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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Yma Sumac LPs
Date: 01 Aug 1996 01:46:02 -0400

>> The SM prefix designates a reissue, probably from the 70s.  The T prefix
>> is the original -- then you have to designate label color and logo.
>
>Could you tell me what I should look for in a first issue in label color
>and logo?  Does it depend on the year it was released?

Capitol 78's and 10" LP's (series H and L) had purple labels. Original
Series T 12" LP's had a green label. H, L and T had the same logo - the
word Capitol on top (with the Capitol rotunda and the 4 stars), as did
Series W, which had a black label. When Capitol started issuing stereo
records in '59 (I read that they were the last company to do so, even
though they were recording in stereo experimentally since '56, because they
thought it was a fad), they added the ST prefix and issued the "rainbow
ring" black label with the Capitol logo on the left. They switched this to
their standard "rainbow ring" black label with the Capitol logo on top at
the beginning of the 60's. Any 50's era record with this label is a later
pressing. They switched to the light green label around '70 or so. The
orange/yellow "swirl" labels on their '45's started sometime in the early
60's, probably '62.

The 70's/80's reissues carried the M and SM (for stereo) prefix. Their
labels were replicas of the originals, except that this time they were blue
(sort of blue/grey). They also had 2 songs less than the originals, to save
on publishing royalties as these were budget line reissues.

In the case of the Sumac records, the original issues were the 78 & 45 RPM
box sets, followed by the 10" albums of "Voice of Xtabay"(H-244) and "Inca
Taqui"(L-243). They were issued on each side of a 12"(W-684). This was
followed by "Legend Of the Sun Virgin" (T-299), "Mambo" (T-564), "Legend Of
the Jivaro" (T-770) and "Fuego del Ande" (T-1169/ST-1169). And, oh yeah,
"Voice of Xtabay/Inca Taqui" was reissued in Duophonic (Capitol's bizarre
fake stereo) in '63 (DW-684) !!!!

Don't ask me why I know all this stuff.

br cleve



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From: "Anton J. Elmquist" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hurt my head last night...
Date: 01 Aug 1996 11:45:14 -0400

Morning, everybody...

AAAAAARGH! NEVER - I mean absolutely NEVER - play a gig on Wednesday
night! We had a blast, but now I'm tring to work, and my brain is just
sort of sitting in its case sloshing around, and no amount of coffee
seems to wake it up.

My head hurts. When we walked into the club, the bartender pulled out a
bottle of gin and pointed to it with a smile on his face. Not a good
sign. Guess he likes our song "Gin" - or he remembers how much gin I
drank there the first time we played there. Ouch!

Anyways, I'm just writing to inform all folks in the NYC area that we
are gonna do it again tomorrow at Spiral on Houston at Avenue A. We're
going on early at 8:30, so that we can get back home and get a decent
night's sleep.

Later,

Anton
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From: Bruce Rhodewalt <[e-mail]>
Subject: Win Lyman CDs
Date: 01 Aug 1996 09:09:12 -0700

TABOO -- primitive superstitions of an island
                     volcano, woven into eerie, lush, tropical
                     sounds.  As the ear listens, the mind
                     conjures ancient native Hawaiian rituals,
                     the days of Queen Lilioukalani's monarchy,
                     and then the Hawaiian Islands as they are
                     today, the U.S. Territory of Hawaii.

In this month's trivia contest, the topic is Polynesia, and the prizes
are new CD reissues of Arthur Lyman's TABOO from Rykodisc.  Stop by any
time in August: http://www.tikipub.com/cgi-bin/contesta.cgi/.

Please note that the DCC compilation with the TABOO cover
was not the original track listing.  It covered a wide spectrum of
his songs, but was not the definitive Lyman compilation by any means
as well as NOT TABOO, the album that launched more than a million
backyard luaus.  This is only available on hifi/Rykodisc.

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: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: to S. Kerry
Date: 01 Aug 1996 12:43:43 -0400

Hi, I lost your address...please e-mail me!
Lounge Laura
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: BLASPHEMER! (Arthur Lyman)
Date: 01 Aug 1996 19:22:06 +0100

>>Jill Mingo wrote:
>>>This is only one step above Arthur
>>>"loungebore" Lyman.

        i like Lyman almost as much as Denny; my current fave is his
        "Leis of jazz" (bought that one from jack Diamond), which, as the
        title suggests, is exotic jazz, or jazz exotica.

        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Wavy gravy
Date: 01 Aug 1996 19:22:23 +0100

there IS (or was?) a "Wavy gravy" cd, though not sure on what label and in
which country; saw it listed several times in
"http://www.musicmailexpress.com".
Great stuff, all really twisted rock& roll, including that legendary fake
senator dirksen doin "wild thing"
        "oo! oo! ...  wild thing"
        "close, senator, close" :)
i don't know if the cd contains "greasy chicken".

        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis

Greetings from Johan |)/\|)/\
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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Jill, ... who thinks Lyman is overrated
Date: 01 Aug 1996 19:22:15 +0100

[e-mail] (Jill Mingo) wrote:

>... And my opinion on music is obviously not respected on this list anyway

        yes it is

        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Maya Angelou
Date: 01 Aug 1996 19:22:53 +0100

[e-mail] wrote:

>...Maya Angelou's calypso venture is really quite
>cool, has kitsch value and bears repeated listenings. My 3 year old likes it,
>too.

        i didn't like it very mucho; it sounds too familiar; yes, i know,
        her "calypso" dates way back, before the term "world music" was even
        invented, and it must have sounded as something hot & new & exotic
        then, but not anymore now; just my opinion, for what it's worth

        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Mitchum
Date: 01 Aug 1996 19:22:46 +0100

[e-mail] wrote:

>Robert Mitchum's CD is amusing but not something you're likely to play very
>often unless there's a room full of people waiting for you to play "Name That
>Singer".

        it's veruy amusing indeed; i often wonder with this kind of
        recordings (also Shatner's "Transformed man" for exemple)
        did they really _knew_ that it would sound rather
        ridiculous? or was it a serious project?

        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis



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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Enoch Light (update!)
Date: 01 Aug 1996 18:01:52 +0000

Dear Exotiacs -

Well, that'll teach me to jump the gun - after having said yesterday
that it would be a while before my interview with Tony Mottola would
appear on the Enoch Light WWW site - guess what I received in the
mail this morning?!  Yup, pages and pages of handwritten responses!
So, as soon as I have this typed up and laid out I'll let y'all know
and you can have a read of some very interesting information!

Watch the skies...


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

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From: [e-mail] (Mark Turner)
Subject: Re: Mitchum
Date: 01 Aug 1996 11:08:23 -0700 (PDT)

>
> >Robert Mitchum's CD is amusing but not something you're likely to play very
> >often unless there's a room full of people waiting for you to play "Name That
> >Singer".
>
>         it's veruy amusing indeed; i often wonder with this kind of
>         recordings (also Shatner's "Transformed man" for exemple)
>         did they really _knew_ that it would sound rather
>         ridiculous? or was it a serious project?

Hmm.  Maybe I'm just square but I didn't think the Mitchum
album, or the Maya Angelou album for that matter, was un-
intentionally funny.  I thought they were both damn good!
Certainly not an out-and-out embarassment like the Shatner
record.  Am I missing something?

--
 Mark Turner
 [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Please accept my apology Jill
Date: 01 Aug 1996 11:44:43 +0000

Jill,

I've been waiting to see your address but it hasn't shown up
I wanted to e-mail you directly to apologize for my inappropriate
behavior.

I also feel that since it was done on this list I also owe the list an apology

Please accept my most sincere apology for calling you an idiot.
It was rude and disrespectful
I am truly sorry.

I also apologize to the list for my not OK behavior

Please accept my apology.  I have no excuse or justification at all
and most likely was just projecting

Most sincerely,
Jack



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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Frontiere's Pagan Festival
Date: 01 Aug 1996 11:49:04 +0000

That record in stereo is EXTREMELY rare!!!
Did you get a stereo copy Kevin ?

Jack



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From: Grant China <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Vaba-Ba-Boom
Date: 01 Aug 1996 09:00:51 -1000

At 11:23 AM 7/31/96 -1000, Robbie Baldock wrote:
>If anyone doesn't own the new Edmundo Ros 2xCD compilation ('40
>exotic rhythms from the master of all things latin') - track
>it down and *buy*!

Hmmm, I haven't run into this one yet.  I do have Ros's "Latin Melodies Old
and New" on CD (I picked it up for $7 at Tower!).  Does anybody know if this
CD is a compilation?  Also, is that Edmundo himself doing the vocals on
"Blame It On The Bossa Nova"?  And will we ever see "El Mundo De Edmundo" on CD?

Aloha,
Grant


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From: Bryan Jare Cuevas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Les Baxter - Release Dates (?)
Date: 01 Aug 1996 16:11:15 -0400 (EDT)

Anyone know the release dates for "African Blue" and "Colors of
Brazil" - the CD reissue doesn't provide this information.....

Thanks
b cuevas

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Jill, ... who thinks Lyman is overrated
Date: 01 Aug 1996 16:44:13 -0400

At 07:22 PM 8/1/96 +0100, you wrote:
>[e-mail] (Jill Mingo) wrote:
>
>>... And my opinion on music is obviously not respected on this list anyway
>

Not true Jill.  Keep comming back.

Bryan


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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Jill, ... who thinks Lyman is overrated
Date: 01 Aug 1996 17:07:47 -0400

Let me add to the chorus that I've enjoyed and valued Jill's
opinions, and, half the time at least, agreed with what she said about
Arthur Lyman.

Will Straw

At 16:44 96-08-01 -0400, you wrote:
>At 07:22 PM 8/1/96 +0100, you wrote:
>>[e-mail] (Jill Mingo) wrote:
>>
>>>... And my opinion on music is obviously not respected on this list anyway
>>
>
>Not true Jill.  Keep comming back.
>
>Bryan
>
>
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.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/gpc/crccii/


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Les Baxter - Release Dates (?)
Date: 01 Aug 1996 18:13:29 -0400

At 04:11 PM 8/1/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Anyone know the release dates for "African Blue" and "Colors of
>Brazil" - the CD reissue doesn't provide this information.....
>
>Thanks
>b cuevas

Aren't those already available from GNP/Cresendo?  If so, then does anyone
know how they sound in terms of Baxter fare?

Bryan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject:   Mitchum & Angelou
Date: 01 Aug 1996 18:49:58 -0400

I don't think either of these are  funny like Shatner & Nimoy, which I find
hilarious (especially Shatner) .  I genuinely enjoy Maya Angelou's singing. I
think Mitchum just misses the mark but not enough to be really funny.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Fire Goddess
Date: 01 Aug 1996 19:27:19 -0400

At 11:57 PM 7/29/96 -0600, you wrote:
>
>Also, does anyone know if Capitol is capping out the Ultra Lounge Series
>at 12 volumes? It seems like early plans were for only six (the liners
>only list six volumes).
>
>[e-mail]

That's a good question.  Maybe Lazlo Nibble, Ashley or bro. cleve could fill
us in on this one.  Will there be more?

Bryan


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From: Paul Lewis <[e-mail]>
Subject: New York?
Date: 01 Aug 1996 20:51:06 -0400 (EDT)


Someone mentioned a club in NYC (somewhere between 3rd and 10th?) that
plays exotica and would be highlighting a tiki/polynesian motif in the
bar for the summer months?  Anyone know where and what this is?

If not, could someone give a comprehensive list of NYC sites?  Thanks a lot!

Paul

Paul Lewis                                      [e-mail]
Coordinator of Academic Computing               [phone] [office]
Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science
"We do it because we are compelled."            -Alan Moore


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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Frontiere's Pagan Festival
Date: 01 Aug 1996 21:26:18 -0500

> That record in stereo is EXTREMELY rare!!!
> Did you get a stereo copy Kevin ?

'twas lucky, Jack, but not that lucky!  My copy's mono and proud of it,
beautiful condition too.  Is the mono rare?

Speaking of Lp's with silver foil covers, I just bought Pierre
Henry's Le Voyage (which I think is out on cd).  Besides being an
absolutely lovely record, the cover is stunning!  Looks like
burnished steel, like a piece from a David Smith sculpture, only the
reflecting patterns are detailed to look like some sort of stone
garden or something (very subjective).  Anyone who likes Forbidden
Planet would love this one.

up to my armpits in facts,
kevin king
[e-mail]
http://www.radix.net/~xanadu

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Fire Goddess
Date: 01 Aug 1996 21:52:58 -0400

>>Also, does anyone know if Capitol is capping out the Ultra Lounge Series
>>at 12 volumes?

>That's a good question.  Maybe Lazlo Nibble, Ashley or bro. cleve could fill
>us in on this one.  Will there be more?

Yes.

br cleve



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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Les Baxter - Release Dates (?)
Date: 01 Aug 1996 21:58:19 -0400

>Anyone know the release dates for "African Blue" and "Colors of
>Brazil" - the CD reissue doesn't provide this information.....

Les moved to GRP after he left Reprise. Those albums are from '67 & '68. He
had another one on GRP, "Love Is Blue" (yup, Andre Popp made a few francs
off Les, too), before moving on to Alshire and the 101 Strings for his last
2 albums.

br cleve



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From: Katie Eagan & Jeff Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: MARION'S!!! (was Re: New York?)
Date: 01 Aug 1996 23:07:46 -0900 (PDT)

On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Paul Lewis wrote:

> Someone mentioned a club in NYC (somewhere between 3rd and 10th?) that
> plays exotica and would be highlighting a tiki/polynesian motif in the
> bar for the summer months?  Anyone know where and what this is?

Go.  Go.  Go.

Just went to Marion's over the weekend and had a SWELL time, mainly
'cause Ty the wonder goddess was tending bar.  It's on 3rd Ave. near 4th
Street, a few blocks from where STOMP is playing (which is lots 'o fun,
as well).

The tiki/polynesian motif is a go, they refer to it as their "Kahiki"
theme.

If you're REALLY nice to Ty (I was), she'll go in the back to bring out
her pride and joy:  a porcelain cocktail glass in the shape of a Japanese
woman in ceremonial garb--the drink is filled from her back, the straw
becomes a sort of oar for her hands, there's a little hole near her head
for the umbrella and when you drink from the straw, you can't help but
give her a kiss.  Other patrons kept sending the drinks back because they
were too strong; somehow Katie and I didn't seem to mind...

The best martini, mai tai, pina colada, and passion flower that we ever
had (because of the ambiance, mostly).  One of the other bartenders has
made a great poly tape that they play, with Baxter/Lyman/Denny hits plus
other unidentifiables.

We nearly went next door to the patio place for dinner, but after they
told us it would be an hour wait (at 10 p.m.!!!) we went BACK to Marion's
for dinner.  The mahogany clams with garlicky linguine did not disappoint.

By the way, it's not a club; it's a relaxing place where you can hang
your hat and sip from a ceramic pineapple.

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips
[e-mail]

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From: SF BeAtNiKs <[e-mail]>
Subject: another foil cover
Date: 01 Aug 1996 20:59:46 -0700

At 09:26 PM 8/1/96 -0500, Kevin says:

>Speaking of Lp's with silver foil covers, I just bought Pierre
>Henry's Le Voyage (which I think is out on cd).  Besides being an
>absolutely lovely record, the cover is stunning!....

Continuing along with the silver foil covers, do not forget "One Step
Beyond", presented by Alcoa.  Symphony Orchestra conducted by Harry Lubin.

One Step Beyond was a television show which ran from 1959 thru 1961.  John
Newland directed and hosted this series of tales of the occult and
supernatural.  Confrontations with ghosts and various forms of ESP were
frequent themes, and the stories were always told with a suitably eerie and
mysterious air.  Sponsored by Alcoa, the series was also titled Alcoa
Presents.

The tracks that open each side, "Fear" and "Weird", are about as creepy as
creepy can get.  I get the willies just thinking about them!  The rest of
the album is not bad, but not nearly as haunting.  But two KILLER tracks
make it worth it!








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From: Jim Eukey <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: another foil cover
Date: 02 Aug 1996 00:28:23 -0500 (CDT)

Foil, foil, babes and bubbles.
My favorite foilish cover is 2-LP gatefold by Buddy Cole on WB1357:
a set of 10 50s broads (that's what we called 'em then and why am I
apologizing?) in bathing suits with song titles on the sashes over the
suits.
Music is regrettably forgetably blah.
Jim

        "The past may not repeat itself,
            but it sure does rhyme."
            - Mark Twain -

    [e-mail]  <Jim Eukey>  414-272-7446


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: ASTRO SOUNDS FROM BEYOND THE YEAR 200 IS OUT!!!
Date: 01 Aug 1996 23:09:15 +0000

1 of the most famous or infamous for that matter, grandaddy of all
instro psych records, 101 Strings - Astro Sounds From Beyond The Year
2000 has just been released by Scamp with what "some people" say to be
the right EQ that it was always lacking ;-)>

This is a rich, full, booming and beautiful sound on CD that must be
heard by all!!!

Also included are 3 bonus tracks of which 2 are "easy listening" instro
psych with some wicked electric sitar with this nasty sounding female
voice ooohing and aaahhhhing to the grooves vibrating out through your
speakers.
1 of those titles is called Whiplash and every now and again is just
that sound with this woman going offffffffffffffffff
her own DEEP end ;-)>

Very tasty indeed, yum yum.  The whole thing kills

Jack Diamond

PS  Get it now!!!

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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: Please accept my apology Jill
Date: 02 Aug 1996 05:33:29 -0600 (MDT)

Jack,

It's OK. I appreciate your (and others) passionate defence of Drasnin and
Lyman (who I like a lot more than my comments might suggest - I have not
sold or burnt their records or anything!), but truth be told, I think there
have been a lot of other comments in the past that were a lot more idiotic
than mine!!! But the history of Drasnin was appreciated in the end.

So it's cool...

x Jill




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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: Les Baxter - Release Dates (?)
Date: 02 Aug 1996 05:37:58 -0600 (MDT)

>At 04:11 PM 8/1/96 -0400, you wrote:
>>Anyone know the release dates for "African Blue" and "Colors of
>>Brazil" - the CD reissue doesn't provide this information.....
>>
>>Thanks
>>b cuevas
>
>Aren't those already available from GNP/Cresendo?  If so, then does anyone
>know how they sound in terms of Baxter fare?
>
>Bryan
>
>The CD is widely available. I think they are fairly middle of the road
Brazilian covers. Not Baxter's best. If I wanted to hear these tracks, I've
got better versions by other people. A little bland, I would say, especially
for Baxter. And I am a Baxter worshipper.

Jill




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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: Frontiere's Pagan Festival
Date: 02 Aug 1996 05:44:45 -0600 (MDT)

>That record in stereo is EXTREMELY rare!!!
>Did you get a stereo copy Kevin ?
>
>Jack
>
Wow! This is rare? I have the stereo copy, foil, the works. In nae bad shape
either (as we say up in Scotland). I am listening to it again now as it
didn't grab me when I got it, but it is rather good in a huge-OTT-film
soundtracky-orchestral-chorus-sort of way. Considering I get most of my
stuff on my trips back home to the States (once a year if I'm flush), I
think I've done pretty well. Anyway, I thought I might be convinced to sell
it, but upon listening to it again, I might just keep it.

Jill




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From: Phil Clark <[e-mail]>
Subject: Wavy Gravy
Date: 02 Aug 1996 13:32:00 -0700

Re the "Wavy Gravy" comps...

AFAIK there were CD issues, these being direct dubs of the 2 albums,
containing all manner of hoop-la. Recommended! Especially Senator Everett
McKinley's unique reading of "Wild Thing" and of course the uncredited
Z-movie trailers inserted between the tracks ("Sweet Susie ... she ain't no
lady!")

happy listening

Phil

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: MARION'S!!! (was Re: New York?)
Date: 02 Aug 1996 09:09:39 -0400 (EDT)

We discovered marion's this week also.  I am proud to say I got to drink a
passion flower from the little porcelian women glass.

We (Vik and I) have been there twice this week already.  Unfortunately they
close the kitchen far too early, but the bar is open until 2am.  The
address is 354 Bowery at 4th street.

Cherie
[e-mail]
www.chaoskitty.com



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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Serious or not ?
Date: 02 Aug 1996 07:46:31 +0000

Shatner's "Transformed man"did they really _knew_ that it would sound rather
>        ridiculous? or was it a serious project?
>
>        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis

Johan,

Shatner was TOTALLY SERIOUS ;-)>

Jack



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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Dominic Frontiere
Date: 02 Aug 1996 08:06:56 +0000

>Subject: Re: Frontiere's Pagan Festival

>Wow! This is rare? I have the stereo copy, foil, the works.

it is rather good in a huge-OTT-film
>soundtracky-orchestral-chorus-sort of way.
I might just keep it.

Jill, keep it ;-)>  Something I have learned in my many years of listening
to odd and off the beaten path music is the more I listen, the more I hear.

Things I "didn't get" the 1st listen I got the 2nd or 3rd or even 4th!!!

It's interesting that you used that "soundtracky-orchestral" description
because Frontiere is a great Soundtrack score composer with at least 10
Scores to his name!!!

An _extremely_ versatile talent is Frontiere as he is also a fantastic Jazz
Accordianist who has 2 excellent records on Liberty from the mid 50's.
1 with a sextet and the other an octet
Believe it _or not_ it is Beatnik Jazz ;-)>

Thanx for writing

"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

Bye for now,
Jack




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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: PLAYLIST, Jack Diamond 7-14-96
Date: 02 Aug 1996 08:18:23 +0000

KFJC play list 7/14/96 for Jack
Diamond

           ARTIST
                                      TRACK
                                                           ALBUM
 Planets
                             Chunky
 Plas Johnson-Flute
                             Al Viola-Guitar
                                                    Jumpin' with
 Earl Palmer-Drums
                             Wilfred
                             Middlebrooks-Bass
                                                    Symphony Sid
 George Cates Orchestra
                             Pagan Love Song
 George Cates Orchestra
                             Hawaiin Wedding Song
                                                    Polynesian
 Barry Gray Orchestra
                             March of the Oysters
                                                    Percussion
 Brian Fahey
                             The Saint
 Vic Mizzy
                             Zip Zip
                                                    Don't Make Waves
 Ray Conniff Orch./Chorus
                             The Drop
                                                    Dance the Bop
 Andre'
 Popppppppppppppppppppp
                             La Polka Du Roi
                                                    Elsa Popping
 Claude Denjean
                             Na Na Hey Hey
                                                    Moog !
 Big Jim Sullivan
                             The Koan
                                                    Sitar Beat
 Shorty Rogers Giants
                             Merry Old Land of Oz
                                                    59/RCA
 W/ J. Guiffre
                             Barney Kessel, Bud
                             Shank
 Ennio Morricone
                             Jeanne on the Beach
                                                    Sicilian Clan
 Sir Julian
                             Sir Julians Mambo
                                                    13 Fingers Of/Rca
 Barry, John
                             The Menace
                                                    E M I Years Vol. 2,
                                                    the
 Esquivel
                             My # 1 Love
                                                    Exploring New Sounds
                                                    RCA/58/STEREO
 Enoch Light's Brigade
                             It Was a Very Good
                             Year
 Kenyon Hopkins Orch.
                             Gloomy Sunday
                                                    Shock!!!!!!!!!!!!
 Richard Bennett
                             Kaarna
                                                    Million $$ Brain
 Leith Stevens Comp.
                             Walter Schumann Voices
                                                    Exploring the
 Paul Frees Narrated
                             Welcoming Procession
                                                    Unknown/Rca, 1955
 Mel Lewis Sextet
                             Charlies Cavern
                                                    Mode, 1957
 Grey Flannel
                             Charlie Mariano-Alto
                                                    Marty Paich-Pno
 Bill Holman-Tenor
                             Jack Sheldon-Trumpet
                                                    Mel Lewis-Drums
 Richard Hayman
                             Girl From Ipanema
                                                    /G E L L M /
 Mort Garson
                             Deja Vu
 Musical Impressions
                             Of the Occult
 Walter Wanderly
                             Summer Samba
                                                    Scamp Ne Release
 Steve Cropper
                             Crop Dustin
                                                    Volt, 67
 Louis/Bebe Barron
                             Fantastic Planet and
 Ken Nordine
                             Outer Space Together!!
 Stu Phillips
                             Gas Hassle
                                                    Mary Jane
 Al Caiola
                             Outy and About
                                                    S.F. Nights
 Johnny Keating
                             The Clown
 Milton Delugg
                             12 O'clock High Theme
 Chim Kothari
                             Guantanamara
                                                    Sound of Sitar
 Chim Kothari
                             You Don't Have to Say
                             You
                                                    Love Me
 Chico Hamilton Qnt
                             Walkin' Carson Blues
                                                    Jim Hall,
                                                    Buddy Collette
 Ferrante and Teicher
                             Last Time I Saw Paris
                                                    Blast Off
 Billy Mure
                             Canadian Sunset
 Lalo Schifrin
                             Mission Blues
                                                    More Mission
 Leo Diamond
                             Skin Diver Suite
                                                    56/RCA
 Sonic Vibrations of
                             Twilight Ozone
                                                    Song of the Second
                                                    Moon
 Tom Dissvelt
 And Kid Baltan
 Jerry Goldsmith
                             Cornering the Suspect
                                                    Warning Shot
 Barry Gray
                             Hijacked
 Barry Gray
                             Joe 90
 Sid Ramin
                             Stiletto
 Elmer Bernstein
                             Sweet Smell of Success
 Pete Rugolo
                             Diamond


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: Playlist, Jack Diamond 7-21-96
Date: 02 Aug 1996 08:22:44 +0000

KFJC play list 7/21/96 for Jack
Diamond

        ARTIST
                                   TRACK
                                                            ALBUM
 Planets
                       Chunky
 Stang Getz Qrt. with
                       Conte Candoli-Trumpet
                                                     Lou Levy-Piano
 Shelly Manne-Drums
                       Leroy Vinnegar-Bass
                                                     Columbia,West
                                                     Coast JAZZ/55
 Muzzy Marcellino
                       Sunrise Seranade
                                                     Liberty LRP3075
 Kenyon Hopkins
                       Daddy(Bobby Troup)
                                                     Ping Pang Pong
 Laurie Johnson
                       Sleuthing(Professionals)
 Isaac Hayes
                       Shaft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 Johnny Keating
 Orchestra
                       Jesus Christ Superstar
                                                     Studio 2/SPACE
                                                     Express
 Sal Salvador
 Orchestra
                       You'd Be Sooo Nice to Come
                       Home to ;-)>
                                                     DECCA/57
 Esquivel
                       St Louis Blues(Genius Of)
                                                     67/RCA
 Al Caiola & Living
 Gtrs
                       Ruby Tuesday
                                                     S.F.Nights
 Robert Drasnin
                       Voodoo
 John(ny) Williams-Pno
 Pete Rugolo Orchestra
                                                     Percussion
 Feat. Jack Costanzo
                       Bongo Riff
                                                     At Work
 Del Close/John Brent
                       Introduction
 Martin Denny Group
                       Soshu Night Seranade
                                                     Scamp Release
 Jimmie Haskel
                       Venus
                                                     Countdown
 Le Jazz Modes
                       Garden Delights
                                                     All Arrngements
 Julias
 Watkins-Fr.Horn
                       Charlie Rouse-Tenor
                                                     By J.Watkins
 Oscar Pettiford-Bass
                       Gildo Mahones-Pno                                                    Chano Pozo-Bongos
 Ananda Shankar
                       Streets of Calcutta
 Wynder K. Frog
                       Harpsicord Shuffle
 18TH Century Concepts
                       Lovers Concerto
 Leo Diamond
                       Skin Divers Suite
                                                     RCA/55/MONO Only
 Revengers
                       Meet Mr. Solo
 Si Zentner
                       The Fugitive
 The Lectric Hair
                       Good Morning Starshine
 Gordon Parks
                       Move on In(Shafts Big Score)
                                                     Dick Hazard
 Esquivel
                       Amor(To Love Again)
                                                     1ST/RCA/57/MONO
 Moonlight Enchantment
                       Nightingale
 Marty Manning
                       Lost Weekend Theme
 Barney Kessel,
                       Ray Brown, Shelly Manne
 Custard Puff
                       Rec August 1958
 Les Baxter
                       Mountains of Mystery
                                                     Barbarian
 Goliath and the
 Barbarians
                                                     A.I.P./Stereo
 Frank Wess,
                       Kenny Burrell
 Eddie Jones-Bass
                       Freddie Green-Rhythm Gtr
                                                     Jazz for Playboys
                       Woolafunt's Lament
                                                     Savoy MG12095
 Stan Kenton Orch.
 Feat
                       Jack Costanzo-Bongos
 June Christy-Spoken
 Word
                       This Is My Theme
                                                     47/CAPITOL
 Lalo Schifrin
                       The Cat(Joy House)
 Lalo Schifrin
                       Self-Destruct(More Mission)
 Modern-Aires
                       Girl W/ the Long Black Hair            Pete Rugolo Music
                                                     Steve Allen Lyrics
 Pete Drake
                       Penguine Strut
                                                     K F A T
 Jimmy Day
                       Ranchers Stomp
 Mundell Lowe All
 Stars
                       Bourbon Street Beat
                                                     Tv Action Jazz 2
 Kenyon Hopkins
                       Rain(Panic, Son of Shock!)
 Al Caiola
                       Bali Hai
 Mancini
                       The Genius of _Them All_ !
 Rolly Budock-Bass
                       Walkin' Bass(More Peter Gunn)
                                                     RCA/1959
 Virtues
                       Tel-Star Guitar
 Elmer Bernstein
                       Matt Helm's Blues
 Frank Comstock W/
                       Paul Tanner-Theremin
 Richard Rodney
 Bennett
                       Skidoo
                                                     Million $$$$ Brain


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From: "kevin s. lee" <[e-mail]>
Subject: star trek
Date: 02 Aug 1996 09:34:46 EST

question:  who did the music for Star Trek, the original TV series?
did they do any other film or tv work?
and is that stuff available on cd reissue these days?

i heard on my college station, someone playing star trek music but it
sounded like it was re-done recently.  just too "clean" sounding.
lacked that 60's groovy-ness.  but i really remembered how much i
loved some of the music on that show. especially the spooky, haunting
hermann-esque theme they'd play whenever something mysterious
was happening.  then of course there's the marching,
thrilling "da da daaa daa daa daaa..." theme they played whenever there
was a fight or battle.  even the main theme had the hip, swinging
sumac-esque vocals...

try listening to any of the new deep space nine stuff or voyager and
it just makes you yawn. x-files?? yuck.   in fact, i can't think of any good recent
sci-fi soundtracks whatsoever.  then again, i can't think of any good
recent sci-fi movies.

any info is appreciated... thanks,
kevin

ps  here's another question:  who did music for TV's The
Nightstalker?  somehow i doubt that's available on lp or cd...
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From: [e-mail] (Jonny.S)
Subject: Yo! what's up with you?
Date: 02 Aug 1996 04:41:40 -0500

I hope this list is a place where we can get into a deeper discussion of
musical and social  esthetics  and I think Jill's comments recently  about  A.
Lyman and the reactions it provoked point to a distinction of taste or shall I
be so bold as to say "camps" amongst the fans and followers of exotica and
easy listening . Its nice to hear about everyone's recent find's, Label Reps
recent reissues  releases available for purchase and recently re-discovered
stars of exotica etc. whose comments are available to all with web access. But
what's it all about? How do we feel about all this music, why are we
interested, what's are emotional connection to it!?
 I truly believe music, all music is about communicating human emotion from
the profound to the banal, as do the other arts . But, What is it about this
broad genre of exotica  & easy-listening once generally considered banal that
is now moving us all in a profound way in 1996? How does our desire for things
and time lost, never to be regained play into our  attraction? For the retro,
nostalgic.
  I don't have any answers myself at this moment (It's 4 AM and it's been a
long day) But music is a very  important part of my life as I'm sure it is for
many of you, otherwise you wouldn't be participating in this conference. So I
through it out for all of us; what do you feel when you listen to your
records, what do you think of, where do your daydreams take you when you
listen? Why do you like what you hear? How do you distinguish  between what's
'good" exotica/ easy-listening and "bad", what does it mean to you, thanks...
 and to all, a good night, Jonny Sender



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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: Re: MARION'S
Date: 02 Aug 1996 11:35:04 -0400

     For anyone who's interested in a little history, way back
     in the day, when Marion's was owned by Marion herself,
     it was a favorite NY haunt of the likes of Cary Grant and
     Dean Martin.  Worth a trip for that alone.

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From: Jack Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: MARION'S
Date: 02 Aug 1996 12:28:46 -0400 (EDT)

Alright, Jonathan!  Nice work.

Looking forward to seeing you here....



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From: Bruce Rhodewalt <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: star trek
Date: 02 Aug 1996 10:06:47 -0700

kevin s. lee wrote:
...>
> try listening to any of the new deep space nine stuff or voyager and
> it just makes you yawn. x-files?? yuck.   in fact, i can't think of any good recent
> sci-fi soundtracks whatsoever.  then again, i can't think of any good
> recent sci-fi movies.

I learned a long time ago that it isn't the '60s anymore.

This isn't sci-fi, but "Harriet the Spy" has some incredible music.  (This
is from the POV of a fan of Lyman, Herrmann, Denny, Baxter, Frontiere and
other mainstays of this list.)  Sort of sounds like the way Nickelodeon
looks: funky, bouncy, fragmented spy tunes.  Enjoy!

Bruce
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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Wavy gravy
Date: 02 Aug 1996 19:31:43 +0100

v/a: Wavy gravy - for adults enthusiasts (Beware CD, USA or UK?) (maybe a boot)
it has the complete "for adults enthusiasts" lp plus side 1 of the "Four
hairy policemen" LPs. The only source where to get it I know of is
"http://www.musicmailexpress.com"

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: Jack Diamond's House of Games
Date: 02 Aug 1996 10:56:22 +0000

Hello everybody,

If your not aware, I do have non - commercial web pages at KFJC-FM on
the web at www.cygnus.com/kfjc.

That is the Main Page to 1 motherfucker Free Form Non-Commercial radio
station with more cool shit about music that you never ever heard about,
available and accessible through thousands of reviews by the many
reviewers and DJ's at KFJC-FM. ;-)>

Our Music Database is getting in excess of 1500 hits a week just to give
you an idea of what I'm talkin' about.

We have a Keyword Search that will bring back everything musicly that
has to do with THAT WORD!!!

You can also access my page from there or go directly to
www.cygnus.com/kfjc/diamond

Thanx for listening and bye for now
Jack

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From: "Andrew O'Farrell" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: star trek
Date: 02 Aug 1996 14:23:30 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, kevin s. lee wrote:

> question:  who did the music for Star Trek, the original TV series?
> did they do any other film or tv work?
> and is that stuff available on cd reissue these days?
>
Hi Kevin,

The best known composers for Star Trek on tv and on film are Alexander
Courage and Jerry Goldsmith though I'm not sure who worked on what when :)
I believe Courage worked on the old tv series and some films while
Goldsmith composed the music for the films and the "next generation" of star
trek shows.
If you have a look at http://www.gnpcrescendo.com/starhome.html
it'll give you a list of CD's of soundtracks, dialogue, sound effects, etc.
etc. from the movies as well as the old and new tv shows.

Regards,

Andrew "not a Trek-nerd" O'Farrell


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From: [e-mail] (Anthony Jackson)
Subject: Re: Serious or not ?
Date: 02 Aug 1996 15:09:43 -0500

>Shatner's "Transformed man"did they really _knew_ that it would sound rather
>>        ridiculous? or was it a serious project?
>>
>>        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis
>
>Johan,
>
>Shatner was TOTALLY SERIOUS ;-)>
>
>Jack

It certainly seems so. According to the liner notes, Shatner considered the
album something of a minor miracle:  "...the thrill I got from hearing this
album all the way through was deeper and more satisfying than anything I
had ever experienced."

Captain, ego to transporter room.

Aj



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From: Paul Lewis <[e-mail]>
Subject: Transformed Man, More than meets the eye
Date: 02 Aug 1996 16:13:32 -0400 (EDT)


I could never get a full understanding of Billy Shatner.  He's such a
buffoon that one would assume that HE HAS to know how ridiculous he is.
I cannot figure out if it's just a big joke or he really has an ego to
match the size of his hair.

Paul, obviously not a trek-geek



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Mitchum & Angelou
Date: 02 Aug 1996 16:06:42 -0400

I don't think Mitchum misses the mark

it depends upon where the mark is set

If you are familiar with Calypso records of the time most are fairly
unoriginal sets of standard covers with the flavor of the particular band
providing the difference. Most of the covers are campy tunes about men and
women such as the sexual innuendo "Big Bamboo"

From this perspective Mitchum adds his "talent" to the pack
- let's not take it too seriously. . .

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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: Lunchtime Scores
Date: 02 Aug 1996 16:06:40 -0400

     Visited my favorite secret thrift shop and picked up a few
     gems during lunch:

     "Command Stereo Star Performance" featuring selections by
     Tony Mottola, Enoch Light, Dick Hyman and the Ray Charles
     Singers, etc..

     "RCA Victor 'Pop' Showcase in Sound" featuring selections
     from "Havana 3am" "The Drum Suite" and "Music For Bachelors",
     among others.

     Jackie Gleason "Music, Martinis & Memories"

     Joe Harnell & His Orch. "The sound of the Asphalt Jungle"
     (don't know anything 'bout this but seems like a crime-jazzish
     concept album - with liner notes like "a dreamworld of shadows
     and sinister movement; an empty silence, where lonliness screams
     in the night; a raw-nerved precipice over which an endless
     stream of humanity crashes" - it's gotta be good).

     "Remember How Great?" a Lucky Strikes promo album featuring
     Xavier Cugat, Les Brown, Dinah Shore & Cab Calloway.

     A series of generic production music records from the early
     60's with cues titled "Emotional Disturbance" "Occupational
     Therapy" and "Happy Family" - Have high hopes for this.

     All above in M- condition except for a weird Decca record
     I picked up that's beat to shit, but on one side is James
     Mason reading Edgar Allan Poe stories with Buddy Cole playing
     organ in the background - other side is Agnes Moorehead reading
     "Sorry Wrong Number".

     Sorry for rambling - but, as I'm sure many of you can relate,
     people in my life tend to smile politely and nod in faux
     facination when I try to share my new found treasures.

     Anita

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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: Re: Lunchtime Scores
Date: 02 Aug 1996 13:51:51 -0800

>     Visited my favorite secret thrift shop and picked up a few
>     gems during lunch.

Wow Anita that's what I call a great lunch.  I know what you mean about
wanting to tell people that appreciate the finds.  When I recently found
Lyman's "Taboo" in mint condition for .95cents I immediately yelled in the
thrift store.  All the shoppers seem to have the "You're a Freak" look.

Marie
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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Lunchtime Scores
Date: 02 Aug 1996 17:06:19 -0400

That's quite the lunchtime haul, Anita.

I'm very interested in hearing how the Joe Harnell/Asphalt Jungle
LP is, since I've never heard of it but love the 'Naked City' album by
the same orchestra.

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

Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]
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From: "kevin s. lee" <[e-mail]>
Subject: One Step Beyond
Date: 02 Aug 1996 17:09:40 EST

just an off-topic side-note:

the weirdest episode of this show was when the host dosed some
magic mushrooms (i kid you not) and took a barrage of tests to see if they
gave him ESP abilities.  of course, this is before the hippies...

kevin leeeee


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From: Martin Schildkret <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Lunchtime Scores
Date: 02 Aug 1996 17:41:38 -0400

At 04:06 PM 8/2/96 -0400, you wrote:
>     Visited my favorite secret thrift shop and picked up a few
>     gems during lunch:
>
>     "Command Stereo Star Performance" featuring selections by
>     Tony Mottola, Enoch Light, Dick Hyman and the Ray Charles
>     Singers, etc..

  Great release you will enjoy it!

>     Jackie Gleason "Music, Martinis & Memories"

  I have been meaning to get something by him for a long time now and just
seem never to get around to it.

>     people in my life tend to smile politely and nod in faux
>     facination when I try to share my new found treasures.


  Why not you got some real goodies there!


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From: "Derek Grime" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Transformed Man, More than meets the eye
Date: 02 Aug 1996 19:03:18 -0400

> I could never get a full understanding of Billy Shatner.  He's such a
> buffoon that one would assume that HE HAS to know how ridiculous he is.
> I cannot figure out if it's just a big joke or he really has an ego to
> match the size of his hair.


Time for me to jump in.  I've worked with the man for three years and I must
say he's been a wonderful guy...  He's easy going, very witty with a great
(sometimes bizarre) sense of humour.  I've never asked him about The
Transformed
Man but it fits right in with what else he finds funny...

Professionally and personally he's been excellent.  Believe it or not, the man
is the exact opposite of all the press you read about him.   Like you, I had
heard for years that he was a terror and before we met I was pretty nervous,
but he turned out to be very different than my expectations.

It just goes to show you, you can't believe everything you read in the liner
notes!

Final word, he's like someone's dad, only cooler.



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Derek Grime                                  EMail: [e-mail]
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures           http://www.coredp.com/index.html

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From: sax therapy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: One Step Beyond
Date: 02 Aug 1996 17:52:49 -0600

kevin s. lee wrote:
>
> just an off-topic side-note:
>
> the weirdest episode of this show was when the host dosed some
> magic mushrooms (i kid you not) and took a barrage of tests to see if they
> gave him ESP abilities.  of course, this is before the hippies...
>
> kevin leeeee

I can verify that. I've seen that episode but it was a very long time
ago. It would be great if someone could locate a copy. And who can
remember the hosts name? At the moment I draw a blank.

-Saul
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From: Stefan Wood <[e-mail]>
Subject: Alternate  Taboo 2 cover
Date: 02 Aug 1996 19:18:32 +0100

I just received a copy of Taboo 2 through a friend of mine and I found
something interesting.  I have seen the shrunken voodoo head cover,
and I thought that this would be the same.  But this cover is a
variation of the Taboo and Bwana A covers, featuring another
volcanic eruption, and the title "Taboo 2" in oriental style lettering.
I'm wondering if anyone else has come across this, and which one
was first?  I'm assuming the shrunken heads came first, then was
changed cause of its content.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: MARION'S!!! (was Re: New York?)
Date: 02 Aug 1996 20:40:16 -0500

>By the way, it's not a club; it's a relaxing place where you can hang
>your hat and sip from a ceramic pineapple.
>


look for a feature at Vik's after this weekend...


in swank,
Vik


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




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Ultra Lounge
Date: 02 Aug 1996 20:40:14 -0500

>At 11:57 PM 7/29/96 -0600, you wrote:
>>
>>Also, does anyone know if Capitol is capping out the Ultra Lounge Series
>>at 12 volumes? It seems like early plans were for only six (the liners
>>only list six volumes).
>>

actually they will have 18 total before the year's end plus one other
special collection making the 1996 count a swinging total of 19!


in swank,
Vik


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




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Vik and Amy's Anniversary
Date: 02 Aug 1996 20:47:49 -0500

Ok hipsters...here's the deal...

this thursday (august 8th) is the 9th wedding anniversary of my wife (Amy
Camus of the Women of Exotica site) and i. we will be celebrating at the
Bar d'O In Hi-Fi night and all exoticats and kittens in the NYC area are
invited. In Hi-Fi begins at 7pm and runs until 10:30pm. you never know who
will show up, but you'll always get great conversation over somewhat
passable drinks. DJs Jack Fetterman, Scott Springer and Jerry Nutter
provide some of the most wonderful mood music you are likely to hear in
NYC. the evening usually concludes with a post In Hi-Fi excursion, which
this week may be to Harry's Cocktail Lounge on Spring St. (though you never
know where we'll end up...). hope you can make it...would love to meet you

Bar d'O 29 Bedford St. NYC
(Bar d'O is one block north of Houston...one block west of 6th Ave. at the
corner of Downing and Bedford...on the west side of the island of
manhattan). for more detailled directions email [e-mail]


in swank,
Vik


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




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From: SF BeAtNiKs <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: One Step Beyond
Date: 02 Aug 1996 20:42:19 -0700

At 05:52 PM 8/2/96 -0600, you wrote:

>I can verify that. I've seen that episode but it was a very long time
>ago. It would be great if someone could locate a copy. And who can
>remember the hosts name? At the moment I draw a blank.
>
>-Saul

John Newland was director and host


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From: [e-mail] (Keith Doyle)
Subject: Re: Lunchtime Scores
Date: 02 Aug 1996 21:26:00 PDT



>>     Jackie Gleason "Music, Martinis & Memories"

>  I have been meaning to get something by him for a long time now and just
>seem never to get around to it.

Well this one is a good start and it seems to be fairly common, I've seen
it a lot.  I have a large number of Jackie Gleason and other thrift store
albums and Music, Martinis & Memories is the one I reach for anytime my
nerves are frazzled due to too little sleep or other bodily abuse.  Also
keep an eye out for "That Moment" - Jackie even painted the cover abstract
oil painting.  And "Ooo" his choral album is great, a cross between his
typical stuff and Ray Coniff.  He's got a million of 'em-- "Lonesome Echo"
with the Dali cover, "For Lovers Only," "Music to make you Misty,"
"Night Winds," "Velvet Brass," and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
His Christmas album is handy to have because it fits the bill for the
corny old stuff my relatives expect to hear around that time, but I find
I can listen to it over and over without it seeming like chinese water
torture.

Most of his stuff I find is best described as "lilting", with the
exception of a few-- "Velvet Brass" is rather brash, for example.

I'd pass on the more modern compilation CD's though, for some reason
I've found they don't work as well if they aren't in the original
groupings of songs on the original albums.  Possibly because they
jump around from mood to mood too much, and the original album
combinations are a lot better at staying consistent in that regard.
Music Martini's and Memories has been released CD as has "Velvet Brass,"
the twofer "Music to make you Misty"/"Night Winds" and there may be
others.

I just picked up a strange one of his, it's obviously a later one, though
I can't find a date.  "Jackie Gleason The NOW Sound...For Today's Lovers"
Subtitled - The Gleason Strings with Sitar and other exotic instruments.
It's a bit odd-- the typical lilting Gleason music with tabla, kalimba,
dharma bells, gamelan gongs, etc. softly in the background or periodically
come to the forefront as the strings quiet down, though it's a weird
combination, it still has that typical Gleason eeeeeeaaaaaaasssssyyyy
listening feel.  The liner notes have a quote from Shakespeare and
Lao Tzu, along with a definition of dharma.  Songs include "Yesterday,"
"Goin' out of my head," "Moon River," "Can't take my eyes off of you."
The bits of sitar and tabla in the background definately give them
a slightly twisted feel.

I gather some out their on the exotica list find Gleason completely
boring, but I think he's far from that-- what he is is subtle.  I find
his stuff every bit as humorous as Esquivel, only Gleason doesn't beat
you over the head with it, it creeps up on you.  Both Esquivel and
Gleason are obviously having fun with their music.

I've also found Gleason's stuff stands the test of time, I picked up my first
album of his (Music Martini's and Memories) some ten or more years ago
while combing the thrifts for Exotica, and I still play his stuff quite
often.  Sometimes I imagine I'm riding in an elevator or am in a
waiting room in the '50s or early '60s when I'm listening to it-- other
times it makes great romantic background music.    It's particularly good
at parties because it doesn't compete with the conversation, yet it
sets a definite mood, a time trip back to about 1960.


Keith Doyle
[e-mail]


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From: Martin Schildkret <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Lunchtime Scores
Date: 03 Aug 1996 01:39:23 -0400

At 09:26 PM 8/2/96 PDT, you wrote:

>>>     Jackie Gleason "Music, Martinis & Memories"
>
>>  I have been meaning to get something by him for a long time now and just
>>seem never to get around to it.
>
>Well this one is a good start and it seems to be fairly common, I've seen
>it a lot.  I have a large number of Jackie Gleason and other thrift store
>albums and Music, Martinis & Memories is the one I reach for anytime my
>nerves are frazzled due to too little sleep or other bodily abuse.  Also
>keep an eye out for "That Moment" - Jackie even painted the cover abstract
>oil painting.  And "Ooo" his choral album is great, a cross between his
>typical stuff and Ray Coniff.  He's got a million of 'em-- "Lonesome Echo"
>with the Dali cover, "For Lovers Only," "Music to make you Misty,"
>"Night Winds," "Velvet Brass," and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
>His Christmas album is handy to have because it fits the bill for the
>corny old stuff my relatives expect to hear around that time, but I find
>I can listen to it over and over without it seeming like chinese water
>torture.

  I greatly appreciate your detailed analysis and will be definitely getting
something.

>I'd pass on the more modern compilation CD's though, for some reason
>I've found they don't work as well if they aren't in the original
>groupings of songs on the original albums.  Possibly because they
>jump around from mood to mood too much, and the original album

  I have found this to be the case with many of the things they issue today
from various artists. That coupled with the fact that many times they have
over processed these releases to death with "No-Noise" etc. Sometimes
leaving a release that is totally lifeless and one that bears no resemblance
to the original.


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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: star trek
Date: 03 Aug 1996 01:53:54 -0400

>The best known composers for Star Trek on tv and on film are Alexander
>Courage and Jerry Goldsmith though I'm not sure who worked on what when :)

Alexander Courage wrote the theme song (with lyrics by Gene Rodenberry), as
well as the incidental music on the TV show.

br "not a trekkie, either" cleve



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: In appreciation of Exoticans
Date: 03 Aug 1996 03:22:17 -0400

Howdy, Jack and all Exoticans!

I've been lurking here for almost two months, and now I'm moved to make my
presence known.

I'm impressed by the responses from those who called our attention to Jack's
apparently careless remark to Jill.  I'm so glad there were no flames, since
I feel that sort of correspondence is embarrassingly juvenile.  Thanks for
showing that you care about each other's feelings, and for doing so decently!

As for Jack's remark, I'm also impressed that he felt comfortable enough with
all of us that he'd let his feelings show, albeit hurtful to another.  I
admire that kind of honesty.  His apology inspires my admiration, as well.

Jill, I'm pleased that you accepted Jack's apology.  How discouraging it
would have been if you hadn't shown your generous spirit!  Thanks!

I'm getting a real kick out of these ongoing conversations, even though I've
chosen not to comment until now.  Keep those cards and letters coming, folks!
 This exchange is a true treasure trove for me, as much for the camaraderie
and opinionated declarations as for the .

Beau di Audeau
Artistic Director and Conductor
Houston Pride Band

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Lunchtime Scores
Date: 03 Aug 1996 11:17:43 -0400

Forget about staring politely. My friends tend to roll their eyes and ask me
not to tell them what i've found.

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From: "Steve Sando" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Lunchtime Scores
Date: 03 Aug 1996 10:25:36 +0000

> I gather some out their on the exotica list find Gleason completely
> boring, but I think he's far from that-- what he is is subtle.

It's the best make out music imaginable. I don't understand not
liking it, especially Martinis, Misty and Lovers Only. It's
beautiful, meloncholy and kind of needy in a sexy ear-nibbling way.

oOHHHH... excuse me.........


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: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Yo! what's up with you?
Date: 03 Aug 1996 13:33:47 -0500

> what do you feel when you listen to your
> records, what do you think of, where do your daydreams take you when you
> listen? Why do you like what you hear? How do you distinguish  between what's
> 'good" exotica/ easy-listening and "bad"...

This question is interesting in the light of the recently mentioned
Gleason and Lyman.  For me their music, more than others I've heard,
conjures up the sort of faux nostalgic images and atmosphere you
spoke of (I think of smokey lush reddish hued sparingly lit interiors
filled with glass clinking and lanquid looks when listening to
Gleason (close description of some of the covers) and full blown
tiki/poly decor with waterfalls, birds, and greenery while listening
to Lyman).  I don't exactly yearn for these places, but the music
makes me want to (Gleason didn't do anything at all for me the first
couple of listens, still not a favorite, but...)

And for 60's moddish moods there's Sergio Mendes or Roy Budd (never
understood the flap about Sound Spectrum, I think it's great! -
Recently saw Speakin' of Spokin' being performed in a film, can't
remember the name of it...)

Ultimately though, in any subgenre of exotica/easy, the records that
get the most replay here are the ones that I like strictly for the music.
The context/time in which it was made is secondary and unecessary for
enjoyment - Perrey's In Sound and Happy Moog are timeless to me.  As
for the goo/bad exotica question, I'm not sure what you mean, but my
tastes have differed in a big way from those dominant on the list a
number of times - Bang, Baroom and Harp, and even Spaced Out don't
rank too high for me, but who cares?  I listen to what I like, which
more often than not is at least a little twisted, clever, wicked.


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

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From: [e-mail] (Daniel Taub)
Subject: A couple of questions...
Date: 03 Aug 1996 14:25:06 -0700

Hey kids! Here's a couple question, one relating to an already present
thread, and one not:

        1. I notice that in addition to Scamp's "And Awaaaay We Go"
compilation of Gleason music/skits, there's also a Razor and Tie
compilation out now too. Has anyone heard either/both of these? Opinions?
Is one better than the other? Are both good? Are both bad? What's the
hubbub, bub?

        2. There are now three (three!) Dean Martin "best of's" out on
Capitol. There's the Capitol Collector's Series collection from a few years
ago, there's one called "That's Amore" and now there's the two-cd "Capitol
Years" one. There's seems to be some crossover of songs within the three,
but none is all-inclusive. So which is the best? Which is most
representative? If one were to get only one, which should s/he pick?

        Thanks for answering these questions. By the way, picked up the
"Zounds! What Sounds! / Music From a Surplus Store" CD today and am
listening to it right now! It's wacky-good fun! Sounds like fairly good
quality too, especially for being a bootleg.

                                                                Daniel



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Yo! what's up with you?
Date: 03 Aug 1996 17:41:07 -0400

At 04:41 AM 8/2/96 -0500, you wrote:
> I truly believe music, all music is about communicating human emotion from
>the profound to the banal, as do the other arts . But, What is it about this
>broad genre of exotica  & easy-listening once generally considered banal that
>is now moving us all in a profound way in 1996? How does our desire for things
>and time lost, never to be regained play into our  attraction? For the retro,
>nostalgic.

I think it's more than just nostalgia.  If I want 'nostalgia', then I can
watch 'Happy Days', the 'Partridge Family' or any of that other schlock that
I grew up with.  And with the use of samplers, computers and synth pop
machines, a lot of today's crap sounds boring to me.  The introduction of
stereo and the sound effects created manually (and not by machine) in the
"live" studio, creates effects that do not seem to have been repeated with
today's technology.  There are rumblings for a return to analog (as opposed
to digital) because many people feel that it best re-creates the sound, that
was intended in a more natural way.


>  I don't have any answers myself at this moment (It's 4 AM and it's been a
>long day) But music is a very  important part of my life as I'm sure it is for
>many of you, otherwise you wouldn't be participating in this conference. So I
>through it out for all of us; what do you feel when you listen to your
>records, what do you think of, where do your daydreams take you when you
>listen? Why do you like what you hear? How do you distinguish  between what's
>'good" exotica/ easy-listening and "bad", what does it mean to you, thanks...
> and to all, a good night, Jonny Sender

For me, good exotica is what moves me.  That feeling one get's on a tropical
isle, in a jungle or even evoking New York night life of the 50s, with the
penthouse looking out over a dark Manhattan skyline.  If it brings out that
wonderful rush of feeling towards those types of things, then it's good
exotica.  Bad exotica leaves me cold and flat.  If I feel ziltch or am bored
by where this music is taking me, then it does nothing for me.  The
musicians are just going through all the motions.  Bad exotica can be just
as flat as today's typical AM/FM schlock.  I hope this makes more sense.

IMOP,
Bryan


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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Spaced Out update - Project 3 LP discography
Date: 03 Aug 1996 22:51:12 +0000

Another day goes by and it's update time again...

Thanks to Tony Mottola, who sent me a Project 3 catalogue, the Enoch
Light site now has a hugely updated (and virtually complete) Project 3
LP discography.  (Guess what I've spent the last day or so doing!)

I should mention that I've been having server troubles and if
anyone has been having trouble accessing the site using the normal
address (at the foot of this post), please use the following IP
address instead:

http://195.188.8.27/rcb/light/

[stick "project3.htm" at the end of that to go straight to the
updated list]

More soon!

Thanks.


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

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Lunchtime Scores
Date: 03 Aug 1996 17:54:31 -0400

At 01:39 AM 8/3/96 -0400, you wrote:

>>I'd pass on the more modern compilation CD's though, for some reason
>>I've found they don't work as well if they aren't in the original
>>groupings of songs on the original albums.  Possibly because they
>>jump around from mood to mood too much, and the original album
>
>  I have found this to be the case with many of the things they issue today
>from various artists. That coupled with the fact that many times they have
>over processed these releases to death with "No-Noise" etc. Sometimes
>leaving a release that is totally lifeless and one that bears no resemblance
>to the original.

I agree with that somewhat.  I would perfer albums released on CD with a
couple of bonus tracks thrown in, rather than compilations.  But if
compilations is all we can expect to come out on CD, then it's better than
nothing.  Excessive "No-Noise" does take some of the life out of the music,
but I think some filtering is necessary in order to remove the excessive
tape-hiss that would otherwise detract from the sound.  Filters can be used
effectively in the hands of a good sound engineer who know what he's doing.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of them out there who don't.

IMOP,
Bryan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: another foil cover
Date: 03 Aug 1996 17:59:12 -0400

At 08:59 PM 8/1/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Continuing along with the silver foil covers, do not forget "One Step
>Beyond", presented by Alcoa.  Symphony Orchestra conducted by Harry Lubin.
>
>One Step Beyond was a television show which ran from 1959 thru 1961.  John
>Newland directed and hosted this series of tales of the occult and
>supernatural.  Confrontations with ghosts and various forms of ESP were
>frequent themes, and the stories were always told with a suitably eerie and
>mysterious air.  Sponsored by Alcoa, the series was also titled Alcoa
>Presents.
>
>The tracks that open each side, "Fear" and "Weird", are about as creepy as
>creepy can get.  I get the willies just thinking about them!  The rest of
>the album is not bad, but not nearly as haunting.  But two KILLER tracks
>make it worth it!

What record label were they released on?


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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: another foil cover
Date: 03 Aug 1996 18:35:22 -0400

>At 08:59 PM 8/1/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>Continuing along with the silver foil covers, do not forget "One Step
>>Beyond", presented by Alcoa.  Symphony Orchestra conducted by Harry Lubin.

>What record label were they released on?

Decca (DL 78970)

br cleve



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From: Terry Frost <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Lunchtime Scores
Date: 04 Aug 1996 10:47:18 +1000 (EST)

Hi, people

Picked up a few things at a fete the other day. The guy didn't know what he
had and I grabbed a whole bunch of 10" 33 1/3 lps (mostly local Australian
pressings) for $1.50 each.

"Tawny" - Jackie Gleason
"Jackie Gleason plays Romantic Jazz"
"Holiday Party" Ruth Wallis
and on 12"
"Voices In Latin" - the 4 Freshmen
"Music for Dining" - Readers' Digest which includes versions of Baxter's
"Quiet Village" and Grouya & Anderson's "Flamingo"
"Sea of Dreams" - Nelson Riddle
"The Nelson Riddle Orchestra Swings In Stereo"
"On The Rocks" - Bob Thompson his chorus & orchestra.

Next week I'm picking up a Japanese CD of a '50s album by Dolores Gray. If
you don't know who she is, check out the '50s movie "Kismet" where she plays
the Wazir's wife.

Hang Swank

Terry
 ___________________________    Terry Frost = [e-mail]
I "I want to live in an     I    * Winner Best Fan Writer Ditmar Award 1995
I  alternate universe       I    * President of the "Get Amanda Vanstone A Job
I  where Johnny Hartman     I In MacDonald's Now Society"
I  recorded more albums"    I * Freelance iconoclast and bon vivant.
I _________________________ I    *Swank lounge lizard extraordinaire


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: To The Moon - SF Tiki
Date: 03 Aug 1996 17:01:05 -0400

Surf Musicologist Domenic Priore djs Cafe Du Nord occasional Wednesdays
mixing surf, jazz, and exotica to fit the evenings live acts
2170 Market Street @ Sanchez $3

WED, AUG 7
slick surf combo The Aqua Velvets CD release party

Aug 14
Those Darn Accordians (CD release party)

Sept 11
"Harmony Rock"

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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Big Spenders
Date: 04 Aug 1996 00:45:35 -0400

The most I've ever paid, I think, is $19.99 for "The Naked City:  A Musical
Portrait,"
narration by John McIntire, Orchestra Under the Direction of Morris Stoloff
. . .
and considering that I've paid just as much for new CDs which sit neglected,
and that I've never seen this one any cheaper, I'm quite contented.

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

Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/programs/gpc/crccii/


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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: 2 different original versions of The Twilight Zone
Date: 03 Aug 1996 22:24:38 +0000

The one we all know and love is by Marty Manning and the other is by
Bernard Herrmann the "Godfather of the soundtrack score" ;-)>

The Ventures cover Marty Manning's version on their Outer (Out of) Space LP
to tell you which is which;)

I personally only know of 2 Marty Manning records.
THE best electronic outer space exotica record EVER, The Twilight Zone on
Columbia circa 1960 and a record he did with 21 Voices on Phase 3 or
something like that (??)
"Something" 21 Voices.

BTW, you can see a scan of Marty Manning's The Twilight Zone on my album
covers web page at www.cygnus.com/kfjc/diamond by clicking on Album Covers

Thanx,
Jack



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From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: Lunchtime Scores
Date: 04 Aug 1996 01:48:56 -0400


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>Visited my favorite secret thrift shop and picked up=20
>a few gems during lunch:
>
>Joe Harnell & His Orch. "The sound of the Asphalt Jungle"
This is a GREAT album!!!! I could play something off of it EVERY week on =
our show! (Now, if I could only find a way to swipe it away from my =
partner, Valerie!) Fave track -- "Midnight Madness"

>A series of generic production music records from the=20
>early 60's with cues titled "Emotional Disturbance"=20
>"Occupational Therapy" and "Happy Family" - Have=20
>high hopes for this.

That's it, I'm jealous!

Score of the week -- Valerie (must she get ALL the good records?) scored =
a copy of Richard Hayman's "Electric Latin Love Machine" from a friend =
this week, so Boston area exoticats & kittens be sure to tune in and =
catch a couple-a gems from THAT Command masterpiece.

Peter
----
Music for Better Living -- WZBC 90.3 FM Newton/Boston
Wednesdays 6-7pm with Valerie & Peter
http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.htm


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From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Charles Manson (was Ultra-Lounge)
Date: 04 Aug 1996 01:49:13 -0400


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Various people wrote stuff like:
>
>He's [Terry Melcher] even better known as the guy=20
>who pissed Charles Manson off while living in the=20
>house that Sharon Tate & Roman Polanski would=20
>eventually move into. Quite a distinction... :(
>
>Melcher's "greater" distinction (ahem) was that he=20
>recorded an album of tunes by Charlie.  They're=20
>still around on tape somewhere, but never released...
>I heard some of them played in a documentary film=20
>I saw about Manson.  Sort of Beatlesque and=20
>unremarkable -- except for historical value.  His failure=20
>to turn Charlie into a rock star was reputedly the initial=20
>fuel for Charlie's little temper tantrums.
>
>In fact, Charlie's album has been released on cassette=20
>as "LIE: The Love and Terror Cult," with a knockoff cover=20
>of LIFE magazine's story on Chuck and his wacky friends.
>
>It's pretty common knowledge, but interesting to note=20
>that the Beach Boys actually recorded one of Manson's=20
>songs; "Cease to Exist," which they retitled "Never=20
>Learn Not to Love," which is on the "20/20" album if=20
>memory serves.  It was recorded and released shortly=20
>before the murders and has been a source of embarassment=20
>to the group ever since.  In fact, when Capitol released its=20
>excellent series of Beach Boys two-fer C.D.'s a few years=20
>back, the otherwise superb liner notes mentioned the song's=20
>original title but *not* it's real author (I think it's credited to=20
>Dennis Wilson).  To be fair, though, it's really not a bad song!

If I could do this without sounding like a fanatic, I'd like to clear up =
a few points:

--The Tate murders had nothing to do with Terry Melcher. "The Family" =
was well aware that Melcher wasn't living at the Cielo Drive house at =
the time of the murders.

--Melcher recorded nothing more than some demos. The LIE album (which =
had a limited legit release of 2,000 or so copies) was produced by Phil =
(his last name escapes me at the moment). There've been bootleg albums, =
cassettes and CDs. I believe that some time in the near future White =
Devil Records is releasing a CD mastered from the original tapes.

--A lot of the music in the "Manson" documentary was not Manson's songs, =
but recordings by Paul Watkins & another former "Family" member. (The =
ones with mostly flute and guitar).

--"Never Learn Not to Love" takes elements from Manson's "Cease to =
Exist," but is certainly not a cover song (they even changed the lyrics =
to "cease to resist"). The songwriting credit did go to Dennis Wilson =
and Manson was paid with a gold record. The song was released on the =
album 20/20 and was also the b-side of the "Bluebirds Over the Mountain" =
single.


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From: [e-mail] (Jonny.S)
Subject: Re(2): Yo! what's up with you?
Date: 04 Aug 1996 07:20:09 -0500

hi Bryan,
 thanks for answering. By nostalgia I meant that feeling for longing for
somthing lost, It can almost be subliminal like we're unaware of it. I think
music has a powerful ability to conjur up nostalgic emotions. The songs, I
heard in high School, the first 7" single I bought ("Midnight Confession" by
the grass roots) The comercials for big band popular music from the 1940 that
would run on TV in the 1970s. I think hearing thos sons must have had a big
emotional wollop for people watching it who we're in thier teens and 20's
during WWll. Anyway, thats kind of more more what I meant.

Jonny sender


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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: sitar explosion
Date: 04 Aug 1996 12:29:03 -0400

I've been meaning to ask this for a little while now, but Jack Diamond's
show listing and  listening to "Karma Sitar" on the new 101 Strings reissue
(finally, thank you) reminded me - can anyone suggest some sitar-heavy mid
60s stuff?  I've heard a couple names scattered around, but nothing I've
been able to find.  I'd like more of the 101 Strings style, also like the
Nirvana Sitar and String Group track off Incredibly Strange Music vol 2.
(I've got some Ravi Shankar to cover the non-loungey, more classical side of
things).  I know these records will be hard to find but I'm expecting that
the more names I know, the more likely it is that I'll come across something
in my record shopping excursions.

A bit off topic:
Besides the new 101 Strings and Les Baxter CDs from Scamp, WKPS got in
something called The Poppy Family this week.  It's on March, a label that
usually releases indie-pop.  (This is kind of like TeenBeat releasing a CD
compilation of another obscure 60s/70s group called The Feminine Complex.)
It's not loungey, reallly, and it's even a bit of a stretch to call it easy
listening, but it's pretty good and there is _excellent_ use of sitar and
Indian percussion.

-Jordana
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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Les Baxter "African Blue/Colors of Brazil"
Date: 04 Aug 1996 19:45:54 +0100

i have to agree with Jill: these are not bad, but not very good either,
nothing really special, just nice music with an exotic touch.

= Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis



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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: sitar explosion
Date: 04 Aug 1996 14:31:30 -0500

> I've been meaning to ask this for a little while now, but Jack Diamond's
> show listing and  listening to "Karma Sitar" on the new 101 Strings reissue
> (finally, thank you) reminded me - can anyone suggest some sitar-heavy mid
> 60s stuff?

I bought Big Jim Sullivan's Sitar Beat from Jack a while ago.  Very
groovy.  There's a sample and partial cover scan at
http://www.radix.net/~xanadu/baby/baby.html

kevin

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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: Jackie Gleason
Date: 04 Aug 1996 13:35:22 -0400

Keith wrote:

>I gather some out their on the exotica list find Gleason completely
>boring, but I think he's far from that-- what he is is subtle.

Boring, yes.  But I'll give it another chance.  For some reason his records
are as common as rain around here, and I have about 5 Jackie Gleason LPs.
(The same thing goes for Ray Conniff - plentiful, and dull).  I'd trade them
in for that Now Sounds sitar/tabla one, though.  _That_ is right up my alley.

-Jordana

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From: [e-mail] (David Schafer)
Subject: Re: pop sitar a-go-go
Date: 04 Aug 1996 16:00:18 -0400 (EDT)

>>can anyone suggest some sitar-heavy mid 60s stuff?

Hi Jordana--

This is one of _my_ favorite topics and listening passions too. I'm happy
to promote advanced Sitar-Pop listening :). So here's my list for you, I
hope it helps. I'm surprised that there hasn't more banter about sitar pop
on this listing. Maybe it's more of the strange than exotica and they _are_
rare too.

*Lord Sitar/Lord Sitar on Capital

*Ananda Shankar/Ananda Shankar on Reprise

*Big Jim Sullivan/Sitar Beat on Mercury

*The Living Guitars/Let it Be and Other Hits on RCA

*San Francisco Nights/The Living Guitars on RCA

Rajput and the Sepoy Mutiny-Flower Power Sitar on Design

Vincent Bell/The Electric Sitar on Decca DL

Golden Leaves/A Love Affair on Challenge

George Martin/London By George on United Artists

Balsara and his Singing Sitars on World Record Club (shown in ISM Vol. 2)

Vinne Bell/Pop Goes the Electric Sitar on ???

*Buddy Rich and Alla Rakha on World Pacific (this is stretching it a little)

...and you mentioned the 101 Strings and every now and then Vinnie Bell
plays on an Enoch Light LP such as Permissive Polypnonics I think and
another one called Underground Guitars, I'll have to look. I have the ones
above with *. I see The Living Guitars around, their sound is a little
simplistic which I like. The Ananda Shankar LP has moog as well-the best of
strange IMHO! Let me know if you would like more info such as tracks or
dates.

bye--David ([e-mail])


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From: SF BeAtNiKs <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: sitar explosion
Date: 04 Aug 1996 15:50:27 -0700


>> I've been meaning to ask this for a little while now, but Jack Diamond's
>> show listing and  listening to "Karma Sitar" on the new 101 Strings reissue
>> (finally, thank you) reminded me - can anyone suggest some sitar-heavy mid
>> 60s stuff?
>
>I bought Big Jim Sullivan's Sitar Beat from Jack a while ago.  Very
>groovy.  There's a sample and partial cover scan at
>http://www.radix.net/~xanadu/baby/baby.html
>
>kevin

I've been trying to get Sitar records for sometime now and hardly ever run
acoss them.  I'm not talking about finding them for two bits in a thrift
bin, either.  I'm talking about collectors themselves who rarely advertise
them.  I did finally pick up Gabor Szabo's Jazz Raga from Jack just the
other day.  Gabor does his guitar thing and overdubs the sitar.  Made in
1966, it includes Paint It Black and Caravan.  Beautiful gatefold cover
photo of Gabor sitting on a flaming red Vespa (Jordanna!) with the classic
sixties chick in full mod gear (matching red checks) seated nearby on her
own scooter!

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Charles Manson (was Ultra-Lounge)
Date: 04 Aug 1996 19:28:05 -0400

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something in your info about Terry Melcher (aka:
Terry Day). You say he never recorded anything except demos. I have a whole
album of songs by Terry Melcher. he's on the cover and everything. He was
also half of the singing duo Bruce and Terry.
Gloria
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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: sitar explosion
Date: 04 Aug 1996 19:30:34 -0500

> Beautiful gatefold cover
> photo of Gabor sitting on a flaming red Vespa (Jordanna!) with the classic
> sixties chick in full mod gear (matching red checks) seated nearby on her
> own scooter!

Vroom vroom!  Sounds too cool.

Probably the best of my few, very few sitar records was actually
found for a buck.  I was told by a friend who's also into Indian
music that it was recently played on National Public Radio and
described as the first Western (American?) recording of Indian
classical music.  It's called Music of India on the Angel label and
features Ustad Ali Akbar Khan on sarod.  One side is a morning raga,
the other an evening raga.  It was sponsored by the Museum of Modern
Art and has brief explanatory intros by Yehudi Menuhin on each side.
I'm judging from the dates on the included articles that this was made
in 1955.  I know this is far from what's usually discussed here, but
I thought it might be of interest to this thread.


kevin king
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From: Stefan Wood <[e-mail]>
Subject: other interesting stuff
Date: 04 Aug 1996 20:27:26 +0100

I have to agree, the Twilight Zone album is amazing.  Note that the
title track is used in Ed Wood the movie, or it sounds pretty damn
close.  Another album that is just as good is Robert Drasnin's
Percussion Exotique, with the ususal eerie female wailing on several
tracks.  It is also on cool yellow vinyl.

An album that will be of interest to those who like lounge vocals is
James Brown's Getting Down To It.  His band is a three piece jazz
group, the Dee Felice Trio, and they crank out songs like Sunny,
That's Life, Strangers in the Night, Chicago, All the Way, It Had to Be
You, etc.   The standouts are, of course, Cold Sweat, There Was A
Time, and (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons.  These three songs
jam and are funky as anything as he has ever done.
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: sitar explosion
Date: 04 Aug 1996 21:08:35 -0400

For collectors of wild sitar rock there is a great Lord Sitar cover version
of the Who's "I Can See For Miles" coming up on Sound Gallery 2 released
(FINALLY!!_) and the end of this month.

Ashley
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: sitar explosion
Date: 04 Aug 1996 21:11:33 -0400

An earlier issue of SCRAM magazine (of which I am an occassional contributor)
had a fascinating piece on The Poppy Family.  Their best known member was
Terry Jacks who went onto international hitdom with "Seasons in the Sun" -
undoubtedly the most bathetic and lachrymose top 40 hit ever (not necessarily
a bad thing).
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: pop sitar a-go-go
Date: 04 Aug 1996 21:12:32 -0400

I'd also recommending going to the source (if you're anywhere near the
Ganges, or The Mission in SF) and picking up some Indian soundtrack music
(Bombay Bazaar on Valencia sells spices and Indian movie mags and
soundtracks).  The more recent stuff is on the disco side, but I've found
some interesting compilations of mid-60s stuff and its quite wacky.  Its all
on cassette but it is cheap ($1.99 to $3.99 a tape).  Found a very cool
Indian psychedelic fuzz steel guitar tape.
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Fwd: Big Spenders
Date: 04 Aug 1996 21:27:50 -0400


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Forwarded message:
Subj:    Re: Big Spenders

Ditto on San Francisco, here.  I just coughed up

$40 for BURKE'S LAW soundtrack (and I'd spend at least that much for the
HONEY WEST soundtrack - btw, if anybody is interested I have a source for
HONEY WEST on videotape if you like girl private eyes in b/w from the early
60s.  Reallllly a cool show).

and just discovered all the many delicious finds at Saturn Records at
Rockridge BART, where Leith Stevens MUSIC FOR COPS AND ROBBERS is going for
$70 (too rich for me).

While the bargain bins are exhausted here, I have made some relatively cheap
finds in more rock oriented record stores:

$7.50 for LONELYVILLE - THE NERVOUS BEAT (the rare stereo version - great
crime jazz)

$4 for IMPACT by Buddy Morrow

$4 for MUSIC FOR SPIES AND PRIVATE EYES by Ralph Marterie

and

$5 for TV ACTION JAZZ by Mundell Lowe
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Fwd: Big Spenders
Date: 04 Aug 1996 22:53:17 -0400

David, you ALWAYS get the great finds. I want a COMPLETE vinyl collection of
Martin Denny. Can you help?
Gloria (Yes, THAT Gloria)
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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Big Spenders
Date: 04 Aug 1996 22:54:21 -0500

> Instead of boasting of my (few and far between) cheap finds, I hearby
> suggest a response from you describing the MOST any of you has paid for a
> record that you just had to have.

At either extreme:

65 dollars for stereo In Like Flint at a record show
1 dollar for NM Astro Sounds at a Salvation Army

kevin
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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Big Spenders
Date: 04 Aug 1996 23:09:04 -0400

I find my sense of what might be a legitimate price for old vinyl is skewed
by the fact that,
in Canada, most of the records we find are Canadian pressings, which
are worth considerably less than U.S. pressings.  It's difficult to pay $40 for
something when you know you probably couldn't get anything near that if you
tried to sell it outside the country.

I hear stories these days of top-flight club djs in Montreal paying young
clubkids
to spend their days at thrift stores hunting down exotica records they can
work into
their mixes.  That's a little unnerving.

I don't know if there are any other Montreal-area people on this list (besides
Andrew), but I caught a very nice trio (The Stephen something trio  . . . sorry,
that's all I can remember) at Jello Bar, Montreal's premiere neo-cocktail
lounge,
last Monday.  The recorded music before and after was dreadful (Bob Marley,
for christ's sake!), but the trio played light bossa nova and samba, and it felt
like a nightclub scene from Blake Edwards' Gunn.

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

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Jackie Gleason Sitar LP
Date: 04 Aug 1996 21:21:35 +0000

For some reason his records
>are as common as rain around here,
plentiful, and dull).  I'd trade them
>in for that Now Sounds sitar/tabla one, though.  _That_ is right up my alley.


Jordana,

I can't find the attraction here.  Will you describe it to me please ;))

What about Gabor Szabo's Jazz Raga on Impulse or does anyone have Bill
Plummers sitar record on Impulse to tell me about.
I'm not familiar with it at all.

Just played "Caravan" from Jazz Raga this morning, I think it's the
strangest 1 yet

Jack


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Hmm... this might be kind of embarrassing, but I guess when I really want
something, I shell out for it.  This wasn't an exotica/lounge record
(BUT, a group very influenced by Martin Denny)... a couple years ago I
spent $100.00 on Throbbing Gristle's _2nd Annual Report_, first pressing
on Industrial Records.  VERY hard to find record (never seen one besides
mine), and they only pressed 785 copies.  Don't regret spending a dime of
that $100...

Now, the best record bargain I probably ever got may have come today...
An absolutely mint copy (here we go... more fuel for the fire) of Arthur
Lyman's _Taboo_ for only $2.00 at an antique store.  A few weeks ago I
fetched a very respectable copy of Martin Denny's _Quiet Village_ for 95
cents.  Pretty darn good deal.

On to other things...  Can anyone give me some impressions of
Jean-Jacques Perrey and in particular, his album _Moog Indigo_?  Saw one
for sale... looked interesting...

Also... can someone fill me in on this _Vampiros Lesbos_ album?  Is this
a soundtrack to a movie, re-release, new material?  What do you guys
think of it...?

Thanks to all for your information on Marion's in NYC...

Paul


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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Vinnie Bell
Date: 04 Aug 1996 21:37:52 +0000

>Vinne Bell/Pop Goes the Electric Sitar on ???

Decca

I've just recently gotten into him just a little lately.
He;s the guy y'know that invented the electric sitar as well as having
something or other to do with the DanElectro and Sears Silvertone Guitar
companies

There's a record on Verve which was a great jazz label called Whistle Stop
and then there is easy listening lp that were love themes from movies like
Airport and then he had a really good one called Good Morning Starshine
Some good fuzz psych goin' on.
I think I'll keep the next copy of that for me ;-)>

All of these were on Decca.  He also has a Best of on Musicor which was
also the label where the moog outfit Hot Butter recorded on.

Jack


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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine
Date: 04 Aug 1996 21:42:48 +0000

Richard Hayman's Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine

All time great no doubt.

Do you know that 2 years ago in San Francisco at a swap I couldn't sell
that record to save my life.

Things do change, don't they

Isn't there some wicked sitar on that record ??  _I Think_ There_ Is

Windmills of Your Mind kills

Was Walter Sear the moog man on that LP ?

Jack


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From: "Charles C. Fensch" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Mel Henke
Date: 04 Aug 1996 22:45:52 -0600

Ouch! $40 for Mel Henke's "La Dolce Henke"? A great album. I'd suppose
you'd kill me if I told you I paid 50 cents for a NM copy in El Paso, Texas
(where I live). Of course, no one (with the exception of Latin stuff) has
any good taste here. That's why I've found wacked-out albums likeRuth
Welcome's "Zither Magic", Colonel Sander's "Tijuana Picnic",
"Percussive Moods" by Johnny Keaton's Kombo and "Blowin' In The
Wind" by Arthur Lyman Combo for a buck each. God, I've found hundreds
of albums like this here. I guess I'm in thrift shop heaven.

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From: "Charles C. Fensch" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Porky Cohen & Squirrel Nut Zippers
Date: 04 Aug 1996 22:49:41 -0600

Anyone who loves swingin' big band blues should definitely check out
Porky Cohen's new disk, "Rhythm And Bones." Cohen was a trombonist
with the Charley Barnet, Artie Shaw and Tommy Dorsey bands. This
album is recorded with Roomful of Blues and is really swingin'!

Also have to give a huge thumbs up for firehouse/ragtime/swing combo
Squirrel Nut Zippers... their second album, "Hot" is one of the best (new)
things I've heard all year. The CD also has a great CD-ROM on it!


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From: Bruce Rhodewalt <[e-mail]>
Subject: The Exotic Sounds of Arthur Lyman
Date: 05 Aug 1996 00:34:35 -0700

Exotica fans,

I'm so glad we had this Lyman controversy AND upcoming reissues
from Ryko just in time for me to finish the first public draft of
my AL tribute and present it to you for your comments:

http://www.tikipub.com/lyman

Thanks.
--
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From: expo tky047 <[e-mail]>
Subject: guava shell
Date: 05 Aug 1996 18:55:55 +0900

It was announced the release of Guava Shell - stereo cocktail selection, including Marco Rizo, Sanches Acosta, etc....
distributed by P-Vine, selected by DJ SON. Ultimate Lovely Lounge Selection.

P-Vine Records
Tomigaya 2-41-10, Shibuya-ku,Tokyo Japan.

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From: [e-mail] (Peter Principle)
Subject: Re: sitar explosion
Date: 05 Aug 1996 08:40:18 -0400

Speaking of Raga Jazz there are some other Gabor Szabo titles in this
interesting area for instance Gabor Szabo and the California Dreamers
'Wind Sky and Diamonds' on Impulse A-9151, with killer versions of White
Rabbit and Lucy In..., A Day in the Life etc. often with Emil Richards on
percussion and Bill Plummer on sitar and/or bass.  These and some other
musicians including Tom Scott (yes he from the short lived Chevy Chase Show
Orchestra! that musta been an awful gig... I hope it payed well <g>), Milt
Holland, Don Ellis and Paul Horn made up a regretably unrecorded group
called the Hindi Jazz Ensemble.  They were all students of Ravi Shankar in
1965.  Many interesting records contain these musicians in various
permutations including The Surfmen  'Exotic Island' on Somerset P-10500
which also included Alvino Ray, and many TV and movie soundtracks.  But
back to sitars and EZ-jazz, there is a Tom Scott and the California
Dreamers 'Honeysuckle Breeze' with songs like Blues for Hari, Mellow Yellow
etc. also on Impulse A-9163.  Mike Melvoine (sessions for Brian Wilson)
also plays on these Impulse releases.  Some of this music is a bit more
jazz than lounge but plenty of sitar.  Not to mention Bill Plummer and the
Cosmic Brotherhood also on Impulse A-9164.  There are interesting related
recordings by others like Don Ellis (Star Children on Columbia) or Steve
Marcus 'Tomorrow Never Knows' on Vortex 2001 which also had covers of Eight
Miles High and Rain... this one is from the Herbie Mann bunch on the East
coast (he has made many interesting EZ-jazz LPs himself often with a North
African theme like 'African Suite' on UA L4042 and 'Impressions of the
Middle East' on Atlantic 1475 This area of light jazz exotica mixed with
covers of psychedelic standards amuses me.  There are many cool takes on
Donovan songs like Three King Fishers or Ferris Wheel scattered throughout
Gabor Szabo records.

There is also an entire series of Bob Shad productions on Mainstream with
big band versions of Journey to the Center of the Mind, Dandelion, White
Room, Ruby Tuesday, Whole Lotta Love, Alice's Resataurant etc.etc.  These
are scattered over a few LPs, each with a different orchestra leader but
similar gatefold covers which can easily be identified by the graphic on
the heel and the fact that they are a "Red Lion Production".

I know I've drifted off topic so...  A real classic in the sitar genre
which is not at all jazz and does fit with the exoticness of this list is
'The Lotus Palace'  Alan Lorber Orchestra (he who invented the Bosstown
sound) on Verve V6-8711 and it is full of Colin Walcott on sitar and they
do covers of Flute Thing, Lucy In the Sky, Hang on to a Dream, Up Up and
Away etc.  this is a classic in a similar vein to say Lord Sitar or George
Martin does London...

Any one know of any others in either of these 2 areas?  I'm leaving for a
month in a couple of days so please respond quickly... otherwise happy
hunting till I get back.

cheers
peter


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Accordion For Sale...
Date: 05 Aug 1996 08:28:52 +0000

I know this may be a strange post, but I think the group will be open
to it. I've inherited two vintage late 1940s-early 1950s accordions.
They were used by my great aunt, who was a polka player in Cleveland,
Ohio. I am looking to sell one of them, and keep one of them. Does
anyone have any idea of what these instruments are worth? Would anyone
be interested in buying one? Who knows, maybe we could see your name
on this list soon!

By the way, the accordions are in mint NM condition, with hard cases.

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From: [e-mail] (Daniel Taub)
Subject: This is Gleason, This is Martin.
Date: 05 Aug 1996 07:26:58 -0700

        Since no one answered either of these questions when I posted them
a couple days back, and I know people on this list are neither rude nor
ill-informed, I am assuming no one got the message. Therefore, here it goes
again:

        1. I notice that in addition to Scamp's "And Awaaaay We Go"
compilation of Gleason music/skits, there's also a Razor and Tie
compilation out now too. Has anyone heard either/both of these? Opinions?
Is one better than the other? Are both good? Are both bad? What's the
hubbub, bub?

        2. There are now three (three!) Dean Martin "best of's" out on
Capitol. There's the Capitol Collector's Series collection from a few years
ago, there's one called "That's Amore" and now there's the two-cd "Capitol
Years" one. There's seems to be some crossover of songs within the three,
but none is all-inclusive. So which is the best? Which is most
representative? If one were to get only one, which should s/he pick?

        Thanks for answering these questions. By the way, I picked up the
"Zounds! What Sounds! / Music From a Surplus Store" CD the other day!
They're both great, though I (like most people, I assume) am partial to
"Zounds!" And they both sound fairly good for (presumably) being copied off
vinyl. Anyone know if there's any plans to release either of these
legitimately?

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From: Clark Draper <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sir Julian
Date: 05 Aug 1996 11:24:48 -0400

I recently purchased a couple of compilations that had tracks by Sir Julian
on them. I thought the tracks were swinging and quite good, does anyone know
anything about Sir Julian? Thanks in advance.

Clark

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Win Lyman CDs
Date: 05 Aug 1996 09:38:59 -0400

Forwarded to me by Jack Taylor:

At 09:09 AM 8/1/96 -0700, you wrote:
>Please note that the DCC compilation with the TABOO cover
>was not the original track listing.  It covered a wide spectrum of
>his songs, but was not the definitive Lyman compilation by any means
>as well as NOT TABOO, the album that launched more than a million
>backyard luaus.  This is only available on hifi/Rykodisc.

Hi. There's quite a CD feeding frenzy on Lyman, isn't there? Yet among
record collectors he's no big deal.

What irks me is that the DCC cover (if that's the one) is lifted from the
"Tabu" LP (Westminster), an Afro-Cuban piece by Ralph Font which hasn't a
damn thing to with Lyman except the title. This seriously unimaginative
trend, beginning with Baxter's "Space Escapade," is out of control.

I've got all the original LPs in stereo as well as those of just about
everyone else. Contact if you need research (on any artist or idiom) for
artwork, bios, and discographies. Someday, given storage capacity, I'd like
to see the nearly 40 or so original Lyman LPs and singles (only about 20
hours!) concatenated for continous play with all the original notes and art
reproduced digitally.

I sell/trade Lyman, Baxter, Denny, Prado, Sumac, Kitt, Miranda, etc. LPs ,
EPs, and singles. Will have a tiki site of my own soon, TBA.

New to the Net, love to discover what other strange pop fans are up to. Will
peek at your site soon.
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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: Re: Porky Cohen & Squirrel Nut Zippers
Date: 05 Aug 1996 08:47:02 -0800


>Also have to give a huge thumbs up for firehouse/ragtime/swing combo
>Squirrel Nut Zippers... their second album, "Hot" is one of the best (new)
>things I've heard all year. The CD also has a great CD-ROM on it!

I have to agree. The album's great.  The CD-ROM is fun, surprising and
deliciously evil.

Marie
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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Re:  Replies and questions and stuff
Date: 05 Aug 1996 09:23:16 PDT

JJ Perrey's Moog Indigo should not be passed up.  Perrey is, as has been
mentioned here numerous times, the prime example of Moog and Musique Concrete
to ever have recorded.  i guess that's such a small niche that he alone would
have to fill it.  In any case, no collector of Moog material should be without
his stuff.

Clark (Scheffy)  I realize there is another Clark on this list now...
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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Serious or not ?
Date: 05 Aug 1996 11:33:11 -0600 (MDT)

> According to the liner notes, Shatner considered the album something of
> a minor miracle:  "...the thrill I got from hearing this album all the
> way through was deeper and more satisfying than anything I had ever
> experienced."

Surely by now he's wised up.  If he thought they asked him to sing the
nominated songs on the MTV Video Music Awards a few years back because
they admired his enormous vocal talents, he must have a brain tumor!

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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: This is Gleason, This is Martin.
Date: 05 Aug 1996 11:42:19 -0600 (MDT)

> There are now three (three!) Dean Martin "best of's" out on Capitol.
> There's the Capitol Collector's Series collection from a few years ago,
> there's one called "That's Amore" and now there's the two-cd "Capitol
> Years" one. [...] So which is the best?

Personally I'm holding out for Capitol's "Everything Martin Recorded For
The Label" box -- but if it's cancelled or something, I'm going to pick up
the 2CD "Capitol Years" set.  I believe it covers most of the ground covered
by the other two.

In Re: Gleason -- Velvet Brass is still my favorite Gleason album to date,
though it's not really representative.

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From: [e-mail] (Caressa Bennet -- Atty-Caressa Bennett - Washington )
Subject: Poppy Family
Date: 05 Aug 1996 14:05:53 EDT



 To:    exotica,         Inet


Besides the new 101 Strings and Les Baxter CDs from Scamp, WKPS
got in something called The Poppy Family this week.  It's on
March, a label that usually releases indie-pop.  (This is kind of
like TeenBeat releasing a CD compilation of another obscure
60s/70s group called The Feminine Complex.) It's not loungey,
reallly, and it's even a bit of a stretch to call it easy
listening, but it's pretty good and there is _excellent_ use of
sitar and Indian percussion.

---------------

Interesting note: The Poppy Family features Terry Jacks, famous
(or infamous) for his early 70's AM radio hit, Seasons in the Sun.

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Get them both NOW ;-)>
Date: 05 Aug 1996 11:21:13 +0000

>Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 00:32:07 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Paul Lewis <[e-mail]>

On to other things...  Can anyone give me some impressions of
>Jean-Jacques Perrey and in particular, his album _Moog Indigo_?  Saw one
>for sale... looked interesting...
>
>Also... can someone fill me in on this _Vampiros Lesbos_ album?  Is this
>a soundtrack to a movie, re-release, new material?  What do you guys
>think of it...?

Like the subject says;  you won't be disappointed
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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Gleason
Date: 05 Aug 1996 11:29:03 PDT

I would have to agree with Lazlo on Gleason.  Velvet Brass is as it says,
Veeelllvettte.  So smooth.  His now sound (with sitar) record is intersting.
Also of interest are the one (title slipped my mind, now) with the Salvador
Dali cover (actually did it for Gleason as original cover work!) which is
cool, if only for the cover.  And, though I haven't heard it, "OOooo!" is
supposed to be a winner with female vocalise in the form of, you guessed it,
"OOoooo."  Not Esquivel or Bob Thompson by a long shot, mind you.  Gleason
certainly has some interesting moments.  Someone here earlier described him
as "subtle."  That seems almost euphemistic to me... I would sooner say
calm, almost catatonic.  But, if you need that moment of sonic tranquility
with nothing to suprise or startle you, Gleason's the GRATEST err, Greatest!
Clark Scheffy

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: random ?s
Date: 05 Aug 1996 14:18:02 -0400

                                          2:13 PM             8/5/96

Where can I find a complete Heino discography?  Is that a sick question?
I have been told that passing up Baxter's BORA BORA was foolish, and seeing
it recently for $39 makes me wonder.  Still, I can't help but imagine that it
sounds like a soft-porn soundtrack!
So, a possible new thread...what was the record or records you let "get away"
that you now regret?
BTW-the most I have paid for any lounge/exotica record I believe is $20, and
with them being Les Baxter records, it was well worth it!
Lounge Laura
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Money for nothin', chicks for free
Date: 05 Aug 1996 11:30:54 +0000

Let's see;

The soundtrack score to The Bad Seed - $90
Original soundtrack score to Touch of Evil titled The Wild Side of Henry
Mancini on Challenge - $85 which does include 1 Bongo and Conga solo that
is not available anywhere else!!
Didn't know that until I played it ;))
I love surprises like that
Shorty Rogers and his Giants 1st 2 10" records, $90 each

A couple of 4 years ago before all hell broke loose Sean at Medium Rare GAVE ME
In Sound From Way Out, Alfred Hitchcock's Music To Be Murdered By plus a
bunch of other cool stuff.

Traded a copy of Frank Rosolino's Turn Me Loose for my 2nd copy of In Sound
From...cost me 4 bucks

I do have that Leith Stevens Music for Cops and Robbers in both Mono and
Stereo         PLUS a reissue copy ;))

Diggin' in basements man, getting up at 5AM on a Sat. morning to go garage
sale-ing ts how to REALLY SCORE.

Found all the copioes I ever had of J,J, Perrey's Moog Indigo for no more
than $2 as well as all the copies I've had of Amazing New Electronic Pop
Sounds of JJ Perrey

Did YOU know that there are 2 different covers for that LP ?  Betcha didn't.
I've got them both, have to!!;)

Soooooooo much, so little time

Jack



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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Re:  random ?s
Date: 05 Aug 1996 12:56:26 PDT

What's wrong with soft-porn soundtracks?
Just posing the qeustion...

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Star Trek (and others)
Date: 05 Aug 1996 16:00:54 -0400

     From: "kevin s. lee" <[e-mail]>
      (Edited to fit your computer screen):

     > x-files?? yuck.   in fact, i can't think of any good recent
     sci-fi soundtracks whatsoever.  then again, i can't think of any good
     recent sci-fi movies.  <

     I disagree! I think the "doodley-doodley-doodley-doodley" and
     whistling/synthy stuff is haunting.  It really stays with me. But
     things really changed since "2001". When classical music came to
     sci-fi, it seems most of the experimentation in the music left. Johnny
     Williams writes pretty good thematic movie music, but it's not really
     science fiction-y is it?

     Have to agree about the recent sci-fi movies though. Where's the
     story?

     Sorry if I'm behind the times with this post, but I was somehow
     dropped from the list.

     Craig
     Groveland, MA
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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: random ?s
Date: 05 Aug 1996 16:40:38 -0400

Lounge Laura wrote:
>I have been told that passing up Baxter's BORA BORA was foolish, and seeing
>it recently for $39 makes me wonder.  Still, I can't help but imagine that =
it
>sounds like a soft-porn soundtrack!

Well, yeah, it does, but, as "Vampyros" and "Sch=FClmadden" prove, what's
wrong with that?

new & recommended, in a similar vein : Easy Tempo Vol. 1, A Cinematic Easy
Listening Experience (Right Tempo, RTCL 813; Italy), music from Italian
crime and erotica films 1967 -1975. Nice. (Thanks, Ashley!)

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From: "kevin s. lee" <[e-mail]>
Subject: weekend finds
Date: 05 Aug 1996 14:14:40 EST

kids,
went record hunting (no thrifting unfortunately) 'round the detroit
area and found a few gems plus some stuff that just looked
potentially cool....

Soundtrack to Chariots of the Gods?  by Peter Thomas Sound Orch.
--way cool... thanks to the person who hyped up the PTSO on here
otherwise i may have passed this one up.  mostly lush orchestral
stuff, some sound gallery-esque funkiness, and some strange bursts of
electronic weirdness.

Soundtrack to Blue Velvet  by A. Badalementi
--never actually thought to look for it.  don't know why cos it's great!

From Rio with Love (i think)  by Walter Wanderly
--really great latin organ.  this is later on, like late 60's/early 70's.
can't wait to hear the rhino cd.

Mr. Lucky  Soundtrack  by Mancini
Mr. Buddwing (?) Soundtrack by Kenyon Hopkins
Music from the Man from U.N.C.L.E.  by H.Montenegro and Orch.

Discotheque! (vol.1?)  by Enoch Light
--thanks to Michael Toth for the tip here on exotica!  this is indeed
swinging and most hip!  it would have been easy for me to have passed
this one up as i feel like i've got more than enough e.light in my
collection.  highly recommended.

Out of this World  by Sam "the Man" Taylor
--what's the deal with Sam the Man?  is he worth investigating?  i
picked this more for the cover... disembodied blonde head floating in
a dreamy blue sky.

also got a Richard Hayman and his Harmonica lp on a hunch.
can anyone recommend some Hayman's stuff?  i got him confused with
dick hyman for a while.

found an lp titled "Zing Zing! went the Harp" or something like that.
i forget the artist.  i've been interested in finding really wild harp
music but have no clue.  suggestions?  this one was ok.

also finally broke down and bought the reasonably priced double-cd
les baxter ultra-lounge comp.  $22 well spent on that.

oh, one last thing... i found a 2-fer cd with soundtracks  to The 10th Victim
and Marquis De Sade (something).  the latter is a mario bava flick
that looks along the lines of vampyros lesbos.  is this a "boot" cd?
for $19 it seemed like an ok deal.

that's all for now,
kevin leeeeee

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From: [e-mail] (David Schafer)
Subject: Re: Money for nothin', chicks for free
Date: 05 Aug 1996 16:58:38 -0400 (EDT)


>The soundtrack score to The Bad Seed - $90
>Original soundtrack score to Touch of Evil titled The Wild Side of Henry
>Mancini on Challenge - $85
>Shorty Rogers and his Giants 1st 2 10" records, $90 each

>Found all the copioes I ever had of J,J, Perrey's Moog Indigo for no more
>than $2 as well as all the copies I've had of Amazing New Electronic Pop
>Sounds of JJ Perrey
>
>Did YOU know that there are 2 different covers for that LP ?  Betcha didn't.
>I've got them both, have to!!;)

        Dick Hyman/Mary Mayo / Moon Gas - $75 stereo
        Richard Hayman / The Electric People - $100
        The Wozard of Iz / Mort Garson - $50
        and soooo many more it's not funny anymore.

