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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: LES, MARTIN AND HENRY
Date: 01 May 1996 11:34:05 -0400

"Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Does anyone have a complete discography of any of these fine
>composers/arrangers(Les Baxter, Martin Denny or Henry Mancini), or know where
>one/some can be found?

Check out Mancini's excellent autobiography "Did They Mention The Music?"
for a discography/filmography up to 1980. It's out of print (and hardcover
only), but check your local library (that's where I found it).

Br. Cleve



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: James Last. yes, James Last!!!
Date: 01 May 1996 19:54:23 +0100

i heard one track by james last on the radio that was COMPLETELY different
from the dreck he usually produces, with lots of african percussion and
wild latin rhythms, really crazy and great! but i don't know the title of
the lp, or the song title; and i haven't found a james last specialist
yet...
(i do know he made an lp called "mystique", but i'm not sure if that is the one)
can anyone of you help identifying this exotica treasure?

Greetings from Johan |)/\|)/\
               [e-mail]           home: Wivina 15, 1702, Belgium
DADA'QUARIUMS "www.ping.be/~ping1241/" has exotica reviews
                                         + exotica/novelty records for sale



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From: Irwin Chusid <[e-mail]>
Subject: WFMU Record Fair May 4-5
Date: 01 May 1996 15:40:04 -0400 (EDT)


THE WFMU SPRING RECORD FAIR
Saturday May 4 - 11 am - 8 pm
Sunday May 5 - 11 am - 7 pm
@ Mary Help of Christians Church, 440 E. 12th St, NY (near Ave. A)
admission $4.00 (special early boid rate: $10 @ 10 AM)

RECORDS, CDS, LIVE BROADCASTING, BEER and CELEBRITY-SIGHTINGS

This is the coolest record fair in the world. Besides having the widest
variety of music (rock, soul, jazz, country, old, new, acoustic, spoken
word, weirdo, ethnic, outsider, vinyl, CD, 45s, 10", etc. etc.), unlike ALL
other record fairs, WFMU's is populated entirely by GOOD-LOOKING DEALERS!
Some are even WOMEN!!!!

Most record fairs, as you know, are plagued with proto-nerds, people
--mostly GUYS and their mousy, tag-along girlfriends--with bad
complexions, poor hygiene, and no fashion sense, who are Socially
Retarded, i.e., people with NO LIVES outside their erotic fixation with
the little holes in 12" albums. When they flip through record bins, they
invariably DROOL on the merchandise.

The WFMU Record Fair boasts smart-looking, sophisticated dealers.  Many
have graduated from high school! Others have kept outside jobs for as long
as two years!! They bathe several times a week!! Besides the great
selection of music, you'll find these dealers OOZING CHARISMA at No Extra
Charge!

SO, if you've been avoiding record fairs because you don't want to
associate with Losers, visit the WFMU Drool-Free Record Fair this weekend.



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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: The Stylophone
Date: 01 May 1996 17:07:38 -0400

"Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>                      RE>>The Stylophone
>I just *want* one, if anyone can tell me price/availability

Availability is impossibly low. Finding one is about as easy as finding a
(RCA or Maestro) Theremin or an Ondioline......not impossible, but very
tough. I asked around in England a year or two ago (where they were made),
and most shop owners laughed out loud. A fellow at the BBC told me that the
demand is far greater than the supply. They weren't the most popular things
in their day.

BTW, when I used to see the Beach Boys back in the early 70's, the
instrument Mike Love played on "Good Vibrations" looked exactly like the
Stylophone (which I hadn't heard of at the time). Can anyone corroborate
that it was?

>what about the avails of DOLOMITE/RUDY RAY MOORE?

Just about all of Rudy Ray's Kent recordings have been back in print for a
number of years now, but on cassette only. The best places to check,
obviously, are record shops in black neighborhoods.

Oddly enough, many Blockbuster Video stores carry Rudy Ray's films (the
city stores, anyway). Rent them all, especially the incredible "Petey
Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-In-Law".

Br.Cleve



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From: Irwin Chusid <[e-mail]>
Subject: Bootleg CDs
Date: 01 May 1996 16:18:41 -0400 (EDT)


SOme recently asked about acquiring those "Limited Edition" CDs which have
been floating around at exotically steep prices; specifically, the Les
Baxter/Harry Revel theremin albums, Martin Denny's Moog album, Hal Blaine,
Leo Diamond, Esquivel '68, etc etc etc--all issued as "two-fers."

Fact is, these are bootlegs, transferred from scuffed vinyl. The perp is
on the loose, but for now, he's been shut down. As to why the majors don't
reissue this stuff--many folks, myself included, have been working on
getting this stuff out legitimately for years. These deals take time (my
Bar/None Esquivel reissues took two years, my Columbia Raymond Scott took
three). But thanks to Mr. Bootlegger, at least one project (can't name the
label) has been scuttled. The label now believes the market has been
served, however badly, by Mr. B's illicit release.

In addition, this scumbag has been depriving artists and composers of
their rightful royalties on sales of these records. And, if it's the
little guy you're concerned about, he screwed an unsuspecting mastering
engineer out of between $8,000-9,000 before he took flight.

If anyone knows the guy's name or can provide leads on his whereabouts, a
number of record labels, publishers, the RIAA, and at least one mastering
plant would appreciate the info. I would too. I'd like to have a little
"chat" with this cretin.


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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: LES, MARTIN AND HENRY
Date: 01 May 1996 18:44:41 -0400

"Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Does anyone have a complete discography of any of these fine
>composers/arrangers(Les Baxter, Martin Denny or Henry Mancini), or know where
>one/some can be found?

Check out Mancini's excellent autobiography "Did They Mention The Music?"
for a discography/filmography up to 1980. It's out of print (and hardcover
only), but check your local library (that's where I found it).

Br. Cleve



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Destroying the American Maois
Date: 02 May 1996 02:57:20 -0400

Heard today that the epic Americana Easter Is Tikis flanking the Tropicana in
Vegas are being demo'd.
Anyone heard details of this travesty?

Meanwhile interest in Tiki builds:

July 10 - September 21
Anaheim Museum hosts
"Native Drums in the Orange Grove"
an exhibit of OC Tiki including hotels, apartments, restaurants and some
Disneyana

241 South Anaheim Boulevard, Anaheim, California
[phone]

Aloha
Otto von Stroheim
Tiki News


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Letters to an editor
Date: 02 May 1996 03:31:08 -0400



Strobe,
Congratulations on being the first to publish a negative review of Exoticon
'95.
I apologize on behalf of myself and my partners for the lack of bar service
and the large crowd. I'd like to point out that we were also unhappy with the
bar but we were FORCED to use this service as part of the agreement to rent
the hall. The bar manager was well aware of the size and type of crowd that
would be attending and we felt beforehand that he would be able to handle the
job because he often does private clubs at the Park Plaza Hotel. We were
wrong.
What I particularly don't understand about your review of the show was your
comment about the promoters "making out like bandits."
First off you must be assuming that we got some take of the bar. We did not.
Or maybe you mean that we made a lot of money at the door because you had to
pay to get in. Obviously several hundred other folks were more than happy to
pay $12.50 ($11 in advance). Keep in mind that Combustible Edison's previous
LA show was higher than this and that was only to see them. Exoticon
attendees also got to see The Phantom Surfers, Joey Altruda Sextet, 5 other
bands, two dance troupes, and 3 djs. Attendees received a free program as
they entered and they could go shopping if they didn't care for the bands
that was playing in the main ballroom. I think it was the Exoticon patrons
who made out like bandits as they hauled off near mint quality copies of
Quiet Village (priced at $5.00!!) with the money they saved at the door.
Besides, it took every spare after-work hour for three months to make this
happen. If you think the payoff was comparable, again, you are wrong.
Lastly, what does the amount of profits to promoters have to do with
reviewing a show anyway? Why don't you include those types of details for
shows at the Whiskey or the Troubadour? Because you are afraid you may not
get free tickets?
You obviously weren't there to enjoy the show otherwise you would have
realized that this was not a crowd of people "trying to relive a movement
that happened before they were even born." Every one of the bands who
performed focus primarily on new, original material and that is what the
crowd came to see. Not to wallow in nostalgia as you try to suggest in your
short review.

Not only did we receive dozens of compliments from folks who attended
(including Matt Groening and Mark Mothersbaugh who each went out of their way
to thank us in person) all of the bands and djs were very happy with the
ENTIRE show.
If you attend this year please introduce yourself. I'll buy you a drink since
it seems to be the deciding factor of whether or not you enjoy the band.

Sincerely,
Otto von Stroheim
Exoticon Productions


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From: [e-mail] (Brad Bigelow)
Subject: "The Song is You"--Frank Sinatra
Date: 02 May 1996 06:07:25 -0400

If you have any interest in studio arrangers like Nelson Riddle or Gordon
Jenkins or studio musicians like Al Viola or Tony Mottola, I highly
recommend checking out Will Friedwald's new book, "Frank Sinatra--The Song
is You."  Even if you're not interested in Sinatra, Friedwald provides more
biographical information on the arrangers, composers, and record labels that
Sinatra worked with than any other author I've come across.  He discusses
things like the background of the tune, "Fly Me to the Moon" (originally a
waltz number known as "In Other Words" until Sinatra reshaped it.  Friedwald
does tend to put all other singers several steps below his idol Frank, but
you can overlook that given the wealth of material never before presented.

Brad Bigelow
[e-mail]


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From: Joerg Nijmeijer <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: James Last. yes, James Last!!!
Date: 02 May 1996 16:52:50 +0200

At 19:54 01.05.96 +0100, you wrote:
>i heard one track by james last on the radio that was COMPLETELY different
>from the dreck he usually produces, with lots of african percussion and
>wild latin rhythms, really crazy and great! but i don't know the title of
>the lp, or the song title; and i haven't found a james last specialist
>yet...
>(i do know he made an lp called "mystique", but i'm not sure if that is the
one)
>can anyone of you help identifying this exotica treasure?


hi,

it could be "Se A Cado" from the LP "Voodoo Party" ...
This track can also be found on Mojo #3 ...

peace,

joerg


-"Censorship is a very unfunky thing"-


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From: "Dan `Lounge Lieutenant' Gresham" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: James Last. yes, James Last!!!
Date: 02 May 1996 16:25:58 +0100 (BST)

On Wed, 1 May 1996, Johan Dada Vis wrote:

> i heard one track by james last on the radio that was COMPLETELY different
> from the dreck he usually produces, with lots of african percussion and
> wild latin rhythms, really crazy and great! but i don't know the title of
> the lp, or the song title; and i haven't found a james last specialist
> yet...
> (i do know he made an lp called "mystique", but i'm not sure if that
> is the one) can anyone of you help identifying this exotica treasure?
>
> Greetings from Johan

I don't know about this, but James Last did release an _amazing_ version
of Aquarius - on The Very Best of James Last. It's out of this world. A
kicking bass line and drum beat, and heavily phased strings and brass.
It's a real winner. I don't rate much of the stuff he did, but this is
great (I think his Winchester Cathedral is pretty nice too, though...)

Take it easy,



Dan


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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: MUSIC FOR A BACHELOR'S DEN not available?
Date: 02 May 1996 19:50:46 +0100

>From: [e-mail]
>Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 01:50:47 -0400
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: MUSIC FOR A BACHELOR'S DEN not available?
>
>We sell all of our CD mail order, especially Bachelor Den Volumes 2 through
>6!!
>Just call 800 301 MUSIC and whip out your Visa.  They are on sale for only
>$10.00 each mail order only, regularly $12.98.  When you call ask for a free
>catalog.  Or call and get a catalog and then mail a check.
>
>Who are these idiots at AB CD?  Tell them to call their Passport Distribution
>representative and get them!!

Greetings from Johan |)/\|)/\
               [e-mail]           home: Wivina 15, 1702, Belgium
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                                         + exotica/novelty records for sale



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From: Daneel Olivaw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: help me with lenny dee
Date: 02 May 1996 16:01:28 +0600

Here is an updated Lenny Dee discography:

DL 74112 "Golden Organ Favorites"
DL 74146 "Happy Holi-Dee"
DL 74429 "By Popular Dee-Mand"
DL 74498 "Something Special"
DL 74315 "Lenny Dee in Hollywood!"
DL 74365 "Lenny Dee Down South"
DL 74572 "Most Requested"
DL 74632 "Sweethearts on Parade"
DL 74654 "The Lenny Dee Tour"
DL 78796 "Mellow-Dee"
DL 78857 "Lenny Dee Plays the Hits"
DL 78913 "The Lenny Dee Show"
DL 78978 "Songs Everybody Knows"
DL  4706 "My Favorite Things"
DL  8114 "Dee-Lightful!"
DL  8165 "Dee-Lirious"
DL  8275 "Dee-Licious"
DL  8308 "Dee-Most!"
DL  8406 "Hi-Dee-Fi"
DL  8497 "Mr. Dee Goes to Town"
DL  8718 "Dee-Latin"

As Jeff said, the 5-digit DL numbers that begin with 7 are in stereo and the
last four digits is the number for the mono version.  I suspect that the one
that I have (My Favorite Things) has a 74706 corresponding release, but
since I have no way of proving that, I thought it would be best if I didn't
assume it.  The others that I added to Jeff's list were on the back of My
Favorite Things.  Keep adding on, guys!

Emmett Pepper
TT3MM3


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From: Phil Clark <[e-mail]>
Subject: Dick Hyman (second try)
Date: 03 May 1996 07:12:39 -0700

Hi all

This is the second attempt at mailing this message in - the first one
doesn't seem to have ever appeared on the mailing list!

Went to see the new Woody Allen movie the other week, "MIghty
Aphrodite", and as the credits rolled I noticed that connected with the
music score was none other than a certain Dick Hyman, specifically with
a harmony choir who appear at the end of the film. Could this be the
same Dick Hyman as he who made all those groo-vee Moog albums in the
early 70s? Does anyone know for sure?

On another tack, UK readers who have seen BBC2's "Home Front" DIY
show just lately might have noticed that whoever picks the music for
same has certainly been out there buying those space age pop reissues.
for example Esquivel accompanying how-to-paint-your-floor !!

keep on groovin

Phil
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: Re: Dick Hyman
Date: 03 May 1996 08:13:32 -0600 (MDT)

     Also noticed that a certain Dick Hyman was music supervisor
     on "Radio Days" and often wondered if he was one and the
     same.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Bootlegs & New Releases
Date: 03 May 1996 13:56:20 -0400

Thanks for your warning about the bootleg twofers.  Could you tell me which
ones to avoid besides the ones you mentioned?  I do not want to contribute to
this despicable situation.

I know there was a spirited discussion back in December about this subject
and someone had defended the right to produce & sell Les Baxter boots at the
time.  Right here on the exotica page!   I thought he was defending the
indefensible by ripping off people and using inferior sources such as scuffy
vinyl.  Another cretin.

I want ligitimate releases taken directly from the master tapes (when they
exist) and some sort of compensation and royalties sent to the artist for
their work.  With all the releases comming out by exotica artists, there
shouldn't be as big a demand for bootlegs as there was.  But I guess some
people are desperate.

I also heard that you be reissuing the Three (or is it Four) Suns releases
for the fall.  Can you tell us what your plans are?  Thanks and I look
forward to hearing from you.

Bryan


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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: miracles and vox
Date: 03 May 1996 13:06:47 -0400

                                          1:00 PM             5/3/96

I'm searching for two records, in vain:

1.  MIRACLES(les baxter and yma sumac)

2.  The "Vox" demo record, released in the 1960s, with either THE ELECTRIC
PRUNES or  a band pretending to  be them...

also, any mailing lists out there that deal in weird 60s rock(like the
aforementioned record?)

Anxiously,
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: miracles and vox
Date: 03 May 1996 12:36:02 PST

     Good luck with Miracles! It was released on London in the mid-70s and
     is quite rare. It's the only Yma record I'm missing (It's easier to
     find the Coral 10" of her early stuff!)

     The Vox commercial is The Electric Prunes. It was originally issued on
     a 7" to radio stations in 1966. It is available on Pebbles Vol. 2 (CD
     and vinyl). You can get that through Bomp, Get Hip, Anti, etc.



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                                          1:00 PM             5/3/96

I'm searching for two records, in vain:

1.  MIRACLES(les baxter and yma sumac)

2.  The "Vox" demo record, released in the 1960s, with either THE ELECTRIC
PRUNES or  a band pretending to  be them...

also, any mailing lists out there that deal in weird 60s rock(like the
aforementioned record?)

Anxiously,
[e-mail]



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: This theme will self destruct...
Date: 03 May 1996 20:44:48 -0500

MAJOR CHEESE ALERT!!!!

if you have not encountered the Adam Clayton/Larry Mullens mangling of the
"Mission Impossible" theme, then by all means avoid it like generic gin. to
say this is an affront to the genius of Lalo is an understatement. i mean,
HOW IN HELL can you screw up such a perfect theme? well 1/2 of U2 prove how
(with assistance from a few remixers)...don't even bother...


on other crass marketing notes...check Vik's this weekend for the latest
attempt by a major to co-opt our beloved Space Age Pop. i'll leave it
say...Space Age Bachelor Classical...and let you view the cheesy marketing
plan after it gets the first "Shrine of the Living Unhip Award".

finally...while sworn to secrecy...recently saw the track listing to the
second volume of one of this year's hippest collections...all i can say is
it looks to be even more swank than the first...any more and i will fear
for my life...

spring is here and that means blender season!!!





i remain...
Vik Trola


Vik Trola's Lounge Of Self Indulgence
http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: WFMU Record Fair May 4-5
Date: 04 May 1996 00:17:18 -0400

Wouldn't you know it, I'm going to be out of town this weekend (the Letterman
show is going to San Francisco for a week.)  Damn.  Sounds like happy hunting
grounds for my kinds of records.  And of course, I wouldn't mind a flock of
vinyl dealers almost as easy on the eyes as myself.
Have a good show,
Steve


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From: ML Compton <[e-mail]>
Subject: Unidentified subject!
Date: 03 May 1996 23:00:08 -0700

Howdy to whomever may be out there,

I just subscribed to this list. I'm looking for some information.
Does anybody know the release order of all the Yma Sumac records.
Years would be helpful also.

Thanks,
--ML COMPTON
THIS WEEK'S HIGH POINTS - The albums "Hawaii" by THE HIGH LLAMAS and
"Change My Life" by EPIC SOUNDTRACKS. Steely Dan, Harry Nilsson, John
Lennon and Brian Wilson still live on these albums! PROLAPSE !LIVE!
with Stereolab. The comic book "One Life Furnished In Early Moorcock
(Elric #0)" by NEIL GAIMAN and P.CRAIG RUSSELL. It's for anyone who
had a favorite author as a kid. QUOTE OF THE WEEK - "I want to be a
woman, a good Muslim and listen to the B-52s loud. I don't see any
contradiction in that." - ZAINAH ANWAR, Sister of Islam, Malaysia.


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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: the mystery bonus track on "Shaken not stirred" cd
Date: 04 May 1996 19:45:11 +0100

is "James Bond Theme" by the James Bond Sextet

Greetings from Johan |)/\|)/\
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From: BROGDON <[e-mail]>
Subject: Want to buy "Fantastica"/Russ Garcia
Date: 04 May 1996 13:42:11 -0500 (CDT)


Anybody know where/how I can get a copy of "Fantastica" by Russ Garcia?  Will
spring for CD or LP.  The CD was apparently out on a Japanese label but I'm
having trouble getting it.  Anybody out there have this for sale stateside?

Darrell Brogdon
<[e-mail]>


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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (Fwd) Re: Dick Hyman (second try)
Date: 04 May 1996 17:55:11 -0600 (MDT)

Phil -

One and the same!  Dick Hyman has written and played music for a lot
of Woody Allen movies.

I'm going to be faxing off a bundle of questions to Dick for my
Enoch Light WWW site soon and I'll let you know when there's something
there to read!


Robbie

Spaced Out - The Enoch Light WWW Site *** *** *** *** *** ***
*** *** *** *** ***  http://www-edin.easynet.co.uk/rcb/light/



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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: SPACE SAFARI
Date: 05 May 1996 15:29:26 -0600 (MDT)

Announcing the imminent arrival of suave new listening ambience
- SPACE SAFARI.

Starting here in Edinburgh on Sunday 19 May (9pm - 1am), this
new (monthly?) club of mine will aim to take you to the limits
of audio fidelity and, through the use of the latest techniques
of stereo recording, convince you that you really are listening
to actual music.

To ensure that your listening enjoyment is kept to this high
standard, there will also be periodic stereo tests of your ears
(including 10kHz test signals especially for the ladies).

Dress code is strictly: formal astro-suit / private dick / ballgown
from Dimenson X or naked (with silver body paint).

But perhaps the best part ladies and gentlemen is that - it's FREE!

So, hoppers, if you value your reputation - be there!


Robbie


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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Day of the Bizarre Record...
Date: 05 May 1996 15:29:26 -0600 (MDT)

Hi all -

Felt I just had to write as today's car boot sale yielded three
utterly strange records:-

1. Stethoscopic Heart Record

   Yep, an LP of heartbeats.

   The best part is the instructions on how best to listen to it:

   "This record is best listened to with a stethoscope.  Sit
    comfortably with the ear piece in place and simply hold the
    chest piece in your hand (one seems to hear better with one's
    eyes closed)."

   !!!

2.  Music and Bird Songs: Sounds from Nature, with Commentary and
    Analysis - presented by CBS Music Supervisor James Fassett.

    "The voices of ten birds and six frogs are heard on this record
     at their natural speed; then some are slowed down, as much as
     eight times.  Some of the melodies that result have an unearthly
     beauty; others are weird and strange."

    Too right! - some of the results sound like something Bebe and Louis
    Barron might have cooked up.

3.  The Great Stalacpipe Organ 7" (presented by Luray Caverns Virginia)

    "Stalactite after stalactite have been tuned by a grinding process
     to concert pitch.  Each one is equipped with a striking mechanism,
     a rubber-tipped plunger that, fired by the impulse of an electric
     discharge, strikes the stalactite and brings forth a musical tone.

     ... selections were played by Mr Sprinkle and by the 'robot
     organist'."

    Anyone heard about this?!  As you might gather from the above
    description, the result sounds less organ like and more ethereal
    piano... Truly strange.

And after listening to that lot, I felt distinctly transported to
another realm!


Robbie
Spaced Out - the Enoch Light WWW Site *** *** *** ***
*** *** ***  http://www-edin.easynet.co.uk/rcb/light/


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Want to buy "Fantastica"/Russ Garcia
Date: 05 May 1996 19:04:01 -0400

They had a copy of FANTATICA at Medium Rare Records here in San Francisco (on
Market Street - call information for the number, they do orders over the
phone).  I inquired about it and they noted that they had sold their one copy
but they could order another (it was an import).  But they also noted the
import was quite expensive (about $30) and I might be better off waiting for
a domestic release.  Still, they indicated they could get it if I wanted to
fork over the cash and was content to wait a bit.  Good hunting...


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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Combustible Europe
Date: 05 May 1996 20:07:41 -0400

Hello

For all our friends in Europe, Combustible Edison is pleased to announce
the dates of their first European tour. Check out our web site (foundwithin
"The bands" at http://www.subpop.com) for updates. Sorry about not listing
the venues, but if you're in any of these cities, I'm sure you'll find us.

>>>May 9 London
>>>10 Amsterdam
>>>11 Krefeld, Germany
>>>12 Antwerp, Belgium
>>>13 Hamburg, Germany
>>>14 Bochum, Germany
>>>15 Bielefeld, Germany
>>>16 Koln, Germany
>>>18 Berlin
>>>19 Bremen Germany
>>>20 Offenbach
>>>22 Paris
>>>24 Barcelona, Spain
>>>25 Madrid, Spain
>>>26 Valencia, Spain
>>>28 Basel, Switzerland
>>>29 Zurich, Switzerland
>>>30 Bern, Switzerland
>>>31 Lausanne, Switzerland
>>>June 1 Freiburg, Germany
>>>2 Ulm, Germany
>>>4 Vienna, Austria
>>>5 Linz, Austria
>>>6 Schorndorf, Germany
>>>7 Munchen, Germany
>>>8 Marburg, Germany
>>>10 London

cheers! a votre sante!  salud!  prosit!

br cleve



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Rudy Ray Moore on CD
Date: 05 May 1996 21:20:56 -0400

On Sun, May 5, 1996, Brother Cleve wrote:

>Just about all of Rudy Ray's Kent recordings have been back in print for a
>number of years now, but on cassette only. The best places to check,
>obviously, are record shops in black neighborhoods.

Actually, I have a CD of Rudy's "Good Ole Big Ones" on Kent with a 1995
copyright.  It's much better than the recent Greatest Hits package, IMO.

Also IMO, Brother Cleve's track on the new Mancini tribute is tres tasty.

Arn
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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Space Safari
Date: 06 May 1996 04:51:13 -0600 (MDT)

Robbie,

Couldn't send this message to you directly, got an error. I actually live in
Glasgow (DJ too) and you made no mention of where your club actually is.
Where should I go? Sounds interesting (although I'm not too into dress codes).

Thanks!

Jill "Mingo-go" Mingo


Colloquium Internet


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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: lenny dee
Date: 06 May 1996 20:08:13 +0100

i found a couple of uk released lenyy dee albums:

"Georgy girl" (Decca super sound stereo SSS108) which has 4 or 5 ok tracks
"turn around look at me" (MCA MUPS 379) which sucks

= Johan |)/\|)/\



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Want to buy "Fantastica"/Russ Garcia
Date: 06 May 1996 20:08:22 +0100

        BROGDON <[e-mail]> asked:

>Anybody know where/how I can get a copy of "Fantastica" by Russ Garcia?  Will
>spring for CD or LP.  The CD was apparently out on a Japanese label but I'm
>having trouble getting it.  Anybody out there have this for sale stateside?

Banzaii has it: "http://www.lainet.com/~cdbanzai/"... for $40 :(
i DO hope this is released in the us soon!

= Johan |)/\|)/\

Greetings from Johan |)/\|)/\
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Subject: retransmitting for phil
Date: 06 May 1996 16:21:17 -0400

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                      RE>Dick Hyman (second try)                   5/5/96

Hi!  I sort of know Dick Hyman(we both live in FL and I've interviewed him.)
He also composed and arranged scores for EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT
SEX, ZELIG, AND BULLETS OVER BROADWAY(Btw, he had a bit part in there.)
Anything else?
[e-mail]

Hi all

This is the second attempt at mailing this message in - the first one
doesn't seem to have ever appeared on the mailing list!

Went to see the new Woody Allen movie the other week, "MIghty
Aphrodite", and as the credits rolled I noticed that connected with the
music score was none other than a certain Dick Hyman, specifically with
a harmony choir who appear at the end of the film. Could this be the
same Dick Hyman as he who made all those groo-vee Moog albums in the
early 70s? Does anyone know for sure?

On another tack, UK readers who have seen BBC2's "Home Front" DIY
show just lately might have noticed that whoever picks the music for
same has certainly been out there buying those space age pop reissues.
for example Esquivel accompanying how-to-paint-your-floor !!

keep on groovin

Phil
[e-mail]





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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Combustible Europe
Date: 06 May 1996 21:01:50 -0400

The Europeans are truly lucky to be graced by Com Ed's fabulousness...
My girlfriend Lacey and I were lucky enough to catch the band's recent show
in New Orleans, and we were treated to evening that transended music and lept
into true, unmittigated ecstasy.
Special thanks are due to Brother Cleve and Miss Lily Banquette (she
complimented my tie!) for being kind enough to chat with us post-show, and to
The Millionaire, who was kind enough to call me on his own dime to do an
interview the next day...
Which brings me to my own crass commercialism:
The next issue of PIGEONHOLE (my zine) should be out in 2-3 weeks and this is
the "Sophistication" issue featuring interviews with Combustible Edison, Love
Jones, a large piece on Lounge Culture, a piece on why Henry Mancini's work
isn't fluff, a guide to fine wine and a woman's view of Bachelor Pad music.
Plus: Interviews with Spot and Who Hit John, a first-person account of what
really goes on inside funeral homes, tons of reviews, fiction and more.
As an added bonus, Issue #2 also features an exclusive cover by and interview
with Poster Artist Frank Kozik.
You can check out our someone bare web site at
http://www.angelfire.com/free/pigeonhole.html

Exotically Yours,
Mike Ensley
PIGEONHOLE Magazine


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From: "Desmond K. Hill" <[e-mail]>
Subject: _electric__ shocks
Date: 07 May 1996 12:29:11 +0000

        Latest issue out now & available free to subscribers.

        E C L E C T R I C I T Y is an e-zine supplying back-up data about
tracks programmed on radio &/or played at parties in/around the
Newcastle-upon-Tyne area. It's freely available to subscribers & is simply
a means of responding to audience interest. (To subscribe just e-mail
'subscribe' in the message body, to [e-mail]).

        __electric__ has been described as "an eclectic, eccentric new
music show." It's purposefully designed for armchair travellers, headphone
beatniks and insomniacs. With a series of late evening programmes we drawn
upon an audio addiction that recognises only enthusiastic eclecticism, and
is both waiting and willing to take risks. We use radio practically as a
medium for conveying mood music and generally rather sound sound works at
the edges of experimentation. Stay tuned.



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From: [e-mail] (Brad Bigelow)
Subject: Re: Dick Hyman (second try)
Date: 06 May 1996 05:47:43 -0400

>Went to see the new Woody Allen movie the other week, "MIghty
>Aphrodite", and as the credits rolled I noticed that connected with the
>music score was none other than a certain Dick Hyman, specifically with
>a harmony choir who appear at the end of the film. Could this be the
>same Dick Hyman as he who made all those groo-vee Moog albums in the
>early 70s? Does anyone know for sure?

This is the same guy.  Dick Hyman has been the musical director for most of
Woody Allen's movies since the late 1970s.  His best original score work was
for "Zelig."  Aside from film work, Hyman has concentrated on jazz and
performances of works by jazz greats such as Fats Waller and James P.
Johnson.  Hyman is a musical chameleon (ala Zelig) who was profiled in The
Atlantic Magazine last year.

Brad Bigelow
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Recent Esquivel discovery
Date: 07 May 1996 13:31:44 -0400

I just picked up a copy of "Otros Mundos, Otros Sonidos" (Other Worlds, Other
Sounds) in mono.  The cover has the same illustration of the prancing woman
with her red scarf.  However, the background on this Mexican pressing is an
otherworldly yellow green.  Not as pretty as the U.S. cover, if I do say so
myself.

Currently I'm still missing from my collection the maestro's first and last
albums: "To Love Again" and "Esquivel '68."  I have everything in between,
including a copy of "The Genius of Esquivel" which Juan Garcia autographed "I
hope you will enjoy this Mrs. O'Conner, Sincerely, Esquivel"!

Any more news (Brother Cleve) on the "See it in Sound" recording?

