs" (a regular feature of the zine) with an Exotica theme - what
> better for a desert island, right?  (BTW - in an earlier life I had a
> DID list published in 1988)

Anyone know if there are archives anywhere online for the Desert Island
Discs radio programme? I had a search but couldn't find any. I think it
would be interesting to see who chose what.


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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 17 Jul 2001 22:51:49 +0100


Nicola Battista wrote:
>
> >What are your earliest memories of records, record players, record
> >playing, record buying, etc? What was the earliest favorite record you can
> >recall?
>
> my first record players were kids record players which usually were square
> plastic things in a strange orange (sometimes white) color. they were
> called mangiadischi (record "eater"!) and tended to ruin our 7" by
> consuming them heavily in the part closer to the central hole. Maybe this
> was the reason for the name? the vinyl eater? ;)

http://www.dansettes.co.uk/Portable%20record%20players.htm
Is photo on the top left what you mean? They look crazy.


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From: "Telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Mondo Bongos July 18, 2001
Date: 17 Jul 2001 19:09:11 -0400


Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wednesday morning at 9 (EST) on CFRU 93.3fm
in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The show is also available on the web at
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~cfru-fm

Mandingo - Manhunter "Savage Rite"
Dick Kent - Bongo, King of the Jungle "The Makers of Smooth Music Vol 2"
Elephant's Memory - Jungle Gym at the Zoo "Midnight Cowboy" ost
The Inner Thumb - Citroens 'n' Sitars "Soul Ecstacy"
Xhol Caravan - Grille "Motherf*ckers GMBH & Co kg"
23 Skidoo - The Gospel Comes to New Guinea 12"
Bar-Kays - Theme from Hells Angels "Soul Finger"
[uncredited] - Scorpio "Schoolhouse Funk"
Lora Logic - Stereo 12"
Bongo Joe - Transistor Radio "Bongo Joe"
Noh Mercy - Revolutionary Spy "Earcom 3"
Elephants Memory - Old Man Willow "Midnight Cowboy"
The Galaxy Generation - Aquarius "Hair"

Comments & questions welcome.

Allan

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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Fw: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates
Date: 17 Jul 2001 23:08:52 +0100


alan zweig wrote:
>
> At 09:11 PM 7/16/01 -0400, Domenic Ciccone wrote:
> >
> > Always been satisfied with the Talkin' Verve series.
> >
> > They keep on trying to add to this series.  Just got these and a Talkin
> > Verve disk on Buddy Greco. I thought that was a little unusual considering
> > he's not funky and they selected late 50's material.
>
> Say what? Buddy not funky?  Have you ever heard his Hank Williams record?
> Have you ever heard him play the organ?  Buddy was funky.

He does a nice cover of 'What's Going On?' on the Tony Hatch produced
'Movin' On' LP. Not keen on the rest of it though.



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From: James Botticelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates
Date: 17 Jul 2001 20:12:42 -0400


on 7/17/01 6:08 PM, Michael Jemmeson at [e-mail] wrote:

> He does a nice cover of 'What's Going On?' on the Tony Hatch produced
> 'Movin' On' LP. Not keen on the rest of it though.

Buddy Greco, singer? instrumentalist?..I know, I should know, but I don't ..
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From: "Dowco" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Thrift stores,  a way of life
Date: 17 Jul 2001 17:27:26 -0700


Reminds me of a similar moment in a church thrift store in a little town in
Oregon - I had picked out a bunch of 78's and a few lps, and the lady
started bagging them. "Be care...." was all I had the chance to say before I
heard an audible crack as she slammed one of the 78's (a nice one by the
Three Suns) on the counter. "Uhhh, that one's broken, I won't be taking it,"
I said.  "Oh, it was probably broken when you took it off the shelf," she
cackled back at me.

I guess working in thrift stores does that to some people.

Jim


>Often, after I've kept my tongue and
> paid, he'll slip them in a bag and crack them down on
> the counter for me, splitting the spines nicely.
>
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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates
Date: 18 Jul 2001 01:31:54 +0100


James Botticelli wrote:
>
> on 7/17/01 6:08 PM, Michael Jemmeson at [e-mail] wrote:
>
> > He does a nice cover of 'What's Going On?' on the Tony Hatch produced
> > 'Movin' On' LP. Not keen on the rest of it though.
>
> Buddy Greco, singer? instrumentalist?..I know, I should know, but I don't ..
> JB/note new address y'all

Singer. Someone on this list once called him the Duke of Cheese...


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From: "Domenic Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Cleve in the Improper Boston Best of Boston
Date: 17 Jul 2001 22:00:20 -0400


A friend sent this blurb:

 July 18-21 2001 The Imprpoper Bostonian10th annual Boston's Best Special
Issue.

Page 58, Entertainment.

Club DJ - Brother Cleve.

"This self-professed child of the 70's lays down a funk-soul rhythm that
seems to borrow from every genre under the sun. Bravely combining classic
disco witth the latest Brazilian chart topper, tribal beats with timeless
lounge stylings, Brother Cleve is the Bostonian most likely to conjure
visions of Ibiza in local scenesters' heads. He didn't miss a beat after his
residency at Lava Bar ended when the club closed-now he's spicing things up
at Mantra. Soon he'll also be at the newclub, Limbo, When it opens next
month."




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From: "Domenic Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates
Date: 17 Jul 2001 22:21:16 -0400


> Buddy Greco, singer? instrumentalist?..I know, I should know, but I don't
..
> JB/note new address y'all

The Talkin' Verve disk is late 50's material. Buddy plays the piano and
sings with a trio or quartet. As a comp it's culled from various recordings.
Mundell Lowe is on there on a few tracks.

Pleasant but not Talkin' Verve funky.  The linear notes constantly compare
him to Nat King Cole's earlier piano days and in mood its about the same.
But not the same style or delivery. But I like to have something by everyone
to play on the show and if I had to take a chance on a comp it would be the
Talkin' Verve series.

Hey, he's a paisan so of course I like it.

Domenico


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From: "Domenic Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Exotica/Luxuria member summit. Boston August 18th.
Date: 17 Jul 2001 22:22:43 -0400



On August 18th hoping to get some folks from the Exotica Mailing List and
the Luxuria/Yahoo mailing list for a day of record shopping and club hopping
in Boston MA. Lets hope we do not get a heat wave.

Planning an ambitious day. Join me for part of or the whole day!

How about meeting somewhere appropriately Exotic for lunch?

Spend the afternoon going to a few of our many record stores? Hang out at
Harvard Square?

And then later that night go see Br. Cleve spin at Mantra's or Limbo's which
ever club he's playing. And/or see Seks Bomba playing at the Linwood with
The Strangemen and The Irreversible Slacks.

I know a few of you are on board for some of this. And look forward to good
times.

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From: "basic hip" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bird music
Date: 17 Jul 2001 21:11:44 -0700


> This week Mappings, a weekly new music program on Antenna Internet
> Radio <http://www.antennaradio.com/avant/mappings/index.htm> presents
> music by, for and/or of birds created and/or documented by Paul
> Panhuysen & the Galvanos, Ellen Band, If, Bwana, Leo Kupper, Alvin
> Lucier, George E Lewis, Maciunas Ensemble & Kanary Grand Band, and
> Olivier Messiaen.

Glad to see some folks have not lost their appreciation for our feathered
friends, the greatest songsters of them all.  Afterall, is there a sweeter
sound than birds singing in the treetops?

Inspirations to the great composers and whistlers as well.  Did somebody say
whistlers??  :)

Bird songs with musical accompaniment goes way, way back.  Lots of canary
training records with organ, violin and marimba.  The American Radio
Warblers, which were broadcast on the radio in the 1940's, Provols Golden
Birds, later the Artal Orchestra, Johan Dalgas Frisch and one of my
favorites, Rockefeller Center pet shop owner Virgina Belmont's Famous
Talking and Singing Birds.

Jim Fassett did those crazy experiments with changing the pitch and speed of
bird field recordings on Symphony of the Birds and the results were
stunning, unrecognizable and bizarre.  Except when slowed way down and the
little guys sound like expert whistlers.  Did somebody say whistlers??  :)


















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From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Please help me find a gameboy!
Date: 18 Jul 2001 00:13:33 -0400


"Brian" <[e-mail]> writes:

>On a related note,  I am looking for an original grey gameboy classic

>The reason I want it is that I have this programmed gameboy cartridge that
>is in fact a musical instrument.  Though it works in any gameboy model, the
>sound quality was supposedly better in the old model as it was larger.

Gameboys also have a stereo headphone jack... you could run a line to any amp or mixer and then size won't matter!


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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack tribute featuring Beck!
Date: 18 Jul 2001 10:47:59 +0200




Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek schrieb:

>  Bruce Haack Tribute
>
> Beck, Stereolab, Money Mark, Mouse on Mars,
> Cornelius, Sukia, and DJ Me DJ You.

unlikely line-up.  Money Mark? Doing Bruce Haack? sure makes one curious.


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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) anti music
Date: 18 Jul 2001 11:36:54 +0200


how 'bout this:

http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Anti-Music/




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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) smoking redheads
Date: 18 Jul 2001 11:35:38 +0200


the combination of eroticism and tiki is irresistable:

http://members.aol.com/djadamson8/tiki.html

and here's what Google offers to "our subject" (for newbies):

http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Music/Styles/Lounge/



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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A new and *easy* and *verstile* drink!!!
Date: 18 Jul 2001 09:48:31 -0400


For those imbibers on the list.......

Let's face it, sometimes you want to cut out the big production of hauling =
out the bottles, the jiggers and the shakers AND the ice crushers and get =
down to the drinkin' part............well here's a great mixer that you =
can add just about any fruit juice or frozen concentrate to and it tastes =
really good!

ZIMA - yes, that's right, the marketing tool of evil to capture the souls =
of underage drinkers or those who don't like the taste of "true" alcohol.  =
Just mix a bottle of Zima  ( I like the new citrus one) with either lime, =
orange, grape, (you name it) juice to your taste and enjoy.

Zima is a "malt beverage" but the box also notes "...except in Texas where =
it's beer."  (?)

Happy drinking -

Nate




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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A new and *easy* and *verstile* drink!!!
Date: 18 Jul 2001 07:50:56 -0700 (PDT)


I was hoodwinked into going into a large shopping mall
last weekend. Part of the stations of my cross
involved looking at the utensils and the full color
section of flavored cooking oils. I happened to notice
that there was a reduced price section which contained
a stack of bottled Mango Key Lime drink (Aqua Fresca I
believe they've christened it). I bought a few bottles
to bring home to experiment with. And actually it's
pretty damned good. Particularly with added lime
juice, gold rum and a shot of club soda (jungle punch
for lack of a more creative effort and an excuse to
put it in a tiki mug). With the addition of 151 and
vodka, all non-essential organs take a holiday.
Thought of calling it Apocalypse Now.


--- Nathan Miner <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> For those imbibers on the list.......


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From: "Colleen Pyles" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Bobby Darin
Date: 18 Jul 2001 10:58:38 -0500



alan:    Bobby Darin - Inside out
- always wanted this, Bobby's hippie record.

Alan, I love Bobby Darin.  I am amazed at how he evolved to fit the
times from Pop, to rock, to folk.  Would he be doing rap now, if he
were still alive?


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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Walter Brennan, the Great Beast?
Date: 18 Jul 2001 10:50:29 -0700 (PDT)


What do kidnapping, murder, incest, imperialism
hedgeborn libertism and Liberty Records have in
common? The Wonderful World of Walter Brennan, that's
what. You remember his hickory smoked and trail dusted
brogue from Disney specials and various westerns, of
course. Well here he is drawling on about all these
things (usually in the same song) in Don't Go Near the
Indians - pronounced "injuns", of course; Tenessee
Stud, etc., to the accompaniment of a pop orchestra
and female background vocals. Makes Lorne Greene seem
neutered and tame by comparison.

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From: Jon Huck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Frenchpop download
Date: 18 Jul 2001 11:01:32 -0700


Hi there,

The Fur Ones have a new free download available. It's a cover  of "Le
Temps De L'amour", the 60's Frenchpop classic originally performed by
Francoise Hardy. It comes from the CD "Monokini" on
Monochrome Records which is a new 60's Frenchpop cover album featuring
Stereo Total, Rivera, Belleatec and other fine ensembles. It don't think
it will be up for long, so if you are interested please check it out.
You can find it here:
http://www.mp3.com/thefurones.

So long!

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From: "tiki kiliki" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Visit
Date: 18 Jul 2001 14:23:15 -0400


I just returned home from a trip to Atlanta and of course had to visit
Trader Vic's.  The most commercialized of this wonderful slice of culture we
call TIKI!!

It is an amazing place.  It was crowded!  There was an accessory convention
in town and the people watching was priceless!!  Ladies in gold and all
carrying shopping bags, admiring their purchases from the days events.

Trader Vic's in Atlanta is still one of my favorite Tiki havens!  They have
a Bosko sculpture, which says a lot, and plus the manager knows me now and
doesn't say anything when I leave with a new mug and a drink menu!!

Aloha,
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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Kapp Records
Date: 18 Jul 2001 20:29:20 +0200


Does anyone know what happened to Kapp Records, or to be more precise: who owns the publishing rights of Kapp today?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Kapp Records
Date: 18 Jul 2001 15:20:27 -0400


on 7/18/01 2:29 PM, Moritz R at [e-mail] wrote:

>
> Does anyone know what happened to Kapp Records, or to be more precise: who
> owns the publishing rights of Kapp today?
>
> Mo


It seems to be currently owned by MCA www.mcarecords.com  I also found this
http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us/Pennvalley/biology/lewis/crosby/jackapp.htm

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Subject: (exotica) Hawaiian-English translation engine
Date: 18 Jul 2001 12:35:55 -0700 (PDT)


Great for christening your very nectar of the island
gods:

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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tipsy Question
Date: 18 Jul 2001 21:49:14 +0100


Does anyone know where the sample of the girls going "ooo!"
throughout "Hey!" on Uh-Oh comes from?

I'd like to hear more of them ladies... ;-)


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From: Matt Marchese <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Nicola Conte
Date: 18 Jul 2001 18:08:04 -0500


Pardon me if this group has been discussed here previously, but I just
picked up a copy of "Bossa Per Due" after hearing a couple of cuts off
of it in an art/design store in Palo Alto last week. Definitely one of
the best CDs I've picked up this year. Very reminiscent of 101 Strings'
"Astro-Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000" and swinging Italian
film-soundtrack bossa-nova arrangements with just a hint of Brubeckian
jazz flourishes.

Anyone know where I can get more info on this group? Their web presence
is a bit thin, unfortunately.

--
Matt Marchese
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From: Matt Marchese <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Visit
Date: 18 Jul 2001 18:13:02 -0500


tiki kiliki wrote:

> It is an amazing place.  It was crowded!  There was an accessory convention
> in town and the people watching was priceless!!  Ladies in gold and all
> carrying shopping bags, admiring their purchases from the days events.

I was there last year and was quite surprised by how busy it was compared to all
of the other Vic's I've been in. Yes, the people watching was fabulous. I hadn't
seen that much leopardskin since my last Tom Jones concert!

Speaking of Vic's, when I was in Palo Alto last week I searched in vain for the
site where they're building the new restaurant. Anybody know where it is?

--
Matt Marchese
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Alan's film 'Vinyl' in DC
Date: 18 Jul 2001 19:46:30 -0400


A reminder to those in the Washington DC area ....

Alan's film, 'Vinyl', will be showing at the National Gallery of Art
(East Wing) this Saturday as part of a Canadian documentary double
feature.  First film starts at 2:00 pm, 'Vinyl' will be shown second at
approximately 3:00 p.m.   There is no admission charge.

A few of us may head out for drinks afterwards, perhaps at the Easter
Island basement bar at the Poli-Tiki nightclub on Capital Hill.  As an
initial post-film introduction and staging area, plan on meeting at the
back center of the National Gallery auditorium after 'Vinyl' ends.

I'm looking forward to Saturday - it should be a lot of fun.  If you
think you might come, and haven't notified me yet, e-mail me privately
so I can look for you.

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From: paul dean <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 18 Jul 2001 19:32:36 -0500


I can distinctly remember two records, both 45s, that I played over and over
at a friends house on a family summer vacation in the late 60s.

They were:  2525, by Zager and Evans, and a novelty Buddah 45 called
Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man).  This was a "news
report" about a moon shot featuring excerpts from all sorts of Buddha
records, with drug references galore.  Crazy!  (Does anyone else remember
this one?)

I would have been about 10 years old.  With the song 2525 time seemed to
telescope out before me.  The future seemed infinite.  Anything was
possible!

The Moonflight 45 probably made me what I am today: a collage artist, and
(of course) an obsessive record collector.



p.s. --  I don't post often, but I love this list.  You guys are the
greatest!


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From: [e-mail] (Bump Stadelman)
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 18 Jul 2001 20:47:00 -0400


>I can distinctly remember two records, both 45s, that I played over and over
>at a friends house on a family summer vacation in the late 60s.
>
>They were:  2525, by Zager and Evans, and a novelty Buddah 45 called
>Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man).  This was a "news
>report" about a moon shot featuring excerpts from all sorts of Buddha
>records, with drug references galore.  Crazy!  (Does anyone else remember


yeah those were two of my favorite 45's too.
i still have both!
the Vik Venus record is cool.
the b-side is really good too. just listened to it a couple months ago.

i used to make my own versions of the vik venus thing talking about people
in our neighborhood.
very retarded but fun.

other big 45's for me in the early collecting days:

Peek-A-Boo/Lolita - The Cadillacs
Judy in Disguise- John Fred and the Playboys
Yellow Submarine-Beatles
Girl Watcher- O'Kaysions
Shake-Shadows of Knight
Hot Smoke and Sassafras-The Bubble Puppy
Mechanical World-Spirit
Crimson and Clover-Tommy James
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep - can't remember right now
Magic Carpet Ride-Steppenwolf
The Stripper-David Rose

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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Alan's film 'Vinyl' in DC
Date: 18 Jul 2001 21:05:39 -0400


And the guy introducing/curating the Canadian documentary series, Tom
McSorley, is a good pal of mine.
He has horrible, non-exotic tastes in music, alas, but is a very good guy.

Will


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Department of Art History and Communications Studies
McGill University
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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 18 Jul 2001 20:18:37 -0500 (CDT)




On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, paul dean wrote:

>
> I can distinctly remember two records, both 45s, that I played over and over
> at a friends house on a family summer vacation in the late 60s.
>
> They were:  2525, by Zager and Evans, and a novelty Buddah 45 called
> Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man).  This was a "news
> report" about a moon shot featuring excerpts from all sorts of Buddha
> records, with drug references galore.  Crazy!  (Does anyone else remember
> this one?)
>

Remember it?  I think I've *got* it.  Picked it up in a thrift,
along with zillions of other Buddha singles.  I'll have to dig
that one out and make sure.

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From: "F. Cobalt" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Nicola Conte
Date: 18 Jul 2001 18:39:40 -0700


>Pardon me if this group has been discussed here previously, but I just
>picked up a copy of "Bossa Per Due" after hearing a couple of cuts off
>of it in an art/design store in Palo Alto last week. Definitely one of
>the best CDs I've picked up this year. Very reminiscent of 101 Strings'
>"Astro-Sounds From Beyond the Year 2000" and swinging Italian
>film-soundtrack bossa-nova arrangements with just a hint of Brubeckian
>jazz flourishes.
>Anyone know where I can get more info on this group? Their web presence
>is a bit thin, unfortunately.
>- --
>Matt Marchese

Nicola Conte runs the Schema label itself. A number of the artists on the Jet Sounds album are professional jazz artists that work on other projects outside of Schema, and some on Schema and/or Fez label (Stefania Di Pierro is in Intensive Jazz Sextet, as well as more, say, upscale type jazz acts in Italy for example). That's the paltry page for Schema:

http://www.ishtar.it/

You could email Nicola. He's a nice guy, and his English is okay.

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Subject: (exotica) Tipsy Question
Date: 18 Jul 2001 18:47:20 -0700


>Does anyone know where the sample of the girls going "ooo!"
>throughout "Hey!" on Uh-Oh comes from?
>
>I'd like to hear more of them ladies... ;-)
>
>Robbie

I thought those "Ooohs" were coming from kids. I'd also been trying to figure out of the "Hey!" came from the Art of Noise song "Close to the Edit" but I don't have a copy at the moment to compare it to. I'm pretty sure that the horns come from the The Spy With a Cold Nose soundtrack by Riz Ortolani.

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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for Mondo Bongos July 18, 2001
Date: 18 Jul 2001 22:19:24 -0400



>Lora Logic - Stereo 12"

Wow, you almost never hear mention of Lora Logic. Her "Beat Rhythm News"
almost made my marathon 'key albums' list. Also have some cool 7-inchers
recorded after the album. Is this item on the playlist something new? Old?
Did she ever get back to music or is she still with the Hare Krishnas?

thanks,

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From: "Domenic Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Fw: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview Updates
Date: 18 Jul 2001 22:44:40 -0400


AZ,

You *have* heard everything. (smile)

> Say what? Buddy not funky?  Have you ever heard his Hank Williams record?
> Have you ever heard him play the organ?  Buddy was funky.
>
> AZ



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From: "Telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for Mondo Bongos July 18, 2001
Date: 18 Jul 2001 23:15:09 -0400


M.Ace wrote:

> >Lora Logic - Stereo 12"
>
> Wow, you almost never hear mention of Lora Logic. Her "Beat Rhythm News"
> almost made my marathon 'key albums' list. Also have some cool 7-inchers
> recorded after the album. Is this item on the playlist something new? Old?
> Did she ever get back to music or is she still with the Hare Krishnas?

It is a shame that Lora Logic's wonderfully eccentric music has all but been
forgotten. The tune "Stereo" was on the B-side of the "Wonderful Offer" 12"
which was released in 1981. I believe there was a brief X-Ray Spex reunion
where she toured and recorded some new material, but I'm afraid I don't have
any further info.

When I recently bought a CD-R burner, one of my first projects was to create
an Essential Logic cd from the singles in my collection. Unfortunately I
don't have her LPs.

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From: "jim gerwitz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sabu  Anyone? and a surprising DID list
Date: 18 Jul 2001 20:33:19 -0700


<<Sabu isn't the leader, but he stands tall on Art Blakey's "Orgy In Rhythm,
Vols. 1 & 2" (reissued on Blue Note a few years back). I raved about it on
here not too long ago. Great romping percussion. Another hot tip from Tony
Wilds.>>

m.ace is on the money as usual. I think almost everyone who hears Orgy in
Rhythm raves about it (and not just for the great title - imagine this with
a Mark Ryden cover). Glad to see some of Sabu's early stuff out now - there
is a 15 minute track  (forget which one) taken from one of his early LP's
included on that Baxter/Bas Sheva "Passions" Cd of dubious legitimacy (1,000
copies) that came out about 5 years ago and is still around. Sabu et al make
the (not so) Incredible Bongo Band sound like a bunch of wind-up monkey
drummers.

And check this DID list from the July 2001 Tower "Pulse"
Exotica A-Z - by Lloyd Kandell
1. Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island
2. Les Baxter - Exotic Moods
3. Combustible Edison - schizophonic
4. Martin Denny - Exotic Sounds
5. Don Tiki - Forbidden Sounds
6. Robert Drasnin - Voodoo!
7. Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
8. VA -Ultra Lounge - Mondo Exotica
9.  Tipsy - Trip Tease
10. John Zorn - The Gift

How many other list members have every one of these too?
Name looked familiar, looked up Lloyd at allmusic and he's Don Tiki's
"producer."

jim g
(first record memory - another vote along with BasicHip for "Bozo Under the
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From: "cheryl" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sabu  Anyone? and a surprising DID list
Date: 18 Jul 2001 23:49:29 -0400


The name should look familiar - he's on this list!  (and I believe he just
posted a few days ago).
 He's also part of Don Tiki, not just the producer!

cheryl

> And check this DID list from the July 2001 Tower "Pulse"
> Exotica A-Z - by Lloyd Kandell
> 1. Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island
> 2. Les Baxter - Exotic Moods
> 3. Combustible Edison - schizophonic
> 4. Martin Denny - Exotic Sounds
> 5. Don Tiki - Forbidden Sounds
> 6. Robert Drasnin - Voodoo!
> 7. Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
> 8. VA -Ultra Lounge - Mondo Exotica
> 9.  Tipsy - Trip Tease
> 10. John Zorn - The Gift
>
> How many other list members have every one of these too?
> Name looked familiar, looked up Lloyd at allmusic and he's Don Tiki's
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From: Christine Karkow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Nicola Conte
Date: 18 Jul 2001 21:08:32 -0700



>
> Anyone know where I can get more info on this group? Their web presence
> is a bit thin, unfortunately.

Hi, I just got a copy of "Eighteenth Street Lounge, Jet Society"  which has
the Bossa per due by Conte on it, and I agree, this is some of the best
stuff I've heard in a long time. Check out Dusty Grooves-do a search under
Nicola Conte and see how your wallet becomes thin...mine did.

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Subject: (exotica) [obits] James Bernard,Ted Berman,Margarita Mimi Baez
Date: 19 Jul 2001 01:27:12 -0400


TUESDAY JULY 17 2001   ---  The Times (London)
James Bernard
Composer who wrote scores for Hammer horror films and a song cycle for Peter
Pears

FOR NEARLY 40 years James Bernard was the composer of the spine-chilling
scores for the Hammer series of horror films that captivated international
audiences and usually starred Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. In films
such as Dracula (1958) and The Devil Rides Out (1968) he made full use of
strings and percussion in his lavish scores, many of which were performed by
the orchestra of the Royal Opera House. After co-writing the screenplay for
Seven Days to Noon, he became one of the very few composers to win an
Academy Award for something other than music.
Born in India into a military family (his father was in the Indian Army),
James Bernard and his brother Bill were sent to England and brought up with
his mother=92s parents in Gloucestershire because the Indian climate was
considered too harsh. At the age of six he was playing the piano, and at
seven he developed a love of opera through listening to gramophone records.
Educated at Wellington College, where a fellow pupil was Christopher Lee,
Bernard was greatly encouraged in music and the arts. At 17 he met his hero,
the composer Benjamin Britten, who visited the school with the tenor Peter
Pears, and Bernard showed him a score that he had written for an inter-house
music competition. Impressed, Britten made a few adjustments and signed it
=93Composed by James Bernard. Edited by Benjamin Britten.=94

Bernard kept in touch with Britten while serving in the RAF for three years
and Britten encouraged him to learn the rules of composing. After being
demobilised Bernard studied with Herbert Howells at the Royal College of
Music, graduating in 1949. In 1950 Britten approached him to copy out the
vocal score of his opera Billy Budd for his publishers, Boosey & Hawkes,
which he did while staying with the composer at Aldeburgh. He attended the
opening night in the company of Britten=92s housekeeper and the librettist=
 E.
M. Forster. Britten encouraged him to become a full-time composer. The same
year a close friend, Paul Dehn, a successful screenwriter, asked Bernard to
collaborate on the screenplay of Seven Days to Noon, a persuasively
understated suspense piece about a professor engaged in atomic research who
threatens to blow up London. The script won an Academy Award for best motion
picture story. Dehn also wrote radio plays and persuaded Val Gielgud, then
head of BBC radio drama, to commission Bernard to write music for the
department. His first score was for Patric Dickinson=92s play The Death of
Hector (1954) which was followed by several others. The same year he wrote
the score for The Duchess of Malfi, which he described as =93a kind of=
 horror
story=94. The music was conducted by John Hollingsworth, who had just become
music director for Hammer Films.

In 1955 Hollingsworth invited Bernard to step into the breach caused by a
composer=92s illness. For a fee of =A3100 he wrote the first of his many=
 Hammer
scores, the groundbreaking Quatermass Experiment. For his first three films
he was entrusted only with percussion and strings. By the time The Curse of
Frankenstein came along in 1957, he was granted a full orchestra.

There followed numerous films including Dracula (1958), The Hound of the
Baskervilles (1959), The Kiss of the Vampire (1964), She (1965), The Devil
Rides Out (1968) and Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974). He
orchestrated all his Hammer compositions but commented: =93I was lucky if I
got four weeks to compose a score. It was real torture. I=92m not generally=
 a
quick composer. I had to discipline myself.=94

Occasionally Bernard attempted to break out of his typecast role. He tried
his hand at concert music, his output including a song cycle for Peter Pears
that was performed at the Wigmore Hall. The Times gave an enthusiastic
review, The Daily Telegraph was withering. At the same time as he was
composing the music for The Devil Rides Out, he was working on a new
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for Chichester Cathedral. =93It=92s rather
schizophrenic,=94 he noted. =93In one half of my mind I=92m thinking of the
Magnificat, in the other half of orgies and black masses.=94

Feeling that by 1974 his career had reached something of a plateau, he
fulfilled a long-held ambition to move to Jamaica, and stayed there for a
decade, returning to this country only after the death of his partner.

