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From: Bruce Rhodewalt <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dramatic whale rescue
Date: 01 Feb 1997 00:20:26 -0800

A brief note to let you know that the February Tiki Publishing trivia
contest is all about JJ, the lovable and carefree newborn gray whale
rescued earlier this year from the treacherous beaches of Southern
California.  The celbrity author's identity is a sworn secret -- let's
just say he's a personal friend of the whale.

You can play at: http://www.tikipub.com/cgi-bin/contesta.cgi.  As is
customary, the top five winners will receive swinging lounge/cocktail
CDs from a major label.

Bruce Rhodewalt
[e-mail]

P.S. As always, if you would like to be removed from either of the small
lists we maintain for ourselves, please write back and let me know.
___________________________________________________________________
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 Since 1995 a source of         78-365 Highway 111, Suite 241
  creative Internet solutions   La Quinta, CA 92253 * 1-888-TIKIPUB

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Columbia Records/Regrets??
Date: 01 Feb 1997 12:06:57 -0500 (EST)

Percy Faith's "Themes for the 'In Crowd' " is also good.

Regrets: I basically refuse to spend more than $1 per disk, so I
passed up the Three Suns' "Fever and Smoke" for $8 and I haven't seen it
since.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Liberace covers
Date: 01 Feb 1997 12:13:52 -0500 (EST)

I have a Liberace in concert lp (which I've never played) with a beautiful
cover- it's a black and white collage of the same image of hands clapping
repeated all over  the cover.  I also have seen the "Liberace Now!" and agree
that it's worth owning just for the cover.

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From: "JEFFREY CHENAULT" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Supersonic Guitars
Date: 01 Feb 1997 20:42:24 UT

In answer to Ross who asked about Billy Mure.  Billy Mure released many albums
but not all were with his trademark Supersonic Guitars.  Here is a list of the
ones that I know about.....
1)  Supersonic Guitars in HiFi, RCA Victor LPM1536 (Mono only)
2)  Fireworks, RCA Victor LPM1694/LSP1694
3)  Supersonics in Flight, RCA Victor LPM1869/LSP1869
4)  Supersonic Guitars, MGM SE3780
5)  Supersonic Guitars Vol.2, MGM #?

His "Hawaiian Percussion" album on Strand is also very good.  Not as wild and
crazy but very good nonetheless.  Hope this helps you out,
Jeff

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From: sberry <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New Additions To The Continental Website...
Date: 01 Feb 1997 13:18:16 -0800 (PST)

New At The Web-Site For The Continental Magazine & Mail-Order

--My interview with Dave Crider of Estrus/The Mono Men is online now.
This is the unedited version, although most of what was edited was boring
chit-chat. We talked about rock n' roll, booze, cars, and life in Bellingham.

--A page for the 3-B Tavern, with a few pictures I have taken at shows
and weekly concert updates.

--New music has been added to the mail-order catalog. We have great rock
n' roll, surf, garage, and exotic tunes at the lowest prices yer gonna
find anywhere.

--Interviews with The Quadrajets and 8 Ball Shifter are on-line.

--We have a new contest featuring the rock/surf sounds of Squid Vicious.

Check it out at http://www.az.com/~sberry


Here's the scoop on issue #2 of The Continental...


This one's a whopper, full of cool interviews, reviews, and features, that
you aren't gonna find anywhere else. If you are into surf, garage, and exotic
music, you'll want to take a look at this zine!

This issue is a whopping 44 pages and features:

-Exclusive Interviews With The Penetrators and Karla Pundit.

-The Gear Report From Evan Foster Of The Boss Martians. Part 2 Takes A
 Look At Guitars Used To Get That REAL Surf Sound.

-The Bomboras, The Boss Martians, The Fiends, The Mono Men, The Makers,
 And Tom Jones Live!

-Nancy Sinatra's Recordings, From "Boots" To "One More Time"

-A Report From Las Vegas, Where I Saw The Sands Shortly Before It Came
Tumblin' Down, Elvis Impersonators, And The Liberace Museum.

-The Continental's Festive 40 Of 1996.

-The Continental's Feature Drink.

-Man Or Astroman's Latest Releases Reviewed.

-Music, Film, & Zine Reviews.

-Much, Much More!!!

This issue is only $2.00, including postage, and can be ordered from the
address below.

The Continental
P.O. Box 4336
Bellingham, WA 98227-4336

Please send cash, check, or money order payable to The Continental.

Subscriptions are only $7.00 for 4 issues. Subscribers receive free music
with their first issue and a 10% discount on items ordered from the
Continental Records mail-order catalog.

Check us out on-line at: http://www.az.com/~sberry



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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: (exotica) STEREO ACTION favorites
Date: 01 Feb 1997 16:34:36 -0500

I love RCA's Stereo Action series. The sleeves are beautiful, the photgraphs
are lovely, and the music (!) defies description. What's your fave? (entire
LP or particular track)

Mine are:
"Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?" (from Marty Gold's "It's Magic!" and
"Stereo Action Unlimited")--this song always turns up in Betty Boop
cartoons. I love it, and how about those "walking" sound effects? ;)

"Jungle Drums" and "Latin-Esque" (from Esquivel's "Latin-Esque")--like I
need to explain ;)

"Keep a Hoppin" (from Dick Schory's "Stereo Action Goes Broadway")--wild
percussion hoedown with jew's harp and mooing cow.

Dick Schory's "Runnin' Wild" (any track, but "Brass Jockeys" is esp. great)

"Anitra's Dance" (from Crazy Rhythmn by the Guitars Unlimited plus
Seven)--another cool Grieg pop do-over. The poor guy must have been spinning
in his grave for months after "Danny's Inferno" alone.

There are more, but I hate to go on and on and on--what do you all think?

PS--what about those weirdo mono reissues? How many are there? And what were
they thinking???



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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: (exotica) Jerry Cole and His Spacemen
Date: 01 Feb 1997 16:39:30 -0500

Oh no, it's me again! ;)

Hi--today at the flea market I saw this surf record on Capitol called "Surf
Age" by Jerry Cole and His Spacemen. It was in nice shape, and the titles
sounded promising ("martian surf"), but I've never heard of this guy, and I
don't know if this album is any good. Should I get it? Maybe this isn't the
right place to ask, but there are a lot of surf music nuts on this list,
aren't there?

Thanks for any input and sorry for the off-subject post, Jessica :O


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Who buys this stuff now?
Date: 02 Feb 1997 21:20:21 -0500 (EST)

I think it's easier to imagine the consumers of past pseudo trends than it is
to figure out who's going to buy...."Symphonic Elvis"!. And "Symphonic Music
of the Rolling Stones" And "Symphonic Yes" (well they were symphonic wannabes
anyway, so i imagine the same people who bought "Tales of Topographic Oceans"
are handing over the cash for this one). Has anyone heard the Elvis or
Stones? Andrew Loog Oldham (Rolling Stones producer) put out his own muzak
version of Stones tunes in the 60's  that reduced everything to supermarket
shopping music.

 Also please note: the Elvis comeback special on A&E monday night at 8:00.

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From: basic hip <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Stereo For The Joy Of It
Date: 01 Feb 1997 21:08:18 -0800

Speaking of RCA and stereo, i came across quite a handsome set the other day.  It is
called "Stereo For The Joy Of It."  What's interesting is the way it is packaged.  It
contains TEN LP's, all in this spiral bound binder.  Each record is in a glossy paper
sleeve with original artwork.  Nice photo on the front of the typical fifties couple
lying on the floor with their hi-fi close by.  It weighs a ton.  Oh, the records...if I
remember right, these were some of the titles included:

Esquivel - Other Worlds, Other Sounds
Dick Schory - Bang, Baaroom and Harp
Xaiver Cugat - The King Plays Some Aces
Three Suns - Having A Ball With The Three Suns

...i can't remember the others...i passed it up, but now i'm wondering if it will end up
in the "regret" column...

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From: basic hip <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) STEREO ACTION favorites
Date: 01 Feb 1997 20:52:45 -0800

Jessica Cameron wrote:
>
> I love RCA's Stereo Action series. The sleeves are beautiful, the photgraphs
> are lovely, and the music (!) defies description. What's your fave? (entire
> LP or particular track)

...hard to pick a favorite, "Futura" comes to mind first with that animated tape and
tonalyzer creating all those weird effects...on "Double Exposure" you get 24 tunes for
the price of 12...

Here is a listing taken from Vik's SABPM site:

RCA Stereo Action Series (a tip o' the hat to Brother Cleve)
     Dynamica - Ray Martin, Feb 1961 LSA-2287
     It's Magic - Marty Gold, Feb 1961 LSA-2290
     Runnin' Wild - Dick Schory, March 1961 LSA-2306
     The Music Goes 'Round - Leo Addeo, March 1961 LSA-2353
     Sounds Terrific! - Ted Textor (orchestra and chorus) LSA-2365
     Crazy Rhythm - Guitars Unlimited + 7,July 1961 LSA-2371
     Futura - Bernie Green, July 1961 LSA-2376
     Stereo Action Goes Hollywood - Marty Gold, September 1961 LSA-2381
     Stereo Action Goes Broadway - Dick Schory, September 1961 LSA-2382
     Paradise Regained - Leo Addeo, November 1961 LSA-2414
     Excitement, Incorporated - Ray Martin LSA-2422
     Sounds Sensational! - Keith Texor LSA-2425
     More Double Exposure - Manny Albam - LSA 2432
     Dynamic Dimensions - Henri Rene, November 1961 LSA-2396
     Stereo Action Unlimited - various artists, December 1961 LSA-2489
     Latin-Esque - Esquivel, March 1962 LSA-2418
     Holiday for Percussion - Dick Schory, March 1962 LSA-2485
     I Had the Craziest Dream - Manny Albam - LSA-2508
     Movin' & Groovin' - Three Suns, June 1962 LSA-2532

...volume 3 of "The History Of Space Age Pop" CD is dedicated to the Stereo Action
series...

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Stereo For The Joy Of It
Date: 03 Feb 1997 00:43:27 -0500

basic hip wrote:
> "Stereo For The Joy Of It."  What's interesting is the way it is
>packaged.  It
>contains TEN LP's, all in this spiral bound binder.  Each record is in a
>glossy paper
>sleeve with original artwork.  Nice photo on the front of the typical
>fifties couple
>lying on the floor with their hi-fi close by
>i passed it up, but now i'm wondering if it will end up
>in the "regret" column...

Yes, it will. The last few times I've seen this, it's been selling for
$250.00. The pressings are excellent. There is a classical companion, which
goes for 500 bucks or so.

br cleve



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Where do you draw the line?
Date: 03 Feb 1997 10:10:17 -0500 (EST)

I think the only type of record I really can't stomach is whatever you call
that sort of New Age/Lite Jazz Fusion crystal-wearin' music...As the
Supreme Court said about Obscenity; I can't define it but I know it when I
see(hear) it!

Sadly, a few years ago, I took an intensive painting class;8 hours a day in
a studio and naturally, that was the teacher's <favorite> kind of music!
Eight hours a day!Lawd,Lawd, how I wanted to kill after I got out of there!
I guess it didn't really help my inner serenity.

However,I wholeheartedly agree with the thought expressed here recently (by
whom I can't remember..) that anything that affects you in an immediate,
deeply negative way is something that bears investigation. Om Shante!

And, by the way, I <like> Liberace.

Ciao.
The Millonaire



P.S.In fact, for anybody who finds the easiest of easy listening a trifle
too soporific for their tastes (as I did for many years), I would highly
recommend the "Pop Pleasures" CD(Time/Life) compiled by Joseph Lanza, as a
very pleasant ear-opener.



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From: [e-mail] (Howard Enis)
Subject:  (exotica) Cut it out!
Date: 03 Feb 1997 10:38:20 -0500

     This didn't go through the first time...lets try again..

     ************************************



     You can still find cool CD & Cassette cutouts at large chains like
     Kmart, Caldor, CVS Drugs, etc...also vinyl & CD & at those 'All for a
     $1' type mall stores...I've found some great stuff at these
     stores...Rhino records still sends there overstock to rack jobbers...


     A lot of these 'cutouts' are handled by large record
     distributor/wholesalers called 'rack jobbers'...

     Years ago many of the available 'cutouts' were inferior
     Canadian and Spanish pressings...

     How did 'cutouts' get there name?

     Originally the corners of the LP's were 'cut out'...later on someone
     discovered the electric drill...

     Things to ponder,

     Cal




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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Cut it out!
Date: 03 Feb 1997 11:00:59 -0400

I remember, in the late 1980s, finding CD cut-outs for
$1.00 each in a dollar store in Vermont, and buying a copy
of every title.  After all, these were CDs -- how could they
not be worth a dollar?!  That's why I have so many compact
discs of failed rap albums.

Will
Will Straw
Associate Professor and Acting Director, 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: Julian Lawton <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Re: Where do you draw the line?
Date: 03 Feb 1997 13:18:37 -0000

>>Ray Conniff LPs, exept for his Hawaiian lp, which i liked a lot, to
>>my own surprise.

I had the same thing - although the Hi-Fi Companion is a must for that
gatefold sleeve. That's until I got 'The Sunshine Of The Life'. Granted
it's still pretty schmaltzy but if you do any DJing how can you live
without their version of 'Killing Me Softly With His Song'? :-)


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From: Ray Coffey/School/hmco
Subject: (exotica) Mure Mure Mure!
Date: 03 Feb 1997 12:00:25 EST

How d'ya like it? How d'ya like it?

I found a nice copy of Billy Mure's Super-Sonic Guitars in Hi-Fi last year and
love it.
I'd love to see CD reissues myself, as I have yet to come across any Mure
(other than on ISM v.1 or within Three Suns) in my limited record scrounges.

M. Le Diamond, I know you have some fine stuff of his for sale (you tempter!),
but I'm cheap.
Brad Bigelow has some Mure info at his web site if anyone who's curious wants
to check it and learn more Mure lore.  http://www.netrail.net/~bbigelow/mure.htm

(Thanks Brad)

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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) YMA ON TV
Date: 03 Feb 1997 14:34:13 -0400

This weekend, a French friend showed us a French TV special, on Yma
Sumac, with not only the most *incredible* footage I've ever seen of
her, but also the only I've seen!  Included what appeared to be VOICE OF
THE XTABAY promo clips, of her singing, juxtaposed over the mountains,
with that floating-tiki-esque head on the cover, over her.  There was
also an incredible cat fight scene, when she and a camera crew caught
Moises w/another woman.  And there was performance footage from both the
'50s and '90s.  So, here are some questions:
1.  Any one have any idea if those were indeed XTABAY, etc(I think there
were either MAMBO clips, too, or just the music from MAMBO Over the
pix?)
2.  Any one have any idea how to obtain ANY video of this fab-u-lash
babe?
3.  Is she touring at all, ever, again!?!?!??!?!?
Lounge Laura

"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."
Laura Taylor
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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) more tv
Date: 03 Feb 1997 14:47:03 -0400

"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."
Laura Taylor
[phone]
[e-mail]

I taped that Bernard Hermann special on BRAVO last night....haven't yet
seen it...but if it repeats this week, I just wanted to let you all know
that an occasional, passing glance at your TV guide of choice can be
valuable...
I also should have given more than a passing glance to the TV guide last
week, when I clipped the last 15 minutes of the MONKEES special on the
DISNEY CH.  Anyone see it?  My tape cuts off when they were getting into
HEAD...any valuable moments passed the scene where Peter Tork doesn't
want to smack a dame?
I got a TV Eye on u...
Lounge Laura













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From: "Bryan J. Cuevas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) RE: Buddy Merrill
Date: 03 Feb 1997 20:17:40 -0500

Today I picked up a copy of "Guitars on Fire", a Capitol Records club
exclusive deluxe 2 record set of the guitar wizardry of Buddy Merrill. Like
most GNP Crescendo releases, no dates are listed anywhere. Could someone
out there (br cleve are you listening?) help me out on the dates of the
following Merrill recordings....

Thanks in advance!
bryan c.
***************
Zorba the Greek
Somewhere My Love
Two Guitars
Moonglow
When the Saints Go Marching In
Caravan
April in Portugal
La Paloma
Temptation
Minute Plus Waltz
Third Man Theme
Holiday for Guitars
Laura
Green Hornet
Invitation
Sophisticated Lady
Sweet September
The Carioca
Wabash Blues
Song of India
*************

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Bryan J. Cuevas
Department of Religious Studies
University of Virginia
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From: "Bryan J. Cuevas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More Astro Sounds
Date: 03 Feb 1997 20:17:36 -0500

Back in early January br cleve and a few others were talkin' back and forth
bout a few tunes from Astro Sounds that are repeated on other albums (101
Strings, Animated Egg, etc.). In that discussion br cleve provided a very
helpful breakdown of all the mess. Recently I found a new repetition that
might be of interest to some on the list. The tune "Blues for the Guru" (an
original sitar kicker by Monty Kelly) appearing on the 101 Strings "Sounds
of Today" (Alshire S-5078), ALSO appears on their "Hits of the Beatles"
(cat. # [?] - I didn't end up buying it). For those who don't have access
to either record, the tune is reminiscent of "Karma Sitar" (also from
"Sounds of Today" and included as a bonus track on the superb Scamp reissue
of "Astro Sounds").

bryan c.

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Bryan J. Cuevas
Department of Religious Studies
University of Virginia
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) more tv
Date: 04 Feb 1997 02:31:57 -0500 (EST)

In a message dated 97-02-03 15:01:36 EST, the usually reticent Laura wrote:

<< I just wanted to let you all know
 that an occasional, passing glance at your TV guide of choice can be
 valuable... >>

My recommendations for February, in no particular order:
The Bad Seed - AMC 2/21 -  Alex North score, spooky in a few spots -watched
it last Saturday - Patty McCormack could kick Beavis and Buttheads's asses !
Carmen Jones - AMC 2/4,2/21, & 2/22 - Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge do
Bizet's Carmen music, with Pearl Bailey along for the ride.  Great story,
great music, great idea.
Breakfast at Tiffany's - 2/14 - TCM    Break out the bon bons, Valentine.
The Gang's All Here - 2/4, 2/9 & 2/22 - AMC     Benny Goodman, Alice Faye,
Carmen Miranda (The Lady in the Tutti Frutti Hat),  gorgeous Technicolor, and
the genius Busby Berkeley's famous Banana Ballet.  Its on AMC a lot, but if
you've never seen this, YOU MUST NOT MISS IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES !!!!
 Mere words can not describe the wonder of it all.
Rapa Nui - HBO 2/24   Esai Morales as a stone-cutter on Easter Island a few
centuries back, fighting over a dame - worth a look for the exotic scenery
and music.

That's enough, check local listings for times, and you'll have to find all
the Dino and Annette flicks on your own.

JB


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From: "Dave Lamont" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Esquivel at Interjuke.com
Date: 04 Feb 1997 09:36:31 EDT


The entirety of Esquivel's  Bar None CD -  Music from a Sparkling
Planet is available for Real Audio listening at:

http://interjuke.com/cgi-bin/mserver/SID=25990105/leaf=jukebox/from=cd
now_main



%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Dave Lamont
[e-mail]


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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Who buys this stuff now?
Date: 04 Feb 1997 09:34:39 -0500

Harrumph!  I most certainly did not buy those "Symphonic Music of..."
things, although I did buy my brother the "Orchestral Tubular Bells" by
Mike Oldfield, which he still has.  I have our copy of "Tales from
Topographic Oceans".  I can dig TFTO and exotica too, can't I?

Before I sink into complete unhipness, I also wanted to add that Oldham did
a draggy version of "Da Doo Ron Ron", trying to emulate either Spector or
Brian Wilson.

The Outspoken Khatru,
Brian Phillips

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Where do you draw the line?
Date: 04 Feb 1997 09:47:15 -0500

I would have to say Ray Conniff, not because I heard so much of him, I just
saw his albums everywhere (including my Vice Principal, who had his latest
album at that time) and what little I heard didn't do anything for me.

I picked up a record called "Concerto for Cozy/Jericho" by Cozy Cole, which
is a fine record.  The trombone player?

Ray Conniff.

Billy May has rubbed me the wrong way the most of the times I have heard
him, too slick for me, without being campy; Yma Sumac's Mambo! is O.K., I
prefer Les Baxter and Moises Vivanco.  He is redeemed by being an
occasional comic foil for Stan Freberg on his radio show.

Lawrence Welk's program gives my hives habitually, however I did catch a
great Myron Floren accordion feature once.

I don't dig Philip Glass(repeat 78 times).

All this to say is I have very few lines.  I draw them in the sand and I
let folks across on occasion.  It is much easier finding what I like than
what I dislike.  It keeps the lines out of my face.

Ooh, what they do in Peru,
Brian Phillips

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Just a note to say...
Date: 04 Feb 1997 09:55:47 -0500

I am not horribly familiar with Maurice Jarre's work(which is to say I know
who he is, I just don't seek out his work as I would Herrmann,
Korngold,Steiner or Waxman), however I bought "The Tin Drum" Soundtrack
many moons ago, because a customer wanted the other copy and I put it on
again while straightening out my collection.  It is a great soundtrack to a
patently strange movie.  Glad I have it.


Grazing in the (Gunter) Grass is a gas, baby can you dig it,
Brian Phillips

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From: [e-mail] (Howard Enis)
Subject: (exotica) Exotic Percussion
Date: 04 Feb 1997 10:16:50 -0500

     This weekend found Exotic Percussion LP on the elusive Pirouette label
     (Manufactured by Synthetic Plastics -Newark NJ)

     This would fall into the 'Real African Groups trying to sound like
     Martin Denny' category.

     Each track on this record begins with ridiculous ping-pongin
     percussion and squeaky toy noises and then what sounds like a fairly
     authentic African folk songs begins.  Great drumming & vocals
     throughout.  Cool minimalistic afro-native/headhunter drawing on
     cover.  Not too much liner info although it does mention a 'Taboo
     Recording Session'.

     I have a couple of these low budget real/fake African hybrids...do any
     of YOU collect these things?

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Percussion
Date: 04 Feb 1997 10:38:04 -0500

I don't habitually, however, I do recall an RCA Victor(I think) album
called "Boermusik" which was a collection of Boer tunes from South Africa.
The singer(sorry!) betrayed no accent whatsoever and the record company, in
an attempt to make the affair palatable to Western ears added a three-piece
combo of bass, guitar and accordion.

It all came out sounding like the Three Suns backing Max Morath.

"Hold him down, you Zulu warrior,
 Hold him down, you Zulu Chief",

Brian Phillips

>I have a couple of these low budget real/fake African hybrids...do any >of
YOU collect these things?

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Even dwarfs started small
Date: 04 Feb 1997 18:56:12 +0100

Hi, my name is Magnus Sandberg and I have folloved this maillist for some=20
weeks now, which have been a pleasure.
Now I have a question.

In a Werner Herzog film called "Even dwarfs started small" there is some=20
wonderful tribal music. Do any of You know, or have some handbooks that can=
=20
tell, where this music come from? I=B4m not sure if it=B4s african, asian e=
tc.=20
But it sounds great.
The movie is really strange to and quite wonderful, I can really recommend=20
it.

Magnus

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From: "Alex V. Cook" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Even dwarfs started small
Date: 04 Feb 1997 12:01:44 -0800

> In a Werner Herzog film called "Even dwarfs started small" there is some
> wonderful tribal music. Do any of You know, or have some handbooks that can
> tell, where this music come from? I┤m not sure if it┤s african, asian etc.