        Moog Indigo - $16 recently!!! in decent shape too!

>Did YOU know that there are 2 different covers for that LP ?  Betcha didn't.
>I've got them both, have to!!;)

        got'em both jack ;->

        David




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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: weekend finds
Date: 05 Aug 1996 17:07:13 -0400

Sam 'the Man' Taylor LPs are a staple of thrift stores
around here, but he does a mean version of Harlem Nocturne
that's worth getting the 'Blue Mist' LP for, and the covers
are usually gems.

Will
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

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: A CLARIFICATION
Date: 05 Aug 1996 17:25:32 -0400

*nothing* is wrong with soft-porn!  NOTHING!
lounge laura


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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: weekend finds
Date: 05 Aug 1996 17:33:59 -0500

> also got a Richard Hayman and his Harmonica lp on a hunch.
> can anyone recommend some Hayman's stuff?  i got him confused with
> dick hyman for a while.

Electric Latin Love Machine and Voodoo(!!!!) which I think is easier
to find.  Voodoo is goofy exotica with a guy yelling an unconvincing
chant on one track, very fun overall.

> found an lp titled "Zing Zing! went the Harp" or something like that.
> i forget the artist.  i've been interested in finding really wild harp
> music but have no clue.  suggestions?  this one was ok.

This reminds me of a question of my own.  Are those Harpo records
(Harpo! and Harpo At Work) any good?  Is the playing any different
from that in Marx Bros. movies (which was pretty wild and playful)?



kevin king
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From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Re: Win Lyman CDs
Date: 05 Aug 1996 23:49:33 +0200 (MET DST)

Aloha,
You wrote:
>I sell/trade Lyman, Baxter, Denny, Prado, Sumac, Kitt, Miranda, etc. LPs ,
>EPs, and singles. Will have a tiki site of my own soon, TBA.

Me too. Please mail me a list :-)! My e-mail adress is:
[e-mail]
or if you only can mail by snail mail:-( :
Subliminal Sounds
Stefan K=E9ry
Atlasgatan 10
S-113 20  STOCKHOLM
SWEDEN
tel/fax: +46 - 8 308 666=20

All the best
Stefan


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From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hello
Date: 05 Aug 1996 22:35:58 UT

This is my first day on this list and I must say I am enthused to say the
least at the messages I have received so far pardon the run-on sentence but I
am a little excited.

My name is Marcel and I live in Lambertville, NJ, just north of Trenton.  My
interest in "exotica" began with a love of big band music and old-time swing
which led (somewhat inexplicably, I admit) to an interest in the Jobim/Getz
school of lounge.  Along the way I discovered Esquivel.  When I heard
Combustible Edison, I realized there may still be hope for the world.

I am in a band called House of Swank.  We favor the bossanova and I will keep
you informed of our (somewhat limited) dates.  I do not consider myself a
record "collector" because I do not place a value on the physical package.  I
am interested only in the aural pleasure recordings provide.  I was (briefly)
a DJ on college radio and public radio and I once managed a small record
store.  I used to be in a band called Combo Holiday.

I enjoyed Rhino's 3 CD "Cocktail Mix" collection, although I felt they leaned
a little too far toward novelty selections.  I'm just getting into Martin
Denny and looking forward to Arthur Lyman and Les Baxter.  Angelo
Badalamenti's "Twin Peaks" scores are great (well pretty good anyway).
Anybody else dig Devo's EZ Listening stuff?  Sorry if I'm not up to speed,
bear with me.

Nice to be here.

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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Dinin' with Dick
Date: 06 Aug 1996 00:59:16 +0000

Well, well, well -

I don't want to sound too smug but I've just been out to eat and chat
with DICK HYMAN!  No, I'm not tripping out - he's here in Edinburgh
(Scotland) at the moment as part of the Jazz Festival and is shortly
disappearing off to Oslo...

Amongst many other things he gave me his typed answers (10 pages!) to my
mega-"questionnaire" and as soon as I have this typed up it will appear on
the Enoch Light WWW site.

Tomorrow I'm taking him to a nearby internet cafe and will show him some of
the wild and wacky world of Exotica/SABPM on the web...

Ho ho - I have a smile which won't be rubbed off!

More later,


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

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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: Sir Julian
Date: 05 Aug 1996 18:39:58 -0600 (MDT)

Clark,

There is bound to be someone on this list that knows a lot more about Sir J
than me, but I can tell you that I have two LPs by him: "The Thirteen
Fingers of Sir Julian" and "Organs in Orbit". I prefer "13 fingers..", but
"Organs" has one of thee coolest covers on the planet. "Caravan" has got to
be one of the swingest trax I have ever heard. His organ playing is
something special. He's a real groover.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Sir Julian
Date: 05 Aug 1996 22:35:02 -0400

Speaking of Sir Julian's "Caravan" it's featured on THE EXOTIC TRILOGY CD
which I just picked up.  Talk about conceptual art: "Quiet Village" "Taboo"
and "Caravan" done repeatedly (and in that order) by a wide variety of
musicians.  This is a Dutch (and I suspect not entirely kosher) release.
 Other featured artists: The Aliis, Buddy Merrill, The Exotic Guitars, Dick
Hyman, The Surfman, Irv Cottler, The Ensemble of Seven, The South Sea
Serenaders (whose version of "Taboo" reigns over all others in absolute
lushness)

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From: james b gerwitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: More Jackie Gleason
Date: 05 Aug 1996 19:48:04 -0700

    I play my 18 Jackie Gleason albums and cd's more than Denny, Esquivel, =
and Baxter combined simply because it is great music to fall asleep to. =
Since these records are still ubiquitous and usually cheap, they are =
definitely worth investigating for new collectors.  The early albums are =
the best, some even have 16 songs, so the bachelors of the 50's wouldn't =
have to get up to change a record and risk getting picked off third =
base.=20
    Gleason's trademark sound was the string orchestra, often two string =
orchestras on separate stereo channels, with a lone trumpet or sax =
soloing in the center.  I believe Bobby Hackett played cornet on the =
early records (Music for Lovers Only; Music, Martinis, and Memories - =
What a title!!!!)and made a few mood music records of his own. The =
distant horn wafting over a blanket of strings playing a classic =
standard love song is sooooo mellow and relaxing.
Try it sometime. Grab Bobby Hackett too if you see him in the dollar =
bins.
    JG (or more likely his arrangers) varied the approach from album to =
album, putting different instruments playing the melodies over the =
strings.  Night Winds has a flute section, the Dali-cover Lonesome Echo =
has an oboe d'amour over mandolins and cellos, Aphrodesia has solo =
organ, and of course the sitar album. The Pair label CD's (Shangri-La =
and Lush Life) are fine, even tho they pull from various lps, mainly =
because they are available, and the 2 Capitol cd's are great.
    And the album titles!!!!   Opiate d'Amour,  Music to Change Her Mind, =
Ooooh,  Love Embers and Flame, The Gentle Touch, Lazy Lively Love, and =
That Moment (which refers to the moment you fell in love with someone). =
He may have been partially responsible for the later years of the baby =
boom. JG was heavy into parapsychology, the occult, and UFO's, and he =
took acid in the movie Skidoo !  =20
    OK, that's enough for now, but I'll be glad to hear from other JG fans.
And who else had an album cover by Salvador Dali ?????

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From: "Steve Sando" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: The Exotic Sounds of Arthur Lyman
Date: 05 Aug 1996 20:12:39 +0000

> I'm so glad we had this Lyman controversy AND upcoming reissues from
> Ryko just in time for me to finish the first public draft of my AL
> tribute and present it to you for your comments:
>
> http://www.tikipub.com/lyman

Congrats on a great site! Aside from Lyman (who I like fine), it's
really well done. The graphics download quickly (despite their size)
and the linear movement is refreshing after so much
cross-referencing. It's a Bookmark!




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] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Sam "The Man" Taylor
Date: 05 Aug 1996 20:54:00 +0000

what's the deal with Sam the Man?  is he worth investigating?

Sam Taylor was one rippin' killer tenor sax studio player who did make a
couple of "real easy" blues/pop/standards tear jerkin' sax records, forgot
the label though...might be Coral ?  Can't remember..Decca?  It might be
Coral though ;-)>
If you like that sort of thing they are worth picking up

He played with and was in the league of King Curtis and beyond actually, He
played on rekkids from before Curtis if I'm not mistaken

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Mancini's Experiment in Terror
Date: 05 Aug 1996 20:56:19 +0000

This is some wicked rippin' scary spooky shit and oh so beautiful too ;-)>

I'm listening to a fine mono copy.  What's this Stereo stuff ??
This is jazz and jazz is a mono sound ;-)>

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Tenth Victim 2 fer
Date: 05 Aug 1996 20:59:07 +0000

i found a 2-fer cd with soundtracks  to The 10th Victim
>and Marquis De Sade (something).
is this a "boot" cd? for $19 it seemed like an ok deal.

Yes that is a bootleg

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Harpists
Date: 05 Aug 1996 21:07:24 +0000

 found an lp titled "Zing Zing! went the Harp" or something like that.
i've been interested in finding really wild harp
>> music but have no clue.  suggestions?
>> i forget the artist.

It might have been Robert Maxwell as he is the most known.  I think that IS
it, god mancini is sooooooooo cool.
What a great record!!!  Experiment is schwwwwwwingin' now ;-)>

Gene Bianoco made a couple of really good jazz/pop records on RCA Camden w/
Mundell Lowe on electric guitar ;-)>  YYYEEEAAHHH!!!

Worth Finding.  Y'know this is great.  2 years ago I was laughed at for
bringing up this subject, only by 1 guy though who shall remain nameless.
But no one else said BOO!!

Harpo Marx is fantastic and Betty Glaaman on Bethlehem and Emarcy and some
Robert Maxwell on Decca I think though of course The FGortune Tellers-Song
of The Nairobi Trio IS MAXWELL and that's on KAPP.

That's all for now

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Sir Julian
Date: 05 Aug 1996 21:14:43 +0000

>Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 18:39:58 -0600 (MDT)
>Subject: Re: Sir Julian

>There is bound to be someone on this list that knows a lot more about Sir J
>than me, but I can tell you that I have two LPs by him: "The Thirteen
>Fingers of Sir Julian" and "Organs in Orbit". I prefer "13 fingers..", but
>"Organs" has one of thee coolest covers on the planet. "Caravan" has got to
>be one of the swingest trax I have ever heard. His organ playing is
>something special. He's a real groover.

He also has a record called Nights at The Round Table or something like
that and let me tell you since you obviously didn't get a picture on the
back of that Organs in Orbit record this guy has a face only a mother could
love.

Being a Jew I can say this "OOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY VEEEEEYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!
What a Jewish face this is!@!!@#@#$$%^!, BIG black square glasses and a
nose, dark brown wavy hair, believe it, yeah a big smile too in black and
white.
It's a good one.
Sir Julian rocks!!!  I totally agree.

Then there's Lenny Dee ;-)>

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: A CLARIFICATION
Date: 06 Aug 1996 00:25:03 -0400

At 05:25 PM 8/5/96 -0400, you wrote:
>*nothing* is wrong with soft-porn!  NOTHING!

I missed who needed glarification, but since I've already bugged you (I say
Baxter's porn is his "April in Paris" material":

Would gladly rent soft porn just for the sound (best part, good work music!)
if I didn't have to audit godzillion mushy records just to be able to crawl
into bed, out to the Dart and more records, and occasionally to places of food.

Hell, there's nothing wrong with any indulgence unless it eats up all your
time or severely affects others. Watch porn? I'd rather BEEE porn.
(Truthfully and needlessly, I'm vanilla unless you count imagination.
Eheh-heh. Heh.)

Yer awright, 'hon, as we say here in John Waters (a drinkin' buddy) land.
Wave to the Russ Meyer Museum for me.


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Baxter's first LP
Date: 06 Aug 1996 01:25:20 -0400

And now for soundcheck #2. Is "Perfume Set to Music," RCA 10", Les Baxter's
first LP and the first pop theremin LP? What Baxter or theremin 78s predate
it? Did his "Bop Girl" soundtrack ever see release? Anyone planning to
compile all these tidbits into a "Big Book of Baxter?" Dedicated a tiki/LP
art-festival shop-window exhibit to his memory ("who departed for the Quiet
Village"), bless his big ole TXan heart.

A date with Dick Hyman, Organ Master? Ask him to opine on Klaus Wunderlich,
Heino of the Keyboards (in '70s). Concerto Electro $5. Sorry for the scent
of spam earlier; "Oops, forgot to tell the cook it was the _veggie_ chili
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Date: 06 Aug 1996 02:00:07 -0400

>Re: other featured artists: The Surfman (sic) and South Sea Serenaders

Same guys, a session-man supergroup including Jack "Mr. Bongo" Constanzo,
Alvino Rey, and Irv Cottler. The Surfmen's "Exotic Island" was reissued sans
credits as SSS's "Tradewinds Romance from Hawaii to Tahiti." And there's
another "Tradewinds Romance": same jacket except different songs. Surfmen's
"Hawaii" has exotica. All are great, Exotic Island featuring the most
over-the-top, often absurd Denny knockoffs/tributes (UNconvincing bird
calls). Sidemen having a ball.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: greetings
Date: 06 Aug 1996 01:35:48 -0500


Greetings!
A newcomer to the list, I am, and oohhh...what a delightful list it is!
I have been feverishly taking notes for the last few days of items to keep=
 my eyes peeled for in future rummagings, and have been enjoying most of the=
 exchanges.  I look forward to learning more about y'all!
I use the name "Babs" on a weekly radio program that I produce with a guy=
 known only as "Dangerman".  We broadcast on Friday nights from 10:30 -=
 Midnight on KFAI (90.3 & 106.7 fm) in Minneapolis.  The name of the show is=
 "The Friday Night Poker Party"....but, we rarely discuss the art of poker. =
 Not when there's so much grrr-oooovy music to play!  Perhaps you have=
 already surmised that the program is comprised of a similar ilk to this=
 list.(I don't talk like this on the air, I swear!)  We particularily enjoy=
 creating theme shows-some fairly easy to pull off("Friday Night Poker Party=
 Goes Latin!"), some rather challenging("The International Underwear Day=
 Show!").  We are not purists...I buy/collect/play-at-home/on-air a myriad=
 of genre.  My current faves include: the very hot Vampyros Lesbos cd (which=
 does contain a smattering of tasty sitar, by the way), the Easy Project=
 cd's , Marden Hill "Sixty Minute Man" on mo'music, Product Music Vol 1 - an=
 amazing compilation of "industrial show tunes in praise of the products we=
 trust" incls: The Frito Twist, My Bathroom is a Private Kind of Place, and=
 the Mary Kay gals singin' about makeup to the tune of Gentle on My Mind! =
 Recent vinyl finds have Mel Torme singin' "Midnight Swinger" (keep that=
 bucket near by!), The T-Bones "Sippin' 'N Chippin'", Richard Hayman "The=
 Electric People" (such a delightfully odd cover), and The Mods saluting=
 Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass by putting lyrics to all those=
 instrumentals.  I also collect specimens of Lyman, Denny, Baxter, 3 Suns,=
 Esquivel, Mancini, et al.
I need it all...cannot stop myself...it's the disease I love!=20
I shall stop now.  Hope you will forgive my lengthiness...
Chow (Mein)
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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Baxter's first LP
Date: 06 Aug 1996 02:37:39 -0400

>And now for soundcheck #2. Is "Perfume Set to Music," RCA 10", Les Baxter's
>first LP and the first pop theremin LP? What Baxter or theremin 78s predate
>it?

"Music Out of the Moon" (1946) and "Music For Peace of Mind"(1949), both on
Capitol, came first. They are actually credited to Harry Revel. "Le Sacre
du Savage", Baxter's first credited set, followed in '49. These were all
originally issued as 78 box sets. "Perfume Set to Music" was released on
RCA in '53 (on 10" LP), the same year Les released "The Passions" on
Capitol. I don't know why the label switch happened for 1 record. BTW,
there is a 78 of "Jet" (from "Perfume.."), that has a B-side called
"Struttin' With Clayton", that is not on "Perfume......".( yes, it's a
theremin cut with Hoffman; yes, it's great) There is also a Sam Hoffman 78
on Capitol without Les Baxter : "Moonlight Sonata" b/w "The Swan". Don't
know the date on it yet; Brad Benedict is looking into it. The latter is
especially groovy, featuring a Theremin and Novachord duet.  In the word(s)
of Prince Buster : Nice!

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Star Trek (and others)
Date: 06 Aug 1996 09:21 CST

     From: "kevin s. lee" <[e-mail]>
      (Edited to fit your computer screen):

     > x-files?? yuck.   in fact, i can't think of any good recent
     > sci-fi soundtracks whatsoever.  then again, i can't think of any good
     > recent sci-fi movies.

     I concur with your "yuck" in regard to the "music inspired by the
     X-Files" CD, but the actual atmosphere music in the show (by Mark Snow)
     is _excellent_.  I'd be proud to own a CD of that stuff.

     Kathy


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From: "Kenneth H Ellzey" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Baxter's first LP
Date: 06 Aug 1996 10:47:01 -0400

On Aug 6,  2:37am, Brother Cleve wrote:
> Subject: Re: Baxter's first LP
> >And now for soundcheck #2. Is "Perfume Set to Music," RCA 10", Les Baxter's
> >first LP and the first pop theremin LP? What Baxter or theremin 78s predate
> >it?
>
> "Music Out of the Moon" (1946) and "Music For Peace of Mind"(1949), both on
> Capitol, came first. They are actually credited to Harry Revel.

Billy May is the orchestra leader on "Music For Peace of Mind".  Les Baxter is
on "Music Out of the Moon" and "Perfume Set to Music".  Thanks for the info on
other 78s with the theremin- something to look for.

-K. Ellzey

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: random ?s
Date: 06 Aug 1996 11:37:04 -0400

At 04:40 PM 8/5/96 -0400, you wrote:
>new & recommended, in a similar vein : Easy Tempo Vol. 1, A Cinematic Easy
>Listening Experience (Right Tempo, RTCL 813; Italy), music from Italian
>crime and erotica films 1967 -1975. Nice. (Thanks, Ashley!)
>
>br cleve


Where can I get this CD?

Thanks,
Bryan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Sir Julian
Date: 06 Aug 1996 11:41:38 -0400

At 10:35 PM 8/5/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Speaking of Sir Julian's "Caravan" it's featured on THE EXOTIC TRILOGY CD
>which I just picked up.

Isn't this track also available on the RCA History of Space Age Pop that
came out a couple of years ago?

Bryan


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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: question
Date: 06 Aug 1996 08:42:46 -0800

Last night I was doing my radio show and all of a sudden I was tested.  Yes
the audience knows more.  Was hoping that I could turn to the list for
info.   First, is there a theme song titled, "Cookie, cookie lend me your
comb."  The caller said it was a theme song to a 50's sitcom.  I also could
be mispelling the title.  I was also wondering if anyone has heard ther
soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA, I was asked to play "Lolita Ya Ya."

Thanks in advance,
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Sam "The Man" Taylor
Date: 06 Aug 1996 11:45:40 -0400

At 08:54 PM 8/5/96 +0000, you wrote:
>what's the deal with Sam the Man?  is he worth investigating?
>
>Sam Taylor was one rippin' killer tenor sax studio player who did make a
>couple of "real easy" blues/pop/standards tear jerkin' sax records, forgot
>the label though...might be Coral ?  Can't remember..Decca?  It might be
>Coral though ;-)>
>If you like that sort of thing they are worth picking up
>
>He played with and was in the league of King Curtis and beyond actually, He
>played on rekkids from before Curtis if I'm not mistaken
>
>Jack

Hey Jack, would he be on the same order as Earl Bostic and Plas Johnson?  Is
there a CD of Sam the Man available?

Bryan


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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: question
Date: 06 Aug 1996 12:03:26 -0400

"Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb" by Edward "Kookie" Byrnes and Connie
Stevens was a no. 4 hit in 1959.  The "Kookie Byrnes" character was from 77
Sunset Strip.

Will
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]
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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Harpists
Date: 06 Aug 1996 09:27:14 PDT

Jack mentioned Robert Maxwell.  I thoroughly enjoy his albums "Shangri La"
which has the extra treat of some electronic keyboard instrument on it in
places, and "Peg O' My Heart" which is a little more pop-y.  Shangri La is
exotic harp.

But, the greatest harp record of all time has got to be Dorothy Ashby's
"Afro Harping."  She is a jazz harpist who did a number of records on Cadet,
all insanely hard to find.  Afro Harping has a track called "Soul Vibrations"
which is a jazz-funk/exotica track with her excellent harp and theremin (yes
theremin) thrown in.  Shiver me timbers if there ain't a Moog all over that
record too...  So far out, so far out.
Clark Scheffy

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From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: question
Date: 06 Aug 1996 16:30:25 UT

Lolita is one of my all time favorite movies.  I don't have the soundtrack,
but I am familiar with it from watching the flick 8 gajillion times.  "Lolita
Ya Ya" is very cool.

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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: Sir Julian
Date: 06 Aug 1996 11:37:06 -0600 (MDT)

>Speaking of Sir Julian's "Caravan" it's featured on THE EXOTIC TRILOGY CD
>which I just picked up.  Talk about conceptual art: "Quiet Village" "Taboo"
>and "Caravan" done repeatedly (and in that order) by a wide variety of
>musicians.  This is a Dutch (and I suspect not entirely kosher) release.
> Other featured artists: The Aliis, Buddy Merrill, The Exotic Guitars, Dick
>Hyman, The Surfman, Irv Cottler, The Ensemble of Seven, The South Sea
>Serenaders (whose version of "Taboo" reigns over all others in absolute
>lushness)
>
Yes, this is Dutch, and it is widely available and it is one of the best
compilations I have heard. It has been out about a year or so. Check it out.

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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: the poppy family
Date: 06 Aug 1996 12:32:51 -0400

DIsmay wrote:
>An earlier issue of SCRAM magazine (of which I am an occassional contributor)
>had a fascinating piece on The Poppy Family.  Their best known member was
>Terry Jacks who went onto international hitdom with "Seasons in the Sun" -
>undoubtedly the most bathetic and lachrymose top 40 hit ever (not necessarily
>a bad thing).

That would make sense, since most of the Poppy Family song lyrics are
incredibly depressing (even though the music is often upbeat).

-Jordana
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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Record Collector: Bo Axelzon & Numero Uno
Date: 06 Aug 1996 19:41:42 +0100

in the latest issue of the Record Collector, Bo Axelzon & His Exotic Sounds
is mentioned in an article about easy listening; also mentioned are a Brit
combo called Numero Uno, with 2 10" EP's "the autumn/winter collection"
volumes 1 and 2, but the only thing said about them is that they are
"imaginative and wonderful"; does anyone know something more about them?

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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: pop sitar a-go-go
Date: 06 Aug 1996 19:42:01 +0100

[e-mail] (David Schafer) wrote in list of pop sitar albums:

>*San Francisco Nights/The Living Guitars

        i always wondered why those "guitars" sounded so strange ;)
        now i know they're sitars, thanx!

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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: pop sitar a-go-go
Date: 06 Aug 1996 19:42:09 +0100

Bo Axelzon & His Exotic Sounds 10" on Subliminal has 1 track with sitar
played by none other than one Stefan K. ;)
read all about it @ DADA'QUARIUMS: "http://www.ping.be/~ping1241/"

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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Big Spenders
Date: 06 Aug 1996 19:42:19 +0100

as i live in belgium, it's almost impossible to find rare collectable us
exotica albums, so i buy from collector/dealers like Jack and Preston; one
of the most expensive albums bought recently (from Preston) was Elsa
Popping's " Delirium in Hi-Fi" for $40, but that is worth every penny of it
IMHO; luckily, i do some great finds at lower prices once in a while, like:

Ferrante & Teicher: "Dynamic Twin Pianos" (mint, $5)
101 Strings: "Sounds of today" (sitar & big sympho vesions of 60's pop classics,
                                $5)
Enoch Light: "Whoever you are, i love you" (with great chorus versions of
   Born to be wild; Light my fire (Mike Flowers isn't doin' anything new ;)
   Hello, I love you...
Pierre Henry: "Messe pour le temps present" (with "psyche rock" yummmy, $1.50)
Leslie Humphries "Pop party" (very groovy instro 60's organ pop, $1.50)
Connie Boermans: "Visit to Venus" (Dutch 60's hammond pop, $1.50)
Golden Music Orchestra: "Music in tranbsit" (oriental pop, $1.50)

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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: re: big spenders
Date: 06 Aug 1996 12:39:52 -0400

I refuse to pay more than $25 for any record or (import) CD.  I can't afford
it.  I've found lots of good things at thrift stores and the local chapter
of the American Assoc of University Women has a great annual book sale that
has provided me with at least half of my collection.  Also, I have been
lucky to find some gems in the collections fo my parents and other
relatives.  It's not as important to me if a record is in mint condition.
As long as it's playable and doesn't skip a lot (especially if I'm going to
play it on the radio, since my personal standards are probably lower than
that of my audience), and the cover is in alright shape, then OK by me.
By the way, the records I payed $20 or so for are The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.
soundtrack and a Spacemen 3 record.

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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: Sir Julian
Date: 06 Aug 1996 11:52:58 -0600 (MDT)

>At 10:35 PM 8/5/96 -0400, you wrote:
>>Speaking of Sir Julian's "Caravan" it's featured on THE EXOTIC TRILOGY CD
>>which I just picked up.
>
>Isn't this track also available on the RCA History of Space Age Pop that
>came out a couple of years ago?
>
>Bryan
>

Yes, Bryan, it's on Volume 1.

Jill
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From: Watterworth Earle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: question
Date: 06 Aug 1996 11:48:56 -0600 (MDT)



On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Marie Guinto wrote:

> Last night I was doing my radio show and all of a sudden I was tested.  Yes
> the audience knows more.  Was hoping that I could turn to the list for
> info.   First, is there a theme song titled, "Cookie, cookie lend me your
> comb."  The caller said it was a theme song to a 50's sitcom.  I also could

This was the TV show "77 Sunset Strip", a show that set the standard for
contemporary cop/private dick shows.  Cookie (not sure of the spelling)
was played by Ed Byrnes. He was a very hip carhop who had famous hair
(ergo, the comb) which he would comb at various points during the drama.

Jay Watterworth

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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: more sitars
Date: 06 Aug 1996 12:54:49 -0400

Jack Diamond wrote:
>Subject: Jackie Gleason Sitar LP
>
>For some reason his records
>>are as common as rain around here,
>plentiful, and dull).  I'd trade them
>>in for that Now Sounds sitar/tabla one, though.  _That_ is right up my alley.
>
>Jordana,
>
>I can't find the attraction here.  Will you describe it to me please ;))

Often I find that what is to my taste otherwise mediocre music is greatly
improved by any of the following:
1. a string section
2. hand clapping
3. choruses that go "la, la la" or some such happy phrase
4. sitar/tabla

This goes mostly for pop music, but by extension I think that though I find
most Jackie Gleason stuff to be boring, Jackie Gleason with sitars would
probably be pretty good.

>What about Gabor Szabo's Jazz Raga on Impulse or does anyone have Bill
>Plummers sitar record on Impulse to tell me about.
>I'm not familiar with it at all.

After all the great sitar-related discussion in the past couple of digests,
I realized that I had seen Gabor Szabo's Jazz Raga at a local record shop.
I beat it over there and realized, after a lot of confusion and
disappointement that I had in fact
1. seen other, non-sitar Gabor Szabo records
2. seen a non-Szabo sitar jazz record
3. confused the 2 in my head and imagined I had seen Jazz Raga (even though
I didn't remember a scooter on the cover, as was described)

The unhappy result of all this is that I couldn't find the other random jazz
sitar record, so someone probably bought it.  Usually if you find something
good in the record shops here, it's safe for a couple weeks.  My "snatch it
up immediately" reflex has thus been dulled by living here.


Peter Principle wrote:

>Speaking of Raga Jazz there are some other Gabor Szabo titles in this
>interesting area for instance ....

>Any one know of any others in either of these 2 areas?  I'm leaving for a
>month in a couple of days so please respond quickly... otherwise happy
>hunting till I get back.

I found a website listing the use of Indian music in jazz, but it was mostly
about jazz fusion, which I think is generally yucky and does not swing
nearly enough for my tastes.  At any rate, Peter and that website have given
me a couple leads; I have to do a jazz show tomorrow (I am a Jill of All
Trades at the radio station and besides lounge and indie, I sometimes cover
jazz slots for people) so I will look through the station's collection for
these artists.  I doubt I'll find much, though I have stumbled across a
couple late 60s/early 70s oddities and I could get lucky.
-Jordana
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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Surfin' with Dick
Date: 06 Aug 1996 19:05:12 +0000

Hi all...

Following yesterday's excitement, I met up with Dick Hyman again
today and took him to a local internet cafe.  It was his first
experience of the internet and I think he was suitably gobsmacked!

We did a search on his name and trawled through the pages and pages
of stuff mentioning him.  He was amazed at how much information there
was out there.  Of course, I showed him the Spaced Out site and I think
he was quite impressed - there were things there even *he* didn't know
about Enoch Light!

I also showed him Joe Holmes' SABPM site (which I think he'd heard
about) and Vik Trola's chaoskitty joint.

Dick has promised to send lots more info when he returns to the US
and all I can say is that he's a wonderful man, incredibly generous
with his time and energy.


Robbie
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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Date: 06 Aug 1996 12:59:47 -0400

Daniel Taub wrote:

>        1. I notice that in addition to Scamp's "And Awaaaay We Go"
>compilation of Gleason music/skits, there's also a Razor and Tie
>compilation out now too. Has anyone heard either/both of these? Opinions?
>Is one better than the other? Are both good? Are both bad? What's the
>hubbub, bub?

Hopefully the label will send an airplay promo to the station.  If one comes
in, I'll let you know what I think of it.  (Boring, I will probably decide.
I'll try to be nice.)

>        2. There are now three (three!) Dean Martin "best of's" out on
>Capitol. There's the Capitol Collector's Series collection from a few years
>ago, there's one called "That's Amore" and now there's the two-cd "Capitol
>Years" one. There's seems to be some crossover of songs within the three,
>but none is all-inclusive. So which is the best? Which is most
>representative? If one were to get only one, which should s/he pick?

I can't be very helpful here, either.  We got a sampler for the 2 newest
Capitol sets at the station and it covers the standards ("That's Amore,"
"Volare," etc.), but it doesn't have a full track listing.

-Jordana
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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: Re: Sir Julian
Date: 06 Aug 1996 11:26:57 -0800


>>>Speaking of Sir Julian's "Caravan" it's featured on THE EXOTIC TRILOGY CD
>>>which I just picked up.


Ok, I just have to sound out of the no, what's THE EXOTIC TRILOGY cd, label etc.

clueless in Santa Barbara
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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Surfin' with Dick
Date: 06 Aug 1996 14:45:40 -0400

                      RE>Surfin' with Dick                         8/6/96

I concurr, Dick Hyman *is* a nice man.  I interviewed him in January, at
which time he was sort of unaware about his popularity with this clan and at
the time, seemed to view his COMMAND work as a tributary(as he put it) in his
career.  He seemed more devoted to pure jazz.  What does he say now?  Any
chance he'll dust off the old MOOG?
Quizically,
lounge laura
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Hi all...

Following yesterday's excitement, I met up with Dick Hyman again
today and took him to a local internet cafe.  It was his first
experience of the internet and I think he was suitably gobsmacked!

We did a search on his name and trawled through the pages and pages
of stuff mentioning him.  He was amazed at how much information there
was out there.  Of course, I showed him the Spaced Out site and I think
he was quite impressed - there were things there even *he* didn't know
about Enoch Light!

I also showed him Joe Holmes' SABPM site (which I think he'd heard
about) and Vik Trola's chaoskitty joint.

Dick has promised to send lots more info when he returns to the US
and all I can say is that he's a wonderful man, incredibly generous
with his time and energy.


Robbie
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From: The Book Garden Gallery <[e-mail]>
Subject: Greetings and Hellos!
Date: 06 Aug 1996 15:31:33 -0400

Hello!

We would like to introduce ourselves to everyone on this list.  We are The
Book Gallery, an internet store.  One aspect of our site, Cool Culture Media,
offers for sale albums and 8-tracks from the absurd, to the unusual, to the
zany at the following url:

        http://www.eden.com/~bgg/culture/culture.html


We have been reading everyone's postings with much interest and enjoyment.

It's great to see such an open exchange of musical and technical information.
The overall environment of this listing seems to be, in general, too,
characterized with much mutual respect for everyone's interests.  Quite
refreshing.

Oh, I also don't feel so guilty about liking Jackie Gleason now!

The below album just arrived, and outside of an interest in selling it, I
was wondering if anyone had ever encoutered it before; it seems quite
unusual...

Comstock, Frank.  "Project Comstock."  "Music From Outerspace"  WB 1463
(1962).  The rear cover says, "Frank Comstock creates other-worldly, dramatic
musical conceptions of Music from Outer Space." It also states that he uses a
Theremin which is "premeired" on this album (cool trivia if accurate!) "the
rare Electric Violin" (really, rare in what context?  The 60s?) and has such
songs as....

"Stella by Starlight"
"Galaxy"
"From Another World"
"On the Dark Side of the Moon"
etc.


I was also wondering if anyone had ever heard of Harry Owens and His Royal
Hawaiians (yes, another album for sale)???  I don't know who this man is,
but the photo on the back of the album --with him and three beautiful women--
shows a man that seems to have the sceret to all eternal happiness, judging
by his facial expression....

Well, thanks for reading.  Hope to keep learning more and being able to
provide friendly, courteous and prompt service to all purveuyors of the
unusual and off-track!


Cordially,

Ian Brabner
The Book Garden Gallery
http://www.eden.com/~bgg

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Subject: Re: Surfin' with Dick
Date: 06 Aug 1996 15:37:30 EDT

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Music Out of The Moon date
Date: 06 Aug 1996 12:51:01 +0000

"Music Out of the Moon" (1946)
>br cleve

Capitol was really bad among just about everyone else except RCA and Warner
Bros with NOT putting the release dates on their record covers.

I have the 78 book set of Music Out of The Moon and it is dated.
1947

Jack

PS  All the rcords are in absolutely perfect condition as is the cover and
sound oh soooooooooo bee-you-tee-fooooool

"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: Harry Revel
Date: 06 Aug 1996 12:56:11 +0000

"Music Out of the Moon" (1946) and "Music For Peace of Mind"(1949), both on
>> Capitol, came first. They are actually credited to Harry Revel.

If I'm not mistaken Harry Revel wrote all of the music on all of the 3
"1st" theremin records.

It's Baxter and May who did the arranging, conducting and orchestrations

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Theremin and Novacord
Date: 06 Aug 1996 12:53:13 +0000

The latter is
>especially groovy, featuring a Theremin and Novachord duet.

One can also find the duo sound of Theremin and Novacord on the soundtrack
score to The Bible

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: question
Date: 06 Aug 1996 15:54:02 -0400

> I was also wondering if anyone has heard ther
>soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA, I was asked to play "Lolita Ya Ya."

"Lolita Ya Ya" - a swinging little number by Nelson Riddle. Wordless vocals
of "Ya........Ya Ya Ya Ya Yaaa", and a lush midsection. My favorite track
on the LP. A really great song (and a great movie), IMHO.

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Baxter's first LP
Date: 06 Aug 1996 15:53:59 -0400

I wrote:
> "Perfume Set to Music" was released on
>RCA in '53 (on 10" LP)

Well, I was wrong. I doubled checked my old RCA and Capitol catalogs this
morning, and discovered that "Perfume....." was released in 1951 on 78 and
45 formats, the same year Capitol released the 10" of "Sacre du Savage".
The 10" LP of "Perfume....." was released in 1952. And Kenneth Ellzey
correctly pointed out what I forgot to write - that Billy May is the
arranger/conductor of "Peace of Mind". Les is the arranger/conductor of
"Music Out of the Moon" and "Perfume Set to Music". Harry Revel is the
composer, and Dr. Sam Hoffman the thereminist, of all 3.

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Ed "Kookie" Byrnes
Date: 06 Aug 1996 13:00:49 +0000

First, is there a theme song titled, "Cookie, cookie lend me your
>comb."  The caller said it was a theme song to a 50's sitcom.

He parked cars on the TV show 77 Sunset Strip from Warner Bros. and did
have a hit with that tune, "Kookie Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb"

The great one though on that record is of course Kookies Mad Pad
"Stereophonic Telephones"?????????????
Wall to Wall Televisions????????????????
What a Mad Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad, man ;-)>

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: question
Date: 06 Aug 1996 16:10:52 -0400

"Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" was a song by Ed "Kookie" Byrnes. He
starred on 77 Sunset Strip in 1959. He has a solo album out with this song on
it and others. He even sings a song about his "bachelor pad". (Plaid light
bulbs!)
Gloria

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: view masters
Date: 06 Aug 1996 16:09:45 -0400

I seem to remember a music-to-look-at-view-masters thread a while back...(or
was it to read pulp novels by?)
Anyway-do any of you collect VIEW MASTERS or know of a good dealer?
You can reply to me directly at:
[e-mail]

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Subject: Re: Greetings and Hellos!
Date: 06 Aug 1996 16:22:12 -0400

My parents and I used to watch Harry Owens on Saturday nights in the 50s. He
had, of course, a Hawaiian related show. Hula dancers, singers, grass shacks
the whole bit. He's fairly hard to come by at garage sales. I have a couple
of his 45 boxed sets. I liked his show a lot. Of course, I was 6 years old,
so I LOVED to do the hula.
Gloria

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Subject: Re: Ed "Kookie" Byrnes
Date: 06 Aug 1996 15:53:14 -0500

I have two Edd "Kookie" Byrnes 45's that I found at a garage sale years ago.
"Kookie's Mad Pad" b/w "Like I Love You", and "Kookie's Love Song": Side 1,=
 sung as a duet with Joanie Sommers, and Side 2, Joanie's track left out so=
 that YOU could perform the duet with "Kookie"!  The back side of the record=
 sleeve contains the script, lest you lose control with "Kookie" whispering=
 in you ear such things as:"...Your blip has hit my radar screen."  Joanie=
 and "Kookie" reach a climatic ecstasy in this exchange:
Kookie:  "Come on, let's wing it."
Joanie:  "I'm wingin'."
Kookie:  "I'm charged."
Joanie:  "I'm vibratin'."
Kookie:  "Oh!"

There's more...but I simply cannot go on!
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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Big Spenders
Date: 06 Aug 1996 16:53:41 -0400

 Johan wrote:
>one of the most expensive albums bought recently (from Preston) was Elsa
>Popping's " Delirium in Hi-Fi" for $40, but that is worth every penny of it

It *is* worth every penny, but fortunately you don't have to pay high
prices for it anymore, as it is now available on CD from Holland, thanks to
Gert-Jan Blom (The Beau Hunks, The Metropole Orchestra). With extensive
liner notes, photos, and music score examples. Even a reproduction of the
original tape box. And superior remastering (much better sound than the
half dozen or so vinyl copies I've heard in the last 24 years).

It's label/ # is Basta 30-90312 (distributed by Sony)

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Greetings and Hellos!
Date: 06 Aug 1996 16:53:44 -0400

>Comstock, Frank.  "Project Comstock."  "Music From Outerspace"  WB 1463
>(1962).

One of the all-time greats of the "Outer Space" concept albums of the ERA.
The 'space station' pictured on the cover is the terminal of the Los
Angeles airport. The album is available in stereo (WS prefix). I read
recently that Comstock did the incidental music for "Rocky & Bullwinkle"

>It also states that he uses aTheremin which is "premeired" on this album
>(cool trivia if accurate!) >"the rare Electric Violin" (really, rare in
>what context?  The 60s?)

Yes, it does state it's the "premiere" of the solid state Theremin (as
opposed to the tube RCA models), which I assume is true; and certainly, the
electric violin was a rarity in the early 60's (a good 6 years before being
popularized by Jean-Luc Ponty and Jerry Goodwin)

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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: Re[2]: question
Date: 06 Aug 1996 17:13:14 -0400




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Brother Cleve  WROTE:

>   "Lolita Ya Ya" - a swinging little number by Nelson Riddle. Wordless vocals
>   of "Ya........Ya Ya Ya Ya Yaaa", and a lush midsection.

A personal fave of mine as well.  Also of note: The Ventures did a real
nice cover of "Lolita Ya Ya".  I've included it in many a mix tape.



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Subject: "Help me get off the list"
Date: 06 Aug 1996 15:31:06 -0600 (MDT)

> can you help me get off this mailing list? Thanks
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Subject: FAQ
Date: 06 Aug 1996 14:34:12 -0700

This list needs a FAQ.  Has this been attempted in the past?

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From: Taro HOSHIJIMA <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Sam "The Man" Taylor
Date: 07 Aug 1996 09:06:33 +0900

In message <v01530504ae2c0ef83dba@[205.149.162.172]>
   "Sam "The Man" Taylor"
   "[e-mail] (Jack Diamond)" wrote:

> what's the deal with Sam the Man?  is he worth investigating?
>
> Sam Taylor was one rippin' killer tenor sax studio player who did make a
> couple of "real easy" blues/pop/standards tear jerkin' sax records, forgot
> the label though...might be Coral ?  Can't remember..Decca?  It might be
> Coral though ;-)>
> If you like that sort of thing they are worth picking up

Sam Taylor was quite popular here in Japan thanks to his version
of "Harlem Nocturn".  He was called "king of mood tenor", here.
And in 60s and 70s, he recorded a lot of instrumental versions of
Japanese hit tunes.  These LPs are now in thrift shops, and some
of them are reissued as CDs (at least here in Japan), I guess.

Taro HOSHIJIMA
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re[2]: Las Vegas Grind
Date: 01 Aug 1996 17:31:24 PST

        All you Vegas Grind fans should check out FROLIC DINER PT. 1 & PT.
     2 CD, or VOL 1, 2, 3, & 4 LP. There is a volume 5 Lp & vol 3 CD in the
     works! Get Hip, & Midnight have 'em all. Also, you can try Dionysus
     mail order: PO Box 1975, Burbank, CA 91507

        Mention of Joe Dodo's "Groovy" on Vegas Grind in one of the
     postings. San Francisco's Frenchy, who's debut album comes out in
     October, opens with a CRAZED version of "Groovy"! Keep your ears
     peeled!

        There was an amazing Austrailan Andre Williams bootleg floating
     around years ago, which contained all his Fortune sides.
     Unfortunately, Fortune won't reissue any of their stuff BUT they
     always comb the pages of Goldmine, Discoveries, etc. to see if anyone
     is booting their stuff, so no-one else will touch it! I've got a 78 of
     "Greasy Chicken" on Epic. Sounds great at seventy-eight!!

        Best,


        Lee

        (on this temporary address for 30 more days, contact me directly at
     [e-mail])


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Yep, Andrew Williams did "Greasy Chicken" ka ka dudel-do. Four hairy
policemen was part to of the Wavy Gravy LP comp series. Dont think their out
on CD. Better keep your record player.
Stefan
>
>
>About the same time that the LAS VEGAS GRIND albums came out
>there was an album called FOUR HAIRY POLICEMEN that was in
>the same vein. It contained a track called "The Greasy Chicken"
>but I don't remember who it was credited to. I believe it was
>Andre Williams. Has anyone else heard it? Does anyone know if
>the song is available on CD?
>
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Subject: NEW DIONYSUS CATALOG & GIVEAWAY OFFER!
Date: 06 Aug 1996 21:49:21 -0400

Hi,

Now that I am banished from Anti, we will be ressurecting the Dionysus
Records mail-order catalog. There hasn't really been one in almost two years!
We will have tons of out-of print exotica, garage, surf & punk vinyl Lps &
7", plus a section of Spanish 60s rock and East LA records. Also, we will
list the entire Dionysus/Bacchus/Hell Yeah catalog, and have mounds of
hard-to-find cool new indie releases, at lower prices than most mail-order
catalogs!

I'll do a text-only version for email, using a Word attachment, and a print
version with graphics for snail mail. Please drop us a line, and BE SURE TO
INCLUDE YOUR SNAILMAIL ADDRESS IF YOU WANT THE CATALOG SENT TO YOU!

USE THIS ADDRESS: [e-mail]
(The first three people that contact us will get a free copy of the
soon-to-be-released KARLA PUNDIT PRESENTS "JOURNEY TO THE ANCIENT CITY"
album. Please specify if you want the Lp or the CD version!)

Give us about a month!!


Thanks for your support!!


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Gleason
Date: 06 Aug 1996 22:17:09 -0400

I agree with the assessment of Gleason's "Ooooo" and the sitar Lp as well.
 They are both really worthwhile and would be a fabulous twofer CD .  Unless
I am missing something, though, I still have found his other albums pretty
boring, but I'm willing to listen again since so many people seem so fond of
them.

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From: Harry Crowley <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: question
Date: 06 Aug 1996 22:29:29 -0400

At 08:42 AM 8/6/96 -0800, you wrote:
>Last night I was doing my radio show and all of a sudden I was tested.  Yes
>the audience knows more.  Was hoping that I could turn to the list for
>info.   First, is there a theme song titled, "Cookie, cookie lend me your
>comb."  The caller said it was a theme song to a 50's sitcom.  I also could
>be mispelling the title.  I was also wondering if anyone has heard ther
>soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA, I was asked to play "Lolita Ya Ya."
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Fraulein M
>[e-mail]
>
>
Yes it was "Kookie, Kookie(Lend Me Your Comb)  Eddie Byrnes and Connie
Stevens from 1959.  From the tv show "77 Sunset Strip".
I have a mint condition copy of the "Lolita" soundtrack.
Lolita Ya-Ya was a minor hit for the Ventures in 1992.
Sue Lyons played Lolita
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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: NEW DIONYSUS CATALOG & GIVEAWAY OFFER!
Date: 06 Aug 1996 22:43:33 -0400

I'd love to have the email version of the catalogue, and, if, I'm eligible,
the Karla Pundit CD.

Will STraw

At 21:49 96-08-06 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Now that I am banished from Anti, we will be ressurecting the Dionysus
>Records mail-order catalog. There hasn't really been one in almost two years!
>We will have tons of out-of print exotica, garage, surf & punk vinyl Lps &
>7", plus a section of Spanish 60s rock and East LA records. Also, we will
>list the entire Dionysus/Bacchus/Hell Yeah catalog, and have mounds of
>hard-to-find cool new indie releases, at lower prices than most mail-order
>catalogs!
>
>I'll do a text-only version for email, using a Word attachment, and a print
>version with graphics for snail mail. Please drop us a line, and BE SURE TO
>INCLUDE YOUR SNAILMAIL ADDRESS IF YOU WANT THE CATALOG SENT TO YOU!
>
>USE THIS ADDRESS: [e-mail]
>(The first three people that contact us will get a free copy of the
>soon-to-be-released KARLA PUNDIT PRESENTS "JOURNEY TO THE ANCIENT CITY"
>album. Please specify if you want the Lp or the CD version!)
>
>Give us about a month!!
>
>
>Thanks for your support!!
>
>
>Lee and Aime
>
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Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural
Industries and Institutions
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Subject: Re: question
Date: 06 Aug 1996 23:53:32 -0400



<<  I was also wondering if anyone has heard ther
 >soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's LOLITA, I was asked to play "Lolita Ya Ya."
>>

Nelson Riddle's version of "Lolita Ya Ya" on the soundtrack album and
Riddle's single version on the new Ultra Lounge "Cocktail Capers" are quite
different. The soundtrack version is in a much higher key, and the voices
seem more innocent and angelic.  The rhythm section and guitar are buried in
the mix, and the tempo is somewhat leisurely, just right for sunbathing in a
bikini.  The guitar, drums, and bass are much more prominent on the single
version, naturally, and the tune rocks with a few tasty guitar fills.  The
voices are lower, and the girls seem older and deliciously bratty. You can
almost hear them snapping their gum and rolling their eyes at the Humberts of
the world.

The Ventures' version is fine too, except they sing "Yeah Yeah" instead of
"Ya Ya".
All in all, a great song !  Hope the tune makes it into the upcoming movie
remake.
(Maybe this inspired the Stones' "Get Yer Ya Ya's Out"?)

JB

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From: [e-mail] (Jonny.S)
Subject: Re: sitar explosion
Date: 06 Aug 1996 22:37:34 -0500

The "Lord Sitar" LP is da joint! But, Impossible to find and very expensive if
you see it. There's a great version of Light My Fire on a Comp. called Melting
Pot Vol 1 ( on vinyl, import)
There's some other sitar tracks floating around but I can't remember the
specifics off hand.
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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Lord Sitar
Date: 06 Aug 1996 22:26:30 PDT

My favorite track off of Lord Sitar has to be "If I Were a Rich Man,"
From Fiddler on the Roof.  It starts out with a raga / 60's psychedila
feel and then busts into a Now! Sound  rendition of the song complete
with sitar cadenzas etc.  Very cool.  Anyone have faves from that
record?
Clark Scheffy

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Karla Pundit? Isn't it....
Date: 06 Aug 1996 23:08:14 -0600

Is it Korla Pandit? The Indian organ guru? Or is "Karla Pandit"a new
group or singer with a wry sense of humor? Fill me in... I'm outta the
loop on this one.

Anyone out there in exotica land know the answer?

[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: "Help me get off the list"
Date: 07 Aug 1996 08:28:00 EDT

thanks a reall person can help now can you tell me where the message
part is? Everywhere i put it the thing sends it rightback! I would
enjoy helping myself butneed to do it right   Thanks

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From: "Dave Lamont" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: NEW DIONYSUS CATALOG & GIVEAWAY OFFER!
Date: 07 Aug 1996 08:30:52 EDT

Please send catalog to:

Dave Lamont
50 Robinson Pkwy
Burlington. VT 05401
 And a CD if I win.  Thanks

DL


Reply-to:      [e-mail]

Hi,

Now that I am banished from Anti, we will be ressurecting the Dionysus
Records mail-order catalog. There hasn't really been one in almost two years!
We will have tons of out-of print exotica, garage, surf & punk vinyl Lps &
7", plus a section of Spanish 60s rock and East LA records. Also, we will
list the entire Dionysus/Bacchus/Hell Yeah catalog, and have mounds of
hard-to-find cool new indie releases, at lower prices than most mail-order
catalogs!

I'll do a text-only version for email, using a Word attachment, and a print
version with graphics for snail mail. Please drop us a line, and BE SURE TO
INCLUDE YOUR SNAILMAIL ADDRESS IF YOU WANT THE CATALOG SENT TO YOU!

USE THIS ADDRESS: [e-mail]
(The first three people that contact us will get a free copy of the
soon-to-be-released KARLA PUNDIT PRESENTS "JOURNEY TO THE ANCIENT CITY"
album. Please specify if you want the Lp or the CD version!)

Give us about a month!!


Thanks for your support!!


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From: living-stereo <[e-mail]>
Subject: re: Karla Pundit? Isn't it....
Date: 07 Aug 1996 06:01:05 -0700

At 11:08 PM 8/6/96 -0600, soundbliss writes:
>Is it Korla Pandit? The Indian organ guru? Or is "Karla Pundit"a new
>group or singer with a wry sense of humor? Fill me in... I'm outta the
>loop on this one.
>
>Anyone out there in exotica land know the answer?

It's the latter.  Don't know much about Karla Pundit at all.  Check out
Victrola's site...the chaos kitty guy...I think there is a write up there.
Need the address?

As far as Korla Pandit goes, he has some new CD out..Exotic 2000...or
something like that.  Besides that, another collection of his early work was
to be released earlier this year and I believe it is called Odyssey.  I read
it would include such LP's as Korla Pandit at the Pipe Organ, Latin Holiday
and Music of the Exotic East.  Where is it?  I've never seen it.  It was due
last May.

I have three l Korla Pandit records and never listen to them.  On there
other hand, I can't bring myself to get rid of them.  They have beautiful
photos of Korla on them and come in red or blue vinyl.  Why don't I listen
to them?  Well, when I got my first Korla from Jack Diamond, he cautioned me
that it was like funeral music and quite lame. Of course, I had to find out
for myself...and I did.  Sure 'nuf, it was lame. I find nothing "exotic"
about his music at all...only Korla Pandit himself and his image are strange
and mystifying.  I'm listening to Latin Holiday right now.  It is not unlike
sitting on a horse on a merry-go-round!

Don't get me wrong, Korla Pandit is a very talented musician.  Watching his
old television shows from the fifties are testimony to that.  He plays the
piano and organ at the same time...one hand on each!  He also creates these
unique percussion, bongo-like effects by playing his (pipe) organ like a
drum!  He uses the heel of his hand and forearms...really neat-o-keen.  The
videos of his show are available from Cult Movies in LA and are something
else!!!!  He stares into the camera with a mysterious gaze and occasionally
cracks a small, sweet smile.  Belly dancers, orchids and floating clouds add
a mystic touch.  Although he plays the same music as what's on the records,
the visuals make a POWERFUL difference!!!!  This really is essential
viewing.  A must.

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From: "kevin s. lee" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Dorothy Ashby
Date: 07 Aug 1996 10:39:26 EST

harps again...
I forgot who mentioned Dorothy Ashby in regards to harp exotica, but
i found one of her records (very beat up unfortunately) recently,
which is partly what inspired me to look for more harp stuff.  i
actually wasn't all too thrilled with the one i found (of course i
forgot the title).  it just sounded somewhat bland.  no theremin or
moog on this one.

i'll have to keep an eye out, though.  there seems to be so little
harp music available that i'd try anything i could find.  thanks for
the suggestions so far, though.

yeah, Robert Maxwell did the "Zing! Went the Strings of the Harp"
which is what i got.  not zany but definitely fun and cool.

kevin leeeeee
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From: Bruce Rhodewalt <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: NEW DIONYSUS CATALOG & GIVEAWAY OFFER!
Date: 07 Aug 1996 09:16:03 -0700

>
> From:          [e-mail]
> Date:          Tue, 6 Aug 1996 21:49:21 -0400
> To:            [e-mail]
> Subject:       NEW DIONYSUS CATALOG & GIVEAWAY OFFER!
> Reply-to:      [e-mail]
>
> Hi,
>
> Now that I am banished from Anti, we will be ressurecting the Dionysus
> Records mail-order catalog. There hasn't really been one in almost two years!
Why were you banished from anti?  If you aren't completely soured on the
Internet, let me know if I can be of any help.  Besides the requisite
web stuff (yadda yadda yadda), we do e-mail, including lists,
autoresponders and custom solutions.

Thanks.

Bruce Rhodewalt
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Lord Sitar fave tracks
Date: 07 Aug 1996 10:05:56 +0000

My favorite track off of Lord Sitar has to be "If I Were a Rich Man,"
>>From Fiddler on the Roof.  It starts out with a raga / 60's psychedila
>feel and then busts into a Now! Sound  rendition of the song complete
>with sitar cadenzas etc.  Very cool.  Anyone have faves from that
>record?
>Clark Scheffy

Well I really like I Can See For Miles and the 1st tune on side B,
I Am The Walrus is toooooo coooooool and Blue Jay Way RULES!!!

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Dorothy Ashby and Corky Hale
Date: 07 Aug 1996 10:10:17 +0000

I have a few Dorothy Ashby jazz harp records and she is up there with the
best of them.

Another great jazz/pop harp-ist is Corky Hale who is female btw

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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FAQ
Date: 07 Aug 1996 11:13:00 -0600 (MDT)

> This list needs a FAQ.  Has this been attempted in the past?

Not by me, and I definitely don't have time to start or maintain one.  But if
the members of the list whip one up I'd be happy to provide it a home in the
archives.  (I might even update the list home page in its honor. :-)

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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Vampiros Lesbos
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:24:19 +0100

>>From: Paul Lewis <[e-mail]>

>>Also... can someone fill me in on this _Vampiros Lesbos_ album?  Is this
>>a soundtrack to a movie, re-release, new material?

        as far as i understood, this is music taken from 3 1969 soundtracks

        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Money for nothin', chicks for free
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:24:36 +0100

[e-mail] (David Schafer) wrote:

> (cut) ...
> The Wozard of Iz / Mort Garson - $50

        jeepers, is it really worth that much? i found it for $3, and didn't
        like it very much, even thought about selling it! but i think it's
        time to listen to it once again ;)
        i know my taste is changing rapidly, as i told here before;
        there used to be a time i didn't even like the "sound gallery" stufff
        you know :)
        also found some Edmundo Ros lps about 6 months ago, which i didn't
        like either ... _then_ but thanx to the recent postings about him
        gave "this is my world" another listen, and it's quite good
        actually! especially "mexicali rose" which has a real weeeeird
        sound;
        musical taste is _such_ a streinge thing...

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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Twin Peaks
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:24:47 +0100

"Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> (cut) ...
>Badalamenti's "Twin Peaks" scores are great (well pretty good anyway)

        i agree! after having seen the TV series, i immediately bought the cd,
        and it is still one of my favorite soundtracks; i also bought the
        soundtrack to the movie (which i've never seen BTW), but didn't like
        it as much as the TV soundtrack; it all sounded as leftover sessions
        somehow; stil not bad.

        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Italian cd's (was: random ?s)
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:24:27 +0100

[e-mail] (Brother Cleve) wrote:

> (cut)...
>new & recommended, in a similar vein : Easy Tempo Vol. 1, A Cinematic Easy
>Listening Experience (Right Tempo, RTCL 813; Italy), music from Italian
>crime and erotica films 1967 -1975. Nice. (Thanks, Ashley!)

        may I ask where you buy Italian CD's?

        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Sir Julian / EXOTIC TRILOGY
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:24:58 +0100

[e-mail] wrote:

> (cut) ...
>Speaking of Sir Julian's "Caravan" it's featured on THE EXOTIC TRILOGY CD
>which I just picked up.  Talk about conceptual art: "Quiet Village" "Taboo"
>and "Caravan" done repeatedly (and in that order) by a wide variety of
>musicians.

        on the cover it says there will be more volumes, and i can't wait
        to get them! it's amazing that those 3 songs can be arranged in
        such diverse ways it's not boring at all!

        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis



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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: David Lynch
Date: 07 Aug 1996 16:13:10 -0400

                      David Lynch                                  8/7/96


The BLUE VELVET soundtrack is pretty moving too, as is the ERASERHEAD
soundtrack, if you can find it!  What's great about THE BLUE VELVET
soundtrack is not only the score, but also the creeepppyy Roy Orbison!
Straight to your heart!
lounge laura
who also nominates TAXI DRIVER and A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, uh, for something...
"Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> (cut) ...
>Badalamenti's "Twin Peaks" scores are great (well pretty good anyway)

        i agree! after having seen the TV series, i immediately bought the
cd,
        and it is still one of my favorite soundtracks; i also bought the
        soundtrack to the movie (which i've never seen BTW), but didn't like
        it as much as the TV soundtrack; it all sounded as leftover sessions
        somehow; stil not bad.

        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis



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From: J P M <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Italian cd's (was: random ?s)
Date: 07 Aug 1996 19:30:24 +0000

In NY you can get it ( Easy Tempo Vol. 1, A Cinematic Easy
>Listening Experience (Right Tempo, RTCL 813; Italy) at :

Other Music
Across from Tower Records on 4th and B'way
It's very nice ,my friends father did one of the tracks.
Kinda phsycadelic on some tracks


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From: Daniel Taub <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Twin Peaks
Date: 07 Aug 1996 16:34:49 -0700 (PDT)

Actually, I have to disagree with you, Johan. I find that the TV show
soundtrack, while it does have a few interesting numbers, is largely
uninteresting. The soundtrack to "Fire Walk With Me," however, has some
of Badalamenti's most interesting work --everything from exciting,
interesting jazz with a dark twist, to a *great* Little Jimmy Scott tune,
to a Badalamenti vocal reminiscient of Tom Waits, except more evil.

Anyway, I think overall the movie soundtrack is far more diverse and
interesting than the TV soundtrack. Give it another listen -- you might
be surprised.

On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Johan Dada Vis wrote:

> "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> > (cut) ...
> >Badalamenti's "Twin Peaks" scores are great (well pretty good anyway)
>
>         i agree! after having seen the TV series, i immediately bought the cd,
>         and it is still one of my favorite soundtracks; i also bought the
>         soundtrack to the movie (which i've never seen BTW), but didn't like
>         it as much as the TV soundtrack; it all sounded as leftover sessions
>         somehow; stil not bad.
>
>         = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis
>
>
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Subject: Re: Vampiros Lesbos
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:40:12 -0500

>>>From: Paul Lewis <[e-mail]>
>
>>>Also... can someone fill me in on this _Vampiros Lesbos_ album?  Is this
>>>a soundtrack to a movie, re-release, new material?

there is a feature at Vik's with info on the
album...http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/vamp.html


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Saxophobia
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:40:16 -0500

>Anyone know where the weird clowns-with-saxophones pictures
>from the booklet and back cover of ULTRA-LOUNGE VOL.12 are from?


this may not help, but on a crumpled napkin recently i found this note...

Vik,

the package has been sent.

You know we love you, but this is all we can tell you...

        "The Continental".


this is all my source could tell me...i'll keep looking for clues


in swank,
Vik


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Karla Pundit? Isn't it....
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:40:07 -0500

>Is it Korla Pandit? The Indian organ guru? Or is "Karla Pandit"a new
>group or singer with a wry sense of humor? Fill me in... I'm outta the
>loop on this one.
>
>Anyone out there in exotica land know the answer?
>


check out Hot News For Swank Times
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/mnews.html) for the answer...


in swank,
Vik


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Subject: Re: A couple of questions...
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:40:36 -0500

>        2. There are now three (three!) Dean Martin "best of's" out on
>Capitol. There's the Capitol Collector's Series collection from a few years
>ago, there's one called "That's Amore" and now there's the two-cd "Capitol
>Years" one. There's seems to be some crossover of songs within the three,
>but none is all-inclusive. So which is the best? Which is most
>representative? If one were to get only one, which should s/he pick?


OK, maybe this was covered...maybe not...

The Capitol Collector's series is a good cheap start to the wonderful world
of Dean. Covers all the hits and a little more...

"That's Amore" duplicates a few of the tracks but also branches more into
Dean's Italian style. great for pasta dinners and red wine, but repeat
listenings are few and far between.


"The Captiol Years"....ahhhh...now you've got it...covers pretty much all
the hits plus throws in delicious rarities ( the monologue before the Live
Medley with the Dick Stabile Orchestra is priceless!). it's a little pricey
but hey... 2 CDs and tons of Dean!!!


all three have fine sound quality ("That's Amore" being the weakest), so if
you want a little Dean...get The Collector's Series. if you want the hits
and some fun rare stuff, get the Capitol Years. and if you are having
sundried tomato pesto with fresh angel hair pasta and a fine Montepulciano,
get That's Amore.


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Vik


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: guava shell
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:40:48 -0500

>It was announced the release of Guava Shell - stereo cocktail selection,
>including Marco Rizo, Sanches Acosta, etc....
>distributed by P-Vine, selected by DJ SON. Ultimate Lovely Lounge Selection.
>
>P-Vine Records
>Tomigaya 2-41-10, Shibuya-ku,Tokyo Japan.


i would love more information and perhaps do a feature for Vik's Lounge. my
address is:

Frank Davis
114 W. 26th St. 11th Floor
New York, NY  10001
USA

email:[e-mail]


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Vik


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Fwd: Big Spenders
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:40:47 -0500

>I don't know if there are any other Montreal-area people on this list (besides
>Andrew), but I caught a very nice trio (The Stephen something trio  . . .
>sorry,
>that's all I can remember) at Jello Bar, Montreal's premiere neo-cocktail
>lounge,
>last Monday.  The recorded music before and after was dreadful (Bob Marley,
>for christ's sake!), but the trio played light bossa nova and samba, and
>it felt
>like a nightclub scene from Blake Edwards' Gunn.


would you be interested in putting together a field report on these
hipsters for Vik's? no real money for ya, but a little lounge fame and a
little free sounds...let me know!


in swank,
Vik


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Record Collector: Bo Axelzon & Numero Uno
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:41:05 -0500

>in the latest issue of the Record Collector, Bo Axelzon & His Exotic Sounds
>is mentioned in an article about easy listening; also mentioned are a Brit
>combo called Numero Uno, with 2 10" EP's "the autumn/winter collection"
>volumes 1 and 2, but the only thing said about them is that they are
>"imaginative and wonderful"; does anyone know something more about them?
>


Numero Uno are part of the swinging Club Montepulciano crew. two delicious
10" (yes 10"!!!) EPs with a kind of smooth bossa/rhumba sound.
bongos...slick guitars...and a few vocals. that kind of '60s jazz combo
Euro sound. not polyester...more Bond Street with a smaller band...

i've been threatening a feature and this may be the impetus! coming to
InFlight in the Jet Set (hopefully) soon...


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Vik


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From: [e-mail] (Daniel Taub)
Subject: Four Piece Suit?
Date: 07 Aug 1996 19:13:11 -0700

Maybe these cats have been mentioned before on this list, and I missed it,
but does anyone know anything about the band Four Piece Suit? I saw their
CD today in the local music store, and it looks pretty loungey, including
covers of two Henry Mancini tunes -- "Shot in the Dark" and, a personal
favorite, "Something for Cat" from Breakfast at Tiffany's.

So anyknow know about this CD? Is it good? How does it compare with other
modern lounge-ites, such as Combustible Edison? Worth sinking (the sale
price of) $11.88 into?

Thanks for the help...
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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Italian cd's (was: random ?s)
Date: 07 Aug 1996 22:18:32 -0400

>[e-mail] (Brother Cleve) wrote:
>
>> (cut)...
>>new & recommended, in a similar vein : Easy Tempo Vol. 1, A Cinematic Easy
>>Listening Experience (Right Tempo, RTCL 813; Italy), music from Italian
>>crime and erotica films 1967 -1975. Nice. (Thanks, Ashley!)
>
>        may I ask where you buy Italian CD's?
>
>        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis


Footlights Records, NYC; most of the Tower and HMV stores I've been to in
the states carry many of them as well

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Vik's News Flash!
Date: 07 Aug 1996 20:44:39 -0500

Two special dated features at Vik's...

*******************************************************************************
Ohio Loungemaster Michael Toth Throws A Bash For Enoch Light's Birthday
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/enoch.html)

August 17th should be a discotheque blow out in the land of Ohio as
hipsters and swingers gather to celebrate the memory of Enoch Light on his
birthday. Drop by Vik's for more details!!!
********************************************************************************
Lounge Magazine's Squirrel Nut Zipper Giveaway
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/zipper.html)

Those swingers from LA are at it again, giving you the chance to win
tickets to the August 16th show in LA and other swank SNZ swag.
********************************************************************************
COMING THIS WEEKEND>>>Sinatra on Capitol and Columbia...Ultra Lounge
Update...Hifi Records...and perhaps a few surprises...


in swank,
Vik


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Subject: Re: Four Piece Suit?
Date: 08 Aug 1996 00:31:26 -0500


>
>So anyknow know about this CD? Is it good? How does it compare with other
>modern lounge-ites, such as Combustible Edison? Worth sinking (the sale
>price of) $11.88 into?
>
>Thanks for the help...
>                                                                  Daniel
>
Daniel:

I heard part of it the other day.  Sounded kinda surf guitar-y to me.  Nice production, but did not possess Combustible Edison-like quality.

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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: All Third Man, All the Time
Date: 08 Aug 1996 01:08:42 -0700

I just completed a 90-minute tape consisting of 32 different versions of
"The Third Man Theme."  And they said it couldn't (shouldn't?) be done!

I am willing to provide a copy for a tape trade with any like-minded
perverse soul who's interested in exploring the musical possibilities of
this tune--or who needs something to clear out a party early.  I will say
that "The Third Man Theme" holds up to this treatment much better than
"Misirlou" and "Exodus," to name a few other much-covered tunes.

Brad Bigelow
[e-mail]
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From: Martin Schildkret <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Italian cd's (was: random ?s)
Date: 08 Aug 1996 02:22:02 -0400

At 10:18 PM 8/7/96 -0400, you wrote:

>>        may I ask where you buy Italian CD's?
>>
>>        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis
>
>Footlights Records, NYC; most of the Tower and HMV stores I've been to in
>the states carry many of them as well

  If you really want to see an impressive selection of imports try the
"Virgin Super Store" in NYC. It's on East Side of Broadway in the mid
forties. It's so big you can't miss it.  There store on the West Coast also
has a pretty good selection if I remember correctly.


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: All Third Man, All the Time
Date: 08 Aug 1996 03:01:09 -0400

>32 different versions of "The Third Man Theme."

Good work -- it's like a CD or an 8-track now, isn't it? When you get it up
to 38, you'll have enough to trade for 1.5 hours of "Tea for Two Cha Cha,"
or for _much_ more diabolical insidiousness (not to mention insipidness),
"Patricia," the very nagging, insistent melody that has appealed to no
lesser exotica gods than Fellini and Matt Groening. Congrats and keep twistin!


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ethel Smith redoes "Liquid Sky"
Date: 08 Aug 1996 03:30:24 -0400

Well not yet, but until she does, there's today's Big score (above
Katz/Sumac/Lyman):

Cook Labs' "Marimba Band," subtitled "otherwise known as...To Hell With
High-Fidelity"). Also on front: "Six men play a 23 ft. Marimba from
Oaxaca...A HIGH-FIDELITY recording of a LOW-FIDELITY subject." Back photo
apparently of the first United Nations meeting with everyone concentrating
on tinking the Big Xylophone. Aural "yellow wallpaper" to be sure, but it
does sound just like Ethel Smith organing the "Liquid Sky" soundtrack.

NB (last post on this): for record 4sale list ($0-$50, gobs of the SABPM
heroes), e-mail [e-mail] with "RECORD LIST" as subject (FTP TBA).
Maybe give it a week. Caramba.

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Taylor)
Subject: 38 Versions of Patricia, etc.
Date: 08 Aug 1996 09:10:46 -0400

That's all very nice.  But it's still no

        "44 Exciting Versions of the Hawaiian War Chant"
   nor  "44 More Exciting Versions of the Hawaiian War Chant"
   nor  "No, Please Not Even 44 More Exciting Versions of the Hawaiian War
         Chant."

Of course, Patricia does appeal to one's Inner Prado.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Vampiros Lesbos
Date: 08 Aug 1996 09:55:48 -0400

I'm also in the dark about "Vampiros Lesbos," but it looks absolutely awful.


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Subject: Re: Karla Pundit? Isn't it....
Date: 08 Aug 1996 09:56:40 -0400

It is definitely "Korla Pandit."



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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Vampiros Lesbos
Date: 08 Aug 1996 10:26:03 -0400

Let me just say that, IMHO, "Vampiros Lesbos" is a fabulous album,
one of the best reissues of the last year, and that it captures an obscure mood
better than almost anything else I can think of.

Will
Will Straw
Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Communications/
Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural
Industries and Institutions
McGill University
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From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Vampiros Lesbos
Date: 08 Aug 1996 10:54:35 -0500

Will Straw said:

>Let me just say that, IMHO, "Vampiros Lesbos" is a fabulous album,
>one of the best reissues of the last year, and that it captures an obscure
>mood
>better than almost anything else I can think of.

I agree, it is one hot damn fine CD reissue.  Makes me want to see the
film(s) real, real bad.  But I can't find a copy of it anywhere, and I've
been searching ever since the CD came out.  Anybody know anybody else who
may have access to Jess Franco's more obscure films?  Or does anybody know
if it ever made it to videotape?

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From: "K.M.D. Sartori" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Italian cd's (was: random ?s)
Date: 08 Aug 1996 11:00:51 -0400

>[e-mail] (Brother Cleve) wrote:
>
>> (cut)...
>>new & recommended, in a similar vein : Easy Tempo Vol. 1, A Cinematic
Easy
>>Listening Experience (Right Tempo, RTCL 813; Italy), music from Italian
>>crime and erotica films 1967 -1975. Nice. (Thanks, Ashley!)
>
>        may I ask where you buy Italian CD's?
>
>        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis

Hello.

Using the GEMM search (which you should check out, if you haven't already):

    http://www.gemm.com

CD Universe are the only guys that have it listed (US$15.36):

    http://www.cduniverse.com

I've ordered from these guys once before and they are QUICK.  I ordered
three
fairly obscure releases (including the first THE THREE SUNS collection) on
a
Sunday night and they were in my mailbox on Wednesday.  Of course, we're
both in Connecticut so that probably speeded things up some.

BTW, please don't tell anybody about the Connecticut thing...

Good luck!
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From: Jonathan Perl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Badalamenti
Date: 08 Aug 1996 17:03:00 +0100


Hi

Has no one mentioned the Wild at Heart soundtrack?  I love all of the Lynch
soundtracks,
but I think I prefer this one to Blue velvet, which everyone has been
praising.  The blue
velvet one is cool, but I'm not mad about the classical theme tracks.  Wild
at heart has
some corkers on it, especially 'smoke rings' by Glen Gray and the Casa Loma
orchestra,
that one they play when lula is standing up in the car by the gas station.
 By the way, my
vote is for the Fire walk with me soundtrack in the Twin Peaks debate.  The
series one is
good, but does contain 6 or so songs which are essentially the same.


Jonny


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: George Maharis/Route 66
Date: 08 Aug 1996 11:51:18 -0400

I realize George Maharis (Route 66) albums aren't strictly speaking lounge
material, but the recent postings re "77 Sunset Strip" made me hope someone
might be able to help me complete my collection.  Specifically I'm looking to
acquire four of his albums:

"Tonight You Belong To Me" (Epic 1964)
"New Route" (Epic 1966)
and "Portrait In Music" (But ONLY with the enclosed 3-D portrait of George)

Also his discography lists a soundtrack album on United Artists called "Three
Billion Millionaires" that I'm seeking as well...

If you come across any of the above, or know of another resource for them,
I'd appreciate your letting me know...

Thanks,

--Chris Jehle/San Francisco

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Record stores (was: Italian cd's)
Date: 08 Aug 1996 12:11:33 -0400

At 02:22 AM 8/8/96 -0400, you wrote:
>At 10:18 PM 8/7/96 -0400, you wrote:
>
>>>        may I ask where you buy Italian CD's?
>>>
>>>        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis
>>
>>Footlights Records, NYC; most of the Tower and HMV stores I've been to in
>>the states carry many of them as well
>
>  If you really want to see an impressive selection of imports try the
>"Virgin Super Store" in NYC. It's on East Side of Broadway in the mid
>forties. It's so big you can't miss it.  There store on the West Coast also
>has a pretty good selection if I remember correctly.
>

I've heard that Virgin is pretty good as far as imports go, and they are
expexcted to build two superstores here in D.C., sometime next year.  I hope
their import section makes Tower and HMV look pretty lame.  In fact, the HMV
in this area sucks, big time.

Bryan


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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Edmundo Ros
Date: 08 Aug 1996 09:18:57 PDT

Someone here a long while ago mentioned an Edmundo Ros album with the song
"Hare Krishna" on it.  Can anyone tell me which album that's on?  I later
downloaded a clip of it from someone's web site (Vik?)  and have totally
spaced any other info...  Need help finding that record.

Thanks,
Clark Scheffy

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Vampiros Lesbos
Date: 08 Aug 1996 12:14:09 -0400

At 09:55 AM 8/8/96 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm also in the dark about "Vampiros Lesbos," but it looks absolutely awful.

That sounds like a compliment.


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From: [e-mail] (Mark Turner)
Subject: Re: Vampiros Lesbos
Date: 08 Aug 1996 09:22:19 -0700 (PDT)


> I agree, it is one hot damn fine CD reissue.  Makes me want to see the
> film(s) real, real bad.  But I can't find a copy of it anywhere, and I've
> been searching ever since the CD came out.  Anybody know anybody else who
> may have access to Jess Franco's more obscure films?  Or does anybody know
> if it ever made it to videotape?

The two best sources for cult films in the US (to my knowledge)
are Video Search of Miami and Midnight Video in NYC.  They both
specialize in films that are not commercially available in the
US.

--
 Mark Turner
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From: [e-mail] (Keith Doyle)
Subject: Where There's Life
Date: 08 Aug 1996 12:08:09 PDT


I'm surprised I haven't seen a mention of this album (Where There's Life)
with the infinity cover.  I would have to put that high on a list of
the most "frameable" exotica covers,  a list that would also have
Les Baxter's Tamboo and Sacred Idol, the Denny Exotica covers, Lyman's
Taboo 2 with the shrunken head, etc.  Any other nominations for the
most frameable?

Also I thought I might mention that you guys might want to consider
keeping an eye out for one I feel is a bit of a sleeper-- "The Banjo Barons
Hawaiian Hits."  This one turned out to be a lot better than I thought
it would be.  The cover is not exceptionally thrilling so I wouldn't nominate
it for framability, but the Hawaiian music on the banjo ain't bad at all,
IMHO.


Keith Doyle
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Hello O Hell
Date: 08 Aug 1996 15:19:28 EDT

Allow me to introduce myself...
Hello, My Name Is
_____RAY_____
I've read the digest of this list for a couple of weeks
and it is finally time for me to say hello, because I've
been entertained and informed and distracted from my work.
I appreciate it.  I live in the Boston area.
My interest in this list come from mostly an experience
with Perrey & Kingley's Kaleidoscopic Vibrations (Vanguard)
and a pair of headphones back in '82.
This record has made many friends for itself.
I've picked up a few exotica titles as well, but my tastes run more to
goofy and twang than lounge and exotica, but that seems accepted here.

A question!

>>  Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 17:13:14 -0400
>>  Subject: Re[2]: question

>   A personal fave of mine as well.  Also of note: The Ventures did a real
>  nice cover of "Lolita Ya Ya".  I've included it in many a mix tape.

Could you tell me which album this cut is on?
Also I've looked for a Ventures FAQ and have not found one.
Considering the number of albums, covers (not outer sleeves), hits,
and people who say they've been influenced, I have never seen much
about their history or complete discography.

Anybody familiar with Billy Mure's Supersonic Guitars (RCA?)
He really likes to mix up his rockabilly/surf with jazz & lounge.
A nice cover of Misirlou for those overdosed on Dick Dale.

My thanks to all of you and your contributions.

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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: recommendations needed
Date: 08 Aug 1996 15:10:59 -0400

I was snooping around the CDNow site and found some good stuff hiding in New
Age and Bluegrass.  I need to know if any of the following CDs are worth my
purchase.  They're all on the Bear Family label.  Some of them I've never
even heard of, so they might not even be lounge/exotica/easy.

The Mystic Moods Orchestra - Stormy Weekend
Alan Milman Sect - Stitches
Teresa Brewer - Teenage Dance Party
Eartha Kitt - Eartha-Quake
Teenager Melodie - Teenager Melodie

They also have J.J. Perrey's Moog Indigo on CD (Vanguard) which I am very
happy about.

-Jordana
_____________________
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        [e-mail]
 image & direction
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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Re:  recommendations needed
Date: 08 Aug 1996 13:49:23 PDT

Mystic Moods Orchestra can really blow.  Suck too, if they try.  I think
Stormy Weekend kind of does both.  However, you should be able to find
any Mystic Moods record you want for about 25 cents at any local dirty
pile of dusty records basement type place.  Of all the Mystic Moods
records, I found one with a New-Wave looking cover, no title that I can
find on the cover anywhere.  It has great funk/soul/jazz type stuff
with Moog thrown in.  The record looks really 80's, you can't miss it
if you see it in a bin somewhere.  My suggestion, don't bother with
Mystic Moods on CD.  They seem to have some strange appeal in Europe
(Bear Family is German) along with James Last and Heino.  All about
equally as terrific when they are a quarter and painful when they are
import CD's at 20 bucks?  More? a pop...
Clark Scheffyu

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From: "Steve Sando" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Korla Pandit
Date: 08 Aug 1996 13:54:46 +0000

After all this Pandit talk, I just received a review copy of
Fantasy's 'Odyssey', which is tracks from 'Music of the Exotic East'
and 'Latin Holiday'. I prefer the Exotic East to the Latin, which is
pretty much merry-go-round organ but the whole thing is pretty fun. I
can't wait to serve curry to my guests and have something to play.



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]
Subject: Cult move places
Date: 08 Aug 1996 15:11:36 +0000

I've ordered from Midnight Movies and Video Search of Miama. I've
found the best of all, though, to be Something Wierd Video out of
Seattle. A huge catalog, that's well worth investing $5 for, just for
the artwork!

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From: "K.M.D. Sartori" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Vampiros Lesbos
Date: 08 Aug 1996 17:56:23 -0400

----------
> From: Mark Turner <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: Vampiros Lesbos
> Date: Thursday, August 08, 1996 12:22 PM
>
>
> > I agree, it is one hot damn fine CD reissue.  Makes me want to see the
> > film(s) real, real bad.  But I can't find a copy of it anywhere, and
I've
> > been searching ever since the CD came out.  Anybody know anybody else
who
> > may have access to Jess Franco's more obscure films?  Or does anybody
know
> > if it ever made it to videotape?
>
> The two best sources for cult films in the US (to my knowledge)
> are Video Search of Miami and Midnight Video in NYC.  They both
> specialize in films that are not commercially available in the
> US.
>
> --
>  Mark Turner
>  [e-mail]
>
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Hello.

IMHO, Midnight Video has the _best_ quality that you'll find;
they actually care.  VSoM has easily the worst.  I've never
seen a tape of theirs better than just "decent" quality, while
I've seen many from them that are nearly unwatchable.  I
admit that their inventory is huge, but if you can find a title
elsewhere, it will almost always be better quality.  Right in
their catalogue, in fact, they imply that just seeing a film is
more important than the transfer's quality.

Craig Ledbetter (and his excellent magazine European Trash
Cinema) have splintered away from VSoM and he now sells
excellent quality videos in the US$15-20 range.  I've invited
him to offer his services to the list.  If you would like to contact
him directly he's located at:  [e-mail].

I can vouch personally for the quality levels that I've mentioned.
If anyone is looking for telephone numbers or addresses of any
of the aforementioned companies, e-mail me directly:
[e-mail].

Good luck!
K.M.D. Sartori.




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From: [e-mail] (Joe Batutis)
Subject: Exotica on Video
Date: 08 Aug 1996 18:38:45 -0400

Other than films that have cool soundtrack music, does anyone out the have good
sources for exotica on video?

I got the Martin Denny that someone offered a while ago. I haven't gotten the
Korla Pandit tape that someone mentioned. Is it good? I heard that Esquivel had
made some appearances on Carson, any video available yet? I vaguely remember
catching a bit of Ferrante & Teicher prepared piano on a Steve Allen
rebroadcast.

I've also gone to see the kinescopes of Korla Pandit and Les Baxter that they
have at the Museum of T.V. and Radio here in NYC.



-Joe Batutis
http://www.amexpub.com/jbatutis/noddmusic/oddmusic.html

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: NEW DIONYSUS CATALOG
Date: 08 Aug 1996 19:00:32 -0400

>Now that I am banished from Anti, we will be ressurecting the Dionysus
Records mail-order catalog.

Lee,
Do tell, why the banishment?

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: recommendations needed
Date: 08 Aug 1996 19:03:36 -0400


>Alan Milman Sect - Stitches

Alan Milman was a NYC rocker-manque; when punkrock hit,he put out the half
parody/half cash-in "Stitches".The title song was covered by Urge Overkill
on their "Stull" ep.That's about the closest proximity to the world of
Lounge that this thing gets.The original record is considered quite
collectible, if you care about that sort of thing.

By the way,in all this discussion of Sir Julian (who's "13 Fingers of..." I
own and enjoy; especially "Bach Goes Berzerk" as I am a big fan of any
classical/pop crosspollination...er, short of ELP's "Pictures at an
Exhibition",that is) has anyone uncovered his TRUE IDENTITY? I have no idea
who he really is...what might he have played on besides his own records?
They're Hugo and Luigi productions- do you think he played on Stylistics
sides? Just wondering...


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Venture's "Lolita Ya-Ya"
Date: 08 Aug 1996 19:15:05 -0400

>>   A personal fave of mine as well.  Also of note: The Ventures did a real
>>  nice cover of "Lolita Ya Ya".  I've included it in many a mix tape.
>
>Could you tell me which album this cut is on?
>Also I've looked for a Ventures FAQ and have not found one.
>Considering the number of albums, covers (not outer sleeves), hits,
>and people who say they've been influenced, I have never seen much
>about their history or complete discography.


The Ventures' version of "Lolita Ya-Ya" appears on "Going to the Ventures'
Dance Party"(Dolton Records/BLP-2017).

This was the first version I heard,about 16 years ago...still a regular
selection when I'm DJing! Incidentally, "The Ventures in Space" is one of
my all-time fave records and would certainly appeal to anyone who enjoys
this list! It's definitely their high-water mark,IMHO.(it's available on CD
in a two-fer with "The Ventures play Telstar")

Ciao!

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: NEW DIONYSUS CATALOG & GIVEAWAY OFFER!
Date: 08 Aug 1996 19:46:14 -0400

Lee and Aime,
   PLEEEZE send me your catalogue!!!  I saw an ad in Axcess, I believe (or
perhaps Ben Is Dead?) and decided I really needed to make a commitment, one
way or another........

My address:
L M Parkhurst
1919 N. 14th Avenue
Pensacola, FL  32501

Though I trust you are prompt and punctual folks, please send this to me
soon!

Yours,
Esquerlita



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: recommendations needed
Date: 08 Aug 1996 20:27:17 -0400

Jordana: Of your list of records, the only thing I can respond to is the
Eartha Kitt CD. You can NEVER go wrong getting anything by Eartha Kitt. She's
my absolute favorite, and I have everything by her that's out on vinyl. I'd
also guess that Theresa Brewer's "Teenage Dance Party" would be worth it too.
Gloria

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From: living-stereo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Vampiros Lesbos
Date: 08 Aug 1996 17:33:42 -0700



>I agree, it is one hot damn fine CD reissue.  Makes me want to see the
>film(s) real, real bad.  But I can't find a copy of it anywhere, and I've
>been searching ever since the CD came out.  Anybody know anybody else who
>may have access to Jess Franco's more obscure films?  Or does anybody know
>if it ever made it to videotape?

Here in San Francisco, we had a great video store which calls itself Le
Video.  In their "cult" section, they have a nmuber of Jess Franco films.  I
had the same reaction...heard it...it kicks butt...gotta see it.  So they
are on video, but you may have to dig around to find an indie shop which
rents 'em.  You might even search right here on the web.


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From: Martin Schildkret <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Record stores (was: Italian cd's)
Date: 08 Aug 1996 20:47:46 -0400

At 12:11 PM 8/8/96 -0400, you wrote:

>I've heard that Virgin is pretty good as far as imports go, and they are
>expexcted to build two superstores here in D.C., sometime next year.  I hope
>their import section makes Tower and HMV look pretty lame.  In fact, the HMV
>in this area sucks, big time.

  It's the same thing here in NYC with the HMV stores. Their selection is at
best adequate and they are top dollar.  It appears that Virgin is really
trying to become a presence on the East Coast. Another store is supposed to
open up here in the city and one on Long Island.

  They are really an experience to go into.
>


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From: living-stereo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Exotica on Video
Date: 08 Aug 1996 17:49:27 -0700

At 06:38 PM 8/8/96 -0400, Joe Bautis writes:
>Other than films that have cool soundtrack music, does anyone out the have good
>sources for exotica on video?
>
>I got the Martin Denny that someone offered a while ago. I haven't gotten the
>Korla Pandit tape that someone mentioned. Is it good? I heard that Esquivel had
>made some appearances on Carson, any video available yet? I vaguely remember
>catching a bit of Ferrante & Teicher prepared piano on a Steve Allen
>rebroadcast.
>
>I've also gone to see the kinescopes of Korla Pandit and Les Baxter that they
>have at the Museum of T.V. and Radio here in NYC.

I thought the Korla Pandit was great and I have seen Les Baxter clips from
the same program that Dionysus used to produce Lost Episode.  Larry Bunker
appears along with theremin-voiced Beverly Ford.  She shows us how she does
the bird calls.  Sorry, but I don't know where it came from or how to get it.

Wanna have some fun?  Rent the Ernie Kovacs TV shows.  Should not be a hard
find at all...the SF public library has them!  This is some weird shit.
Wacky skits which are backed by wacky music...including the music of Juan
Garcia Esquivel himself (although you don't see him).  Too strange to
describe...way, way out there.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Vampiros Lesbos
Date: 08 Aug 1996 21:57:26 -0400

Yes, Le Video on Irving St. in San Francisco is an excellent resource for
hard-to-find movies. They haven't, however, been able to find an early 50's
film for me: The Little Fugitive.
Gloria

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From: [e-mail] (John Michael Jones)
Subject: Hiya!
Date: 09 Aug 1996 04:57:55 GMT

Hi all!
I just found out about this group, so decided to join.

I haven't received many letters yet, to get the flavor of the group,
but here are some of the things that interest me about this group.....

Esquivel...(of course)....Ken Nordine.....Incredibly Strange Music
Vols. 1&2......thrift store finds....etc....probably the same things
most people on this list enjoy.

Well, see ya for now.....

John
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Exotica on Video
Date: 09 Aug 1996 02:17:32 -0400

> I heard that Esquivel had made some appearances on Carson, any video
>available yet?

The Sights and Sounds of Esquivel! appeared on the Tonight Show once, in
1966. They played "Malague=F1a".

NBC erased 90% of "The Tonight Show" tapes of the 60's sometime in the
mid-70's. Esquivel's performance was wiped in that mass erasure.

What makes it worse is that he told me it was an outstanding performance,
although he had to fine Maria Caruso for frowning on camera.

>I vaguely remember catching a bit of Ferrante & Teicher prepared piano on
>a Steve Allen
>rebroadcast.

That's possible. They definitely appeared on the Ernie Kovacs Show (and
those tapes still exist)

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: The Domenic Frontiere-Lucia Pamela Connection
Date: 09 Aug 1996 00:42:41 +0000

Saw some discussion here recently re film composer Domenic Frontiere,
and I thought those who know her would be interested in Lucia
Pamela's connection to him.  According to a friend:

Lucia Pamela (in her 80's and mentally pretty much "on the moon") had a
daughter, Georgia, who married composer Domenic (one of many husbands, I
think, with all sorts of interesting"scandalous" stories a la Prince Charles/Dianna). But here's the
real myndblower: Georgia (Lucia's daughter) OWNS (or did up to last year)
the Los Angeles Rams football team! Lucia lives in a little bungalow
near their main office in downtown LA-a wonderful little oasis chock full
of grandmotherly homeyness.

That's it....





Michael Mascioli
All Music Services
530 14th St., suite 9
San Francisco, CA  94103
Ph: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]

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From: J P M <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Exotica on Video
Date: 09 Aug 1996 04:23:18 +0000

Someone should contact VH1 with all the Vault footage of interviews like
the Lennon/Ono and Hendrix stuff they are bound to have something or at
least know where to get it.

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From: living-stereo <[e-mail]>
Subject: The Little Fugutive
Date: 09 Aug 1996 06:50:56 -0700


>Yes, Le Video on Irving St. in San Francisco is an excellent resource for
>hard-to-find movies. They haven't, however, been able to find an early 50's
>film for me: The Little Fugitive.

I've caught "The Little Fugitive" on AMC (American Movie Classics) every so
often.  You got cable?  Then keep an eye peeled.  It is a great little
comedy/drama about a little kid who thinks he has killed his brother and
wanders lost through Coney Island.  Done on a shoestring budget, the muscial
score consists of nothing more than a winey harmonica solo.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Vampiros Lesbos
Date: 09 Aug 1996 10:48:10 -0400

Le Video in SF has a rather large selection of Jess Franco films (mostly
dubious quality dupes of PAL transfers) in their cult section.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: George Maharis/Route 66
Date: 09 Aug 1996 10:46:03 -0400

I'm pretty sure I've seen some George Maharis records at Medium Rare Records
(right here in SF) and (I think) also at Recycled on Haight (in their TV
personalities section).  You might also try Saturn Records at the Rockridge
BART stop - truly a great store with lots of interesting stuff.

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From: Watterworth Earle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Ethel Smith redoes "Liquid Sky"
Date: 08 Aug 1996 22:56:30 -0600 (MDT)

Is the "Liquid Sky" the movie that came out 10+ years ago that involved a
flying saucer and certain weird happenings that I need not go into here?

Just wondering,
Jay Watterworth
CU Boulder

On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Tony Wilds wrote:

> Well not yet, but until she does, there's today's Big score (above
> Katz/Sumac/Lyman):
>
> Cook Labs' "Marimba Band," subtitled "otherwise known as...To Hell With
> High-Fidelity"). Also on front: "Six men play a 23 ft. Marimba from
> Oaxaca...A HIGH-FIDELITY recording of a LOW-FIDELITY subject." Back photo
> apparently of the first United Nations meeting with everyone concentrating
> on tinking the Big Xylophone. Aural "yellow wallpaper" to be sure, but it
> does sound just like Ethel Smith organing the "Liquid Sky" soundtrack.
>
> NB (last post on this): for record 4sale list ($0-$50, gobs of the SABPM
> heroes), e-mail [e-mail] with "RECORD LIST" as subject (FTP TBA).
> Maybe give it a week. Caramba.
>
> "I'm a schlemiel of fortune." -- Mickey Katz
>
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From: John Chilson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Exotica on Video
Date: 09 Aug 1996 09:06:42 -0700 (PDT)

I VAGUELY remember seeing an Ernie Kovak's Show with Ernie doing some
far-out skit with an Esquivel song as music. I'll have to re-watch it.


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From: [e-mail] (Mark Turner)
Subject: Re: The Little Fugutive
Date: 09 Aug 1996 09:25:03 -0700 (PDT)


> I've caught "The Little Fugitive" on AMC (American Movie Classics) every so
> often.  You got cable?  Then keep an eye peeled.  It is a great little
> comedy/drama about a little kid who thinks he has killed his brother and
> wanders lost through Coney Island.  Done on a shoestring budget, the muscial
> score consists of nothing more than a winey harmonica solo.

The soundtrack to this film was released on Folkways Records.
I picked it up recently at Tower Clearance for ten cents!

--
 Mark Turner
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Exotica on Video
Date: 09 Aug 1996 11:15:40 -0400

There's a Something Weird compilation video called something like ROCK AND
ROLL RUMBLE (I can check on this if anyone is really interested) that is a
collection of trailers to rock and roll movies of the 50s and 60s.  Very cool
even just to catch a glimpse of the Tornados playing "Telstar" or Freddy and
the Dreamers romping around.  But that's not the exotic part.  They toss in a
few items that aren't trailers (one an amazingly lush video - no other word
for it - for Kay Starr's "Wheel of Fortune) and smack in the middle of the
tape is what would be called a Nudie Roughie.  It's titled "Girl in a Cage"
 and it is the most amazingly weird item.  It's a jungle set, rocking
agitated Las Vegas grind music with a cool electric guitar and a mesmerizing
riff.  In the jungle clearing is a bamboo cage with a Wild Woman in it.
 She's got long peroxide blonde hair, she's skinny, wearing a jungle outfit.
 She strips - equal parts Method Acting and Modern Dance - to the rocking
beat, thrusting herself at the bamboo cage and finishes by jabbing herself
repeatedly with a hypodermic needle (!?)  Wild.  I rented it at Le Video -
but I've seen it advertised in Outre - the offshoot of Filmfax magazine.

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Vampyros Lesbos
Date: 09 Aug 1996 15:23:54 +0000

>Subject: Re: Vampiros Lesbos
>
>I'm also in the dark about "Vampiros Lesbos," but it looks absolutely awful.
>

It's great !!!  Electric Sitar, Wordless Vocals, Mood electronic POP music
all instro except a few words spoken here and there.

GET IT NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW ;))  You'll love it

Jack



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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Andy Badale
Date: 09 Aug 1996 15:31:38 +0000

This is Angelo Badalamenti's "real name".  He used to hang with Jean
Jacques Perrey and Harry Breuer.  dig it

For me Twin Peaks is the last original sound of Pop music that is THE coolest.
Lately I've been calling it the "Aja" of the 90's ;-)>
Steely Dan's Aja of course.

Same thing for me with Twin Peaks is that it still destroys me and I've
listened to it sooooooooooooooooo many times, I can't count that high ;)

So what I want to know is WHAT are WE gonna say, be the catch phrase when
the year 2000 comes ?

I mean we had the 50's, the 60's here we are in the 90's what are we gonna
say when 2000 comes ????

many people I know are really concerned about this.
Help us out!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jack



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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Billy Mure
Date: 09 Aug 1996 15:35:29 +0000

Anybody familiar with Billy Mure's Supersonic Guitars (RCA?)
>He really likes to mix up his rockabilly/surf with jazz & lounge.
>A nice cover of Misirlou for those overdosed on Dick Dale.


Billy Mure kills!!!  He's also got a record on Strand that is  really
whacked with all Hawaiin Exotica and steel guitars and echo, reverb

Firecrackers on RCA is great too

Jack

What about Buddy Merrill ?



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re[2]: Sam "The Man" Taylor
Date: 06 Aug 1996 19:20:46 PST

     Sam "The Man" can be found on some Allan Freed albums! They were
     buddies, I assume!!!