Bernard always felt that his music for Hammer was considered rather lowbrow
by music critics, but was quick to point out that the series earned him a
considerable amount in royalties. In later years his work, along with the
music of other screen composers, was re-evaluated as film music increasingly
became recognised as an art form in its own right. He became something of a
cult figure among younger musicians and in 1997 he wrote the acclaimed score
for the Channel 4 restoration of F. W. Murnau=92s 1921 classic Nosferatu.=
 His
last work was the score for Universal
Horror (1998), Kevin Brownlow=92s documentary of Universal Studios=92 horror
films of the 1930s and 1940s.

Summing up his career recently he said: =93I=92ve always considered myself
typecast but I=92m not complaining. I became known as the horror composer,=
 but
whenever there was a bit of romance in one of the Hammer films I seized on
it.=94

James Bernard, composer and screenwriter, was born on September 20, 1925. He
died in London on July 12, 2001, aged 75.
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July 17, 2001  --  L.A. Times
Ted Berman; Animator and Director of Disney=20
Classics
MYRNA OLIVER, TIMES STAFF WRITER

Ted Berman, animator and director of Disney=20
cartoons ranging from the classics "Bambi" and=20
"Fantasia" to the highly regarded "The Black=20
Cauldron," has died at the age of 81.

Berman, also a fine arts painter, died Sunday in Los=20
Angeles, said his daughter, Cathy Nourafshan.

Born in the Boyle Heights section of East Los=20
Angeles, Berman wanted to draw from the time he=20
was a child, entering--and winning--various=20
newspaper competitions. He graduated from
Roosevelt High and went on to the Chouinard Art=20
Institute, forerunner of the California Institute of the
Arts in Valencia. Berman landed a job in Disney's=20
animation department in 1940, and remained with the=20
studio for 45 years.

Initially a character animator, Berman worked on the=20
beloved deer "Bambi," characters in "Alice in=20
Wonderland" and the visual-musical masterpiece=20
"Fantasia," as well as "Lady and the Tramp," "Peter=20
Pan," "Mary Poppins" and "101 Dalmatians."

Berman took special pride in working on four films up=20
for Academy Awards--"Paul Bunyan," which was=20
nominated in 1958; "Winnie the Pooh and Tigger=20
Too," nominated in 1974; "It's Tough to Be a Bird,"
 named the Best Short Film in 1969; and "Bedknobs and Broomsticks," which=20
won=20
for Best Visual Effects=20
in 1972.

The animator was also a key team member in=20
creating the Disney television series, "The Wonderful=20
World of Color" and "The Mickey Mouse Club."

Later in his career, Berman moved into writing and=20
directing the animation films.

Berman was also involved in crafting the screenplays=20
of Disney feature films, including "The Rescuers" in=20
1977, "The Fox and the Hound" in 1981 and "The=20
Black Cauldron" in 1985.


"It had the longest gestation period of any animal=20
alive," Berman said with a laugh in 1985, when "The=20
Black Cauldron," which he co-directed with Richard Rich, was finally=20
released.

Disney had set the film in motion a dozen years=20
earlier by buying the rights to Lloyd Alexander's=20
Newbery Award-winning books "Chronicles of=20
Prydain." Financing--a whopping $25 million for what=20
was at the time the most expensive animated film in=20
history--took another six years. The project was=20
shelved a couple of times and then in production for=20
an arduous five years.

"Disney animation has always been special, and it=20
had to be special again," Berman said, explaining that=20
very few computer graphics were used in the film that=20
would crown his Disney career.

"Our animators knew that they might never be able to=20
work on this kind of film again," said the veteran=20
Berman, who trained youngsters fresh out of art=20
school to handle Disney animation the old-fashioned=20
way.

The finished feature encompassed about 2,519,200=20
drawings, 400 gallons of paint, 15,000 pencils, 300=20
erasers, 34 miles of film stock and more than a million=20
hours of labor.

"Our marching orders were to expand beyond our=20
young audience without losing it," Berman said at the=20
film's release. "It's got a PG rating, and no pink=20
bunnies or butterflies."

After his retirement from Disney, Berman returned to=20
painting. His still-life canvases and plein-air=20
landscapes hang in several private collections.
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From www.joanbaez.com:

Margarita Mimi Baez Fari=F1a
1945-2001

It is with much sadness that we share the news that Joan's sister Mimi
Fari=F1a has lost her long, courageous battle with cancer. Mimi died in
the early morning on July 18, 2001, at her home in Mill Valley,
California, surrounded and supported by the love of those closest to
her.

Mimi Fari=F1a was an amazing woman who was truly a joy and an inspiration
to so many people. An accomplished musician, loyal fans have enjoyed her
music for decades, and her 25 years of work with Bread & Roses has
deservedly earned her accolades and admiration.

Mimi was also a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a cousin, a niece, a
colleague, a dear friend, and a loving partner. Please keep all of those
who loved her in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Visit
Date: 19 Jul 2001 00:02:39 -0700


Matt Marchese wrote:
> Speaking of Vic's, when I was in Palo Alto last week I searched in vain for the
> site where they're building the new restaurant. Anybody know where it is?

On El Camino between San Antonio and Arastradero. Next to the Elks Lodge
and Dinah's Hotel (across the street from Denny's and the new Cabana hotel).

-Kevin

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From: "Kevin Leeeeee" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Seksu Roba / LA show
Date: 19 Jul 2001 01:21:19 -0700


please come see my band, Seksu Roba.  we're
like a cross between perrey and kingsley, ennio morricone, and giorgio
moroder.

Friday July 20th
The Troubadour
9081 Santa Monica Blvd  Los Angeles, CA [phone]
$10 (measly) All Ages
valet parking is $4 (parking yourself in the lot is actually more expensive
oddly enough)

9 PM   FCS North
10 PM  Seksu Roba (LA, Crippled Dick Hot Wax)  www.seksuroba.com
11 PM  IQU (seattle, K Records)  www.iquiqu.com

Seksu Roba is clearly the next big thing in american pop culture.  discover
what TV Guide, Soap Digest, and Astrology Today are calling "...the best
sexy robot show on earth!".  the robot (unofficially named "Erector") is
unfortunately not gonna make this particular show as his engineer has a
broken rib.  but you can still watch me play theremin (actually play
notes)and my lovely partner, Lun*na Menoh perform in her sexy nurse outfit.

IQU is a japanese american indie rock band from Seattle who invited us to
play - we met them on our tour and they're very cool people.  one of em
plays theremin too...

thank you
kevin

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From: rockwilson909 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica)Korla Pandit
Date: 19 Jul 2001 10:43:25 +0100


Hello,

Can anybody here recommend any CDs by Korla Pandit? I just bought
æExotica 2000Æ, which IÆm not desperately impressed with û itÆs okay
but, from what IÆve read about the man, I was expecting something more.
Is æExotica 2000Æ as good as he gets? ItÆs rather a short album, too û 9
tracks, including a æbonusÆ live cut, totalling 24.52.
Another recent purchase with a short running time is 101 Strings û Astro
Sounds. Even with 3 bonus tracks it only lasts 36.26. ThatÆs a pretty
groovy album, though.
Anyway, any advice on Pandit will be greatly appreciated.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack tribute featuring Beck!
Date: 19 Jul 2001 06:44:02 EDT


In a message dated Wed, 18 Jul 2001  5:29:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Moritz R <[e-mail]> writes:
>
> >  Bruce Haack Tribute
> >
> > Beck, Stereolab, Money Mark, Mouse on Mars,
> > Cornelius, Sukia, and DJ Me DJ You.
>
> unlikely line-up.  Money Mark? Doing Bruce Haack? sure makes one curious.
>
Not really that unlikely. Tipsy has a track on it too.
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From: "tiki kiliki" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Visit
Date: 19 Jul 2001 06:46:08 -0400


Carl wrote:  Tiki, I see that you've joined our ultra faboo Luxuriamusic
club at Yahoo...
how ya like us dysfunctional martyrs?

I never really entered the chat room too much but my boyfriend was and is a
"Regular" on the scene for lack of a better word.  Swanky!!  I just need to
find time to explore more huh?

Aloha,
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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 19 Jul 2001 12:18:36 +0200




paul dean schrieb:

>
> 2525, by Zager and Evans, and a novelty Buddah 45 called
> Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man).

this sounds like a premium way to start into the wonderful world of incredibly strange music. perfect!

have you ever seen that Moonflight 45 again?

Mo





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Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for Mondo Bongos July 18, 2001
Date: 19 Jul 2001 12:21:06 +0200




"m.ace" schrieb:

> >Lora Logic - Stereo 12"

isn't it Laura Logic?



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From: Joe <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mmmm good mp3
Date: 19 Jul 2001 14:21:56 +0200


Hi there-

Bumped into these mp3 and I thought folks might enjoy a taste...

http://www.findomestic.it/download/musica/

And I think they're legal!

Any other good exotic mp3 links out there?

-Joe B.

(formerly Enok Lite)



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From: Matt Marchese <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Visit
Date: 19 Jul 2001 07:51:25 -0500


Kevin Crossman wrote:

> Matt Marchese wrote:
> > Speaking of Vic's, when I was in Palo Alto last week I searched in vain for the
> > site where they're building the new restaurant. Anybody know where it is?
>
> On El Camino between San Antonio and Arastradero. Next to the Elks Lodge
> and Dinah's Hotel (across the street from Denny's and the new Cabana hotel).

Wow, that's bizarre. I drove past it at least six times last week and never even saw
it. I must've been too busy playing Dodge 'em Cars with the usual crowd of
non-drivers clogging up El Camino...

Btw, anyone on the list traveling to the Bay Area should definitely check out the
Stanford Theatre on University Ave. in Palo Alto. It's a beautifully restored movie
palace complete with a hydraulic riser that lifts a live organ player up in front of
the stage during intermission to perform a cheesy musical interlude on the theater's
classic Wurlitzer organ. Last week, the Stanford was running a Jack Lemmon tribute
that included one of my favorite films, "The Apartment". Last year I saw a newly
restored print of "Jason and the Argonauts" which brought tears to my eyes, it was
that beautiful.

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From: "basic hip" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica)Korla Pandit
Date: 19 Jul 2001 06:41:00 -0700


> Can anybody here recommend any CDs by Korla Pandit? I just bought
> 'Exotica 2000', which I'm not desperately impressed with - it's okay
> but, from what I've read about the man, I was expecting something more.

There were three that I know of.  The one you mentioned, another called
"Odyssey" and a third, "Remembering Korla Pandit".  Isn't that Exotica 2000
newer material?

Odyssey, I recall are his first couple of albums on Fantasy, "Plays Music Of
The Exotic East" and "Latin Holiday".

Remembering Korla Pandit can be ordered here:

http://www.korlapandit.com/

and click on the "collectibles" link.

Regarding the music of Korla Pandit, you may be in for a letdown.  It's
pretty low-key, sometimes funeral like.

To fully appreciate Korla Pandit, you must - I repeat MUST view video
footage of his 1950's television shows.  If you have not seen his shows,
your draw will drop, you will be blown away!!!

Thankfully, videos are available here:

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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mmmm good mp3
Date: 19 Jul 2001 15:48:36 +0200


well, yes, apparently they are legal (except that -from what I've heard-
the saite is not paying performance royalties to SIAE... err). They also
had a link to buy the actual Irma cds from Zivago.com but Zivago was shut
down recently.

At 14.21 19/07/01 +0200, you wrote:
>http://www.findomestic.it/download/musica/
>
>And I think they're legal!
>
>Any other good exotic mp3 links out there?

ever tried www.mp3.com/aperitivo ???

DjB



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From: "Telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for Mondo Bongos July 18, 2001
Date: 19 Jul 2001 10:24:47 -0400


Moritz wrote:

> isn't it Laura Logic?

It's "Lora" on the record sleeves.

Allan

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From: Clayton Black <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl - the mimi variations
Date: 19 Jul 2001 10:40:54 -0500


Sorry to come to this discussion late, but I saw this post and couldn't let
it slip past.

> Zappa/Mothers - "Uncle Meat"
> Then again, around the same time, I sort of majored in Zappa (sung: "when I
> was seventeen, it was a very Bizarre Records year"). But this was the album
> I really lived in (it was a double set -- lots of room). Such a variety of
> styles, from abstract instrumentals to goofy novelty rock. I still think it
> contains some of his most beautiful melodies.
>
I couldn't agree more.  I think the "King Kong Variations" (that's the title
isn't it?  It's been a while) stayed on my turntable for weeks on end.

>
> The Sex Pistols - "Anarchy In The UK"
> Punk time.
> Richard Hell & The Voidoids - "Blank Generation"

I'll never forget the news hysteria that accompanied the Sex Pistols' first
US tour.  I remember sitting at the breakfast table watching the Today Show
spread fear of the latest British invasion.  To them it was just a bunch of
noise, but to me it was just what I wanted.  Richard Hell didn't quite have
the same effect, but Blank Generation was a great album.

> Gang Of Four - "Entertainment"
> I know this one was a biggie at the time, but now its importance seems to
> have been temporary. Like it was just hard rock with political correctness
> tacked on. Ouch. I can't believe I said that. And I *like* this record!
>
A fantastic album.  And at the time the album came out, "political
correctness" was not a phrase that people were using--nor had it yet become
"correct," as far as I recall.  I just thought of it as out-and-out
Marxist/Maoist.  I've got several of their EP's and other albums as well
("Solid Gold" is a great one), which have the inimitable "Armalite Rifle"
and "History's Bunk" on them.  It's too bad they made the transition to the
drum machine (although "I Love a Man in a Uniform" is a catchy tune).

> Esquivel - "Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music"

Esquivel is so central the genre that I have the feeling he lurks in the
background of all of our discussions, even when he's not mentioned.  There's
no question but that my first exposure to Esquivel (which was "Music for a
Sparkling Planet") was pivotal for me.

But if I can go back to the questions that prompted the whole discussion:

First album bought-- Ohio Players, Fire.  It had to be the naked woman
wrapped in a fire hose.

Earliest vinyl memories--Mason Williams Phonograph Record.  I still love
this album.  I've never seen other albums by him, although I know they
exist.
    Also the Columbia Records version of Saint-Seans, Carnival of the
Animals, narrated by Leonard Bernstein, with a Young Person's Guide to the
Orchestra on the other side.
    I played both of these on a record player that was only slightly better
than a "Close 'N Play," but I've managed to find clean copies in recent
years to help keep those childhood memories alive.
We also had several Jonathan Winters albums that I would love to be able to
find in good condition.

One other "key" record--
Samba Mapangala, Virunga Volcano
    My introduction to Afropop, and still one of my favorites in that genre.
I find myself drifting back that way now and then.  The continued
availability of a lot of Afropop on Napster has helped.
Thomas Mapfumo, Chamunorwa, has to be a close second there.

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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 19 Jul 2001 08:13:37 -0700 (PDT)


Wow Paul

This Moonflight 45 sounds incredible!  I would like to say I have
seen Paul dj at a party and I have heard a lot of his mixes and
Paul you are one of the best djs making music today! Paul's mixes
have a feel that is way way out there with all kinds of styles of
music flowing together in one big mysterious sound!

I have got to hear this cool 45!

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

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> The Moonflight 45 probably made me what I am today: a collage
> artist, and
> (of course) an obsessive record collector.


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From: "jamie_james" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) TIKI TOYS - get one for the kidz or for yourself!!!
Date: 19 Jul 2001 17:05:45 +0100


Hi all

found this today, sorry if i am posting stuff you have seen, but i thought
some of you may appreciate this.
Isn't someone on this list an animator?... Dunno if this is anything to do
with them ( or anyone else on the list for that matter) but it could be.

http://www.goblertoys.com/pages2/kikianimation.html
http://www.goblertoys.com/pages2/kikimonth.html

BTW - in case you hadn't guessed these toys are fake...<boo...hiss>


enjoy

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From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Anti-Piracy CD tech
Date: 19 Jul 2001 12:13:34 -0400


>"Anti-piracy compact discs that cannot be copied by a computer have gone on
>sale in California.":
>http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns9999998

Thanks m.ace, for the first article I've seen that actually
*explains* how this malarkey is supposed to work.

This sounds utterly crackable to me--though perhaps a bit of a pain.
. . someone might need to hack the computer's CD driver, so it
ignores failed error-corrections instead of aborting. But some teen
should do that in about an afternoon. . . then, people like me with
too much time on their hands can import the dirty music data into
their audio waveform editors, and manually interpolate over the
"grossly erroneous values" just as we already do with clicks from
vinyl. . .

cheers,

  --Ross

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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fwd: Roots Of Exotica Special
Date: 19 Jul 2001 09:20:44 -0700 (PDT)


fyi. don't know if we're all on this mailing list or
not:

This Monday Night 11pm - KBOO Radio, Portland - 90.7
fm Stereo

                                            The Roots
of Exotica:

Where did it come from, and where does it take us?
From the symphonies of Albert Ketelby, to the frog
croaks and
bird calls of Martin Denny, Exotica takes us to those
sunshine locales where palm trees sway and time stands
still.

Les Baxter founded the modern school, and a variety of
ensembles parlayed the mysterious sound into the
hearts
and souls of millions of listeners. Hear it tonight at
The Tiki Cha Cha Club in it's original pristine stereo
vinyl
long-play format.

Sample At www.tikichacha.com
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From: tikiman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sabu  Anyone? and a surprising DID list
Date: 19 Jul 2001 10:04:38 -0700 (PDT)


Aloha! yep, first i reveal our favorite haunt, la
mariana, a few days ago by posting a honolulu
advertiser article about the joint...now i myself am
exposed! fluid floyd is the shrunken head alter ego of
lloyd kandell. feelin' like zorro without his mask,
floyd/lloyd

--- cheryl <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> The name should look familiar - he's on this list!
> (and I believe he just
> posted a few days ago).
>  He's also part of Don Tiki, not just the producer!
>
> cheryl
>
> From: "jim gerwitz" <[e-mail]>
> > And check this DID list from the July 2001 Tower
> "Pulse"
> > Exotica A-Z - by Lloyd Kandell
> > 1. Eden Ahbez - Eden's Island
> > 2. Les Baxter - Exotic Moods
> > 3. Combustible Edison - schizophonic
> > 4. Martin Denny - Exotic Sounds
> > 5. Don Tiki - Forbidden Sounds
> > 6. Robert Drasnin - Voodoo!
> > 7. Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
> > 8. VA -Ultra Lounge - Mondo Exotica
> > 9.  Tipsy - Trip Tease
> > 10. John Zorn - The Gift
> >
> > How many other list members have every one of
> these too?
> > Name looked familiar, looked up Lloyd at allmusic
> and he's Don Tiki's
> > "producer."


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack tribute featuring Beck!
Date: 19 Jul 2001 19:55:30 +0200




[e-mail] schrieb:

> In a message dated Wed, 18 Jul 2001  5:29:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Moritz R <[e-mail]> writes:
> >
> > >  Bruce Haack Tribute
> > >
> > > Beck, Stereolab, Money Mark, Mouse on Mars,
> > > Cornelius, Sukia, and DJ Me DJ You.
> >
> > unlikely line-up.  Money Mark? Doing Bruce Haack? sure makes one curious.
> >
> Not really that unlikely. Tipsy has a track on it too.
> -dave

yeah, that fits much better. is the CD out yet?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl - the mimi variations
Date: 19 Jul 2001 20:02:32 +0200




Clayton Black schrieb:

> > Zappa/Mothers - "Uncle Meat"
>
> I couldn't agree more.  I think the "King Kong Variations" (that's the title
> isn't it?  It's been a while) stayed on my turntable for weeks on end.

the 4th side of this double album has some tracks with King Kong in the title. But maybe you refer to the Uncle Meat Variations, at least that's my favorite track on Uncle Meat, and I know it heavily influenced some musicians that I know. Then there are the Dog Breath Variations...



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From: kendoll <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl - the mimi variations
Date: 19 Jul 2001 15:14:50 -0600


Clayton Black wrote:

> Earliest vinyl memories--Mason Williams Phonograph Record.  I still love
> this album.  I've never seen other albums by him, although I know they
> exist.

The Mason Williams Ear Show is worth finding if only for his groovy Moog track
called "Generatah-Oscillatah."

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Subject: (exotica) Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man)
Date: 19 Jul 2001 16:19:07 -0500




on 7/19/01 5:18 AM, Moritz R at [e-mail] wrote:

>
> have you ever seen that Moonflight 45 again?
>
> Mo
>
>

I have a thrift store copy that I just dug out. It's cracked, but if I
allign the edges just right I can play it.

And . . . it's still a fantastic little joy ride. I was grinning the whole
time!

The flip side is an actual song, not a sample-fest, which makes me wonder
who Vik Venus really was . . . .


Chuck, I will bring it by your house.



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From: "Justin Bartlett" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hello / Exotica Down Under
Date: 20 Jul 2001 08:46:31 +1000


Hi everyone,

My name is Justin and I've just joined the mailing list.

I live in Queensland, Australia where the ghost of Exotica & Tiki culture is
ever present.
For example, we have a tourist attraction called 'The Big Pineapple' which
has operated for around 30 years.
We have our own 'Gold Coast', where mostly retired couples (and the odd
aging bachelor) settle down to soak
up the sun and the beach.
We have no end of tropical themed holiday resorts and motels / motor-inns.
Our climate is mostly sub-tropical, and we have an amazing island reef
system, 'The Great Barrier Reef'.
Also, not forgetting, great thrift store shopping.

But what people don't know is that we also have, quite possibly, the only
Australian purveyor of the
musical style made famous in the 1950's by Martin Denny & Arthur Lyman.
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I introduce to you, Nelson Ferguson, champion of
Exotica Down Under.

I met Nelson, who is now in his 60's, through collecting LP's a little over
a year ago.
I was soon to find out that this fellow had been playing the style of music
I was becoming
obsessed with, since the mid 1960's. He studied Musical Arrangement as a
young man,
was Drummer in various Big Bands, did radio and TV work, took up Vibes and
formed a band
'The Manhattan Quartet', playing in the style of George Shearing and from
there
the Exotica style, in the clubs of Sydney and the Gold Coast as well as on
cruise ships.

I have recently compiled 3 CD's of his material, 2 of Hawaiian songs, and 1
of Classical compositions
done in the Exotica style. He records in his home, which is like a
Polynesian paradise in the middle of
the harsh Australian bushland.

At the moment I'm really gauging peoples interest, I've never sold CD's
before, I'm currently just burning copies
for friends, but I, and Nelson, would like to get his music out there for
people to enjoy.
So if you are interested in hearing some beautiful music in the True Exotic
Style, or would like more information
about Nelson, please respond to this posting.
Or if anyone has information about labels or distributors that may be
interested.

Thank -You all.   Aloha for now.
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From: "tiki kiliki" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hello / Exotica Down Under
Date: 19 Jul 2001 19:00:35 -0400


Hi Justin,

I am very interested in this fellow that you so compare to Denny & Lyman!!
He sounds like an interesting CAT!

Please give us more information how we can obtain the CD!

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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) tiki party in Evolution
Date: 20 Jul 2001 00:51:02 +0200


i just saw this stupid movie "Evolution". Besides that it was really stupid, there was a tiki party scene in it, with a couple of big tikis and costumes and decor, but with completely stupid music. This info just for the collectors of you, who have to know about each and every appearance of tiki anywhere.


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From: paul dean <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) tiki party in Soy Cuba
Date: 19 Jul 2001 18:51:02 -0500


Speaking of filmic tiki, Mo, I recently watched Soy Cuba ("I am Cuba" to us
anglos), the 1964 Soviet/Cuban propoganda masterpiece, and this has surely
been mentioned before but the Havana club scenes are out of this world!

A must see, and Tiki to say the least.

Chuck have you seen this?


paul dean



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From: "Justin Bartlett" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hawaiian Eye On Video
Date: 20 Jul 2001 10:06:23 +1000


Hey, does anyone know how to get hold of
'Hawaiian Eye' episodes on video?
Arthur Lyman features in a few of them playing
tunes he never put onto his LP's.

I've got episode 105 (3-34) 'Across The River Lethe'
that features Lyman in the Shell Bar.
Does anyone have any others taped off TV?

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Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) Hello / Exotica Down Under
Date: 19 Jul 2001 20:41:12 -0500


Tikikiliki wrote:
I am very interested in this fellow that you so compare to Denny &
Lyman!!
He sounds like an interesting CAT!

Please give us more information how we can obtain the CD!

************

I agree with her.  Let us know how to obtain this.  I'm sure there's
someone on this list who could tell you how to get him promoted in
the U.S.  BTW, I love Hawaiian Eye and I'm also lookikg for tapes of
this show.  Is there anywhere in the world that this is still on TV?


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Subject: Re: (exotica)Korla Pandit
Date: 19 Jul 2001 22:51:18 -0400


> To fully appreciate Korla Pandit, you must - I repeat MUST view video
> footage of his 1950's television shows.  If you have not seen his shows,
> your jaw will drop, you will be blown away!!!

I completely 100% agree.  I was completely swept away when I saw some of Korla's
1950 era footage.  Korla was playing a minimum of two (perhaps in reality up to
four) keyboards, placed at a 90 degree angle to each other.  His fingerwork
between all the keyboards was incredible, the music he was creating was
incredible, and all the while he spent a good portion of the time gazing calmly
into the TV camera's eyes with his dark eyes (have I mentioned his turban yet -
well, he was wearing a cool turban too)  I was cast into his musical spell, and
I'm a modern era male who had been exposed to a whole slew of Peter Gabriel
music videos and other modern video techniques before I saw this 1950's era
footage.  It was so damn easy to picture and imagine a large number of L.A.
based housewives falling under Korla's spell.

Mr. Pandit definitely had a true early television presence.  It may seem a bit
cheesy today, but one cannot deny that there is some real form of power
happening within his eyes.

I saw a few exotica videos that night (I think it was a Secret Cinema event in
Baltimore)  Of all the segments shown that night, I can recall two:  Korla's
television piece, and the one featuring the clean-cut members of the Three Suns
playing one of their songs as a giant revolving tiered cake (big enough to hold
several 1940's era beauty queens AND the Three Sun members) slowly rotated)

Come to think of it, almost nothing of what I have seen on MTV in the 80's and
90's has compared to the impact of those two video clips.

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From: Paul Wages <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Eye On Video
Date: 20 Jul 2001 00:35:40 -0500


I think that Eddie Brandt's Saturday Matinee (a huge rental-by-mail outfit
out of Hollywood) has several tapes of Hawaiian Eye for rent as well as
episodes of the Adventures In Paradise series.

I've only done business with Brandt's once and that was about five years
ago.  It takes some effort but it is a good way to see more obscure stuff
without spending too much.

They don't seem to have a website, but a web search should turn up
something.

Hope this helps.

> From: "Justin Bartlett" <[e-mail]>

> Hey, does anyone know how to get hold of
> 'Hawaiian Eye' episodes on video?
> Arthur Lyman features in a few of them playing
> tunes he never put onto his LP's.
>
> I've got episode 105 (3-34) 'Across The River Lethe'
> that features Lyman in the Shell Bar.
> Does anyone have any others taped off TV?
>
> Justin OZ



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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) persistence of vinyl
Date: 20 Jul 2001 08:32:16 +0200


>http://www.dansettes.co.uk/Portable%20record%20players.htm
>Is photo on the top left what you mean? They look crazy.

well, not exactly that one but, yes, that is the concept (hehehe... they
call it "Italian style" on that page ;DDD

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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) percy faith - the music of brazil
Date: 20 Jul 2001 12:42:22 +0100


quick question: any good?

cheers,
michael.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack tribute featuring Beck!
Date: 20 Jul 2001 12:40:56 +0100


Moritz R wrote:
>
> Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek schrieb:
>
> >  Bruce Haack Tribute
> >
> > Beck, Stereolab, Money Mark, Mouse on Mars,
> > Cornelius, Sukia, and DJ Me DJ You.
>
> unlikely line-up.  Money Mark? Doing Bruce Haack? sure makes one curious.

His first album (...'s Keyboard Repair) was pretty good, especially the
track about crickets. And I can see the similarity in the drums and
synth sounds with that album and, say, Haack's The Electric Lucifer.

Are they covers or remixes? (I deleted the original mail if that said
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Subject: RE: (exotica) Bruce Haack tribute featuring Beck!
Date: 20 Jul 2001 15:42:14 +0200


> > >  Bruce Haack Tribute
>
> Are they covers or remixes? (I deleted the original mail if that said
> which)

Cover versions.

Marco



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Subject: RE: (exotica) percy faith - the music of brazil
Date: 20 Jul 2001 09:51:50 -0400


>
> quick question: any good?
>

I would have to say a resounding yes.  This is one of the few Percy Faith
albums that are worth having, along with Bim Bam Boom.  The version of
Delicado on here is the most powerful arrangement I have heard yet. The
title track is arranged nicely too.  It is not all strings, but strings are
in there, with the horns and the mad percussion section.  I bought my copy
for $1, but considered a duplicate on open reel for $15 and lost the bid.
This one is high on my list, especially if you like bombastic orchestration.


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Subject: RE: (exotica) percy faith - the music of brazil
Date: 20 Jul 2001 10:50:03 -0400 (EDT)



I really must agree. I picked it up a week ago and have played it quite a
bit since then. It's quite a little high energy disk, compared to some of
Mr. Faiths other records.