Magnus,
I looked it up on the Internet Movie Database
(http://us.imdb.com/search) and it said Werner Herzog himself did the
music.

I know he used this band called Goblin in a number of his films
(Aguerre, Wrath of God) as did Dario Argento in his splendid horror
stylings. They were kind of like Can, except corny. Maybe they lent a
hand.

Hope this helps,
alex
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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) new crippled dick hot wax cd's
Date: 04 Feb 1997 19:01:00 +0100

gert wilden's "i told you not to cry" and gerry van rooyen's "at 250 miles
per hour" are out, and fantabulous! if you liked "schulmadchen" you'll love
these; the gert wilden has 20 traks (18 or 19 on the lp version) with lots
of mancini and some morricone influences. it's more jazzy than
"schulmadchen", after all it's a crime films comp.

crippled dick hot wax will come up next with an italian compilation called
BEAT AT CINECITTA and a JESS FRANCO CD, that's all i know now, i'm awaiting
their paper catalog ([e-mail] is their e-mail)

Johan



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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jerry Cole/Kole
Date: 04 Feb 1997 10:03:23 -0800

Jerry Cole and His Spacemen;

Jerry Cole was a session/studio guitarist from the early 60's.  Made quite a
few rekkids on mostly CROWN as Jerry Kole.
Made some Hot Rod rekkids which btw for you kids that don't know or aren't
familiar with Hot Rod, it's Surf with Hot Rod sounds.
One is called Hot Rod Alley.  He has some other ones on crown that are
pretty swell too

Hit the big time with Capitol and put out THAT rekkid you saw
Certainly worth a flea market price to say the least.  GET IT NOW GIRL

Jack


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) IMHO Re; Astro Sounds
Date: 04 Feb 1997 10:21:37 -0800

OK here's the scoop on Animated Egg that were then COMPRESSED and made into
Astro Sounds.

As far as Scamp'
s reissue of Astro Sounds goes I think I would venture to say that Scamp
just un-compressed it because the sound is MUCH closer to the Animated Egg
release

I haven't really done exact tune to tune comparison's BUT  for the most part
The entire Animateg Egg LP was used for Astro Sounds EXCEPT for 2 titles
which come from Haircut and The Impossibles.

The interesting thing about the Haircut rekkid is that the 2 titles taken
from this LP aren't like the rest of the Haircut rekkid AT ALL.

They sound like they were out takes from the Animated Egg LP or maybe even
different arrangements of a couple of the same tunes from Animated Egg.

So to say that 2 tunes cames from the Haircut is...I don't know.  I guess
technically they *came from* Haircut BUT in reality they are Animated Egg.

Also on Alshire is 101 Strings Plays Jimi Hendrix which in reality is the
Animated Egg rekkid also.

Jack

PS  I don't have a problem with poor AND i really hate cheap.  Guess it's
funny coming from a jew and all.
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Una Lucertola con La Pelle di Donna [Wolf in a Woman's Skin] - Morricone
Date: 04 Feb 1997 19:13:19 +0000

If anyone is after this soundtrack, I have a spare copy

friendly

Sem Sinatra




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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: (exotica) E-mail troubles ala Laura
Date: 04 Feb 1997 10:56:25 -0500

     Our MIS braintrust just informed that New Line's been unable to
     receive outside e-mail since yesterday afternoon, and probably
     won't be on full tilt till a little later today (I thought
     it was peculiarly quiet-not even a peep from Laura!).  So
     anyone who sent an e-mail my way, please resend.

     Thanks!


     Anita



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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) rat pack survivor
Date: 04 Feb 1997 19:55:36 -0400

JOEY BISHOP TURNS 79
   (Los Angeles) -- Joey Bishop spends his days doing puzzles
andáwatching game shows -- and he wasn't about to stop just because
itáwas his 79th birthday. Bishop says he and his wife spent a quietáday
at home in Newport Beach, California. He says he worked onácrossowrd
puzzles and mind teasers as he does every day. He callsáhimself a
''puzzle freak.'' He says he's a ''real cuckoo bird'' foráwords. At
night, he and his wife never miss ''Jeopardy'' andá''Wheel of Fortune.''
He says they're ''television freaks.''


He  and Shirley  McClain(sp?) should do a tour!

"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."
Laura Taylor
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From: [e-mail] (Wayno)
Subject: (exotica) New guy on the list
Date: 04 Feb 1997 22:02:27 -0500

Hello music lovers,

Wayno here. I'm a new subscriber to the group. I've seen some familiar
names on the postings; some of you know me already. I'm an
illustrator/cartoonist and occasional writer/music reviewer.

By way of introduction, or to allow you to construct a psychological
profile, here are the 5 records currently atop my 'need list'

1. Patience & Prudence: How Can I Tell Him? (45 on Chatahoochee)
2. Patience & Prudence: You Tattle-Tale (Liberty 45 with picture sleeve)
3. Homer & Jethro: It Ain't Necessarily Square (RCA LP)
4. Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Natural Black Inventions - Root Strata (Atlantic LP)
5. Errol Parker: My Own Bag No. 1 (Sahara LP)

That's all for now from Pittsburgh.

Wayno

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Rapa Nui
Date: 04 Feb 1997 14:22:29 -0500

At 02:31 AM 2/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Rapa Nui - HBO 2/24   Esai Morales as a stone-cutter on Easter Island a few
>centuries back, fighting over a dame - worth a look for the exotic scenery
>and music.

This was panned by critics probably for two reasons -- a Kevin Costner
production and implausibility. Ironically, some of the more implausible
aspects (weird birdman cult and olympian cliff-diving swim-race race through
shark-infested waters to a peripheral island) hold up well with the latest
Rapa Nui (Easter Island) research. What really spoils the film is the
appearance of an iceberg at the end.

Unfortunately, there is no archaelogical evidence of the long-fabled, great
battle between the long-ears and short-ears of Rapa Nui. Oral history among
the Rapa Nui is notoriously unreliable, to say the least. (Nor is it clear
that the last palm tree was felled anytime soon after the penultimate tree
or in order to raise yet another Moai.)

But compared to the D.W. Griffith exploitation flix of Hawaii and Tahiti,
"Rapa Nui" is one hell of an action-adventure romp and not at all a bad
story, especially given what was thought about Rapa Nui when the project
began. Just ignore the iceberg nonsense and enjoy the Moai.

tony
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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Percussion
Date: 04 Feb 1997 22:48:53 -0500

Howard Enis wrote:

>      I have a couple of these low budget real/fake African
>      hybrids...do any of YOU collect these things?

How about Fabulous Ping Pong Bongo Percussion on Coronet?  Fabulous
it is.  I got this record a while ago through Brad and it's very much
what you've described.  It features Kaino and his
Afro-Percussion Group.  Curiously authentic sounding
chanting with tinges of Hollywood.  Sometimes it sounds like a
demonstration at the Smithsonian, other times it sounds like a quaint
if lively suburban backyard fete.

From the back cover:
"Strange sounds come to life, bongos ring out a message, the listener
develops a 'feeling' for the music.  For the Hi-Fi or Stereo
enthusiast, this recording is a must ...if he wants to really
show-off his equipment."

kevin king
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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Where do you draw the line?
Date: 04 Feb 1997 23:05:41 -0500

Brian Phillips wrote:

> I don't dig Philip Glass(repeat 78 times).

you don't dig philip glass
you don't dig philip glass
youdon'tdigphilipglass
- could it be kranky?

Speak of the devil, I was wondering after reading your contribution
to the symphonic rock 'n roll thread about the Philip Glass Bowie/Eno
thing I saw in the store today.  Anyone who likes him thinks it's any
good?  (email privately - kinda off topic)  and back on topic,

yeah...  i said yeah...  what ABOUT that new one by Pat Boone.
Anyone heard THAT?  C'mon it may be too intentional to be truly
atrocious (by the Chusid standards), but it IS big band metal after
all.  No comments?  Is THIS where you draw the line?

kevin king
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From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Another Playlist
Date: 05 Feb 1997 00:12:56 -0500

I've been wondering if the majority of subscribers are interested
in this sort of thing, so I'm gonna post a playlist once. Please
e-mail me (not the list) and let me know your opinion as to whether
or not I should post them weekly.

I do a show with my pal Valerie called Music for Better Living
that is broadcast in Boston on WZBC 90.3 fm (Boston College's
station - no, we're *not* students) Wednesdays from 6-7pm.

We also have a website -- http://members.aol.com/Hifibliss/mfbl.htm

Thanks for your time (and I hope my stupid e-mail program
doesn't tack on any extraneous text or attachments!),

Peter


***** January 29th *****

Felicia, My Love -- LES BAXTER & 101 STRINGS
All of Me -- ESQUIVEL
Je Danse Donc Je Suis -- BRIGITTE BARDOT
Kookie's Mad Pad -- EDD BYRNES
Main Theme from "Touch of Evil" -- HENRY MANCINI
Lolita Ya Ya -- NELSON RIDDLE
Sleepwalk -- HENRI RENE & HIS ORCHESTRA
Summertime -- SANTO & JOHNNY
Hilo Steel Guitar -- JERRY BYRD
Flippin' the Lid -- SPEEDY WEST & JIMMY BRYANT
Twistin' the Steel -- CECIL CAMPBELL
Son of a Gun -- PEREZ PRADO
Mambo Jambo -- TERRY SNYDER & THE ALL-STARS
Blue Rumba -- ROLLEY POLLEY
Caravan -- STANLEY BLACK & HIS ORCHESTRA
Rainy Night in Paris -- NORRIE PARAMOR
Steel Bones -- BERNIE GREEN & HIS GUITAR ORCHESTRA
You Stepped Out of a Dream -- JULIE LONDON
Theme for Pussy Galore -- BILLY STRANGE
Alright, Already -- COMBUSTIBLE EDISON
Glow Worm Cha-Cha-Cha -- JACKIE DAVIS



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From: basic hip <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Solid
Date: 04 Feb 1997 21:12:51 -0800

attention televsion soundtracks fans...

in addition to the recently released "Mike Hammer" and "Get Smart", "THE MOD SQUAD" has
now hit the market.

was there ever an original soundtrack released for "The Munsters"?  one of the truly
great opening themes ever produced.

imho


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Solid
Date: 05 Feb 1997 02:18:53 -0500 (EST)

While The Munsters theme is indeed great (I cherish my "Surfin' Herman"
version by The Shockwaves) - I will note that it bears a strong resemblence
to Maestro Mancini's "Experiment in Terror (Twist)."

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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) glass
Date: 05 Feb 1997 11:23:41 -0400



"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."
Laura Taylor
[phone]

BUSINESS ONLY: [e-mail]

PERSONAL ONLY:  [e-mail]
>Brian Phillips wrote:
>
>> I don't dig Philip Glass(repeat 78 times).
>
>you don't dig philip glass
>you don't dig philip glass
>youdon'tdigphilipglass
>- could it be kranky?
>

Speaking of which, I have a great joke!  It's one of the few I know:
KNOCK, KNOCK
WHO'S THERE?
PHILIP GLASS
PHILP GLASS, WHO?
KNOCK, KNOCK
WHO'S THERE?
PHILIP GLASS
PHILP GLASS, WHO?KNOCK, KNOCK
WHO'S THERE?
PHILIP GLASS
PHILP GLASS, WHO?KNOCK, KNOCK
WHO'S THERE?
PHILIP GLASS
PHILP GLASS, WHO?KNOCK, KNOCK
WHO'S THERE?
PHILIP GLASS
PHILP GLASS, WHO?

you get the picture~!


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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotic Percussion
Date: 05 Feb 1997 11:43:00 -0500


>     I have a couple of these low budget real/fake African hybrids...do any
>     of YOU collect these things?

"Jungle Adventure" has some fakeout "voodoo native ritual" cuts--"Ceremonial
Rain Dance" is the funniest. And the sound effects of splashing water in
"Baby Elephant Walk" sound like someone sitting in a bathtub trying to find
the soap. The "Jungle Exotica" and Las Vegas Grind have some of the more
obscure "Native" tunes (bongo bongo bongo, I don't wanna leave the
congo!!)--buy 'em all!

I just remembered--"The Sounds of Exotic Island" by the Surfmen uses all
those classic jungle noises used in cheap jungle movies (like Julie London's
NABONGA). Eee eee eee waaaaaaa!

Any exotic albums with Tarzan yells on 'em?


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From: Bruce Rhodewalt <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica Digest V2 #151
Date: 05 Feb 1997 08:37:40 -0800

>
> From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
> Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 14:22:29 -0500
> Subject: (exotica) Rapa Nui
>
> At 02:31 AM 2/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
> >Rapa Nui - HBO 2/24   Esai Morales as a stone-cutter on Easter Island a few
> >centuries back, fighting over a dame - worth a look for the exotic scenery
> >and music.
>
> This was panned by critics probably for two reasons -- a Kevin Costner
> production and implausibility. Ironically, some of the more implausible
> aspects (weird birdman cult and olympian cliff-diving swim-race race through
> shark-infested waters to a peripheral island) hold up well with the latest
> Rapa Nui (Easter Island) research. What really spoils the film is the
> appearance of an iceberg at the end.
>
> Unfortunately, there is no archaelogical evidence of the long-fabled, great
> battle between the long-ears and short-ears of Rapa Nui. Oral history among
> the Rapa Nui is notoriously unreliable, to say the least. (Nor is it clear
> that the last palm tree was felled anytime soon after the penultimate tree
> or in order to raise yet another Moai.)
>
> But compared to the D.W. Griffith exploitation flix of Hawaii and Tahiti,
> "Rapa Nui" is one hell of an action-adventure romp and not at all a bad
> story, especially given what was thought about Rapa Nui when the project
> began. Just ignore the iceberg nonsense and enjoy the Moai.
>
> tony

Why, you big phony.  We all know why you liked "Rapa Nui."  It's cuz of
all the naked breaseses.  It ain't birdmen, or moai -- it's women.

Tony, did I tell you my friends recently returned from Rapa Nui and
brought me a 1/25 scale model moai, carved by the locals out of the
local stone?  Including topknot.

Bruce Rhodewalt
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From: [e-mail] (Howard Enis)
Subject: (exotica) Joe Reisman
Date: 05 Feb 1997 12:07:30 -0500

     Has this group discussed Joe Reisman before?

     I have the Bo Diddley 45 (one of my all time faves) and I just found
     his 'Dreams' LP this weekend?  So far so good...

     Any thoughts any thoughts on where I should go next?

     Any bio stuff on Reisman?  Where he be now?

     Cal

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From: "Joseph O. Holmes" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Santo and Johnny
Date: 05 Feb 1997 12:16:17 -0000

I haven't seen any mention of Santo and Johnny, a couple of Italian boys
from Queens, NY (or Brooklyn?), who recorded in the late 50s. They cover
all the usual exotic standards -- Caravan, Sleep Walk, Canadian Sunset,
Hawaiian War Chant -- but the twist is that one of them plays a Hawaiian
slide guitar, or perhaps it's a pedal steel. (All I have is a cassette
taped by a friend.) Whoever it is playing the thing is just terrible.
Their version of Hawaiian War Chant is hilarious -- they can't play the
16th notes so they just sort of slur it and fake it.

-=-Joe

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.        Gallery of Exotic Album Covers         .
. http://www.interport.net/~joholmes/index.html .
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.    Be sure to use this new email address      .
.            [e-mail]                .
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From: [e-mail] (Joe Batutis)
Subject: (exotica) Santo and Johnny
Date: 05 Feb 1997 12:30:09 -0500

Maybe Santo and Johnny can't handle "Hawaiian War Chant", but every time I hear
"Sleepwalk", I get misty eyed.



Just a sentimental fool,

Joe B.



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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Santo and Johnny
Date: 05 Feb 1997 12:35:16 -0400



"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."
Laura Taylor
[phone]

BUSINESS ONLY: [e-mail]

PERSONAL ONLY:  [e-mail]
Joseph O. Holmes wrote:
>I haven't seen any mention of Santo and Johnny, a couple of Italian boys

>from Queens, NY (or Brooklyn?), who recorded in the late 50s. They cover

>all the usual exotic standards -- Caravan, Sleep Walk, Canadian Sunset,
>Hawaiian War Chant -- but the twist is that one of them plays a Hawaiian

>slide guitar, or perhaps it's a pedal steel. (All I have is a cassette
>taped by a friend.) Whoever it is playing the thing is just terrible.
>Their version of Hawaiian War Chant is hilarious -- they can't play the
>16th notes so they just sort of slur it and fake it.
>
>-=-Joe
>
>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
>.        Gallery of Exotic Album Covers         .
>. http://www.interport.net/~joholmes/index.html .
>.                                               .
>.    Be sure to use this new email address      .
>.            [e-mail]                .
>.                                               .
>.           voice/fax: 1+718.965.3887           .
>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

I know they're BIG influences in FRIENDS OF DEAN MARTINEZ...which, by the
way, I saw last week.  I didn't post a review, because it was
essentially the same(*great*) stuff as last time.  And for you
BOMP!-types, the drummer and guitar-player/lead singer from the
Minstrels accompanied them this time.  All I can say, though, and
Brother Cleve and The Millionaire will disagree, because they were so
well-received in Tampa, that THIS TOWN SUCKS!!! FRIENDS put on a fine,
sublime show...and people treated it like BACKGROUND music...This one
lame-a--s chick said to my brother, "This is *so* boring, it's like a
cross between Pink Floyd and 'lounge'<like she knows that is___> music."
My brother's snappy retort, was:
"THIS IS THE BEST F--KING THING I'VE EVER HEARD!"
Any hyperbole aside, the bimbette deserved it...
Venting,
Lounge Laura


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From: "Alex V. Cook" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Santo and Johnny
Date: 05 Feb 1997 12:05:47 -0800

> Santo and Johnny...
> ... just terrible....
> ...they can't play...

> -=-Joe
What?! Santo and Johnny did some beautiful stuff. Sure it all sounds the
same, and so what if they may not be virtuosos or anything. Check out
"Prisoner of Love" on the "Encore" LP. Music from the Twin Peaks High
School Sock Hop. Splendid!

Santo is my Co-Pilot,
alex
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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Munsters
Date: 05 Feb 1997 10:07:59 -0800

>was there ever an original soundtrack released for "The Munsters"?  one of
the truly great opening themes ever produced.

No there wasn't ;(((  Luv that harpsicord;)))

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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) the most unwanted song
Date: 05 Feb 1997 19:32:42 +0100

>From:epulse

>     A few months ago, Russian expatriate humorists/artists KOMAR & MELAMID
>conducted a survey. They polled the public to find out, once and for all:
>what kind of music do we like and dislike? Armed with their results, they
>enlisted composer David Soldier (of the Soldier String Quartet) and
>librettist Nina Mankin to create "The Most Unwanted Song," which premiered
>at the Knitting Factory on January 17. That performance had the feel of a
>monumental moment in music history: For 25 minutes, in very slooooow and
>very fast pieces, a soprano and choir of five bewildered-looking kids
>worked their way through a country-rap-opera about holidays (sample lyric:
>"Ramadan, Ramadan/lots of praying and no breakfast"), politics,
>intellectual matters ("Out on the plains just me and my mind/took me a
>break to read some Wittgenstein") and crass commercialism. The backing
>orchestra, consisting of bagpipes, tuba, piccolo, synthesizer, banjo,
>accordion, plus a few more bedraggled strays, stumbled through their parts
>a little limply due to Casio problems (which just added to the fun), but
>the resilient conductor held them together, barely. The apex to the piece
>came at the end, when, after a performer shouted political slogans through
>a megaphone over a bed of the most simpering easy-listening sounds, the
>entire group burst out into a sing-along -- "cringeworthy" and
>"side-splitting" are _hard_ concepts to successfully pair.
>     For more information on Komar & Melamid's "People's Choice" projects,
>visit <www.Diacenter.org.> The "Most Wanted Song", a more difficult
>proposition, is forthcoming. Both will be recorded for CD sometime this
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From: "Bryan J. Cuevas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) RE: Santo & Johnny
Date: 05 Feb 1997 13:41:43 -0500

Santo & Johnny are fabulous! Their lazy twang and reverb will always put a
smile on my face - memories of my father teaching me how to play
"Sleepwalk" on his vintage '57 Les Paul Jr (complete with tube amp and
tremelo). Good luck finding their albums at a cheap price, though - most of
the ones I've seen have been way expensive. Fortunately, I've picked up a
few from unsuspecting flea market owners at a few dollars or less. Their
classic recordings are on Canadian-American Records....keep your eyes
peeled.

For a similar vibe, take a listen to Dan & Dale on Diplomat Records - in
the early days they went by the name "The Sleepwalk Guitars of Dan & Dale",
later after the popularity of Santo & Johnny's hit faded a bit they changed
their moniker to "The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale". I love these
guys!

bryan c.

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Department of Religious Studies
University of Virginia
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Joe Reisman
Date: 05 Feb 1997 12:40:12 -0600 (CST)

>     Has this group discussed Joe Reisman before?
>
>     I have the Bo Diddley 45 (one of my all time faves) and I just found
>     his 'Dreams' LP this weekend?  So far so good...
>
>     Any thoughts any thoughts on where I should go next?
>


PARTY NIGHT AT JOE'S!





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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica Digest V2 #151
Date: 05 Feb 1997 14:38:55 -0500 (EST)

Hi everyone--just joined in the merriment..Am salivating over the
music--thanx to Brother Cleve's Thursday night DJ sessions at The Lizard
lounge in Cambridge--and about 50 odd 45's I never knew fit into the
category!----Also a big 6T's & 7T's soul collector--about 8000 titles
worth--so.............More later--I'm Jimmy Botticelli in Boston,  long time
DJ and useless collector

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) RE: Santo & Johnny
Date: 05 Feb 1997 14:44:14 -0500

I have a single on Tifton by them Batman/Robin's Theme.  The Batman version
is the same is the Marketts' and is almost completely bereft of guitar
while the flip has guitar leads and the evocative lyrics:

Robin, hey, it's Robin, Yeah,
Robin, hey, Robinnnnnn,
Oh, Oh, Oh, Robin.

*sniff*


Brian Phillips

>later after the popularity of Santo & Johnny's hit faded a bit they changed
>their moniker to "The Sensational Guitars of Dan & Dale". I love these
>guys!


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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A hello to all!
Date: 05 Feb 1997 14:52:51 -0500

I have seen quite a few people say their first how-do's here so I would
just like to say, welcome aboard!

Libra and my name is...,
Brian Phillips

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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) glass
Date: 05 Feb 1997 11:15:49 -0800

Laura Taylor wrote:
>
> Speaking of which, I have a great joke!  It's one of the few I know:
> KNOCK, KNOCK
> WHO'S THERE?
> PHILIP GLASS
> PHILP GLASS, WHO?
> KNOCK, KNOCK
> WHO'S THERE?
> PHILIP GLASS
> PHILP GLASS, WHO?KNOCK, KNOCK
> WHO'S THERE?
> PHILIP GLASS
> PHILP GLASS, WHO?KNOCK, KNOCK
> WHO'S THERE?
> PHILIP GLASS
> PHILP GLASS, WHO?KNOCK, KNOCK
> WHO'S THERE?
> PHILIP GLASS
> PHILP GLASS, WHO?
>
> you get the picture~!