> what's the deal with Sam the Man?  is he worth investigating?
>



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From: Bruce Rhodewalt <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Andy Badale
Date: 09 Aug 1996 17:29:45 -0700

Jack Diamond wrote:
>...
>
> So what I want to know is WHAT are WE gonna say, be the catch phrase when
> the year 2000 comes ?
>
> I mean we had the 50's, the 60's here we are in the 90's what are we gonna
> say when 2000 comes ????
>
> many people I know are really concerned about this.
> Help us out!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm really hoping for something interesting, such as "The Naughts" or "The
Double-Naughts," but I suspect it will be something horrible and clunky, such as
"The first decade of the 21st century."
--
Bruce Rhodewalt
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: House of Games playlist
Date: 09 Aug 1996 20:23:23 +0000


KFJC play list 5/19 for Jack Diamond


 Planets                 Chunky
 Cannonball/Nat Adderly  Paul Chambers-Bass
 A Little Taste                                  1955/SAVOY

 Shorty Rogers           Chelsea Memorandomn     More Mission Impossible
 Dick Harrell            Rock a Little Faster    Drums and More Drums

 Dick Hyman/Vinnie Bell  Knowing When to Leave   Spaced Out
 Mancini                 Experiment in Terror    62/RCA
 Claude Denjean          Na Na Hey Hey           Moog !
 Stu Phillips            Wild Party              Interns
 Mancini                 Kojak/S.W.A.T.          Cop Show Themes
 Richardson, Neil        The Riviera Affair      Sound Gallery
 Jim Sullivan            Sunshine Superman       Sitar Beat
 Esquivel                St Louis Blues          Genius of
 Hot Club of America     Hora Staccato           50'S/CORAL

 Joe Meek                Disc Dance of the
                         Globots
 Carl Brandt             Patty Duke Theme        Warner Bros.
 Herb Ellis Quintet      Pickly Wickly           1960/VERVE
 Richard Hayman          Goin' Out of My Head    Genuine Electric
                                                 Latin Love
                                                 Machine!!!!!!!!!

 Carlo Rustichelli       Blackmail W/ Loving     Birds,Bees and
                         Care                    The Italians

 Danny Guglielmi         Hot Schottish           Adventure in Sound
 Fred Lowery             Happy Hobo              58,9/DECCA
 Mancini                 Theme for Three         Rca/Flip of
                                                 Wait Until Dark 45
 Attileo Mineo           Around the World        Man in Space
                                                 With Sounds
 Nordine                 Hunger Is From          57,8/DOT
 Esquivel                Bella Mora              Exploring in St.
                                                 RCA/1958,9
 Dean Elliot Orchestra   It's All Right with Me  Zounds!!!!!!!!!
 Lord Sitar              I Can See for Miles     Capitol
 Jack Mc Duff            Briar Patch             66/PRESTIGE
 Haircut and the
 Impossibles             Inside Looking Out      Somerset
 Astro Sounds            Orbit Fantasy           101 Strings
 Armando Trvajoli        Seven Golden Men
 Check Out the Cover to  This on My Web Page at
 Http://Www.Cygnus.Com/  Kfjc/Diamond
 Phil Baugh              The Finger              Country Guitar
 Jackie Gleason Orch.    Melancholy Seranade     Jackie Gleason
 Louise Huebner          Demon Spell for Energy
 Les Baxter              Jungle Montuna
 Esquivel                Moonlight Enchantment   To Love Again
 Betty Glamann           S'wonderful             Swingin' on a
 B.Galbraith,E.Costa-    Vibes,Celeste           Harp/Emarcy
 Leon Mc Auliff          Brahma Bull             62/STARDAY
 Jim Gordon              Frogs
 Roland Shaw             The Avengers
 Les Baxter W/ Plas J.   Voodoo Dreams           Stereo
 Ayers, Roy              Aragon                  Coffy

 Bernard Herrmann        Day the Earth Stood     1974!!THEREMIN
                         Still
 Bo Axelzon              Salome                  Subliminal
 & His Exotic Sounds                             Sounds
 Pete Rugolo             Diamond on the Move

KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
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From: james b gerwitz <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: Andy Badale
Date: 09 Aug 1996 21:28:52 -0700



On 8/9/96 Jack wrote:
<Same thing for me with Twin Peaks is that it still destroys me and I've
listened to it sooooooooooooooooo many times, I can't count that high >

With all the discussion of Twin Peaks we must not forget the two Julee =
Cruise cd's , "Floating Into the Night" and "The Voice of Love" which =
are total Andy Bad, and IMHO definitive modern easy listening vocals for =
the 90's . They include her songs from the Twin Peaks and other Lynch =
soundtracks, but stand up well on their own as flowing, sensuous, =
sooooothing mood music for the pre and post-apocalypse.  'Floating" was =
a ritual in my home to get my toddler son to sleep, and it still works =
for me. (Love her whispered lyric "why don't you come over to my house,  =
PLEASE!")

A video stage "performance" of these songs with Julee, the dwarf, =
writhing nudes humping cars, and other weird music was released in 1990 =
as "Industrial Symphony # 1, under Lynch's name.  I bought my copy used =
for $3,  and you can probably find one gathering dust at your local =
video rental store.  Worth a look for Julee Cruisers.  Anyone know what =
she and/or Angelo are up to lately ?  Seems like its been a =
while......more PRODUCT please!

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Liquid Sky
Date: 09 Aug 1996 22:39:31 +0000

Is the "Liquid Sky" the movie that came out 10+ years ago that involved a
>flying saucer and certain weird happenings that I need not go into here?
>
>Just wondering,
>Jay Watterworth
>CU Boulder

Shaaaaaa!!!  I saw that movie when it 1st came out soooooooooo many times.
I tried to watch it about a year ago and forget it.

Talk about new wave like you _never saw_ ;))  Big time

So yeah, there's this flying saucer who gets it's strength or survives or
whatever from people's orgasm's and then disintigrates them.  Pretty much
something like that there and there's lots of club scenes and this woman
plays both lead parts which are male and female and it's really obvious
anyway...
If you haven't seen it AND you're too young ;)) to rememeber it coming out
and the "times themselves" check it out.  I think you'll like it

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Liquid Sky
Date: 10 Aug 1996 01:44:14 -0500

> Is the "Liquid Sky" the movie that came out 10+ years ago that involved a
> >flying saucer and certain weird happenings that I need not go into here?

> Shaaaaaa!!!  I saw that movie when it 1st came out soooooooooo many times.
> I tried to watch it about a year ago and forget it.
>
> Talk about new wave like you _never saw_ ;))  Big time

Oh yeah!  That was such a coool subbaculture movie.  The premise was
that the substance created in the brain during orgasm has the same
molecular structure as heroine, which the visiting aliens feed upon.
Gags galore follow!  One unforgettable scene was an avant-garde
concert with the song "Me And My Beatbox," a terrible beatnik-like
babble with 'beats' and a BIG jaded New Yawk attitude which fit the
film well.  Loved every bit!


kevin king
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: See "Scopitone Mania" in your town
Date: 10 Aug 1996 03:33:04 -0400

Best travelling "lounge" show: Scopitones are outstanding 16mm "video
jukebox" films stretching from twist and cha cha (Pachanga anyway) to icky
Procul Harem. Luis Malle directed a gory/sexy bullfight one, Francoise Hardy
is in one, as is the woman who invented the Pia Zadora beatnik-in-black
look. Fad died bc the French company that made them failed to supply tech
supt. [Ahem, digiphiles.] Expect skirts-blown-up shots (France), mucho
twistin', bizzare plots, and cheap-wack sets as never seen on MTV. (Source
with VHS tapes also has John Cassavetes in "Johnny Staccato," the world's
_most wired_ PI/jazzbo: film noir as TV show; an episode has Jack "Mr.
Bongo" Costanzo. Also "Shindig" and other classic TV music showcases.) SEE
the gods.


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: 99 Versions of La Dolce Torture
Date: 10 Aug 1996 03:33:08 -0400

At 09:10 AM 8/8/96 -0400, you wrote:
>It's still no "44 Exciting Versions of the Hawaiian War Chant"

Let me be the first to praise and recommend War Chants, which is up to 4 or
5 hours now of solid hapa-haole irritainment. Actually, I don't even
consider that effort torturous, at least not until I provide the "Enchanted
Tiki Room" version. As for "T42 Cha Cha," that's your baby, Jack "King of
the Shill" Taylor, so live with the luv, dammit. Twas Homer Simpson who said
--while listening to just 1 version of "Patricia"-- "There's not woman alive
who can resist a man who knows how to mambo." Conjure the manly
Marge-attracting mojo of 38 hypno-stereo versions (two twists!).

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Edmundo Ros
Date: 10 Aug 1996 03:33:12 -0400

At 09:18 AM 8/8/96 PDT, you wrote:
>"Hare Krishna"

Edmundo Ros, the Xavier Cugat of England, rumbas it twice. On "Hair Goes
Latin," no relation to "Twist Goes Latin," he does the superior version. On
"Silk'n Latin" he gives equal time to Caterina Valente, who sounds like she
has had too good a time at Ros's swank London niteclub. They collabbed on
another LP as well. Ros is an under-appreciated Latin-exponent hero. Luv his
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Liquid Sky
Date: 10 Aug 1996 03:47:17 -0400

Ziggy Stardust as your neighborhood pub. Ann Carlisle, findable in other
B-movies, played the freaky-freaky. "If I love somebody, what difference
does it make what shape their genitals are?" (or something like that, it's a
haze) -- yikes! Call me a prude. I'm impressed, Mr. D., that you made her
casting duality immediately. Obviously you were underserved by your
bartender. I opine that "Repo Man," despite great yuks, was inferior, and
that both had monumental soundtracks for extremely different reasons. (LS
was a homemade basement synth job of "Day the Earth Stood Still" stature --
still, I wouldn't play it today!) Now let's Switch-on-Bach to exotica.

Admired, envied most of your play list.


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Exotica on Video
Date: 10 Aug 1996 03:33:35 -0400

See post on Scopitones. I have some and would love to discover someone
making a serious effort to compile ALL such performances. Check rental
stores for Cugat (about 18 MGM flicks) and Carmen Miranda (dozen or so MGM).
"A Date with Judy" has both plus Liz Taylor. Also WFMU catalog; Indian food
stores with tape rentals for filmi. Musee of TV has much more; ask about the
old series filmed in Hawaii, for instance.

Just about every good film noir has a Miranda-esque nightclub scene, or else
the PI/cop visits the jazzman's pad where some mad after-hours bongoing is
going on. In the BS future, of course, there will be a cable channel. New
list potential now. Good luck.


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Big boots, big feet
Date: 10 Aug 1996 04:35:26 -0400

I just read in Walter Scott, I mean Parade, that Laurence Fishbourne, star
of Letterman and Leno these days, was THE Cowboy Curtis on PeeWee's "Look,
it's 'Bob!'" Playhouse. (No, this ain't salient, but I'm awake and you're
not.) In perhaps the greatest half-hour of TV, Cowboy Curtis sings a song
about eatin' rattlesnake or something (good eatin' BTW), and PeeWee admires
CC's cowboy boots. To which CC/LF replies, "You know what they say, PeeWee,
big boots, big feet." [!] So to reciprocate for the ditty, PeeWee has CC
strap on a _fake mohawk wig_ ("You _have_ to wear a mohawk, Cowboy Curtis")
[oh, this show was great] and via the Magic Screen jump into a taped,
live-action splice of a punk club scene, to do...THE POGO, the world's most
socially conscious dance (it's like, totally vertical, ya know?). Please put
_that_ on Nick-at-Nite, boomer channel.

"Follow the bouncing Jambi-head...Mecca-lecca high, mecca hiney 'ho!" -- St.
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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: Andy Badale
Date: 10 Aug 1996 07:12:56 -0600 (MDT)


>So what I want to know is WHAT are WE gonna say, be the catch phrase when
>the year 2000 comes ?
>
>I mean we had the 50's, the 60's here we are in the 90's what are we gonna
>say when 2000 comes ????

Jack,

I like the "00's", said "the zeros". People probably won't say that though.
Sounds kinda depressing, but it really makes me laugh - "the zeros". Like
it'll be a worthless point in time. Reckon it will get refered to as "the
turn of the century". Yawn.

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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: Liquid Sky
Date: 10 Aug 1996 07:18:36 -0600 (MDT)

As for Liquid Sky - and maybe this was already discussed as I got zapped
from the list for a couple days - the soundtrack is some fantastic bad taste
synthesizers stuff. Used to be really easy to find, but as soon as I decided
it must be purchased, I couldn't find it at all. Found it in New York over
Xmas for $7 and yelped out loud when I spotted it - and I might add, I was
on my own in the shop.

People who are techno/experimental musically-inclined will dig it's weirdness.

Jill

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Big boots, big feet
Date: 10 Aug 1996 09:07:19 -0500

"There's a lot you can do with a pair of giant underpants."
(drapes a pair over his head)
"Look!  I'm a nun!"
- PeeWee

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Andy Badale
Date: 10 Aug 1996 12:48:40 -0400

It might be easier to focus on the millenium rather than the zeros.  Seems
like some techno-beatnik might go for:  2K  (with 2012 rendered as Two-K
Twelve)
or the gangster minded:  2Gs
or the swanky:  Two Grand  (with 2010 noted as Two Grand and a dime)
For the truly hip:  The Deuce  (2001 - hmmm, Deucey Acey?)
or simply adopt a zero counter approach:  What year?  Back in Six. (for 2006)

But you know, its just gonna be "Oh" - as in Twenty Oh Two for 2002.

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From: [e-mail] (Daniel Taub)
Subject: Re: Andy Badale
Date: 10 Aug 1996 10:03:37 -0700

>It might be easier to focus on the millenium rather than the zeros.  Seems
>like some techno-beatnik might go for:  2K  (with 2012 rendered as Two-K
>Twelve)
>or the gangster minded:  2Gs
>or the swanky:  Two Grand  (with 2010 noted as Two Grand and a dime)
>For the truly hip:  The Deuce  (2001 - hmmm, Deucey Acey?)
>or simply adopt a zero counter approach:  What year?  Back in Six. (for 2006)
>
>But you know, its just gonna be "Oh" - as in Twenty Oh Two for 2002.
>

How about "ought" instead of "oh," like the ol' time goldminers used to
say. Sample: "I haven't seen a car like that since ought-6! Dagnabbit!"

                                                                Daniel



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Something Weird Video
Date: 10 Aug 1996 09:49:03 -0600

Here is the address and phone number for Something Weird Video...my
favorite place to order.

I recommend their full catalog. It is $5, but it's 120 pages with great art
and in-depth descriptions of the films. All the videos are $20, shipping is
$3, with $1.50 for each additional video. These are high-quality masters
in a hard-shell case. Something Weird has bought the rights to the
majority of these films... a few of the subjects include:

60s and 70s Sexo A Go-Go
Coffin Joe
The Films Of David Friedman
The Films Of Harry Noval
Hershell Gordon Lewis
Ed Wood
60s Asian Erotric Cinema
Drug Movies
Nudist Potpourri


Call 206-361-3759

Address: SWV Catalog
               Department Woody
               P.O. Box 33664
               Seattle, WA 98133

Enjoy!

[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Matt Love)
Subject: Little Jack Melody and His Young Turks
Date: 10 Aug 1996 15:10:50 -0800

Here's something that I think will interest members of this list. Little
Jack Melody and His Young Turks will be playing (and looking for) gigs up
and down the west coast in the month of September.  Though I dislike press
release jive, I couldn't come up with a better description:

"Little Jack Melody formed his band of Young Turks in Denton, Texas in June
of 1990 to take his iconoclastic brand of neo-cabaret to the world.
They've been described as "Kurt Weill for the Tarantino age", tango-delic
circus cabaret", and "Tom Waits meets Frank Sinatra."

An acoustic minimalist orchestra, the instrumentation of LJM and His Young
Turks is unique - harmonium, piano, organ, accordion, tenor banjo, tuba,
saxes, drum kit, and vocal.  Most of the band's repertoire is the original
music of LJM, but they also cover everyone from Nena to Nino Rota, Petula
Clark to Beethoven.

The band's debut CD, On the Blank Generation, received rave reviews in a
wide array of national publications, including an "All Things Considered"
feature. World of Fireworks, the follow-up, was recently released by Carpe
Diem Records."

I first heard of the band from the All Things Considered, and I bought the
CD on the strength of the few seconds of music they played. My first
impression from On the Blank Generation was that Steve Carter (AKA Little
Jack) and his cohorts were a melancholic lot, though definitely smart and
swank.  I played the CD a great deal, so I was delighted to help bring them
to Olympia a couple of years ago.  I worked like a pig on the show, and
though the turn-out was small, the crowd was extremely enthusiastic.  The
Turks were smart and swank to be sure, but melancholic?  They swung
furiously, and they also tangoed with a vengeance.  They are masters of the
polka, the waltz, the beguine, and they rocked out.  The show was the best
I've seen in my life.

I am very happy to again be able to play a role in bringing them to town
this year, and I hope other people on this list will want to do the same
thing for their towns.  (I'm not a music business professional, and I'm not
getting a penny for promoting this.  I expect to expend a fair amount of
pocket change on this project.  This is a small town, and it's hard to
break new acts in.  One performance here a couple of years back hasn't
helped a lot to create a lot of name recognition.  I'm just jazzed to do
this show because I love this music).

If you live on the west coast, why not give Steve a call at [phone]
and see when he's coming to your town, or if you can schedule a show if one
hasn't been booked in your town yet?



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: All Third Man, All the Time
Date: 10 Aug 1996 18:06:12 -0500

>I just completed a 90-minute tape consisting of 32 different versions of
>"The Third Man Theme."  And they said it couldn't (shouldn't?) be done!
>


wow...this sounds completely demented. i would love to trade a copy for
something i'll whip together...i am working on a few similar collections.

BTW...putting a link to the Standards page in Vik's this weekend.

my snail mail:

Frank Davis
114 W. 26th St. 11th Floor
New York, NY   10001


in swank,
Vik


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




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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: The Return of Gramophone Emporium
Date: 10 Aug 1996 23:37:32 +0000

Well, I think the Vinyl Gods have been suitably impressed by my
activities of late.  Today I made a return pilgramage to my old
favourite Edinburgh vinyl vault "Gramophone Emporium".  I didn't even
know if it was still running, having been flooded out at the start of
the year.  My timing was impeccable as today was the first day they
were open in over 6 months!!!!

Anyway, I did not badly:

Enoch Light & related:
Tony Mottola - Tony & Strings (Project 3)
             - Warm Wild & Wonderful (Project 3)
             - Tony's Touch (Grand Prix)
Dick Hyman   - Concerto Electro (Command)
             - Dick Hyman & His Trio (Command)
Dick Hyman & Harpsichord - Happening! (Command)
Doc Severinsen Sextet - Live! (Command)

Misc oddities:
Sid Bass       - Sound & Fury (feat Urbie Green)
Milt Buckner   - Rockin' Hammond
Ron Frangipane - Rated X for Excitement (feat Ron Frangipane on Moog,
                 Vinnie Bell, and orchestra!)
Harmonicats  - Selected Favorites
Woody Herman - Everest compilation
             - The Hits of...
Stan Kenton  - Fire, Fury & Fun
             - Kenton in Hi Fi
Eddie Lund and his Tahitians - Haka Moko
Billy May - Sorta-May
various   - !Wild! Stereo Drums (feat two kickin' Dick Harrell* tracks
            and versions of Baxter's 'Ting Ting Ting' and 'Uncle Tom
            Tom')
various   - Dancing Beat of the Swing Bands (feat Urbie Green,
            Buddy Morrow, Sid Ramin)

Test records:
audiotex Stereo Test Record (for Home and Laboratory Use)
Shure audio obstacle course - era III (stereo tests)

[* does anyone know who Dick Harrell is?!]

My wallet's still reeling somewhat!

Not all of these are great, and those that are great are not all in
great condition but overall I'm very happy - my collection of Command
LPs has multiplied several-fold in one leap and my collection of
Project 3 LPs has finally *started*!  That'll teach me to keep saying
how impossible it is to find Command and Project 3 material over here!

If anyone is screaming for any of the above, I could be tempted but
am not likely to yield the Hyman, Mottola and Severinsen LPs!

Long-time subscribers to the list may remember me raving about this
shop many moons ago and they may also remember that I said there was a
good chance that they were going to go "on line" in the form of taking
a subscription at my Virtual Vinyl website.  Well, they're still
interested but it won't be for another 2-3 months as they're still
trying to get themselve straightened out.

I'll keep you all updated on this as I reckon that despite my scorch
and burn raid today(!) they'll still have lots that list members will
be interested in.

More later (in the year!)


Robbie

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

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Little Jack Melody and His Young Turks
Date: 11 Aug 1996 01:08:45 -0400

I saw Little Jack Melody and the Young Turks play at Cafe Du Nord in SF a few
years back - awesome live show.  I had loved the first CD, but I was
unprepared for the energy, style, and sheer performing charisma of Steve
Carter.  Highly recommended if you have any taste for tangy, Kurt Weill/Tom
Waits kinda sounds.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Framables
Date: 11 Aug 1996 01:54:59 -0400

>Any other nominations for the
>most frameable?
I've got a copy of Leo Diamond's "Subliminal Sounds" with a winking eye
that's a favorite. Also love the "Stereo Action" die-cut covers, although the
only one I have is the sampler. A friend of mine has a collection on his wall
of covers done by famous cartoonists that look great . When I was in arizona
i went into a large and pricey record store (can't remember the name) which
grouped albums on the wall conceptually; there would be, for example, a six
foot square of album covers which all consisted of very tight closeups of
faces. I have to draw the line at buying albums  solely for the cover as the
collection would be totally out of control.

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Framables
Date: 11 Aug 1996 08:53:20 -0500

 >Any other nominations for the
 >most frameable?

A few I've kept only for the covers:

Bob Creash Quintet - Cocktails Anyone?
BIG close-up of a cocktail glass filled with an amber liquid that
refracts a slightly fuzzy image behind of a woman's face looking
longingly up at it (mouth agape, eyes half closed) all in a pink
haze.  The music on this is just alright, small combo with accordion.

Morton Gould - Temptation
Beautiful color and layout.  Temptation in large red helvetica with
Morton Gould in smaller gold type above.  Cheesy set with powder blue
background, green fronds out of focus to the left, palm tree with
snake to the right and a gold sequined clad brunette holding an apple
in the center.

and one I haven't even listened to:
Astounding High Fidelity In Stereo
Varied type (IN STEREO in applied gold) over black background.  Two
hands with a baton and a swirly light trace pattern of the baton's
movement.  A few small color dots placed here and there on the trace.

and the most shocking:
Out of those eye-pleasing covers for Richard Hayman's Mercury
releases, I would pick Caramba! as one of the most subliminally
violent covers I've ever seen.  A woman cringes with glee as a man
threatens to bash her over the head with his maraca!  The record is
as dull as dishwater.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Major record score
Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:42:15 -0600

I'm on cloud nine. I had a major record score at a local (El Paso, TX) flea market... a buck
apiece.

Here's what I scored...

Les Baxter - "Love Is Blue"
Les Baxter - "Round The World With Les Baxter"
Les Baxter - "Carribean Moonlight"
Les Baxter - Sensational!
Martin Denny - The Best Of Martin Denny
Martin Denny - A Taste of Honey (two copies)
Ahthur Lyman - Taboo (near mint)
Enoch Light - Let's Dance The Bossa Nova
Enoch Light - Persuasive Percussion Vol. 3
Jackie Gleason - Opiate d'Amour
Jackie Gleason - Aphrodisia
Jackie Gleason - Music, Martinis and Memories
Dick Schory's Percussion Pops Orchestra - Supercussion  (still sealed)
Dick Schory - Holiday For Percussion (Stereo Action release)
Edmundo Ros and His Orchestra - Bongos From The South
Dominic Frontiere and Orchestra - Pagan Festival: An Exotic Love Ritual For Orchestra
Murry Arnold Quartet - Overheard In A Cocktail Lounge
Jane Mansfield - Shakespeare, Tchiakovsky and Me
l,a woman part II orchestra - Soundtrack to "2"
Mohammed El-Bakkar and His Oriental Ensemble - Port Said    (what a cover!)
Henri Rene and his Orchestra - Music For Bachelors
Gershon Kingsley's First Moog Quartet  (still sealed!)
Polynesians - Polynesia
Ann Corio - Hopw To Strip For Your Husband
Morton Gould - Blues In The Night  (mint condition)
Haiti Danse Chorus and Orchestra - Voodoo!
Syanley Black and his Orchestra - Exotic Percussion
Ahmed Ali and the Sultans - Harem Midnight


Whew! I blew a bunch of bucks, but got a _hell_ of a lot of good listening (for a little more than
the price of two CDs... 'nuff said.)

[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: compilation idea
Date: 10 Aug 1996 22:51:26 -0600

Here's a really demented idea. Why don't we see how many copies of
"Whipped Cream And Other Delights" we can amass as a group. I don't
think I've ever been to a music store that _didn't_ have a copy. I
actually saw someone try to sell a copy for $5.

Just think...one could wallpaper an entire house in "Whipped..." for much
less than the average wallpaper cost. And due to the thickness of the
cardboard, it could serve the dual purpose of being insulation.

After that, we can start on Ray Coniff and Mitch Miller.

And then, maybe not.

[e-mail]

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Subject: Re: compilation idea
Date: 11 Aug 1996 12:00:29 -0700

[e-mail] wrote:
>
>...
>
> Just think...one could wallpaper an entire house in "Whipped..." for much
> less than the average wallpaper cost. And due to the thickness of the
> cardboard, it could serve the dual purpose of being insulation.
>

It could serve other purposes as well.

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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: compilation idea
Date: 11 Aug 1996 13:10:51 -0600 (MDT)

> Here's a really demented idea. Why don't we see how many copies of
> "Whipped Cream And Other Delights" we can amass as a group.

You're too late, my pal Scooter and I have been doing this for some time.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Scoring at the Swap
Date: 11 Aug 1996 19:04:08 -0400

Just got back from the KUSF record swap and I scored and scored big.  I
practically camped out at Mickey Magowan's table where I bought:

GREAT JAZZ FROM GREAT TV by Bob Mersey - Very cool crime jazz, basically done
as production music and used on a number of shows.  Compares favorably to
classic PETER GUNN era Mancini and dig these titles: "Jazz Dramatic" "Blue
Sax" "Flutesville" "Forever Frantic" "Beatnik" "Vibraphonics" "Call Girl."
 Bob was best known as a producer at Columbia (producing Andy Williams' "Moon
River" speaking of Mancini).  Music by Det Moor and his Orchestra.  The notes
said that much of this music was done for European (I think UK) TV.  Great
find, and only $8.

Les Baxter's - TEEN DRUMS, probably in VG condition - about $15.  Y'all know
how cool this record is.

BUT YOU'VE NEVER HEARD GERSHWIN WITH BONGOS - Don Ralke.  Don is my favorite
Bongo man, and this is wall to wall fun.  $10.

MUSIC FROM OUT OF SPACE - Pete Rugolo.  Jack?  Br. Cleve?  What do you know
about this?  Dealer said it was rare and he was letting it go to me cheap at
$15 (some scratches).  I love Rugolo's RICHARD DIAMOND soundtrack, and
couldn't resist titles like "Stereo Space Man" and "In a Modal Tone" or
"Ballade for Drums."

GOLDFINGER - Billy Strange, $4.  Has his original "Theme for Pussy Galore"
and "The Munsters" theme.

GIRL FROM U.N.C.L.E. - Teddy Randazzo.  Most of you seem to have this.  Very
fun stuff, $12.

A MAN CALLED DAGGER - Steve Alllen. $4.  Has "The Swingin' Dagger Theme"
which should have prompted a lawsuit from John Barry.  Some hot little chase
scene cues.

EXPERIMENT IN TERROR - Mancini.  $9.  Good shape but not mint.  Jack Diamond
was raving about this recently.  The best part - the many twist tunes.

WHISTLING AT WAIKIKI BEACH - Muzzy Marcellino, $11.  Whistling Exotica, two
great tastes that go great together.

Some records that *would* have been bought if I had a single more drachma to
spare:

Domenic Frontiere' PAGAN FESTIVAL - recently discussed on the list.  Saw two
foil copies (both mono) going for fairly cheap prices ($6).

HOT ROD JAZZ  (didn't catch the artist - anybody know?) It promised "Twangy
Guitar and Tenor Sax" - a combination I usually find irresistible, but it was
going for $18 and Muzzy and Rugolo were selling for less.

M-SQUAD - $10 - Ahhh, can't believe I didn't buy this.  I've seen it priced
as high as $60.  But again, I'd shot my wad.  Non-Buyer's remorse.

--David


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From: Sax Therapy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Scoring at the Swap
Date: 11 Aug 1996 20:16:42 -0600

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> Just got back from the KUSF record swap and I scored and scored big.  I
> practically camped out at Mickey Magowan's table where I bought:
>
> WHISTLING AT WAIKIKI BEACH - Muzzy Marcellino, $11.  Whistling Exotica, two
> great tastes that go great together.
>
>
> --David

Sax Therapy replies:>

I'd love to get a tape copy of the Muzzy Marvellino from you. I've
been putting together a doscography of whistling tunes and this would
be a good addition. I plan to put together a whistling tape when I
get more material, Of course it will include such classics as Whistle
While You Work, March from the Bridge on the River Kwai, Les Paul's
Walkin' and Whistlin', I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman, and many more.
I would like to hear from other Exotica list memebers about some of
the whistling tunes in their collections....Saul

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Subject: Re: compilation idea
Date: 11 Aug 1996 20:19:07 -0600

Lazlo Nibble wrote:
>
> > Here's a really demented idea. Why don't we see how many copies of
> > "Whipped Cream And Other Delights" we can amass as a group.
>
> You're too late, my pal Scooter and I have been doing this for some time.
>
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Subject: Re: The Return of Gramophone Emporium
Date: 11 Aug 1996 21:58:25 -0400

I first heard Sid Bass on a Della Reese album that I've never been able to
replace. (I pretty much have played "You've Come A Long Way From St. Louis"
to death). He's great. By the way have you ever heard Jan and Dean's horrible
rendition of "You've Come A Long Way From St. Louis"? It's on the Surf City
LP. Most of the stuff, except for Surf City, is awful.
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From: Hi-Fi <[e-mail]>
Subject: Whistle A Happy Tune
Date: 11 Aug 1996 19:07:37 -0700

>I would like to hear from other Exotica list memebers about some of
>the whistling tunes in their collections....Saul

How 'bout "Whistle A Happy Tune" and "Walking Along Kicking The Leaves", by
the blind warbler, Fred Lowery?  Two LP's devoted to the art of whistling.
On "Walking Along...." there is a steel guitar backup...really good.  I love
whistling records.  I really do.

Rossana In The Morning from Seven Golden Men and The Moog And Me...Dick
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Scoring at the Swap
Date: 11 Aug 1996 22:21:42 -0400

>HOT ROD JAZZ  (didn't catch the artist - anybody know?) It promised "Twangy
Guitar and Tenor Sax" - a combination I usually find irresistible, but it was
going for $18 and Muzzy and Rugolo were selling for less.

You didn't miss anything there. I had it and sold it as it was not very
twangy  at all. As I remember it was more big band and jazzy. Definately
fraudulent.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Whistle A Happy Tune
Date: 11 Aug 1996 22:50:43 -0400

As I mentioned in my earlier post I just scored Muzzy Marcellino's WHISTLING
ON WAIKIKI BEACH.  Also have all the usual Allessandro Allessandroni
whistling on Morricone soundtracks (he's also the whistler on SEVEN GOLDEN
MEN).  Would like to have the soundtrack for A FACE IN THE CROWD as it
features a snazzy whistling and harmonica theme.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Scoring at the Swap
Date: 11 Aug 1996 22:56:52 -0400

We can arrange a trade.  I'm particularly interested in exotica and crime/spy
jazz, but I'm open to anything interesting.  I do have the SEVEN GOLDEN MEN
soundtrack which features the title theme whistled in a couple different
arrangements, Cozy Cole's version of "Big Noise From Winnetka" which features
whistling and the Rhino Morricone 2-CD best of with lots of whistling.  Let
me know what you'd like.

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From: Sax Therapy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Scoring at the Swap
Date: 11 Aug 1996 22:30:24 -0600

do you have the mancini cop show themes? I also have Johnny Mandel's
jazz score for "I Want To Live", west coast jazz with Shelly Manne,
Jack Sheldon (btw I have a great comedy album by jack), Bill Holman,
Frank Rosolino. I also have some good Hawaiian and Calypso. I'll
put this stuff on a c-90 and send it off to you. Any of that
whistling stuff you mention would be fine with me. Send me your
address, mine is 2444 W Ainslie Chicago IL 60625. I'm moving at
the end of the month and don't have a new place yet but I know
the people who are moving in and they will hold any mail for me
so if you can't get it to me before the end of the month it won't
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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: compilation idea
Date: 11 Aug 1996 22:05:34 -0600 (MDT)

>>> Here's a really demented idea. Why don't we see how many copies of
>>> "Whipped Cream And Other Delights" we can amass as a group.
>>
>> You're too late, my pal Scooter and I have been doing this for some
>> time.
>
> what have you guys been smoking?

Laugh if you want, mortal, but *I've* done the math.  Once we own every
copy ever pressed, the record will suddenly be so hard to find that each
one will be worth well into six figures.  Multiply that by the millions of
copies we'll have and we'll basically control the economy of the entire
solar system.  And the smartass comment above just landed you on permanent
K.P.  whan *that* comes to pass, pally . . .

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From: Joseph <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: The Return of Gramophone Emporium
Date: 12 Aug 1996 01:22:20 -0400 (EDT)

At 09:58 PM 11/08/1996 -0400, you wrote:
>I first heard Sid Bass on a Della Reese album that I've never been able to
>replace. (I pretty much have played "You've Come A Long Way From St. Louis"
>to death). He's great. By the way have you ever heard Jan and Dean's horrible
>rendition of "You've Come A Long Way From St. Louis"? It's on the Surf City
>LP. Most of the stuff, except for Surf City, is awful.
>Gloria


Actually, Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney do a TERRIFIC versipon of "You've
come a long way..." on their album "Rendezvous".  On the same album is a
terrific lounge cover of the tune "Brazil".


Un-related, but well worth looking for

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From: Joseph <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: compilation idea
Date: 12 Aug 1996 01:29:24 -0400 (EDT)

At 10:05 PM 11/08/1996 -0600, you wrote:
>>>> Here's a really demented idea. Why don't we see how many copies of
>>>> "Whipped Cream And Other Delights" we can amass as a group.
>>>
>>> You're too late, my pal Scooter and I have been doing this for some
>>> time.
>>
>> what have you guys been smoking?
>
>Laugh if you want, mortal, but *I've* done the math.  Once we own every
>copy ever pressed, the record will suddenly be so hard to find that each
>one will be worth well into six figures.  Multiply that by the millions of
>copies we'll have and we'll basically control the economy of the entire
>solar system.


That's all I needed to hear...

...ok...I'm in!

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Billy Mure
Date: 12 Aug 1996 09:28:04 -0400

     To Ray via e-mail, and the list:

     Hello Ray,

     (From: [e-mail]
     Date: 8 Aug 96 15:19:28 EDT
     Subject: Hello O Hell)

     You wrote:

     Anybody familiar with Billy Mure's Supersonic Guitars (RCA?)
     He really likes to mix up his rockabilly/surf with jazz & lounge.
     A nice cover of Misirlou for those overdosed on Dick Dale.

     And I answered:

     Yes! I just picked up my first Mure album (Fireworks!) and was
     absolutley floored by 50% of the album. One half was OK instros with
     sappy female 'doo-wahhh' vocals, but the good half was intense! The
     lead-off track (Firecracker, I think - I don't have it here with me)
     was just one of the best guitar instros I've heard. I don't dare play
     it while driving because I'll get arrested! He's on my list now.

     Craig
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From: [e-mail] (lou smith)
Subject: RE: Andy Badale
Date: 12 Aug 1996 14:15:43 GMT

On Aug 09, 1996 21:28:52, 'james b gerwitz <[e-mail]>' wrote:
>Anyone know what =
>she and/or Angelo are up to lately ?  Seems like its been a =
>while......more PRODUCT please!
>
>Jim G.
>

Look for Badalamenti's 1995 score to 'The City Of Lost Children'.
It was released by Point Music (Phil Glass's label I think).
This is an orchestral score with one vocal track by Marianne Faithfull.
Very evocative, I thought.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: 2000 and  Sam Taylor
Date: 12 Aug 1996 10:23:51 -0400

     From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
     Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 15:31:38 +0000

     Jack asks:

     So what I want to know is WHAT are WE gonna say, be the catch phrase
     when the year 2000 comes ?

     I answer:

     Since the new century begins in 2001, 2000 should be:

     fin de siecle  (from the French)

     or

     two thousand double ought naught  (a la Jethro Beaudine)

     And later in that same digest:

     From: [e-mail]
     Date: Tue, 06 Aug 96 19:20:46 PST
     Subject: Re[2]: Sam "The Man" Taylor

     Lee sez:

          Sam "The Man" can be found on some Allan Freed albums! They were
          buddies, I assume!!!

     Craig sez:

     I'll bet they were. I have a Freed program from around 1958 and Sam
     the Man and his Orchestra provide backing for all the doo-wop/vocal
     groups and the pop singers as well. Plus they play the
     intro/intermission etc etc...

     Craig
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: The Return of Gramophone Emporium
Date: 12 Aug 1996 11:01:19 -0400

Joe, I think I may have that Bing Crosby/Rosemary Clooney album. I'll give it
a listen. It will have to be pretty darned good to beat Della Reese's
version, however.
Gloria

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Whistle A Happy Tune
Date: 12 Aug 1996 10:49:19 -0500

 >I would like to hear from other Exotica list memebers about some of
 >the whistling tunes in their collections....Saul

Anyone heard of Helmut Zacharias?  I have a promo 45 of him doing The
Whistler and His Dog (Der Pfeifer und sein Hund) that's pretty
amusing.  And speaking of Morricone - Duck, You Sucker is a great one.


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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: two cool finds
Date: 12 Aug 1996 08:44:18 PDT

Surfmen - "Exotica"  (the best human-bird calls ever!)  Has Emil Richards on
it...

John Keating Space Experience  -  has "I Feel The Earth Move" which was pulled
for the "Sound Gallery" comp., ned I say more?  This record blew my mind.
Keating utilizes the EMS Synthi VCS3 synthesizer which is perhaps one of the
most beautiful electronic instruments to see in real life and one of the
strangest sounding.  It was utilized extensively by Gil Melle on the Andromed
Strain soundtrack as well.  Far far out.

Clark

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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: Andy Badale
Date: 12 Aug 1996 10:55:14 -0600 (MDT)

>> Anyone know what [Cruise] and/or Angelo are up to lately ?
>
> Look for Badalamenti's 1995 score to 'The City Of Lost Children'.  It
> was released by Point Music (Phil Glass's label I think).  This is an
> orchestral score with one vocal track by Marianne Faithfull.

Badalamenti also produced Faithfull's album A Secret Life last year.

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Subject: Gil Mell=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9 (was 2 cool finds)?=
Date: 12 Aug 1996 12:03:00 -0600

Clark Scheffy wrote:
>
> Surfmen - "Exotica"  (the best human-bird calls ever!)  Has Emil Richards on

> Keating utilizes the EMS Synthi VCS3 synthesizer which is perhaps one of the
> most beautiful electronic instruments to see in real life and one of the
> strangest sounding.  It was utilized extensively by Gil Melle on the Andromed
> Strain soundtrack as well.  Far far out.
>
speaking of Gil MellΘ, anybody heard his album "Tome IV". On the
jacket it is claimed that this is the first album of electronic
jazz. I can still hear "Jog Falls Spinning Song" in my mind's ear.
And regarding "Andromeda Strain", I think the first pressing of
this came out on an octoganal disc in a silver cover that opened
from the center like a flower. Very cool! -Saul
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Subject: 50 cent Weekend...
Date: 12 Aug 1996 12:22:55 -0400 (EDT)


Well, in keeping with tradition....here's a list of my weekend
finds:

*** THE 50 CENT STACK ***
Santo & Johnny      Hawaii  (Canadian American, 1961)
Glenn Miller        This is Glenn Miller (RCA, 1956)
Dean Martin         Dream With Dean (Reprise, c.1965)
Ink Spots           Stardust (Pirouette, c.early 60s)
                         This one is rather strange - late
                         incarnation of the band singing old
                         favorites over ping pong percussion
                         "stereo" effects
Leroy Holmes        Los Violines del Amor, vol. 2 (UA Latino,
                    1970)
                         Interesting only for a version of Je
                         T'aime...Moi Non Plus
Bobby Hackett       Blues With a Kick (Capitol, 1959)
Jackie Gleason      Words of Love (Capitol, c.early 70s)
                         Gleason....half spoken word-half singing:
                         "...as time came around she came my way"
                         - a pathetic document of 70s easy
                         listening cheese...might grow on me
Brass Ring          Only Love (Dunhill, 1969)
                         Groovy, tripped out version of Rosemary's
                         Baby
Reg Wilson          88 Keys and a Girl (United Artists, 1969)
                         Wonderful wordless vocals by Corinna
                         Manetto....Theme from the Thomas Crown
                         Affair sends chills up my spine

*** THE "FREE" STACK (in VG+/NM condition) ***
Martin Denny        Quiet Village (Liberty, 1959)
Gene Page           Blacula Soundtrack (RCA, 1972)
Dick Hyman          Moog: The Electric Eclectics of...(Command,
                    1969)
Paul Mauriat        More Mauriat (Philips, c.1967)
                         "The dynamic Paul Mauriat Orchestra doing
                         the `Now' Scene!"
Mireille Mathieu    Magnifique! (Capitol, c.late 60s)


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From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." <[e-mail]>
Subject: re: Andromeda Strain (was Gil =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mell=E9?= )
Date: 12 Aug 1996 13:47:42 -0500

Sax Therapy sed:

>And regarding "Andromeda Strain", I think the first pressing of
>this came out on an octoganal disc in a silver cover that opened
>from the center like a flower. Very cool! -Saul

That is correct -- the first "Andromeda Strain" LP came in an octoganal
silver cover which opened as you described, on an octoganal disc.  It's the
creepiest and most beautiful LP I've ever seen, which fits the music
perfectly.  BTW, it's very collectible, fetching prices around $100.
Anybody out there have a copy?

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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Gil Melle
Date: 12 Aug 1996 10:55:15 PDT

Regarding Gil Melle, yes I've heard Tome IV.  one of my favorite albums.
Gil Melle and the Jazz Electronauts.  That was done before he began using the
EMS synthi.  He designed and built all of the electronic instruments for the
Tome IV album.  Great stuff for electronic music heads, a far cry, however,
from the Perrey-Kingsley type of electronic music, perhaps more like
Emil Richards' "Stones: The New Sound Element," which is the most indisposable
electronic exotica album in the world.
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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Re:  50 cent Weekend...
Date: 12 Aug 1996 10:58:59 PDT

You mentioned a Paul Mauriat record... speaking of him, his album "L.O.V.E."
is THE album to convert the unfaithful.  Mauriat can be a genius.  Also of
strange note is his very recent easy listening cover of "Like A Virgin."  It's
saccharine enough to make you vomit, a test of aural endurance, and then
again, especially for people on this list, when was the last time a song
moved you to the point of that kind of negative physical reaction?  He has
real power...

L.O.V.E. has a song on it called "Silver Fingertips" which absolutely rocks.
His version of "Oh Happy Day" is perfect for sunny Sunday morning too, also
from that album.

Clark

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Rekkids passed on ;-(>
Date: 12 Aug 1996 11:35:51 +0000

>>HOT ROD JAZZ  (didn't catch the artist - anybody know?

Larry Wilcox Orch. w/ Jimmy Raney-Guitar, Bobby Scott-Organ, Joe Farrell-Saxes
You made a mistake passing on this one Dave.  At least imho
KILLER, CRIME/NERVOUS JAZZ!!!!!!!!!!!
Screaming saxes and organs with plunking twang bass note guitars
You'd like it alot.
I think I have one of thoase on my latest lists that will be going out soon
Oh well

MUSIC FROM OUT OF SPACE - Pete Rugolo.
Not anywhere as great as it looks imho.  The cover is really the deal here
and I really love Rugolo, whaddayagonna do ?;)

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From: "Gene Hopstetter, Jr." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Gil Melle
Date: 12 Aug 1996 14:38:42 -0500

Hello Clark,

You seem to be really up on this sound, and I've been wanting to get more
of it.  So far, I've heard a little of it:  Dick Hyman's Moog stuff, a
little Hugh Montenegro, and the Scamp records collections.  I wonder if
you'd mind rattling off a few performers alone the lines of Emil Richards
and Gile Melle, and maybe some albums to me, to help me on my search?  I'd
certainly appreciate it.

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: whistling Mancini
Date: 12 Aug 1996 11:44:54 +0000

The flip of the 45 for Wait Until Dark is a title called............
shit I can't remember, that a funny title ;)
Anyway...it was never released on a lp and most of it is whistling
"Theme for Three" is the title, just remembered;)!

also on a Quincy Jones record on Mercury where he does all Mancini titles
there are a few #'s that have whistling by Major Holley who was a
jazz/studio string bass/hummer/whistler.
Also has Toots Thielsman whistling on that record too.
It's a great one ;-)>

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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Re: Gil Melle
Date: 12 Aug 1996 12:33:41 PDT

Let's talk electronic...

Here's a list of the far-rest out electronic work I can think of...
Jack Diamond I am sure can supplement this, as well as some other folks?

Jean-Jacques Perrey - anything by this grandfather of applied Moog and Musique
    Concrete is worthwhile, I call it the "bonky-bonk" sound
Gershon Kingsley - not as interesting alone as with Perrey
Emil Richards - only one electronic record I can think of, "Stones: The New
    Sound Element" It is a mindbender, a must have.  All in odd time
    signatures, very beautiful and frenetic, I've seen it as a 2-fer CD
Mort Garson - The Zodiac Series is great Moog, "Black Mass Lucifer" is one of
    the more intresting Moog works, like Emil Richards, utilizes the
    electronic instruments for something more than covers of pop songs
    with silly sound effects
Dick Hyman - both "Electronic Eclectics" and "Age of Electronicus" are very
    musical, groovy too
    Dick can PLAY, which helps...
Richard Hayman - "Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine" is cool, I think he has
    others?  Anyone know?
Walter Sear - Copper Plater Integrated Circuit,  it's o.k. only IMHO
Dick Hyamn - forgot this one - "Moongas"  only heard it once at a friend's h
    house,  non-moog electronic coolness
Gil Melle - "Tome IV"  totally cool, the Jazzzz Song with electronics cuttin'
    it up... He's a genius, also did "Andromeda Strain."

Moog Orchestra - "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" really weird, neato sounds

i am leaving out most of the really insipid Moog covers of pop songs albums
which I think are interesting, but unfortunately, don't explore the abilities
of the instruments the way some of these other guys do...

Also of interest:
anything using the EMS Synthi A/KS or VCS3 synthesizers...
Anything by Pierre Schaeffer, the inventor of "Musique Concrete" (good luck
finding it..., a CD retrospective is out for big $$$)
Karlheinz Stockhausen's electronic work, especially "Gesang der Junglinge" which is an amazing Musique Concrete work..., and "Stockhausen / Beethoven" also
weird...

Goldang, there are so many others and I write to you from work where I can't
see my records...  These one's I've listed though, are to me the most
intersting (and therefore easily remembered).  Stay away from that Walter/Wendy
guy/chick, he/she's common and unoriginal.

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From: Sax Therapy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Gil Melle and electronics
Date: 12 Aug 1996 16:17:20 -0600

Clark Scheffy wrote:
>
> Let's talk electronic...

I say O.K.
>
> Here's a list of the far-rest out electronic work I can think of...
> Jack Diamond I am sure can supplement this, as well as some other folks?
>
> Jean-Jacques Perrey - anything by this grandfather of applied Moog and Musique
>         Concrete is worthwhile, I call it the "bonky-bonk" sound
> Gershon Kingsley - not as interesting alone as with Perrey
> Emil Richards - only one electronic record I can think of, "Stones: The New
>         Sound Element" It is a mindbender, a must have.  All in odd time
>         signatures, very beautiful and frenetic, I've seen it as a 2-fer CD
> Mort Garson - The Zodiac Series is great Moog, "Black Mass Lucifer" is one of
>         the more intresting Moog works, like Emil Richards, utilizes the
>         electronic instruments for something more than covers of pop songs
>         with silly sound effects
> Dick Hyman - both "Electronic Eclectics" and "Age of Electronicus" are very
>         musical, groovy too
>         Dick can PLAY, which helps...
> Richard Hayman - "Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine" is cool, I think he has
>         others?  Anyone know?
> Walter Sear - Copper Plater Integrated Circuit,  it's o.k. only IMHO
> Dick Hyamn - forgot this one - "Moongas"  only heard it once at a friend's h
>         house,  non-moog electronic coolness
> Gil Melle - "Tome IV"  totally cool, the Jazzzz Song with electronics cuttin'
>         it up... He's a genius, also did "Andromeda Strain."
>
> Moog Orchestra - "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" really weird, neato sounds

Yes, I've had all of these at one time or other and used to play
a lot of it on my radio show in the 70's. In a way, electronic music
is what got me into radio. Some friends of mine were brokering time
on a local station (Chicago) and playing your basic rock of the
period like Hendrix, Jeff. Airplane, Country Joe, Janis, Chicago,
Blodwyn Pig, Jethro Tull. They new I was into making musique concrete
tapes and had a pretty good knowledge of the electronic and a/g music
of the time like Stockhausen, Xennakis, Schaeffer, Henry, Subotnick,
Walter Carlos, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Sal Martirano......they had
me come up to the station with some of my records to use for musical
beds for announcing over. Well, eventually I got into programming the
show and playing this music as selections in addition to backgrounds.
I was mixing this up with the rock of the day, avant jazz like Sun Ra,
Albert Ayler, Burton Greene, Gunter Hampel, almost everything that
ws out on the ESP label. That label got a lot of play on the show,
along with stuff on Impulse (Coltrane, Shepp, Sanders....), Limelight
(lots of good electronics and 50ft Hose), DGG avant series with
Stockhausen, Ferrari, Xennakis...Some listeners turned me on to
Faust, I already had been playing German music like Amon Duul 1 & 2,
Birth Control, Can. Eventually the Brain and Ohr labels started getting
played a lot. I actively sought this stuff out and made contact with
some of the bands who I corresponded with. I established contact a
German record dealer who would trade me German stuff for lame American
stuff and he put me in touch with a writer from Germany's Sounds magazine
who traded records with me regularly. Well, I think you get the idea.
That's enough babbling for now.


>
> Also of interest:
> anything using the EMS Synthi A/KS or VCS3 synthesizers...
> Anything by Pierre Schaeffer, the inventor of "Musique Concrete" (good luck
> finding it..., a CD retrospective is out for big $$$)

One of my prized pieces of vinyl is "Panorama  of Musique Concrete"
works by Henry, Schaeffer and Arthuys London DTL93090 (British Pressing)
which I got around 1972. an interesting story about this record. A
grade shcool teacher who was also a listener to the show asked me to
come to her school and give her students and illustrated talk about
electronic music. This was one of the records I took along. I didn't
have a car at the time so she gave me a ride out to the shcool and
back. On the way home I slipped the records under the seat. When I
got home I didn't notice that that record was missing, still in her
car. By the time I noticed it was missing a few weeks later it was
summer vacation time and the teacher had left for a long vacation.
When I tried calling a couple of months later her phone was disconnected.
Now here's the funny part, ablut 10 or 12 years later I'm at Chicago's
famous public market, Maxwell Street. I'm browsing through a box of
vinyl and the very same record is in the box. Boy, was I surprised
to be reunited with a long lost friend. The exact same record, I
recognized the tape on the back cover that I had applied years before.
The freakiest part is that this is not the only thing that has come
back to me on Maxwell Street after leaving my possession for many years.
Sort of like the cat came back but not the very next day:-)


> Karlheinz Stockhausen's electronic work, especially "Gesang der Junglinge" which is an amazing Musique Concrete work..., and "Stockhausen / Beethoven" also
> weird...
>
as I mentioned above this stuff used to get played on my show.

Hope I haven't bored you too much. -Saul
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From: [e-mail] (David Schafer)
Subject: Re: Gil Melle
Date: 12 Aug 1996 14:20:41 -0700 (PDT)

Clark wrote...Mon, 12 Aug 96 12:33

>Let's talk electronic...
>
>Here's a list of the far-rest out electronic work I can think of...
>Jack Diamond I am sure can supplement this, as well as some other folks?
>i am leaving out most of the really insipid Moog covers of pop songs albums
>which I think are interesting, but unfortunately, don't explore the abilities
>of the instruments the way some of these other guys do...
                                _______

re: electronic, moog, or as Clark said--"bonky-bonk" sound

Clark-

Those are definately some of the best. If you or anyone else is interested
in Moog and related electronic LP's, I have collected around a 100 Moog
LP's and I would be happy to send out a list to anybody that is interested
in seeing what else is out there. BTW--Jack's listings from a year ago
fueled this obsession immensely--thank's Jack!

I love those insipid and pop-song covers alost more than the "innovative"
sounds. Marty Gold's "Beatles" is amazing.

What about Subotnik??

Yes I have a problem and I am seeking help:))) I'm turning to electric
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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: it's Wendy
Date: 12 Aug 1996 17:10:22 -0500

> Stay away from that Walter/Wendy
> guy/chick, he/she's common and unoriginal.

Whoa!!!!  Just a minute there.  Let's not forget that it was Wendy's
records that popularized moog for the masses.  I challenge you
to write a piece as uncommon and original as Timesteps.  The
interpretations on the Switched On records are virtuosic, the aural
landscapes on the pre-New Age Sonic Seasonings are brilliant.
Everyone's entitled to their own opinion of course, but I just had to
voice an opposition.  But then again, I like the Swingle Singers so
sue me!


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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: 50 cent Weekend...
Date: 12 Aug 1996 15:54:48 -0600 (MDT)

> *** THE "FREE" STACK (in VG+/NM condition) ***
> Gene Page           Blacula Soundtrack (RCA, 1972)

I can even tie this back in to another recent discussion -- William Marshall,
who played Blacula, was also the King Of Cartoons on Pee-Wee's Playhouse...

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From: Sax Therapy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: it's Wendy
Date: 12 Aug 1996 17:05:07 -0600

kevin king wrote:
>

>
> Whoa!!!!  Just a minute there.  Let's not forget that it was Wendy's
> records that popularized moog for the masses.  I challenge you
> to write a piece as uncommon and original as Timesteps.  The
> interpretations on the Switched On records are virtuosic, the aural
> landscapes on the pre-New Age Sonic Seasonings are brilliant.
> Everyone's entitled to their own opinion of course, but I just had to
> voice an opposition.  But then again, I like the Swingle Singers so
> sue me!
>
> kevin king


I have to agree with Kev. Timesteps and Sonic Seasonings are Brilliant
and of course they got a lot of airplay on my radio show and btw
I like the Swingle Singers and the Single Swingers (ever heard of them?)
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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Bad Angel
Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:10:28 +0000


> Badalamenti also produced Faithfull's album A Secret Life last year.

Plus of course the new "Bad Angel" project with Tim Booth of James.
Anyone heard that - or was that the start of this thread?!

Oh, and the new Barry Adamson is supposed to be pretty cool in a
filmic kinda way.


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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Helmut Zacharias
Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:10:28 +0000

Kevin King wrote:

>Anyone heard of Helmut Zacharias?  I have a promo 45 of him doing The

Yes!  If you ever see "Tokyo Melody" (LP) buy it.  Apart from lots of
lovely strange Japanese rockers it has one of my all time faves of
this genre - his version of "Japanese Lantern Dance" with mad
swirling organ popping up throughout giving the impression of UFOs
landing in downtown Tokyo...

Actually I think I might have a spare sleeveless copy of the LP
somewhere if you're interested.


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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Major Record Score
Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:10:28 +0000

soundbliss wrote:

>I'm on cloud nine. I had a major record score at a local (El Paso, TX)
>flea market... a buck apiece.

Followed by numerous sick-making "look what I got"! posts.

And after me thinking I'd done quite well on my trip to Gramophone
Emporium!!!

Remind me to move to the US next week...


Robbie (various shades of envious green)
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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Re: it's Wendy
Date: 12 Aug 1996 15:54:46 PDT

OK, I stand corrected.  I was really referring to the "Switched On" stuff,
which though it is an aural landscape, is to me not a fully realized MOOG
piece... that's the complaint I have.  My argument would be that simply
doing pieces on different instruments is not as powerfula as writing pieces
FOR a given instrument.  If W. Carlos had done it on nose flute or
some other instrument would still be of less interest to me than the work of
Garson, Richards, or Melle simply for their use of the instrument to see what
it can do that is unique to the electronic world...

Speaking, however, of more classical pieces, Ruth White (title forgotten...)
did a wonderful Moog rendition of Gymnopodie by what's his name... (HELP
ME OUT, HERE, I'm forgetting all the names of these people...)

Also, there are some cool records out there of Saint-Sens pieces for
Ondes Martenot...
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From: Q-Tip <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: it's Wendy
Date: 12 Aug 1996 19:08:33 -0700

At 03:54 PM 8/12/96 PDT, Clark says:

>Speaking, however, of more classical pieces, Ruth White (title forgotten...)

Short Circuits, I think

>did a wonderful Moog rendition of Gymnopodie by what's his name... (HELP
>ME OUT, HERE, I'm forgetting all the names of these people...)

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Did I post this already ? I can't remember
Date: 12 Aug 1996 19:47:37 +0000

KFJC play list 7/21/96 for Jack Diamond

         ARTIST                     TRACK                     ALBUM
 Planets                Chunky
 Stan Getz Qrt. with    Conte Candoli-Trumpet         Lou Levy-Piano
 Shelly Manne-Drums     Leroy Vinnegar-Bass           Columbia,West
                                                      Coast JAZZ/55
 Muzzy Marcellino       Sunrise Seranade              Liberty LRP3075
 Kenyon Hopkins         Daddy(Bobby Troup)            Ping Pang Pong
 Laurie Johnson         Sleuthing(Professionals)
 Isaac Hayes            Shaft!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 Johnny Keating                                       Studio 2/SPACE
 Orchestra              Jesus Christ Superstar        Express
 Sal Salvador Orchestra You'd Be Sooo Nice to Come
                        Home to ;-)>                  DECCA/57
 Esquivel               St Louis Blues(Genius Of)     67/RCA
 Al Caiola & Living
 Gtrs                   Ruby Tuesday                  S.F.Nights
 Robert Drasnin         Voodoo
 John(Ny) Williams-Pno
 Pete Rugolo Orchestra                                Percussion
 Feat. Jack Costanzo    Bongo Riff                    At Work
 Del Close/John Brent   Introduction
 Martin Denny Group     Soshu Night Seranade          Scamp Release
 Jimmie Haskel          Venus                         Countdown
 Le Jazz Modes          Garden Delights               All Arrngements
 Julias Watkins-Fr.Horn Charlie Rouse-Tenor           By J.Watkins
 Oscar Pettiford-Bass   Gildo Mahones-Pno
 Ananda Shankar         Streets of Calcutta
 Wynder K. Frog         Harpsicord Shuffle
 18TH Century Concepts  Lovers Concerto
 Leo Diamond            Skin Divers Suite             RCA/55/MONO Only
 Revengers              Meet Mr. Solo
 Si Zentner             The Fugitive
 The Electric Hair      Good Morning Starshine
 Gordon Parks           Move on In(Shafts Big Score)  Dick Hazard
 Esquivel               Amor(To Love Again)           1ST/RCA/57/MONO ONLY
 Moonlight Enchantment  Nightingale
 Marty Manning          Lost Weekend Theme
 Barney Kessel,         Ray Brown, Shelly Manne
 Custard Puff           Rec August 1958
 Les Baxter             Mountains of Mystery          Barbarian
 Goliath and the        Barbarians                    A.I.P./Stereo
 Frank Wess,            Kenny Burrell
 Eddie Jones-Bass       Freddie Green-Rhythm Gtr      Jazz for Playboys
                        Woolafunt's Lament            Savoy MG12095
 Stan Kenton Orch. Feat Jack Costanzo-Bongos
 June Christy-Spoken Word - This Is My Theme              47/CAPITOL
 Lalo Schifrin          The Cat(Joy House)
 Lalo Schifrin          Self-Destruct(More Mission)
 Modern-Aires           Girl W/ the Long Black Hair   Steve Allen Lyrics
 Pete Drake             Penguine Strut                /K F a T
 Jimmy Day              Ranchers Stomp
 Mundell Lowe All Stars Bourbon Street Beat           Tv Action Jazz 2
 Kenyon Hopkins         Rain(Panic, Son of Shock!)
 Al Caiola              Bali Hai
 Mancini                The Genius of _Them All_ !
 Rolly Budock-Bass      Walkin' Bass(More Peter Gunn) RCA/1959
 Virtues                Tel-Star Guitar
 Elmer Bernstein        Matt Helm's Blues
 Frank Comstock W/      Paul Tanner-Theremin
 Richard Rodney Bennett Skidoo                        Million $ Brain

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From: Sax Therapy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: it's Wendy
Date: 12 Aug 1996 21:49:37 -0600

Q-Tip wrote:
>
> At 03:54 PM 8/12/96 PDT, Clark says:
>
> >Speaking, however, of more classical pieces, Ruth White (title forgotten...)
>
> Short Circuits, I think
>
> >did a wonderful Moog rendition of Gymnopodie by what's his name... (HELP
> >ME OUT, HERE, I'm forgetting all the names of these people...)
>
> Satie, I think

ah yes, Ruth White was another favorite on my radio show in  the
70's. I seem to recall she had another album on Limelight. I think
it was readings from the Flowers of Evil. Another good moog LP
was Louise Huebner's "Seduction through Witchcraft." I used to
spin a whole hour of electronic music Friday nights calling it
Electronic Experience. It was a popular feature of the program.

And speaking of Satie, Camarata had a whole LP of Satie music
done with electronics called "The Velvet Gentleman" on Deram.

-Saul



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From: J P M <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: it's Wendy
Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:39:28 +0000

And least we forget "A Clockwerk Orange " with that Vocoder "opera"
 ( Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ,Fourth Movement, Abridged ) .That version
"Kicks Butt" :) .That one of the funiest vocoder works I own.


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From: J P M <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: it's Wendy
Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:46:46 +0000

And least we forget "A Clockwerk Orange " with that Vocoder "opera"
 ( Beethoven's Ninth Symphony ,Fourth Movement, Abridged ) .That version
"Kicks Butt" :) .That one of the funiest vocoder works I own.


Jason
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: See "Scopitone Mania" in your town
Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:51:15 -0400

>Best travelling "lounge" show: Scopitones are outstanding 16mm "video
>jukebox" films stretching from twist and cha cha (Pachanga anyway) to icky
>Procul Harem. Luis Malle directed a gory/sexy bullfight one, Francoise Hardy
>is in one, as is the woman who invented the Pia Zadora beatnik-in-black
>look.

The Lady-in-Black I believe you're referring to is none other than "The
Black Angel" of La Rive Gauche, Juliette Greco, performing a tune called
"Jolie Mome".

J.Greco is one of my fave french singers, and incidentally, worked
occasionally with French EZ Genius Andre Popp.

BTW,I also heartily reccomend "Les Scopitones";I especially like the blond
german twin girls doing "Quando,Quando,Quando" in 3 languages!There are two
series (sort of) available on video,one being the Scopitone Mania series(
you can find ads to order them in "Psychotronic" magazine), but the origin
of the other series is a mystery to me;I've seen a couple of tapes and
there seems to be not too much overlap with the "Scopitone Mania"
ones.Anyone out there know how to get a copy of these ?

Cheerio!

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: Angelo Badalamenti
Date: 12 Aug 1996 21:06:42 -0700

>Worth a look for Julee Cruisers.  Anyone know what she and/or Angelo are up to
lately ?  Seems like its >been a while......more PRODUCT please!

A collaborative effort with Tim Booth of the U.K. band "James" has just been
released in Europe on the Fontana label (Polygram).  Don't know if there's a
U.S. release planned ir not.  The following is a from an ad for the album that
appeared in the U.K. mag "Q" (August issue").  The quote is from NME (New
Musical Express, another trendy U.K. mag):

"...a corker - widescreen ambient rock, with soaring singalong tunes and
magical, dreamlike moods."

A "Q" review in the very same issue says:

"...glaringly bandless coffee-table timewasting..."

Can't say, myself, I haven't heard it, but I am a Badalamenti fan.  The album
is called "Booth and the Bad Angel."

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Electronics
Date: 13 Aug 1996 00:18:50 -0400

Just wanted to weigh in with a hearty endorsement of this Musique
Concrete/experimental/electronica thread;it's something I've been
fascinated with lately, and would love to see what the combined minds of
the Exotica list  can turn me on to.This is the kind of thing I stay on the
list FOR!

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Major record score
Date: 12 Aug 1996 21:21:49 -0700

>I'm on cloud nine. I had a major record score at a local (El Paso, TX) flea
market... a buck
>apiece.

>Les Baxter - "Love Is Blue"
>Les Baxter - "Round The World With Les Baxter"
>Les Baxter - "Carribean Moonlight"
>Les Baxter - Sensational!
>Martin Denny - The Best Of Martin Denny
>Martin Denny - A Taste of Honey (two copies)
>Ahthur Lyman - Taboo (near mint)
>Enoch Light - Let's Dance The Bossa Nova
>Enoch Light - Persuasive Percussion Vol. 3
>Jackie Gleason - Opiate d'Amour
>Jackie Gleason - Aphrodisia
>Jackie Gleason - Music, Martinis and Memories
>Dick Schory's Percussion Pops Orchestra - Supercussion  (still sealed)
>Dick Schory - Holiday For Percussion (Stereo Action release)
>Edmundo Ros and His Orchestra - Bongos From The South
>Dominic Frontiere and Orchestra - Pagan Festival: An Exotic Love Ritual For
Orchestra
>Murry Arnold Quartet - Overheard In A Cocktail Lounge
>Jane Mansfield - Shakespeare, Tchiakovsky and Me
>l,a woman part II orchestra - Soundtrack to "2"
>Mohammed El-Bakkar and His Oriental Ensemble - Port Said    (what a cover!)
>Henri Rene and his Orchestra - Music For Bachelors
>Gershon Kingsley's First Moog Quartet  (still sealed!)
>Polynesians - Polynesia
>Ann Corio - Hopw To Strip For Your Husband
>Morton Gould - Blues In The Night  (mint condition)
>Haiti Danse Chorus and Orchestra - Voodoo!
>Stanley Black and his Orchestra - Exotic Percussion
>Ahmed Ali and the Sultans - Harem Midnight


You SHOULD be on Cloud 9, for a buck apiece, you just hit the proverbial
JACKPOT! Congratulations!


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: compilation idea
Date: 12 Aug 1996 21:28:04 -0700

>> what have you guys been smoking?

>Laugh if you want, mortal, but *I've* done the math.  Once we own every
>copy ever pressed, the record will suddenly be so hard to find that each
>one will be worth well into six figures.  Multiply that by the millions of
>copies we'll have and we'll basically control the economy of the entire
>solar system.  And the smartass comment above just landed you on permanent
>K.P.  whan *that* comes to pass, pally . . .

Hey, it's already paying off...I'm not seeing nearly as many as I was even as
year ago!

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: it's Wendy
Date: 13 Aug 1996 01:19:40 -0500

 > ah yes, Ruth White was another favorite on my radio show in  the
> 70's. I seem to recall she had another album on Limelight. I think
> it was readings from the Flowers of Evil.
<snip>

There's one called 7 Cards Of The Tarot or something similar

> And speaking of Satie, Camarata had a whole LP of Satie music
> done with electronics called "The Velvet Gentleman" on Deram.

Camarata must have had at least three Satie moog albums.  The one I
have, The Electronic Spirit Of Erik Satie, lists two others - The
Velvet Gentleman and Through A Looking Glass.

So who ARE the Single Swingers?


kevin king
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Electronique Musique
Date: 12 Aug 1996 23:59:21 +0000

>One of my prized pieces of vinyl is "Panorama  of Musique Concrete"
>works by Henry, Schaeffer and Arthuys London DTL93090 (British Pressing)
>which I got around 1972.

Do you know if London is affiliated with Phillips in any way ?

I know of a record on Limelight which was a reissue label for Phillips
called Panorama Electronique.
This although were recordings from the late 50's.

Another all time great 1 of a kind musique concrete POP sound like you've
never heard is The Elektronics - Electronic Music.

Originally released on Phillips and re-released on Limelight under the
title of The Sonic Vibrations of Tom Dissvelt and Kid Baltan.

I just donated a copy to KFJC and they are playing the shit out of it ;-)>
The review for it _might_ be up on our site at http://www.kfjc.org

Bye for now,
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: "Scopitone Mania"
Date: 13 Aug 1996 00:12:48 +0000

Re: "Scopitone Mania"

I remember seeing a scopitone at the Exploritorium in San Francisco.
It WAS really cool.  A video jukebox.

They have those on AMC in between films every once in a while.
There were hundreds made of all styles of modern (at the time) music.
From real screamin' rockabilly to black r&b to jazz, western swing and
everythang.

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From: Sax Therapy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ruth White/Single Swingers
Date: 13 Aug 1996 07:40:59 -0600

kevin king wrote:
>
>  > ah yes, Ruth White was another favorite on my radio show in  the
> > 70's. I seem to recall she had another album on Limelight. I think
> > it was readings from the Flowers of Evil.
> <snip>
>
> There's one called 7 Cards Of The Tarot or something similar

now that you jog my memory, it's 7 trumps from the Tarot.


> > And speaking of Satie, Camarata had a whole LP of Satie music
> > done with electronics called "The Velvet Gentleman" on Deram.
>
> Camarata must have had at least three Satie moog albums.  The one I
> have, The Electronic Spirit Of Erik Satie, lists two others - The
> Velvet Gentleman and Through A Looking Glass.
>
> So who ARE the Single Swingers?
>

they were a knock off group of the Swingle Singers. I'm not sure if
I still have the album but I think they were doing Mozart as
opposed to the Swingle Singers doing Bach.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Whistle A Happy Tune
Date: 13 Aug 1996 09:15:55 -0400

At 10:50 PM 8/11/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Would like to have the soundtrack for A FACE IN THE CROWD as it
>features a snazzy whistling and harmonica theme.

I am wondering if this has ever been released on LP?  It also has some good
50s rock n' roll on it as well.

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From: Paul Lewis <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: compilation idea
Date: 13 Aug 1996 09:28:57 -0400 (EDT)

> >Laugh if you want, mortal, but *I've* done the math.  Once we own every
> >copy ever pressed, the record will suddenly be so hard to find that each
> >one will be worth well into six figures.  Multiply that by the millions of
> >copies we'll have and we'll basically control the economy of the entire
> >solar system.  And the smartass comment above just landed you on permanent
> >K.P.  whan *that* comes to pass, pally . . .
>
> Hey, it's already paying off...I'm not seeing nearly as many as I was even as
> year ago!

Yeah, well someone better come to the Pennsylvania / New Jersey area and
clean them out.  Every one foot stack of LPs guarantees a copy of WCAOD
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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Musique Concrete
Date: 13 Aug 1996 08:44:22 PDT

Another piece which just came to mind...

On the Aarf Aarf (sp?) compilation "Only In America," there is a nice
tape manipulation piece done with the Chef Boyardee theme song.  Worth a
listen...  Can't remember the artist...

Also, in regard to the Ruth White album, yes that is Gymnopodie by Satie.
Thanks for clearing that up...

Also, we should not forget the early works of Ferrante and Teicher.  It's
amazing to me that their later stuff was the same two people.  In any
case, there is great electronic processing on works like the
Soundproof / Soundblast series.

I recently got a chance to listen to the Frank Comstock record.  Another
great piece of electronica!  Excellent theremin work.

Clark

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Scorched Earth?
Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:01:57 -0500

Anyone ever done business with this cult film purveyer based in Denver?
Just wanted some idea of the quality I could expect as they sell their vids
for a paltry $15. Sorry for being off-topic, please respond privately.
Thanks, Kevin



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Sir Julian on THE EXOTIC TRILOGY CD
Date: 13 Aug 1996 19:26:29 +0100

>From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
>Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 11:26:57 -0800
>Subject: Re: Sir Julian
>
>>>>Speaking of Sir Julian's "Caravan" it's featured on THE EXOTIC TRILOGY CD
>>>>which I just picked up.
>
>Ok, I just have to sound out of the no, what's THE EXOTIC TRILOGY cd, label etc

        you'll find that info in my exotica releases overview
        @ DADA'QUARIUMS: "http://www.ping.be/~ping1241/"

        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis



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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ventures obit
Date: 13 Aug 1996 14:28:02 -0400

I haven't seen this posted on either list...
Lounge Laura
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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Ventures obit
Date: 13 Aug 1996 14:35:28 -0400

                      RE>>Ventures obit                            8/13/96

Whooooppppsss..8/13/96 8:47 AM Inches: 08.6 REGULAR AP-Obit-Taylor 08-13 0128

AP-Obit-Taylor
          -----------------
          ! ENTERTAINMENT !
  Ventures' Drummer Mel Taylor Dies

    (Los Angeles) -- A drummer for the '60s surf-rock band The Ventures has
died.
    The group's record label G-N-P Crescendo Records says Mel Taylor was 62 and
died Sunday of lung cancer and heart failure.
    Taylor was The Ventures' second drummer and joined the band in 1961. He was
part of the line-up that recorded the hits ``Walk Don't Run '64'' and the
theme from T-V's ``Hawaii Five-Oh.''
    Funeral services are scheduled for tomorrow in Los Angeles.

    (SOUND: Upcoming)


    (Copyright 1996 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

APNP-08-13-96 0846EDT



At 02:28 PM 8/13/96 -0400, you wrote:
>I haven't seen this posted on either list...
>Lounge Laura
>[e-mail]
>
>"born to do weird stuff"

Haven't seen what posted on either list?  Nothing attached...

Salud,
Rick Herrick

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From: [e-mail] (lou smith)
Subject: Re: Musique Concrete
Date: 13 Aug 1996 18:50:08 GMT

On Aug 13, 1996 08:44:22, '[e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)'
wrote:


>Another piece which just came to mind...
>
>On the Aarf Aarf (sp?) compilation "Only In America," there is a nice
>tape manipulation piece done with the Chef Boyardee theme song.  Worth a
>listen...  Can't remember the artist...

I think it's Arf Arf and Jon Appleton. Appleton's done some fun stuff --
worth looking for.

Here's 2 more MC tapeheads who've done interesting work and neither of
whose names I'll be able to spell off the top of my head:
Ilhan Mimaroglou (who had his own lable, Finadar, for a while) and
Tod Docksteder who did some wacky obsessive found sound work he
self-released.
One of his LPs has 3 off-center holes so the sides wobble and sound
different
according to which hole you've thrust the spindle through.

And if you're talking Moog bands, don't forget Mother Mallard's Portable
Masterpiece Co., the official
Moog house band featuring David Borden.

Anyone mention Moog Cookbook yet?

-Lou

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: symphonic soul
Date: 13 Aug 1996 15:16:25 -0400

This never showed up so I'm reposting this...unlike the empty Ventures obit I
posted that did appear...sorry for the redundancy  :^)>



Hiya, lounge-pen-pals...It's been awhile since I've posted, but it's time to
jump in again!
I picked up SYMPHONIC SOUL by Henry Mancini, recorded in 1975...and I tell
those who haven't heard it...that it's *good sleaze* and smacks sweetly of
blacksploitation.  If you've heard it, what do you think?  And Mancini-ites,
what other unsual albums are worth getting of his, and what are worth
avoiding?
Speaking of avoiding, no one ever answered my query into a Heino discography,
web site, nothin'...I think I'll recover if someone helps me!
Luv-ing-ly,
Lounge Laura
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From: "Heileson, Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Let's talk electronic
Date: 13 Aug 1996 12:41:00 PDT


>From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
>Subject: Re: Gil Melle
>
>Let's talk electronic...
>
>Here's a list of the far-rest out electronic work I can think of...
>Jack Diamond I am sure can supplement this, as well as some other folks?
>
>Jean-Jacques Perrey - anything by this grandfather of applied Moog and
Musique
>        Concrete is worthwhile, I call it the "bonky-bonk" sound

Haven't heard Perrey's solo stuff... is it much like the (immensely
enjoyable, I will admit) electro-quirk-pop of Perrey/Kingsley a la "The In
Sound From Way Out"? Or more "academic"?

>Gershon Kingsley - not as interesting alone as with Perrey

I must second this, at least based on the one piece of solo Kingsley vinyl I
have. Can't remember the title but its least horrible part is a series of
songs based on and accompanied by children's poems. Even that is redeemable
only as camp. When Kingsley is with Perrey, it's fun stuff. When he tries to
get "serious" or "arty," it's like the worst aspects of prog-electronica
with the Cheese Factor pushed up to "11."

>        others?  Anyone know?

>Moog Orchestra - "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" really weird, neato
>sounds

One of my all-time esoteric faves is a record from around 1980, I think also
by the "Moog Orchestra" -- themes from "Battlestar Galactica"! I don't think
it is actual soundtrack music (except for one disco track, which I'll
mention), as it is all in cheesariffic moog instrumentation. This record was
given to me during my grade-school years and only in the last few years have
I come to appreciate it. Mind you, this thing is great IMO for its camp
aspects -- so bad/weird that it's supremely good (unlike a lot of bad music
which only reaches the point of boring or unlistenable) -- _plus_ there are
points where the musician(s) accidentally hit some really eerie, surreal and
sublime moments. Those moments are fleeting, but when they happen it's like
a fever-induced dreamstate, as surreal as some of the best
ambient-psychedelic pieces.

Another plus: it includes the all-time Cheesiest Disco Song EVER. I'm not
kidding, there is no contender here. Called "Love, Love, Love," it was sung
on an episode of the TV show by a four-eyed sister siren sporting an
impressive afro.

I don't suppose anyone else has seen this one (the record)?

(Now that you mention the "Close Encounters" record, I think that this may
reside at my folks' house; I'll have to seek it out...)

>Also of interest:

>Karlheinz Stockhausen's electronic work, especially "Gesang der Junglinge"
>which is an amazing Musique Concrete work...,

Yes! (shifting from camp connoisseur to music-as-high-art fan) I've heard
quite a few of Stockhausen's work, and this is one of my favorites. I'd
recommend it to any KS-beginners. (Translation of title: "Song of the
Youths"; for sample-Trainspotters, this record was heavily sampled by
contemporary German electronicist Holger Hiller in his brilliant "Oben Im
Eck.")

>Goldang, there are so many others and I write to you from work where I
can't
>see my records...

I always have the same problem...

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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Let's talk electronic
Date: 13 Aug 1996 13:59:58 -0600 (MDT)

> One of my all-time esoteric faves is a record from around 1980, I think
> also by the "Moog Orchestra" -- themes from "Battlestar Galactica"!
> [...] it includes the all-time Cheesiest Disco Song EVER.  Called "Love,
> Love, Love,"...
>
> I don't suppose anyone else has seen this one (the record)?

Yup -- if we're thinking of the same thing, it's Giorgio Moroder's attempt
to catch up with Meco (who as far as I know never did a Battlestar
Galactica album, but I'm always spotting new Meco albums I never knew
existed, so...).  I picked up "Battlestar Galactica" (Casablanca
NBLP-7169) in a K-mart cutout bin probably less than a year after it came
out, mostly for the 95%-naked space babe on the sleeve.  God help me, I
*really* like this album . . . especially the "Evolution" suite, which takes
up the entire flip side of the LP and which is also on Moroder's 1985ish
best-of.  It's a long dancefloor version of the kind of synthesized spacepop
guys like Jarre and Tomita were doing at the time.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Musique Concrete
Date: 13 Aug 1996 16:02:16 -0400



>Ilhan Mimaroglou (who had his own lable, Finadar, for a while) and
>Tod Docksteder who did some wacky obsessive found sound work he
>self-released.
>One of his LPs has 3 off-center holes so the sides wobble and sound
>different
>according to which hole you've thrust the spindle through.

Some of Tod Dockstader's work has been re-released on Starkland
Records(P.O. Box 2190 Boulder, CO 80306). The two that I've found are
"Apocalypse" and "Water Music"-there might be more.

Incidentally, Frank Zappa (Perhaps this is not necessary to point out;I
suspect there are more than a few Zappa fans on this list!) did some
interesting Varese and Dockstader-influenced Musique Concrete stuff on his
early Mothers records on Verve. Parts of T.Dockstader's "Luna Park" sound
uncannily like "The Chrome-Plated Megaphone of Destiny" from "We're Only In
It For The Money"!

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From: "Heileson, Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: exotica Digest V2 #42 ... Roland Kirk
Date: 13 Aug 1996 13:00:00 PDT


>eventually I got into programming the
>show and playing this music as selections in addition to backgrounds.
>I was mixing this up with the rock of the day, avant jazz like Sun Ra,
>Albert Ayler, Burton Greene, Gunter Hampel, almost everything that
>ws out on the ESP label. That label got a lot of play on the show,
>along with stuff on Impulse (Coltrane, Shepp, Sanders....), Limelight
>(lots of good electronics and 50ft Hose),

This is a bit off the subject, and in fact may very well belong on a jazz
list... but are any here familiar with Roland Kirk? He was an amazing
musician/bandleader working in the 60s/70s... It comes to mind in light of
the talk of electronic music. Kirk did some of the earliest (that I've
heard) use of electronic effects in jazz. Check out, for example, some of
the tracks on the album "Please Don't You Cry Beautiful Edith" (1967 I
think) -- there are parts where he pushes the delay and other effects to the
extreme on flute solos and other instruments. Gorgeous stuff.

<ph

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From: Mark Koldys <[e-mail]>
Subject: Schory CD FS
Date: 13 Aug 1996 16:21:19 -0400

Classic Records has reissued Dick Schory's "Music for Bang, BaRoom and
Harp" on CD. They are selling it for $25 plus $5 postage. I have a new
copy that I'm willing to let go for $20, including postage within the
USA. Email if you're interested.

I have also a few open-reel tapes that might be of interest: two Command
volumes of Enoch Light doing "Far Away Places" and "Far Away Places Vol.
2". Also two Omegas: the Francis Bay Big Band doing a Dorsey salute, and
Maxwell Davis doing the hits of Lionel Hampton. I'll let any of these
open-reels go for $10 each or two for $15, including postage within the
USA. Again, please respond via Email, not to this list.


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From: [e-mail] (Joe Batutis)
Subject: Roland Kirk
Date: 13 Aug 1996 16:42:41 -0400

Hi-

Just to tie Roland Kirk in some more to the world of exotica, I have a great CD
called "Quincy Jones Explores the Music of Henry Mancini" that features Roland
Kirk playing some great flute solos on some tracks.

I have a sound sample at my site: (under J for Jones)

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

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From: Sax Therapy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Let's talk electronic
Date: 13 Aug 1996 16:26:16 -0600

Lazlo Nibble wrote:
>
> > One of my all-time esoteric faves is a record from around 1980, I think
> > also by the "Moog Orchestra" -- themes from "Battlestar Galactica"!
> > [...] it includes the all-time Cheesiest Disco Song EVER.  Called "Love,
> > Love, Love,"...
> >
> > I don't suppose anyone else has seen this one (the record)?
>
> Yup -- if we're thinking of the same thing, it's Giorgio Moroder's attempt
> to catch up with Meco (who as far as I know never did a Battlestar
> Galactica album, but I'm always spotting new Meco albums I never knew
> existed, so...).  I picked up "Battlestar Galactica" (Casablanca
> NBLP-7169) in a K-mart cutout bin probably less than a year after it

speaking of Giorgio, anybody familiar with his LP "Einzelganger"?
Sort of a cross between Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk. It came
on Oasis which was a part of Casablanca Records. It was a part of
that labels initial release which also included Donna Summer's
"Love to Love You Baby" and a German hard rock band called Schloss.
As you may know Giorgio also produced DS's album. Incidently, when
those 3 records came in to the station I tracked the whole side of
LTLYB after just droppping the needle in a few spots to get an idea
of the sound. The phones went crazy that night. That has to be one
of the classic disco tunes of all time.

-Saul

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: symphonic soul
Date: 13 Aug 1996 20:31:34 -0400

Lounge Laura wrote:
>I picked up SYMPHONIC SOUL by Henry Mancini, recorded in 1975...and I tell
>those who haven't heard it...that it's *good sleaze* and smacks sweetly of
>blacksploitation.

It has the coolest version of "Luzon" (AKA "A Slow, Hot Wind") out of the 3
arrangements of it that Mancini did.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Whistle A Happy Tune
Date: 13 Aug 1996 20:44:27 -0500

> >I would like to hear from other Exotica list memebers about some of
> >the whistling tunes in their collections....Saul

Henri Rene and His Orch., the Dynamic Dimensions lp (of the Stereo Action series) has a lovely whistlin' ditty on it: "Manhattan Idyl".
Let me know if you would like a tape of this to add to your collection.

Babs
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From: Katie Eagan & Jeff Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: 50 cent Weekend...
Date: 13 Aug 1996 21:29:26 -0900 (PDT)

On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Bryan Jare Cuevas wrote:

> *** THE 50 CENT STACK ***
> Santo & Johnny      Hawaii  (Canadian American, 1961)
>
> *** THE "FREE" STACK (in VG+/NM condition) ***
> Dick Hyman          Moog: The Electric Eclectics of...(Command,
>                     1969)

Oh, all right...I'll take the Santo & Johnny and the Hyman for $.50 (but
you drive a hard bargain).  Where do I send the four bits?

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips
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From: Living Stereo <[e-mail]>
Subject: I Dig Mancini
Date: 13 Aug 1996 19:36:45 -0700


>I picked up SYMPHONIC SOUL by Henry Mancini, recorded in 1975...and I tell
>those who haven't heard it...that it's *good sleaze* and smacks sweetly of
>blacksploitation.  If you've heard it, what do you think?  And Mancini-ites,
>what other unsual albums are worth getting of his, and what are worth
>avoiding?

My favorite...a master craftsman!!  As far as I'm concerned, they are ALL
worth getting.  Some all time greats:

The Versatile Henry Mancini - a tropical mood, plenty of "ooo's", organ and
Laurindo Almeida on guitar.

The Music from Peter Gunn and More Music from Peter Gunn - what is there to
say?  All those west coast jazz guys that Jack Diamond luv's so well...

Hatari! - "Baby Elephant Walk"

Arabesque - Sophia Loren and Gregory Peck on the cover...the freaky "Dream
Street" uses tape delay echos, mallets on piano strings, an autoharp and
more unusual instruments...

Breakfast at Tiffany's - "Moon River", "Something For Cat" and the lovely
Audrey Hepburn - Barney Kessel and his Men do a great Breakfast at Tiffany's
record....

The Blues and the Beat - more greatness from those west coast guys...

Mr. Lucky and Mr Lucky Goes Latin

Combo! - Shelly Manne, Art Pepper, Larry Bunker, Johnny Williams on
harpsichord = beautiful jazz

Charade - Audrey and Cary Grant shot on location in Paris

Experiment In Terror - That's Lee Remick on the red cover, being grabbed
from behind by a shadowy gloved figure.  Dramatic, suspenseful and thrilling...

....so go get 'em!









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From: [e-mail] (David Schafer)
Subject: Re: Let's talk electronic
Date: 13 Aug 1996 20:19:58 -0700 (PDT)

>Thomas wrote--
>I must second this, at least based on the one piece of solo Kingsley vinyl I
>have. Can't remember the title but its least horrible part is a series of
>songs based on and accompanied by children's poems. Even that is redeemable
>only as camp. When Kingsley is with Perrey, it's fun stuff. When he tries to
>get "serious" or "arty," it's like the worst aspects of prog-electronica
>with the Cheese Factor pushed up to "11."
>
>>        others?  Anyone know?

Oh yes Kingsley has done some great stuff, the exception being his First
Moog Quartet (not the one with Popcorn on it) this one makes my teeth hurt.
I think the one you are talking about was a transistional time for him to
be kind, though I do sort of like it simply because it is weird. His others
worth checking out are: Music to Moog By, Popcorn with the First Moog
Quartet, The Happy Moog!

>>Moog Orchestra - "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" really weird, neato
>>sounds
>>"Battlestar Galactica"!

The Moog Orchestra also did Music From Star Wars--  we are really talking
about the 70's now for better or worse. Did someone say that Giorgio was
with The Moog Orch. at some point?

The 2 Giorio's (Moroder) that I have are 'From Here to Eternity' 1977 and
'Knights in White Satin' 1976--they both have Pete Bellotte, who I think is
known for his LP Moog Party, but I have never heard it or seen it for that
matter. Anyway  Giorgio is pushing the heavy 70's disco romantic--hello I'm
sexy and you are too sound. He's really proud of his mustache and hair. I
would love to find the 'Battlestar Galactica' that was mentioned.

Also in the early to mid 70's is Johnny Keating's Space Experience 1 and 2,
though I haven't heard 2. Number one is over the top with extravagant moog
sounds, arps too -- I Feel the Earth Move, Rocket Man and The Sound of
Silence, there's a theme alright!!! But his best that I have heard is An
Astromusical Odyssey/Sounds Galactic on Phase 4--this one is has a version
of Up, Up and Away that is one of the best and most extreme that I have
heard.

What about 'The 18th Century Concepts'??? anybody know of them?

There LP called 'In the 20th Century Bag' has some electronic sounds I
can't quite identify, sort of trumpet sounding moogish sounds doing songs
like If I were a Carpenter, Eleanor Rigby, Can't Hurry Love--really great
sounds. I have seen another one of their LP's around, anybody have it?

And lastly--back to Wendy, here's one that hasn't been mentioned 'Secrets
of Synthesis' by Wendy Carlos. She is sitting proudly on her chair in her
studio smiling and looking at her keyboards. The LP is one of her lectures
and demonstrations of the moog from Switched on Bach to Digital Moonscapes.
It covers her entire range with soft spoken explanations of each sound.

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From: [e-mail] (David Schafer)
Subject: Re: Musique Concrete
Date: 13 Aug 1996 20:20:37 -0700 (PDT)

>-Lou wrote--
>And if you're talking Moog bands, don't forget Mother Mallard's Portable
>Masterpiece Co., the official
>Moog house band featuring David Borden.
>
>Anyone mention Moog Cookbook yet?

I would love to know more about the 'Moog House Band' you mentioned--new, I
assume?

Regarding the Moog Cookbook -- I guess Moog doing grunge is odd enough to
discuss. I love it, it's totally in the spirit of something like the
Plastic Cow Goes Moog--it's really indulgent with lots of phat moog sounds.


BTW those in LA, the 'Moog Cookbook' is playing at Rhino on Sunday August
18th at 3:00. Was one of Robert Moog's relatives a chef or something???

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: symphonic soul
Date: 13 Aug 1996 20:53:37 -0700

>I picked up SYMPHONIC SOUL by Henry Mancini, recorded in 1975...and I tell
>those who haven't heard it...that it's *good sleaze* and smacks sweetly of
>blacksploitation.  If you've heard it, what do you think?

SYMPHONIC SOUL is quite good, possibly his best record of the 70s.  Great
version of Herbie Hancock's "Butterfly."

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From: [e-mail] (David Schafer)
Subject: Re: Jackie Gleason Sitar LP
Date: 13 Aug 1996 23:05:56 -0700 (PDT)


>What about Gabor Szabo's Jazz Raga on Impulse or does anyone have Bill
>Plummers sitar record on Impulse to tell me about.
>I'm not familiar with it at all.
>
>Just played "Caravan" from Jazz Raga this morning, I think it's the
>strangest 1 yet

Jack--what's happening??

Haven't heard from you in awhile and I was wondering how your new place is
treating you? Are you still in communicatto with your friend in Atlanta?

I'm getting back to my old self a bit, getting real busy working on the
syllabi for school and trying to hack this part time work schedule. I'm
excited about finding some great LP's, mostly from ordering by mail all
over the place. This is my latest haul over the last few weeks:

Billy Mure/Electrosonic Guitars
Zero Time/Tonto Headband
Man From ORGAN/Hyman
Gershwin is alive and well/Moog
Wanderly/Organized
Enoch light/Future Sounds
Star Trek (episode soundtrack)/Moog
M-Squad
Expirement in Terror/Mancini
Fireworks/Mure
Flower Power/Sitar
Vinnie Bell/Sitar
Golden Leaves/Sitar
London By George/Sitar

How is your listing? I was thinking back to early last summer when your
listings were insanely long without any descriptions at all. Now they have
evolved into  a more sophistacated presentation of collectables and fewer
items. I assume this is more profitable for you? fewer LP's but more $$$ or
you just enjoy doing it this way for no reason.

Man was it hot today!

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From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Cool stuff?
Date: 14 Aug 1996 10:24:01 +0200 (MET DST)

Hi ya=B4all! Later this year I will open up a shop in Stockholm, Sweden:
"Subliminal Sounds & Stuff". I=B4m now looking for cool stuff to sell so I=
=20
would appriciate any tips for products/wholesalers. For example we=B4re=20
looking for Tiki mugs and related Polynesian stuff, Thermins (the not so=20
expensive type as we=B4re already in contact with Big Briar) I heard you=
 could=20
find cheap ones in Japan? Weird candy etc... Anything that makes life worth=
=20
living.
Any tip would be greatly appriciated.

Stefan/Subliminal Sounds
[e-mail]

snail mail to:
Subliminal Sounds
Atlasgatan 10
S-113 20  STOCKHOLM
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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: I Dig Mancini
Date: 14 Aug 1996 05:03:21 -0600 (MDT)


>
>My favorite...a master craftsman!!  As far as I'm concerned, they are ALL
>worth getting.  Some all time greats:

You sure listed some great Mancini records, but I can't believe you missed
out THE PINK PANTHER soundtrack. Every track is a winner. I never leave home
for a gig without it. This is what I describe as perfect cocktail jazz.
Actually, some of you probably know that the music on the film is a bit
different. I don't suppose there was ever a release of the ACTUAL film music
- for instance, the vocal version of "It Had Better Be Tonight" is
completely different in the film. Any ideas?

And can anyone suggest LPs by anyone with music of this flavour?

Thanks.

x Jill




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From: Living Stereo <[e-mail]>
Subject: We Dig Mancini
Date: 14 Aug 1996 05:22:15 -0700


>You sure listed some great Mancini records, but I can't believe you missed
>out THE PINK PANTHER soundtrack. Every track is a winner. I never leave home
>for a gig without it. This is what I describe as perfect cocktail jazz.

Oops, I did forget that one....how could I?  Perfect is the word.

Speaking of digging Mancini, The Anita Kerr Quartet did a record in 1965
called "We Dig Mancini".  Authur Godfrey says "you will love this album".
Did you all know Peter Gunn has lyrics?  Bye Bye.

I'm going bye bye,
byyyyyeeeeeee baby,
now that I've heard all that jazz.....

I'm leaving, bye bye...






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From: "ACD1 Pawlata.S" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Urgently needed !!!
Date: 14 Aug 1996 14:46:52 +0200

Hi,
As I am new to the group, I don't know if this is the right place to
post my request. But I try it anyway, hoping that someone out there can
help me!

1. I'm looking for EVERYTHING by SHEL SILVERSTEIN, America's greatest
song-writing     genius ever, IMHO. What I need especially is:

   - I'm so good that I don't have to brag (Label: Cadet)
   - Drain my Brain (Label: Cadet)
  [both re-released in 1973 as double LP "Crouchin' on the Outside"]

   - Inside Folk Songs (1962)

2.I'm also desperately looking for the following early recordings by DR.
HOOK (&      THE MEDICINE SHOW):

- Who is Harry Kellermann (and why is he saying those terrible things
about me) ?     (Soundtrack, 1971, for a movie featuring Dustin
Hoffmann)
- Fried Face (CBS, 1974 ?)
- Cops and Robbers (CBS, 1974 ? - probably only released in the US and
withdrawn      shortly after due to dispute with their record company)

3. Does ANYBODY out there know ANYTHING about a band called "THE
WALKERS" ???
   (I don't mean "The Walker Brothers" !!!)
   The only thing I know from them are two singles: "Oh Lonesome Me"
(the Johnny       Cash-song) and "We don't live in Tennessee", both
released sometimes in the 70s     and in the style of John Fogerty/CCR,
plus nice steel guitars.

Any clue on the above would be highly appreciated, please answer by
e-mail !

Thanks and take care,
Stefan Pawlata
Vienna, Austria
email: [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Cool stuff?
Date: 14 Aug 1996 14:53:20 +0200

Hi Stefan,

we're Groove Attack Distribution in Cologne, Germany.
Although we don't got any polynesian stuff, we might be able to supply you=
 with
some re-releases and compilations. ;o)
Groove Attack is basically a "club-orientated" distributor, so we deal with
the genres like Hip Hop, Jungle, Headz, Jazz, Funk, a.s.o.

But as some Groove Attacker (incl. me ;)) are quite into the weird side of
music, some exotica-stuff, so-called "easy listening" or "rare funk" albums
are also sold by us.=20
We're shipping throughout europe, the states, australia and japan. (just to
give you
an idea about our profile)

We're posting a bi-weekly new-releases-list (also through the net -=
 interested?)
which could give you an idea about our product-range ...

If you want to reach us analogue, use one of these ways:

Groove Attack Records
Attn: Joerg Nijmeijer
Neue Maastrichter Str. 12-14
D-50672 Cologne, Germany
fn: [phone]
fx: [phone]

The one to talk to for export-matters would be FRANK STRATMANN.

If you just fax us a copy of your trading licence and a letterhead, you'll
be included to
the fax-broadcasting of the lists automatically.