- bruce

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> I would have to say a resounding yes.  This is one of the few Percy Faith
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Bruce Haack tribute featuring Beck!
Date: 20 Jul 2001 11:41:31 -0400


on 7/20/01 7:40 AM, Michael Jemmeson at [e-mail] wrote:


>>> Bruce Haack Tribute

> Are they covers or remixes? (I deleted the original mail if that said
> which)

I think it's mostly remixes. I did a remix of "School For Robots" for the
album.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) percy faith - the music of brazil
Date: 20 Jul 2001 17:24:43 +0100


Bruce Lenkei wrote:
>
> I really must agree. I picked it up a week ago and have played it quite a
> bit since then. It's quite a little high energy disk, compared to some of
> Mr. Faiths other records.

another question: what's Shangri-la like? I had it without a sleeve (for
some reason sleeve-less records sound worse to me) and got rid of it,
but am now thinking I didn't listen to it properly, and should have kept
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From: "Darrell Brogdon" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hotel Easy
Date: 20 Jul 2001 12:01:59 -0500


Anybody know a good source for the Hotel Easy CD comps?  I've
got a couple of them, but I'm having trouble locating the rest.
Footlight Records has 'em on backorder, supposedly.  I'm
beginning to think they've gone out of print.  Any help much
appreciated.  Thanks!


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From: "Justin Bartlett" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More On Nelson Ferguson
Date: 21 Jul 2001 02:11:41 +1000


In the last 24hrs since I joined the list with news of my friend
Nelson, I have been amazed at the amount of interest shown.
So here's a bit more info about his music.
His style is very much Exotica in as much as (like Denny & Lyman)
it is constructed using tuned percussion with Vibes / Marimba / Piano
playing the melody, with various atmospheres in the background,
(i.e. bird calls, ocean swells, ships bells, jungle sounds, etc)
He fell in love with the original music and is pretty much paying tribute.
His 2 Hawaiian CD's feature many Exotica standards, but with his own
flavour,
and quite a few non-standards. Both CD's have over 70 minutes of music.
I am yet to master his Classical Exotica tape ( should be ready in 2-3
weeks ),
he's currently working on a Latin American one, and has planned another
Hawaiian
one and one of Tahitian songs.
All recordings are done by Nelson alone, no band, with many traditional
instruments
he has collected from islands (while playing cruise ships in the 60s & 70s),
and many
he has made himself, and constructs the songs using samplers, which could
make it unnatural
sounding, but he's been doing this for years and has perfected a beautifully
natural blend of
sounds and instruments.
Anyone who is a fan of the old TV show 'Hawaiian Eye' might like to know
that Nelson
played in a band that backed Poncie Ponce when he toured Australia some time
in the 1960's.
I have been urged, by Nelson, to put up a Web Site, so this may be happening
soon.
As for sound samples, I could send some mp3's with individual replies on
request.
(I haven't any ready, but I'll put some together in the next few days).
I'll send prices and mailing address to those who are interested.
Thanx.
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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hotel Easy
Date: 20 Jul 2001 12:45:20 -0700 (PDT)


I got mine from http://www.othermusic.com

They had trouble getting in the French one.  This was a two years
ago.  I would contact them and see if they can order them from
their distributor.  Who knows maybe they still have copies.

Chuck in New Orleans

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> Anybody know a good source for the Hotel Easy CD comps?  I've
> got a couple of them, but I'm having trouble locating the rest.
> Footlight Records has 'em on backorder, supposedly.  I'm
> beginning to think they've gone out of print.  Any help much
> appreciated.  Thanks!


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Subject: (exotica) 'MUSIC FROM A SPARKLING PLANET'
Date: 20 Jul 2001 16:38:17 -0400


http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/20/arts/theater/20PLAN.html?0720inside

Looks like there's an off-broadway play called "Music From A Sparkling Planet."

I wonder where they got that name...

Lou


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Hotel Easy
Date: 20 Jul 2001 18:18:43 -0400


I just bought the only one I was missing (St. Tropez) at Other Music in
Boston last month, and I believe they had the rest of them in stock.  I
think it may be out of print, though, so send an e-mail to Tom at Other
Music and ask if they have them at either location.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) percy faith - the music of brazil
Date: 20 Jul 2001 18:34:22 -0700


At 09:24 AM 7/20/01, Michael Jammeson wrote:
another question: what's Shangri-la like? I had it without a sleeve

imho, without the sleeve the album doesn't rate high...unless you go for
extremely lush music. You never hear a single instrument on this
record...always large numbers of them...strings, brass, you name it...all
pumping out serenity.  This is the kind of music you would hear as Jack
Nicholson and his buddies line up to get their pills in "One Flew Over a
Cuckoo's Nest."

I thought they would have at least one song with accents or novelty or
something to make me like it...for instance, Song of India...but
unfortunately no.

The cover is great, but that's not what you were asking about.

Byron

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From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) soundtrack/funk/downtempo bargains
Date: 20 Jul 2001 19:16:38 -0700


Thought some of you might be interested: I was pleasantly surprised today
when I went to one of those factory outlet malls (this one in Petaluma, CA)
and walked into one of those Sam Goody-like stores that never has anything
(at least that's what I thought previously).This one was called Music For A
Song. In any case, I was passing by the Various Artists section and found
the following dustygroovy goodies:

- "Hed Kandi: Serve Chilled" $7.99 (the others in the Hed Kandi series were
$14.99 for some reason)
- "(Italian Girls Like) Ear-Catching Melodies" [Dagored] $4.99
- "Beat Vol. 1: Lounge at Cinevox" $7.99
- "Blow Up Presents Exclusive Blend Volume 3" $7.99
- Kenny Dope, "Strange Games and Funky Things III" [BBE] three CDs! for
$7.97

So there you have it: imports for half the price, if not more...

Later,
Ben

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From: "cheryl" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Avalanches
Date: 21 Jul 2001 18:29:23 -0400


While hanging out at HMV the other day, they were playing a CD by an
Australian group called Avalanches.  I just heard part of two tracks, but
one really caught my attention due to rather generous use of exotica
samples.  Has anyone else heard of this group?  And is the whole CD full of
similar samples, or just the track I heard?

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From: Bruce Lenkei <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Avalanches
Date: 21 Jul 2001 18:36:07 -0400 (EDT)



I've had this disc since May and I love it. Not all the samples are
exotica, there's disco and all sorts of stuff, but the fun part is that
they seem to cram in as many as they can, from Madonna to Bert Kaempfert.

- bruce

On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, cheryl wrote:


> While hanging out at HMV the other day, they were playing a CD by an
> Australian group called Avalanches.  I just heard part of two tracks, but
> one really caught my attention due to rather generous use of exotica
> samples.  Has anyone else heard of this group?  And is the whole CD full of
> similar samples, or just the track I heard?
>
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Subject: (exotica) Denny involved records
Date: 21 Jul 2001 19:49:14 -0700


Came across another Martin Denny production sans Martin Denny as
performer... Chick Floyd   Hu La La Liberty LRP 3106

Like his other productions, the performers often included members of his
own group as well as others.  This one has Augie Colon, Harvey Ragsdale and
Julius Wechter.

Other Martin Denny productions similar in nature...
the two Augie Colon LPs on Liberty.

Are there others?  These albums are sort of like getting Martin Denny
albums under other people's name...the reverse of what happened in later
years when you would get other people performing under Martin Denny's name!

Byron

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Subject: (exotica) Just 3 short of Maximum Light
Date: 21 Jul 2001 21:18:16 -0700


Now that I don't have to produce the Mr. Smooth Show for broadcast, I am
taking this time to finally get my records in order.

I noticed my Enoch Light section was rather full and wondered if I had all
his Command LPs.  When I compared to the very excellent Enoch Light website
discography, I found only three LPs I don't have.

Any one have any of these and would care to give a quick review?

RS833  Vibrations (1962)
RS835 Great Themes from Hit Films (1962)
RS871 Great Themes from Hit Films (1964)

...which begs the question...is 871 different than 835?

Also noticed there was no RS803, RS933 or RS949 in the sequence.  Does
anyone have a Command LP with any of these missing numbers or did the folks
at Command just not issue any with those numbers?

Also, I see an RS892 Discotheque  (1966)  This was issued AFTER Enoch Light
sold Command.  There was also an RS873 Discotheque Dance Dance Dance
(1964).  Could these be the same album?  If not, who did 892?

Let me know if you need any info about almost any Command LP!  Turns out I
have quite a few of them...with exception of LPs by the Ray Charles Singers
and The Robert de Cormier Folk Singers.

Byron

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Just 3 short of Maximum Light
Date: 22 Jul 2001 03:08:12 -0400


At 09:18 PM 7/21/01 -0700, [e-mail] wrote:
>

>I noticed my Enoch Light section was rather full and wondered if I had all
>his Command LPs.  When I compared to the very excellent Enoch Light website
>discography, I found only three LPs I don't have.

When I realized how many I had, I started getting RID of them.

>Any one have any of these and would care to give a quick review?
>
>RS833  Vibrations (1962)

I got rid of this one but I'm listening to the four cuts I put on Vol.3 of
my "Best of Command CDR's" and the version of "That Old Black Magic" is
mighty groovy I would say.  I would say it sounds like any other classic
"Persuasive" or "Provocative" Command record with maybe a touch more
upfront organ and guitar. And the organ, though I suspect it was played by
Mr.Hyman has a slightly different sound.   But there's lots of bongos and
if you like the others, you'll like this one.  And the cover design as I
recall was a little out of the ordinary for Command.  It kind of looked
like a stereo test record.


>
>Also, I see an RS892 Discotheque  (1966)  This was issued AFTER Enoch Light
>sold Command.  There was also an RS873 Discotheque Dance Dance Dance
>(1964).  Could these be the same album?  If not, who did 892?

Boy we're getting all geeky with the numbers now aren't we?
Okay I have "Discotheque- The Discotheque Dance Album" and it's RS 33-892.
Then I have "Dicsotheque Vol.2" and it's RS 33-882
and I have "Discotheque Dance Dance Dance" and it's RS873SD.

None of them are the same.

And if you really want to get into the differences...
The first one is said to be by Bobby Byrne
The second one is by Enoch Light and the Light Brigade
And the third one is by Enoch Light and his orchestra.
>
>Let me know if you need any info about almost any Command LP!  Turns out I
>have quite a few of them...with exception of LPs by the Ray Charles Singers
>and The Robert de Cormier Folk Singers.

What have you got against Ray Charles?  (I mean the white one).

Do you have the Dimension 3 record?  (That's RS 867SD)

Now I wish I had them all back.

Not really.

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Subject: RE: (exotica) The Avalanches
Date: 22 Jul 2001 10:09:12 +0200



> I've had this disc since May and I love it. Not all the samples are
> exotica, there's disco and all sorts of stuff, but the fun part is that
> they seem to cram in as many as they can, from Madonna to Bert Kaempfert.

They have a hit single in the UK now, called Frontline Psychiatrist. Their
video clip is just as weird as the track itself. I've heard it only twice,
but if the rest of the CD is just as great I will surely check it out.

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From: SH <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Avalanches
Date: 22 Jul 2001 11:51:15 +0000


I saw the video once. At the very end the roll in a oversize LP record saying
ôSki SurfinÆ - The Avalanchesö on the label. I happen to have that great
production on my collection. Otherwise I wouldnÆt have realized.

KK

>

> They have a hit single in the UK now, called Frontline Psychiatrist. Their
> video clip is just as weird as the track itself. I've heard it only twice,
> but if the rest of the CD is just as great I will surely check it out.
>
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From: "cheryl" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, July 22
Date: 22 Jul 2001 12:45:57 -0400


Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can
be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time 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 #152   Le French Beat

This week, the now sound, French style... featuring the newest addition t=
o
our ever-expanding collection of groovy compilations - "Wizz!"

Charlotte Leslie:  Les Filles C'est Fait=85   "Wizzz!"
Roger Simard Et Son Orchestre:  Noir C'est Noir (Black Is Black)  "Drum A
Gogo"
Les Papyvores:  Le Papyvore  "Wizzz!"
Pussy Cat:  Mais Pourquoi  "Nymphomania Vol.3"

Patrick Abrial:  Slag Machine  "La Guepe Vol. 2"
Roger Simard Et Son Orchestre:  (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone  "Drum A Go=
go"
Jocy:  Dans Les 10 Premiers  "Ultra Chicks Vol. 5"
Richard de Bordeaux & Daniel Beretta:  La Drogue  "Wizzz!"
Andre Brasseur:  Pow Pow  "Get Easy Vol. 3"

Francis Lai:  Marseillaise Generique  "Get Easy Vol. 3"
France Gall:  Made In France  "1968"
Philippe Nicaud:  Cuisses Nues, Bottes De Cuir  "Wizzz!"
Roger Simard Et Son Orchestre:  Mustang Sally  "Drum A Gogo"
Manon:  Si Vous Connaissez Quelque Chose De Pire=85  "Ultra Chicks Vol. 5=
"

Brigitte Bardot:  St. Tropez  "Inflight Entertainment"
Richard de Bordeaux:  Je M'ennuie  "Wizzz!"
Roger Simard Et Son Orchestre:  Got My Mojo Working  "Drum A Gogo"
Monique Thubert:  Avec Les Oreilles  "Wizzz!"
Richard de Bordeaux & Daniel Beretta:  Psychose  "Wizzz!"


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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) need Millionaire's e-mail address
Date: 21 Jul 2001 14:41:04 +0200


Mill, if you're reading this: your <[e-mail]> address
bounces. or if anyone else knows his address?

    thanx!

    Johan

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tipsy Question
Date: 22 Jul 2001 14:41:12 EDT


<< >Does anyone know where the sample of the girls going "ooo!"
>throughout "Hey!" on Uh-Oh comes from?
>I'd like to hear more of them ladies... ;-)
>Robbie

I thought those "Ooohs" were coming from kids. I'd also been trying to figure
out of the "Hey!" came from the Art of Noise song "Close to the Edit" but I
don't have a copy at the moment to compare it to. I'm pretty sure that the
horns come from the The Spy With a Cold Nose soundtrack by Riz Ortolani.
Mr. Unlucky>>

The voice saying "hey" is from the Big City Orchesxtra sound effects library
included on their "Greatest Hits and Test Tones" cd, which also includes a
vocal performance by me. The voice saying "do it do it do it" is an
obsessive-compulsive girl on tv. The voice(s) saying "ooh" is from a mid-60s
chicago r&b record that has been discussed on this list before. And Mr.
Unlucky wins a genuine no-prize for his correct horn pick. Congratulations!
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man)
Date: 22 Jul 2001 15:39:45 EDT



In a message dated 7/19/01 2:21:00 PM, [e-mail] writes:
<< . . . it's still a fantastic little joy ride. I was grinning the whole
time!
The flip side is an actual song, not a sample-fest, which makes me wonder
who Vik Venus really was . . . .>>

I've got it too, since I love break-in records AND 60s bubblegum singles.
"Superfly Meets Shaft" and "Buchanan and Goodman On Trial" are other
favorites.
I really like the Buddha label, and the other Kasenetz/Katz stuff, too,
especially the b-sides; some really odd stuff there ("Sticky Sticky")
-d


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Tipsy Question
Date: 22 Jul 2001 16:18:31 -0400


on 7/22/01 2:41 PM, [e-mail] at [e-mail] wrote:


>The voice(s) saying "ooh" is from a mid-60s
> chicago r&b record that has been discussed on this list before.

My curiousity has me by the short hairs...Could you identify the song?
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man)
Date: 22 Jul 2001 16:33:02 EDT


Probably a good place to note that the book I co-edited with Kim Cooper,
Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth, is now out and available.  History of
bubblegum with lots of interviews and features on odd international folks
(like Mexi-Gum hero Robert Jordan).  Writers include: Peter Bagge, Alec
Palao, Domenic Priore, Chuck Eddy, Metal Mike Saunders, exotica lister
StillGloria and many more.  I wrote pieces on The Archies, A Brief History of
Boy Bands, Gum & Glam, Gum & New Wave and some other stuff.

Sorry for the blatant hype, but it should be of interest to many listers.

--David S.


<< << . . . it's still a fantastic little joy ride. I was grinning the whole
 time!
 The flip side is an actual song, not a sample-fest, which makes me wonder
 who Vik Venus really was . . . .>>

 I've got it too, since I love break-in records AND 60s bubblegum singles.
 "Superfly Meets Shaft" and "Buchanan and Goodman On Trial" are other
 favorites.
 I really like the Buddha label, and the other Kasenetz/Katz stuff, too,
 especially the b-sides; some really odd stuff there ("Sticky Sticky")
 -d
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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Saturday morning yard sale trawl
Date: 22 Jul 2001 18:26:10 -0400


I usually try to post about records after I've actually listened to them
and can do a little book report kind of thing. But I haven't been doing too
well at that lately... and there probably won't be much to say about these
comedy records, so here's a plain ol' score list. I only need one ear for
most of them.

Baja Marimba Band - Baja Marimba Band (mono)
Harry Belafonte - Belafonte Sings Of The Caribbean (mono)
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Countdown - Time In Outer Space (mono)
Bill Cosby - I Started Out As A Child (liner notes by Allan Sherman)
      "     - Why Is There Air? (liners uncredited, read like Stan Cornyn)
      "     - 200 M.P.H. (liners definitely by Stan Cornyn)
      "     - Inside The Mind Of Bill Cosby (liners by Gil Rodin)
Henry Mancini - The Versatile Henry Mancini (mono)
Bob Newhart - The Best Of Bob Newhart ('Button-down Mind' stuff)
Lily Tomlin - This Is A Recording (Ernestine the operator on the cover)
Various - Jazz Poll Winners (mono, Columbia, artists: Miles Davis, Duke
Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Kenny Burrel, Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, Les
Brown, Don Elliott, Charles Mingus, J.J.Johnson, Art Van Damme, Gerry
Mulligan, The Hi-Lo's, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross)

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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Avalanches
Date: 23 Jul 2001 00:08:53 +0100


Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek wrote:
>
> > I've had this disc since May and I love it. Not all the samples are
> > exotica, there's disco and all sorts of stuff, but the fun part is that
> > they seem to cram in as many as they can, from Madonna to Bert Kaempfert.
>
> They have a hit single in the UK now, called Frontline Psychiatrist. Their
> video clip is just as weird as the track itself. I've heard it only twice,
> but if the rest of the CD is just as great I will surely check it out.

That track is by far the worst on the album IMO. It's like all the
annoying bits of Coldcut, DJ Food, the Double D and Steinski "Lessons",
etc all rolled into one. Everyone keeps mentioning all the sampling, but
it probably doesn't sample any more records than the average hip hop
album, but the samples are in big chunks and more obvious, and there's a
long list of cleared samples on the cover. The rest of the album is
nice, but a bit emotionless.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man)
Date: 22 Jul 2001 19:27:01 EDT



In a message dated 7/22/01 1:33:41 PM, [e-mail] writes:

<< Sorry for the blatant hype, but it should be of interest to many listers.

--David S. >>

What? Blatant hype? I received my copy on Saturday and it's a DAMN good book.
Chock-full of great background and info. Good job, David and Kim!! That
conversation between Carl Cafarelli and Gary Pig Gold (no offense;  there
were no quotes), was priceless.
Gloria


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From: "Brian" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Please help me find a gameboy!
Date: 22 Jul 2001 21:43:04 -0400


I finally managed to finally find myself a Gameboy... The larger cost was
having to
listen to the store owner go on for a full 20 minutes relating his own
conspiracy theories, somehow focusing on how the Jews signed a deal with
Hitler,  Something about saving 50,000 to go t Palestine along with $100
million which they then supposely used to buy machine guns from New York
gangs. I didn't catch th especifics as I became preoccupied with thinking of
ways to garciouly leave the place..  Yes Mortitz, I went back THAT store...
I'm a bit scared as the owner remembered me from the last visit!  Actually
he moved into a windowless basement down the block but strangely it's a 500%
improvement over the horrible windowed space it was in before, particularly
as light levels go. You could almost spend some time looking through the 7'
high piles of records, while not freezing in the process or losing your
eyesight.  I may give it a try if I have a day to spare... but no
promises...

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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Please help me find records!
Date: 23 Jul 2001 11:15:52 +0200




Brian schrieb:

> Yes Moritz, I went back THAT store...
> I may give it a try if I have a day to spare... but no promises...

You have my blessings, as long as you won't make me responsible for anything happening there to you, like being introduced to a conspiracy theory so persuasive that you rum amok and kill your entire family or something...

Mo

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man)
Date: 23 Jul 2001 11:10:53 +0200




[e-mail] schrieb:

>
> Bubblegum Music Is The Naked Truth, is now out and available.
>
> Sorry for the blatant hype, but it should be of interest to many listers.

It is! It is! Is it at amazon yet?


Mo

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From: Charles Moseley <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Thrift Scores CA
Date: 23 Jul 2001 12:59:25 +0100


Not much in California thrifts although I was reliably informed that there
is a Palm Springs store (Perez Street) with around 5,000 records sitting
there without much attention - I would have gone but for girlfriend issues -
there's only so long you can leave your partner sitting in the car for
before she loses it!
I got Ferrante & Teicher's Heavenly Sounds in Hi-Fi which isn't bad - I know
it's a classic and its been discussed here plenty but can anybody give me
more info please? Thanks all.
An earthquake record (San Fernando valley, 9th Feb 1971 - I was two days
old)
Another moon landing record - I now have about five - "We Came in Peace for
all Mankind"
Woody Allen comedy LP with the moose sketch
Ramsey Lewis - Maiden Voyage (I think - he's on piano keys) - very high
quality jazz/easy LP with Richard Evans input on Cadet
Horst Jankowski - LP with Soulful Strut, the rest is just dross
Ernie K Doe - self titled LP on Janus with production by Allen Toussaint -
Meters style but not quite as funky as it could be
Sunshine People - soppy poppy LP
A Bob McFadden and friends LP about shouting - comedy? Hmmmm.
Switched on Bacharach Christopher Scott - average Moog LP
and some other assorted bits and pieces.


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Subject: (exotica) thinking of BJ
Date: 23 Jul 2001 14:52:28 +0100


Someone posted a link to BJ's website a while ago.  Its been moved to

http://www.bjbear71.com/

Along with her scary photographs it also has her excellent sites on:
Walter Wanderley
Henry Mancini (not available in the thrifts)
Claudio Slon
Kai Winding
Sergio Mendes
and some others.

She even mentions her high school band.

Sorry if this has been posted in the interim,  I've been off work due to
family expansion and I'm still reading the digests.

laters
El Maestro Con Queso

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Subject: (exotica) [obits] Joan Bove, Bob Ferguson, Sivaji Ganesan,Beate Uhse
Date: 23 Jul 2001 10:02:27 -0400


Joan Bove
NEW YORK (AP) -- Joan Bove, who discovered Clairol hair coloring in Paris and introduced it to American stylists in the 1930s, died Saturday. She was 99.

She and her husband, Lawrence Gelb, traveled to France in 1931 in search of new business opportunities. They discovered a new kind of hair coloring called Clairol.

The pair bought $200 worth of Clairol and tested it at Abraham & Straus, a New York department store. Soon, the Clairol company set up offices in Manhattan.

While promoting their discovery throughout the country, the couple chose to call the product a tint, instead of ``dye.'' At that time, it was still taboo for American women to ``dye'' their hair.
see also: http://nytimes.com/2001/07/23/obituaries/23BOVE.html
====================
Bob Ferguson
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Bob Ferguson, who wrote the standard ``Wings of a Dove'' and produced records for Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner and other country music stars, died Sunday of cancer. He was 73.

Ferguson, a native of Willow Springs, Mo., was hired in 1955 to produce films for the Tennessee Game & Fish Commission. He worked there until 1960, when he wrote and produced the No. 1 hit ``Wings of a Dove'' for Ferlin Husky.

As a staff producer at RCA Records in the 1960s and early '70s, Ferguson worked with artists like Parton, Connie Smith, Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass, Jim Ed Brown, George Hamilton IV and Archie Campbell.

He wrote ``The Carroll County Accident,'' a No. 2 hit for Wagoner. It was named the best country song of 1969 by the Country Music Association.
===========
Sivaji Ganesan
MADRAS, India (AP) -- Sivaji Ganesan, an Indian actor who appeared in more than 170 films in three languages, died Saturday. He was 77.

V.C. Ganesan, as he was originally known, began acting in his teens. By the late 1940s he was playing lead roles in the theater.

Ganesan made his screen debut in the 1952 Tamil language film ``Parasakthi.'' He acted in films in the Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam languages.

Over the years, he developed an intense style of delivering dialogue. Indian trade journals called him the Marlon Brando of South Indian cinema.

In 1996, the Indian government gave him the Dada Phalke award, the country's highest honor in the entertainment industry, for his lifetime contribution to Indian film.
===========
Full story at: http://nytimes.com/2001/07/22/obituaries/22UHSE.html
Beate Uhse, Entrepreneur in the Business of Erotic Goods, Dies at 81
By WOLFGANG SAXON
Beate Uhse, who as a destitute war widow sold birth control pamphlets from a bicycle before going on to develop Europe's biggest emporium of erotic goods, died on Monday in a hospital in Switzerland.



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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrift Scores CA
Date: 23 Jul 2001 11:46:13 -0400


I think I was in the Palm Springs store last year -- is it a big 2nd-hand,
junk store, with rows and rows of records in the back alcove kind of
place.  I saw and bought some kind-of interesting stuff, then gave up when
confronted with the sheer numbers.  Things certainly didn't seem to be
picked over.

Will


Will Straw,
Associate Professor and Acting Chair,
Department of Art History and Communications Studies
McGill University
853 Sherbrooke Street W.
Montreal, QC  H3A 2T6
Canada

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From: Charles Moseley <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tom Jones
Date: 23 Jul 2001 17:21:56 +0100


Boring I know, and I see so many of records in charity shops and the like.

Can anybody help me remember the name of the track and LP where Tom sings
with the trumpet and laughs a great deal as the trumpet puts him off? And
other than that LP are there any TJ LPs worth looking for? I have Looking
Out My Window on a 45 which is fantastic but was produced by Keith Mansfield
so its not surprising. Is there a whole LP produced by Keith Mansfield with
that track on it? What I'm driving at is that I see so many TJ LPs that I
might actually buy one one day, but which one?

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From:    [e-mail] (Patrick Carey)
Subject: (exotica) A few items FS (Joe Meek, Stereolab)
Date: 23 Jul 2001 12:26:10 +0100


I have the following items for sale that
some on this list may be interested in.

Prices are in _US $_ and are *POSTAGE PAID* within North America.
Shipping on orders outside NA can be arranged.

$15 -- Joe Meek - "I Hear A New World (Special Edition)" UK CD
       (RPM/Cherry Red: rpm502) 2001  [Spaced-out psychotica from
       the legendary Joe Meek.  The original 1960 LP, 1962 monologue
       & CD-ROM film clip.  Comes in full-color digipak w/ fold-out
       12 panel booklet.  Mint.]
$12 -- Stereolab - "Wow and Flutter" UK CD (Duophonic: d-uhf-d07) 1994
       [Feat. "Heavy Denim", "Nihilist Assault Group (Parts 3, 4 & 5)"
       and "Narco Martenot".]

Thanks for looking.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Moonflight, by Vik Venus (Alias: Your Main Moon Man)
Date: 23 Jul 2001 21:18:32 EDT


Yup, the Bubblegum book has been listed on Amazon for a while and it just
shipped last week.  I just spotted copies at a bookstore today, so it seems
to have worked its way through the distribution system.

--David


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From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tom Jones
Date: 24 Jul 2001 02:23:11 -0400


At 05:21 PM 7/23/01 +0100, Charles Moseley wrote:
.
. What I'm driving at is that I see so many TJ LPs that I
>might actually buy one one day, but which one?

I can't remember the actual records but Tom does a great version of "You
keep me hangin on"
Also "Venus", "This is a man's world", "Sugar Sugar" (he copies the Wilson
Pickett version, not the Archies version), "Lodi", "Keep on Running",
"Mohair Sam".
I'd buy the records with those songs.

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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Stanley Kubrick - A Life In Pictures
Date: 24 Jul 2001 15:33:35 +0200


sorry, if this isn't very exactly exotica-related, but I had been talking to some people from this list about it. This great documentary about Kubrick is now available on DVD and VHS from Warner Home Video. A strong recommendation for everyone who's as much a big Kubrick fan as I am.

sorry again to everybody else...


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Stanley Kubrick - A Life In Pictures
Date: 24 Jul 2001 08:39:34 -0500


Moritz R wrote:

> sorry, if this isn't very exactly exotica-related, but I had been talking to some people from this list about it. This great documentary about Kubrick is now available on DVD and VHS from Warner Home Video. A strong recommendation for everyone who's as much a big Kubrick fan as I am.

This is also playing in the US on one of the premium cable channels, Cinemax, I think. And just to keep it on-topic, we could always talk about the Wendy Carlos score for Clockwork Orange and that cool Kurova Milk Bar decor, y'know...[grin].

Aughhhh! Me glassies!