Highly highly highly highly recommended is the 1993 recording of
"Einstein On The Beach." Many people on this list are interested in
strange music. This is not the *strangest* music ever written, but
certainly some of the most compelling, beautiful and expertly executed.
The trick to truly enjoying this music is to focus on the details- it's
too easy for alot of people to be turned off by the surface-level
repetition. If you listen actively you'll find that there's much less
actual repetition than you thought. There's a fascinating world
of highly complex mathematical detail in there.
And if you've only heard the original 1978 recording, you ain't heard
nothin' yet!!!

Pea
--
                        Pea Hicks
               "Memory is my drug of choice."
               <---Realm 'O' The Optigan--->
               http://www.pilot.com/optigan
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From: Malcolm Humes <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Even Dwarves started small (Herzog, etc)
Date: 05 Feb 1997 12:52:46 -0800


Offhand I can't recall Goblin doing any soundtracks for Herzog films but
another group and artist have been involved in many of Herzog's films --
the german group Popol Vuh, which started as a noisy experimental group
loosely from the "krautrock" scene and migrated from early Moog experiments
to a much more melodic and sorta tribal sounding group. Popol Vuh's core
composer Florian Fricke acts in at least one Herzog film, playing piano in
in the Mystery of Kasper Hauser film.

I know it's a little off-topic but I've recently been enjoying an
autiobiography by Klaus Kinski, UnCut. Kinski was the start of many Herzog
films but despised Herzog, and he of course was in hundreds of schlock (and
some good) films. His
bio is mostly a play by play of his insatiable sex life and he comes off as
driven primarily by lust most of his life ... he was a pretty sleazy and
bizarre guy.

Someone mentioned Can and their soundtrack work. The film Alice in the
Cities by Wim Wenders is a wonderful film with Can music and just about any
Wenders film
would seem to me to be an analog to exotica in the film world. Also, Can's
Holger Czukay has done some albums that fans of exotica would likely enjoy,
particularly his "On the Way to the Peak of Normal" record which is
wonderful in blending odd mixes of horns, dictaphone tape snippets and all
sorts of things into a sidelong tapestry called "Ode de Perfume" than I'd
imagine most of the subscribers of this list might enjoy.

  - Malcolm
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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) WMFU'S #
Date: 05 Feb 1997 16:18:00 -0400

I tried to call it's mail order today, but it was out of order.  Is there
a new #?  I need a prompt reply!
Thanks,
Lounge Laura

"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."
Laura Taylor
[phone]

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From: [e-mail] (Hugh Petfield)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Santo and Johnny
Date: 05 Feb 1997 21:33:55 GMT

Joe wrote:

>> Santo and Johnny...
>> ... just terrible....
>> ...they can't play...
>
>> -=-Joe

Can't agree!   After their spell on Canadian-American, they
did two or three albums for Imperial, which are excellent.
Any of their material appeared on CD yet please?
After Imperial, they recorded for an Italian label (some
thing like Disci D'oro) and produced a creditable version
of "Il Padrino" (The Godfather) theme.

There is also a cassette from the 1970's called "Sounds
like Santo & Johnny", and this copycat group do a stunning
version of Enchanted Sea.  Cover picture of exotic lady wearing
lei turns out to be Shakira, one time Mrs Michael Caine (not many
people know that!).

Trivia question for you all: who was Canadian-American's
other hit act?

Hugh.
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From: Carver Dan Cordes <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Quesoterical playlist for 2-4-97
Date: 05 Feb 1997 14:11:26 -0800 (PST)

   ,
Quesoterical Lair playlist for 2-4-1997
Les Baxter        Jungle Jalopy
Stan Fisher        Oklahoma!
John Cleese & Jonathan
Lynn            Penultimate Supper
Commidore Condello    Public School Lunch
"Weird Al" Yankovic    School Cafeteria (recorded in the bathroom across
            the hall)
Terry Snyder & the
All-stars         Japanese Sandman
Frenchy            Straighten Up and Fly Right
Mogan David & his Winos Nose Job
Michel Magne & his
Orchestra        Bahia
Utah Phillips & Ani
Difranco        You've Got to Mess with People (request)
Dean Elliot        Will Still Be Mine
The Art of Belly
Dancing            Hip Vibration
Leo Diamond        The Skin Divers
Mary Martin        I'm Late
Dean Elliot        Lonesome Road
Brave Combo         Pokey's Polka
Alfred Hitchcock    I'll Walk Alone
Mel Torme        Lulu's Back in Town
Firesign Theatre    American Pageant
Leroy Anderson        Syncopated Clock
Man or Astroman?      Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Love Theme (Live)
Omnimusic        Metrotech
B. Bumble &
the Stingers        Mashed #5
Wally Pleasant        I Want a Stalker
National Lampoon    What is God?
Cibo Matto        Aquas de Marco
Lester McFwap's
Carnival of Vomit    Speaking Orangutan
Boogerman        Prozac Man
Grimm's Rockin' Duck    The Prophet
Andy Commings & his
Hawaiian Serenaders    I'm a (Down Hearted) Tahitian Cowboy (Po Avae)
Animaniacs        Cheese Roll Call
Bob & Phil and  the    The Telephone Song
Orchestra
Rutles            Lonely-phobia
Gordon (from Sesame
Street)            Rub Your Tummy

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From: [e-mail] (Howard Enis)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Even Dwarves started small (Herzog, etc)
Date: 05 Feb 1997 17:19:00 -0500

     CAN and the Holger Czukay solo and other related albums are all
     terrific...The anthology Cannabalism is a good place to start...it was
     reissued on Restless Records as a CD a few years ago...and speaking of
     soundtracks...SOUNDTRACKS by CAN is one of my faves...

     Some Popol Vu soundtracky stuff was recently released domestically on
     CD through Milan records...


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Offhand I can't recall Goblin doing any soundtracks for Herzog films but
another group and artist have been involved in many of Herzog's films -- the
german group Popol Vuh, which started as a noisy experimental group loosely
from the "krautrock" scene and migrated from early Moog experiments to a
much more melodic and sorta tribal sounding group. Popol Vuh's core composer
Florian Fricke acts in at least one Herzog film, playing piano in in the
Mystery of Kasper Hauser film.

I know it's a little off-topic but I've recently been enjoying an
autiobiography by Klaus Kinski, UnCut. Kinski was the start of many Herzog
films but despised Herzog, and he of course was in hundreds of schlock (and
some good) films. His
bio is mostly a play by play of his insatiable sex life and he comes off as
driven primarily by lust most of his life ... he was a pretty sleazy and
bizarre guy.

Someone mentioned Can and their soundtrack work. The film Alice in the
Cities by Wim Wenders is a wonderful film with Can music and just about any
Wenders film
would seem to me to be an analog to exotica in the film world. Also, Can's
Holger Czukay has done some albums that fans of exotica would likely enjoy,
particularly his "On the Way to the Peak of Normal" record which is
wonderful in blending odd mixes of horns, dictaphone tape snippets and all
sorts of things into a sidelong tapestry called "Ode de Perfume" than I'd
imagine most of the subscribers of this list might enjoy.

  - Malcolm
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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Whaddaya talkin' about Joe ?
Date: 05 Feb 1997 15:50:21 -0800

Santo and Johnny are the best!  Sleepwalk became an anthem for a generation
and beyond.  All of their stuff is great.  ALL OF IT

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From: [e-mail] (Wayno)
Subject: (exotica) Dan & Dale and Beyond
Date: 05 Feb 1997 20:52:19 -0500

The group that recorded the "Batman and Robin" LP as "The Sensational
Guitars of Dan & Dale" was a 1996 conglomeration assembled by producer Ed
Bland that included members of The Blues Project as well as Sun Ra and some
of the Arkestra.

Just one of countless trivial tidbits from Robert L. Campbell's essential
book "The Earthly Recordings of Sun Ra."

Anybody interested in "other sounds" should do themself a favor and pick up
Sun Ra's "The Singles" double-CD on Evidence.

Wayno

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) STEREO ACTION favorites
Date: 05 Feb 1997 21:57:11 -0600

At 04:34 PM 2/1/97 -0500, jessica cameron wrote:
>I love RCA's Stereo Action series....What's your fave?

Unfortunately, I have only one in the series... a sampler that I got from
another person on this list!  However, by far my fave on that was Hernando's
Hideaway.  I'd tell you for sure by whom, but I no longer have access (sob!)
to my LP's nor can I play them if I had them!  I think it was Dick Schory.

The little dialog and sfx before the music is priceless and the execution of
the tune is right on.

Is Dick Schory still with us?

Byron Caloz
now in Portland, OR
(Mr. Smooth is on vacation, but we hope he can return to do more radio....)

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From: "Jim Gerwitz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tarzan, Cab, Ozzie & Harriett
Date: 05 Feb 1997 20:34:55 -0800

Jessica recently asked:
>
> Any exotic albums with Tarzan yells on 'em?
>
 Not quite exotic, but lately I've been enjoying Cab Calloway's "Tarzan of
Harlem," although his yell is relatively tame.  "All the cats are in a
rage, and not from blowin' gage."  From the fine "Are you Hep to the Jive"
CD.

Speaking of bandleaders, I spotted an Ozzie and Harriet Nelson CD called
"The Nelson Touch, Rare Recordings 1931-41."  I was surprised that one of
the tunes was "Swamp Fire ", but not curious enough to buy the CD.  Don't
know much about the origin of Swamp Fire, or even if its the same Harold
Mooney song Denny et al have covered, but the thought of Oz as a
proto-exoticat made my day.  Maybe he secretly wrote "Travelin' Man,"  but
probably not, as the young Harriet and Ozzie make such a cute couple on the
CD cover.

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tarzan
Date: 06 Feb 1997 00:18:58 -0500

At 08:34 PM 2/5/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Jessica recently asked:
>>
>> Any exotic albums with Tarzan yells on 'em?


A good Wyncote LP (uncredited) has Tarzan, Green Hornet, and Man from UNCLE
themes, plus "exotic rock" songs like Jungle Bongo and Cheetah Do. Nice
elephant cry in Theme from Tarzan.

Sabu Martinez' solo work usually features all manor of ululations by woman,
man, beast, fowl, insect, and probably fish. The Jungle Percussion LP has
gorgeous flute and African singing that certainly evokes the vine man.


renegade fringe
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From: "Derek Grime" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Solid
Date: 06 Feb 1997 00:22:00 -0500


> was there ever an original soundtrack released for "The Munsters"?  one of
the truly
> great opening themes ever produced.

I agree.  I don't think a real OST was ever released though I do have an LP
called "At Home with the Munsters" that does have the theme and other
indidental music.  It's mostly the cast telling stories and singing songs.

--
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From: mark a welsh <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE:(exotica) Columbia Records/Regrets??
Date: 02 Feb 1997 22:32:50  -0600


>
> Can anyone on the list recommend some good albums by Percy Faith and
Dominic
> Frontiere? I know about Dom's "Pagan Festival" and love his "Love Eyes"
> album (esp. "Teen Age" and "Beatnick"), but did he do any other cool stuff
> on Columbia or any other label? The only Percy Faith albums I have are
> "Delicado" (great!) and "Latin Themes for Young Lovers" (featuring a cool
> cover of "The Duck" and the orignal classic "Kahlua"). Is any of his other
> e-z or "young lovers" stuff any good?
>
> As far as Percy Faith goes, try "Bouquet", which also happens to be his
all-time best-selling orchestral album.  This late-fifties LP contains the
finest string orchestral arranging of his entire career, no small thanks to
the selection of songs, such as "Laura", "Intermezzo", and the best EZ
versions I've ever heard of Kurt Weill's "Speak Low" and of Duke Ellington's
"Solitude".  There was an LP he put out circa 1962 with an island/exotic
theme and it may have been called "Shangri-La".  It had that song, "Bali
H'ai", and the incredibly beautiful "Sayonara", the theme song from the
movie of the same name.  If you want Percy on CD, I have a 2-CD set, "The
Percy Faith Treasury", which fortunately has a few selections from both of
those LP's, both long out-of-print.  It's still available through the Good
Music Record Company, 223 Katonah Ave,Katonah,NY, 10536.  This company also
sells an 18-track CD called "The Golden Hits of The Three Suns" for any Suns
fans out there.
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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist from awhile ago
Date: 05 Feb 1997 22:59:25 -0800

KFJC play list 3/4/96 for Jack Diamond

 ARTIST                                     TRACK
ALBUM
 Planets                                  Chunky
 Bill Holman Orch. W/                         Far Down Below
58/ANDEX
 J.Sheldon,V.Feldman,                         Bill Holman
 Richard Hayman                          Conjuration
Voodoo!
 Leo Diamond                             Come to My House of Dreams
 Peter Green                               The Supernatural
67
 Stanley Meyers                           A Present for Daddy
W. Bros
 John Buzon Trio                           Mambo Rock
Liberty
 Loren Holding/Tenor
 Mancini                                           Golden Gate Twist
Exp in Terror
 Johnson, Laurie Orchestra                              The Shake
Easy Project
 Harry Breuer                                           T V Funeral March
Mischief Vol 2

 Combustible Ediso                                      Coven of Witches
Four Rooms Soundtrack

 J.J.Perrey                                             E.V.A.
70/VANGUARD
 Jerry Goldsmith                                         The Trip
Sebastian
 Esquivel                                               Begin the Beguine
OWOS/58/RCA
 Modern Jazz Qrt.                                       Nite in Tunisia
Atlantic/59
 Les Baxter W/The Plas                                  Barbarian
Teen Drums
 F & T                                                  Chopsticks Cha Cha
Cha                  Blast Off
 Robert Maxwell                                         Foolin' Around
Red Hot Harp
 June Christy/Kenton/Jack Costanzo                      This Is My Theme
1947/Capitol
 The in Group                                           If I Had a Hammer
Ryko
 Sam Hoffman                                            Theremin Solo
Rocketship X-M
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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dan & Dale and Beyond
Date: 06 Feb 1997 03:09:46 -0500

Wayno wrote:
>Anybody interested in "other sounds" should do themself a favor and pick up
>Sun Ra's "The Singles" double-CD on Evidence.

I second that. I've been spinning "Disco 2000" to see what happens on the
dance floor. Yikes!

Rocket number nine take off for the planet......of Venus!
Yeah.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) SF Exotica events
Date: 06 Feb 1997 02:50:35 -0500 (EST)

The Bay area is warmin up
Tiki News is hosting monthly Tiki Parties at Chameleon @ 853 Valencia near
20th Street, San Francisco. the first night featured suave spy
instrumentalists The Inspectors playing originals and choice covers and the
legendary Muu Muu wearing, ukulele toting, babe duo Pineapple Princess
wreaking havoc as only they can do. When have you ever seen a "Tiny Bubbles"
sing along at the Chameleon?
This month is ska-surf partiers The Aquamen, classic style German surf
originals from another planet by The Astronauts, and an all instro/Loungecore
set from Santa Rosa's Seventh Day Rototiller. Yet unamed special blue
champagne punch will be premiered.
Wed., February 19 @ 9:00 for only $2.00!!
(Future shows may include local faves Frenchy)
_________________________________
Thursday nights check out the El Camino Cha Cha Orchestra at Bruno's on
Mission street near 20th
(park on Capp street one block South)
OR
Go underground at Cafe DuNord 2170 Market St. for their lounge night -
"Sense-O-Round" - with different djs and quality live entertainment. Otto
will be djing for Vancouver band Colorific on Wednesday March 19!!
Usually only $3.00
________________________________
Weekdays 5:30 - 7:30 is happy hour at the Tonga Room at the Fairmont Hotel @
950 Mason street @ top of California St.
monsoons every twenty minutes. Don't stay for the live entertainment.
_______________________________
THIS SATURDAY
The Aquamen, Pollo del Mar, The Torpedoes, and The Insect Surfers
Saturday, February 8th, 9 PM
WHERE: Hotel Utah, 500 4th Street at Bryant, SF, 21+
TITHE: $6

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From: Philip Jackson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) glass
Date: 06 Feb 1997 21:44:30 +1100 (EST)

On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Pea Hicks wrote:


> Highly highly highly highly recommended is the 1993 recording of
> "Einstein On The Beach." Many people on this list are interested in

Saw this performed live in Melbourne a few years back. Definitely
recommended although I haven't yet heard the '93 recording.

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From: Philip Jackson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Even Dwarves started small (Herzog, etc)
Date: 06 Feb 1997 21:52:21 +1100 (EST)

On Wed, 5 Feb 1997, Malcolm Humes wrote:

>
> I know it's a little off-topic but I've recently been enjoying an
> autiobiography by Klaus Kinski, UnCut. Kinski was the start of many Herzog
> films but despised Herzog, and he of course was in hundreds of schlock (and
> some good) films. His
> bio is mostly a play by play of his insatiable sex life and he comes off as
> driven primarily by lust most of his life ... he was a pretty sleazy and
> bizarre guy.

I have an album of Kinski reading Rimbaud which is pretty bizzare and
borderline exotic.

> Holger Czukay has done some albums that fans of exotica would likely enjoy,
> particularly his "On the Way to the Peak of Normal" record which is

Also recommended are his reworkings of the Pope's Easter message and The
Chinese National Anthem.

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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) gravikords... cd
Date: 06 Feb 1997 19:27:36 +0100

"gravikords whirlies & pyrophones": excellent 90 page book, but the cd
slightly disappointed me: the book contains so many wonderful instruments
that are not on the cd, while there are several tracks that sound not half
as weird as their instruments look; several sound rather familiar to
exoticans i think, or sound not unlike an other, non-experimental
instrument, like: sugar belly's bamboo saxophone doesn't sound that much
different from a real sax... greatest track is by wendy chambers on car
horn organ!

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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) Re: Who buys this stuff now? Symphonic Music of the Stones
Date: 06 Feb 1997 19:29:32 +0100

>From: [e-mail]
>
> (..) "Symphonic Elvis"!. And "Symphonic Music
>of the Rolling Stones (..) Has anyone heard the Elvis or
>Stones?

        there's a review of it on my Dada'quariums Exotica site:
        "http://www.dma.be/p/bewoner/Dada/critiq/l/lsymo.htm"

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Aloha from Hawaii, east of Venus!
Date: 06 Feb 1997 08:26:06 -1000

Aloha y'all-

Been enjoying input from this group for awhile via my cyber-ham radio...
the lurk of love! Had to jump in re Sun Ra. Haven't heard "The
Singles... yet, but "My Brother The Wind Volume II" (Evidence) has some
fab tunes on it, particularly "Walking on the Moon" with a slightly
lispy June Tyson on vocals. As the liner notes say, "Clearly, Sun Ra
hears voices. It's our delightful mission to receive them". Space Age
Pop indeed! Also, just saw "Jazz on a Summer's Day" here, a swell
chronicle of the '58 Newport Jazz Festival. Among many greats like Dinah
Washington, Anita O'Day (what an outfit!... only to be outdone by the
clothes, shades and poses of the young, swank crowd), there were great
performances by the George Shearing Quintet (a hip latinesque number)
and a Chico Hamilton (with Eric Dolphy on flute) tune that was very
exotica. Unfortunately, there were no screen credits at all. Anyone know
of a soundtrack for this film or what these tunes might be? Throw us a
lifeline...

out here in the middle of the Pacific,

Fluid Floyd

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From: [e-mail] (Howard Enis)
Subject: Re[2]: (exotica) Even Dwarves started small (Herzog, etc)
Date: 06 Feb 1997 14:12:28 -0500

     >Someone mentioned Can and their soundtrack work. The film Alice in
     >the Cities by Wim Wenders is a wonderful film with Can music and just
     >about any Wenders film

     CAN and the Holger Czukay solo and other related albums are all
     terrific...The anthology Cannabalism is a good place to start...it was
     reissued on Restless Records as a CD a few years ago...and speaking of
     soundtracks...SOUNDTRACKS by CAN is one of my faves...

     Some Popol Vu soundtracky stuff was recently released domestically on
     CD through Milan records: a very cool soundtrack and oddball
     estoterica label distributed through BMG...

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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) wassamatta w/RCA?
Date: 06 Feb 1997 14:59:25 -0400

A month ago, I inquired as to why RCA left the PERFUME SET TO MUSIC stuff
off their SPACE AGE comps...Nobody replied.  Thanks for nuthin'
;0
Mebbe it's 'cause nobody knew!
Anyway, me mind is racing again as to why RCA hasn't released more
MANCINI stuff than it has, assuming it has...I only have TOUCH OF EVIL
on CD, and that's VARASE SARABANDE(Is that an RCA subsidiary?)
There are just too many things wrong with this world, I tell ya'!


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From: Carver Dan Cordes <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Where do you draw the line?
Date: 06 Feb 1997 14:38:13 -0800 (PST)

I agree that it's a lot easier to decide what you like than what you don't
and that lines are drawn only to be erased.  I haven't heard the new Pat
Boone yet (but I heard about it on the news!?).  My speculation is that
I'll pass on it at least for now.  I'm not as much into the intentionally
weird stuff as I am into authentically weird stuff.  But as far as the
intentional stuff I find that, not unlike cheese, it needs to age.  So I
may not play Pat Boone now, but I may play it in the distant future.
With that said, one thing it has going for it is that it somewhat dated
already, like it would have been in his best interest for Pat to have
released this album 10 years ago, but maybe that's just how far behind
the media's perception of the zeitgeist he is.  idontknow
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From: [e-mail] (Doug Frisby)
Subject: (exotica) In defense of Esquivel...
Date: 06 Feb 1997 15:15:34 -0800

     I guess I "just don't get it"...I've spoken with several people off
     the list and everytime I mention "Strings Aflame" or "Four Corners Of
     The World" I hear some sort of comment like "Oooh.. one of his worst
     albums". Well, damnit! I beg to differ.

     "Four Corners Of The World" may not be up to par with Latinesque, but
     if my information serves me well (I may be proven wrong here), Senor
     Esquivel recorded "Four Corners" after an earlier recording session
     ended with time to spare. The producer wanted another album recorded
     right then, and there was only enough time for one rehearsal. Plus,
     Senor Esquivel only had a small rhythm section available (including
     Jack Costanzo?). After the fast rehearsal, the track was recorded. If
     this is so, (even if it isn't) the passion and professionalism that
     comes through on this recording is phenomenal. Re-listen to this album
     that has been long overlooked.

     "Strings Aflame" is in my humble opinion, one of his best works.
     Period. When I'd first heard it, I felt it was too straight ahead, but
     the more I'd play it, the more I loved it. Now, I can't take the damn
     thing off my turntable.

     Don't listen to the nay-sayers! Purchase these albums if you find em'
     or if you already own them, listen to them again. You owe it to
     yourself. "Four Corners" has even been re-issued on CD for those of
     you who care...

     Okay, I had to get that off my chest. You may now continue your -
     "Even Dwarves started small (Herzog, etc)" thread.....

     Doug

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From: [e-mail] (Wayno)
Subject: (exotica) Dan & Dale (Erratum)
Date: 06 Feb 1997 19:16:58 -0500

The Dan & Dale "Batman & Robin" LP was recorded in 1966, not 1996 as I
mistakenly posted.

Blushingly yours,

Wayno

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From: basic hip <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) wassamatta w/RCA?
Date: 06 Feb 1997 19:55:18 -0800

Laura laments:

> Anyway, me mind is racing again as to why RCA hasn't released more
> MANCINI stuff than it has, assuming it has...I only have TOUCH OF EVIL
> on CD, and that's VARASE SARABANDE...