Hope to hear from you soon ...


regards,


joerg



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>Hi ya=B4all! Later this year I will open up a shop in Stockholm, Sweden:
>"Subliminal Sounds & Stuff". I=B4m now looking for cool stuff to sell so I=
=20
>would appriciate any tips for products/wholesalers. For example we=B4re=20
>looking for Tiki mugs and related Polynesian stuff, Thermins (the not so=20
>expensive type as we=B4re already in contact with Big Briar) I heard you=
 could=20
>find cheap ones in Japan? Weird candy etc... Anything that makes life worth=
=20
>living.
>Any tip would be greatly appriciated.
>
>Stefan/Subliminal Sounds
>[e-mail]
>
>snail mail to:
>Subliminal Sounds
>Atlasgatan 10
>S-113 20  STOCKHOLM
>SWEDEN=20
>
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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MISS UNDERSTOOD
Date: 14 Aug 1996 10:49:21 -0400

Wow!  So SYMPHONIC SOUL is a fave among this group!  Cool...I was not clear,
however, when I asked about "unsual" Mancini albums...I guess what I meant is
we all know what's obviously great...but, in your humble(?) opinions, what
are some duds to avoid?  Maybe it's that there are no Mancini-duds?  Are
there any other rockers a la SYMPHONIC SOUL for which we should watch?
Another thang...I saw VOLUME ONE of the ERNIE KOVAC show at the maul...does
anyone know who is on that episode and if it's worth buying?
Thanks!
Lounge Laura
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Subject: Re: I Dig Mancini
Date: 14 Aug 1996 15:54:42 +0100 (BST)

>
>>
>>My favorite...a master craftsman!!  As far as I'm concerned, they are ALL
>>worth getting.  Some all time greats:
>
>You sure listed some great Mancini records, but I can't believe you missed
>out THE PINK PANTHER soundtrack. Every track is a winner.

>different. I don't suppose there was ever a release of the ACTUAL film music
>- for instance, the vocal version of "It Had Better Be Tonight" is
>completely different in the film. Any ideas?
>
Even more awkward, I recently borrowed a television and one of the delights
I discovered was a pink panther cartoon I saw one afternoon. This episode
featured the eponymous hero escaping the rain in a haunted house in the wild
West. It featured him chasing and being chased round the house by a sheet
type ghost and skeletons, complete with eerie Pink Panther music played by
cocktail jazz orchestra and lead theremin......
absolutely marvellous, I was in transports but don't have a video :-<. The
titles gave the music as by Mancini as far as I recall, not indicating who
would have arranged that episode (surely he didn;t do them all himself}
I wouldn't go so far to say that all Mancini produced is up to scratch, have
you heard his monstrosities like "Amazing Grace" which I have on a 1970s
compilation (featuring such delightful ditties as the theme from "Charlies
Angels" which is utterly unmemorable save for a hyperactive organ solo
played by the man himself)

Oh BTW re Julee Cruise, last I heard of her she was touring with the B52s
when one of their founder members left (I'm at work so I can't look at an
album) but that was some time ago now.
Cheers
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From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Devo
Date: 14 Aug 1996 15:58:33 UT

I posed this subject once before, with no response.  With all the recent talk
about electronic music, I'll pose it once again.  Anybody else like/have/know
Devo's EZ Listening stuff?  Muzak versions of their own tunes.  Some of it is
kinda lame, but some of it is very cool.  A few numbers really swing!

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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: Re: Musique Concrete
Date: 14 Aug 1996 09:11:35 -0800


>Regarding the Moog Cookbook -- I guess Moog doing grunge is odd enough to
>discuss. I love it, it's totally in the spirit of something like the
>Plastic Cow Goes Moog--it's really indulgent with lots of phat moog sounds.

        I have to admit that I wasn't particularly fond of the Moog
Cookbook, and I love the Moog.  I think it all boils down to the fact that
I wasn't really fond of the songs in the first place (before the moog twist
was added).

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Cool stuff?
Date: 14 Aug 1996 12:34:10 -0400

>We're posting a bi-weekly new-releases-list (also through the net -
>interested?)
>which could give you an idea about our product-range ...

 Hello Joerg

I'd be interested in this (is it email or is there a URL?). Besides
EZ/exotica, I enjoy Trip-hop, ambient groove, and "how do you categorize
'em" acts like Visit Venus, Jimi Tenor, and Dimitri From Paris (whose 12"
remix maxisingle I'm searching for).

Do you have a retail shop as well? I was in Cologne recently (I play with
Combustible Edison), and will be back early next year, I believe, and am
always on the lookout for record stores to go to (when time permits).

Thanks,
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Good Gershon Kingsley
Date: 14 Aug 1996 10:41:06 +0000

I goota agree with dragstr@earthlink as there are a couple of really good
Kingsley rekkids.

Music To Moog By is phenomenol as is Popcorn.

Although I will say the "John Phillip Moog" on his 1st Moog Qrt
is great David ;) and in fact I played that 1 for Henry Kaiser (killer
guitarist/musician) who lives in Oakland/Berkeley area and loves my show
about a month ago ;)  It rocks!!!


"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] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: recommendations needed: Eartha Kitt
Date: 14 Aug 1996 19:39:17 +0100

>From: [e-mail] (jordana)
>
>I was snooping around the CDNow site and found some good stuff hiding in New
>Age and Bluegrass.  I need to know if any of the following CDs are worth my
>purchase.  They're all on the Bear Family label.  Some of them I've never
>even heard of, so they might not even be lounge/exotica/easy.
>
> (snip)...
>Eartha Kitt - Eartha-Quake

        this is a 5 cd box with book; i don't know what lps are on it,
        but knowing Bear Family, it should be representative for here
        oeuvre, if not comprehensive.

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From: [e-mail] (Matthew Baron)
Subject: Re: I Dig Mancini
Date: 14 Aug 1996 13:34:30 -0500

>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: I Dig Mancini
>Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 15:54:42 +0100 (BST)
>
>
>Even more awkward, I recently borrowed a television and one of the delights
>I discovered was a pink panther cartoon I saw one afternoon.

Speaking of the Pink Panther cartoon...

Does anyone know the name of the tune that is played at the end of each
cartoon?  It's got kind of a organ melody in it.  I am pretty sure Combustible
Edison covered it when I saw them at the Uptown in Minneapolis.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated...


Matt
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Subject: Moog's co.
Date: 14 Aug 1996 15:05 CST

David just mentioned Robert Moog, which reminded me that I recently wrote to Big
Briar for literature on their theremin kits.  Those suckers cost $2,500!!

Boo-hoo, I said, as I opened the catalog.

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Moog's co.
Date: 14 Aug 1996 16:40:51 -0400

                      RE>Moog's co.                                8/14/96

Did you look further at the catalog?  In the back should be the stellar
ETHERWAVE kit which I bought at measley $229...which also includes at "how to
" video and CD!  It's HEAVEN I tell ya'
Lounge Laura-who is not paid by BIG BRIAR...
[e-mail]
"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."

David just mentioned Robert Moog, which reminded me that I recently wrote to
Big
Briar for literature on their theremin kits.  Those suckers cost $2,500!!

Boo-hoo, I said, as I opened the catalog.

Kathy




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From: Paul Lewis <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Moog's co.
Date: 14 Aug 1996 16:59:48 -0400 (EDT)


> David just mentioned Robert Moog, which reminded me that I recently wrote to Big
> Briar for literature on their theremin kits.  Those suckers cost $2,500!!
>
> Boo-hoo, I said, as I opened the catalog.

Does anyone know of an inexpensive Theramin, have one for sale or know
where to get one?

Thanks,
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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: I Dig Mancini
Date: 14 Aug 1996 17:31:11 -0400


>Does anyone know the name of the tune that is played at the end of each
>cartoon?  It's got kind of a organ melody in it.  I am pretty sure Combustible
>Edison covered it when I saw them at the Uptown in Minneapolis.

"A Shot in the Dark"

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From: "Heileson, Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Badalamenti, Adamson
Date: 14 Aug 1996 15:48:00 PDT


>From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Bad Angel
>
>> Badalamenti also produced Faithfull's album A Secret Life last year.

BTW, I recently saw a documentary of an upcoming David Lynch film called
"Lost Highway" featuring bits with Badalamenti and J. Cruise -- so obviously
they are doing the music for this movie. It's slated for Spring '97 I think.

>Oh, and the new Barry Adamson is supposed to be pretty cool

Jooyyy! There are other Adamson fans about! ("Moss Side Story" is an
all-time fave of mine -- and the rest of his oeuvre ain't so shabby either)
Can you supply any more info about this "new" one you mention? Is it out in
the US yet?

(I was a little disappointed at "The Negro Inside Me," but only relatively
speaking, mind you...)

>in a filmic kinda way.

Barry Adamson? Filmic? Naaahhh!   :)


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Combustible Edison
Date: 14 Aug 1996 19:01:56 -0400

Brother Cleve!! You play with Combustible Edison? David Smay, one of the
subscribers to this list, gave me "I Swinger" and I absolutely love it. That
and "Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy" are my two favorites.
Gloria

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Let's talk electronic
Date: 14 Aug 1996 21:27:42 -0400


>The 2 Giorio's (Moroder) that I have are 'From Here to Eternity' 1977 and
>'Knights in White Satin' 1976--they both have Pete Bellotte, who I think is
>known for his LP Moog Party, but I have never heard it or seen it for that
>matter.


I believe this is a record I picked up in London,with it's companion
piece,"The Romantic Moog"-I suspected it was Belotte,as he is credited as
author of the songs that aren't well-known covers...I'm particularly fond
of a perky track called "Taka Takata".The "Romantic Moog" LP is alittle
turgid and this displays the tuning problems of the Moog Synthesizer to
fine effect.


>What about 'The 18th Century Concepts'??? anybody know of them?

In my collection of pop-songs-done-in-baroque-style LPs,this is a notable
exception.It has one of the best covers of anything in that
can-I-even-call-it-a-genre;a photo of a bunch of powdered fops and
macaronis,with a smattering of Lady Pompadour wannabes,astride Harleys.



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Subject: Re: Badalamenti, Adamson
Date: 14 Aug 1996 21:27:57 -0400


>>Oh, and the new Barry Adamson is supposed to be pretty cool
>
>Jooyyy! There are other Adamson fans about! ("Moss Side Story" is an
>all-time fave of mine -- and the rest of his oeuvre ain't so shabby either)
>Can you supply any more info about this "new" one you mention? Is it out in
>the US yet?

Yup.Just saw it in my local hipster record store;It's called
"Oedipus,Schmoedipus". For my money, it's worth getting for the title
alone!

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Electronica
Date: 14 Aug 1996 21:39:25 -0400

"Switched On Bacharach"   Exactly what you think it is - bouncy little moog
versions of "Do you know the way to San Jose?", "Look of love", etc.
"Christmas Electric" by the Moog Machine - One of the most annoying christmas
records i've ever heard.
Someone mentioned "The Happy Moog" as a product of Gershon Kingsley - I only
see Harry Breuer's name on it.  As for Kingsley, that 1st moog quartet with
the lyrics by children (sung in part by ronee blakely) is one of the most
pretentious pieces of you know what that i've ever heard. The version of
sounds of silence almost convinced me to keep it, but not quite.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Hello, everyone!
Date: 14 Aug 1996 22:16:18 -0400

Greetings to everyone!

It's been great pleasure following the various discussions on the list.
 Thanks to everyone for all sorts of neat ideas & once in a while some real
enlightenment!

I'm recently back to record-collecting after a 10-year hiatus.   This
afternoon I stopped by a couple of local thrift shops and found the following
titles among others:
(not sure of their levels of attraction to the folks on this list):

Enoch Light & Light Brigade----Dimension 3      (Command RS867SD)    $0.25

The Three Suns----One Enchanted Evening       (RCA LSP-2904)    $0.25

Jackie Gleason----Intimate Music For Lovers     (Good Music/Capitol SL-9730)
 $1.50

The Genius of Ravi Shankar       (Columbia)         $0.95

Sammy Davis, Jr.----It's All Over But the Swingin'  (Deccca)     $0.95

Manuel, His Spanish Guitars & Orchestra----Spain   (Metro)       $0.95

Let's Dance With The Three Suns       (RCA)   Free

Caterian Valentes & Werner Muller----Greatest Hits   (London)   $0.95

Hugo Winterhalter Goes Gypsy  (RCA)         $1.00

Pops and Prado   RCA  (2 copies, 1 free, 1 for $1.00)

Big Hits By Prado (RCA)   $1.00

The Three Suns----Twilight Memories  (RCA)  $1.00

Joe Harnell His Piano & Orch.----Fly Me to the Moon & Bossa Nova Pops (Kapp)
$0.50

I would love to hear comments on these titles and things related.  Are these
considered good finds?  Anyone out there with a good discography of Edmundo
Ros,  Xavier Cugat, Perez Prado, or Caterian Valientes?  Take care.

Anthony









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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Electronica
Date: 15 Aug 1996 00:25:14 -0500

> "Switched On Bacharach"   Exactly what you think it is - bouncy little moog
> versions of "Do you know the way to San Jose?", "Look of love", etc.

There's also "More Switched On Bacharach," terrifying cheesey goo!

> "Christmas Electric" by the Moog Machine - One of the most annoying christmas
> records i've ever heard.

Grating.  Played it at a job during the holidays.  I don't
work there anymore.

> Someone mentioned "The Happy Moog" as a product of Gershon Kingsley - I only
> see Harry Breuer's name on it.

Happy Moog is by Harry Breur and Jean Jacques Perrey, not Kingsley's
solo style at all.  This one and In Sound From Way Out are
unquestionably my favorites of original hyper moog pop.  Has anyone
heard the French only solo releases of J.J. Perrey?  Know what
direction he took?

I have a later (1986) Kingsley Lp called Much Silence that's
decidedly new-age (cover of Einstein doing a tai-chi-like prance on
yin-yang in the sky).  Just got to listening to the second side now -
about as interesting as a late 80's Bill Nelson record.  No..  less,
much less.  blahhhh.... ohmmmmmmm...


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From: Jim Eukey <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Whipped Cream & Other Frights
Date: 15 Aug 1996 00:01:44 -0500 (CDT)

I'm pickin' onto a thread that's a few days old but what the #*!^.
Anyone seen the answer to Herb Alpert's LP cover that was done by
The Frivolous Five on the 1966 RCA LPM3663 titled "Sour Cream & Other
Delights"?
It's a riot. Five older babes covered in fake froth on the front and
dressed in toreador outfits on the back. Arranged by Bob Halley - for what
it's woith.

Jim

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            but it sure does rhyme."
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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Electronica
Date: 15 Aug 1996 01:23:57 -0400

>Someone mentioned "The Happy Moog" as a product of Gershon Kingsley - I only
>see Harry Breuer's name on it.

True. And look a little further, and you'll find Gershon's collaborator -
Jean-Jacques Perrey.

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Zing!
Date: 15 Aug 1996 01:13:49 -0500

Thanks to the list for all the harp suggestions.  Just got Robert
Maxwell's Shangri-la and am luvin' it!  When that sax belts it
out over the organ the look that woman on the cover is giving
suddenly makes sense!  Also had a listen at Harpo
and besides the Fred Katz backup didn't find it too exciting - just
an immediate impression though.


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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: WKPS lounge show - top 25
Date: 15 Aug 1996 00:32:50 -0400

I've decided to start posting the playlists for the weekly lounge shows to
the list.  We're off the air this week because we're between summer and fall
semesters.  I'm going to post the playlists for the most recent show or two
in subsequent messages, but for now, here's the top 25 for the summer, based
on number of spins.  This represents recent CD reissues only, and is
affected by what we received and when we received it (some of this stuff has
been out a while but we got it this summer or at the end osf spring semester).

WKPS Lounge Show Top 25 Summer 1996

1.  Various - The Sound Gallery (Scamp)
2.  Various - This Is Easy (Virgin UK)
3.  Various - UL 4: Bachelor Pad Royale (Capitol)
4.  Various - Incredibly Strange Music Volume 2 (Asphodel)
5.  Various - The Sound Spectrum (Sequel)
6.  Various - CM 2: Martini Madness (Rhino)
7.  Various - The Easy Project: 20 Loungecore Favorites (Sequel)
8.  Various - Shaken Not Stirred (HiFi/Rykodisc)
9.  Yma Sumac - Sampler (Right Stuff)
10.  John Barry - EMI Years Volume 2 (Scamp)
11.  ST: Vampyros Lesbos (Motel)
12.  Sounds Orchestral - Meet James Bond (Sequel)
13.  Various - CM 1: Bachelor's Guide To The Galaxy (Rhino)
14.  Various - UL 8: Cocktail Capers (Capitol)
15.  Combustible Edison - Schizophonic (Sub Pop)
16.  Hollyridge Strings - Best of the Beatles Songbook (Varese)
17.  Various - UL 7: The Crime Scene (Capitol)
18.  James Taylor Quartet - The Money Spyder (Hollywood/Acid Jazz)
19.  Steve Allen - Plays Hi-Fi Music For Influentials (Varese)
20.  Walter Wanderly - Samba Swing! (Scamp)
21.  Various - UL 9: Cha Cha De Amor (Capitol)
22.  Various - Shots In The Dark (Del-Fi)
23.  Desi Arnaz - Babalu (RCA)
24.  Various - CM 3: Swinging Singles (Rhino)
25.  The Moog Cookbook - The Moog Cookbook (Restless)

-Jordana











Some disclaimers:

1. They tend to be a bit CD-heavy.  This is because I'm the main DJ for the
show (there are a couple others but none have more than a few lounge/exotica
records).  In order to avoid playing the same "hits from Jordana's
collection" every week, I've been leaning toward the new comps.  Plus, we
usually get in a couple new things a week and I am always anxious to play
them.  CDs have an asterisk next to them.

2. We're going off the air for the next couple weeks (hiatus between summer
classes and fall classes). I'll post the last couple weeks playlists
instead, or something.

3.  The Lounge Show has no snappy title, and I'm open to suggestions because
I'm sick of calling it The Lounge Show (I play a lot of easy listening pop,
so The Lounge Show is somewhat of a misnomer anyway).

August 4, 1996
 The Private Life of a Private Eye - s/t song - compilation (Command)
*Eartha Kitt
 Harry Breuer
 Jack Costanzo & His Orch - Jarochito - Mr. Bongo Plays in Hi-Fi (TOPS)
*John Buzon Trio - I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me - UL2:
(Capitol)
*Cal Tjader - Soul Sauce - Cocktail Mix 2 (Rhino)
 101 Strings - Killer Joe A Go-Go - Sounds and Songs of the Jet Set (Alshire)
*Les Baxter - Night In Buenos Aires - Que Mango! (Scamp)
*Joe Loss Concertium 0 Music To Drive By - The Sound Gallery (Scamp)
*Roy Budd - Hurry To Me - The Sound Spectrum (Sequel)
 Francis Lai - Today It's You -Soundtrack: A Man and a Woman (United Artists)
*Mike Flowers Pops - Wonderwall - single (London UK)
*101 Strings - Space Odyssey - Astro Sounds... (Scamp)
*The Ray McVay Sound - Kinda Kinky - The Easy Project (Sequel)
 The Bob Crewe Generation - Girls On the Rocks - Music to Watch Girls By
*Scott Walker - Mathilde
 Terry Baxter - Never My Love - The Best of 68 (                       )
*Hollyridge Strings - Ticket To Ride - Best of Beatles Songbook (Varese
)
*John Barry - Black Stockings - EMI Years vol 1 (Scamp)
 Johnny Beeman - Laughin' Beatnik - Welcome To The Beat Generation
*Prestoin Epps - B'wana Bongos - Lost Treasures (Del-Fi)
*Maya Angelou - Push Ka Pici Pi - Miss Calypso (Scamp)
*Les Baxter - Moon Moods - UL 3: Space Capades (Capitol)
*Br. Cleve and His Lush Orch - Dreamsville - Shots In The Dark (Del-Fi)
*Webley Edwards - Alika - UL1: Mondo Exotica (Capitol)
*Al Caiola - Underwater Chase - UL8: Cocktail Capers (Capitol)
 Nelson Riddle - To The Batmobile - Soundtrack: Batman TV SHow (20th Century
Fox)
*Leroy Holmes - Search For Vulcan - UL7: The Crime Scene (Capitol)
 Henry Mancini - The Big Heist - Soundtrack: Breakfast At Tiffany's (RCA)
 Henry Mancini - Sotra Blue - The Best of Peter Gunn (MGM)
*Henri Rene & His Orch - Hansel & Pretzel - Cocktail Mix 1 (Rhino)
 Dean Martin - Who's Sorry Now
 Enoch Light
 Baja Marimba Band - Baja Humbug
*Lawrence Welk - Land Of Dreams - Exotic Moods (Time-Life)
*Robert Maxwell, His Harp and Orch - Accidental Slip On an Oriental Rug -
Cocktail Mix 1 (Rhino)
*Emil Richards' Yazz Band -        -Yazz Per Favore (Del-Fi)
*Eden Ahbez - Eden's Cove - Eden's Island (Del-Fi)
*Yma Sumac - Kuyawa - Sampler (Right Stuff)
*Esquivel - Mini Skirt - Cabaret Manana (RCA)
*Desi Arnaz -


-Jordana
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: A Shot in The Dark
Date: 14 Aug 1996 22:50:20 +0000

mancicni's a shot in the dark is toooooooooooooooo kuel;))

find john zorn's naked city and play _their interpretation_ of henry's title
un-beeeeeeeeee-lieve-a-ble ;-)>  it's great to play them back to back

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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Date: 15 Aug 1996 01:19:27 -0400

>>I would like to hear from other Exotica list memebers about some of
> >the whistling tunes in their collections....Saul

I don't know all that much about the various whistling virtuosos, but
myfavorite is the Working Holiday theme song by the Coctails.

-Jordana
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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: the bonky-bonk sound
Date: 15 Aug 1996 01:33:55 -0400

>From: [e-mail] (David Schafer)
>What about Subotnik??

I found a Subotnik record at our uni library, called Silver Apples of the
Moon.  It was barely listenable.  Lots of blinkety bonk, but not melodical
enough to hold my attention.  I think Stereolab samples his stuff on
occassion.  There's also a band called Laika (not Laika and the Cosmonauts,
which is another group) that has an album of the same title.  They're good
for modern bonky-bonk electronic with feedback and phat beats.

Then there was that group the Silver Apples (I'm just making the connection
now, and it's late and I'm worried that I've got the wrong name with
Subotnik).  They have this wonderful droney groove made up of percussion and
some sort of electronic monster machine.  Brilliant stuff, better than many
other things I've heard, and it would sound amazingly fresh and much more
interesting if it weren't for the hippy-dippy singing that muddles it up.
I'm pretty definite that "Nothing's Gonna Stop the Flow" by the Folk
Implosion (from the _Kids_ soundtrack) samples it's background from one of
the Silver Apples songs ("Contact"?).

>Yes I have a problem and I am seeking help:))) I'm turning to electric
>sitars for now.

I would have a problem if I ever found any moog records for less than 30
bucks.  I've found a couple in the last week and a hlaf, so maybe my problem
starts now (and I've gone full throttle into electric sitar simultaneously.
Watch out!)

-Jordana
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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: Re: exotica Digest V2 #44
Date: 15 Aug 1996 01:53:03 -0400


>From: "Heileson, Thomas" <[e-mail]>

>Another plus: it includes the all-time Cheesiest Disco Song EVER. I'm not
>kidding, there is no contender here. Called "Love, Love, Love," it was sung
>on an episode of the TV show by a four-eyed sister siren sporting an
>impressive afro.

Aaaah!  Aaaah!  You've just triggered a memory.  I used to have a poster (or
maybe a record? wait - probably the lunchbox) from BG with that woman on it.
It was my favorite show when I was in 1st or 2nd grade, but that woman
simultaneously fascinated me and freaked me out.   Aaaaah!  I have a fair
amount of posters and stuff (Con-tact paper, even) from BG that I've
accumulated in the last couple years, but I'd forgotten about the scary
multi-featured women.
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Lazlo wrote:

>Yup -- if we're thinking of the same thing, it's Giorgio Moroder's attempt
>to catch up with Meco (who as far as I know never did a Battlestar
>Galactica album, but I'm always spotting new Meco albums I never knew
>existed, so...).

Who is this Meco, anyway?  The only Meco I found in my parents' stuff was
Pop Goes the Movies; I brought it back with me just in case even though it
looks horrible (I think I liked it when I was little, though).

Lounge Laura wrote:

>I picked up SYMPHONIC SOUL by Henry Mancini, recorded in 1975...and I
tell>>those who haven't heard >it...that it's *good sleaze* and smacks
sweetly of
>blacksploitation.  If you've heard it, what do you think?  And Mancini-ites,
>what other unsual albums are worth getting of his, and what are worth
>avoiding?

This isn't about Mancini, but sort of veering of from the topic, I keep
coming across these Issac Hayes versions of Bacharach/David songs.  They're
crazy (an 11 minute version of "The Look of Love") and very Isaac, but my
question is: Is there a separate album of this stuff or are they sprinkled
throughout his albums?

More Afro-EZ  is the Love Unlimited Orchestra, with music written by Barry
White.

-Jordana
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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: cartoon lounge
Date: 15 Aug 1996 02:00:44 -0400

I'm sorry to post so many messages in a row - I've been away for four days
and I've stored up lots to talk about.

I got the Hanna-Barbera "Pic-A-Nic Basket" box set.  Woderful stuff.  I got
it for the nostalgia factor alone (why is it that I'm 21 but I'm already
nostalgic about everything?) but once you get beyond the familiar theme
songs, there's some unexpectedly good stuff here.  The underscores (what
they play as incidental music underneath the sound effets and dialogue) are
pretty good; the Jetsons underscore is really really good, and sounds like
the Three Suns on even happier pills and with a theremin player joining the
band.

On another note, I saw the Theremin documentary at the video shop, but
didn't get a chance to rent it.

-Jordana, serial poster

P.S.  I have another post, regarding the enormous (but not supreme quality)
pile of records I rescued from my parents' basement this weekend.  But it
will wait until tomorrow.

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From: J P M <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Moog's co.
Date: 15 Aug 1996 03:34:31 +0000

Actually the Theremin DIY kit is like $250 , But you need some one to
build it it is fairly simple ,The tech guy where I work is getting one
and my other friend has there RCA design 'and' the kit and he kinda
likes the cheaper kit better .

Also those interested in MOOG modulers,Don Martin at Moogmusic.com is
Re-Designing/Re-Making them.

Jason
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From: J P M <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: the bonky-bonk sound
Date: 15 Aug 1996 03:49:23 +0000

Morton Subotnick did "Silver Apples of the Moon" .He uses mostly Buchla
Modular Synths (a very close friend has three or four systems).

The Silver Apples are a completly different group .They did
Silver Apples (1968) and Contact (1969) and they used a machine/synth
called a Simeon (after the band member).

Both are available on CD at Kim's Video/Music in NY.I don't know wich
label.

If you in to bleepy/ping pongy electronic music, you should check out
Tom Dockstader.He has a few records out (about six ,circa 1966) Water
Music ,Quartermass.....Very nice Electronic Music ......also available
on CD at Kim's Video/Music in NY

Jason
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From: J P M <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Electronica
Date: 15 Aug 1996 03:54:01 +0000

Could you please send me a song list on the "More Switched On
Bacharach".I have the first one and I love it.Soon i'm going to do a
cover of "The Look of Love" with Vocoders Speech Synths and Synths.


Thanks
Jason
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From: J P M <[e-mail]>
Subject: Raymond Scott
Date: 15 Aug 1996 04:01:08 +0000

Does any one know of or have a copy of "Music for Baby in Womb".I've
been looking for this one FOR EVER.It's all done on his Scottonium,
Karloff and, Electronium home made sytnths. I have 3 or 4 songs of his
electronic stuff (the Pygmy taxi Corp......) but it is impossible to
find.

Thanks in advance,
Jason
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Framables - leopard women
Date: 15 Aug 1996 04:06:18 -0400

Cats 'n gals, gals and cats, and gals dressed like cats, all over the
fireplace: the Mansfield, Betty Page, Irish McCallum (Music for Big Dame
Hunters), Cat's Meow, etc. Purrrrr. Did I mention Kitt? So many jackets, so
little wall. Gif me a 12"-square scanner, hard disks on the side, and don't
be stingy, baby.


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: comp ideas - say no to Herb
Date: 15 Aug 1996 04:06:28 -0400

How many copies of Pat Cooper's "Spaghetti Sauce and Other Delights" can you
amass?

To how many unattended, parked vehicles can you donate the works of Herb
Alpert? (Once you've swaggered all over Greenwich Village singing "Spanish
Flea," you need no more Herb. Unless you've got a uke this time.) This is
the next level, and I vote for abstension (shudder).

Herb truly is sensational, but I like to think that Al Tijuana [& his Jewish
Brass] as A&M's A&R man would have given us something more lively than the
dreaded Baja Marimba Band. Take my Herb, please. Build public housing and a
dinosaur park with it.


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Sir Julian ad nauseum
Date: 15 Aug 1996 04:06:42 -0400

Sir Julian clearly owes his new-found status to these, grrrr, CD comps
(praise "the Old Codger," Irwin, tho). SJ is outshined by Lenny Dee, Ethel
Smith, Klaus Wunderlich, and dozens of other more wacky and prolific
electro-organeers.

"Love is Blue" and "Knight at the Organ" are other SJ LPs, but the
earlier-mentioned Living Stereo tidbits are his best.

If you must like this stuff, as I'd hoped only I do, "Organ Harvest" and
"Hammond Cheese" are two 90-minute TDK-SA comps that go much further than
any woman and most men (it's a real gender-divider, this genre) want to
venture into the exciting realm of fast-tempo, electric organ stylings.
"TAPE LIST" to [e-mail].


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Mancini understood
Date: 15 Aug 1996 04:06:47 -0400

Go Hank:

Breakfast at Tiffany's (excellent, looks like mush but isn't all)
Combo
Charade
Touch of Evil (rare)
Latin Big Band Sound of (for "Senor Peter Gunn")
Best of
Experiment in Terror (a twist version!)
Pink Panther (maybe)
Hatari (for title track)
Uniquely Mancini
Blues and the Beat (maybe)
(other film noir soundtracks)

Except for Touch of Evil, definitely hold out for stereo.

No, Hank:

Peter Gunn (only title track is not a total yawn)
More Peter Gunn (oh puh-lease)
Versatile
[Hawaiian LP]
most others that smack of Hollywood mushatronic smarminess

RIP mighty Mancini, influence on Combustible Edison. Br Cleve?


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Roland Kirk
Date: 15 Aug 1996 04:06:43 -0400

Background: Rahsaan Roland Kirk's major start was with Quincy Jones's big
band. "Soul Bossa Nova" is really Kirk's tune from when he was in Jones's
band. Kirk also was where Hendrix was at, musically, when he died. Kirk
albums are worth it if you like Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, and other funky
jazzmen who improvise very powerfully and strangely.

A jazz heavy. There's a CD box set, if you're into that sort of thing.


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: theremins on the cheap
Date: 15 Aug 1996 04:06:51 -0400

Really save by adapting a metal detector; it's been done to reasonable
effect. Some old guy in your neighborhood may have put one together out of
the proverbial-yet-evergreen "Popular Science" schematics, as well. But for
a great parlor trick, just blow the $$.

Bob Moog's great on personal service. Don't expect him to appreciate trivia
about moog and theremin records, though. As far as he's concerned, Clara
Rockmore's "Art of the Theremin," which comes with the kit, is it. He
doesn't pay me either, but he's good.

My kit, #14, remains unassembled, alas. So many projects, so few hands to
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Moog - "electronic music" is sumpin else
Date: 15 Aug 1996 04:06:57 -0400

Let us not forget the dueling Perrey & Kingsley and Sid Bass moog versions
of "Spanish Flea," perhaps the most preposterous attempt to "warm the machine."

Marty Gold, who is everything the _horrible, despicable_ Morton Gould should
be, did "Moog Plays the Beatles," as close to the Transformed Shatner as
you're gonna get with a moog LP. The cover art features the ultra-cutie-pie,
Hummel(tm)-esque figurines of a hippie couple - he fully bearded and
frontally nude - eeek! (the cutesy figurine part, I mean).

Then we have Hugo Montenegro, no doubt grown apprehensive about the efficacy
of his previous "Moog Power" effort, doing "Hugo in Wonder-land," a
Moog-Plays-Stevie-Wonder album. Early '70s semi-moog, a la moog-use by
Spirit, Jimmy Castor, and the like, but "Higher Ground" still is a hard song
to ruin, even by happenin' Hugo.


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Spectacular Red Hot Bob Maxwell
Date: 15 Aug 1996 04:14:15 -0400

Robert Maxwell's finest [mono] LP may be Red Hot Harp.

Spectacular Harps (part of a whole series of instrument showcases on MGM) in
stereo has a few knockouts. "Caravan" is layered, trebly harps that reminds
one of the Hendrix - Rainbow Bridge version of "The Defense of Fort M'Henry"
(actual F. Scott Key title of the "Star Spangled Banner").


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Hello, everyone! - finds
Date: 15 Aug 1996 04:06:58 -0400

Welcome back to vinyl, hiatus regrettable.

Prado, Valente - way to go. Truly you came, you saw, you conga'd. Pops &
Prado features dueling organs, and its "Three Little Words" always gets
neighbor-rattlin' volume here at Chez Tiki, anti- gringo-cha cha naysayers
be damned. (Burn the rest unless you like it.)

Discographies for Ros, Cugat, and Prado is asking a lot. Estimate quantity
of unique LP material (including 10", CD, and imports but forgetting VAs,
45s, EPs, and 78s for the moment) at about 40, 70, and 40 LPs, respectively.
I'm willing to contribute to a serious, definitive discography/bibliography
project, but a fella could get killed fooling with his mambo collection. I'm
afraid of it - I think I smell a cat under there.

With each of the Trumpetacious Three you get a fair amount of dreck, but
it's safe to experiment. With Prado there's a Jimi Hendrix-esque bootleg
problem; stick with the RCAs and UAs unless you're a completist on Prado or
other Latin artists. Cugat had a recording career stretching over 7 or 8
decades and as many labels; with him most Columbias and Mercurys and nearly
all Deccas are best; RCAs are the disappointment for a change. Cugie CDs
include authentic-but-boring old rumbas and the infectious-but-posthumous
Xavier Cugat Orchestra (now that's fame!). Go for anything with the greatest
of his 5 wives on it: Abbe Lane, the Lady in Red. Ask an oldster about the
raid on Cugie's love nest. Love Boat veteran Charo "cuchie-cuchie-coo" was
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Subject: Re: Jordana's questions
Date: 15 Aug 1996 04:35:01 -0400


>I found a Subotnik record at our uni library, called Silver Apples of the
>Moon.  It was barely listenable.  Lots of blinkety bonk, but not melodical
>enough to hold my attention.

Well...it's definitely not pop music,but I dig it nonetheless.I'd recommend
staying away from the Stockhausen stuff mentioned in the last couple of
days if you don't like Subotnik! If anyone out there DOES dig Mr.Subotnik,
I recently got his follow-up to "Silver Apples","The Wild Bull"at the
mother of all record yard sales here in Providence(I've had an obscenely
successful record-thrift season!);a sort of abstract anti-war electronic
oratorio.A little more immediately affecting than "Silver Apples", though
it's STILL not very catchy.


>Then there was that group the Silver Apples

Their two LPs have been re-released on CD and are available at NYC's Other
Music,and other places,too,I hope.They were a synth/percussion duo who
sound unexpectedly relevant in a world where Stereolab are on a major
label.


>Aaaah!  Aaaah!  You've just triggered a memory.  I used to have a poster (or
>maybe a record? wait - probably the lunchbox) from BG with that woman on it.
>It was my favorite show when I was in 1st or 2nd grade,

Omigod...can you make me feel like any more of a fossil?:-)

>This isn't about Mancini, but sort of veering of from the topic, I keep
>coming across these Issac Hayes versions of Bacharach/David songs.  They're
>crazy (an 11 minute version of "The Look of Love") and very Isaac, but my
>question is: Is there a separate album of this stuff or are they sprinkled
>throughout his albums?

Yeah,they're scattered throughout his...er..."ouevre".He does an AMAZING
epic version of "Walk On By" on his LP "Black Moses".Incredible cruciform
fold-out cover,too.Part of the piano solo in "W.O.B."was sampled by Public
Enemy as the main riff in their song "Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos".

>More Afro-EZ  is the Love Unlimited Orchestra, with music written by Barry
>White.


I have long maintained that Barry White is the unsung genius of Black EZ
listening-and the missing link between EZ and Disco. Although maybe calling
a guy with multiple platinum albums to his credit "unsung" is overstating
the situation.

Tryin' to get over...

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Sir Julian ad nauseum
Date: 15 Aug 1996 04:49:40 -0400

>Sir Julian clearly owes his new-found status to these, grrrr, CD comps
>(praise "the Old Codger," Irwin, tho). SJ is outshined by Lenny Dee, Ethel
>Smith, Klaus Wunderlich, and dozens of other more wacky and prolific
>electro-organeers.
>

I gotta say,if we're talking throbbing swelling organ (sorry,I couldn't
resist) there hasn't been enough appreciation of Lenny Dee out here!

Klaus Wunderlich also has some cool moog and prepared piano LPs.Hard to
find in the US, though.

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From: J P M <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Let's talk electronic (>Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Date: 15 Aug 1996 04:09:53 +0000

Other Stockhausen records to check out are :

ÇHymnen ;This is the one in wich he uses National Anthems and Shortwave
and processes them through Ring Modulatorss and the like.
ÇTelemusic/Mixtur ; Mostly electronic cut-up and bleeps and blops.

Jason
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From: J P M <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: I Dig Mancini
Date: 15 Aug 1996 04:13:19 +0000

Has anyone seen or heard of a CD copy of " Mr Lucky ". I had the vinyl
but I can't find it and I really miss it.

Jason
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From: Phil Clark <[e-mail]>
Subject: Collectors shops/Who is Ananda Shankar?
Date: 15 Aug 1996 10:01:26 +0100

In message , Robbie Baldock <[e-mail]> writes
>soundbliss wrote:
>
>>I'm on cloud nine. I had a major record score at a local (El Paso, TX)
>>flea market... a buck apiece.
>
>Followed by numerous sick-making "look what I got"! posts.
>
>And after me thinking I'd done quite well on my trip to Gramophone
>Emporium!!!
>
>Remind me to move to the US next week...
>

Too right. Here in London the prices in some of the collectors shops (if
not allofem) are gettin' ridiculous. Last week I was in Portobello
market in Notting Hill (recommended fora sunny Saturday browsing) and
there are some x-cellent vinyl emporia over there (esp "Intoxica").
However the days of finding bargains in said places appear to be long
gone - one stall on the market was asking gbp20 for the most ordinary
budget MFP albums. Who are they kidding!! Not me that's fer sure.

Luckily tho if ya go outside the city centre to the provinces, things
are better for us vinyl junkies. And I did find a couple of new reissues
which will be of interest to list readers:

"Funky Soundtracks" - comp of blaxploitation cuts, grooooooo-veee!! Hey
lady you're looking mighty fine (etc)

"Easy Tempo" - double LP of Italian movie soundtrack music, late
60s/70s, very cool indeed, recommended here a couple of wks ago, buy!!

and a totally WILD 12" by Ananda Shankar, don't know the titles since
it's a white label, but this is just way out there! crazy moog, sitar,
bongos all over the place. wow!! Does anyone have any info about this
guy?

Off on holiday tonight for 2 wks touring around Italy/Germany/Slovenia/A
ustria, you can bet I'll be looking out for those flea markets!

Keep on groovin y'all
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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Hello, everyone!
Date: 15 Aug 1996 04:37:04 -0700

[e-mail] wrote:
>
>Anyone out there with a good discography of Edmundo
> Ros,  Xavier Cugat, Perez Prado, or Caterian Valientes?  Take care.
> Discographies for Ros, Cugat, and Prado--as well as the Three Suns, Hugo
Winterhalter, and several others mentioned in your list of buys--are
available at the Exotica Standards web site.  Check the Performers page
at:

http://www.netrail.net/~bbigelow/perform.htm

for links to bios and discographies of over 90 exotica/space-age pop
performers.

Brad Bigelow
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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Electronica
Date: 15 Aug 1996 06:21:00 -0500

> Could you please send me a song list on the "More Switched On
> Bacharach"

A
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
Wishin' And Hopin'
(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me
(They Long To Be) Close To You
Everybody's Out Of Town

B
Paper Mache
A Message To Michael
I'll Never Fall In Love Again
Reach Out For Me
Promises, Promises
Trains And Boats And Planes

vocals on a few of the B side tracks


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From: [e-mail] (lou smith)
Subject: Re: Musique Concrete
Date: 15 Aug 1996 14:59:19 GMT

On Aug 13, 1996 20:20:37, '[e-mail] (David Schafer)' wrote:


>>-Lou wrote--
>>And if you're talking Moog bands, don't forget Mother Mallard's Portable
>>Masterpiece Co., the official
>>Moog house band featuring David Borden.
>>
>
>I would love to know more about the 'Moog House Band' you mentioned--new,
I
>assume?

Au contraire, mon frere. MM was the original House Band (or at least the
only Moog band willing to live
in Trumansburg).
They self-released 2 discs on Earthquack: Mother Mallard's Portable
Masterpiece Co. (1973) and
Like a Duck To Water (1976).
Back then they were a trio of David Borden, Steve Drews & Linda Fisher.
They played more in a jazzy minimalist style than rock/pop.
They were able to bring an improvisatory feel to pulse music, which is
quite a trick.
That famously stable Moog tuning probably helped with that a bit.

I hitch-hiked through a blizzard to a small college in Rochester, NY 1972
to see them play live.
They turned patch-cord plugging into a ballet - the only purely electronic
show I've ever seen that was
visually interesting as well. The tension of watching 3 people re-configure
a stage full of synths in real
time *while* performing certainly added an edge to things.

I think Borden now releases his music on Cuneiform (but I haven't heard
it).

yrs. with mustard,
Lou

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: BLUES AND THE BEAT
Date: 15 Aug 1996 11:08:50 -0400

                      BLUES AND THE BEAT                           8/15/96

Some well meaning exoti-poster wrote the following:


>>>Blues and the Beat (maybe)
(other film noir soundtracks)

 AHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!  That's one of my ABSOLUTE faves!  How dare you attach a
"maybe!" AHHAHAHHAA!  Dems fightin' words!
Plus, the art-work is too fab...

IMHO-lounge laura
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From: "Desmond K. Hill" <[e-mail]>
Subject: __electrique__
Date: 15 Aug 1996 13:56:57 +0000

        just to rewind.. i want to express how much i've enjoyed the
concepts, discussions & tangents revolving around the notions of electronic
& concrete recordings, lately evident on the list. there's much that i've
learned & i want to thank everyone for contributing to that. perhaps there
is a little i can contribute myself?

someone asked what jean jacques perrey's french recordings, post-'70, were
like, how they developed & differed from the earlier vanguard releases:

        'dynamoog' (CREA Sound Ltd. LP, '77) is marvellous. from the
accelerated escapism of the opener 'le fugitif' to the atmospheric delights
of 'futur anterieur' to the clean crisp jazz of the title track, 'dynamoog'
is possibly perrey's most accomplished album. commissioned in '76 by
producer louis delacour for the canadian label CREA Sound Ltd., it was
realised in france in only 12 days. the creative tasks were shared between
perrey and his partner, gilbert sigrist, who was then chef d'orchestra for
the live performances of popular french singing star gilbert decaud. in
spite of the time pressure, the 'dynamoog' production is relaxed, the
sounds are open and even the title sequence is well combined. 'The Ultimate
in Music Conception' indeed.

        perrey (alongside pat prilly & harry breur) was involved with a
number of different moog lps, released by 'montparnasse 2000,' including
titles like 'moog sensations,' 'moog is moog,' 'moog expressions' etc.
these were audio illustrations for film, "musique pour l'image" as perrey
describes them. they are all incredibly varied albums, ranging from
bonky-bonk pieces to real freaky textured sc-fi shit. tres, tres cool.

        perrey returned to the studio in june this year, '96, creating 3
demo tracks, in preparation for what he calls, "the album of the century."
these are skeletal, but indicate the possiblities, were a major label to
offer a contract. it's timely with the reissue of 'moog indigo'
(http://www.acerecords.co.uk/gotrt/apr96/jjperrey01.html) & the lucozade
ad. in combination with live musicians (as with '69 sessions in nyc) to
provide rhythmic backing, double bass & drums, i'm sure perrey could be
encouraged to realise & release the full funk evident within 'moog indigo.'


        how come i know all this? well.. here in in northern england i
present a radio series, __electric___ featuring much of the music recently
discussed. E C L E C T R I C I T Y is an e-mail periodical providing
back-up data about tracks programmed. To join, e-mail the instruction
'subscribe' to [e-mail] Back issues are now online
(http://www.obsolete.com/anubis23/cv/contents).

        before summer fades to autumn our signals will be netcast online.
sdf Community netRadio (http://sdf-radio.colossus.net) will deliver digital
sound direct to your domestic hard-drives. Those who know our programmes
already will recognise an audio addiction willing to take risks. Those
interested in sponsoring shows should e-mail [e-mail]
immediately.

[e-mail]:
>What about Subotnik??

        it's interesting to note that subotnik's trail-blazing material was
criticised by RCA Victor as "music for non-thinkers" despite the very word
'synthesiser' suggesting an investigation of the entire world of sound.
born in 1933, subotnik survived the criticism. his blipping & squicking
sonic environments from the '60s were created on the 'electric music box'
(the buchla synth designed in '67 by donald buchla utilising suggestions
from subotnik and ramon sender). today subotnik teaches electronic music &
works predominantly with computer generated sounds for theatre performance.

[e-mail]:
>Do you know if London is affiliated with Phillips in any way ?

        today there is no connection between these companies, though in the
past, it's quite possible there was some licensing esxchange operating
between them.

[e-mail]:
>Here's 2 more MC tapeheads who've done interesting work and neither of
>whose names I'll be able to spell off the top of my head:
>Ilhan Mimaroglou (who had his own lable, Finadar, for a while).

        anyone offer anything more? mimaroglu's creativity is sparse but
select, some pieces consist purely of modulation & a mixing desk. most of
which were apparently inspired by the visual work of painters from armenia
& turkey. the few mimaroglu recordings i own are on the usa label,
'turnabout' from the mid-late '60s, before i was born. if anyone has
material from this label or from 'finadar,' please e-mail titles, reviews,
anecdotes, etc to the list. together we might generate a history or
discography of sorts. i'm intrigued..

[e-mail]:
>Some of Tod Dockstader's work has been re-released on Starkland
>Records(P.O. Box 2190 Boulder, CO 80306). The two that I've found are
>"Apocalypse" and "Water Music"-there might be more.

        where might vinyl copies of dockstader's works be found?

        phew. 'am done ;)

        best wishes,
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: More Whistling !!;))
Date: 15 Aug 1996 08:43:23 +0000

>>>I would like to hear from other Exotica list memebers about some of
>> >the whistling tunes in their collections....Saul
>
>I don't know all that much about the various whistling virtuosos, but
>myfavorite is the Working Holiday theme song by the Coctails.
>
>- -Jordana

Jordana,

I was just listening to a show of mine from March and I heard more great
whistling, not credited though on Poe For Moderns (RCA)
This is a great Private Eye Jazz lp with the Buddy Morrow Orchestra w/
arrangements by a few people including Bernie Green, bless his soul ;)

There are spoken word pieces over moody private eye jazz AND coooool
whistling.  Find it if you can.  5 Stars, all time great!!!

Most likely the most prolific whistler was/is Muzzy Marcellino (sp?)

I love whistling records and am a pretty good whistler myself ;)

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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: records from home
Date: 15 Aug 1996 10:52:04 -0400

Urgh, I didn't mean to post that WKPS playlist before.  I had only meant to
send the top 25.  If anyone needs to see a non-mucked up version of the
playlist, let me know.  I think it would be too much of a pain to post it again.

Since a couple people posted "weekend scores" I'll tell you what I got from
the basement of my parents house.  There was a record rack, about 3 feet
long and two shelves high, rescued from my grandmother's house.  Full of
dust as it is, the damp conditions of the room were causing the whole mess
to start mildewing.  I'm no expert on record conservation, so all I did was
wipe the covers off with slightly damp paper towels, dry em off, and see if
the right record was inside (I now have a frustratingly large collecton of
empty covers from Groove Holmes, Earl Grant and other soul-jazz organists).
Some of them are in crap shape, but none of the records are too badly
scrathced.  I got some stuff from my immaculate parents collection too.
Here's an overview - there are a _lot_ of records.  SOme are jazz, and some
I have no idea about.

Enoch Light - Magnificent Movie Themes
Hollyridge Strings - New Beatles Songbook
3 Suns w/ strings - Soft and Sweet
Ramsey Lewis - Up Pops, Goes Latin
Soundtrack - Mondo Cane
Kay Starr - Swinging with the Starr
Sammy Davis w/ Count Basie
Basie's Beatle Bag
varoius movie theme compilations Themes (Ferrante & Teicher, Al Caiola,
Marilyn Monroe doing "I Wanna Be Loved By You")
Capitol The Silver Years (Peggy Lee, Matt Munro, Dean Martin, Wayne Newton)
many Diane Wilsons, a couple Shirley Scotts and a few Dionne Warwicks
several Johnny Mathises
some Mongo Santamarias
(I forgot the Gabor Szabo I found, but no sitar on it, I checked)
a couple Sergio Mendeses (w/ and w/o Brazil 66)
Richard Otto and Sarah McLawler - At The Break of Day
The Various Moods of Peanuts Taylor (a drummer from the Bahamas)
and the everpresent Kostelanetz (Gypsy Passion) and Ray Connif (World of Hits)

Probably a lot of this I won't _love_, but you can't beat the price (free).
-Jordana
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From: Paul Lewis <[e-mail]>
Subject: Theramin
Date: 15 Aug 1996 10:35:25 -0400 (EDT)


Could someone provide addresses for these catalogs that sell inexpensive
Theramins?

Thanks,
Paul

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From: [e-mail] (ENJOY)
Subject: Re: weekly new-releases-list ....
Date: 16 Aug 1996 00:10:24 +0800

yes i'm very interested.



>Hi there,
>
>I mail a weekly new-releases-list to a "private mailinglist".
>(Some of you might remember ...)
>
>These lists contain about 90-130 new releases a week, including all
>"club-relevant" genres such as Hip Hop, Jungle/Drum&Bass, Headz, Jazz,
>Funk, a bit House and others.
>
>(As this one goes to the exotica-lovers: compilations (lounge, rare
>jazz ...) and the ones like Jean-Jaques Perrey, Pierre Henry, etc.
>can also be found ...)
>
>A short comment and cat.-no. are also added.
>
>If anyone's interested: Just drop me a line ...
>
>
>Peace,
>
>Joerg
>(Groove Attack)

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Subject: Re:Winifred Atwell
Date: 15 Aug 1996 12:15:44 -0400

Anyone heard of Winifred Atwell. I have a couple of 10" records by her. One
with Ted Heath and His Music. Anyway, she basically plays honky tonk, but on
this album with Ted Heath there are two exotica-ish songs: Taboo and Tamboo.
They're VERY interesting.
Gloria

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From: [e-mail] (ENJOY)
Subject: Loungecore
Date: 16 Aug 1996 00:23:15 +0800

has anyone one heard of a compilation LP called "Loungecore Vol.II"?.....i
saw it a a friend's garage recently and am curious if it's any
good.....apparently it's from the same makers who'd put together  "The Easy
Project" of which i haven't had a chance to listen to as well.......is it
available on cd?...and how about Vol. 1?

I also hear that vol.2 of "Easy Project" and "The Sound Gallery" have been
released....can anyone confirm this? .....and also that The Karminski
Brothers are working on a new compilation project.?

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From: Sax Therapy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Beaver & Krause
Date: 15 Aug 1996 11:31:29 -0600

while we're in the electronic mode, I'd like to mention
Beaver and Krause who some of you are already familiar with.
I think it was them who put out a box set on Nonesuch called
"The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music."  I can't remember
if there were one or two records but it included a nice
booklet. There was a full length compostion and the rest was
various samples of different wavegorms and such. (I used to
tape some of the samples and loop them. splice them, dice them
into my own compositions.) Bernie Krause was also responsible
for George Harrison's "Wonderwall Music" album. He's not given
credit on the LP but if you look closely on the cover you can
see his name crossed out in silver ink. Beaver & Krause were
involved in many other electronic projects during the 70's.
Most of them don't come to mind at the moment but I'm sure someone
on the list can enlighten us....Saul
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From: [e-mail] (David Schafer)
Subject: Re: Let's talk electronic
Date: 15 Aug 1996 09:27:13 -0700 (PDT)


>riviera--
>In my collection of pop-songs-done-in-baroque-style LPs,this is a notable
>exception.It has one of the best covers of anything in that
>can-I-even-call-it-a-genre;a photo of a bunch of powdered fops and
>macaronis,with a smattering of Lady Pompadour wannabes,astride Harleys.


Riviera--

RE: 'The 18th Century Concepts'-

Is this the LP which is featured in the REsearch volume 2 -- 'Off on a 20th
Century Cycle' with Light My Fire and Happy Together? Because they don't
look like Harleys, more like scooters.


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From: [e-mail] (David Schafer)
Subject: Re: Electronica
Date: 15 Aug 1996 09:27:47 -0700 (PDT)


>Happy Moog is by Harry Breur and Jean Jacques Perrey, not Kingsley's
>solo style at all.

yes yes -- I meant Jean Jacques Perrey in my original post - sorry - I was
suffering from moogtrauma.

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From: [e-mail] (David Schafer)
Subject: Re: the bonky-bonk sound
Date: 15 Aug 1996 09:28:50 -0700 (PDT)


>I found a Subotnik record at our uni library, called Silver Apples of the
>Moon.  It was barely listenable.  Lots of blinkety bonk, but not melodical
>enough to hold my attention.

You definately have to be in a mood for 'Subotnik' and he has to be played
_loud_ or on headphones for maximum sound surprises.

>Laika --They're good for modern bonky-bonk electronic with feedback and
>phat >beats.

What was the title of Laika's LP/CD? please.

>I would have a problem if I ever found any moog records for less than 30
>bucks.  I've found a couple in the last week and a hlaf, so maybe my problem
>starts now (and I've gone full throttle into electric sitar simultaneously.
>Watch out!)

ain't it the truth--keep looking. When I lived in NY I used to find one
every once and awhile at Footlight on 12th--oh now I feel nostalgic for NY
:(

jordana--let's talk sitars soon, I'm curious what you have found.

>On another note, I saw the Theremin documentary at the video shop, but
>didn't get a chance to rent it.

watch it immediately--it's really unbelievable from the very beginning.

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Theramin
Date: 15 Aug 1996 12:37:40 -0400

                      RE>Theramin                                  8/15/96

I think it's now time to post on behalf of one of my fave web pages-THE
THEREMIN HOME PAGE...
http://www.Nashville.Net/~theremin/
The guy who maintains it is super nice and helpful, and it's a great
resource...I noticed that many of the people on this list are also
contributors to JASON BLUE BARILE'S page...BTW, my pic is on it under BANDS
CURRENTLY USING THEREMINS, if you're interested  ; ^ )
Lounge Laura
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Could someone provide addresses for these catalogs that sell inexpensive
Theramins?

Thanks,
Paul

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From: Bryan Jare Cuevas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Funky Soundtracks"
Date: 15 Aug 1996 09:43:08 -0400 (EDT)

According to Phil Clark:
>
> "Funky Soundtracks" - comp of blaxploitation cuts, grooooooo-veee!! Hey
> lady you're looking mighty fine (etc)

Phil -
Would you please post the catalogue info on this CD - and if
it's not too much trouble, a track listing?

Thanks!
bryan c.

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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Single Swingers <-> Swingle Singers
Date: 15 Aug 1996 19:28:35 +0100

saul smaizys/[e-mail] wrote:

>they were a knock off group of the Swingle Singers. I'm not sure if
>I still have the album but I think they were doing Mozart as
>opposed to the Swingle Singers doing Bach.

        o, but the Swingle Singers also did Mozart; my favorite is
        "rococo a gogo" (Teleman and others) played on 45 rpm :)

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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Let's talk electronic: JJ Perrey
Date: 15 Aug 1996 19:28:44 +0100

>>Jean-Jacques Perrey - anything by this grandfather of applied Moog and
>Musique
>>        Concrete is worthwhile, I call it the "bonky-bonk" sound
>
>Haven't heard Perrey's solo stuff... is it much like the (immensely
>enjoyable, I will admit) electro-quirk-pop of Perrey/Kingsley a la "The In
>Sound From Way Out"? Or more "academic"?

        "The In Sound From Way Out" has much more hilarious "bonky-bonk" (as
        you aptly call it) sounds on it than his solo works; i recently
        found his lp "dynamoog"
        which is a music library record, and rather tame and uninspired
        compared to "Moog indigo" or "amazing electronic pop sound"

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From: Sax Therapy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Single Swingers <-> Swingle Singers
Date: 15 Aug 1996 13:46:56 -0600

Johan Dada Vis wrote:
>
> saul smaizys/[e-mail] wrote:
>
> >they were a knock off group of the Swingle Singers. I'm not sure if
> >I still have the album but I think they were doing Mozart as
> >opposed to the Swingle Singers doing Bach.
>
>         o, but the Swingle Singers also did Mozart; my favorite is
>         "rococo a gogo" (Teleman and others) played on 45 rpm :)
>
>         = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis
>
you're right. I just found my copy of the Single Swingers  while
packing and sorting records for my move and their album is a Bach's
greatest hits on Wyncote. BTW any list members who are in the
Chicago area are invited to contact me as I'm selling off about
2,000 of my LP's as I'm planning on moving to a smaller space and
spend the winter travelling in the South. I'm selling most of
these at thrift store prices. 312.907.8229 if you want to contact me.
-Saul
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From: "David J. Strauss" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Isaac's Black Steel
Date: 15 Aug 1996 14:41:08 -0400 (EDT)


Just a note: PE's "Black Steel" features an Isaac Hayes sample
from"Psychofunkowhatchamacallthis song", not "Walk on By".

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From: [e-mail] (Hugh Petfield)
Subject: Re:Winifred Atwell
Date: 15 Aug 1996 20:12:05 +0100

Gloria wrote

>Anyone heard of Winifred Atwell. I have a couple of 10" records by her.

An amazingly underrated pianist, often on UK TV late 50's early 60's.
She never looked down at the keyboard while playing, just kept this big
smile going at the audience.  There's at least two CD's available here,
although it's unlikely that Taboo or Tamboo would be included.

Hugh.
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From: [e-mail] (Elin Thome)
Subject: Re: Loungecore
Date: 15 Aug 1996 21:38:53 +0200


> .....and also that The Karminski
>Brothers are working on a new compilation project.?

There is a new compilation out now by the Karminsky Experience, at least=20
here in europe, it=B4s called "Espresso Espresso". It=B4s got a touch of=
 Latin,=20
please check it up.=20
By the way, I was very pleased to get some sitar recommendations from this=
=20
list. And I would love to get more...

Elin

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: the velvet fog...
Date: 15 Aug 1996 15:36:57 -0400

8/15/96 3:33 PM Inches: 10.0 REGULAR AP-MelTorme 08-15 0151

AP-Mel Torme
          -----------------
          ! ENTERTAINMENT !
   Mel Torme Breathing On His Own

    (Los Angeles) -- Mel Torme (tohr-MAY') appears to be making some progress.
    His spokesman says the singer is breathing without a respirator tube in his
throat for the first since his stroke last weekend.
    Publicist Rob Wilcox says the 70-year-old entertainer remains in stable
condition in the intensive care unit of a still-unidentified hospital in the
Los Angeles area.
    Torme's left side was weakened and his speech has been affected by the
stroke. And, Wilcox says he's been battling with pneumonia and a partially
collapsed lung and has been unable to eat. But the publicist says Torme never
lost consciousness.

    (Copyright 1996 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

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From: [e-mail] (Hugh Petfield)
Subject: Info wanted....
Date: 15 Aug 1996 20:12:07 +0100

Hi, is there any synthesiser specialist out there who might be able
to recommend (assuming there are any) any CD's by Tomita?  I have a
poor quality tape of a 70's album by him playing Star Wars, Also sprach
etc., and bits from Tannhauser.

Also, anyone know if Longines Symphonette are still going?

Thanks, Hugh.

Exotica from my collection:

101 Strings "Plus.plus.plus" Alshire ALCD18
- includes much sitar.
Rene Raff "Among the stars" Audio Fidelity AFLP 2142
- this also has the bonus of a full-colour catalog of Audio Fidelity
  albums on the inside sleeve: oh to get a copy of "Sound effects
  volume 6 - Features Small, medium and large wars for living room
  listening"  :-)

HP.



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From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
Subject: House of Swank
Date: 15 Aug 1996 19:53:31 UT

The fabulous HOUSE OF SWANK will be performing Thursday night, September 5, at
John & Peter's in New Hope, PA (215-862-5981).

Featuring organ, ukulele, guitar, upright bass and percussion, House of Swank
will play many swingin' original tunes, as well as covering Basie, Ellington,
Waits, Hicks, The Shocking Blue and others in their own groovy, provocative
style.

Mz. Robin Zrm, vocals and organ, posesses a joie de vivre and je ne sais quoi
that are sine qua non.  This act is not to be missed.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:Winifred Atwell
Date: 15 Aug 1996 16:27:02 -0400

Thanks for the reply, Hugh. That's VERY interesting. I really like these two
10" records that I found at a garage sale. I've always liked Ted Heath too.
Gloria

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From: Living Stereo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Dem's Fightin' Words
Date: 15 Aug 1996 17:25:20 -0700


>>>>Blues and the Beat (maybe)
>(other film noir soundtracks)
>
> AHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!  That's one of my ABSOLUTE faves!  How dare you attach a
>"maybe!" AHHAHAHHAA!  Dems fightin' words!
>Plus, the art-work is too fab...

I was surprised by not only that, but also the slamming of Peter Gunn and
More Music from Peter Gunn.
Are we listening to the same records?

Forgive me for omitting Touch of Evil....how could I??


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From: Jeff Boyd <[e-mail]>
Subject: Don't 'dis Peter Gunn!
Date: 15 Aug 1996 18:23:17 -0700

Hey,
I can't believe someone actually said that Macini's "The Music from Peter
Gunn" was "drab" (or whatever). This album has GOT to be one of my all-time
favorites, and "More Music from Peter Gunn" is almost as good.
I've taped them both, and I find myself listening to them over and over in
the car.
"The Brothers go to Mothers" (not to mention the rest of the album) is pure
genius. This album was also pretty influential, considering that Mancini was
the first guy to introduce jazz into the realm of TV - with Peter Gunn.
This is some of Mancini's coolest stuff ever.

BTW, if anyone has The Blues and the Beat and wants to sell it, please let
me know.

Jeff


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From: Sax Therapy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Triad playlist June 9, 1971
Date: 15 Aug 1996 21:23:42 -0600

Here's a playlist from my radio show in Chicago way back in the
70's. Was this exotic or what? I have more on my web site at
http://pages.ripco.com/~saxmania/triad.html. I know some of the
more hard core exoticans will be familiar with many of these artists.

9 June 1971 TRIAD playlist


        Earth Disciples - Native Planet
        Tim Buckley - Monterey
        London Sympony - Ode to Joy
        Pete Seeger - Ode to Joy / Goliath Goliath
        Jeff Sturges Universe - Clown
        Buffy St. Marie - Little Wheel Spin and Spin
        Conlon Nancarrow - Canon #24
        Reading from Avant Slant
        Lukas Foss - Variations on Bach's Phorion
        Jeff Sturges Universe - Sin's a Good Mans Brother

        Terry Riley and John Cale - The Protoge
        Richie Havens - Alarm Clock
        Steve Reich - Come Out
        Ramayana Monkey Chant
        Lester Bowie - Jazz Death

        Temptations - Psychedelic Shack
        Laurel and Hardy - I Gave it To Him
        It's A Beautiful Day - White Bird
        John Cage from Indeterminacy
        Electric Lucifer - Word Game
        Leo Kottke - Machine #2
        Alex Moore - Alex Thinking

        Harry Partch - Barstow
        Music of West Africa - Medicine Man
        Roger Ramjet Meets Tarzan
        Beatles Christmas Record
        Also Spracht Zarathustra
        Richie Havens - Ring Around The Moon
        Buffy St. Marie - God is Alive, Magic is Afoot
        Halim El-Dabh - Leiyla and the Poet (electronic music)

        Gene McDaniels - Supermarket Blues
        King Crimson - Cat Food
        L. Emmett Holt Jr.,M.D. - on Breast Feeding
        Tom Dissevelt/Kid Baltan - The Ray Makers
        Beethoven - Wellington's Victory
        Michel Colombier - Por qou Pas?
        Mandrill - Mandrill
        Balinese Gamalon Music

        Sidney Poitier reading from Plato (Immortality of the Soul)
        Graham Nash - Chicago
        Steve Marcus - America
        Jim Pepper - Witchi-tai-to
        Mahler - Symphony no 2 in C (excerpt)
        George Reidel - 3 Dances (man)

        Yama and the Karma Dusters - Wouldn't it be Funny
        Cactus - One Way or the Other
        Leon Thomas - One
        Biff Rose - Never Mind
        Bob Dylan - If Dog's Run Free
        Chicago - When All the Laughter Dies (mixed with Free Country)
        Leon Thomas - Creator Has A Master Plan


        Pharoah Sanders - Thembi
        Exuma - Seance on the 6th Fret
        Roscoe Mitchell - on Nessa
        Mauricio Kagel - Der Schall



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Subject: Re: House of Swank
Date: 15 Aug 1996 22:42:43 -0400

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Lenny Dee is a god
Date: 15 Aug 1996 19:56:47 +0000

I love Lenny Dee.  He wrote Blackberry Boogie covered by everyone and his
brother.
I love how all of his best (imho) and earlier works are titled like this;
Happy Holi-Dee.  Mannnnnn, that's a great Xmas record and the covers are
too insane.  They are the best!!!

Dee-Lightfully is another title.
To view the Dee-ster the best is to see him with a goatee.  He looks just
like and probably is, the devil ;-)>

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: one man's ceiling is another man's floor
Date: 15 Aug 1996 20:06:32 +0000

>Some well meaning exoti-poster wrote the following:

>>>>Blues and the Beat (maybe)
>(other film noir soundtracks)
>
> AHHAHAHAHAHAHAH!  That's one of my ABSOLUTE faves!  How dare you attach a
>"maybe!" AHHAHAHHAA!  Dems fightin' words!
>Plus, the art-work is too fab...
>
>IMHO-lounge laura

I completely and wholeheartedly agree Laura ;)  Y'know...much of that is
west coast jazz.  _Real_ jazz Laura ;)

Mancioni did what no other arranger di i nthe way he had his orchestra
set-up for the microphones.
Nothing was "close-miked", which means he didn't have a microphone "right
in front" of a solo horn or other instrument.  All the players were
actually in essence 1 voice.
I'm not sure if I said that correctly ;)  Do you know what I mean ?

Many times in a jazz or pop orchestra the microphones will be right in
front of that one guy doin' his solo BUT not w/ Mancini.

This is yet another original 1st that he did and yet another reason why I
love him and his art sooooooo much.
Thanx for talkin' about Hank!!!  I can't say enough good stuff about him;)
He IS the genius of them all

Jack




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Electronic Explorer
Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:09:05 -0400

Has anyone heard an album called "Explorer"? It's apparently a homemade
synthesizer (called Explorer) on which the inventor plays a medley of Bach
and the Batman theme.

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Beaver & Krause
Date: 15 Aug 1996 20:21:34 +0000

>Subject: Beaver & Krause
>
>while we're in the electronic mode, I'd like to mention
>Beaver and Krause who some of you are already familiar with.
>I think it was them who put out a box set on Nonesuch called
>"The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music."  I can't remember
>if there were one or two records

There are 2 records Saul.  Like you said, in a box with a booklet on how
they created this music and sound in a new language all their own.

that's what part of the booklet is...explaining or shall I say translating
their launguage so we can "understand"  Yeah right ;)

Lots of test tones and noises.  Very out there if you like that sort of
thing, this is their best work, imho.  Quite rare

George Harrison's "Wonderwall Music" album.

Was that the one on Zapple ?

Jack



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From: Sax Therapy <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Lenny Dee is a god
Date: 15 Aug 1996 22:24:42 -0600

and some of Lenny's LP covers are pretty outrageous too:)
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Re: 18th Century Concepts
Date: 15 Aug 1996 20:36:30 +0000

'The 18th Century Concepts'-
>
>Is this the LP which is featured in the REsearch volume 2 -- 'Off on a 20th
>Century Cycle' with Light My Fire and Happy Together? Because they don't
>look like Harleys, more like scooters.

I think that's their 2nd record.  On their other record thay are definitely
Harley's ;) and yes they do do those tunes and are damn swell too

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: I Dig Mancini
Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:41:54 -0400

Mr. Lucky was deleted on CD by RCA about 3 years ago (believe it or not!).
You might still find it in store that specialize in soundtracks...I was lucky
enough to find a cut-out in Tower London (of all oplaces!)

Ashley

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Loungecore
Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:48:34 -0400

In a message dated 96-08-15 12:47:31 EDT, you write:

>has anyone one heard of a compilation LP called "Loungecore Vol.II"?.....i
>saw it a a friend's garage recently and am curious if it's any
>good.....apparently it's from the same makers who'd put together  "The Easy
>Project" of which i haven't had a chance to listen to as well.......is it
>available on cd?...and how about Vol. 1?


Vol 2 is far far superior to Vol 1 and definitely worth a purchase

>I also hear that vol.2 of "Easy Project" and "The Sound Gallery" have been
>released....can anyone confirm this? .....and also that The Karminski
>Brothers are working on a new compilation project.?

Louncore 2 is actually the same thing as The Easy Project Vol 2 (confusing
isn't?)

Vol 2 of the Sound Gallery will be out in the U.S. on CD and vinyl in about 2
weeks...patience, patience!


Regards
Ashley

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Don't 'dis Peter Gunn!
Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:53:42 -0400

BTW, if anyone has The Blues and the Beat and wants to sell it, please let
me know.


You're in luck it has been reissued on CD

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: 101 strings
Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:59:12 -0500

I just got a copy of Scamp's reissue of 101 Strings-Astro Sounds from
Beyond the Year 2000. Way cool stuff. I will admit, my favorite tracks
are the 3 bonus tracks. Any chance of a Sounds of Love reissue?

David

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From: Martin Schildkret <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Info wanted....
Date: 16 Aug 1996 00:06:24 -0400

At 08:12 PM 8/15/96 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi, is there any synthesiser specialist out there who might be able
>to recommend (assuming there are any) any CD's by Tomita?  I have a
>poor quality tape of a 70's album by him playing Star Wars, Also sprach
>etc., and bits from Tannhauser.

  The following are all available on CD;

  BMG7717    TOMITA                  BACK TO THE EARTH-LIVE  03/88    =A6
  BMG60578  TOMITA                  FIREBIRD                07/91    =A6
  BMG5660    TOMITA                  GREATEST HITS           01/87    =A6
  BMG2616    TOMITA                  KOSMOS                  07/91    =A6
  BMG60576  TOMITA                  PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITI 07/91    =A6
  BMG60518  TOMITA                  PLANETS                 02/91    =A6
  BMG60579  TOMITA                  SNOWFLAKES ARE DANCING  02/91    =A6


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From: "Matthew Baron" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fender Jazzmaster
Date: 15 Aug 1996 23:31:09 -0500

For an early 60's Jazzmaster expect to spend more than $700 for one in decent
condition.  Maybe a little less for the Jag.  Fender's made before 1964
(pre-CBS, before
CBS bought Fender) are usually quite a bit more expensive than the ones made
after
'64.  It also depends on where you live.  On the west coast a Jazzmaster would
cost more
than the exact same thing sold in the midwest.

A *very* cool guitar though.  In fact, I consider it a goal to eventually own
one.

Matthew Baron
Email: [e-mail]
URL: http://www.d.umn.edu/~mbaron

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Mancini understood
Date: 16 Aug 1996 00:35:40 -0400

<<More Peter Gunn (oh puh-lease)>>

Ya gotta be shitting me!  You're gonna pass on MORE MUSIC FROM PETER GUNN?
 It's got at least four classic Mancini compositions: "Walkin' Bass" "Blue
Steel" "Oddball" and "Spook."  Listen to it again...

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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: Re: the bonky-bonk sound
Date: 16 Aug 1996 01:59:23 -0400

>From: [e-mail] (David Schafer)
>Subject: Re: the bonky-bonk sound
>
>You definately have to be in a mood for 'Subotnik' and he has to be played
>_loud_ or on headphones for maximum sound surprises.

I was listening to it on headphones, and I think that's why I listened to it
as long as I did (I made it almost through one side without turning it
over).  It started to frighten me a little.

>>Laika --They're good for modern bonky-bonk electronic with feedback and
>>phat >beats.
>
>What was the title of Laika's LP/CD? please.

I know they have an album called "Silver Apples of the Moon" which is why I
brought them up.  They also have a track on the "Offbeat" compilation put
out by the Red Hot folks (this comp also has an excellent song by Tortoise).
Laika has other stuff too - I think some singles etc. on Too Pure.

>jordana--let's talk sitars soon, I'm curious what you have found.

I haven't found very much.  I looked through all the "Avant-garde" section
at the radio station (mostly Hawkwind-type noodly 70s stuff which I can't
stand) and found no (good) sitars.  Everything was too 70s-style.  I did
find the two Silver Apples records, though.  I still have to look through
jazz, but I'm not expecting much.  Some records should come soon from Kevin,
and there are a few sitar things in that batch.

>>On another note, I saw the Theremin documentary at the video shop, but
>>didn't get a chance to rent it.
>
>watch it immediately--it's really unbelievable from the very beginning.

In some fit of crackheadedness, I rented "Spirits of Evil" (that's not the
title, but it's something like that) instead.  Three Poe stories, each by a
different director, which were made in the 60s in France but just came out
on video.  I was looking for a Vampyros Lesbos kind of vibe, and it's sort
of what I expected, at least so far - I've watched most of the first one,
starring Peter and Jane Fonda and directed by Roger Vadim.  But it's not
very exciting.

-Jordana

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From: " /  dave  / "  <[e-mail]>
Subject: bonky-bonk, def. 2
Date: 16 Aug 1996 03:51:48 -0500 (CDT)

Jordana wrote:
> In some fit of crackheadedness, I rented "Spirits of Evil" (that's not the
> title, but it's something like that) instead.  Three Poe stories, each by a
> different director, which were made in the 60s in France but just came out
> on video.  I was looking for a Vampyros Lesbos kind of vibe, and it's sort
> of what I expected, at least so far - I've watched most of the first one,
> starring Peter and Jane Fonda and directed by Roger Vadim.  But it's not
> very exciting.

Hold it, hold it, you're close...

If you want Jane Fonda starring with director Roger Vadim and SITARS, you have
to rent THE GAME IS OVER (1966), which also features Michel Piccoli, who
incidentally has one of the most incredible voices you'll ever hear! (I remember
him doing some of the narration on an older Italian film, LOVE IN THE CITY,
featuring - and here's another coincidence - a number of segments done by
different Italian directors on the theme of love in Rome, one of the best cities
there is, with one or two segments that are REQUIRED viewing for everyone on
this list, but I'll leave it at that... one mustn't spoil the surprise.)

Anyway, back to THE GAME IS OVER... It features an extended seduction/love scene
involving Jane Fonda, Peter McEnery, a swank Parisian mansion, a large pool,
some shaving cream, soft-focus visuals, some inedible flowers, and a sitar-y
soundtrack. I happen to have the LP as well, and the first side is good
psychedelic mood music, kind of on the quiet side...

Plot summation: young Jane marries boring businessman (Piccoli), falls in love
with his son (McEnery - see above reference to seduction scene), & life becomes
very difficult from there on out...

And here's another: SATAN IN HIGH HEELS, which features, oddly, a very similar
plot & stars Meg Myles and Sabrina. Meg is GREAT, and Sabrina is... you won't
BELIEVE it till you see it. (I'm not kidding!) This low-budget flick also
features campy nightclub scenes and a great soundtrack by Mundell Lowe, which
REALLY swings - especially in the context of the film. Lowe is one of the big
names in the jazz guitar world & I've seen his name all over the place on LPs
from the 50s & 60s, many of which are familiar on this list. The soundtrack LP
came out on the Charlie Parker Records label - no sitars on this one, though!

dave

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From: [e-mail] (Caressa Bennet -- Bennet ^ Bennet PLLC - Washington )
Subject: electric sitar
Date: 15 Aug 1996 20:18:01 EDT



 To:    exotica,         Inet


All this talk lately about electric sitars has rekindled my
interest in finding one.  Do any of you musician types have any
idea where one can locate vintage (I'm assuming they haven't made
them in years) electric sitars, preferably within the general
vicinity of Washington, D.C.?  Any ideas would be appreciated.

Michael Bennet
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From: "Joerg Nijmeijer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Collectors shops/Who is Ananda Shankar?
Date: 16 Aug 1996 12:19:22 +0000

On 15 Aug 96 at 10:01, Phil Clark wrote:
> In message , Robbie Baldock <[e-mail]> writes
> >soundbliss wrote:
> and a totally WILD 12" by Ananda Shankar, don't know the titles
> since it's a white label, but this is just way out there! crazy
> moog, sitar, bongos all over the place. wow!! Does anyone have any
> info about this guy?

Not much. I think the a-side is called "calcutta" (not sure about
that). There are some tracks on various compilations available,
my favourite is the slammin Light_My_Fire-cover on the
"Melting Pot Vol.1"-album.
I think there are 2 albums available (not for me :( ), I'll check for
the titles.
Someone told me, Ananda is Ravi Shankar's son. I also found
a track by "The Shankar Family" on the Butter-bootleg #1.


While searching the web for ananda, I found a few announcements
for a Ananda Shankar doing "classical indian music with dance
performances" this year. Also not sure, if this one and the same guy.


Peace,

joerg
    Joerg Nijmeijer @ Groove Attack Records
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From: Ton Rueckert <[e-mail]>
Subject: Graffiti
Date: 16 Aug 1996 12:26:56 +0200

Hello ,

does anyone know something about a band called Graffiti ?
In the early 70's I picked up one of their albums (are there more?) with
songs like Jingle Jangle Woman and Girl On Fire in a thrift store in
Amsterdam and it made quite an impact on the local scene . I had to tape it
various times and it was played at several hangouts for quite a while .

Salut , Ton



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Mason Williams
Date: 16 Aug 1996 08:44 CST


One of my favorite albums from the late 60s is "The Mason Williams Phonograph
Record".  Does this fit into this list's lounge/EZ listening category?  It
certainly does for me.  Of course I think the music is gorgeous, but most people
for whom I play it echo Mason Williams in the beginning of the rekkid by saying,
"Hunh??"  It's mostly pop with a big orchestra, and it's produced by Mike Post
of TV-music fame.  The album contains an excellent whistling song which Lounge
Laura may be interested in hearing.

Any in agreement?  Detractors?

Kathy Ramsey

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Loungecore
Date: 16 Aug 1996 10:00:13 -0400

>X-POP3-Rcpt: bstewart@ids2
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>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: Loungecore
>Sender: [e-mail]
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>Vol 2 is far far superior to Vol 1 and definitely worth a purchase


Hey Ashley, how so?  I mean Vol. 1 was FANTASTIC!




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Sounds of Love
Date: 16 Aug 1996 10:02:16 -0400

>X-POP3-Rcpt: bstewart@ids2
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>Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:59:12 -0500
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: 101 strings
>Sender: [e-mail]
>Reply-To: [e-mail]
>
>I just got a copy of Scamp's reissue of 101 Strings-Astro Sounds from
>Beyond the Year 2000. Way cool stuff. I will admit, my favorite tracks
>are the 3 bonus tracks. Any chance of a Sounds of Love reissue?

What are the 'Sounds of Love'?  Can anyone share some info with me?


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: 101 Strings do Mancini?
Date: 16 Aug 1996 10:02:32 -0500

Good, bad, or indifferent?  Anywhere close in quality to the "Astro Sounds
From Beyond the Year 2000" that y'all been raving about?  I spotted it in
the slim easy listening bins at the local chain store.  Thanks, Kevin



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Collectors shops/Who is Ananda Shankar?
Date: 16 Aug 1996 10:10:42 -0400

At 12:19 PM 8/16/96 +0000, you wrote:
>Not much. I think the a-side is called "calcutta" (not sure about
>that). There are some tracks on various compilations available,
>my favourite is the slammin Light_My_Fire-cover on the
>"Melting Pot Vol.1"-album.
>I think there are 2 albums available (not for me :( ), I'll check for
>the titles.
>Someone told me, Ananda is Ravi Shankar's son. I also found
>a track by "The Shankar Family" on the Butter-bootleg #1.


I noticed nobody mentioned the fact that Ravi appeared in the film "Monterey
Pop" (1969), concerning the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.  Lots of sitar in
that one.


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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Serge and Korla
Date: 16 Aug 1996 11:25:35 -0400

I need to know how to get the new KORLA PANDIT double-album CD---i-e...is it
legit?  If so, on what label?
And, I am aware of only one Serge Gainsbourg (HE'S GOD!!!!!!)
cd-re-release...and need to know more...
Oh-yeah-my two-cents about PETER GUNN...Isn't it just a foregone conclusion
that it's F*$$*cking brilliant!?!?!  Who dares yawn?
It's Friday...and the weekend is made for record shopping!
Luv-lounge laura
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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Lenny Dee is a god
Date: 16 Aug 1996 11:44:02 -0400

                      RE>Lenny Dee is a god                        8/16/96

OK-so I feel like I do this a lot---but I interviewed Mr.  Dee this year(some
may-but probably won't-remember that I also interviewed Dick Hyman...they
both live here in FL)...He is an extraordinarily nice man...but you know, he
is oblivious to his place in our hearts!  He is almost stuck in the
70s...When I went to his house, he showed me all these ads from PARADE
magazine and the like that were from the 1970s-i think!...I asked him if he
knew he was embraced by a new generation...and he had no idea...I think he
believes his fan-base is as old as he is!
BTW-i think his best cover is LENNY DEE DOWN SOUTH--- which features him on
his "organ" being pulled by a speed boat...and a CYPRESS GARDENS
water-skier...passing him by...He also has three poodles on top of his organ
shell...
What's this with poodles-anyway?  Les Baxter seems to happily display his
poodle a lot...Is that the exoti-dog?
Lounge Laura!
[e-mail]
"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..." and  to post compulsively!

I love Lenny Dee.  He wrote Blackberry Boogie covered by everyone and his
brother.
I love how all of his best (imho) and earlier works are titled like this;
Happy Holi-Dee.  Mannnnnn, that's a great Xmas record and the covers are
too insane.  They are the best!!!

Dee-Lightfully is another title.
To view the Dee-ster the best is to see him with a goatee.  He looks just
like and probably is, the devil ;-)>

Jack



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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: CE & Yma
Date: 15 Aug 1996 15:23:04 -0400

     So the word was that Combustible was opening for Yma Sumac
     in NYC at the Supper Club on Sept. 12 - BUT - I have yet to
     hear any official announcement.  Anyone in the know?  Vik?
     Br. Cleve?

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From: HIFI <[e-mail]>
Subject: mancini and...
Date: 15 Aug 1996 17:32:00 -0500

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Text item: Text_1


     For all you mancini lovers, Oranj Symphonette has done an album where
     they cover (and explore and explode) Mancini's melodies.  It will be
     out in the fall on Gramavision/hifi.  You may have heard these guys on
     DEL-FI's "A Shot In The Dark," which had some very cool bands covering
     Mancini's immortal tunes in their own idiosyncratic way.  For more
     information on Oranj Symphonette "Plays Mancini," drop by the Rykodisc
     website sometime in September.

     Also, Otto von Stroheim mentioned that someone on this list has seen
     an alternate cover to Arthur Lyman's TABOO 2 with lava erupting.  The
     first LP cover for this was the shrunken head (which I have) but am
     interested in seeing this alternate cover for when we reissue this in
     the near to far future.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Clam Dip and Other Delights
Date: 15 Aug 1996 18:46:08 -0600

Another "Whipped Cream..." parody cover is Soul Asylum's "Clam Dip and Other Delights."
Who would have thought Dave Pirner was a fan?

[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Need help identifying song!
Date: 15 Aug 1996 18:54:32 -0600

Okay, folks... every now and then I get a good melody stuck in my head. And now I need your
help in figuring out what the song was, and who did it.

Remember the Little Ceasar's Pizza ad from a few years back that had these nutty
characters (including a poodle) doing a conga line? It was a great commercial and a great
song, and I have no idea who did the piece.

I even contacted the advertising agency(I'm in advertising myself) and asked the guy who
wrote the spot, but he had no idea and no record of the song.

Okay, fellow exoticologists... does anyone know the tune? I'd be forever grateful.

[e-mail]

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From: Watterworth Earle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Framables - leopard women
Date: 15 Aug 1996 18:40:53 -0600 (MDT)

Try some Jonah Jones or Julie London.  Now them's some cats.
Jay Watterworth
CU Boulder

On Thu, 15 Aug 1996, Tony Wilds wrote:

> Cats 'n gals, gals and cats, and gals dressed like cats, all over the
> fireplace: the Mansfield, Betty Page, Irish McCallum (Music for Big Dame
> Hunters), Cat's Meow, etc. Purrrrr. Did I mention Kitt? So many jackets, so
> little wall. Gif me a 12"-square scanner, hard disks on the side, and don't
> be stingy, baby.
>
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From: [e-mail] (David Bailey)
Subject: Re: Raymond Scott
Date: 16 Aug 1996 09:05:21 -0700

>Does any one know of or have a copy of "Music for Baby in Womb".I've
>been looking for this one FOR EVER.It's all done on his Scottonium,
>Karloff and, Electronium home made sytnths. I have 3 or 4 songs of his
>electronic stuff (the Pygmy taxi Corp......) but it is impossible to
>find.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Jason
>the Pygmy Taxi Corp
>http://www.spacelab.net/~mugen/
>
>Vocod'o'rama
>http://www.spacelab.net/~mugen/vocolist.html
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There's a review of a similar modern CD @:
http://www.sirius.com/~huge/cdreview.html

Fetisch Park -- Ego Ex Nihil
Staalplaat
This one took a second listen before it really drew me into its womb, truly
being music for babies, intended to be played for little humans BEFORE
birth (the title refers to the growth of a self, or an I, out of the
nothingness of pre-conception). Liner notes aside, the music itself is
lush, trance-inducing, and a bit melancholic, somewhere between Klaus
Schulze's early digital material (eg Trancefer) and the [mu]-ziq track on
the Apollo 2 compilation (Sick Porter). The sound is very clean and
digital, but what struck me intitially as sterility now seems sonic
vastness and inhuman beauty. (by Josh Maremont)

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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: Re: Serge and Korla
Date: 16 Aug 1996 09:13:44 -0800

>And, I am aware of only one Serge Gainsbourg (HE'S GOD!!!!!!)
>cd-re-release...and need to know more...

I must agree with Laura, Serge Gainsbourg is God.  There are a couple of
re-issues, but of course I can't think of the titles.  (I'll have to check
my stash at home)  But more recently I quite enjoyed Mick Harvey and Anita
Lane doing a whole album of Gainsbourg  songs.

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: CE & Yma
Date: 16 Aug 1996 12:21:08 -0400

                      RE>CE & Yma                                  8/16/96

Cleve--is Yma and CE doing Boston anytime soon?

Pant! Pant!
lounge laura

     So the word was that Combustible was opening for Yma Sumac
     in NYC at the Supper Club on Sept. 12 - BUT - I have yet to
     hear any official announcement.  Anyone in the know?  Vik?
     Br. Cleve?

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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: Re: Framables - leopard women
Date: 16 Aug 1996 09:25:36 -0800

>Try some Jonah Jones or Julie London.  Now them's some cats.

Yes, Julie London, what a goddess!!!   When I first heard her rendition of
"Black Coffee".......talk about hot flashes.

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Serge and Korla
Date: 16 Aug 1996 12:32:08 -0400

                      RE>>Serge and Korla                          8/16/96


My brother has a Briget Bardot picture disc with her singing his song HARLEY
DAVIDSON.  It's too cool!  Another thing, if you like Serge and Jane...MICK
HARVEY AND ANITA LANE of the Bad Seeds(as in Nick Cave) do a tremendous
tribute album that was released last year...on MUTE maybe?
YEAH!
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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: "Funky Soundtracks"
Date: 16 Aug 1996 12:40:02 -0400

 >> "Funky Soundtracks" - comp of blaxploitation cuts, grooooooo-veee!! Hey
>> lady you're looking mighty fine (etc)
>
>Would you please post the catalogue info on this CD - and if
>it's not too much trouble, a track listing?

No CD's, these 2 comps are vinyl bootlegs of tracks from very rare
soundtracks, mostly blaxploitation films. They are white label/plain
sleeve, with a sticker listing the tracks (no catalogue numbers, either).
Sound quality is adequete, but not as good as the originals. I didn't buy
the first volume, "Funky Soundtracks", as I owned all the albums it had
tracks from ("Bullitt", "Enter the Drangon", "Sheba baby".......I forget
what else.)  Here's the track listing/artist/film title for the second
volume, "Easin' In" (except that there is an extra track on side 1 that
isn't listed):

Lay It On your Head - Don Julian (Savage)
Executive Party- Andre Previn (Rollerball)
Coming & Going" - Ray Brown (The Adventurers)
Can't Stop Talkin' - Art & Ron (Black Fist)
Sweetback's theme - Earth,Wind & Fire (Sweet Sweetback's.....)
Easin' In - Edwin Starr (Hell Up In Harlem)
Aaragon - Roy Ayers (Coffey)
Blacula - Gene Page
Just Plain Luthur - Badder than Evil (Gordon's War)
Zombie March - Nat Dove (Petey Wheatstraw)
Black Belt Jones - Dennis Coffy
Brawling Broads- Roy Ayers (Coffey)
White Lightning - James Brown (Black Caeser)
The Breakthrough - Isaac Hayes (Truck Turner)
Bring Down The Birds - Herbie Hancock (Blow Up)

Interested parties might be able to order these from the amazing Intoxica!
Records in London:

http://www.demon.co.uk/intoxica

[e-mail]

I believe they were =A310 each.

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: electric sitar
Date: 16 Aug 1996 12:39:56 -0400


>All this talk lately about electric sitars has rekindled my
>interest in finding one.  Do any of you musician types have any
>idea where one can locate vintage (I'm assuming they haven't made
>them in years)

You can buy a new one! They are still in production, and they're
incredible. They're made by Jerry Jones Guitars (p.o. box 22507; 913 Church
St. Nashville 37202/ 615-255-0088). They sell for around $900. It's a
replica of the original Danelectro models of the late '60's (anyone
remember the ad's for the original elec sitars in mags like Hit Parader
back in '67. They featured a turbaned Vinnie Bell lying on a couch playing
one, with a crowd of harem girls watching intently).

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From: [e-mail] (R.Preston Peek)
Subject: Re: Raymond Scott
Date: 16 Aug 1996 09:51:45 -0700 (PDT)

>>Does any one know of or have a copy of "Music for Baby in Womb".I've
>>been looking for this one FOR EVER.It's all done on his Scottonium,
>>Karloff and, Electronium home made sytnths. I have 3 or 4 songs of his
>>electronic stuff (the Pygmy taxi Corp......) but it is impossible to
>>find.

Haven't seen this one, but how about "Lullaby FROM The Womb" by Dr. H.
Murooka?  Includes "Sound of the Main Artery of the Mother," "Sounds of the
Womb & Intermezzo from Jewel of the Madonna;" need I go on? Kind of the
opposite concept--close your eyes and climb back into fairyland (apologies
to Hendrix).  Only for the strong-stomached.

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Easy Project vs Easy Project Vol. 2
Date: 16 Aug 1996 09:57:16 +0000

Well I've got Vol. 2 and I MUST SAY  that Vol. 1 is about ABILLION TIMES
BETTER!!!

Vol 2 reminds me more of The Sound Gallery which btw imho is completely
different than Easy Project Vol 1

Gimme a break here;  The Synthesonic Sounds, Spiral by The Harry Roche
Constellation, ALL of that bee-you-teeeeee-fool Crime/Private Eye schtuff.
Screamin' electric fuzzed out guitars!!!
Easy Project Vol 1 is an ab-so-lute masterpiece, perfect in every way

imho Ashely, there is no comparison AND none-the-less you gotta have it ;))

So there ;)
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From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Fender Jazzmaster
Date: 16 Aug 1996 16:55:52 UT

I am the proud owner (and player) of a hollow body accoustic-electric baritone
ukulele Jaguar copy.  Black with leopard skin pickguard and about half the
size of the real thing.

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From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Re: electric sitar
Date: 16 Aug 1996 18:58:37 +0200 (MET DST)

Electric Sitars has been quite popular for the last couple of years and yes=
=20
there are new ones on the market, you can even buy them in Sweden. Can=B4t=
=20
remember what company name (I=B4ll check in a music shop soon) but I think=
=20
they are manufactured in the USA.
Stefan



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>All this talk lately about electric sitars has rekindled my
>interest in finding one.  Do any of you musician types have any
>idea where one can locate vintage (I'm assuming they haven't made
>them in years) electric sitars, preferably within the general
>vicinity of Washington, D.C.?  Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>Michael Bennet
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From: Ryan Matheson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Serge and Korla
Date: 16 Aug 1996 09:58:57 -0700 (PDT)



On 16 Aug 1996, Laura Taylor wrote:

> And, I am aware of only one Serge Gainsbourg (HE'S GOD!!!!!!)
> cd-re-release...and need to know more...

I recently purchased a 3-CD/66 song box set called "de serge gainsbourg `a
gainsbarre" which is 2/3 incredible.  (I'm not a big fan of Serge's
unfortunate late-period electro-funk/rap musings.)  Anyway, I've also
seen a two-disc version (same title and cover art) and there's apparently
also a NINE-disc box also with the same title!

Well, even after getting the box set I needed MORE, so I've been looking
into other Gainsbourg imports.
    Some other titles:
        "Initials B.B."
        "Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus"
        "Couleur Cafe"
        "You're Under Arrest"
        "Love on the Beat"
        etc.
I remember seeing a comp of "pop" songs (called "Comic Strip", I think)
and a comp of "jazz" tunes (but I don't remember its title).  And there
are 2 budget "best of" volumes; the track listing of volume one doesn't
look overly inviting and I don't remember vol. two.

Also, you can find Serge tunes on albums by Brigitte Bardot and, especially,
Jane "Mrs. Gainsbourg" Birkin, though they mostly lack Serge's delivery.

And as far as I know, these are all France-only releases.

--Ryan

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From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Re: Collectors shops/Who is Ananda Shankar?
Date: 16 Aug 1996 19:03:08 +0200 (MET DST)

It=B4s the same guy.I saw his dance troup perform (to Ananda=B4s music) in=
=20
Stockholm a couple of years ago. So that what=B4s his doing, also bought his=
=20
then new cassette but it was nothing like the older recordings were he was=
=20
trying to merge music from the east and west. I also met him after the show=
=20
and he kindly signed and dedicated the LPs I had brought with me. A real=20
nice guy.

Stefan/Subliminal Sounds

>While searching the web for ananda, I found a few announcements
>for a Ananda Shankar doing "classical indian music with dance
>performances" this year. Also not sure, if this one and the same guy.
>
>
>Peace,
>
>joerg
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Dem's Fightin' Words
Date: 16 Aug 1996 13:08:30 -0400

>Peter Gunn -- Are we listening to the same records?

Maybe not. Was really thinking of the LP with detective Peter Gunn's big mug
on the jacket: the filler songs all have hepcat titles with the word "gas"
or "gassy" in them. (May not even be Hank on that one, but I stand by the
comment.)

Mancini was a wonderful man and artist, but the bulk of his career was
solidly in the mush department. The same may be true of Baxter. A lot of
mush is GREAT! But let's face it, even the gods had to eat. Even at
Mantovani's table occasionally. It just makes their wilder stuff that much
better (and more affordable). You gonna shill for Denny's "Another Taste of
Honey" now, too? The word is _gratuitous._

When the old masters got desperate and did Beatles and Alpert
interpretations, the results usually were either astounding or ho-hum, just
as with much "true" exotic work. This wasn't polyanna-democratic music when
it was made, and it's hardly uniformly thrilling now. You have your "Quiet
Village," your "April in Paris," and lots of tricky shades in between.

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Lenny Dee is a god
Date: 16 Aug 1996 13:27:16 -0400

>Blackberry Boogie

You mean Plantation Boogie, surely, his signature tune (renamed to that but
not from Blackberry) during stint at the Plantation hotel or whatever. This
was a hit 45 bc it's SOOO twistacious. He did four or five remakes of that
and nearly as many of Alabama Jubilee. And ah, there's nothing like a
pre-Walter Wanderly organ samba.

It was the wonder of Dee's "Golden Organ Favorites" for a quarter that got
me started on all this crap years ago. (Plus "Best of Cugat" and "How to
Become the Sensuous Woman.")

Underrated and twice as holy. Few are the gods for whom you can easily find
the entire 40-LP oeuvre at 25 cents apiece. Dee-licious, Dee-lightful,
Dee-lerious, Dee-most!


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Mancini understood
Date: 16 Aug 1996 13:33:43 -0400

Okay! white flag! Yeesh. I'll forget about the 10,000 covers of "Moon
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From: " /  dave  / "  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Serge... and Brigitte
Date: 16 Aug 1996 12:53:05 -0500 (CDT)

> >And, I am aware of only one Serge Gainsbourg (HE'S GOD!!!!!!)
> >cd-re-release...and need to know more...
>
> I must agree with Laura, Serge Gainsbourg is God.  There are a couple of
> re-issues, but of course I can't think of the titles.  (I'll have to check
> my stash at home)  But more recently I quite enjoyed Mick Harvey and Anita
> Lane doing a whole album of Gainsbourg  songs.

For your French CD needs, try http://www.awaycom.ch/~plaser/, which is the home
page of Planete Laser in Switzerland. They have a good selection of Gainsbourg,
including the one he did with British model Jane Birkin, JE T'AIME... MOI NON
PLUS, which is very sexy and highly recommended, as well as all of the recent
compilations that were issued. (These go by the title DE GAINSBOURG A
GAINSBARRE.) Planete Laser also has lots of Francoise Hardy available - which
was really all the prompting I needed to go hunting for a credit card!