Pete Moruzzi


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re[2]: Recent Esquivel discovery
Date: 07 May 1996 10:54:22 PST

     Last Sunday, I picked up a mono version of the "Latin-Esque" album. It
     does not have the die-cut sleeve, but the front pretty much resembles
     the stereo version. There is what looks like a gold sticker (that is
     actually printed on the jacket) that says something like "Now
     available on Hi Fidelity at a regular price". I had no idea that this
     album was available in mono! Haven't had a chance to listen to it yet.

     I traded a copy of Johnny Rebel's "Kajun Klu Klux Klan", that I had
     just found moments earlier for $3.00, for the Esquivel mono. Swap
     meets are fun!


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Want to buy "Fantastica"/Russ Garcia
Date: 08 May 1996 16:50:46 -0400

This is one album that seems to crop up from time to time on the exotica
page.  I think that Capitol/EMI owns the masters to this album, so the
chances that it will be released in it's original form aren't very good.
 CEMA seems to have other plans and my guess is the Russ Garcia album isn't
one of them.  I hope I'm wrong.

Bryan


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From: james b gerwitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: Karloff's Thriller Music
Date: 08 May 1996 16:21:32 -0700

Recently discovered the 60's "Thriller" shows being rerun on the Sci-Fi =
cable channel at midnight PST on Thurs, Fri, & Sat.  While the Pete =
Rugolo theme music is great, so is the rest of the music during the =
show, with lots of atmospheric creepy jazz (the child murderer music was =
especially unnerving). Recent shows were scored by Rugolo and Jerry =
Goldsmith, and in the most memorable,  bandleader John Ireland stole =
some voodoo music and wrote a Mingus-like "Voodoo Rhapsody".  Of course =
he paid the price, but there was at least 10-15 minutes of wild voodoo =
music. The stories are pretty good too, more malevolent than The =
Twilight Zone, and Boris was still a powerful presence.  Highly =
recommended !


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From: [e-mail] (Brad Bigelow)
Subject: Ray Conniff is still at it
Date: 09 May 1996 06:02:27 -0400

Ray Conniff must have found not only the formula for easy-listening success
but also for longevity.  He just put out a CD on Sony (CDZ-81650) titled
"40th Anniversary" that features his trademark
vocal-chorus-as-brass-and-reed-section sound as well as Ray himself on
trombone (which is no small feat for a guy pushing 80).  It's all Latin
material, including that old war horse, "Girl from Ipanema."  Sounds like a
slice of 70s Europop.

Brad Bigelow
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From: [e-mail] (Brad Bigelow)
Subject: Exotica Literature
Date: 09 May 1996 06:08:57 -0400

How about some suggestions for exotica literature?  What would one read
while "Ritual of the Savage" or "Mr. Lucky Goes Latin" plays in the background?

A few of my candidates:

        Warren Miller's "The Cool World"
        Bernard Wolfe's "The Late Risers" or other novels
        Phillip K. Dick's mainstream novels
        Ian Fleming's James Bond novels

Any others?  Mickey Spillane?  Any jungle exotica books?

Brad Bigelow
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Francis Lai - A Man and A Woman/Live for Life soundtrack twofer
Date: 09 May 1996 19:24:33 -0400

DRG has just released a twofer of Francis Lai soundtracks for "Un Homme et
Une Femme" (A Man & A Woman) and "Live for Life".  Not only was the former
the Grand Prixe Winner, 1966 Cannes Film Festival, but it contained that
popular title "la la la la" theme that seems to stick in one's head like
glue.  I didn't care to much for the rest of the soundtrack for it is mostly
vocals sung in french.

The "Live for Life" (1967) soundtrack is another story though.  Great mood
music with plenty of hammond organ and strings with few vocals.  Really odd,
light stuff.  I like.  Should be readily available at record stores or
through mail order.

Bryan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Exotica Literature
Date: 09 May 1996 22:25:50 -0400

On the subject of Exotica Literature, I recently posted to the Mystery
Newsgroup requesting scenes of Tiki Bars in hard boiled mysteries (as the
heydey of the paperback original mystery and Tiki culture were coeval).  I
had run across a great Tiki Bar description in Charles Willeford's
Camus-esque THE PICKUP (including a band that played the Theremin?!), and
then saw a reference in a Ross MacDonald book to the Tiki Bowl that used to
exist in LA (whatta concept!  I'd join a league if it was at a Tiki Bowl).
 Recently I came across a novel by Noel Coward from the early 60s, titled
POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE set in a fictional South Pacific island, Samola that
seemed perfectly in keeping with the Polynesian Pop mystique.  Another
Willeford novel, WILD WIVES (reissued in the late 80s by RE/Search, and
recently remaindered) has a cool scene in a bar with a band that sounds
almost like The Three Suns (guitar, accordion, percussion) that the
protagonist tips to play Duke Ellington's "I've Got it Bad" 30 times in a
row.  Suave.  I suspect that Richard Prather's Shell Scott mysteries (which
were a slightly parodic variation on the Mickey Spillane style) would be
perfect for the more extravagent space age pop variations.  Also, I'd
recommend any fantasy fiction of the Lost World genre - very similar in
intent to the exotica impule.  A.M. Merrit's novels,    H. Rider Haggard's
SHE and ALLEN QUARTERMAIN, and E.R. Burroughs Tarzan novels that take place
in the lost city of Opar.

If anybody remembers any Tiki Bar scenes in fiction they've read, please
e-mail me with the reference - the list will go in the Tiki Times.


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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: "The Song is You"--Frank Sinatra
Date: 09 May 1996 21:51:00 -0600 (MDT)

> If you have any interest in studio arrangers like Nelson Riddle or Gordon
> Jenkins or studio musicians like Al Viola or Tony Mottola, I highly
> recommend checking out Will Friedwald's new book, "Frank Sinatra--The Song
> is You."

Ooo, Brad, this is scary -- I'm reading exotica (as opposed to just
fretting about the mail problems) for the first time in a month and when
your post came up the Reprise Collection version of "The Song Is You" was
playing on the stereo . . . :-)

I've been hemming and hawing over buying this book for months, and even had
it in my hands when I was at Borders on my lunch break yesterday . . .

--
::: Lazlo ([e-mail]; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)


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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: help needed for my exotica releases overview
Date: 09 May 1996 19:33:34 +0100

i've split up the whole list into sections by genre; these are the sections:

blues_&_R&B
cartoon
celebrities
contemporay
covers
easy_&_kitsch
ethnic
exotic
exotic_&_lounge_&_SAP (compilations)
film_&_TV
guitars_&_strings
ISM
jazz
Moog_&_electronics
novelty
novelty_covers
orchestral_&_classical
other_featured_instruments (accordion...)
percussion
R&R
Space_Age_Pop
vocals
xmas

and these are some artists/records that i have difficulty with filing:

John Barry      The EMI Years Volume 1, 2 & 3 -----> spy?
Quincy Jones    Big Band Bossa Novas
                Plays (Music) For Pussy Cats
                Plays The Hip Hits
Nancy Sinatra   Boots
                How does that grab you ?
                Nancy in London
Scott Walker    Scott Two

any help is appreciated!

= Johan |)/\|)/\



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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Morton Gould
Date: 10 May 1996 01:53:52 -0500

Any opinions on the re-releases?  I just saw at least six or seven
bonus track-less cds besides Jungle Drums and am curious as to
whether this stuff is really that good.  On vinyl I only have
Temptation, which I like mainly for it's cover.  So how about it, do
these LPs merit separate re-releases?

Also, any news from the WFMU record fair?

Also, also, if anyone knows how to obtain the soundtrack from the
Quay Brothers' "Institute Benjamenta" I'd be very grateful if they'd
pass that information on.  Saw it for the second time this evening -
I hope it gives me nightmares..

kevin king
[e-mail]
http://www.radix.net/~xanadu


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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Exotica Literature
Date: 10 May 1996 02:00:11 -0500

How about sabpm as a background for Don DeLillo?  I'm thinking of
White Noise or Players.

kevin king
[e-mail]
http://www.radix.net/~xanadu


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From: "Batutis, Joe" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "The Song is You"--Frank Sinatra
Date: 10 May 1996 09:40:42 EST

I read this book and recommend it highly. Made me appreciate the merits of the
musicians, composers and arrangers all the more.

Well written and entertaining. I'd say it's the most readable book on music
making I've ever read. (well, maybe a tie with Last Train to Memphis)

Anyone out there read his other book on jazz singing?



-Joe B.

Insert shameless plug for Odd Music Page here:
http://www.amexpub.com/jbatutis/noddmusic/oddmusic.html




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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs (lengthy!)
Date: 10 May 1996 09:34:10 -0600 (MDT)


I largely sat out of the lengthy "debate" about CD boots earlier this
year, largely because I thought there was nothing really to "debate".

But since I was cc'ed by Irwin Chusid - yes it was I who was asking
about the availbility of these CDs - I thought I'd better respond!

> Fact is, these are bootlegs, transferred from scuffed vinyl.

At the risk of incriminating myself(!) I have two of these CDs - and,
in my ears, the sound quality isn't much/any different to that of,
say, the Incredibly Strange CDs which were also mastered from occasionally
crackly vinyl (and of course in many cases this is the only way to
get CD issues made, the original tapes having long since disappeared).
In fact, I quite like the CD player producing crackles and pops now
and again!

> The perp is on the loose, but for now, he's been shut down. As to why the
> majors don't reissue this stuff--many folks, myself included, have
> been working on getting this stuff out legitimately for years. These
> deals take time (my Bar/None Esquivel reissues took two years, my
> Columbia Raymond Scott took three). But thanks to Mr. Bootlegger, at
> least one project (can't name the label) has been scuttled. The
> label now believes the market has been served, however badly, by Mr.
> B's illicit release.

My congratulations to you Irwin on your efforts to get these
classics reissued (and good luck with the Three Suns catalogue!), but
this seems fairly strange logic on the part of the labels: if these
CD boots have indeed been pressed in editions of only 1,000 then how
can this be seen to be "serving the market"?!  Either the label
concerned has very low hopes for any issue it might have released or
perhaps there are more than 1,000 copies of each of the CDs in circulation...

Whatever the case, this sounds like sour grapes from the legit labels
who are in fact just paying the price for being hopelessly slow in
catching on to the new popularity of this music.  Surely a more mature
response would be to recognise this demand and either issue the same
thing much cheaper, thereby undermining (and putting out of business)
the bootlegger (and, believe me, I would *much* prefer to buy a legit
copy - better quality and money going to the artist/estate), or capitalise
on these releases (and this new found popularity of the genre) and dig
another, possibly related, gem up from the vaults - there's not exactly
a dearth of material from the 50s and 60s needing to be dusted down and
reissued (Dick Schory, Enoch Light, Dick Hyman etc etc etc)!!!

> SOme recently asked about acquiring those "Limited Edition" CDs which
> have been floating around at exotically steep prices...

Actually, I think that paying 20-30 pounds for, say, the "Music Out of
the Moon" CD (which I *don't* have by the way!) is preferable to buying
a copy of the original for $100 (as seen on the Vinyl Lives list recently).

And this brings me to the main point which I feel demolishes the
whole argument - and this point was made in the earlier debate:
no-one seems to be too bothered about people making big (or even
quite reasonable) bucks out of second-hand dealing - and the original
artists are certainly not seeing any of this accumulating profit each
time the record changes hands - how is this *any* different from a
boot CD?!  In the case of the original changing hands, yes the artist
gets the money the first time it was bought but nothing after that.
In the case of the CD boot, the artist get the money from the LP the
first time it was bought and nothing after that either!

If there is no difference and you all feel strongly about this issue, then
we should be as scornful of dealers as we are of booters - personally, I
think both are performing an excellent service in keeping interest in
and enthusiasm for this music alive.

The other main argument in favour of these CDs revolves round an old
chestnut: does anyone in the UK remember that pathetic "home taping is
killing music" argument sponsored by the major labels in the early 80s?
What struck me then as stupid (and which I feel is just as relevant
here) is that it is precisely those people who tape loads of records,
exchange them with friends and even buy live bootlegs that keep the
music industry fat and healthy - these are the fanatics, the people who
buy everything they can get their hands on by a particular artist.  You
can be sure that your average punter isn't going to be interested in, let
alone track down, copies of these boot CDs.  Anyone who's bought a copy
of the "Exotic Moog" CD for example will almost certainly already own huge
swathes of exotica and bachelor pad music - both original and CD
reissue, these latter purchases benefitting the artist directly of
course.  In other words, sales of these CDs *do* benefit the artist,
albeit indirectly.

[But of course, remember that, to return to the previous point, even
 someone with a huge collection of thrift store raids benefits the original
 recording artist NOT ONE CENT!]

> In addition, this scumbag has been depriving artists and composers of
> their rightful royalties on sales of these records.

As above, I have my doubts that there are actually any differences between
these CD boots and multi-generation original copies which spiral in
"value".

> And, if it's the little guy you're concerned about, he screwed an
> unsuspecting mastering engineer out of between $8,000-9,000 before
> he took flight.

Fine point - I certainly am not condoning direct thievery and this is
terrible behaviour - this is a much stronger argument for boycotting
the CDs than any copyright breaking argument as all that lies behind
that argument in my eyes is major label greed to have a slice of the pie.

I hope that makes my views clearer!

My mind is not a closed space and I welcome anyone's views/ideas
which might move me more in Irwin's direction.  Let's not turn this
list into the arena of hate mail it was in danger of being earlier
this year!!! Put on the Three Suns' "Swingin' on a Star" and smile!


Robbie



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: The A to Z of British TV themes
Date: 10 May 1996 19:25:48 +0100

can any British reader of this list tell something about

"The A to Z of British TV themes volume 1 -> 3" (Play it Again)

does this contain spy/crime stuff as on "the easy project" or "the sound
gallery"?

= Johan |)/\|)/\



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: The Exotic Beatles
Date: 10 May 1996 19:25:58 +0100

I've just added the sleeve notes of vol 1 & 2 to my home page. Jim Phelan
of exotica records told me there will be a third volume later this year!
He also has a message for you all:

        We have in our vaults in excess of 1000 cover versions of fab 4 tracks,
        but we are constantly searching for more previously undiscovered gems;
        exotic, bizarre or simply charming interpretations of Beatles songs.
        To this end we would welcome any suggestions, recordings or information
        that might help in compiling further volumes. Please send any of the
        above or the following to the Exotica address: bag pipes, steel band,
        musical box, classical, jazz, Chinese, Russian, Welch etc, etc,
        versions... thank you.

The address is on my home page too, with the track listings.

DADA'QUARIUMS: "http://www.ping.be/~ping1241/index.html"

= Johan |)/\|)/\



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From: Dan Gresham <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: your mail
Date: 10 May 1996 18:40:23 +0100 (BST)


On Fri, 10 May 1996, Robbie said:

----snip----
> Actually, I think that paying 20-30 pounds for, say, the "Music Out of
> the Moon" CD (which I *don't* have by the way!) is preferable to buying
> a copy of the original for $100 (as seen on the Vinyl Lives list recently).
----snip----

My personal feeling is that putting out CD reissues of super rare things
like this undermines the market, and really pisses of people who have the
dedication to save up for the original. Nothing annoys me more as a dj
than spending weeks or months searching for a track, only for it to be
put out on some compilation, or for it to be reissued on some cd. This
might be viewed as snobbery, and it can be argued that this music should
be enjoyed by everybody, but that's just my personal opinion.

Dan


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From: Mark Freitas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: snobbery
Date: 10 May 1996 16:42:26

>undermines the market

Is that all it is these days?

I guess the market value of my exotica collection is way up there these days
since I've been collecting this stuff for about a decade.  Maybe I should just
cash in  - everyone else seems to be...
<set sarcasm="OFF">

My biggest annoyance of late is that one of my hobbies has been turned into
some dumb hipster fad, complete with all sorts of dumb rules.  I guess it'll
all be over by the end of the summer though.


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From: [e-mail] (Peter Principle)
Subject: Jim Fassett
Date: 10 May 1996 13:07:29 -0400

Robbie Baldock recently mentioned

>  Music and Bird Songs: Sounds from Nature, with Commentary and
>    Analysis - presented by CBS Music Supervisor James Fassett.
>
>    "The voices of ten birds and six frogs are heard on this record
>     at their natural speed; then some are slowed down, as much as
>     eight times.  Some of the melodies that result have an unearthly
>     beauty; others are weird and strange."
>
>    Too right! - some of the results sound like something Bebe and Louis
>    Barron might have cooked up.

Yes Jim Fassett is extremely important to me.
When I was young, before we had a television set we used to listen to the
radio, and as a musically oriented child I was encouraged to listen to
Leonard Bernstein's program *A Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra* a
monthly program which was on the Columbia Broadcasting Network.  This show
was, as you can imagine, an exploration into identifying instruments and
orchestration techniques and was very enlightening, but my favorite part
was the opening act: Jim Fassett, who always broadcast for 15 minutes as an
intro, and he took recordings from Central Park here in NY and cut them up
and made short musique concrete pieces which were full of the seasonal
sounds.  He then described and demonstrated his tape editting techniques.
This was the most fascinating thing I had ever heard and I was completely
enthralled by the possibilities of mechanically changing sound etc. and
needless to say this was a definite influence on my future work.
The real item to seek out is the LP
Jim Fassett *Symphony of the Birds* on Ficker C1002
which includes a 16 minute suite of amazing tape constructed instrumental
music using bird calls and a few other forest animals as source material.
Absolutely incredible and suprisingly melodic for the genre. It's one of
the few records that always gets my cat climbing the walls especially
during the movement where everything is slowed down by 3 octaves.  Side 2
is a spoken tour of Mr. Fassetts editing technique with examples of all the
bird calls used on the 1st side played at various speeds and backwards etc.
as a deconstruction which is styled like his CBS radio show.
There are also a number of 10 inch EPs on Columbia from his 50's radio show
each with a short collage at the end and a kind of *identify these sounds*
challenge for the listener.  Later, in the 70's I think, he made a record
called something like the sounds of Scandanavia which is not concrete at
all, but is an amusingly boring travelog with voiceover but no tape
pyrotechnics.
I also have a 10 inch EP with the same title as that listed by Robbie
above, but it's on Cornell University Records complete with *graphic
analysis of part of the winter wren's song prepared by Dr. William R. Fish*
on the cover...Yow!
Another great 12 inch LP of his is called
*Strange to Your Ears* the Fabulous World of Sound on Columbia ML 4938
on which my promo copy sticker says a release date of Jan 1, 1955
and it consists of what appears to be 4 of his radio programs possibly
culled form 2 previousd 10 inch EPs(?), but nothing reaches the sublime
heights of the privately issued Symphony in which he edits thinking
musically instead of for shock value and moves completely away from
narration for the duration of his Symphony which undoubtedly was the result
of a massive work compared to the other short bits released on his other
records.  It says in the liner notes that the Symphony was also broadcast
on his CBS show, but no date is given.

BTW good to see the list working again as I missed a few digests but
they've recently started appearing again.
Cheers
Peter Principle



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Things Go Better With Coke
Date: 10 May 1996 22:00:55 -0400

Exoti-kats and kittens...

Got wind of the following....Things Go Better With Coke.  Fifty or so tracks
in this collection of Coca-Cola commercials from 1965 to 1969.  It features
the Bee Gees, Moody Blues, Box Tops, Vogues, Tom Jones, Roy Orbison, Lulu,
Vanilla Fudge, Nancy Sinatra and lots more all doing sixty second musical
spots in praise of Coke.  On CD.

Can anyone confirm such an animal exists?  So far, I am getting "I dunno's".

:)





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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Irwin Allen
Date: 10 May 1996 22:01:05 -0400

Friends...

A  six (yes, SIX!!!!) CD box set featuring the work of Irwin Allen's sci-fi
televison scores has been released.  Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel,
Lost in Space, etc.  Somewhere in the eighty dollar range...extensive liner
notes and rare photos are promised.  I have not seen it, but sounds like my
cup-o-tea.  The Fantastic World of Irwin Allen is the title.

If anyone has listened to it, please share your impressions.

Thanks...


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: help me with lenny dee
Date: 10 May 1996 23:03:07 -0400

In a message dated 96-05-05 04:21:00 EDT, [e-mail] (Daneel Olivaw)
wrote:

>Here is an updated Lenny Dee discography:
>
[snip]

Here's an addition to your list:
  DL 74994    Gentle on My Mind

I picked that up this past weekend during an orgy of yard sales, flea markets
and church rummage sales. I came up with enough good albums to do this week's
show (except for two songs) off of only new albums. Some of the other good
scores:

Sandy Warner "Fair & Warner;" Jackie Gleason "Afrodesia" & "Music Around the
World;" Hernry Mancini "Breakfast at Tiffany's" AND "Mr. Lucky Goes Latin;"
Keely Smith "Swingin' Pretty;" The 50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett "50 Guitars Go
Italiano;" Enoch Light & His Orchestra "Sound/35MM;" Leo Addeo & His
Orchestra "Hawaii in Hi-Fi" & "Far Away Places" (Orchestra AND Chorus); The
Three Suns "Twilight Memories" AND "Happy-Go-Lucky-Sound" (no jacket -
rats!); Joe Harnell His Piano & Orchestra "Fly Me to the Moon and the Bossa
Nova Pops;"  Earl Grant "Midnight Sun;" Midnight String Quartet "Spanish
Rhapsodies for Young Lovers;" Paul Weston & His Music from Hollywood
"Moonlight Becomes You;" Enoch Light & the Light Brigade "Dimension 3" at a
dollar a pop plus two of those Reader's Digest 5 LP box sets ("Love Is Blue"
and "Hawaiian Paradise") for only 50 cents each!

I haven't even had time to listen to them all yet!

Peter
MUSIC FOR BETTER LIVING
hosted by Valerie & Peter
WZBC 90.3 FM  Newton/Boston
Wednesdays 6-7pm


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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: your mail
Date: 10 May 1996 21:37:42 -0600 (MDT)

>
>Dan said:

>My personal feeling is that putting out CD reissues of super rare things
>like this undermines the market, and really pisses of people who have the
>dedication to save up for the original. Nothing annoys me more as a dj
>than spending weeks or months searching for a track, only for it to be
>put out on some compilation, or for it to be reissued on some cd. This
>might be viewed as snobbery, and it can be argued that this music should
>be enjoyed by everybody, but that's just my personal opinion.
>
>Well, Dan, it is my personal feeling that this attitude really sucks. If
you get that worked up about reissues, you can always feel proud that you
own the original, as if anyone really would care. As a DJ, when things get
reissued, it just makes it an even bigger challenge for me to go out there
and find something just a little bit extra special. Anyone can grab a list
of well known good rare records and go into an expensive collectors shop and
pay the cash. Finding something rare, good and cheap is a real talent.
Reissues fuel interest in this music and allow DJs to actually get work
playing this music. Every one of the musicians who made these records, put
their music on vinyl because they wanted it to be appreciated by a wide
audience. Reissues allow for this to happen. If having all those special
expensive originals are so important, why don't you just cover up your
covers and labels so that no one else can nick your tunes? A good DJ is not
just about having the right tunes, it's also about playing the tunes at the
right time and gaging audience response. Someone else could come along and
play the exact same records as me, but I am confident that I would arrange
them in a way to give maximum audience pleasure.

If you really go through so much trouble to get your records, I can't
understand how something like a reissue would set you off.

Sorry.

Jill
>
>
>


Colloquium Internet


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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs (lengthy!)
Date: 10 May 1996 21:51:06 -0600 (MDT)

>To: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
>From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
>Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs (lengthy!)
>
>>
>>In response to Robbie's posting on the CD boots, I have to say on the=20
whole, I agree with Robbie. Might I also add that the trend in reissues from=
=20
these major labels seems to be towards compilations of best trax, much like=
=20
the compilation of Irwin's first ESQUIVEL CD. While that CD got me "into"=20
Esquivel, and I personally appreciate it very much, as well as many=20
thousands of others, now I want to buy his whole catalogue, which is not=20
available except through SECOND HAND DEALERS, who often charge outrageous=20
prices. I was pleased to "Music Out of the Moon" on that bootleg CD=20
(actually, it has an address on it so I don't know how the average punter=20
would know it is a boot anyway!) so that I could finally get to hear it. Had=
=20
I seen it in a shop for =A320, I might have bought it on it's own. Instead,=
 I=20
got 3 (!) rare theramin LPs for that price. And learned that I don't think=
=20
it is particularly that good anyway!
>
>The problem is the majors are too slow to respond, and there probably isn't=
=20
that big of demand for these LPs in their entirety. Just reissue=20
compilations. Which is a shame. Because most of the people on this list=20
probably would like the originals full length issues rereleased, but we, of=
=20
course, are the minority.
>
>Sure, I would like to see the artists get paid. Obviously. But I don't=20
think these bootleggers made very much money out of this. Not on 1000 CDs. I=
=20
am all for the underground music industry, and doubt very much that these=20
bootleggers are the horned beasties that they have been portrayed as in this=
=20
list.=20
>
>Long live the underground!
>
>Jill
>


Colloquium Internet


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From: [e-mail] (Sevo Stille)
Subject: Reissues (was Re: your mail)
Date: 11 May 1996 15:09:55 -0500

On May 10,  6:40pm, Dan Gresham wrote:

> My personal feeling is that putting out CD reissues of super rare things
> like this undermines the market, and really pisses of people who have the
> dedication to save up for the original.

If you are into markets, you should probably collect stock, not records.
Records - whether originals or reissues - which have a price tag of more than
10-20$ seem to be fairly pointless for my DJ work, IMHO - they already have an
audience which knows them far too well.

>Nothing annoys me more as a dj
> than spending weeks or months searching for a track, only for it to be
> put out on some compilation, or for it to be reissued on some cd. This
> might be viewed as snobbery, and it can be argued that this music should
> be enjoyed by everybody, but that's just my personal opinion.

I can agree that music which has been reissued lacks the "wow, I've never heard
anything like that" feeling. But that is hardly the fault of the reissues -
whenever there is a market big enough to bear reissues, the whole genre already
has grown faddish, with settled rituals and fixed audience expectations.
Audiences want to hear the big names not because they know them from reissues -
the reissues are produced because they have an audience.

Sevo

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D 60314 Frankfurt a.M.


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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: The A to Z of British TV themes
Date: 11 May 1996 10:14:54 -0500

> can any British reader of this list tell something about
> "The A to Z of British TV themes volume 1 -> 3" (Play it Again)
> does this contain spy/crime stuff as on "the easy project" or "the sound
> gallery"?

I saw volume two the other day and it had a variety of British TV
themes ranging from the New Avengers to All Creatures Great And
Small.  There wasn't any particular theme other than that they were
all British TV.  The tracks someone else listed from volume one looked
more interesting that what I saw on two, but it looks to be all
original music.

Oops!  I'm not British, sorry for posting this.

kevin king
[e-mail]
http://www.radix.net/~xanadu


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Things Go Better With Coke
Date: 11 May 1996 10:27:57 -0400

Call Midnight Records in NYC, They do retail and Mailorder. They have at
least 2 or 3 records of the stuff you want, or they can order them. There's
also a 7-up compilation. sorry I don't have their # handy.


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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Raymond Scott
Date: 11 May 1996 11:45:05 EDT




    Does anyone know if there is just one INTERESTING, NEW, or
INVENTIVE arrangement of a Raymond Scott's composition? Don't get me wrong,
I love Raymond Scott. It just seems that when people cover his material
they never seem to stray to far from Scott's arrangments, making it all
sound the same. I guess it wouldn't be such a big deal if we hadn't had
Carl Stalling, Bugs and Daffy drilling so much of this music into our heads
for our entire childhoods. Wouldn't it be kind of nice to have the
Residents or Tom Waits do a tribute album?


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From: [e-mail] (Anthony Jackson)
Subject: Re: Things Go Better With Coke
Date: 11 May 1996 14:05:47 -0500


>Got wind of the following....Things Go Better With Coke.  Fifty or so tracks
>in this collection of Coca-Cola commercials from 1965 to 1969.  It features
>the Bee Gees, Moody Blues, Box Tops, Vogues, Tom Jones, Roy Orbison, Lulu,
>Vanilla Fudge, Nancy Sinatra and lots more all doing sixty second musical
>spots in praise of Coke.  On CD.
>
>Can anyone confirm such an animal exists?  So far, I am getting "I dunno's".

I've seen it available up here in Toronto at either HMV or Tower Records, I
don't remember which, but I do know that it exists. I think I found it in
the TV themes section.

Aj




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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Re: exotica-digest Digest V96 #31
Date: 11 May 1996 10:33:29 +0000

>and these are some artists/records that i have difficulty with filing:
>
>John Barry      The EMI Years Volume 1, 2 & 3 -----> spy?
>Quincy Jones    Big Band Bossa Novas
>                Plays (Music) For Pussy Cats
>                Plays The Hip Hits
>Nancy Sinatra   Boots
>                How does that grab you ?
>                Nancy in London
>Scott Walker    Scott Two
>
>any help is appreciated!
>
>= Johan |)/\|)/\


John Barry from _thios collection_ is Rock and Roll/R & B/Rockabilly

Quincy Jones is Jazz and Pop

Nany Sinatra is Pop

Not familiar with Scott Walker

Jack Diamond
http://www.cygnus.com/kfjc/diamond


"Record collecting is no mere hobby, no leisurely
innocuous diversion.  It's a feverish passion
bordering on dementia, driving those under its
influence including myself, to irrational,
compulsive and sometimes fanatical extremes."
3-93  JD

Ciao for now
Jack



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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: My 2 cents on the boots
Date: 11 May 1996 10:49:31 +0000

Hello,

I have almost all of the ltd edition cd boots that were released and the
only complaint that I have had with _any_ of the _recordings_ is that the
1st 1, Kenyon Hopkins-Shock Music in Hi-Fi, Nightmare!,and half of Panic,
Son of Shock were not recorded high enough.

Considering the rarity of some of these lp's like Astro Sounds, Psychedelic
Percussion, Stones, all 3 10" theremin records, Moog Indigo, Esquivel 68 in
Stereophonico ! -- Zounds! What Sounds! and maybe more just off the top of
my head, the sound quiality and recordings are quite excellent for what
they are.

Michel Magne'-Tropical Fantasies...do you know how rare that record is ?

It was very interesting how I came to buy that cd.
I had just traded that exact record plus Ron Goodwin's-Music From Outer
Space FOR Yma Sumac-Miracles, Del Close and John Brent-How To Speak Hip (w/
Booklet) and 1 other killer that escapes my mind right now.

3 killer records for those 2 and I was kind of feeling like I missed that
Magne' record onnacountta it is pretty out there and I walked into this
store in SF and there was the boot...Needless to say I bought it ever
gleefully skipping and laughing down the street

Sincerely...


"Record collecting is no mere hobby, no leisurely
innocuous diversion.  It's a feverish passion
bordering on dementia, driving those under its
influence including myself, to irrational,
compulsive and sometimes fanatical extremes."
3-93  JD

Ciao for now
Jack



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From: [e-mail] (Caressa Bennet -- Atty-Caressa Bennett - Washington )
Subject: Coke
Date: 11 May 1996 18:24:11 EDT



 To:    exotica,         Inet




Exoti-kats and kittens...