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Tom Jones
Date: 24 Jul 2001 12:16:13 -0400


on 7/24/01 2:23 AM, alan  zweig at [e-mail] wrote:

>
> At 05:21 PM 7/23/01 +0100, Charles Moseley wrote:
> .
> . What I'm driving at is that I see so many TJ LPs that I
>> might actually buy one one day, but which one?
>
> I can't remember the actual records but Tom does a great version of "You
> keep me hangin on"
> Also "Venus", "This is a man's world", "Sugar Sugar" (he copies the Wilson
> Pickett version, not the Archies version), "Lodi", "Keep on Running",
> "Mohair Sam".
> I'd buy the records with those songs.


"A-TOM-ic" is great, as is "Its Not Unusual"...He rarely sings a bad song
IMHO..Anything m,id 6T's is bound to win. I'm still looking out for the live
one where he sings "Bright Lights & You Girl" (also competently covered by
Clean Gene Chandler, the Woman Handler from The Windy City
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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A Taste of Honey track listing??
Date: 24 Jul 2001 13:30:20 -0400


(This was sent for Kevin, any replies should go to him) - Nate

If anyone has an copy of Martin Denny's "A Taste of Honey" Album -
please help me out.

I have the following track listing for my copy:
1. A Taste of Honey
2. I'm in a Dancing Mood
3. Take 5
4. Amer-ri-ca
5. Black Orchid
6. Walk on the Wild Side
7. Violetta
8. Route 66
9. Stranger on the shore
10. The Wild One
11. Exodus
12. Clair de lune

Problem is that Take 5 and Black Orchid are definitely not in this order.

If someone would be so kind to check your LP and provide correct track
listing (or, point this out on the www) I would be grateful (and
certainly willing to send a CD-R copy...)

Many mahalos,
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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A Taste of Honey track listing??
Date: 24 Jul 2001 19:58:44 +0200




Nathan Miner schrieb:

>
> I have the following track listing for my copy:

>
> 1. A Taste of Honey
> 2. I'm in a Dancing Mood
> 3. Take 5
> 4. Amer-ri-ca
> 5. Black Orchid
> 6. Walk on the Wild Side
> 7. Violetta
> 8. Route 66
> 9. Stranger on the shore
> 10. The Wild One
> 11. Exodus
> 12. Clair de lune

the tracklisting on the backside of the album cover differs indeed from the tracklisting that's on the labels of the record. there it is:

A

1. A Taste Of Honey
2. I'm In A Dancing Mood
3. Black Orchid
4. Take Five
5. Stranger On The Shore
6. Walk On The Wild Side

B

1. Exodus
2. A-Me-Ri-Ca
3. Route 66
4. Clair De Lune
5. Violetta
6. The Wild One


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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Walkin' in Space
Date: 24 Jul 2001 15:24:09 -0400


Just heard this Quincy Jones cut with wordless vocals by Valerie Simpson =
on the radio.

Great song that sounded just like an Italian film soundtrack from the =
60's.

Is the rest of the "sound" on this LP the same??

Thanx -

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Walkin' in Space
Date: 24 Jul 2001 20:24:44


The rest of the LP is awash in that glorious, cosmic Creed Taylor production
treatment, but "Walkin' in Space" is still easily the most transcendent
selection.  And, like my morning cup o' jo, its stimulative power eventually
wore off, but I went through a period of several weeks where I HAD to slam
that cut on the turntable every morning before work.

-Dan

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From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Walkin' in Space
Date: 24 Jul 2001 16:35:55 -0400


It's a great track - god bless the local college FM radio stations around =
Baltimore!! =20

- Nate

>>> Daniel Shiman <[e-mail]> 07/24/01 04:24PM >>>

The rest of the LP is awash in that glorious, cosmic Creed Taylor =
production=20
treatment, but "Walkin' in Space" is still easily the most transcendent=20
selection.  And, like my morning cup o' jo, its stimulative power =
eventually=20
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From: "Michael D. Toth" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:(exotica) Just 3 short of Maximum Light
Date: 24 Jul 2001 17:07:52 -0400



Yeesh, it's been tough keeping on top of e-mail. It seems I only get
around to reading about 1-in-15 Exotica Digests any more. But some quick
comments on

[e-mail] wrote:

>Any one have any of these and would care to give a quick review?
>
>RS833  Vibrations (1962)
>RS835 Great Themes from Hit Films (1962)
>RS871 Great Themes from Hit Films (1964)

The 1964 one, which came out at the same time as Discotheque Vol. 1,
seemed the cooler of the two for me. It has a great "Hard Day's Night"
which should be a bonus track should the Discotheque LPs ever see
reissue. There are some other cool tracks, including a "Mondo Cane #2."

>Also, I see an RS892 Discotheque  (1966)  This was issued AFTER Enoch Light
>sold Command.  There was also an RS873 Discotheque Dance Dance Dance
>(1964).  Could these be the same album?  If not, who did 892?

The 892 one (already noted as by Bobby Byrne) isn't as monolithically
cool as the Light ones, but it's still quite nifty. I recently saw these
three together as a boxed set called "Dance Dance Dance" which I didn't
know existed.

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From: "Michael D. Toth" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Moonflight, by Vik Venus
Date: 24 Jul 2001 17:24:50 -0400


paul dean <[e-mail]> wrote:

>> have you ever seen that Moonflight 45 again?
>>
>> Mo
>>

>I have a thrift store copy that I just dug out. It's cracked, but if I
>allign the edges just right I can play it.

EEK!

This record, and the Dickie Goodman "Luna Trip" 45, which I suspect came
first and "Vik" plagiarized, were both in HEAVY rotation in my childhood.
In the late 80s, I replaced my WL-condition copies (that would be
"Well-Loved" ;-) ) with minty fresh copies at record conventions.

FYI, "Moonflight" was included on the out-of-print 3-CD Buddah Box set
that still surfaces -- sometimes really cheap.

(IMO, Goodman's "Luna Trip" is the much crazier and better of the two,
with its Chipmunk-voice-style Man-In-The-Moon and "Walter Fun-kite").
Goodman was the KING of the "cut-in" interview record. Newer sampling law
complications probably prevent this genre from legitimately resurfacing,
and I think the Goodman CD compilation that surfaced a few years ago may
have been a bootleg.)

>The flip side is an actual song, not a sample-fest, which makes me wonder
>who Vik Venus really was . . . .

Considering the dubious identity of most of Buddah's roster, it could
have been *anybody*. Strangely, there's *NO* mention of Vik Venus I've
seen in that incredible new "Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth" book.


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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bob & Ray Throw "A Stereo Spectacular"
Date: 24 Jul 2001 14:22:41 -0700 (PDT)



Saw this cd on sale in a Collectors Choice magazine.  Is this any
good?  What kind of music is it?  The Living Stereo logo always
grabs my attention.  The cover looks zany.  Thanks for any info.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
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From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) who was looking for Command?
Date: 24 Jul 2001 19:01:52 -0400


Someone - basic hip? - was asking about the Command record Vibrations.
Well it turns out it was on my "for sale" shelf.  I remember saying that
the organ didn't have that normal Dick Hyman sound.  And that's because
it's not Dick.  The electric organ and ondioline is by Milton Kraus.

Also for sale on Command by the way:

Electrodynamics by Dick Hyman
Off Beat Percussion - Don Lamond
A Cheerful Earful - Lew Davies

I don't want to make this about selling so if you're interested, reply
privately.

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From: "Colleen Pyles" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bob & Ray Throw "A Stereo Spectacular"
Date: 24 Jul 2001 18:16:26 -0500


Chuck,
Since Bob and Ray are a comedy duo, there's no telling what that
could sound like.  I'm thinkin'wacky sound effects or something. Has
anyone heard it?


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From: "Patrick Dominick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Archives
Date: 25 Jul 2001 10:14:27 +1000


Hi list

I am new to the list, having come only recently to an awakening
appreciation of exotica and related genres.

I was wondering if there is a tool for searching the list-archives.
Can anyone advise, please?  I am trying to find out more about "Mr.
Continental" on the Ultra-Lounge series, and I am sure that someone
this list must have discussed him at some time.

Speaking of genres -- can anyone point me to an in-depth analysis of
related genres, their etymology, origins, and definitions?

Thanks in advance
Patrick

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Bob & Ray Throw "A Stereo Spectacular"
Date: 24 Jul 2001 21:13:32 -0400



>Since Bob and Ray are a comedy duo, there's no telling what that
>could sound like.  I'm thinkin'wacky sound effects or something. Has
>anyone heard it?

I recall reading that this album was by a different Bob & Ray, not the
famous comedians. Unfortunately, that's about all I remember. Collectors'
Choice Music was selling the CD a couple of years ago.


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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bob & Ray Throw "A Stereo Spectacular"
Date: 24 Jul 2001 18:25:17 -0700 (PDT)


Not so. I have the lp (LSP 1773 RCA Victor, 1958), it
is the Bob & Ray that have or had been around forever
(Pop used to always tune in to their AM show, WMAL, in
DC... 60s, I think). Anyway, yes, their are wacky
skits and sound effects (I have put these on comps for
a couple of you, I think), punctuating songs and music
by Julie Andrews, Sauter Finnegan, Abbe Lane,
Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band, Lena Horne, Dick
Schory's New Percussion Ensemble, etc. My advice,
Chuck, is if it's cheap, by all means. If it's not,
well here's what RCA says:

"... no double-woofer household can be complete
without this disc. Maybe that's immodest, but where
else can you hear a human clock swinging in three
dimensions? - or stereophonic bagpipes, doors or cats,
for that matter?"
--- "m.ace" <[e-mail]>, etc, wrote:

I'm thinkin'wacky sound effects
> or something. Has
> >anyone heard it?
>
> I recall reading that this album was by a different
> Bob & Ray, not the
> famous comedians.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Bob & Ray Throw "A Stereo Spectacular"
Date: 24 Jul 2001 18:49:15 -0700


At 04:16 PM 7/24/01, you wrote:

>Chuck,
>Since Bob and Ray are a comedy duo, there's no telling what that
>could sound like.  I'm thinkin'wacky sound effects or something. Has
>anyone heard it?


While I have not heard it, I have seen stuff about it.  This is NOT the Bob
and Ray of comedy fame, from my understanding, rather a Bob and a Ray who
throw together a bunch of sound effects and other stuff together to
demonstrate stereo...although you wouldn't really call this a typical
stereo demo disc.

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Date: 24 Jul 2001 18:57:19 -0700


At 05:14 PM 7/24/01, Patrick wrote:
I am trying to find out more about "Mr.
>Continental" on the Ultra-Lounge series,


Actually, I think his title was "The Continental."  I heard that that the
organist playing with his words d'amore was none other than Eddie
Baxter.  My album on Capitol entitled "Camp!" T2474 says TC was Renzo
Cesana, which means absolutely nothing to me...but maybe it does to someone
else!  I have yet to see an entire album featuring The Continental.  I have
only seen him on 78 singles and, if I am not mistaken, only on one side of
each...the other given only to the organ.  I, too, would like more info and
even a pointer to a discography.  Wouldn't it be great to have an entire
collection of his solioquys? (maybe not to play start to finish, but to use
selections occasionally within larger programs)

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From: "Justin Bartlett" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) HAWAIIAN EYE
Date: 25 Jul 2001 10:35:05 +1000


I have the following episodes of Hawaiian Eye on video
(PAL format) for anyone who's interested
in a trade for other episodes.

Season 2
Ep.19  'Talk And You're Dead'
Ep.26  'The Man From Manila'
Ep.29  'Don't Kiss Me Goodbye'
Season 3
Ep. 2  'The Kupua Of Coconut Bay'
Ep.17  'Big Fever'
Ep.31  'The Last Samurai'
Ep.34  'Across The River Lethe'
(features Lyman playing Rhapsody In Blue)
Ep.36  'Among The Living'

Not many I know, but get in touch if your interested.
My VCR can play NTSC format, maybe some NTSC
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From: "Jonny Perl" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tom Jones Records
Date: 25 Jul 2001 10:25:51 +0800


>I can't remember the actual records but Tom does a
>great version of "You keep me hangin on"
>Also "Venus", "This is a man's world", "Sugar Sugar"
>(he copies the Wilson Pickett version, not the
>Archies version), "Lodi", "Keep on Running",
>"Mohair Sam". I'd buy the records with those songs.

I'm also in the position of not owning any Tom Jones albums, but quite fancying getting a couple.

I would add 'If I promise' as a track to get; it's one of a few great tracks I was alerted to via a compilation from list-member Brad Bigelow.

On a vaguely related note, does anyone know what album 'Go on your way' by Jose Feliciano appears on?  That's another great 60s beat track I'd like to have the original of.

Brad, you did the tape (a few years back now), do you recall the album?

cheers

Jonny

ps

Just bought (at the academy LPs store here in nyc):

- arthur fiedler and boston pops - 'superstar' (for the 'mah na mah na' cover version.  It's fun, but I'm glad I don't have any of his other records)

- Billion dollar brain soundtrack - richard rodney bennett (I couldn't resist this at $5, but I'm sure I remember the music sounding cooler when I watched the film)

- Pete Moore - 'More and Moore' (I was surprised to find this english release here in NYC. It's from 1966 on the Pye label; I'm checking it out now. Quite pleasant brit-easy stuff with wordless vocals.  Nothing remotely beaty like his famed later work, but nice.)


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Stanley Kubrick - A Life In Pictures
Date: 25 Jul 2001 12:26:12 +1000


For anyone who can get to Brisbane, Australia
(not sure if anyone can but me?)
The Kubrick Documentary is playing as
a part of the Brisbane International Film Festival
which kicks off today (Wed 26th).
Screening: 11:00 am 27/7/01
             &  3:00 pm  5/8/01
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From: Christine Karkow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hot Bagels
Date: 24 Jul 2001 20:01:04 -0700


hi everyone, has anyone ever heard of the Album "Hot Bagels" by Hyman Gold?
It features a cool photo of Hyman kissing a lady's hand in a groovy looking
restarant with a plate of bagels on the table.  also not to be missed a
skewer w/bagels on it and a flame coming out the end reaching in from the
left side..  anyways, any idea where one could find this vinyl gem?

thanks
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Subject: Re: (exotica) The Archives
Date: 24 Jul 2001 23:34:06 -0400


on 7/24/01 9:57 PM, [e-mail] at [e-mail] wrote:

>
> At 05:14 PM 7/24/01, Patrick wrote:
> I am trying to find out more about "Mr.
>> Continental" on the Ultra-Lounge series,
>
>
> Actually, I think his title was "The Continental."  I heard that that the
> organist playing with his words d'amore was none other than Eddie
> Baxter.  My album on Capitol entitled "Camp!" T2474 says TC was Renzo
> Cesana, which means absolutely nothing to me...but maybe it does to someone
> else!  I have yet to see an entire album featuring The Continental.  I have
> only seen him on 78 singles and, if I am not mistaken, only on one side of
> each...the other given only to the organ.


this posting calls to mind an experience i had today, and an experience i
come across more than i wish i did...After viewing a selection of Latin
LP's, which I can rightfully claim as my latest fetish, at a more than
casual acquaintance's used record shop, I brought the LP's of my choice to
the counter where they are sampled for me by the friendly staff (really!).
An LP I was seriously considering was allegedly by Perez Prado, one I had
never seen, and usually anything with his grunt on it is OK at this address.
However while the LP was spinnin' I actually quit grinnin' as I read the
humble liner notes which said "Music by Perez Prado, Latin great, and other
fine orchestras..." Unable to identify "other fine orchestras", I quickly
determined that this was not an LP for me. The owner suggested that perhaps
the LP had been derived from 78RPM sources, etc., but......this may explain
in part the inability of the poster to locate the entire "The Continental"
LP.....Maybe
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From: "Paul Hodge" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tom Jones - amazing track!
Date: 25 Jul 2001 08:01:55 +0100


You've mentioned some great Tom Jones tracks but have failed to mention
the biggest & baddest (IMO) of them...

It's the B-side to the 'I'm coming home' 45 called 'The Lonely One'

If you haven't heard it I'd immediately rush out and buy it.

Alternatively you can hear a sample on the Pussycat club website:
http://www.pussycatclub.org.uk/


I play it every Friday night at my 'clubagogo' club night in Southampton
- there's a rush to the decks to find out who/what it is.

I'll describe it:: a hard funkin' , grinding RnB number with the biggest
horn blasts
ever'...you have been warned.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Tom Jones - amazing track!
Date: 25 Jul 2001 11:19:15 +0100


Paul Hodge wrote:
>
> You've mentioned some great Tom Jones tracks but have failed to mention
> the biggest & baddest (IMO) of them...
>
> It's the B-side to the 'I'm coming home' 45 called 'The Lonely One'
>
> If you haven't heard it I'd immediately rush out and buy it.

damn, been looking for this one for a while...

Another great, funky track is 'I'm a fool to love you', i forget which
album, but possibly the one with the blue cover and tom jones' head
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Subject: (exotica) Tom Jones
Date: 25 Jul 2001 12:04:10 +0100


Alan's hit the two best LP's I have right on the head.
Tom Jones sings 13 Smash hits (a plain red sleeve with a picture of tom in
the middle) from 1967 is great,  it has a lot of RnB covers 'its a mans
world', and the really good version of 'Keep on Running' are from this LP.
Then theres I think its just 'Tom'  its an LP with Tom Jones in front of an
out of focus background of Lurid flowers.  From 1970.  This has Venus, Sugar
Sugar, Proud Mary, and Polk Salad Annie (much better than the Elvis version
IMHO)  and has that much fuller Memphis horns sort of sound.  Side 1 is
absolutely top rate.

check out the Tom Jones Illustrated Discography
http://www.txhighlands.com
Someone else not ashamed to use BJ as a name.

I don't know the track presumably its a cover of the Jacksons tune?


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Charles and Alan say:

Can anybody help me remember the name of the track and LP where Tom sings
with the trumpet and laughs a great deal as the trumpet puts him off? And
other than that LP are there any TJ LPs worth looking for? I have Looking
Out My Window on a 45 which is fantastic but was produced by Keith Mansfield
so its not surprising. Is there a whole LP produced by Keith Mansfield with
that track on it? What I'm driving at is that I see so many TJ LPs that I
might actually buy one one day, but which one?

> I can't remember the actual records but Tom does a great version of "You
> keep me hangin on"
> Also "Venus", "This is a man's world", "Sugar Sugar" (he copies the Wilson
> Pickett version, not the Archies version), "Lodi", "Keep on Running",
> "Mohair Sam".
> I'd buy the records with those songs.

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Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Mondo Bongos July 25, 2001
Date: 25 Jul 2001 07:25:25 -0400


Mondo Bongos can be heard every Wednesday morning at 9 (EST) on CFRU 93.3fm
in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The show is also available on the web at
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~cfru-fm

The Galaxy Generation - Aquarius "Hair"
Hot Butter - Popcorn "Popcorn"
Silver Apples - Daisy "Beacon"
Suicide - Rocket U.S.A. "Suicide"
Television - Venus "Marquee Moon"
Slime - Controversial 7"
Les Maledictus Sound - Jim Clark Was Driving Recklessly "Les Maledictus
Sound"
Klark Kent - Too Kool to Kalypso 7"
Orchid Spangiafora - Hold Everything "Flee Past's Ape Elf"
Red Noise - 20 Mirror Mozarts Composing on Tea Bag & 1/2 Cup Bra
"Sarcelles-Locheres"
Fille Qui Mousse - Se Taire Pour Une Femme Trop Belle pt 1 "Trixie Stapelton
291"
Bar-Kays - House Shoes "Soul Finger"
Soul Caravan - African Song (Kerd-A-Wai) "Get in High"
Mandingo - Uomo "Sacrifice"
The Propositions - Africana "Deja Vu"

Comments & Questions?

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Subject: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte
Date: 25 Jul 2001 12:50:42 +0100


Hi all,

I've just checked out the Schema site someone posted earlier in the
Nicola Conte thread.  Does anyone have any opinions on the label's
other releases?  Also, any opinions on the Thievery Corporation v.
Nicola Conte 12" (I can't remember the title)?

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Subject: (exotica) Vinyl Philadelphia and NYC
Date: 25 Jul 2001 12:53:24 +0100


Hi all,

I'm planning a trip back to the US in a few weeks and will be in the
Philly/KoP area for a bit, and NYC.  I know I've missed the WFMU
record fair, but does anyone have any recommendations of shops to
check out for some serious vinyl therapy?

Thanks,

Leslie


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From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bob & Ray Throw "A Stereo Spectacular"
Date: 25 Jul 2001 05:34:58 -0700 (PDT)


They're the only Bob and Ray I've ever heard these
guys: http://www.bobandray.com/). Comedians who
employed sound effects on this particular lp to
accentuate their skits (creaking doors, buzzing giant
flies, etc). And, no, this is not, in the main, a
stereo demo disk, but a series of goofy skits
introducing songs and music by RCA label mates.

But the future of this, I leave to the learned
scholars. I did wish to mention, as someone here
posted a link awhile back, that the cover art is the
work of Jack Davis, of Mad Magazine, etc., fame.


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>

>
> While I have not heard it, I have seen stuff about
> it.  This is NOT the Bob
> and Ray of comedy fame, from my understanding,
> rather a Bob and a Ray who
> throw together a bunch of sound effects and other
> stuff together to
> demonstrate stereo...although you wouldn't really
> call this a typical
> stereo demo disc.


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Bob & Ray Throw "A Stereo Spectacular"
Date: 25 Jul 2001 07:50:54 -0500


> While I have not heard it, I have seen stuff about it.  This is NOT the
> Bob and Ray of comedy fame, from my understanding

It's most definitely the Two and Only of comedy fame, Bob Elliott
and Ray Goulding.  As I recall, they sort of "host" this album,
interspersing comedy bits between the music tracks.  Classic
Records did a vinyl and CD reissue of this album a couple of years
ago.   Another great Bob and Ray RCA album is "Bob and Ray On
a Platter".



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte
Date: 25 Jul 2001 12:59:58


>
>I've just checked out the Schema site someone posted earlier in the
>Nicola Conte thread.  Does anyone have any opinions on the label's
>other releases?  Also, any opinions on the Thievery Corporation v.
>Nicola Conte 12" (I can't remember the title)?

Funnily enough i just got a chance to listen to the Ursula 1000 remix of
Bombay, Karminsky remix of Devil's Coda and the 12" of bossa per due by
Thievery. And sad to say, i really did not like either 12". I was
spectacularly let down by the Missione a Bombay as I love the original and
felt Ursula 1000 was the man to kick the breakbeats.

On the other hand I was listening to the Nicola Conte remix of Cocktail Nova
by Balanco (nouveau bossa band which i think Conte used to play in, have to
check the records later) and it rocked. As did the b-side by Le Hammond
Inferno (whose recent output was worrying me a bit).
I'm pretty sure others on the list have contrary opinions to the above. Also
listened to another decent Schema artist in the shop. I like Schema records
in general, I have a tendancy to fetishise labels and buy all i can from
them. I don't go as far as that with Schema but I always give their stuff a
listen.

Wasn't the (widely available in normalish record shops) compilation Fez
files Numero Uno released by Schema? If so it's a reasonable look into their
sound. Though not as Italian or Bossa inspired as most of their stuff.
Go listen!
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Subject: Re: (exotica) The Archives
Date: 25 Jul 2001 08:00:14 -0500


> I am trying to find out more about "Mr.
> >Continental" on the Ultra-Lounge series,

As Byron noted, The Continental was Renzo Cesana.  He hosted
an early '50s TV show, first on KTLA in Los Angeles, and later on
one of the networks.  The show was aimed at bored housewives,
with The Continental serving champagne and gooey love poems.
Christopher Walken does a great send-up of The Continental on
Saturday Night Live.

Apparently, Signor Cesana appeared in movies and numerous TV
shows over the years.  He was written up in one of Richard
Lamparski's "Whatever Happened To..." books some years back.


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From: "cheryl" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte
Date: 25 Jul 2001 09:55:02 -0400


Here comes contrary opinion #1 - if you like the Karminskys or Ursula 1000,
then by all means pick up the 12"s.  On first listen, they're okay, but on
second and subsequent listenings, they have a way of really growing on you.
Subtle, but good.

The Nicola Conte "Jet Sounds" CD is very good.  I'm not the biggest Balanco
fan, but it seems anything of theirs that's remixed is quite good.  They
tend to be more on the soft bossa side of things, and I prefer my music with
a bit more of a beat.

Robert's right on about the "Fez File" comp, though - that should be a must
for your collection.  It has a number of non-Schema artists, too.  And the
Thievery remix "Bossa Per Due" is good, although the flip side, by Kyoto
Jazz Massive, is even better.

Supposedly, Nicola Conte is putting out a remix album this fall (according
to Dusty Groove's upcoming releases), but I don't know if it's his remixes
of other things, or other people's remixes of his things, or both.  But it
sounds promising.

I find the Schema label in general is pretty consistent, but it varies from
soft bossa to more beat-influenced stuff.  It just depends what you like.

cheryl



> I'm pretty sure others on the list have contrary opinions to the above.
Also
> listened to another decent Schema artist in the shop. I like Schema
records
> in general, I have a tendancy to fetishise labels and buy all i can from
> them. I don't go as far as that with Schema but I always give their stuff
a
> listen.
>
> Wasn't the (widely available in normalish record shops) compilation Fez
> files Numero Uno released by Schema?



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Subject: Re: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte
Date: 25 Jul 2001 10:19:11 -0400


on 7/25/01 7:50 AM, leslie gilotti at [e-mail] wrote:


> I've just checked out the Schema site someone posted earlier in the
> Nicola Conte thread.  Does anyone have any opinions on the label's
> other releases?

I own pretty much everything they've released in the last 3 or 4 years, and
recommend releases by Les Hommes, Balanco, and Soulstance especially.
There's also a compilation called "Fez File, Vol Uno", which is made up of
tracks that were faves of the DJ duo Fez File, which is Nicola Conte and
Filipo Bratta.

The label's output in the early 90's was much more jazz/acid jazz based, as
that was a very popular sound in southern Italy at the time.

>Also, any opinions on the Thievery Corporation v.
> Nicola Conte 12" (I can't remember the title)?

One side is the orginal version of 'Bossa Per Due', the other is Thievery's
remix of it. I didn't think it was one of their best remixes.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte
Date: 25 Jul 2001 11:16:29 -0400


on 7/25/01 9:55 AM, cheryl at [e-mail] wrote:

>
> Here comes contrary opinion #1 - if you like the Karminskys or Ursula 1000,
> then by all means pick up the 12"s.  On first listen, they're okay, but on
> second and subsequent listenings, they have a way of really growing on you.
> Subtle, but good.
>
> The Nicola Conte "Jet Sounds" CD is very good.  I'm not the biggest Balanco
> fan, but it seems anything of theirs that's remixed is quite good.  They
> tend to be more on the soft bossa side of things, and I prefer my music with
> a bit more of a beat.
>
> Robert's right on about the "Fez File" comp, though - that should be a must
> for your collection.  It has a number of non-Schema artists, too.  And the
> Thievery remix "Bossa Per Due" is good, although the flip side, by Kyoto
> Jazz Massive, is even better.
>
> Supposedly, Nicola Conte is putting out a remix album this fall (according
> to Dusty Groove's upcoming releases), but I don't know if it's his remixes
> of other things, or other people's remixes of his things, or both.  But it
> sounds promising.
>
> I find the Schema label in general is pretty consistent, but it varies from
> soft bossa to more beat-influenced stuff.  It just depends what you like.
>
> cheryl
>

I've been into Schema for awhile and find it to be consistently good, almost
everything they touch in fact. I'd also like to hype two Japanese artists
that I think listers will enjoy...Mansfield's "Six Mainifestations of
Mansfield" and "Its A Man's Man's Mansfield" are both full of that
irresistible combination of easy listening and beat/bass driven
underpinnings topped off of course with cooing wordless vocals and short
smart slogans spoken here and there. Also ComoEstas. for those who enjoy the
Latin side of Los Chicharrons, this breakbeat artist's CD "Last Mambo In
Tokyo" will put you over the edge...Guaranteed
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Subject: (exotica) some stuff picked up while away
Date: 25 Jul 2001 16:28:48 +0100


Having spent the last 3 weeks out of work,  I could only spend a small
amount of time in record shops, as I'd nearly always have a very impatient 3
year old (she refuses to go into charity shops with me anymore).  But I did
get some new stuff.

A couple of budget re-issues, they seem legit, on vinyl:
Les Baxter's African Jazz
Quite tame really, a couple of tracks were more South American than African,
but mostly polite Jazz with Bongo's.  Quite nice in a cocktail party kind of
way.  Nothing that really took my fancy.

Mandingo Primeval Rhythm of Life
Much more my cup of tea.  Much more raucous percussion, some outrageously
out of place Moog,  brash horns.  A couple of the tamer tracks are on the
first Sound Gallery LP,  I played this out last week and it sounds great
loud.
The cover is quite spartan (no scantily clad women), just 'Mandingo' in
flames on black. A Norman Newell production (also the man on your Manuel and
the Music of the Mountains LP's but this is much better).
Absolutely recommended.