One thing they have that should have a definite appeal to listmembers is stuff
by Brigitte Bardot. I STRONGLY recommend an inexpensive compilation called LE
DISQUE D'OR, which features some great 60s stuff from Brigitte which is loaded
with sitar, including her spectacular version of "Harley Davidson", sung in
French, with that rumbling bass mimicking a motorcycle, and a cool sitar to top
it off. Very cool! There are also a few instrumental tracks which seem to be
from some of her late 60s movie soundtracks, although I haven't quite figured it
out yet. At any rate, this will definitely appeal to lovers of the SOUND GALLERY
& EASY PROJECT stuff...

dave

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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: Re: Serge... and Brigitte
Date: 16 Aug 1996 11:18:30 -0800


>For your French CD needs, try http://www.awaycom.ch/~plaser/, which is the
>home
>page of Planete Laser in Switzerland. They have a good selection of
>Gainsbourg,
>including the one he did with British model Jane Birkin, JE T'AIME... MOI NON
>PLUS, which is very sexy and highly recommended, as well as all of the recent
>compilations that were issued.

Thanks for the info.   Yes the song JE T'AIME...MOI NON PLUS  is great!!!!
(It's sexy and then some)  You can get it domestically on Polygram, called
VOL. 1 DES GAINSBOURG ,  oddly it's on Polygram's Latin label.

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From: [e-mail] (ENJOY)
Subject: crisis!!!!!!!
Date: 17 Aug 1996 02:37:36 +0800

hello everyone

i have joined this mailing list for almost a year and have found it to be
very valuable, more often than not, i have stayed mostly silent ,but  i
need need your help now please.

to be brief, i work as a set designer in a mega-techno nightclub in
Singapore and after months of calculated sweet-talk, i have managed to
convince the management , those profit-margin-conscious people who in a
decided effort to be more underground , to hold a swank "exotica" party in
the  VIP room instead of the usual beat-induced frenzy it usually is.

problem - we do not have enough music  to last the entire night.

i am writing in appeal to the infinite wisdom of the people of this list
for song suggestions/ online musicstores

i am looking for albums/compilations/or upbeat one-off songs preferably in
cd format in the same vibe as EasyProject/In Flight Entertainment/Sound
Gallery/Vampyros Lesbos or anything that  The Karminski's or Smylonylon
might play. It was actually a Smylonylon tape that i played before them
that got them interested in the first place. This is the first time
something this radical has ever been done in this club or even our
tightassed country.hehe. I need your collective help/output in making this
party kick major butt. i need to the roof to rock!

i have about a month to get my act together, if you know of any online
musicstores which you think might stock them please please let me know
Or if anyone  that knows who the booking agents for the Karminski's or the
Smylonylon parties are, maybe we can work something out and bring them in
as guest djs.
And if you have a "swell"egant idea that i can incorporate in the decor  or
some additional features (ie. limbo competition,etc), i want to know
puh-lease!

before i beam this off, i just want to say what an "educational" year this
mailing list has been for me, before this i know nothing of
Lyman,Yma,Enoch,et al except for the mindless techno drivel we kids grew up
on.....i want to show singapore that we need  not be this sterile as it
already is , there is a wealth of music more mind-blowing decades ago than
what we've got now. And i want our generation to lovingly embraced it for
posterity.

in the meantime,
mucho gracias

sPUNK




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From: "Desmond K. Hill" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: 101 Strings
Date: 16 Aug 1996 18:01:30 +0000

[e-mail] mentioned:

>I just got a copy of Scamp's reissue of 101 Strings-Astro Sounds from
>Beyond the Year 2000. Way cool stuff. I will admit, my favorite tracks
>are the 3 bonus tracks. Any chance of a Sounds of Love reissue?

any chance of a vinyl reissue, or is that asking the impossible?

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Mel Taylor, Satie, etc.
Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:38:15 EDT

>From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: Ventures obit, Satie,

Thank you (Lounge?) Laura.
Was Mel Taylor the skinny Venture with the black hair
who _looked_ like a serious smoker?

I wonder how long it will take the Scope Day in History page
to put this up, if ever. <http://www.scopesys.com/anyday/>
It's great for checking birthdays and deathdays.
Madonna was not born in July, apparently.
(Sorry, that was from months ago)

How about Japanese synthesizer musician Tomita, are his versions of
Satie (among other classical music) considered Musique Concrete
or did they appear too late?  Sorry I don't know any album titles.
Star Hustler TV show theme music is Tomita, yes?
Could some of his work be also be included among whistling music?
I mean that synthesized whistle is pretty good...
(First mention of Tomita I saw was 8/15)
Kraftwerk did the theme for Newton's Apple on PBS I think.
Come to think of it, most of my exposure to the electronic
was from PBS daytime in the 70s...

Other than Peter Gunn, and Perrey & Kingley's "The Savers"
(Joker's Wild theme) what are other TV themes in this genre?
Or are they too numerous to mention?

Or has this already been covered months ago?

Help!  I feel that I need an exotica mentor.
Are neophyte questions/comments welcome?
(Dada da daa daa, daa daa, feeling newbie)

Ray

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: CE & Yma
Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:40:44 -0400

>                      RE>CE & Yma                                  8/16/96
>
>Cleve--is Yma and CE doing Boston anytime soon?

No word on it. It seems NY is the only show. I'll keep you updated.

cleve

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: CE & Yma
Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:40:41 -0400

>     So the word was that Combustible was opening for Yma Sumac
>     in NYC at the Supper Club on Sept. 12 - BUT - I have yet to
>     hear any official announcement.  Anyone in the know?  Vik?
>     Br. Cleve?

I believe the date is now September 25, at the Supper Club. I don't know
anything about when tix go on sale.

BTW, ComEd will be on the West Coast in early September. Tour dates will be
posted when they are finalized.

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Serge and Korla
Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:40:47 -0400

 >And, I am aware of only one Serge Gainsbourg (HE'S GOD!!!!!!)
>cd-re-release...and need to know more...

Everything Gainsbourg released is available on French CD's, which I know
Tower carry in most of their US and European stores. Individual albums,
compilations, and for the fanatic - the complete recordings in a box set
shaped like a carton of Gitannes (The Millionaire and I hungrily eyed this
at FNAC in Grenoble, but it was priced equivalent to $250, and we needed
our francs for chartruese and calvados)

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From: "David J. Strauss" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fantasy comes true
Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:43:24 -0400 (EDT)


It looks like Fantasy Records has released so much of their classic back
catalogue on CD that now they're scraping the dregs from the bottom, and,
off course, it's the dregs that interest me, so along with the Korla
Pandit 2-fer, there's also the soundtracks to FRITZ THE CAT and HEAVY
TRAFFIC on one CD, nicely faux-funk in thae ROLLERBALL mode. Also a 2-fer
that includes Eddie "Knock on Wood" Floyd's "Rock" record DOWN TO EARTH.
Eddie does not get with the kids all too successfully.

Also, just received the Infinite Zero reissue of SEDUCTION THROUGH
WITCHCRAFT and I am trembling under the spell of something or other.

DS
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From: " /  dave  / "  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Serge... and Brigitte
Date: 16 Aug 1996 14:51:39 -0500 (CDT)

Marie wrote:
> Thanks for the info.   Yes the song JE T'AIME...MOI NON PLUS  is great!!!!
> (It's sexy and then some)  You can get it domestically on Polygram, called
> VOL. 1 DES GAINSBOURG ,  oddly it's on Polygram's Latin label.

Just a quick clarification, too -  JE T'AIME...MOI NON PLUS is actually a
complete album, all of it very worthwhile... and yes, it features the song of
same name, which usually has quite an interesting effect on people when they
hear it for the first time...! ;)

And about the Bardot comp I recommend(ed) - it IS rather short, somewhere around
35 minutes, but it has 15 tracks & is full of good stuff... so of course, it's
well worth it.

This message brought to you by the "We thought you should know" department.

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Subject: re: sounds of love
Date: 16 Aug 1996 16:30:58 -0500

>>I just got a copy of Scamp's reissue of 101 Strings-Astro Sounds from
>>Beyond the Year 2000. Way cool stuff. I will admit, my favorite tracks
>>are the 3 bonus tracks. Any chance of a Sounds of Love reissue?
>
>What are the 'Sounds of Love'?  Can anyone share some info with me?

'The Sounds of Love' is 101 Strings at their best. It features *love at
first sight*(Je T'aime....Moi Non Plus) with the voice of Bebe Bardon.
It has an incredible gatefold cover. Released on A/S Records. I believe
the last 3 bonus tracks on 'Astro Sounds' were recorded at the same
sessions as 'The Sounds of Love'.

David

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From: "Derek Grime" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Electronic Explorer
Date: 16 Aug 1996 17:50:15 -0400

On Aug 15, 11:09pm, [e-mail] wrote:
> Subject: Electronic Explorer
> Has anyone heard an album called "Explorer"? It's apparently a homemade
> synthesizer (called Explorer) on which the inventor plays a medley of Bach
> and the Batman theme.

Has anyone seen this?  I collect Batman themes and I'd love to get a copy.

--
Derek Grime                                  EMail: [e-mail]
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures           http://www.coredp.com/index.html

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Mel Taylor, Satie, etc.
Date: 16 Aug 1996 18:18:25 -0400

                      RE>>Mel Taylor, Satie, etc.                  8/16/96

hiya---Ray..Yes, it 'twas lounge laura who sent the obit on Mel Taylor(and
Torme---too!)  We're a really nice bunch...so ask all the new-be-doob-bee-do
questions you want of us!
[e-mail]
"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."

>From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: Ventures obit, Satie,

Thank you (Lounge?) Laura.
Was Mel Taylor the skinny Venture with the black hair
who _looked_ like a serious smoker?
 Help!  I feel that I need an exotica mentor.
Are neophyte questions/comments welcome?
(Dada da daa daa, daa daa, feeling newbie)

Ray

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: electric sitar
Date: 16 Aug 1996 15:19:46 -0800


IN>>All this talk lately about electric sitars has rekindled my
IN>>interest in finding one.  Do any of you musician types have any
IN>>idea where one can locate vintage (I'm assuming they haven't made
IN>>them in years)

IN>You can buy a new one! They are still in production, and they're
IN>incredible. They're made by Jerry Jones Guitars (p.o. box 22507; 913 Church
IN>St. Nashville 37202/ 615-255-0088). They sell for around $900. It's a
IN>replica of the original Danelectro models of the late '60's (anyone
IN>remember the ad's for the original elec sitars in mags like Hit Parader
IN>back in '67. They featured a turbaned Vinnie Bell lying on a couch playing
IN>one, with a crowd of harem girls watching intently).

IN>br cleve

I'm not sure these are truely "electric sitars". Mind you I've not seen
one of the Jerry Jones ones but the Danelectro ones I've seen are a 12
string "Bellzouki" (yes Vinnie Bell) with a sort of "Buzz plate" device
on the bridge to make the strings rattle and buzz in simulation of a
sitar. All of which is not to say that they are not incredibly cool, I
love my Bellzouki and would kill to come up with the money (hint, hint,
send me your want lists, buy my vinyl, [e-mail]
http://www.kinn.com/cameron/index.html) to get one of these new ones but
I don't know that they are truly sitars.

XOXOXO

Kevin _M._ King

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: electric sitar
Date: 16 Aug 1996 19:23:11 -0400

>I'm not sure these are truely "electric sitars". Mind you I've not seen
>one of the Jerry Jones ones but the Danelectro ones I've seen are a 12
>string "Bellzouki" (yes Vinnie Bell) with a sort of "Buzz plate" device
>on the bridge to make the strings rattle and buzz in simulation of a
>sitar.

Yup, it's got all that, plus all the resonant strings on the top. The Jerry
Jones people claim it's an exact replica of the original. Not an exact
replica of the original price, though.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Triad playlist June 9, 1971
Date: 16 Aug 1996 20:17:05 -0400

maybe we're speaking of two different types of Exotica here (for example I
don't find "exotic" cars or "exotic" dancing very interesting), but I don't
think your playlist is very Exotic at all

cheers
Otto

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From: PootGuRl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: 101 Strings do Mancini?
Date: 16 Aug 1996 18:11:38 -0700

At 10:02 AM 8/16/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Good, bad, or indifferent?  Anywhere close in quality to the "Astro Sounds

101 String's "The Sound of Henry Mancini" is not at all like Astro Sounds.
It's all stringy and syrupy covers of Mancini's classics.  Quincy Jones
"Exploring the Music of Henry Mancini" is much better.  Barney Kessel and
His Men doing "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is better still.

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: "Leaving the straight life behind"
Date: 16 Aug 1996 22:55:24 -0400

        [No, there isn't something I want to tell you. Not one thing.]

Can anyone --say, in Hawaii-- explain just what the heck Don Ho means by:

"treating the ladies to corn-on-the-cob, leaving the straight life be-hiiiind"

Under no illusion that Mr. Ho is talking about something a little more
intimate than what Mr. Ho ought to be singing about on a record, but on the
other hand, what's so non-straight, i.e., funky/bohemian, about a freaking
ear of corn? Is the yellow legume like caviar in Hawaii or what? Is Mr. Ho
giving us a shuck? He's left the planet behind.

I hold "Leaving the Straight Life Behind" out, so to speak, as the epitome
of cheese. Recalls the thrilling calypso that goes: "I kissed her hand, I
kissed her lips. And I left her behind for you."


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: mancini and...
Date: 16 Aug 1996 22:41:10 -0400

Hello David
- "Taboo" is the lava erupting cover..."Taboo 2" is the shrunken head cover
(I have both)

Ashley

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From: [e-mail] (Matt Love)
Subject: Little Jack Melody... again
Date: 16 Aug 1996 20:38:22 -0800

We've set a date for the Little Jack Melody show in Olympia - September 9th
- but have not yet booked a venue...I see by looking at my old materials
from the 1993 show that I am getting a three week head start over that one.
How did I think I could put together a show in less than 10 days?!  I must
have been out of my mind.  I don't don't feel ready for this one.. anyway,
the last one worked out well, and I hope this one will too...

(they are still looking for West Coast gigs in September - call Steve
Carter aka Little Jack Melody

This is something I wrote for the last show... I sent it around all over,
but the only place I got it in was the Fort Lewis Ranger!  (in the version
I sent them, I cut out the paragraph about "military aggression and
xenophobia."  Sigh, there goes my integrity...
_______________________________________
Little Jack Melody and His Young Turks
* When:  8:30 to 11:00 pm
           Tuesday, September 7, 1993
* Where:  Columbia Street Pub
* Admission - $2.00
* For information: Call 943-5575
________________________________________

What is it?

Fresh from opening for Cab Calloway at Bumbershoot, Little Jack Melody and
His Young Turks bring their iconoclastic brand of "neo-cabaret" to Olympia.
The Columbia Street Pub will host this original band from deep in the heart
of Texas, as they continue their journey south, bringing musical
sensibilities that have been described as "Tom Waits meets Frank Sinatra,
"Kurt Weill on acid", and "cabaret dadaism" to the West Coast.

Little Jack Melody is an imaginary character, the creation of a Denton,
Texas rock bassist named Steve Carter.  Three years ago, Carter grew so
disenchanted with what he calls the epic conventions of standard rock
groups ("the huge equipment, the attitude, the bombast, another gratuitous
guitar solo...") that he decided to create an alternative musical vision.

Inspired by an old photograph of a cabaret band, and conversations with
Carl Finch of Brave Combo, Carter assembled an acoustic minimalist
orchestra, the Young Turks. The band features tuba, banjo, soprano sax,
clarinet, and a harmonium (a foot-powered pump organ).

The unusual line up works; the Austin Chronicle reports that "despite the
unlikely instrumentation, Little Jack Melody and His Young Turks rocked
ferociously" - and they rumba, polka, tango, waltz, and swing like crazy,
too.

The band's debut CD, On the Blank Generation (Four Dots Records) received
enthusiastic reviews in Rolling Stone ("utterly fab") , Esquire
("...literary depth and a warm, inventive sound"), Musician  ("...charming
and refreshingly uncynical") , and the Village Voice.  LJM was interviewed
by National Public Radio's Noah Adams for an "All Things Considered"
feature, in March, 1992.

Carter creates wonderful melodies with stirring, major-minor tensions, and
his lyrical conceptions are poetic, and utterly original.  "Happily Ever
After" recasts the Book of Genesis; Frank Sinatra plays God, and Paradise
is "Vic Damone at the Frontier Room and there's no cover."

In "Switzerland," Carter turns sardonic in a Kurt Weill mode.  Ostensibly a
militaristic tale of pillaging that Alpine nation (their cuckoo clocks and
cheese drive him to distraction), closer scrutiny reveals it to be a
protest against military aggression and xenophobia.

In "The Dance Lesson," he trains a knowing eye on the eternal spectacle of
a young man and woman falling head over heels in love, only to learn that
not all "perfect matches" mean happy endings.

"On The Blank Generation" cannily quotes Marie Antoniette and Andy Warhol;
even as people live on the streets, we gaze into magazine covers and
imagine ourselves there, dreaming about our fifteen minutes of stardom.
The message is made all the more unsettling by the aching beauty of the
melody.

In addition to the original compositions, they cover everyone from the
Rolling Stones to Sinatra. They end their shows with a rousing finale; a
show-stopping combo version of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," complete with
sing-along cue cards (in German).

After finishing the tour, the band will resume work on their second album,
tentatively titled Noise and Pleasure, scheduled for release in November,
1993.

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From: "Robert P. Krajewski" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: the bonky-bonk sound
Date: 16 Aug 1996 23:35:33 -0400

>I'm pretty definite that "Nothing's Gonna Stop the Flow" by the Folk
>Implosion (from the _Kids_ soundtrack) samples it's background from one of
>the Silver Apples songs ("Contact"?).

Actually, it's a loop of a short stretch of "Program" (about 20 seconds
in), slowed down. It's also used by Meat Beat Manifesto on "Audio
Collage" (on the _Offbeat_) compilation.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Badalamenti, Adamson
Date: 16 Aug 1996 18:08:03 -0700

>Jooyyy! There are other Adamson fans about! ("Moss Side Story" is an
>all-time fave of mine -- and the rest of his oeuvre ain't so shabby either)

Adamson's music for the film "Delusion" is pretty cool too.

Michael

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From: [e-mail] (Matt Love)
Subject: sorry...
Date: 16 Aug 1996 20:45:33 -0800

last post should have read:

(they are still looking for West Coast gigs in September - call Steve
Carter aka Little Jack Melody at [phone] or fax him at (817)
383-4030)



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From: Joseph <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: crisis!!!!!!!
Date: 16 Aug 1996 23:43:02 -0400 (EDT)

At 02:37 AM 17/08/1996 +0800, you wrote:
>hello everyone

Hey there!

>i am looking for albums/compilations/or upbeat one-off songs preferably in
>cd format in the same vibe as EasyProject/In Flight Entertainment/Sound
>Gallery/Vampyros Lesbos or anything that  The Karminski's or Smylonylon
>might play. It was actually a Smylonylon tape that i played before them
>that got them interested in the first place. This is the first time
>something this radical has ever been done in this club or even our
>tightassed country.hehe. I need your collective help/output in making this
>party kick major butt. i need to the roof to rock!

Oh man!  Rhino "Bachelor" CD compilations all the way, man... Easily ordered
&  good for about an hour or so each...


Pick them up now!



>And if you have a "swell"egant idea that i can incorporate in the decor  or
>some additional features (ie. limbo competition,etc), i want to know
>puh-lease!
\
The recycling champagne fountain was a big hit at my sister's wedding 23 yrs
ago and is still a big hit at the cocktail parties we throw now... think
about  something like that.  Nothing is too tacky if it's presented
tastefully...


>before i beam this off, i just want to say what an "educational" year this
>mailing list has been for me, before this i know nothing of
>Lyman,Yma,Enoch,et al except for the mindless techno drivel we kids grew up
>on.....i want to show singapore that we need  not be this sterile as it
>already is , there is a wealth of music more mind-blowing decades ago than
>what we've got now. And i want our generation to lovingly embraced it for
>posterity.
>
>in the meantime,
>mucho gracias
>
>sPUNK
>No problm, for what its worth...>
>Lack Of Charisma Can Be Fatal
>

hear hear...>





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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: jacqueline boyer? &other60sfrenchpop
Date: 17 Aug 1996 03:03:50 -0500 (CDT)


i recently found jacqueline boyer's "chanteuse" album (capitol st 10313)
which has completly bequiled me.  this is perfect 60s french
pop--pizzacato stings, light latin beats, cuteness and drama side by
side.  and boyer has a wonderfully distinctive voice.  the liner notes
indicate that this is her firt full album.  does anyone have any info on
her?  any other releases?  any comps on cd?

if anyone is familiar with this album--i want more music just like
this--trivial but emotive, humourous, latin rhythmed, french sung... any
suggestions?  something like the samba from the un homme et une femme
soundtrack, for instance.

thanks and take care,
mark

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Jack Diamond's Playlist 7/28/96
Date: 17 Aug 1996 07:22:53 +0000

KFJC play list 7/28/96 for Jack Diamond
89.7 FM, Los Altos Hills CA 94022
http://www.kfjc.org

          ARTIST                    TRACK               ALBUM
          Planets                 Chunky
          Oscar Pettiford Orch.   Smoke Signal          1957/ABC

          (Gigi Gryce Composition)
          Peter Thomas Orkester   Space Patrol
          Tony Mottola            Danger                Command (TV Series)

          Chico Hamilton Qnt.     September Song
          Bass;Carson Smith, W/Fred Katz-Cello
          John Pisano-Gtr                               Pacific Jazz, 1957
          Jean Jacques Perrey     Cat in the Night     Moog INDIGO,70
          Lalo Schifrin           Kelly's Heroes
          Phil Moore              Hear De Boidies            N.Y.Sweet
          Ken Nordine             Roger                      Word JAZZ,58
          Vampyros Lesbos         Dedicated to Love
          Esquivel                Frenesi                    Inf in SOUND,60
          Exotic Guitars          Grazin' in the Grass       Al Casey
          Cecil Holmes                                       Black Motion
          Soulful Sounds          B E N                      Picture Exp.
          Milt Raskin             Mileka                     Kapu/Exotic
          Milton Delugg           Man From U.N.C.L.E.
          Sonic Vibrations of     Orbit Aurora               Song of the
          Tom Dissvelt and        (The) Kid Baltan           2ND Moon
          Walter Schumann Voices  Leith Stevens Composition
          Paul Frees-Narration    Sensation                  RCA/55/MONO
          Drasnin, Robert         Orinoco                    Voodoo!
          Carl Brandt Orch        The Lieutenant
          Yardbirds               Hot House of Omagararshid  66
          Emil Richards           Blues for HARI(7/4)        New Time
          Jimmy Haskel            Outer Space Rock and Roll  57/MONO
          The Electric Hair        Let the Sunshine in
          John Barry              The Human Jungle           63/EMI
          Chet Baker              Look for the Silver Lining/ Pac Jazz
          Brubeck Qrt             Take 5/PAUL Desmond Comp.
          Nordine                 Yellow                     66
          Mancini Orch.           Flashing Nuisance          Touch of Evil
          Angelo Badalamenti      Bookhouse Boys             Twin Peaks
          Harpo Marx              I Got Rhythm               At Work,59
          Michel Magne'           Sahara                     Columbia
          Esquivel                SPELLBOUND(STEREO,59)      Exp. New Sounds
          Ferrante & Teicher      The Nearness of You        W/ Percussion
          Lalo Schifrin-Harp.     Bill Plummer-Sitar         The Sniper
          Kenyon Hopkins          Fast Buck(The Hustler)     Paul Newman
          Lalo Schifrin           Mission Accomplished
          Roy Clark               They Call the Wind Mariah
          Barney Kessel           With Art Pepper
          Runnin' Wild            Some Like It Hot
          Animated Agg            I Said, She Said Acid!!!!
          Don Elliot              Blues for Max
          Hal Mc Kusick-Bass Clari
          Gershon Kingsley's
          1ST Moog Qrt.           John Phillip Moog          Popcorn
          Chaino                  Voodoo Love
          Jungle Mating Rhythms   Verve, 1950'S
          Red Norvo Sextet with   Fascinatin' Rhythm         Liberty
          Robert Drasnin-Flute    Jack Montrose-Tenor        May 21, 1956
          Jimmy Mcgriff           Man with the Golden Arm
          Quincy Jones            In Cold Blood
          Russ Garcia             Lost Souls of Saturn       58/LIBERTY
          Kenyon Hopkins          Jocko's Theme              The Strange One
          Pete Rugolo Orch.       Diamond on the Move

KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
KFJC play list 7/28/96 for Jack Diamond
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From: Joseph <[e-mail]>
Subject: Calypso-is like so...
Date: 17 Aug 1996 11:58:50 -0400 (EDT)



"Surprised that Robert Mitchum sings Calypso?

It would be stranger if he couldn't."

Plain & simple folks... This one is reallllly good.  Check it out by all means.






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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Leopard Women
Date: 17 Aug 1996 10:35:52 +0000

I've got a great scan of a Betty Page album cover in a leopard bathing suit
hold on chain leashes 2 leopards in a jungle setting on my album covers
page if anyone would care to see it.

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

Bye for now,
Jack



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Devo EZ
Date: 17 Aug 1996 19:37:18 +0100

>From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
>
>I posed this subject once before, with no response.  With all the recent talk
>about electronic music, I'll pose it once again.  Anybody else like/have/know
>Devo's EZ Listening stuff?  Muzak versions of their own tunes.  Some of it is
>kinda lame, but some of it is very cool.  A few numbers really swing!

        well, since you insist, i have it, and i find all of it rather
        tame, uninspired, boring even; Devo are regarded as reil weirdos, but
        i can't find anything strange in this album; and it isn't apealing
        as pure EZ stuff either, not enough melody for that; just MHO :)

        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Whipped Cream & Other Frights: Frivolous Five
Date: 17 Aug 1996 19:37:27 +0100

>From: Jim Eukey <[e-mail]>
>
>Anyone seen the answer to Herb Alpert's LP cover that was done by
>The Frivolous Five on the 1966 RCA LPM3663 titled "Sour Cream & Other
>Delights"?

        bought that one from Preston, i think...
        it's great, if you like parodies; each number starts "regular"
        but then you hear more and more false notes, until it becomes
        hilarious; has 1 beatle cover i think, the rest are standards
        in the Herb Alpert genre; sort of "portsmouth sinfonia meets
        Herb Alpert" :)

        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Sir Julian ad nauseum
Date: 17 Aug 1996 19:37:35 +0100

>From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
>
>Sir Julian clearly owes his new-found status to these, grrrr, CD comps
>(praise "the Old Codger," Irwin, tho). SJ is outshined by Lenny Dee, Ethel
>Smith, Klaus Wunderlich, and dozens of other more wacky and prolific
>electro-organeers.

        anything on CD by these "other more wacky and prolific
        electro-organeers" that you can recommend to a Hammond newbie?

        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: Klaus Wunderlich
Date: 17 Aug 1996 19:37:44 +0100

>From: [e-mail]
>
>Klaus Wunderlich also has some cool moog and prepared piano LPs.Hard to
>find in the US, though.

        some titles, please?

        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis



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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: cartoon lounge
Date: 17 Aug 1996 11:48:44 -0600 (MDT)

> I got the Hanna-Barbera "Pic-A-Nic Basket" box set.  [...] the Jetsons
> underscore is really really good, and sounds like the Three Suns on even
> happier pills and with a theremin player joining the band.

I'm kind of hacked off about this box -- the only disc that hasn't been
released on its own (as far as I can tell, anyway) is the one with the
Jetsons material on it, and that's the only disc I have any real interest in.
Grrrr!

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: CE & Yma
Date: 17 Aug 1996 14:00:50 -0500

>>     So the word was that Combustible was opening for Yma Sumac
>>     in NYC at the Supper Club on Sept. 12 - BUT - I have yet to
>>     hear any official announcement.  Anyone in the know?  Vik?
>>     Br. Cleve?
>

at a recent In Hi-Fi night at Bar d'O, i had the pleasure of chatting with
CE's The Millionaire who said the Yma/CE date is Sept. 26th at the Supper
Club. i would guess tix will go on sale at the beginning of Sept.

also, the recent Voice listed a CE show at Maxwell's on Oct. 11th!


in swank,
Vik


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Cool stuff?
Date: 17 Aug 1996 14:01:14 -0500

>Hi ya=B4all! Later this year I will open up a shop in Stockholm, Sweden:
>"Subliminal Sounds & Stuff".


working on the JET Set feature for Subliminal Sounds this weekend. keep me
posted on further developments...


in swank,
Vik


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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Meco
Date: 17 Aug 1996 12:18:48 -0600 (MDT)

> Who is this Meco, anyway?

Most people know him from his synth/disco version of the Star Wars theme,
which actually charted pretty well in its original release.  I don't know
what he did before that but much of his career afterwards seems to have
consisted of rehashes of the same idea (disco Close Encounters, disco
Wizard of Oz . . . )

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Jack Diamond's Playlist 7/28/96
Date: 17 Aug 1996 15:14:09 -0400

Jack, I see on your playlist you have a selection by Tony Mottola. I have a
couple of albums by him that I picked up at garage sales just for the covers.
Can you tell me anything about him and the type of music he plays? Thanks.
Gloria

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Calypso-is like so...
Date: 17 Aug 1996 15:14:10 -0400

I have the Robert Mitchum CD where he sings all calypso. I think he's great
too. Love the songs.
Gloria

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Klaus Wunderlich, Heino of the Keys
Date: 17 Aug 1996 15:40:06 -0400

>>Klaus Wunderlich also has some cool moog and prepared piano LPs.Hard to
>>find in the US, though.
>
>        some titles, please?

3 or four killer LPs ("Sound Explosion" was one) were made in the early 70s
to promote the Wersi electronic organ, imported and sold out of Lancaster,
PA. The organ itself about outclasses the early Moog in its fearsome
potential, and when Klaus gets that baby shooting out the strains of
Caravan, Theme from Shaft, and oh so much Latinesque more, it is
electro-cheese heaven. It's like Les Baxter's biggest overkill orchesta all
on one machine!

An early Klaus on the Telefunken label is readily found in the US and has
some good standards, on I think a Hammond.

There were scads of Klaus records made in Germany, visible not long ago at a
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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Re: CE & Yma
Date: 17 Aug 1996 15:45:33 EDT


>>     So the word was that Combustible was opening for Yma Sumac
>>     in NYC at the Supper Club on Sept. 12 - BUT - I have yet to
>>     hear any official announcement.  Anyone in the know?  Vik?
>>     Br. Cleve?
>

>at a recent In Hi-Fi night at Bar d'O, i had the pleasure of chatting with
>CE's The Millionaire who said the Yma/CE date is Sept. 26th at the Supper
>Club. i would guess tix will go on sale at the beginning of Sept.

>also, the recent Voice listed a CE show at Maxwell's on Oct. 11th!

Both of these are solid?   Man I gots me some PLANS to make!

Is anyone else going? Anyone have any plans to meet up somewhere
either before or after?

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: organs on CD
Date: 17 Aug 1996 15:45:52 -0400

>        anything on CD by these "other more wacky and prolific
>        electro-organeers" that you can recommend to a Hammond newbie?

Is there sales potential for such a thing? Organ players tended to buy all
the LPs put out, which is why you frequently come across a trove of them in
second-hand arenas.

Good question. Anyone planning such a comp now? Glad to offer repertoire
tips to anyone who is.

If you like moog, there's a lot of organ out there for you. Look out for
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Tabu 2 Lava 4sale, Mancini au go go
Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:05:23 -0400

Ask the genie, get the wish:

        Taboo 2 stereo, lava spraying forth like the "Blowhole" in Hawaii.

Asker/researcher HIFI gets first crack; otherwise it goes on the "RECORD
LIST" ([e-mail]) -- substantial changes likely after tomorrow (Sunday).

After the drubbing re: Mancini (hello, I LIKE him), we also hustled up a
coin today for:

        Sometimes a Great Notion (steel gtr and PLAS JOHNSON of Baxter-LP fame)
        Mancini: The Cop Show Themes (SWAT, Kojak)
        Mancini's Angels (Car Wash, Clouseau Theme, What's Happening!! Theme)

[and a trunkload more for which there's just no excuse to mention.]

"Searching and retrieving for you like a trusty, flea-crazed ole bird-dawg."


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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Mancini au Poo Poo
Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:35:13 EDT


----- Begin Included Message -----
>After the drubbing re: Mancini (hello, I LIKE him), we also hustled up a
>coin today for:

     > Sometimes a Great Notion (steel gtr and PLAS JOHNSON of Baxter-LP fame)
     > Mancini: The Cop Show Themes (SWAT, Kojak)
     > Mancini's Angels (Car Wash, Clouseau Theme, What's Happening!! Theme)
----- End Included Message -----


        HENRY MANCINI'S COVER OF THE "WHAT'S HAPPENIN'" THEME!?!

             Doesn't anybody else have a problem with this?

 WESTERN CIVILIZATION WAS LUCKY TO ESCAPE THE SEVENTIES IN THE SHAPE IT DID!!!
             WHAT THE HELL WAS GOING ON IN PEOPLE'S MINDS!!!

        I, for one, simply refuse to believe THIS ever happened!


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Mel Taylor
Date: 17 Aug 1996 17:12:41 -0400


At 03:38 PM 8/16/96 EDT, you wrote:
>>From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
>>Subject: Re: Ventures obit, Satie,
>
>Thank you (Lounge?) Laura.
>Was Mel Taylor the skinny Venture with the black hair
>who _looked_ like a serious smoker?

That's a shame about Mel.  As a member of the Ventures fan club, I had
gotten news that he had been ill for sometime, but I didn't know it was cancer.

Bryan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Finally!
Date: 17 Aug 1996 18:02:10 -0600

(for those who have heard me yakkin' about it for too long...)

The "Club Velvet" website is up!

drop in and check out:

 - the "Les Baxter" tribute area and discography
 - LP covers from the collection of King Kini
 - a calendar of events for Mpls' "Club Velvet Cocktail Lounge"
 - cocktail recipes (soon)
 - lots o' bamboo

dig a bit deeper and find:

 - current dance charts
 - an 80s retrospective
 - pop god Stephen Duffy
 - links to blimps with antlers and smoking monkeys
 - other useless stuff

http://www2.bitstream.net/~clean

lemme know what y'all think!

ciao!  Dean



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From: J P M <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Mancini au Poo Poo
Date: 17 Aug 1996 19:35:01 +0000

>> HENRY MANCINI'S >COVER< OF THE "WHAT'S HAPPENIN'" THEME!?!

It wasn't a cover .HE wrote it ?!?!

But did he also write the theme to S.W.A.T.?
(I know he did Charlie's Angels)

jason
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From: [e-mail] (David Schafer)
Subject: Re: subotnik/sitars/videos
Date: 17 Aug 1996 17:29:25 -0700 (PDT)

from>jordana
regarding: Subotnik

>I was listening to it on headphones, and I think that's why I listened to it
>as long as I did (I made it almost through one side without turning it
>over).  It started to frighten me a little.

It's the sort of sound that could easily be used for a Dario Argento film
or equivalent, rather psychological and atmospheric in parts.
rRegarding: Sitar LP's

>Some records should come soon from Kevin,
>and there are a few sitar things in that batch.

would that be Kevin King at xanadu? Let me know what you get privately at
[e-mail].

regarding: Sitar and movies

>In some fit of crackheadedness, I rented "Spirits of Evil" (that's not the
>title, but it's something like that) instead.  Three Poe stories, each by a
>different director, which were made in the 60s in France but just came out
>on video.  I was looking for a Vampyros Lesbos kind of vibe, and it's sort
>of what I expected, at least so far - I've watched most of the first one,
>starring Peter and Jane Fonda and directed by Roger Vadim.  But it's not
>very exciting.

Your posting got a very interesting reply from dave - [e-mail]
about THE GAME IS OVER, LOVE IN THE CITY and SATAN IN HIGH HEELS, These
definately sound like enjoyable viewing, which I will try to find this
weekend. There was a discussion awhile ago about the PARTY with Peter
Sellers and Claudine Longet where she sings a song or two and he innocently
creates havoc in this producer's pad. The soundtrack is Henry Mancini which
features some sitar, it's worth looking for, acutally I think Footlight has
it on CD in their catalog, that is if you don't already have it. BTW the
movie is pleasingly hilarious.

I just recieved a listing from someone who has a sealed copy of the
'Folkswingers /Raga Rock' for sale :))))) can't wait. The 45 of their's
that I have is quite nifty indeed.

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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: DICK HYMAN and TONY MOTTOLA interviews: doors now open!
Date: 18 Aug 1996 02:55:41 +0000

Hi all -

Well, as promised, and to coincide with what would have been Enoch
Light's 91st birthday(!), the Enoch Light website today invites you
to read two new additions to the site:

An interview with pianist/harpsichordist/organist/Moog synthesist/
arranger and composer extraordinaire DICK HYMAN and an interview with
arguably the most prolific jazz/EZ guitarist of the century(!), TONY
MOTTOLA.

I have also made numerous small improvements today so do please enter
and stroll round at your leisure.

Special thanks go out to Michael Toth who has somehow managed to make
major contributions to the site while also trying to put together the
Enoch Light "birthday party" which should be raging at this very
moment in Canton OH!

If you have any comments, suggestions etc - send 'em on in.


Robbie
Spaced Out - the Enoch Light WWW Site *** *** *** ***
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From: Basic Hip <[e-mail]>
Subject: Lolita OST
Date: 17 Aug 1996 19:29:56 -0700

Hello...

While passing by a record store last night (they were closed), I spotted
Stanley Kubrick's "Lolita" in the window.  Yes, the one with Peter Sellers
and Sue Lyon.  I remember a couple of Lolita tunes being discussed not long
ago, but can't recall anything specifically.  I saw the movie, but can't
remember much about the soundtrack.  Maybe that tells me something!
Please....could someone remind me if this is something I should get excited
about?

Also, someone....maybe Ashley....asked if anyone had a copy of Mancini's
"Blues and the Beat" for sale.
I do!  I do!  Near mint and in beautiful mono.  Let me know if you are still
interested.

Thanking you all,

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From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: Charles Manson (was Ultra-Lounge)
Date: 17 Aug 1996 22:57:36 -0400


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>Maybe I'm misunderstanding something in your info
>about Terry Melcher (aka: Terry Day). You say he
>never recorded anything except demos. I have a whole
>album of songs by Terry Melcher. he's on the cover
>and everything. He was also half of the singing duo
>Bruce and Terry.

I was stating that he had only recorded demos of
Charles Manson, and not an entire Manson album.

Sorry for the confusion.

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: CE & Yma
Date: 18 Aug 1996 02:37:06 -0400

Vic writes:
>at a recent In Hi-Fi night at Bar d'O, i had the pleasure of chatting with
>CE's The Millionaire who said the Yma/CE date is Sept. 26th at the Supper
>Club.

They've sinced changed the date to the 25th of September.

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From: [e-mail] (Hugh Petfield)
Subject: Yma Sumac, Mel Torme
Date: 18 Aug 1996 08:50:40 +0100

Yma features much in these hallowed pages, and unless I'm
mistaken, there is an upcoming concert.  I remember seeing
the Xtabay album in s/h record stores in the 60's, so Yma
must be getting on a bit.  I also remember a story that
her real name was Amy Camus - can anyone throw any light
please?

Also, did I see a mention (by Laura perhaps) of an obit
for Mel Torme?  Is he no longer with us?

Thanking you all,
Hugh.
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From: [e-mail] (Henrik Engstroem)
Subject: Re: Klaus Wunderlich, Heino of the Keys
Date: 18 Aug 1996 10:38:22 +0100

I was wondering when this was going to come up...

Klaus Wunderlich is an easy pick in Sweden, and I guess around most places
in Europe. His records also seems to have evaded the general shock raise in
interest for exotica records over here (The greats Bacharach et al have
rocketed from bargain bins to hot items the last 6 months. To my great
disappointment.). I have a few of Klaus' Hammond Pops series on Telefunken,
and they're swell non-stop party albums. I have no idea how many Hammond
Pops that were made, but I have up to no. 8, I think.

>An early Klaus on the Telefunken label is readily found in the US and has
>some good standards, on I think a Hammond.
>
>There were scads of Klaus records made in Germany, visible not long ago at =
a
>NYC flea.

Yes, Germany pressed a lot of cool records. All my A&M records are german
editions eg. Should be a good country to go bargain hunting.

Just my few words...

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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: josef albers cover art
Date: 18 Aug 1996 11:26:56 -0500 (CDT)


hello all,

i've become very interested in cover art by josef albers.  for those who
don't know, he was a very influential op artist who came to america from
germany in the 1930s.  he also wrote a fairly standard text on color
theory.

albers did the cover for the first persuasive percussion record, and also
provocative percussion 1 and 2.  i believe it was his style that
influenced all the geometric designs of the many percussion records which
followed.  what i'm wondering is, how many album covers did he do?  which
was the first?  how did he become involved in album cover design?

take care,
mark

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From: Watterworth Earle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Broken-in blues clothes (Smirkyface suggestion) (fwd)
Date: 17 Aug 1996 23:23:54 -0600 (MDT)

Thought you mind enjoy hearing how blues players get ready for a night
playing a lounge.  Granted, not quite the lounges referred to 'round
here, but it sounds like musicians in most any venue might shop at the
same outlets.  These outfits seem timeless.
Jay Watterworth
CU Boulder

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Yes! Brian has hit it on the nosey!  My harp player and I hit this one
awesome vintage clothes shop regularly and it pays off nicely.  The gal who
rusn it makes frequent visits to the DC area, where formal and sometimes
outlandish, almost Hollywood-style clothing are a regualr part of the local
political party and ball scene.  Many of these items are one once or twice
and then sold off, second hand.  AS a result, we have access to some of the
most far out used clothing, new and old, that you can think of, and a lot
of bands have gotten hip to this place.  My harp player recently got two,
count 'em TWO slicker'n shit real sharkskin jackets, red and blues with
black satin lapels, cuffs and piping for about $20 apiece, perfiect fit,
not a mark on 'em.  Both date from probably the '50s, but they look new,
and under the lights onstage.....oh yeah......you can't touch this.  His
trademark '40s fedora is from the same place, and I've scored three beautiful
blazers and tux jackets for the stage, as well as a satin vest and bowtie too,
each under $20 and flawless.   I have on order there (and she says she'll get
it for me too :) a gold-lamee jacket, BB Style [heh-heh] for the upcoming
New Years season.  She had one already, but too small for me.
(I take a 44 long)

Anyway, Brian, you are on the money with the vintage clothing store thing.

Riffin Rick

....but don't ask me to tell you where this shop is. ;)








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Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research
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From: Jeff Boyd <[e-mail]>
Subject: Voice of the Xtabay
Date: 18 Aug 1996 18:41:08 -0700

Hey,

I was lucky enough to find a 10" of Yma Sumac's Voice of the Xtabay, which
is pretty cool (also since our pal Les did the music). i have been unable to
accurately determine the value of it.
it's in pretty good shape - on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being brand new, 1
being an unidentifiable mass of shredded vinyl and cardboard), I'd say it's
a solid  8. Any comments?

Thanks,

Jeff

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From: [e-mail] (Keith Doyle)
Subject: Re: the bonky-bonk sound
Date: 18 Aug 1996 19:29:08 PDT


>
>>I found a Subotnik record at our uni library, called Silver Apples of the
>>Moon.  It was barely listenable.  Lots of blinkety bonk, but not melodical
>>enough to hold my attention.
>
>You definately have to be in a mood for 'Subotnik' and he has to be played
_loud_ or on headphones for maximum sound surprises.
>
>>Laika --They're good for modern bonky-bonk electronic with feedback and
>>phat >beats.
>
>What was the title of Laika's LP/CD? please.

Try-- Silver Apples of the Moon.  Acutally, they use a lot of sample loops
and their vocalist Margaret Fiedler is pretty effective in my opinion.  I
caught them at Luna Park, and while I thought Luna Park sucked, they were
great.


Keith Doyle
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Check this site out/Joe Meek
Date: 18 Aug 1996 19:44:26 +0000

Hello everyone ;)

If any of you all are interested, this place is pretty que-el

http://www.concentric.net/~meekweb/telstar.htm

Jack



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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: ella's gear
Date: 18 Aug 1996 22:14:15 -0500

Omigod!!!
I'm watching Ella Fitzgerald sing "Can't Buy Me Love" on the Ed
Sullivan Show (nick-at-nite).  "I don't want moneeeee!!!"  Too much.
Not as insane as her scatty version of "Sunshine Of Your Love," but
close.  Aaaaagh!


kevin king
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From: [e-mail] (Keith Doyle)
Subject: Re: Collectors shops/Who is Ananda Shankar?
Date: 18 Aug 1996 19:57:36 PDT



>I noticed nobody mentioned the fact that Ravi appeared in the film "Monterey
>Pop" (1969), concerning the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival.  Lots of sitar in
>that one.

As I recall, his sequence in the film is great, its at the end and you are
listening to some great music of his while the camera pans for an extended
time over the faces in the audience.


But if you want some great "authentic" sitar, try Ali Akbar Kahn's "Legacy"
CD.  It's all classic ragas that were passed down from guru to guru for
generations.

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Hammond Organ
Date: 18 Aug 1996 20:20:43 +0000

>
>>From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
>>
>>Sir Julian clearly owes his new-found status to these, grrrr, CD comps
>>(praise "the Old Codger," Irwin, tho). SJ is outshined by Lenny Dee, Ethel
>>Smith, Klaus Wunderlich, and dozens of other more wacky and prolific
>>electro-organeers.
>
>        anything on CD by these "other more wacky and prolific
>        electro-organeers" that you can recommend to a Hammond newbie?
>
>        = Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis

Well, let's see;  For super funky chompin' at the bit there's 60's Jack
McDuff on Prestige and then oif course there's Jimmy Smith on Verve.

He did some really cool rekkids with Wes Mongomery too, Jimmy Smith did.

Milt Buckner, Ron Feuer, Paul Bryant's stuff with Howard Roberts in
in-cre-di-ble!!! and there's Jimmy McGriff too BUT Lenny Dee and Sir Julian
rule!!!!!!;))))))

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Laika
Date: 18 Aug 1996 22:51:36 -0500

> >What was the title of Laika's LP/CD? please.
>
> Try-- Silver Apples of the Moon.  Acutally, they use a lot of sample loops
> and their vocalist Margaret Fiedler is pretty effective in my opinion.

If you like Laika's cd, I'd highly recommend Moonshake's Eva Luna
(Laika members were formerly part of Moonshake).  Margaret does
vocals on four or five amazing tracks that imho are better than
anything on SAOTM, now that's high praise.  The balance of Eva Luna
is so-so to plain awful, but it's worth getting for Margaret's
tracks.


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From: [e-mail] (Keith Doyle)
Subject: Re: Laika
Date: 18 Aug 1996 20:36:23 PDT



>If you like Laika's cd, I'd highly recommend Moonshake's Eva Luna
>(Laika members were formerly part of Moonshake).  Margaret does
>vocals on four or five amazing tracks that imho are better than
>anything on SAOTM, now that's high praise.  The balance of Eva Luna
>is so-so to plain awful, but it's worth getting for Margaret's
>tracks.

Got it.  However, Margaret's 3 tracks on Moonshake's "Big Good Angel"
CD "EP" are by far the best of them all IMHO.  I agree though,
the Moonshake tracks that don't have Margaret's vocals are mediocre
at best.

Keith Doyle
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Subject: Re: CE & Yma
Date: 18 Aug 1996 23:37:57 -0500

>Is anyone else going? Anyone have any plans to meet up somewhere
>either before or after?
>


i stand corrected on the Yma date...thanks Cleve...do not know about the
Maxwell's gig, but you can be assured Vik and Amy will be planning
something for after the Yma show. any interested hipsters in NYC that night
(Sept. 25th) drop a note to Vik ([e-mail]) and we'll keep you
posted...


in swank,
Vik


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From: [e-mail] (Keith Doyle)
Subject: Re: Triad playlist June 9, 1971
Date: 18 Aug 1996 20:40:42 PDT


>maybe we're speaking of two different types of Exotica here (for example I
>don't find "exotic" cars or "exotic" dancing very interesting), but I don't
>think your playlist is very Exotic at all

Well, it does seem that the exotica list has become more "Thrift Store Music"
or "Dated music that has either stood the test of time or become so bad that it's
good," but I'm not really complaining because I like it all.  Though it is true
that the level of traffic on the list is beginning to exceed the time I have
to process it...


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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: a quick survey
Date: 19 Aug 1996 01:23:43 -0400

Another list I'm on just had a quick survey; I think it would be nice to
have some facts to go with names on the list, so please post your answers to
this (short) survey.  (Answers that don't "out" online personas are OK.)
For the questions regarding music, please stick broadly within loungey stuff.

1.  What is your name?
2.  How old are you?
3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?
4.  What is your favorite album cover?
5.  Pretend you're the booking agent for your favorite/fantasy
lounge/exotica-type club.  Money is no object and neither is life/death
status of possible musicians.  How would you decorate your club, and more
importantly, what 3 bands would you book for a dream night of entertainment?

Now I'll give my responses.

1.  Jordana
2.  21
3.  art/comm student/spending more money than I make
4.  either of the Flint soundtracks or any moogy lightshow-type (P&K "In
Sound From Way Out" etc.)
5.  The club's main room would be decorated in full Barbarella style.  Fur
covered walls, mirrored ceilings, and a floor with colored lights underneah.
Lots of silver, sky blue, and zebra-print.  The bar serves lots of
unnaturally-colored beverages.  In the main room I would have Sergio Mendes
and Brasil 66 opening for Claudine Longet and Scott Walker with Stereolab as
the backing band.  Various films of the Vampyros Lesbos-type will be
screening in a special scary back room filled with clear inflatable pillows,
shag rug, and black velvet on the walls (and maybe some blacklights or red
lightbulbs for illumination).  A very vinyl WC has piped in moog sounds.
And another back room (yes, I know I'm getting carried away) is outer-space
themed with a rocky moon surface, fog machines, and probably Man Or Astroman
as the group.  Plus, there's valet parking for your scooter, Carmen Ghia, or
spaceship.

-Jordana (wishing she could fit Astrud and Yma in the above scenario)
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From: Jan Fornell <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE:Leopard Women
Date: 19 Aug 1996 18:01:00 +0900

>I've got a great scan of a Betty Page album cover in a leopard bathing suit
>hold on chain leashes 2 leopards in a jungle setting on my album covers
>page if anyone would care to see it.
The picture on Jack's page is very nice, but on the back cover of the
bootleg CD of Tak Shindo's "Mganga!"/Les Baxter's "African Jazz" there
is another picture of Ms. Page lying naked on top of those leopards!
Now where did THAT picture come from?

By the way, "Mganga!" is a great album quite similar to the best of Les
Baxter's stuff, but I don't remember ever seeing anything about Tak
Shindo on this list. Does anybody out there know anything about him?

Jan

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From: Jan Fornell <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE:Francis Lai and French samba
Date: 19 Aug 1996 18:08:00 +0900

A couple of weeks ago some people on this list asked about Francis Lai,
but it doesn't seem like anyone replied, so here is some information.

Francis Lai has composed the music to around 100 films, notably the
films of Claude Lelouch (in which he often appears as well, playing the
accordion) but also to American films like "Love Story". Here in Japan,
where he apparently is very popular, you can easily find 10-20 albums.
If you like the "A Man and a Woman" soundtrack, you will also like the
soundtrack to "13 Jours en France" (a documentary by Lelouch about the
1968 winter olympics) which features the same singers: Pierre Barouh
and Nicole Croisille.
Even more recommended are the solo albums by Pierre Barouh who plays
the late stuntman husband in "A Man and a Woman" and who sings the samba
in that film. He has made only a handful of records over the past 30
years or so, but they are all excellent and feature some sambas and
bossa novas, but mostly French chansons.

More recently, there is a singer/songwriter named Didier Sustrac who
does some sambas and bossa novas in a similar spirit on his albums. Also
very good.

However, much as I love Messieurs Barouh and Sustrac, as far as samba
and bossa nova is concerned, the genuine Brazilian article is still in
a class of its own...

Jan

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Subject: My kind of town...
Date: 19 Aug 1996 06:34:34 -0700

My wife and I will be in Chicago in September and I was wondering if anyone
might have some suggestions on good record stores (new and/or used).  Always
looking for good restaurants, too!  Feel free to reply to me directly if you
like.

Thanks!
Michael

P.S. Did anyone mention "The Party" and "Two For The Road" on the recent
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Subject: Re[2]: Mancini au Poo Poo
Date: 19 Aug 1996 08:48 CST


>        HENRY MANCINI'S COVER OF THE "WHAT'S HAPPENIN'" THEME!?!
>             Doesn't anybody else have a problem with this?


Not at all.  I find a kind of horrible beauty in it.  :)

Kathy

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From: Mark Reed <[e-mail]>
Subject: electric sitars
Date: 19 Aug 1996 10:21:51 -0700

Some pop/rock songs in the late 60s used an electric sitar.
Artists that come to mind are Joe South on Capitol and some
pop/country/r&b on Shelby Singleton's Plantation, Sun International, and
SSS International labels.  Singleton's artists included Jeannie C. Riley
(Harper Valley PTA) and Peggy Scott and Jo Jo Benson (Pickin' Wild
Mountain Berries).

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: ella's gear
Date: 19 Aug 1996 11:33:32 -0400

<<<I'm watching Ella Fitzgerald sing "Can't Buy Me Love" on the Ed
Sullivan Show (nick-at-nite).  "I don't want moneeeee!!!"  Too much.
Not as insane as her scatty version of "Sunshine Of Your Love," but
close.  Aaaaagh!>>>

OH oh. I thought it was pretty good. I tried to forget the Beatles' version,
and really listen to what she was doing with the song. I thought her
interpretation was remarkable. I guess some people might look at it like I
look at Michael Bolton trying to cover Ray Charles, but I really love Ella
and enjoyed listening to her on Nick at Nite last night.
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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Klaus Wunderlich, Heino of the Keys
Date: 19 Aug 1996 11:40:48 -0400

Henrik writes:
>Klaus Wunderlich is an easy pick in Sweden, and I guess around most places
>in Europe.

A few years back I found Klaus' Moog album on Telefunken. The title is
(hold on, now) : "Uraltedelschnulzensynthesizergags" (can any German
speaking folk enlighten me to what this means). It's from 1974, and
features polka, circus music, EZ tunes, and a track called
"Mosqito-Killer". The liner notes are in both German and English, and Klaus
advises in them that "Should you not like this record please buy all the
copies available and destroy them!!!!!" What a great marketing ploy! I
guess that might make this a rare record ;->

The cover pictures Klaus, wearing a silly cap, star-covered shirt, and
overalls, a glass of beer at his elbow, standing over a Moog Series III,
which has balloons in front of it. An inflatable penquin sits next to him.

Whew.

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: 101 Strings do Mancini?
Date: 19 Aug 1996 11:52:31 -0400

                      RE>>101 Strings do Mancini?                  8/19/96

On what BONGWATER album do they do BEDAZZLED stuff?
Lounge Laura
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Tak Shindo
Date: 19 Aug 1996 09:03:03 +0000

>By the way, "Mganga!" is a great album quite similar to the best of Les
>Baxter's stuff, but I don't remember ever seeing anything about Tak
>Shindo on this list. Does anybody out there know anything about him?
>
>Jan

Jan,

Tak Shindo is of Japanese heritage who fused his Japanese roots with
American rhythms.  He has at least 4 records of which M'Ganga is his only
_true exotica_ effort.
I just played Mombasa Love Song on my show this last Sunday morning from
the original vinyl mind you ;) and something of great interest is that none
of us collectors out here in the San Francisco bay area has EVER seen that
record in MONO!!!  Something of a great switcheroo I must say;))

It's on Edison International and I've never seen anything else on that
label come to think of it ;))

The liner notes are great on that album and are very informative and interesting

He has a record called Bamboo and Brass where half of the tune is Oriental
in flavor and the rest is American pop/jazz.  8 Bars of one and then 8 bars
of the other and back and forth and back and forth.
He also uses Japanese instrumentation on this record and all of his
pop/jazz LP's.  It's really quite great;  Koto's, Wooden Flutes etc with
saxophones.  It's a _good one_
I used to have 2 copies but I sold them, can't keep everything y'know and
they both sold to Japanese gentlemen ;))
Maybe they know something "we " don't!!  I'm sure they do
He also has Tak Shindo Goes Western where he does the same concept with
American songs of the "old west" like Tumblin' Tumbleweeds, I'm an Old Cow
Hand OR songs like that etc etc etc.
That is quite excellent also.
Seek him out and ye will be happy ;))

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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: Re: ella's gear
Date: 19 Aug 1996 09:11:23 -0800


>I'm watching Ella Fitzgerald sing "Can't Buy Me Love" on the Ed
>Sullivan Show (nick-at-nite).  "I don't want moneeeee!!!"  Too much.
>Not as insane as her scatty version of "Sunshine Of Your Love," but
>close.  Aaaaagh!

SPeaking of Ella Fitzgerald.  I recently ventured to see ROYAL CROWN REVUE,
and I just have to vent.  I didn't really enjoy them (apologies to R.C.R.
fans)  also during one song the lead singer started to scat.  All of a
sudden the scat was familiar, it was a scat line that Ella did in a song
titled "lemon drop" (a live 1973 album)  I started to brew, maybe the fact
that he didn't give props to Ella made me angry.


trying to deal with my issues,
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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: 70s mancini
Date: 19 Aug 1996 11:19:10 -0400

>From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)

>        HENRY MANCINI'S COVER OF THE "WHAT'S HAPPENIN'" THEME!?!
>
>             Doesn't anybody else have a problem with this?

My only problem with this is that I don't own it.

(Maybe it's because I was born in 75, and so the 70s are a happy but dim
childhood memory based mostly on early eighties TV reruns.)

-Jordana
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From: Mark Reed <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Leaving the straight life behind"
Date: 19 Aug 1996 12:36:12 -0700

Tony Wilds wrote:
>
>         [No, there isn't something I want to tell you. Not one thing.]
>
> Can anyone --say, in Hawaii-- explain just what the heck Don Ho means by:
>
> "treating the ladies to corn-on-the-cob, leaving the straight life be-hiiiind"
>
> Under no illusion that Mr. Ho is talking about something a little more
> intimate than what Mr. Ho ought to be singing about on a record, but on the
> other hand, what's so non-straight, i.e., funky/bohemian, about a freaking
> ear of corn? Is the yellow legume like caviar in Hawaii or what? Is Mr. Ho
> giving us a shuck? He's left the planet behind.
>
> I hold "Leaving the Straight Life Behind" out, so to speak, as the epitome
> of cheese. Recalls the thrilling calypso that goes: "I kissed her hand, I
> kissed her lips. And I left her behind for you."
>
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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: a quick survey
Date: 19 Aug 1996 13:03:09 -0400

                      RE>a quick survey                            8/19/96

ok jordana, et.  al...

1.  What is your name? LAURA TAYLOR...aka LOUNGE LAURA
2.  How old are you? 29
3.  What is your major occupation/avocation? PUBLIC RADIO NEWS
DIRECTOR/CHANTEUSE-THEREMINIST-MINIMAL MOOGIST-RECORD COLLECTOR
4.  What is your favorite album cover?---TWO OF 'EM...SPACE ESCAPADE AND
PRIMATIVA
5.  Pretend you're the booking agent for your favorite/fantasy
lounge/exotica-type club.  ETC...

i don't have time for a paragraph...but it would consist of tikis:  les
baxter-yma sumac-henry mancini...stuff that looks like SPACE ESCAPADE -A
CLOCKWORK ORANGE--and all things bright and beautiful...I would also beg to
play the Theremin with Les and do MUSIC OUT OF THE MOON songs...btw, Can I
invite the Late, Great Bernard Hermann?  YOu said we could!

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Yma Sumac, Mel Torme
Date: 19 Aug 1996 13:45:04 -0400

                      RE>Yma Sumac, Mel Torme                      8/19/96

Yes, that was me who posted the Mel Torme thing...I think he made it through
the weekend, as I haven't heard differently...But that brings me to another
point...I have access to the AP wire, and when I find things that might be of
interest to this group, I post them, as in the Mel Taylor obit...Does anyone
find this helpful or annoying?  I hate to give ya'll junk mail...and I like
to edify, too...
Lounge Laura
[e-mail]
"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."

Yma features much in these hallowed pages, and unless I'm
mistaken, there is an upcoming concert.  I remember seeing
the Xtabay album in s/h record stores in the 60's, so Yma
must be getting on a bit.  I also remember a story that
her real name was Amy Camus - can anyone throw any light
please?

Also, did I see a mention (by Laura perhaps) of an obit
for Mel Torme?  Is he no longer with us?

Thanking you all,
Hugh.
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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: Re: Yma Sumac, Mel Torme
Date: 19 Aug 1996 11:12:47 -0800

>.Does anyone find this helpful or annoying?  I hate to give ya'll junk
>mail...and I like
>to edify, too...

 Lounge Laura,

        I think your news posts and other posts are helpful.  Thanks for
keeping us informed and in the know.

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From: [e-mail] (Hugh Petfield)
Subject: Note-it posts
Date: 19 Aug 1996 20:41:53 +0100

The alliterative yet lovely Lounge Laura writes...

>Does anyone find this helpful or annoying?  I hate to give ya'll junk mail

Laura, it's *very* helpful, especially this side of the pond where
showbiz news is hard to come by.  Keep up the good work.......
and the weird stuff, of course.

Hugh. (not young like Laura, but a newbie).

By the way, can anyone out there recommend an exotica-compatible
aftershave?  What did Jack Lord use?

HP.
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From: Grant China <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Note-it posts
Date: 19 Aug 1996 10:15:13 -1000

At 10:05 AM 8/19/96 -1000, you wrote:
>By the way, can anyone out there recommend an exotica-compatible
>aftershave?  What did Jack Lord use?

Well, I don't know about any exotica-compatible aftershaves but I would say
that for the fairer sex the exotica perfume of choice would have to be
Wicked Wahine.  It's available at a lot of drug stores here locally in
Hawaii, mostly for the tourist market.  It's kind of cheap 'n cheesy but
imagine the responses you'll illicit when you announce that you're wearing
"Wicked Wahine"!

AFAIK, Jack Lord never used it, though.

Aloha,
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From: [e-mail] (Matthew Baron)
Subject: Re: a quick survey
Date: 19 Aug 1996 12:52:32 -0500

>From: [e-mail] (jordana)
>Subject: a quick survey
>Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 01:23:43 -0400
>Another list I'm on just had a quick survey; I think it would be nice to
>have some facts to go with names on the list, so please post your answers to
>this (short) survey.  (Answers that don't "out" online personas are OK.)
>For the questions regarding music, please stick broadly within loungey stuff.
>
1.  What is your name? Matt Baron

2.  How old are you?   23

3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?
    College Student (CSci), JAPH, aspiring bossa nova guitarist

4.  What is your favorite album cover?
    1) 101 Strings - After A Hard Day: Music to Relax By
    2) The Three Suns - Easy Listening

5.  Pretend you're the booking agent for your favorite/fantasy
lounge/exotica-type club.  Money is no object and neither is life/death
status of possible musicians.  How would you decorate your club, and more
importantly, what 3 bands would you book for a dream night of entertainment?

    Decor: No tiki.  Strictly Early 60's suave, but still a little cheezy
    Bands: The Three Suns, Jobim/Gilberto/Getz, Billy May

Matt
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: got the denny...
Date: 19 Aug 1996 19:46:47 -0500

just a note to say i got the denny. mmmm...cheesy goodness...thanks!


in swank,
Vik


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Bedazzling Bongwater
Date: 19 Aug 1996 19:46:43 -0500

>                      RE>>101 Strings do Mancini?                  8/19/96
>
>On what BONGWATER album do they do BEDAZZLED stuff?
>Lounge Laura
>[e-mail]


mmmm...that would be the final release "The Power of Pussy" (Shimmy Disc
040). Ann Magnuson...where are you now?!?!  delicious version too! thanks
for reminding me of this

Also, The Love Interest released a 5 mix EP of Bedazzled in 1993. A group
of typically industrial musicians (Chris Connelly, Martin Atkins, etc.)
turn in a surprisingly faithful version...Connelly even does a passable
Peter Cook impression on vocals. (Invisible 025)


in swank,
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Tak Shindo
Date: 19 Aug 1996 20:52:45 -0400

Tak also makes an appearance on Martin Denny's "Primitiva"

Ashley

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Yma Sumac, Mel Torme
Date: 19 Aug 1996 23:51:20 -0400

Lounge Laura wrote:
> But that brings me to another
>point...I have access to the AP wire, and when I find things that might be of
>interest to this group, I post them, as in the Mel Taylor obit...Does anyone
>find this helpful or annoying?

I find it helpful, as I don't always have time to read the newspaper. So,
keep 'em coming.

br cleve



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Subject: [Fwd: Clam Dip and Other Delights]
Date: 19 Aug 1996 22:27:25 -0600

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Another "Whipped Cream..." parody cover is Soul Asylum's "Clam Dip and Other Delights."
Who would have thought Dave Pirner was a fan?

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: clothes & theremin band
Date: 20 Aug 1996 01:58:40 -0400

While I was pestering Baltimore's best costumer for my latest fux-fur fez, a
new local band called Lanyard (they use a theremin) was renting smoking
jackets. Lincoln Futura from WFMU's essential "Avant-Guarde Showcase" video
lives.

[The Living Brass are doing terrible things to "Baby Elephant Walk" - and I
like it.]


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Voice of the Xtabay
Date: 20 Aug 1996 01:58:41 -0400

Ad hoc appraisal:

Excellent condition -- go with $25-30 minimum even in cheapvilles. (I have
such a copy for sale, plus the first 12" reissue.)

Add to its many attractions the fact that no other LP recording has been in
print as long (since 1950 and Capitol's still making it). It's not rare, but
demand keeps up with supply; it has a book value. "Miracles" and non-LP
material are the rarities.


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Mancini 5-0
Date: 20 Aug 1996 01:58:35 -0400

>>> HENRY MANCINI'S >COVER< OF THE "WHAT'S HAPPENIN'" THEME!?!
>
>But did he also write the theme to S.W.A.T.?
>(I know he did Charlie's Angels)

Kojak/SWAT is a medley, alas no author credit on The Cop Show Themes LP
(also with Baretta, Rockford, Hawaii 5-0, and Police Woman). Git down, Danno.

The SWAT Theme 45 on ABC was one of my first ever records (as a wee thing)
and Mancini could well have been the genius behind that waka-waka guitar
sound, but no bets on it.

Mancini wrote Silver Streak and What's Happening!! (take _that_, polyannas),
but not Roots, Rocky, Charlie's Angels -- "Elliott-Ferguson", or Car Wash.
Car wash is right!

Still 30 new records from this weekend ahead of it in the queue, so no
comments yet. As I write this, for instance, I'm listening to The Living
Brass Plays Moods of Mancini, in  grand Herb Alpert style. (The 1st "Moon
River" I like.)

YOURS IN THE MAGICAL KINGDOM OF STRINGS, SITARS, AND GARY COLEMAN!


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From: J P M <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Mancini 5-0
Date: 20 Aug 1996 02:57:26 +0000

>But did he also write the theme to S.W.A.T.?
>(I know he did Charlie's Angels)


Actually, I just looked at the CD "Toob Toons Vol.2 '70's and '80's" and
it list Mancini and His Orchestra as the person/people who played the
theme (with Elliott/Ferguson as writing creds).AND The "Theme from
S.W.A.T. as played by the Rythym Heritage (written by Barry DeVorzon),
but I know of at least three Disco versions also.

Did anyone know that Paul Williams (w/ Charles Fox wrote "The Love Boat
Theme"

Jason
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From: "ACD1 Pawlata.S" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Klaus Wunderlich, Heino of the Keys
Date: 20 Aug 1996 09:38:55 +0200

Brother Cleve wrote:

>
> A few years back I found Klaus' Moog album on Telefunken. The title is
> (hold on, now) : "Uraltedelschnulzensynthesizergags" (can any German
> speaking folk enlighten me to what this means).

Well, the best German translation I can come up with would be: "Age-old
sophisticated corny synthesizer gags". Of course, this title is not to
be taken
100 % serious, it's rather meant to be self-ironic.

Hope this helps y'all.

Take care
Stefan Pawlata
email: [e-mail]

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Exotic Moon Gas Dreams, 1 last gush of
Date: 20 Aug 1996 04:27:51 -0400

Just landed on the fabled "Moon Gas" by Dick Hyman. By content at least it
is indeed worth double the $70 Mr. Diamond asked. Elevates the whole hobby,
not to mention Mr. Hyman's already high stature in the pantheon. Wow, zow,
and pow! Gorgeous jacket design, notes, the works. One small step for MGM, a
giant leap for your record collection. Music to assemble theremins by. Music
to ease the pain of parting with Esquivel records. Now, to file it under
organ, exotic abstract female vocals, electronic music, or space-age pop? Oh
no: "Moon Gas" is its _own_ idiom.

Ethel Azama's "Exotic Dreams" is delightful too, worth the prayers to find.
Martin Denny signed her and she sang a cut on Arthur Lyman's first, Leis of
Jazz. Sounds more like Pat Suzuki than Sondi Sodsai. Would have liked her to
have guested on Denny LPs.

Dreaming of moon-cheap gas,
TW


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From: "Desmond K. Hill" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Turnabout LPs: Mimaroglu, Carlos, Cage
Date: 20 Aug 1996 10:02:22 +0000

        'am still intrigued to learn more about the Turnabout label, who
released electronic & concrete scores in the '60s. anyone offer any info
from this label or from 'Finadar,' please e-mail titles, reviews,
anecdotes, etc to the list. together we might generate a history or
discography of sorts. i'm intrigued..

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Note-it posts (wire-service reports)
Date: 20 Aug 1996 05:11:20 -0400

>>Does anyone find this helpful or annoying?

Valuable! What br cleve said. At least until there's a web site
live-monitoring Perez Prado. Besides fresh writing and performance, it's
only the real-world, real-time updates that humanize and enliven the musty
tradition of strange pop.

Savoring every word that's not deleted,
TW
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From: "Desmond K. Hill" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Lord Buckley request
Date: 20 Aug 1996 10:02:14 +0000

        'Am trying to locate spoken word recordings on vinyl by this most
immaculately hip aristocrat. If anyone can offer them, or make suggestions
where I might find them, or even provide further info about the king of the
hipsopmatic swing, please get in touch.

des




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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Note-it posts
Date: 20 Aug 1996 05:56:00 -0700

Hugh Petfield wrote:
>
> By the way, can anyone out there recommend an exotica-compatible
> aftershave?

No question about it:  Hai Karate.

Brad
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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Re: Jack Lord's Aftershave
Date: 20 Aug 1996 09:20:20 EDT


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By the way, can anyone out there recommend an exotica-compatible
aftershave?  What did Jack Lord use?

HP.

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HAI-KARATE! Gots ta be.

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From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: DEVO
Date: 20 Aug 1996 14:02:21 UT


----------
Sent:     Saturday, August 17, 1996 11:56 AM


I've seen the EZ Listening Album in the Rykodisc catalog and
I've been tempted to pick it up. I love DEVO! What would you compare
the album to musically? Who does it sound like?

Have you ever heard Mark Mothersbaugh's solo albums that were
called (I think) SPACE AGE BACHELOR PAD (or something like that)?

I know someone who had one of them and told me it was great
but I haven't seen them since and this was like six years ago.

=================

Well, if you LOVE Devo, the EZ CD is a must.  They cover a wide range of Muzak
styles, so it's hard to compare it to anyone in particular.  As I said before,
some of it is really lame, some of it slightly cool and some of it really
swingin'.  When I was a teenager, Devo was my God so I'm a little biased.

Mark Mothersbaugh's solo stuff was called "Muzak for Insomniacs."  I found it
only slightly interesting.  Have you heard his Dennyesque intro theme to "Pee
Wee's Playhouse"?

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Yma Sumac, Mel Torme
Date: 20 Aug 1996 10:32:55 -0400

Laura, I like it that you post stuff from AP that might interest us. Keep
doing it!!
Gloria

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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: RE: DEVO
Date: 20 Aug 1996 10:44:28 EDT


----- Begin Included Message -----

Mark Mothersbaugh's solo stuff was called "Muzak for Insomniacs."  I found it
only slightly interesting.  Have you heard his Dennyesque intro theme to "Pee
Wee's Playhouse"?

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When I was first discovering Denny (about a year ago),
I bought the Rhino "Best of" and flipped that someone
had actually ripped off Quiet Village for the beginning
of the Pee-Wee theme song.

My respect for all the members of Devo, as well as Pee-Wee,
Tim Burton, and Danny Elfman seems to grow with every new
thing I find out about them.

Elfman's music for Nightmare Before Christmas is about
as beyond cool as things can get...


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Jack Lord's After Shave
Date: 20 Aug 1996 10:59:32 -0400

Had to be either Jade East (my dad's favorite) or Hai Karate

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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: More Moog
Date: 20 Aug 1996 08:25:29 -0800

Yes more moog.  I was just wondering about Walter Carlos, who did switched
on Bach, moog style.  I know Walter has gone through changes.  Now Walter
is Wendy.  Apparently still doing music.  Has anyone heard any of Wendy
Carlos?

Marie
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From: Mark Freitas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Yma Sumac, Mel Torme
Date: 20 Aug 1996 10:50:52

> But that brings me to another
>point...I have access to the AP wire, and when I find things that might be of
>interest to this group, I post them, as in the Mel Taylor obit...Does anyone
>find this helpful or annoying?
Stuff like this is really the only reason I continue to
subscribe to this list!  Keep this stuff coming, even
with the awful signal to noise ratio it's worthwhile.

mark


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Subject: Re: More Moog
Date: 20 Aug 1996 12:25:28 -0400 (EDT)

Marie Guinto writes:

>Yes more moog.  I was just wondering about Walter Carlos, who did switched
>on Bach, moog style.  I know Walter has gone through changes.  Now Walter
>is Wendy.  Apparently still doing music.  Has anyone heard any of Wendy
>Carlos?

     I have an album that she did about ten or eleven years ago that's similar
in concept to Holst's "The Planets," except that the themes are based on the
major moons of our solar system.  It's really pretty good.
                    --Jon Johnson
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From: Rohn Matthies <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Wendy Carlos
Date: 20 Aug 1996 09:38:39 +0000

Wendy (nee Walter) Carlos continues to produce. I recently picked up
the 20th anniversery edition of SwitchedOn Bach -- an updated version
of the classic but now credited to Wendy. rohn

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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Re: Mancini
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:42:13 EDT


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>        HENRY MANCINI'S COVER OF THE "WHAT'S HAPPENIN'" THEME!?!
>             Doesn't anybody else have a problem with this?


Not a cover at all. He wrote it.

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HENRY MANCINI WROTE THE "WHAT'S HAPPENIN'" THEME ?!?
             ^^^^^^

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From: Watterworth Earle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Lord Buckley request
Date: 20 Aug 1996 09:53:43 -0600 (MDT)

As I recall, Lord Buckley's work was released on Fantasy.  You are
absolutely correct in your assessment of his Lordship: undoubtedly the
king of hipness.
"Jonah, what's you smokin' down there?!?!"
Jay Watterworth
CU Boulder

On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Desmond K. Hill wrote:

>         'Am trying to locate spoken word recordings on vinyl by this most
> immaculately hip aristocrat. If anyone can offer them, or make suggestions
> where I might find them, or even provide further info about the king of the
> hipsopmatic swing, please get in touch.
>
> des
>
>
>
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From: "Heileson, Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: re: a quick survey
Date: 20 Aug 1996 10:53:00 PDT


>Subject: a quick survey
>Another list I'm on just had a quick survey; I think it would be nice to
>have some facts to go with names on the list, so please post your answers
to
>this (short) survey.  (Answers that don't "out" online personas are OK.)
>For the questions regarding music, please stick broadly within loungey
stuff.

What, me say no to a survey?

>1.  What is your name?

Thom S. Heileson

>2.  How old are you?

27

>3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?

Grad student (fine art photography); Electronic musician
(pseudonyms/projects: phASER and blue pill -- the latter of which is
exotica-relevant, containing a plethora of loungesque cut-ups & samples...)

>4.  What is your favorite album cover?

Now that's a tough one, considering all the vinyl I've bought based on
covers alone. (I admit it! I never get around to listening to half of 'em! I
give exotica a bad name, I know...)

OK, I'll say: Norman Luboff: "Reverie" (features gorgeous -- and fairly
tasteful, actually! -- photo of damsel lounging on the beach... was
appropriated by industrial group Chris & Cosey, BTW, in the 80s...)

>5.  Pretend you're the booking agent for your favorite/fantasy
>lounge/exotica-type club.  Money is no object and neither is life/death
>status of possible musicians.  How would you decorate your club, and more
>importantly, what 3 bands would you book for a dream night of
entertainment?

Decor: there'd have to be four "theme" rooms: Tiki, 20s-30s Art Deco, early
60s swank a la "Breakfast at Tiffany's," and the late 60s Fondue Palace.

Bands:

Sergio Mendez and Brasil '65

Sergio Mendez and Brasil '66 (in their circa-"Equinox" incarnation...)

Cal Tjader's mambo combo

Astrud Gilberto with Jobim

Whoops, that's four...

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Whuz happenin'
Date: 20 Aug 1996 14:25:07 -0400

                      Whuz happenin'                               8/20/96


OK!  Enough already about Mancini penning the WHAT'S HAPPENIN' Theme!!!!!
It's cool, sleazy and exploitative---all good musical elements IMHO!
It's no TOUCH OF EVIL---but hey man, tune in, turn on...it was the 70s for
PETE'S SAKE...
lounge laura
"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."

----- Begin Included Message -----

>        HENRY MANCINI'S COVER OF THE "WHAT'S HAPPENIN'" THEME!?!
>             Doesn't anybody else have a problem with this?


Not a cover at all. He wrote it.

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HENRY MANCINI WROTE THE "WHAT'S HAPPENIN'" THEME ?!?
             ^^^^^^

That's enough.  I need to lie down.



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Hai Karate
Date: 20 Aug 1996 12:55:07 +0000

Is Hai Karate still being made? I see Jade East all the time, but
never see Hai Karate. I was thinking about it a few months ago, and
wend lookin' for a bottle, but had no luck. Maybe it's a regional
thing. Back east only? I'm out here in Texas...

Of course, you can't beat a bottle of Bay Rum...

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: ap correspondent lounge lau
Date: 20 Aug 1996 15:02:04 -0400

                                          3:01 PM             8/20/96

Ya'll said you're interested, so here's an update...BTW-thanks for being so
complimentary you cats/kits! Always glad to do my paarrt...as you all have
helped me a lot!


           !  SEGUE  !
                               -----------

MEL TORME
   (Los Angeles) -- Mel Torme continues to try to fight off pneumonia, which
would complicate the stroke he suffered 12 days ago. Torme is in guarded
condition. A respirator tube is helping him breathe. Torme's speech is
slurred from the stroke. He's communicating with his wife and five kids by
writing notes and using hand signals. His publicist says doctors still hope
Torme can make a full recovery.


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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Hai Karate
Date: 20 Aug 1996 15:42:16 -0400

                      RE>Hai Karate                                8/20/96

OK Ladies!  Our turn!!!!!  I don't have a pick-cause I never before thought
about it...but what exoti-scents are available?  Not being a coco-nut or
orange blossom-wearin' babe, I don't want to smell like a frozen drink..but
mebbe the cats dig it...In the spirit of abstract music, I like Paloma
Picasso...
Any takers?
Lounge(I'm posting too much this busy day)Laura
[e-mail]
"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."

Is Hai Karate still being made? I see Jade East all the time, but
never see Hai Karate. I was thinking about it a few months ago, and
wend lookin' for a bottle, but had no luck. Maybe it's a regional
thing. Back east only? I'm out here in Texas...

Of course, you can't beat a bottle of Bay Rum...

[e-mail]

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From: "GUERRERO, Ernie" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Wendy Carlos
Date: 20 Aug 1996 13:15:00 PST


Wendy/Walter is also responsible for
the magnificent soundtracks for Disney's
TRON and for CLOCKWORK ORANGE.

If ANYONE has a copy of the TRON soundtrack
please contact me...I'm in desperate search.

also, check out wendy's homepage at

http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/wendy

-Ernie


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Jordana's Questions
Date: 20 Aug 1996 16:58:30 -0400

     Jordana asked some good questions:

     >1.  What is your name?

     Craig L. Carlson

     >2.  How old are you?

     44

     >3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?

     Data Center Manager/Guitar noodler

     >4.  What is your favorite album cover?

     Cover? Singular? Well, Jordana already cheated (thank god) sooo...

     Cocktail Hammond (First exotica knowingly purchased
     `Heyyy...cocktails!')
     Legend of the Jivaro - Yma Sumac
     Leader of the Pack - Shangri-La's
     Me and My Banjo - Eddie Peabody
     Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Beatles

     >5..  How would you decorate your club,

     #1: Bulding designed by Frank Lloyd Wright or suitable disciple.

     #2: Dance floor of strip maple, rest of the ball room in earth tones.
     Groovy. Low ceilings.

     #3: Refreshment/lounge area in `50's split-level, basement rec-room
     style. With a curved bar.

     #4 Flagstone patio under the stars. Kidney shaped pool nearby. Some
     topiary, too.

     #5: Music volume so you can talk!!!! (except for #2).

     > Pretend you're the booking agent for your favorite/fantasy
     >lounge/exotica-type club.  Money is no object and neither is
     >life/death status of possible musicians

     Opening act: Arthur Lyman Group

     Next up Perrey and Kingsley's Moog Orchestra (was there such a thing?)

     Closing the show: Enoch Light's Light Brigade with Tony Mottola, Dick
     Hyman and Doc Severinsen.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Hai Karate
Date: 20 Aug 1996 17:23:01 -0400 (EDT)

>Is Hai Karate still being made? I see Jade East all the time, but
>never see Hai Karate. I was thinking about it a few months ago, and
>wend lookin' for a bottle, but had no luck. Maybe it's a regional
>thing. Back east only? I'm out here in Texas...

     Boy, I don't think so.  I live on the east coast and haven't seen that
stuff in years.  I have a hilarious late '60's H.K. commercial on video where
this girl shows up at her date's apartment and he's tearing the place apart
with kicks and punches.  'Cause, o'course, he's wearing Hai Karate.  That's
probably why they took the stuff off the market.
                    --Jon Johnson
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: "How To Speak Hip" (re: Lord Buckley request)
Date: 20 Aug 1996 18:46:12 -0400

At 09:53 AM 8/20/96 -0600, you wrote:
>As I recall, Lord Buckley's work was released on Fantasy.  You are
>absolutely correct in your assessment of his Lordship: undoubtedly the
>king of hipness.
>"Jonah, what's you smokin' down there?!?!"
>Jay Watterworth
>CU Boulder
>
>On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Desmond K. Hill wrote:
>
>>         'Am trying to locate spoken word recordings on vinyl by this most
>> immaculately hip aristocrat. If anyone can offer them, or make suggestions
>> where I might find them, or even provide further info about the king of the
>> hipsopmatic swing, please get in touch.


I wonder if someone like Rhino would release John Berndt's "How to Speak
Hip" that came out on Mercury records around 1961.  Now that would be
something to hear.

Bryan


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From: Basic Hip <[e-mail]>
Subject: McLounge
Date: 20 Aug 1996 16:53:39 -0700

Hello....

Popped into Starbucks this morning for a cup and a scone and what do I hear
piped in over the speakers?  Esquivel, Quiet Village (Denny), Mancini and
Combustible Edison.  There is also some Nestea commercial on TV with a man
crawling from the depths of a volcano and quenching his thirst with a frosty
iced tea.  Sounds like Yma Sumac doin' the vocals.

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Subject: "How To Speak Hip"
Date: 20 Aug 1996 17:13:47 -0700


>I wonder if someone like Rhino would release John Berndt's (John Brent and
Del Close) "How to Speak
>Hip" that came out on Mercury records around 1961.  Now that would be
>something to hear.
>
>Bryan

Rhino does have a GREAT 3 CD box set out called "The Beat Generation".  All
kinds of cool shit and an excellent booklet with photos, LP covers, movie
posters and recommended books on beats.  Here is just a sampling of what's
included:

Jack Kerouac interviews
Babs Gonzales
Ken Nordine
William Burroughs
Gerry Mulligan
Don Morrow (Grimm's Hip Fairy Tales)
Del Close and John Brent (How To Speak Hip - 3 tracks)
Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
Lord Buckley
Edd Byrnes (Kookie - found this over the weekend - maaaaannn, dig this crazy
pad!)
Oscar Brown Jr.
Charles Kuralt and Carl Sandburg reporting on beatniks

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From: Susanne Stratford <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Hai Karate
Date: 21 Aug 1996 10:22:48 +1000 (EST)

On 20 Aug 1996, Laura Taylor wrote:

>                       RE>Hai Karate                                8/20/96
>
> OK Ladies!  Our turn!!!!!  I don't have a pick-cause I never before thought
> about it...but what exoti-scents are available?  Not being a coco-nut or
> orange blossom-wearin' babe, I don't want to smell like a frozen drink..but
> mebbe the cats dig it...In the spirit of abstract music, I like Paloma
> Picasso...
> Any takers?
> Lounge(I'm posting too much this busy day)Laura
> [e-mail]
> "It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."

Mmmm, I like Paloma Picasso too - but dont have a bottle of the stuff at
the mo'

In my little vanity cupboard at the moment stands:-

  Roma
  Montana
  Dune by Cristian Dior
  Y by Yves Saint Laurant
  Eau de Issay by Issay Miyake
  Eau de Givenchy

  and an old bottle of Opium standing right at the back (which I havent
worn for years)

  Depends on my mood, what I wear at any particular time.

Miss Suze,
Lizard Lodge.


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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Spaced Out - Update (again!)
Date: 21 Aug 1996 01:51:49 +0000

Hi all -

Just thought I would update you on the Enoch Light site.

Today I updated the Grand Award discography so that now it is
virtually 100% complete (check for some very interesting sounding
titles - "Cool Organ"?!?).  Also some minor updates to the Command
list.

And lastly a new "NEWS!" page which will keep those of you who
have bookmarked the site (all of you I hope!!!) up to date on
developments.

Upcoming: I now have a discography for all Enoch's recordings
from 1927(!) through 1950 and this will hopefully go on tomorrow -
it's a neverending job, this!


Robbie
Spaced Out - the Enoch Light WWW Site *** *** *** ***
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Jack Lord's After Shave
Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:17:20 -0400 (EDT)

>Had to be either Jade East (my dad's favorite) or Hai Karate
>


These all smell...well...quite....awful.  How about a shower?  A suave man
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Jordana's Quiz
Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:19:36 -0400

I like your style Jordana.   I looooove quizzies!
What a wonderful way to introduce myself, since I'm new to the list:
>     >1.  What is your name?
Lisa Johnson
>     >2.  How old are you?
30
>     >3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?
Television sales research analyst at a station in Atlanta
>     >4.  What is your favorite album cover?
Hard to choose so I'll go with the one that started it all for me:
Jackie Gleason "Music, Martinis, and Memories"
>     >5..  How would you decorate your club,
Several themes and many levels:
  1) Dim grotto area with recessed colored lights & waterfall. Cross small
bridge to get to bar area.  Think Club Zodiac from "Bell, Book, and
Candle"...
  2) Major tiki bar
  3) Bachelor pad theme a la Craig > #3: Refreshment/lounge area in `50's
split-level, basement rec-room style. With a curveed bar #4 Flagstone patio
under the stars. Kidney shaped pool nearby
  4) Dance area straight from "Laugh-In" complete with go-go dancers
>     > Pretend you're the booking agent...
Henry Mancini, Martin Denny, AC Jobim

Y'all touched on so many of my fave things recently: Pee-Wee's Playhouse,
Nightmare Before X-Mas, Tim Burton, Paloma Picasso (although Coco (Chanel)
would be my #1 pick) , Homer Simpson, Blaxploitation, and finally Hai-Karate
that I could not resist introducing myself.

Bye for now,
Lisa





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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Hai Karate
Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:49:15 -0400

Laura - I like the AP postings. Updates on people like Mel Torme are NOT big
items on the 6 o'clock news here, ya know?

I don't want to smell like a frozen drink..but mebbe the cats dig it...In the
spirit of abstract music, I like Paloma Picasso...
I'd like to know what the fellas dig...BTW here's what's on my shelf (in
addition to Paloma):
Coco, Fleur de Rocaille, Byzance, Dune, Escada, Allure, Gem, Poison (worn
only on Halloween), and Casmir - probably the most exotic of the exotics.

Such girly-girlness!  I love it. This smacks of the Brady Bunch episode when
the Brady girls turn the boys club house into a play house (with
curtains!!!!!).

Bye for now,
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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: a quick survey
Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:02:52 -0500 (CDT)


hello!  i'm new on this list so i'll answer the survey by way of
introducing myself

> 1.  What is your name?
mark frank

> 2.  How old are you?
29
> 3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?
professional: teaching college composition and english as a second language
other: playing music with sarah, my wife.  our music has been inspired in
large part by the music discussed on this list.  sarah sings, and
together we play keyboards (including a moog and three home organs),
homemade gadgets, steel drum, accordion, etc.

> 4.  What is your favorite album cover?

many choices here, but a recent favorite is hypnotique (martin denny).
just what exactly is going on in that room?  especially the wire head
wearing a derby cap.  i want to visit this place!


> 5.  Pretend you're the booking agent for your favorite/fantasy
> lounge/exotica-type club.  Money is no object and neither is life/death
> status of possible musicians.  How would you decorate your club, and more
> importantly, what 3 bands would you book for a dream night of entertainment?

though i love alot of the music from the 50s and 60s, the arrogantly
consumptive lifestyle which the music seemed to encourage would be
thankfully left behind when planning my club.  first, i would like to
build the first earth ship lounge.  (earth ships are, for those who don't
know, self-sufficient and ecologically efficient living spaces made
largely from recycled materials such as old tires).  i think the decor
would be sort of duchamp meets pacific rim, with an emphasis on
ergonomics and a color scheme borrowed from the umbrellas of cherbourg.

finally, my entertainment booking.  in no particular order:
astrud gilberto (backed either by her husband and stan getz, or the band
backing her in her recording of agua de beber)

martin denny combo (doing, in addition to his standard repetoire, exotic
renditions of early seventies krautrock favorites from can, neu,
harmonia, and kraftwerk.  i would love to hear his take on future days...)

pram (quite simply the best band on the planet!)

i've only been on this list for about a week but already it has become
the highlight of my daily email reading.

best wishes and happy record hunting to all,
mark


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Jack Lord's After Shave
Date: 20 Aug 1996 21:16:36 -0600

>These all smell...well...quite....awful.  How about a shower?  A suave man
>need be nothing more than clean.



ah.. so true.  so true.


 - [e-mail]

visit...

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Who am I ?
Date: 20 Aug 1996 19:46:08 +0000

>     Jordana asked some good questions:
>
>     >1.  What is your name?
>
Jack Diamond
>
>     >2.  How old are you?
>
42 this last July
>
>     >3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?
>
Record collector, DJ at KFJC-FM, Seller of Fine and Rare Vinyl Records

"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

Bye for now,
Jack ;-)>




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From: Paul Lewis <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: a quick survey
Date: 21 Aug 1996 00:36:12 -0400 (EDT)


> 1.  What is your name?

Paul Lewis

> 2.  How old are you?

25 and counting

> 3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?

I'm a computer systems manager / network engineer

I collect records, books, comic books, super8 movie equipment, try to
write short stories, etc.


> 4.  What is your favorite album cover?

Tough question...  Here's some off the top of my head:

Martin Denny:  Primitiva
Yma Sumac:     Legend of the Jivaro (I'll second that one)
Les Baxter:    Sacre du Savage
Throbbing Gristle:  D.O.A.:  The Third Annual Report, Heathen Earth
Arthur Lyman:  Taboo: Volume II (the shrunken head, if there were 2 covers)
The Beatles:   Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (I'll second that one)
KISS:          Alive!
Jane's Addiction:  Ritual de lo Habitual and Nothing's Shocking



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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: more thrift scores
Date: 20 Aug 1996 23:19:58 -0400

I went thrifting in Lock Haven PA this past weekend.  Got some pretty good
stuff: versions of 60s/70s hits, Hawaii stuff, a Rhumba record, 101 Strings
"East of Suez," Terry Snyder "Unique Percussion" and odd bloopers and
commercials records.  Also picked up:

- "Happiness Is Singing With Marcy" - a scary puppet singing Christian kid
songs.  For some reason, I get that much more satisfaction from finding
anything in the Incredibly Strange Music books.

-"By Rocket To The Moon" by the Raymond Scott Quintet and the Gene Lowell
Chorus - a 78 children's music/story about going to the moon.  I can only
assume this is the same Raymond Scott who did the cartoon music.  I didn't
know he had a quintet.  This is really good and only has very minor
scratches which is good considering it has no cover.

-Les Classels "et Maintenant" - I can read French only passingly, so I can't
tell very much about this group from the back cover except that they're
Canadian and they do a cover of Secret Agent Man in French ("Agent de
Liasion").  The music is actually pretty good - kind of EZfied rock, but
with the guitar effects and stuff not filtered out.  This was a gamble;
bought it because I like French singing and the cover is really odd - the
disembodied heads of 5 guys all white-blond (pre-Police) with various spacey
expressions. Anyone know anything about these fellows?

-Jordana
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Pagan Festival
Date: 20 Aug 1996 23:05:54 -0600

Wow!@ I've been listening to Dominic Frontiere and His Orchestra's
"Pagan Festival: An Exotic Love Ritual For Orchestra." This one is
fantastic, folks. Imagine Les BVaxter times ten in size, playing with
Lawrence Welk and production by Webley Edwards.  Chants, grunts,
bongos, strings, harps, you name it, it's in there.

Keep an eye out for it.

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Subject: [Fwd: Need help identifying song!]
Date: 20 Aug 1996 23:07:08 -0600

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Okay, folks... every now and then I get a good melody stuck in my head. And now I need your
help in figuring out what the song was, and who did it.

Remember the Little Ceasar's Pizza ad from a few years back that had these nutty
characters (including a poodle) doing a conga line? It was a great commercial and a great
song, and I have no idea who did the piece.

I even contacted the advertising agency(I'm in advertising myself) and asked the guy who
wrote the spot, but he had no idea and no record of the song.

Okay, fellow exoticologists... does anyone know the tune? I'd be forever grateful.

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: psyche de sade
Date: 21 Aug 1996 01:01:06 -0500

Billy Strange's De Sade soundtrack is aural trippiness and grooviness
galore, at least on three tracks (Wine, Woman and Jam; Nocturnal
Permission; Bacchanalia).  Each of these begins with a woman's
hysterical laughter in an echo chamber then come the wah wah peddles,
percussion and horns into more way out hazy effects.  Anyone into
Vampyros Lesbos listen up.  The rest pales by comparison but is very
good.  Pics on back cover of Keir Dulla, John Huston, Senta Burger
and Lili Palmer in scenes depicting erotic romps, adult games and a
beheading.  1969.



kevin king
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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: more thrift scores
Date: 21 Aug 1996 02:02:41 -0400

Hi:

Les Classels were one of the biggest Quebec ye-ye groups of the
1960s, and 'et maintenant' (What Now My Love) was probably their biggest
hit.  There are
lots of compilations of this stuff currently available here in Montreal.

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

Phone: [phone]; Fax: [phone]
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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Jordana's Quiz
Date: 21 Aug 1996 01:33:57 -0500

>1.  What is your name?
kevin king
>2.  How old are you?
32
>3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?
architorture as a pitstop towards graphic design
>4.  What is your favorite album cover?
hmmm...  somewhere between Impact, Mekons' Edge Of The World, Pierre
Henry's Le Voyage, Henry Rene's Riot In Rythm (mono), Cocktails
Anyone?, Morton Gould's Temptation, Pram's Saragasso Sea, the Fall's
Nation's Saving Grace, In Sound From Way Out, Girl From U.N.C.L.E.,
Loungcore vol.1, Sound Spectrum, ok i'll shut up...



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: psyche de sade
Date: 21 Aug 1996 01:59:36 -0400

Hey Kevin,

Got the package today.  I can't wait to listen to it at work tomorrow.  Full
review then.  Thanks so much.

--David

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From: "Joerg Nijmeijer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: a quick survey
Date: 21 Aug 1996 12:28:18 +0000

On 19 Aug 96 at 1:23, jordana wrote:
> 1.  What is your name?
Joerg Richard Nijmeijer

> 2.  How old are you?
27

> 3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?
computer-nerd at a musiccompany (distribution & label)

> 4.  What is your favorite album cover?
"Hammond a gogo #2"
(German cheesy listening with an awful bodypainting on the
frontcover)

> 5.  Pretend you're the booking agent for your favorite/fantasy
> lounge/exotica-type club.  Money is no object and neither is
> life/death status of possible musicians.  How would you decorate
> your club, and more importantly, what 3 bands would you book for a
> dream night of entertainment?

decoration of the club ... Theme rooms would be fine,
and as money don't matter: lots of them. Dark ones, light ones,
some for the cocktail-posse, some for the more psychedelic,
some surreal for the really weird music-selection, a bigger one for
dancing, a small cinema ...

3 bands?
Peter Thomas accompanied by his favourite sidemen.
JJ Perrey accompanied by a lounge-compatible
show of the Jim Rose Circus.
Ken Nordine (!!!)


Do these 5 questions characterize us ? ;o)
    Joerg Nijmeijer @ Groove Attack Records
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From: Jenny <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Hai Karate
Date: 21 Aug 1996 09:55:10 -0500 (CDT)


>OK Ladies!  Our turn!!!!!  I don't have a pick-cause I never before thought
>about it...but what exoti-scents are available?

Well,
I'm coo-coo for coco(tm), but i have tried wearing this Lime-Mist Spray(tm)
that is intended for cocktails (when you run out of the real thing). I think
it's divine, friends say it puts them in the mood for a gimlet.