Got wind of the following....Things Go Better With Coke.  Fifty
or so tracks in this collection of Coca-Cola commercials from
1965 to 1969.  It features the Bee Gees, Moody Blues, Box Tops,
Vogues, Tom Jones, Roy Orbison, Lulu, Vanilla Fudge, Nancy
Sinatra and lots more all doing sixty second musical spots in
praise of Coke.  On CD.

Can anyone confirm such an animal exists?  So far, I am getting
"I dunno's".

:)
This album does indeed exist.  I know its available from
Collectors Choice.  Call for a catalogue at 1-800-923-1122.

Michael Bennet




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From: "Indulis R. Rutks" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Space Age Bachelor Pad Music article on WWW
Date: 11 May 1996 22:33:36

For those who may have missed the print version of the cover story in
Goldmine issue #411 (April 26, 1996) entitled "What the heck is Space Age
Bachelor Pad Music?!", it is currently on the WorldWideWeb. The address is
http://www.krause.com/goldmine/is_411/cvrstry/cvrstry.htm


- Indy Rutks ([e-mail])




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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Collector's Choice Music
Date: 11 May 1996 22:02:00 -0600 (MDT)

>> Got wind of the following....Things Go Better With Coke.
>
> This album does indeed exist.  I know its available from
> Collectors Choice.  Call for a catalogue at 1-800-923-1122.

I STROOOONGLY second Michael's suggestion of this catalogue.  Every time an
issue comes in I have to repress the urge to mark the entire thing "yes"
and send it back.  Prices are generally list, but good lord, the selection!
The back cover of the March catalog has all the Yma Sumac reissues plus the
third Bear Family Doris Day box and a Fred Waring disc, the New Releases
section opens with their own series of rare Big Band reissues (including
discs with the Vaughn Monroe and Alvino Rey orchestras) and a slew of
imported Living Stereo reissues (Three Suns, Perez Prado)...did you know
there was an 8CD box set of *all* the Capitol Louis Prima/Keely Smith/Sam
Butera material?  I didn't...plus you can buy most/all of the Time-Life
CDs onesey-twosey...

--
::: Lazlo ([e-mail]; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)


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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: your mail
Date: 11 May 1996 22:15:20 -0600 (MDT)

> My personal feeling is that putting out CD reissues of super rare things
> like this undermines the market, and really pisses of people who have the
> dedication to save up for the original.

I have to join the chorus of folks here who don't have much respect for
this position -- the measure you propose here isn't "dedication" but
"wealth".  If I were a DJ I'd rather have people be impressed by my skill
at selecting the music I play, not by the depth of my wallet.

--
::: Lazlo ([e-mail]; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Korla Pandit Video
Date: 12 May 1996 00:25:48 -0400

I've spent the last day mesmerized by the unflinching gaze of Korla Pandit,
as he and assorted dancers wove their cosmic spells, communicating the
timeless unspoken message "mellow out, dude."   This was caused by the
arrival of the 1 hr b/w compilation video of Mr. Pandit's old TV shows that I
ordered from Cult Movies magazine for $9.95 postpaid.  While the audio
quality is not great,  he is an amazing presence, and it's fun to watch him
play drums on the organ.  And those eyes, no wonder all those 50's houswives
were hypnotized !   Well, off for my bejeweled turban fitting, which like
Korla, I shall wear with a dark suit and matching pocket hanky.


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From: Michael Ross <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ethel Azama & The Denny Connection
Date: 11 May 1996 22:11:03 -0700 (PDT)

Recently I picked up a mint copy of the Martin Denny-produced LP "EXOTIC
DREAMS -- the enticing voice of ETHEL AZAMA."  Can anybody tell me more
about Azama (her voice really IS enticing, especially on the island-
flavored songs) -- when the album was produced -- and if Denny produced
more LPs by her or any other artists?

Thanks... Michael


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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: Collector's Choice Music
Date: 12 May 1996 00:02:24 -0600 (MDT)

>>> Got wind of the following....Things Go Better With Coke.
>>
>> This album does indeed exist.  I know its available from
>> Collectors Choice.  Call for a catalogue at 1-800-923-1122.
>
Hey. This sounds great. One thing. 1 800 numbers don't work anywhere but in
the USA. Any real code for this company????

Thanks!

Jill


Colloquium Internet


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Ethel Azama & The Denny Connection
Date: 12 May 1996 12:38:05 -0400

Denny also produced two Chick Floyd Records - "Hula La" and "Little Grass
Shack" as well as the first Augie Colon solo album "Sophisticated Savage".
Ashley


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Collector's Choice Music
Date: 12 May 1996 12:39:56 -0400

Their fax number is 1-708-775-3355
Ashley


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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Collector's Choice Music
Date: 12 May 1996 10:58:03 -0600 (MDT)

> Hey. This sounds great. One thing. 1 800 numbers don't work anywhere but in
> the USA. Any real code for this company????

Collectors' Choice Music
P.O. Box 838
Itasca, IL 60143-0838
Fax: [phone] (orders)
[e-mail]

Sorry, but I can't find a non-800 voice number anywhere in the catalog!

--
::: Lazlo ([e-mail]; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)


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From: Phil Clark <[e-mail]>
Subject: Things Go Better With Coke/How To... albums
Date: 12 May 1996 19:45:47 +0100

In message <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] writes
>Exoti-kats and kittens...
>
>Got wind of the following....Things Go Better With Coke.  Fifty or so tracks
>in this collection of Coca-Cola commercials from 1965 to 1969.  It features
>the Bee Gees, Moody Blues, Box Tops, Vogues, Tom Jones, Roy Orbison, Lulu,
>Vanilla Fudge, Nancy Sinatra and lots more all doing sixty second musical
>spots in praise of Coke.  On CD.
>
>Can anyone confirm such an animal exists?  So far, I am getting "I dunno's".

well there is certainly a CD comp of Coke promos around at the moment
but I can't confirm the track listing since I don't have it myself. But
I have seen it in the shops here in London several times just lately.

while I'm here ... picked up a wacky Decca LP "How to Pass Your Driving
Test" for stlg1.00 today, it's a hoot. dating from 1966 and delivered in
true BBC type English, rather like the spoken links on Decca's famous
"Stereo Sound" album from the late 50s (as later sampled by ColdCut,
Steinksi & Mass Media and others)

Anyhow the reason for my mentioning this is the note on the sleeve which
mentions the album being a whole series of "How To..." releases. Does
anyone know any of the other titles?

Thrift stores, flea markets... donchaluvem!

Phil
[e-mail]

--
Phil Clark


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From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Re: Ethel Azama & The Denny Connection
Date: 12 May 1996 23:36:19 +0200 (MET DST)

>Recently I picked up a mint copy of the Martin Denny-produced LP "EXOTIC=20
>DREAMS -- the enticing voice of ETHEL AZAMA."  Can anybody tell me more=20
>about Azama (her voice really IS enticing, especially on the island-=20
>flavored songs) -- when the album was produced -- and if Denny produced=20
>more LPs by her or any other artists?
>
>Thanks... Michael

Hi gang,
Here is a weird fact about the incredible "Exotic Dreams" Lp:
compare the sleeve for it with Denny=B4s "Hypnotique" LP and your in for a=
=20
freaky surprise. The photos are from the same session! and who else than=20
Sandy Warner (the Exotic Girl) is on the sleeve. Her face is out of focus to=
=20
make you think it might be Ethel Azama (maybe she was too exotic looking?)

Aloha

Stefan/Subliminal Sounds
=20


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From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Re: Collector's Choice Music
Date: 12 May 1996 23:42:19 +0200 (MET DST)

>>>> Got wind of the following....Things Go Better With Coke.
>>>
>>> This album does indeed exist.  I know its available from
>>> Collectors Choice.  Call for a catalogue at 1-800-923-1122.
>>
>Hey. This sounds great. One thing. 1 800 numbers don't work anywhere but in
>the USA. Any real code for this company????
>
>Thanks!
>
>Jill

Jill,
You could easily score the CD in the UK. It's distributed by Greyhound
Records in London. Their phone # is : 171 - 924 1166
Aloha
Stefan/Subliminal Sounds


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From: james b gerwitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sandra Bernhard's ReelWild Cinema
Date: 12 May 1996 15:43:02 -0700

Sexy Sandy's is now hosting a show at midnight Sundays on USA cable =
(ReelWild Cinema) showing old exploitation movies and shorts. It appears =
that the stuff comes from the Something Weird Video archives. I've just =
seen it the last two weeks, but there have been some good "exotic" =
shorts with the wild  strip music we all know and love. Plus there were =
some playtex living bra commercials with the fabulous disembodied =
floating bra (obviously modelled by Ray Conniff's chorus of disembodied =
voices).


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Back to the "Boots"...
Date: 12 May 1996 21:42:28 -0400

Hi!
Could someone please send me or post a list of which "Exotica" Lps were
released on CD in the supposedly limited edition series.  Thought on which
ones are the best would also be appreciated!  Thanks in advance!
Discreetly...
L.B.


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From: Dr Rhythm <[e-mail]>
Subject: delay
Date: 13 May 1996 11:09:33 +0000 (GMT)



       I've just recived a message that I posted on April 22nd. Presumably
       it's just been wandering around the digital ether since then.
       Bizarre!!


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From: Dr Rhythm <[e-mail]>
Subject: a-z of british tv themes
Date: 13 May 1996 10:11:24 +0000 (GMT)



       Morning all
       I can provide track details for volumes 1 and 2. They are indeed on
       Play it again Sam.

Volume 1

1/1      The Avengers Theme
1/2      Captain Scarlet
1/3      Busy Boy
1/4      The Champions
1/5      Crossroads
1/6      Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Mr Hitler?
1/7      Danger Man (High Wire)
1/8      Department S
1/9      Bond Street Parade
1/10     Doctor Who
1/11     Emmerdale Farm
1/12     Fireball
1/13     The Forsyte Saga (Elizabeth Tudor)
1/14     Hadleigh
1/15     Hancock's Tune
1/16     Maigret
1/17     Man Alive
1/18     A Man In A Suitcase
1/19     No Hiding Place
1/20     Please Sir
1/21     The Power Game
1/22     Return Of The Saint
1/23     The Saint
1/24     Sportsnight
1/25     Steptoe And Son (Old Ned)
1/26     Stingray
1/27     Thank Your Lucky Stars
1/28     Thunderbirds Theme
1/29     Sucu Sucu
1/30     Theme From Z Cars


Volume 2

1/1      Galloping Home
1/2      Piano Parchment (A)
1/3      Motivation (Angels)
1/4      Las Vegas
1/5      That's Livin' Alright
1/6      Soul Limbo
1/7      Bergerac
1/8      Home
1/9      The Loner
1/10     Danger Man
1/11     Doctor Who
1/12     The Dandy
1/13     Four Feather Falls
1/14     Private Eye
1/15     Grandstand
1/16     Comedy Hour
1/17     The Human Jungle
1/18     Hit And Miss
1/19     The Liver Birds
1/20     Up To Date
1/21     The New Avengers
1/22     Sleepy Shores
1/23     The Persuaders
1/24     Holy Mackerel
1/25     Supercar
1/26     Tales Of The Unexpected
1/27     Upstairs Downstairs
1/28     Eye Level
1/29     Left Bank Two
1/30     Whatever Happened To You?


        As you can see, there's a fair amount of dross but also some
        undoubted classics.
        Cheers
        Doctor


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From: Robert Hartung <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Sandra Bernhard's ReelWild Cinema
Date: 13 May 1996 08:52:47 -0500 (CDT)

On Sun, 12 May 1996, james b gerwitz wrote:

> Sexy Sandy's is now hosting a show at midnight Sundays on USA cable
>(ReelWild Cinema) showing old exploitation movies and shorts. It appears
>that the stuff comes from the Something Weird Video archives. I've just
>seen it the last two weeks, but there have been some good "exotic" shorts
>with the wild strip music we all know and love. Plus there were some
>playtex living bra commercials with the fabulous disembodied floating bra
>(obviously modelled by Ray Conniff's chorus of disembodied voices). > >

This show (Reelwild Cinema) will be repeated tonight 5/13/95 (early Tuesday
morning) on the USA cable network at 12:30 AM Central Time. Check your own
TV listings for the time in your area.

BH


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Conniff Bops!
Date: 13 May 1996 10:20:12 -0400

I have not heard much Ray Conniff, but when I picked up his record "Dance The
Bop!" (Columbia CL 1004, no date) I knew it wasn't his usual stuff. Complete
with a dance instruction booklet, it's a bopping finger snapping thing with
lots of guitar
(one tune is called "Play a Gittar Solo" - with that spelling). Other tunes:
Doin the Twister, Just Boppin', Honky - Tonk Around, The Flea Hop. Is this
totally out of character for him? Anybody know anything about this disc?


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From: Mark Freitas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Raymond Scott
Date: 13 May 1996 11:20:01

Jim Foetus and the Pizz did a version of Powerhouse under the name "Garage
Monsters."  The arrangement is pretty standard, but the production is a bit
hyped up - sort of industrial.

mark


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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Korla Pandit Video & List Ques. for Lazlo
Date: 13 May 1996 11:19:41 -0600 (MDT)

> On a separate note, a question for Lazlo - is it the fault of my e-mail
> system that all messages on this list are attributed to
> "[e-mail]" as author?  I'd like to know who's behind certain
> postings, but if the author doesn't sign, I'm outta luck.

It's probably your email system -- the list software leaves the "From:"
line intact.  Not knowing what package you're using, it's hard for me to
make any recommendations about reconfiguring it to work as expected; you
might have better luck with your local admins.

--
::: Lazlo ([e-mail]; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)


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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Things Go Better With Coke
Date: 13 May 1996 19:42:16 +0100

[e-mail] wrote:

>....Things Go Better With Coke.  Fifty or so tracks
>in this collection of Coca-Cola commercials from 1965 to 1969.  It features
>the Bee Gees, Moody Blues, Box Tops, Vogues, Tom Jones, Roy Orbison, Lulu,
>Vanilla Fudge, Nancy Sinatra and lots more all doing sixty second musical
>spots in praise of Coke.  On CD.
>
>Can anyone confirm such an animal exists?

        sure it exists, it's "Coca-Cola commercials - 65 sensational tracks"
        it was once reviewed in the record collector, but i couldn't find that
        review... i also don't remember where i got it... to make it even
        worse, there's no label mentioned; it only
        sez "CC1" and "manufactured in south america"; it was quite
        expensive, i payed $31 for it.
        sound quality is very good, and it has a "copyright" text.
        other featured artists: troggs, vanilla fudge, ray charles & aretha
        franklin... each artist has 2 different versions of that
        same coke tune, each in their own style!

= Johan |)/\|)/\



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Morton Gould
Date: 13 May 1996 19:42:07 +0100

"kevin king" <[e-mail]> wrote:

        >Any opinions on the re-releases?

IMHO, if there ever was a mistitled lp, than it must be Jungle drums, as
there are almost no drums on it at all, and it hasn't 1 drop of jungle
atmosphere on it; if you expect something like Drasnin's "Voodoo" or
Baxter's "Tamboo", you'll be disappointed.

= Johan |)/\|)/\



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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: vox-n-fl
Date: 13 May 1996 14:15:56 -0400

                                          2:14 PM             5/13/96

Some of you were very helpful my first time around asking about the ELECTRIC
PRUNE VOX demo.  Could someone please be *very* specific about what volume of
PEBBLES does it appear on, and the title of the compilation as well?

And, out of curiosity, how many of you are in Florida?

Laura-loungin' in Tampa..


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: vox-n-fl
Date: 13 May 1996 11:37:09 PST

     Pebbles Vol. 2, both the Lp & CD!


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                                          2:14 PM             5/13/96

Some of you were very helpful my first time around asking about the ELECTRIC
PRUNE VOX demo.  Could someone please be *very* specific about what volume of
PEBBLES does it appear on, and the title of the compilation as well?

And, out of curiosity, how many of you are in Florida?

Laura-loungin' in Tampa..



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From: Grant China <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Ethel Azama & The Denny Connection
Date: 13 May 1996 08:38:47 -1000

At 07:14 PM 5/11/96 -1000, you wrote:
>Recently I picked up a mint copy of the Martin Denny-produced LP "EXOTIC
>DREAMS -- the enticing voice of ETHEL AZAMA."  Can anybody tell me more
>about Azama (her voice really IS enticing, especially on the island-
>flavored songs) -- when the album was produced -- and if Denny produced
>more LPs by her or any other artists?

Ethel Azama is a local lounge singer here in Hawaii.  I haven't heard of her
for a while so I don't know if she is still performing.  I'll ask my parents
when I get a chance.  They'd probably know more.  My sister was a friend of
Ethel Azama's daughter, although not a close one I suppose.

Aloha from Hawaii,
Grant China


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From: "T. Duda" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Arthur Lyman on radio show
Date: 10 May 1996 18:14:34 -1000

Arthur Lyman has agreed to come down and talk story on my somewhat occasional exotica
show. Does anyone have any particular questions or lines of discussion that might be
interesting to present during the show? I will probably do the obvious -- ask about the
old times, his story, what he thinks of the resurgence of interest in his music over the
last 10 years or so, etc. If anyone has any other ideas, please let me know. Also for
those of you who are here on Oahu, tune in to KTUH this Wednesday from 9 to noon...he'll
be there for the full 3 hrs.


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From: Dan Gresham <[e-mail]>
Subject: New Yorica
Date: 13 May 1996 20:26:31 +0100 (BST)

Hey there

I just picked up a great compilation called NEW YORICA. The sub-title is
"Culture Clash in New York City - Experiments in Latin Music 1970-77". I
know this isn't strictly exotica, but if anyone wants, I'll more than
happily post the track listing. It's a big pile of really pretty rare
hardcore latin released on the legendary Soul Jazz label. Soul Jazz is a
record shop in London, England that sells lots of really hard to get
stuff. They also rerelease lots of hard to get obscurities. This is their
latest offering, and I'd highly recommend it, particularly if you're into
14 minute tracks which consist of 10 Puerto Ricans going for gold with
their bongos, congas and flutes. Pretty good!

Dan

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
       Dan Gresham    College of Hild & Bede  Durham  ENGLAND   DH1 1SZ
           [e-mail]      [e-mail]
                        http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d5f89g/
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo




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From: BROGDON <[e-mail]>
Subject: Esquivel's OTHER WORLDS
Date: 13 May 1996 16:54:55 -0500 (CDT)


Anybody know anything about a CD release of Esquivel's OTHER WORLDS, OTHER
SOUNDS on May 6?  This apparently isn't MORE OF OTHER WORLDS, etc., which is
already out.  I'm seeing OTHER WORLDS, OTHER SOUNDS turning up in some in
import catalogues.  What's the deal?


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From: Mark Freitas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs
Date: 13 May 1996 11:13:36

Ok, before we go back into this whole discussion let get our terminology
correct.

Bootleg - an unauthorized record, i.e. a concert that was secretly taped and
then pressed.
Pirate - a pirated copy of a a released record (i.e. what we're really talking
about)

These aren't the same thing.


mark


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Esquivel's OTHER WORLDS
Date: 13 May 1996 19:53:59 -0400

Oh, my friend;  you haven't lived until you've heard those other sounds!
 Zounds!!!  This is the ORIGINAL album (of which I have 2 vinyl copies) what
started it all.  By all means, rush and buy, rush, rush, rush!  It Had to Be
You is the loveliest and spaciest arrangement ever created, and those ZU ZUs
will get you gigglin' faster than an Appalacian toe-sucker.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: snobbery
Date: 13 May 1996 20:03:45 -0400

Dear Friend:

I hope so, that this will soon die down, but I dreadfully doubt it.  Seeing
young girls wearing cocktail gowns from Contempo Casuals and all their
boyfriends in thick square-rims, their music of choice, those icky (to la
hip) but delightfully so rhythms and pulsations will stick around a bit
longer as the quaint music of choice.  But there's always garage sales, God
Bless 'em.  Take comfort, for what you have now, you cherish, and what they
have will once again be making the rounds.

Esquerlita


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Irwin Allen
Date: 13 May 1996 21:24:05 -0500

>A  six (yes, SIX!!!!) CD box set featuring the work of Irwin Allen's sci-fi
>televison scores has been released.  Land of the Giants, The Time Tunnel,
>Lost in Space, etc.  Somewhere in the eighty dollar range...extensive liner
>notes and rare photos are promised.  I have not seen it, but sounds like my
>cup-o-tea.  The Fantastic World of Irwin Allen is the title.

a bit more info can be found in Vik's News...





i remain...
Vik Trola


Vik Trola's Lounge Of Self Indulgence
http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html




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From: "Batutis, Joe" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Things Go Better With Coke
Date: 13 May 1996 09:55:35 EST

Hey, I have a sample from "Things Go Better with Coke" on my ODD Music Page....

http://www.amexpub.com/jbatutis/noddmusic/oddmusic.html


enjoy,
Joe B.




>Exoti-kats and kittens...

>Got wind of the following....Things Go Better With Coke.  Fifty or so tracks
>in this collection of Coca-Cola commercials from 1965 to 1969.  It features
>the Bee Gees, Moody Blues, Box Tops, Vogues, Tom Jones, Roy Orbison, Lulu,
>Vanilla Fudge, Nancy Sinatra and lots more all doing sixty second musical
>spots in praise of Coke.  On CD.

>Can anyone confirm such an animal exists?  So far, I am getting "I dunno's".

:)






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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: KFJC-FM Playlists available on the web !!
Date: 13 May 1996 18:44:34 +0000

Hello all,

Playlists available on line from the most outrageously eclectic,exotic,
esoteric and un-beeeee-lieve-a-ble radio station in the world as we know
it.  Non-Commercial of course !

Http://www.cygnus.com/kfjc

Click on DJ Play Lists and not only see the playlist of music only played
on KFJC-FM _but_ click on the highlighted title and read the review from
our esteemed cast of characters known as the dj's who play them.
Like me fer instance ;-)>

This is gonna "rock your world" like never before !

Thank you very much

PS  Lazlo, you're the best !  Really;-)>>



"Record collecting is no mere hobby, no leisurely
innocuous diversion.  It's a feverish passion
bordering on dementia, driving those under its
influence including myself, to irrational,
compulsive and sometimes fanatical extremes."
3-93  Jack Diamond




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From: [e-mail] (Caressa Bennet -- Atty-Caressa Bennett - Washington )
Subject: Electric Prunes vox
Date: 13 May 1996 23:17:05 EDT



 To:    exotica,         Inet



Some of you were very helpful my first time around asking about
the ELECTRIC PRUNE VOX demo.  Could someone please be *very*
specific about what volume of PEBBLES does it appear on, and the
title of the compilation as well?
-------------------

I'm pretty sure it was on volume 1 of the vinyl series (if not,
definitely volume 2).  The CD versions compiled stuff from
different volumes, and I'm not sure if it's even on there (though
someone made a serious mistake in judgement if it's not).

Michael Bennet




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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: Re: Korla Pandit Video & List Ques. for Lazlo
Date: 13 May 1996 11:03:52 -0600 (MDT)

     "I've spent the last day mesmerized by the unflinching gaze of Korla
     Pandit, as he and assorted dancers wove their cosmic spells..."


     OK - I've been debating whether to order this, but now I'm sold.
     Does the $9.95 including shipping?  Couldn't get a number for Cult
     Movies from information.

     On a separate note, a question for Lazlo - is it the fault of my
     e-mail system that all messages on this list are attributed to
     "[e-mail]" as author?  I'd like to know who's behind
     certain postings, but if the author doesn't sign, I'm outta luck.
     Anything I can do?

     Thanks, Anita


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From: Mark Freitas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Yma Sumac interview on WWW
Date: 14 May 1996  9:20:59

Just thought you'd like this:

http://www.villagevoice.com/laweekly/ink/music.html

mark


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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Books to listen to Music By
Date: 14 May 1996 09:20:45 PDT

Regarding an earlier subject...

I forget now who brought it up, but Philip K. Dick's mianstream stuff is good,
but let's not forget his mention of the "Penfield Mood Organ" in, I believe,
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep," if not other sci-fi works of his.  It
strikes me as so near the idea of a Moog.  I have been using my Minimoog as
a mood organ for a while now, it's quite nifty to play to the wife during
foreplay...

More than you all wanted to know, I'm sure.
Clark


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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: F.Y.I./dick hyman
Date: 14 May 1996 13:25:25 -0400

                                                                      5/14/96
                                                                      1:25 PM
 F.Y.I./dick hyman

others have been asking...so sorry for any redundancy...lounge laura


Hi, Phil...I tried to respond to this before, but my message was kicked
back...At any rate, Dick is the same of the MOOG and Enoch Light records...He
has also composed and arranged music for EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW
ABOUT SEX...and ZELIG...besides doing that, he also had a bit part in BULLETS
OVER BROADWAY(a conducter, natch!)  He's a cool guy...I interviewed this year
at his home in Venice, FL.
Any other questions, feel free to ask,
Lounge Laura

Hey exoticats

Went to see Woody Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite" the other wk and guess
what, as the credits rolled I noticed that one Dick Hyman had been
involved with the music, specifically a harmony choir who appear on the
sountrack at the end of the movie.

Anyone know if this is the same Dick Hyman, the one who did all those
groo-vee Moog albums etc ??!?

interestedly

Phil
--
Phil Clark




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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: look what i found in cdnow's catalog
Date: 14 May 1996 19:38:48 +0100

BAXTER*LES/MARTIN DENNY -- MOOG ROCK / EXOTIC MOOG  $26.97
ELECTRONIC VANGUARD  EV-906-2
Origin: USA
This is an import title.

PERREY*JEAN JACQUES -- MOOG INDIGO                  $26.97
ELECTRONIC VANGUARD  EV-905-2
Origin: USA
This is an import title.

        "Origin: USA... This is an import title" strange ;)
         maybe they have the other twofers too?

= Johan |)/\|)/\



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From: Sax Therapy <[e-mail]>
Subject: whistling music
Date: 14 May 1996 11:43:57 -0600 (MDT)

I was listening to a tune by UB40 the other day that had some
nice whistling  in the arrangement. This brought to mind other
records i have with whistling on them. I'm sure many of us are
mailiar with Whistling Jack Smith who I would put in the exotica
class. There's also Ron McCory who whistles jazz. So with your
help I'd like to put together a discography of whistling tracks
on record. Please e-mail me directly so as not to burden the
group with excess mail. When I get a big enough list I'll send
it to the group. Thanks for your assistance.

    -Saul

                  :|  :|
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>::> `::| /:\     :|  :|:| :::, :|   `::| :::/ `::|
    saul smaizys/[e-mail]       :|   .,:'
.........................web page=http://pages.ripco.com/~saxmania
.............................voice [phone] fax [phone]
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From: [e-mail]
Subject:  LIST PROBLEMS
Date: 14 May 1996 19:00:46 -0400

Dear Lazlo,  I post things from time to time and they never seem to show up
on the list. I seem to be getting a fair amount of postings, though.
Yesterday i sent a note about Ray Conniff's "Do the Bop" and never saw it on
the list. Did you see it?  Bob


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Voxx Wah Wah Peddle
Date: 15 May 1996 00:16:48 -0400

I have here in my hands the vinyl LP PEBBLES vol. 2.  Which contains on Side
1, Track 4 a (bonus track) - which is in fact the Electric Prunes Voxx Wah
Wah radio ad.  "Make your guitar sound like a sitar!...It's the Voxx Wah Wah
Peddle - It's what's Happening! Now!"  PEBBLES VOL. 2.

I toss this onto compilation tapes with some regularity (similarly the DROP
OUT WITH THE BARRUCUDAS CD is worth owning simply for its way cool vintage
60s Barracuda ad).


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: The Dolphin
Date: 15 May 1996 00:16:52 -0400

Here's the excerpt from Charles Willeford's THE PICKUP that prompted my
investigation into Tiki Noir:

The last night club we were in was The Dolphin.  I had been there once
before, when I was in the chips, and I knew Helen would like it.  It's a club
you have to know about or you can't find it.  It's down an alley off
Divisadero Street and I had to explain to the taxicab driver how to get
there.  There isn't any lettered sign over the door; just a large, blue neon
fish blinking intermittently, and the fish itself doesn't look like a
dolphin.  But once inside you know you're in The Dolphin, because the name is
in blue letters on the menu, and the prices won't let you forget where you
are.  We entered and luckily found a booth well away from the bar.  The club
is designed with a South Seas effect, and the drinks are served in tall,
thick glasses, the size and shape of a vase.  The booth we sat in was very
soft, padded thickly with foam rubber, and both of us had had enough to drink
to appreciate the atmosphere and the deep, gloomy lighting that made it
almost impossible to see across the room.  The waiter appeared at our table
out of the darkness and handed each of us a menu.  He was a Mexican, naked
except for a grass skirt, and made up to look like an islander of some sort:
there were blue and yellow streaks of paint on his brown face, and he wore a
shark's-teeth necklace.

 "Do you still have the Dolphin Special?" I asked him.

 "Certainly," he said politely.  "And something to eat? Poi, dried squid,
bird's-nest soup, breadfruit au gratin, sago palm salad--"

 Helen's laugh startled the waiter.  "No thanks," she said.  "I guess I'm not
hungry."

 "Just bring us two of the Dolphin Specials," I told him.

He nodded solemnly and left for the bar.  The Special is a good drink; it
contains five varieties of rum, mint, plenty of snow-ice, and it's decorated
with orange slices, pineapple slices and cherries with a sprinklihng of sugar
cane gratings floating on top.  I needed at least two of them.  I had to
build up my nerve.

After the waiter brought our drinks I lighted cigarettes and we smoked
silently, dumping the ashes into the large abalone shell on the table that
served as an ash-tray.  The trio hummed into action and the music floating
our way gave me a wistful feeling of nostalgia.  The trio consisted of
chimes, theremin and electric guitar and the unsual quality of the theremin
prevented me from recognizing the melody of the song although I was certain I
knew what it was.
**********

Cool, non?


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Korla Pandit Video & List Ques. for Lazlo
Date: 15 May 1996 00:28:49 -0400

In a message dated 96-05-15 00:22:44 EDT, Anita writes:

>OK - I've been debating whether to order this, but now I'm sold.
>     Does the $9.95 including shipping?  Couldn't get a number for Cult
>     Movies from information.

Do not debate....this is a * STEAL * at ten bucks including the shipping.


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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: find of the day
Date: 15 May 1996 00:38:54 -0500

While out today, I stopped by a local thrift store.  Not much there,
but in one of the four or five dusty stacks of mainly trashed records
was a clean copy of Cecil Holmes' Music For Soulful Lovers from 1973.
 I had good expectations judging from his soundtrack album (from
which 2001 is taken on Sound Spectrum).