Dick and Dale Batman
A 180gm collectors full price re-issue (oh the irony).  Not only is the
record super heavy the sleeve is ridiculously heavy duty too,  if someone
were to accost you while carrying it, you could beat them to death with
either part.
What a strange record.  Sort of.  The sound quality is 1966 punk,  like a
'Back from the Grave' LP.  Murky. Distorted guitars.  Organ.  Horns!
(including not credited trumpet and trombone[?]).  But instead of just 2
minute tracks there are some more lengthy workouts.
The sleeve unsurprisingly makes a big deal about the Sun Ra connection.  I
haven't heard any of his other stuff, but presumably it doesn't sound much
like this.
I played this too,  it appealed to the 12 year old boys (well, the Batman
theme anyway, good to see it still works 40 years on).  Its a good version
of the Batman Theme too.

New stuff
Los Chicharrons 'East Meets West' and 'Papas got a brand new Pigbag'.
These are new(ish) East Meets West someone mentioned a few months back, and
has sitars as well as the more traditional Chicharrons percussion overload.
The Pigbag cover has a bit of the horn riff sampled over a samba-ish
bassline. I like 'em.

Arling And Cameron 'What about the Boys' remix 12.
Terrible remix of what about the boys very dull,  the other remix 'Lets Get
Higher' is much better.  Very 'I Feel Love' Moroderish.

Kid Koala Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Not bad Ninja Tunes LP,  far too much irritating scratching and nothing
lives up to 'The Emperors New Clothes' on the Xen Cuts compilation.  Which
is admittedly very good indeed.

I also got the Basement Jaxx LP 'Rooty'.  not bad, I accidentally played one
of the tracks at minus eight at a friends house and it sounded soo good.
Unfortunately I can't remember which one it was, and I don't have varispeed
at home, so I've been LISTENING VERY CAREFULLY IMAGINING IT MUCH SLOWER to
see if I can locate it for future use.

I see that there is a new A&C LP due out from Emperor Norton on August 7th.
http://www.emperornorton.com
Did anyone get the 'Early 2001' CD form them?


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Vinyl Philadelphia and NYC
Date: 25 Jul 2001 11:37:12 -0400


on 7/25/01 7:53 AM, leslie gilotti at [e-mail] wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm planning a trip back to the US in a few weeks and will be in the
> Philly/KoP area for a bit, and NYC.  I know I've missed the WFMU
> record fair, but does anyone have any recommendations of shops to
> check out for some serious vinyl therapy?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leslie
>

Wnen in NYC be sure to check out Footlight Records (and I MEAN records) on
E13th between First and Second I believe (o
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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mansfield Six
Date: 25 Jul 2001 08:50:09 -0700 (PDT)


Rock on to the break of dawn Jimmy!  Mansfield Six takes you on a
world tour with music styled and sampled from all eras!  The beats
are infectious! The wordless vocals are mesmerizing.  This is high
octane music with a big smile on its face.  I put them into the mix
on Mardis Gras day and they wow the crowds.  Mansfield Six have
carried on the Shibuya-Kei tradition of FPM's Luxury, Yukari Fresh
and P-5 to a new level.

Mansfield Six is for sale at http://www.othermusic.com

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

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 I'd also like to hype two Japanese artists
> that I think listers will enjoy...Mansfield's "Six
> Mainifestation of Mansfield" and "Its A Man's Man's Mansfield"
are both full of that irresistible combination of easy listening
and beat/bass driven underpinnings topped off of course with cooing
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Subject: (exotica) Swanky!
Date: 25 Jul 2001 15:54:03


Hello,
  ANyone know of any groovy lounges in Vegas? I'm familiar with The
peppermill, Algiers and Voodoo. Anything els?

Thanks

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Schema/Nicola Conte
Date: 25 Jul 2001 12:09:24 -0400


on 7/25/01 11:16 AM, James Botticelli at [e-mail] wrote:

> smart slogans spoken here and there. Also ComoEstas. for those who enjoy the
> Latin side of Los Chicharrons, this breakbeat artist's CD "Last Mambo In
> Tokyo" will put you over the edge...Guaranteed

speaking of Los Chicharrons, their new 12", on Tummy Touch, is a cover of
'Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag', which for those who don't remember or know
it, was a fab jazz/funk dancefloor shaker from the early 8T's by the British
outfit Pigbag. The orginal has been a staple in Fantastic Plastic Machine's
DJ sets for awhile now.

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Subject: (exotica) [obit] Milt Gabler
Date: 25 Jul 2001 13:30:47 -0400


July 25, 2001
Milton Gabler, Storekeeper of the Jazz World, Dies at 90
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
 Milton Gabler, who founded America's first independent jazz record label, became the first to reissue out-of-print jazz recordings and for years operated what many considered New York City's most comprehensive and knowledgeable jazz record store, the Commodore Music Shop, died on July 20 at the Jewish Home and Hospital in Manhattan.

He was 90 and lived in New Rochelle, N.Y.

Mr. Gabler was also one of the first to make recordings of Broadway shows and was a midwife at the birth of rock 'n' roll, producing "Rock Around the Clock," by Bill Haley and the Comets, in 1954.

When major record companies declined to record Billie Holiday's searing anti-lynching song, "Strange Fruit," for fear of losing sales in the South, his Commodore Records did. "Southern trees bear a strange fruit," the lyric went, "Blood on the leaves and blood at the root."

"We were the iron lung of jazz," Mr. Gabler said in a profile of him in The New Yorker in 1946. "Just like New Orleans was the cradle, we were the iron lung."

The New Yorker continued, using the adjective "hot" to mean jazz: "He has sold more hot records than any other music-shop proprietor anywhere. He has manufactured, under the Commodore label, some of the world's best hot recordings, and he has made them fashionable at the not inconsiderable price of a dollar and a half a copy."

In addition to Holiday and Haley, he produced records for Peggy Lee, the Weavers and the Ink Spots, among many others. He was the first to pair Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald on record. As a lyricist, he wrote the lyrics of "In a Mellow Tone" for Duke Ellington and "Love" for Nat King Cole.

Though he was often fighting the forces of prejudice, he liked to say that fun was his objective. "I did it for kicks," he said of recording "Strange Fruit." "It was exciting."

He was a nice guy in a tough business. At his beloved store, a hangout for musicians and music lovers, he would regularly talk customers out of spending more money than he thought they could afford. Down the street at the White Rose bar, where he liked to nurse a glass of Irish whiskey and a beer chaser, he was known to be an easy mark for a musician in need of an immediate $10. He called it an "advance."

"Guys were broke and knew they could come in and Milt would dip into the cash register and come up with something so they could go out and buy a hamburger," said Dan Morgenstern, director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University.

Bud Freeman, the tenor saxophonist with Tommy Dorsey, once used this generosity as a song title: "Tapping the Commodore Till."

Mr. Gabler was born in Harlem on May 20, 1911, the oldest of six children. His family has a summer cottage at Silver Beach, in Throgs Neck, the Bronx. He thought he fell in love with jazz at a dance pavilion there.

While still a student at Stuyvesant High School, he worked at his father's hardware store on East 42nd Street, and finagled a transfer to another shop his father owned nearby, the Commodore Radio Corporation, a popular radio and speaker supply store. He hooked up a loudspeaker over the door and tuned in a local radio station.

People kept asking if the store sold records. Mr. Morgenstern said his father told him to flip through the Yellow Pages and call the "phonograph record companies." He did, and ordered 150 records. Soon, records supplanted radios.

By 1934, the now-renamed store, the Commodore Music Shop, had become "the country's most important source of 78's and a meeting ground for fans and musicians," wrote Michael Ullman in High Fidelity magazine. Nat Hentoff, in "Listen to the Stories" (HarperCollins, 1995), called it "a nondescript shrine for jazz buffs from everywhere."

The store successively occupied three addresses on East 42nd Street, 147, 144 and 136. For a while, it had a branch on 52nd Street, where the jazz clubs were clustered.

Also in 1934, Mr. Gabler began buying boxes of out-of-print jazz recordings from major record companies that had no plans to re-release them. According to the 1999 edition of "Contemporary Musicians," this made him the first person to sell re- issued records. The reference book said he was also the first to print the names of all participating musicians on jazz records.

Mr. Gabler collected these lists of musicians into a reference book he called "Hot Discography." He was also a co-founder of the first mail- order record label.

In 1937, he decided to make his own recordings, not least because record companies had refused to sell him the masters for the re-issued records he sold. In 1939, he recorded Holiday's chilling ballad about lynching after John Hammond, her producer at Vocalion Records, a predecessor of Columbia Records, refused.

"They came to him because Billie Holiday was so fond of Milt and trusted him," said Mr. Morgenstern of Rutgers.

Throughout the 1930's and 1940's, Commodore recorded almost 90 records, using more than 150 musicians and singers. The New Yorker quoted an unnamed musician: "A ray comes out of Gabler. You can't help doing something the way he wants. Here is this guy, can't read a note of music and he practically tells you what register you're going to play in just by the position of your head."

In 1941, Mr. Gabler was hired as a record producer by Decca Records, although he continued to produce records for Commodore until 1950. In 1954, he signed Bill Haley and the Comets to Decca.

They were scheduled to record two songs on April 12, 1954, at the Pythian Temple Studio on West 18th Street in Manhattan. The first, "13 Women," was considered more promising. There were 10 minutes left for "Rock Around the Clock."

They rehearsed one quick verse to set sound levels and recorded the song live in one full take. Sound engineers were said to be alarmed at the high sound levels, but the song soon energized the market for the new sound of rock 'n' roll.

Mr. Gabler is survived by his wife, Estelle; a son, Lee Gabler; two daughters, Eileen Gabler and Melina Gabler; two sisters, Regina Greenberg of Atlanta and Helen Greenfield of Long Beach, N.Y.; a brother, Danny Gabler of Long Beach; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

At the time of his death, there was just one photo by his bedside. It was of Billie Holiday.
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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) NYC album art show June 9
Date: 25 Jul 2001 09:44:46 -0700 (PDT)


Leslie make sure to check this album cover art show out when you
are in N Y.   Rooms and rooms of gorgeaus lp covers displayed.
Exotica, outer space, religious, childrens... This is a must. I
believe it ends in August.  I went to this with an exoticat who
owns some 60,000 lps. Even he was impressed with a few of the
covers.   I found the exhibit amazing!

Easy listneing in the Big Easy
Chuck

--- Otto <[e-mail]> wrote:
> here's the location
>
> Exit Art LP Cover Exhibition
> Exit Art
> 548 Broadway (between Spring and Prince, N or R train to Prince)
> New York City
> [phone]
> opening:  June 9, 6:00 PM
>
> and now-Brooklun-based musician Phast Phreddie said this:
> In fact, they
> borrowed about 150 from me alone...mostly mambo and calypso
> records.  I
> understand that they have borrowed LP covers from a LOT of local
> collectors,
> including The Hound and Jeremy Tepper/Rig Rocker.


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From: "Jenna Kimberlin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Swanky!
Date: 25 Jul 2001 14:04:33 -0400


Theres a place called Jack's Velvet Lounge at the Venetian, but the
Peppermill is still your best bet. AJ's Steak House is supposed to be pseudo
retro hip, but its in the Hard Rock Hotel (ick!)
Jenna



Hello,
  ANyone know of any groovy lounges in Vegas? I'm familiar with The
peppermill, Algiers and Voodoo. Anything els?

Thanks

A. Fish



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From: SH <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Boss Guitars
Date: 25 Jul 2001 19:53:39 +0000


I have had The Boss Guitars album MakinÆ Out At The Movies (on KAPP) for
a couple of years now. It features electric-guitar-heavy arrangements of
mid sixties movie themes. All sorts of movies. I have had the impression
that it might have been a project by famous eastcoast session
guitarplayers.
    Now I received another LP by The Boss Guitars, this is from about
the same time (mid sixites) its on australian KAPP and features
renditions of British and Motown hits of the day. Again in this great,
radical sound and almost surferÆs mood. The first cut A Hard Days Night
has got the Vinnie Bell trademark of wobbly reverb on the lead. I am now
pretty sure The Boss Guitars were a Vincent Bell project.
On Making Out at The Movies the sounds are often played through a Leslie
Speaker. 12 string electrics are featured frequently. Among the
keyboards is a celeste and Wurlitzer piano.
On àPlay The Winners I hear some danelectro sixstring bass, Magnatone
vibrato, acoustic & electric 12 strings and celeste and Hammond organ.
Some of the guitar leads suggest Mickey Baker heavily to me, on the
other hand.

    I was very surprised to find this second record! Was the project
continued even further? I like the sound, it has got so much of the
SurferÆs Mood vibe. It never sounds overdubbed like the over the top
Vinnie Bell stuff, which is great in its own right. The arrangements are
professional and unique, while the performances give the impression of a
hip rockÆn roll band.

Boss Guitars ? who of you knows more?

KK



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From: Matt Marchese <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Swanky!
Date: 25 Jul 2001 13:12:41 -0500


The Luxor has a Chinese restaurant called Papyrus upstairs next to the IMAX
theater. It's got Polynesian decor with lots of bamboo and a very tiki-looking
bar. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to check it out. Here's a URL to look at
though:

http://www.luxor.com/superset.php3/dining/papyrus.php3

Cheers,

Matt

Jenna Kimberlin wrote:

> Theres a place called Jack's Velvet Lounge at the Venetian, but the
> Peppermill is still your best bet. AJ's Steak House is supposed to be pseudo
> retro hip, but its in the Hard Rock Hotel (ick!)
> Jenna



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From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Re: Swanky!
Date: 25 Jul 2001 11:39:23 -0700


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Matt Marchese
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:13 AM

> The Luxor has a Chinese restaurant called Papyrus upstairs next
> to the IMAX
> theater. It's got Polynesian decor with lots of bamboo and a very
> tiki-looking
> bar. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to check it out.

I wouldn't waste my time with it -- expensive, watered-down food, and the
surroundings aren't that great (kind of a half-hearted attempt at something
vaguely tiki -- nice big rattan chairs, though).

The best thing at the Luxor (except for that light from the top of the
pyramid) is of course the Blue Man Group -- not exotica-related, but still
quite an experience.

There's a casino where all the Hawaiians go to (or so says my wife's
Hawaiian professor) -- I think it's called the California, if I remember
correctly, and I think it was off of Fremont St. Sure enough it was full of
Filipinos and Japanese in Hawaiian shirts, plus sushi and poi stands. That
was swanky enough for me.

Later,
Ben

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From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Boss Guitars
Date: 25 Jul 2001 14:42:27 -0400


At 07:53 PM 7/25/01 +0000, SH wrote:
>    Now I received another LP by The Boss Guitars, this is from about
>the same time (mid sixites) its on australian KAPP and features
>renditions of British and Motown hits of the day. Again in this great,
>radical sound and almost surfer=92s mood. The first cut A Hard Days Nigh=
t
>has got the Vinnie Bell trademark of wobbly reverb on the lead. I am now
>pretty sure The Boss Guitars were a Vincent Bell project.

If you're sure, then go for it.  To me there was so much of this stuff -
and I buy as much of it as I can see - and there were so many session guy=
s
doing this, that I can only rule out who it isn't, not identify who it is.
I don't think I've ever heard a Vinnie Bell record that sounds like this
but that doesn't mean anything .  I see his name on lots of records but t=
he
only ones I actually identify with him are the gloop-gloop watery guitar
one (with Nikki on it) and the electric sitar one. I basically identify
these as to how fat or thin the guitar sound is.  The Boss Guitars are
somewhere in the middle, not as fat as Billy Strange and not as thin as
these things can get.  Then again, their version of Needles and Pins does
have some effect happening with the guitar that I guess is consistent wit=
h
Vincent.
I guess you can tell I went and put on the record to write this.
This was the center of my taste for a while there.  I really thought of
myself as the Now Sound Guy.  But I haven't actually listened to this kin=
d
of stuff for a long time and I'm not all that impressed right now.
This is distressing.

AZ=20



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From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mo Bacharach please
Date: 25 Jul 2001 14:46:37 -0400


I just listened to Mo's Bacharach CD.  It certainly is Bacharach.  He said
it was going to be Bacharach doing Bacharach but somehow I didn't believe
him.  But it is.  I still can't believe this is from Moritz.  But obviously
I have many preconceptions and they need to be shattered.  I have
everything that's on here so I guess I'll just send it to cheryl now.

AZ



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From: James Botticelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) NYC album art show June 9
Date: 25 Jul 2001 14:52:43 -0400


on 7/25/01 12:44 PM, chuck at [e-mail] wrote:

>
> Leslie make sure to check this album cover art show out when you
> are in N Y.   Rooms and rooms of gorgeaus lp covers displayed.
> Exotica, outer space, religious, childrens... This is a must. I
> believe it ends in August.  I went to this with an exoticat who
> owns some 60,000 lps. Even he was impressed with a few of the
> covers.   I found the exhibit amazing!
>
> Easy listneing in the Big Easy
> Chuck
>


second on that...all around excellent array and lots and lots and lots to
see....sorry I missed you Chuck..I heard it was only a day or two apart. The
show was contributed to by Irwin chusid and Jack Fetterman among others
(Jack is producer of "Soundtracks For Drinking" at Bar d'O at 6th and
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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bob & Ray Throw "A Stereo Spectacular"
Date: 25 Jul 2001 15:28:30 -0400



> > While I have not heard it, I have seen stuff about it.  This is NOT the
> > Bob and Ray of comedy fame, from my understanding
>
>It's most definitely the Two and Only of comedy fame, Bob Elliott
>and Ray Goulding.  As I recall, they sort of "host" this album,

Sounds like Byron and I read the same misinformation. At least I know it's
not just my slowly deteriorating mind.


--m.ace



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Beikoku  Ongaku
Date: 25 Jul 2001 15:44:43 -0400


From the latest Other Music release list comes this item:

BEIKOKU ONGAKU "Issue 18" (Beikoku Ongaku, Japan)
Magazine+CD $17.99
New issue of this ultra-styley Japanese mag (+CD) with features on
artist Guy Peelleart, Air, Michele Lockwood, the next installment
of their 2000 discs of the century series, more. CD contains
tracks by Tipsy, Peggy Honeywell, Ursula 1000, Monokini, Steven,
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From: Bruce Lenkei <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The poetic voice of Franklin McCormack
Date: 25 Jul 2001 15:50:14 -0400 (EDT)



I found an album by this guy called "the torch is burning"
I'd never heard of him, but it's on the Liberty label and had one of
those cheesy cheescake covers so I thought I'd take a chance.

Frank does not sing, he just recites the words to a group of standards in
a very, very relaxed voice, as if he had taken a few drinks or puffs too
many. Anyone else ever hear this thing? Does he have any other albums? His
speaking voice is actually a bit creepy, so now I'm a bit intrigued.

- bruce



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From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Beikoku  Ongaku
Date: 25 Jul 2001 13:06:59 -0700


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of [e-mail]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 12:45 PM

> BEIKOKU ONGAKU "Issue 18" (Beikoku Ongaku, Japan)
> Magazine+CD $17.99

p.s. It's $15.95 at Twee Kitten (no, I don't work for them or know anyone
who works there -- it's just that I received a nice little shipment of
Siesta and Bambini CDs from them yesterday (a new Girlfrendo CD!!!), and so
Twee Kitten (http://www.tweekitten.com) is foremost in my mind right now).

Later,
Ben

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From: Christine Karkow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Swanky!
Date: 25 Jul 2001 15:01:53 -0700


on 7/25/01 11:39, Benito Vergara at [e-mail] wrote:

>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [e-mail]
>> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of Matt Marchese
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:13 AM
>
>> The Luxor has a Chinese restaurant called Papyrus upstairs next
>> to the IMAX
>> theater. It's got Polynesian decor with lots of bamboo and a very
>> tiki-looking
>> bar. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to check it out.
>
let us not forget my favorite place when I'm in Vegas, Champagnes.  its on
maryland south of desert inn.  Its not a tiki place, but it is great, very
red and open 24h. they give the first drink free to casino workers coming
off shift.  to me that is the quintessential vegas place. Plus, great
jukebox with lots of tom jones, dean martin etc.

I also went to a place called the Monte Carlo, which has some good musical
acts.  its rather '80s style, but worth a visit anyways.  its behind the
buffalo exchange off of Maryland.

I've been told that the Atomic on east fremont is quite an experience, but
its kinda dangerous.   Its looks cool though...

have fun in Vegas!!!

christine



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From: Paul Penna <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Continental
Date: 25 Jul 2001 17:06:09 -0700


Byron ([e-mail]) wrote:

>Actually, I think his title was "The Continental."  I heard that that the
>organist playing with his words d'amore was none other than Eddie
>Baxter.  My album on Capitol entitled "Camp!" T2474 says TC was Renzo
>Cesana, which means absolutely nothing to me...but maybe it does to someone
>else!  I have yet to see an entire album featuring The Continental.  I have
>only seen him on 78 singles and, if I am not mistaken, only on one side of
>each...the other given only to the organ.  I, too, would like more info and
>even a pointer to a discography.  Wouldn't it be great to have an entire
>collection of his solioquys? (maybe not to play start to finish, but to use
>selections occasionally within larger programs)

Check out his listing on the imdb; he has a goodly number of film and TV
credits. He apparently did his "Continental" schtick on radio as well, and
was familiar enough to be lampooned in an early 1950s Popeye cartoon (the
title of which doesn't come to mind), with Olive Oyle swooning over a
suave, accented playboy on the radio billed as "The International," played
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Moonflight, by Vik Venus
Date: 25 Jul 2001 21:29:52 EDT



We considered it for inclusion on the Bubblegum 100 list, but it didn't make
the final cut.


<<  Strangely, there's *NO* mention of Vik Venus I've
 seen in that incredible new "Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth" book.

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From: "basic hip" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The poetic voice of Franklin McCormack
Date: 25 Jul 2001 19:08:59 -0700


> I found an album by this guy called "the torch is burning"
> I'd never heard of him, but it's on the Liberty label and had one of
> those cheesy cheescake covers so I thought I'd take a chance.
>
> Frank does not sing, he just recites the words to a group of standards in
> a very, very relaxed voice, as if he had taken a few drinks or puffs too
> many. Anyone else ever hear this thing? Does he have any other albums? His
> speaking voice is actually a bit creepy, so now I'm a bit intrigued.

If you ask me, this is a great find.  Not only is the cover stunning, but
more importantly, you have now been introduced to a significant star of the
airwaves, Franklyn McCormack (1906-1971)

A veteran of 46 years in show business, Franklyn MacCormack was a well-known
personality on Chicago radio since 1933.  With a voice like warm molasses,
MacCormack filled the air for Chicago's night people with a quiet blend of
soft music, nostalgic poetry and tranquil patter.  His listeners ranged from
misty-eyed teen-agers returning from dates to policemen on stakeouts who
relaxed to his "quiet hour tones designed to tie memories to."

Nowhere near as hip as Ken Nordine, but every bit as gifted.  In fact, if I
had to choose, I dare say I'd rather listen to FM over the long haul.

One of his best known achievements was his collaboration with Wayne King on
Melody of
Love, in which he recited the sentimental "Because I Love You".  Franklyn
MacCormack died the day after suffering a heart attack while on the air
during his WGN All-Night Showcase in 1971.

Read much more and see photos here at WGN's site:

http://www.wgnradio.com/history/75th02.htm

I have a couple of other FM records.  One is An Evening with FM.  Then there
are a couple of Stanford Univeristy teaching records to help you relax and
develop a "pleasing personality".  The same track repeats itself on each
side of the yellow gold vinyl.  Sean Pearman made me a CD-R of his recital
of Vagabond House.

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From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Petticoat Junction
Date: 25 Jul 2001 23:11:33 -0400


This is off topic but I don't belong to an old TV show mailing list so I'll
ask here.
I was just flipping the channels and came across an episode of Petticoat
Junction, the theme song of which I could sing you if you want.
(And there's Uncle Joe, he's a moving kind of slow, at the Junction)
Anyway when I turned it on, one of the daughters - the dark-haired one who
may be the youngest - was dancing in her bedroom.  The first thing I
noticed was that she was way more uh... "stacked" than I remember her.  But
then I noticed on the wall behind her was a pennant for "Hooterville".
Back in the sixties when I watched this, no one I knew called them
"hooters".  Do you think this was a coincidence or a sly joke on the part
of the writers?

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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) some stuff picked up while away
Date: 26 Jul 2001 10:39:34 +0200




[e-mail] schrieb:

> I did get some new stuff.
>
> A couple of budget re-issues, they seem legit, on vinyl:
> Les Baxter's African Jazz
> Quite tame really, a couple of tracks were more South American than African,
> but mostly polite Jazz with Bongo's.  Quite nice in a cocktail party kind of
> way.  Nothing that really took my fancy.

I bought that one too and I agree with your review. Except I don't think it's legit. I think it's a typical bootleg with no mentioning of the reissue whereabouts whatsoever.


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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Umiliani lives on Mp3.com! :)
Date: 26 Jul 2001 14:52:47 +0200


http://genres.mp3.com/music/easy_listening/lounge/

he's got no.1 and no.2 in the Lounge genre on the same day:)

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Subject: (exotica) Umiliani lives on Mp3.com! :)
Date: 26 Jul 2001 14:52:55 +0200


http://genres.mp3.com/music/easy_listening/lounge/

he's got no.1 and no.2 in the Lounge genre on the same day:)

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Frances R. Horwich
Date: 26 Jul 2001 09:50:03 -0400


http://www.google.com/search?q=%22ding+dong+school%22
July 26, 2001
Frances R. Horwich, 94, Host of 'Ding Dong School' in 50's Is Dead
By DANIEL J. WAKIN,NYTimes
 Frances R. Horwich, the amiable educator who engaged millions of preschoolers as the host of the pioneering children's program "Ding Dong School" in the 1950's, died yesterday. She was 93.

Ringing an old-fashioned school bell to start the show, she would look into the camera, warmly wish a good morning and ask, "How are you today?" She paused so that toddlers at home, watching a somewhat matronly figure in swept-back hair and wearing a wool jacket, could answer. And they often did, thanks to her kindly, conversational style.

Then, "Miss Frances" would tell stories or demonstrate activities, like making pipe-cleaner figures or clay models. She used inexpensive, familiar toys and interspersed her presentation with unobtrusive lessons:

"Ask your mother where to play with it," for a homemade musical instrument.

"Be sure your sleeves are rolled up," for a messier project.

The half-hour show ended with a five-minute summation of the material.

"Ding Dong School" began on a Chicago station, WNBQ, in 1952. It was so popular that after six weeks, NBC picked up the program, and soon it was seen in at least 36 cities, with viewership reaching three million. The program was broadcast live at 10 a.m. on weekdays for four years, going to WNET in New York in 1959.

"Ding Dong School," directed and produced by Reinald Werrenrath Jr., was one of a series of high-quality, innovative broadcasts by WNBQ that became its own of golden age of television, said Jeff Kisseloff, a television historian.

Unlike many of the children's show hosts of the period, Ms. Horwich "actually taught kids things," Mr. Kisseloff said. And rather than the "high-tech, dazzly stuff" of today, "it was her sitting in front of a piano or a drawing table," he said.

"The intent was to educate the kids plainly and straightforwardly," he said. "The fact was that it worked. You didn't need all the bells and whistles to keep kids watching."

Its daily competitors at the time were "Captain Kangaroo" on CBS and "Mickey Mouse Theater" on ABC. A few years later, the successors to "Ding Dong School" appeared: "Sesame Street" and "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood."

In her era, a far simpler time when there was no Cartoon Network or hip, irony-tinged children's programs, Ms. Horwich won acclaim. She received a George Foster Peabody award in 1953.

"She imbues in the youngsters a sense of friendliness, confidence and faith that is truly magical television," The New York Times television critic, Jack Gould, wrote that year. "She is a teacher, yes, but she is also a very genuine friend of the tots who sit entranced before the receivers."

When she began promoting the products of sponsors, however, Mr. Gould called the step "heartbreaking."

"The program is too important in too many homes to be allowed to go astray through regrettable short- sightedness," he wrote.

In interviews, Ms. Horwich seemed better at saying what children's programming should not be.

"I don't think a television program should make a child's life complicated," she said in a 1955 interview. "It should not get him into trouble with his parents. Sometimes very innocently a television program teaches a child a trick that is not socially acceptable and, therefore, gets him into trouble. It is not socially acceptable to throw a pie at someone or to fill someone's hat with water," she added, perhaps a not-so-subtle jab at Bozo the Clown.

She also deplored the violence of Westerns and crime programs, though added that normal children could handle it.

What television should do is appeal to their interests, open "new doors and windows" of enlightenment and help children learn to be resourceful, Ms. Horwich said.

Frances Rappaport was born in Ottawa, Ohio, on July 16, 1908, and received a bachelor's degree from the University of Chicago in 1929. She earned her doctorate in education from Northwestern University in 1942.

In 1931, she married Harvey L. Horwich, who was later a technical consultant to the United States Air Force. Mr. Horwich died in the early 1970's. The couple had no children.

For more than two decades before first ringing the "Ding Dong" bell, Ms. Horwich worked in education. She taught first grade, supervised nursery schools in Chicago, was a principal, and held professorships in education at the University of North Carolina and Roosevelt College in Chicago.