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From: Jonathan Perl <[e-mail]>
Subject: New York - I'm booked
Date: 21 Aug 1996 17:25:00 +0100


Hello friends,

Just wanted to ask a favour.  In five weeks I'm leaving sunny London to
inflict myself on New York for 2 weeks.  I arrive on 24th September (just in
time for Yma and CE) and leave on 7th October.  Can someone give me the
lowdown on swanky and exotic activities in NYC?  I'm talking about good
record/clothes/thrift/anything shops as well as cool clubs/nights.  I just
need to know of somewhere I'm not going to look out of place in green
velvet.

Many thanks

Jonny Perl

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: McLounge ?? ;-(
Date: 21 Aug 1996 08:47:07 +0000

>From: Basic Hip <[e-mail]>
>Subject: McLounge

>Popped into Starbucks this morning for a cup and a scone and what do I hear
>piped in over the speakers?  Esquivel, Quiet Village (Denny), Mancini and
>Combustible Edison.  There is also some Nestea commercial on TV with a man
>crawling from the depths of a volcano and quenching his thirst with a frosty
>iced tea.  Sounds like Yma Sumac doin' the vocals.
>
>Who would have thunk it?


I hate Starbucks but that's something else all together

I remember _yeaaaaaarrrssss_ ago saying to another rekkid collector friend
o' mine.  "Mick, do you think anyone else other than guys like us will ever
discover Esquivel ?  and he said,  Naaaa"

Ford, someone else told me the same story about another "cafe" down here in
the 'burbs.  The same story!!!

Wanna see ALL of Esquivels album covers ?  Then pullease peruse my web
pages at www.cygnus.com/kfjc/diamond and click on Album Covers.

Sincerely,
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: More Sitar and More Whistling
Date: 21 Aug 1996 08:52:34 +0000

Just scored a rekkid on Command that is toooooooooooooo cool!!!
It's called The Corporation and it's with Vinnie Bell on Electric Sitar and
Dick Hyman and Moe Weschler on Electric Harpsicords.
Vinnie also uses a pedal box of sorts that REALLY makes his already whacked
out guitar scream even more.

Whistling - Doesn't anyone else have Poe For Moderns on RCA ?
I'm _sure_ Cleve does but he doesn't count;)))
When I get my playlist from the last 2 weeks up I'll point out more
whistling for you all

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: PERFUME SET TO MUSIC
Date: 21 Aug 1996 12:07:47 -0400

Boy howdy(not the beer)!  I began a discussion without stating the obvious
fragrances for exoti-babes!  I *think* TOU J'MOI is still being manufactured,
but what about the other perfumes featured on that ca-lassic?  Anyone know if
they're still available-and any good?
Sorry if this is ponderous!!!!!
Lounge Laura
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From: "Heileson, Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hai EZ Rum
Date: 21 Aug 1996 08:48:00 PDT


>From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: Note-it posts
>
>Hugh Petfield wrote:
>>
>> By the way, can anyone out there recommend an exotica-compatible
>> aftershave?
>
>No question about it:  Hai Karate.

Oh, man, this brings me back! I just remembered that my Italian step-grandpa
(who is turning 80 today, as it happens) used to have this stuff in their
house when I was a kid...

>From:   Patrick Cashin
>Subject:        DEVO
>
>Well, if you LOVE Devo, the EZ CD is a must.  They cover a wide range of
>Muzak
>styles, so it's hard to compare it to anyone in particular.  As I said
>before,
>some of it is really lame, some of it slightly cool and some of it really
>swingin'.

It should be noted that, as far as I remember, the Devo EZ album is all real
lo-tech keyboard stuff, no elevator-music string arrangements (which I would
have perhaps preferred, personally).

>Mark Mothersbaugh's solo stuff was called "Muzak for Insomniacs."  I found
it
>only slightly interesting.  Have you heard his Dennyesque intro theme to
"Pee
>Wee's Playhouse"?

You can also hear his music during a cartoon called "Rugrats," on
Nickelodeon.

>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: Hai Karate
>
>Of course, you can't beat a bottle of Bay Rum...

I was unaware of this one... sounds quite tikiesque...

What I'd like to find is a bottle of cologne shaped in Hawaiian/Tiki statue
form... or maybe Easter Island. Does such a thing exist? (Probably only in
expensive vintage shops, hm.)

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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: Re[2]: Hai Karate
Date: 21 Aug 1996 10:51:06 -0400

On 20 Aug 1996, Laura Taylor wrote:

>                       RE>Hai Karate                                8/20/96
>
> OK Ladies!  Our turn!!!!!


In the 60's my mother always wore Chanel No. 5 and 4711 with her
go-go dresses and cocktail wear.  I guess through default,
these say feminine swankness to me.

anita

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From: Bryan Jare Cuevas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Survey
Date: 21 Aug 1996 10:55:08 -0400 (EDT)

> >     >1.  What is your name?

Bryan J. Cuevas

> >     >2.  How old are you?

30

> >     >3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?

PhD candidate - Indo-Tibetan Studies.

As for record covers, too many to mention....but just a few
nonetheless:

On a Magic Carpet - Three Suns
I Dig Chicks - Jonah Jones
Mellow-Dee - Lenny Dee
Music for Peace of Mind - Billy May & Samuel Hoffman
Midnight on Cloud 69 - George Shearing Quintet
The "Moods in Music" series - Melachrino Strings
Spaced Out - Enoch Light

and so on.......

b.c.

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From: Bryan Jare Cuevas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: psyche de sade
Date: 21 Aug 1996 10:58:35 -0400 (EDT)

According to [e-mail]:

> Got the package today.  I can't wait to listen to it at work tomorrow.  Full
> review then.  Thanks so much.

Please post the catalogue information....I missed it the first
time.

Thanks
b.c.

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From: Indulis R Rutks <[e-mail]>
Subject: SEGA gets Mambo Fever!
Date: 21 Aug 1996 11:43:35 -0500 (CDT)

Hi, all!

This may be pointless, but I have an exotica sighting to report. While
watching some pro-wrestling TV shows (one of my many guilty pleasures), I
have seen numerous showings of a commercial for SEGA's new "World Series
II" video game, featuring Brad Radke of the Minnesota Twins. Apparently,
Mr. Radke throws so many homerun pitches, that opposing players (and
Carmen Miranda impersonators) are able to form a conga line as they round
the bases! The background music during this part of the commercial is
"Chihuahua" by I-forget-who, but I know it's on the Ultra LOunge mambo
compilation. Chihuahua!!

-Indy Rutks ([e-mail])


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Hai Karate
Date: 21 Aug 1996 12:50:26 -0400

My mother used to wear something called "Taboo" in the 60's. I kind of liked
it. I used to really like "Ambush". I don't know if that's available anymore.
Gloria

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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Re: Cool Lounge Names
Date: 21 Aug 1996 12:53:41 EDT


----- Begin Included Message -----

Well,
I'm coo-coo for coco(tm), but i have tried wearing this Lime-Mist Spray(tm)
that is intended for cocktails (when you run out of the real thing). I think
it's divine, friends say it puts them in the mood for a gimlet.

Jen Nitro

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Geez, it seems everybody on this list has a cool lounge name now.

There is Vik Trola, Lounge Laura, Br. Cleve, Mingo-go, and now Jen Nitro!


Considering an alias,
    Patrick


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From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Devo
Date: 21 Aug 1996 17:00:54 UT

This will be my last posting re Devo, I promise!  The soundtrack to "Four
Rooms" featuring Combustible Edison was produced by Mark Mothersbaugh and
engineered by Robert Casale (Bob #2) of Devo.  The album also includes 2
previously released tracks by Esquivel and the theme from "Bewitched."

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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: New Name
Date: 21 Aug 1996 13:38:56 EDT



NEW NAME SUGGESTIONS FOR ME FROM LOUNGE LAURA:

----- Begin Included Message -----

"Ping  Pong Patrick"
"Persuasive Patrick"
"Patrick Gunn"

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Any thoughts? Any other suggestions? How about a

"Name the Uncreative Guy on the Exotica List" contest

on Vik's Website? For a prize I could give away something

utterly pedestrian, like a copy of "Whipped Cream..." by Herb Alpert.


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From: Jenny <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: New Name
Date: 21 Aug 1996 13:04:22 -0500 (CDT)

"Space-Age Bachelor Pat" ??


>NEW NAME SUGGESTIONS FOR ME FROM LOUNGE LAURA:
>
>----- Begin Included Message -----
>
>"Ping  Pong Patrick"
>"Persuasive Patrick"
>"Patrick Gunn"
>
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>
>
>Any thoughts? Any other suggestions? How about a
>
>"Name the Uncreative Guy on the Exotica List" contest
>
>on Vik's Website? For a prize I could give away something
>
>utterly pedestrian, like a copy of "Whipped Cream..." by Herb Alpert.
>
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From: " /  dave  /  "  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: More Sitar and Perfumery
Date: 21 Aug 1996 13:44:35 -0500 (CDT)

Jack wrote:
> Just scored a rekkid on Command that is toooooooooooooo cool!!!
> It's called The Corporation and it's with Vinnie Bell on Electric Sitar and
> Dick Hyman and Moe Weschler on Electric Harpsicords.

I have a copy of this - if I remember correctly, there's a swell version of
"Sabato Sera" or something. People who dig that wacked-out, frenetic thing
should hunt this one down.

> Whistling - Doesn't anyone else have Poe For Moderns on RCA ?
> I'm _sure_ Cleve does but he doesn't count;)))

This is a record I really like - just about every track is worth the price of
admission. Buddy Morrow (Impact, Double Impact, Night Train, Big Band Guitar...)
always seems to give his stuff this incredible "swagger" & punch. There are a
handful of tracks featuring spoken versions of Poe classics with swinging
accompaniment, one or two with a small chorus, and others that are strictly
instrumental but intended to convey something of the creepy, anxious feeling of
the Poe stories they're named for - and they do, in spades!

Now, I'm not one to go on and on about perfumes, cologne, etc. (LIE), but I will
say that the nose can (and should) play an important role in the world of the
exotic. Sometimes we burn incense at the Polar Bear Club to give it that
extra-special "something"... a recent favorite has been a scent called "Black
Love" (made by a local company) which is a bit iffy from a conceptual
standpoint, but nonetheless does wonders for the nose and the libido.

Regarding cologne (and on a more personal note), I happened upon a particular
scent YEARS ago, and it's been nothing short of amazing since then - a stranger
at the bus stop accosting me and telling me her girlfriend in Paris used to wear
it, shop clerks handing me my change & demanding to know where they can get it,
and an ex who makes an excuse to use the bathroom - come over, even -  so she
can empty the bottle all over her clothes. But guess what - I'm not telling!
Well, OK... it's made by a well-known and age-old Paris company (natch), it
starts with "V", & it made its first appearance in the SWINGING 60s - but that's
ALL!

(And I'm the only one on my block who digs scent strips, too.)

dave

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From: " /  dave  /  "  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: psyche de sade
Date: 21 Aug 1996 13:46:19 -0500 (CDT)

kevin king writes:
> Billy Strange's De Sade soundtrack is aural trippiness and grooviness
> galore, at least on three tracks (Wine, Woman and Jam; Nocturnal
> Permission; Bacchanalia).

Yes! While the LP may not be consistently rewarding (at least by the usual
criteria on this list), the tracks above are tres swell & make the LP well worth
looking for. That woman's voice with the crazy reverb thing happening...

dave

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Sounds Good, Smells Good
Date: 21 Aug 1996 15:21:50 -0400

     Jordana got:

     <- -"By Rocket To The Moon" by the Raymond Scott Quintet and the Gene
     Lowell Chorus - a 78 children's music/story about going to the moon.
     I can only assume this is the same Raymond Scott who did the cartoon
     music.  I didn't know he had a quintet.  This is really good and only
     has very minor scratches which is good considering it has no cover.>

      And I say:

     The cover is neat...It's a picture of a rocket, flying to the moon! I
     had this 78 when I was a kid and just recently picked it up again.
     Also found another `lost treasure' from my youth... get ready...
     `Songs of the Civil War, sung by The Mormon Tabernacle Choir'. I had
     been looking for that for *years* and found it at the flea, still
     sealed, for a quarter!. Now here's the sick part: the Civil War album
     was purchased many moons ago by my sister just before Thanksgiving and
     the image of the family at the table (ca. 1960?) eating T-giving
     dinner off those plates with the blue-tinted scenes of colonial life
     on them (what are they called? I know there's a name for them) and
     listening to that record is indelibly etched in my mind. So, I'm going
     to wait until Thanksgiving to listen to it. Is this really weird? Or
     would I make a good self-denying pigrim? Does anyone else out there
     delay these small pleasures until just the right moment?

     Oh yeah....what smells good on a woman? Coppertone suntan lotion.
     Especially in the winter.

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From: Irwin Chusid <[e-mail]>
Subject: Soothing Sounds for Baby
Date: 21 Aug 1996 15:32:12 -0400 (EDT)



The exact title of Raymond Scott's series was SOOTHING SOUNDS FOR BABY,
and it was recorded on Scott's home-built polyphonic sequencers in 1962.
He did not use the Electronium or (as far as I know) the Karloff. As for
the "Scottonium" - this is new to me. Where have you discovered references
to such an instrument? Never heard of it.

Basta Records is Holland plans to release all 3 volumes of SOOTHING SOUNDS
FOR BABY sometime in the next 6 months. I'm supposed to write liner notes,
as soon as the project is officially green-lighted. Hopefully it will be
available as a not-too-expensive import.

/irwin chusid

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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Re: Soothing Sounds for Baby
Date: 21 Aug 1996 15:49:39 EDT


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Basta Records is Holland plans to release all 3 volumes of SOOTHING SOUNDS
FOR BABY sometime in the next 6 months. I'm supposed to write liner notes,
as soon as the project is officially green-lighted. Hopefully it will be
available as a not-too-expensive import.

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Good news for a change! This sounded really interesting.

Anyone know of any other Scott reissues coming out?



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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Devo
Date: 21 Aug 1996 16:58:32 -0500

> This will be my last posting re Devo, I promise!  The soundtrack to "Four
> Rooms" featuring Combustible Edison was produced by Mark
> Mothersbaugh

Didn't Mothersbaugh also write the theme to Liquid Television?  Seems
to me his name has popped up in more than a few tv show credits.


kevin king
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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: loungey commercials
Date: 21 Aug 1996 16:18:03 -0400

>From: Basic Hip <[e-mail]>
>Popped into Starbucks this morning for a cup and a scone and what do I hear
>piped in over the speakers?  Esquivel, Quiet Village (Denny), Mancini and
>Combustible Edison.  There is also some Nestea commercial on TV with a man
>crawling from the depths of a volcano and quenching his thirst with a frosty
>iced tea.  Sounds like Yma Sumac doin' the vocals.

I've seen quite a few adverts with good loungey stuff in the background:
Fruitopia; a PSA telling kids to learn math or else they'll wind up flipping
burgers (Muzaky "Girl Watchers Theme" in this one), and my favorite, the
Baked Lays potato chips with Miss Piggy humming "Girl From Ipanema."

>From: [e-mail]

>>     >5..  How would you decorate your club,
>Several themes and many levels:
>  1) Dim grotto area with recessed colored lights & waterfall. Cross small
>bridge to get to bar area.  Think Club Zodiac from "Bell, Book, and
>Candle"...

What is "Bell Book and Candle"?  A movie?

-Jordana
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: More Whistling
Date: 21 Aug 1996 14:51:02 +0000

Hello again ;)

More whistling can be found on Vinnie Bell's Whistle Stop lp on Verve.

There are 2 numbers where there is whistling and it is Que-ell

jaaaaaack



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From: [e-mail] (James Cimarusti)
Subject: Re: Jordana's Quiz
Date: 21 Aug 1996 14:22:35 -0800


>>     >1.  What is your name?
James Cimarusti
>>     >2.  How old are you?
31
>>     >3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?
Student, future librarian (art history major), rare record collector
>>     >4.  What is your favorite album cover?
"More Music From Peter Gunn" Henry Mancini
>>     >5..  How would you decorate your club,
Tiki with a little mambo and cocktail/jazz room on the side.
>>     > Pretend you're the booking agent...
Martin Denny, Henry Mancini, Perez Prado, Cal Tjader, George Shearing,
Billy May, Nelson Riddle, Dave Brubeck, Laurindo Almeida, Wes Montgomery,
Paul Desmond(with  Jim Hall/Dave Brubeck),Shorty Rogers, Shelly Manne, Nat
"King" Cole Trio, John Buzon Trio, Julie London etc., etc,.

Been lurking on this list for quite a while-Thanks to Jordana for the quiz
to bring me out of the shadows and into the sunlight!

James

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Re: Soothing Sounds for Baby
Date: 21 Aug 1996 15:31:08 +0000

I had volumes 1 & 3, sold them both.  Talk about boring.

I guess interesting for someone.  Literally to make a baby fall asleep.

Different soothing sounds for different age groups.

I guess maybe if you dig electronic stuff in a _very mellow_ way.

Just my opinions, no big deal ;-)>

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: MY FAVORITE WHISTLER...
Date: 21 Aug 1996 18:25:14 -0400

is on Dick Hyman's ELECTRIC ECLECTICS OF DICK HYMAN...but the song title
escapes me as it is at home and I am at work...The whole album is incredible
anyway, if you like strange MOOG Records on Command...and-hey-who
doesn't!?!?!
Whistling while I lounge,
Laura
"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."


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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Bell, Book and Candle
Date: 21 Aug 1996 15:40:56 +0000

>What is "Bell Book and Candle"?  A movie?
>
>- -Jordana

Yes Mssss. Jordana.  It is a very que-ell film with Jack Lemmon, Ernie
Kovaks, Jimmy Stewart, Elsa Lancaster, Pyewacket (sp ?) and this
gor-geeee-ous woman whose name slips my mind.

It's about witches and que-ell stuff like that there.  The soundtrack score
is _very rare_ and I have a beat copy BUT it plays pretty good AND in fact
played a title called "Send Me Nicky" on my show last Sunday!!!

Beatnik jazz all the way!!!

Coincidence ???  Jack Lemmon plays some really crazy bongos on that record
and film and he really does play.
He was quite the beatnik in those days ;-)>
The jazz music sequences are by Pete and Conte Candoli who btw both were
major west coast studio/jazz trumpet players who graced the orchestras and
records of Pete Rugolo, Henry Mancini and Esquivel just to drop a few names

Those guys are THE coooooolest.
Thanx for bringin' it up girl ;))

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Enoch Light Birthday Party Report (LONG)
Date: 21 Aug 1996 18:39:45 -0400

Hello, Exotica folk:

Saturday night was the big Enoch Light memorial Birthday-a-Go-Go Dance Party
in Canton, which went over pretty nicely.

Definitely a highlight: Light's grandson Lem (from Minneapolis), Light's
sister's grandson Bob (from Canton), and his brother's granddaughter Pam
(from Israel!- serendipitously in the area visiting her mom in Columbus) all
made it to Canton for the event.  Everything I've been told about Light's
demeanor was how kind and friendly he was -- it must be genetic, as everyone
was far above average on the friendly scale. Perhaps it's a case of Enoch
Light friendliness osmosis, as I gather from Robbie at the Spaced Out site
that Tony Mottola and Dick Hyman are also wonderful folks. Lem is a great
guy, who seems to make everyone feel at ease just hanging around him. Lem and
Pam were particularly FUN to be around. I regret that, making sure the
records kept spinning and everything was under control, I didn't have more
time to speak with them and hear them share more memories about Light.

The place had no air conditioning, and was REALLY hot (and I was sweating
like a pig!) and a few decoration ideas got simplified for expense/logistical
reasons, but I think the space LOOKED great...sound-response laser light box
that threw colored squares everywhere; periodic soap bubbles; Busby Berkely
dance numbers, big band footage, 60s films, and taped psychedelic SGI screen
saver footage on a projection TV; and 100 slides projecting 60 different EL &
related album covers, labels, and details.  A photographer friend got me
access to a perfectly-lit copy stand, and the slides we took couldn't look
better.  All the music played was Enoch Light's mid-60s dance stuff: the
"Discotheque" sound circa 1965-67, as well as some punchy representatives
from the immediately-following "Now Sound" era.

A few things had put a damper on the event for me (I guess it's a somewhat
universal phenomenon that when things don't go as you planned/intended, you
feel somewhat disappointed): Ms. Provocative was Ms. Problematic, and after
knowing about it for two months waited until two days before to tell me she
would come but "wasn't comfortable" about being an "Enoch Light dancer." One
of my friends confirmed my suspicions that she wasn't THAT shy and was being
particularly difficult...actually, "loser" was the term he used. Without Ms.
Provocative to stir up the dance atmosphere (okay, you can't pin it ALL on
her), there wasn't a whole lot of dancing going on...except for Lem, Pam, me
and a few of my friends after midnight, there wasn't ANY.  After the midnight
"Happy Birthday" singing and cupcakes and presents, I brought out all the big
guns to no dancing avail: Discotheque Vol.1 side 1, the slides on rapid
cycle, and by no means least, _Wild World of the Batwoman_ (NOT with any DC
Comics characters, but a C-movie made to cash in on Batmania in 1966) at the
scene where Batwoman's armed Batgirl minions, trying to protect the secret
atomic bomb/hearing aid device from being stolen by the evil Dr. Neon, are
slipped Neon's dance drug in their hors d'oeurves and break into a
rifle-toting go-go dance frenzy, one of several such gratuitous dance scenes
in the film. (NOTE: copies of this Rhino Home Video goodie are currently in
Best Buy bargain video bins for $4 or so; if you don't own this, find a Best
Buy store NOW!!)  No response after all that proved the crowd was DEAD!!!

So the dance contest bombed, and as she was leaving, I gave *Pam* the Miss
America-type "Ms. Persuasive '96" ribbon/banner and "crown."

Publicity was also kind of a let-down. Despite some valliant attempts to stir
interest in the local press, my press kits went essentially ignored and it
didn't even get listed in most local events calendars (although the main
Canton paper apparently ran a couple-paragraph spot on the event; haven't
seen it yet).  I gave Lem a spare press kit and some extra flyers wrapped in
Happy Birthday wrapping paper (what's a birthday party without presents!),
and my co-organizer friends got Command LPs (one: Hyman's MOOG and Let's
Dance the Bossa Nova; the other: Discotheque and Provocative Percussion) and
while it didn't make her any more cooperative, Ms. Problematic walked away
with the Persuasive Percussion CD I bought to thank her for all the go-go
dancing she was supposed to do.

One writer for a major Cleveland-based regional entertainment weekly ("Scene
Magazine") lives in Canton, and thought the event was quite cool.  He
actually just wandered into the bar by chance and never knew about the press
kit I sent to the periodical.  There were a lot of people there, but many
seemed like they were simply the usual Saturday evening bar crowd. Another
guy and his wife heard us on Akron's "Zombo's Mondo Record Party" last
Sunday, where we played this stuff and pluged the event -- they owned a copy
of EL's _Discotheque_ LP they found a couple years back and were really
enthralled and interested with the whole event.  I spent quite a while
chatting with them. A few other people made a point to mention that they
thought it was all pretty neat.

Enoch Light may not be a household name around here anymore, and the P...
Percussion CDs are REALLY hard to find in this area, but he does have enough
of a "cult" following that I'm sure there were other people, most likely in
Cleveland, who would have been pretty interested had they known about it.

Discussing this music with the guy who owned the _Discotheque_ LP, I
mentioned that the nearest I could pigeonhole the style of the pre-NOW
"Discotheque" sound, was a mutant big band/rock style somewhere near ska and
Hefti's Batman music. He mentioned there was a 7" he had, on 2-Tone I think,
produced by one of the guys from The Specials called "Montovani" by The
Swingin' Cats that had this Enoch Light Discotheque sound down to a T, which
I found REALLY fascinating. He took down my address and offered to send me a
tape of it.

It was neat to see the three cousins simply enjoying the chance to meet and
catch up, and they seemed to be genuinely enjoying themselves. When I sent an
initial message to Dick Hyman letting him know what we were up to and he put
in touch with the Light family, I was not expecting much, and I certainly
wasn't expecting relatives from Minnesota and *Israel* to be dropping in. I
basically went into this with the attitude that, if it was merely a handful
of friends and I having a good time with an off-the-wall local event that
memorialized this man and his music, fine; and if we got a good turnout, etc.
all the better. The music and the LP art is just plain FUN. But to actually
hang out with Enoch's grandson et al., have them be so darn nice, and see
them truly enjoying themselves, THAT was a real honor that made it truly
memorable and satisfying.

If Vik Trola or the Spaced Out site are up for it, I'd like to assemble an
annotated photo scrapbook Web page of the event after the photos get back
from the developers/other partygoers.  Keep your eyes and Web browsers open!

Whew,
Michael Toth
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From: [e-mail] (James Cimarusti)
Subject: Re: SEGA gets Mambo Fever!
Date: 21 Aug 1996 14:45:36 -0800

>Hi, all!
>
>This may be pointless, but I have an exotica sighting to report. While
>watching some pro-wrestling TV shows (one of my many guilty pleasures), I
>have seen numerous showings of a commercial for SEGA's new "World Series
>II" video game, featuring Brad Radke of the Minnesota Twins. Apparently,
>Mr. Radke throws so many homerun pitches, that opposing players (and
>Carmen Miranda impersonators) are able to form a conga line as they round
>the bases! The background music during this part of the commercial is
>"Chihuahua" by I-forget-who, but I know it's on the Ultra LOunge mambo
>compilation. Chihuahua!!
>
>-Indy Rutks ([e-mail])

Someone at SEGA has been watching too much Bugs Bunny. The bases/conga bit
come from the cartoon "Baseball Bugs" (I believe) where Bugs Bunny takes on
the Gashouse Gorillas single handed in a baseball game.

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From: John Chilson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: MY FAVORITE WHISTLER...
Date: 21 Aug 1996 15:58:55 -0700 (PDT)

I remember when I was a young kid I had a single called "Only When I
Larf" which was whistled (supposedly also a movie?!). Anyone knwo about
this? john

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From: Rohn Matthies <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Bell, Book and Candle
Date: 21 Aug 1996 16:09:45 +0000

Gadzooks! How can Kim Novak slip anyone's mind. I mean, that bottled in
blonde bombshell has been stuck firmly in my brain since if first saw
Bell Book & Candle.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Bell, Book, & Candle
Date: 21 Aug 1996 19:43:24 -0400

Hi again. Jordana asked:
>What is "Bell Book and Candle"?  A movie?
Yes, a "must see".  Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, James Stewart, Ernie Kovaks...set
in NYC. Novak plays a witch who falls in love with a mortal (Stewart).  The
witch & warlock hangout is called the Zodiac Club or vice versa and it's
sooooo beatnik and co-ol
BB&C is really the movie "Bewitched" is based on.
Rent it now!

Lisa


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Subject: Exoticommercial...need help identifying!
Date: 21 Aug 1996 18:25:52 -0600

Here's a commercial I've been trying to identify the music for for over
two years now. A couple of years ago Little Ceasar's Pizza ran a wacked
out featuring a conga line that even had a poodle in it. I had a great
conga number in the playing. I've even called their ad agency, and they
had no idea what the song was. Any guesses?

[e-mail]

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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Jordana's questions
Date: 21 Aug 1996 19:38:23 -0700

Well, everyone else is piping in . . .

>1.  What is your name?Brad Bigelow

>2.  How old are you?38

>3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?Air Force officer (a real oddball in this crowd)/father-lawn mower-record
collector (in order of time invested)

>4.  What is your favorite album cover?Duane Tatro's "Jazz for Moderns"
Bill Evans/Jim Hall, "Undercurrents"
Duke Ellington, "At the Bal Masque"
Any of the United Artists "Wall-to-Wall Stereo" series

>5..  How would you decorate your club,Well, some of the best places I've heard music were dark bars frequented
by a set of regulars who looked suspiciously at any outsiders who
happened to wander in.  Whatever decor there was had been there so long
no one took it for decor any more.  There was usually a 50-ish waitress
in a beehive and a sleeveless blouse who referred to you as "Hun."
You could have beer or something brown and stiff in a dirty highball
glass. The lounge was in the back, with dark panelling, acoustic tiles,
and an old lady at the door with a cigar box taking the cover charge in
cash.

... so something like that, I guess.

>>     > Pretend you're the booking agent...

I'd have to decide between two shows.  One, a Las Vegas billing with
Robert Maxwell and his harp/light show as the opener, Esquivel as the
main act, and Louis Prima/Keeley Smith/Sam Butera and the Witnesses as
the late show.  The other a straight jazz set:  the Jimmy Giuffre 3, the
Curtis Counce Quintet, and the Gerry Mulligan Quartet (the 62 edition
with Bob Brookmeyer and Bill Crow).

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: New Name -- Let the game begin!
Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:49:51 -0500

>Any thoughts? Any other suggestions? How about a
>
>"Name the Uncreative Guy on the Exotica List" contest
>
>on Vik's Website? For a prize I could give away something
>
>utterly pedestrian, like a copy of "Whipped Cream..." by Herb Alpert.


ooooo....i like it...and so it shall be done!!! found a suitable prize, so
head on over to the Casino Biscotti
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/casino.html) and let the riot begin!!!


in swank,
Vik


Vik Trola's Lounge Of Self Indulgence
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Cool Lounge Names
Date: 21 Aug 1996 21:49:47 -0500

>Geez, it seems everybody on this list has a cool lounge name now.
>
>There is Vik Trola, Lounge Laura, Br. Cleve, Mingo-go, and now Jen Nitro!
>

actually. i use my nickname (frank davis) in the real world because i still
suffer the childhood psychic scars of growing up with a name like Vik
Trola.



in swank,
Vik


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From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: McLounge
Date: 21 Aug 1996 22:51:22 -0400

At 04:53 PM 20/08/1996 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello....
>
>Popped into Starbucks this morning for a cup and a scone and what do I hear
>piped in over the speakers?  Esquivel, Quiet Village (Denny), Mancini and
>Combustible Edison.  There is also some Nestea commercial on TV with a man
>crawling from the depths of a volcano and quenching his thirst with a frosty
>iced tea.  Sounds like Yma Sumac doin' the vocals.
>
>Who would have thunk it?


Actually, the Second Cup next door to where I work (near University & Dundas
in Toronto) plays a whole lotta lounge, so there you go...  They
particularly seem to like the 2nd Rhino Cocktail CD...





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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Hai EZ Rum tiki, J. Lord's 5-0
Date: 22 Aug 1996 00:12:36 -0400

>>Subject: Hai Karate

Dunno about the fragrance, but I bet Jack Lord's fave cover of HI-5-0 would
be Henry Mancini's -- the disco, the surf, the Mancini. (On "The Cop Show
Themes.")

>>Of course, you can't beat a bottle of Bay Rum...
>What I'd like to find is a bottle of cologne shaped in Hawaiian/Tiki statue
>form... or maybe Easter Island. Does such a thing exist? (Probably only in
>expensive vintage shops, hm.)

Uncanny - have my eye on a Jim Beam (okay, not rum) bottle that is in the
HI'n tiki shape -- at first thought it was just a large tiki. Commemorates a
1974 golf tournament in HI. Gotta beat the seller way down from $40 (his
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: More Sitar and More Whistling
Date: 22 Aug 1996 00:48:03 -0400

[e-mail] (Jack Diamond) wrote:

>Just scored a rekkid on Command that is toooooooooooooo cool!!!
>It's called The Corporation and it's with Vinnie Bell on Electric Sitar and
>Dick Hyman and Moe Weschler on Electric Harpsicords.
>Vinnie also uses a pedal box of sorts that REALLY makes his already whacked
>out guitar scream even more.

Yes... "THE CORPORATION: A Sound Musical Investment" --this is quite a nifty
album. "Lonesome Road," "Lonely Rider," and "ya ta TA-ya ta TA (ya-ta
TA-TA-TA)" are all personal favorites. There are some pretty wild things
lurking among those late 60s Command/Project 3 releases, and a lot of it
truly ROCKS in a really twisted sort of way.

But the question that plagues me with so much of this stuff: who originally
BOUGHT this record and what compelled them to spend money on it?! Boy if
these used records could tell stories...

Michael Toth
[e-mail]

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Turnabout LPs: Mimaroglu, Carlos, Cage
Date: 22 Aug 1996 00:48:10 -0400


The only Turnabout LP I've ever bought is the _Electronic Music_ LP with
"Visage" by Berio, "Fontana Mix" by Cage, and "Agony" by Mimaroglu. The Cage
and Mimaroglu pieces still do NOTHING for me (but I haven't given up hope on
'em!), but boy that "Visage" with "the voice of Cathy Berberian!" Yow, that
thing's mega-bizarro -- for everyone looking for the unearthly missing link
between Baxter/Sheva's THE PASSIONS and the BBC DOCTOR WHO SOUND EFFECTS
record, *look no further*. All those bleeps and bloops and hums and that
woman giggling, crying, moaning, grunting, snorting, and uttering total
gibberish for twenty-one minutes and four seconds...you just don't find THAT
at your local Musicland/Sam Goody...

Michael Toth
[e-mail]

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From: Paul Lewis <[e-mail]>
Subject: Trip to Marion's
Date: 22 Aug 1996 01:03:12 -0400 (EDT)


On Saturday, Jen and I travelled from Philadelphia to NYC for some
shopping action and a stop at Marion's for dinner (a recent topic here on
the exotica mailing list).

I was happy to find that they still had the Kahiki theme going (I am
pretty sure that it is only through the end of August).  Lots of colored
lights, bamboo and lanterns hanging from the ceiling.  The atmosphere was
very pleasant and the waitress we had was very accomodating.  When she
asked what I wished to have, I told her that I wished to have a Japanese
woman.  Not any Japanese woman, I demanded a VIRGIN Japanese woman!  She
was able to accomodate my request.  I even kissed her at the table!

(for those who have not been to Marion's:  they serve drinks in ceramic
pineapples and a very special porceline glass in the shape of a Japanese
woman.  When you drink from it, it looks like you are kissing her.  I
asked for a virgin Pina Colada (only $3.80, not the six bucks for the
alcoholic kind) and it was very tasty and smooth.... thanks Ty!)

Jen had the Vegetable Dumplings (can't remember the actual name) which
consisted of soft spinach noodles with a vegetable filling in an onion
broth (this is normally an appetizer).  She enjoyed that a lot.

I had the pu pu platter which consisted of three short ribs, three pieces
of chicken (both ribs and chicken in a very tasty bar-b-q sauce yummy!),
three pieces of shrimp, and three dumplings with a filling similar to an
egg roll.  I switched the shrimp for three additional dumplings.  It is
probably an appetizer for two, but I ate it for a meal and I was
satisfied.  I believe it was about nine dollars for the platter.  Nothing
like a dinner that comes to you in flames.

The only dissapointment was the music being played as we arrived.  It was
a mixture of sixties rock / old pop, etc.  Not what I expected... BUT
around 9:00 or so, the Martin Denny / Les Baxter / Yma Sumac and some
others kicked in and I was quite pleased...

A very enjoyable night.  A must for exotica list members finding
themselves in NYC and needing a place to relax...  very polite employees
and the clientel is not the typical snobby NYC crowd...

ENJOY!

pablito


Paul Lewis                                      [e-mail]
Coordinator of Academic Computing               [phone] [office]
Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Marcy, R. Scott & Dotty Collins
Date: 22 Aug 1996 00:56:25 -0400

>- "Happiness Is Singing With Marcy" - a scary puppet singing Christian kid
>songs.  For some reason, I get that much more satisfaction from finding
>anything in the Incredibly Strange Music books.

Marcy's in one of the books! Boy am I jealous -- still have no Marcy, except
on loan.

>-"By Rocket To The Moon" by the Raymond Scott Quintet and the Gene Lowell
>Chorus - a 78 children's music/story about going to the moon.

The Quintet had six, as no doubt others will point out. Video on "The Best
of WFMU." Scott's wife Dorothy Collins sings [Science] "Experiment Songs," a
school-kids LP about the moon, gas, magnets, gravity, and stuff. If the
science teacher from "The Wonder Years" seems hauntingly familiar, so will
this record. Love it but happy to part with it.

TW


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From: Paul Lewis <[e-mail]>
Subject: Baxter and "Black Sunday"?
Date: 22 Aug 1996 01:36:34 -0400 (EDT)


Can anyone fill me in on the score that Les did for an old horror movie
called "Black Sunday"?  I read somewhere that it was released on CD a few
years back but is now out of print.  Any info?

thanks....  pablito


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From: [e-mail] (David Schafer)
Subject: Re: a quick survey
Date: 21 Aug 1996 22:58:31 -0700 (PDT)


>1.  What is your name?
David Schafer < [e-mail] >

>2.  How old are you?
41 -- I glad to finally see some other 40somethings out there

>3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?
I'm a visual artist, I teach at Otis College in LA, also a record collector
of all the genres on the listing, lately moog and elec. sitar _all the
time_!

>4.  What is your favorite album cover?
How does one seperate between the content of the music and the cover? I
decided to choose the ones where I like both, the record and the cover.
here goes...

        Neal Hefti/In Gotham
        Richard Hayman/The Electric People
        Yma Sumac/Mambo
        Enoch Light/Future Sound Shock
        Walter Wanderly/Organized

>5.  Pretend you're the booking agent for your favorite/fantasy
>lounge/exotica-type club.  Money is no object and neither is life/death
>status of possible musicians.  How would you decorate your club, and more
>importantly, what 3 bands would you book for a dream night of entertainment?

Here is one image for now:
It would be on the top of a tall building in a vital metropolis with a slow
rotating 360 degree panaramic view. Built-in style over-sized 60's Italian
style seating with bright colors and white plastic. The floor could be
polished black linolium with wild early-moderist rugs, giant over stuffed
floor pillows for _really_ lounging in sunken areas for private
conversations and making out. Spiral staircases and satelite Bars all over
on wheels, ok, the look is imitation Bond. The lighting would be very
flexible, though lots of colors and subdued washes. There would be a room
in all mirrors and 3" thick purple shag carpeting with low lighting and
appropriate retro-movies being projected, I'll stop here. The
bands/music--any three of the above mentioned would do just fine except I
would like to add Dick Hyman doing his Eclectic Electrics LP and Esquivel
creating some Stereo Action sort of thing, oh yeah, Lord Sitar and Claudine
Longet would make an appearance with Esquivel.

BTW-anyone know what happened to Exoticon 96 in LA???

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: More Sitar and More Whistling
Date: 22 Aug 1996 02:08:02 -0400

POE FOR MODERNS by Buddy Morrow, best whistling theme "Murder at the Rue
Morgue" (composer, Bernie Green).  The deadpan beat recitations of Poe with
jazz backing are cool, but the vocal harmony rendition of "The Raven" is
utterly demented.

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Ooooooooohhh yeeeeaaaahhhhhh
Date: 21 Aug 1996 23:30:26 +0000

>Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:09:45 +0000
>Subject: Re: Bell, Book and Candle
>
>Gadzooks! How can Kim Novak slip anyone's mind.

Oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man!!!  Oh god strike me dead

jack ;-)>



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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Exoticommercial
Date: 21 Aug 1996 23:38:51 +0000

>From: [e-mail]
>Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 18:25:52 -0600
>Subject: Exoticommercial...need help identifying!

A couple of years ago Little Ceasar's Pizza ran a wacked
>out featuring a conga line that even had a poodle in it.
It had a great conga number in the playing.

Any guesses?

Dansero by Richard Hayman was a huge pop latin thing but I don't really
know if that's it.
I _think_ I do remember what you're talking about BUT I'd have to hear it.

The thing is is that someone did have to get permission to play the tune
unless it was different enough from "the original" to not induce a lawsuit.

I'm not real clear on the subject of "Public Domain" either as far as being
able to use something without someones permission.

Let's _here_ about it!!!  Does anyone know what that story is ?

Do you know if this tune was an actual "tune" ?  What did it sound like ?
Can you describe it ?

Bye for now,
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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: the lost episode of les baxter
Date: 22 Aug 1996 01:38:18 -0500 (CDT)


hello all,

everyone on this list probably already knows about this record, but i
just picked it up yesterday and highly recommend it.  the record (no cd
release) contains 6 tracks from a tv special baxter did in (i guess) the
early 1960s.  the featured vocalist is beverly ford (lover is especially
nice thanks to her), the sound is good considering it was mastered from a
mono vidoetape, and a real treat is baxter's spoken sections between the
tracks.  i haven't really heard the classic baxter albums; i mostly know
him thru martin denny, yma sumac, and a few odd tracks (from "wild stereo
drums" for instance).  however, i was quite pleased by this disc.  has
this label (dionysus records) released any other exotica-relevent material?

take care,
mark

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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: enoch light and persuasive percusion
Date: 22 Aug 1996 01:46:48 -0500 (CDT)


hello,

i've noticed that all the persuasive & provocative percussion albums
after the first list enoch light as the "founder" of the series.  while
it is true that he is fully credited on the persuasive percussion albums
from number two on, and all the provocative percussion albums, i can't
find his name anywhere in the credits of the first persuasive percussion
album.  familiar names such as dick hyman, tony mottola, and lew davies
are all there, but no light.  was he working behind the scenes, or is
this some historical revisionism on the part of command?  IMO, the first
persuasive percussion is the best; it has a lighter feel than the others,
and indulges less in the big band antics that light preferred at that
time, causing me to suspect that light was indeed not involved. does
anyone have any light to shed on this subject?

enoch light fans take note: i do like him quite alot, esp. his mid to
late 60s output (the bacharach material on spaced out is unimpeachable)
but his early 60s brassy sassy sound doesn't do much for me...

have one on the house,


mk

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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: claudine longet and andy williams
Date: 22 Aug 1996 02:01:36 -0500 (CDT)


hello again,

claudine and andy... two of my favorites.  whatever happened to their
love?  it used to be so good...

i love the first 3 claudine albums, and quite a lot of 60s andy williams,
and just the other day found a "williams family" album featuring claudine
"williams," andy, and several brothers in collaborative mode; much like
the jackson family's album after thriller, you can easily guess which
family member attracts the most attention, despite the allegedly
democratic organization...  all of this aside, can anyone tell me the
exact history of andy and claudine's ill-fated romance?  and is claudine
still performing?

i have the pleasure of living 30 miles from the moon river theatre in
branson (my wife's college choir got to sing with andy on his 1994 pbs
christmas special) but i suppose my hope of an andy/claudine reunion concert
is unrealistic?

BTW, andy's in fine voice these days, sounding at times like brendan
perry of dead can dance.  the only problem is, he can't lower his right arm.


and while i'm in the middle of a rambling post, isn't it a shame that one
has to buy a cd of otherwise previously released material just to get the
delicious audrey hepburn version of moon river from breakfast at tiffany's?

"re-issue! re-package! re-package!
re-evaluate the songs
double-pack with a photograph
extra track (and a tacky badge)"




wth lv,
mk

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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Ooooooooohhh yeeeeaaaahhhhhh
Date: 22 Aug 1996 02:03:26 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Jack Diamond wrote:

> From: Rohn Matthies <[e-mail]>
> >Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:09:45 +0000
> >Subject: Re: Bell, Book and Candle
> >
> >Gadzooks! How can Kim Novak slip anyone's mind.
>
> Oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man oh man!!!  Oh god strike me dead
>
> jack ;-)>

maybe she temporarily assumed a new identity.  it fooled jimmy stewart...

mk

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From: "D.J. Johnson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: the lost episode of les baxter
Date: 22 Aug 1996 01:32:23 -0700 (PDT)



On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, mark&sarah wrote:


> hello all,
>
> everyone on this list probably already knows about this record, but i
> just picked it up yesterday and highly recommend it.  the record (no cd
> release) contains 6 tracks from a tv special baxter did in (i guess) the

Hiya Mark.  Actually, I've reviewed a CD copy of The Lost Episodes a
month or two back, so I'm pretty sure they're available.  Not that I'd
rather have CD, but, you know...that's what they sent.

Deej


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: the lost episode of les baxter
Date: 22 Aug 1996 09:12:37 -0400

Mark,

In fact, the Les Baxter "Lost Episode" is currently available on CD from
Dionysis Records.  Get it!

Even better is the 2-CD compilation, "The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter" on
Capitol.  It is marvelous.

Ben
Washington, DC

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Subject: Re: More Sitar and More Whistling
Date: 22 Aug 1996 06:48:24 -0800

IN>POE FOR MODERNS by Buddy Morrow, best whistling theme "Murder at the Rue
IN>Morgue" (composer, Bernie Green).  The deadpan beat recitations of Poe with
IN>jazz backing are cool, but the vocal harmony rendition of "The Raven" is
IN>utterly demented.

Actually I think "The Bells" is by far more goofy though probably not
"better"!

Kevin _M._ King
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: a quick survey
Date: 22 Aug 1996 10:55:11 -0400

[Answered off-list before, but since the dance floor is filling...]

>name
        Tony Wilds

>age
        31 flavors, going on 32, 23, and 65.

>[a]vocation

        today's special: tiki artist & record trader/scientist

>LP jackets

        "The Lively Ones"
        Lord Creator's "The Big Bamboo"
        David Pike: "Manhattan Latin"
        Hank Mardigian Sextet: "Oriental Delight"
        Wanda Jackson: "Right or Wrong"
        Marty Wilson: "Jun'gala"
        "Col. Sander's Tijuana Picnic"
        [a zillion others]

>fantasy club

        Twin giant palm-wood tikis like feu dogs at the entrance guard
against bad mana. Poncy-Ponce (from "Hawaiian Eye") is strumming his uke as
he ushers you in. Coat-check and cigarette girls are at the ready. You take
a complimentary, overly garnished Double Zombie (in a tiki mug you can take
home) from the boomerang-formicaed swim-up bar in the Martin Denny Room,
then dash into the Pompeii-red-painted "Twist Goes Latin" room for a fast,
loud, mambo-watusi. Passing by a silently screened surf movie, you step out
into the jasmine-scented night air, where the Duke of Iron is singing "The
Big Bamboo," "Freckles," and "Parakeets" under swaying palm trees. Abbe
Lane, the lady in red, and Francoise Hardy in leopard-and-snakeskin bring
orchid leis and sit at your white-clothed table and continue sipping mango-y
tiki drinks out of conch shells. You order a volcano bowl. Just another
night down at Harry's for a weary private eye.

>3 more acts

        Supergroup of Baxter, Denny, Lyman, Rains, Sodsai & Bas Sheva.
        Perez Prado does "Tequila" from his funk period ("El Unico" LP).
        Plas Johnson plays Capt. Beefheart's "Tropical Hot Dog Night."


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: the lost episode of les baxter
Date: 22 Aug 1996 11:30:41 -0400

>Even better is the 2-CD compilation, "The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter" on
>Capitol.  It is marvelous.

Yes, and finally one of these things with very impressive, original artwork
too. (Perhaps Byron Werner's superb designs for the Esquivel CDs set a
standard.)

Part of vinyl's greatness was that companies felt obliged to pay specialized
people for creative work back then (artists, photogs, models, costumers,
etc.). Long live the Audio Fidelity label.

TW


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From: Watterworth Earle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: a quick survey
Date: 21 Aug 1996 17:29:38 -0600 (MDT)

ok, here we go, breaking down and coming out.....
> > 1.  What is your name?
Jay Watterworth

> > 2.  How old are you?
49
>
> > 3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?
PhD canidate at the University of Colorado at Boulder in sociology,
teach subjects in the area of criminal justice.
>
> > 4.  What is your favorite album cover?
Blind Faith (the original cover)
ECM and CTI jazz covers
Faces "oh la la"
most any thing truly sleazy (in the good sense such as Julie London lps)
>
> > 5.  Pretend you're the booking agent for your favorite/fantasy
> > lounge/exotica-type club.  Money is no object and neither is
> > life/death status of possible musicians.  How would you decorate
> > your club, and more importantly, what 3 bands would you book for a
> > dream night of entertainment?
PeeWee Herman's playhouse or his house in PeeWee's Big Adventure
>
> 3 bands?
Kraftwerk
Brian Eno
Devo or Spike Jones or maybe the Mothers of Invention

> Do these 5 questions characterize us ?
are we classifiable?

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From: Watterworth Earle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: loungey commercials
Date: 21 Aug 1996 17:52:12 -0600 (MDT)

"Bell, Book, and Candle" was an interesting movie about witchcraft
starring, as I recall, James Stewart and Kim Novak.  Quite appropriate for
this group.
Jay Watterworth
CU Boulder


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>
> What is "Bell Book and Candle"?  A movie?
>
> -Jordana
> _____________________
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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Re: the lost episode of les baxter
Date: 22 Aug 1996 11:55:27 EDT


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>Even better is the 2-CD compilation, "The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter" on
>Capitol.  It is marvelous.

Yes, and finally one of these things with very impressive, original artwork
too. (Perhaps Byron Werner's superb designs for the Esquivel CDs set a
standard.)

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I expected "Exotic Moods..." to have a cool retro looking cover.

The one they used reminds me of Oingo Boingo albums.

            That's not a bad thing, just an odd thing...

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From: " /  dave  /  "  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Audrey
Date: 22 Aug 1996 11:05:55 -0500 (CDT)

mk wrote:
> and while i'm in the middle of a rambling post, isn't it a shame that one
> has to buy a cd of otherwise previously released material just to get the
> delicious audrey hepburn version of moon river from breakfast at tiffany's?

..and which CD would this be? Is this that collection of "music from the films
of A.H." that I saw at one point?

dave

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From: [e-mail] (James Langdell)
Subject: Re: Turnabout LPs: Mimaroglu, Carlos, Cage
Date: 22 Aug 1996 09:44:24 -0700

A number of recordings of contemporary composers
that came out on Turnabout in the 1960s and 1970s
are turning up on CD in some of the inexpensive
VOX BOX collections (usually 2 CDs for $10).
The groupings are different from the CDs, but
it's good to see this repertoire accessible again.

--James Langdell       [e-mail]
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: exotic sounds of Mr. Showmanship
Date: 22 Aug 1996 13:12:34 -0400

Some veins must not be tapped, but then again, some flakes of ore just catch
the eye:

Take a pound of Liberace, add a dash of bongos and congas, stir in some Herb
Alpert covers, and bring to a boil:

 Spanish Flea (yippee), Taste of Honey, Tijuana Taxi, What Now My Love
  all on Dot LP "Liberace - New Sounds"

For sauce, try:

 Aruba Liberace: "Aruba Liberace, Aruba Liberace, come maaam-bo with me"
  on MGM "When the Boys Meet the Girls" soundtrack w/Connie Francis, Sam the
Sham, Louis Armstrong, etc.

 [Mr. Showmanship does other odd Latin stuff I dare not own, however briefly.]


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Soothing Sounds for Baby
Date: 22 Aug 1996 14:03:56 -0400

Irwin,

I like your work.  Will you be writing liner notes for the Esquivel Xmas
disc?

Also, what do you know about a Basta Records disc called "Delirium in Hi-Fi"?


Ben in Washington, DC

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Soothing Sounds for Baby
Date: 22 Aug 1996 14:05:17 -0400

Patrick,
There is a Raymond Scott compilation called "Turkish Nights" on Columbia
currently available.

Ben
Washington, DC

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From: " /  dave  /  "  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: exotic sounds of Mr. Showmanship
Date: 22 Aug 1996 13:13:05 -0500 (CDT)

Mr. Wilds writes:
> Take a pound of Liberace, add a dash of bongos and congas, stir in some Herb
> Alpert covers, and bring to a boil:
>
>  Spanish Flea (yippee), Taste of Honey, Tijuana Taxi, What Now My Love
>   all on Dot LP "Liberace - New Sounds"

..which would put this well after his gig with Elvis. Until I saw the bio on
the tube last night, I honestly didn't realize that it was Liberace's lending
his sequined jacket to the King Himself (when he was in a pinch) that got Elvis
started on all the crazy outfits. I suppose I'd react the same way...

Who plays with him on that LP?

dave

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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Audrey
Date: 22 Aug 1996 13:24:09 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 22 Aug 1996,  / dave /  wrote:

> mk wrote:
> > and while i'm in the middle of a rambling post, isn't it a shame that one
> > has to buy a cd of otherwise previously released material just to get the
> > delicious audrey hepburn version of moon river from breakfast at tiffany's?
>
> ..and which CD would this be? Is this that collection of "music from the films
> of A.H." that I saw at one point?
>
> dave

yes, i think so.  i saw it a while back.  actually, i don't know if
everything on the cd was previously released:  i recognized the expected
moon river and charade cuts.  i was most interested in the hepburn
rendition of moon river because we had just watched breakfast at
tiffany's and wondered aloud if the audrey+guitar version had ever been
released.  within a week, we found this cd at hastings.

mk

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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: the lost episode of les baxter
Date: 22 Aug 1996 13:33:11 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, D.J. Johnson wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, mark&sarah wrote:
> > hello all,
> >
> > everyone on this list probably already knows about this record, but i
> > just picked it up yesterday and highly recommend it.  the record (no cd
> > release) contains 6 tracks from a tv special baxter did in (i guess) the
>
> Hiya Mark.  Actually, I've reviewed a CD copy of The Lost Episodes a
> month or two back, so I'm pretty sure they're available.  Not that I'd
> rather have CD, but, you know...that's what they sent.
>
> Deej

sorry about that inaccuracy.  i have the 10" vinyl version and something
in the liner notes made me think that the label was vinyl only.  does the
cd contain more than the 6 tracks on the vinyl?

mrk

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From: " /  dave  /  "  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Soothing Sounds for Baby
Date: 22 Aug 1996 13:36:11 -0500 (CDT)

Ben writes:
> There is a Raymond Scott compilation called "Turkish Nights" on Columbia
> currently available.

What kind of material is included on this comp? I find it hard not to like
Raymond Scott, and I managed to find - for 50 cents - a copy of his 'This Time
With Strings' LP on my recent road trip, which includes a nice version of
"Powerhouse" for strings and a great rendition of "The Toy Trumpet" (a favorite)
along with a winning cover featuring a laughing woman tangled up in brightly
colored string(s)...

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Subject: Re: Great Scott!
Date: 22 Aug 1996 14:58:41 EDT


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From: Jenny <[e-mail]>
Subject: 124 mph
Date: 22 Aug 1996 13:58:40 -0500 (CDT)

My roommate has the soundtrack to a French movie called _A Man & a Woman_
(1966) and on it is a great song called 124 Miles Per Hour. I guess i would
file under EZ listening, but it's not without an attitude.  I am curious to
know if anyone has seen the movie, knows who composed the muzic, or has any
juicy nuggets of information about it for me.

Best,
Jen Nitro


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From: " /  dave  /  "  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Turnabout LPs: Mimaroglu, Carlos, Cage
Date: 22 Aug 1996 14:02:23 -0500 (CDT)

James Langdell writes:
> A number of recordings of contemporary composers
> that came out on Turnabout in the 1960s and 1970s
> are turning up on CD in some of the inexpensive
> VOX BOX collections (usually 2 CDs for $10).

VOX BOX is doing this? That seems odd, but then again I've never quite figured
out what their agenda was - I know them mainly for their odd assortment of
budget classical releases & a better-than-average issue of Prokofiev's music for
the Eisenstein films. (Part One of the film 'Ivan the Terrible' could change
your life if you let it.)

I have a Turnabout LP with 3 Mimaroglu cuts (so-so, IMO) a couple of Carlos
compositions (Variations for Flute and Electronic Sound & Dialogues for Piano
and Two Loudspeakers - both very interesting) and a Tzvi Avni cut featuring a
soprano vocal by Pnina Avni that, in context, is downright creepy - in the best
possible way.

Regarding Mimaroglu, there's a full-length LP on the Finnadar label (1973) that
represents the recordings he did for an installation of Jean Dubuffet's
articulated painting (?) "Coucou Bazar", which was shown at the Guggenheim that
same year. My question is, what exactly in an articulated painting? I suppose
that's for another list...

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: lost on me
Date: 22 Aug 1996 15:02:21 -0400

  REGARDING           lost on me

Here's the crucial question burning in this Baxter-babe's mind:
Is the *music* good on the LOST EPISODE?  And to what Les-era is it most
akin?  What year were the tracks written-recorded?
And(I duck as I write this) I think the art work is misguided and
silly...which actually at first sort of deterred me-because I thought:
"bad artwork-bad record" quizas?
Lounge Laura-who is still also in search of info on the latest Korla CD
[e-mail]
"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."


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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Spaced Out update: 78s
Date: 22 Aug 1996 20:20:20 +0000

Yes, another day, another update!

Spaced Out now has the most comprehensive list available of the 78s
released by Enoch Light from 1927(!) through to the mid-50s.  And you
thought he was quite busy from 1950 to 1978!

You can go straight there by going to:

http://www.cybersurf.co.uk/rcb/light/enoch78.htm

Enjoy!


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

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From: "Heileson, Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Purr-fume / Cherbourg / Astrud Jobim? /Prado Prado / Olive!
Date: 22 Aug 1996 11:32:00 PDT


>From: Susanne Stratford <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: Hai Karate
>
>In my little vanity cupboard at the moment stands:-
>
>  Roma
>  Montana
>  Dune by Cristian Dior
>  Y by Yves Saint Laurant
>  Eau de Issay by Issay Miyake
>  Eau de Givenchy
>
>  and an old bottle of Opium standing right at the back (which I havent
>worn for years)

What we need is someone to start making a women's fragrance called "Ipanema"
(as in "the girl from," natch)

>From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: a quick survey
>
>i think the decor
>would be sort of duchamp meets pacific rim,

(Aha, another Duchamp fan...)

>with an emphasis on
>ergonomics and a color scheme borrowed from the umbrellas of cherbourg.

_Yes!!_ I recently had the pleasure of seeing "Umbrellas," which I hadn't
seen before, on the big screen at an art-house cinema. Those colors are
deeelightful! And this is coming from a person who often dresses in all
black... I'd like to hear Ken Nordine to a post-game spiel on that movie.

(On the other side of the coin, I forgot, in describing the "dream club," to
include the black-and-white lounge. Everything would be in shades of grey,
to duplicate a 30s film. A strange fetishistic fantasy of mine...)

But of course the Cherbourg room and B&W room would be adjoining...

>astrud gilberto (backed either by her husband and stan getz, or the band
>backing her in her recording of agua de beber)

This will probably come off as _very_ naive... Were Gilberto and Jobim
married? I'm just now getting into them both (though I've enjoyed Brasil
'66's campy Jobim covers for quite a while) and so am still learning.

>pram (quite simply the best band on the planet!)

Right after Combustible Edison...  :)

(OK that's really Apples & Oranges I guess...)

>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: [Fwd: Need help identifying song!]
>
>Okay, folks... every now and then I get a good melody stuck in my head. And
>now I need your
>help in figuring out what the song was, and who did it.
>
>Remember the Little Ceasar's Pizza ad from a few years back that had these
>nutty
>characters (including a poodle) doing a conga line? It was a great
commercial
>and a great
>song, and I have no idea who did the piece.
>
>I even contacted the advertising agency(I'm in advertising myself) and
asked
>the guy who
>wrote the spot, but he had no idea and no record of the song.
>
>Okay, fellow exoticologists... does anyone know the tune? I'd be forever
>grateful.

To my memory, the song sounds a bit like Perez Prado, though it could easily
be someone else. (Prado is the proverbial master of mambo... he must have
done some congo line tunes at some point...)

>From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: Jordana's Quiz
>
>>4.  What is your favorite album cover?
>...Loungecore vol.1...

You mean the "Easy Project"? I fell in love-at-first-sight with this
cover... (and am coincidentally listening to a tape of said right now) Pinks
and olives living is swanky harmony. The scary part is, most the folx
dancing on the cover photo look a little _too_ much like my parents in the
60s!

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From: PooTGuRl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: lost on me
Date: 22 Aug 1996 12:38:31 -0700


>Lounge Laura-who is still also in search of info on the latest Korla CD
>[e-mail]
>"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."

The Korla CD contains "Music of the Exotic East", "Latin Holiday" and one
other, according to what I read.  Selections from each.  As fascinating,
exotic and mysterious as he may seem, the music is NOT.  Picture yourself
riding a dragon on a merry-go-round....hear the music(?)...that's what it is
like.  Of course, you, like I, will have to find out for yourself.






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From: James Paul McKay <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: 124 mph - A  Man and A Woman
Date: 22 Aug 1996 12:42:25 -0700 (PDT)

This is a fantastic french film which is available in almost every video
store (though unfortunately it is dubbed instead of subtitled - and if
that isn't bad enough they dubbed the song lyrics into english too). The
soundtrack is by the wonderful french composer Francis Lai and is one of
my favorite albums. The sequel film A Man and A Woman - 20 years later was
a real dissapointment.

Ciao,

Paul McKay
[e-mail]

>
> My roommate has the soundtrack to a French movie called _A Man & a Woman_
> (1966) and on it is a great song called 124 Miles Per Hour. I guess i would
> file under EZ listening, but it's not without an attitude.  I am curious to
> know if anyone has seen the movie, knows who composed the muzic, or has any
> juicy nuggets of information about it for me.
>
> Best,
> Jen Nitro
>
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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: the lost episode of les baxter
Date: 22 Aug 1996 14:27:10 -0600 (MDT)

> has this label (dionysus records) released any other exotica-relevent
> material?

Oh my, yes.  I opened my mailbox yesterday to find a package from Dionysus
(thanks, Lee!) containing new wax from Karla Pundit and the LA lounge band
Frenchy.  The Karla Pundit album is an entertaining Korla Pandit tribute/
pastiche themed around a visit to a lost jungle city (the liner notes are
a riot); the Frenchy album is a straight-up lounge release.  I'll post
more catalog details when I get home and have the press releases handy,
but both are coming out on LP/CD in the next month or so and both are worth
checking out (though I like the Karla Pundit album better; Frenchy's
material is pretty good but I'm not really fond of their vocalist).

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

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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: Re: Moog's co.
Date: 22 Aug 1996 15:16:14 PDT

Inexpensive Theremin:

Listen, I may be way behind here, since I've been away from a computer for
a good week and a half now, but check out PAIA electronics.  Search on it
with your browser... i don't remember the URL.  In any case, their
Theremax kit is quite good, about $180 and easy to build.  It also
includes CV ins for pitch, velo., and vol. so you can run a Minimoog
with it.  I bought one and am not disappointed.

Clark

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: lost on me
Date: 22 Aug 1996 18:31:42 -0400

At 03:02 PM 8/22/96 -0400, you wrote:
>  REGARDING           lost on me
>
>Here's the crucial question burning in this Baxter-babe's mind:
>Is the *music* good on the LOST EPISODE?

It is for the completist, and if you're truly a Baxter babe, you'll get it.
His intros are the best part (charming). The sound quality is TV-mono (bad).
The material has no killer surprises but certainly has its moments, e.g.,
the "theremin voice" and "Quiet Village" with revisionist bird calls.
Recommended for the strange escapade it truly is.

The artwork isn't bad for what it is, but direct lifts oblige
acknowledgments. The real issue is that a still from the show or even a
photo of Mr. Baxter would have served better and lent integrity to Scamp.
But marketing is marketing.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Karla and Korla
Date: 22 Aug 1996 16:57:58 +0000

Have to agree on the Karla Pundit. Think tiki meets Korla Pandit.
Bongos, organs, very groovy. I actually like this better than some of
Korla Pandit's work--his gets to be quite uneven and sometimes sound
simply like ice rink music (nothing against that). This has a little
bit more dimensionality. Quite good--pick it up.!

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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Purr-fume / Cherbourg / Astrud Jobim? /Prado Prado / Olive!
Date: 22 Aug 1996 17:56:21 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Heileson, Thomas wrote:

> _Yes!!_ I recently had the pleasure of seeing "Umbrellas," which I hadn't
> seen before, on the big screen at an art-house cinema. Those colors are
> deeelightful! And this is coming from a person who often dresses in all
> black... I'd like to hear Ken Nordine to a post-game spiel on that movie.

BTW, is the soundtrack to this film available?  the umbrellas of
cherbourg, that is.

> >astrud gilberto (backed either by her husband and stan getz, or the band
> >backing her in her recording of agua de beber)
>
> This will probably come off as _very_ naive... Were Gilberto and Jobim
> married? I'm just now getting into them both (though I've enjoyed Brasil
> '66's campy Jobim covers for quite a while) and so am still learning.
>

astrud was married to joao gilberto, a wonderful guitarist and singer.
check out "getz/gilberto" on verve records for a great intro to the
gilbertos, jobim, and getz.  it's quite a contrast to brasil 66, to say
the least.  i like both approaches, though after "look around" i find
lani hall's singing to be hard to take (not that i like it that much on
the first three albums, but the music is so good i can ignore her
showiness.  conversely, astrud is a model of cool restraint... cool
everything, really.



> >pram (quite simply the best band on the planet!)
>
> Right after Combustible Edison...  :)
>
> (OK that's really Apples & Oranges I guess...)

curiously enough, i was going to include in my parentheses above a short
statement to the effect that pram does their thing much better than c.e.
does theirs, but i didn't want to sound hostile! :)



take care,
mark

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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: 124 mph - A Man and A Woman
Date: 22 Aug 1996 18:06:26 -0500 (CDT)


and the soundtrack is on cd coupled with another of lai's soundtracks--i've
seen this but not heard it.  is the other soundtrack anywhere near as
good?  sorry i don't remember the name of the other soundtrack; i hope
someone knows what i'm talking about.  and bravo to rereleases which
combine two short albums on one cd!

mark


On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, James Paul McKay wrote:

> This is a fantastic french film which is available in almost every video
> store (though unfortunately it is dubbed instead of subtitled - and if
> that isn't bad enough they dubbed the song lyrics into english too). The
> soundtrack is by the wonderful french composer Francis Lai and is one of
> my favorite albums. The sequel film A Man and A Woman - 20 years later was
> a real dissapointment.
>
> Ciao,
>
> Paul McKay
> [e-mail]
>
> >
> > My roommate has the soundtrack to a French movie called _A Man & a Woman_
> > (1966) and on it is a great song called 124 Miles Per Hour. I guess i would
> > file under EZ listening, but it's not without an attitude.  I am curious to
> > know if anyone has seen the movie, knows who composed the muzic, or has any
> > juicy nuggets of information about it for me.
> >
> > Best,
> > Jen Nitro
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: 124 mph - A Man and A Woman
Date: 22 Aug 1996 20:57:41 -0400

Howdy Mark!

Although I'm not certain, the other soundtrack on the "A Man and a Woman" CD
re-release should be "Live for Life," the title track of which became another
international hit for Francis Lai.

I believe "A Man and a Woman" was one of the defining films of its day--it
seemed to capture much of how people felt, and the cool, intimate music
created the perfect ambiance for feeling the cool, intimate sets.  The film
and the music are, at once, intensely introverted and intensely sexual.
 Utterly sensual!

Beau di Audeau

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From: PooTGuRl <[e-mail]>
Subject: Delirium in Hi-Fi
Date: 22 Aug 1996 18:04:58 -0700

At 02:03 PM 8/22/96 -0400, Ben in DC wrote:

>Also, what do you know about a Basta Records disc called "Delirium in Hi-Fi"?

All you need to know is to GET IT.  Elsa Popping and her Pixieland Band
(Andre Popp) recorded this wildly inventive LP "somewhere in France" in, I
think, 1956.  Wacked out sound FX with vocals and instruments turned inside
out and played backwards!!!  The extensive liner notes ask the reader: "You
can turn a glove inside out, why not a voice?"

Do you know how they did this!?  A sentence would be recorded, then played
back backwards.  The singer then memorized the words backwards and then sang
the words which were recorded.  Finally, the tape was reversed and spliced
into the musical passage.  The same procedure was used with instruments.  It
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: loungey commercials
Date: 23 Aug 1996 00:04:25 -0400

Far more appropriate for this group than "Bell Book And Candel", is Billy
Wilder's "Kiss Me Stupid."  Featuring Dean Martin (in what must have been a
stretch) playing a character named  "Dino" who happens to be a Las Vegas
lounge performer always on the make. And by the way it also has Kim Novak!

Ashley

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: the lost episode of les baxter
Date: 23 Aug 1996 00:13:12 -0500

>Oh my, yes.  I opened my mailbox yesterday to find a package from Dionysus
>(thanks, Lee!) containing new wax from Karla Pundit and the LA lounge band
>Frenchy.  The Karla Pundit album is an entertaining Korla Pandit tribute/


both have release info at Vik's in the news
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos.mnews.html) and expanded features coming
to the Dionysus Room (http://www.chaoskitty,com/t_chaos/diony.html)...info
in the Dionysus Room about Baxter's Lost Episode and Robert Drasnin plus
others!!


in swank,
Vik


Vik Trola's Lounge Of Self Indulgence
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: 124 mph
Date: 23 Aug 1996 00:12:28 -0400

"A Man And A Woman" was at the time a fairly groundbreaking film for being
shot in a semi-documentary style and being very innovatively directed by
Claude Lelouch (shot in excellent black & white) - it even won the Academy
Award the year it came out for best foreign film. While it has lost a bit of
its impact, it is one of those films that beautifully captures the 60's and
makes some gorgeous viewing despite it being available only as a dubbed
version on video here.  Francis' Lai's score is regarded as his greatest
achievemnt and has got some cool french bossa nova, dramatic music and of
course the famous "Bada Bada Bada bada Ba" theme.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: lost on me
Date: 23 Aug 1996 00:19:42 -0400

In a message dated 96-08-22 18:52:23 EDT, you write:

>It is for the completist, and if you're truly a Baxter babe, you'll get it.

Let me set the record straight on "Lost Episode"
>His intros are the best part (charming). The sound quality is TV-mono (bad).
>The material has no killer surprises but certainly has its moments, e.g.,
>the "theremin voice" and "Quiet Village" with revisionist bird calls.
>Recommended for the strange escapade it truly is.

Look for the remastered version that has a sticker on the cover - the sound
quality is markably superior to the original release earlier this year.  It
is worth owning alone for the version of "Quiet Village" - the only recorded
version of Baxter's that uses the "Martin Denny-esque" bird calls.
>
>The artwork isn't bad for what it is, but direct lifts oblige
>acknowledgments. The real issue is that a still from the show or even a
>photo of Mr. Baxter would have served better and lent integrity to Scamp.
>But marketing is marketing.

I know for a fact that Capitol were not very pleased with the artwork on
"Lost Episode" as it was lifted from various Baxter covers, but what the hey
- it was better than to shoot a still off of what would have certainly been a
softly focused TV image. By the way, Scamp did not release "Lost Episode", it
was Dionysus.


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Subject: Re: Purr-fume / Cherbourg / Astrud Jobim? /Prado Prado / Olive!
Date: 23 Aug 1996 00:21:21 -0400

There are two versions available of the soundtrack - get the French import,
 it has been prepared with the re-release in mind and it even features an
extra track or two with Tony Bennett.

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Raymond Scott
Date: 22 Aug 1996 21:42:59 +0000

did he make any 10" rekkids ?

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: 124 miles per hour
Date: 22 Aug 1996 21:48:33 +0000

>From: Jenny <[e-mail]>
>Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 13:58:40 -0500 (CDT)
>Subject: 124 mph
>
>My roommate has the soundtrack to a French movie called _A Man & a Woman_
>(1966) and on it is a great song called 124 Miles Per Hour. I guess i would
>file under EZ listening, but it's not without an attitude.  I am curious to
>know if anyone has seen the movie, knows who composed the muzic, or has any
>juicy nuggets of information about it for me.

Jenny,

It's Francis Lai.  I _just played_ THAT tune _also_ last week on my show.
This is starting to get spooky ;))

Francisd Lai composed the music for at least 15 films.  I'm not sure if
there is anything available on CD.

File under Soundtrack

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From: "Desmond K. Hill" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Turnabout LPs: Mimaroglu, Carlos, Cage
Date: 23 Aug 1996 13:16:08 +0000

[e-mail] explained that

>A number of recordings of contemporary composers that came out on Turnabout in
>>the 1960s and 1970s are turning up on CD in some of the inexpensive VOX BOX
>>collections (usually 2 CDs for $10). The groupings are different from the
>CDs, >but it's good to see this repertoire accessible again.

It certainly is good to see the repertoire made accessable, & I'm sure
it'll sound a whole lot better when I learn where to locate the collections
;)

Any chance of catalogue numbers, distributors, etc. _please_

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: lounge commercial: Cappio(tm)
Date: 23 Aug 1996 11:23:10 -0400

The sweeter-than-sweet bossa nova version of "One Mint Julep" done in the
beloved Cappio(tm) commercial awhile ago is done by the Kenny Burrell Octet.
It's on "Lotsa Bossa Nova," an LP so elusive it had to be pried out of the
personal collection of a jazz dealer. Very mod, like an iced cappucino
beverage, oui.


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Raymond Scott
Date: 23 Aug 1996 11:27:45 -0400

At 09:42 PM 8/22/96 +0000, you wrote:
>did he make any 10" rekkids ?
>
>jack
>

Raymond Scott's Drawing Room was issued as a 10".


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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Purr-fume / Cherbourg /
Date: 23 Aug 1996 11:25:18 -0400

                      RE>>Purr-fume / Cherbourg / Astrud Jobim?    8/23/96

On what label-asks Lounge Laura-who really wants this thing...

There are two versions available of the soundtrack - get the French import,
 it has been prepared with the re-release in mind and it even features an
extra track or two with Tony Bennett.

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From: Bryan Jare Cuevas <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: lost on Korla
Date: 22 Aug 1996 17:08:55 -0400 (EDT)

According to PooTGuRl:
> The Korla CD contains "Music of the Exotic East", "Latin Holiday" and one
> other, according to what I read.  Selections from each.  As fascinating,
> exotic and mysterious as he may seem, the music is NOT.  Picture yourself
> riding a dragon on a merry-go-round....hear the music(?)...that's what it is
> like.  Of course, you, like I, will have to find out for yourself.

Korla Pandit, "Odyssey" (Fantasy FCD-24746-2)
    Compiles 8 tracks from "Music of the Exotic East" and
12 tracks from "Latin Holiday".

If you read the small print, this is what you learn: "Since
maximum playing time of a single CD could not accomodate the
entire length of both original albums, one selection
("Procession of the Grand Moghul") has been deleted"  (!!!!)

I assume that this deleted track comes from the "Exotic East"
album, which in my opinion is far more intriguing than "Latin
Holiday". The merry-go-round analogy is right on. I assume this
move was made under the assumption that "latin" influenced
"exotica" is more marketable to the "new" generation of lounge
fans.

Please Mr./Mrs. reissue producers, do not make it a habit of
deleting tracks....and if you must, delete the drek and leave
the gems.

bryan c.

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Purr-fume / Cherbourg /
Date: 23 Aug 1996 13:14:36 -0400

                      RE>>Purr-fume / Cherbourg / Astrud Jobim?    8/23/96

Lazlo---this never appeared so I'm resending
:^)



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There are two versions available of the soundtrack - get the French import,
 it has been prepared with the re-release in mind and it even features an
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Ashley

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Bell, Book and Candle
Date: 23 Aug 1996 13:35:40 -0400

At 04:09 PM 8/21/96 +0000, you wrote:
>Gadzooks! How can Kim Novak slip anyone's mind. I mean, that bottled in
>blonde bombshell has been stuck firmly in my brain since if first saw
>Bell Book & Candle.

Agree!  Kim Novak was the ultimate, batchelor pad babe.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: "Bucket of Blood" soundtrack
Date: 23 Aug 1996 13:44:30 -0400

At 02:08 AM 8/22/96 -0400, you wrote:
>POE FOR MODERNS by Buddy Morrow, best whistling theme "Murder at the Rue
>Morgue" (composer, Bernie Green).  The deadpan beat recitations of Poe with
>jazz backing are cool, but the vocal harmony rendition of "The Raven" is
>utterly demented.

Speaking of beat recitations, how about Roger Corman's 1959 film, "Bucket of
Blood".  I believe Paul Horn was the soloist in the background and am
wondering if this was ever released on LP?  Strange, low budget movie along
the lines of "Little Shop of Horrors" (1960).

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From: [e-mail] (Anthony Jackson)
Subject: The films of Jacques Tati
Date: 23 Aug 1996 13:56:11 -0500

Jacques Tati was the director for a number of wondefully tongue in cheek
50's French comedy films. His films are well noted for their clever use of
sound effects and music (often a galloping light-hearted kind of jazz) to
compliment the scenes and story line. "Mon Oncle" and the recently
re-released colour version of "Jour de Fete" are among my favourites.

Does anyone have any info regarding the availability of soundtracks to
Tati's films? I know that at least one CD has been released, I saw it in
the Tokyo Virgin Megastore and couldn't part with the $45.00 they wanted
for it. I've checked the NYC Virgin Megastore plus all the major outlets
here in Toronto with no luck so far.

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From: [e-mail] (Anthony Jackson)
Subject: Record Store Beefs
Date: 23 Aug 1996 14:12:07 -0500

Is anyone else out there fed up with record stores? I'm amazed at how
poorly many are organized and was a little shocked, for example, at the
confusion I found at a recent visit to the Virgin Megastore store in New
York. Despite a sizeable selection and large staff, each and every item on
my list was unavailable, on order, out of stock, or somewhere in the store
but no one quite knew where to find it. When Icomplained to the manager, he
gave me some sad excuse about having to do a complete inventory check that
week, which missed the point really since my beef was more with the way the
music was catagorized and displayed than with availability per se.

I'm guessing that many of you have experienced the same frustration, with
so much of the music in the exotica or lounge genre being hard to
catagorize and therefore harder to locate in a store that, for example, put
Johnny Hartman's CD's in the vocal section but his album with John Coltrane
in the jazz section. One store I know of still keeps some of its CD lounge
compilations n the techno dance section.

What I would like to see is a dependable on-line CD order house that can
accomodate virtually any request without charging absurd postage and
handling charges or premium prices for CD's that they know are hard to come
by in most outlets. I suppose that contravenes the spirit of supply and
demand, but I'm sure there's a better and cheaper way to handle CD sales
than those I have seen so far.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: 124 mph
Date: 23 Aug 1996 14:11:43 -0400

At 12:12 AM 8/23/96 -0400, you wrote:
>"A Man And A Woman" was at the time a fairly groundbreaking film for being
>shot in a semi-documentary style and being very innovatively directed by
>Claude Lelouch (shot in excellent black & white) - it even won the Academy
>Award the year it came out for best foreign film. While it has lost a bit of
>its impact, it is one of those films that beautifully captures the 60's and
>makes some gorgeous viewing despite it being available only as a dubbed
>version on video here.  Francis' Lai's score is regarded as his greatest
>achievemnt and has got some cool french bossa nova, dramatic music and of
>course the famous "Bada Bada Bada bada Ba" theme.

This is one of my favorite soundtracks that has been reissued on a twofer by
DRG.  I also liked the "Live for Life" soundtrack that has some amazing mood
music instrumentals on it.

Note of trivia:
According to what I've heard, Lelouch intended "....a Woman" to be shot in
color, but ran out of money during the filming and had to complete the takes
in b/w.  That's why the film has that strange intercutting of scenes between
b/w and color.  With the sucess of the film, Lelouch no longer had to worry
about getting his films financed.

Academy award for best foriegn film, 1966
Best Prize at Cannes Film Festival, 1966


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From: John Chilson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Bucket of Blood" soundtrack
Date: 23 Aug 1996 11:40:47 -0700 (PDT)

Although the soundtrack for Bucket of Blood was never released, Little
Shop of Horrors was, and is basically the same soundtrack. Corman used
Fred Katz' same score for a slew of his movies (Last Woman on Earth, Wasp
Woman, etc.).

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From: "Steve Sando" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: The films of Jacques Tati
Date: 23 Aug 1996 12:49:12 +0000

> Does anyone have any info regarding the availability of soundtracks
> to Tati's films? I know that at least one CD has been released, I
> saw it in the Tokyo Virgin Megastore and couldn't part with the
> $45.00 they wanted for it. I've checked the NYC Virgin Megastore
> plus all the major outlets here in Toronto with no luck so far.

I have 'Extraits des Bandes Originales des Films de Jacques Tati'
(Polygram Distr. 836 983-2) which I found at Tower SF for under
$12.00. The North Beach branch makes many mistakes marking CDs
and I've benefited from their laziness so maybe this was mis-marked.

Great soundtrack, by the way.


Coconut Grove, publishers of MisterLUCKY
PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107
http://www.wco.com/~coconutg/
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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: The films of Jacques Tati
Date: 23 Aug 1996 16:46:15 -0500


> Does anyone have any info regarding the availability of soundtracks to
> Tati's films?

Movies To Listen To: Jacques Tati includes
Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Playtime, Big Day (Jour de Fete?) and Mon Uncle
on Travelling 93050 1504 2

10 to 15 dollars I think
It was released fairly recently.


kevin king
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Record Store Beefs
Date: 23 Aug 1996 17:03:29 -0400

At 02:12 PM 8/23/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Is anyone else out there fed up with record stores?

Any dealing with records is a lot of hard work: wild goose chases, restoring
ill-treated treasures, squirrelly people who change their minds, hours
killed buying and haggling. And that's before you get to inventory and
organization. Oh, and it's not like there's any money in it, after overhead.

Retail outlets earn my respect for the constant crap they deflect from
freaky walk-ins, guys who have hamburgers in their eyes as they insist you
take their beat-up Foghat records and suspicious-looking tape collections.
And people who want Phoebe Snow records and won't shaddap and go away, ever.

Explore all the dozens of _types_ of record sources and reward only the
noble. All these "rare" mass-produced items are still out there in all sorts
of places.

Perfection in a CD outlet?

Japan, Japan, Japan, and ya pay a premium. Bet we'll have it all figured out
just about the time all [new] packaged media becomes obsolete. Let it be soon.


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From: [e-mail] (Keith Doyle)
Subject: Re: Jack Lord's Aftershave
Date: 23 Aug 1996 15:42:12 PDT


I used Hai Karate cologne for awhile in the '70s and liked it,
later the cologne was apparently discontinued (couldn't find it
anywhere) and I discovered that the after shave was no where near as
good.  Seems like I spotted the aftershave in a store not too long ago,
but for me, it's just not the same.

Keith Doyle
[e-mail]


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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Purr-fume / Cherbourg /
Date: 23 Aug 1996 11:25:18 -0400

                      RE>>Purr-fume / Cherbourg / Astrud Jobim?    8/23/96

On what label-asks Lounge Laura-who really wants this thing...

There are two versions available of the soundtrack - get the French import,
 it has been prepared with the re-release in mind and it even features an
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From: Cartoonik <[e-mail]>
Subject: Get the video
Date: 23 Aug 1996 19:17:02 -0700

Lounge Laura....sorry for the not so encouraging word on Korla Pandit.  Ever
notice that nobody seems to disagree?  Forget the CD and get the video of
his fifties TV show....now THAT'S entertainment!!!!

Cult Movies in L.A., ten bucks, postage paid!!!


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From: [e-mail] (Caressa Bennet -- Bennet ^ Bennet PLLC - Washington )
Subject: Denny McLain
Date: 23 Aug 1996 22:55:38 EDT



 To:    exotica,         Inet


I was checking out the new compilation, Organs in Orbit, the other
day and I noticed that Denny McLain is featured on a couple of
tracks.  Is this the same Denny McLain who won 31 games for
Detroit in 1968 (and was later kicked out of baseball for
gambling)?  I remember from the back of a baseball card I used to
own that organ playing was one of his hobbies.

Oh yeah, almost forgot, how is the compilation?

Michael Bennet
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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Re: SEGA gets Mambo Fever!
Date: 24 Aug 1996 08:59:58 EDT


----- Begin Included Message -----

>Someone at SEGA has been watching too much Bugs Bunny. The bases/conga bit
>come from the cartoon "Baseball Bugs" (I believe) where Bugs Bunny takes on
>the Gashouse Gorillas single handed in a baseball game.

----- End Included Message -----


I know that Carl Stalling often used snippets of popular songs
in his Warner Bros. scores, does anyone know the name of the song
in this scene?

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From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Audrey
Date: 24 Aug 1996 12:12:39 -0400

At 11:05 AM 22/08/1996 -0500, you wrote:
>mk wrote:

>sna-ip<

>> and while i'm in the middle of a rambling post, isn't it a shame that one
>> has to buy a cd of otherwise previously released material just to get the
>> delicious audrey hepburn version of moon river from breakfast at tiffany's?
>
>..and which CD would this be? Is this that collection of "music from the films
>of A.H." that I saw at one point?


Yeah!  Where is that one?!?

 Anybody?   Anybody?





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From: "Heileson, Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Audrey HEPburn
Date: 23 Aug 1996 16:23:00 PDT


>and while i'm in the middle of a rambling post, isn't it a shame that one
>has to buy a cd of otherwise previously released material just to get the
>delicious audrey hepburn version of moon river from breakfast at tiffany's?

Describe more, please! I am an Audrey fan but ashamedly am unhep to this. I
have the Mancini BaT soundtrack... I seem to remember something about
Hepburn singing a version, but I can't remember the details. I even forgot
whether she sang the version on my soundtrack CD. Shame on me!

Anyway, which CD are you talking about? Is it an Audrey-centric thing? If
so, I may be suckered into getting it, despite it being a transparent
Moirrissean repackaging, as you say.

BTW, I haven't seen it, but a swanky friend of mine told me of a
special-edition Breakfast at Tif's soundtrack package that comes in a white
box, with long eveningwear gloves and other goodies.

Tacky? mmmmmYes. But why does part of me overlook that when it comes to
Audrey? I guess because she's The Greatest. (and much better-looking that M.
Ali...)

 -- Still reaching to achieve the Platonically Ideal Cocktail Party (at Holly
Golightly's pad, but of course)

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From: keithd@syseval5
Subject: Re: Turnabout LPs: Mimaroglu, Carlos, Cage
Date: 23 Aug 1996 16:12:42 -0700


>The only Turnabout LP I've ever bought is the _Electronic Music_ LP with
>"Visage" by Berio, "Fontana Mix" by Cage, and "Agony" by Mimaroglu. The Cage
>and Mimaroglu pieces still do NOTHING for me (but I haven't given up hope on
>'em!), but boy that "Visage" with "the voice of Cathy Berberian!" Yow, that
>thing's mega-bizarro -- for everyone looking for the unearthly missing link
>between Baxter/Sheva's THE PASSIONS and the BBC DOCTOR WHO SOUND EFFECTS
>record, *look no further*. All those bleeps and bloops and hums and that
>woman giggling, crying, moaning, grunting, snorting, and uttering total
>gibberish for twenty-one minutes and four seconds...you just don't find THAT
>at your local Musicland/Sam Goody...

I originally heard this as the soundtrack to an experimental film in the
late '60s or early '70s on a half hour PBS TV show called FLICK-OUT.  They
showed the show twice each week, once on Tuesday and then again on Sunday
(or was it Saturday).  The visuals consisted of a closeup of a womans lips
while she put on lipstick, and the Visage piece was the soundtrack.  I liked
the soundtrack so much, I caught the show again on the weekend and taped the
track, which I've had for years.  A few years after that, I was working as a
electronics repair tech on night shift and heard the track again on some
late night fringe radio station.  While I wasn't able to get the name, it made
me aware of the fact that it was not done just for the film, and may be on
a record somewhere.  Years later and after buying a lot of weird albums on
the off chance I would find it I finally found the album on Turnabout.  It
has also been released on a French CD which I also have.  Definately a
one of a kind.  Wish they would show those student and experimental
films that they showed on FLICK-OUT again though, there was some great
stuff there.  Another memorable flick was a cartoon called "The Good Friend"
about a guy and his girl who sit down on a park bench with a guy reading
the paper.  They have a converstion about their relationship, then we find
out that the guy reading the paper "doesn't have a face," he just has
sockets where his eyes and nose and mouth should be.  The girl feels
sorry for him and goads her boyfriend into giving one of his eyes to
the poor fellow.  Ultimately the boyfriend takes it to the extreme and
gives all of his facial features to the stranger and then the stranger
goes off with the girl, leaving the boyfriend sitting there without
a face.  Weird flick, I've never forgotten it, but unfortunately never
seen it as part of a film festival video.


Keith Doyle
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From: Watterworth Earle <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: loungey commercials
Date: 23 Aug 1996 19:34:32 -0600 (MDT)

What were the spy flicks that Dino used to make?  As I recall, they were
pretty loungy.
Jay Watterworth
CU Boulder

On Fri, 23 Aug 1996 [e-mail] wrote:

> Far more appropriate for this group than "Bell Book And Candel", is Billy
> Wilder's "Kiss Me Stupid."  Featuring Dean Martin (in what must have been a
> stretch) playing a character named  "Dino" who happens to be a Las Vegas
> lounge performer always on the make. And by the way it also has Kim Novak!
>
> Ashley
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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Re: el Dino
Date: 24 Aug 1996 14:35:06 EDT


----- Begin Included Message -----

What were the spy flicks that Dino used to make?  As I recall, they were
pretty loungy.

----- End Included Message -----


MATT HELM. Matt Helm es mucho cool.

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From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: loungey commercials
Date: 24 Aug 1996 14:34:43 -0400

At 07:34 PM 23/08/1996 -0600, you wrote:
>What were the spy flicks that Dino used to make?  As I recall, they were
>pretty loungy.


Those would be the Matt elm movies.  All four are now available on video
(and inexpensively enough to own...).

Check 'em out.  They swing (the earlier ones are better than the later ones,
but the Hugo Montenegro music in the last one has its own wild way... not as
swingin' as the Riddle in the first two, but really, who is...)





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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: The films (music) of Jacques Tati
Date: 24 Aug 1996 11:53:30 +0000

The films of Jacques Tati.  anything ever released on vinyl or cd ?

the was an LP release in the 70's of his work from Mon Oncle, Playtime and
other films on United Artists called Playtime that is _excellent_

I don't have it in front of me but there were more than a few composers
involved with the compositions  and conducting of his film scores

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Record Store Beefs
Date: 24 Aug 1996 11:53:34 +0000

RE : Virgin Megastore store; Record Store Beefs in New York.

It's not a record store, it's a cd store ;)

Jack



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Merry Christmas!
Date: 24 Aug 1996 15:06:07 EDT

Exoticats,

Just up on Space Age Bachelor Pad Music: Liner notes from the upcoming
Bar/None Christmas Esquivel compilation "Merry Christmas From The Space
Age Bachelor Pad" (Ahaon-083).

Stop by.

-=-Joe


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From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Record Store Beefs
Date: 24 Aug 1996 19:11:06 UT

[e-mail] (Anthony Jackson) Fri, 23 Aug 1996 14:12:07 writes:

>Subject: Record Store Beefs
>
>Is anyone else out there fed up with record stores?
>
>What I would like to see is a dependable on-line CD order house that can
>accomodate virtually any request without charging absurd postage and
>handling charges or premium prices...

Try www.gemm.com.  If you know what you're looking for, this is a painless and
inexpensive (I've found) source.  I've had CDs arrive in less than a week.  Of
course, you lose that browsing experience, but it sounds like that's what's
ticking you off.  New and reissued CDs are cheap, LPs and rarities about what
you'd expect.

Anyone else have good or bad experiences with this site?

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From: [e-mail] (Thom S. Heileson)
Subject: Record Store Beefs
Date: 24 Aug 1996 12:56:35 -0700

>From: [e-mail] (Anthony Jackson)
>Subject: Record Store Beefs
>
>What I would like to see is a dependable on-line CD order house that can
>accomodate virtually any request without charging absurd postage and
>handling charges or premium prices for CD's that they know are hard to come
>by in most outlets. I suppose that contravenes the spirit of supply and
>demand, but I'm sure there's a better and cheaper way to handle CD sales
>than those I have seen so far.

I've seen / dealt with some very good online mail-order music services.
Unfortunately the only concrete info I have is on services which sell
experimental electronic/ambient and such (such as EAR/Rational), not older
recordings. You might want to try some web searches for such a service, I'd
bet some good ones exist out there. By the same token, if anyone knows of a
service that would fit the bill, pls. post.

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From: [e-mail] (Hugh Petfield)
Subject: Loungey Dino movies...
Date: 24 Aug 1996 21:41:48 +0100

Jay Watterworth asked:

>What were the spy flicks that Dino used to make?  As I recall, they were
>pretty loungy.

There were four starring Dean Martin as Matt Helm:

The Silencers (1966) co-starring Stella Stevens
Murderer's Row (also 1966) co-starring Ann-Margret
The Ambushers (1968) co-starring Janice Rule (who? I hear you ask!)
The Wrecking Crew (1969) co-starring Sharon Tate (in her last film)

On the subject of stylish movies, how about "The Thomas Crown Affair"?
The Soundtrack album is marvellous; yonks ahead of the music you
hear when you watch the movie.  Split-screens don't work on TV, tho'..

Hope everything's cool avec vous..
and thanks for the suggestions about aftershave.  I remember the
Hai Karate ads very well..  I'm actually using the dreaded Old Spice
at present, as all the previous aftershaves I've used have gone from
the market, i.e.

Burley
Old Spice Lime
Mennen Skin Bracer
Revlon's That Man (ultra cool)
Aqua Manda (orange-based)

Any of you ladies ever encountered a perfume Havoc, by Mary Quant?

Hugh.
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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Audrey
Date: 24 Aug 1996 15:45:45 -0500 (CDT)

On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Joe Kilmartin wrote:

> At 11:05 AM 22/08/1996 -0500, you wrote:
> >mk wrote:
>
> >sna-ip<
>
> >> and while i'm in the middle of a rambling post, isn't it a shame that one
> >> has to buy a cd of otherwise previously released material just to get the
> >> delicious audrey hepburn version of moon river from breakfast at tiffany's?
> >
> >..and which CD would this be? Is this that collection of "music from the films
> >of A.H." that I saw at one point?
>
>
> Yeah!  Where is that one?!?
>
>  Anybody?   Anybody?
>

well, if nobody else knows, i'll go back to hastings (your entertainment
superstore) and try to find it again... sorry i don't have more specific
details at hand.  the theme of the cd is music from the films of a.h., so
the title suggested above is probably correct, unless there's more than
one disc dedicated to this.

take care,
mark

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: claudine longet and andy williams
Date: 24 Aug 1996 16:59:08 -0400

In a message dated 96-08-22 03:05:55 EDT, you write:

>all of this aside, can anyone tell me the exact history of andy and
claudine's ill-fated romance?  and is claudine still performing?
Where IS claudine?  In jail or out (for shooting Spider Savitch (sp?)?
Anyone?....Anyone?

Lisa


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Merry Christmas!
Date: 24 Aug 1996 18:39:57 -0400

Also "With a Christmas Vibe" Arthur Lyman's Xmas lp is out on Ryko with a
bonus track never released before

a real coup for Ryko!

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Tiki Cologne and What Happened To (was Re: Hai EZ Rum tiki ...)
Date: 24 Aug 1996 19:08:51 -0400

In a reference in a message dated 96-08-22 00:19:44 EDT, one of you wrote:

<< >>Subject: Hai Karate

 Dunno about the fragrance, but I bet Jack Lord's fave cover of HI-5-0 would
 be Henry Mancini's -- the disco, the surf, the Mancini. (On "The Cop Show
 Themes.")

 >>Of course, you can't beat a bottle of Bay Rum...
 >What I'd like to find is a bottle of cologne shaped in Hawaiian/Tiki statue

 >form... or maybe Easter Island. Does such a thing exist? (Probably only in
 >expensive vintage shops, hm.) >>

If I'm not mistaken, and you tickled some really deep memes on this one, so
some of the recall may not be total, there was a cologne from the late 70's
that had a quasi-Tiki bottle.  Said cologne was called Trouble or Taboo (I
think there is a women's fragrance called Tabu, not to be confused with the
studly Tiki product).  Dunno if said cologne is still in production ... a
trip to Wal-Mart is in order to begin a quest.

Then again, I could be just way totally off-base.

Speaking of Tiki, does anyone know what happened to the Tiki site at
http://www.forfood.com/~indieweb/tiki/tiki.html?  Do I have something wrong
in the URL?  I kinda don't think so, since it used to work from my home page,
and now it doesn't.

Bob

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Denny McLain
Date: 24 Aug 1996 21:12:31 -0500

>I was checking out the new compilation, Organs in Orbit, the other
>day and I noticed that Denny McLain is featured on a couple of
>tracks.  Is this the same Denny McLain who won 31 games for
>Detroit in 1968 (and was later kicked out of baseball for
>gambling)?  I remember from the back of a baseball card I used to
>own that organ playing was one of his hobbies.

yes it is Dennis Dale McLain at the mighty Hammond x-77 organ. The
Detroit Tigers' superstar swings with today's hits. Released on Capitol
Records.

'I am proud of this first album... When it's all said and done some day
in the future, I hope they will remember Denny McLain as an outstanding
professional musician.' Not as a tax invader and gambler.

David

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: 60s Film Scores Biggest Pop Crossover Hits?
Date: 24 Aug 1996 21:59:59 -0400

Fellow Exoticians,

As I sit back and luxuriate in Teisco Del Rey's surfy cover of "Theme to
Lawrence of Arabia" I began to wonder.  If we toss in the hit covers
(Ferrante & Teicher, Al Caiola, etc.) would you say that the 60s had the
greatest number of crossover hits from films?  I'm not talking about
musicals, but songs drawn from original musical scores.  What say ye?

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Your Follow Up to SHOT IN THE DARK
Date: 24 Aug 1996 22:00:01 -0400

Since I rate the aesthetic success of Del-Fi's SHOT IN THE DARK Mancini
tribute to be quite high, I've been pondering what would be a worthy follow
up.  Personally I'd like to see a similar lineup of bands doing nothing but
Exotica covers (I suppose we could limit it to just Les Baxter, but I'd
really like to hear Jim Thomas of the Mermen attempt approximating Yma
Sumac's voice).  What genre or composer or theme would you most like to see
covered by today's instrumental (surf, lounge, swing, other) bands?   I
realize that the tribute album is a played out concept, but with the early
Nino Rota tribute by Hal Wilner and the recent Mancini tribute, I think that
the concept is still viable when handled properly.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Loungey Dino movies...
Date: 24 Aug 1996 22:18:50 -0400

...more on Matt Helm.