 Most of the selections are
cover versions of contemporary soul hits, but done with the same
blaxploitation-like instrumentation and effects as on the soundtrack
album.  The two standouts are unquestionably Soulful Love and Loving
You Hurts So Bad.  Both of these feature voice-overs ala Barry White
provided by Mr. Holmes himself, only he does it more like Jack Webb!
These are two of the most riotous tracks I've ever heard.  Sample:

"Just let yourself go.  Cecil is going to take goood care of you,
baby.  It's going to be just fine, soooo fine. (background singers:
Oooooh, so fine! ...   Soulful love, ooooh baby!)  Did I tell you that
I love ya?  Ooh I luuuuv ya!"

 The cover has a smooth dude with plaid
flairs about to get lucky with a lounging temptress on the modular
sofa.  Great record.

kevin king
[e-mail]
http://www.radix.net/~xanadu


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From: "Joerg Nijmeijer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: look what i found in cdnow's catalog (moog indigo)
Date: 15 May 1996 14:03:46 +0000

> PERREY*JEAN JACQUES -- MOOG INDIGO                  $26.97
> ELECTRONIC VANGUARD  EV-905-2
> Origin: USA
> This is an import title.

I got the (just released) Vinyl on BGP (cat# BGPZ1103).
And this one is pressed in the UK.

This "origin USA + import title" could definitely be a hint for a
bootie. But it would never ever tell label and cat.-no. !!!
EV could have licenced it - but then it wouldn't be listed as import.


peace,

joerg


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Korla Pandit Video
Date: 15 May 1996 11:54:50 -0400

> Does the $9.95 including shipping?  Couldn't get a number for >Cult
     >Movies from information.

I think it does.  Cult Movies address is:  6201 Sunset Blvd.  Suite 152,
Hollywood, CA 90028.

Cult Movies is one of my favorite maga'Zines, and Issue 16 also has a cool
Pandit interview.
BTW, has anyone else on the list seen "Teenage Tupelo" starring the lovely
D'Lana? There's an interview with J. Michael McCarthy, the film's director,
writer, producer, etc., in issue 16 also.    This exploitation tribute is a
beautiful thing to behold and has killer tunes by the fabulous Impala.
Highly reccomended!

Mike Ensley
PIGEONHOLE Magazine


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: Holly & Vangelis
Date: 15 May 1996 04:56:03 -0600 (MDT)


     I have it - and it's a lonely quite version - very Holly.
     It starts with a simple octave-builded synth octave and then Holly's
     voice takes over. First humming then singing.

     The rest of the double CD is very mixed - some rough - some pop, but
     anyway a bunch of great artists singing Elvis.

     - Torben


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Holly also recorded in 1990 "Love me tender" for the Elvis
anniversery on NME-sampler! Has anyone of you out there got this
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From: Bryan Jare Cuevas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Moog Fluting & Daydreams
Date: 14 May 1996 23:27:53 -0600 (MDT)

Two questions:

(1) I'm looking for an album by The Ebony Godfather (aka Joe
Thomas) called "Moog Fluting"....a wonderful wah-wah inspired
jazz-funk moog experience from 1974. Any information would be
greatly appreciated.

(2) Lately I've been mesmerized by John Cameron's "Half Forgotten
Daydreams" from the recent Sound Gallery compilation. Could
someone out there please tell me more about Mr. Cameron's music
- on what Cameron album does this tune originally appear and
does the rest of the lp capture a similar mood?

Thanks
bryan j. cuevas


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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: "Exotica" CD's
Date: 15 May 1996 08:16:10 +0000

>From: [e-mail]
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Back to the "Boots"...
>Hi!
>Could someone please send me or post a list of which "Exotica" Lps were
>released on CD in the supposedly limited edition series.  Thought on which
>ones are the best would also be appreciated!  Thanks in advance!

GET THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jack



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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: List Ques. for Lazlo
Date: 15 May 1996 12:16:55 -0500

> > On a separate note, a question for Lazlo - is it the fault of my e-mail
> > system that all messages on this list are attributed to
> > "[e-mail]" as author?  I'd like to know who's behind certain
> > postings, but if the author doesn't sign, I'm outta luck.
>
> It's probably your email system -- the list software leaves the "From:"
> line intact.  Not knowing what package you're using, it's hard for me to
> make any recommendations about reconfiguring it to work as expected; you
> might have better luck with your local admins.
>

The same thing's been happening to me, using Pegasus, ever since the
software switchover.  The "From" field in the message is correct, but
the "From" column in the mail list is not - just reads
[e-mail], which also appears in the "Forwarded by" field
in the message.  I'm also getting a lot of "Bad Messages" from the
exotica list, none from any of the other six or seven I'm subscribed
to.

kevin


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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Ethel Azama
Date: 15 May 1996 08:33:13 +0000

Ethel Azama was a pop vocalist who as far as I know has 2 releases on Liberty.

Her 2nd release is titled "Cool Heat" and Viktrola just bought a copy from
me.  Maybe Scamp is going to re-release it, I don't know.

She is backed by Marty Paich and his orchestra featuring the great late Art
Pepper on Alto Saxophone as well as (I'm sure) a bevy of other west coast
jazz/studio greats.
_Maybe_ Bud Shank, Buddy Collette, Bob Cooper, Barney Kessel, Don Fagerquist
Pete and Conte Candoli-any of those names do anything for you ?
Kenny Burrell, Ray Brown, Osie Johnson, Frank Rosolino...

Marty Paich was a great west coast arranger who also did arrangements for
Ray Charles among many others.

Sincerely,
Jack Diamond



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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FWD>Returned Mail
Date: 15 May 1996 13:37:10 -0400

Mail*Link(r) SMTP               FWD>Returned Mail

PLEASE MAKE SURE PHIL CLARK-WHOSE MAIL IS ALWAYS RETURNED TO ME---SEES
THIS...THANKS!

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Unable to deliver mail after 1 day(s). Recipient(s): [e-mail]
------------------ RFC822 Header Follows ------------------
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Return-Receipt-To: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
X-Mailer: Mail*Link SMTP/QM 3.0.0


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                      RE>Dick Hyman                                5/14/96

Hi, Phil...I tried to respond to this before, but my message was kicked
back...At any rate, Dick is the same of the MOOG and Enoch Light records...He
has also composed and arranged music for EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW
ABOUT SEX...and ZELIG...besides doing that, he also had a bit part in BULLETS
OVER BROADWAY(a conducter, natch!)  He's a cool guy...I interviewed this year
at his home in Venice, FL.
Any other questions, feel free to ask,
Lounge Laura

Hey exoticats

Went to see Woody Allen's "Mighty Aphrodite" the other wk and guess
what, as the credits rolled I noticed that one Dick Hyman had been
involved with the music, specifically a harmony choir who appear on the
sountrack at the end of the movie.

Anyone know if this is the same Dick Hyman, the one who did all those
groo-vee Moog albums etc ??!?

interestedly

Phil
--
Phil Clark





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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Esquivel CDs
Date: 15 May 1996 19:53:58 +0100

[e-mail] (Jill Mingo) wrote:

>these major labels seems to be towards compilations of best trax, much like
>the compilation of Irwin's first ESQUIVEL CD. While that CD got me "into"
>Esquivel..., now I want to buy his whole catalogue, which is not
>available except through SECOND HAND DEALERS

        these 2 full albums CD rereleases _are_ avail.:

        More of Other Worlds, Other Sounds
                (Now Reprise's Archive series 2-45844, USA, 1995
        4 Corners of the World
                (RCA 985627, Germany, 1995)

= Johan |)/\|)/\




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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: My 2 cents on the boots
Date: 15 May 1996 19:54:19 +0100

[e-mail] (Jack Diamond) wrote:

>...the sound quiality and recordings are quite excellent for what they are.

        sound quality may be ok, but mastering was far from perfect:
        "psychedelic percussion"  has 1 track missing
        "orienta" too, and "night of the tiger" is split into 2 tracks (8+9)

>Michel Magne'-Tropical Fantasies...do you know how rare that record is ?

        it's my favorite! incredible sounds, almost novelty stuff!

= Johan |)/\|)/\



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: THE BOOTS, and LES BAXTER'S "THE LOST EPISODE"
Date: 15 May 1996 11:38:19 PST

     Hi,

     I haven't been posting much as work has been pretty intensive but I
     have been reading everything that is coming through.

     I still believe that bootlegs more than serve a necessary purpose for
     music fans. One of my most treasured records is the very first boot I
     purchased, in a head shop back in '70 (I was in the 6th grade!) titled
     "Homogenized Beatles". It contained one side of the original "Let It
     Be" record that was released to radio stations long before it was
     re-mixed by Spector. The B side contained Beatles tracks that, at that
     time, were unavailable on albums ("I'm Down" etc).

     While I consider a copy of an in print record to be a 'pirate', I
     think that when a record is long unavailable and is reproduced, it
     falls into the 'boot' category. Funny thing here is that I was posting
     like a fiend during the whole bootleg argument here on the list a few
     months ago, but I never purchased any of those repros that everyone
     was fighting about (being the vinyl of almost all those titles resides
     comfy in my collection). However, I was glad to know that the stuff
     was available to those who desired it, but didn't want to pay the
     outrageous collectors prices, or wait for someone to reissue 'em
     legit.

     Here is an example of why these repros serve their purpose. These are
     some 60s garage / psych records that I purchased.

     A mint copy of this record:      the price I paid for the 'boot'':
     QUESTION MARK AND THE MYSTERIANS "ACTION": $50.00 / $10.00
     MYSTIC SIVA: $300.00 / $15.00 (glad to pay the $15.00 vs the $300.00
     when I listened to this one and found out that it SUCKS)
     RISING STORM "CALM BEFORE": $300.00 / $10.00 (AND TAKE NOTE THAT WHEN
     THIS ONE WAS REISSUED LEGIT, YEARS AFTER THE REPRO,  I GOT THAT ONE AS
     WELL! The 'boot' version of this did not screw up the market for the
     legit one either!)

     Did anyone read the Billboard interview with George Harrison when he
     said that he totally forgot The Beatles ever recorded the track "If
     You've Got Troubles" until he listened to a boot of the ultra-rare
     track series that a friend sent to him?


     Regarding Les Baxter; We found the original 2" master video of the Les
     Baxter "Sound Of The 60s" TV program, and re-transferred the audio.
     The copies of "The Lost Episode" with the new audio transfer will be
     out in the stores within the month. You can identify these because
     they have a sticker on the front proclaiming "REMASTERED". The sound
     is 1000% better! For you analog heads out there, the 10" version has
     NOT been digitized! The transfer was made to a full-track mono tape
     head, and cut on the same Scully lathe and Westrex mono head that was
     used at Capitol in the 50s! We even put the 'eccentric' shut-off
     groove that you see on all pre-1960 albums!

     Once again, we thank Leslie Baxter, Les' daughter, for all her help in
     releasing these live tracks.

     Over and out!

     Lee Joseph


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From: Irwin Chusid <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs (lengthy!)
Date: 15 May 1996 16:07:21 -0400 (EDT)



On Fri, 10 May 1996, Robbie Baldock wrote:

> no-one seems to be too bothered about people making big (or even
> quite reasonable) bucks out of second-hand dealing - and the original
> artists are certainly not seeing any of this accumulating profit each
> time the record changes hands - how is this *any* different from a
> boot CD?!....

Big difference: A second-hand dealer is selling a piece of property
(record) which was purchased or acquired, and which he owns. A bootlegger
is selling property (recordings and published compositions) which do not
belong to him, thereby violating copyright law. One act is lawful, one is
criminal.


> I certainly am not condoning direct thievery [of the mastering engineers
> fees] and this is terrible behaviour - this is a much stronger argument
> for boycotting the CDs than any copyright breaking argument as all that
> lies behind that argument in my eyes is major label greed to have a
> slice of the pie.

How come when a major label tries to capitalize on a market by selling
recordings they legitimately own, this is "greed," but when a bootlegger
tries to market recordings he does not own, this is "performing an
excellent service in keeping interest and enthusiasm for this music
alive"?

Do you really think that for this bootlegger, profit was a secondary
concern? He's a hustler and a scam artist, motivated by money, not art.





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From: [e-mail]
Subject: YMA SUMAC ON ERNIE KOVAKS
Date: 15 May 1996 13:29:15 PST

     This kind of serves as a video clip want list!

     Ernie Kovaks was a huge fan of Yma's (she even gets mentioned in one
     of Percy Dovetonsils poems). She was on one of his shows!

     I've heard of an amazing performance by Louis Prima and Keely Smith
     doing "That Old Black Magic" on the Ed Sullivan show.

     Does anyone know of any other documented appearances of our exotic and
     pop (oops...lounge) heroes and heroines on TV?

     If anyone can get me a copy of the above mentioned performances, I'll
     give 'em their choice of 4 CDs or LPs from the Dionysus/Hell
     Yeah/Bacchus Archives catalog!

     Lee


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From: eaganca <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Conniff Bops!
Date: 15 May 1996 16:58:02 -0400 ()

[e-mail] wrote:

>I have not heard much Ray Conniff, but when I picked up his record "Dance The
>Bop!" (Columbia CL 1004, no date) I knew it wasn't his usual stuff. Complete
>with a dance instruction booklet, it's a bopping finger snapping thing with
>lots of guitar
>(one tune is called "Play a Gittar Solo" - with that spelling). Other tunes:
>Doin the Twister, Just Boppin', Honky - Tonk Around, The Flea Hop. Is this
>totally out of character for him? Anybody know anything about this disc?

Conniff can be quite the two-faced chameleon sometimes:  his music is
analagous to Beethoven's in that respect.  Unquestionably, Ray and Ludwig
are similar in many more ways, but the "3 period" thing certainly stands
out.  Ray started out arranging big-band style music, soon adding voices
but treating them solely as instruments.  I'm guessing "Dance the Bop!"
comes from this period.  When he realized how popular (and different!)
his chorus was in comparison to the band/orchestra, he shifted gears and
featured the singers by giving them words (oh my!) along with their
bop-doo-wah-doo-dahs.  This allowed Ray to more easily (and copiously)
cover the "hit parade" of his day.  This brings us to his third period,
beginning in 1975 or so, where he was least respected and understood by
his listeners (again, *just* like Beethoven--are these guys related?),
when Ray ceased to cover old standards and sought to redefine the musical
landscape as it was being harvested.  Thus we get such misunderstood gems
such as "I will Survive," Ray's Bee Gees cover album, "After the Lovin',"
"Theme from S.W.A.T.," on up through 1986 with "Say You, Say Me."  Ray
sought to introduce this new, brash, hip music to his fans who, along with
him, were approaching old age.  He made a valiant effort for a worthy
cause; I'm sure we all would appreciate such a genius today to help us
understand the music all the kids are listening to...what I wouldn't give
to be able to have Ray Conniff and the Singers help me understand the
Raspberries, Hooter and the Catfish, etc.

Sure, I'm full of crap and merely kidding around.  But I sometimes wonder
how many great songs of the '40s, '50s and '60s I never would have learned
to love had it not been for Ray's accessible and familiar introductions to
them.

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips
[e-mail]


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From: "William Blaylock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: List Ques. for Lazlo
Date: 15 May 1996 15:01:46 -600

> > > On a separate note, a question for Lazlo - is it the fault of my e-mail
> > > system that all messages on this list are attributed to
> > > "[e-mail]" as author?  I'd like to know who's behind certain
> > > postings, but if the author doesn't sign, I'm outta luck.
> >
> > It's probably your email system -- the list software leaves the "From:"
> > line intact.  Not knowing what package you're using, it's hard for me to
> > make any recommendations about reconfiguring it to work as expected; you
> > might have better luck with your local admins.
> >
>
> The same thing's been happening to me, using Pegasus, ever since the
> software switchover.  The "From" field in the message is correct, but
> the "From" column in the mail list is not - just reads
> [e-mail], which also appears in the "Forwarded by" field
> in the message.  I'm also getting a lot of "Bad Messages" from the
> exotica list, none from any of the other six or seven I'm subscribed
> to.

here are the headers as I get them in pegasus if it helps anyone.

Date forwarded:   Wed, 15 May 1996 10:19:05 -0600 (MDT)
Date sent:        Wed, 15 May 1996 12:16:55 -0500
Send reply to:    [e-mail]
Priority:         normal
Forwarded by:     [e-mail]


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From: "Steve Sando" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Conniff Bops!
Date: 15 May 1996 14:21:37 +0000

> appreciate such a genius today to help us understand the music all
> the kids are listening to...what I wouldn't give to be able to have
> Ray Conniff and the Singers help me understand the Raspberries,
> Hooter and the Catfish, etc.
>
> Sure, I'm full of crap and merely kidding around.

Actually, I think you're right on the money!

Steve Sando


Coconut Grove, publishers of MisterLUCKY
PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107
http://www.wco.com/~coconutg/
"Strange how potent cheap music is" - Noel Coward


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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: List Ques. for Lazlo
Date: 15 May 1996 15:45:07 -0600 (MDT)

>>>> On a separate note, a question for Lazlo - is it the fault of my
>>>> e-mail system that all messages on this list are attributed to
>>>> "[e-mail]" as author?
>>>
>>> It's probably your email system -- the list software leaves the
>>> "From:"  line intact.
>>
>> The same thing's been happening to me, using Pegasus, ever since the
>> software switchover.  The "From" field in the message is correct, but the
>> "From" column in the mail list is not - just reads [e-mail],
>> which also appears in the "Forwarded by" field in the message.
>
> here are the headers as I get them in pegasus if it helps anyone.
>
> Date forwarded:   Wed, 15 May 1996 10:19:05 -0600 (MDT)
> From:             "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
> To:               [e-mail]
> Date sent:        Wed, 15 May 1996 12:16:55 -0500
> Subject:          Re: List Ques. for Lazlo
> Send reply to:    [e-mail]
> Priority:         normal
> Forwarded by:     [e-mail]

It's not clear to me from this example what the problem is.  The From:
line given in the example above is correct, isn't it?  Are you saying that
your mailers aren't displaying the name in the From: line as the name of
the sender?

It might help if you could forward an example of a set of headers from a
message that Pegasus (et al.) seems to be able to interpret properly.

>> I'm also getting a lot of "Bad Messages" from the exotica list, none
>> from any of the other six or seven I'm subscribed to.

I don't know what a "Bad Message" is in this context, as I don't use Pegasus.
Does the software give you any diagnostics other than just "Bad Message?"

As far as I know, the list software is following all the relevant mail RFCs.
If someone can point to something specific that the list software is doing
wrong, I can see about getting it changed, but so far it really does look
like your mail software is the one breaking the rules in some way, not the
list software.  (This may all be moot when we go back to majordomo but I have
no idea when that's going to happen.)

--
::: Lazlo ([e-mail]; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)


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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: look what i found in cdnow's catalog (moog indigo)
Date: 15 May 1996 15:56:56 -0600 (MDT)

>> PERREY*JEAN JACQUES -- MOOG INDIGO                  $26.97
>> ELECTRONIC VANGUARD  EV-905-2
>> Origin: USA
>> This is an import title.
>
> This "origin USA + import title" could definitely be a hint for a
> bootie. But it would never ever tell label and cat.-no. !!!

It's the boot.  All the "Electronic Vanguard" stuff is bootleg.

--
::: Lazlo ([e-mail]; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)


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From: [e-mail] (Chris Strouth)
Subject: Free Stuff
Date: 15 May 1996 17:37:50 -0600

Hey gang,
Just thought I would let everbody know about a thing a deal we having going
on our site
we are offering a sampler disc of all the stuff on the TRG label, be
forewarned it is in't exotica ( well Savage Aural Hotbed definetly qualifes
as modern Exotica) It has Rock a Billy, Punk ,Pop, and alll that other
alternative type stuff. Check it out  http://twintone.com/trg

 On a unreleated note, I bought my first Three suns records  damn their
good, corny but good.

Your Pal
Chris









  END OF TRANSMISSION...



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From: Katie Eagan & Jeff Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Third Man Theme (was Re: Conniff Bops!)
Date: 15 May 1996 21:00:11 -0900 (PDT)

On Wed, 15 May 1996, Renata Hansen wrote:

> Both Ray and Ludwig mastered the art of recycling.

Well, all music is recycled from Gregorian chant anyway.  I know Ray
covered at least one Romantic composer ("A Fifth of Tchaikovsky" from
his "After the Lovin'" album) but has anyone heard any Ray-thoven?  He
obviously titled that one after Walter Murphy's splendorous "A Fifth of
Beethoven" from Saturday Night Fever; I wonder if he ever covered it as
well?

> Perhaps one might say Ray
> is more of a genius, actually.  Ray has (is he dead yet?) nothing to hide.

"I'm not dead yet!"

Good point, Renata.  What with Milla Vanilla and all, it's refreshing to
see an artist bask in the sea of duplication, mockery and homogeneity,
rather than denying its existence and running scared.

>  We're still uncovering  Ludwig's thefts, however.  Supposedly (according to
> NPR) Beethoven's 5th was actually written a decade earlier by some faceless
> French Revolutionary.   Are plaster Ray Conniff busts available?

For shame, van B.  I'll be the first to replace Ludvig with Ray on my
toy piano.

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips
[e-mail]


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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: TWO MARTIN DENNY QUESTIONS
Date: 16 May 1996 12:53:42 -0400

1.  What's your opinion of EXOTIC NIGHT?  I have the chance to get it for $6
at a local record store...is it worth it?

2.  What covers does Sandy Warner grace?  Is she also on PRIMATIVA?  Is that
really her hair?  What happened to her?
I guess that's more than two questions...
Chronically posting,
Lounge Laura

If you want to reply to me directly and spare the list:
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Pebbles compilations
Date: 16 May 1996 19:42:15 +0100

as we have a Pebbles-specialist here ([e-mail]) i would like to sak if
he knows on which Pebbles vi-olume this track appears:

        Jefferson Handkerchief: Allergic to flowers

this is one of the most hilarious psychedelic songs i have ever heard!
thanx!

= Johan |)/\|)/\

Greetings from Johan |)/\|)/\                 [e-mail]
                                              Wivina 15, 1702, Belgium
                                              tel: [phone]
                                              fax: [phone]
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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: the supposedly limited edition series
Date: 16 May 1996 19:42:33 +0100

[e-mail] asked:

>>Could someone please send me or post a list of which "Exotica" Lps were
>>released on CD in the supposedly limited edition series

yma sumac: miracles + 101 Strings: Astrosounds
martin denny: exotic moog + les baxter: moog rock
les baxter: the passions
dean elliot: zounds! + jack fascinato: surplus store
harry revel: music out of the moon & for peace of mind & parfume
Hal Blaine: Psychedelic Percussion + Emil Richards: Stones
Marko Polo Adventures: Orienta + Michel Magne: Tropical Fantasy
jj perrey: moog indigo + amazing new electronic pop sound
esquivel: 1968 + the genius of
mrs. Miller: ???
Ferrante & Teicher: ???
The 10th Victim Soundtrack + ?
Les Baxter: African Jazz + Jungle Jazz
Leo Diamond: Skin Diver Suite + ?

= Johan |)/\|)/\



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Esquivel's OTHER WORLDS
Date: 16 May 1996 19:42:08 +0100

[e-mail] wrote:

>Oh, my friend;  you haven't lived until you've heard those other sounds!
>...By all means, rush and buy, rush, rush, rush!

        ok, but would you please chare the label info with us please? thanx.

= Johan |)/\|)/\



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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: pebbles
Date: 16 May 1996 13:54:22 EDT



>as we have a Pebbles-specialist here ([e-mail]) i would like to sak if
>he knows on which Pebbles vi-olume this track appears:

>        Jefferson Handkerchief: Allergic to flowers

>this is one of the most hilarious psychedelic songs i have ever heard!
>thanx!

DO WE HAVE A PEBBLES SPECIALIST? I'D LIKE TO KNOW IF THERE IS A MAILING
LIST SPECIFICALLY FOR THAT TYPE OF MUSIC, OR CAN WE POST THOSE QUESTIONS HERE?

THE PHRASE "EXOTIC" CAN BE TAKEN TO MEAN ALOT OF THINGS.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re[2]: Pebbles compilations
Date: 16 May 1996 11:02:06 PST

     That would be Volume 4, the "Psychedelic" one!


______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
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as we have a Pebbles-specialist here ([e-mail]) i would like to sak if
he knows on which Pebbles vi-olume this track appears:

        Jefferson Handkerchief: Allergic to flowers

this is one of the most hilarious psychedelic songs i have ever heard!
thanx!

= Johan |)/\|)/\

Greetings from Johan |)/\|)/\                 [e-mail]
                                              Wivina 15, 1702, Belgium
                                              tel: [phone]
                                              fax: [phone]
***************************************************************************
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                                         + exotica/novelty records for sale
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From: Grant China <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Arthur Lyman on radio show
Date: 16 May 1996 08:45:42 -1000

At 09:19 AM 5/13/96 -1000, you wrote:
>Arthur Lyman has agreed to come down and talk story on my somewhat
occasional exotica
>show. Does anyone have any particular questions or lines of discussion that
might be
>interesting to present during the show? I will probably do the obvious --
ask about the
>old times, his story, what he thinks of the resurgence of interest in his
music over the
>last 10 years or so, etc. If anyone has any other ideas, please let me
know. Also for
>those of you who are here on Oahu, tune in to KTUH this Wednesday from 9 to
noon...he'll
>be there for the full 3 hrs.

Um, unfortunately I had to work yesterday from 9 to noon and since KTUH puts
out about as much wattage as a cheap flashlight I couldn't pick up the
interview.  Will it be replayed any time in the future (preferably in the
evening)?  Also, maybe you could send a summary, or even better a whole
transcript, to the whole mailing list.

Aloha,
Grant


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: TWO MARTIN DENNY QUESTIONS
Date: 16 May 1996 16:12:46 -0400

In a message dated 96-05-16 13:04:29 EDT, chronic Laura writes:  :)

>1.  What's your opinion of EXOTIC NIGHT?  I have the chance to get it for $6
>at a local record store...is it worth it?

I have not heard it, but for six bucks (less than a ticket to see Babe) I
would not hesitate.

>2.  What covers does Sandy Warner grace?  Is she also on PRIMATIVA?  Is that
>really her hair?  What happened to her?

All the early Dennys...Exotica 1, 2 and 3, Afro-desia (dyed blonde),
Enchanted Sea, yes..PRIMITIVA...I think this is where she is at her
hottest...Quiet Village, and is that her on Forbidden Island?  I am sure I
forgot to mention some others.





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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Moog items!
Date: 16 May 1996 15:03:01 PDT

All:
For any of you interested in Moog stuff, records and the units themselves,
check these two sites out!

First, the Restless Records release of "Moog Cookbook" which includes
covers of Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen
Spirit" done a la JJ. Perrey, Enoch Light "Spaced Out" should drop by
here and listen to samples, among other things:
http://www.tt.net/restless/moog

Also, can you believe it... Moog is back in business!  They are going to
re-release the Minimoog and the Series 9000 Modular Systems!
Unbelievable!
http://www.moogmusic.com/home.html


The "Moog Cookbook" was mentioned earlier on the Exotica Mailing List, so
if anyone is interested in the record, the above will help you.  I know
some others out there will find the Moog Music Company information
useful as well.

Clark


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From: [e-mail] (Caressa Bennet -- Atty-Caressa Bennett - Washington )
Subject: Pebbles
Date: 16 May 1996 19:52:09 EDT



 To:    exotica,         Inet


Although I could certainly be wrong (indeed I was with my
recollection of the Voxx commercial), I would almost swear that
the psychedelic volume of Pebbles (w/Jefferson Handkerchief, et
al.) was #3 and that Surf was #4.

Too lazy to go upstairs and check,

Michael Bennet



     That would be Volume 4, the "Psychedelic" one!


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as we have a Pebbles-specialist here ([e-mail]) i would like
to sak if  he knows on which Pebbles vi-olume this track appears:
              Jefferson Handkerchief: Allergic to flowers
this is one of  the most hilarious psychedelic songs i have ever
heard!  thanx!        = Johan |)/\|)/\       Greetings from Johan
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Pebbles
Date: 16 May 1996 16:59:41 PST

     Oh geez, you are right! Vol. 3 is the Psych one and vol 4 is the Surf
     one!




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 To: exotica,   Inet


Although I could certainly be wrong (indeed I was with my
recollection of the Voxx commercial), I would almost swear that
the psychedelic volume of Pebbles (w/Jefferson Handkerchief, et
al.) was #3 and that Surf was #4.

Too lazy to go upstairs and check,

Michael Bennet



     That would be Volume 4, the "Psychedelic" one!


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as we have a Pebbles-specialist here ([e-mail]) i would like
to sak if  he knows on which Pebbles vi-olume this track appears:
              Jefferson Handkerchief: Allergic to flowers
this is one of  the most hilarious psychedelic songs i have ever
heard!  thanx!        = Johan |)/\|)/\       Greetings from Johan
|)/\|)/\                  [e-mail]
                          Wivina 15, 1702, Belgium
                               tel: [phone]
                               fax: [phone]
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: TWO MARTIN DENNY QUESTIONS
Date: 16 May 1996 20:46:01 -0400

Exotic Night is a little on the easy listening side, not all that exotic
(nary a bird call in ear shot) but quite pleasant cocktail stuff and well
worth six bucks.

Sandy Warner does not appear on the original Forbidden Island cover
(featuring  palm trees and a big tiki head), however I believe it is her on
the re-issue cover with a cherry in her mouth.

Ashley


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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs - the spiritual dimension!
Date: 16 May 1996 18:15:56 -0600 (MDT)

Irwin Chusid wrote:-

>Big difference: A second-hand dealer is selling a piece of property
>(record) which was purchased or acquired, and which he owns. A
>bootlegger is selling property (recordings and published compositions)
>which do not belong to him, thereby violating copyright law. One act
>is lawful, one is criminal.

I take your point but I still don't think the difference is "big" -
certainly "one is lawful, one is criminal" but that doesn't
ultimately equate with "right" or "wrong".  If your main concern is
royalties to the recording artist (which surely is the whole point of
copyright) then, as I said, there is no difference - the artist gets
their royalty either way and then the music is passed on to a new
"owner", after which point the artist gets no more!

You seem to be more concerned that a law has been broken than whether
in fact it actually makes any difference!

BTW, wouldn't it be great if on LPs/CDs there was some sort of
contact address for the artist so that people buying it second-hand
(or boot) could make voluntary payments to the artist?!  I don't know
how many people would respond to this but it does seem a shame that
these artists in particular are having their records passed around
for sometimes huge sums of money with nothing going back to them...

>How come when a major label tries to capitalize on a market by selling
>recordings they legitimately own, this is "greed," but when a
>bootlegger tries to market recordings he does not own, this is
>"performing an excellent service in keeping interest and enthusiasm
>for this music alive"?

This isn't quite what I was saying!  I think *both* record labels and
bootleggers are a positive influence in keeping this music popular.
I agree, you could say that both are "greedy" for a slice of the
action - I attributed this more to the record labels just because of
that distinctive taste of sour grapes I detected in the way you
described the record companies responding, not by doing anything
constructive like releasing something else (or releasing much cheaper
editions of the same recording*) but by moaning about how this guy
has "served the market".  I'd just like to see the labels grow up a
bit!  Surely the one lesson from all this which should be pounding
the labels at the moment is GET THIS STUFF RELEASED BEFORE YET
ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY IS WASTED!!!