Of course, you can find "Breakfast At Tiffany's" and the "Pink Panther" easily,
anywhere.  Look a little harder and you'll find "Blues and The Beat", "Peter Gunn / More
Music From Peter Gunn", "The Mancini Touch" and (i think) "Mr. Lucky".  But, you are
right, so much brilliant work from a true 20th century musical genius remains unissued.


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From: Vernon Stoltz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Vince Cardell/Liberace
Date: 07 Feb 1997 05:52:49 GMT

I'm going to feel awful overshadowing Liberace's musical talent with
some of his darker history, but here goes. Last week I thrifted a 1975
record entitled  "Liberace presents Vince Cardell", which is autographed on
the back by Vince Cardell himself. Liberace produced the record and wrote
the liner notes.

Is Vince Cardell the person who sued Liberace about 20 years ago?   I
remember there was was some jilted lover, possibly his chauffeur, who tried
to get a lot of money out of him after their relationship fell apart.  It
was big news in all the tabloids.

The front cover of the record has Vince following the Liberace school of
flamboyant fashion.  He's wearing a quite loud leopard-skin suit while
sitting next to a similar colored plaster leopard, while also wearing some
large rings, gold bracelets, and a very 1970's ish inspired hairdo - very
similar to Liberace's own hair (they must have shared the same stylist)

The back cover has a B+W photo of Vince sitting in front of a piano with
Liberace standing close by, his right arm is over Vince's shoulder, the two
mens left hands resting on the piano only millimeters apart, if at all.

Any more info on the Liberace / Vince Cardell connection?


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From: Vernon Stoltz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) books about the 50's
Date: 07 Feb 1997 05:57:31 GMT

>Also, it would be fab to discuss with anyone at all any aspects of that
>particular period in time; they all interest me

   The best written overview of the era, in my opinion, is David
Halberstam's book "The Fifties."  It's big, over 700 pages hardcover, but it
is vastly entertaining.  I mention this here because I've found that my
appreciation for the music of the era has been greatly enhanced with a
stronger appreciation for what life was like back then.  It's one thing to
buy the new 'exotica'  music
because of it's recent trendiness, but if you listen to it while imagining
your parents and grandparents actually living and buying the same music
admist all the cultural, political, and economic happenings going on (TV,
civil rights, the pill, McCarthyism, Sputnik). .. . .well it just seems to
make the music all the more enjoyable and exciting.

Also highly recommended , with lots of fantastic color photos of the styles
and product designs of the era, are
   - "Populuxe", by Thomas Hine
   - "Fifties Style", by Richard Horn
   - "As Seen on TV - the Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 50's",
        by Karal Ann Marling.

OK, now back to the music . . . . .


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Lipstick Traces CD, pls help
Date: 07 Feb 1997 02:08:32 -0500

On behalf of Baltimore independent filmmaker/artist Peter Walsh, can anyone
supply a source for the following? It eludes the scanty in-store intranets...

>I'm looking for the CD that came out with Greil Marcus's book "Lipstick
Traces".
>My info has it coming out in about 1993 on Rough Trade.
>It includes Marie Osmond reading a dada poem, a 1948 doowop song by the
Orioles,
>Kurt Schwitters sound collages from the 1920s, and a song called "Gary
Gilmore's
>Eyes."

tony
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) books about the 50's
Date: 07 Feb 1997 02:23:57 -0500

Other sources include mags like Town Journal (even Farm Journal). These have
priceless ads for things like leak-proof caskets; fridges that hold
10,000,000 pounds of lurid, full-color meat; atomic motor oils (and ads for
stylin' cars that burned it); and the ever-treasurable, futuristic
what-your-home-will-look-like ads that show Jetsons-esque electification of
EVERYthing and even split-levels that rotate seasonally for the best view
(also bubble homes for that year-round summer patio BBQ sandbox action).

My fave: unhealthy cookbooks extolling the virtues of meat, eggs, coffee,
booze, and more -- all with those bleary, florid, 50s-color centerfold
arrangements, portions to feed and army, and a peppy, upbeat,
new-to-the-burbs attitude that belies the steady petrification of the
arterial flow.

Don't forget the Encyclopedia of Bad Taste -- everything to know and love in
one volume, especially when the faux-fur cover matches one's own personal
horror chamber.

tony
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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Touch of Evil
Date: 07 Feb 1997 00:15:55 -0800

>Anyway, me mind is racing again as to why RCA hasn't released more
>MANCINI stuff than it has, assuming it has...I only have TOUCH OF EVIL
>on CD, and that's VARASE SARABANDE(Is that an RCA subsidiary?)

Touch of Evil was originally released on 2 different lp's.  The 1st was
called Touch of Evil and had 1/2 of the score on it from 1958

Then a couple of years later an LP called The Wild Side of Henry Mancini;
Music From The Score to Touch of Evil on Warner/Challenge was released and
this contained the remainder of the music.  1962

It also contains a Bongo/Conga solo that is not on any other recording
including the CD.  Mike Pacheco-Bongos, Jack Costanzo-Congos

Then for the 1st time the entire score was released on 1 LP and that was on
Citadel in 1977.

Jack

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From: Jonathan Perl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ennio Morricone
Date: 07 Feb 1997 09:55:00 +0000


Can anyone tell me which Ennio Morricone soundtracks are extra cool?
And which soundtrack was the track 'Hurry to Me' taken from?

Thanks

Jonny

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ennio Morricone
Date: 07 Feb 1997 09:10:13 -0500

I always dug "Battle of Algiers"; never could find a copy at a reasonable
price, though.

>Can anyone tell me which Ennio Morricone soundtracks are extra cool?


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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: Re: (exotica) RE: Santo & Johnny
Date: 07 Feb 1997 10:03:15 -0500

"Sleepwalk" is beautiful, but my favorite Santo and Johnny tune is "Slave
Girl" (later redone as "Cairo"--but "Slave Girl" sounds better). It's
haunting and I guess you could say it's exotic (for the title alone--I think
Chaino does a "Slave Girl" too).


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From: Michael Reading <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sun Ra
Date: 07 Feb 1997 07:28:09 -0800

>Anybody interested in "other sounds" should do themself a favor and pick up
>Sun Ra's "The Singles" double-CD on Evidence.

Couldn't agree more.  And you might follow that up with the Ra video "Space
Is The Place," avant-jazz meets 70s blaxploitation.  Any fan of cheesy "B"
movies will not be disappointed!

Celestially,
Michael


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From: "Alex V. Cook" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sun Ra
Date: 07 Feb 1997 09:51:39 -0800

> >Sun Ra's "The Singles" double-CD on Evidence.
>
> Couldn't agree more.  And you might follow that up with the Ra video "Space
> Is The Place," avant-jazz meets 70s blaxploitation.  Any fan of cheesy "B"
> movies will not be disappointed!
>

or virtually anything else by Sun Ra. I met a drummer who used to work
with Sun Ra and all the stuff about his saying he's from Saturn is not a
joke, Sun Ra really believed he was from Saturn (or was it Jupiter)

Check out any od the Evidence reissues. all the old El saturn albums,
some in a two-for-one package. True space age music if there ever was
any.

Also if anyone has a copy of "Languidity" or knows of its existence in
CD, let me know.

alex
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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Lounge Laura draws the line
Date: 07 Feb 1997 15:02:28 -0400

It's just naturally a given that many of us would draw the line at Pat
Boone-but-OH LAWD!-this new heavy metal album of his...I just heard his
cover of Judas Priest's "You Got Another Thing Comin'"...and I thought,
"THIS IS THE GOLDEN THROAT OF THE FUTURE!"
Anything else in that category?
Two come to mind:
Barbara Striesand(sp?)'s cover of David Bowie's "LIFE ON MARS"
Tina Turner's cover of Bowie's "1984."
BTW-gone from 8-16th...feel free to write, but I won't get back at ya'
until the 17th...
ALL MY LOVIN'
lounge l

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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) In defense of Esquivel...
Date: 07 Feb 1997 15:18:56 -0400



"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."
Laura Taylor
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Doug Frisby wrote:
>     I guess I "just don't get it"...I've spoken with several people off

>     the list and everytime I mention "Strings Aflame" or "Four Corners
Of
>     The World" I hear some sort of comment like "Oooh.. one of his
worst
>     albums". Well, damnit! I beg to differ.

I beg to differ, too!  They're really great albums, with a lot of feeling
and not as many whistles and bells....not that I don't love that stuff,
too!


>     "Four Corners Of The World" may not be up to par with Latinesque,
but
>     if my information serves me well (I may be proven wrong here),
Senor
>     Esquivel recorded "Four Corners" after an earlier recording session

>     ended with time to spare. The producer wanted another album
recorded
>     right then, and there was only enough time for one rehearsal. Plus,

>     Senor Esquivel only had a small rhythm section available (including

>     Jack Costanzo?). After the fast rehearsal, the track was recorded.
If
>     this is so, (even if it isn't) the passion and professionalism that

>     comes through on this recording is phenomenal. Re-listen to this
album
>     that has been long overlooked.
>

Sometimes, a slimmed-down approach works just as well.  One of my
favorite crime jazz rekkids is TV ACTION JAZZ-by Mundell Lowe...not a
lot of musicians(it seems) to get a HELLUVA LOT accomplished!


> e.
>
>     Don't listen to the nay-sayers! Purchase these albums if you find
em'
>     or if you already own them, listen to them again. You owe it to
>     yourself. "Four Corners" has even been re-issued on CD for those of

>     you who care...

and I say:  BUY IT! altho, I have the vinyl, thanks to a certain
otherwise charming dealer who told me it was boring!
Lounge Laura


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From: [e-mail] (Kirsten Whitley)
Subject: (exotica) Blaxploitation and Hee Haw
Date: 07 Feb 1997 23:02:14 -0600

Howdy, People --

I've got 2 questions on 2 completely different topics:

1. I'm interested in investigating the funky soundtracks/blaxploitation
sounds.  I've seen a few postings about 2 European compilation sets
(the Funky Soundtracks bootlegs and a different legit offering).  Are
there any cheaper alternatives in the US?  I'd prefer not to buy
expensive stuff when I'm not familiar with the genre....

2. In an odd turn of events, I find myself needing a copy of the
"I Searched the World Over" song from Hee Haw.  I have never been
a Hee Haw viewer.  Who sang this song each week?  More importantly,
were any versions of it ever immortalized on record... or, will I
wind up having to tape it from a Hee Haw video?  When did Hee Haw
stop being made?

Can anyone shed some light on these mysteries?

--Kirsten
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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) the most unwanted song
Date: 07 Feb 1997 15:30:11 -0500

Johan Dada Vis wrote:

> >     A few months ago, Russian expatriate humorists/artists KOMAR &
> >     MELAMID

Thanks for this info, Johan.  These guys are so brilliant!
A couple of years or so ago, their people's choice exhibit made it to
the now defunct washington project for the arts (this city is going
to crap).  In it they displayed the most and least desired paintings
along with charts of how people rated various aspects (size, colors,
shapes, etc.)   The most desired was a sofa size pastorale with
clothed figures, domestic pets, etc.   The least desired was a tiny
ochre abstract composition with painterly surface.  They held town
meetings to coincide with the exhibition as it travelled.  Very, very
fun.

kevin king
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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ennio Morricone
Date: 07 Feb 1997 15:40:40 -0500

Jonathan Perl wrote:

> Can anyone tell me which Ennio Morricone soundtracks are extra cool?

UNA LUCERTOLA CON LA PELLE DI DONNA
(a lizard in a woman's skin)

I've been screaming about this one on the list.. has no one else
heard it?

kevin king
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From: Ryan Matheson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Blaxploitation and Hee Haw
Date: 07 Feb 1997 21:52:38 -0800 (PST)



On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Kirsten Whitley wrote:

> Howdy, People --
>
> I've got 2 questions on 2 completely different topics:
>
> 1. I'm interested in investigating the funky soundtracks/blaxploitation
> sounds.  I've seen a few postings about 2 European compilation sets
> (the Funky Soundtracks bootlegs and a different legit offering).  Are
> there any cheaper alternatives in the US?  I'd prefer not to buy
> expensive stuff when I'm not familiar with the genre....
>
>
There's a pretty nice (though maybe a little short) U.S. compilation called
"Pimps, Players and Private Eyes" which has the main title themes from a
bunch of films (Shaft, Shaft in Africa, Shaft's Big Score, Foxy Brown,
Three the Hard Way, Across 110th Street, Cleopatra Jones, Superfly,
etc.).  It was "co-executive-produced" by Ice-T and is on Sire records.
It came out in 1991 but shouldn't be too hard to find.  Also, Curtis
Mayfield's original "Superfly" soundtrack is unbeatable.  I've seen a few
other full soundtrack albums reissues (Foxy Brown, Shaft, Across 110th...),
but can't recommend them because I haven't heard `em.

Dunno about your sick Hee-Haw request, though... ;|


--Ryan

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Solid Munsters
Date: 08 Feb 1997 05:10:34 -0500 (EST)

Jimmy Smith did an album called"Monster" where he does the theme from the
Munsters as well as a bunch of other great themes including Goldfinger, theme
from Bewitched and The Man With the Golden Arm.

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From: basic hip <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Blaxploitation and Hee Haw
Date: 08 Feb 1997 06:12:41 -0800

Kirsten Whitley wrote:

>When did Hee Haw stop being made?
>
> Can anyone shed some light on these mysteries?

according to my handy dandy Directory To Prime Time Network TV Shows, Hee Haw ran on CBS
from June 15, 1969 - July 13, 1971.  Country Music's answer to Rowan and Martin's
Laugh-In.


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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) recent hifi CD's
Date: 08 Feb 1997 16:17:09 +0100

        Lyman: "sonic sixties":

great! wonerful jazzified/lymanized 60's pop hits, but too short: only 12
trax, and the liner notes mention at least 2 others that would have fitted
well.

        Ryko/Tradition/hifi comps:

i liked these comps: "music for the jet set" (which is an
around-the-world-in-14-songs album) and "in a cocktail mood" (with lyman,
jack bongo burger, the in group, harry zimmerman, james bond & sextet...).
their first still remains my favorite: "shaken not stirred". any comments
on their other releases?:
  Steel Drum Festival
  MR Z    Dot's Polkatainment!
  BILLY STRANGE   Strange Country

i absolutely hated "stirring with soul": this is plain gospel marketed as
lounge! what will be next? "tennessee ernie ford: 14 lounge classics"...?



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) re: Books about the '50s
Date: 08 Feb 1997 11:29:28 -0500

          Tony wrote:

     Other sources include mags like Town Journal (even Farm Journal).
     These have priceless ads for things like leak-proof caskets; fridges
     that hold 10,000,000 pounds of lurid, full-color meat; atomic motor
     oils (and ads for stylin' cars that burned it); and the
     ever-treasurable, futuristic what-your-home-will-look-like ads

          I sent this a while ago, but since the subject came up again:

          House Beautuful - A little high class; hard to find
          Better Homes and Gardens - More down-to earth and middle class.
          Lots of recipes involving canned soup. GREAT color ads.
          American Home - pretty good mag about home furnishing etc.
          Holiday - Style up the wazoo. Makes you long for far away places
          and a fat bankroll.
          Life - Plentiful. There is an endless supply of this mag in the
          Boston area, usually $2-$3 each if there aren't movie stars on
          the cover.
          Architectural Forum - Deals with industrial and corporate
          architecture. Very nice mag put out by Luce (Time/Life). Hard to
          find.


          Let me emphasize just how much fun Better Homes and Gardens is.
          I'ts *loaded* with color photos and drawings of houses, interiors
          and exteriors. And lest you think it was "only in the magazine"
          my parents had many friends whose houses were right out of this
          mag (not us though, we were neo-colonial all the way). One family
          in particular had a gorgeous post-war split with blonde swedish
          modern all around, statuary lamps (that showed *everything*) TVs
          and stereos that pulled out on drawers, an expansive screened
          patio and a basement playroom to die for with TV, supersonic
          aircraft models suspended from the ceiling and a pump-action
          ping-pong ball rifle that I still need. Oh yeah, and more
          cocktails than you could shake or stir a swizzle stick at. It's a
          wonder we ever got home alive.

          Craig

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Blaxploitation and Hee Haw
Date: 08 Feb 1997 11:42:34 -0500

However, new ones were made after that and ran in syndication for many
years afterwards.

>according to my handy dandy Directory To Prime Time Network TV Shows, Hee
Haw ran on CBS
>from June 15, 1969 - July 13, 1971.

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From: [e-mail] (Jonny.S)
Subject: (exotica) reggae covers
Date: 08 Feb 1997 14:03:58 -0500

I've been buying and spinning more and more new reggae (Dancehall) on 7"
singles.
(7" is the format which is used in Jamaica for the initial release of a new
song after
 which it goes to 12'' and finally to LP/
CD compilation or full album by the artist.)

I've noticed a recent run of cover tunes that are even more wacky than the
usual Jamaican output including;

Man tief (thief) Sonata by Buccaneer - a send-up  of the famous aria from the
Opera Carmen
Mission Impossible - a slamming cover version by Sly & robbie
Alfred Hitchcock - I'm not sure what this is a cover of but it sounds like an
old Hitchcock film with an uptempo
                               reggae rhythm also by Sly & robbie.
La Bamba              - by Sly & robbie
Mambo                  - a kind of 60's big band mambo by Sly & robbie
Dehlila                  - the Tom Jones classic.  By Beenie Man/ Little Kirk/
frisco Kid. It starts with the first part of
                                 the song being sung in a mock Elvis voice
(don't ask me how Elvis gets into the picture, maybe
                                 this is thier impersonation of Tom but it
sounds much more like an Elvis ballad voice to me)
                                 Then they all sing together on th chorus with
Beenie Man doing the usual dancehall comentary
                                 between the sung phrases with another banging
uptempo rhythm.
Mainiac                 - they've brought back the mid 80's disco abberation
by Micheal Sembello this time by Bounty
                                  Killer, much better than the original
version.
Quando Quando       - by Sly & robbie

                 regards to all, Jonny Sender

If anyone is interested, you can get these records via mail order from Flex
records 802.862.9055 (Vermont)





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From: [e-mail] (Jonny.S)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sun Ra
Date: 08 Feb 1997 13:30:02 -0500

I heard a review of this Su Ra comp. on the radio the other day.  I've been a
Su Ra fan since I was a teenager and had the honour of seeing him live a few
time at the Squat Theatre in NYC in the late '70s, but I had idea he had
recorded everything from doo-wop to Very moog-y '70's space funk. The reviewer
said that he recorded over 200 albums and didn't start till he was over forty
years old.

Jonny Sender


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From: Elaine <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) I need to know...
Date: 08 Feb 1997 17:00:38 -0500 (EST)


Hey kids, I need to know if anyone out there knows of any Scott Walker
performances on video. Seeing that he did the variety show thing, I
thought, maybe, just maybe, this footage exists somewhere. If anybody out
there has any info at all, please let me know. Meanwhile, on the album
front, we scored big last weekend. Picked up such gems as "Les Demoiselles
de Rochefort", "The Man with the Golden Arm", and an odd little soundtrack
to a Mario Bava film, "Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs". This little gem
had a couple of Les Baxter-penned tunes from his rock soundtrack days.
They're done by a band called the Mad Doctors, but we're speculating that
this was a pseudonym for another band, *maybe* even the B-man hisself,
since the band photo looks like some Grand Ole Opry band with cut and
paste heads, very Python-esque. Anyway, the soundtrack is pretty dang
groovy with only a couple of major duds. The Mad Doctors stuff is very
cool and I'd love to know if any of you know anything about this.

Elaine


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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: (exotica) *Test*
Date: 08 Feb 1997 19:46:43 -0500

Sorry--I know these tests drive everyone crazy but my e-mail is acting
nutty. :(


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From: "Joseph O. Holmes" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica Digest V2 #154
Date: 08 Feb 1997 19:47:13 -0000

>"Strings Aflame" is in my humble opinion, one of his best works. Period.

Esquivel is a brilliant arranger of strings. He should have done it far
more often.

-=-Joe

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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: (exotica) percussion
Date: 08 Feb 1997 20:12:10 -0500

I'm back! ;)

Today I was listening to one of my all-time faves, "Vibe-Rations" by Jerry
Shard and the Piccadilly Trio, and I was thinking: could any of you folks
recommend some "light" percussion? I can't think of a better word for
it--you know, like Harry Breuer and some Dick Schory--maybe David Carroll
fits in, too. I'm looking for stuff that's sweet and jazzy. Or is that an
oxymoron? ;)

(any heavy percussion suggestions will be appreciated,too--you can't get
enough drums in your life, I say).

Thanks, Jessica ^_^ (it's good to be back)


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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) And another thing about Hee Haw...
Date: 09 Feb 1997 04:53:30 -0500

According to Total Television: 1969-1971 CBS, Syndicated  1971-1992.

Also gave birth to a spinoff, The Hee Haw Honeys(1978-1979).  Part of the
theme song was some of the women of the show singing, "We're keepin' our
sunny side up and our greasy side down...".

This show was also distinguished by the fact that the then President's
brother, Billy Carter was a guest on this show.  While typing this, I
happened to recall that there was also a sitcom called Carter Country, the
first sitcom to have the current President's name in it's title.
Ironically, it was set in...

Clinton Corners!

I 'm a-pickin and he's a-grinnin',
Brian Phillips
Brian Phillips
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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) Re: Lounge Laura draws the line
Date: 09 Feb 1997 19:16:24 +0100

Laura Taylor <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Barbara Striesand(sp?)'s cover of David Bowie's "LIFE ON MARS"

        what LP/CD is that on?

        Johan



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) Blue juice/break beats
Date: 09 Feb 1997 19:16:39 +0100

if you liked the "Blue juice" comp cd, check out the 3 volumes of "Blue
break beats", also on blue note UK: groovy & classic funk/jazz!

Johan



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From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Blaxploitation and Hee Haw
Date: 09 Feb 1997 14:28:58 -0500


>>Howdy, People --
>
>>2. In an odd turn of events, I find myself needing a copy of the
>>"I Searched the World Over" song from Hee Haw.  I have never been
>>a Hee Haw viewer.  Who sang this song each week?  More importantly,
>>were any versions of it ever immortalized on record... or, will I
>>wind up having to tape it from a Hee Haw video?  When did Hee Haw
>>stop being made?
>
>The song in question is actually called "Pfft YouWas Gone", sung
semi-regularly by Gordie Tapp (its writer) and a selected guest star each
week(last week on TNN it was Hank Williams Jr.).  I have a copy of Gordie's
album "Both Sides Live at the Granville Opry" on ASR records (ASR8003 LPS)
1980.  ASR's adress is 807 Main Grapevine TX 76051.
>
>If you need a copy I could tape it and send it to you.

>Hee Haw is syndicated weekly Sat nights on TNN before Live at the Gran' Ol'
Opry...
>
>Not particularly a C&W fan just  another guilty- pleasure- HeeHaw fan,
>
> Joe in Toronto
>
>(and the board fence smacked his backside as he sent off the email)
>





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From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) And another thing about Hee Haw...
Date: 09 Feb 1997 14:32:34 -0500


>At 04:53 AM 09/02/1997 -0500, you wrote:
>>According to Total Television: 1969-1971 CBS, Syndicated  1971-1992.
>>
>>Also gave birth to a spinoff, The Hee Haw Honeys(1978-1979).  Part of the
>>theme song was some of the women of the show singing, "We're keepin' our
>>sunny side up and our greasy side down...".