But her biggest class was filled with the millions of children in America's living rooms born just a few years after World War II.

"Our little school gives them a sense of belonging," she said.






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From: "Colleen Pyles" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Petticoat Junction
Date: 26 Jul 2001 09:18:02 -0500









Good question, Alan.  Come to think of it, I don't think I recall
anyone calling them "hooters" in my childhood...but for some reason,
in my mind, I thought it was a reference to the two (or one) horns on
the model T type car that sorta stuck out on the side.  Or those
clown horns...

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This is off topic but I don't belong to an old TV show mailing list
so I'll
ask here.
I was just flipping the channels and came across an episode of
Petticoat
Junction, the theme song of which I could sing you if you want.
(And there's Uncle Joe, he's a moving kind of slow, at the Junction)
Anyway when I turned it on, one of the daughters - the dark-haired
one who
may be the youngest - was dancing in her bedroom. =A0The first thing I
noticed was that she was way more uh... "stacked" than I remember
her. =A0But
then I noticed on the wall behind her was a pennant for "Hooterville".
Back in the sixties when I watched this, no one I knew called them
"hooters". =A0Do you think this was a coincidence or a sly joke on the =

part
of the writers?

AZ



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Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit] Frances R. Horwich
Date: 26 Jul 2001 09:36:09 -0500



Ah, yes, I remember Miss Frances, one of the first things I saw when
we got a TV.  She was so sweet.



Frances R. Horwich, 94, Host of 'Ding Dong School' in 50's Is Dead
By DANIEL J. WAKIN,NYTimes
Frances R. Horwich, the amiable educator who engaged millions of
preschoolers as the host of the pioneering children's program "Ding
Dong School" in the 1950's, died yesterday. She was 93.




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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Music of the Mafia
Date: 26 Jul 2001 23:55:56 +0200


http://www.malavita.com/e/main.html

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Newsweek International, March 2001

This Is Definately Not a Love Song

Rap isn't the only musical form dominated by the gangsta. Last year "Il
Canto Di Malavita" ("The Song of the Bad Life") - a CD of traditional mafia
songs - was released worldwide. And now an elusive foursome is going on tour
with the tunes, giving global audiences a glimpse into a very secret world -
so elusive and secret that the quartet operates without a name, rehearses
without amplifiers deep in the heart of mafia country and has an
ever-changing lineup (mafioso do have a tendency to disappeare). Their music
is banned in Italy, as is public association with the mafia. So, much like
their forefathers, these gangstas are leaving the homeland behind - and
heading for neutral Switzerland, no less. In July they perform at the famous
Montreux Jazz Festival. (Did Godfather get them the gig?) But think twice
before taking your kids. The lyrics are pretty violent. Some screaming
samples: "Get ready to die, your time has come.", "Traitor, I'll slash your
face and watch you die.", "Step forward now out of the crowd, and let me
twist my knife deep within.", "While the sawed-off shotgun sings, the
traitor screams and dies.".

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Subject: Re: (exotica) San Fran retro
Date: 26 Jul 2001 20:46:23 EDT


>I'm going to be in SF the 8-13th and am very interested in enjoying any
>retro-themed martini bars, tiki bars, lounges, etc. Recommendations?

Well, there's the Deluxe, on Haight Street, that even has live exotica bands
sometimes.
On Polk Street there's the Red Devil Lounge, which is a little swank for my
tastes, and a very gay lounge-themed bar, the Lush Lounge. There's the Beauty
bar at Mission and 19th, but I hate it because it displaced a favorite sleazy
dive. Myself, I tend to hang out in the various Korean bars on Geary
downtown, especially the High Tide.
Hawaii West in north beach now has karaoke!
There's plenty more good ones. San Francisco is loaded with bars of all
sorts. And record shops.
(i hope you meant august 8-13, and this isn't too late)
-dave




Tonga Room - located in the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill in downtown SF. I
went there last Sunday and had a really enjoyable time. Expensive, but it's
worth it just for the simulated tropical thunderstorms.

Trad'r Sams - small neighborhood tiki bar on Geary St. near the big Russian
Orthodox church. Beware, this bar can be filled with surly locals and
barkeeps who don't mix the drinks correctly.

-the decor's nice, but it's never seemed that fun to me.


ZamZam - this is a very odd little bar on Haight St. that's run by a guy who
only opens it when he feels like it. He tells you what you will have to
drink (usually a martini) and will throw you out if you ask for anything
else.
-actually, this guy died just recently.





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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Tessa Welborn, Morris, Judy Clay
Date: 26 Jul 2001 23:24:33 -0400


From 7/23/01 Daily Telegraph (London) --

TESSA WELBORN, who has died aged 72, was the designer responsible for the
bikini worn by Ursula Andress in the film Dr No; she was also an actress
and, in her later years, the owner of a private drinking club in the West
End of London.

Tessa Prendergast, as she then was, set up her clothes design business with
a partner in the late 1950s in her native Jamaica. Her most important
commission came when the makers of Dr No invited her to design costumes for
the Bond film, including what was to become the world's most celebrated
bikini.

Miss Andress wore the ivory-coloured bathing costume, adorned with an army
belt and commando knife, as she emerged from the sea on to a tropical beach.
The outfit was sold earlier this year at Christie's to Robert Earl, owner of
the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain, for =A341,125.

Tessa Welborn was born Marie Therese Prendergast into a prosperous family in
Jamaica on October 17 1928, although only half a dozen people were ever
allowed to know her age. Her father, Louis Prendergast, was a plantation
owner who died when she was in her infancy; her mother later married Noel
Nethersole, who established the People's National Party with Norman Manley
and became minister of finance.

After school in Kingston, Tessa Prendergast studied at New Rochelle
University, New York, and at the Sorbonne in Paris. She lived for a time in
Italy, and was briefly engaged to Prince Vittorio Massimo.

In the 1950s, Tessa Prendergast became an actress, landing the role of the
Tahitian love interest opposite Burt Lancaster in His Majesty O'Keefe
(1953). The deep sea cameraman was Scottie Welborn, whom she married.

But her acting career did not prosper, and she turned to designing clothes
with a partner, Liz de Lisser. She later moved to London, and in the
mid-1970s took over the Little House Club, in Shepherd Market, Mayfair. The
house, built by Lord Shepherd in 1742, had been a private members' drinking
club since 1928.

Tessa Welborn remained owner - and secretary - of the club until her death,
living above a small bar which attracted members such as John Hurt, Sir
Clive Sinclair, and Viscount Gormanston. She was to be found almost every
night perched at the end of the bar, radiating glamour and absorbing - but
never repeating - the gossip imparted to her by her habitues.

She drank only pink Champagne, except at breakfast, when she favoured a
Bellini; any complaint that it was too early for alcohol was met with the
reply: "Darling, it's cocktail hour somewhere in the world - I can't let
them drink alone."

In 1988 Tessa Welborn helped to establish the Shepherd Market Association,
which has so far raised =A3146,000 for charity. She had recently been=
 involved
in organising a performance of La Boheme to benefit Arthritis Care and the
Mayur Earthquake Appeal.

Tessa Welborn's marriage to Scottie Welborn was dissolved in 1958; they had
a daughter, who survives her. She married, secondly, William Davies, a
businessman, who predeceased her.
Morris --- (from today's Daily Telegraph)

MORRIS, the Belgian cartoonist Maurice de Bevere, who has died aged 77, was=
=20
the creator of the strip cartoon character Lucky Luke, a nonchalant cowboy=
=20
who=20
roamed the Wild West fighting injustice.

Slim in build, and with a relaxed approach to life, Lucky Luke was undaunted=
=20
by the rigours of the frontier, where towns welcomed visitors with signs=20
such=20
as "Stranger, many came here for gold, but found lead".

His confidence rested on his extraordinary skill with a gun - he could draw=
=20
his pistol faster than his shadow did. All the while, a hand-rolled=20
cigarette=20
defied gravity on the edge of his bottom lip.

Lucky Luke came across a range of comical Wild West stereotypes on his=20
travels=20
- the long-suffering barman, the cynical undertaker, the cowardly sheriff=20
and=20
the travelling quack.

Alfred Hitchcock, Gary Cooper and Jean Gabin lookalikes also found their way=
=20
into Lucky Luke's world, as well as caricatures of such historical=20
characters=20
as Calamity Jane, Jesse James, Buffalo Bill and Billy the Kid, who Morris=20
depicted sleeping in his cradle sucking on his Colt Pacifier.

In many of the stories, the farcical Dalton Brothers, identical except in=20
height and intelligence, would escape from jail only to be recaptured by=20
Lucky=20
Luke. His quick wits would invariably reduce the youngest of the four=20
brothers=20
to fits of rage, as did his eldest and tallest brother's obsession with=20
food.=20
Another favourite was the lazy dog Rin Tin Can - a parody of Rin Tin Tin,=20
the=20
canine star of the 1930s American films admired by Morris for their "cheap=
=20
romanticism". The dog began trailing Lucky Luke after he saved it from the=
=20
Daltons, who were after a fortune it had inherited. Characterised primarily=
=20
by=20
an exceptional stupidity, Rin Tin Can was given his own series of cartoons=
=20
from 1987.

Like the heroes of the Western films so beloved by Morris, Lucky Luke would=
=20
invariably end his adventures by riding off into the sunset in his bandana=
=20
and=20
Stetson. Despite his parting refrain - "I'm a poor lonesome cowboy, and a=20
long=20
way from home" - he could always rely on the companionship of his trusty and=
=20
versatile horse Jolly Jumper, who spoke, cooked and played poker.

Maurice de Bevere was born at Courtrai, in Belgium, on Dec 1, 1923. At=20
school,=20
he would amuse fellow pupils with caricatures of his Jesuit schoolteachers -=
=20
later his models for the undertakers in the Lucky Luke series. He said that=
=20
while other cartoonists would sketch in the margins of their exercise books,=
=20
he would sketch on the main page and use the margins for his school work.=20
During the Second World War, he became a Law student at Louvain University=
=20
in=20
an attempt to avoid being sent to work in Germany, but this ploy was=20
unsuccessful and he had to under take forced labour in a steel factory.=20
After the war, using the professional name "Morris", he took a job as an=20
illustrator for the Belgian comic Le Moustique, for which he drew covers. He=
=20
then worked in a cartoonist's studio in Brussels under the supervision of=20
Joseph Gillain, who drew under the name Jije. With fellow cartoonists Andre=
=20
Franquin - the creator of Gaston Lagaffe - and Will, they became known as=20
the=20
"gang of four". At this time Morris also met Peyo, who later created the=20
Smurfs.

Lucky Luke made his first appearance at the end of 1946 in L'Almanach=20
Spirou,=20
and soon became a regular feature in the weekly Spirou magazine. These were=
=20
compiled in 1949 in La Mine d'or de Dick Digger, the first of 30 Lucky Luke=
=20
books to be published by Dupuis before Morris switched to Editions Dargaud.=
=20
Morris later said that the inspiration for the character had been his=20
bow-legged, chain-smoking landlady, who liked to sing a popular song of the=
=20
time, Je suis seule ce soir.

In 1948, Morris moved to America with Jije and Franquin, travelling through=
=20
the landscapes that were to provide the set for Lucky Luke's adventures.=20
There=20
he worked with Harvey Kurzman and Jack Davis, the founders of Mad magazine.=
=20
But he failed to forge a career in America and returned to Europe in 1954.=
=20
In America, Morris also met the cartoonist Rene Goscinny, who, with Uderzo,=
=20
later created Asterix. Back in Europe, Goscinny collaborated with Morris on=
=20
the cartoon Des Rails sur la Prairie (1955). Goscinny continued to work with=
=20
Morris on the Lucky Luke stories until his death in 1977, which for many=20
marked the end of a golden age for the series.

In order not to offend modern American sensibilities, Morris had recently=20
introduced Chinese characters who did not work in laundries, narrowed the=20
lips=20
of the black characters, and exchanged Lucky Luke's cigarette for a blade of=
=20
grass; in recognition of this, Morris was awarded a medal at the World=20
Health=20
Organisation's first No Tobacco Day in 1988.

The Lucky Luke adventures have been translated into 30 languages, and 200=20
million copies have been sold world-wide. It has inspired two television=20
series, in 1983 and 1989, a film starring Terence Hill, and three=20
feature-length cartoons - Daisy Town (1971), La Ballade des Dalton (1981)=20
and=20
Les Dalton en Cavale (1983), produced by Hanna Barbera. Morris's final Lucky=
=20
Luke book, The Prophet, is due to be published later this year.

When asked what the hidden message of his stories was, Morris would reply=20
that=20
the message was so well hidden that he himself had not yet found it.

He spoke seven languages, and collected figures of acrobats. He is survived=
=20
by=20
his wife, Francine.
Judy Clay

Soul singer whose career floundered in the face of American racism

Billy Vera
Friday July 27, 2001
The Guardian

Judy Clay, who has died aged 62, was a hell of a singer. But, apart from two
duets with me, Storybook Children (1967) and Country Girl-City Man in 1968,
and two records later that year with William Bell, Private Number and My
Baby Specialises, she had no chart success.
This must have been no small source of frustration. You can't have a voice
as good as hers and not know how good you are; she was, arguably, one of the
best in her adopted family, which also included Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick,
and Cissy and Whitney Houston, as well as her own sister, Sylvia Shemwell.

As an act, Judy and I - Billy Vera and Judy Clay - were notable for being
the United States' first racially integrated duo, a fact which, even in the
1960s, prevented us from being seen on national television. Other than an
appearance on Hy Lit's show on WKBS in Philadelphia, and one on Robin
Seymour's Swingin' Time in Detroit, our little revolution was never
televised.

In New York, the Clay Cole Show taped us but, once they knew our racial
makeup, our segment was never aired. To add to the indignity, we went on to
see our songs performed on network TV by Sammy Davis Jr and Tina Turner, and
by Peter Lawford and Minnie Pearl.

We were never taken up as a cause by the limousine liberals of the day. This
may have had something to do with the fact that our audience was mostly
everyday blacks and working-class whites.

Our music was just plain old soul, so the hippie culture found nothing in us
to connect with. We didn't wear leather fringe vests and bell-bottom jeans.
Judy went on in floor-length gowns and my outfits were mohair continental
suits. We played the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, not the Fillmore East. And
that was just fine with the un-chic bridge-and-tunnel crowd and the
Harlemites, who gave us standing ovations, even as bloody riots were taking
place across the Hudson river in Newark, New Jersey.

Our first Apollo appearance was during those riots, and stage manager Honi
Coles, fearing that we might not be well received, put us second on the
bill, the spot usually reserved for the weakest acts. After the first house,
he came to our dressing room and said, "I'm moving you to right before the
star's spot; ain't nobody gonna follow you two."

Given today's unfortunate state of race relations in the US, it is hard to
imagine what an act like ours meant to an older generation of black
Americans, to whom integration and assimilation were goals. I recall coming
off stage one night after we had stopped the show - and been forced to do an
encore of Storybook Children - and seeing Judy's "aunt", Cissy Houston,
crying tears of joy and hope in the wings, with her four-year-old daughter
Whitney in her arms.

Judy was born Judy Guions in St Paul, North Carolina, and soon moved to
Fayetteville, where she was raised by her grandmother. She started singing
in church as a small child. Moving to Brookyn in the early 1950s, she
continued her church singing, indeed her choir featured on Sunday night
radio.

By her early teens, she had been adopted by Lee Drinkard, of the famous
gospel group, the Drinkard Singers. Lee was Cissy Houston's sister and
Dionne Warwick's mother - and Judy was soon involved in the group with them,
as well as with Dionne's sister Delia, Dee Dee Warwick.

The Drinkard Singers released three albums in the 1950s which featured
Judy - the Newport Spiritual Stars record in 1954, a live album from the
Newport jazz festival and a 1958 studio LP. Judy's voice could raise the
roof and stir the soul; if you ever run across a copy of that 1958 RCA
Victor album, grab it and see what I'm talking about.

In 1961, Judy recorded More Than You Know/ I'd Thought I'd Gotten Over You
as a solo artist. More singles followed, on Ember, Lavette, Scepter and
Stax. Then, on Atlantic in 1968, came our Story Book Children/ Really
Together.

Many years after Judy and I had performed at the Apollo, the legendary
manager of that theatre, Ralph Cooper, pulled me from a crowd, took me in
his arms and told a roomful of people how important he felt our act was. It
had been seen at the time in Harlem as a giant step forward.

After she had made two singles with William Bell, and a couple more solo
singles, Judy and I cut one more duet, Reaching For The Moon, recorded for
Atlantic at the Muscle Shoals studio. One solo single she recorded there,
Greatest Love, made the r&b charts. Subsequently, she worked as a back-up
singer, underwent brain surgery at the end of the 1970s, and released
Stayin' Alive, recorded live in Newark.

In later years, Judy and I would speak by phone once or twice a year. She
was back in North Carolina, singing occassionally with Cissy Houston's
baptist choir in Newark, and very proud that the baby she was carrying when
we first met had grown up to become a West Point graduate. And no one was
prouder than she when I finally managed to get a big hit of my own, At This
Moment, some 20 years after our moment.

She used to tell me, "Duets are coming back. We ought to make another
record." When I was working as leader of the houseband on a late-night
network talk show, I tried, and almost convinced, the powers there to book
Judy so we could perform together once more. But, being the whores for
ratings TV people tend to be, there was always one more flavour-of-the-week
act which took precedence.

With Judy's passing, we have lost a great singer who never got her due. She
is survived by two sons, Todd and Leo, a brother, Raymond, and her sister,
Sylvia Shemwell, of the Sweet Inspirations.

=95 Judy Clay (Judith Grace Gatewood) singer, born September 12 1938; died
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From:    [e-mail] (Patrick Carey)
Subject: (exotica) Joe Meek "I Hear A New World" CD for sale
Date: 27 Jul 2001 02:52:58 +0100


Price in _US $_ and *POSTAGE PAID* within North America.
Shipping outside NA can be arranged.

$14 -- Joe Meek - "I Hear A New World (Special Edition)" UK CD
       (RPM/Cherry Red: rpm502) 2001  [Spaced-out psychotica from
       the legendary Joe Meek.  The original 1960 LP, 1962 monologue
       & CD-ROM film clip.  Comes in full-color digipak w/ fold-out
       12 panel booklet.  Mint.]

Email if interested.


-Patrick
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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) stereolab interview
Date: 27 Jul 2001 10:43:35 +0100


short interview about their home listening:

http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,3605,527694,00.html


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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) stereolab interview
Date: 27 Jul 2001 12:20:44 +0100


Carl Howard wrote:
>
> This was a wonderful link - thanks !!
>
> Michael Jemmeson wrote:
>
> > short interview about their home listening:
> >
> > http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,3605,527694,00.html

I hope you don't have to log in to the Guardian site - I always forget
which papers need cookies and things.

Here's another good article in the paper today -
about digging for records in Africa
http://www.guardian.co.uk/friday_review/story/0,3605,527677,00.html


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From: "Colleen Pyles" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fwd: Re: (exotica) Petticoat Junction
Date: 27 Jul 2001 07:32:27 -0500


---- Begin Included Message ----

Sent: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 17:08:37 EDT


In a message dated 07/26/01 10:15:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

<< Good question, Alan. =A0Come to think of it, I don't think I recall =

 anyone calling them "hooters" in my childhood...but for some reason,
 in my mind, I thought it was a reference to the two (or one) horns
on
 the model T type car that sorta stuck out on the side. =A0Or those
 clown horns... >>

hey colleen,

i believe the reference was to owls and their big eyes. =A0and the term=

is very
old. =A0like over 80 or 100 years. =A0there are references to "hooters"=

in books
written around that period. =A0i think the term hooters as referring to=

breasts
is in The Great Gatsby. =A0not sure tho.

you can pass this on to the list if you like.

tiki bob


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From: Matt Marchese <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tick Spyjazz
Date: 27 Jul 2001 08:28:25 -0500


I just ran across the official site for the new live-action TV version
of the Tick comic book this morning. I was pretty happy with what I saw
and heard. The theme song in particular seems to have drunk deeply from
the musical cocktail shaker of Neil Hefti. Check it out (requires
Flash).

http://www.spe.sony.com/tv/shows/tick/

And if your internet connection can handle it, I strongly suggest
watching a few scenes from the pilot. How can you not love a TV show
featuring an evil cow bent on world domination that shoots fire out of
her udders?

"Evil is afoot and hoofing it with dark gusto!"

--
Matt Marchese
"I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a
nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate)
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*




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From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Input 64
Date: 27 Jul 2001 21:49:36 +0200


from http://www.hauntedink.com/25/input64.html

VA, Input 64: A Collection of Commodore 64 Game Music 1984-1989 (Enduro)

 With the resurgence of lo-fi emulations of early 1980s techno all over the
electronic sphere (the Suction label, parts of Boards of Canada and ISAN,
and so on), not to mention releases of such early electronic pioneers as
Raymond Scott, it shouldn't be surprising that someone would have the
brillant idea to resurrect all those theme songs to the early computer
games, most notably those found on the Commodore 64. For those of you not
alive in 1983, the Commodore 64 was the Titanium Powerbook of its time: the
sleekest, fastest, and coolest computer money could buy. In fact, the great
selling point of the Commodore models was their absolute bottom-basement
prices. Now, my parents were cheap and wouldn't buy me a computer of my own
(though they did, um, feed me and stuff), so I never acquired the magic C64;
instead, I pulled weeds one summer to earn enough for the C64's older and
less cool cousin, the Vic-20; to top it off, I couldn't even afford the tape
recorder that served as a floppy disk drive, so all I was able to do was
type programs I found in the various magazines into the V20, play whatever
the game was that emerged, and then, when I was done, turn the computer off
and lose whatever I'd created. Pretty pathetic, huh? But why am I bringing
all of this up now? Because it's so easy for us today, in 2001, to recognize
how quickly computers have advanced in speed, storage, affordability, and
availability. Just think: the C64 was a great computer for gamers and
noodlers alike, and yet, not 20 years later, the computer looks so
fundamentally primitive by today's standards that when I tell stories about
it people just laugh, like we laugh about people 100 years ago using leeches
for medicine. Desipte the great leaps forward in computing technology, when
I listen to the music on this wonderful collection, I am struck by only one
thought: things haven't changed nearly as much as we'd like to think. The
music on this collection was, in fact, made on a Commodore 64, using an
8-bit stereo system that was impressive for its time (heck, we still use
16-bit today, not a huge improvement), and using proto MIDI and software
synth programs that are certainly not that different from the Reaktors and
Retro AS-1s and Cubases of today. And, you know what? This music is in every
way as good as the most current releases by Solvent, ISAN, the Warp guys,
and just about every electronic music released in the last few years. What
makes this music good? Simple: it's damn fine work, both aesthetically and
technically. They are good songs, and they are a lot of fun. In fact, I
would say that this release does Lucky Kitchen's 1998 release Blip, Bleep:
Soundtracks to Imaginary Video Games one better by actually being songs from
real video games (and weird video games at that, as the titles "Insects in
Space," "One Man and His Droid," and "Monty on the Run" attest). Of course,
in both releases, the secret is a simple one: the songs are far more
interesting than the games themselves. But that's why music lasts, and video
games die quick deaths.


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Subject: (exotica) Marginal Records
Date: 27 Jul 2001 22:10:56 +0200


Slight OT but I noticed Belgian oldies label Marginal Records are finally on
the web, they have a lot of sixties latin / french / italian and much much
more in their catalog : http://users.skynet.be/totorecord/index.htm

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Subject: (exotica) test - please ignore
Date: 28 Jul 2001 14:57:32 +0200


......


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From: Matt Marchese <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) =?iso-8859-1?Q?Espa=F1otica?=
Date: 28 Jul 2001 10:02:00 -0500


Hola mi exoticamigos y exoticamigas,

I am leaving for two weeks of vacation in Spain next Tuesday. I will be
travelling through Madrid, Barcelona, and the Costa Brava. So far, I've
managed to identify and locate three polynesian-themed bars in the areas
that I'll be visiting:

Mauna Loa Bar Hawaiiano, Madrid
Hawaiiano Bar Kahala, Barcelona
Hula-Hula, Costa Brava

I plan on stopping at all three. However, I have not been able to find
any info on a place that's listed on the Tiki Bar Review Pages as the
Moai Cafe. There are some pics on the site of the cafe's owners putting
up giant concrete moai statues, but there's no location given.

So my question to the list is: does anyone know where this is located or
know of any other polynesian bars in Spain? I realize that this is a
long shot, but I was hoping that some of the Europeans on the list
might've recently spent some time down south jumping around naked on the
beach in Almeira and drinking Sangria out of buckets...[grin]

Adios!

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From: kendoll <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) =?iso-8859-1?Q?Espa=F1otica?=
Date: 28 Jul 2001 09:57:17 -0600


Matt Marchese wrote:

> So my question to the list is: does anyone know where this is located or
> know of any other polynesian bars in Spain? I realize that this is a
> long shot, but I was hoping that some of the Europeans on the list
> might've recently spent some time down south jumping around naked on the
> beach in Almeira and drinking Sangria out of buckets...[grin]

one of my fondest memories of visiting europe after university is of a
polynesian (?) restaurant i visited in barcelona (my favorite european city).
i'd been in spain for about a month & hadn't had sangria yet, so i asked if
they could make me some even though it wasn't on the menu. they made me up a
huge pitcher and it was delicious -- i drank it like soda pop. during the meal
the lights suddenly went down, loud drum music started playing & a dancer in a
grass skirt appeared in a spotlight. she danced over to every table & "leied"
all the guests before disappearing again. the sangria went straight to my head
& i became very drunk. the restaurant was near barcelona's amusement park
(parque de atracciones montjuich), and after staggering out of the place i
went on the ferris wheel for a superb view of barcelona harbour. superb but
terrifying -- my head was spinning one way while the ferris wheel was spinning
another way & i was hanging on for dear life (it's a good job i didn't lose my
meal). i can't tell you any details, like what the place was called, and this
was more than 20 years ago, so it might not exist anymore, but i'd definitely
recomment the ferris wheel for a spectacular view of barcelona.

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From: "Brad Bigelow" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Feliciano/"Bossa per due"
Date: 27 Jul 2001 20:16:48 +0200


Lessee--Johny Perl asked what Jose Feliciano album "Go On Your Way" is =
on--I think it's "The One and Only Jose Feliciano," an early RCA LP, but =
can't confirm as my records are on their way to Belgium right now.  In =
any case, it's his second or third RCA LP, just a year or so before he =
hit with his cover of "Light My Fire."

And though I've mentioned it before, I'll remind list members that the =
original of "Bossa Per Due" is a 1961 track from Bert Kaempfert titled =
"Bert's Bossa."  Way to go, Bert!

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From: Matt Marchese <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) =?iso-8859-1?Q?Espa=F1otica?=
Date: 28 Jul 2001 13:24:42 -0500


Wonderful story! Yes, Sangria is far too drinkable and therefore very dangerous
stuff. I hope you knew how to say, "Lave por favor este asiento.  He vomitado."

I've been to Spain twice, but this will be the first time I've visited Barcelona.
I'm a huge fan of Moderniste art, so going there will definitely be the highlight
of the trip for me. I'll definitely have a look around to see if your restaurant
is still there. I'm also planning a day trip up to CadaquΘs and Cap Creus as a
sort of Dalφ pilgrimage.

Chao!

Matt

kendoll wrote:

> one of my fondest memories of visiting europe after university is of a
> polynesian (?) restaurant i visited in barcelona (my favorite european city).
> i'd been in spain for about a month & hadn't had sangria yet, so i asked if
> they could make me some even though it wasn't on the menu. they made me up a
> huge pitcher and it was delicious -- i drank it like soda pop. during the meal
> the lights suddenly went down, loud drum music started playing & a dancer in a
> grass skirt appeared in a spotlight. she danced over to every table & "leied"
> all the guests before disappearing again. the sangria went straight to my head
> & i became very drunk. the restaurant was near barcelona's amusement park
> (parque de atracciones montjuich), and after staggering out of the place i
> went on the ferris wheel for a superb view of barcelona harbour. superb but
> terrifying -- my head was spinning one way while the ferris wheel was spinning
> another way & i was hanging on for dear life (it's a good job i didn't lose my
> meal). i can't tell you any details, like what the place was called, and this
> was more than 20 years ago, so it might not exist anymore, but i'd definitely
> recomment the ferris wheel for a spectacular view of barcelona.
>
> mike



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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re:  Feliciano/"Bossa per due"
Date: 28 Jul 2001 14:54:47 -0400


on 7/27/01 2:16 PM, Brad Bigelow at [e-mail] wrote:


> And though I've mentioned it before, I'll remind list members that the =
> original of "Bossa Per Due" is a 1961 track from Bert Kaempfert titled =
> "Bert's Bossa."  Way to go, Bert!

....coupled with Schiffrin's "The Man From Thrush" intro and percussion
loop, and then formant shifted up around 15 bpm. (Nicola told me he coudn't
believe how perfectly the 2 samples worked when coupled). Then he wrote the
new melody over the groove, and added appropriate horn samples and synth
twidlings, as well as editing and placing the organ and vocal improvs.