[* - isn't this ultimately the most obvious way to put the bootlegger
(sorry, pirate!) out of business?  Or are the record labels too proud to
admit that this guy would effectively be dictating what gets released?
If they start speeding their act up a little they could very quickly
turn the tables...]

>Do you really think that for this bootlegger, profit was a secondary
>concern? He's a hustler and a scam artist, motivated by money, not
>art.

I disagree!  Why would someone go to the trouble of researching not
only _which_ of these very obscure releases are likely to have some
"underground" popularity - but also arrange the releases so that the
two LPs on each CD complement each other.  When I saw "Astro Sounds"
and "Miracles" on the same CD I thought "what?!" but of course it
makes perfect sense when you hear it!  Also, "Music Out of the Moon"
is currently fetching 100 dollars and upwards - this guy could easily
have charged double what he was asking and still sold bucketloads of
this CD...

Whoever it is that is is producing these CDs certainly knows their
music and knows how to source it.  If his prime and only goal is
money then why isn't he/she(?) selling live Smaching Pumpkins tapes?!

>I appreciate your comments about bootlegs. Please don't take my last
>reply as a personal indictment of you for attempting to find grounds
>for defending bootleggers. I'm sure you're an honorable and
>intelligent man. I don't want the vehemence of my response
>misconstrued as a personal attack on you. My anger is aimed at the
>pencil-dick who's been marketing these bootlegs.

As I said at the close of my previous response, I don't like to think
of myself as having fixed opinions on *any* subject (this
incidentally isn't woolly-minded but a conscious decision not to
cling too strongly to anything, even opinions - blame that on my
Buddhist friends!).  I am still happy to be persuaded...

Also, I always prefer open-ness in discussion and I would say again
that wherever possible I will buy legit releases, be they new or second
hand.  But sometimes, the only way to hear something is to walk those
shadier paths!

Oh, and my Buddhist friends would also say that *anger* is a pretty
negative emotion!


Robbie


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From: Phil Clark <[e-mail]>
Subject: John Cameron/Sound Gallery
Date: 15 May 1996 19:53:10 +0100

In message <[e-mail]>, exotica-digest-
[e-mail] writes
>(2) Lately I've been mesmerized by John Cameron's "Half Forgotten
>Daydreams" from the recent Sound Gallery compilation. Could
>someone out there please tell me more about Mr. Cameron's music
>- on what Cameron album does this tune originally appear and
>does the rest of the lp capture a similar mood?

AFAIK it's from one of those KPM (Keith Prowse Music) music library
albums. I don't have the title, sorry.

background info: these albums are (supposedly) industry-only collections
of mood music released by a number of different companies from the late
60s onwards - De Wolfe, KPM etc etc there are hundreds of them and some
are really cool! They make up about half the material on Sound Gallery;
the other half mostly comes from EMI's Studio Two imprint (except
perhaps "Shout About Pepsi" which is from a 99p supermarket album!)

Such hot session players as Keith Mansfield/Alan Hawkshaw etc have
recorded some of these discs, whilst others feature "made up"
orchestras/groups of sessioneers. The music is all unavailable
elsewhere, indeed that's the point, since the material is intended for
use by TV & film people looking for something to match a specific mood
but which should not be an established hit or well-known theme.

I have a couple of KPM albums and they're getting harder to find now
(unsurprisingly)

Hope this is of interest

swingingly

Phil
[e-mail]

PS Second volumes of Sound Gallery and Easy Project imminent...
imminent...


--
Phil Clark


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From: "Jan Fornell <PXQ" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Scott Walker
Date: 17 May 1996 21:06:00 +0900

Last week, Johan Dada Vis asked for help with filing Scott Walker's
Scott Two.

Put it under vocals (male), since the reason to listen to Scott Walker
is his Voice, rather than his songs which really are unclassifiable
anyway. Though he started as a pop singer (in the Walker Brothers),
and has been a major influence on two generations of British pop
singers, his own solo stuff over the past three decades has very
little to do with pop (or rock or jazz or exotica, for that matter),
but ranges from the gloomy to the profoundly abstruse. With a lesser
voice most of it would have been terrible, but he gets away with it.


Jan


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From: "Jan Fornell <PXQ" <[e-mail]>
Subject: My 2 yen about the boots
Date: 17 May 1996 21:04:00 +0900

I agree with Robbie, Jill, Jack, Lee and others that those boots fill
a useful function. Here in Japan they are sold as the genuine article
by a fairly straight chain of record stores. (They might even be legal
here for that matter, since the copyright laws are different than in
the U.S., and most of that material is old enough to have passed into
the public domain.) The prices are about the same as for other
American imports ($15 - 20), which is cheaper than the local produce,
but that is Japan for you.
   While I have enjoyed the music of Martin Denny, Les Baxter & co for
about 15 years now, I have never lived in any place where such stuff
was readily available. In Japan, where I have been living for the past
10 years, such things as "garage sales" or "thrift stores" simply
don't exist. There are a few specialist stores for jazz collectors
where I have seen some exotica but at exorbitant prices ($150 for Les
Baxter's "Jungle Jazz", anyone?) Originally, I come from Sweden but
there is not much exotica there either, although my grandmother once
found a Martin Denny album in excellent condition for me in her
backyard garbage can!
   While some of those boots are very good, some I could definitely
live without, and I'm very glad I was able to find that out without
investing serious money. Now, if someone were to release that Elsa
Popping record, or the weird Eskimo Kola Beldy mentioned by Jello
Biafra in "Incredibly Strange Music, vol II"...

Here are some additions to Johan Dada's list:

Les Baxter: Tamboo (one track missing) + Ritual of the Savage
Zounds! What Sounds! + Music from a Surplus Store

also,

Les Baxter's African Jazz is coupled with Tak Shindo's "Mganga!",
not "Jungle Jazz" (which I haven't seen released yet).


Jan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Scott Walker
Date: 17 May 1996 11:35:33 -0400 (EDT)

Jan Fornell writes:

>Last week, Johan Dada Vis asked for help with filing Scott Walker's
>Scott Two.

     My understanding is that Razor and Tie is going to be issuing Scott
Walker's solo albums in the U.S. sometime over the summer, for what that's
worth.
                    --Jon Johnson
                      [e-mail]


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From: Mark Freitas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs - the spiritual dimension!
Date: 17 May 1996 11:05:49

Robbie said:

>I take your point but I still don't think the difference is "big" -
>certainly "one is lawful, one is criminal" but that doesn't
>ultimately equate with "right" or "wrong".  If your main concern is
>royalties to the recording artist (which surely is the whole point of
>copyright) then, as I said, there is no difference - the artist gets
>their royalty either way and then the music is passed on to a new
>"owner", after which point the artist gets no more!

I guess it bears mentioning that many times even when a album is reissued by
whomever owns the masters, many times the artist doesn't see a penny.  Artists
often perform their music as a "work for hire" and as a result, unless they own
the publishing rights to the songs performed, the label owes them no money.
Many times artists perform other people's songs, or even if they wrote the
songs they performed they sell the publishing rights and thus don't collect
publishing royaties either.  You can blame the artists for being short sighted,
but generally the choice given them is, if you want to record you play by our
rules and that means signing it all away.

There are tons of great musicians whose music you hear on the radio every day,
who haven't seen a cent of money for their music in decades.  While the labels
guilty of screwing over the artists have often behaved more or less legally,
their actions are hardly moral.

mark


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From: [e-mail] (jordana robinson)
Subject: Barbarella
Date: 17 May 1996 11:27:13 -0400

Does anyone know if the soundtrack to _Barbarella_ was ever released?
Re-watching it yesterday, I finally remembered to see who performed/wrote
the music.  It wasn't Hubler & Schwab (_Vampyros Lesbos_) as I'd suspected,
but, of all people, the Bob Crewe Generation, of _Music to Watch Girls By_
fame.  Any info on that album, as well as anything in the same genre, would
be greatly appreciated.

-Jordana


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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Sandy Warner
Date: 17 May 1996 10:16:28 +0000

Sandy Warner graced all of Martin Denny's early LP's
Maybe about 12 record covers as far as Denny Goes.

She did other model jobs for Liberty of which 1 is;
Don Swan and his Orchestra - Latino Vol 2
Great record BTW, but then again "you" can't miss with Liberty


"Record collecting is no mere hobby, no leisurely
innocuous diversion.  It's a feverish passion
bordering on dementia, driving those under its
influence including myself, to irrational,
compulsive and sometimes fanatical extremes."
3-93  Jack Diamond




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Loungecore Giveaway
Date: 17 May 1996 14:22:42 EDT

Exoticans--

Sequel Records has passed along 35 prizes from their Loungecore/Easy
Project collection to be given away at Space Age Bachelor Pad Music on
the WWW, but here's the twist -- the top five prizes, complete sets of
the Sequel Loungecore CDs, will go to the five best answers to the Name
the Genre contest.

This 1964 through 1976 sutff isn't SABPM -- it's too late for that -- but
what do we call it? Polyester Exotica? Leisure Suit Swing? You can do
better than that.

Stop by http://www.interport.net/~joholmes/index.html to enter -- you can
only enter from the contest page.

-=-Joe


=----------------------------------------------------=
= Space Age Bachelor Pad Music on the World Wide Web =
=   http://www.interport.net/~joholmes/index.html    =
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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Lalo Schifrin in Glasgow (July)
Date: 17 May 1996 15:27:52 -0600 (MDT)

Hi all -

Just spotted that Lalo Schifrin is playing at the Glasgow Jazz
Festival in July.

However, before you all get too excited, he doesn't appear to be
doing any film music - it's billed as one of his "Symphonic Jazz"
gigs.  Shame...


Robbie


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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Les Baxter / Neil Norman LP
Date: 17 May 1996 15:27:53 -0600 (MDT)

And there's more...

Saw today a GNP budget LP reissue of a compilation of sci-fi themes
(from 50s B-movies (hoorah!) up to Star Wars/Close Encounters (boo!)).
It At least one of these is written by Neil Norman and he plays
theremin in places.

I was put off buying it as the selections are all very short 1.5 -
2.5 mins and there are quite a few more recent film themes - it was
recorded in 1979-80.

The cover is really nice though: shot from Forbidden Planet.

Anyone heard this and can persuade me to buy it?


Robbie


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From: William Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Recent Acquisitions
Date: 17 May 1996 19:38:21 -0400

I scored a number of beauties today.  At Dave's Record Mine,
a little hole-in-the-wall in Montreal I've been frequenting for years,
I got, still in their plastic wrap,

Tony Mottola, Lush, Latin & Lovely
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade, The Brass Menagerie 1973
Enoch Light and his Orchestra, Beatles Classics
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade, Spanish Strings

and then, unwrapped, but in fine condition

Brazilian pressing of Walter Wanderley, E Samba
The Melachrino Strings and Orchestra, Music for Relaxation

two Billy Vaughn albums, Moon over Naples and Theme from the Sundowners

and the 1970 album "Take It and Smile" by Eve.  This is from Lee Hazlewood
Productions, and the session players include Hal Blaine, Ry Cooder, and Sneaky
Pete Kleinow.

Will Straw
Will Straw
Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Communications/
Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural
Industries and Institutions
3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7

Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]
http://www.facl.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/crccii.html


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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Marilyn Monroe
Date: 17 May 1996 19:53:01 EDT



Dig, if you will, the picture... my girlfriend and I were in Pottery Barn
in the local mall the other day and the in-store music was this KILLER
mix of honest-to-goodness, high quality, high fidelity Exotica!

The most mind-bending song I heard while in the store was something
that sounded like Prez Prado. The only vocal to the song was the
band calling out the words "Marilyn Monroe".

Has anyone ever heard of this tune? Anyone know where to find it on disc?


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Marilyn Monroe
Date: 17 May 1996 21:48:33 -0400

At 07:53 PM 5/17/96 EDT, you wrote:
>
>
>Dig, if you will, the picture... my girlfriend and I were in Pottery Barn
>in the local mall the other day and the in-store music was this KILLER
>mix of honest-to-goodness, high quality, high fidelity Exotica!
>
>The most mind-bending song I heard while in the store was something
>that sounded like Prez Prado. The only vocal to the song was the
>band calling out the words "Marilyn Monroe".
>
>Has anyone ever heard of this tune? Anyone know where to find it on disc?

Yeah it's on a Perez Prado twofer, Havana 3 A.M. / Mambo!  I think it's
called "Marilyn Monroe Mambo" and was recorded around 1956. This twofer is
available from Bear Family Records as an import from Germany.  I don't have
their mailing address handy but someone else might be able to help you there.

Hope this helps,
Bryan


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From: [e-mail] (Peter Principle)
Subject: Re: exotica-digest Digest V96 #34
Date: 17 May 1996 23:01:49 -0400


>        Jefferson Handkerchief: Allergic to flowers
>
>this is one of the most hilarious psychedelic songs i have ever heard!
>thanx!

>Greetings from Johan |)/\|)/\                 [e-mail]
>                                              Wivina 15, 1702, Belgium

According to my recollections this is on the vol 3 of the vinyl series of
Pebbles (BFD) anyway although there's a better transfer on Mindrockers
(Line) vol 1.
BTW both are probably boots

That said how about a thread of a few overlooked Belgian lounge acts like:

The Monks and Nuns --psuedonym for Roland Thyssen and Orchestra
Pradomania --Francis Bay Big Band recorded at Brussels World Fair
anything by Willy Albimoor

I especially liked the heavily organ driven small ensembles from the 70's like:

Andre Brassuer on multi-sound organ  this is really Tasty (actually 60's)
Tchip Tchip Electronic Music System  a bit on the sleepy side but with good
intent and 70's sound design extrordinaire
Flamenco Moog  -Dan Lacksman Association with EMS synth   quite chirpy
Taboo -Albert de Cock on Wersi-organ   fabulous

not to mention Belgiums own surf band:
the Waikikis doing Hawaii's Greatest Hits  with Hammond organ and Nashville
style peddle steel --all the standards we know and expect. I can just
imagine the band stuck between post -Dallas- fashion and that perfect wave
at Ostend.

While I lived in Brussels (early 80's) there was a great club in the city
center called  "Les Follies de Les Annees Soixante" where they played
lounge records, had a very Jet Set environment and bar (the DJ wore a Tux)
and the obligatory console organ.  It was at that time (of course this was
pre-assimilation) the haunt of drunken middle aged rich people --absolutely
cool.
We also used to drink and even recorded at the Archiduke a piano bar which
was a haunt of greats on the international circuit like Nat King Cole who
often appeared there but before I left it got trendy and went new wave.
I actually remember seeing quite a bit of live lounge band activity while
there.  Is this still going?
caio
Peter Principle



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs - the spiritual dimension!
Date: 18 May 1996 00:53:52 -0400

Riobbie
- In July "Astro Sounds" will be properly re-issued through Scamp - digitally
remastered from the original tapes with added tracks - this proper reissue
with proper sound quality almost did not occur because of this bootlegger
 had already dropped 1000 unorthorized copies into the marketplace.  I'm sure
you'll agree that there is really a very finite number of copies that can be
sold on a title like this and to have 1000 sales taken away right from the
start by some guy who knows this is a cult record, but  also is releasing
this to make a lot of money per copy(as he is neither paying the artists or
the publishing)  - rather than doing so to provide a "service" to the
marketplace...It is my hope that enough people who have bought this title
transfered from a tinny-sounding, scratched-up copy will want to get the real
thing, otherwise this title will have been released in vain.
Ashley


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Marilyn Monroe
Date: 18 May 1996 01:01:39 -0400

You are in luck - that track appears on the Bear Family label CD "Havana 3 AM
/ Mambo Mania" - which I highly recommend...you can get it for $19.95 from
Collector's Choice 1-800-923-1122
Ashley


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: John Cameron/Sound Gallery
Date: 18 May 1996 01:08:29 -0400

Hello Phil!
_ just to let everyone on this side of the pond know, Scamp will be releasing
Sound Gallery 2 on CD & LP simultaneously with EMI UK, the cover features the
same model as on the first volume, but this time done up as a Roy
Lichtenstein painting...there are more tracks and moreof a  variety of tunes
than on volume one including George Martin's "Theme One" and Lord Sitar's
manic cover of the Who's "I Can See For Miles", more Keith Mansfield stuff as
well as Laurie Johnson!

Ashley


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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: MIRACLES
Date: 18 May 1996 10:04:41 EDT




Does anyone know if there are plans to legitimatly re-release
YMA SUMAC'S "MIRACLES" album? If I'm not mistaken, I've heard
this described as THE most INSANE thing she ever recorded.


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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: SG & EP
Date: 18 May 1996 10:22:09 EDT



 If someone posted it, I must have missed it. Can anyone tell me
where to call or who to sleep with in order to get my grubby
little hands on Sound Gallery and the Easy Project


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: More on boots
Date: 18 May 1996 10:36:49 -0400

Regarding the news of Scamp's impending re-release of ASTRO-SOUNDS, and
speaking as someone who did buy the boot version, I'll bet I'm not alone in
saying I'll buy the Scamp version the instant it hits the stores.  Maybe even
a couple copies for friends.

To repeat a point made by someone several days ago: these "boots" have served
a fanatical sliver of the market.  If Scamp had announced their release of
ASTRO-SOUNDS several months ago, I would have gladly waited even a year for
the legitimate release, thereby being a straight-shooter *and* saving several
dollars.  But not knowing that this album would ever see an officially
sanctioned release, I plunked $25 down for the boot.  And I would do it again
to hear such an amazing album.

I look forward to the improved sound quality of the legitimate release, and I
thank the Tiki Gods for Scamp.  Would that there were other labels out there
with the same agenda.

Arn
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Yma Sumac
Date: 18 May 1996 08:10:06 +0000

IMHO, considering she created an ORIGINAL SOUND, all of Yma Sumac's records
are "The Most Insane Things She Ever Did!!!!!!!!!!!!

Miracles is bee-yooooooo-tee-fooooool psych with Yma moaning ang groaning,
oooing and aaahing wordlessly, wonderfully.

It's her last record, produced by Les Baxter with all of the titles written
and composed by Les but to say that it's her best is ludicrous, imho.




"Record collecting is no mere hobby, no leisurely
innocuous diversion.  It's a feverish passion
bordering on dementia, driving those under its
influence including myself, to irrational,
compulsive and sometimes fanatical extremes."
3-93  Jack Diamond




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From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Re: Les Baxter / Neil Norman LP
Date: 18 May 1996 19:18:19 +0200 (MET DST)

Robbie wrote:
>Saw today a GNP budget LP reissue of a compilation of sci-fi themes=20
>(from 50s B-movies (hoorah!) up to Star Wars/Close Encounters (boo!)). =20
>It At least one of these is written by Neil Norman and he plays=20
>theremin in places.
>
>I was put off buying it as the selections are all very short 1.5 -=20
>2.5 mins and there are quite a few more recent film themes - it was=20
>recorded in 1979-80.
>
>The cover is really nice though: shot from Forbidden Planet.
>
>Anyone heard this and can persuade me to buy it?
>Robbie

Can=B4t really recomend them as I think their very uninspired except for=20
Baxter=B4s and Norman=B4s own compositions, and have an awful "early 80s=
 sound".
The most interesting thing Neil Norman did is "Phaser Laser" (incredible=20
nightmare space psych) which is on one of his other LPs + a old bootleg=20
compilation called "Good Roots".=20
Stefan


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From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs - the spiritual dimension!
Date: 18 May 1996 19:28:41 +0200 (MET DST)

Aloha Ashley,
you can surely sign me up for a copy if you include some cool extra tracks
from the 101 Strings "Sounds of Today" LP: "Stone Baroque", "Karma Sitar",
"Blues for the Guru" and "Strings for Ravi". They would fit right in. On the
other hand I suspect the "Astro Sounds" LP is more Animated Egg than 101
Strings. Maybe you can enlighten me concerning this mystery?
Aloha
Stefan


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From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Re: MIRACLES
Date: 18 May 1996 19:37:52 +0200 (MET DST)

Patrick wrote:
>Does anyone know if there are plans to legitimatly re-release
>YMA SUMAC'S "MIRACLES" album? If I'm not mistaken, I've heard
>this described as THE most INSANE thing she ever recorded.

No it=B4s not! It=B4s actually her most boring record. Here 50=B4s=
 recordings are=20
miles beyond this lame attempt at psych rock. Ok there are a few good cuts=
=20
but this is definitely not the first record you should get with her. "Legend=
=20
of the Xtabay" for example is supreme real exotic-psych and put Beatles so=
=20
called masterpiece "SGT. Peppers...." LP to shame.
But hey this is strictly my opinion.
Aloha
Stefan=20


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From: [e-mail] (Caressa Bennet -- Atty-Caressa Bennett - Washington )
Subject: digest
Date: 18 May 1996 16:14:41 EDT



 To:    exotica,         Inet


Does anyone know if there's a way to get this list in digest form?
 I think I've tried to in the past unsuccessfully.

Michael Bennet
[e-mail]



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Speaking of Yma Sumac....
Date: 18 May 1996 21:14:56 -0400

Yma Sumac is appearing at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on
June 5 and 6.  I saw this advertised in SF Weekly.  Tickets are twenty five
bucks...a little $$$, but how often do you get to see a real, live Incan
Princess?



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Raymond Scott
Date: 18 May 1996 21:33:33 -0400

In a message dated 96-05-15 00:14:07 EDT, you write:

>Jim Foetus and the Pizz did a version of Powerhouse under the name "Garage
>Monsters."  The arrangement is pretty standard, but the production is a bit
>hyped up - sort of industrial.


I'm a little suprised that no one mentioned this yet, but The Tiki Tones do a
surf version of "Powerhouse" on their Enchanted Tiki Tones 7" EP on Dionysis.
(Other tracks are "Sneaky Tiki," "A Go-Go Drum" and "Tum-Tiki.")

Recommended.

Peter

Music for Better Living

MFBL web page coming soon!
http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.htm



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From: Phil Clark <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Barbarella
Date: 18 May 1996 16:50:04 +0100

In message <[e-mail]>, jordana robinson
<[e-mail]> writes
>Does anyone know if the soundtrack to _Barbarella_ was ever released?
>Re-watching it yesterday, I finally remembered to see who performed/wrote
>the music.  It wasn't Hubler & Schwab (_Vampyros Lesbos_) as I'd suspected,
>but, of all people, the Bob Crewe Generation, of _Music to Watch Girls By_
>fame.  Any info on that album, as well as anything in the same genre, would
>be greatly appreciated.
>
>-Jordana
>

yep it was released in 1968 on Stateside in the UK and DynoVoice in the
US. it's hard to find now but AFAIK a CD reissue is somewhere in the
pipeline, here in the UK anyhow. (thru EMI)

the Bob Crewe Generation collaborated with a band called the
Glitterhouse to do the Barbarella ost. both outfits also released some
other albums, but I don't have anyofem so I can't tell you what they're
like.

hope this helps

Phil



--
Phil Clark


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From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Exotica in Sweden
Date: 19 May 1996 14:30:42 +0200 (MET DST)

LIVING DYNAMIC HI-FI STEREO ACTION!

BO AXELZON & HIS EXOTIC SOUNDS 10=94 inch record!

SUBLIMINAL SOUNDS are proud to present the premier recording by Swedens only=
=20
authentic Exotica/SABP/IS/EL/Lounge act!  A blazing hi-fi dispaly of brass=
=20
and percussion, chock full of exotic instrumentation to dazzle your=20
imagination. These exot-nicks are currently the house band at Stockholms=20
Tiki Room (the only Tiki Bar/Lounge Club in town) and have been playing this=
=20
music since the 50=B4s!

If your interested in their limited edition 10=94 inch housed in a beautiful=
=20
exotica sleeve send me a e-mail.=20

Aloha

Stefan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: New website
Date: 19 May 1996 11:48:48 -0400

Hi all --

Just a quick note to let you all know that our radio show's page is finally
up on the web. Our show? Music for Better Living, of course! The site is
kinda bare bones right now, just playlists and links, pretty much. But we're
always open for suggestions. Also, if you know of any good links we left off,
please tell us.

Be seeing you,

Valerie & Peter



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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: Barbarella
Date: 19 May 1996 11:03:09 -0600 (MDT)

>Does anyone know if the soundtrack to _Barbarella_ was ever released?
>Re-watching it yesterday, I finally remembered to see who performed/wrote
>the music.  It wasn't Hubler & Schwab (_Vampyros Lesbos_) as I'd suspected,
>but, of all people, the Bob Crewe Generation, of _Music to Watch Girls By_
>fame.  Any info on that album, as well as anything in the same genre, would
>be greatly appreciated.
>
>-Jordana
>
>Jordana,

Yes, I know it exists because my friend has it!! If you need any other info
on it and the rest of the list can't help, email me back, and I will hassle
my friend for more info.

Jill
>


Colloquium Internet


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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Bear Family records
Date: 19 May 1996 19:27:14 +0100

>Yeah it's on a Perez Prado twofer, Havana 3 A.M. / Mambo!  I think it's
>called "Marilyn Monroe Mambo" and was recorded around 1956. This twofer is
>available from Bear Family Records as an import from Germany.

Bear Family Records:
        specialised in country and R&R. Complete free catalogue on request.
        PO Box 1154, 27727 Hambergen, Germany<br>
        tel: [phone] & fax [phone]

= Johan |)/\|)/\



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From: Tristan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Yma sumac 78's
Date: 19 May 1996 14:49:47 -0400 (EDT)

I am new to the list but have a quick question regarding Yma Sumac.

Was "Land of the Xtabay" originally released as a 78? Several years ago I
picked up a copy at at library book sale and was just curious.
Unfortunately two of the records were broken by my own carelessly(they were
the only ones that were audible).

Any info would be helpful...

Thanks..

tristan cutshaw
[e-mail]



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Yma sumac 78's
Date: 19 May 1996 16:27:35 -0400

I am unaware of "Voice Of Xtaby" being released on 78...you might be
confusing it's original release as a 10" album or possible as a boxed set of
45 rpm singles.
Regards
Ashley


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs - the spiritual dimension!
Date: 19 May 1996 17:40:45 -0400

At 12:53 AM 5/18/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Riobbie
>- In July "Astro Sounds" will be properly re-issued through Scamp - digitally
>remastered from the original tapes with added tracks - this proper reissue
>with proper sound quality almost did not occur because of this bootlegger
> had already dropped 1000 unorthorized copies into the marketplace.  I'm sure
>you'll agree that there is really a very finite number of copies that can be
>sold on a title like this and to have 1000 sales taken away right from the
>start by some guy who knows this is a cult record, but  also is releasing
>this to make a lot of money per copy(as he is neither paying the artists or
>the publishing)  - rather than doing so to provide a "service" to the
>marketplace...It is my hope that enough people who have bought this title
>transfered from a tinny-sounding, scratched-up copy will want to get the real
>thing, otherwise this title will have been released in vain.
>Ashley

Hey Ashley, that's great!!!  I can't thank you all (Scamp) for doing enough
to release this neglected music.  I do not buy bootlegs because I will go on
the assumption that it will be released legitimately some day.  In the
meantime, I do without.  I will not buy an inferior recording that sounds
like scuffy vinyl.  Not that I can't stop others from doing so, but I will
not be a part of it.

Keep up the great work.  By the way, I am listening to "Sound Gallery" all
the time now.  I find it very relaxing.  Looking froward to the Denny
release here in a couple of days.

Thanks,
Bryan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Vik's Newsletter V1.6
Date: 19 May 1996 17:57:46 -0500

Wow...things sure seem to be getting busy at Vik's. So much to do and so
little time. Vik took a break last weekend to jet to Detroit and shop the
swank thrift and second-hand stores of the Motor City. Many wonderful finds
at prices far below the extortion of the East Coast!

Much thanks to all who have recently stopped by the lounge offering kind
words and suggestions. Vik's always welcomes any thing you have to say or
offer. Suggestions, comments, articles, and the like should be sent to
[e-mail].

One final note...Vik would like to start a gallery of swinging lounge
flyers. So many of todays new lounges are creating truly wonderous flyers
and postcards. You can e-mail JPEG or GIF files to [e-mail] or drop
Vik a line for a snail mail. If Vik gets enough, he will add a Swank
Gallery to the lounge...

And without further ado...
===========================================================================
The Lounge Primer
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/primer.html)

Vik has decided to take it upon himself to guide those new to this lounge
thing. This week finds part on of the Lounge Primer...Required Reading.
Books, magazines and web 'zines to start the new (or even old) hipster on
the path to swankness. If you have any suggestions...send the to
[e-mail].
===========================================================================
In the News
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/mnews.html)

Joseph Lanza gets exotic with Time-Life...Fantasy to release Korla Pandit
collection...GNP Cresendo presents the fantasy world of Irwin Allen...the
mysterious Madame X...and the Estrus Cocktail Companion...RETRO explores
vices...Time-Life gets into Exotic Moods...Brunwick releasing Hollywood
Hi-Fi Companion.

Also, a news flash from the folks at Dionysus concerning a remastered
version of the Les Baxter "Lost Episode"
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/diony.html#baxflash)
===========================================================================
The lounge magazine Back Issues
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lomagb.html)

So you have found the latest issue of lounge to be truly swinging, and you
hunger for more. Now you van gaze upon the back issues and sate your
hunger...collect the whole set!!!
===========================================================================
Lounge Links
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/viklink.html)

The never ending search for all things swank in the 'net continues.
Expanded list of places, music, magazines and more in this crazy Swank
Generation network!
===========================================================================
May exotica be your guide...

The Temple of Denny (http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/denny.html) recently
acquired two more goddesses for "Hawaii Tattoo" and "Hawaii Goes A Go-Go",
as well as some corrected information in the "Sacred Songs."

The Scamp Room (http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/scamp.html) has a preview
of the Denny "Exotica I/Exotica II" re-issue with cover art from the CD and
line-up information. Also, check out the track listing for the Walter
Wanderley collection!
===========================================================================
The Casino Biscotti
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/casino.html)

+++The Jac Zinder Stereo Test+++
In association with the hip folks at Catasonic. Vik's has 10 copies of Jac
Zinder' "Chairs I Have Known" CD to give away. Drop by the casino and match
the record label with its sound moniker and mail it to [e-mail].
First 10 correct entries will win a CD.

The Sound Gallery Leisure Suit Defense contest continues...defend the
leisure suit in 37 words or less and win your choice of The Sound Gallery
CD or LP. Check out those who have already won in the Scamp Room
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/scamp2.html)
===========================================================================
Also...Jet Set (http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/jet.html) with departures
for Santa Barbara, Miami, Boston and Vancouver...
COMING SOON>>>Dean Martin...Bossa Brava...Suggested Sounds
===========================================================================





i remain...
Vik Trola


Vik Trola's Lounge Of Self Indulgence
http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html




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From: William Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: The Brass Ring
Date: 19 May 1996 18:29:25 -0400

I just came home with the frontrunner for this week's
fave record:  The Best of the Brass Ring (Featuring Phil
Bodner) on ABC/Dunhill.  Quintessential late 1960s
grown-up party music.  And to think of the years I spent
passing over Brass Ring records in thrift stores . . .