Elmer Bernstein did the great score for THE SILENCERS (Vicki Carr does the
sultry/cheesy vocal number).

co-star Janice Rule?  She played the bitch in the recently discussed BELL,
BOOK AND CANDLE (which I rented solely on the basis of the Exotic chat.  The
Zodiac Club did not disapoint.  Can't go wrong with the Candoli Brothers.).

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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: "Ipcress File" question
Date: 24 Aug 1996 21:30:44 -0700

What instrument provides the twangy, metallic melody line on John Barry's
theme to the film, "The Ipcress File"?

Brad Bigelow
[e-mail]

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Ipcress File" question
Date: 25 Aug 1996 00:12:18 -0500

> What instrument provides the twangy, metallic melody line on John Barry's
> theme to the film, "The Ipcress File"?

from the cover:
"His effects are striking, urgent, compulsive, sinister - and even
haunting - and are achieved through the use of a harp, flutes and the
unusual Hungarian instrument called the cymbalum."

This is an unbelievably beautiful record.  Same theme done at a
variety of tempos with different lead instruments.  In stereo, it's
one of the few records in my collection that makes me wish I had an
expensive turntable.


kevin king
[e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: More Whistling/Sitar/Wordless rekkids
Date: 24 Aug 1996 21:24:28 +0000

Great record that is as great as any of the Bob Thompson Orch and Chorus on RCA.
Benny Golson was a really important tenor sax stylist in the 50's and
played it all in it's most perfect form of jazz music.

I don't know what happened here but this is one hip disk.  It's called Tune
In and Turn On: The Hippest TV Commercials of the 60's.
Wordless vocals BIG TIME, pop electric saxaphone that be phunkay and
electric guitars on titles for TV commercials like Cool Whip, Poloroid
Swinger, No Matter What Shape, oh yeah..whistling too!!!  5 Stars!!!
_________________________________________________
45 RPM of Blue Cheer that are 2 cuts from their Original Human Being lp in
?? late 60's with Babaji(Twilight Raga).  Electric psych sitar rock.
Very cool

Jack



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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Ipcress File" question
Date: 25 Aug 1996 09:56:43 -0700

kevin king wrote:
>
> "His effects are striking, urgent, compulsive, sinister - and even
> haunting - and are achieved through the use of a harp, flutes and the
> unusual Hungarian instrument called the cymbalum."

Doh!  Geez, I watched a guy play the cymbalum on the street while in San
Francisco earlier this month and failed to make the connection.

By the way, I contacted another list member, Tony Wilds, and he promises
to tell me where the good thrift stores in Baltimore are.

On the same note, I notice Second Story has another $1 a record sale on
through Labor Day.  And the current issue of Goldmine (the one with the
Staple Singers on the cover) has a bunch of "clearance sale" ads with
good buys on exotica items.  I put an order in with one guy--most about
$2:  I'll see if it's legit.

I picked up extra copies of Leo Diamond's "Exciting Sounds from Romantic
Places" and Enoch Light's "Future Sound Shock," if you're interested.

Brad

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From: Cartoonik <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Ipcress File" question
Date: 25 Aug 1996 09:09:03 -0700

At 12:12 AM 8/25/96 -0500, Kevin says:


>This is an unbelievably beautiful record.  Same theme done at a
>variety of tempos with different lead instruments.  In stereo, it's
>one of the few records in my collection that makes me wish I had an
>expensive turntable.


I could not agree more!  My favorite John Barry record.  1965 British film
starring Michael Caine as a crook turned secret agent.  The theremin laced
"Billion Dollar Brain" was a sequel.  For those of you not lucky enough to
have this beautiful Decca record, I have seen it available as an import
CD...but it's a little pricey at, if I remember right, about thirty bucks...


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: [Fwd: Exoticommercial...need help identifying!]
Date: 25 Aug 1996 10:50:13 -0600

Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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Here's a commercial I've been trying to identify the music for for over
two years now. A couple of years ago Little Ceasar's Pizza ran a wacked
out featuring a conga line that even had a poodle in it. I had a great
conga number in the playing. I've even called their ad agency, and they
had no idea what the song was. Any guesses?

[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: jonathon coming to NYC
Date: 25 Aug 1996 13:23:12 -0400 (EDT)

Jonathon

I can not reach you through your email address.  Please write directly to
[e-mail] about your New York City trip.

Sorry to bother all others on the list.

Cherie
[e-mail]
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From: [e-mail] (ENJOY)
Subject: Schulmadchen
Date: 26 Aug 1996 02:07:32 +0800

Does anyone know of an online store where i can get a cd copy "The
Shulmadchen Report" & "The Super Sounds Of Bosworth"?

Bobby



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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: WKPS playlist
Date: 25 Aug 1996 13:04:55 -0400

WKPS is back on the air for fall semseter.  The Lounge Show is Saturdays
11am - 1pm.  That's kinda early, but maybe it will reduce the chance of
being pre-empted for sports coverage.

There was no theme this week.  Just an introduction; played lots of the big
names.

WKPS Lounge Show Playlist 8/24/96
*Esquivel - Lullaby of Birdland - Cabaret Manana - RCA
*Don Swan & His Orch - Hooray For Hollywood (Cha-Cha) - UL2: Mambo Fever -
Capitol
 Living Guitars - Wives & Lovers - Music from Pink Panther & Other Hits - Camden
*Steve Allen - You're So Influential - Plays Hi-Fi Music For Influentials -
Varese
*Martin Denny - The Girlfriend of the Whirling Dervish - UL 1: Mondo Exotica
- Capitol
*Yma Sumac - Xtabay - Sampler - Right Stuff
*The 3 Suns - Danny's Inferno - CM1: Bachelor's Guide - Rhino
 Riz Ortolani & Nino Oliviero - Ragazze e Marinai - st: Mondo Cane - United
Artists
 Frank Sinatra - Love Is Here To Stay - One More For the Road - Capitol
*Harry Zimmerman Big Band - Orchids In the Moonlight - Shaken Not Stirred -
HiFi/Rykodisc
*Mel Torme - 42nd Street - CM3: Swingin Singles - Rhino
 Abbe Lane - Whatever Lola Wants - Bob &Ray Throw A Stereo Spectacular -
Classic (RCA reissue)
*Desi Arnaz & His Orch - Straw Hat Song - Babalu - RCA
 Al Stefano & His Orch - Jungle Drums - Rhumba Favorites - Golden Tone
*Emil Richards' Yazz Band - Friday the 13th - Yazz Per Favore - Del-Fi
 Henry Mancini - Latin Golightly - st: Breakfast At Tiffany's - RCA Victor
 Sergio Mendes & Brazil 66 - Like A Lover - Look Around - A&M
 Francis Lai - Samba Saravah - st: Un Homme et Une Femme - United Artists
*Walter Wanderley - Agua De Beber - Samba Swing! - Scamp
 Herb Alpert & Tijuana Brass - Flea Bag - Family Portrait - A&M
*John Shakespeare Orch - Mucho Mexico Seven-O - The Easy Prjoect - Sequel
*Syd Dale - The Penthouse Suite - The Sound Gallery - Scamp
 Lawrence Welk - Spooky - Love Is Blue - Ranwood
*Les Baxter - Soolaimon - Que Mango! - Scamp
*Sounds Orchestral - Kissy Suzuki - Meets James Bond - Sequel
 John Barry - On Her Majesty's Secret Service - James Bond's Greatest Hits - EMI
 John Barry - Bond Back In Action Again - Goldfinger - United Artists
*Ennio Morricone - Il Giardino Belle Delizie - A Fistful of Film Music - Rhino
*101 Strings - Karma Sitar - Astro Sounds... - Scamp
*Vampires' Sound Incorporation - Drge CX9 - Vampyros Lesbos - Motel
*City of Westminster String Band - A Touch of Velvet - Sound Spectrum - Sequel
*Hollyridge Strings - Strawberry Fields Forever -Best of Beatles Songbook -
Varese
 Sammy Davis Jr. - Talk To the Animals - Greateset Hits - Reprise
*Cy Coleman - Pussycat - UL8: Cocktail Capers - Capitol
 Marilyn Monroe - I Wanna Be Loved By You - Music To Remember... - United
Artists
*Andy Williams - Baby Doll - I Like Your Kind Of Love - Varese
*John Barry - Farrago - EMI Years Vol 1 - Scamp
*Eden Ahbez - Mongoose - Eden's Island - Del-Fi
 Burt Bacharach - Promises, Promises - Make It Easy On Yourself - A&M

(* means source is CD, st  = soundtrack, CM = Cocktail Mix, UL = Ultra Lounge)
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From: " /  dave  / "  <[e-mail]>
Subject: What, a sale?
Date: 25 Aug 1996 15:55:40 -0500 (CDT)

Say, if anyone's interested, I've got a small list of things to sell. Email me
if you'd like to have a look - some Enoch Light, Ferrante & Teicher (the good
ones), Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, a couple of soundtracks...

The list'll be ready later this evening, after I've finished painting & watered
all the plants.

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Subject: Re: WKPS playlist
Date: 25 Aug 1996 17:18:38 -0400 (EDT)

What frequency and where can we hear WKPS?



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: "Ipcress File" question
Date: 25 Aug 1996 18:06:38 -0400

At 09:09 AM 8/25/96 -0700, you wrote:
>I could not agree more!  My favorite John Barry record.  1965 British film
>starring Michael Caine as a crook turned secret agent.  The theremin laced
>"Billion Dollar Brain" was a sequel.  For those of you not lucky enough to
>have this beautiful Decca record, I have seen it available as an import
>CD...but it's a little pricey at, if I remember right, about thirty bucks...

I have been looking for this one on CD for qiute some time.  Where can I get
it?

"The Ipcress File" was the first in the Harry Palmer trilogy that Michael
Caine starred in.  Then came "Funeral in Berlin" and "Billion Dollar Brain"
which followed.  Well done spy films.

Bryan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Exoticommercial...need help identifying!]
Date: 25 Aug 1996 18:09:46 -0400

At 10:50 AM 8/25/96 -0600, you wrote:
>Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
>Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 18:25:52 -0600
>From: [e-mail]
>Reply-To: [e-mail]
>X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC)
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Exoticommercial...need help identifying!
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>Here's a commercial I've been trying to identify the music for for over
>two years now. A couple of years ago Little Ceasar's Pizza ran a wacked
>out featuring a conga line that even had a poodle in it. I had a great
>conga number in the playing. I've even called their ad agency, and they
>had no idea what the song was. Any guesses?
>

Hasn't this question been asked a bunch of times before?  Or am I just
seeing this same post over and over again?


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Record Store Beefs
Date: 25 Aug 1996 18:24:13 -0400

At 02:12 PM 8/23/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Is anyone else out there fed up with record stores? I'm amazed at how
>poorly many are organized and was a little shocked, for example, at the
>confusion I found at a recent visit to the Virgin Megastore store in New
>York. Despite a sizeable selection and large staff, each and every item on
>my list was unavailable, on order, out of stock, or somewhere in the store
>but no one quite knew where to find it. When Icomplained to the manager, he
>gave me some sad excuse about having to do a complete inventory check that
>week, which missed the point really since my beef was more with the way the
>music was catagorized and displayed than with availability per se.

Yeah record stores blow dick, big time.  Once in awhile you'll get great
help by someone dedicated but they've become the exception and not the rule.
I thought the Virgin megastores were probably the better of the bunch,
although Border's tries hard, but usually doesn't come through.

>
>I'm guessing that many of you have experienced the same frustration, with
>so much of the music in the exotica or lounge genre being hard to
>catagorize and therefore harder to locate in a store that, for example, put
>Johnny Hartman's CD's in the vocal section but his album with John Coltrane
>in the jazz section. One store I know of still keeps some of its CD lounge
>compilations n the techno dance section.

Because they don't know what the music is.  They are clueless...

>
>What I would like to see is a dependable on-line CD order house that can
>accomodate virtually any request without charging absurd postage and
>handling charges or premium prices for CD's that they know are hard to come
>by in most outlets. I suppose that contravenes the spirit of supply and
>demand, but I'm sure there's a better and cheaper way to handle CD sales
>than those I have seen so far.

You are gonna pay the absurd postage, no matter what.  Part of that postage
is profit, disguised as a postage charge.  It should be illegal to be that
deceptive, but the buggers get away with it.  Pure bullshit, but hey, they
know you want the disc bad enough and you are willing to pay.  There is a
place on the web called Music by E-Mail.  I don't have their web site or
phone # handy but I can for you later.  The guy who runs it is more
reasonable than most.

Bryan


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: heady persuasiveness
Date: 25 Aug 1996 19:24:54 -0400

The ghost in the holy trinity of reasons to dig kooky old LPs is liner
notes. "Surrender" [WB 1376 --gotta love WB for recommending LPs on other
labels] is a good example of effective interplay among notes, art, and music.

Each side of the jacket has a "From Here to Eternity" scene, and in each
photo the surf-swept blonde has eyes closed and mouth open. Either a crab's
pinching her, or it's passed the point of surrender, way. Did they perhaps
just listen to "an aphrodesiac of favorite songs from Hawaii irresistibly
performed by The Outriggers"?

Clearly, the Art Dept is over-compensating, and the notes reveal for what:
"The Outriggers' gentle steel and rhythm guitar, their joyful ukuleles,
their warm rhythmic instruments, and the heady persuasiveness of their
Hammond organ...all merge into a lush sound, one perfect to dance to, dream
to, and Surrender to."

Ukes and organ get 'em every time. Aloha.
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From: Basic Hip <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Ipcress File" question
Date: 25 Aug 1996 19:35:00 -0700


>I have been looking for this one on CD for qiute some time.  Where can I get
>it?

To Bryan and others interested:

The Ipcress File is available on CD at Intrada in San Francisco.  They
specialize in souindtracks and do mail order.  They have a web page with a
complete catalog listing.

The address is:  http://members.aol.com/intradanet/intrada.htm
The phone number is [phone]

They also have things like Bullitt and Mancini's The Party.  Many more.
Tons-o-Godzilla scores.  The Ipcress File is listed at (ouch) 34.99.

There ya go.....


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From: [e-mail] (Jonny.S)
Subject: Re: "Ipcress File" question
Date: 25 Aug 1996 19:13:10 -0500

Hammer Dulcimer. Looks kind of like a Zither, but the strings are seperated by
two bridges dividing the strings into three sections. It's played with two
small wooden mallets.
Jonny Sender


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From: [e-mail] (Thom S. Heileson)
Subject: Your Follow Up to SHOT IN THE DARK
Date: 25 Aug 1996 21:02:11 -0700

>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: Your Follow Up to SHOT IN THE DARK
>
>What genre or composer or theme would you most like to see
>covered by today's instrumental (surf, lounge, swing, other) bands?   I
>realize that the tribute album is a played out concept, but with the early
>Nino Rota tribute by Hal Wilner and the recent Mancini tribute, I think that
>the concept is still viable when handled properly.

Bond themes comes to mind!! Has this been done recently? The themes could
be covered "with a twist" by bands like Combustible Edison and the like,
but also by non-lounge bands...  (Barry Adamson comes to mind, though he's
already done his Bond theme on the "Soul Murder" album...) Hm, howbout
Bjork doing "Goldfinger"?... Stereolab try their hands at "You Only Live
Twice"?... Nine Inch Nails (!) at "Live and Let Die"?... Debbie Harry at
the theme from "The Spy Who Loved Me"?... and countless other tasty
combinations...

HyperEllipsisly yours...


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From: " /  dave  / "  <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Turnabout LPs: Mimaroglu, Carlos, Cage
Date: 25 Aug 1996 23:00:53 -0500 (CDT)

One small but interesting addendum to the earlier discussion re. electronica and
Ilhan Mimaroglu: Mr. Mimaroglu is the son-in-law of Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder
and long-time head of Atlantic Records.

That's all, courtesy of my associate in the Polar Bear Club organization, Mr.
Smith.

dave

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From: Kevin <[e-mail]>
Subject: lalo schiffrin
Date: 26 Aug 1996 00:45:50 -0400 (EDT)

hi,
sorry if i misspelled his name.  i came across some lalo's jazz,
non-soundtrack lp's.  i passed them up, actually.  was this a mistake?
i forgot titles of course.

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From: Bruce Rhodewalt <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: What, a sale?
Date: 25 Aug 1996 21:52:31 -0700

/ dave / wrote:
>
> Say, if anyone's interested, I've got a small list of things to sell. Email me
> if you'd like to have a look - some Enoch Light, Ferrante & Teicher (the good
> ones), Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, a couple of soundtracks...
>
> The list'll be ready later this evening, after I've finished painting & watered
> all the plants.
>
> dave

I presume you'll be painting the roses red, since that's how the Queen
likes them.

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From: [e-mail] (Keith Doyle)
Subject: Re: What, a sale?
Date: 25 Aug 1996 22:11:22 PDT


I'd be interested in any Tiki Room stuff, please mail me the
list...


BTW, Mail to [e-mail] bounced....


Keith Doyle
[e-mail]

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Subject: Re: What, a sale?
Date: 26 Aug 1996 02:57:52 -0500 (CDT)

Keith wrote:
> BTW, Mail to [e-mail] bounced....

Note: it's "arouet", not "arounet"...

BTW, Voltaire's surname (Francois Marie Arouet, 1694-1778)

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From: [e-mail] (Keith Doyle)
Subject: Re: What, a sale?
Date: 26 Aug 1996 01:20:09 PDT



>Note: it's "arouet", not "arounet"...

Oops.  Somehow I just saw "net" in there, otherwise unfamiliar
with the name.  Better not ask me to pronounce it either...

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From: " /  dave  / "  <[e-mail]>
Subject: "Ooh... Feel it!"
Date: 26 Aug 1996 04:20:14 -0500 (CDT)

One of the LPs that arouet would like to reissue is Comfort Me With Apples by
India Adams, circa 1959... one of the sexiest, slinkiest LPs I've yet to come
across from the list of long-forgotten releases from the 50s ('59, to be exact).

From the liner notes: "...a provocative quality in her voice which suggests a
girl who could be bad but never be sad... a gal who could walk out, but could
never be walked out on." India was the voice of Joan Crawford in the film Torch
Song and the voice of Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon. She's featured on the
cover of her LP in a large white "bowl" overflowing with apples, with a pitcher
of cream nearby...

The spectacular space-age pop arranging (it is *really* good) is by none other
than Ray Martin, and along with his orchestra, she does sultry versions of "A
Man In My Pocket", "Once More With Feeling" (in which she actually squeals, but
in a sort of sublime, sophisticated way), "Evig Evol", and the kicker, "It's
Silk" - which she begins by intoning:

"There's nothing like a new dress to make you feeeeeeel like a new man!"

..goes on a bit about how it feels, it's so sheer, etc. and ends with:

"There's nothing like a new man to make you feeeeeeel like a new dress!"

This scratchy LP (and it is scratchy!) is definitely one of the standout
purchases of recent memory, and for all of $2. Has anyone heard of any other
releases? Ever seen any 45s, etc.? If you know anything about Ms. Adams, please
tell us...

dave

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From: "Joerg Nijmeijer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Record Store Beefs
Date: 26 Aug 1996 14:33:56 +0000

emmmmmm .....

I'm working at a record store / distributor / label / mailorder,
so my opinion about this topic might not be too objective ... ;O)


I think, there are big differences between recordstores.
There are the big ones, yours is Virgin Megastore, ours is called
Saturn. Hell of a lot of chart-displays, thousands of different
(mainstream-)releases, noone to ask, but cheapest possible
prices. I buy there when I know what I'm looking for, if they got
it: okay, if not I look or order somewhere else.
And there are the smaller, the specialty shops, the vinyl dealers,
the DJ stores. These guys know what they sell, I can listen to
the stuff before purchasing it, I can order records of which they
didn't heard before, I have a chat, a coffee and a smoke.
And - I pay higher prices. They have to charge more for a record
and I'm okay with it. I haven't heard of someone yet, who made the
big bucks with a small recordstore.

And concerning the mentioned absurd postage:
After I started posting a new-releases-list available through our
sales-department, dozens of people mailed every week asking
for international mailorder. We do a limited mailorder for a long
time now, but not on a, let's say  "professional" basis,
I tried to find out about  the possibilities of
establishing an international mailorder.
To give you an idea about the postage we have to pay to the
german post: shipment costs for 1kg (4 LPs) to
the USA are DM 48,- (that's about 36 US-Dollars). Just shipment
costs. For 4 LPs. No payment-handling included.
1kg to the UK is about 27 US-Dollars.
Cash On Delivery is possible just for a few countries (the limit
for Ireland is 49 Dollars, btw), so we could only accept credit-cards
and have to pay the fee for that.

So for us, there would be no profit disguisable as postage ...


We're still trying to find a solution for that, maybe shipping from
branchoffices in different countries, establish cooperations
with other companies or whatever.
But with all the work a mailorder-department would create
(catalogues (about 100 new releases every week), mailings,
shipment, moneytransfer, ads, phone, whatever), there's not
much profit in an average mail-order of about 5 or 10 records.

So, I could blame the big stores for the way the sell records -
but they're just supermarkets and that's what they want to be.
I could blame the shops for their prices - but with the limited
amounts they sell no other price would be possible.
I could blame the mailorder-companies for the postage they charge -
but do they really do that for the profit ?


I think, there's a big variety for us to buy records from (at least
for us living urban areas ...) : big stores, small shops, mailorder,
fleemarket, whatever - that's one of the few good things about
capitalism for me ... :o)


joerg


On 25 Aug 96 at 18:24, [e-mail] wrote:
> At 02:12 PM 8/23/96 -0500, you wrote:
> >Is anyone else out there fed up with record stores? I'm amazed at
> >how poorly many are organized and was a little shocked, for
> >example, at the confusion I found at a recent visit to the Virgin
> >Megastore store in New York. Despite a sizeable selection and large
> >staff, each and every item on my list was unavailable, on order,
> >out of stock, or somewhere in the store but no one quite knew where
> >to find it. When Icomplained to the manager, he gave me some sad
> >excuse about having to do a complete inventory check that week,
> >which missed the point really since my beef was more with the way
> >the music was catagorized and displayed than with availability per
> >se.
>
> Yeah record stores blow dick, big time.  Once in awhile you'll get
> great help by someone dedicated but they've become the exception and
> not the rule. I thought the Virgin megastores were probably the
> better of the bunch, although Border's tries hard, but usually
> doesn't come through.
>
> >
> >I'm guessing that many of you have experienced the same
> >frustration, with so much of the music in the exotica or lounge
> >genre being hard to catagorize and therefore harder to locate in a
> >store that, for example, put Johnny Hartman's CD's in the vocal
> >section but his album with John Coltrane in the jazz section. One
> >store I know of still keeps some of its CD lounge compilations n
> >the techno dance section.
>
> Because they don't know what the music is.  They are clueless...
>
> >
> >What I would like to see is a dependable on-line CD order house
> >that can accomodate virtually any request without charging absurd
> >postage and handling charges or premium prices for CD's that they
> >know are hard to come by in most outlets. I suppose that
> >contravenes the spirit of supply and demand, but I'm sure there's a
> >better and cheaper way to handle CD sales than those I have seen so
> >far.
>
> You are gonna pay the absurd postage, no matter what.  Part of that
> postage is profit, disguised as a postage charge.  It should be
> illegal to be that deceptive, but the buggers get away with it.
> Pure bullshit, but hey, they know you want the disc bad enough and
> you are willing to pay.  There is a place on the web called Music by
> E-Mail.  I don't have their web site or phone # handy but I can for
> you later.  The guy who runs it is more reasonable than most.
>
> Bryan
>
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Audrey
Date: 26 Aug 1996 08:52:07 -0400

The CD is released by Sony and it's called The Music Of Audrey Hepburn (I
think) and what they have done is take the version Audrey sings while
strumming the guitar from the actual film soundtrack of "Breakfast" - I
believe the rest iof the CD are other orchestral versions not the orignal
versions of other theme music from Audrey Hepburn's films (but I'll have to
check as it's been a while since I've seen this one).

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: "Ooh... Feel it!"
Date: 26 Aug 1996 09:25:45 -0400

is arouet a real or imaginary label?  If it's real, is an India Adams CD
reissue seriously being considered?

Ben
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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: "Ooh... Feel it!"
Date: 26 Aug 1996 09:59:17 -0400

>One of the LPs that arouet would like to reissue is Comfort Me With Apples by
>India Adams, circa 1959... one of the sexiest, slinkiest LPs I've yet to come
>across ......The spectacular space-age pop arranging (it is *really* good)
>is by none other
>than Ray Martin

And the title track was composed by fab Vic Mizzy (Addams Family, Green
Acres, and myriad other mid-60's TV soundtracks)

> Has anyone heard of any other
>releases?

None are listed in the old Schwann catalogs I have.

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From: [e-mail] (Joe Batutis)
Subject: Korla Pandit
Date: 26 Aug 1996 10:13:31 -0400

About Korla...

I did enjoy Korla's Exotica 2000... how would you compare this release with the
two-fer Korla reissue that people are bashing?

-Joe B.

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From: Burning Petals Music <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Ipcress File" question
Date: 26 Aug 1996 16:02:47 +0000

Now might be a good time for me to jump in, as I play Hammer Dulcimer.
I'm a professional musician of about 8 years, but have only been playing
the Dulcie for about a year.  For many years I knew the sound (from the
likes of Barry's "Ipcress File" & "From Russia With Love" and the many
soundalike instruments such as the autoharp often used by Mancini), but
I never knew what it was. Somehow, last summer, I discovered what it was
and tracked down the only fulltime Hammer Dulcimer maker in the country
(this is the UK BTW); he told me about a Dulcimer weekend taking place
in a castle in Wales so I booked myself in.

It was a wonderful weekend, and the sound of 20-30 dulcimers all playing
together is amazing !  I'm still no virtuoso on it, but I'm getting
there .... and anyway it's a great looking instrument - a real
conversation point when I go to recording studios.

Hope you found this interesting,

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From: David Bailey <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: loungey commercials
Date: 26 Aug 1996 08:34:11 +0000

>What were the spy flicks that Dino used to make?  As I recall, they were
>pretty loungy.
>Jay Watterworth

Matt Helm!!! Read the biography "DINO" by Nick Tosches (sp?) its hip and
sleazy....

David
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Exoticommercial...need help identifying!]
Date: 26 Aug 1996 12:24:45 -0400

Yes, this question has been here many times. GOD, I wish I knew the
answer!!!!
Gloria

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From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: lalo schiffrin
Date: 26 Aug 1996 13:57:34 -0400

At 12:45 AM 26/08/1996 -0400, you wrote:
>hi,
>sorry if i misspelled his name.  i came across some lalo's jazz,
>non-soundtrack lp's.  i passed them up, actually.  was this a mistake?
>i forgot titles of course.


Schiffrin had a really swinging jazz period to his writing in the early
'60s.  My favorite cover of any Schiffrin tune is Jimmy Smith's "The Cat".

Must be heard to be beleived.  Almost like standing in Casino Royale in
between the Herb Alpert sets...

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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: Re: Audrey HEPburn
Date: 26 Aug 1996 12:02:35 -0400

     When was THIS put out and by whom?  Sounds like a promo item.


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>special-edition Breakfast at Tif's soundtrack package that comes in a white
>box, with long eveningwear gloves and other goodies.

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: name for "joe?"
Date: 26 Aug 1996 14:36:23 -0400

                      name for "joe?"                              8/26/96

Joe, if you like crime jazz...you could be TV-ACTION JOE...
Lounge"i hope that' s not too lame" Laura
"It' s just my nature to do weird stuff..."
[e-mail]

J
Joe "find me a Lounge Moniker" in Toronto


How's the name for that uncreative Patrick Cashin goin' btw?


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From: "D.J. Johnson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Korla Pandit
Date: 26 Aug 1996 11:50:09 -0700 (PDT)



 Here's a strange one.  My grandmother passed away last year, and among
the things she left to me were around 150 video tapes.  Mostly movies she
recorded on blanks over the years, but several pre-recorded tapes as well.
99% of the pre-recorded tapes were boring, so I've been recording over
them little by little.  So last night I needed a tape, and I reached into
the pre-recorded tape box and pulled out this thing called "Korla Pandit
- The Hollywood Years."  What a freakin' trip this thing is!  The box
says these are recordings of his 1949 TV show.  Very strange stuff indeed.
Anybody know anything about this tape?  Is it common?  Rare?  It's put
out by Showcase Productions in Chuluota, Fla.  I'm so new to this stuff
that it could be the most common tape in the world and I'd never have
heard of it.  Any clues?

Deej

PS - Was this guy stranger than fiction, or what?!


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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: FLORIDA MUSICIANS PLEASE RE
Date: 26 Aug 1996 15:35:04 -0400

Lounge Laura here!
Are there any musicians living in Central Florida who would like to get an
exotica-lounge combo thang together? As many of you know, I have a Theremin,
a Moog prodigy, and I sing...My current band iz splitzville and I don't want
to rust...I'd like to do anything from serious cool lounge to something sorta
Nick Cave or Bongwater-like...
p-s:  I also like punk and garage...
Let me know and make my day...
[e-mail]


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From: "Anton J. Elmquist" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Latecomer on the quick survey
Date: 26 Aug 1996 16:12:52 -0400

I've been looking your way long enough; I *really* ought to introduce
myself...

> 1.  What is your name?
J. Anton Elmquist - or "Two-Door"

> 2.  How old are you?
27

> 3.  What is your major occupation/avocation?
Techno-geek, Bass player, etc.

> 4.  What is your favorite album cover?
"Party Music" - dunno the label, as it belongs to my friend Steve, but
there's a fine dame surrounded by cats tryin' to offer her a light -
tres cool.

> 5.  Pretend you're the booking agent for your favorite/fantasy
 lounge/exotica-type club.  Money is no object and neither is
 life/death status of possible musicians.  How would you decorate
 your club, and more importantly, what 3 bands would you book for a
 dream night of entertainment?

Well, as Steve and I have already started in on the club, I'll describe
it. You descend a narrow wooden staircase to a room with white stone
walls and royal blue carpet. Dimly lit in shades of yellow and orange.
Small wooden stage in one corner. At far end of room, a leopard-skin
covered bar stretches from wall to wall. There are chairs and tables
scattered about - near the chaise lounge in a corner towards the stage
there's one of those little round 60's (70's?) Panasonic TV's that looks
like a UFO. Hey, I know this ain't really an answer - we only spent
about $600 on the place - but this place is for real, and it's in
Brooklyn!

The three bands? Well...

1. Roberto Firpo y su Quarteto

2. The organ player from Nye's Polonaise in Minneapolis (once heard her
play "Highway to Hell" - it was staggering.

3. My own band, of course - but only if the audience requests it.

> Do these 5 questions characterize us ?

But of course, darling. And try the mini beef wellingtons - they're
stu-PEN-dous...

- Anton


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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: THE ST.
Date: 26 Aug 1996 16:26:00 -0400

Who composed the music for the spy-TV show:
THE SAINT with Roger Moore?
Someone is *bond* to know!
Lounge Laura
[e-mail]
"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Record Store Beefs
Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:17:10 -0400

At 02:33 PM 8/26/96 +0000, you wrote:
>And concerning the mentioned absurd postage:
>After I started posting a new-releases-list available through our
>sales-department, dozens of people mailed every week asking
>for international mailorder. We do a limited mailorder for a long
>time now, but not on a, let's say  "professional" basis,
>I tried to find out about  the possibilities of
>establishing an international mailorder.
>To give you an idea about the postage we have to pay to the
>german post: shipment costs for 1kg (4 LPs) to
>the USA are DM 48,- (that's about 36 US-Dollars). Just shipment
>costs. For 4 LPs. No payment-handling included.
>1kg to the UK is about 27 US-Dollars.
>Cash On Delivery is possible just for a few countries (the limit
>for Ireland is 49 Dollars, btw), so we could only accept credit-cards
>and have to pay the fee for that.
>
>So for us, there would be no profit disguisable as postage ...

That may be true for international postage, but I was speaking of certain
domestic (U.S.) mail order companies like Bose Musical Express etc... that
charge $3.50-4.50 for shipment.  Bloody outrageous as far as I'm concerned,
especially when I think the postage is about $1.00 to $1.50 less than what
they charge.  I guess that's where the 'handling' charge comes in and that
there are plenty of desperate idiots out there willing to pay for it.

As far as international orders are concerned, there's no way in hell i'm
gonna pay $27.00 to $49.00 for SHIPMENT of LPs.  That's crazy!

IMOP,
Bryan


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: lalo schiffrin
Date: 26 Aug 1996 17:57:54 -0400

>i came across some lalo's jazz, non-soundtrack lp's.  i passed them up,
actually.  was this a mistake?
>
>kevin
>

That Mission Impossible intensity comes through elsewhere. Will part with
his "Marquis de Sade" (Verve stare-e-oh, gatefold) concept LP if you or
another wants.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Latecomer on the quick survey
Date: 26 Aug 1996 18:17:03 -0400 (EDT)


>
>Well, as Steve and I have already started in on the club, I'll describe
>it. You descend a narrow wooden staircase to a room with white stone
>walls and royal blue carpet. Dimly lit in shades of yellow and orange.
>Small wooden stage in one corner. At far end of room, a leopard-skin
>covered bar stretches from wall to wall. There are chairs and tables
>scattered about - near the chaise lounge in a corner towards the stage
>there's one of those little round 60's (70's?) Panasonic TV's that looks
>like a UFO. Hey, I know this ain't really an answer - we only spent
>about $600 on the place - but this place is for real, and it's in
>Brooklyn!
>

Where In Brooklyn????????????



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From: "Heileson, Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Voltaire
Date: 26 Aug 1996 14:32:00 PDT


>From: " /  dave  / "  <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: What, a sale?
>
>Note: it's "arouet", not "arounet"...
>
>BTW, Voltaire's surname (Francois Marie Arouet, 1694-1778)

Hm, I learned something new today! Where did the "Voltaire" moniker come
from?

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Who Bought This Stuff?
Date: 26 Aug 1996 13:47:13 -0400

     Michael Toth writes:

     <Yes... "THE CORPORATION: A Sound Musical Investment" --this is quite
     a nifty album. "Lonesome Road," "Lonely Rider," and "ya ta TA-ya ta TA
     (ya-ta TA-TA-TA)" are all personal favorites. There are some pretty
     wild things lurking among those late 60s Command/Project 3 releases,
     and a lot of it truly ROCKS in a really twisted sort of way.

     But the question that plagues me with so much of this stuff: who
     originally BOUGHT this record and what compelled them to spend money
     on it?! Boy if these used records could tell stories...>

     Well, I was around and buying records at this time (first 45: Louie
     Louie. First lp: Surfin' USA) and I can tell you it was NERDS! At
     least around my school/neighborhood. I was the A/V guys who were
     really interested in the stereo effects and showing off their woofers
     and tweeters and audio gear. All of which we were just *too cool* to
     have any interest in and all of which I now lust after.

     Happy Days,

     Craig

     PS: Does anyone know if the Command releases were priced the same as
     stuff from the majors (Capitol, Columbia etc)?



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From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Korla Pandit
Date: 26 Aug 1996 20:41:43 -0400

At 11:50 AM 26/08/1996 -0700, you wrote:


>  So last night I needed a tape, and I reached into
>the pre-recorded tape box and pulled out this thing called "Korla Pandit
>- The Hollywood Years."  What a freakin' trip this thing is!  The box
>says these are recordings of his 1949 TV show

By allthat's Holy, HOLD ONTO THAT TAPE!

> Very strange stuff indeed.

Ohh yeah...

>Anybody know anything about this tape?  Is it common?  Rare?

Ohh yeah...


> It's put out by Showcase Productions in Chuluota, Fla.

Small company ==Hard To Find...  Hang on tight...

Betcha didn't know yer Gramma was so hip...

>PS - Was this guy stranger than fiction, or what?!

Ohhh yeah.....

Joe"L'homme sans Moniker" in Toronto





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From: "Anton J. Elmquist" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Latecomer on the quick survey
Date: 26 Aug 1996 19:11:48 -0400

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> >
> >Well, as Steve and I have already started in on the club, I'll describe
> >it. You descend a narrow wooden staircase to a room with white stone
> >walls and royal blue carpet. Dimly lit in shades of yellow and orange.
> >Small wooden stage in one corner. At far end of room, a leopard-skin
> >covered bar stretches from wall to wall. There are chairs and tables
> >scattered about - near the chaise lounge in a corner towards the stage
> >there's one of those little round 60's (70's?) Panasonic TV's that looks
> >like a UFO. Hey, I know this ain't really an answer - we only spent
> >about $600 on the place - but this place is for real, and it's in
> >Brooklyn!
> >
>
> Where In Brooklyn????????????
>

Park Slope - but sorry, it ain't really a club. It's "Steve's Basement
Lounge" - and it's in Steve's basement. I've been waiting for our next
big cocktail party to invite NY listpeople over for a martini and a
mambo, but we've been too busy with the band to organize a truly
worthwhile soiree...

- Anton

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From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Audrey HEPburn
Date: 26 Aug 1996 20:37:54 -0400

At 12:02 PM 26/08/1996 -0400, you wrote:
>     When was THIS put out and by whom?  Sounds like a promo item.


>SNA-IP<

>
>>BTW, I haven't seen it, but a swanky friend of mine told me of a
>>special-edition Breakfast at Tif's soundtrack package that comes in a white
>>box, with long eveningwear gloves and other goodies.


I don't know about any evening gloves, but RCA/Paramount released a BatT
"Special Edition:" package similar to the limited editions Disney releases
for it's animated features.  It consisted of the video, the CD, and a colour
photostat of Audrey Hepbourn's script (complete with her handwritten notes).

This might be what your friend was thinking of...

Joe "No, I don't work for Paramount  -find me a decent Lounge Moniker" in
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Vik's Newsletter
Date: 26 Aug 1996 22:16:09 -0500

Hey there, swingers everywhere. Well, it has been quite a few weeks for
Vik. Thursdays continue to be a blow-out at Bar d'O. Many fine tunes and
special guests...look below for more details. Also, about and about
exploring the swankness of Manhattan with much to report in the coming
weeks. And finally, Mr. DePesto continues to re-decorate the lounge with
the bandstand next on the list...

Now, on with the show...
=============================================================
Spend A Night In Hi-Fi
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/bardo.html)

Jack Jerry and Scott continue to create the swankest Thursday night party
in the Big Apple. Now Vik has given them a room of their own at the lounge.
Drop by the who, what and where of the In Hi-Fi night. Recent weeks have
seen the appearance of the Exotica Lists Miss Anita, Regan from Venice CA.,
surf scribe Domenic Priore and (as the first international guest) Anthony
from Canada. Vik's chatting with the guys about a few special events...stay
tuned. And if you're in NYC on Thursdays, drop by and tell'em Vik sent you!
=============================================================
the hifi records table
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/hifi.html)

It may only be a table in the corner right now, but watch for a whole room
in the near future. Great things coming from these cats and kittens,
starting with the Oranj Symphonette and the mighty Arthur Lyman re-issues.

Drop by and play the bonus round of the "Name The Shaken Not Stirred Babe"
in the Casino and perhaps win a swell poster from the folks at Ryko!
=============================================================
Swank gathering with Bohemians...
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/galleri.html)

Vik was chatting with the ever hip Erik at Asphodel recently and discovered
future lounge superstar DJ Spooky will be doing a gallery show under his
alter-ego Paul D. Miller. The show will be at the Annina Nosei Gallery with
an opening on September 12th. Not "lounge" enough for you? Well, opening
mean at least cheap wine, and that's good enough for Vik!
=============================================================
Jet Set Inflight Entertainment -- Numero Uno and Subliminal Sounds
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/jet3.html)

Europe continues to swing that suave sound, and this week's addition to the
Jet Set stands as proof. From the fog shrouded streets of London come
Numero Uno -- Latin rhythms with a strong dose of EZ. Sweden (and the
ever-lovin' Stefan K.) brings you the exotic of Subliminal Sounds. This
label will be one to watch if the Bo Axelzon and Fabulous Fezmen V are any
evidence.

While enjoying the Inflight Entertainment, stop by Jet Set - Destinations
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/jet2.html) for new global swankness
including the September specials for KANU's Retro Cocktail Hour.
=============================================================
Henri books a Festival Francais
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/frfest.html)

With Vik taking Thursday's off to lounge at In Hi-Fi, Henri has taken the
opportunity to bring a touch of his beloved Paris to the lounge. Slip on
your finest black outfit, grab those Gitanes and drop by for a touch of
attitude on the bandstand. Currently featuring April March, France Gall and
the deliciously dark Mick Harvey with Anita Lane.
=============================================================
The Shadows, Martin Denny, Sound Gallery 2 and the irrepressible Scamp
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/scamp.html)

The crazy cats at Scamp are at it again! This time the swinging spaghetti
guitar sounds of The Shadows. And...at long last...the amazing follow-up to
The Sound Gallery -- The Sound Gallery 2!! Both arrive on September 10th.
Following on October 15th, Scamp releases the second Denny two-fer of
"Forbidden Island/Primitiva".

And...October will be Scamp month at Vik's. Expanded features, a new design
by Mr. DePesto and swank swag giveaways all month as Vik's salutes one of
the world's hipest labels!
=============================================================
You're In With The In-Crowd
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/incrowd.html)

Michael Toth delivers a report from his Enoch Light Birthday Celebration.
Look for a scrapbook from this swinging Ohio event in the near future.
Also, the winners of the "Shots In The Dark" essay contest, with the
prolific Mr. Toth taking grand prize!
=============================================================
The Casino Biscotti
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/casino.html)

"Name The Uncreative Guy On The Exotica List"
Vik's regular Patrick recently bemoaned his lack of a swinging lounge
nickname. Hating to see a creative guy down on his luck and nameless, Vik
got together with Joey Biscotti to give Patrick a hipster moniker. Simply
come up with a swell nickname and send it with you name and snail mail
address to [e-mail]. The name Patrick chooses will win a sealed
mono copy of Martin Denny's "Another Taste of Honey."

 "Name The Shaken Not Stirred Babe" goes into a bonus round. This time,
come up with the first name for the Shaken dame whose with the last name
"Fatale" (i.e., Femme Fatale). Winners receive a swell Shaken Not Stirred
poster suitable for framing in any bachelor or bachelorette pad. Send your
entry and snail mail to [e-mail].

The Ultra-Lounge/Pink Pussycat cocktail contest with only a few days left
to enter...

Vik's Survey drawing has been completed and packages are in the mail. Watch
the casino for a list of winners as soon as Vik figures out where he put
it...
=============================================================
Random cocktails and mixed nuts...

New additions everywhere at Vik's...check out the new selection of
cocktails at the bar (http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/bar.html). Always
on the lookout for news, Vik has gathered a few new releases for the new
release schedule (http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/newrel.html). Speaking
of news, Hot News For Swank Times has items on 4 new Sinatra re-issues, the
sultry Astrud Gilberto, the mystery of Stereo Cocktail, future lounge of
Sourcelab 2 and a swinging bunch o' kids! When leaving Vik's, drop by some
of the new locations the valet found for you
(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/valet.html).
============================================================================
COMING SOON>>>Marions NYC...The Future Sound Of Jazz...More Ultra
Lounge...Ethel Azama...
============================================================================


in swank,
Vik


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From: PooTGuRl <[e-mail]>
Subject: The St.
Date: 26 Aug 1996 19:22:31 -0700



>Who composed the music for the spy-TV show:
>THE SAINT with Roger Moore?
>Someone is *bond* to know!
>Lounge Laura

E. Astley did both "The Saint" and "Secret Agent".  What the heck is his
first name?  They are on RCA.

Simon Templar


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Batman!
Date: 26 Aug 1996 22:26:03 -0400


 > I collect Batman themes and I'd love to get a copy.

My three year old makes me play the only version of "Batman" that i have with
a vocal about once a week. It's by Sam Chalpin, a short old jewish guy who
can't sing at all.  It's on Atco and I assume it was their response to Mrs.
Miller.

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From: "Heileson, Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Voltaire
Date: 26 Aug 1996 14:32:00 PDT


>From: " /  dave  / "  <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Re: What, a sale?
>
>Note: it's "arouet", not "arounet"...
>
>BTW, Voltaire's surname (Francois Marie Arouet, 1694-1778)

Hm, I learned something new today! Where did the "Voltaire" moniker come
from?

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From: sberry <[e-mail]>
Subject: New Web Site For Hmmm... & The Continental Magazines
Date: 26 Aug 1996 19:38:42 -0700 (PDT)

Check Out The Web Page For Hmmm... & The Continental Magazines

Featuring information on Hmmm... magazine (issues #1-7) and the debut
issue of The Continental (due October 1st). We will soon be adding some
of the interviews and reviews we have done in the past, with groups such
as Los Straitjackets, The Posies, Mark Burgess, Electrafixion, Girl
Trouble, The Boss Martians, Man Or Astroman? and many others...

You can access it at: http://www.az.com/~sberry

Take a look and laugh at the lo-fi quality of the page. At least it loads
fast!!! Plus, it includes loads of links to cool pages with a little
more effort put into them.

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From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: lalo schiffrin
Date: 26 Aug 1996 22:55:31 -0400


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Joe Kilmartin [[e-mail]] wrote:

>Schiffrin had a really swinging jazz period to his writing
>in the early '60s.  My favorite cover of any Schiffrin tune
>is Jimmy Smith's "The Cat".
>
>Must be heard to be beleived.  Almost like standing in
>Casino Royale in between the Herb Alpert sets...

Recently heard via heavy sampling in Pizzicato Five's "Twiggy
Twiggy/Twiggy vs. James Bond."

Which leads me to a question I've been debating whether or not
to spring on the list. Well, here goes:

I got this idea to do a show around contemporary songs that
have samples from exotica, et al. I figured we'd play a snippet
from the song with the sample and then follow with the complete
version of the original. Thing is, my list is way too short for an
entire (1 hour) show. Here's most of it off the top of my head:

    Perrey & Kingsley - One Note Samba / Stereolab - ? (but I
        know someone that knows the song)
    Jimmy Smith/Oliver Nelson - The Cat / Pizzicato Five - Twiggy
        Twiggy
    Esquivel - Latinesque / Bjork - ? (it's the 1st or 2nd song on the
        Post album)
    Quincy Jones - Soul Bossa Nova / Dream Warriors - My Definition
    Lalo Schiffrin - Danube Incident / Portishead - Sour Times

    (I'm also considering the Evolution Control Comittee's
    "Whipped Cream Mixes" single where they neatly place
    Public Enemy raps smack on top of the Tijuana Brass.)

Yeah, you can see I've done exhaustive research on this subject.
Anyhow, I'd like to avoid the more obscure acts but I'm very open to suggestions.

Anyone?

Peter

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From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Latecomer on the quick survey
Date: 26 Aug 1996 23:15:09 -0400

At 07:11 PM 26/08/1996 -0400, you wrote:
>[e-mail] wrote:


>> Where In Brooklyn????????????
>>
>
>Park Slope - but sorry, it ain't really a club. It's "Steve's Basement
>Lounge" - and it's in Steve's basement. I've been waiting for our next
>big cocktail party to invite NY listpeople over for a martini and a
>mambo, but we've been too busy with the band to organize a truly
>worthwhile soiree...
>
>- Anton
>


Hmmmnnnn.... Martinis and mambo... Two great things that go great together....





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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: Re: WKPS playlist
Date: 26 Aug 1996 23:32:31 -0400

>From: [e-mail]
>What frequency and where can we hear WKPS?

It's 90.7FM, and can be heard in Central PA.  If you're not in the listening
area, I'm willing to trade tapes for mix tapes etc.

-Jordana
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: The Saint
Date: 26 Aug 1996 21:55:56 +0000

Who composed the music for the spy-TV show:
>THE SAINT with Roger Moore?

Edwin Astley

Jack



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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: myrna march?
Date: 27 Aug 1996 00:44:01 -0500 (CDT)


does anyone know anything about myrna march?  i recently found an album
of hers, "explosive vocal percussion," on the strand label.  sid pastner
seems to have done the arranging and conducting.  what's most interesting
about the recording is the awkward and clumsy (but charming) experiments
in "echo" and multitracking of the vocal.  i suspect this is simply a
cheap, quick product meant to capitalize on the percussion craze, but
somehow the record is appealing, due to myrna's patient but fun delivery.

thanks,
mark

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: exotipop show
Date: 27 Aug 1996 01:46:11 -0500

>     Perrey & Kingsley - One Note Samba / Stereolab - ? (but I
>         know someone that knows the song)

It's in "I'm Going Out of My Way" on Transient Random-Noise... where
they also use Strangers in the Night (Pack Yr Romantic Mind), The
Savers (Lock-Groove Lullaby) and samples from Channel Recognition
Phasing & Balance (Jenny Ondioline).  And don't forget Lucia Pamela
on International Colouring Contest from Mars Audiac Quintet!  Most of
the samples (any of the recognizable ones) are just intros or outros.

This may be way off target, but a mix that comes to mind right away
is an Erik Satie piano piece running head on into Malcolm McLaren's
Paris mixes.  The McLaren cd practically does just that, but - oh
well, just a thought.

btw, Stereolab's version of Get Carter is dy-no-MITE!!!


kevin king
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Tiki Cologne and What Happened To (was Re: Hai EZ Rum tiki ...)
Date: 27 Aug 1996 02:32:06 -0400

http://www.indieweb.com/

is the new address

Aloha
Otto von Stroheim
Tiki News

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From: Dave Lofquist <[e-mail]>
Subject: samples from exotica
Date: 27 Aug 1996 01:36:26 -0500 (CDT)

> I got this idea to do a show around contemporary songs that
> have samples from exotica, et al.

A timely example: Cibo Matto's "Beef Jerky" with the sample from Francis Lai's
"Live for Life"...

>     (I'm also considering the Evolution Control Comittee's
>     "Whipped Cream Mixes" single where they neatly place
>     Public Enemy raps smack on top of the Tijuana Brass.)

Yes, this is cool - it was begging to be done!

dave

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: myrna march?
Date: 27 Aug 1996 02:52:01 -0500

> does anyone know anything about myrna march?  i recently found an album
> of hers, "explosive vocal percussion," on the strand label.

Oh yeah!!  She's great.  Don't know anything about her past the liner
notes though.  There's a scan and sample of this at
http://www.radix.net/~xanadu/baby/baby   Sounds and looks like an
aging broadway star.  Leg Up!!


kevin

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Tiki Cologne and What Happened To (was Re: Hai EZ Rum tiki ...)
Date: 27 Aug 1996 02:32:06 -0400

http://www.indieweb.com/

is the new address

Aloha
Otto von Stroheim
Tiki News

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From: [e-mail] (John Jones)
Subject: Re: Beaver & Krause
Date: 27 Aug 1996 16:17:30 GMT

The Harrison album that you mentioned was in fact called "Electronic
Sound", and it was on the Zapple label.

John
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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Who Bought This Stuff?
Date: 27 Aug 1996 12:30:46 -0400


>      Does anyone know if the Command releases were priced the same as
>     stuff from the majors (Capitol, Columbia etc)?

Yes, indeed. According to the Schwann catalogs, Command shared the same
price structure of the era as the rest of the majors : $5.98 for stereo,
$4.98 for monophonic.

br cleve



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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Batman!
Date: 27 Aug 1996 12:30:49 -0400

>My three year old makes me play the only version of "Batman" that i have with
>a vocal about once a week. It's by Sam Chalpin, a short old jewish guy who
>can't sing at all.  It's on Atco and I assume it was their response to Mrs.
>Miller.

What a record! I've always assumed it was Atco's response to Mrs. Miller.
Do you have the 45 or the LP. The 45 is a different mix (god, why do I know
this stuff) and is superior to the LP version (which is still pretty
incredible). A dammy fine record in the so-bad-it's-good school.

br cleve



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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: RE: lalo schiffrin
Date: 27 Aug 1996 12:30:52 -0400

>I got this idea to do a show around contemporary songs that
>have samples from exotica, et al.

You could play the entire "Sacrebleu" album by Dimitri From Paris. The
whole thing is built on EZ samples, too numerous to mention here.

br cleve



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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Combustible Edison Itinerary
Date: 27 Aug 1996 12:30:59 -0400

Combustible Edison will be appearing at the following locales in the
upcoming weeks:

>>8/31    Mill City Music Fest
>>Minneapolis, MN

>>9/02    Bumbershoot Festival
>>Seattle, WA

>>9/03    Starfish Room
>>Vancouver, BC

>>9/04    1201 Cafe & Lounge
>>Portland, OR

>>9/06    Humpty's
>>Tahoe City, CA

>>9/07    The Agenda
>>San Jose, CA

>>9/10    El Rey Theatre
>>Los Angeles, CA

>>9/11    Casbah
>>San Diego, CA

>>9/13    Bimbo's
>>San Francisco, CA

>>9/15    Crocodile Cafe
>>Seattle, WA



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From: [e-mail] (Hugh Petfield)
Subject: Re: Command prices..
Date: 27 Aug 1996 20:26:57 +0100

> Craig wrote:
>
> PS: Does anyone know if the Command releases were priced the same as
>     stuff from the majors (Capitol, Columbia etc)?
>

According to the list in the back of my Schwann 1966 catalog,
which lists 50 albums by Enoch Light by the way, regular issues
on Capitol and Columbia were $3.79 (mono) and $4.79 (stereo),
whereas the price of Command albums was $4.79 (mono) and $5.79 (st).

Yes, those prices seem very low now, but maybe one's paycheck was
commensurately modest too....   Sigh.

Hugh

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From: [e-mail] (Hugh Petfield)
Subject: CD Prices
Date: 27 Aug 1996 20:26:57 +0100

Hi, I've been reading posts about the high cost of imports,
but don't know what you cool people in the USA pay for normal
CD issues these days.

For example, in our local HMV Store they have most soundtracks
marked up at 14.99 UK Pounds, which is about US $22.99.  New
CD releases are in the range equivalent to $20 - $24, and those
are local/European product.

Regarding imports from the USA, for example, the Capitol reissue
of Yma Sumac's "Legend of the Jivaro" is more expensive:
17.99 UK Pounds, or US $27.50.  I know her vocal range is extreme,
but almost a dollar per minute of running time is too.....
How much is this album in the States?

About the only bargain this side of the Pond is a series of CDs by
the 101 Strings.  Special UK  compilations, they have 20 - 22 tracks
on each, and are the equivalent of six US dollars.

Here's to a short but happy life,  Hugh.
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: CD and old LP prices
Date: 27 Aug 1996 16:48:26 -0400

All you CD buyers are insane. It's even worse abroad, although I got a "Best
of the Waikikis" cheaply in Antwerp. Those nasty little things ought to be
priced by the pound, much less than the cheapest vinyl. They're like bright,
shiny 45s without the one good song. Fully buying into the CD conspiracy is
like showing up at a muscle-car rally in a "souped-up" Ford Taurus -- a
total JOKE compared to the mighty, higher-torque, non-sampled Real Thing.
(Apologies noble producers like Rykodisc.) As the DJ's say after a glitch,
"Bring back vinyl."

Many or most old lps show the original selling price (usually the same as
the SRP). If not a department-store sticker on the front, then hand-written
(usually in pencil) on the back. Of course, an attentive dealer may remove
it. $4-$5 was a high price then, and it's high now for the majority of
Command records.

On the other hand, hunting for records you pay in time what you save in
money. Don't let this rant get you in a lather, and I won't let the plastic
get me down [much], as Sly Stone said.

Grumpily,
Tony Wilds


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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: samples from exotica
Date: 27 Aug 1996 16:05:03 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Dave Lofquist wrote:

> > I got this idea to do a show around contemporary songs that
> > have samples from exotica, et al.
>


in the eletronic music world, mike paradinas (alias musiq, jake
slazenger, and kid spatula) and atom heart (alias lisa carbon trio) have
used exotica samples--altho i've never identified the original sources
for these.  atom heart's machine paisley is actually a very good update
of 60s lounge (with a brief stop at early 80s electro) in the context of
spiky, messed up electronics (ala richard james, autechre, etc)

mark

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From: Dave Lofquist <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Command prices..
Date: 27 Aug 1996 16:30:24 -0500 (CDT)

> According to the list in the back of my Schwann 1966 catalog,
> which lists 50 albums by Enoch Light by the way, regular issues
> on Capitol and Columbia were $3.79 (mono) and $4.79 (stereo),
> whereas the price of Command albums was $4.79 (mono) and $5.79 (st).

This is actually really interesting. I've always had a really hard time figuring
out just exactly *who* bought these things (as was mentioned earlier).

It's hard enough trying to understand, in retrospect, what was involved in the
popularity of a lot of other "space-age pop" stuff, but the Command thing is
particularly curious. How were they marketed? How were they displayed in stores?
(etc.)

They were obviously really heavily promo-ed, which is the only possible
explanation for the vast quantity of them in excellent shape (many of them
promos, too) floating around in secondhand bins 30 years later.

Hmm.

dave

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Barbarian: Judy Harriet & Baxter
Date: 27 Aug 1996 17:41:19 -0400

As karmic inverse-punishment for the anti-CD screed, I get CDs and Les
Baxter's "Barbarian" in the mail (the latter setting a new record for price
paid). Now to drown out the guilt.

Speaking of Goliath & the Barbarians, there's a great old video of Judy
Harriet singing "Goliath" with clips of the movie. She was a mousketeer a la
Annette Funicello, but prettier (less comical) and a better singer (less
annoying).

Anyone know of Judy Harriett on vinyl? It's a favorite vid.

Tony Wilds


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From: Burning Petals Music <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: lalo schiffrin
Date: 27 Aug 1996 22:41:24 +0000

On Tue, 27 Aug 1996 12:30:52 -0400, Brother Cleve (a.k.a [e-mail]
(Brother Cleve)) wrote:

<< You could play the entire "Sacrebleu" album by Dimitri From Paris.
The whole thing is built on EZ samples, too numerous to mention here. >>

Is this album freely available ??  What label, etc


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: misanthropy 511 playlist
Date: 27 Aug 1996 17:54:08 -0500

MISANTHROPY 511--p.o.box 23093--detroit, mi 48223
e-mail: [e-mail]

PLAYLIST

ARTIST---------TITLE--------------------CD/CASS/LP--------LABEL

AUGUST 19, 1996

101 STRINGS----flame out----------------astro-sounds------SCAMP
MOEBIUS & PLANK-rastakraut pasta--------v.a. gyroscope sa.GYROSCOPE
PANASONIC------parturi------------------osasto------------BLAST FIRST
ARCANE DEVICE--feedback variations #143-v.a.perpetual state-ANOMALOUS
101 STRINGS----whiplash-----------------astro-sounds------SCAMP
SAND-----------helicopter---------------ultrasonic sera..UNITED DURTRO
CURRENT 93-----when the may rain comes--single-----------UNITED DURTRO
NURSE W/ WOUND-nana or a thing of uncer-v.a. elephant table-XTRACT
101 STRINGS----re-entry to mog----------astro-sounds------SCAMP
ROLAND KAYN----cybernetics 3------------v.a. avant garde--DEUTCHE GRAM
BERNHARD GUNTER-ecriture automatique---details agrandis--SELEKTION
J.DUNCAN/M.SPRINGER--the crackling------the crackling--TRENTE-OISEAUX
JOHN WATERMAN--a bewildering number brides-v.a. seedmouth-COLD SPRING

AUGUST 26, 1996

THE VENTURES---wipe-out-----------------ventures on stage-DOLTON
JACK KEROUAC---the beat generation------on beat generation-RHINO
CAGE/TUDOR-----9pm-10pm-----------------variations IV-----EVEREST
BERNHARD GUNTER-deceptive likeness-----un ocean certitude-V2 ARCHIEF
CRAWL UNIT-----tone study (revenge)-----v.a. no.ca.audio--POVERTECH
THE VENTURES---hawaii five-o------------hawaii five-o-----LIBERTY
EVOLUTION CONT-happen/grand/pollu/boop/be-double the phat-E.C.C.
YOKO ONO/IMA---rising(t. moore remix)---rising mixes------CAPITOL
LOOP CIRCUIT---sound on sound-----------sound on sound----G.R.O.S.S.
MOURNING CLOAK-honey mushrooms..--------in dreams you see-MINDFIELD
THE VENTURES---hernando╣s hideaway------mashed potatoes---DOLTON
MUSIQUE CONCRET-incidents rural places1-bringing up baby-UNITED DARIES
23 SKIDOO------mary╣s operation---------seven songs-------FETISH
BOYD RICE------side 1, track 1----------boyd rice---------MUTE
PGR------------horizontal---------------hole unknown depth-SILENT
PSYCHOPHYSICISTS-17.2 helical formation-psychophysicists--SIDE EFFECTS

RADIO MARABU, SEPTEMBER 1996

GEORGE SHEARING-love wise---------------blue chiffon------CAPITOL
MIKHAIL ATOM---n2-----------------------v.a. seedmouth----COLD SPRING
HANDS TO-------signal hill--------------cipher------------POVERTECH
101STRINGS-----flame out----------------astro sounds------SCAMP
J.DUNCAN/M.SPRINGER-the crackling-------the crackling--TRENTE OISEAUX
YEN POX--------desent-------------------blood music-------MALIGNANT
DOMINIC FRONTIERE-house of pleasure-----pagan festival----COLUMBIA
BERNHARD GUNTER-deceptive likeness------un ocean certitude-V2 ARCHIEF
COFFEE---------side 2-------------------7 inch------DESTROY ALL MUSIC
CRAWL UNIT-----untitled (7hz)-----------proprietary acous-POVERTECH
GANIM╣S ASIA MINORS-daddy lolo----------v.a. jungle exotica-STRIP
PGR------------asleep in the shadow-----flickering sowing time-RRR
SEVERED HEADS--all rights reserved------earbitten---------TERSE
RHYTHM & NOISE-monomenon----------------contents under notice-RALPH
COMBUSTIBLE EDISON-one eyed monkey------schizophonic------SUB POP
THOMAS KONER---andenes------------------teimo-------------BAROONI

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Command prices..
Date: 27 Aug 1996 18:16:16 -0400

>It's hard enough trying to understand, in retrospect, what was involved in the
>popularity of a lot of other "space-age pop" stuff, but the Command thing is
>particularly curious. How were they marketed? How were they displayed in
stores?

Comsumers used to learn and care about specs. Look what has become of the
audio component industry: less costs much more. Bring back the silver faceplate!

Mr. Chusid said it all in his space-age pop series (oops, CDs!): it's the
show-off your stare-ee-oh thing. As with sound effects records, generally
not much lasting soul sustenance. A Phil Ramone-produced record through a
single 5" car speaker, tho, that's livin'.

It's true what some HIFI LP note says about mono Lyman LPs: [even on a
low-fi turntable] the monaural sounds better than most good stereo records.
(I'll take stereo just the same.)


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From: Dave Lofquist <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: CD and old LP prices
Date: 27 Aug 1996 17:33:30 -0500 (CDT)

Tony Wilds wrote of CDs:
> Those nasty little things ought to be
> priced by the pound

That would certainly make things easier. Being a person who buys lots of vinyl
AND lots of CDs, I'm constantly stretched to the limit financially (and I know
I'm not alone) as I struggle to accomodate my craving for exotica LPs, Swedish,
Japanese & French indie-pop CDs, ambient & classical CDs, vintage jazz, 60s
soundtrack LPs, post-punk noisey stuff - especially now, as I realize that
there's very little in my budget for luxuries like food... so there'll be none
of that (food) for a while.

However, I've come up with the perfect temporary solution, which has relieved a
lot of the anxiety I used to feel as a result of the constant having to choose
between this LP or that CD: Just buy everything.

It's been working pretty well so far... (gulp)

dave

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From: Dave Lofquist <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: samples from exotica
Date: 27 Aug 1996 17:44:12 -0500 (CDT)

mark wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 1996, Dave Lofquist wrote:
>
> > > I got this idea to do a show around contemporary songs that
> > > have samples from exotica, et al.

Just to clarify - that nifty idea wasn't actually mine, as I was just quoting an
earlier message from --- ?

> in the eletronic music world, mike paradinas (alias musiq, jake
> slazenger, and kid spatula) and atom heart (alias lisa carbon trio) have
> used exotica samples--altho i've never identified the original sources
> for these.

There's a fair amount of exotica sampling going on in the world of contemporary
"electronica" (Future Sound of London comes to mind - ?), although it's so
fragmented at times that it can be really difficult to tell where things are
coming from. It makes perfect sense as an interesting new hybrid, though.

> spiky, messed up electronics (ala richard james, autechre, etc)
                                                   ^^^^^^^^
Autechre have changed everything. Someone should buy them a nice lunch.

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From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Re: Vik's Newsletter
Date: 28 Aug 1996 01:18:12 +0200 (MET DST)

Hiya Vik,
thanks for the attention. It looks great. :-)>Thanks.
Stefan/Subliminal Sounds


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Sam Chalpin
Date: 27 Aug 1996 19:38:49 -0400

>What a record! I've always assumed it was Atco's response to >Mrs. Miller.
>Do you have the 45 or the LP. The 45 is a different mix (god, >why do I know
>this stuff) and is superior to the LP version

I have the LP. I agree with you on your assessment of the album.  It's
amazing.
 I have friends who can't believe I own stuff like this - imagine what they
would say to you, knowing the fine distinction between the 45 and LP.

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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: samples from exotica
Date: 27 Aug 1996 18:48:02 -0600 (MDT)


>> in the eletronic music world, mike paradinas (alias musiq, jake
>> slazenger, and kid spatula) and atom heart (alias lisa carbon trio) have
>> used exotica samples--altho i've never identified the original sources
>> for these.

It is true, Mike must be heard to be appreciated. He is big on his noisy
industrial beats, but he really enjoys exotica sounds. He has told me he has
sampled Martin Denny for his next LP from a tape I sent him!!!! But if
Virgin ever releases it, I will let you exoticats spot the sample yourselves!!!
>
>There's a fair amount of exotica sampling going on in the world of
contemporary
>"electronica" (Future Sound of London comes to mind - ?), although it's so
>fragmented at times that it can be really difficult to tell where things are
>coming from. It makes perfect sense as an interesting new hybrid, though.

Obviously Bjork has done a bit too. She is into exotica after Graham Massey
from 808 State sent her a tape of sounds that reminded him of her. "Taboo"
from LB's "Carribean Moonlight" was on the tape. The man has good taste. And
so does Bjork.
>

>
>Autechre have changed everything. Someone should buy them a nice lunch.

But as for this comment Dave, I hope you are being sarcastic.

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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Too many to list!!!!!
Date: 27 Aug 1996 18:50:05 -0600 (MDT)

Howdy, all,

Back from a fantastic trip to Germany, and boy, has the list been busy!!!
Lots of topics I want to get my two cents in on so hopefully you will read
with interest...

BRIGITTE BARDOT...yeah, that DISQUES D'OR compilation CD is rather tasty.
Got that in Germany although it is French. Never saw it in the UK. Pretty
common over there I'm told.

101 STRINGS....Has anybody ever discussed that this is actually an LP from
"The Animated Egg", some strange psychedelic band, with some strings laid on
top?? Got that in Germany too. On the EUROPA label. Rather old, but I
couldn't find a year on it. I mean, it is EXACTLY the same. Just no strings.
So if you want it on vinyl, check this out.

As for this Don Ho song about "Leaving the Straight life behind...", never
heard it, but isn't it possible that corn on the cob and giving it to a
woman might be a phallic reference or something? Or maybe it is just my
perverted mind...


With the QUICK SURVEY thing: Name Jill Mingo, Dj name: DJ MINGO-GO. (I have
nothing to do with Mingo 2000, but got a single by them on my travels and
it's nae bad). AGE: 27. OCCUPATION: Press officer/PR for record labels. FAVE
LP COVERS: Far too many to mention. IDEAL CLUB FANTASY SETTING: I think I
played at it in Munich. The Egon Bar on Seitzstr. Understated, small bar,
serving a selection of cocktails, with a variety of unrelated types of folk,
with slightly kitschy decor in an understated way. It was cool because it
wasn't cool - if you get my drift. Felt real.


And I would agree about the LES BAXTER "Lost Episodes". Apparently the
remastered version is loads better and his comments are great, but musically
it is for the Baxter fanatic. The Exotic Moods double CD is an excellent
intro to Baxter's music to get someone started.

on the perfume thang...TABU is still around. My mother bathes in it and has
done since I can remember. And she still does. Very dark and musky. Very
cheap, but I've got a soft spot for it myself. It is rather exotic.

Someone enquired about The Super Sounds of Bosworth on CD. Don't think it
exists in that format. But God, what a great compilation. A bit weird, but I
like that sort of thing.

I finally heard some Korla Pandit at my fab friend Bernd's pad in Munich,
and I must say I like the music. EXOTICA 2000 will be purchased as soon as I
recover my finances from the ever-expensive Deutschland. It is just subdued
organ music, but there is something a little weird about it, methinks.
Almost bad or something. But I dig it. And I think I am VERY difficult to
please.

And as for LALO SCHIFFRIN...Has the new compilation MISSION IMPOSSIBLE...
AND MORE!! on Motor Music, Germany, been discussed yet?? It is a rather good
collection of his stuff. Motor also has out a Walter Wanderly compilation
that is not bad. Also picked up LALO's "Black Widow" LP from 1976. Don't
know if it is rare, but he's got the biggest, badass groove version of
"Quiet Village" I have ever heard. There is also a 12" single kicking around
of this.

Also check the new Japanese EZ-type comp SUSHI 3000. Several Towa Tei
produced thangs. Kinda bossa stuff. Covering "Bond Street", "Moog Power",
"The Boy From Ipanema"...that sort of thing. Sounds kind of diabolical
maybe, but as I said before, I am a picky person, and I bought it.

Also heard THE MOOG COOKBOOK, which I was extremely skeptical about with the
track titles and all, and I think it's pretty damn smokin'.

I rattle on no more. Over and out.

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From: Dave Lofquist <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: samples from exotica
Date: 27 Aug 1996 20:39:24 -0500 (CDT)

Jill wrote:
> Also check the new Japanese EZ-type comp SUSHI 3000. Several Towa Tei
> produced thangs. Kinda bossa stuff. Covering "Bond Street", "Moog Power",
> "The Boy From Ipanema"...that sort of thing.

As for things Japanese (because you got me thinking)... I know we've discussed
Pizzicato 5 before on this list, but I have to mention one of their early (1987)
endeavors - 'Couples' - which is subtitled "A Collection of Bacharach-ish
Improvisations" (or something like that)... which it is, in spades. The CD has
12 or so tracks with vocals (there's even one based on the Odd Couple Theme!),
and there's another CD called 'Couples-Instrumentals' which is the same tracks,
sans vocals. If you like Bacharach and have an open mind, this is it. I listen
to one or the other almost every week.

and finally:
> > Autechre have changed everything. Someone should buy them a nice lunch.
>
> But as for this comment Dave, I hope you are being sarcastic.

So I lapsed into the intensely personal for one public moment, revealing my
unabashed immersion in the music of an ambient/techno duo that have brought me a
great deal of joy - but I've been lapsing like this for days. I stand by my
statement, and can only refer you the oft-quoted maxim, "To each his/her own,
and especially sometimes."

dave

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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: harpists
Date: 27 Aug 1996 19:16:34 PDT

Exotica folks:

Just saw a new CD of Dorthy Ashby's jazz harp work, a reissue of two of her
more straight Jazzzz Song albums.  i haven't listened to it yet, but i plan
to pick it up.,..  I am sure it is nothing like her Afro-Harping album, but
for jazz harp I'm sure she's foremost in the genre...

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Myrna March
Date: 27 Aug 1996 20:19:37 +0000

>does anyone know anything about myrna march?  i recently found an album
>of hers, "explosive vocal percussion," on the strand label.  sid pastner
>seems to have done the arranging and conducting.  what's most interesting
>about the recording is the awkward and clumsy (but charming) experiments
>in "echo" and multitracking of the vocal.  i suspect this is simply a
>cheap, quick product meant to capitalize on the percussion craze, but
>somehow the record is appealing, due to myrna's patient but fun delivery.

I don't know anything about her BUT I used to have that record.
I traded for I can't remember what.
I do however remember that the 1st tune on both the A side and the B side
were the standouts _for me_
And Quite Outstanding they were !!!

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: My kind of town...
Date: 28 Aug 1996 00:04:06 -0400

My partner sventiki and Beachbum Berry toured Chicago for Tikilore and can
tell you all about the Tiki places there (don't ask too many questions though
or he'll feel overwhelmed and won't reply) but there are several Tiki joints
there some are good especially the Trader Vic's

Otto von Stroheim
Tiki News

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Hai Karate
Date: 28 Aug 1996 00:58:56 -0400

>Is Hai Karate still being made?
>Of course, you can't beat a bottle of Bay Rum...

>[e-mail]

I don't think it's still being made, but it turns up regularly ,unopened,
at flea markets. Of course, that might tell you something right there. I've
got a bottle and I tried it on a few occasions...well, let's just say I
didn't have to use the enclosed Karate lesson to fight off the women...and
I far prefer Bay Rum, myself.

Olfactorally Yours,

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From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Exotica Covers
Date: 28 Aug 1996 14:06:35 UT

Joe Kilmartin [[e-mail]] wrote:

>I got this idea to do a show around contemporary songs that
>have samples from exotica

How about Cantaloupe Island by Herbie Hancock or Pucho & The Latin Soul
Brothers / Cantaloupe by US3.

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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Command prices..
Date: 28 Aug 1996 10:17:43 -0700

Tony Wilds wrote:
>
>A Phil Ramone-produced record through a
> single 5" car speaker, tho, that's livin'.
>
> It's true what some HIFI LP note says about mono Lyman LPs: [even on a
> low-fi turntable] the monaural sounds better than most good stereo records.

It's worth remembering that most rock-and-roll and much of the rest of
pop music was recorded with the AM market in mind.  Which is why much of
this stuff sounds best in mono over cheap speakers.  The stereo showcase
stuff we now love was an exception, along with classical music--recorded
for the "discriminating" listener with a good system.

Up until the mid-1960s, mono versions were in many cases the original
production and stereo was an after-the-fact manipulation, often through
cheesy techniques.  Rather like some of the editing tricks used to adapt
films to video format.

Did Command *even* produce mono versions of their LPs?

Brad Bigelow
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From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Too many to list!!!!!
Date: 28 Aug 1996 11:20:59 -0400

At 06:50 PM 27/08/1996 -0600, you wrote:


>
>As for this Don Ho song about "Leaving the Straight life behind...", never
>heard it, but isn't it possible that corn on the cob and giving it to a
>woman might be a phallic reference or something? Or maybe it is just my
>perverted mind...

"I'm just playing a game with my mind >dootin'-doo-doo doodin'-doo-dooo<"

When I was growing up in Ottawain the early 70's, my father, a classic
back-yard Tiki-type if there ever was one (black velvet paintings,
wrout-iron trim... oh yeah, that's Dad...), would leave the stereo tuned to
CFMO the Easy lIstening choice of the National Capital Region.   I know
"Leaving the Straight Life Behind" but I always thought it was more of a
Jack Jones tune then one by "Tiny Bubbles" Ho himself...

The truly annoying thing about a tune like that one is once you roll it over
again in your mind you really want to hear it again...

>Also picked up LALO's "Black Widow" LP from 1976. Don't
>know if it is rare, but he's got the biggest, badass groove version of
>"Quiet Village" I have ever heard. There is also a 12" single kicking around
>of this.

And a Darn fine 12" it is, my friends... Almost as groovy as the disco cover
of Caravan from around the same time.


Hmmmnnn.. Ho did "Straight Life".  You learn something new every day.

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: mission impossible!
Date: 28 Aug 1996 11:28:52 -0400

Ya'll probably know this...but I keep my word!
LOUNGE Laura
[e-mail]
"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."


8/28/96 5:38 AM Inches: 10.9 REGULAR AP-Obit-Morris 08-28 0165

AP-Obit-Morris
                                                         ----------------

                                                         ! GENERAL NEWS !


  Greg Morris Dead At 61


    (Las Vegas) -- Actor Greg Morris, one of the first blacks to star in a major
television series, has died at the age of 61.
    Morris made his mark as technical wizard Barney Collier in the 1960's hit
``Mission Impossible,'' a role he described as seven of the most fun years of
his career.
    Morris was not a fan of the new movie version of the show. He called the Tom
Cruise film an ``abomination,'' and walked out after watching just 40 minutes
of it.
    Morris' body was found in his Las Vegas home yesterday. The cause of death
remains unknown, although he had battled brain cancer the past few years.


    (Copyright 1996 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: "Mah-Na Mah-Na"
Date: 28 Aug 1996 10:46:50 -0700

I picked an album by Frank Barber titled "Deep Percussion" that leads off
with a track written by Pietro Umiliani called "Mah-Na Mah-Na."

This was instantly familiar, in the same vein as Herb Alpert's "Spanish
Flea"--something I know I've seen on some late 1960s TV show.  I think it
may have been used on some Little Caesar's ad, if not the one mentioned
in an earlier post.

Was Barber's the original recording of this number?

Brad Bigelow
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From: [e-mail] (Joe Batutis)
Subject: Obits
Date: 28 Aug 1996 12:04:28 -0400

Speaking of obituaries... I noticed an obit for Jerry Murad (of Harmonicats
fame) in the latest Psychotronic Magazine. I'm picturing a big coffin in the
shape of a harmonica. (please forgive me)

What's everyone's favorite Harmonica album?


-Joe B.

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From: Lee Unkrich <[e-mail]>
Subject: re: Film music of Jacques Tati
Date: 28 Aug 1996 09:39 PDT

There's a French import CD:

"Extraits des Bandes Originales des Filmes de Jacques Tati"

Polygram Distribution 836 983-2

It has music from Mon Oncle, Mr. Hulot's Holiday, Playtime, and Jour de Fete.

Lee Unkrich
Pixar Animation Studios
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From: [e-mail] (Anthony Jackson)
Subject: Re: CD Prices
Date: 28 Aug 1996 13:29:28 -0500

>Hi, I've been reading posts about the high cost of imports,
>but don't know what you cool people in the USA pay for normal
>CD issues these days.
>
>For example, in our local HMV Store they have most soundtracks
>marked up at 14.99 UK Pounds, which is about US $22.99.  New
>CD releases are in the range equivalent to $20 - $24, and those
>are local/European product.

A few years ago, the Independant newspaper ran a lengthy campaign to reduce
CD prices in the UK. I guess nothing came of it.

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Command prices..
Date: 28 Aug 1996 13:48:21 -0400

>The stereo showcase stuff we now love was an exception, along with
classical music--recorded for the "discriminating" listener with a good system.

Tell me the industry wasn't aggressively steering the market, $1 at a time.
Yet compared to the LP to CD switch, it took an eternity. With equal
pricing, we'd now have a lot fewer mono copies in the world, yesiree.

>Did Command *even* produce mono versions of their LPs?

you bet. how many you need? Also Grand Award and other permutations did
mono, had to.

Bless old Enoch Light and his Light Brigade _at least_ for having a cooler
name than all these "farm implement" bands today.

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: mission impossible!
Date: 28 Aug 1996 13:48:20 -0400

>Greg Morris Dead At 61

A real shame. Do you think Hollywood/Cruise was partly responsible? Loved
him joining his son in the short-lived TV series revival a couple years ago.
Hope Phil M. pulls through this and becomes a big star.

Will pay respects by playing his "talk-singing" LP. (Mr. M was better at
explosives than singing.)

RIP

Tony "will self-destruct for food" Wilds


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Obits
Date: 28 Aug 1996 13:50:03 -0400

At 12:04 PM 8/28/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Speaking of obituaries... I noticed an obit for Jerry Murad (of Harmonicats
>fame) in the latest Psychotronic Magazine. I'm picturing a big coffin in the
>shape of a harmonica. (please forgive me)
>
>What's everyone's favorite Harmonica album?

"Harmonica Cha Cha" by the 'cats is up there, although the mono version was
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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: "Mah-Na Mah-Na"
Date: 28 Aug 1996 11:58:20 -0600 (MDT)

>I picked an album by Frank Barber titled "Deep Percussion" that leads off
>with a track written by Pietro Umiliani called "Mah-Na Mah-Na."
>
>This was instantly familiar, in the same vein as Herb Alpert's "Spanish
>Flea"--something I know I've seen on some late 1960s TV show.  I think it
>may have been used on some Little Caesar's ad, if not the one mentioned
>in an earlier post.
>
 Strange that this is mentioned, as there is a fantastic cover version of it
on that SUSHI 3000 , Japanese lounge pop compilation I wrote about
yesterday.  I'm sure Animal from the MUPPETS did it as well. Goes down well
at a party for sure.

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From: Patricia C Diaz <[e-mail]>
Subject: Star Trek theme
Date: 28 Aug 1996 13:10:40 -0500 (CDT)

Does anyone who composed the original Star Trek theme song?
thanks
trish

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From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
Subject: A Little Help
Date: 28 Aug 1996 18:15:57 UT

Can anyone out there (especially you DJ types) recommend some good NEW lounge
recordings a la ComEd?  The old stuff is well documented and easy to look for,
but I've made some rather uninformed (and disappointing) purchases of "nouveau
lounge" / "cocktail revival" CDs (Love Jones...pee yoo).  Most of it seems too
self-consciously tongue-in-cheek.

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Fetterman)
Subject: Re: Intro
Date: 28 Aug 1996 18:30:43 GMT

greetings,

i am a new member and therefore like to make my short introduction.

i have been a fanatic exotica listener since the age of five (which was in
1959). favorite lp's of that time were mr. magoo in hi-fi, twin
pianos by ferrante and teicher, havanah 3 am by perez prado, and exotica by
martin denny.

current related projects include djing open parties of space-age bachelor
pad music at bar d'o in new york city and constructing a web page of the
same name, "in hi-fi."

jack

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Fetterman)
Subject: Re: Obits
Date: 28 Aug 1996 18:34:33 GMT

i've been spinning cuts from "peg o' my heart" by murad's harmonicats and
leo diamond's "skin diver suite" at my bar d'o gig of late. saber dance
sounds fantastic on harmonica!

jack fetterman

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Earliest Mancini Album?
Date: 28 Aug 1996 14:35:26 -0400

     Does anyone know what Henry Mancini's first album was? I picked up
     'The Versatile' this weekend. It's pretty stripped down stuff; a
     quartet with some strings here and there. Very romantic. The liner
     notes mention his music for Mr. Lucky and Peter Gunn, but do not
     allude to the albums in any way.

     Also got another Dick Hyman (Electro-something-or-other Organ) at the
     Lowrey organ. This guy just continues to impress me; head and
     shoulders above his Command label-mates, and that's pretty high
     praise, I think.

     Happy Days,
     Craig

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Command/Stereo/Mono
Date: 28 Aug 1996 14:27:21 -0400

     Brad Bigelow wrote:

     <It's worth remembering that most rock-and-roll and much of the rest
     of
     pop music was recorded with the AM market in mind.  Which is why much
     of this stuff sounds best in mono over cheap speakers.  The stereo
     showcase stuff we now love was an exception, along with classical
     music--recorded for the "discriminating" listener with a good system.

     Up until the mid-1960s, mono versions were in many cases the original
     production and stereo was an after-the-fact manipulation, often
     through cheesy techniques.  Rather like some of the editing tricks
     used to adapt films to video format.>

     Actually, if I remember correctly, most pop and rock etc. was recorded
     in stereo (or multi-track) and mixed *very carefully* down to mono for
     maximum impact over your car's radio. And also your table-model
     kitchen radio. Stereo releases were almost an afterthought for the
     high-end types. The classic example being the Beach Boys' "Help Me
     Rhonda" single vs. the album track on 'The Beach Boys Today". The
     album track is sooo wimpy (no cracks, please), but the single jumps
     out of your speakers.

     Also from B.B.:

     <Did Command *even* produce mono versions of their LPs?>

     I've got a ton of Commands, but have *never* seen a mono pressing!
     Never even thought about it before! I assumed the label was formed for
     the stereo-philes.

     Happy Days,
     Craig

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: "Mah-Na Mah-Na"
Date: 28 Aug 1996 15:00:59 -0400

>I picked an album by Frank Barber titled "Deep Percussion" that leads off
>with a track written by Pietro Umiliani called "Mah-Na Mah-Na."
>Was Barber's the original recording of this number?

No, this was the theme song to the 1969 mondo exploitation film "Sweden:
Heaven or Hell", which adds a perverse twist to the Muppets version of it.

The song was a bit of a hit in '69. There are nemerous versions of,
including Leroy Holmes' on "Themes from The Provocative New Motion
Pictures", and the Moog version on "Cinemoog". Esquivel recorded a very
wild version as well, which was only released in Mexico on a 45.

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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: Re: A Little Help
Date: 28 Aug 1996 12:00:52 -0800

>Can anyone out there (especially you DJ types) recommend some good NEW lounge
>recordings a la ComEd?  The old stuff is well documented and easy to look for,
>but I've made some rather uninformed (and disappointing) purchases of "nouveau
>lounge" / "cocktail revival" CDs (Love Jones...pee yoo).  Most of it seems too
>self-consciously tongue-in-cheek.

How about   1.   Joey Altruda
                        2.  Frenchy (release date Sept. 20th)
                        3.  Squirrel Nut Zippers
                        4.  Legendary Jim Ruiz Band---more on the cheeeze

Yes I must agree with you about Love Jones---stinky.

Marie
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Star Trek theme
Date: 28 Aug 1996 14:05:49 -0500


>Does anyone who composed the original Star Trek theme song?

Alexander Courage (Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics for the vocal version!)

Byron C.


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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: Re: A Little Help
Date: 28 Aug 1996 12:09:57 -0800

>Can anyone out there (especially you DJ types) recommend some good NEW lounge
>recordings a la ComEd?  The old stuff is well documented and easy to look for,
>but I've made some rather uninformed (and disappointing) purchases of "nouveau
>lounge" / "cocktail revival" CDs (Love Jones...pee yoo).  Most of it seems too
>self-consciously tongue-in-cheek.

How about   1.   Joey Altruda
                        2.  Frenchy (release date Sept. 20th)
                        3.  Squirrel Nut Zippers
                        4.  Legendary Jim Ruiz Band---more on the cheeeze

Yes I must agree with you about Love Jones---stinky.

Marie
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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Re: "Mah-Na Mah-Na"
Date: 28 Aug 1996 15:26:08 EDT


----- Begin Included Message -----

>>>>a track called "Mah-Na Mah-Na."

>Esquivel recorded a very wild version as well, which was only
>released in Mexico on a 45.

----- End Included Message -----

We need this reissued! We need this very badly!

In order for the United States to remain competitive, WE NEED THIS!

In order to insure domestic tranquility, WE NEED THIS!

In order to mantain the comfortable style of living to
which we've all become accustomed, WE NEED THIS!

Must I go on? ARE YOU WITH ME? I SAID *ARE YOU WITH ME*?

Then rise up, throw open you window and yell, "I'M MAD AS HELL
AND I CAN'T BELIEVE WE'VE BEEN DENIED THE ESQUIVEL VERSION OF
MAH-NAH MAH-NAH!"

Together we are strong!


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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Re: A Little Help
Date: 28 Aug 1996 15:29:02 EDT


----- Begin Included Message -----

>>Yes I must agree with you about Love Jones---stinky.

----- End Included Message -----


Love Jones made my dog physically ill.

I returned it the next day.

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Star Trek theme
Date: 28 Aug 1996 15:35:07 -0400

                      RE>>Star Trek theme                          8/28/96

remember when the question was broached of having a FAQ?  this is one of
them...I think it's time for one...cuz I'd like to see it...any takers?
Lounge Laura-too busy lounging to dream of maitaining such a beast...
[e-mail]


>Does anyone who composed the original Star Trek theme song?

Alexander Courage (Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics for the vocal version!)

Byron C.


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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: Re: A Little Help
Date: 28 Aug 1996 15:44:52 -0400

     >>>Can anyone out there (especially you DJ types) recommend some good
     >>>NEW lounge recordings a la ComEd?

     Though I know fellow list members have admitted to finding
     them boring, I highly suggest Friends of Dean Martinez.
     Steel guitar/vibes - Southwestern lounge, as it were.
     And well worth your nickel to see em live if you get the
     chance.  Beer kinda seems like a fancy cocktail when they're
     playing.

     PS - Love Jones played at New Line's Christmas party two
     years ago, held at the tre swank Laura Belle's.  Everyone
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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: The Three suns
Date: 28 Aug 1996 12:40:18 -0800

I was browsing through Footlight records page and saw a listing for RETRO
FUTURE LOUNGE MUSIC: Best of the Three Sons, for $34.95.  I've never seen
this cd before.  Has anyone heard it?

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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: Three Sons not Three Suns
Date: 28 Aug 1996 12:41:48 -0800

For my las message I wrote the header Three Suns----but the cd is the Three
Sons.  (Just not to confuse anyone.

Marie
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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: the three suns
Date: 28 Aug 1996 12:49:07 -0800

Apologize If you get this twice, the post office has been sending my mail back.



I was browsing through Footlight records page and saw a listing for RETRO
FUTURE LOUNGE MUSIC: Best of the Three Sons, for $34.95.  I've never seen
this cd before.  Has anyone heard it?

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: time for faq!
Date: 28 Aug 1996 15:54:33 -0400

                      time for faq!                                8/28/96

remember when the question was broached of having a FAQ?  this is one of
them...I think it's time for one...cuz I'd like to see it...any takers?
Lounge Laura-too busy lounging to dream of maitaining such a beast...
[e-mail]
no offense to lord byron ova-der

>Does anyone who composed the original Star Trek theme song?

Alexander Courage (Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics for the vocal version!)

Byron C.


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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: Re: "Mah-Na Mah-Na"
Date: 28 Aug 1996 13:01:46 -0800

I HEART PATRICK

I opened my window and yelled

> "I'M MAD AS HELL AND I CAN'T BELIEVE WE'VE BEEN DENIED THE >ESQUIVEL
>VERSION OF MAH-NAH MAH-NAH!"

Today is starting to look up

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From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
Subject: Re: A Little Help
Date: 28 Aug 1996 13:04:21 -0800

>     Though I know fellow list members have admitted to finding
>     them boring, I highly suggest Friends of Dean Martinez.
>     Steel guitar/vibes - Southwestern lounge, as it were.
>     And well worth your nickel to see em live if you get the
>     chance.  Beer kinda seems like a fancy cocktail when they're
>     playing.

Yes, I love them, How about the last track on the CD, A lovely funeral
march I must say.

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From: Dave Lofquist <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Mah-Na Mah-Na"
Date: 28 Aug 1996 15:06:37 -0500 (CDT)

> The song was a bit of a hit in '69. There are nemerous versions of,
> including Leroy Holmes' on "Themes from The Provocative New Motion
> Pictures", and the Moog version on "Cinemoog". Esquivel recorded a very
> wild version as well, which was only released in Mexico on a 45.
>
> br cleve

I was waiting for cleve to step up to the podium and fill in all the details
here. I thought I'd mention that Enoch Light has a version of this too, on one
of his annual film music LPs. Hmm... I sense another opportunity for a
compilation of some sort.

dave

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: the three suns
Date: 28 Aug 1996 16:11:32 -0400

Yes, I own a copy of this Japanese import.  If you like the Three Suns,
you'll go wild over this one.  Otherwise, it's a hefty pricetag if you're
only curious.

Ben
Washington, DC

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: time for faq!
Date: 28 Aug 1996 16:12:04 -0400

                      time for faq!                                8/28/96

remember when the question was broached of having a FAQ?  this is one of
them...I think it's time for one...cuz I'd like to see it...any takers?
Lounge Laura-too busy lounging to dream of maitaining such a beast...
[e-mail]
no offense to lord byron ova-der

>Does anyone who composed the original Star Trek theme song?

Alexander Courage (Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics for the vocal version!)

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Earliest Mancini album
Date: 28 Aug 1996 13:27:25 +0000

>Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 14:35:26 -0400
>Subject: Earliest Mancini Album?
>
>     Does anyone know what Henry Mancini's first album was? I picked up
>     'The Versatile' this weekend.

The Versatile Henry Mancini was originally issued only in Mono as Driftin'
and Dreamin' with an entirely different cover.

Many of Mancinis regulars played on that record

The stereo version is "real stereo" as far as I can tell but I haven't
listened to it in a while.

he did have a record on Warner Bros in 58 or 9 I believe something Marching
Band and then of course there is Touch of Evil in early to mid 57 and Rock
Pretty Baby with the same musician line up in the same year both only
released in Mono.

Touch of Evil was originally released on Challenge in 2 volumes under 2 titles.
The 2nd release was called The Wild Side of Henry Mancini and has a conga
and bongo instro not available anywhere else ever!!!

Only found that out by scoring The Wild Side...

Barney Kessel - Guitar
Red Norvo - Vibes (Robert Drasnin played flute with Red on a couple of his
early jazz records on Liberty)
Dave Pell - Baritone Sax
Plas Johnson - Tenor Sax
Ray Sherman - Piano
Rolly Bundock - Stand Up String Bass
Jack Costanzo - Congas
Mike Pacheco - Bongos

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From: Irwin Chusid <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sad News - W.K., R.I.P.
Date: 28 Aug 1996 16:28:08 -0400 (EDT)


Friends of Warren Kolodny, who did two terrific weeknight shows at KCRW
(Santa Monica) and worked for Rhino Records:

Shocking as this may seem to those who knew him, Warren took his own life
Friday 8/23 with a gunshot to the head, at a pistol range in L.A. He was
about 30. A note was found in his pocket, but the contents have not been
made public.

Warren first called me two-and-a-half years ago about various projects I
was working on (Raymond Scott, Esquivel). We met in New York several
times; I subsequently guested on his KCRW program three times during
visits to L.A., and he always offered his couch for overnight
accommodations. He was a sweet, cooperative and deferential gentleman,
whose knowledge and love of music was boundless. He contributed to several
L.A. music 'zines, had a great ear for quality sounds, and was always
eager to share his discoveries with his friends and radio audience.

Everywhere he went, Warren made friends. He seemed to have only one enemy:
himself. I was sickened when I heard the news. His death has apparently
left the staffs of KCRW and Rhino Records numb. The memorial service was
earlier this week. It's gonna take a lot of people a long time to come to
grips with this tragedy.

He was a dear friend, and I'll miss him.

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From: "David J. Strauss" <[e-mail]>
Subject: A Menprah of Ma-nahs
Date: 28 Aug 1996 16:41:05 -0400 (EDT)


>I picked an album by Frank Barber titled "Deep Percussion" that leads off
>with a track written by Pietro Umiliani called "Mah-Na Mah-Na."
>Was Barber's the original recording of this number?

No, this was the theme song to the 1969 mondo exploitation film "Sweden:
Heaven or Hell", which adds a perverse twist to the Muppets version of it.

The song was a bit of a hit in '69. There are nemerous versions of,
including Leroy Holmes' on "Themes from The Provocative New Motion
Pictures", and the Moog version on "Cinemoog". Esquivel recorded a very
wild version as well, which was only released in Mexico on a 45.

As did Enoch Light, on one of his finest later LPs. Can't remember the
title, but the cover features a naked family sitting in a movie theater,
popcorn tastefully covering the controversial bits.

I once played this on a friend's radio program, and an Acid/Childhood
trauma casualty ran into the room blowing her mind. Evidentally a Muppet
fan. I flashed on that Animal drummer and got the Hell out of there. She
was foaming at the bit.

So, was "Ma-nah Ma-nah" ever an honest to goodness hit? Sweden:Heaven or
Hell was no Mondo Cane....

And, for that matter, does anyone else recall Pharoah Sanders getting
name-checked by a Muppet on an early 70s Sesame St?

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From: Bruce Rhodewalt <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: time for faq!
Date: 28 Aug 1996 13:50:52 -0700

Laura Taylor wrote:
>
>                       time for faq!                                8/28/96
>
> remember when the question was broached of having a FAQ?  this is one of
> them...I think it's time for one...cuz I'd like to see it...any takers?
> Lounge Laura-too busy lounging to dream of maitaining such a beast...

I will do a faq.  If it gets too big, I will ask others to share the
effort by supplying storage.  If Lazlo would like the faq at
xmission.com, he should let me know, otherwise it will be available at
our domain.

Please send faq candidates to me with a subject line beginning
EXOTICA-FAQ: (yes, that is all caps).  I will use my own judgment about
whether or not they truly are frequently asked; you may argue your case
if you wish.

Thanks to all.

Bruce Rhodewalt
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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Command prices
Date: 28 Aug 1996 21:58:18 +0000

Brad wrote:

> Did Command *even* produce mono versions of their LPs?

Certainly while Enoch was at the helm, Command produced mono versions
of all their releases (yes, even Persuasive Percussion!!!) - they
have "33-" prefixing the catalogue number, with the exception of "The
Command Stereo Test Record" (I think we can work out why!).

[I should say though that this statement is based purely on their
 catalogue - I don't for sure how many mono issues actually appeared]

Of course when it comes to Project 3, life gets *very* complicated as
not only did they release some stereo-only, some mono-only and some
in both formats (all with completely different catalogue numbers I might
add!), they also decided that *Quad* was the next audiophile thing.

But of course, unlike stereo, there was no "standard" for Quad - in
fact *three* quad recording techniques were all in use at the same time.
Believe it or not Project 3 actually released versions of their catalogue
in varying numbers of all three of these formats!  Perhaps it's clear why Quad
never really took off!


Robbie
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From: [e-mail] (Sax Therapy)
Subject: Re: Earliest Mancini album
Date: 28 Aug 1996 16:02:32 -0500 (CDT)

so wrote Jack Diamond:
<
<From: [e-mail]
<>Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 14:35:26 -0400
<>Subject: Earliest Mancini Album?
<>
<>     Does anyone know what Henry Mancini's first album was? I picked up
<>     'The Versatile' this weekend.
<
<The Versatile Henry Mancini was originally issued only in Mono as Driftin'
<and Dreamin' with an entirely different cover.
<
<Many of Mancinis regulars played on that record
<
<The stereo version is "real stereo" as far as I can tell but I haven't
<listened to it in a while.
<
Jack, that's pretty strange. I picked upa copy of "The Versitile...."
two days ago. It's Liberty LST 7121 in visual sound Stereo. -Saul

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Subject: Re[2]: A Little Help
Date: 28 Aug 1996 16:03 CST

Marie said:

>>Can anyone out there (especially you DJ types) recommend some good NEW lounge
>>recordings a la ComEd?  The old stuff is well documented and easy to look for,
>>but I've made some rather uninformed (and disappointing) purchases of "nouveau
>>lounge" / "cocktail revival" CDs (Love Jones...pee yoo).  Most of it seems too
>>self-consciously tongue-in-cheek.