Lets not forget Kathie Lee Gifford's desperate attempts to cover up the fact
that she was first noticed by Frank back when she was a HEE HAW Honey on the
original HeeHaw series!!! She' s even gotten herself removed from the
syndication package,....

Hee Haw was the Bible Belt's equivalent to Laugh In, something that geyts
more and more blatently obvious the earlier in the series you go...


GAWD, why do I KNOW this stuff?

Joe in TO...(sorry enuff cornpone non exotic stories)
>





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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Recent Acquisitions
Date: 09 Feb 1997 15:30:31 -0400

As you all head towards HeeHawLand or Philip
Glasstown, it's kind of lonely back here in the middle, but
I thought I'd run down some weekend acquisitions.

I picked up an Indian pressing of the soundtrack for
the 1970 Merchant-Ivory film Bombay Talkie, and absolutely
adore it.  Nice Latin rhythms, sitar, cabaret singing . . .
and almost all of it very lovely, especially the
"Typewriter Tip, Tip, Tip" number.

Also got the 3-record RCA boxed set, "Stereo for the
Swinging Season," and the Claus Ogerman versions of
"It's Not Unusual" and "Downtown" on that are nice.
This also includes the Ray Martin Bond soundtrack stuff,
which has been repackaged elsewhere.  This is a
Canadian pressing, and I'm wondering if it's a Canada-only
package.  Anyone know?

James Michener's Favorite Music of Hawaii has a cover so
shiny you gotta wear shades.  And Ellis McLintock's
The Canadian Pavilion Concert Band at Expo 67 has a
Tijuana Brass medley, so it goes into the collection of
Canadian/tijuana/Expo kitsch, now at 3 records and counting.

I was interviewed on the local CBC radio arts show last
weekend.  Typically, they'd just discovered the "lounge revival"
and asked me to talk about it and bring some records, which
I did.  The professor-by-day/lounge-lizard-by-night angle they
ran with grated a little, but I survived, and my favourite moment was when the
host exclaimed aloud that if lounge could be revived, then who knew
what was next?  A revival of 1970s disco?!

These are people with full-time researchers supposedly backing them up.

Will.
Will Straw
Associate Professor and Acting Director, 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] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Blaxploitation and Hee Haw
Date: 09 Feb 1997 23:38:34 +0100 (MET)

The SHAFTMAN CD/LP comp from Crypt is a good start and its cheap. Crypt
records are based in both Europe and the USA. Cant find their US adress
right now but write/call Crypt in Germany for advice.

Crypt
P.O Box 304292
20325 Hamburg, Germany
tel [phone]
fax [phone]

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From: "Bryan J. Cuevas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) RE: Blaxploitation Soundtracks
Date: 08 Feb 1997 21:33:33 -0500

There are quite a few blaxploitation soundtracks available here in the
States. Also, if you know what to look for you can find songs from these
films scattered about in "best of" releases or in various soul/funk
collections. But here's a list of somewhat easily found releases on CD to
get you started (sorry I haven't included label and catalogue info - I'm
pressed for time):

Booker T. & The MG's
    Uptight (1968)
James Brown
    Black Caesar (1973)
    Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973)
Marvin Gaye
     Trouble Man (1972)
Isaac Hayes
     Shaft (1971)
     *Three Tough Guys (1974)
     *Truck Turner (1974) - both * on 2-for-1 CD
Willie Hutch
     The Mack (1973)
      Foxy Brown (1973)
Curtis Mayfield
      Superfly (1972)
Melvin Van Peebles, Earth Wind & Fire, Brer Soul
      Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) - very expensive Japanese import
           with hardcover book
Rose Royce
      Car Wash (1976)

Keep on steppin'
Bryan C.



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Department of Religious Studies
University of Virginia
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From: [e-mail] (by way of [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis))
Date: 09 Feb 1997 19:15:44 +0100

epulse 3.06 [puppets]
^^^ ^^^ ^^^

5. ok, what's the friggin' point here?
      Who is APOCALYPTICA, and what is the raison d'etre behind 'PLAYS
METALLICA BY FOUR CELLOS' (Mercury, 4/8)? Once the novelty of hearing a
quartet of classically trained closet-metalhead cellists from Finland saw
its way through "Enter Sandman," "Master of Puppets," "Harvester of
Sorrow," "The Unforgiven," "Sad but True," "Creeping Death," "Wherever I
May Roam" and "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)," what you're left with is the
soundtrack to a particularly depressing Ingmar Bergman film, y'know, the
one starring that guy from the pool scene in 'The Decline of Western
Civilization 2: The Metal Years.' Put it on, read some Sylvia Plath, and be
sure to blow the pilot light out on the the gas oven before you twist the
knob to 400 ... (no umlauts)

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Regrets??
Date: 10 Feb 1997 01:53:35 -0600

At 10:57 AM 1/31/97 -0500, Jessica Cameron wrote:
> REGRETS? You know, those things you passed
>up on and later kicked yourself for not getting. My big regrets? Passing up
>on a copy of "To Love Again"....

I once held a yard sale and sold "Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space" LP
complete with original inner sleeve and the record in nice condition... for
50 cents!  To buy it again, I would have to put out probably 80 times that!

Why oh why did I sell it?  Just because, at the time, I thought the music
and readings were horrible.  Now, I think they're cool or at least kitchy...
and the cover is worth every penny of the 50 cents (although I'm not sure
about the $40).

Byron Caloz


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From: [e-mail] (Phil Clark)
Subject: (exotica) Blaxploitation
Date: 10 Feb 1997 16:00:06 GMT

[e-mail] (Kirsten Whitley) asked about the UK
Blaxploitation releases ... I have these, the lowdown is:

there are two (or possibly three now) bootleg "Funky Soundtracks" albums which
feature lotsa good wacka-wacka grooves. IMO the first album is more consistent than the
second. I think these are still fairly easily available, in London at least.
They go for about gbp10.00 each. I don't know if they're on CD.

The recent legit double CD "Blaxploitation" is more general 70s funk & soul tunes.
There are some goodies on it though, notably Daniel Salinas' "StraussMania"
which kicks (as they say) and James Brown's "Stone to the Bone". Y'dig.

Track listings on request.

Too funky!

Phil
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Hawaiian LPs - ????
Date: 10 Feb 1997 13:30:49 +0100

There is a record shop near my work who has a lot of Hawaiian music on LP.
I would like to buy some but don=B4t know which to choose.
Please give me some names of the best performers, and I will check them up.

Thanks


Magnus Sandberg
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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: (exotica) Weekend Haul at the Flea Market!
Date: 10 Feb 1997 08:09:42 -0500

Normally this is a bad time of year for record hunters around these parts,
but yesterday--woo hoo! I hit the jackpot!

Les Baxter's Teen Drums (great great great ^_^)
Competition Coupe--the Astronauts (love it!)
Shutdown!--v/a hot rod comp w/ Robert Mitchum and the Cheers (w/ Bert Convy)
Explosive Vocal Percussion with Myrna March (!)
The Torch with the Blue Flame--Jackie Gleason (I bought it for the cover but
musically, it's pretty great--lots of marimbas)
Blue Starr--Kay Starr (nice!)
The Twist With Ray Anthony and his Bookends (nice "Peter Gunn Twist")
Top Hits of Lebanon '73 (catchy)
Sold Gold Guitar--Al Caiola (he does "Footstompin"!)
Zenith Circle of Sound--cool comp to publicize round speakers--Command label
folks, and the Ray Charles singers do a fantastic "Music to Watch Girls By."
Zenith Presents Great Songs From Around the World-another comp, with Terry
Snyder and the Hi-Lo's
101 Strings Play Hits of the Beatles
101 Strings Play Duke Ellington and Hoagy Carmichael (has the same "Caravan"
from 101 Strings + Dynamic Percussion, I'm almost positive)
Love is Blue--Claudine
Exotic Percussion--Stanley Black
...love that--Bert Kaemphert (cool electric guitar version of "Caravan")


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From: "Alex V. Cook" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) reggae covers
Date: 10 Feb 1997 09:59:02 -0800

> I've noticed a recent run of cover tunes that are even more wacky than the
> usual Jamaican output including;
>

Glad to see dancehall going back to its roots. reggae started as ska,
which was Jamaican renditions of 60's doo-wop and pop songs, with the
beat on one and three. If you want to hear the best cover tunes ever,
check out any old ska comppilation.

There's a double CD Bob Marley and the Wailers covering a lot of his
ska  upbringing, Noteable is "Teenager in Love" and "Ska Jerk" sung to
the tune of "Shotgun"

also from marley is "Club Ska '69" which I believe to have Rita Marley
singing a killer version of "Pied Piper"

various others:
 Scandal Ska (ska tunes from the movie)
Intensified! (and other ska comps) from Mango
anything by the Skatallites (the original ska band. some members now are
grandchildren of the originals)

and then the whole british ska revival: The Specials, The Selector, Bad
Manners, Madness, the Beat and a host of others. so get rude, kids!

gangster alex
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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Percussion
Date: 10 Feb 1997 08:44:50 -0800

>Date: Sat, 08 Feb 1997 20:12:10 -0500
>Subject: (exotica) percussion

could any of you folks
>recommend some "light" percussion? I can't think of a better word for
>it--you know, like Harry Breuer and some Dick Schory--maybe David Carroll
>fits in, too. I'm looking for stuff that's sweet and jazzy. Or is that an
>oxymoron? ;)
>
>(any heavy percussion suggestions will be appreciated,too--you can't get
>enough drums in your life, I say).


Percussion    Phil Kraus    Conflict    Mono *Only*        Golden Crest    Lab Series CR 4004
I play this on my show and listen to it a lot because I LOVE great drumming
and percussives in general and that what this record is all about.  Drums
drums drums and more drums, percussion and more drums.  More percussion more
drums  Great great great!!!  Phil Krause was a great studio percussive's man
who did a TON of work with Enoch Light and his partner up there on the
listing above this one-Bob Rosengarden who BTW (By The Way) also did a ton
of work for Enoch Light.  It's great just to listen to, will certainly
create a mood like you never knew, is great for "bed music", etc etc etc.
5 Stars.  1 little thing is that on 1 side of the record the label is gone.
Golden Crest used shitty glue on their labels just in case you didn't know.
Titles incl; Conflict-1st Movement 2nd Movement 3rd Movement, Three
Brothers, Kriss-Kraus, Prelude and Fugue, Nonet, Three Dances-Samba, Tago,
Bolero.  Cute little drawing on the back warning you to beware of a bad
needle in your record player

I have this for sale right now on my latest list

Jack


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From: [e-mail] (David Trezza)
Subject: (exotica) Prima "Hey Boy, Hey Girl"
Date: 10 Feb 1997 09:27:44 -0800 (PST)


Has anybody seen this Louis Prima/Keely Smith movie?  I got the
soundtrack, but the video doesn't seem to be very available.

Thanks

D Trezza


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From: [e-mail] (Doug Frisby)
Subject: Re: (exotica) reggae covers
Date: 10 Feb 1997 09:48:16 -0800

     >and then the whole british ska revival: The Specials, The Selector,
     >Bad Manners, Madness, the Beat and a host of others. so get rude,
     >kids!
     >gangster alex

     I don't know if anyone else has experienced their album, but, The
     Specials second LP "More Specials" contained one side that was full of
     what was then referred to as Muzak. Jerry Dammers was insistent on
     having that type music explored and the rest of the group wouldn't
     have any more of it. After on more ep "Ghost Town", the group split up
     because of musical differences. Jerry Dammers stuck to doing more
     instrumental orchestral pieces such as the one from the movie
     "Absolute Beginners".

     "More Specials" single handedly saved me from being sucked into the
     new wave world of groups such as "Flock Of Seagulls". The ahead of its
     time (or behind its time) sound drove me to experience even more
     EZ-Muzak sounds (including Barry Adamson and James Taylor Quartet). I
     can't recommend the album "More Specials" enough. If you haven't heard
     it yet, pay the one dollar at the used record store and pick a copy
     up. In particular, listen to the cut, "International Jet Set".


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From: Ray Coffey/School/hmco
Subject: (exotica) Re: CLEO!
Date: 10 Feb 1997 13:22:19 EST

I must say that I find Cleopatra Jones a fine film.
Cleo Kicks!  I'm glad it/she was finally mentioned.
Man, she's got them hide-away automatic weapons
behind the doorskins of her 'Vette! (It _was_ a 'Vette, right?)
Rent it today!  (The follow-up isn't as exciting.)
She makes Shaft wilt!

> There's a pretty nice (though maybe a little short) U.S. compilation called
> "Pimps, Players and Private Eyes" which has the main title themes from a
> bunch of films (Shaft, Shaft in Africa, Shaft's Big Score, Foxy Brown,
> Three the Hard Way, Across 110th Street, Cleopatra Jones, Superfly,
> etc.).

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From: [e-mail] (Howard Enis)
Subject: Re[2]: (exotica) reggae covers
Date: 10 Feb 1997 13:23:33 -0500


"More Specials" single handily saved me from being sucked into the new wave
world of groups such as "Flock Of Seagulls".

     I got to witness The Specials perform live when they appeared at a
     Long Island Nightclub back in 1978/79? it was during the same week
     that they appeared on Saturday Night Live...

     The energy was incredible - kinetic overload...changed my life


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From: [e-mail] (Hugh Petfield)
Subject: (exotica) Image
Date: 10 Feb 1997 23:34:26 GMT


Info wanted, please...

Hank Levine Orchestra did a superb single "Image pts 1 & 2"
back in the early 60's.  Moody stuff: soulful sax, strings,
Shearingesque piano mmm-mmm.  Flip was slightly
upbeat, less jazzy cut of same tune.

Can any learned Exotican in the USA tell me if this has ever
appeared on any album please?

Many thanks,

Hugh.

(visit Hugh's lounge in Foggy London:
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~tribute/lounge.htm)
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Aloha from Hawaii... East of Venus
Date: 10 Feb 1997 16:29:25 -1000

Aloha y'all-

Been enjoying input from this group for awhile via my cyber-ham
radio...the lurk of love! Had to jump in re Sun Ra. Haven't heard "The
Singles... yet, but "My Brother The Wind Volume II" (Evidence) has
somefab tunes on it, particularly "Walking on the Moon" with a slightly
lispy June Tyson on vocals. As the liner notes say, "Clearly, Sun Ra
hears voices. It's our delightful mission to receive them". Space Age
Pop indeed! Also, just saw "Jazz on a Summer's Day" here, a swell
chronicle of the '58 Newport Jazz Festival. Among many greats like Dinah
Washington, Anita O'Day (what an outfit!... only to be outdone by the
clothes, shades and poses of the young, swank crowd), there were great
performances by the George Shearing Quintet (a hip latinesque number)
and a Chico Hamilton (with Eric Dolphy on flute) tune that was very
exotica. Unfortunately, there were no screen credits at all. Anyone know
of a soundtrack for this film or what these tunes might be? Throw us a
lifeline...

out here in the middle of the Pacific,

Fluid Floyd

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From: "Derek Grime" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: More Special Beagles
Date: 11 Feb 1997 01:49:58 -0500

On Feb 10,  1:23pm, Howard Enis wrote:
> Subject: Re[2]: (exotica) reggae covers

>
>      I got to witness The Specials perform live when they appeared at a
>      Long Island Nightclub back in 1978/79? it was during the same week
>      that they appeared on Saturday Night Live...

Did any one see them on thier new tour a couple months back?  Still very
good but not quite up to the show I saw them do in '79.  That was one of
the greatest concerts I've ever seen.  We're way off topic here so...

The Banana Splits/Beagles boot CD sounds interesting but what were
The Beagles?  Was this ever a Saturday morning show or just a one-shot LP.

Any thoughts on the Groovie Ghoulies LP?  For me it doesn't quite live up
to the promise of that cover.



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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: (exotica) The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra
Date: 11 Feb 1997 07:07:39 -0500

How many percussion-jazz albums did the S-F band make? I think a lot of
their RCA material is percussive, but what about their United Artists
releases? Which LPs have the best cuts?

Thanks for any help, Jessica ^_^


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) reggae covers
Date: 11 Feb 1997 08:57:27 -0500 (EST)

In a message dated 97-02-10 13:01:55 EST, [e-mail] (Doug Frisby)
writes:

> I don't know if anyone else has experienced their album, but, The
>     Specials second LP "More Specials" contained one side that was full of
>     what was then referred to as Muzak. Jerry Dammers was insistent on
>     having that type music explored and the rest of the group wouldn't
>     have any more of it. A

>     "More Specials" single handedly saved me from being sucked into the
>     new wave world of groups such as "Flock Of Seagulls". The ahead of its
>     time (or behind its time) sound drove me to experience even more
>     EZ-Muzak sounds (including Barry Adamson and James Taylor Quartet). I
>     can't recommend the album "More Specials" enough. If you haven't heard
>     it yet, pay the one dollar at the used record store and pick a copy
>     up. In particular, listen to the cut, "International Jet Set".
>

I agree fully with Doug, for Jerry Dammers whose groupt had several top ten
singles to stick his neck out and talk in interviews to the UK muisc press
about how interesting "muzak" is as a concept was pretty amazing... his
production treatments add a whole new feel to the Specials' material (one
album track that was "remixed" with the added Dammers' touch was the 7"
version of "Do Nothing" with a rollerskate rink organ sound added!) for those
who can't find the vinyl this album is available at a mid-priced CD.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Song from the Nairobi Trio
Date: 11 Feb 1997 12:24:13 -0600 (CST)

"Song from the Nairobi Trio"

i have two versions of this song, one by George Cates (which i absolutely
LOVE) and one by Robert Maxwell (who wrote it).

anyone know of other versions that exist?
was this song ever known by another name that i should be aware of?

any help would be great!

 -Dean





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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra
Date: 12 Feb 1997 06:15:56 -0800

Jessica Cameron wrote:
>
> How many percussion-jazz albums did the S-F band make? I think a lot of
> their RCA material is percussive, but what about their United Artists
> releases? Which LPs have the best cuts?

Talk about timing!  I just added a page on Sauter-Finegan to the Exotica
Standards site:

http://www.netrail.net/~bbigelow/sauterfi.htm

All of their albums were jazz-oriented, but their use of percussion was
only part of their overall approach of using unusual instruments and
distinctive sounds.  So you're likely to find "percussive" cuts on any of
their albums.

Brad

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From: Jonathan Perl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tipsy LP
Date: 12 Feb 1997 12:20:00 +0000


I hear that the Tipsy LP, 'TRIP TEASE' has come out.  Has anyone heard it
yet?  Any good?

Jonny

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Blaxploitation
Date: 12 Feb 1997 10:55:02 -0500

Who was looking for blaxploitation soundtracks?  I live near a hip library,
so I have a copy of James Brown's "Black Caesar" for a while.

Also in the sales box, was a Nancy Wilson single with the original picture
sleeve (and me too broke for words.  Boo. Hoo.)


"I'll be too busy looking good!" - Jim Kelly, Enter the Dragon,
Brian Phillips

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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) RE: Blaxploitation Soundtracks
Date: 12 Feb 1997 16:14:00 -0700 (MST)

I can wholeheartedly second Bryan's recommendations, especially where "Trouble
Man" and "Car Wash" are concerned.  "Car Wash" in particular is one of my
favorite albums of all time -- not for any alleged cheese factor, but just as
a damned fine album all the way around.

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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: (exotica) Esquivel's TV Tunes
Date: 12 Feb 1997 18:39:01 -0500

     I know this was touched upon quite awhile back, but I can't
     remember how thoroughly.  Can someone sketch out some brief
     highlights of Esquivel's television arranging/composing days
     (you there, cleve?). Was he solely working on incidental
     music, or was he responsible for any theme songs?  All I seem
     to recall is that he did some work on "Charlie's Angels," and
     my ignorance is beginning to bug me.

     Grazie!

     Anita

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From: [e-mail] (Wayno)
Subject: (exotica) Nairobi Trio cover versions
Date: 12 Feb 1997 21:42:11 -0500

>"Song from the Nairobi Trio"
>
>i have two versions of this song, one by George Cates (which i absolutely
>LOVE) and one by Robert Maxwell (who wrote it).
>
>anyone know of other versions that exist?
>was this song ever known by another name that i should be aware of?

Jack Zimmerman recorded a whistled version (!) on his Gold Crest LP "The
Whistler and His Dog". There's another version on a Kapp LP (the LP is
called "Song of the Nairobi Trio") by the Fortune Tellers. This version may
have appeared as a 45. Most of the material on the album was written by
Maxwell, who is credited as "the creator of The Fortune Tellers", whatever
that means. The Fortune Tellers material is  more intentionally "kookie"
(and somewhat less satisfying) than Maxwell's best records, but it's
definitely worth grabbing if you see it.

The song is also known as "Solfeggio."

BTW, George Cates's work is worth exploring too. There's an LP on Coral
Records titled "Exciting" that's pretty fine exotica, including his
composition "Where There's Life" (Budweiser's late-50s theme).

The cover features a typically gorgeous Garrett-Howard photo. A gal in a
nightgown sits on satin sheets and holds a telephone to her ear. Her legs
are bathed in hot pink light. Really beautiful work. Who were Garrett and
Howard? The name turns up a lot on sexy album covers (the better ones).
Anybody have info on them?

Also recommended by Cates: "Polynesian Percussion" (Dot Records, circa
1962). George was musical director for The Lawrence Welk show, but you'd
never guess from the back cover shot of a shaven-headed, goateed hipster in
Hawaiian shirt. The LP includes a version of "Hawaiian War Chant",
naturally.

Aloha,

Wayno

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From: Vik Trola <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ocean's Eleven
Date: 12 Feb 1997 23:32:18 -0500

i know ashley will be excited...Ocean's Eleven is going to be on AMC this
weekend!

waking up in the city that never sleeps,
Vik

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Tipsy/Nairobi Trio
Date: 12 Feb 1997 23:56:29 -0500 (EST)

"The Song Of the Nairobi Trio" was originally entitiled "Solfeggio",and on
the sheet music I have (Thanks Irwin!) it's additionally subtitled
"Do-Re-Mi"(not to be confused with "Do, a deer, a female deer..etc").
Solfeggio, for you non-conservatory types, is the term for the do-re-mi
syllables used in sight singing,invented by one Guido D'Arezzo in the
1500s. That ought to win ya a free cup of coffee at your local cafe.

I heard the new Tipsy CD at Other Music in NYC the other day and it was
<great>!I loved their first single and this was a great step forward.(Their
copy of Don Baker's "Cocktail Hammond" must be worn out from all the
sampling they've used it for.) They said it wasn't actually out yet,
though, when I asked to buy it."Around the end of the month" was when I was
told it would be available.

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From: Randall Rothenberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ocean's Eleven
Date: 12 Feb 1997 23:54:09 -0500 (EST)

     Ain't that  a kick in the head?

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Les Baxter: "My Name is God"
Date: 13 Feb 1997 00:34:40 -0500

...from a 78 listing (unclear what the B side is).

Seems like a natural for an orchestra leader, guess the song never made it.