Will Straw
Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Communications/
Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural
Industries and Institutions
3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7

Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]
http://www.facl.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/crccii.html


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Yma sumac 78's
Date: 19 May 1996 18:47:46 -0400

>I am unaware of "Voice Of Xtaby" being released on 78...you >might be
>confusing it's original release as a 10" album or possible as a >boxed set
of
>45 rpm singles.
>Regards
>Ashley

"Voice" was definitely released on 78s.  That is the format that my fiancee'
(the beautiful and mysterious ESQUERLITA, ; )) and I own.
Also, many of our 78s feature ads on the sleeves for "Voice," so it must have
been a big 78 release.

Mike Ensley
PIGEONHOLE Magazine


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From: Dan Gresham <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: New website
Date: 19 May 1996 23:54:47 +0100 (BST)

On Sun, 19 May 1996 [e-mail] wrote:

> Hi all --
>
> Just a quick note to let you all know that our radio show's page is finally
> up on the web. Our show? Music for Better Living, of course! The site is
> kinda bare bones right now, just playlists and links, pretty much. But we're
> always open for suggestions. Also, if you know of any good links we left off,
> please tell us.
>
> Be seeing you,
>
> Valerie & Peter

Do you think you could tell us where this is...?

Dan ;)



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From: Atomic Books <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs - the spiritual dimension!
Date: 19 May 1996 19:01:49 -0400 (EDT)

> >- In July "Astro Sounds" will be properly re-issued through Scamp - digitally
> >remastered from the original tapes with added tracks - this proper reissue
> >with proper sound quality almost did not occur because of this bootlegger
> > had already dropped 1000 unorthorized copies into the marketplace.  I'm sure
> >you'll agree that there is really a very finite number of copies that can be
> >sold on a title like this and to have 1000 sales taken away right from the
> >start by some guy who knows this is a cult record, but  also is releasing
> >this to make a lot of money per copy(as he is neither paying the artists or
> >the publishing)  - rather than doing so to provide a "service" to the
> >marketplace...It is my hope that enough people who have bought this title
> >transfered from a tinny-sounding, scratched-up copy will want to get the real
> >thing, otherwise this title will have been released in vain.
> >Ashley

I honestly can't buy into the rationale of how 1,000 bootlegs will affect
the sales of the rerelease. A record company (even a small one!) exists to
make money, and if they see a bootlegger making
$$$'s off of music that THEY can legitimately release it will probably
prompt them to do so. You wouldn't be rereleasing Astro Sounds if you
honestly thought the market was tapped. C'mon, read Rolling Stone or
Spin--the lounge/exotica/whatever craze is *HIP*. I would think that the
bootlegger actually did your market research for you--he discovered that
there was a demand that he capitalized on before you did. Of course now
that you'll be issuing the legit release he may be stuck with a shitload
of boots, which is kinda funny.

I can't see either party--the bootlegger or the record company--issuing a
product as a "public service." C'mon, there's a profit motive involved, no
matter how cool the product is.

Considering the *ANAL*  nature of most space-age-bachelor-pad-o-philes,
they'll probably jump at the chance to purchase the legit version of Astro
Sounds. I know I will, and I've never even seen or heard of the bootleg.
Actually, I'm amazed that bootlegging has hit this market, but then again,
I'm kinda sheltered here in Baltimore, sticking to my 50 cent thrift store
records and occasional CD reissues.

Considering the popular nature of this whole market, you'll probably
sell a hell of a lot more than 1,000 copies if you use the right distro
channels, which I'm sure you are.

Atomic Books, "Literary Finds for Mutated Minds"
229 W Read St, Baltimore, MD 21201 410.728.5490
Send $3 for 116 page catalog of Sleaze, Mayhem,
Freaks, Drugs, Conspiracy, Zines, Comics & more!
Visit us online at http://www.atomicbooks.com


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Yma sumac 78's and their origin
Date: 19 May 1996 19:22:10 -0400

Yes,  this lovely record was originally a set, with credit for arrangement
going to "Leslie Baxter!"  The most otherworldly sounds this side of
Esquivel.

Esquerlita

P.S.  Does anyone know how long ago L. Baxter died?  I read an article in
Hypno last year about him, so I know it wasn't that long ago.


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From: Tristan <[e-mail]>
Subject: re:yma sumac 78's
Date: 19 May 1996 19:54:27 -0400 (EDT)

I cannot believe what I was thinking when I wrote "Land" instead of "Voice."

Anyway the copy I own is 4 78's in a notebook style box with lovely Yma
gracing the cover and inside sleeves..  It reads Capital CD 244 on the
spine.  Each side has a single track..

I so regret sitting on two of them...

Also could someone post the collector's choice number again... I deleted it
before I could write it down.

Thanks

Tristan



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Yma sumac 78's
Date: 19 May 1996 22:35:54 -0400

Thanks for clearing that up! I dind't realize they were still doing 78's that
late into the 50's!
Ashley


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Recently Acquired/Cockatils and...
Date: 18 May 1996 15:49:32 -0600 (MDT)

     A copy of this has also been posted to rec.music.collecting.vinyl.

     Ok here's two gems I got last weekend.

     The first one is Gilbey's Gin Rock Opera Mix, RCA Special Promotions
     (PRS-403(BNR-S8831)).

     This RCA promo has a bunch of quasi-rock opera recordings (Living
     Strings do Superstar, Henry Mancini does the Overture from Tommy!) but
     the real attraction is the gatefold cover with full color cocktail
     picture and recipes for the following libations:

     Aquarius; Handshaker, Nature*Mates, Tom-Tom, Superstar, Rock Opera,
     Wolf-Bane (!), Afro-Disc, Sunshine (uh-oh) and XIX (pronounced
     Ex-eye-ex. Very cool.

     The second one is Symposium in Blues, RCA Presentation Album from
     Merck Sharp & Dohme (PRM-235)

      This promo has a bunch a very good blues tracks by the likes of Leroy
     Carr, Washboard Sam, Louis Armstrong, Joe Williams and others. I
     didn't even know it was a gatefold until I got it home. Inside is a
     huge blurb for Elavil, an anti-depressant/mood elevating drug.. Used
     for clinical depression. Got the blues? Not anymore, pal! The front
     cover has a picture of an obviously treated young lady in a soft-focus
     world of her own.

     Condition on both, VG/F. Total cash outlay: $1.25


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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Barbarella
Date: 18 May 1996 17:18:53 -0600 (MDT)

Jordana -

I *have* the soundtrack LP to Barbarella!

It's on Dynovoice (DY 31908) and has nice track descriptions as well
we notes from Bob Crewe, Roger Vadim and Dino de Laurentiis.

Eg:

"BARBARELLA - Out of a cumbersome plastic spaces suit emerges
Barbarella stripped down to the nitty gritty, covered by only the
letters of the main titles as they float across the screen."

Or...

"FIGHT IN FLIGHT - Flying high above the Labyrinth on the whirring
white wings of her amorous angel. power-packed, mini-missiled,
high-booted, plastic-suited, ever-ready Barbarella tans the hides of
the looming lethal leathered men - zap."

!!!

If you'd like more, let me know!


Robbie

Spaced Out - the Enoch Light WWW Site *** *** *** ***
*** *** ***  http://www-edin.easynet.co.uk/rcb/light/


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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Thrift Score
Date: 19 May 1996 21:16:38 -0600 (MDT)

Just thought I'd poke my head in and rattle off what I turned up this weekend:

  Richard Hayman And His Orchestra: Campfire Songs (Mercury SR-60169)
  Carillo, et al.: Hi-Fi In An Oriental Garden (ABC-Paramount ABCS-224)
  Juan Silos Jr.: Filipiniana (Villar MLP-5001)
  Juan Silos Jr. and his Rondalla: Philippine Folk Music (Villar MLP-5054)
  Victor Wood: Pilipino (Plaka Pilipino TSP-5077)
  Jimmie Driftwood: The Westward Movement (RCA Living Stereo LSP-2171)
  Johnny Nash: Johnny Nash (ABC-Paramount ABCS-244)
  Edmundo Ros & His Orchestra: Bongos From The South (London Phase 4 SP-44003)
  Los Admiradores: Bongos (Command RS-809 SD)
  Woody Woodbury: Looks At Love And Life (Stereoddities MW-1)
  Woody Woodbury's "Laughing Room" (Stereoddities MW-2)
  Jonathan Winters: The Wonderful World Of Jonathan Winters (Verve MG V-15009)
  Jonathan Winters: Down To Earth (Verve MG V-15011)
  Stan Freberg Presents The United States Of America (Capitol W-1573)
  Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: Furtwangler Conducts Wagner (RCA LHMV-1049)

--
::: Lazlo ([e-mail]; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)


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From: Sax Therapy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Yma Sumac
Date: 18 May 1996 20:31:11 -0600 (MDT)

Jack Diamond wrote:
>
> IMHO, considering she created an ORIGINAL SOUND, all of Yma Sumac's records
> are "The Most Insane Things She Ever Did!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Miracles is bee-yooooooo-tee-fooooool psych with Yma moaning ang groaning,
> oooing and aaahing wordlessly, wonderfully.


I agree, Jack. It's a great record. I was doing radio at the time
it came out and I gave it regular airplay. Used to love going
into it from  a cut by Black Sabbath or Deep Purple or even some
Can. The listeners gave it a thumbs up.

BTW check out my web site for some playlists from the 70's that
included a lot exotica, obscure, esoteric and normal music.
http://pages.ripco.com/~saxmania/triad.html

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: 101 Strings-Astro Sounds...
Date: 19 May 1996 19:59:35 +0000

>------------------------------
>Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 19:28:41 +0200 (MET DST)
>From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs - the spiritual dimension!
>Message-Id: <[e-mail]>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>Aloha Ashley,
>you can surely sign me up for a copy if you include some cool extra tracks
>from the 101 Strings "Sounds of Today" LP: "Stone Baroque", "Karma Sitar",
>"Blues for the Guru" and "Strings for Ravi". They would fit right in. On the
>other hand I suspect the "Astro Sounds" LP is more Animated Egg than 101
>Strings. Maybe you can enlighten me concerning this mystery?
>Aloha
>Stefan

Stefan,
In the year 1967, 3 LP's were released on Alshire and Somerset
1 on Alshire was The Animated Egg and the other on Somerset is called
Haircut and The Impossibles (title escapes me)
Also in that same year, 101 Strings released Astro Sounds From Beyond The
Year 2000 which is mostly tracks from the Animated Egg release PLUS 3 from
the Haircut and the Imposibles record.
They added sound effects, echos, etc and of course the 101 Strings
Orcherstra to create a totally original sound that doesn't exist anywhere
else on record.
That's what I'm real big on.  Original sounds

Tracks from all 3 of these records are scattered about on different
Alshire/Somerset releases like Million SAeller Hits of Today
There are 2 "titles" from the Animated Egg release but are actually
Astro Sounds.

Hope this helps.  Please peruse my web page(s) at
http://www.cygnus.com/kfjc/diamond

I love talking about music ;))))

Personally I think a track from Tortura would fit right in







"Record collecting is no mere hobby, no leisurely
innocuous diversion.  It's a feverish passion
bordering on dementia, driving those under its
influence including myself, to irrational,
compulsive and sometimes fanatical extremes."
3-93  Jack Diamond




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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Bo Axelzon-Exotic Sounds
Date: 19 May 1996 20:11:25 +0000

>------------------------------
>Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 14:30:42 +0200 (MET DST)
>From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Exotica in Sweden


>LIVING DYNAMIC HI-FI STEREO ACTION!
>BO AXELZON & HIS EXOTIC SOUNDS 10=94 inch record!
>SUBLIMINAL SOUNDS are proud to present the premier recording by Swedens only
authentic Exotica/SABP/IS/EL/Lounge act!  A blazing hi-fi dispaly of brass
>and percussion, chock full of exotic instrumentation to dazzle your
>imagination. These exot-nicks are currently the house band at Stockholms
>Tiki Room (the only Tiki Bar/Lounge Club in town) and have been playing this
>music since the 50's
>
>If your interested in their limited edition 10 inch housed in a beautiful
>exotica sleeve send me a e-mail.
>Aloha
>Stefan
**************************************************************
I played this on my show this morning and am reviewing it for KFJC-FM which
we will most definitely add to our Current Library.

All of the shows that aren't what we call "Specialty" are required by
Programming to play a minimum of 35% Current of all that they do play
thereby spreadfing the word of what is new

KFJC considers "new music" to be what we and our listeners _haven't heard_
before.  That encompasses alot!!

Current is defined as whatever the music dept adds to KFJC.
It is on a 6 week rotation.
Check out our latest adds or our incredible music search database at
http://www.cygnus.com/kfjc

_Really great_ record here. Bo Axelzon-Exotic Sounds
5 stars

Thanx Lazlo!!

Jack Diamond



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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: 78's into the 50's
Date: 19 May 1996 20:22:13 +0000

>Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 22:35:54 -0400
>From: [e-mail]
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: Yma sumac 78's
>Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
>
>Thanks for clearing that up! I dind't realize they were still doing 78's
>that late into the 50's!
>Ashley

Oh yeah, definitely !  There are Elvis 78's.  I believe it all changed and
happened at the same time or thereabouts.

78's ended when 45's started and then 10" lp's and then 12" lp's.
all around 54, if I'm not mistaken ;)

I just bought a bee-yooooo-teeee-fooooool copy of the 78 RPM set of Music
Out of The Moon in a Book with inside Liner Notes and dated 1947!!!! and we
all know that it was also released in a  45 rpm set, 10" lp., and then on a
12" LP on 1 side with Peace of Mind on the other.

The 78 RPM is actually _the real deal_ for alot of records that came out in
the late 40's thru the early 50's and then re-released later.
Jazz, R & B, Blues, Country, Steel Guitar, Western Swing, Rockabilly, Rick
and Roll, Elvis...

Boy that was fun

Jack



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From: [e-mail] (Sax Therapy)
Subject: esp-disk
Date: 19 May 1996 22:14:14 -0600 (MDT)

esp-disk out of new york in the 60's has to be one of my favorite
labels. They relesed disks by Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Patty Waters,
Cromagnon, Godz, Erika and many other that are truly unique and
original. You might not like some of it but you'll have to admit
you've never heard anything like it. Like you haven't lived till
you've heard Patty Waters. I once did a set on the radio using
Patty, Yoko, Yma and Bas Sheva...very interesting. BTW anybody
have a copy of Cromagnon or any of the other more extreme ESP
material that I could get some tape copies or original vinyls from?

Exotically-Saul


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From: William Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Frank Comstock
Date: 20 May 1996 00:46:29 -0400

One of today's purchases was the album 'Patterns' by Frank Comstock,
who had worked as an arranger since 1943 and, among other things,
did the music for Jay Ward cartoons.

Does anyone know if he's the same Frank Comstock who arranged
the 1993 "The Three Musketeers" soundtrack song "All For Love,"
sung by Bryan Adams, Sting and Rod Stewart (three candidates for
a post-revolutionary firing squad, for sure)?  It's hard to imagine,
lifespan-wise, but if it isn't the same Frank, is it a son?

Will Straw
Will Straw
Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Communications/
Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural
Industries and Institutions
3465 rue Peel, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1W7

Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]
http://www.facl.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/crccii.html


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: 78's into the 50's
Date: 20 May 1996 08:42:38 -0400 (EDT)


>>
>>Thanks for clearing that up! I dind't realize they were still doing 78's
>>that late into the 50's!
>>Ashley
>
>Oh yeah, definitely !  There are Elvis 78's.  I believe it all changed and
>happened at the same time or thereabouts.
>
>78's ended when 45's started and then 10" lp's and then 12" lp's.
>all around 54, if I'm not mistaken ;)

     78's ended production even later in less-developed countries.  India
didn't stop production until sometime in the mid-'60's.  There are, I'm told,
Beatles 78's, for example, that were released in India.  Rhino Records also
did a couple of specialty boxed sets a few years ago for jukebox collectors
who have jukeboxes that use 78's.  They pressed up 78's of material that came
out after the demise of the 78 in the U.S.--stuff like Frankie Valli and
whatnot--and released the boxes for the 78 jukebox collectors' market.  I saw
one of the boxes once at Tower Records in Boston and it was like picking up a
couple of cinderblocks.
                    --Jon Johnson



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From: [e-mail] (Caressa Bennet -- Atty-Caressa Bennett - Washington )
Subject: Collectors' Choice
Date: 20 May 1996 10:06:39 EDT



 To:    exotica,         Inet


The phone # is 1-800-923-1122.

-- mb



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From: eaganca <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: New website
Date: 20 May 1996 12:27:21 -0400 ()

>Just a quick note to let you all know that our radio show's page is finally
>up on the web. Our show? Music for Better Living, of course! The site is
>kinda bare bones right now, just playlists and links, pretty much. But we're
>always open for suggestions. Also, if you know of any good links we left off,
>please tell us.
>
>Be seeing you,
>
>Valerie & Peter

And an even quicker note, to give 'em URL:

http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.htm

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] () (windy) ()
Subject: Re: esp-disk
Date: 20 May 1996 09:51:21 -0700

At 10:14 pm 05.19.1996, Sax Therapy wrote:
>BTW anybody
>have a copy of Cromagnon or any of the other more extreme ESP
>material that I could get some tape copies or original vinyls from?

i do believe all or at least most of the esp titles have been reissued on
cd, and at reasonable prices too. (the store i run sells them for 11.98.)
we have carried the cromagnon record. hope this helps,

  windy   ()
        ()
      ()



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re[2]: Yma sumac 78's
Date: 20 May 1996 10:54:23 PST

     Yep,  the original issue of "Voice Of The Xtaby" was a 78 album. I've
     got one!


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I am unaware of "Voice Of Xtaby" being released on 78...you might be
confusing it's original release as a 10" album or possible as a boxed set of
45 rpm singles.
Regards
Ashley



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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Florida-  An exoti-tiki sta
Date: 20 May 1996 14:00:10 -0400

Does any one know who of the old school exotica-bachelor-pad(blah, blah,
etc<i hate labels!>)
musicians is alive and kicking in the State of Florida?  I'm trying to do a
news report for my radio station on "Florida Exotica."  So far, I have an
interview with Dick Hyman, and will probe Lenny Dee this week...
Please help!
Thanks,
Lounge Laura


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re[2]: "Limited Edition" CDs - the spiritual dimension!
Date: 20 May 1996 11:39:07 PST

     Ashley,

     I'm thrilled that "Astro Sounds" will be out legit like! Not only do I
     want one for myself, I'm gonna do an initial order of at least 20 for
     Anti-mail order.

     As much as I'm not anti-bootleg, I don't stock "full artist" boot
     re-issues in the catalog, (the exception being some of the 50s-60s
     comps off of impossibly rare singles). I think that your reissue will
     not be in the least affected by the boot as many stores and mail-order
     companies will jump on the chance to stock your release!

     Lee


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Riobbie
- In July "Astro Sounds" will be properly re-issued through Scamp - digitally
remastered from the original tapes with added tracks - this proper reissue
with proper sound quality almost did not occur because of this bootlegger
 had already dropped 1000 unorthorized copies into the marketplace.  I'm sure
you'll agree that there is really a very finite number of copies that can be
sold on a title like this and to have 1000 sales taken away right from the
start by some guy who knows this is a cult record, but  also is releasing
this to make a lot of money per copy(as he is neither paying the artists or
the publishing)  - rather than doing so to provide a "service" to the
marketplace...It is my hope that enough people who have bought this title
transfered from a tinny-sounding, scratched-up copy will want to get the real
thing, otherwise this title will have been released in vain.
Ashley



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From: [e-mail] (Chris Strouth)
Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs - the spiritual dimension!
Date: 20 May 1996 13:06:19 -0600


>I honestly can't buy into the rationale of how 1,000 bootlegs will affect
>the sales of the re-release. A record company (even a small one!) exists to
>make money, and if they see a bootlegger making
>$$$'s off of music that THEY can legitimately release it will probably
>prompt them to do so.

This is Sooo Untrue, 1,000  records can definitely make a difference,
especially on a record like this. let's say  this record will sell
potentially 5,000 copies,  well now aprox 1/5 of that audience has already
been tapped. now add to this that the consumer isn't sure wither they are
buying the bootleg or the official release ,do you spend the money on this
uncertainty or do you blow your cash on a nice safe major re release?

Thusly even more market depleted. Now add to this mix all the costs
incurred by the record company: Manufacturing, Royalties, licensing fees,
Re-mastering costs, and just regular office costs.   All this on a record
that probably wholesales at $8.00 if the label is doing ultra fab it may
make as much as a $1.50 a record that is if it doesn't all come back in
returns. As opposed to the bootlegger who probably made $15-18 a record non
returnable

 Speaking as someone who runs a tiny indy label but with super great
distribution.
I just tend to take this stuff really seriously, reissues are a difficult
gambit at best (especially on the indy level) and with more companies
having there back catalogues being eaten up and things worthy of re-release
becoming harder and more expensive to find boot legs can be the final nail
in the coffin.

For what it's worth I think Scamp totally rocks ,  and I do not envy what
they have to deal with to get there.











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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: 78's into the 50's
Date: 20 May 1996 12:08:00 PST



>Thanks for clearing that up! I didn't realize they were still doing 78's
>that late into the 50's!

----78s were manufactured up 'till 1960 (but at that point it was pretty
much square dance records for schools)



78's ended when 45's started and then 10" lp's and then 12" lp's.
all around 54, if I'm not mistaken ;)

>>>78s and 45s were made simultaneously up till the end of the
50s. Kind of like the mono/stereo formats for Lps. The later the
release, the less 78s and the more 45s were manufactured. You
would not believe the sound from a mint 78, played back on a
audiophile turntable. It surely blows away any compact disc! It's
like they had the recording technology, but not the playback
technology at that point in time.

Shure still makes a stylus that will play the wider 78 groove.

I just bought a bee-yooooo-teeee-fooooool copy of the 78 RPM set of Music
Out of The Moon in a Book with inside Liner Notes and dated 1947!!!! and we
all know that it was also released in a  45 rpm set, 10" lp., and then on a
12" LP on 1 side with Peace of Mind on the other.

>>>And it sounds much better than the 10" 33 version. At that point, the
'microgroove' technology was in its infancy and that record was mastered so
quiet, even mint copies sound scratchy. The 78 is a blast though!

The 78 RPM is actually _the real deal_ for a lot of records that came out in
the late 40's thru the early 50's and then re-released later.
Jazz, R & B, Blues, Country, Steel Guitar, Western Swing, Rockabilly, Rick
and Roll, Elvis...

>>>The bottom end on most R&B, western swing, rockabilly and rock 'n' roll
78s is absolutely delicious!

>>>78s were made in The Philippines and Africa, up until 1969! The guy who
masters my vinyl collects those things. Apparently, they wanted to make records
for people to play in the jungles on wind up players since they didn't have
electricity. They were EQd especially for the huge acoustic horns, and sound
like they were recorded over a telephone! We listened to several of 'em one
night. Some of the African 'pop' records are pretty cool. The 78 of The Beatles
"Devil In Her Heart" (on Parliphone, no less) was bizarre; it sounded like my
parents old Admiral TV from the 50s.

Lee




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From: "Steve Sando" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs - the spiritual dimension!
Date: 20 May 1996 14:48:30 +0000

I just have to chime in as a fan, collector and record producer. I'm
sure I'm sending a mixed message but it's not all that black and
white.

1. The majors are lazy. They own the masters. They have recording
studios. They can call Harry Fox and get the mechanicals. To re-issue
an entire Lp would be no sweat and I think most of us would rather
have an Lp rather than a compilation.

2. I want Scamp to get filthy rich and keep doing what they're doing.
They've introduced me to some great things. I will happily purchase
AstroSounds or any other of the pirates when they are released, even
though I have them.

3. I beg to differ:
> Thusly even more market depleted. Now add to this mix all the costs
> incurred by the record company: Manufacturing, Royalties, licensing
> fees, Re-mastering costs, and just regular office costs.   All this
> on a record that probably wholesales at $8.00 if the label is doing
> ultra fab it may make as much as a $1.50 a record that is if it
> doesn't all come back in returns.

These costs are minimal if you know what you're doing. If you are
making $1.50 on 5,000 units you are in the wrong business. Also, I
don't think any major label would even consider licensing the rights
to its catalogue without at least a 10,000 unit minimum. The limited
edition 1,000 (which isn't a "sold" figure, only a production number, if
it even is valid) isn't as much of a dent, especially if as suspected
we pirate customers also purchase the legitmate versions.

> companies having there back catalogues being
> eaten up and things worthy of re-release becoming harder and more
> expensive to find boot legs can be the final nail in the coffin.

I don't even think we've sctrached the surface!

4. I think the bottom line is we all want as many great things as
possible available on CD and we want to see artists/copyright holders
compensated. However, as of two weeks ago Capitol had plans to re-issue
only 2 Les Baxter CDs, one of them is 'Baxter's Best' which is pretty much a
yawn. I'd say the pirates are here to stay until things get better.
It seems a shame that the entire Partridge Family catalogue is
available and MIRACLES isn't.


Coconut Grove, publishers of MisterLUCKY
PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107
http://www.wco.com/~coconutg/
"Strange how potent cheap music is" - Noel Coward


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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: Yma sumac 78's and their origin
Date: 20 May 1996 17:37:45 -0600 (MDT)

>Yes,  this lovely record was originally a set, with credit for arrangement
>going to "Leslie Baxter!"  The most otherworldly sounds this side of
>Esquivel.
>
>Esquerlita
>
>P.S.  Does anyone know how long ago L. Baxter died?  I read an article in
>Hypno last year about him, so I know it wasn't that long ago.
>
>Les, died in January of this year. There was an article in THE WIRE
magazine (march issue I think). The Wire can be contacted at...(shit, I
don't have an issue on hand. Can someone else help me here??)

If you don't get an Email address for The Wire, contact me back. I will have
it the end of next week, if not sooner.

Jill
>


Colloquium Internet


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: New website
Date: 20 May 1996 22:22:38 -0400

In a message dated 96-05-19 18:55:03 EDT, [e-mail] writes:

>Do you think you could tell us where this is...?
>
>Dan ;)

Oh my, how embarassing!

The URL for the Music for Better Living site is:

            http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.htm




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Bacharach and Russ Meyer
Date: 21 May 1996 11:58:36 +0200

Hi,

1-

I am searching desperately for more information about an album called :
THE LOOK OF LOVE ; CLASSIC SONGS OF BURT BACHARACH

I found it also in CDnow (where I do not yet want to buy it) :

VARIOUS ARTISTS (L) -- LOOK OF LOVE (BACHARAC CLASIX)
766482274222
Special Order etc.
This is an import title. $28.97

Is it the one containing the "best" versions of his famous songs ?
What is the songlist (or part of it) ?
Is it a double CD ?

2- I recently bought one of the "Original Soundtracks of Russ Meyer",
i.e. tho one with Mudhoney.
Terrible !!!!!!!!!
It is like watching the movie while your are in another room.
In the background your hear some music while the actors are speaking,
you hear cars speeding away,etc... Yeh, the movie, but not the images.
I hate it ! The images and not the sound would have been much better :-)

Hans.


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From: Dan Gresham <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Bacharach and Russ Meyer
Date: 21 May 1996 14:31:00 +0100 (BST)

On Tue, 21 May 1996 [e-mail] wrote:

> I am searching desperately for more information about an album called :
> THE LOOK OF LOVE ; CLASSIC SONGS OF BURT BACHARACH
>
> Is it the one containing the "best" versions of his famous songs ?
> What is the songlist (or part of it) ?
> Is it a double CD ?

If this is the one I think it is (the cd I've seen in record shop over
here [uk]) then it's not that special. It's just got some fairly standard
Bacharach on it. If you're after the more interesting stuff he did (like
Casino Royale and the instrumental Look of Loves) then this isn't for
you. If you haven't got any of his standards then get it. It's things
like A House is not a Home, Look of Love, Wives and Lovers.

I wouldn't buy it, but then again, I've got all the originals on original
lps.

Dan


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From: Bruce Rhodewalt <[e-mail]>
Subject: finds
Date: 20 May 1996 21:55:46 -0600 (MDT)

Other people are always bragging.  Now it's my turn:

Tonight.  Indio library.  Baxter, Denny, Apaka, various Hawaiian, Lyman,
including "Latitude 20" (late '60s, named after the restaurant he played
at in Torrance CA -- where I saw him in '67 or so).  Some near mint
covers, a few rarities horribly "cut out" (literally, with scissors).
Record condition, generally fine.

27 records.  10 cents each.

Bruce
--
Creative              Tiki Publishing         78-365 Highway 111, #241
    Internet          http://www.tikipub.com  La Quinta, CA 92253
        solutions     [e-mail]      619/342-3418


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From: Atomic Books <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs - the spiritual dimension!
Date: 21 May 1996 13:06:41 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 20 May 1996, Chris Strouth wrote:
> This is Sooo Untrue, 1,000  records can definitely make a difference,
> especially on a record like this. let's say  this record will sell
> potentially 5,000 copies,  well now aprox 1/5 of that audience has already
> been tapped. now add to this that the consumer isn't sure wither they are
> buying the bootleg or the official release ,do you spend the money on this
> uncertainty or do you blow your cash on a nice safe major re release?

Ok, if only 5,000 copies are being printed, I can buy into this line of
thinking. Did the bootleg guy actually print 1,000 copies? How many do you
think have been sold already? I would have guessed he's only sold a few
hundred already, but then again I'm on the East Coast and have no idea how
big the lounge thing is getting.

How many copies of the Ultra-Lounge series and the Rhino series are out
there? Did they print major numbers or low runs?

> Thusly even more market depleted. Now add to this mix all the costs
> incurred by the record company: Manufacturing, Royalties, licensing fees,
> Re-mastering costs, and just regular office costs.   All this on a record
> that probably wholesales at $8.00 if the label is doing ultra fab it may
> make as much as a $1.50 a record that is if it doesn't all come back in
> returns.

I agree 100%. Still, if the release is popular, the record label stands to
make $$$s. Otherwise they wouldn't do it. But I know what you mean about
low returns--the things we publish return very little, even though we do
it anyways.

> I just tend to take this stuff really seriously, reissues are a difficult
> gambit at best (especially on the indy level) and with more companies
> having there back catalogues being eaten up and things worthy of re-release
> becoming harder and more expensive to find boot legs can be the final nail
> in the coffin.

Well I'm just glad that there are companies finally rereleasing back
catalogues. Bootlegs annoy me, as do space-age-bachelor sellers that are
hawking scratchy Martin Denny records for 25 bucks a pop. Half the fun was
discovering something new and kitschy that only cost a quarter.

I just hope that labels recognize that lounge bootlegs are becoming a
profitable venture, and that they beat the bootleggers to the punch and
keep the re-releases coming.

> For what it's worth I think Scamp totally rocks ,  and I do not envy what
> they have to deal with to get there.