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Subject: (exotica) Sitar Audio Clips etc.
Date: 28 Jul 2001 22:58:46 +0200 (MEST)



some nice audio clips are at:
(not complete, but long enough to check em out)

http://www.pussycatclub.org.uk/index.htm

anyone knew where "Sequence Six" by GP and GF Reverberi came from ??? (at
Souds Clips, Sitar Funk)

thanks a lot
Martin

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From: "Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Moroder best of
Date: 28 Jul 2001 23:19:38 +0200


From Forcedexposure.com:
(Moritz will love this one!)

REPERTOIRE (GERMANY):

MORODER, GIORGIO: The Best Of CD (REP 4825). A collection of hit
singles and album tracks from the computer disco king. Starting with
obscure and historically revealing rock and metronomic power pop
tracks from the mid-60s, this starts to really heat up with tracks
from his classic mid-70s albums Knights in White Satin & E=MC2
(previously unavailable on CD). Also perhaps most importantly: the
alternate single version of "From Here To Eternity" and the
quintessential Moroder disco track "Chase" (from the Midnight Express
soundtrack). The 2nd half of the album delves into the 80s material,
collaborative singles with Paul Engemann, Philip Oakey and Donna
Summer, etc. More of a made-for-TV power ballad style, but you gotta
put it all in perspective, I guess. Liner notes by Chris Welch are
typically half-ass.  $15.00


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From: Kevin Crossman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) =?iso-8859-1?Q?Espa=F1otica?=
Date: 28 Jul 2001 22:33:26 -0700


Matt Marchese wrote:
> I am leaving for two weeks of vacation in Spain next Tuesday. I will be
> travelling through Madrid, Barcelona, and the Costa Brava. So far, I've
> managed to identify and locate three polynesian-themed bars in the areas
> that I'll be visiting:
>
> Mauna Loa Bar Hawaiiano, Madrid
> Hawaiiano Bar Kahala, Barcelona
> Hula-Hula, Costa Brava
>
> I plan on stopping at all three. However, I have not been able to find
> any info on a place that's listed on the Tiki Bar Review Pages as the
> Moai Cafe. There are some pics on the site of the cafe's owners putting
> up giant concrete moai statues, but there's no location given.

Reviews from the Search for the Ultimate Mai Tai site...
http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/reviews/hulahula.html
http://www.kevdo.com/maitai/reviews/hotelaida.html

Good luck,
Kevdo

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From: Charles Moseley <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Input 64
Date: 29 Jul 2001 14:09:46 +0100


Talking of video game music and particularly Commodore 64 music, Zombie
Nation's 'Kernkraft 400' recent huge European hit that got to number one in
a number of countries including Italy, Germany and almost the UK turned out
to be ripped off from the Commodore 64 game Lazy Jones. Apparently a LOT of
money was paid to the owners of the game when the theft was discovered.

Charles Moseley
Editor - C3 magazine
3 St Peter's Street, London, N1 8JD

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From: "cheryl" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, July 29
Date: 29 Jul 2001 10:59:45 -0400


Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can
be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time 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 #153     Eurogrooves

This week, a mix of smooth tunes with a side of bossa.

Combustible Edison:  Bluebeard (Space Patrol 2000 Mix - Peter Thomas
Soundorchester)  "Bluebeard"
Soulstance:  Grasping  "Act On!"
Brigitte Fontaine:  La Caravane  "Jazz A Saint-Germain"

Jean-Louis Murat:  Fort Alamo  "La Yellow Collection"  (thanks, Mo!)
Lindberg-Hemmer:   Playa De Las Mucho  "Supermarket Music" (thanks, JimmyB!)
Stereo Total:  Heaven's In The Back Seat Of My Cadillac  "Juke-Box Alarm"

Bronco:  Return Of The Forgotten Groove  "La Yellow Collection"
Montefiori Cocktail:  Sunny  "Raccolta No. 2"
Under A Blue Sky:  Melancholic Bossa  "Kidnap International"

Czerkinsky:  Les Sacs En Plastic  "Czerkinsky"
Cubismo Grafico:  Danz Le Metro  "Mini" (thanks, Martin!)
Cutee B.:  Experience  "La Yellow Collection"


Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening

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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Surfmen - Exotic Island
Date: 29 Jul 2001 18:21:46 +0100


Can anyone post the tracklisting of this?

I have a french LP which uses the same cover photo (you can even see
where 'The Surfmen' writing has been coloured in badly). It's entitled
'Surprise-partie auz Iles Paradis avec L'ensemble Instrumental des
Iles', and wanted to know if it was the same LP.

The 'Surpise-partie ...' thing seems to have been a series, judging by
the other lps advertised on the inner sleeve.

My tracklisting is:
1)
Quiet Village
Village Sunrise
Bali Hai
Bamboo
Jungle Romance
Forbidden Island
2)
Tabou
Moonlight in Paradise
Luau
Fire Goddess
Orchid Lagoon
Moon of Manokoora

Thanks!

Michael.


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From: Kevin Crossman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Surfmen - Exotic Island
Date: 29 Jul 2001 11:25:19 -0700


Anybody have this album mastered to CD-R - and willing to trade/sell...?

This album contains my favorite version of "Taboo" - but I've had a hard
time finding this for anything less than outrageous prices.

Mahalo.
-Kevin
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From: rockwilson909 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Korla Pandit
Date: 29 Jul 2001 20:18:02 +0100


Re my Korla Pandit query,
"basic hip" replied:
>There were three that I know of.  The one you mentioned, another called

"Odyssey" and a third, "Remembering Korla Pandit".  Isn't that Exotica
2000
newer material?

Yes, the bonus live track was recorded 1995, and the sleeve notes are
dated 1996.

"basic hip":
>To fully appreciate Korla Pandit, you must - I repeat MUST view video
footage of his 1950's television shows.  If you have not seen his shows,

your draw will drop, you will be blown away!!!
Thankfully, videos are available here:
http://www.moviesunlimited.com/goto/502238.asp


Vern:
I completely 100% agree.  I was completely swept away when I saw some of
Korla's 1950 era footage.

Thanks for the tip, guys, and the URL. IÆve checked it out, and will
order the video soon. IÆll report back once IÆve seen it.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) some stuff picked up - Bat Ra
Date: 29 Jul 2001 15:19:59 -0400



>Dick and Dale Batman
>A 180gm collectors full price re-issue (oh the irony).
>What a strange record. Sort of.

Heh. That's an excellent way to put it.

>The sleeve unsurprisingly makes a big deal about the Sun Ra connection.

That really tickles me, considering the budget-label-style total anonymity
of the original release.

Does it mention the Blues Project guys that also played on it (Al Kooper,
Danny Kalb, etc)? I always thought this record should be more of a cult
item for their fans than Sun Ra fans, being a lot closer to their sound,
with the extended guitar solos and stuff.

>haven't heard any of his other stuff, but presumably it doesn't sound much
>like this.

Correct. Really nothing to do with Sun Ra's own music. It was just a quick
gig for bucks. A fun novelty nevertheless.

I would recommend "Space Is The Place" as a Sun Ra introduction (CD reissue
on Impulse a few years ago). It's a fairly extreme and "out" album -- but
if you hate it, at least you've experienced full-strength Sun Ra.


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Subject: (exotica) Calling fans of Swing and Sci-Fi...
Date: 29 Jul 2001 20:33:12 +0100


Hello & Help!

I am in major need of your assistance in identifying some tunes. In
1982, The Residents released æTunes of 2 CitiesÆ, an album of music
representing two different (fictional) cultures, the Chubs and the
Moles. The ChubsÆ music is bright and brassy, that of the Moles is more
dark and dour. It transpires that the actual music played is based on
two genres which might just about fit under the Exotica umbrella û Swing
and Sci-Fi movie soundtracks. IÆm using the term Swing rather loosely
here û two of the ChubsÆ tracks have been identified as Stan Kenton
tunes and although Kenton may not be Swing, IÆm stuck for a more
apposite term.
Anyway, the two Kenton tunes (Eager Beaver & Machito) are the only ones
IÆve been able to identify. If anyone here thinks they might be able to
name a Swing/Big Band tune or music from an old Science Fiction movie
soundtrack, please check out the mp3Æs here:
http://www.yammer.co.uk/totc/
As a dedicated Residents fan, IÆm very keen to identify any artists or
composers who may have influenced their music û any help I can get in
this regard is very, very welcome.

Thanks in anticipation,
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Calling fans of Swing and Sci-Fi...
Date: 29 Jul 2001 16:29:21 EDT



Hey Rock,

You might want to check out Ted Gioia's book West Coast Jazz.  Not just for=20
the general history on Stan Kenton, but because of the chapter on Bob=20
Graettinger - an avante garde composer that Kenton nurtured.  There's also a=
=20
piece on Graettinger in the Songs in the Key of Z book, I think.  Anyway, I'=
d=20
bet the Residents were hip to Graettinger's atonal City of Glass jazz=20
symphony.

--David

<< As a dedicated Residents fan, I=E2=80=99m very keen to identify any artis=
ts or
 composers who may have influenced their music =E2=80=93 any help I can get=20=
in
 this regard is very, very welcome.
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From: Matt Marchese <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sunday Drinky
Date: 29 Jul 2001 18:05:18 -0500


Here's a great libation for a sunny summer Sunday; goes well with
Jamaican pork ribs done in the smoker and Jacques Dutronc on the stereo.

Head Wound
**********

This is a visual concoction that works best in a clear, head-shaped mug
(I use that Disney World Polynesian Village mug with the smiley face on
one side and a frowny face on the other). Put 1 cup of crushed ice in a
shaker and another 1/2 cup in the mug. Add the following ingredients and
mix until the outside of the shaker frosts over:

4oz. unsweetened pineapple juice
4oz. orange juice
2oz. Lemon Hart Demerara Rum (80 proof)
1oz. Creme de Banana
1oz. Triple Sec

Pour the contents into the mug, then take 1 oz. of grenadine and drizzle
it over the top to form lovely streamers of bright red grue. Garnish
with a lime slice.

--
Matt Marchese
"I've been havin' this nightmare.......a real swinger of a
nightmare, too." -Frank Sinatra (The Manchurian Candidate)
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*




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From: Carl Howard <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) some stuff picked up - Bat Ra
Date: 29 Jul 2001 21:48:19 -0400


I LIKE to experience full-strength Sun Ra! A whole LOT!


--
Peace Out
Choppa Choppa
Bang Bang
Hack=FC Maim=FC
Where's da WUV=99?




Sun Ra on your PC...   The CyberSpace Ministry
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Calling fans of Swing and Sci-Fi...
Date: 30 Jul 2001 04:02:07 +0200




rockwilson909 schrieb:

>
> As a dedicated Residents fan, Iφm very keen to identify any artists or
> composers who may have influenced their music ? any help I can get in
> this regard is very, very welcome.

Don't know about Tunes Of Two Cities, but on "Six Things To A Circle" on Fingerprince I hear an obvious influence by the "Voodoo Suite" of Perez Prado.

Mo
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Subject: Re: (exotica) The Surfmen - Exotic Island
Date: 30 Jul 2001 03:56:49 +0200




Michael Jemmeson schrieb:

> My tracklisting is:
> 1)
> Quiet Village
> Village Sunrise
> Bali Hai
> Bamboo
> Jungle Romance
> Forbidden Island
> 2)
> Tabou
> Moonlight in Paradise
> Luau
> Fire Goddess
> Orchid Lagoon
> Moon of Manokoora

the american edition is slightly different, but it seems to be basically the same record:

1)
Quiet Village
Tahiti Sunrise
Bali Hai
Bamboo
Jungle Romance
Forbidden Island
2)
Taboo
Moonlight in Paradise
Luau
Orchid Lagoon
Fire Goddess
Moon of Manokoora


Mo

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Harold Land, Louie de Rochemont
Date: 29 Jul 2001 22:31:58 -0400


http://www.google.com/search?q=%22harold+land%22
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=1HAROLD|LAND
Harold DeVance Land, born Houston, TX Dec.18, 1928. Raised in San Diego.

Played and recorded with Max Roach-Clifford Brown Qnt't 1954-5; with Curtis
Counce '57-8; co-led qnt't with Red Mitchell '61-2. Played many clubs in LA
and SF with Philly Joe, and played withh Gerald Wilson in '50s and '60s, and
intermittently into the '90s. From '68-71 co-led qnt't with Bobby
Hutcherson, and also co-led qnt't with Blue Mitchell '75-8. In '80s Land was
part of the
Timeless All Stars European trip , and also traveled and played as a single.
In '92 he toured Europe with Steve Grossman group. Played with Billy
Higginsin in Italy at Umbria Festival '98. First taken with Coleman Hawkins,
Land was then influenced by Lucky Thompson and Charlie Parker. The result
wasa mellow, swinging bop attack that sometimes sounded like Wardell Gray.
Aftera period in which he was strongly influenced by John Coltrane, he went
back
toward his former style with a Tranish residue. He played on the soundtracks
of the films: The Young Savages '61; Seven Days in May '64;They Shoot
Horses,Don't They?; Recorded with  Elmo Hope, Curtis Counce, Bill Evans,
John
Faddis, Red Garland, Freddie Hubbard, Frank Rosolino, Dinah Washington, King
Pleasure, Monk, Timeless All Stars, Bobby Hutcherson. Died of a massive
stroke or heart attack at age 73 on unconfirmed date July 27, 2001. (source
of all info except date of death: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz,
compiled by Leonard Feather/Ira Gitler)
--------------
http://allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=A150979
"OSLO, Norway (AP) - Louie de Rochemont, a filmmaker who directed the 1958
wide-screen production ``Windjammer,'' has died of diabetes at his home outside
Oslo, his wife said Saturday. He was 70.

"Rochemont was born in New York in 1930 and died July 11. He was educated at
Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and during the 1960's and 70's taught film
at the University of Toronto.

"'`Windjammer' was about a six-month Atlantic Ocean expedition with the
Norwegian fullrigged training ship Christian Radich, crewed by teen-age
Norwegian sailor students.

In it, Rochemont pioneered the use of three cameras, producing a dramatic
wide-screen effect. The film was a sensation when it was first shown.

His father, Louis de Rochemont II, won two Academy Awards in his filmmaking
career.

In 1979, Rochement moved to Norway, where he remarried and worked making
information films about Norwegian maritime activities, such as oil rigs and
salmon production, and electronic information systems for cruise ships.








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From: "R. Schultz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Marion's
Date: 30 Jul 2001 09:44:39 -0400


For those of you who are in the NYC area, you probably know about
Marion's Kahntiki month. Well, I went to it this weekend and it was
fantastic. The decor wasn't as retro as it could have been but the music
was great and the drinks were even better. I even shared the big bowl of
"Hawaiin Punch" with my wife --- you know the bowl, the one with the
flaming volcano in the middle!

Highly recommended for those who love to drink -- and I know there are a
few of you out there!

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From: "R. Schultz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) swing
Date: 30 Jul 2001 09:54:13 -0400


Hi, I was wondering if anyone could recommend any good albums of that
sort of Western Swing music (sorry to be so inarticulate about it) a la
Spade Cooley..etc. Every time I hear a snippet of it somewhere I want to
hear a little more and get to know it better. Any suggestions would be
helpful. Thanks!

Randy


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Subject: Subject: (exotica) Schema Nicola Conte
Date: 30 Jul 2001 16:15:18 +0200 (MEST)


a late reply, but I have problems with posting and getting post from the
list at the moment


>Leslie ask:
>Does anyone have any opinions on the label's other releases?

If you like new bossa grooves from Conte then be sure to Check out:

Gerardo Frisina *Ad Lib* LP/CD beside the incredible DESCARDA (if you dig
groovy wild congas) there is the great opening tune MAS EU QUER SER an
outstanding vocal original, that is good as a brazilan 60s classic (that means it
can't be better !) some great wordless vocal tunes and even a layed back exotica
tune with some birdcalls

Soulstance *Act On!* LP/CD
KICKIN SAMBA and GRASPING incredibly

Contes Rmx from Greyboys Masterd the Art 10" on Ubiquity Rec.

VA Break n' Bossa, chapter 4 on schema
It's worth to give it a listening

>rob wrote:
>Funnily enough i just got a chance to listen to the Ursula 1000 remix of
>Bombay, Karminsky remix of Devil's Coda and the 12" of bossa per due by
>Thievery. And sad to say, i really did not like either 12". I was
>spectacularly let down by the Missione a Bombay as I love the original and
>felt Ursula 1000 was the man to kick the breakbeats.

I like the Karminsky remix of Devil's Coda, the Ursula 1000 remix of Bombay
has imo a great rythm, but in the middle of the remix a sound that reminds me
to much on horrible (so called, it's not trancy at all) trance techno fades
in and then I must move the rec needle


>Rob wrote:
>On the other hand I was listening to the Nicola Conte remix of Cocktail
Nova
>by Balanco (nouveau bossa band which i think Conte used to play in, have to

>check the records later) and it rocked. As did the b-side by Le Hammond
>Inferno (whose recent output was worrying me a bit).

here I agree

>br cleve wrote:
>One side is the orginal version of 'Bossa Per Due', the other is Thievery's
>remix of it. I didn't think it was one of their best remixes.

here I agree again. A Thievery Rmx that I still can recommend is from
Thunderballs Pop The Trunk (on eighteen street lounge music)


At least, I must say that Schema is my favorite Label at the moment, and one
of the first things I do in the rec Shop is to check out the Schema section

Martin


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From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) swing
Date: 30 Jul 2001 10:20:44 -0400


At 09:54 AM 7/30/01 -0400, R. Schultz wrote:
>
>Hi, I was wondering if anyone could recommend any good albums of that
>sort of Western Swing music (sorry to be so inarticulate about it) a la
>Spade Cooley..etc. Every time I hear a snippet of it somewhere I want to
>hear a little more and get to know it better.

I have a couple of CD's on Columbia "Legacy", in a series called "Country
Classics".
One is called "Hillbilly Boogie" and it's a compilation that includes some
Spade Cooley.  Then on the same label, in the same series is "Spadella!
The best of Spade Cooley".
I'm sure there are also numerous Bob Wills reissues and compilations.
Spade Cooley, in case you didn't know, is one of the great stories of
American tragedy.
He was one of the originators of country swing but to the general public,
western swing equalled Bob Wills.
He was one of the first singing cowboys on film but to the general public
the MAN was Gene Autry.
Then to add insult to injury, his wife left him for Gene Autry.
So he killed her.
Then they let him out of jail to do a benefit concert and he died onstage.

Or something like that anyway.  If it's not totally accurate, it's still a
great story.

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Subject: (exotica) Sitar Audio Clips etc
Date: 30 Jul 2001 15:17:30 +0100


Sequence 6 is on the Italia Erotica compilation released by the Sound
gallery compilers 3 or 4 years back.  Not a bad comp at all,   some very
nice groovy music, some summer bossa's, definitely worth checking out.
artists include Morricone (of course) and Travajoli I think, but I didn't
recognise many of the others.

El Maestro Con Queso

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some nice audio clips are at:
(not complete, but long enough to check em out)

http://www.pussycatclub.org.uk/index.htm

anyone knew where "Sequence Six" by GP and GF Reverberi came from ??? (at
Souds Clips, Sitar Funk)

thanks a lot
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Subject: Re: (exotica) swing
Date: 30 Jul 2001 10:19:58 -0400



On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:20:44 -0400 alan  zweig <[e-mail]> writes:
> Spade Cooley, in case you didn't know, is one of the great stories
> of
> American tragedy.

Yeah, have you ever read any James Ellroy books? He brings him up quite
often, but of course, James Ellroy accuses him of various
perversities..etc, as is his way.  I did know he killed his wife but
didn't know he was sort of knocked out of the spotlight by other artists.
Thanks for the info.

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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Coral Sea
Date: 30 Jul 2001 10:28:42 -0400


My oldest best buddy Rob Hambrecht was up visiting from NYC about 10 days
ago.  I learned, for the first time, that the parents of his
Chinese-American wife Donna opened the first Tiki-ish restaurant in
Pasadena, The Coral Sea, presumably in the late 1950s of early
1960s.  (Well, they claim it was the first.)  If anyone ever stumbles
across a reference, pictures, matchbooks, etc., they'd love to know about
it, since the family never kept any mementos.

Will


Will Straw
Associate Professor and Acting Chair,
Department of Art History and Communications Studies
McGill University
853 Sherbrooke Street W.
Montreal, QC  H3A 2T6
Canada

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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) swing
Date: 30 Jul 2001 15:28:32 +0100


"R. Schultz" wrote:
>
> Hi, I was wondering if anyone could recommend any good albums of that
> sort of Western Swing music (sorry to be so inarticulate about it) a la
> Spade Cooley..etc. Every time I hear a snippet of it somewhere I want to
> hear a little more and get to know it better. Any suggestions would be
> helpful. Thanks!

Aha! the Western Swing topic rears it's head again... There's really
good 4CD box set ('Doughboys, Playboys and Cowboys') which is excellent
value for money (11.99 UKP at Amazon.co.uk, not sure about cost in the
States)

more info, tracklisting, sleeve notes etc:
http://www.proper-records.co.uk/boxsets/pb6info.htm


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "A Flea Market Documentary"
Date: 30 Jul 2001 10:58:57 -0400


Airing tonight on PBS (on some stations) is "A Flea Market Documentary".
Check your local listings.

Going back to Magnus' query about whether American tv ever does anything
about "crazy artists living in the woods", there is a PBS series called
"EGG: The Arts Show", which did an episode on outsider artists one week.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/egg/series.html


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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Surfmen - Exotic Island
Date: 30 Jul 2001 15:55:24 +0100


[e-mail] wrote:
>
> At 10:21 AM 7/29/01, you wrote:
>
> >Can anyone post the tracklisting of this?
> >
> >I have a french LP which uses the same cover photo (you can even see
> >where 'The Surfmen' writing has been coloured in badly). It's entitled
> >'Surprise-partie auz Iles Paradis avec L'ensemble Instrumental des
> >Iles', and wanted to know if it was the same LP.
>
> Yes it is.  Exact match to Exotic Island, P-10500 on Somerset.
>
> BTW I only have two Surfmen albums and am quite fond of both (the other one
> is P-17100 on Somerset "Hawaii".  Is this all?  Is there nothing else?

What's the Hawaiian one like? I've just seen it on Ebay, and realised
I've passed it up a few times in the past. The UK version is a Pye
Golden Guinea LP, and doesn't seem to mention The Surfmen on the cover.
Is it standard hawaiian fare, or more exotic?


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From: "jamie_james" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) tikibarcelonapalooza
Date: 30 Jul 2001 16:52:43 +0100


Hey Matt

you're in luck!

I went to Barcelona last year, not only is it a great city, they also have a
chain of tiki themed bars!

I visited 2 of the 3 that i found,( i passed the other one on a bus journey,
its quite a way out of the main city ) and found them both to be tikitastic.

Having said that, not being a master of catalan or spanish myself they
struggled to understand my request for 'Vodka and Coke'. So you may not get to
taste your favourite cocktails.We got there in the end though.
Learn the Catalan for Mai Tai!

I hope these bars are still there as they seemed rather underused by all. At
least you'll be able to find a seat though!

While you are in Barcelona try and check out a club called 'Dot'. I think it
may be a club night rather than a club in itself. I think it was a friday when
we visited it, so that might be your best bet.
Dot is located in a really scary looking street and is basically a tiny couple
of rooms with a bar. Every thing is a very deep red and the lighting is kept
real low. Really seedy, the kind of place where Jaques Brel characters might
hang out.
The Dj that night was excellent he played a really mixed set of exotica, and
more contemporary electronic stuff. Great stuff. Not like the crap i'm force
fed in 'cool' London bars.

Enjoy.

I don't have the relevant addresses with me( in fact i can't be totally
precise) but i'll post some details tomorrow if i can.

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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) tikibarcelonapalooza
Date: 30 Jul 2001 12:20:27 -0400


on 7/30/01 11:52 AM, jamie_james at [e-mail] wrote:


> I went to Barcelona last year, not only is it a great city, they also have a
> chain of tiki themed bars!

another bar not to be missed in Barcelona is Bar Marsella (San Jeromino @
Hospital, east of La Rambla). It is probably the world's oldest surviving
absinthe bar. A glass of the Green Fairy will set you back a mere 750
pesetas. The last time they dusted the place, absinthe was still legal in
the rest of the world. (Absinthe was never made illegal in Spain, and it's
remained popular in Catalan)

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Subject: Re: (exotica) tikibarcelonapalooza
Date: 30 Jul 2001 12:23:30 -0400


on 7/30/01 12:20 PM, Br. Cleve at [e-mail] wrote:

> (Absinthe was never made illegal in Spain, and it's
> remained popular in Catalan)

I forgot to mention -- order it by it's Spanish name : Absenta

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From: "william" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) lisa ono
Date: 31 Jul 2001 00:29:03 +0800


from the p5 list:


Lisa Ono -- Bossa Hula Nova . . . CD . . . $26.99
EMI (Japan), 2001
This lovely Japanese singer does it again! Lisa's recording in a vaguely
Hawaiian mode -- mixing her usual bossa approach with a slightly
sunshine-drenched style, less Hawaiian than work by Don Ho, more in a
"dream" vision of Hawaii, as you might hear in some of the 60s
production work by Brian Wilson. The floating lyrics of the Hawaiian
tunes work well with the bossa backing -- and the sweetness of the
album's a perfect fit for Lisa's voice! Titles include "Manoa", "Swing
Time In Honolulu", "Sway It, Hula Girl", "Nani Wai'ale'ale", and
"Kaimana Hila". (In a cool cardboard sleeve!)


     incidentally, this disc is a availble in a cheaper form from EMI
taiwan, but without the cool cardboard sleeve. just a standard jewel box. i
heard part of it in a shop the other day and it sounded quite good.

                             william in taipei.



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From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Surfmen - Exotic Island
Date: 30 Jul 2001 18:21:28 +0200




> [e-mail] wrote:
> >
> Exact match to Exotic Island, P-10500 on Somerset.

no it's not. see my post from yesterday


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From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Surfmen - Exotic Island
Date: 30 Jul 2001 12:40:05 -0400


Kevin wrote:
>Anybody have this album mastered to CD-R - and willing to trade/sell...?
>
>This album contains my favorite version of "Taboo" - but I've had a hard
>time finding this for anything less than outrageous prices.

You may have already flipped past it in the thrift store bins, under
one of its other recycled budget-label guises: _Tradewinds Romance
from Hawaii to Tahiti_ (on the Somerset label).

It has a generic palm-tree sunset on the cover, it's credited to "the
South Sea Serenaders," the blurb claims it's "Recorded in Honolulu". . . In
short, it looks like any other low grade budget label Hawaiian LP.

Same music, but no liner notes, noisier vinyl, etc.

Love those duck calls!

cheers,

  --Ross

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From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) lisa ono
Date: 30 Jul 2001 10:17:49 -0700


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of william
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 9:29 AM

> Lisa Ono -- Bossa Hula Nova . . . CD . . . $26.99

$19.50 at http://www.jpophelp.com

(although there's a whole slew of her older albums on sale at
http://us.yesasia.com)

I've always felt a little ambivalent about Lisa Ono's work, though how could
one resist the idea of  Japanese Brazilian bossa nova? =) Her voice is
uncannily like Astrud's, and her choice of songs -- including "Boas Festas,"
her Japanese bossa nova Christmas album -- are generally top-notch.

But man, when it blows, it really blows: her album "Pretty World" (the title
track is rather lovely) is completely marred by her backup band (I don't own
the CD, so I don't know the credits), which literally sounds like one person
on a Casiotone. Not Eumir Deodato I hope (he produced it, I think)! While
there's a certain odd charm to a one-man-Casiontone-band, the whole album
still sounds like a videoke backing track (William, I'm sure you know what
I'm talking about).

That said, however, I still like her stuff. =)

Later,
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From: James Botticelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re:  Feliciano/"Bossa per due"
Date: 30 Jul 2001 14:16:53 -0400


on 7/28/01 2:54 PM, Br. Cleve at [e-mail] wrote:


> ....coupled with Schiffrin's "The Man From Thrush" intro and percussion
> loop, and then formant shifted up around 15 bpm. (Nicola told me he coudn't
> believe how perfectly the 2 samples worked when coupled). Then he wrote the
> new melody over the groove, and added appropriate horn samples and synth
> twidlings, as well as editing and placing the organ and vocal improvs.