Tony "my name is godless" Wilds
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica Digest V2 #156
Date: 13 Feb 1997 06:37:31 -0500 (EST)

Anyone heard about Vic Dana?  I have a 7" version of "Shangri-La" on
Dolton--the production is SO ah--exotic!--I'd like to know if there was an
album released on the heels of or in front of this dynamic single.......

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From: [e-mail] (John Jones)
Subject: (exotica) Hey you DJ's
Date: 13 Feb 1997 16:54:55 GMT

Any of you DJ's out there broadcast over the net?  I can't get any of
your stations on the radio...I'm too far away  :(

John
[e-mail]

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Song of The Nairobi Trio
Date: 13 Feb 1997 08:55:24 -0800

[e-mail]
>Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 12:24:13 -0600 (CST)
>Subject: (exotica) Song from the Nairobi Trio

>i have two versions of this song, one by George Cates (which i absolutely
>LOVE) and one by Robert Maxwell (who wrote it).

>anyone know of other versions that exist?
>was this song ever known by another name that i should be aware of?

Dean,

George Cates has some rippin' rockin' cool arrangements of stuff on DOT I
must say.  Also a great exotica rekkid.

I have a chug a lug, wailin r & b version of Quiet Village that will just
rip your head right off!

Song from the Nairobi Trio is also known as (aka) "Solfeggio"

Jack


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Adventures in Sound / Leda Annest
Date: 13 Feb 1997 18:08:08 +0100

Can anyone supply a rundown of the records released on
Columbia's "Adventures in Sound" series? Leda Annest, Elsa
Popping, Sabu ... but what else? Were they all conceived in
the pre-stereo days? I've only seen (or heard of) mono copies.

On the subject of Leda Annest, didn't someone recently mention
the existence of another record by her, besides the great "Portrait
of Leda"? What, pray tell, was that? Any Leda info at all would be
appreciated -- the over-the-top purple prose of the liner notes doesn't
offer much in the way of elucidation.

Many thanks,
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From: [e-mail] (Howard Enis)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Nairobi Trio cover versions
Date: 13 Feb 1997 12:20:51 -0500





>"Song from the Nairobi Trio"
>
     The Solfeggio version that Ernie Kovacs 'discovered' and used as
     background music on his Nairobi Trio skits can be found on a two record
     'Comedy of Ernie Kovacs' set that came out on CBS(?) in the early 70's.
      I haven't checked it out in a while but I know it also contains a
     couple of Esquivel tracks and other assorted giddiness...

     Highly recommended...

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From: Vik Trola <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hey you DJ's
Date: 13 Feb 1997 12:39:32 -0500

>Any of you DJ's out there broadcast over the net?

as soon as i can keep the violently unstable real audio server i have
running...you'll find web radio at Radio Vik's
(http://www.chasokitty.com/t_chaos/radiovik.html)...currently:

Misanthropy 511
Retro Cocktail Hour
Fantastica

this of course when i get the bugs worked out. also King Kini broadcasts
Club Velvet...

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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) organ and other jazz...
Date: 13 Feb 1997 19:22:46 +0100

i enjoyed very much Jimmy Smith's "home cookin'" cd: wonderfull groovy
organ jazz; he plays the bass line with his feet!
not as much the "open house/plain talk" cd (1960), as that one has several
of those awfully long (15 minutes) jazz improvisations: each
instrumentalist gets his 4 minutes to show off.

my current fave organ cd is Jack McDuff's "the honeydripper" (1961): woow!
funky jazz/blues at his best! word is that "crash" is also as good.

Quincy Jones' "walking in space" (1969) is also highly recommended:
beautiful soul/R&B/jazz, a mid-price cd.

Bear Family released 2 Tito Puente twofer cd's in 1993: "night beat/mucho
puented" and "top percussion/dance mania". the first one is my favorite:
"night beat" is great latin jazz! "top percussion" has cuban voices and
drums roots music; "dance mania" has mabo stuff, but mostly with vocals
that i didn't dig.

        Johan
        [e-mail]


                           "50's jazz groups hired an extra man on radar
                to warn the group when they were approaching the melody"
                                                            (Sid Caesar)



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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) recent CD's
Date: 13 Feb 1997 19:23:15 +0100

        Squirrel Nut Zippers: "hot":

someone somewhere (i don't remember who and where) called the Squirrel Nut
Zippers "Hot" cd "NEW lounge a la ComEd". oh boy, what a joke! it's more
like Travelin' Light/Leon Redbone old-fashioned revival old-timey ragtime
40's blues-jazz, with a Billie Holiday imitation singer. it's not at all
like ComEd or any other 50's/60's style lounge!

        Mike Flowers Pops:

i did like what Flowers did to wonderwall, but the full cd is a bit too
much of  always the same, and too short; it would have been better if they
had included "macarthur park" and especially the "bowie medley".

        v/a: "Blaxploitation":

all the truly good tracks would fit on just 1 cd, making this double cd far
too expensive.
several tracks are "spoiled" by vocals as i prefer my funk instrumental.
all in all i can't recommend it, although it has about 12 really great tracks;
my favorites are Deodato's "zarathustra" and Johnyy Harris' "stepping stones".
(on Global television UK)

        sukia: "contacto espacial con el tercer sexo":

fab! masses of samples, weird noises, primitive synths, surprises... 100
times more inspired and entertaining than Tipsy or La Yellow or Gary
Moscheles which are all 99% techno and only 1% exotica imho.
sukia is some kinda mix of kraftwerk + the butties + the b-52's (lots of
plagiarism from those!) + the moog cookbook + joy division bass lines

        Johan
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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) dada's e-mail address problems
Date: 13 Feb 1997 19:29:37 +0100

maybe you've had problems when replying to a message of me; i'm working on
it, though the cause is not with me; this is my 1 and only address:
[e-mail]

        Johan
        [e-mail]



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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) organ and other jazz...
Date: 13 Feb 1997 15:22:55 -0500

You didn't dig?  I dug.  Dang.

If you can try to find a CD called "Bravos del Ritmo",whch features Tito
Rodriguez, Richie Reyes, Perez Prado and Ray Barretto.  Not a bad song on
the comp.

Primo!
Brian Phillips

"dance mania" has mabo stuff, but mostly with vocals
>that i didn't dig.



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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Anyone want my show ?
Date: 13 Feb 1997 14:15:36 -0800

I have tons of cassettes of my show that I've been doing now for 4 years and
after I listen to them once or twice they go into "the box" and rarely do
they ever come out.

They just sit there and I kind of feel bad BUT whaadaya gonna do ?

It's a 3 hour show from 9AM-Noon on a Sunday morning

Cost to you is my cost;

2 high end maxell 95/100 minute tapes = $4
1 Mailer = $1.00
Postage in the USA = $1.50

$6.50 total

Look at my playlists at KFJC-FM's site at http://www.kfjc.org, click on DJ
Playlists and then on whatever week and then on Jack Diamond and if I have
that show on tape it's your's for a lousy $6.50 in the US

Outside of the US is a tiny bit more for postage.  Let me know, they are
just sitting here.
By the way, trades are out.  I have waaaaaay toooooo many tapes here that I
haven't even gotten to yet

Later,
Jack


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) KFJC play list 1/26/97
Date: 13 Feb 1997 14:52:12 -0800



KFJC play list 1/26/97 for Jack Diamond


ARTIST                        TRACK                           ALBUM
Planets                        Chunky
Mat Mathews-Accordian,                                     Savoy,61
Julias Watkins-French Horn            Joe Puma-Guitar
                        4 Men on a Horn
Jack Costanzo                    Latin Fever                Liberty
Surfmen                        Quiet Village                Somerset
Group One                    March of the Cue Balls            Mancini
Roy Lanham                    In the Mood                64
Hugo Montenegro                    Caravan                    Arp
Sidney Poitier                    Only the Wise Are Brave
Neal Hefti                    This Is Mother                    Oh Dad Poor Dad
Kenyon Hopkins                    Heart Beat
Shorty Rogers Giants                In the Merry Old Land of Oz        RCA, 59
Ken Nordine                    The Bullfighter                57
Pino Donaggio                    School in Flames            Carrie
Thurston Knudson                Malinke', Flute Bell & Drum        Reprise
Charles Grean                    Beyond Antares
Lambert & Hendricks                Everybody's Boppin'                Columbia
Mort Garson                    Climax # 2
Nino Olivero                    Twistin' in the Trailer Camp
George Barnes                    Pardon My Southern Accent            Grand Award
Hal Blaine                                      Hallucinations
Psychedelic Percussion
Ferde Grofe'                                    Exploring the Red Planet
Sam Hoffman-Theremin
Ruth Yorke-spoken word                          The Minute
RCA, 1956!
Quincy Jones                                    Call Me Mr. Tibbs
Jack Costanzo, Herbie Harper,
Marty Paich, Larry Bunker-Bongos                The Natives Are Restless
Bethlehem
Stu Phillips Orch                               Vibrations From Venus
Harry Revel
Jack Zimmerman                                  Blue Moon
Vicki Carr                                      The Silencers
Barney Kessel                                   One Mint Julep
On Fire!
Jerry Goldsmith                                 In Like Flint
Our Man Flint
Thompson, Hunter S.                             Amphetamine Psychosis
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Karla Pundit                                    The Lagoon at Midnight
Journey to the Ancient City
Johnny Spots                                    Hi Lo's-This Is Los Angeles
George Duning                                   Bell Book and Candle
Colpix
Roy Lanham                                      Air Mail Special
1959
Jay Chattaway                                   Inner Voices
Maniac
Jimmy Castor                                    King Kong
Leith Stevens                                   War of the Worlds
Art Pepper Nine                                 Popo
Thumbs Carlisle                                 Me and Memphis
Ray Martin                                      Tarzan
Brad Slocum                                     Happy Birthday to You!!!
Pete Rugolo                                     Diamond on the Move

How many of these do YOU have ?  7 tracks available on CD out of 42 total
ain't bad ;)

KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
http://www.kfjc.org

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) For anyone who cares
Date: 13 Feb 1997 15:37:49 -0800

For anyone who cares I will be spinnin' some super cool rekkids tonight at
Cafe' Du Nord's Sense O Round for about an hour or so on Market St probably
around 9PM.

Maybe we will finally meet ?  Who knows.  Who Cares ?

Later,
jack


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From: [e-mail] (Sadie Coe)
Subject: (exotica) Screaming Orgasms
Date: 14 Feb 1997 12:55:26 +0000

While we're onto ska (which I lerv), I feel I should mention a great
band we have here in NZ called the Screaming Orgasms.

This is a ska band made up of teenage Japanese students who have been
in NZ for several years studying in the most horrible Palmerston North
(a BORING flat, farming town in the North Island which makes extra
bucks by having a posh college for Japanese folks).

They are just the COOLEST ska band. The lead singer wears a great
gangster outfit (fedora, white socks, thin black tie) -nothing unusual
in that for ska dudes but BOY this guy wears 'em with style! There
are 2 other blokes and a wee woman on sax and another on electric
violin. They are always accompanied by a group of schoolmates (all
Japanese): one a very serious looking fellow with a handycam, who never
really exploits the situation but always just stands in one place
videoing only the band. He has a hard time what with all the pogoing
and slamming that these guys inspire. The other followers are all wee
cutsie looking girls who bop cutely up and down up near the stage
while wearing wee cutsie backpacks. They make a great contrast to all
the sweating, thrashing hordes behind them (myself included).

The most infectious thing about the Screaming Orgasms is their
energy. While singing and playing they are skanking hard out on the
stage. I just cannot keep that stuff up any more - but I s'pose these
guys are teens. I dunno if I could ever have sung AND skanked though
(to be honest).

But the really great thing about the Screaming Orgasms is that they
incorporate some traditional Japanese sounds into those old ska hits.
Yes! They do it!

When I first heard them it was from my bedroom window on a Saturday
morning when they were performing at the Aro Valley community centre
fair. I couldn't quite hear it properly and was wondering what the
hell this stuff was. It sounded great but I just could not figure out
what culture it came from. I thought it sounded like Eastern European
music (eg Rumanian gipsy music) combined with Chinese traditional
music (I've got a great tape of the Peking Brothers, who used to be
the orchestra for the Beijing movie theatres and who I discovered
busking in Covent Garden). I rushed down the road in time to catch
their last number, in which they all jumped simultaneously each time
the main beat hit. In between they just writhed maniacly. They use a
thing that looks like a casiotone (you know, hand-held, piano-like
keys) but which you blow into while playing the keys. It sounds
pretty wierd.

I haven't seen these guys for a while. I hope like hell that they
haven't gone back to Japan. They're the wizziest ska band I ever did
see.

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From: [e-mail] (Sadie Coe)
Subject: (exotica) Glee club
Date: 14 Feb 1997 13:02:00 +0000

Just passing on a query a friend just sent me: he wants to know who
Walter Schumann and his Glee Club Band are.

I dunno. Do you guys?

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From: [e-mail] (Doug Frisby)
Subject: (exotica) Vik Radio
Date: 13 Feb 1997 10:26:54 -0800

     >as soon as i can keep the violently unstable real audio server i have
     >running...you'll find web radio at Radio Vik's
     >(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/radiovik.html)...currently:
     >Retro Cocktail Hour

     I was lucky enough to have caught "Retro Hour Cocktail" broadcast
     through Real Audio on Vik Trola's site before there were technical
     problems. I still don't know exactly how it's done, but if you haven't
     downloaded this Real Audio thing,.. do it! The broadcast was amazing
     and what a great idea to broadcast this show. I get to hear cuts from
     LP's I don't own... It's the balls!

     The only bummer is that Compass O' Swank has disappeared from Vik's
     site. It too was another brilliant use of the internet, perhaps too
     ahead of its time. I hope Vik brings it back.

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From: [e-mail] (Doug Frisby)
Subject: (exotica) Radio Vik
Date: 13 Feb 1997 16:27:36 -0800

     >as soon as i can keep the violently unstable real audio server i have
     >running...you'll find web radio at Radio Vik's
     >(http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/radiovik.html)...currently:
     >Retro Cocktail Hour

     I was lucky enough to have caught "Retro Cocktail Hour" broadcast
     through Real Audio on Vik Trola's site before there were technical
     problems. I still don't know exactly how it's done, but if you haven't
     downloaded this Real Audio thing,.. do it! The broadcast was amazing
     and what a great idea to broadcast this show. I get to hear cuts from
     LP's I don't own... It's the balls!

     The only bummer is that Compass O' Swank has disappeared from Vik's
     site. It too was another brilliant use of the internet, perhaps too
     ahead of its time. I hope Vik brings it back.

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel's TV Tunes
Date: 13 Feb 1997 19:53:02 -0500

Anita wrote:
>     I know this was touched upon quite awhile back, but I can't
>     remember how thoroughly.  Can someone sketch out some brief
>     highlights of Esquivel's television arranging/composing days
>     (you there, cleve?). Was he solely working on incidental
>     music, or was he responsible for any theme songs?  All I seem
>     to recall is that he did some work on "Charlie's Angels," and
>     my ignorance is beginning to bug me.

Esquivel worked as an incidental/cue music composer at Universal Television
from 1961 to around 1968. He wrote hundreds of short cues that are still
used to this day. He gets amazing BMI statements that he has shown toi The
Millionaire and I, which list all the shows by segment name. Basically,
it's every show on Universal you can think of, mostly used in the 70's, on
things like Kojak, Banacek, Charlies Angels, etc et al. There is a very
comprehensive list in the notes to "Music FRom A Sparkling Planet".

Esquivel did not write any themes (despite what he has said in some
interviews, due to language misunderstandings). He wrote the theme to a
western called "The Tall Man", that was on in 1961. His best known piece
would be the "Universal Emblem" theme that was shown at the end of every
Universal TV show.

Esquivel's compatriots at Universal were Stanley Wilson, Pete Rugolo, and
John (nee Johnny) Williams. Mancini was there briefly when he started. All
this music is still used to this day; TV composers now only write the theme
and cues before the commercial breaks, for the most part.

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) What? no holiday thread?
Date: 13 Feb 1997 17:40:50 -0500

 Valentine's Day Nominations -- [theoretically] good records to...

1. Court with (sofa sounds for the lovelorn):

2. Summon the boudoir Tarzan & Jane (& Cheetah?):

3. Keep the vine swinging (absurd mood breaker):

Pop music is romantic, after all, so with what records would/will you
entertain? Three possibilities:

   love:  Harpo Marx - Harpo
   lust:  Blakey/Sabu - Orgy in Rhythm
 laughs:  Ray Anthony sings "Sway" (or Little Marcy Meets Smokie the Bear)

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From: Dan Gresham <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: funky organ, and other jazz
Date: 14 Feb 1997 02:41:29 +0000 (GMT)

> i enjoyed very much Jimmy Smith's "home cookin'" cd: wonderfull groovy
> organ jazz; he plays the bass line with his feet!
> not as much the "open house/plain talk" cd (1960), as that one has several
> of those awfully long (15 minutes) jazz improvisations: each
> instrumentalist gets his 4 minutes to show off.

Great albums (IMHO) by Jimmy Smith - `Unfinished Business' and `Jimmy
Smith can really sing'. Both funky - check out `Stay Loose' on Jimmy smith
can really sing. One of my all time greats... I don't think either of
these are on CD

> my current fave organ cd is Jack McDuff's "the honeydripper" (1961): woow!
> funky jazz/blues at his best! word is that "crash" is also as good.

Check out Double Barrelled Soul by Jack McDuff - it's from the mid
sixties, but it's so funky it's unbelievable. GREAT flute on this album
from David Newman. Contains the killer track Duffin' `Round. This is
easily in my top 5 albums _of all time_.

Later, Dan


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) RCA LPs
Date: 13 Feb 1997 19:19:54 -0800 (PST)

Hello!  Thought you'd like to hear about my latest thrift store finds (for
13 February 1997).  The first sounds vaguely like something someone
described a while back, but without the spiral binding.  Alas, nothing I
found was in perfect condition... but I didn't spend a lot either (about 99
cents a side...or less than 10 cents a selection).

Stereo By the World's Greatest Artists   RCA PRS 113

This was originally a 10 LP set, each LP with its own sleeve illustrating
the LP covers for the cuts included.  The LPs go into a cardboard "drawer"
that goes into a box.  There was probably a booklet included, but mine
didn't have it or the outer box.

Unfortunately, I am missing records 8 and 9...and the sleeve for number 10.

Here are some cuts I probably would enjoy (but can't right now because I
don't have my turntable! (20 sides) (album title in parenthesis, except when
out of room or when title track)

1: Theme from a Summer Place (Fever and Smoke)...The Three Suns
   La Chunga (PP features the new dance LC by AM)...Perez Prado
2: Magic is the Moonlight.....Rosemary Clooney with Perez Prado
   Sing Sing Sing (The Blues and the Beat)........Henry Mancini
3: Bill Bailey (Special Delivery)...................Della Reese
4: 's Wonderful medley (Dancing on a Cloud)......The Three Suns
   Rockambo a la Prado     (Rockambo)..................Perez Prado
5: Ceremony of Tambo (Tambo)........................Tito Puente
   That's All (The Mancini Touch).................Henry Mancini
6: My Heart Belongs to Daddy (Cha Cha Cha)..........Della Reese
7: Around the World (Stereo Action goes Hollywood)...Marty Gold
   Ka-Lu-A (Paradise Regained)........................Leo Addeo
   Seventy-Six Trombones (StereoAction goes Brdway) Dick Schory
   Futura .........................................Bernie Green
   Crazy Rhythm (Crazy Rhythm)................Guitars Unlimited
   My Blue Heaven (Dynamic Dimensions)...............Henri Rene
8: It's Magic........................................Marty Gold
   The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round...................Leo Addeo
   Runnin' Wild.....................................Dick Schory
   Love for Sale (Brass Laced With Strings)..........Vic Schoen
   Flight of the Bumble Bee (Dynamica)...............Ray Martin
   I Get a Kick Out of You (Sounds Terrific).......Keith Textor
9: On the Sunny Side of the Street.....Andy and The Bey Sisters
10: Baby Won't You Please Come Home(And Here She Is)Ann-Margret
11. Vanessa (The Most Popular Guitar)...............Chet Atkins
12. Lullaby of Birdland (Chet Atkins' Workshop).....Chet Atkins
13. Among My Souvenirs (H&J At the Country Club) Homer & Jethro
14. Sixteen Tons (Songs My Mother Never Sang)....Homer & Jethro
Missing 15-18
19 and 20 are classical music excerpts (I love classical, but not snippets
of entire pieces).

Does anybody know what I am missing on sides 15-18?
Also, was there a booklet that goes with the set?
It was worth the purchase price of $8.99 for sides 7 and 8 which sampled 12
different Stereo Action LPs...with cover picturing each of the covers
(perfect for scanning when I do JPG files of them).


Also I got...

Swingin' West  Marty Gold and His Orchestra  RCA LPM 2163
This came out in 1960, so I assume there is an LPS version around (stereo)?
Features music from Western TV shows "Have Gun will Travel", "Bat
Masterson", "Maverick", "Bonanza", "Buckskin", "The Texan", "Black Saddle",
"The Deputy", "Gunsmoke", "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp", "Wagon
Train", and "Cheyenne."  Eddy Manson plays the harmonica; Al Caiola plays
the guitar on some cuts; and Harry Breuer (of Audio Fidelity fame) , Phil
Kraus and Arthur Marotti are the percussionists.

The RCA Victor Pop Shopper  RCA SPL-12-13
(12 complete selections from RCA Victor's "Fabulous Fifty-Fifth" anniversary
release) With Chet Atkins, Al Cohn's Natural Seven, Eartha Kitt, Perez Prado
(Voodoo Suite Part 1), Sauter-Finnegan Orchestra and Milt Hinton.  Again,
each selection represents a different LP and those LPs are pictured in full
color in miniature ("Down to Eartha","Voodoo Suite" and Milt Hinton's
"Basses Loaded" are my faves).

And just think, I was considering spending more than I spent on these for
just one CD (by Machito). Of course, I will have to wait until my turntable
gets moved....

Byron Caloz






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From: Vik Trola <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Compass
Date: 13 Feb 1997 23:12:26 -0500

>     The only bummer is that Compass O' Swank has disappeared from Vik's
>     site. It too was another brilliant use of the internet, perhaps too
>     ahead of its time. I hope Vik brings it back.

yes...this too shall return especially now that (hopefully) the Real Audio
problem has been solved.

shows currently running:
Misanthropy 511
Retro Cocktail Hour
Fantastica

and Vik's look at trip-lounge and the exotic tiki beach blanket party with
Martin Denny and Don Tiki. it's in Real Audio 3,0 28.8, but barring any
more meltdowns, RA2.0 and 14.4 versions should show up next week...

waking up in the city that never sleeps,
Vik

Vik's Lounge
http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html

Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
http://www.chaoskitty.com/sabpm/



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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dom Frontiere
Date: 07 Feb 1997 00:02:22 -0800

He has a couple of really great straight ahead west coast jazz records on
Liberty.  He plays a wicked accoridian.  BUT WAIT!

This is realy good :))  Seriously.  Hard to believe I know

jack


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Synthetics Plastics Co.
Date: 05 Feb 1997 10:09:04 -0800

This weekend found Exotic Percussion LP on the elusive Pirouette label
>     (Manufactured by Synthetic Plastics -Newark NJ)

I just sold a couple of Monster rekkids on POWER that were also manufactured by
the Synthetic Plastics Co-Newark New Jersey

Frankie Stein and His Ghouls.  Instro Surf/Rockin' R & B circa early-mid
60's w/ monster sounds.