Yup, I think they're great too--I know I have some of their Cds floating
around here tho I can't remember which right now!

Scott Huffines

Atomic Books, "Literary Finds for Mutated Minds"
229 W Read St, Baltimore, MD 21201 410.728.5490
Send $3 for 116 page catalog of Sleaze, Mayhem,
Freaks, Drugs, Conspiracy, Zines, Comics & more!
Visit us online at http://www.atomicbooks.com


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From: [e-mail] (Chris Strouth)
Subject: Re: "Limited Edition" CDs - the spiritual dimension!
Date: 21 May 1996 11:28:42 -0600


>1. The majors are lazy. They own the masters. They have recording
>studios. They can call Harry Fox and get the mechanicals. To re-issue
>an entire LP would be no sweat and I think most of us would rather
>have an LP rather than a compilation.

True, but we were not talking about a Major Label, sure it would be no
sweat for a major to do it, but what would be the point, when they can do a
skajillion compilations that all the fans will buy, and when the market
seems just about to peak out they can release the individual records and
get a good percentage of the fans to buy   the material again. It 's not
like there is this big love of music by the majors. It's about money and
how they can best maximize their investment, I am not knocking them for it.
But we should be honest about it. (and before anyone starts warming up
their blow torches I do realize that there are exceptions, but I think you
are kidding yourself if you think that Capitol is one.)


>These costs are minimal if you know what you're doing. If you are
>making $1.50 on 5,000 units you are in the wrong business. Also, I
>don't think any major label would even consider licensing the rights
>to its catalogue without at least a 10,000 unit minimum.

This is true  do you want to bet royalties on 10,000 records, the point is
it's a risk and if it wasn't you would see allot more people do it . And as
for the $1.50 amount I just threw that out as a guide (but for the Indies
it really isn't that far off, especially if  they are manufactured and
distributed by somebody else.)

>> companies having there back catalogues being
>> eaten up and things worthy of re-release becoming harder and more
>> expensive to find boot legs can be the final nail in the coffin.
>I don't even think we've scratched the surface!

I f you have any suggestions  I would really love to hear them, anything
that we have went after was priced so as to really limit the possibility of
making money on our investment, and what we could get didn't really seem
worth it. (not that the world doesn't need Wally Jaggerillo on CD)










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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Sound Gallery and the Easy Project
Date: 21 May 1996 19:33:29 +0100

[e-mail] (Patrick Cashin) wrote:

>Can anyone tell me
>where to call or who to sleep with in order to get my grubby
>little hands on Sound Gallery and the Easy Project

        i think they're released both in the uk & us; if you want the uk
        version, check out Pastel Blue Records:
        "http://www.demon.co.uk/pastel"

= Johan |)/\|)/\



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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Bacharach and Russ Meyer
Date: 21 May 1996 14:19:44 -0500

> Is it the one containing the "best" versions of his famous songs ?
> What is the songlist (or part of it) ?
> Is it a double CD ?

My personal opinion, and I might be alone on this one, is that the
recent Dionne Warwick collection is the quintessential cd.  It was
released on Rhino in '89 and includes 24 of the catchiest big hits
(only 2 not by Bacharach/David).  Truly a great, great cd.  That one
and the Casino Royale soundtrack are my fave Bacharachs.

kevin king
[e-mail]
http://www.radix.net/~xanadu


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From: [e-mail] (Mark Miester)
Subject: Re: Bacharach and Russ Meyer
Date: 21 May 1996 14:28:54 -0500


>> Is it the one containing the "best" versions of his famous songs ?
>> What is the songlist (or part of it) ?
>> Is it a double CD ?
>
>My personal opinion, and I might be alone on this one, is that the
>recent Dionne Warwick collection is the quintessential cd.  It was
>released on Rhino in '89 and includes 24 of the catchiest big hits
>(only 2 not by Bacharach/David).  Truly a great, great cd.  That one
>and the Casino Royale soundtrack are my fave Bacharachs.
>

I wholeheartedly agree that the "Dionne Warwick Collection" is the best
single volume (and hence most economical) intro to Bacharach's pop
material. However, I haven't seen "The Look of Love: The Classic Songs of
Burt Bacharach" up close. I believe it adds some great tracks by the likes
of Dusty Springfield and other non-Warwick performers, but it also adds
"Arthur's Theme," if you can stomach that.

If the original poster is not in a hurry, Rhino is scheduled to release a
three-CD set next year (the tentative, potentially confusing title is also
"THe Look of Love") that will cover Burt's entire career. It should be
magnificent.

And lastly, for fans of Exotica, I highly recommend seeking out Burt's solo
albums, virtually every one of which is a winner. Generally, they include
lush instrumental arrangements of his pop hits, often with quirky
insturmentation (tin whistle, electric piano, etc.), sometimes with girlie
chorus vocals and sometimes with Burt himself on vocals (a special treat!).

If I had to pick them in order of preference, I'd recommend:

1) Hit Maker (American title: Burt Bacharach Plays His Hits, a collection
of British instrumental singles, I believe)
2) Reach Out (Burt's first album, rather than singles collection, featuring
great, lush arrangements)
3) Make It Easy on Yourself (predominately instrumental versions of
"Promises, Promises" Broadway score, but also "Do You Know the Way to San
Jose" and "This Guy's In Love")
4) Living Together, Growing Together (a guilty pleasure; lots of gentle
folk pop songs some of which are from the "Lost Horizon" soundtrack)
5) Burt Bacharach (features Mexican Divorce, Close to You, One Less Bell to
Answer, the extended Wives and Lovers)
6) Futures (cheesy 70s pop; you can skip this one)
7) Woman (ditto)


And a couple of side notes: Burt's soundtracks (let's ignore "Arthur" and
"Lost Horizon") are great examples of hip, swinging 60s pop. In addition to
"Casino Royale," there's also "After the Fox" and "What's New, Pussycat?"

In an entirely different vein is the lovely "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid," which introduced the wonderful "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head"
but also features the swingin, Ray Charles Singers-like scat of "South
American Getaway." A great one.

And finally, the "Promises, Promises" original cast recording is one of my
favorite records of all time, featuring the wonderfully understated
original version of "I'll Never Fall In Love Again," with Jerry Orbach on
vocals no less!

Take care,

Mark, Burt-o-phile

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: misanthropy 511 playlist
Date: 21 May 1996 18:32:02 -0500

Misanthropy 511
p.o.box 23093
detroit, mi 48223
e-mail: [e-mail]

This is an update for the Misanthropy 511 radio show. Misanthropy 511
is heard for 2 hours weekly at CJAM, 91.5 fm, Windsor, Ontario. The
show can be heard throughout the metropolitan Windsor/ Detroit,
Michigan area.

We would like to thank all who have sent us promos. It is greatly
appreciated.

The performance side of Misanthropy, │The Hearing Trumpet▓, recently
released a 60min. cass of material. Write or e-mail for more info.

David Warmbier & Greg Hallock


MAY 13, 1996

ARTIST----------TITLE-------------------CD/LP/CASS---------LABEL

DANIEL MENCHE--blood sand pt.1---------blood sand---------NOISE
RAPOON---------shakkirah---------------recurring----------SOLEILMOON
RYOJI IKEDA----untitled 071295---------v.a. a fault..nothing---ASH
RAYMOND SCOTT--and the dish ran away --the secret 7-------TOP RANK
LINDA LAWSON---like young--------------v.a. bachelors den-DCC
MADELYN BYRNE--part 1------------------surfacing----------M. BYRNE
PIERRE HENRY---variations pour une porte..-variations...--MANTRA
BLACK TAPE..BLUE GIRL--track 5---------remnants  purity e.p.-PROJEKT
BRUCE GILBERT--ovo mix-----------------ovo mix------------MUTE
ASTROEPUS------side 1------------------revelation album---AUDIOPHILE
HEAD & LEG-----it╣s time for toast-----in your dreams-----SEELAND
GILBERT/ HAMPSON/ KE---quad------------v.a. 180 degrees---MUTE
K2-------------dance macabre #1--------dance macabre------AUDIOPHILE
CREVICE--------crevice(edit)-----------crevice------------UNCLE BUZZ
M. BEHRENS-----intermatter-------------v.a. a fault..nothing--ASH
DORD-----------blue--------------------non objective world-EXPERIMENTAL
CLAUDINE LONGET-here, there, & everywhere-claudine--------A&M
DJ SPOOKY------phase interlude---------songs dead dreamer-ASPHODEL
MAUVE SIDESHOW-the chill---------------blood will tell----VENTRICLE
MARTIN DENNY---who shot..hole..sombrero---spanish village-LIBERTY


MAY 20, 1996

VARIOUS--------side 1 (edit)-----------touch radio--------TOUCH
NOCTURNAL EMIS-track 1-----------------drowning sea..bliss-TOUCH
Z╣EV-----------documenta---------------one foot in the grave-TOUCH
SANDOZ---------orgasmatron-------------orgasmatron---------TOUCH
TOUCH 33-------the crucible------------meridians 1--------TOUCH
SCANNER--------track 5-----------------scanner 2----------ASH
THE HAFLER TRIO--a thirsty fish--------a thirsty fish-----TOUCH
SAYNO PRODUCTIONS-side 1---------------waterglass---------TOUCH
MOTHER TONGUE--who---------------------mother tongue------TOUCH
J. DUNCAN/A. MCKENZIE---track 1--------contact------------TOUCH
DISINFORMATION-datastorm pt.1----------ghost shells-------ASH
DROME----------mesmerized--------------v.a. mesmer variations-ASH
SOLIMAN GAMIL--dance of ka-------------ankh---------------TOUCH
STRAFE FUR REBELLION-love bees---------vogel--------------TOUCH
ALBANIAN FOLK MUSIC----vlora-------there where avalanche...TOUCH
ETANT DONNES---montre toi--------------aurore-------------TOUCH
HILMAR O. HILMARSSON---snatis╣s death--children of nature-TOUCH
TOUCH 33-------gending gending---------islands inbetween--TOUCH
SETI-----------track 2-----------------knowledge----------ASH
INDICATE-------track 3-----------------whelm--------------TOUCH
PHILIP JECK----harry & krishna---------loopholes----------TOUCH
JOHN DUNCAN----program-----------------send---------------TOUCH

THESE ARE GREAT TIMES TO BE A MISANTHROPIST !


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Sound Gallery and the Easy Project
Date: 21 May 1996 21:10:06 -0400

You can order the Sound Gallery in US from Atomic Beat Mail Order (310)
556-1144 - they have both the vinyl and cd versions
Ashley


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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: The Market
Date: 21 May 1996 19:19:35 +0000

Y'know...I had heard that RCA wanted only a minimum of 5,000 units sold for
the 1st Esquivel re-issues on Bar/None

I said 5,000 UNITS????!!!!!!!!  Is that all ??????????
I found it hard to believe but... look who's making the decisions
Do _these people_ really know what's going on ?
I don't think they did then....and NOW, RCA's market is not this one.

They are going back a long ways into a market that _they_ haven't had
anything to do with for 35 years.

I think it's easier for "smaller" labels to know what's going on with this
_whole crazy thing_, that if you woulda asked me even as short a time as 5
years ago;  "Do you think anyone else is ever going to discover Esquivel"?
I'da said "No fuckin' way"  It is tooooooooooo cool

Jack



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From: [e-mail] (Peter Principle)
Subject: Re: indie reissues
Date: 22 May 1996 00:12:24 -0400

Steve Sando wrote...

>These costs are minimal if you know what you're doing. If you are
>making $1.50 on 5,000 units you are in the wrong business. Also, I
>don't think any major label would even consider licensing the rights
>to its catalogue without at least a 10,000 unit minimum.

There you've said a mouthful.

Despite the apparent popularity of a given music or even a specific LP/CD
the actual selling of more than 5000 copies by a truly independent label is
not as easy as it sounds.  I'd bet you'd be surprised at the actual sales
figures of some of what you think are big selling indie releases if you
leave those artists that later had successful careers with a major off the
list.

The fact that majors expect advances on sales that exceed this amount is
exactly why reissuing is so hard for an indie and why the loss of those
purchasers of a counterfeit copy who might not buy the "proper release" can
mean that an attempt at a legitimate reissue is not pursued further.

BTW does your remark about being in the wrong business mean that you side
with that element that is only in it for the money?  If so then many things
you might have been interested in will be buried forever if only "safe
reissues" are generated by all this interest in obscure musics.  Not
everything is going to go over big.  Sometimes one has to answer to a
higher calling.

Crammed World have released 3 volumes of North African 78's transfered at
great expense to CD, carefully researched and lavishly packaged with rare
period photos in the booklet.  Despite these being available for 2 years
none has sold 5000 copies and it might be years before they did, but we
didn't make as many as that.

What we did do was make available to interested people a library of music
which might otherwise have gone unexplored.  Of course there are other
titles in our catalog that will help make continued existance possible.

Just as a for instance.



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Rack your brain at The Roots of Lounge
Date: 22 May 1996 00:35:48 +0000

The Roots of Lounge Competition #2 asks for the ultimate Piano Lounge
song set-- you might win an Erroll Garner CD courtesy of Rykodisc. Plus,
check out budget discs featuring the early days of Disco on "The Cheap
Seats." Swank on by the URL below for details. See ya there!

--
    /
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  -   Mimi Schneider  [e-mail]
  |    The Roots of Lounge has moved:
 [|]      http://www.gonix.com/rol


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Some interesting new releases....
Date: 21 May 1996 23:39:33 +0000

Thought you'd like to know about some new arrivals, impending releases and back-in-
stocks at All Music Services, a record/CD special order and search service in San
Francisco, specializing in vocals and offbeat stuff.  E-mail me if you'd like more info....

CD NEW ARRIVALS / ON ORDER:

"Three Russ Meyer Soundtracks, vol. 3 [Motorpsycho, Mudhoney & Finders Keepers,
Losers Weepers},  w/ deluxe 28-pg book of photos, many in shattering color

"Exotica 1 & 2," Martin Denny

"Product Music"--original cast recordings from industrial shows.  Highlights: "My
Bathroom is a Private Kind of Place," "Hooray for Human Engineering," ""Dance the
Slurp," "Look at this Tub," "The Frito Twist," "The Eight Seasons of Chromalox"

"Mad Grooves," various artists.  Musical MADness from MAD Magazine, from the '50s
through the '80s

"Superfonics," Caterina Valente--hysteria-laden stereo arrangements for large orchestra
and 50s vocalist.  I think it should have been titled "Into the Maelstrom with Caterina
Valente".

"Dino Latino/Dean Martin French Style"--import, 2 LPs on 1 CD

"'S Wonderful/'S Marvelous," Ray Conniff--two LPs on one CD

"The Silencers" (LP only, mint), soundtrack starring Dean Martin

RCA Japan is releasing a series of CDs of RCA/Vik girl singers of the '50s.  Some are
genuinely talented, others merely babe-a-licious.  The latest batch includes:

"The Lady in Red," Abbe Lane
"The Vivacious One," Ann-Margret
"In a Swingin' Mood," Ann Gilbert
"Bistro Ballads," Audrey Morris
"Holding Hands at Midnight," Dinah Shore
"Gisele Mackenzie"
"Live at the St. Regis," Julie Wilson
"The West Coast Sound, the Broadway Sound," Nancy Malcomb

Other titles in the series include:

"The Body Sings," Marie MacDonald
"Bachelor's Paradise," Ann-Margret
"Weekend of a Private Secretary," Charlene Bartley with Tito Puente's Orchestra
"Be Mine Tonight," Abbe Lane
"Jaye P. Morgan"
"After Midnight," Helen Grayco
"Follow Me," Kathy Barr
"My Old Flame," Julie Wilson
"I'm a Dreamer," Gale Robbins


BOOKS:

"Hollywood Hi-Fi: Over 100 of the Most Outrageous Celebrity Recordings Ever!"
"Goldmine's Celebrity Vocals Price Guide"


BACK IN STOCK:

"The Worst," the Ed Wood musical by Josh Alan

"Don't You Call Me Mama," Arbess Williams--funky blues featuring "Don't You Call Me
Mama ('Cause You're Too Old & Ugly To Be a Son of Mine" and "(You Think You Got)
Honey on Your Sugar Cane ('Cause You've Been Dippin' it All Over Town)"

"5000 Fingers of Dr. T" soundtrack (LP only)


PREORDERS:

"Endless Summer," legendary surf soundtrack, music by the Sandals

RCA Living Stereo series (imports):
Esquivel, "Other Worlds, Other Sounds"
"Two Sides of Hugo Winterhalter"
"You're My Girl," Norman Luboff Choir
"Xavier Cugat In France, Spain & Italy"
"Pops & Prado," Perez Prado
"The Mancini Touch"
"Bob & Ray's Stereo Spectacular," various artists
"Music for Bang, Barroom and Harp," Dick Schory

Previous titles in this series include:

"Four Corners of the World," Esquivel
"More Music from Peter Gunn," Henry Mancini
"Sweet & Savage," Los Indios Tabajaras
Tito Puente & Buddy Morrow
"Blues and the Beat," Henry Mancini
"Superfonics," Caterina Valente (see above)



Michael Mascioli
All Music Services
530 14th St., suite 9
San Francisco, CA  94103
Ph: [phone]
Fax: [phone]

************************

"Do the bunch of you promise to succumb wholeheartedly to the merriment?!?"


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From: Phil Clark <[e-mail]>
Subject: 78s into the 50s
Date: 22 May 1996 11:29:31 -0700

hi all

Re the recent thread on the phasing-out of 78s etc, AFAIK 78s were
produced here in the UK up till 1959/1960, the exact "cease" date being
dependent on individual record labels. In the "changeover to 45" years
running up to that time, some releases were available on 78 only, some
on 78 and 45 and some on 45 only.

After 1960 though a few big sellers were still pressed up on UK 78 discs
for export, this went on right up till the mid 60s, for example there
were a whole load of Beatles singles exported on 78s to Asian countries,
among other locations, where presumably technology was still catching
up. Needless to say these are real rarities now!

The "box set of 78s" releases I think were mostly confined in the UK to
classical sets - these can still be found clogging up junk stores for
about 50 pence a throw...

Interestingly on the same thread I've recently seen a modern turntable
available with a 78rpm setting alongside the more usual 33 & 45, and a
special 78 stylus is available for the standard Stanton 500 cart -
presumably for transcription purposes. It's good to know that if you
look hard enough, you can find these things. Maybe I'll dig out my 100
or so 78s sometime :-)

cheers
Phil
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: Exotica Italia
Date: 22 May 1996 08:10:22 -0600 (MDT)

     Does this stuff exist in Italy?  I'll be doing the Venice,
     Florence, Rome thing next month and wonder if anyone has
     any suggestions for cocktail lounges and record stores in those
     cities.

     Anita

     [e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Gimmer Nicholson
Date: 22 May 1996 19:22:14 +0100

can anyone comment on Gimmer Nicholson's "Christopher Idylls" reissued on
cd by Rounder/Lucky Seven?

= Johan |)/\|)/\



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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mancini meets 70's Australian Love Poetry
Date: 22 May 1996 16:09:00 -0600 (MDT)

Hi all -

Just picked up an astonishingly cheesy lurve LP from '77: "Just You
and Me Together Love" - Henry Mancini (yea, 'tis he!) with Aussie
radio show host and (cough) "bard" John Laws.  As you might expect,
the music is lush and lovely (drums (Shelly Manne) strings, trumpets,
vibes, Monica Mancini "doo doo dooing" and some pretty naff synths)
with Laws rambling on and on and on with some of the most stomach-
churning love lines I've ever heard.

It's hard to truly represent this in mere words but here are some choice
moments:

"I've just been thinking about the beauty in this world darling mine,
 and your's wins this time and every time..."

"the times without you then become a retrospection of the bottom
 drawer of my memory.  That's where all the good things are hidden -
 and you're one of them."

"even sweat is sweet when me make it together"

"you know, it's a good thing I'm not Santa Claus - 'cos if I was, I'd fill my
 bag with love and I'd never get past your house."

"just smother your warm lips in desire and then let me smudge you
 into tranquility with love"

"I'll take you right to the peaks of my love and then the two of us can
 tumble locked together into the valley of peace."

"your beauty is all flowers"


Henry, what were you thinking?!

Has anyone else come across this beauty?


Robbie


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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Spaced Out - seeking Jeff Boyd
Date: 22 May 1996 16:08:52 -0600 (MDT)


Can *Jeff Boyd* please contact me as the email address on
the recent mail he sent me doesn't work.


Robbie
Spaced Out - the Enoch Light WWW Site *** *** *** ***
*** *** ***  http://www-edin.easynet.co.uk/rcb/light/


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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Happy B'Day Robert Moog!
Date: 23 May 1996 10:38:27 -0500

Don't know if it's been mentioned here before, but there's an
excellent site on Robert Moog at:
http://www.discovery.com/DCO/doc/1012/world/yourstory/moog/moogopener.
tml
It's part of the Discovery Channel site.  There are further history
of electronic music links.

kevin


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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: This is for Ernest
Date: 23 May 1996 12:30:23 -0400

                      This is for Ernest                           5/21/96

to whom I can't "reply."
Howdy, yourself...I live in Tampa, but I bet Lakeland is incredible for
exotica-shopping-a lot of forgotten souls and their record collections...all
up for grabs in what is thankfully for you a very unhip city...(i-e no savvy
collectors running amuck buying what is rightfully YOURS!)  Didn't know about
the Vinyl Museum sale...but I haven't seen a lot of great e-z listening stuff
there..What do you know about it?  Also, I'm in a new-wave/punk band The
Baskervils...we're always looking for new places to gig, anything in
Lakeland?
Thanks,
Lounge Laura


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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: THE LOOK OF LOVE ; CLASSIC SONGS OF BURT BACHARACH
Date: 23 May 1996 19:49:17 +0100

[e-mail] (yes, another belgian on the list! at last! :) wrote

>I am searching desperately for more information about an album called :
>THE LOOK OF LOVE ; CLASSIC SONGS OF BURT BACHARACH
>
>I found it also in CDnow (where I do not yet want to buy it) :
>VARIOUS ARTISTS (L) -- LOOK OF LOVE (BACHARAC CLASIX)
>766482274222
>Special Order etc.
>This is an import title. $28.97

        i'm not sure if this is a bb album, or a set of covers, as it says
        VARIOUS ARTISTS?
        also, whenever i find a cd in cdnow/cdconnection/cdworld/abcds that is
        this expensive, i'm sure it is an import; in this case the people of
        cdnow are even as kind to say this. it doesn't make sense to buy a
        euro import in the us, so, you'd better search for it in a european
        online database (gmx: telnet: "musicexpress.com"
                         or Pastel Blue "http://www.demon.co.uk/pastel")
        happy hunting!

= Johan |)/\|)/\



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From: Irwin Chusid <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: exotica-digest Digest V96 #36
Date: 23 May 1996 20:05:11 -0400 (EDT)


A few recent Raymond Scott cover versions, per a recent inquiry:

Coctails: "Penguin/Powerhouse" medley (SOL 45)

Kronos Quartet: "Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals"
(Elektra/Nonesuch)

Tom McDermott & His Jazz Hellions: "Twilight in Turkey"

Steroid Maximus: "Powerhouse" (same version as Garage Monsters)

Coffee: "Coming Down to Earth" (Blackjack 45)

Don Byron: has just completed recording "Penguin," "Powerhouse," "Boy
Scout in Switzerland," "War Dance for Wooden Indians," "The Quintet Plays
Carmen," and one other, I forget which

Soul Coughing: "Bus to Beelzebub" confers 50% writing credit to Scott for
using "Powerhouse; their upcoming album includes "Disseminated," which
(brilliantly) samples "The Penguin," also 50% writer credit to RS

Beau Hunks Sextette (a.k.a. Wooden Indians): entire 19 track album of
Scott tunes, entitled CELEBRATION ON THE PLANET MARS (Koch, US); the BH6
are working on a double album of more Scott tunes for release later this
year; they have already recorded about half the selections

The Boys: "The Saga Continues..." - rap tune based on "Powerhouse" (Motown)

Phillip Johnston's Big Trouble: "Powerhouse" (Black Saint Records?)

Spike Jones' 1963 unreleased recording of "Powerhouse" came out two years
ago (BMG)

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From: Brendan McGuire <[e-mail]>
Subject: Joe Friday?
Date: 23 May 1996 23:29:44 -0600 (MDT)

Hello, I was watching TLC late one night and saw that there is an album of
the guy's from Dragnet (Friday) reading poetry.  I'd reeeeaaaly wanna get
that and would be willing to trade for it, if anyone has it.  If anyone
knows where to get it, I'd appreciate that too.  I'm sorry if this has been
brought up previously, but I'm not subscribed to the list for the summer, so
I don't have full mailbox waiting for me, when I get back to school, but I
do have access to my account for the time being, so please respond directly
to this e-mail address, along with the list, if you wish.  Thanks.

Emmett Pepper


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From: Bruce Rhodewalt <[e-mail]>
Subject: Stereolab and Lalo S.
Date: 24 May 1996 23:25:21 -0600 (MDT)

fyi:

Stereolab interview and music in RealAudio is available:

   http://www.kcrw.org/g/live.html

This page should also soon have this morning's interview with Lalo
Schifrin, which was entertaining and enlightening.

Bruce
--
Creative              Tiki Publishing         78-365 Highway 111, #241
    Internet          http://www.tikipub.com  La Quinta, CA 92253
        solutions     [e-mail]      619/342-3418


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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Lego Exotica
Date: 25 May 1996 18:55:39 -0600 (MDT)

I just couldn't let this pass unmentioned -- I was stalking the aisles at
Toys'R'Us today and noticed that Lego has a series of Polynesian Islander
playsets!  They include little Lego stereotypical-island-native people,
with headdresses and shields and spears and everything.  One kit lets you
build the little king guy's throne, with a big evil-looking totem head
behind it and all kinds of Lego palm trees and stuff.  Very neat, if
ungodly expensive . . .

And along the same Polynesian lines, the first issue of surfing cartoonist
Mary Fleener's comic "Fleener" is out.  This is a wordless story of a
tribe of little tiki guys and is lots of fun.  Any decent comic shop should
have it or be able to get it.

--
::: Lazlo ([e-mail]; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)


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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: re: Stereolab
Date: 25 May 1996 23:13:57 -0500


> Stereolab interview and music in RealAudio is available:
>
>    http://www.kcrw.org/g/live.html

Just saw the groop live last night and they were even tighter than
when I saw them last year.  Literally entrancing 20 minute or so
encore of "Stomach Worm," strobe lights and all.  Truly amazing -
don't miss.  First concert I've wished I had a tape recorder at (not
to bring up the bootleg issue again, please).

There is a video clip of "Noise Of Carpet" available at the eMpTyV
site.  Luuuuv this band!!!!

Also, for those into moog pop:  The Moog Cookbook is a must have.
Genuinely clever and amusing covers, no skimping here.  Can't help
smiling while listening to this one.  Mom likes it too.


kevin king
[e-mail]
http://www.radix.net/~xanadu


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From: Mark Koldys <[e-mail]>
Subject: CDs 4 sale
Date: 27 May 1996 15:07:03 -0400

OK, I've GOT to make some shelf space, and so I'm cleaning out some of my
CDs. If any of these interests you, just Email me. All prices include
USPS postage within the USA:

DCC Bachelor's Den series:
 Vol 1, 2, 3, and 4
  $25 [four CDs]

Bainbridge "Strictly Ballroom" series
 Vol 1, 2, 3
 (Don't let the title fool you; these are actually reissues from the
 Time Records catalog, by people like Caiola, Montenegro, Orizaba,
 Hayman, Hal Mooney, and the like. Lots of hot latin rhythms,
 offbeat percussion arrangements, and the occasional waltz and
 polka too!)
  $15 [three CDs]

Buy either of the above and for an extra $5 I'll throw in a sealed copy
of Ultra-Lounge "Wild and Swinging"!

                           [e-mail]
   "Even bagpipes will not speak when stomach is empty." --Charlie Chan


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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: X?
Date: 27 May 1996 16:53:32 -0400

I just saw a *fab* movie I recommend to each and every hipster on this
list..It's called "X"-or subtitled THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES...made in
1963...The soundtrack is UNBELIEVABLE and composed by our man Les Baxter....I
know it's a slim chance, but was that sound-track ever released?  I ask with
tears of hopelessness in my eyes...
Lounge Laura


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From: Ernest Haynes <[e-mail]>
Subject: Harry Revel, Les Baxter and Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman
Date: 27 May 1996 20:54:27 -0400

Howdy,

I found a set of 78's this weekend that i was hoping someone out there =
could tell me a little about.  The set is called "Perfume Set To Music" =
and consists of six songs on three 78 rpm, 10 inch records.  i don't =
have anything to play 78s on, so I have no idea what it sounds like.  =
The cover credits Music by Harry Revel-Orchestra And Chorus Conducted by =
Leslie Baxter-Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman And The Theremin.  It certainly =
looks like it will sound interesting, but I'll have to wait until I can =
get a player.  Can anyone tell me anymore about this?

ernie


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Harry Revel, Les Baxter and Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman
Date: 27 May 1996 22:04:11 -0400

Boy did you hit paydirt...you just got perhaps the rarest Theremin album
around!
Ashley


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: RCA Living Stereo imports
Date: 28 May 1996 19:58:12 -0400

Does anyone know if the RCA Living Stereo series imports are going to be
released domestically in the U.S.?


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Touch of Evil
Date: 28 May 1996 21:07:29 -0400

Did Henry Mancini's  hip and swingin' soundtrack to "Touch of Evil"  (with
Orson Welles) ever make it to record?  If so, does anybody have it? And how
much?

Esquerlita


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From: Mark Koldys <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: CDs 4 sale!
Date: 28 May 1996 21:23:09 -0400

The CDs I offered have all been snapped up. Thanks to all who replied. If
I get another bout of shelf-pruning mania, you'll hear from me.

                           [e-mail]
   "Even bagpipes will not speak when stomach is empty." --Charlie Chan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Touch of Evil and other treats
Date: 28 May 1996 22:20:26 -0400

TOUCH OF EVIL is currently in print on CD by Varese Sarabande.  It was my
introduction to the mighty world of Spy/Crime Jazz and sucked me down through
a bongo vortex to hipster Nirvana.  If you like ToE, track down the German
import for the MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. which compiles the two 60s albums on one
CD and features such snazzy jazzy composers as Morton Stevens ("Hawaii
Five-Oh"), Lalo Schifrin ("Mission: Impossible") and Jerry Goldsmith (too
many to mention, but let us just note the U.N.C.L.E. theme and the equally
cool "In Like Flint").  Or you can start hitting the soundtrack LP bins and
look for anything composed by Mancini, Pete Rugolo, Kenyon Hopkins - the
usual jazzbo suspects.  Speaking of jazz crimes, I scored Kenyon Hopkins'
EAST SIDE/WEST SIDE soundtrack - 1963 TV drama featuring George C. Scott -
great stuff.  Snag it if you see it.  Got that at the new record store near
the Haight - Monster Records.