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From: [e-mail] (Bump Stadelman)
Subject: (exotica) looking for Go Go Girls (warning: slightly off topic)
Date: 29 Jul 2001 17:03:31 -0400


hi everybody. i need your help.
i am surfing for photos of go go girls in full swing as a model for some
artwork i need for
my next party flyer. can't seem to find much of anything.
does anyone has the digits for a site with go go chicks, preferably from
the 60's.
but beggars can't be choosers.
(in cages!)
basically looking for a couple good poses.

on a groovy musical note.
just picked up the Rhino Nuggets 2 box set. british and some world garage psych
so far disc 1 is pretty weak, disc 2 is pretty good, starting on disc 3 tonite.
no where near the intensity and fun of the first box.

thanx
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Subject: (exotica) wanted: go-go girl pix (take 2)
Date: 29 Jul 2001 23:05:16 -0400


(i sent this hours ago but i do not see it)
hi everybody. i need your help.
i am surfing for photos of go go girls in full swing as models for some
artwork
i need for my next party flyer. can't seem to find much of anything.
does anyone has the digits for a site with go go chicks, preferably from
the 60's.
but beggars can't be choosers.
looking for a couple good poses.

on a groovy musical note.
just picked up the Rhino Nuggets 2 box set. british and some world garage psych
so far disc 1 is pretty weak, disc 2 is pretty good, starting on disc 3 tonite.
maybe they were hits in the UK but i have never heard most of them before.
tho' no where near the intensity and fun of the first box.
ebay bound.

thanx
bump




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From: [e-mail] (Bump Stadelman)
Subject: Re: (exotica) tikibarcelonapalooza
Date: 30 Jul 2001 13:00:52 -0400



or make it "legal" here by DIY.
go to a herb festival and buy some Wormwood and some others.
http://www.tower.org/kitchen/cellar/absinthe.html#howmade

your kitchen probably is not as exotic as spain
but it makes for a super groovy cocktail party!

bump


>another bar not to be missed in Barcelona is Bar Marsella (San Jeromino @
>Hospital, east of La Rambla). It is probably the world's oldest surviving
>absinthe bar. A glass of the Green Fairy will set you back a mere 750
>pesetas. The last time they dusted the place, absinthe was still legal in
>the rest of the world. (Absinthe was never made illegal in Spain, and it's
>remained popular in Catalan)
>
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From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) swing
Date: 30 Jul 2001 14:05:04 -0700


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of R. Schultz
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 7:20 AM

> On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:20:44 -0400 alan  zweig <[e-mail]> writes:
> > Spade Cooley, in case you didn't know, is one of the great stories
> > of
> > American tragedy.

> Yeah, have you ever read any James Ellroy books? He brings him up quite
> often, but of course, James Ellroy accuses him of various
> perversities..etc, as is his way.

As is his way indeed. Ellroy slags Spade Cooley. Ellroy slags everyone.
Ellroy slags Lana Turner. Ellroy slags Sammy Davis Jr. Ellroy slags JFK.
Ellroy slags RFK. Ellroy slags MLK. Sonny Liston? Slag. Danny Kaye? Slag.

Any of the last six Ellroy books -- pick them up. Am.Tabloid/Cold 6 Thou --
they're bigggggg. Dig it: they vibe epic sweep. They vibe baaaaaaad juju.
They vibe slag. They vibe sleaze. They vibe boocoo sleaze.

All right, back to work,
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Subject: Re: (exotica) swing
Date: 30 Jul 2001 17:07:29 -0400



On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:05:04 -0700 "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
writes:
> As is his way indeed. Ellroy slags Spade Cooley.

I went to see him speak here in NYC a  few months ago. It was pretty cool
and he knows how to "be Ellroy" and give us the rap that's straight from
his books. The only thing he did wrong was wear a Henry Blake fishing cap
and buck shoes to the thing. I somehow expected a sharkskin jacket or
something of a more sartorial bent.

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From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Reverberi Bros' Sitar Funk
Date: 30 Jul 2001 23:17:27 +0000


> From: [e-mail]
> Subject: (exotica) Sitar Audio Clips etc.
>
> some nice audio clips are at:
> http://www.pussycatclub.org.uk/index.htm
> anyone knew where "Sequence Six" by GP and GF Reverberi came from ??? (at
> Souds Clips, Sitar Funk)
> thanks a lot
> Martin

Hi Martin,
you can check the track on the "Bistro - Erotica Italia" comp.,
compiled by the guys who gave us the "Sound Gallery" comps.
Ciao
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Subject: Re: (exotica) looking for Go Go Girls (warning: slightly off topic)
Date: 30 Jul 2001 17:17:00 -0400


http://images.google.com/images?num=20&hl=en&safe=off&q=go-go+cage&meta=site%3Dimages


Bump Stadelman <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
hi everybody. i need your help.
i am surfing for photos of go go girls in full swing as a model for some
artwork i need for
my next party flyer. can't seem to find much of anything.
does anyone has the digits for a site with go go chicks, preferably from
the 60's.
but beggars can't be choosers.
(in cages!)
basically looking for a couple good poses.


thanx
bump



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Subject: (exotica) Kooch-e-koo and an exotica question
Date: 31 Jul 2001 01:13:25 +0200 (MEST)


As I am only digest, I think someone else did told you this maybe before...
(danke Sebastian !!!)

A new great exotica tiki illustrator with a beautiful webside can be found
at:

http://www.kooch-e-koo.com/


do someone know where the incredible soundloop came from that was used on
this page:

http://www.kooch-e-koo.com/GALLERY/HTML/orderinfo.html

it is really lifting me to paradise....


Martin

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From: David KoJen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) tikibarcelonapalooza
Date: 30 Jul 2001 21:39:08 -0400


on 7/30/01 1:00 PM, Bump Stadelman at [e-mail] wrote:

>
>
> or make it "legal" here by DIY.
> go to a herb festival and buy some Wormwood and some others.
> http://www.tower.org/kitchen/cellar/absinthe.html#howmade
>
Don't forget this stuff really truly is poisonous. Worse than other alcohol.
No joke. I'd try it once though.

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Subject: Re: (exotica) tikibarcelonapalooza
Date: 30 Jul 2001 22:02:33 -0400


on 7/30/01 9:39 PM, David KoJen at [e-mail] wrote:

>> or make it "legal" here by DIY.
>> go to a herb festival and buy some Wormwood and some others.
>> http://www.tower.org/kitchen/cellar/absinthe.html#howmade
>>
> Don't forget this stuff really truly is poisonous. Worse than other alcohol.
> No joke. I'd try it once though.

that's not really true. If you drink a quart a day, you'll likely get some
complications, much as you would from a quart of gin a day. Read the book
"Absinthe : History in a Bottle" (Barnaby Conrad III; Chronicle Books, 1988)
for the full story.

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From: James Botticelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Spotted
Date: 30 Jul 2001 22:20:53 -0400


Anyone travelling to Cape Cod this summer may be interested in a 5' carved
stone Easter Island styled tiki head for sale. As you travel toward
Provincetown from Orleans on Rte 6, enter Wellfleet. A couple of miles on
the right there will be a purple-trimmed cottage with art objects in the
front yard. In the middle is the tiki. Look hard, the house is somewhat easy
to miss. I stopped in and asked if it was for sale. It is. $2000 including
delivery. I was unable to budge it, it was so heavy. I returned this morning
before leaving the Cape to make her an offer. I was too early. She opens at
12:30. This is one fabulash tiki head. Someone would do well to own
it....Hope its someone here.....
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Subject: Re: (exotica) looking for Go Go Girls
Date: 30 Jul 2001 22:27:30 EDT


Wow - couldn't disagree more.  Think this is a much more interesting listen
than the first box, and I particularly love disc 1 which is non-stop crushing
mod pop classics in the mid-60s Who style.


<< just picked up the Rhino Nuggets 2 box set. british and some world garage
psych
 so far disc 1 is pretty weak, disc 2 is pretty good, starting on disc 3
tonite.
 no where near the intensity and fun of the first box.
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From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) a reissued classic?
Date: 31 Jul 2001 02:58:28 -0400


I thought you guys had hipped me to every exotica classic ever.  So what's
this newly reissued CD I just saw?  Bobby Montez "Jungle Fantastique".
Come on Mo, share the wealth.  What are we missing?

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Subject: Re: (exotica) tikibarcelonapalooza
Date: 31 Jul 2001 09:44:16 +0200




"Br. Cleve" schrieb:

> The last time they dusted the place, absinthe was still legal in
> the rest of the world. (Absinthe was never made illegal in Spain, and it's
> remained popular in Catalan)
>

it's legal in Germany since 3 years. But other than in Berlin I haven't seen it in public.


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Subject: (exotica) tikibarcelonapalooza2
Date: 31 Jul 2001 10:09:53 +0100


Hi All

this is FAO Matt Marchese or anyone else heading out to Barcelona.


So,...as promised, here are further details of Tiki places in Barcelona. I've also added details of some other really cool places we found. Please excuse any inaccuracies, it' s been a while and i didn't think to write exact addresses down at the time.

As i said in my previous post i found three Tiki bars. The first is located on either the Ronda Universitat Or Gran via De Les Corts Catalanes. ( Near the Universitat Metro station) Looking at the map i am fairly sure that the latter is correct. I seem to recall that i walked west along that road, the bar being a very short walk from the University and on the same side of the road. At the time that i visited this bar there appeared to be nothing else useful near it.( So don't let that give you the impression that you are in the wrong area. ) It has a Wooden door with a Tiki on as i recall. Short of taking you there that's about the best i can do.

The Second one has a very noticable entrance in the form of a large window display comprised of a waterfall, a pond and whole heap of live Budgies. We found this by accident while we were trying to find a restaurant called 'L'Atzavara' on C/Muntaner at number 109. The Nearest Metro is 'Hospital Clinic'. C/ muntaner is quite a long street and i am somewhat unsure of where the restaurant was. I think that it was on the southern side of the intersection with Avda Diagonal though. ( if you look at a map this will make sense )
Basically, find that restaurant then walk south as if you were walking towards Placa Catalunya, i think that if you turn right at the first corner you come to you should find it. ( or possibly the second right hand turn....sorry, just not certain )
I would say, looking at the map that the most likely streets you should check out are;
 C/ Londres
C/ Paris or C/Corsega. Which ever street it was, you want to be looking near the corner junction of C/ Muntaner on the west side of that street.

Any way here are some none tiki places you may enjoy.
Barbarella ( C/Calabria 142-4, near Metro Rocafort ) , great little restaurant, with a real DIY ethos. You can guess from the name what it looks like inside, the thing i loved about this place was that you could see that it had been done with no money. It looked like the guy just had a yearning to open a cool place to eat, got all his friends together and decorated it.
When we got in, it was empty, we couldn't work out if they were closed and just liked the look of us or whether it was a VERY quiet night for them.
Anyway the owner and the chef worked out a meal for us ( as we are vegetarian ) chatted for a while, gave us some tips of cool places to drink and eat, and chatted some more. It could have been really awkward but he was such a nice guy it was like being at a friends house or something.

Salsitas ( C/ Nou de la Rambla 22 ) You will probably wanna see the Gaudi stuff on your visit, this fab restaurant is in the same street as Gaudi's Palau Guell. It's on the opposite side of the road and a little further from la Rambla. It doesn't open till around 10pm and at the time, had no sign or anything else to let you know that it is there. Look for a long white, well lit passage.
The street that this place is in is quite dodgy as it is in the red light district. Personally it wasn't a problem for us beyond the first night. ( As our hotel was at the end of this street i guess we got used to it. )
All the same be on your guard. Anyway, great food. best of the holiday i would say. Really nice decor, all white with fake white palms and a wall displaying a lava lamp type projection.
Worth a visit.

Dot ( C/ Nou de sant Francesc ) as i mentioned in the previous post this is a great little bar, my girlfriend tells me that it was actually the Thursday evening that we went here. The guy from Barbarella gave us the impression that the music differs on each night, so Thursday may be a good bet. Again the location is SCARY. There is no sign, just a door. They didn't open till about 11.30 so before you go there you could eat or drink at ;

Margarita blue ( C/ Josep Anslem Clave 6 ) this is a lively bar restaurant with a youngish crowd it's just around the corner from Dot. Good food, can't remember the music as the drink was cheap. They have a Trapeze in the bar which could have been really tacky and touristy, but was actually good fun. At somepoint in the night two members of the bar staff gave a short performance for the crowd,... er, lets just say they hadn't rehearsed much and had been drinking so it was quite a spectacle. They were having a real laugh anyway.



well thats all i have time for - i'm sure you'll have fun whether you find these places or not. Let me know how you get on.


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From: David KoJen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) tikibarcelonapalooza
Date: 31 Jul 2001 06:01:05 -0400


on 7/30/01 10:02 PM, Br. Cleve at [e-mail] wrote:

> that's not really true. If you drink a quart a day, you'll likely get some
> complications, much as you would from a quart of gin a day. Read the book
> "Absinthe : History in a Bottle" (Barnaby Conrad III; Chronicle Books, 1988)
> for the full story.
>
Much like gin? Not what I heard. Worse. I thought absinthe has a large
amount of methanol (the poisonous kind, not just ethanol). Which is bad in
quite small doses. Also, the wormwood extract itself is alleged to be toxic.
Thanks for the book recomendation. I'll try to check it out.

Sorry for being off topic.

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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bix vs. Star Wars
Date: 31 Jul 2001 13:07:12 +0100


http://stage.vitaminic.com/bix_beiderbecke

I am I the only weirdo who believes that the "Cantina Band" theme from Star
Wars was entirely stolen from "At the jazz band ball" (which I have in a
Bix Beiderbecke recording from the 1920's)? ;)

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Subject: Reverberi and the fake Venetians ;) (was: Re: (exotica)
Date: 31 Jul 2001 13:50:01 +0100



> > some nice audio clips are at:
> > http://www.pussycatclub.org.uk/index.htm
> > anyone knew where "Sequence Six" by GP and GF Reverberi came from ??? (at
> > Souds Clips, Sitar Funk)

oh God. Maestro G.P.Reverberi was behind baroque/classical/pop group Rondo
Veneziano in the 1980s.
I think the band seen performing (consisting of several men and women
dressed like they were in Venice in the 1700s playing violins and stuff
like that) was all a front miming to music recorded in a studio. (Reverberi
said he had a contract that didnt allow him to perform on stage with the
actual group).

Last year I was in Disneyworld with my girlfriend and we went to see Epcot;
in the area in which you have lots of reproductions of various locations
around they world, in the Italy section (which consists in a funny
rendition of Piazza San Marco in Venice, including the bell tower and the
Palazzo Ducale but -er- without any trace of the Church of San Marco!)
there was a clone Rondo Veneziano band (with less members than the original
;)) playing exactly the same type of stuff and dressed in a similar way. I
think there were also cds on sale for that band, available just near all
other Disney music cds in the park shops.

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From: "JamesBGerwitz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sordid Spade
Date: 31 Jul 2001 04:50:22 -0700


http://www.hotad.com/spade.HTML

Sad sad sad.
A few more interesting stories at this little site in the Hollywood Noir
section.

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From: [e-mail] (Bump Stadelman)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bix vs. Star Wars
Date: 31 Jul 2001 08:31:32 -0400


i really wanted to go there with you but
i do not hear any similarities another than the style of music and the
instruments used.
influenced maybe, entirely stolen...definitely not.
and i was REALLY hoping it was!

my 2 cents
bump


>http://stage.vitaminic.com/bix_beiderbecke
>
>I am I the only weirdo who believes that the "Cantina Band" theme from Star
>Wars was entirely stolen from "At the jazz band ball" (which I have in a
>Bix Beiderbecke recording from the 1920's)? ;)
>
>DjB




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From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Absinthe - Wild Green Fairy Liquid...
Date: 31 Jul 2001 12:44:12


As one of the fliers for 'Club Absinthe' in Dublin used to go. Berliner
Kabaret, Brecht/Weill/Eisler, slogans in Verlain on the walls. It couldn't
last.
It's 'legal' in most of Europe, only produced in Spain and the Czech
Republic. I had some last weekend in my brother in law's bar in Wexford. It
just isn't popular (on account of its taste, akin to ouzo, anis/pastis -
pastiche absinthe and its strength) not in the less aggressively tasting
mould that people prefer now ie. vodka cocktails. It is, i think actually
illegal in France (due to the excesses of the Alfred Jarry, Verlaine,
Rimbaud set - shit, they could have drunk or smoked anything (inivriez
vous!) or nothing and still been mad, bad dangerous to know (Rimbaud became
a colonial arms dealer forsaking poetry - how Rambo is that?)). And you can
certainly buy it yourself over the net, as most importers don't get the
volume to bother, somebody did it briefly during the two month craze a
couple of years ago when it was hip. I suspect that this is the case in the
US as well. The rub is that booze is taxed according to percentage alcohol.
Cheap tipple this is not, about twice the cost of normal spirits.
As Geoff once said (i'm guessing) 'I'd heard it made you trip, they
neglected to say blind, autistic and impotant as well'. It IS strong liqour,
but we're all big boys and girls - just be warned a few of them can go a
long way.
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From: Nicola Battista <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bix vs. Star Wars
Date: 31 Jul 2001 15:31:46 +0100



>i really wanted to go there with you but
>i do not hear any similarities another than the style of music and the
>instruments used.
>influenced maybe, entirely stolen...definitely not.

ok maybe I have exaggerated but... there is a part I'd say *heavily*
influenced...

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From: James Botticelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) a reissued classic?
Date: 31 Jul 2001 09:34:00 -0400


on 7/31/01 2:58 AM, alan  zweig at [e-mail] wrote:

>
> I thought you guys had hipped me to every exotica classic ever.  So what's
> this newly reissued CD I just saw?  Bobby Montez "Jungle Fantastique".
> Come on Mo, share the wealth.  What are we missing?
>

I ain't Mo, but here ya go: its a latin classic re-issue available from
dustygroove under latin Lp's and CD's. I just ordered the LP yesterday so
I'll post a quickie on it if one hasn't made it to the list by the time I
get to phoenix
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From: "cheryl" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Absinthe - Wild Green Fairy Liquid...
Date: 31 Jul 2001 09:52:30 -0400


I just read an article last week on it - apparently, one of the original
producers in France has just started up production again.  It's legal, but
now has a far lower amount of whatever makes it semi-lethal (a "safe" level,
supposedly).  Should be ready for consumption by this fall, I believe,
according to the article.

Personally, I'll take a glass of red wine anytime....

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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) tikibarcelonapalooza
Date: 31 Jul 2001 11:12:34 -0400


on 7/31/01 6:01 AM, David KoJen at [e-mail] wrote:

>
> on 7/30/01 10:02 PM, Br. Cleve at [e-mail] wrote:
>
>> that's not really true. If you drink a quart a day, you'll likely get some
>> complications, much as you would from a quart of gin a day. Read the book
>> "Absinthe : History in a Bottle" (Barnaby Conrad III; Chronicle Books, 1988)
>> for the full story.
>>
> Much like gin? Not what I heard. Worse.

You didn't get my point. I only used gin as an example- it could have been
rum or vodka or rye : the point is absinthe, like any alcohol, is dangerous
when consumed regularly in large quantities.

Check out the book - all the wives tales about absinthe stem from the
temperance movement and the hysteria of the religious right in the late
1800's. Absinthe was drunk in large quantities in France and Switzerland,
and was targeted by the right because of it's popularity. The story of how
it led to be banned is a fascinating tale of societal manipulation thru
zealotry.

Curiously, gin was banned in Britain during the 13th century, as it was
believed to lead to madness as well. Of course, the drinking water in
England at the time was so putrid that the populace drank gin instead of
water all the time.

Absinthe is enjoyed legally in Spain, Britain, Czechoslovakia, Japan, and
Germany ( that's right, Mo.....I had some fine absinthe cocktails in Ulm a
few years back)

Wormwood, sold in health food stores, has toxic properties, but again, only
noticeable in very large doses.

I haven't gone mad yet! (shut up, Jimmy)
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From: "william" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re: lisa ono
Date: 31 Jul 2001 23:45:41 +0800


> Lisa Ono -- Bossa Hula Nova . . . CD . . . $26.99

>$19.50 at http://www.jpophelp.com

>(although there's a whole slew of her older albums on sale at
>http://us.yesasia.com)

    well, compared to here that $19.50 seems way overpriced as they are
selling for between 10-12 bucks in most of the shops here.  but maybe its
just because it's here and not being imported from here. but i'm not so sure
and have no idea how those sort of things work.

>I've always felt a little ambivalent about Lisa Ono's work, though how
could
>one resist the idea of  Japanese Brazilian bossa nova? =) Her voice is
>uncannily like Astrud's, and her choice of songs -- including "Boas
Festas,"
>her Japanese bossa nova Christmas album -- are generally top-notch.
>
>But man, when it blows, it really blows: her album "Pretty World" (the
title
>track is rather lovely) is completely marred by her backup band (I don't
own
>the CD, so I don't know the credits), which literally sounds like one
person
>on a Casiotone. Not Eumir Deodato I hope (he produced it, I think)! While
>there's a certain odd charm to a one-man-Casiontone-band, the whole album
>still sounds like a videoke backing track (William, I'm sure you know what
>I'm talking about).

      yes, i can see what you mean. i guess its a good thing i didn't start
off with that disc then. though your description makes me really curious to
hear it... i only have two discs by her bossa carrioca  and rio bossa. any
suggestions for which one to get next?

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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Flea Markets
Date: 31 Jul 2001 12:14:31 -0400



>I haven't been reading posts for a few days, fearful that Alan's Petticoat
>Junction/Hooterville thread would catch fire.  I'm relieved to see that it
>hasn't.

I watched the PBS Flea Market, which felt like other documentaries I've
seen - on garage sales, weird collectors, and so on.  Parts were fine, but
the style was so dreadfully PBS-ish that I'm surprised there was no
fast-motion sequence of people running up and down flea market aisles while
wacky old-timey music played.  I'm sure they shot one.

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From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bollywood 'Golden Voices of the Silver Screen' comps
Date: 31 Jul 2001 19:33:04 +0100


Evidently the label has just cleared out the remaining vinyl stock of
these, so if anyone else has been looking for them they may be hitting a
record shop near you soon.
Ray's Blues and Roots (downstairs from Ray's Jazz Shop) in London have
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From: "Benito Vergara" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) lisa ono, the casiotone, and videoke
Date: 31 Jul 2001 12:00:59 -0700


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [e-mail]
> [mailto:[e-mail]]On Behalf Of william
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 8:46 AM

>>While
> >there's a certain odd charm to a one-man-Casiontone-band, the whole album
> >still sounds like a videoke backing track (William, I'm sure you
> know what
> >I'm talking about).
>
>       yes, i can see what you mean. i guess its a good thing i
> didn't start
> off with that disc then. though your description makes me really
> curious to
> hear it...

There's also a version of "I Wish You Love," one of those songs I wish I
could compile a whole cd of. Wish I didn't have to end with a preposition
there.

For me the Casiotone brings back memories of a humid Filipino summer night,
an almost-empty bar that Oliver Stone had allegedly visited during the
filming of "Born on the Fourth of July," a slowly-moving overhead ceiling
fan keeping the mosquitoes away, two middle-aged overweight cops drinking
quietly in the corner, a battered Formica table, lukewarm San Miguel beer,
an uncomfortable rattan chair with holes in the seat, a bowl of greasy
salted peanuts, cicadas chirping intermittently in the trees outside, a
young long-haired waitress looking bored and staring at her manicured nails,
and a mustachioed singer named Buddy bending over his Casiotone and playing
a note-perfect version of Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do (I Do It For You),"
the music amplified through a portable karaoke machine bought the previous
year in an airport duty-free store in Saudi Arabia.

I do hold a certain fondness for watching videoke, though. About a year ago
I was in the Philippines and spent many fascinated hours just watching the
stuff. One rather odd one I remember had a Japanese woman in a bathing suit
taking a really long shower while the lyrics to America's "All My Life"
flashed on the bottom of the screen. This was followed by, I think, Spiral
Staircase's "More Today than Yesterday." Needless to say my brother and I
belted out the lyrics appropriately.

The coolest thing about this was that the videoke was actually being
broadcasted over TV airwaves by the local cable company in my small
hometown -- everyday for about an hour. Even cooler was the fact that, upon
request, people could call in, sing the lyrics over the phone, and the whole
thing would be broadcast! That's karaoke for a few thousand people!

One bizarre videoke I saw was one for the Cranberries' "Zombie,' playing
over what looked like a tourist-shot video of Samoans doing the Fire Dance.
(I saw the videoke at a resort, and the woman nailed every single one of
Dolores Riordan's yelps. The machine gave her a perfect 10.)

Unfortunately, the music really doesn't hold up at all without the already
bland visuals.

[Side note: I typed in "videoke" in Google and found hardly anything but
Philippine and Brazilian websites! What gives? What's this stuff called in
other places???]

> i only have two discs by her bossa carrioca  and rio bossa. any
> suggestions for which one to get next?

I have "Serenata Carioca," which I quite like. Just stay away from "Pretty
World," really.

Later,
Ben

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From: Piero Cavina <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Reverberi and the fake Venetians ;) (was: Re: (exotica)
Date: 31 Jul 2001 20:52:40 +0200


At 13.50 31/07/01 +0100, Nicola Battista wrote:

>oh God. Maestro G.P.Reverberi was behind baroque/classical/pop group Rondo=
=20
>Veneziano in the 1980s.

Not for the faint of heart..: http://www.rondoveneziano.com ;-)
I don't dislike cheesy, kitsch music. But I can't really bear Rond=F2=20
Veneziano..






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From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mo'Plen 4000
Date: 31 Jul 2001 23:46:52 +0000


I have been given a pre-release of Mo'Plen 4000, ready to kick the
market in a month or so. It has been compiled by smart researcher
Scanna again, this time's alone (I mean, since he has parted company
with Ninfa, who has recently compiled the "Ninfadelica" comp., still
on Irma).
Vol. 4 sounds heavier on the 70's latin soul side than the previous
issues. I usually tend to dislike 70's stuff and am more inclined to
the 60's sound, but - hey - this sounds amazing to me! Some tracks I
even couldn't believe were 70's. It certainly adds a new flavor to
the series; better off this way, rather than filling it with outtakes
from the first 3 volumes.
And speaking of Mo'Plen outtakes, you can find them on the recent
Plastic comp "Masoch Club Entertainment", which nevertheless sound
superbly groovy, if you ask me.
Gotta have mo' mo'plen.

Tracklist of vol. 4 as follows:
 1) Paolo Ormi: Cocco secco (1972)
 2) Renato Serio: Batticuore (1978)
 3) Elza Soares: Che meraviglia (1970)
 4) Santi Latora: Superstar (1974)
 5) Paolo Ormi: No no no (1972)
 6) Orchestra King Zerand: Night Song (1978)
 7) Stevie Wonder: Passo le mie notti qui da solo (1967)
 8) Santi Latora: Skyscrapers (1974)
 9) Bruno Nicolai: Rive bianche (1971)
10) Elio Gandolfi: Aquarius (1970)
11) Mario Molino: Come cani arrabbiati (1976)
12) Paolo Ormi: No no no (1972)
13) Giovanni Fenati: La ragazza di Ipanema (1977)
14) Orchestra King Zerand: Love On Love (1978)
15) Bruno Nicolai: Passatempi (1971)
16) Santi Latora: Oh! Calcutta (1974)
17) Piero Piccioni: I Bikini (1966)
18) Zeta One: Saudade de Nise (2001)

Zeta One is Scanna himself.

Ciao
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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Nuggets 2
Date: 31 Jul 2001 15:07:41 -0700 (PDT)


Hi Bump & Dismay

I can't believe how great this box set is.  I'm only on disc 2 and
I thought I knew a lot about this kind of garage music.  Once again
the music world astounds me.  I really enjoyed disc one.  Thought I
least would have heard of every band.  I have a bunch of back from
the graves, freakbeats, pebbles but this seems to top them in my
book. I still think Nuggets 1 is the best box set ever!  I
collected this stuff when it came out.  I still have thousands of
these cool 45s.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
Chuck

--- Bump Stadelman <[e-mail]> wrote:on a groovy
musical note.
> just picked up the Rhino Nuggets 2 box set. british and some
> world garage psych
> so far disc 1 is pretty weak, disc 2 is pretty good, starting on
> disc 3 tonite.
> maybe they were hits in the UK but i have never heard most of
> them before.
> tho' no where near the intensity and fun of the first box.

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From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Love Exchange
Date: 31 Jul 2001 15:19:36 -0700 (PDT)


Surprised Alan or DjJimmy did bring this one up, maybe its because
they already have the lp, but The Love Exchange has been reissued
on cd on Sundazed records.  Some nice soft pop psyche influenced
songs sung by male/female duo.  The haircuts are mixed and so is
the style of music, part soft pop, part psychedelic pop to folky
soft rock. This band reminds me of Jefferson Airplane.  This is an
original 1968 release and the attitude is San Francisco.

Easy listening in the Big Easy
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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Flea Markets
Date: 31 Jul 2001 21:33:37 -0400



>I watched the PBS Flea Market, which felt like other documentaries I've
>seen - on garage sales, weird collectors, and so on.  Parts were fine, but
>the style was so dreadfully PBS-ish that I'm surprised there was no
>fast-motion sequence of people running up and down flea market aisles
>while wacky old-timey music played.  I'm sure they shot one.

Yeah, it wasn't bad, but it wasn't much more than adequate either. Narrated
by the same guy who does all of their other Roadside America-type shows
(his little fake laugh at the beginning of a line (faking a reaction to
something someone on the live audio has just said) was really beginning to
bug me). PBS truly has been neutered in the last couple of decades. Not
very likely to see Ann Magnuson doing naked performance art anymore.

Then again, I did enjoy seeing the Pasadena Swap Meet. Forget Ratland... if
I ever go to Southern California, I wanna go to the swap meet.

--m.ace



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