Jack


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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sun RA
Date: 07 Feb 1997 11:43:35 -0500

Does this CD "The Singles" include "Hot Skillet Mama"?
Brian Phillips
http://www.mindspring.com/~hagar
"Her JAW hung down by her KNEEheeheeees!" - Yochanon, Space Age Vocalist
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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) Re: Exotic Percussion
Date: 07 Feb 1997 19:12:29 +0100


>Any exotic albums with Tarzan yells on 'em?

        check out this lp: "the big itch vol. 4" (mr. manicotti MM 343,
        i think it's still in the catalogs of norton or dionysus). it
        has: *the ape quartet* doin' "tarzan": a hilarious screaming
        freak-out!

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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) rat pack survivor
Date: 04 Feb 1997 15:02:51 -0400

JOEY BISHOP TURNS 79
   (Los Angeles) -- Joey Bishop spends his days doing puzzles
andáwatching game shows -- and he wasn't about to stop just because
itáwas his 79th birthday. Bishop says he and his wife spent a quietáday
at home in Newport Beach, California. He says he worked onácrossowrd
puzzles and mind teasers as he does every day. He callsáhimself a
''puzzle freak.'' He says he's a ''real cuckoo bird'' foráwords. At
night, he and his wife never miss ''Jeopardy'' andá''Wheel of Fortune.''
He says they're ''television freaks.''


He  and Shirley  McClain(sp?) should do a tour!

"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."
Laura Taylor
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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) CARBON*LISA & FRIENDS    STEREOCOCKTAIL
Date: 07 Feb 1997 19:11:18 +0100

while searching for the "STEREO COCTAIL" comp in german music express, i
came across another disc with the same title:

        PHDM204029 CARBON*LISA & FRIENDS    STEREOCOCTAIL
        $28.41     PHD MUSIC  10/96  GROOVY MOOG MUSIC

anyone knows it? that "GROOVY MOOG MUSIC" sounds appealing, but you can't
trust the GMX database on such descriptions. btw, that "STEREO COCTAIL"
comp is good, though it doesn't mention the artists, and the track listing
is screwed up, there are 26 tracks, but only 25 listed. it has lots of
kinda corny euro latin stuff; "espresso2" is much better though!

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From: "Joseph O. Holmes" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Santo & Johnny...
Date: 06 Feb 1997 16:25:57 -0000

>>Santo and Johnny are the best!  Sleepwalk became an anthem
>>for a generation and beyond.  All of their stuff is great.
>>ALL OF IT

Don't get me wrong. I've enjoyed listening to them. But you can hear the
slide player searching for those notes. And, really, listen to Hawaiian
War Chant -- it's just beyond his ability.

But, hey, it's fun!

-=-Joe

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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: (exotica) Album Covers
Date: 07 Feb 1997 10:32:50 -0500

I know there are web pages and magazine articles that deal with the subject
of record covers (beautiful, weird, ugly or otherwise), but there are
probably obscure ones that only some folks know about--like locally released
stuff, for example. And I'll bet dollars to donuts that many folks on the
list a) keep record covers on display in their homes (swingframe or
otherwise ;) ) and b) have record covers they'd just love to talk about.
Kind of like show and tell without the show. ^_^

Here's my entry:

"Look Ma, Four Hands!"--Four armed woman wails on the Conn Organ. Beautiful
and scary. (RCA)

"They Said it Couldn't Be Done--But They Didn't Reckon with the Mighty
Accordian Band!" - A gorilla plays the accordian (cover posed by "Mr. Joseph
Kong Young" ;) )  (Capitol)


BURNING QUESTION (literally!): What exactly is on the cover of "Inferno!" by
the John Buzon trio? I know it's supposed to be an inferno (briliant
observation, Jessica), but is it a sugar cane field on fire, or a grill, or
something served flambe or what?

Thanks, Jessica ^_^


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dr. Goldfoot (Baxter & bikinis)
Date: 10 Feb 1997 12:14:00 -0500

At 05:00 PM 2/8/97 -0500, you wrote:
...>to a Mario Bava film, "Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs". This little gem
>had a couple of Les Baxter-penned tunes from his rock soundtrack days.
>They're done by a band called the Mad Doctors, but we're speculating that
>this was a pseudonym for another band, *maybe* even the B-man hisself,
>since the band photo looks like some Grand Ole Opry band with cut and
>paste heads, very Python-esque. Anyway, the soundtrack is pretty dang
>groovy with only a couple of major duds. The Mad Doctors stuff is very
>cool and I'd love to know if any of you know anything about this.
>
>Elaine

I was told Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine is a Baxter-endowed LP, but I
didn't know about this one. (In any case, I have a sealed copy of Girl Bombs
for sale.) And speaking of Baxter and bikinis, I looked at AIP's How to
Stuff a Wild Bikini but saw no credit to Baxter anywhere. Anyone know for
sure, specifics?

tony
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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) Re: Ennio Morricone
Date: 11 Feb 1997 19:07:53 +0100

>From: Jonathan Perl <[e-mail]>
>
>Can anyone tell me which Ennio Morricone soundtracks are extra cool?

        i can't (besides the obvious spaghetti westerns, and the
aforementioned "la piovra"), but i can tell you that those 3 (4?) new
spalax twofers are disappointing.
"holocaust 2000" is rather boring and very dark and doomy.
"sesso in confessionale" has some good tracks, but nothing excellent.
"sepolto viva/l'antechrist" has just 1 track i liked...
"il prefetto di ferro/il monstro" has several good tracks, and the only one
i could recommend, though it's maybe too high priced: $25.

i think it would have been better to put the title tunes (and a couple of
other good ones if there are any) on a comp, like the "mondo morricone"
which is excellent, focussing on his haunting melodies and wordless vocals.
another good comp is "golden film themes" (M.M Records 525 772, France),
although it doesn't have any liner notes, not even mentions the original
films from which these tracks are taken!

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From: Randall Rothenberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) books about the 50's
Date: 10 Feb 1997 10:36:44 -0500 (EST)

     I agree on "Populuxe," which is delightful. I found Halberstam's
"The Fifties" a bit sprawling for my tastes.
     One of my favorite, recent novels that deals with the period --
something of an obscure delight -- is a novel called "Biography of a
Buick," although it may also be sold under the name "Motor City."
Unfortunately, I can't remember the author's name -- although I do
remember that he was a former newspaper reporter from North Carolina. The
book's narrative surrounds the efforts of GM's Buick division to turn the
Buick Century into the best-selling car of the year, and to crack an
industrial espionage plot to undermine them. But the plot is but a device
to introduce into the narrative a host of real characters from the time
-- Nabokov, Kerouac, Presley, et al -- in a "Ragtime"-like way. The main
character is based on the great GM designer, Harley Earl. It's really
delightful.

On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Vernon Stoltz wrote:

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Tipsy
Date: 14 Feb 1997 08:39:07 -0500 (EST)


>In a message dated 97-02-12 10:52:56 EST, [e-mail] (Jonathan
>Perl) writes:
>
>>I hear that the Tipsy LP, 'TRIP TEASE' has come out.  Has anyone heard it
>>yet?  Any good?
>
It is one of the most interesting releases of the year, highly
recommended...a fascinating mixture of sampled sounds into a wild concoction
that would make Dean Elliot proud...think of it as a "Zounds What Sounds" for
the '90s.

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From: [e-mail] (Wayno)
Subject: (exotica) Sun Ra/Harmonicats/Morricone
Date: 08 Feb 1997 12:23:35 -0500

1. RE: "Space is the Place" video: Yes, this is an amazing film. Sun Ra and
the Arkestra, traveling in a cheesy spaceship powered by their music, come
to earth to straighten out inner-city youth. Ra plays chess with Satan in
the form of a pimp. Great live footage of the Arkestra. The soundtrack CD,
on Evidence, is longer than the film itself!

2. RE: Morriconne Soundtracks: I've yet to be disappointed by any of his
work. DRG just released "Drammi Gotici" (Gothic Dramas) the score from a
1977 Italian TV series. Very spooky and atmospheric. If you can find CDs on
the Italian CAM label, there are some very good twofers. I recommend "I
Malamondo" (1964)/"La Tarantola dal Ventre Nero" (1971); and one combining
2 early 70s sexy movies, "Spogliati, Protesta, Uccidi!"/"Cuando L'Amore e
Sensualita." Of course, don't miss "Once Upon A Time in the West"

3. Jerry Murad's Harmonicats: I usually ignore Harmonicats records,
remembering a "Greatest Hits" LP my father had, which I remembered as being
dull roller-rink music (although my brothers and I were fascinated by the
photo of the band's heads floating above their massive harmonicas). The
only LP I own is "What's New Harmonicats?" on Columbia, which is notable
for its innapropriate covers of Dylan songs. Well, I just picked up a
completely fabulous 45 by the 'cats on Mercury: "Little Red Monkey" b/w
"Pachuko Hop". "Monkey" bears a slight musical resemblance to "The Teddy
Bears' Picnic" but is more sinister. "Hop" is a cover of the honkin' sax
instro by Chuck Higgins, and it's pretty swingin'.  Another prejudice bites
the dust, and I feel I've grown as a human being...
        The store also had a 45 where they covered Miklos Rozsa's
"Spellbound Concerto" but it was too beat-up to hear. Anybody know of other
swell Harmonicats records?


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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sun Ra/Harmonicats/Morricone
Date: 14 Feb 1997 09:11:37 -0500


> Anybody know of other
>swell Harmonicats records?

The Cats' "Harmonicha-cha-cha" album is my all time favorite. It includes
what might be the most impropable cha-cha ever, "(In the Hall of) the Cha
Cha King," plus "The House of Bamboo,"  "Chattanooga Cha-Choo," and
"Poinciana." There's also a cheapo later album that has the boys' take on
"Ritual Fire Dance."

Is it true that their albums were recorded in elevator shafts to get the
right echo? Talk about elevator music! ;)


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From: "Alex V. Cook" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Ennio Morricone
Date: 14 Feb 1997 09:11:57 -0800

> >Can anyone tell me which Ennio Morricone soundtracks are extra cool?

John Zorn's "The Big Gundown"

Not Morricone, per se, but in the liner notes, Morricone said this was
the best interpretations he had every heard. Collaboration tween various
free jazz and bizzaro NY musicians, and definitely exotic.

happy hunting
alex

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Tipsy Tip
Date: 14 Feb 1997 03:09:29 -0400

********************************************************************
I've had an advance copy of the TIPSY album (Asphodel) for about a month
and it's wearing out my CD player. Can't stop listening to it.

Overheard a conversation last week in which someone crabbed that except
for ComEd, the "loungecore movement" (a term preferred by 6 out of 7
Absolute Sound editors) hasn't produced much in the way of great new
artists or albums. Tipsy puts that allegation to rest. I don't care
where they stole the riffs. Congrats to the agile minds and nimble
fingers who created it.

Pass it on.

--Irwin Chusid
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From: "Alex V. Cook" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: exotica Digest V2 #156
Date: 14 Feb 1997 09:44:25 -0800

[e-mail] wrote:
>
>                        Postage paid by: [Image]
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>
> Anyone heard about Vic Dana?  I have a 7" version of "Shangri-La" on
> Dolton--the production is SO ah--exotic!--I'd like to know if there was an
> album released on the heels of or in front of this dynamic single.......

Si. I have an album called "Foreign Affairs" by Vic Dana. Kind of
Eerie-cool. Great version of the song from Umbrellas of Cherbourg and
some stripped down crooning with just piano and vibes. His voice, so
refined and antiseptic, kind of gives me the creeps after a couple of
songs, but in a good way. The liner notes said he becomes German when
singing in Germany, Italian when in Italy, etc.

On the subject of "Vic", there was a mention of Vic Damone on "late
Night with Conan O'Brien" last night.

vic's of the world, unite and take over
alex

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) John/Johnny Williams
Date: 14 Feb 1997 11:09:19 -0400

Br. Cleve wrote:
> Esquivel's compatriots at Universal were Stanley Wilson, Pete Rugolo, and
> John (nee Johnny) Williams.

I think this is an understandable case of mistaken identity. Johnny Williams
was the drummer for the original Raymond Scott Quintette (1937-39). His son,
John Williams, is the famous TV/film composer. I don't think Johnny ever
worked in TV, and I don't believe John was ever known professionally as
"Johnny" (except perhaps to his parents).

--Irwin

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From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Synthetic Plastics
Date: 14 Feb 1997 11:35:33 -0500

>the elusive Pirouette label
>>     (Manufactured by Synthetic Plastics -Newark NJ)
>
>rekkids on POWER that were also manufactured by
>the Synthetic Plastics Co-Newark New Jersey

So what *is* the definitive list of all Synthetic Plastics' various labels?
I have seen Diplomat, Pirouette, and Spinorama--and it seems pretty likely
that Parade is theirs to (though one disk does say "Product of Premiere
Albums, Inc.," NYC).

Did I understand Br Cleve correctly that these were all econo- labels
distributed through supermarkets, etc? It kinda makes sense then, that they
would try to disguise the fact that every LP in the rack was really coming
from one distributor.

I have a special fondness for old Synthetic Plastics: Their "Fabulous Sounds
of Pipe Organ and Percussion" was among the first 5 records I brought home
on a whim in 1993, after discovering a neglected "Easy Listening" bin at
our Public Library's basement book sale. The song "Diga-Diga-Doo" in
particular was so galvanizingly strange that I knew I had to keep looking
for more. . .

(I would love to hear what disk "started it all" for other people on the list.)



 --Ross

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|| Ampex three channel magnetic tape machine with a total frequency range
|| of16 to 25,000 cycles per second. Although this is not within the range of
|| ordinary hearing, it is the opinion of the producers that the inclusion of
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From: [e-mail] (Howard Enis)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Synthetics Plastics Co.
Date: 14 Feb 1997 12:23:59 -0500


     This weekend found Exotic Percussion LP on the elusive Pirouette label
     >     (Manufactured by Synthetic Plastics -Newark NJ)

     >I just sold a couple of Monster rekkids on POWER that were also
     manufactured by the Synthetic Plastics Co-Newark New Jersey

     >Frankie Stein and His Ghouls.  Instro Surf/Rockin' R & B circa
     early-mid 60's w/ monster sounds.

     Synthetic Plastics manufactured records for their own label (Diplomat)
     as well as manufacturing others for cheapo's like Pirouette, POWER,
     and others...They also manufactured black plastic ashtrays, among
     other plastic tchotkes.  When I worked at Celluloid Records (a small
     indie label) in NYC in the mid 80's and we occasionally had our
     records manufactured there.  Synthetic Plastics  offered several
     grades of vinyl including one for those 'record moguls on a tight
     budget'.  This grade-Z vinyl consisted of recycled overstock records
     and ashtrays.  I didn't witness this personally but Im imagining large
     crates of Mighty Mouse LP's and scratched/dented ashtrays being tossed
     into a huge bubbling cauldron of steaming gurgling black plastic goop.


     For all I know Synthetic Plastics may still be in business although
     tastes have changed...people have cut back on smoking...cept big fat
     stogies.


     Cal

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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) Re: Tipsy LP
Date: 14 Feb 1997 19:07:12 +0100

>From: Jonathan Perl <[e-mail]>
>
>I hear that the Tipsy LP, 'TRIP TEASE' has come out.  Has anyone heard it
>yet?

        i only heard the 12" maxi, and... well, give me a sampler, and i
        bet i can do this too... anyone could! take a couple of samples, and
        push "repeat", and that's it. i did like the "nude on the moon -
        naked volley ball mix" though, but i missed a good melody and some
        inspiration... called me old-fashioned :-)

        Johan
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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Synthetics Plastics Co.
Date: 14 Feb 1997 10:17:02 -0800

I didn't witness this personally but Im imagining large
crates of Mighty Mouse LP's and scratched/dented ashtrays being tossed
into a huge bubbling cauldron of steaming gurgling black plastic goop.

Cal


Oh Yasssssssssssssssss, I can picture it now!  Just like in the movies and
maybe some thugs dropped a couple of people in there too.

Thanx for the visual!

Jack


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From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dr. Goldfoot (Baxter & bikinis)
Date: 14 Feb 1997 20:00:00 +0100 (MET)

Tony,
my files tells me:
How to stuff a wild bikini
Music: Les Baxter, Al Simms.

Dont know of Baxter involvment for Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
the title song is sung by the Supremes.

Stefan/Subliminal Sounds


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From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sun Ra/Harmonicats/Morricone
Date: 14 Feb 1997 20:01:31 +0100 (MET)

wayno1 wrote:
> Ra plays chess with Satan

No, they draw Tarot cards.

Stefan/Subliminal Sounds


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Record manufacturers (Synthetic Plastics)
Date: 14 Feb 1997 14:49:56 -0500

>>the Synthetic Plastics Co-Newark New Jersey
>So what *is* the definitive list of all Synthetic Plastics' various labels?
>Did I understand Br Cleve correctly that these were all econo- labels
>distributed through supermarkets, etc? It kinda makes sense then, that they
>would try to disguise the fact that every LP in the rack was really coming
>from one distributor.

Thousands of little labels piggybacked on the majors; manufacturing was not
diverse.

Serious collectors should note that this region cranked out the most records
of any place in the world -- particularly Pennsylvania (Scranton being the
major factory area), which partly explains why Jessica Cameron is always
carting home boxcars full of great records (e.g., Sabu's Sorcery). Many,
perhaps most, of the records never travelled very far; this is also where
the most cut-outs and overstocked LPs remain. The benefit for the buyer, of
course, is that dealer "competition" here (mostly very friendly and
agreeable) is intense -- there are tons of people wishing to sell tons of
records -- at all sorts of weekly and monthly record shows, plus the usual
flea and yardsale channels. Second major area? California -- in both cases,
population density is key.

tony
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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Glee club
Date: 14 Feb 1997 14:30:54 -0800

Sadie Coe wrote:
>
> Just passing on a query a friend just sent me: he wants to know who
> Walter Schumann and his Glee Club Band are.
>
> I dunno. Do you guys?

Walter Schumann led a choral group ("The Voices of Walter Schumann") for
RCA in the 1950s.  Most of it is along the lines of the Norman Luboff
Choir--very professional, mainstream, and dull.  A few of the numbers are
a little more jazzy:  I think their version of "In A Little Spanish Town"
was included on one of the recent space-age bachelor pad music CD
compilations.

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From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist - Music for Better Living
Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:45:01 -0500

***2/12/97***

The Batusi -- NEAL HEFTI
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. -- THE ULTERIOR MOTIVE ORCHESTRA
I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good -- ENOCH LIGHT & THE LIGHT BRIGADE
Way Out Calypso -- GEORGE DUNNING
Surfin' in Rio -- MARCOS VALLE
Grand Tour -- SOUNDS GALACTIC
End Title from The Pawnbroker -- QUINCY JONES
Ritual Fire Dance -- WERNER MULLER & HIS ORCHESTRA
The Human Jungle -- JOHN BARRY
Caper at the Coffeehouse -- WARREN BARKER
Kissy Suzuki -- SOUNDS ORCHESTRAL
Daniel (Daniel's Theme) -- THE BRITISH LION ORCHESTRA
Begin the Beguine -- MISS ANN-MARGRET
Menina Flor -- WALTER WANDERLEY
Opiniao -- WALTER WANDERLEY
Sign of the Times -- KAI WINDING
Baubles, Bangles and Beads -- THE JONAH JONES QUARTET w/GLENN GRAY & THE GREAT CASA LOMA BAND
Negre Set'n -- JACK "BONGO" BURGER
Yesterday -- THE HAROLD BETTERS SOUND
Measure for Leisure -- GEORGE SHEARING

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bryan Cuevas
Date: 14 Feb 1997 11:22:01 -0800

bryan,

you mail keeps bouncing back to me.  whass'sup wit dat ?

Jack


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From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Hey you DJ's
Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:40:30 -0500

>Any of you DJ's out there broadcast over the net? =20
>I can't get any of your stations on the radio...I'm too=20
>far away  :(

My station is in the process of acquiring the proper-type server for =
streamed audio broadcast. When things are up and running, I'll be sure =
to notify the list.

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From: "Alex V. Cook" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The first time.
Date: 14 Feb 1997 11:25:48 -0800

> (I would love to hear what disk "started it all" for other people on the list.)

A love of garage sales and thrift stores. We would raid any thrift store
for old new wave favorites and would always see all this "crap" that was
in every thrift store. Then I started collecting 8-track tapes and a
copy of Herb Alpert's "Whipped Cream and other Delights". I had always
ignored it, being it was THE "crap" record at every thrift store, but
decided to listen to it and bang! my life was changed.

With a song in my heart,
Alex.

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From: Carver Dan Cordes <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Quesoterical playlist for 2-11
Date: 14 Feb 1997 16:02:34 -0800 (PST)

  ,
Quesoterical Lair playlist for Feb. 11, 1997
Linda Lavin            The Boy From...(Esteban Rio Nido)
Paddy Kingsland            The Earthmen
Jeffries Tube             I am a Spock
Steel Drum Festival        Zulu Chant
Cibo Matto             Aguas De Marco (yes again)
Meco                Galactic
Jimmy Dean            Big Bad John
Wally Pleasant            I Want a Stalker (yes again)
Scooter                 There's a New Sound
Signs of the Zodiac:Scorpio    In Love Scorpio?
Two Chicks            Bad Dreams in Hollywood
Newcleus            Jam On It
The Ebonettes            Wildman Walk
Mister Rogers            You Can Never Go Down the Drain
Helen Carlaine            One Night With You
Banana Splits            Two-Ton Tessie
Frank Zappa            A Little Green Rosetta
Crescendos            Hawk Walk
The Three Suns            Jungle Drums
Blossom Dearie            Unpack Your Adjectives
Ran-dells            Martian Hop
Tiny Tim            Depression Medley
King Missile            Sensitive Artist
Dominic Frontiere
& his Orchestra            Venus Girl
Patrick Gleeson            Droids
Arthur Godfrey            Too Fat Polka
Barenaked Ladies        Stomache vs. Heart
Scott Thompson            I'm Gay (request)
John Prine             Billy the Bum
Enoch Light & his Orchestra    The Man I Love
Spike Jones            Pal-Yat-Chee
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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re: album covers
Date: 14 Feb 1997 16:18:27 -0800

Jessica Cameron wrote:

> And I'll bet dollars to donuts that many folks on the
> list a) keep record covers on display in their homes (swingframe or
> otherwise ;) ) and b) have record covers they'd just love to talk about.
> Kind of like show and tell without the show. ^_^
>
> Here's my entry:
>
> "Look Ma, Four Hands!"--Four armed woman wails on the Conn Organ. Beautiful
> and scary. (RCA)

I love this cover!! One of my favorites...

Here's a few of mine, though like most of you there's just too many to
remember/list:

"Bullshit & Country Dysco" by... hmmm can't remember just now! But it's
a local record w/ a lame drawing of a cow patty w/ flies buzzing around
it on the cover. The music is typical boring country stuff though... not
comedy.

"Jesus" by Jeremy Faith. The record has some good hippie-era Christian
folk/rock/gospel songs but the real attraction is the very evil-looking
GREEN JESUS on the cover that looks as if it were scrawled into a
high-school desktop by some 15-year-old Iron Maiden worshipper. Jesus
even has a double goatee!! I've jokingly subtitled this record as "How
The Grinch Stole Christianity."