By the by, I scored early Ferrante and Teicher, SOUNDS OF TOMORROW (the
stylishly weird treated piano period) at Flat Plastic Sound on Clement this
weekend.  Only $4 for a VG/G copy with its iconic Space Age Bachelor Pad
cover.  They had an excellent selection of mood music vinyl priced to sell,
and they're having a 1/3 off sale this Saturday on all vinyl.  Check it out.
 You can work in a trip to Green Apple books (where they have some excellent
hard-boiled ephemera - I got a great Dell original Beatniks-in-Paris book
there, EASY LIVING, a 1970 paperback titled CARNIVAL about that nearly lost
American tradition, and the new FILM NOIR READER) and Revolver Records (where
I picked up cheap, decent copies of Glenn Campbell and Andy Williams greatest
hits as I explore the weird world of Non-Rock 60s Pop.  Can't go wrong with
Jimmy Webb tunes, and Mancini/Mercer movie themes).


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From: "Robert P. Krajewski" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Touch of Evil
Date: 28 May 1996 22:27:32 -0400

The soundtrack for "A Touch of Evil" is available on Varese Sarabende
records; I picked up the CD in January, so it's probably still in print.


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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: A Few Finds
Date: 28 May 1996 23:42:04 -0500

Found a few treats today for a buck each (and NM!):

The Exciting Pianos of Ferrante and Teicher
This is on Pickwick, nice cover with two identical pictures of a left
hand on the keyboard.  It's prepared piano with no background lush.
How High The Moon I recognize from With Percussion.  Sabre Dance and
Temptation are the other high points.  The rest is low key mood
music.

Ferrante and Teicher - Fireworks
I think this must be the stereo version of Hi-Fireworks.  It's all
early spastic prepared piano and wonderful.

The Versatile Henry Mancini
This is so much weirder than I expected, love the vocals and looming
organ!  Versatile indeed - more like The Creepy.  What WAS he
thinking?

Command Stereo Check Out
One side of bleeping and clacking between narration by Charles Stark.
 The other side features sample cuts from the early series also
introduced by Stark.

Cugat Cavalcade
Xavier's greatest hits with an even greater cover of himself holding a
chihuahua and surrounded by five younger babes.  Yes, he's grinning!

Charles Wuorinen - Time's Encomium
Electronic noodling commisioned by Nonesuch.

Happily hunting.....

kevin


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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Mancini's Touch of Evil
Date: 28 May 1996 22:00:20 +0000

>Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 21:07:29 -0400
>From: [e-mail]
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Touch of Evil

>Did Henry Mancini's  hip and swingin' soundtrack to "Touch of Evil"  (with
>Orson Welles) ever make it to record?  If so, does anybody have it? And how
>much?
>
>Esquerlita

Dig you name man.  Wild!!  Yes, Mancini's score which is 1 of his very 1st
was originally released in 59 on Challenge under the title of Touch of Evil.
This record included only half of the score.

In 1963, Challenge released The Wild Side of Henry Mancini, sub-titled
Touch of Evil with a diff.catalog #. This included the rest AND BEST of the
soundtrack including a bongo and conga instrumental that is not even
available today.
Jack Costanzo-Bongos
Mike Pacheco-Congas
Barney Kessel-Guitar
Pete Candoli-Trumpet
Plas Johnson-Tenor Sax
Dave Pell-Baritone Sax
Ray Sherman-Piano
Rollie Bundock-String Bass
Red Norvo-Vibes
Larry Bunker-Drums
****NOTE****  I've only seen 4 copies of this record and they were all
white label promos, so who knows if it was ever released commercially ?

In the mid or so 70's Citadel released both Challenge LP's minus the Latin
Percussion piece only on "Wild Side" on 1 LP.

Varese Sarabande which I believe was Citadel re-released this same release
on CD a few years ago.  It is fucking pure genius.

Thanks for asking, I love talking about music ;-)>
Jack




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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Perfume 78's Set
Date: 28 May 1996 21:46:40 +0000

>Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 20:54:27 -0400
>From: Ernest Haynes <[e-mail]>
>To: "'[e-mail]'" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Harry Revel, Les Baxter and Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman

>Howdy,
>
>I found a set of 78's this weekend that i was hoping someone out there =
>could tell me a little about.  The set is called "Perfume Set To Music" =
>and consists of six songs on three 78 rpm, 10 inch records.  i don't =
>have anything to play 78s on, so I have no idea what it sounds like.  =
>The cover credits Music by Harry Revel-Orchestra And Chorus Conducted by =
>Leslie Baxter-Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman And The Theremin.  It certainly =
>looks like it will sound interesting, but I'll have to wait until I can =
>get a player.  Can anyone tell me anymore about this?
>
>ernie
>------------------------------
>Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 22:04:11 -0400
>From: [e-mail]
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: Harry Revel, Les Baxter and Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman

>Boy did you hit paydirt...you just got perhaps the rarest Theremin album
>around!
>Ashley
____________________________________

AND the most boring.
Jack



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From: [e-mail] (Mark Miester)
Subject: Command Records?
Date: 29 May 1996 09:00:26 -0500

Sorry if this is a patently obvious question, but I wonder if anyone has
any comments about/suggestions for Command Records purchases. A while back
I found Terry Snider's Persuasive Percussions Vol.2 which I thought was
just insane. More recently I discovered the Discoteque Album, which is even
more so, a non-stop collection of 60s pop played in the hyperactive,
Esquivel-like style. It includes versions of Henry VIII I Am and (a
personal fave) A Taste of Honey. Just amazing.

From the songs included, I assume it came out around 1966, although I don't
have the record in front of me to check.

Does anyone have any information on Command Records or suggestions of other
records to look for?

Cheers,

Mark

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Touch of Evil
Date: 29 May 1996 10:13:01 -0400

At 09:07 PM 5/28/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Did Henry Mancini's  hip and swingin' soundtrack to "Touch of Evil"  (with
>Orson Welles) ever make it to record?  If so, does anybody have it? And how
>much?

Yes, it did when the film came out in 1958.  It is also available on CD from
Varese Sarabande.

Bryan


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From: [e-mail] (John Carew)
Subject: Re: Mancini meets 70's Australian Love Poetry
Date: 30 May 1996 01:45:28 +1000 (EST)

>Hi all -
>
>Just picked up an astonishingly cheesy lurve LP from '77: "Just You
>and Me Together Love" - Henry Mancini (yea, 'tis he!) with Aussie
>radio show host and (cough) "bard" John Laws.  As you might expect,
>the music is lush and lovely (drums (Shelly Manne) strings, trumpets,
>vibes, Monica Mancini "doo doo dooing" and some pretty naff synths)
>with Laws rambling on and on and on with some of the most stomach-
>churning love lines I've ever heard.
>
I've never heard the album but John Laws is somewhat of a hero to me
and my fellow Australians.  There was a late night comedy show here a
while back called "Denton" that had an look-a-like actor reading John Laws
poetry.  The good news is his work is even better when he takes on series
issues.  Death was a funny one.  I'll see if I can find some of his poetry
and post it to anyone who is interested.

* Beep... Beep...
The Schruber-Machine and DaG: Fast faxed to the future.
([e-mail]) Jcab *jcan*


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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Perfume 78's Set
Date: 29 May 1996 12:12:20 -0500

>>>I found a set of 78's this weekend that i was hoping someone out there =
>>>could tell me a little about.  The set is called "Perfume Set To Music" =
<snip>

>>Boy did you hit paydirt...you just got perhaps the rarest Theremin album
>>around!
>>Ashley

> AND the most boring.

Not true!  In fact, Perfume got me on first listen with its melodies,
while Moon and Peace of Mind took longer to sink in.  It's far from
boring, you've chanced upon a gem!

kevin


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: RCA Living Stereo Series imports
Date: 29 May 1996 12:57:48 -0400

I am looking for the following titles in your list:

1.) Esquivel - Other Worlds, Other Sounds

2.) Henry Mancini - The Mancini Touch

3.) Dick Schory - Music for Bang, Barrom and Harp

I believe these are German imports issued by BMG/RCA.  Correct?  I already
have "More Music From Peter Gunn" and it is well worth getting.

I also might be interested in "Bob & Ray's Stereo Spectacular" and Los
Indios Tabjaras "Sweet & Savage".  Have you heard these?  What are they like?

Is the Bruce Brown "Endless Summer" soundtrack, the original one released on
World Pacific records back in 1966?   Who is releasing it?  Capitol/EMI owns
the Pacific Jazz/World Pacific catalogue if I'm not mistaken.

Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you (all).

Bryan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: RCA Living Stereo imports
Date: 29 May 1996 13:06:51 -0400

At 07:58 PM 5/28/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Does anyone know if the RCA Living Stereo series imports are going to be
>released domestically in the U.S.?

I wouldn't hold my breath too long. You probably are better off getting the
German imports for the time being.  The German market is much more
specialized and finnicky than here in the U.S.  I guess companies like BMG
think we will only be satisfied with the likes of Madonna and Michael
Bolton.  You know, those psuedo-crooners.


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From: Bruce Rhodewalt <[e-mail]>
Subject: Rapa Nui
Date: 29 May 1996 15:28:21 -0600 (MDT)

The most remote inhabited place on earth?

This month's Tiki Publishing trivia contest is all about Easter Island,
aka Rapa Nui.  As always, prizes go to the top five scorers.

http://www.tikipub.com/cgi-bin/contesta.cgi (after May 31)

Bruce Rhodewalt

--
Creative              Tiki Publishing         78-365 Highway 111, #241
    Internet          http://www.tikipub.com  La Quinta, CA 92253
        solutions     [e-mail]      619/342-3418


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From: Ernest Haynes <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: Command Records?
Date: 29 May 1996 20:53:15 -0400

----------

Sorry if this is a patently obvious question, but I wonder if anyone has
any comments about/suggestions for Command Records purchases.

Does anyone have any information on Command Records or suggestions of =
other
records to look for?


I'd like to second this request.  I see lots of records on this label =
and don't know the gems from the junk.  I did pick up Dick Hyman's =
Concerto Electro because I'd heard the name on this list and because of =
the incredibly tasteless paint-by-numbers cover.  I wasn't too impressed =
by the music, though.  But my point is, which recordings should I buy on =
sight?

ernie

PS-I also got two 5 record sets of various Command artists put together =
by GE.  (One set is missing two records)  Has anyone else seen these?  I =
believe they are called the Silver Sound Series, Edition 1 and 2.









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From: Ernest Haynes <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: Perfume 78's Set
Date: 29 May 1996 21:17:34 -0400

>>>I found a set of 78's this weekend that i was hoping someone out =
there =3D
>>>could tell me a little about.  The set is called "Perfume Set To =
Music" =3D
<snip>

>>Boy did you hit paydirt...you just got perhaps the rarest Theremin =
album
>>around!
>>Ashley

> AND the most boring.

Not true!  In fact, Perfume got me on first listen with its melodies,=20
while Moon and Peace of Mind took longer to sink in.  It's far from=20
boring, you've chanced upon a gem!

Well, everybody seems to have an opinion of my records except me.  I =
have no way to play them, and no place around here carries those special =
CDs that everyone got so excited about recently.  Anybody know if these =
78s were later released on 33?  Is there anybody out there in Central =
Florida that is willing to tape these for me?  Any help would be =
appreciated. Oh, if anybody is interested, I could type in the liner =
notes from the set.  They aren't as good as some I've seen, but they're =
OK.

ernie


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From: "Robert P. Krajewski" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Those Exotic Beatles
Date: 29 May 1996 22:39:58 -0400

Kind of ironic, considering that the Beatles and the horse they rode in
on pretty much pushed exotica and other forms of jazz-influenced
post-WWII pop off the charts and made scruffy authenticity (well, not
really, but you know what I mean) a main mode of the pop charts from the
mid-60s onward.

For example, "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" is basically a
forward-looking piece of retroexotica, made when Martin Denny was still
making records, but without birdcalls. Although it was released as the
B-side of "Let It Be" in 1969, the basic tracks were recorded 1967.
That's Brian Jones on saxophone, by the way.

And check this out on page 83 of _With a Little Help From My Friends_ by
George Martin (Little, Brown, 1994):

    Creating atmosphere and sound-pictures... that was my bag.
    I did a lot of it before the Beatles even came along. In
    1962 Parlophone issued a single called: 'Time Beat/Waltz
    In Orbit,' a compilation of electronic sounds, composed by
    a certain 'Ray Cathode' -- me !

So, anybody heard any of this Ray Cathode stuff ?


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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: Command Records?
Date: 29 May 1996 23:01:51 -0500

> Does anyone have any information on Command Records or suggestions of other
> records to look for?
>
>
> I'd like to second this request.  I see lots of records on this label and don't know the gems from the junk.  I did pick up Dick Hyman's Concerto Electro because I'd heard the name on this list and
> ecause of the incredibly tasteless paint-by-numbers cover.  I wasn't too impressed by the music, though.  But my point is, which recordings should I buy on sight?


Persuasive Percussion 1 and 2
Provocative Percussion 1 and 2
Pertinent Percussion Cha Cha's
Far Away Places 1 and 2
Reeds And Percussion
Bongos - Los Admiradores
Strange Interlude - Lew Davies
Mr. Big - Tony Mottola
Moog - Dick Hyman
Age Of Electronicus - Dick Hyman
Electric Latin Love Machine - Richard Hayman
Copper-Plated Integrated Circuit - Walter Sear

others?......


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From: Katie Eagan & Jeff Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: Command Records?
Date: 30 May 1996 07:58:03 -0900 (PDT)

On Wed, 29 May 1996, kevin king wrote:

> > > Does anyone have any information on Command Records or suggestions
> > > of other records to look for?

> > I'd like to second this request.  I see lots of records on this label
> > and don't know the gems from the junk.  I did pick up Dick Hyman's
> > Concerto Electro because I'd heard the name on this list and
> > ecause of the incredibly tasteless paint-by-numbers cover.  I wasn't
> > too impressed by the music, though.  But my point is, which recordings
> > should I buy on sight?

> Persuasive Percussion 1 and 2
> Provocative Percussion 1 and 2
> Pertinent Percussion Cha Cha's
> Far Away Places 1 and 2
> Reeds And Percussion
> Bongos - Los Admiradores
> Strange Interlude - Lew Davies
> Mr. Big - Tony Mottola
> Moog - Dick Hyman
> Age Of Electronicus - Dick Hyman
> Electric Latin Love Machine - Richard Hayman
> Copper-Plated Integrated Circuit - Walter Sear
>
> others?......

You can also follow my "toll-free number" rule:  buy anything numbered
from RS 800 to around RS 900 (when those calls start costing $1.99 a
minute!), which is when Enoch Light stopped originating and producing
for Command Records and started up Project 3.

However, in addition to those listed above you should definitely check
out

Discotheque Vol. 2 (for the original poster who loved Vol. 1)
A New Concept of Great Cole Porter Songs
Dimension *3*
Sound/35MM

and if you love the Ray Conniff Singers (who doesn't?) you'll want to
get some of the Ray Charles Singers in the toll-free range.

What's most fun about these records is that 99% of the time when you
hear a guitar, it's Tony Mottola; the organ, it's Dick Hyman; and that
smooth-talking trumpet is Doc Severinsen.  Kind of like keeping your ear
out for the unmistakable Herb Alpert on all of those A&M records.

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips
[e-mail]


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From: Phil Clark <[e-mail]>
Subject: Radio 1 "Easy Listening" night Mon 27th May
Date: 30 May 1996 13:38:31 -0700

Hi all

Apparently wunnerful Radio One did a whole four hour exploration of "the
EZ phenomenon" on Monday last.

Did anyone by chance tape it? I'd looove a copy (reel or cassette).

Email me and let's make a deal...

TIA
Phil
[e-mail]


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From: Dan Gresham <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Radio 1 "Easy Listening" night Mon 27th May
Date: 30 May 1996 15:09:51 +0100 (BST)

On Thu, 30 May 1996, Phil Clark wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Apparently wunnerful Radio One did a whole four hour exploration of "the
> EZ phenomenon" on Monday last.
>
> Did anyone by chance tape it? I'd looove a copy (reel or cassette).
>
> Email me and let's make a deal...
>
> TIA
> Phil
> [e-mail]

I didn't record this, but I heard that it was pretty lame - apart from a
short set from DJ Mr Karminsky, it was all mainstream cheap stuff like
Mantovani and Dusty Springfield. They even did an ALL TIME EASY TOP TEN,
that had Petula Clark at Number 2. Need I say more...!

Still, you have to give them some credit. Even if they are a couple of
years behind...

Later


Dan


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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Command...
Date: 30 May 1996 09:12:11 PDT

let me add:

Spaced Out
and any Free Design records


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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: command...........
Date: 30 May 1996 12:50:24 -0400

Let me add my 2cents about the Command question...
1.  Is THE ELECTRIC ELECTICS OF DICK HYMAN or his ELECTRIC ORGAN album
included on this thread?  If not, this Command collector highly recommends
them...
2.  Also, look for faux Command records. It's at home, so I can't remember
what label it was on, but I have this album that's designed to look like a
Command album...The funny parts are that its called EXOTIC PERCUSSION AND
BRILLIANT BRASS, and although the band is pretty good, it has the most
exaggerated animal screams, ala' Martin Denny...They're not an enhancement,
they're WAY up in the mix...One has a screaming ape of some kind...

a new thread possibility...what about Stripper albums?  My brother has one
that' s very much like the first scene of FASTER PUSSYCAT, KILL, KILL!, where
these drunks are yelling at a stripper, and the band sounds drunk, too...


Lounge-on,
Laura


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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: Radio 1 "Easy Listening" night Mon 27th May
Date: 30 May 1996 11:21:17 -0600 (MDT)

>On Thu, 30 May 1996, Phil Clark wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> Apparently wunnerful Radio One did a whole four hour exploration of "the
>> EZ phenomenon" on Monday last.
>>
>> Did anyone by chance tape it? I'd looove a copy (reel or cassette).
>>
>> Email me and let's make a deal...
>>
>> TIA
>> Phil
>> [e-mail]
>
>I might know someone with a tape. I was part of the quiz BOUDOIR team (the
winners, natch!, though I only knew the answer to one question. It was so
British based it meant nothing to me, a Yank!) and I know that this part was
taped. Whether or not they taped the whole show, I am not sure.

It was pretty lame, as Dan said, on the whole. I didn't even listen to it
all as the sounds were so boring. But they did play some YMA SUMAC, after
all. About what you would expect really from a Radio One show.

Jill
>
>
>


Colloquium Internet


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re[2]: Perfume 78's Set
Date: 30 May 1996 11:24:49 PST



"Music Set To Perfume" was issued on a 10" 33. I believe that Ernie Kovaks used
something off of that record for his Percy Dovetonsils skits.


Lee
______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
Author:  [e-mail] at INTERNET


>>>I found a set of 78's this weekend that i was hoping someone out =
there =3D
>>>could tell me a little about.  The set is called "Perfume Set To =
Music" =3D
<snip>

>>Boy did you hit paydirt...you just got perhaps the rarest Theremin =
album
>>around!
>>Ashley

> AND the most boring.

Not true!  In fact, Perfume got me on first listen with its melodies,=20
while Moon and Peace of Mind took longer to sink in.  It's far from=20
boring, you've chanced upon a gem!

Well, everybody seems to have an opinion of my records except me.  I = have
no way to play them, and no place around here carries those special = CDs
that everyone got so excited about recently.  Anybody know if these = 78s
were later released on 33?  Is there anybody out there in Central = Florida
that is willing to tape these for me?  Any help would be = appreciated. Oh,
if anybody is interested, I could type in the liner = notes from the set.
They aren't as good as some I've seen, but they're = OK.

ernie



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From: "Kenneth H Ellzey" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: command...........
Date: 30 May 1996 15:19:54 -0400

On May 30, 12:50pm, Laura Taylor wrote:
> Let me add my 2cents about the Command question...

> 2.  Also, look for faux Command records. It's at home, so I can't remember
> what label it was on, but I have this album that's designed to look like a
> Command album...The funny parts are that its called EXOTIC PERCUSSION AND
> BRILLIANT BRASS, and although the band is pretty good, it has the most
> exaggerated animal screams, ala' Martin Denny...They're not an enhancement,
> they're WAY up in the mix...One has a screaming ape of some kind...
>
>-- End of excerpt from Laura Taylor

I, too, have this album.  The label is Directional Sound, and there is at least
one other by this same aggregation on that label.  The band is John Evans and
his Orchestra, all of whom, including John, were members of Francis Bay's Big
Band, otherwise known as the Bay Big Band.  This is a Belgian swing orchestra,
very much dedicated to the swing band era ala Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller,
Artie Shaw, etc.  They were associated with the Brussels World Fair (late 50's)
and released a long series of albums on the Omega label, each album dedicated
to the compositions associated with a particular swing band leader, be it Glenn
Miller, Tommy Dorsey or what have you.  I have one dedicated to the music of
Ted Heath, and quite frankly, it rocks!  This group is quite excellent by jazz
standards (and any others), even if you don't particularly care for the person
whose compositions they are doing.  The Omega label was an early proponent of
stereo, and their pressings, I have found, are amazingly good even after 36
years.  The above mentioned Directional Sound release, as well as the other one
I have seen by this group, have liner notes by Nat Hentoff- the "jazz guy".
Don't pass these up!
-Ken Ellzey


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From: Ricardo Wang <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Those Exotic Beatles
Date: 30 May 1996 14:57:00 -0700 (PDT)

of course the beatles and their incredible pop writing made it possible
for so many cool exotica, easy-listening, and experimental artists to
produce amazing covers (from the 101 strings to bongwater!) i have a tape
of these sorts of covers i'd love to trade for similar or a couple bucks.
ricardo wang 1002 olympia ave n.e. olympia wa 98506.

On Wed, 29 May 1996, Robert P. Krajewski wrote:

> Kind of ironic, considering that the Beatles and the horse they rode in
> on pretty much pushed exotica and other forms of jazz-influenced
> post-WWII pop off the charts and made scruffy authenticity (well, not
> really, but you know what I mean) a main mode of the pop charts from the
> mid-60s onward.
>
> For example, "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" is basically a
> forward-looking piece of retroexotica, made when Martin Denny was still
> making records, but without birdcalls. Although it was released as the
> B-side of "Let It Be" in 1969, the basic tracks were recorded 1967.
> That's Brian Jones on saxophone, by the way.
>
> And check this out on page 83 of _With a Little Help From My Friends_ by
> George Martin (Little, Brown, 1994):
>
>     Creating atmosphere and sound-pictures... that was my bag.
>     I did a lot of it before the Beatles even came along. In
>     1962 Parlophone issued a single called: 'Time Beat/Waltz
>     In Orbit,' a compilation of electronic sounds, composed by
>     a certain 'Ray Cathode' -- me !
>
> So, anybody heard any of this Ray Cathode stuff ?
>
>


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From: Tristan <[e-mail]>
Subject: Yma Sumac Tour dates..
Date: 31 May 1996 02:35:50 -0400 (EDT)

Does anyone know if Yma is planning to perform anywhere other than San
Francisco?

If so please post any info...

Thanks

Tristan



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: new Mike Flowers Pops single cd
Date: 31 May 1996 19:23:14 +0100

LIGHT MY FIRE (don't know the exact label: F-LONCD384)
this Doors classic got the same treatment as "wonderwall".

= Johan |)/\|)/\



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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Re: new Mike Flowers Pops single cd
Date: 31 May 1996 14:04:11 EDT


----- Begin Included Message -----

>LIGHT MY FIRE (don't know the exact label: F-LONCD384)
>this Doors classic got the same treatment as "wonderwall".

___________________________________

HOW WOULD THAT MAKE IT ANY DIFFERENT FROM THE
DOORS VERSION? I LOVE THE DOORS, BUT SOMETIMES
THEY COME OFF LIKE "MURPH AND THE MAGICTONES"
FROM "THE BLUES BROTHERS".

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From: [e-mail] (David Bailey)
Subject: Towa Tei's Exotica-hop
Date: 31 May 1996 11:27:38 -0800

We've all heard of Hip-hop, trip-hop, etc. Now I've heard "exotica-hop"
from Towa Tei (from Dee-lite.) His CD "Future Listening" features some very
wacky exotica songs sprinkled amongst the usual computer-dance music. And
his guest vocalists are (mostly) Bebel Gilberto (daughter of Astrud) and
Maki Nomiya of Pizzicato Five...Wow! Also featured are Ryuichi Sakamoto (on
piano) and Arto Lindsay. I especially enjoyed the song "Batacuda." Check it
out!


David Bailey
Huge Graphics
http://www.sirius.com/~huge



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From: [e-mail] (Gene Hopstetter, Jr.)
Subject: Mort Garson, anyone?
Date: 31 May 1996 15:03:13 -0400

Howdy all,

I'm looking for any information regarding a certain Mr. Mort Garson.  The
album "Black Mass by Lucifer" (UNI, later MCA records, 1971), which
contains some of the grooviest space and magical moog noodling I've ever
heard, has his name on it, and I'm wondering if someone has more info about
him.

"Don't let Western civilization make a dipshit out of you..."  -- Spot 1019
+++++++++++++++++   Internet Publishing Specialist
+  Gene Hopstetter, Jr.  +   Cadmus Digital Solutions
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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: new Mike Flowers Pops s
Date: 31 May 1996 14:56:05 -0400

                      RE>>new Mike Flowers Pops single cd          5/31/96

thems fightin' words about the Doors...
Lounge-Lizard Laura


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>LIGHT MY FIRE (don't know the exact label: F-LONCD384)
>this Doors classic got the same treatment as "wonderwall".

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HOW WOULD THAT MAKE IT ANY DIFFERENT FROM THE
DOORS VERSION? I LOVE THE DOORS, BUT SOMETIMES
THEY COME OFF LIKE "MURPH AND THE MAGICTONES"
FROM "THE BLUES BROTHERS".



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From: Ricardo Wang <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Towa Tei's Exotica-hop
Date: 31 May 1996 17:56:01 -0700 (PDT)

i'd second the reccomendation, it's a damn fine record, but really it is
much more of an acid jazz record than hip hop.  the easy listening
and exotica samples work perfectly in this framework and this is becoming
a frequent trend in club music. imagine bringing the lounge onto the
dance floor! - rwang

On Fri, 31 May 1996, David Bailey wrote:

> We've all heard of Hip-hop, trip-hop, etc. Now I've heard "exotica-hop"
> from Towa Tei (from Dee-lite.) His CD "Future Listening" features some very
> wacky exotica songs sprinkled amongst the usual computer-dance music. And
> his guest vocalists are (mostly) Bebel Gilberto (daughter of Astrud) and
> Maki Nomiya of Pizzicato Five...Wow! Also featured are Ryuichi Sakamoto (on
> piano) and Arto Lindsay. I especially enjoyed the song "Batacuda." Check it
> out!
>
>
> David Bailey
> Huge Graphics
> http://www.sirius.com/~huge
>
>
>

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From: james b gerwitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sequel Loungecore Stickers
Date: 31 May 1996 19:04:02 -0700

Any comments on two Sequel compilations sporting the "Loungecore" =
sticker, same as on "The Easy Project" ?=20
One is "Highly Strung" , looks like 60's Britpop. The other is something =
like " Girls Can Be Wrong About Boys," a girl singer comp.   =20

Did the British non-invasion groups and  girl groups become lounge when =
I wasn't looking,  or does the marketing department  at Sequel see $$$ =
in the "L" word, a la RCA's shameless stickers on Morton Gould ?  (Die =
Ring de Nibelungen - the Roots of Lounge ?  Could be..)

TheSequel's  Easy Project was OK, tho I much prefer Sound =
Gallery.....mmmm, those incredible Half Forgotten Daydreams.

Are the above 2 Cd's cluttering up the EZ section, or do they sneak in =
the back door through the pop vocal category ?  I do worship the =
Ronettes, Cookies, Astrud, and Claudine, so would like to know if anyone =
else has taken a chance on that one. =20

Jim G

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Mort Garson, anyone?
Date: 31 May 1996 22:11:57 -0400

I once had an album called Patchcord Productions Presents The Connection,
which was a sampler of commercials featuring electronic music by Mort Garson.
 I remember it had actual commercials from Lincoln-Mercury, Lucky Lager beer,
and I think Chock Full O' Nuts coffee.  It was from circa 1970.  The back
cover showed Mort with his black plastic frame glasses and enormous
sideburns.  Alas, I no longer have the album, having traded it for something
else.  I know I've seen his name associated with one or two other projects as
well. . .


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Mort Garson, anyone?
Date: 31 May 1996 23:44:59 -0400

In a message dated 96-05-31 15:07:27 EDT, you write:

>Howdy all,
>
>I'm looking for any information regarding a certain Mr. Mort Garson.  The
>album "Black Mass by Lucifer" (UNI, later MCA records, 1971), which
>contains some of the grooviest space and magical moog noodling I've ever
>heard, has his name on it, and I'm wondering if someone has more info about
>him.


I am sitting here holding the three Mort Garson titles that I own.  They are:

Zodiac Cosmic Sounds (Elektra) - spoken word and electronic music describing
the twelve astrological signs.  The notes insist that this record "must be
played in the dark". It should, I have and it is out of this world.

The Wozard of Iz (A & M) - "....the electronic odyssey of Dorothy attempts to
fuse words with wires and create a contemporary version of the children's
classic".  Very creative, very original and very, very unusual.  Someone once
made the remark that this LP reminded them of the cast of The Wiz stoned on
weed and drunk.  Right on.

Signs of the Zodiac: Cancer (A & M) - Besides the Cosmic Sounds above, Garson
made twelve LP's featuring each and every birth sign.  I have only skimmed
through this one.  More late sixties gold.

I don't know much about Mort Garson's background at all.  On all of these
albums, he composed and "realized" the electronic music.  Jacques Wilson did
much of the writing and some spoken word...Paul Beaver is in there, too.

I like my Mort Garson records. Alot.


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From: Tom Duda <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Ethel Azama & The Denny Connection
Date: 20 May 1996 21:18:05 -1000

Spoke with Arthur Lyman recently about Ethel Azama...she is one of the
great jazz singers he says...when he recorded 'Leis of Jazz' he was
hoping to have her participating throughout it, but on producer's demands
only was able to include her on Lullaby of the Leaves...he doesn't know
what she's up to now...

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From: Tom Duda <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Finds, finds, finds!
Date: 21 May 1996 19:42:08 -1000

kevin king wrote:
>
> Arthur Lyman - Bwana a
>                           Taboo vol.2
> The Taboo has shrunken heads on the cover.  Is there a story behind this
> besides the amusing liner note stating they're authentic?  "This
> cover is different."    Which was first, the heads or the volcano ala
> vol 1?
>

Yeah, I just had to ask Lyman about this one...he said he really had no control over
what was put on the covers of his releases...someone at the label did it...he was under
the impression that the heads were indeed real...no interesting stories...probably have
to talk to the person at the label who came up with the idea...

"This cover is different." -- I would guess was just a snide comment on the uniqueness
of the cover and wasn't implying that there was more than one cover for this release...