>How about              >1.   Joey Altruda
                        >2.  Frenchy (release date Sept. 20th)
                        >3.  Squirrel Nut Zippers
                        >4.  Legendary Jim Ruiz Band---more on the cheeeze


I recommend Friends of Dean Martinez.

Kathy Ramsey

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From: "Heileson, Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hello, Teenage America
Date: 28 Aug 1996 15:10:00 PDT


>From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
>Subject: RE: lalo schiffrin
>
>I got this idea to do a show around contemporary songs that
>have samples from exotica, et al. I figured we'd play a snippet
>from the song with the sample and then follow with the complete
>version of the original. Thing is, my list is way too short for an
>entire (1 hour) show. Here's most of it off the top of my head:
>
>        Perrey & Kingsley - One Note Samba / Stereolab - ? (but I
>                know someone that knows the song)

It's right before the song "Golden Ball," on my fave S-lab record (and one
of the greatest records of all time IMnotsoHO), "Transient Random-Noise
Bursts With Announcements." There are Perrey & Kinglsey samples elsewhere on
the album too, between tracks. A better song-glue/lubricant I've not heard.

BTW, people here should check out the last track on the S-lab album "Mars
Audiac Quintet," which is a blatant (and nicely done) take on a Martin Denny
ditty.

>        Lalo Schiffrin - Danube Incident / Portishead - Sour Times

There's also a track from Portishead's album which heavily loops a certain
slow jazz bassline which is also looped by Tricky on the album
"Maxinquaye"... the result being that the tracks sound _very_ similar.

Speaking of Tricky, I'd bet you could find lots of samples of notable
musicians on the Nearly God album recently released.

I have a question, which was prompted by the above post. There is a classic
cocktailesque jazz song which is sampled & looped as the background for a
1990 Meat Beat Manifesto track called "Hello, Teenage America." Anyone know
it? I heard the original jazz song about a year ago at a (what else?) retro
cocktail party, and asked the name of the performer / song. I made a
concentrated effort to remember the name and seek the record out, but, it
being a cocktail party w/ full bar, my memory failed me in the end.

Very grateful if anyone can help me out on this...

>        (I'm also considering the Evolution Control Comittee's
>        "Whipped Cream Mixes" single where they neatly place
>        Public Enemy raps smack on top of the Tijuana Brass.)

(if you want to branch out into rap, Cypress Hill have sampled many a
cool-jazz bass riff...)

>Yeah, you can see I've done exhaustive research on this subject.
>Anyhow, I'd like to avoid the more obscure acts but I'm very open to
>suggestions.

(I was in a duo called "blue pill," wherein we used mucho loungesque tape
loops/samples/etc. and B-movie snippets in the context of surrealist music,
but then that would most definitely be "obscure"!!)

 --Thom
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(c.c.SVP [as I can't scan every digest]: [e-mail]  )

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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Boys from Bosworth
Date: 28 Aug 1996 23:52:10 +0000

I too have been a convert to the Bosworth experience (thanks Jill!).
The Bosworth Music Archive can be reached via e-mail:
[e-mail].  The LP is on Trunk records and my LP
doesn't make any mention of a CD issue.  Trunk are at: PO Box 56,
Aldershot, Hampshire, UK.


Robbie

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

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Sad News - W.K., R.I.P.
Date: 28 Aug 1996 20:07:28 -0400

Irwin...


Oh My God! That's almost unbelievable and very, very sad news....Cleve
tried to reach me sounding unhappy yesterday;now I know what he must have
been calling about.

I'm reeling--I've had friends who have killed themselves before,but sad to
say, you could usually see it coming a mile away. This was a total
shock.We're just about to leave for the west coast...I remember when we
played out there a couple of years ago,and found that Jac Zinder had died
only days earlier. Friends are a precious commodity and I hate to lose them

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Warren
Date: 28 Aug 1996 20:15:16 -0400

My last message re: Warren Koldney's death was accidentally posted, when I
meant to send it directly to Irwin. I didn't mean to grandstand my sadness
or reveal more than somebody would want to know about me. Sorry.

Riviera



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: A Little Help
Date: 28 Aug 1996 20:28:35 -0400

>Can anyone out there (especially you DJ types) recommend some good NEW lounge
>recordings a la ComEd?

His records are not available domestically, but a fellow who calls himself
Katerine is being touted in France as "Le Nouveau Gainsbourg" and they
ain't half wrong over there. His Nouvelle Disque s'appelle "Mes Mauvais
Frequentations" and it's Foamy-Dob! Very cool french bossa-nova pop with
electronics.It's on Rosebud records(Cat.#ROB 529-842-2).

In New Orleans resides an incredible singer/songwriter who is equal parts
Iggy Pop and Frank Sinatra ,and though that looks terrible, now that I see
it up on the screen, he really is terriffic;His name is Glyn Styler. No
records available and he plays VERY infrequently, but at least he gets out
of NOLA once in a while-mostly to Boston or NYC.Keep your eyes peeled.

I give my very high recomendation to both these gentlemen.

Salut!

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Subject: Re: Hello, Teenage America
Date: 28 Aug 1996 20:39:49 -0400


>>        Lalo Schiffrin - Danube Incident / Portishead - Sour Times
>
>There's also a track from Portishead's album which heavily loops a certain
>slow jazz bassline which is also looped by Tricky on the album
>"Maxinquaye"... the result being that the tracks sound _very_ similar.
>

I believe the source song is an Isaac Hayes tune :Isaac Hayes again!Weirdly
enough, Tricky also _covers_"Black Steel"(source of previous Hayes
discussion) on "Maxinquaye".

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From: "Indulis R. Rutks" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Cloudberry Jam (?)
Date: 28 Aug 1996 19:45:47

Dear exoti-comrades -

I heard a loungy sounding tune today on the local college radio station
(KUOM in Minneapolis). I believe the name of the song was "Roll Of The
Dice" by Cloudberry Jam.

Does anyone out there know anything about this band?


- Indy Rutks ([e-mail])




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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Stereolab's version of Get Carter
Date: 28 Aug 1996 20:36:28 -0500

> >btw, Stereolab's version of Get Carter is dy-no-MITE!!!
>
> ??? What record is this on?? Who did the original?

I only have this on tape, via another 'lab maniac.  It can be found
on number 14 of the Volume series, the one featuring artists from the
Reading Festival.  Roy Budd wrote the original score - his version
kicks off the Sound Spectrum comp.

kevin
(who would trade just about anything for a copy of Ulan Bator / Klang
Tone)

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: The Three suns
Date: 28 Aug 1996 21:00:51 -0400

In a message dated 96-08-28 15:51:33 EDT, you write:

>I was browsing through Footlight records page and saw a listing for RETRO
>FUTURE LOUNGE MUSIC: Best of the Three Sons, for $34.95.  I've never seen
>this cd before.  Has anyone heard it?
>
>Marie
>[e-mail]
>
>

It is a very mediocre collection of their mostly MOR stuff that's better
suited to the over 60 crowd.

Ashley

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: The St.
Date: 28 Aug 1996 21:19:33 -0400

Edwin Astley did the music for The Saint and Secret Agent.

In fact, I just saw an album with one side devoted to music of The Saint
(Roger Moore) and the other to Patrick McGoohan (Secret Agent - before he
became a Prisoner).  Only $100.00 (!) at a collectors shop.  Oh, by the way,
they were also selling A MAN CALLED FLINTSTONE and THE GROOVIE GHOULIES for
that same price.  Ack.  Collector scum.

Does anybody have Edwin's music?  Review please.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Espresso Espresso
Date: 28 Aug 1996 21:19:38 -0400

Don't know, this might have already been a thread here.

Just picked up this (expensive) UK CD compilation of lightly latin/Brazilian
tunes titled, ESPRESSO ESPRESSO  (inspired by the recent description of Kenny
Burrell's "One Mint Julep" as used in the Cappio commercial).  Great stuff on
this comp with Serge Gainsbourg, "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (which, as those
of you who own it know - is touched with Ipanema), Xavier Cugat's "One Mint
Julep" some latinized Beatles tunes and all kinds of deliciously kicky stuff.
  Really hit the spot.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Warren Kolodny
Date: 28 Aug 1996 21:19:40 -0400

Sad news for music fans.  I just heard from Bryan Thomas at Del-Fi records
that Warren Kolodny committed suicide over this weekend.  I was working
recently with Warren on a Crime Jazz compilation for Rhino Records and the
news saddens me terribly.  L.A. music fans are probably familiar with
Warren's radio show on KCRW - his taste was far ranging and eclectic (played
everything from Beck to Nelson Riddle's "Lolita Ya Ya" on the set list I have
from August).  I don't really know the details, and was only recently
acquainted with Warren, but in the times I talked with him I found him
gracious and very enthusiastic about music.  If you own some Rhino CDs you'd
probably find his name on some of the liner notes.  Sad news.

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Music of Afro-Arab -stereo?
Date: 28 Aug 1996 21:52:29 -0400

Audio Fidelity (AF) needs a web site too. Kings of cheesey art. First stereo
LP, other firsts. And few great artists to get in the way of the trivia.

There are 5 or 6 AF Mohammed El-Bakkar LPs. All were [re-]issued in stereo,
except I think "Music of the African Arab." Is this true? Heard it was so bc
of the cover: nekkid breasts and all. (Similar to the Taboo 2 cover change,
but without the cover change.) Censorship in those days was so quaint.

Anyone have mastery of the AF catalog?

Audio Fidelity fans want to know.

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From: Susanne Stratford <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Espresso Espresso
Date: 29 Aug 1996 12:01:50 +1000 (EST)

On Wed, 28 Aug 1996 [e-mail] wrote:

> Don't know, this might have already been a thread here.
>
> Just picked up this (expensive) UK CD compilation of lightly latin/Brazilian
> tunes titled, ESPRESSO ESPRESSO  (inspired by the recent description of Kenny
> Burrell's "One Mint Julep" as used in the Cappio commercial).  Great stuff on
> this comp with Serge Gainsbourg, "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (which, as those
> of you who own it know - is touched with Ipanema), Xavier Cugat's "One Mint
> Julep" some latinized Beatles tunes and all kinds of deliciously kicky stuff.
>   Really hit the spot.

Succumbed, and bought this CD yesterday. Took it home and set the player
to repeat it over and over. Fabulous. Really like the last track by
Astrud.

Miss Suze,
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Three Suns rarities
Date: 28 Aug 1996 22:25:38 -0400

Tons of stuff over all formats from Mamie Eisenhower's fave-o-rite band
(until they did Caravan and Tequila, no doubt).

Fond of an Allegro (I think; an RCA subsidiary would make sense) 12"
splitting the Suns with the singing Royale Cocktail Group. "Cocktail Hour"
or something.

On the RCA 12"ers, they nearly always manage at least one joyous, uptempo
chestnut even if the LP concept is sluggish schmaltz. The 78s and 10"ers
generally are less exciting, suitable for a First Lady only.


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Espresso Espresso
Date: 28 Aug 1996 22:41:39 -0400

>Just picked up this (expensive) UK CD compilation of lightly latin/Brazilian
>tunes titled, ESPRESSO ESPRESSO  (inspired by the recent description of Kenny
>Burrell's "One Mint Julep" as used in the Cappio commercial).  Great stuff on
>this comp with Serge Gainsbourg, "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (which, as those
>of you who own it know - is touched with Ipanema), Xavier Cugat's "One Mint
>Julep" some latinized Beatles tunes and all kinds of deliciously kicky stuff.

Add Edmundo Ros's [vocal] version of "The Coffee Song" to the pick-me-up menu.

The posthumous Xavier Cugat Orchestra does "Julep" studio and live on CDs.

"Espresso" is the name of a cut on Italian Guitars (Time label). Hot jo.

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Friends of Dean Martinez
Date: 28 Aug 1996 19:49:28 +0000

>From: [e-mail] (Marie Guinto)
>Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 13:04:21 -0800
>Subject: Re: A Little Help
>
>>     Though I know fellow list members have admitted to finding
>>     them boring, I highly suggest Friends of Dean Martinez.
>>     Steel guitar/vibes - Southwestern lounge,
Marie and others

They have got a 7" single out that I just reviewed for KFJC and I must say
_it _ is _great_ !!!

Seashells backed with Polenta.  The review might be up at the kfjc site
check and see
http://www.cygnus.com/kfjc

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: I'm not the bible that's fer sure!
Date: 28 Aug 1996 20:01:14 +0000

I contribute what I can the way I know it to be.
If I'm wrong then I welcome correction in a positive way ;)

Thank you for listening,
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From: "Steve Sando" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Espresso Espresso
Date: 28 Aug 1996 20:57:53 +0000

> Succumbed, and bought this CD yesterday. Took it home and set the
> player to repeat it over and over. Fabulous. Really like the last
> track by Astrud.

I agree that it's about the happiest thing I've purchased in a long
time but I remember thinking if there was any doubt about how horrid
a singer Astrud Gilberto can be, this track would cinch it!



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From: Dave Lofquist <[e-mail]>
Subject: Katerine, Cloudberry Jam
Date: 28 Aug 1996 23:00:38 -0500 (CDT)

Riviera wrote:
> ...a fellow who calls himself Katerine is being touted in France as "Le
> Nouveau Gainsbourg" and they ain't half wrong over there. His Nouvelle Disque
> s'appelle "Mes Mauvais Frequentations" and it's Foamy-Dob! Very cool french
> bossa-nova pop with electronics.

There's been quite a buzz about Katerine in various quarters, and for good
reason! My friends Jim & Stephanie Ruiz, who are playing in Japan right now,
brought a few Katerine CDs back with them when they were last there (where
Katerine has made quite a splash), and I was awestruck at times as we listened
to Katerine, sitting on my living room floor & trying to make out the French
liner notes.

He has a few CDs out at this point (although I've only managed to track down the
one mentioned above for myself) and I also have a track on a 7" compilation
released by the French Alienor label. At any rate, it's great stuff! As Riviera
said, it's pop - with jazzy guitar stylings, vibes, occassional forays into
bossa nova territory, quirky keyboard touches, and stylish, understated vocals.
What's more, one of his other releases (wish I could give you the title) has a
woman doing all of the vocals & she's fabulous! If you can find something of
his, spring for it. A warning: there's a German artist with the same or a very
similar name, so make sure that everything's in French & you'll be OK!

..and Indy wrote:
> I heard a loungy sounding tune today on the local college radio station
> (KUOM in Minneapolis). I believe the name of the song was "Roll Of The
> Dice" by Cloudberry Jam. Does anyone out there know anything about this band?

Cloudberry Jam is a band from Sweden, and they're fantastic! This might take us
a wee bit out of exotica-list territory, but so be it. It's always tempting to
make a predictable comparison to the Cardigans (also Swedish), but the fact is,
if you dig them, you'll very probably like Cloudberry Jam just as much if not
more. They have a similar approach in that they have a jazzy, lounge-tinged
style and a female vocalist (Jenni Medin) who has a touch of Julie London in her
voice that really does it for me. The songs on their 'Blank Paycheck' CD are
definitely punchier than the Cardigans - if you can imagine jazzy, sexy pop
informed by a sort of early-70s Sound Gallery aesthetic & a punk sensibility,
with, er, some strings & trombones...

Courtesy of listmember Alexander, I have two Cloudberry Jam EPs coming my way
AND their new full length (apparently less guitar-ey). I'll be getting them in
the post tomorrow, and losing sleep thinking about it until then...

Your Japanese, French, and Swedish pop-loving correspondent,

dave

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: The St.
Date: 29 Aug 1996 00:26:58 -0400

>Edwin Astley did the music for The Saint and Secret Agent.
>In fact, I just saw an album with one side devoted to music of The Saint
>(Roger Moore) and the other to Patrick McGoohan (Secret Agent - before he
>became a Prisoner).  Only $100.00 (!) at a collectors shop.
>Does anybody have Edwin's music?  Review please.

Edwin Astley is (was?) an incredible composer in the spy genre. That record
is worth every penny, although it is a compilation of both LP's (curiously,
the comp came out first). Our old friend The Bootlegger released a
"limited-edition" CD a few years back which had both original albums on it.
There's some cool bossa novas mixed in with twisted tracks like "I Wonder
Where The MIcrodot Went"

Astley also did the music to a mid-60's British spy TV show called
"Department S", which I caught reruns of in Ireland a few years back. It
was great, and the music was incredible. I found a budget CD at a gas
station on the M1 a few years back titled "Top TV Themes" which had it on
it (and it only cost about 3 quid!!)

Robbie? Jill? anyone else in the UK know more about Astley?

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From: Dave Lofquist <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Espresso Espresso
Date: 28 Aug 1996 23:19:21 -0500 (CDT)

> > Succumbed, and bought this CD yesterday. Took it home and set the
> > player to repeat it over and over. Fabulous.

If anyone's feeling ambitious, it would be neat to get a track listing
(especially given the price). It's one of those things that makes one think,
"Great - but how much of this do I already have?"

So anyway, great - but how much of this do I already have?

dave

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From: [e-mail] (jordana)
Subject: WKPS Lounge Show
Date: 28 Aug 1996 23:22:57 -0400

The WKPS Lounge Show will be known from now on as "Jet Set Sounds In Hi-Fi."
This is a fairly generically loungey name, but it's less generic than the
"Lounge Show" and also is more descriptive, since we play not just lounge
but exotica, easy listening, SPABM, etc., all of which could be described as
"jet set" or "hi-fi," I suppose.  I've gotten quite a few positive responses
to the offer of trading show tapes, and I'll start working on that (I
already owe a couple people some mix tapes, and I _promise_ to take care of
those _this weekend_ :)  ).

Also, on a less list-related note, I had a hand in creating a new show
called The Chemistry Set.  I'm still not sure about that name (last minute
decisions before the programming grid went to print).  This show will be
experimental mixing (ambient, avant-garde, musique concrete, crazy moog
records and other music that was pushing the bounds of the Lounge Show, and
other hard-to-classify stuff), somewhat similar to Eclectricity.  I won't be
posting the playlists for this show to the list, but I'll mention stuff that
crosses over (obviously) and I'll email playlists to any interested parties.
This show starts next Sunday and will last 4 hours (!).

Anyone who desires more info on either show, or other station-related things
should not hesitate to email me (address below in sig).  Especially if you
want to send us records to play!!

-Jordana
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From: Susanne Stratford <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Espresso Espresso
Date: 29 Aug 1996 15:13:39 +1000 (EST)

On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Steve Sando wrote:

> I agree that it's about the happiest thing I've purchased in a long
> time but I remember thinking if there was any doubt about how horrid
> a singer Astrud Gilberto can be, this track would cinch it!

Perhaps you are right. I have to admit that I havent heard as much Astrud
Gilberto than I would like (shame). The real reason I liked this track was
it was kind of a stand out on the CD in that it just kept going and going
with that kind of jammin' feel - and the singing kinda went unnoticed
(double shame).

Miss Suze,
Lizard Lodge.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Espresso Espresso - Track Listing
Date: 29 Aug 1996 01:17:50 -0400

Well, since I brought it up...

ESPRESSO ESPRESSO - Track Listing

"Couleur Cafe" - Serge Gainsbourg
"The Girl From U.N.C.L.E." (from the TV series)
"Balancafro" - Corisco e os Sambaloucos
"Roda" - The Gimmicks (these guys are good)
"Pepino Beach" - Marcos Dalle
"Flyin' High" - Baja Marimba Band
"Carcara" - Corisco e os Sambaloucos
"Batucada" - Roberto Delgado Orch.
"Mocoto" - Roberto Delgado Orch.
"Bend Me Shape Me" - Ray Rivera
"The Joker" - The Gimmicks
"I Feel Fine" - Stanley Black & Orch.
"Cugi's Cocktail (Hully Gully Cha Cha)" - Xavier Cugat
"Modesty (Modesty Blaise Theme)" - Cal Tjader & Eddie Palmieri
"Things We Said" - London Jazz 4
"Mas Que Nada" - Lill Lindfors
"One Mint Julep (Cha Cha Twist)" - Xavier Cugat
"Happy Brasilia" - James Last
"Latin Workout" - Ray Rivera
"Nem Vem Que Nao Tem" - Wilson Sandoval (this is very cool)
"Something Big" - Burt Bacharach
"My Heart Skips a Beat (The Girls from Paramaribo) Instrumental" - The Berry
Lipman Orchestra & Singers
"Beginnings" - Astrud Gilberto (a Chicago song, I think)

Made in Great Britain.  Karminsky Experience Inc./London POB 2254 W1A 1YR

Quote from back of jewel box:

"She awoke to the sound of tea spoons rattling against cups somewhere out on
the balcony.  A shaft of morning sunlight sliced the room in two, already hot
at this hour and fell across the debris of the night, the dress she had
danced in, a pair of empty glasses...the rest packed into suitcases and
topped with passports and tickets.  The smell of fresh black coffee drew her
out onto the balcony, a silent sparkling jet stretching across the sky as
clear and blue as her lover's eye.  Espresso?  Better make that a double."

--from the "Drinking Partners" by Alberto Traveli

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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Espresso Espresso
Date: 29 Aug 1996 00:30:05 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 28 Aug 1996 [e-mail] wrote:

> Don't know, this might have already been a thread here.
>
> Just picked up this (expensive) UK CD compilation of lightly latin/Brazilian
> tunes titled, ESPRESSO ESPRESSO  (inspired by the recent description of Kenny
> Burrell's "One Mint Julep" as used in the Cappio commercial).  Great stuff on
> this comp with Serge Gainsbourg, "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (which, as those
> of you who own it know - is touched with Ipanema), Xavier Cugat's "One Mint
> Julep" some latinized Beatles tunes and all kinds of deliciously kicky stuff.
>   Really hit the spot.

what label is this on?  is it widely available in the u.s.?  this sounds
like just the thing i'm in the mood for.

thanks,
mark

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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Espresso Espresso
Date: 29 Aug 1996 00:42:10 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Steve Sando wrote:

> > Succumbed, and bought this CD yesterday. Took it home and set the
> > player to repeat it over and over. Fabulous. Really like the last
> > track by Astrud.
>
> I agree that it's about the happiest thing I've purchased in a long
> time but I remember thinking if there was any doubt about how horrid
> a singer Astrud Gilberto can be, this track would cinch it!


..... i am aghast.  maybe its all those pram, raincoats, magnetic fields,
and kraftwerk albums i listen to constantly, but i think that "flawed"
voices are the most satifying to listen to.  mistakes--wavering pitch,
"off" notes, uncertain phrasing--are endearing and to me make the music
special.  i always prefer character and courage over polish and technique
in music performance.  if you come to astrud gilberto expecting to hear
technical perfection then youre going to miss the soul her music.  it has
much more to do with attitude, feeling, gestalt, a good beat, wistful
chords...


the same thing happens often when i play pram albums for my friends.
after a few songs they remark, "but this woman can't sing."  well, yes,
but...



m

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "flawed" voices
Date: 29 Aug 1996 02:02:37 -0500


> ..... i am aghast.  maybe its all those pram, raincoats, magnetic fields,
> and kraftwerk albums i listen to constantly, but i think that "flawed"
> voices are the most satifying to listen to.  mistakes--wavering pitch,
> "off" notes, uncertain phrasing--are endearing and to me make the music
> special.  i always prefer character and courage over polish and technique
> in music performance.

Fave bad singer of the moment (to good effect adding pathos and an
edge) is Mary Timony of Helium.  Totally agree with you about Pram,
Raincoats (who I hope to see next Thursday! - my birthday -- by
coincidence saw Pram last year on the same date!)

veering back towards list topic....


kevin king
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From: Dave Lofquist <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Espresso Espresso - Track Listing
Date: 29 Aug 1996 01:51:00 -0500 (CDT)

[e-mail] wrote:
> Well, since I brought it up...
>
> ESPRESSO ESPRESSO - Track Listing

"Sold!"

Thanks for posting the info... as I expected, there are only a few on there that
already grace my ever-inadequate collection, so it'll be well worth it. The
evocative liner notes remind me of the sort that always used to turn up on
releases from Mike Alway's wonderful UK label, El - one of the best little
labels ever. Very nice...

dave

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Katerine, Cloudberry Jam
Date: 29 Aug 1996 02:17:38 -0700

>Riviera wrote:
>> ...a fellow who calls himself Katerine is being touted in France as "Le
>> Nouveau Gainsbourg" and they ain't half wrong over there. His Nouvelle
>>Disque
>> s'appelle "Mes Mauvais Frequentations" and it's Foamy-Dob! Very cool french
>> bossa-nova pop with electronics.

I'll hop on the bandwagon and trumpet Katerine's praises too.  Like
everyone else, I'm still dying to get his earlier albums, but the above is
excellent.  My  understanding about his previous two albums is that the
first, "les marriages chinois" is a bit on the "lo-fi" side (with weirdness
making up the difference), and that on the second, "l'education anglais",
he has two women do all of the singing.  One of whom is either his sister
or a cousin, and goes by the name of Bruno.

Speaking of being big in Japan, Katerine has done a couple of songs for
kitsch pop phenomenom Kahimi Karie.  She showed up at a few of his gigs in
France earlier this year and sang with Katerine.  He reportedly introduced
her to the French public as a Japonese tourist that he had met just that
afternoon.

>What's more, one of his other releases (wish I could give you the title) has a
>woman doing all of the vocals & she's fabulous!

That would have to be L'Education Anglais.  Which I'm sure I would have had
long ago if it weren't for the fact that my trading partner in France hates
M. Katerine.



>Cloudberry Jam is a band from Sweden, and they're fantastic! This might
>take us
>a wee bit out of exotica-list territory, but so be it. It's always tempting to
>make a predictable comparison to the Cardigans (also Swedish), but the
>fact is,
>if you dig them, you'll very probably like Cloudberry Jam just as much if not
>more. They have a similar approach in that they have a jazzy, lounge-tinged
>style and a female vocalist (Jenni Medin) who has a touch of Julie London
>in her
>voice that really does it for me. The songs on their 'Blank Paycheck' CD are
>definitely punchier than the Cardigans - if you can imagine jazzy, sexy pop
>informed by a sort of early-70s Sound Gallery aesthetic & a punk sensibility,
>with, er, some strings & trombones...

What can I say, Dave put this much better than I ever could have.  I'll add
that "Roll The Dice" is from their second full-length CD ("Providing the
Atmosphere"), which is indeed less guitar oriented than their first ("Blank
Paycheck).  The second album also features a lot more in the way of
keyboards (organs and samplers this time) and generally expanded production
scales (lots more guest musicians than the first time around).

According to my source at North of No South, CBJ are just back from their
second (?) tour of Japan.  I also hear that the second album has sold
"gold" in Sweden, although I'm not sure just what that should mean.
Despite their success around the rest of the world, I have been (as far as
I know) the exclusive North American distributor for their label for about
the last week.  The label sent a bunch of CDs to US college stations, but
as no distributors here had picked them up yet, I decided to take matters
into my own hands.  As I'm not a regular contributor to this list, I'll go
easy on the advertisment and just say that if you'd like more info
(including reviews) about their records and the other North of No South
releases that I've got in stock, please e-mail me directly at
[e-mail].

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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: A Little Help
Date: 29 Aug 1996 06:30:13 -0600 (MDT)

>Can anyone out there (especially you DJ types) recommend some good NEW lounge
>recordings a la ComEd?  The old stuff is well documented and easy to look for,
>but I've made some rather uninformed (and disappointing) purchases of "nouveau
>lounge" / "cocktail revival" CDs (Love Jones...pee yoo).  Most of it seems too
>self-consciously tongue-in-cheek.


Jimi Tenor!!!!!!!!!! Records for Warp now. Previous 2 LPs on Sahko
Recordings, Finland. Another previous 6 LPs in Finland, but all deleted and
all very "if - y" from what I've been told. Jimi's first LP "Sahkomies" is
deleted too, I think, but might still be kicking around. It is more
experimental electronica, but his second LP "Europa" is excellent porn, jazz
lounge. Also look out for an LP from GARY MOSCHELLES from Belgium. It is a
bootleg of Mike Paradinas (u-ziq/Jake Slazenger) sampletastic groove LP.
Groovier than Jake. Still electronica and weird, but much more EZ. It is
coming in Sept, I think...

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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: Katerine, Cloudberry Jam
Date: 29 Aug 1996 07:00:09 -0600 (MDT)


>Speaking of being big in Japan, Katerine has done a couple of songs for
>kitsch pop phenomenom Kahimi Karie.  She showed up at a few of his gigs in
>France earlier this year and sang with Katerine.  He reportedly introduced
>her to the French public as a Japonese tourist that he had met just that
>afternoon.
>
And Kahimi Karie is also on the SUSHI 3000 compilation that has just been
released in Germany. It is really pretty fantastic. More interesting than
Espresso IMHO.

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From: Darrell Brogdon <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Espresso Espresso
Date: 29 Aug 1996 20:23:06 -0500

At 09:19 PM 8/28/96 -0400, you wrote:

>Just picked up this (expensive) UK CD compilation of lightly latin/Brazilian
>tunes titled, ESPRESSO ESPRESSO


Anybody know where can we get this CD stateside???

                          DARRELL BROGDON <[e-mail]>


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Adamson/Peaks/FS LPs
Date: 29 Aug 1996 06:32:06 -0800

Hi!

First off, thanks to all the Exotica listers who have helped make a big
dent in my vinyl pile! Unfortunately, you took some of my favorites but,
hey, that's what I'm after so...For those who have not yet, check my for
sale listings in the rec.music.marketplace.vinyl and my home page at:
www.kinn.com/cameron/index.html or send want lists to me at
[e-mail]. There is still TONS of good stuff available. Okay now
on to other matters.

1. Barry Adamson: For those who are not strictly into exotic type things
I would urge you to check out his work as bass player with Magazine.
IMHO some of the best bass playing ever in the Rock(?) genre. Actually,
even those who are mostly into exotica might still enjoy Magazine as
they share a certain cinematic type of scope that we all enjoy. Not to
mention that they are pretentious as hell which is often a good thing!
Oh yeah, and they cover "Goldfinger".

2. Twin Peaks/A. Baldamenti(sp)/Cruse/etc: If you like the sound of all
of these, here's one to check out that you might not have guessed: Duane
Eddy, Lonely Guitar. As the liner notes say: "...a dark and beautiful
landscape of loneliness.". Seriously though, the first time I played it
I thought "Wow, Lynch hired the wrong guy!". It's got his trademark
Twangy type guitar, mostly acoustic in this case, but doing "standards"
type songs at an absolutely Quaaluded pace that always seems just a
step _too_ slow and give it a truly strange feeling. Arrangements by
Marty Paich. Really good stuff!

XOXOXO,

Kevin _M_ King
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: laser turntable - info?
Date: 29 Aug 1996 11:11:24 -0400

This may be a certified crank item, but:

Anyone have any hard data on the mythical laser turntable? [It supposedly
plays even taped, gunked, and rough vinyl like a CD, with all that fancy
error-correction business.] Does this beast exist for real?

Manufacturer(s), current and projected price, specs? Output in digital and
analog?

Last I heard, the price had halved from $18K to 9K; when it does a few times
more, time to pounce on that puppy. Thar's gold in them thar broken shards
of 78s.

Tony "digital prospector" Wilds


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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: yma goodness!
Date: 29 Aug 1996 11:10:53 -0400

I had an anxiety attack this morning just thinking about this...Yma Sumac is
still alive and kicking, and I'm not flying up from Florida to see her in
NY...I need someone to tell me just how she is doing, if this will be her
last tour, if she'll ever come driving distance anyway to any city near
Tampa, if I'm foolish for not just pawning stuff and going to see her while
she is still performing, if my angst is all for naught...
Help ol' Lounge Laura
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From: "Heileson, Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Elsa Poppin: "Delerium in Hi-Fi"
Date: 28 Aug 1996 17:13:00 PDT


>what's most interesting
>about the recording is the awkward and clumsy (but charming) experiments
>in "echo" and multitracking of the vocal.

This is a bit off the above topic, but I am reminded of Elsa Poppin:
"Delerium in Hi-Fi"... Has anyone heard this? Simply the most surreal thing
I've ever heard. Recorded in the early 60s I think, it's evocative of an
army of deranged pixies on drugs and many, many effects. The arrangements
are bizarre, ion addition to the FX-for-FX's-sake.

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From: "Heileson, Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Stereolab's version of Get Carter
Date: 28 Aug 1996 17:15:00 PDT


>From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: RE: exotipop show
>
>btw, Stereolab's version of Get Carter is dy-no-MITE!!!

??? What record is this on?? Who did the original?

Thanks,
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From: "Steve Sando" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Espresso Espresso
Date: 29 Aug 1996 08:57:26 +0000

>  if you come to astrud gilberto expecting to hear
> technical perfection then youre going to miss the soul her music.
> it has much more to do with attitude, feeling, gestalt, a good beat,
> wistful chords...

She really seems to be two very different singers. When she's focused
and the arrangements are right, she's amazingly effective and musical.
When the song is too fast or in English, it can be like watching a train wreck
or Mrs Miller.

It all probably comes down to taste but I find her very frustrating
because she can be so good and so horrid. Jeri Sothern in another
vocalist like this.

Astrud's 'Agua de Beber' is one of my favorites.


Coconut Grove, publishers of MisterLUCKY
PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107
http://www.wco.com/~coconutg/
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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: Elsa Poppin: "Delerium in Hi-Fi"
Date: 29 Aug 1996 12:10:06 -0400

>"Delerium in Hi-Fi"... Has anyone heard this? Simply the most surreal thing
>I've ever heard. Recorded in the early 60s I think, it's evocative of an
>army of deranged pixies on drugs and many, many effects. The arrangements
>are bizarre, ion addition to the FX-for-FX's-sake.

For those that were looking for this, it's available at Footlights Records
in NY, and through their website (sorry, I forgot the URL, but there's a
link at Space Age Bachelor Pad).

BTW, "Delerium" was recorded in 1956-57, and originally released in France
(on Polygram) in 1957. It was released in the U.S. (on Columbia) in
January, 1958.

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From: "Mark A. Rosati" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Intro!
Date: 29 Aug 1996 12:40:41 -0400

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the list, and although I didn't think so before, I'm
relatively new to exotica music. You guys sure know alot about it. I've
been listening to; Herb Albert & TJB, Mancini, Baja Marimba, Sinatra,
Dino, etc. since I was a young pup. Lately I have found Denny, Baxter,
Esquivel, Friends Of DM, & ComEd nothing obscure to you guys. Pretty
much, I've always enjoyed "cocktail music" mostly because it goes so
well with cocktails.

After hanging out and reading the list for about a week I decided to
chime in and ask the powers that be (that is anyone on the list), if you
where trying to turn someone on to "exotica", what five albums, songs,
artists would you insist they get?

aloha,
Mark
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Fetterman)
Subject: Re: yma goodness!
Date: 29 Aug 1996 17:28:16 GMT


>I mean, Yma Sumac!!! I must be crazy


yma used to play the ballroom yearly here in nyc in the '80's...that was a
jazz club size audience and there was
no exotica "movement." what size crowd is she drawing now?

also the last time i saw her, which ( i'm guestimating) was 1988, was
supposed to ber farewell tour. hopefully she will go on forever.

jack

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From: Ken Freedman <[e-mail]>
Subject: in-print Theremin disks
Date: 29 Aug 1996 14:31:00 -0400 (EDT)


Anybody know if there are any decent comps or reissues of Theremin
material? I'm working on the next WFMU Catalog, and we're probably going
to add a bunch of Theremin products, including Theremin kits, and the
Steve Martin Theremin documentary on VHS (which has a great 45 seconds of
Brian Wilson - those 45 seconds are better than anything in the entire Brian
Wilson documentary). We already carry the Clara Rockmore CD on Delos,
but I'm no big Clara Rockmore fan. (I think Tchaikovsky and Theremins should
not mix.) Has anybody put out a comp of *good* theremin material? Is
anybody working on one?

ken

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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Re: in-print Theremin disks
Date: 29 Aug 1996 14:57:10 EDT


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Anybody know if there are any decent comps or reissues of Theremin
material? I'm working on the next WFMU Catalog, and we're probably going
to add a bunch of Theremin products, including Theremin kits, and the
Steve Martin Theremin documentary on VHS
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OK, I'm a dope.

Steve Martin, THE Steve Martin, made a THEREMIN documentary???

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: in-print Theremin disks
Date: 29 Aug 1996 15:24:11 -0400

                      RE>>in-print Theremin disks                  8/29/96

No, not same Steve Martin...But this gives me yet another chance to highlight
the imminent coolness of Jason Blue Barrile and his THEREMIN HOME PAGE-which
has info about all of the below...To the Station mgr guy-and presumably the
excitable Patrick C., check out:


>http://www.Nashville.Net/~theremin/TBands.html

btw-station mgr. saw a playlist with the Pink Lincolns on it!  Cool!
Loungin, oscillatin',Laura
[e-mail]


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material? I'm working on the next WFMU Catalog, and we're probably going
to add a bunch of Theremin products, including Theremin kits, and the
Steve Martin Theremin documentary on VHS
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OK, I'm a dope.

Steve Martin, THE Steve Martin, made a THEREMIN documentary???

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re[2]: Elsa Poppin: "Delerium in Hi-Fi"
Date: 29 Aug 1996 14:49 CST

br cleve said:

> For those that were looking for this, it's available at Footlights
> Records in NY, and through their website (sorry, I forgot the URL, but
> there's a link at Space Age Bachelor Pad).

They are out of this right now.  They say they are ordering more copies
from Holland and will have them in a week or two.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Joey Heatherton
Date: 29 Aug 1996 16:27:34 -0400

Although this isn't exactly an "exotic" question, I'm hoping someone has the
info. Did Joey Heatherton attempt or succeed in killing someone? In the back
of my mind I remember some scandal (and I don't think i'm confusing her with
claudine longet).  I also seem to think that she died of an overdose. Anyone
know?  Thanks.    Bob

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: "flawed" voices
Date: 29 Aug 1996 18:24:30 -0400

"Flawed Voices" interest you? Check out the Julian Schnabel CD.

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From: Rex Stocklin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Mah-Na Mah-Na"
Date: 29 Aug 1996 16:03:34 -0700

The song was a mild hit in 1969 and was from a soundtrack to a really
obscure film called"Sweden Heaven and Hell" I recall the tune used a lot
on the Red Skelton and Benny Hill shows.


Ma-na-ma-na-doo-doo-di-doo-doo
Rex William Stocklin
Marina del Rey, CA
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: lost on me
Date: 29 Aug 1996 16:22:09 PST

     Hi!

     Long time no post. I'm still on this temporary hookup with Epitaph via
     CC mail, been out of town for almost a week (hitting thrift stores and
     antique stores from LA to Chico, including an incredible trip from San
     Francisco to Santa Barbara via the Pacific Coast Hwy.. Man, did we
     SCORE records, mugs, clothing, a turntable....)

     Laura, the art-work on Les Baxter "The Lost Episode" is pretty clever.
     There is nothing 'new' on there, it is ALL elements from other Les
     Baxter album covers. Take a close look! The background was even
     scanned in from a well-worn jacket from that double Baxter compilation
     from the 60s!

     The artist meant no harm to Capitol by doing this and in fact, the
     thought at the time was that there was no Les reissues anywhere in
     sight!


     Love,


     Lee & Aime


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Here's the crucial question burning in this Baxter-babe's mind:
Is the *music* good on the LOST EPISODE?  And to what Les-era is it most
akin?  What year were the tracks written-recorded?
And(I duck as I write this) I think the art work is misguided and
silly...which actually at first sort of deterred me-because I thought:
"bad artwork-bad record" quizas?
Lounge Laura-who is still also in search of info on the latest Korla CD
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From: "Heileson, Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Cantaloopy / Hate Jones / Kid Stuff
Date: 29 Aug 1996 15:27:00 PDT


>From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Exotica Covers
>
>How about Cantaloupe Island by Herbie Hancock or Pucho & The Latin Soul
>Brothers / Cantaloupe by US3.

That Cantaloupe song is pretty much the _most_ ripped-off song ever. When I
first heard the track, on a Details-mag CD comp., I quite liked it. I grew a
bit weary of it but much more than that was amazed at how often and
blatantly the basic riff-loop was mimicked and used for commercials of all
kinds: cheesy restaurants, etc., etc.,

My question is whether the rest of the material on that US3 album is also
based on this overtly jazz-sampled technique. (and is it any good?)

>From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: A Little Help
>
>Can anyone out there (especially you DJ types) recommend some good NEW
lounge
>recordings a la ComEd?  The old stuff is well documented and easy to look
>for,
>but I've made some rather uninformed (and disappointing) purchases of
>"nouveau
>lounge" / "cocktail revival" CDs (Love Jones...pee yoo).  Most of it seems
>too
>self-consciously tongue-in-cheek.

Amen... I made this _exact same_ mistake!! Ended up unloading it on my
sibling, poor guy...

My recommendation on this thread is the Portland band Pink Martini. I saw
'em a while ago and thought they were quite good. In more of the
fun-but-genuine way (a la ComEd) and not so much the ha ha we're so funny
aren't we way (a la Love Jones and Bud E. Luv... <shudder>)

(The PM bandleader is a maniac to watch live... this diminutive behornrimmed
guy with a q-tip-swab-fluff of hair and 10 megatons of hyperactive
energy...)

However I have not heard any CD material by PM nor do I have info on label,
etc.

>From: [e-mail] (Jack Fetterman)
>Subject: Re: Intro
>
>i have been a fanatic exotica listener since the age of five (which was in
>1959). favorite lp's of that time were mr. magoo in hi-fi, twin
>pianos by ferrante and teicher, havanah 3 am by perez prado, and exotica by
>martin denny.

Me being 27, listening to Glen Miller nonstop during ages 8-9 was a v.
private interest... I think I was supposed to be listening to Kiss... It
wasn't until a decade-and-half later that it began to be "cool"... (though
not as hip as Denny et al.; hey I had to start somewhere)

          +  ---                           Thom S. Heileson
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: The Throbber
Date: 29 Aug 1996 21:35:24 -0400

Rediscovered gem from the Embarassing Hippie genre: The Fraternity of Man's
"Get it On" (Dot, c. 1970 judging by hair length and content). From the "29
Rooms of Junque," an upstate NY thrift with separate rooms for floor lamps, etc.

They sound like Velvet Underground with a touch of Country Joe, and on 1
song like Bryan Ferry, do a New York Dolls tune(!), and do (here's the
slight relevance) a bossa nova, "Coco Lollipop." And they credit Lowell
George et al on the R. Crumbish jacket.

Songs like "Mellow Token," "Trick Bag," and "Too High to Eat":

"I'm so wacked, I don't know how to act."
"I'm too high to eat."
"And I'm too hungry to sleep."

Then there's "The Throbber," addressed to the father of a thirteen-year-old,
insisting that the date with her go on. Very Root Boy Slim.

Long live the Fugs.
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: The Throbber
Date: 29 Aug 1996 21:34:38 -0800

I think they are also responsible(?!) for the infamous "Don't Bogart
That Joint" (or whatever it's correct title is. And don't they have some
connection to the Fugs?

Kevin _M_ King


IN>Rediscovered gem from the Embarassing Hippie genre: The Fraternity of Man's
IN>"Get it On" (Dot, c. 1970 judging by hair length and content). From the "29
IN>Rooms of Junque," an upstate NY thrift with separate rooms for floor lamps,

IN>They sound like Velvet Underground with a touch of Country Joe, and on 1
IN>song like Bryan Ferry, do a New York Dolls tune(!), and do (here's the
IN>slight relevance) a bossa nova, "Coco Lollipop." And they credit Lowell
IN>George et al on the R. Crumbish jacket.

IN>Songs like "Mellow Token," "Trick Bag," and "Too High to Eat":

IN>"I'm so wacked, I don't know how to act."
IN>"I'm too high to eat."
IN>"And I'm too hungry to sleep."

IN>Then there's "The Throbber," addressed to the father of a thirteen-year-old,
IN>insisting that the date with her go on. Very Root Boy Slim.

IN>Long live the Fugs.
IN>Tony "Don't Start Me Talkin'" Wilds


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Joey Heatherton
Date: 30 Aug 1996 01:10:01 -0400

In a message dated 96-08-29 16:36:35 EDT, you write:

>Although this isn't exactly an "exotic" question, I'm hoping someone has the
>info. Did Joey Heatherton attempt or succeed in killing someone? In the back
>of my mind I remember some scandal (and I don't think i'm confusing her with
>claudine longet).  I also seem to think that she died of an overdose. Anyone
>know?  Thanks.    Bob

The only scandal I remember was with Dallas Cowboy Lance Rentzal who at the
time was Joey's husband when he was arrested for exposing himself to a
youngster in his automobile, this was back around '69 or '70 I believe.

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: The French Esquivel!!!
Date: 29 Aug 1996 22:17:48 +0000

THE Steve Martin made THE THEREMIN documenatry ?

No, not THAT Steve Martin.
_____________________________

Andre' Popppppppppppppp - THE FRENCH ESQUIVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can only hope that the liner notes on that tiny tiny tiny little cd
booklet are as great as the original liners are on the original LP jacket
They are wonderful

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Joey Heatherton
Date: 30 Aug 1996 02:15:21 -0400

not real life but:

TV BAD GIRLS: "Joey Heatherton tempts and teases sexual psycho Keir Dulllea
in this 60min. episode of CHANNING. Plus Julie London re-defines the meaning
od cold-hearted as she plays her husband Harry Guardino against millionaire
boyfriend Simon Oakland in this 60min. episode of CHECKMATE....$20

Same source as Scopitones

Sorry, too many cocktails
Tony

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Joey Heatherton
Date: 30 Aug 1996 03:52:10 -0400

I'm not certain, but I do recall that right after Marilyn Monroe's death,
which the media touted as being caused by an overdose of sleeping pills, one
of the contemporary MM wannabees had her agent or manager announce to the
media that she herself "attempted" such a suicide.

Judging by the radio reports I heard, and by the fact that I heard the report
only once, and then the media just seemed to drop it, it seemed to me that
the "attempt" was a shameless ploy to steal some of the ghastly spotlight
that was glaring on Marilyn's death.  I recall the quote that the starlet's
representative sent out in the news release of the "attempt."  He claimed
that the starlet had called him very early in the morning and said, "I did
it.  I did it.  I took an overdose."

It was embarrassingly crude!  And yes, I think I recall that it was Joey
Heatherton who did this.

Beau di Audeau

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Espresso Espresso
Date: 30 Aug 1996 03:52:04 -0400

Good points!

Now, for the ultimate in character and courage over polish and technique, I
recommend the dozen or so recordings of Jonathan and Darlene Edwards (on the
Corinthian label).

Actually, this is the triumph of incredible technique and frighteningly
intelligent musicianship over good taste.  Conductor/pianist Paul Weston and
vocalist Jo Stafford have been exemplary in their humorous assault on popular
songs.

It's deliberatly bad performance, with a deliberately humorous intention.
 They had to have courage to begin publishing these tracks--they've been
selling steadily for thirty years now, perhaps even longer!

Beau di Audeau

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Keep'in' touch w/SF
Date: 30 Aug 1996 04:12:07 -0400

Maybe you want to add something to a Warren commemoration and you are
probably going to have your own dedication in Lounge (do you have an address
for his family?) I will be mentioning our radio show that Warren so
graciously shared with us

In other news

I have found out about two pirate radio shows here in the Mission District
but have yet to hear them
but I most likely will be on one show this Thursday with Vale from RESEARCH
(now VSEARCH)

Can you add this SF report to your "To the Moon"?

Bruno's, Mission Street nar 20th, $3.00 cover
A swank ronovated old lounge in a "diverse" neighborhood - if you are scared
you can valet park your car for a stiff fee in Bruno's beautiful parking lot!

Every Sunday at Bruno's is Nakea Hawaiians, a Hawaiian band with an 81 yr old
slide guitarist. This is about as authentic an experience as one can get to
being in an old Polynesian lounge/restaurant and seeing the house band. For
example The Polynesians who performed for years at The Islander on La Cienega
when it was THEE restaurant row of LA/Hollywood. (The Tonga Room has live
entertainment nightly but they are bad 90s lounge acts.)

Occasional Wednesdays at Bruno's is Oranj Symphonette (look for their CD on
Ryko who are making a strong move into the lounge music arena with the HIFI
back catalog and new releases such as this) playing the music of Mancini

Most Mondays is Clubfoot Orchestra doing Nino Rota

Another reopened old club is the Hi Ball which was a legendary jazz club in
the old days and now hosts jazz and lounge acts such as Frenchy

Friday, September 20, 10 pm, $3.00
Tiki News will be hosting an Exotica night at Moonlight Bar and Grill @ 4th &
Mendicino in Santa Rosa.
SF surf rockers The Torpedoes will strut their stuff and Otto von Stroheim
will dj exotica between sets. The bar will be decorated in Tiki style for the
night and have Polynesian drink specials.


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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: Joey Heatherton
Date: 30 Aug 1996 05:09:34 -0600 (MDT)

>Although this isn't exactly an "exotic" question, I'm hoping someone has the
>info. Did Joey Heatherton attempt or succeed in killing someone? In the back
>of my mind I remember some scandal (and I don't think i'm confusing her with
>claudine longet).  I also seem to think that she died of an overdose. Anyone
>know?  Thanks.    Bob

Yeah, I thought this was Claudine....

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: The French Esquivel!!!
Date: 30 Aug 1996 10:03:11 -0400


>Andre' Popppppppppppppp - THE FRENCH ESQUIVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>I can only hope that the liner notes on that tiny tiny tiny little cd
>booklet are as great as the original liners are on the original LP jacket
>They are wonderful

They have reprinted the original liners, plus added new ones that detail
the recording of the album. There are also many photographs (including one
of the original tape box, plus Popp's other albums) and reproductions of
the original sheet music. All in all, an exceptional package.

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From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Mah-Na Mah-Na"
Date: 30 Aug 1996 07:53:40 -0400

At 03:26 PM 28/08/1996 EDT, you wrote:

 "I'M MAD AS HELL
>AND I CAN'T BELIEVE WE'VE BEEN DENIED THE ESQUIVEL VERSION OF
>MAH-NAH MAH-NAH!"
>
>Together we are strong!


Ladies and Gentlemen.

The one, the only,

"Saint" Patrick Cashin...


Thanks Pat!


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From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: You Oughtta Know (Re: A Little Help)
Date: 30 Aug 1996 08:15:32 -0400

At 06:30 AM 29/08/1996 -0600, you wrote:
>>Can anyone out there (especially you DJ types) recommend some good NEW lounge
>>recordings a la ComEd?  The old stuff is well documented and easy to look
for,
>>but I've made some rather uninformed (and disappointing) purchases of
"nouveau
>>lounge" / "cocktail revival" CDs (Love Jones...pee yoo).  Most of it seems
too
>>self-consciously tongue-in-cheek.


Somebody oughta mention this sometime...

Jaymz Bee & his Royal Jelly Orchestra, from Toronto have just recently
released "Cocktail Music-Shakin' AND Stirred" with VERY good lounge covers
of various Canadian pop songs (including a SWEET version of Brian Adams "Run
to You" that has to be heard to be beleived, and my favorite, Alanis
Morrisette's "You Oughta Know" as if it was arranged by Hugo
Montenegro/Perez Prado).

Tonight (Aug.30th) they'll be performing live in a two hour video cocktail
party on MuchMusic( "The Nation's Music Station" in Canada) and I've heard
rumours of celebrity guests along the lines of Frank Gorshin and Gavin"Fat
bad-guy producer in THE PARTY/Merle Stubing" MacCloud.

I don't know how the special'll be, but BMG/RCA Canada has released the CD
and, you know, it's not too bad at all..  Besides, I got to be the sax
player in the video for the Alanis cover, so I do have my partialities...

Gone for awhile, back again soon.

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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: in lounge laura's defense
Date: 30 Aug 1996 12:05:13 -0400

                      in lounge laura's defense                    8/30/96

I can't help it!  I just love the orginal art-work on those Baxter
albums...and that LOST EPISODE cover looks like a knock-off to me...Art is
mondo-importante in my life, as is Les(sigh), so I think you can understand
my impassioned MHO...But what's most signficant to me is the music, and it
sounds like it's worth picking up...that is if I can find it again...Tampa is
NOT an exotica town when it comes to new record stores...But thanks!
I didn't mean it was misguided in that it doesn't contain legit elements,
but, as an aesthete, the complete package is relevant to me...It's all in eye
o' the beholder..huh?
Lounge Laura/[e-mail]
"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."
>>>
     Laura, the art-work on Les Baxter "The Lost Episode" is pretty clever.
     There is nothing 'new' on there, it is ALL elements from other Les
     Baxter album covers. Take a close look! The background was even
     scanned in from a well-worn jacket from that double Baxter compilation
     from the 60s!

     The artist meant no harm to Capitol by doing this and in fact, the
     thought at the time was that there was no Les reissues anywhere in
     sight!


     Love,


     Lee & Aime


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  REGARDING           lost on me

Here's the crucial question burning in this Baxter-babe's mind:
Is the *music* good on the LOST EPISODE?  And to what Les-era is it most
akin?  What year were the tracks written-recorded?
And(I duck as I write this) I think the art work is misguided and
silly...which actually at first sort of deterred me-because I thought:
"bad artwork-bad record" quizas?
Lounge Laura-who is still also in search of info on the latest Korla CD
[e-mail]
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From: "Laura Taylor" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: "Mah-Na Mah-Na"
Date: 30 Aug 1996 12:28:58 -0400

                      RE>>"Mah-Na Mah-Na"                          8/30/96

st. patrick---sorta spy---like it...did I miss something or has the oracle
br. cleve yet responded to the availability/possibility of this coveted
single?
Cleve????
Lounge Laura
[e-mail]

At 03:26 PM 28/08/1996 EDT, you wrote:

 "I'M MAD AS HELL
>AND I CAN'T BELIEVE WE'VE BEEN DENIED THE ESQUIVEL VERSION OF
>MAH-NAH MAH-NAH!"
>
>Together we are strong!


Ladies and Gentlemen.

The one, the only,

"Saint" Patrick Cashin...


Thanks Pat!


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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Playlist 4-07-96
Date: 30 Aug 1996 09:53:09 +0000

KFJC play list 4/7 for Jack Diamond

 ARTIST                       TRACK                                   ALBUM

 Planets                       Chunky
 H.Harper/B.Shank              Now Playing
 Stu Phillips                  The Fun Zone
 Mary Jane Soundtrack          Grass Party
 Ferrante & Teicher            Semper Fidelis               Hi-Fi Fireworks
 Vampyros Lesbos               The Lions and the Cucumber   Vampyros Lesbos
 Phil Moore                    Times Square                      N.Y.Sweet
 Dave Pell Singers             Oh Calcutta
 Toy Parade                    Leave It to Beaver Theme
 Mancini                       Charade (Carousel)
 Jerry Goldsmith               Love Shop                       Loguns Run

Kenyon Hopkins                 Society Girl                    E.Side/W.Side
Herb-Pomeroy-Tpt, Jimmy Zitano, Boots Mussulli,
Serge Chaloff                   Diane's Melody
Russ Garcia                     Venus(Fantastica,Liberty)     Analog Vinyl
Jerry Fielding                  Hide & Seek Underground       Scorpio
Laurie Johnson                  The Professionals             Brit TV
Nordine                         I Used to Think My R Hand
                                Was Uglier than my L
Jimmy Bryant/Speedy West        Night Rider                   Cnty Cbn Jazz

Kenneth Rexroth                 The Orchard                   59
Fantasy/Red Vinyl

Jack Costanzo-Bongos           Mike Pacheco-Conga            Wild Side of
P.Candoli,B.Kessel,            P.Johnson,D.Pell,R.Norvo      Henry Mancini
Lambert,Hendricks,Ross         Halloween Spooks
Jack Fascinato                An Old Saw                    Surplus Store
Barney Kessel Trio        Recado Bossa Nova                 65 Live
Jerome Richardson,        Phil Woods/Barr Galbraith        Lonely Train
 Gene Quill,Ernie Royal,   Manny Albam/Arrgr-Intro/       Jet Song/W.S.Story
 Bob Crewe/Ch.Fox          Spaceship Out of Control        Barbarella
 Mel Henke                 Farmer John                     62/WARNER Bros

 Roland Shaw               Man From U.N.C.L.E.           Themes for Secret
                                                         Agents

 Joe Green                 Walk to Hell - Destruction    Psychopathia
                                                         Sexualis
 Johnny Richards Orch.     La Pecadora(Rite of Diablo)
 Enoch Light/Dick Hyman    Walk on By(Spaced Out)        Command
 101 Strings               Blues for the Guru            Sounds of Today
 Quincy Jones              A Shot in the Park            MIRAGE(65)
 Denny Wright and the
 Hustlers                  Shout About Pepsi
 Pete Rugolo               Diamond on the Move

KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Playlist for Jack Diamond's House of Games 4-7-96
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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Re: "Mah-Na Mah-Na"
Date: 30 Aug 1996 12:53:08 EDT



I haven't heard anythiing from Cleve about it.

Man, I've had this song running throuh my head
since I heard about the Esquivel version.

I keep trying to imagine where the "zoom zooms"
and "boink boinks" go.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Brother Cleve
Date: 30 Aug 1996 12:55:56 -0400 (EDT)

     Though Brother Cleve is probably too modest to mention it, there's a nice
article about him in the Living/Arts section of today's (Friday) Boston Globe.
 Pick up a copy if you live in the New England area.  If not, it should be
available on the Globe's website.
     By the way, did the "Ultra Lounge" series *really* do close to a
quarter-million copies apiece?
                    --Jon Johnson
                      [e-mail]


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From: Phil Clark <[e-mail]>
Subject: Sound Gallery II
Date: 30 Aug 1996 16:37:41 +0100

In message , [e-mail] writes
>In a message dated 96-08-15 12:47:31 EDT, you write:
>
>>has anyone one heard of a compilation LP called "Loungecore Vol.II"?.....i
>>saw it a a friend's garage recently and am curious if it's any
>>good.....apparently it's from the same makers who'd put together  "The Easy
>>Project" of which i haven't had a chance to listen to as well.......is it
>>available on cd?...and how about Vol. 1?
>
>
>Vol 2 is far far superior to Vol 1 and definitely worth a purchase
>
>>I also hear that vol.2 of "Easy Project" and "The Sound Gallery" have been
>>released....can anyone confirm this? .....and also that The Karminski
>>Brothers are working on a new compilation project.?

Folks

yes indeed Sound Gallery II came out over here in the UK 3 weeks ago,
double vinyl and single CD.

Have been on hols lately so haven't picked up a copy yet. (But I can
tell you that Heino has a new record out in Germany, I saw it whilst
browsing the stores in Munich. no I didn't buy it! also saw about ten
German RCA "Living Stereo" CDs)

AFAIK the Karminskies current comp project (followup to "In FLight
Entertainment") should be called "Espresso, Espresso".

Der jet set sie heist wilkommen
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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Re: "Mah-Na Mah-Na"
Date: 30 Aug 1996 13:48:04 EDT


----- Begin Included Message -----

I haven't heard anythiing from Cleve about it.

Man, I've had this song running throuh my head
since I heard about the Esquivel version.

I keep trying to imagine where the "zoom zooms"
and "boink boinks" go.

----- End Included Message -----


Sorry, I was conversing with Lounge Laura about the Esquivel
cover of "Mah Na Mah Na" and I replied to the list.

I'm the only one who seems to do this.

Cleve? Any word on a domestic release of "The Great Lost Esquivel Single"?

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From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Re: laser turntable - info?
Date: 30 Aug 1996 20:21:42 +0200 (MET DST)

There was a demo version circulating conventions a few years back. Never saw
or heard it but the word was that it had lots of bugs. They should have
fixed that by now...maybe the product was to good? It certainly would turn
both the CD and used record market upside down.
Stefan/Subliminal Sounds

>This may be a certified crank item, but:
>
>Anyone have any hard data on the mythical laser turntable? [It supposedly
>plays even taped, gunked, and rough vinyl like a CD, with all that fancy
>error-correction business.] Does this beast exist for real?
>
>Manufacturer(s), current and projected price, specs? Output in digital and
>analog?
>
>Last I heard, the price had halved from $18K to 9K; when it does a few times
>more, time to pounce on that puppy. Thar's gold in them thar broken shards
>of 78s.
>
>Tony "digital prospector" Wilds
>
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From: Ken Freedman <[e-mail]>
Subject: Delirium In Hi-Fi
Date: 30 Aug 1996 14:42:24 -0400 (EDT)


The CD reissue of Andre Popp's (originally credited to "Elsa Popping and
her Pixieland Band") will be in the next WFMU catalog of curiosities. The
price will probably be $18. It'll be in stock in three weeks.

-ken

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WFMU                [phone]
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From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Cantaloupe
Date: 30 Aug 1996 19:00:36 UT

"Heileson, Thomas" <[e-mail]> Thu, 29 Aug 96 writes:

>That Cantaloupe song is pretty much the _most_ ripped-off song ever.

Amen.

>My question is whether the rest of the material on that US3 album is also
>based on this overtly jazz-sampled technique. (and is it any good?)

I haven't heard the whole CD.  However, my acid-jazz fan friend Max said it
was OK but not great (which is higher praise than he usually gives).

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From: Paul Lewis <[e-mail]>
Subject: Denny
Date: 30 Aug 1996 15:47:24 -0400 (EDT)


Question:

Can anyone tell me which pre-1960 albums by Martin Denny (up through
approximately Quiet Village) were RECORDED in Stereo?  I am really not
sure which albums (outside of Exotica) were recorded in true stereo
instead of pressed in simulated stereo.

Thanks,
Paul


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Coordinator of Academic Computing               [phone] [office]
Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Music of Afro-Arab -stereo?
Date: 30 Aug 1996 16:49:25 -0400

At 09:52 PM 8/28/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Audio Fidelity (AF) needs a web site too. Kings of cheesey art. First stereo
>LP, other firsts. And few great artists to get in the way of the trivia.
>
>There are 5 or 6 AF Mohammed El-Bakkar LPs. All were [re-]issued in stereo,
>except I think "Music of the African Arab." Is this true? Heard it was so bc
>of the cover: nekkid breasts and all. (Similar to the Taboo 2 cover change,
>but without the cover change.) Censorship in those days was so quaint.
>
>Anyone have mastery of the AF catalog?
>
>Audio Fidelity fans want to know.


I want to know.  I would love seeing Jim Messina & the Jesters (1964-65) put
out as well.

Bryan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Music of Afro-Arab -stereo?
Date: 30 Aug 1996 16:51:13 -0400

>Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:50:50
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: Music of Afro-Arab -stereo?
>Cc: [e-mail]
>
>At 09:52 PM 8/28/96 -0400, you wrote:
>>Audio Fidelity (AF) needs a web site too. Kings of cheesey art. First stereo
>>LP, other firsts. And few great artists to get in the way of the trivia.
>>
>>There are 5 or 6 AF Mohammed El-Bakkar LPs. All were [re-]issued in stereo,
>>except I think "Music of the African Arab." Is this true? Heard it was so bc
>>of the cover: nekkid breasts and all. (Similar to the Taboo 2 cover change,
>>but without the cover change.) Censorship in those days was so quaint.
>>
>>Anyone have mastery of the AF catalog?
>>
>>Audio Fidelity fans want to know.


I want to know.  I would love seeing Jim Messina & the Jesters (1964-65) put
out as well.

Bryan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Denny
Date: 30 Aug 1996 16:54:48 -0400

>X-POP3-Rcpt: bstewart@ids2
>Return-Path: [e-mail]
>Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:47:24 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Paul Lewis <[e-mail]>
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Denny
>Sender: [e-mail]
>Reply-To: [e-mail]
>
>
>Question:
>
>Can anyone tell me which pre-1960 albums by Martin Denny (up through
>approximately Quiet Village) were RECORDED in Stereo?  I am really not
>sure which albums (outside of Exotica) were recorded in true stereo
>instead of pressed in simulated stereo.
>
>Thanks,
>Paul

You might want to get in contact with Ashley at <[e-mail]>  He can
give you the scoop and I hope he posts his answer to the list.


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From: [e-mail] (lou smith)
Subject: Re: "Mah-Na Mah-Na"
Date: 30 Aug 1996 23:02:58 GMT


>At 03:26 PM 28/08/1996 EDT, you wrote:
>
>"I'M MAD AS HELL
>>AND I CAN'T BELIEVE WE'VE BEEN DENIED THE ESQUIVEL VERSION OF
>>MAH-NAH MAH-NAH!"
>>
>>Together we are strong!

If you feel that way about just Mah-Nah Mah-Nah, how do you feel about the
lost 'See It In Sound' LP?

I think we should all meet at BMG and storm the vaults!
Who's with me?

-Lou
(Who just became an official American Song/Poem Field Rep! I am so proud of
me today)

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: White Zombie
Date: 30 Aug 1996 19:03:41 -0500

Yes,  White Zombie!

Just wondering about the content versus the cover of their latest cd.
 It's a thorough take on lounge/exotica with retro-babe shots,
bachelor pad titles, etc.  What's next?  Marilyn Manson doing
Bacharach?  Actually, that might not be too bad!


kevin king
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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ethel Smith
Date: 30 Aug 1996 19:03:41 -0500

Whoa!  Saw Ethel Smith's Cha-Cha-Cha Album (including mambos,
merengue and other latin rythms) with the tacky cover - her at the
bongos, organ looming behind - and I couldn't resist.  It proved to
be well worth the buck, as it's all very lively, humorous fun.
There's a mambo by Quincy Jones, a cha-cha by Ethel called No Tickee
No Cha-Cha and a great version of Tico-Tico-Mambo.  Is any of her
other vinyl this fun?  Don't remember seeing her mentioned here.


kevin king
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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Armando Trovaioli
Date: 30 Aug 1996 19:03:42 -0500

Any suggestions/comments on Trovaioli scores besides 7 Golden Men /
Strikes Again?  I saw a couple at Tower - The Sensuous Scicilian and
a two-fer comedies score.  Are those 'mondo' vocals typical for him?


kevin king
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Joey Heatherton
Date: 30 Aug 1996 19:38:05 -0400

In a message dated 96-08-30 04:16:21 EDT, you write:

>I'm not certain, but I do recall that right after Marilyn Monroe's death,
>which the media touted as being caused by an overdose of sleeping pills, one
>of the contemporary MM wannabees had her agent or manager announce to the
>media that she herself "attempted" such a suicide.
>
>Judging by the radio reports I heard, and by the fact that I heard the
report
>only once, and then the media just seemed to drop it, it seemed to me that
>the "attempt" was a shameless ploy to steal some of the ghastly spotlight
>that was glaring on Marilyn's death.  I recall the quote that the starlet's
>representative sent out in the news release of the "attempt."  He claimed
>that the starlet had called him very early in the morning and said, "I did
>it.  I did it.  I took an overdose."
>
>It was embarrassingly crude!  And yes, I think I recall that it was Joey
>Heatherton who did this.
>
>Beau di Audeau
>
>

I really doubt this as in '62 or '63 when Marilyn died Joey Heatherton would
have still been a teenager.

Ashley

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Sound Gallery II
Date: 30 Aug 1996 19:42:43 -0400

For all you patient folks Sound Gallery 2 on CD and vinyl is shipping
(finally!) next week..

Regards
Ashley

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Denny
Date: 30 Aug 1996 19:59:07 -0400

In a message dated 96-08-30 15:38:32 EDT, you write:

>Question:
>
>Can anyone tell me which pre-1960 albums by Martin Denny (up through
>approximately Quiet Village) were RECORDED in Stereo?  I am really not
>sure which albums (outside of Exotica) were recorded in true stereo
>instead of pressed in simulated stereo.
>
>Thanks,
>Paul
>
>

All the pre-1960 Martin Denny records were recorded in stereo. None used
simulated stereo. The miono versions were merely mixed down from stereo into
mono.

The only point of confusion is that EXOTICA was originally recorded in mono
at Wembley Edwards Studio in Hawaii in 1956 with the line up of:
Martin Denny - piano
Arthur Lyman - vibes
John Kramer - bass
Augie Colon - percussion & bird calls
Harold Chang - drums

When Arthur Lyman left Martin Denny to form his own group (taking John Kramer
and Harold Chang with him) Denny's new line-up (see below) RE-RECORDED the
entire album in stereo at Liberty Records Studio in Hollywood in 1958. The
reason for this is that Liberty wanted a stereo version to be issued as
stereo albums were seen as the wave of the future and it was aptly predicted
that they would eclipse sales of mono albums.

Martin Denny - piano
Julius Wechter - vibes
Harvey Ragsdale - bass
Augie Colon - percussion & bird calls

You can here the differences in tempo that are very apparent on some songs
while on others they are very close.  Someone may correct me if I'm wrong on
this but I believe that Liberty kept the original mono version in print
rather than mixing down the re-recorded stereo version.

 By the way both Martin Denny and Br. Cleve whoby the way recently  A -B'ed
the two recordings feel that the mono version of EXOTICA is the superior
version as there is more life and excitement to the performances.

I hope this helps
Ashley

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Armando Trovaioli
Date: 30 Aug 1996 20:04:08 -0400

Definetley race to pick Seven Golden Men up...I picked it up based on a Jack
Diamond rave and boy was he right! - Great wordless vocal '60s stuff...I
really mean grab it quick as it is becoming very hard to get in the U.S. as
the company that was distributing the CAM label from Italy has ceased its
distribution arrangement and it may be a real long time before you see this
title and/or at that price for a real long time.

Ashley

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Astrud
Date: 30 Aug 1996 20:17:05 -0500

> > > Succumbed, and bought this CD yesterday. Took it home and set the
> > > player to repeat it over and over. Fabulous. Really like the last
> > > track by Astrud.

Mmmmm...  There's a gorgeous track featuring Astrud on the Quincy
Jones Pawnbroker/Deadly Affair two-fer.  Deadly Affair is filled with
lots-o spy bossa, some wordless vocals.  Get it if you like Girl From
U.N.C.L.E.  Can't go wrong with the nervous jazz on Pawnbroker
either.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: White Zombie
Date: 30 Aug 1996 21:01:41 -0400

Don't be fooled by the cover. Although it's not standard issue Metal, it's
nothing like easy listening. The cover and interior shots were done by Peter
Gowland, who for many years has sold how-to books on glamour photography.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Two Questions
Date: 30 Aug 1996 21:06:44 -0400

1. The New York Times today called "Hard Day's Night" from 1964 the origin of
music videos. Did scopitones precede the movie? Or are they right?
2. Heard a beatiful cut by Francoise Hardy from an album called "Alone", sung
in english. Does anyone know if this is available on CD?

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From: [e-mail] (Thom S. Heileson)
Subject: fave 5ive / Adamson / Eddy / Heatherton
Date: 30 Aug 1996 18:15:11 -0700

>From: "Mark A. Rosati" <[e-mail]>
>Subject: Intro!
>
>After hanging out and reading the list for about a week I decided to
>chime in and ask the powers that be (that is anyone on the list), if you
>where trying to turn someone on to "exotica", what five albums, songs,
>artists would you insist they get?

I can't resist.

(Mind you I recommend highly every tune from each album below, but am
picking faves from.)

1. Antonio Carlos Jobim and Elis Regina - album: "The Antonio Carlos Jobim
Songbook"; song: "Aguas de Marco (Waters of March)"
2. Combustible Edison - album: "The Progressive Sounds of Combustible
Edison"; song: "Solid State"
3. Martin Denny - album: "Quiet Village"; song: "Quiet Village"
4. Brasil '65 - album: "Brasil '65"; song: "So Nice"
5. Sergio Mendez & Brasil '66 - album: "Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendez
& Brasil"; song: "Mas Que Nada"

Somehow I will actually stop at five. Many many omissions...


>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: Adamson/Peaks/FS LPs
>
>1. Barry Adamson: For those who are not strictly into exotic type things
>I would urge you to check out his work as bass player with Magazine.
>IMHO some of the best bass playing ever in the Rock(?) genre. Actually,
>even those who are mostly into exotica might still enjoy Magazine as
>they share a certain cinematic type of scope that we all enjoy. Not to
>mention that they are pretentious as hell which is often a good thing!
>Oh yeah, and they cover "Goldfinger".

I did not know Adamson was in Magazine, only that he had played with the Bad
Seeds (was on "Kicking Against the Pricks," their cover-album, their best
record IMO). I am a huge fan of his solo stuff, my fave still being "Moss
Side Story." What would be the best Magazine album for me to check out
first?

>2. Twin Peaks/A. Baldamenti(sp)/Cruse/etc

(Badalamenti)

>Duane Eddy, Lonely Guitar.

I've heard the name before but I can't remember the context. Is this a
contemporary recording? What's the label?

>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: Joey Heatherton
>
>Although this isn't exactly an "exotic" question, I'm hoping someone has
the info. Did Joey Heatherton >attempt or succeed in killing someone? In the
back of my mind I remember some scandal (and I don't >think i'm confusing
her with claudine longet).  I also seem to think that she died of an
overdose. Anyone
>know?  Thanks.    Bob

I think you're right about this. I can't remember the details, but I know
she went through a classic starlet tragedy. The funny thing is, I know this
from reading a short pseudo-biography in cartoon form in one of the Friedman
Bros. books (Drew Friedman is famous for stippled caricatures and
accompanying dark humor)... I highly recommend researching this reliable
source! :)

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From: [e-mail] (Jonny.S)
Subject: Re(2): Espresso Espresso
Date: 30 Aug 1996 20:07:33 -0500

throb Records 212.533.2328 (N.Y.C.)

i bought it last week on vinyl but they also have the CD.
jonny sender


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From: Dave Lofquist <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Astrud
Date: 30 Aug 1996 21:33:36 -0500 (CDT)

kevin king writes:

> Mmmmm...  There's a gorgeous track featuring Astrud on the Quincy
> Jones Pawnbroker/Deadly Affair two-fer.

I'd have to second this. The Gilberto track, melting in and out of the minor
key, is spellbinding. The rest of the score (The Deadly Affair) is great too -
although, because the main theme tends to creep into most of the tracks, it can
seem a bit repetitive if you're not in the right sort of mood. But if you are...

There's a really cool cut from The Pawnbroker (same CD) that evokes nothing if
not a frenetic chase on foot through the city at night. Really nice. I still
have yet to see the film, so I'd love to know what's actually occuring when
"Rack 'Em Up" is playing - ?

dave

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Joey Heatherton
Date: 30 Aug 1996 22:54:07 -0400

Yeah, maybe so.  I'll admit to not recalling exactly which starlet it was.
 However, my posting was a digression from the original question of Joey
being involved in some scandal or other.

Some would say that the scandal in which she was involved was her career.
 Oh, well.  She did manage to have a career.

Cheeze Whiz, anyone?
Beau

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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: CD Prices
Date: 30 Aug 1996 21:06:53 -0600 (MDT)

> Regarding imports from the USA, for example, the Capitol reissue
> of Yma Sumac's "Legend of the Jivaro" is more expensive:
> 17.99 UK Pounds, or US $27.50.  I know her vocal range is extreme,
> but almost a dollar per minute of running time is too.....
> How much is this album in the States?

All the recent Yma reissues on Capitol subsidiary The Right Stuff seem
to be mid-price releases.  I see 'em for around $12 usually.

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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: laser turntable - info?
Date: 30 Aug 1996 21:17:29 -0600 (MDT)

> Anyone have any hard data on the mythical laser turntable? [It supposedly
> plays even taped, gunked, and rough vinyl like a CD, with all that fancy
> error-correction business.] Does this beast exist for real?

Not quite in the form you describe, but yes, a company called ELP is
manufacturing a laser turntable.  The obvious advantage of the unit is
that there's no surface contact with the record, which means that there's
no wear on the disc and no mistracking (the lasers can track through gunk
that might make a stylus skip out of the groove).  They do *not* do error
correction, though the manufacturers claim that scratches don't sound
anywhere near as prominent.

ELP have a US web site; check http://useattle.uspan.com/elp.

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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: time for faq!
Date: 30 Aug 1996 21:18:53 -0600 (MDT)

> I will do a faq.  If it gets too big, I will ask others to share the
> effort by supplying storage.  If Lazlo would like the faq at
> xmission.com, he should let me know, otherwise it will be available at
> our domain.

I'm happy enough to see a FAQ get created that I certainly won't insist that
I be allowed to be the main site for it!  But if you need storage space for
it, I'm happy to offer it.

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From: Jonathan Brainin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: laser turntable - info?
Date: 31 Aug 1996 00:36:48 -0400

[e-mail] (STEFAN KERY) wrote:

> There was a demo version circulating conventions a few years back. Never saw
> or heard it but the word was that it had lots of bugs. They should have
> fixed that by now...maybe the product was to good? It certainly would turn
> both the CD and used record market upside down.
> Stefan/Subliminal Sounds
>
> >This may be a certified crank item, but:
> >
> >Anyone have any hard data on the mythical laser turntable? [It supposedly
> >plays even taped, gunked, and rough vinyl like a CD, with all that fancy
> >error-correction business.] Does this beast exist for real?
> >
> >Manufacturer(s), current and projected price, specs? Output in digital and
> >analog?
> >
> >Last I heard, the price had halved from $18K to 9K; when it does a few times
> >more, time to pounce on that puppy. Thar's gold in them thar broken shards
> >of 78s.
> >
> >Tony "digital prospector" Wilds

The laser turntable is made by Finial.  Basically, although it sorta
functions,
it sounds really badly.  Part of the problem is that the laser only
examines the
surface of the grooves.  When playing an actual lp, the interface of the
stylus
and the groove creates a great deal of friction which is dissipated as
heat.
This heat causes the vinyl to actually become fluid.  The sound you hear
is
produced not by the surface of the groove, but rather by the solid part
of the
groove that is underneath the "fluid" layer of the vinyl.

It can hardly track a new record.  Forget about some of those Salvation
Army
specials used for cleaning pot.  Save your cash, and buy more music.

Jonathan

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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: Denny
Date: 30 Aug 1996 21:51:48 +0000

>Can anyone tell me which pre-1960 albums by Martin Denny (up through
>approximately Quiet Village) were RECORDED in Stereo?  I am really not
>sure which albums (outside of Exotica) were recorded in true stereo
>instead of pressed in simulated stereo.

Paul,

All of them except the 1st is my understanding.
Also that is _very important and que-ell is that the Stereo recording is an
entirely different set than the mono recording.


I believe the 1st record was electronically rechanneled 1st and then
re-recorded in stereo.

Exotica came out in 1956 and then in late 57 it was re-recorded in Stereo
BUT I think it was rechanneled to Stereo in 56 too.  Not sure.

I wasn't at _that private party_ in San Francisco for Martin Denny and his
wife about 8 months ago ;)

That's _always_ the 1st question I ask too BTW ;-)>

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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: orfeo negro
Date: 31 Aug 1996 00:46:15 -0500 (CDT)


hello all,

i just recently got the soundtrack to black orpheus (the best example of
greek mythology being set to a bossa nova beat i know of, though the
presence of anthony perkins (in over-emotive sportscar alone again mode) in
phaedra makes it a close second...) and was wondering, who plays the
music on the album?  do the two stars, marpessa dawn and breno mello, do
their own vocals?  and what about the guitar?  is it joao gilberto, or
perhaps jobim?  (who wrote the music along with luiz bonfa)  if anyone
hasn't heard the soundtrack, it's quite interesting, though the
background noise may prove distracting.  i for one rather enjoy listening
to a beautiful version of a felicidade while someone shouts and beats a
can to a different rithm in the background!  the carnaval atmosphere of
the movie is recreated in the soundtrack, esp.  in the several "trad"
pieces.  were these taken from actual carnaval field recordings?

one more question, have the two singers on this album recorded anything
else?  they both have wonderful voices.

and btw the movie itself is incredible, a unique experience, certainly my
favorite telling of the orpheus and eurydice myth.

take care,
mark

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From: Jan Fornell <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE:Barry Adamson
Date: 31 Aug 1996 20:24:00 +0900

>What would be the best Magazine album for me to check out first?
Their second, "Secondhand Daylight".

Jan

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: name for "joe?"
Date: 31 Aug 1996 11:05:05 -0500

>How's the name for that uncreative Patrick Cashin goin' btw?


going slow so far but a few entries will be up this weekend...want to help
name Patrick? drop by http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/casino.html#patrick


in swank,
Vik


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From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Intro!
Date: 31 Aug 1996 15:54:49 UT

"Mark A. Rosati" <[e-mail]> Thu, 29 Aug 1996 12:40:41 writes:

>if you where trying to turn someone on to "exotica", what five albums, songs,

artists would you insist they get?

1.  Antonio Carlos Jobim.  Any album, especially those featuring Stan Getz and
Astrud and Joao Gilberto.  There's a compilation on Verve called "The Girl
from Ipanema: The Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook" that has Jobim songs being
covered by a wide range of artists (Sarah Vaughan, Wes Montgomery, Ella
Fitzgerald, etc.), as well as some done by Jobim with Getz, Gilberto, etc.
Also, try Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz.

2.  Martin Denny.  Any album, because they mostly sound alike to me (being a
novice exotician myself, please don't hate me), but the Rhino "Exotica: The
Best Of Martin Denny" is a good cross section.  He's the granddaddy of it all
in my book.

3.  Combustible Edison.  Either album.  Better yet, both.  They steal just
enough from the masters to sound authentically retro, yet they add their own
wonderfully inventive twist to it.  No one swings like ComEd.

4.  Cocktail Mix Vol 2: Martini Madness.  Another Rhino comp.  A great
selection of artists and styles that really helped me figure out what stuff I
liked best and what to buy more of.  Vols. 1 & 3 are great as well.

5.  Kraftwerk- "Autobahn."  I throw this in mainly to stir up dissent.  Let's
not get too "precious" about what constitutes exotica.  There's a bunch of
cool, atmospheric electronic stuff out there that shouldn't be overlooked (W.
Carlos, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, etc.).

These selections may seem somewhat pedestrian to those of you who have earned
your ExD degrees, but as an intoduction to someone new to the genre, they are
helpful learning tools.

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From: "Steve Sando" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Intro!
Date: 31 Aug 1996 10:05:04 +0000


I found this list a bit confusing...

> 1.  Antonio Carlos Jobim.
> 2.  Martin Denny.  Any album, because they mostly sound alike to me
> 3.  Combustible Edison.>
> 4.  Cocktail Mix Vol 2: Martini Madness.
> 5.  Kraftwerk- "Autobahn."

> I throw this in mainly to stir up
> dissent.  Let's not get too "precious" about what constitutes
> exotica.  There's a bunch of cool, atmospheric electronic stuff out
> there that shouldn't be overlooked (W. Carlos, Brian Eno, Tangerine
> Dream, etc.).

Without being precious, Exotica is a genre of music. I think the
above list is good solid music but not neccassarily Exotica. Jobim is
world music (and great) but not Exotica. It's Bossa Nova. the Rhino
'Martini Madness' is a fun record but it's not Exotica and it's
barely Lounge (although I have to disagree about Volume 3- I think
it's putrid!). Kraftwerk I won't even comment on.

I love hearing about other music (especially new) that Exotica fans
are listening to but to call Tangerine Dream Exotica is like
making a martini with vodka. You can do it and you can enjoy it but
it's not quite right!


Coconut Grove, publishers of MisterLUCKY
PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107
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From: "Marcel Chouteau" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Intro!
Date: 31 Aug 1996 17:47:22 UT

Oh yeah, and...

6.  Esquivel- "Cabaret Manana."  "Nuf said.

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From: [e-mail] (Patrick Cashin)
Subject: Re: Bozo Engagement
Date: 31 Aug 1996 14:30:34 EDT



Just Thought I'd Let Everyone Know Dept:

    My girlfriend Terry and I are flying out to Chicago this
     Thursday night to attend a taping of "The Bozo Show" on
    which, unbeknowst to Terry, we are going to get engaged.

    The producer tells me that the show will air in mid
    November for those of you who want to watch an easily
    flustered woman freak out on TV, surrounded by screaming
    kids and a giant clown be sure to tune in.

    We plan on checking out Second City on Saturday night
    but if anyone else could suggest any other cool things
    to see and do it would be greatly appreciated.


Listening to Cleve's version of "Dreamland",

              Patrick

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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Ethel Smith
Date: 31 Aug 1996 13:24:21 -0700

kevin king wrote:
>
> Whoa!  Saw Ethel Smith's Cha-Cha-Cha Album (including mambos,
> merengue and other latin rythms) with the tacky cover - her at the
> bongos, organ looming behind - and I couldn't resist.  It proved to
> be well worth the buck, as it's all very lively, humorous fun.
> There's a mambo by Quincy Jones, a cha-cha by Ethel called No Tickee
> No Cha-Cha and a great version of Tico-Tico-Mambo.  Is any of her
> other vinyl this fun?  Don't remember seeing her mentioned here.

Ethel Smith was a real pace-setter among organists, one of the first to
become a celebrity in her own right.  She appeared in a number of
musicals, including

For more information on Ethel, check out:

http://www.netrail.net/~bbigelow/smith.htm

Brad Bigelow
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From: [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
Subject: More Whistling
Date: 31 Aug 1996 12:01:26 +0000

Joe Puma was a really great session jazz/pop guitarist who made this record
in 1961 called Like Tweet.

It's super cool melodic jazz of arrangemnents, interpretations of BIRDS SOUNDS
There is Jerome Richardson on Piccolo and Bobby Jaspar on Flute, Barry
Galbraith and Joe Puma on guitars, Don Elliot on vibes and is a very
chamber jazz SWINGIN' sound. Beatnik all the way.

Some of the tunes start out with whistling in exactly the way that
particular BIRD whistles!!!  Such fun!!!!!!!

If you find it, grab it and run home and throw it on your turntable and
just try and relax ;)
Finger snappin' que-el jazz.  _You will_ dig it.  Guaranteed
Columbia, 1961

Jack



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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Ethel Smith
Date: 31 Aug 1996 14:01:19 -0700

The missing movie musical below is "Bathing Beauty," starring Esther
Williams.

> kevin king wrote:
> >
> > Whoa!  Saw Ethel Smith's Cha-Cha-Cha Album (including mambos,
> > merengue and other latin rythms) with the tacky cover - her at the
> > bongos, organ looming behind - and I couldn't resist.  It proved to
> > be well worth the buck, as it's all very lively, humorous fun.
> > There's a mambo by Quincy Jones, a cha-cha by Ethel called No Tickee
> > No Cha-Cha and a great version of Tico-Tico-Mambo.  Is any of her
> > other vinyl this fun?  Don't remember seeing her mentioned here.
>
> Ethel Smith was a real pace-setter among organists, one of the first to
> become a celebrity in her own right.  She appeared in a number of
> musicals, including
>
> For more information on Ethel, check out:
>
> http://www.netrail.net/~bbigelow/smith.htm
>
> Brad Bigelow
> [e-mail]
>

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From: [e-mail] (Matt Love)
Subject: Little Jack Melody Tour Dates
Date: 31 Aug 1996 12:38:31 -0800

Little Jack Melody and His Young Turks "Return to the West/ World of
Fireworks/ love is a place/We may be coming to your town" tour, 9-96

First tour of the west since releasing World of Fireworks CD/ World
premiere perfomrances of love is a place, by e e cummings, David Ossman,
and Little Jack Melody!

September, 1996
Monday, the 2nd- Seattle,WA, Bumbershoot, Bumbrella stage, 5 PM.
Tuesday, the 3rd- Seattle area Live radio apearances w/ David Ossman on
KUOW            (the University of Washington's radio station; 10:30 AM),
KSER (2 PM), & KBCS   (maybe 4 PM).
Friday & Saturday, the 6th & 7th- Langly, WA (on Whidbey Island),  world
premier of "love is a place," at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts.
Written by Firesign Theatre's David Ossman, based on the life & work of
E.E. Cummings.
Starring David Ossman, with original music by Little Jack Melody ,
performed by         LM & His Young turks.  Curtain for both Friday and
saturday mights is 8:30 PM.
Info: [phone]; Box office: [phone].
Sunday the 8th- Seattle, private party.
Monday the 9th- Olympia, WA, public party.  "The Track House" 511- 7th
Avenue 8:00 pm
Tuesday the 10th- Eugene, OR, John Henry's.
Wednesday the 11th- San Francisco, CA, Bruno's; [phone].
Thursday the 12th- San Francisco, Cafe du Nord; [phone]
Friday the 13th- Los Angeles, CA, LunaPark, cabaret stage, 9:15.  Apearance
earlier in the day on KCRW FM  on the "Morning Becomes Eclectic" show.
Saturday the 14th- San Diego, CA, The Casbah, w/ the Geraldine Fibbers.

Little Jack Melody & His Young Turks
PO Box 1065
Denton TX  76202




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From: [e-mail] (D. Scott Springer)
Subject: A terse introduction
Date: 31 Aug 1996 21:58:02 GMT

Greetings:

My brief (belated) introduction...

I am a keyboardist, record collector, and Sunday afternoon thereminist.
With Jack Fetterman and Jerry Nutter, publisher of Audio Carpaetorium, I
host a weekly party featuring Lounge, Exotica, Easy Listening and Space-Age
Bachelor Pad Music at Bar d'O in New York City.

Scott

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From: Jay Watterworth <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: laser turntable - info? (fwd)
Date: 30 Aug 1996 23:46:16 -0600 (MDT)

FYI, I cross posted the following in hopes of obtaining the requested
info.  This is also the first reply I got on Blues-L.
Jay Watterworth
CU Boulder
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Cc: [e-mail]


>This may be a certified crank item, but:
>
>Anyone have any hard data on the mythical laser turntable? [It supposedly
>plays even taped, gunked, and rough vinyl like a CD, with all that fancy
>error-correction business.] Does this beast exist for real?
>
>Manufacturer(s), current and projected price, specs? Output in digital and
>analog?
>
>Last I heard, the price had halved from $18K to 9K; when it does a few times
>more, time to pounce on that puppy. Thar's gold in them thar broken shards
>of 78s.
>
I read an article about this a few years ago.  My memory is kind of fuzzy,
but I remember thinking it was kind of a sad tale  Talk about your bad
timing.  I believe there were two guys who had been working on the idea for
about five years when the cd came out and quickly took over the market.  By
then, these guys figured they were about half way there and had invested so
much time and money that they had to continue with its development.  I
guess it works pretty well, but because there was so little demand, units
at that time were selling for about $20k.  They were hoping that demand
from universities, libraries, museums, and maybe a handful of wealthy vinyl
junkies would at least allow them to recoup their investment.  I don't know
anything about current availability but I sure hope those guys get
something back for their efforts.

Guy Tapper
Illustration Facility
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
9500 Gilman Dr.
La Jolla CA 92093-0227

[phone]
[phone] fax

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From: Jay Watterworth <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: The Throbber
Date: 30 Aug 1996 23:58:24 -0600 (MDT)

Your msg reminded me of the Fugs (whom you referred to in your closing).
I saw them a couple time when they played the village in the mid-60s and
fondly remember "I couldn't get high" as well as some of their other
"observations".  As Bob Hope would have sung, "Thanks for the memories"!
Jay Watterworth
CU Boulder

On Thu, 29 Aug 1996, Tony Wilds wrote:

> Rediscovered gem from the Embarassing Hippie genre: The Fraternity of Man's
> "Get it On" (Dot, c. 1970 judging by hair length and content). From the "29
> Rooms of Junque," an upstate NY thrift with separate rooms for floor lamps, etc.
>
> They sound like Velvet Underground with a touch of Country Joe, and on 1
> song like Bryan Ferry, do a New York Dolls tune(!), and do (here's the
> slight relevance) a bossa nova, "Coco Lollipop." And they credit Lowell
> George et al on the R. Crumbish jacket.
>
> Songs like "Mellow Token," "Trick Bag," and "Too High to Eat":
>
> "I'm so wacked, I don't know how to act."
> "I'm too high to eat."
> "And I'm too hungry to sleep."
>
> Then there's "The Throbber," addressed to the father of a thirteen-year-old,
> insisting that the date with her go on. Very Root Boy Slim.
>
> Long live the Fugs.
> Tony "Don't Start Me Talkin'" Wilds
>
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From: Jay Watterworth <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: laser turntable - info? (fwd)
Date: 31 Aug 1996 00:01:20 -0600 (MDT)

More on the laser turntable.
Jay Watterworth
CU Boulder
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I don't know anything about them other than that there is one specifically
designed for DJ's / Disco by Pioneer Electronics out of Japan.

Regards,

Gino Cappel
Thought for the day: "Try to leave everything a little better than you found
it."

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: "Suspiria" (Dario Argento soundtrack)
Date: 31 Aug 1996 22:15:28 -0400

I just saw this spooky 1977 film last night and it had one pretty weird
soundtrack done by a group called The Goblins.  Anybody know anything about
them.  How about any Argento soundtracks from his other horror films?
Anyone know anything about them?

Bryan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: orfeo negro
Date: 31 Aug 1996 22:40:04 -0400

At 12:46 AM 8/31/96 -0500, you wrote:
>
>hello all,
>
>i just recently got the soundtrack to black orpheus (the best example of
>greek mythology being set to a bossa nova beat i know of, though the
>presence of anthony perkins (in over-emotive sportscar alone again mode) in
>phaedra makes it a close second...) and was wondering, who plays the
>music on the album?  do the two stars, marpessa dawn and breno mello, do
>their own vocals?  and what about the guitar?  is it joao gilberto, or
>perhaps jobim?  (who wrote the music along with luiz bonfa)  if anyone
>hasn't heard the soundtrack, it's quite interesting, though the
>background noise may prove distracting.

That's too bad, with a little bit of proper mastering, it might sound
better.  The score was done by BOTH Jobim and Bonfa.  I'm not sure who did
the vocals but I believe the actors lip-synched their songs.

>
>and btw the movie itself is incredible, a unique experience, certainly my
>favorite telling of the orpheus and eurydice myth.

Absolutely!  It won the Academy Award for Best Foriegn film, 1959 and holds
up, even today.

Bryan


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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Intro!
Date: 31 Aug 1996 23:50:10 -0500 (CDT)

On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, Steve Sando wrote:

> I love hearing about other music (especially new) that Exotica fans
> are listening to but to call Tangerine Dream Exotica is like
> making a martini with vodka. You can do it and you can enjoy it but
> it's not quite right!

and if musicians such as martin denny had "done everything right" we
would never have gotten the exotica genre in the first place.  i would
suggest that its a good idea to expand the gene pool whenever
possible--it improves ones chances of survival, aesthetically and
otherwise.  i would agree that calling tangerine dream exotica is a
stretch for the most part, although atem comes awfully close imo.  but
jobim (at least his late 50s and 60s work) deserves the exotic label, esp
when you look at how he (and all the bossa nova folks) was marketed to
american and european audiences--as something new, something different,
the other, exotic.  just read the liner notes to an original astrud
gilberto or sergio mendes (both of whom were expanding upon jobim's
blueprint) album to see the sort of distancing attitudes at work.

for me, exotica can be defined by the presence of one or both of the
following characteristics: that the performer perform fairly standard
material with humorous, "experimental", or ethnic trappings; and/or that
the performer be from a non-american, western european culture and
perform music at least marginally representative of that culture.

take care,
mark


>
>
> Coconut Grove, publishers of MisterLUCKY
> PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107
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From: mark&sarah <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: orfeo negro
Date: 31 Aug 1996 23:56:43 -0500 (CDT)

On Sat, 31 Aug 1996 [e-mail] wrote:

> At 12:46 AM 8/31/96 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >hello all,
> >
> >i just recently got the soundtrack to black orpheus (the best example of
> >greek mythology being set to a bossa nova beat i know of, though the
> >presence of anthony perkins (in over-emotive sportscar alone again mode) in
> >phaedra makes it a close second...) and was wondering, who plays the
> >music on the album?  do the two stars, marpessa dawn and breno mello, do
> >their own vocals?  and what about the guitar?  is it joao gilberto, or
> >perhaps jobim?  (who wrote the music along with luiz bonfa)  if anyone
> >hasn't heard the soundtrack, it's quite interesting, though the
> >background noise may prove distracting.
>
> That's too bad, with a little bit of proper mastering, it might sound
> better.  The score was done by BOTH Jobim and Bonfa.  I'm not sure who did
> the vocals but I believe the actors lip-synched their songs.

but i assume the background noise is intended--when i say "noise" i mean
carnaval revellers. there has been no attempt to separate the
foreground--the wonderful main songs--from the chaotic background of the
carnaval.  although this makes for some unusual listening, i agree with
the aesthetic choice involved.  the organic unity of the film is
preserved on the soundtrack.  the "hits" are not dissected for easier
consumption...

mark

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From: Phil Clark <[e-mail]>
Subject: Hard Days Night
Date: 31 Aug 1996 21:35:02 +0100

In message , [e-mail] writes
>1. The New York Times today called "Hard Day's Night" from 1964 the origin of
>music videos. Did scopitones precede the movie? Or are they right?

well there were short promotional films made for jazz/danceband tunes
going way back into the 30s/40s, which apparently used to be viewable on
special "film jukebox" type machines (were these called Scopitones? I
know not), but I guess HDN (dir Richard Lester, starring those poptastic
Beatles) might have been the first/best/one of the earliest/ most
successful full-length films to take seriously & present well the
phenomenon of a pop band, have a plot, feature "proper acting", a
specially composed soundtrack and the like. Beforehand there might not
have been much quite like it (rock'n roll revue movies, beach movies,
"Girl Can't Help It", "It's Trad Dad" etc). I should imagine HDN was
timed perfectly to catch the height of Beatlemania, and certainly
started a beat-combos-in-movies trend (see the Dave Clark Five's copycat
"Catch us if you can" for proof! or that Herman's Hermits movie whose
name I forget). And of course there wuz the Monkees; I wonder if the
format of that TV show might have been different had the Rutles (whoops
sorry I mean the Beatles) not made their movies beforehand.

any thoughts?

beat-tastically

Phil

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