"Gospel Guitar" by Joe Maphis. I just like the juxtapositions on this
cover: a nice portrait of some mid-60's era guitar gear- a nice old tube
amp, a very tech-looking reverb unit, and a totally tricked-out
double-neck guitar/mandolin with all sorts of cheesy inlaid patterns and
"Joe Maphis" inlaid on the necks. Then sitting in front of this display
is a bible. Very nice.

"Merry Soul Christmas" by George Conedy. The cover is just a simple shot
of Santa Claus sitting in a chair with his bag and some toys scattered
around. The trick is, they tinted his face black (it was obviously a
stock white Santa photo originally) and they also tinted the faces and
hair of the two dolls that are laying around. Then they superimposed a
record album in his hand. The record is old enough to not look like a
conscious "spoof."

There's at least one record line I collect exclusively for the covers,
and that's the Westminstr Gold classical series from the early 70's.
These covers are a great example of a record company using shock tactics
to try to sell something that they know is pretty mundane. Or maybe they
were just trying to appeal to a new generation. Anyway- I only have a
couple handy right now but "Best Of Brahms" inexplicably has a simple
picture of a skillet with 2 eggs sunny-side up and two strips of bacon
frying in it. That's all- nothing else on the cover except for the
title. And there's no tie-in in the liner notes either. The Beethoven
one has a waist-up shot of a nude babe on the cover but she's holding
two Beethoven busts over her breasts (get it?! Ha ha ha!!) The great
thing is, they painted both Ludwigs' noses red, to make them look like
nipples! I have several other equally weird records in this line, but I
can't seem to find them at the moment.

That's all for now!!

Pea


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Happy Valentine's Day... Hawaiian Style!
Date: 14 Feb 1997 08:45:14 -1000

Aloha!

Just wondering... sent first post to this wonderful group on 2/10 with
comments on Sun Ra and some questions re tracks by George Shearing  and
Chico Hamilton on a film titled "Jazz on a Summer's Day" about the '58
Newport Jazz Festival. Didn't see any response, so I wanna know:
   a) anyone see it?
   b) anyone care?
   c) should i resend?
Anyways... A Happy Valentine's Day to all... hot like lava!

O ke aloha o ke ipo, he wela ia no ke kino
The love of a sweetheart is like fire within the body

from the land of sweaty palms and jungle swaying,
Fluid Floyd

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) John/Johnny Williams
Date: 14 Feb 1997 09:18:55 -0800 (PST)

>Br. Cleve wrote:
>> Esquivel's compatriots at Universal were Stanley Wilson, Pete Rugolo, and
>> John (nee Johnny) Williams.
Irwin wrote:
>I think this is an understandable case of mistaken identity. Johnny Williams
>was the drummer for the original Raymond Scott Quintette (1937-39). His son,
>John Williams, is the famous TV/film composer. I don't think Johnny ever
>worked in TV, and I don't believe John was ever known professionally as
>"Johnny" (except perhaps to his parents).

Well, I've watched enough TV to remember the music credits which said "Johnny
Williams."  So there is no doubt, there was a Johnny Williams.  The big question
on my mind is... is John and Johnny the same person.  I do not consider the
music done by Johnny very similar to the music by John, but then again,
musicians sometimes have to do different things to make money early in their
careers.

There could be two J.W.s.  After all, there is John Williams the guitarist!
And, I am still amused by my discussions with record company people who talk
about Roy Rogers...they are thinking about some blues guitarist, I guess...
but all I can think about is the "Happy Trails to You" Roy Rogers.

And, don't forget, before Harrison Ford there was... Harrison Ford, a silent
movie actor!

Ah, but there is only one (so far that I've been able to find)...

Byron Caloz


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From: mark koldys <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: John(ny) Williams
Date: 14 Feb 1997 19:30:43 -0000

>Johnny Williams
>was the drummer for the original Raymond Scott Quintette (1937-39). His son,
>John Williams, is the famous TV/film composer. I don't think Johnny ever
>worked in TV, and I don't believe John was ever known professionally as
>"Johnny" (except perhaps to his parents).

John Williams (the composer/conductor) was indeed known professionally as
"Johnny" in his early days. At least one Tops LP credits him as "Johnny",
and his earliest film and tv scores also call him "Johnny". I guess he
became "John" when things got more serious for him.

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From: [e-mail] (Wayno)
Subject: (exotica) Hot Skillet Mama!
Date: 14 Feb 1997 18:09:55 -0500


Brian Phillips wrote:
>Does this CD "The Singles" include "Hot Skillet Mama"?

This amazing package does indeed include "Hot Skillet Mama", plus the
following additional tunes by Yochannan (The Space-Age Vocalist):

Muck Muck
The Sun One
The Sun Man Speaks (2 versions)
Message to Earthman (2 versions)

"The Singles" is a perfect introduction to the music of Sun Ra, especially
for readers of this list.

It's available from WFMU, who can use the support.

[e-mail]

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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Album Covers
Date: 14 Feb 1997 12:53:36 -0800

Jessica Cameron wrote:

> And I'll bet dollars to donuts that many folks on the
> list a) keep record covers on display in their homes (swingframe or
> otherwise ;) ) and b) have record covers they'd just love to talk about.
> Kind of like show and tell without the show. ^_^
>
> Here's my entry:
>
> "Look Ma, Four Hands!"--Four armed woman wails on the Conn Organ. Beautiful
> and scary. (RCA)

I love this cover!! One of my favorites...

Here's a few of mine, though like most of you there's just too many to
remember/list:

"Bullshit & Country Dysco" by... hmmm can't remember just now! But it's
a local record w/ a lame drawing of a cow patty w/ flies buzzing around
it on the cover. The music is typical boring country stuff though... not
comedy.

"Jesus" by Jeremy Faith. The record has some good hippie-era Christian
folk/rock/gospel songs but the real attraction is the very evil-looking
GREEN JESUS on the cover that looks as if it were scrawled into a
high-school desktop by some 15-year-old Iron Maiden worshipper. Jesus
even has a double goatee!! I've jokingly subtitled this record as "How
The Grinch Stole Christianity."

"Gospel Guitar" by Joe Maphis. I just like the juxtapositions on this
cover: a nice portrait of some mid-60's era guitar gear- a nice old tube
amp, a very tech-looking reverb unit, and a totally tricked-out
double-neck guitar/mandolin with all sorts of cheesy inlaid patterns and
"Joe Maphis" inlaid on the necks. Then sitting in front of this display
is a bible. Very nice.

"Merry Soul Christmas" by George Conedy. The cover is just a simple shot
of Santa Claus sitting in a chair with his bag and some toys scattered
around. The trick is, they tinted his face black (it was obviously a
stock white Santa photo originally) and they also tinted the faces and
hair of the two dolls that are laying around. Then they superimposed a
record album in his hand. The record is old enough to not look like a
conscious "spoof."

There's at least one record line I collect exclusively for the covers,
and that's the Westminstr Gold classical series from the early 70's.
These covers are a great example of a record company using shock tactics
to try to sell something that they know is pretty mundane. Or maybe they
were just trying to appeal to a new generation. Anyway- I only have a
couple handy right now but "Best Of Brahms" inexplicably has a simple
picture of a skillet with 2 eggs sunny-side up and two strips of bacon
frying in it. That's all- nothing else on the cover except for the
title. And there's no tie-in in the liner notes either. The Beethoven
one has a waist-up shot of a nude babe on the cover but she's holding
two Beethoven busts over her breasts (get it?! Ha ha ha!!) The great
thing is, they painted both Ludwigs' noses red, to make them look like
nipples! I have several other equally weird records in this line, but I
can't seem to find them at the moment.

That's all for now!!

Pea

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From: "D. Scott Springer" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Paramount TV Theme
Date: 14 Feb 1997 20:54:15 -0500


>Esquivel did not write any themes (despite what he has said in some
>interviews, due to language misunderstandings). He wrote the theme to a
>western called "The Tall Man", that was on in 1961. His best known piece
>would be the "Universal Emblem" theme that was shown at the end of every
>Universal TV show.

This got me thinking about the old Paramount TV theme which was played after
shows such as "The Brady Bunch."  As I recall, it  began with a trumpet (or
some other horns) and ended with a flourish of flutes.  Sometime in the late
1960s it was replaced with a much more "majestic" ( for lack of a better
term) one that featured more tuned percussion and a much larger ensemble.
Does anyone have any idea who wrote the first one?


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From: Darrell Brogdon <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) John/Johnny Williams
Date: 14 Feb 1997 20:19:07 -0800

John Williams, the Academy Award-winning film composer, WAS known as "Johnny Williams"
earlier in his career.  He DID write the music for numerous TV shows--especially some of
schlockmeister Irwin Allen's sci-fi shows, incl. "Lost in Space", "Voyage to the Bottom
of the Sea", "The Time Tunnel", etc.

Johnny Williams also appeared on some of the great Mancini recordings, most notably
"Combo!" (he plays the harpsichord!) and "Peter Gunn".  There's no doubt this is the
same guy--his picture's on the back cover of "Combo".  Was he also on "Touch of Evil"?
As I understand it, JW also played on Bob Drasnin's "Voodoo" (or "Percussion Exotique"
or whatever it was called originally).

Two of my favorite albums by John/Johnny are "Rhythm in Motion", a swingin' sort of
"Stereo Action" record on Columbia in 1961 and "Checkmate", the soundtrack to the TV
detective show (Sebastian Cabot, Doug McClure and Anthony George played criminologists;
lasted one season)--great crime jazz with tracks like "Cyanide Touch", "Hassle in the
Castle" and "The King Swings".  Both brilliant!

Someday maybe JW will get back to his roots and write a real straight ahead jazz score
for a big budget movie!

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica Digest V2 #158
Date: 14 Feb 1997 22:06:00 -0500 (EST)

Valentine's Day Love Ball in Cambridge tonight with Combustible Edison
playing and Br. Cleve spinnin' & grinnin'--Going out to Make Love and Fake
Love!

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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dr. Goldfoot (Baxter & bikinis)
Date: 14 Feb 1997 14:31:25 -0500


>Dont know of Baxter involvment for Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
>the title song is sung by the Supremes.

Theme song composed by Les Baxter and performed by the Supremes
over super cool opening titles.  Don't recall if he had a hand in
the remainder of the score.

Anita


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Yummy Synthetic Plastics
Date: 15 Feb 1997 02:20:22 -0400

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

<[e-mail]> (Howard Enis) wrote:

> For all I know Synthetic Plastics may still be in business although
> tastes have changed

Synthetic Plastics IS still in business, operating these days as PPI (Peter
Pan Industries). In addition to all that recycled vinyl on junkyard labels
like Pirouette and Spin-O-Rama, they issued tons of kiddie records (esp.
45s) on the Peter Pan label. They specialized in cheap knockoffs of popular
tot-tunes. I found one 45 featuring the WORST "Popeye the Sailor Man" I'd
ever heard. It was Shaggs-like in its badness. The guy sounded totally
pickled.

PPI still occupies the same Newark, NJ, building, on a depressing, decrepit
industrial backlot. They have apparently carved a lucrative niche for
themselves with aerobics videos and cheesy, cheaply-produced and -packaged
reissues sold on the truckstop circuit and in discount department store
chains. They have a vault of old master tapes going back almost four
decades, including a lot of unreleased material. Heaven knows what condition
these tapes are in.

Don't ask how I know all this. Just don't.

--Irwin Chusid

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) What song started it all
Date: 15 Feb 1997 00:43:17 -0800

>(I would love to hear what disk "started it all" for other people on the list.

I guess it was Esquivel's Granada from Other Worlds Other Sounds.  1st
title, side 1.

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From: J P M <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What song started it all
Date: 15 Feb 1997 05:09:03 +0000

>(I would love to hear what disk "started it all" for other people on the list.

"The Pink Panther"Henry Mancini.I was just a little guy (5or6) ,and this
was my only record (later I found Sgnt Peppers and Nancy Sinatra stuffed
away in my mums closet.......

It was the movies more than the music .....anything with Audrey Hepburn
to be exact......

Later my Grandfather introduced me to the Latin thing
Cugat,Prado,Esquivel......he loved to dance the cha cha.......1,2,3,
cha,cha,cha...........
--
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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Ennio Morricone
Date: 15 Feb 1997 14:42:30 +0100

>> >Can anyone tell me which Ennio Morricone soundtracks are extra cool?

[e-mail] replied:

>John Zorn's "The Big Gundown"
>
>Not Morricone, per se, but in the liner notes, Morricone said this was
>the best interpretations he had every heard. Collaboration tween various
>free jazz and bizzaro NY musicians, and definitely exotic.

        i agree with that, it's very very bizarre, at times i find it difficult
        to hear the original melody though... well, it's John Zorn after all :-)

        Johan
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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: Re: (exotica) What song started it all
Date: 15 Feb 1997 08:54:32 -0500

>>(I would love to hear what disk "started it all" for other people on the list.


"Tune from Rangoon" by Martin Denny (on the Quiet Village LP) made a
believer out of me. Oh, and "Weird" from One Step Beyond. I found that one
on my first day of junking. ^_^


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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: (exotica) alt.culture-lounge--how is it?
Date: 15 Feb 1997 09:19:31 -0500

Has anyone on the list been checking out the new exotica/lounge newsgroup?
My server doesn't carry it yet (but they did recently add
"alt.binaries-cowgirls-erotic"--figure that one out). I hope this newsgroup
can replace the late, lamented alt.exotic-music (it was never any great
shakes to begin with, but lately it's just a bunch of crossposted garbage).

Thanks for any help, Jessica


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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: (exotica) Peter Pan Records
Date: 15 Feb 1997 09:26:39 -0500

>they issued tons of kiddie records (esp.
>45s) on the Peter Pan label. They specialized in cheap knockoffs of popular
>tot-tunes. I found one 45 featuring the WORST "Popeye the Sailor Man" I'd
>ever heard. It was Shaggs-like in its badness. The guy sounded totally
>pickled.


The Peter Pan label got pretty gonzo in the 70s. There are two (that I know
of) Gershon Kingsley-produced LPs with lots of moog-y sound effects and
goofy Sesame Street style music. "The Ghosts from Outer Space" (on Ghostly
Sounds) is a classic, and so is "Crash! Bang! Crunch! and Pow!--The Sounds
of the City." There are probably other worthy kiddie records out there I
don't know about. Any suggestions?



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) What song started it all
Date: 15 Feb 1997 12:04:15 -0500 (EST)

In a message dated 97-02-15 03:46:05 EST, [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
writes:

>>(I would love to hear what disk "started it all" for other people on the
>list.

I would bet good money that a majority of people on this list actually
gradually got into this stuff through listening to movie soundtracks, as all
this music is about creating a mood....and I would go so far as to bet that
the preffered current music of the majority, in turn, would be trip hop or
ambient electronic as this is indeed the mood music of the '90s....Any
takers?

Ashley

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Subject: Re: (exotica) What song started it all
Date: 15 Feb 1997 12:55:59 -0600 (CST)

>>(I would love to hear what disk "started it all" for other people on the
>>list.
>



had to have been Dad's copy of "Whipped Cream & Other Delights" by Herb
Alpert.   I always liked "Tangerine" and "Green Peppers" best.  Then, of
course, Mancini's "Pink Panther" soundtrack.  I had a party once years ago,
where the music consisted of nothing but those two records.  no one came.
about 10 years later, i discovered Perez Prado's "Havana 3am" in my
Grandmothers attic and there was no looking back.




visit...

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: What song started it all/Joe Maphis
Date: 15 Feb 1997 16:56:38 -0500

     Neapolitan Tarantella by Tony Mottola

     Craig

     PS to Pea Hicks:

     Joe Maphis' guitar on that album cover was built by Paul Bigsby,
     inventor of the wammy bar that bears his name. Bigsby was also the
     first (before Leo Fender) to use that particular headstock design on
     an electric guitar.

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From: Robby Garfinkel <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Ennio Morricone
Date: 15 Feb 1997 16:41:00 -0500

>>From: Jonathan Perl <[e-mail]>
>>Can anyone tell me which Ennio Morricone soundtracks are extra cool?

There is a label from Italy called CAM that has reissued A LOT (well over
60 to my knowledge) of soundtracks from the 50s thru 80s of mostly
French and Italian (more of) composers for mostly (if not all) French
and Italian movies. There are quite a number of Morricone, many of which
are very good. These discs were also digitally remastered in Dolby
Surround. Also, many, if not most, of these discs have two movies
per disc! (so--maybe they are not complete ST, though often do
run about 60-70 mins).

A few months ago  a local chain store decided to get rid
of a few thousand discs because they were not catalogued in their
system, and decided that selling them at $3.99 was more cost effective
than taking inventory for obscure and probably slow selling discs.
Lucky for me. Eventualy, all discs went down to  $1.99!  The result
is that I now have 40+ of these obscure/hard-to-find soundtracks,
which retailed at the import price of $17.99 a piece! (Also, the
strange part is that many of the same titles were at the same time
being sold in the Soundtrack section for that retail price, simply
because they had been logged in properly!)  So, I paid around
$120 for over $800 in discs!


On Morrice OST disc that I remember liking a lot was for the
films "Il Malamondo" and "La Tarantula", both on one disc.
Unfortunately, I can only email from school, where I dont
have my disc collection. But, will at some point take
a listen to the discs, and post what I recommend or
dont recommend.


Robby

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Date: 15 Feb 1997 15:30:51 -0800

>"Gospel Guitar" by Joe Maphis. I just like the juxtapositions on this
>cover: a nice portrait of some mid-60's era guitar gear- a nice old tube
>amp, a very tech-looking reverb unit, and a totally tricked-out
>double-neck guitar/mandolin with all sorts of cheesy inlaid patterns and
>"Joe Maphis" inlaid on the necks. Then sitting in front of this display
>is a bible. Very nice.


CHEESY INLAID PATTERNS??????????????????????????????

You should be so lucky to create beauty like that.  That's mother of pearl
you know
That's a mother fucker of a rekkid too!!
5 stars all time great!

jack


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) John, Jonny, Johnny, Jondest!
Date: 15 Feb 1997 15:39:24 -0800

There were quite a few John/Jonny/Johnny Williams around in the fields of
jazz and tv/film studio work.
my head gets all bi, fat and dizzy just thinking about it.

kind of like it feels when I try and figure out the Ferrnate and Teicher
Soundproof/Soundblast/Soundproof in Stereo/Soundblast in Mono thing.  SEE!

So there was also a great west coast jazz pianist name o' Johhny Williams
who I always thought played with Mancini but he's a black guy.  Different
Johnny Williams to say the least.
He's retired now and lives in Florida.

So how many is that now ?

Then there's THE Johnny Williams who DID play with Mancini and then went on
to do Stars Wars and everything that he did after that sounds exactly LIKE
Stars Wars;))))))))))))))))))))))))))))  Those 2 Johnny William's are the
same guy
....Right ?
Used to hang out with Mancini, Pete Rugolo and Esquivel.  They were their
own rat pack!
Is that right ?  I'm askin' here, I'm not sure if I actually do have it straight

Later for now,
Jack


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Petr Pan Industries
Date: 15 Feb 1997 15:47:33 -0800

>Don't ask how I know all this. Just don't.
>
>- --Irwin Chusid

How do you know all this man ?


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From: [e-mail] (Candi Strecker)
Subject: (exotica) album covers
Date: 15 Feb 1997 18:03:56 -0600

Definitely one of the things that led me in the direction of exotica music
was the habit of hip record stores in the 1970s to decorate their walls
with goofy album covers, stapled up like so many cardboard shingles. At
that point in time non-rock and pre-rock albums had zero market value - - I
assume that they just hung up the covers and threw the records away!

^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^

"What good is science if no one gets hurt?"
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Mondo Morricone
Date: 15 Feb 1997 21:03:02 -0500 (EST)

Anybody have any information on a new comp I saw.  Import.  Titled: MONDO
MORRICONE - themes from Italian Cult Films, 68-72.  First cut was from Kevin
King's fav, LUCERTOLA.

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From: "Jim Gerwitz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) This Is My Beloved
Date: 15 Feb 1997 21:42:13 -0800

Although Valentine's Day has passed, on a whim today in Best Buy I spent $9
on a Verve cd reissue of crooner Arthur Prysock reciting excerpts (with
orchestral accompaniment) from a book of poetry with the above title.  A
sticker on the plastic said "the original love-rap album finally on CD."
The cover credits Arthur and "unknown personnel,"  but I opened it up at
home and there was recently-threaded Mort Garson's name as composer and
conductor!   Haven't listened all the way thru, but there are some sensual
arrangements backing sexy tracks like "Your Body Makes Eyes at Me,"
(dy-no-mite!!!!!) and it is indeed romantic, even to my jaded, cynical
ears, and even though Arthur doesn't sing.

I remembered I bought a similar LP last year by Laurence Harvey with music
by Herbie Mann, but had never listened to it.  So I did a little
comparison, and I think Arthur sounds much more sincere. Maybe its just
Laurence's clipped English accent, but it seems like he's really thinking
of Dirk Bogarde instead of Julie Christie.  Plus, Mann's backing is very
subdued, while Garson mixes things up a bit more.  CD booklet says the
poetry book was a big seller in 1943.  I wonder how many other folks may
have tried to pull this one off ?  Shatner, Professor Irwin Corey,  Slapsie
Maxie Rosenbloom (remember he did a "Co-Star" LP) ?

BTW, I noticed a passel of the Vampyros Lesbos CD's in the Best Buy
soundtrack racks. Now that's what I call market penetration, or is that a
poor analogy?  Can the Schulmadchen be far behind?  I even found the cool
Morricone-Argento Cd there for a mere $13.  Finally, should I pick up
Dorothy Ashby's "The Jazz Harp" next time I go back looking to find the Sun
Ra Singles?

Jim G  - rambling on again

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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Peter Pan Records
Date: 15 Feb 1997 22:22:41 -0800

Jessica Cameron wrote:
>
> The Peter Pan label got pretty gonzo in the 70s.  There are probably
> other worthy kiddie records out there I
> don't know about. Any suggestions?

My favorite Peter-Pan record is "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window."
It has such classics as "I Love Little Pussy" (sung by a scary sounding
old man), "Lenny The Leopard" (a cautionary tale to would-be juvenile
delinquents- "Lenny The Leopard was a drop-out!/Lenny The Leopard was a
pop-out!" There's some clever lyrics for ya...), "Tippy The Tiger"
(contains the line "Baby tiger, too cute to spank!" He gets spanked in
the song anyway...) and other fun songs sung with a shit-eating grin.

Also, the record called "Star Wars" on Peter Pan is really strange- it
has nothing to do with "Star Wars" whatsoever- they just took the title
to sell records. The story is actually this bizarre tale about some
planet where everything is really loud or something- can't remember too
clearly.

As far as non-Peter Pan stuff goes, one favorite is "The Adventures Of
Raindrop." "Combining science, scripture and the bright sparkle of a
child's imagination..." It's a pretty spooky 1950's record using various
weather phenomena as characters (!) in typical christian morality plays
with spooky echoes on the voices and soap opera organ background music.

I also like "Party Time" by Paul Tripp. The song "Guess The Pet" is
basically a guessing game where the singer describes an animal and the
kids are supposed to guess what it is. She goes through about 5 animals
and then says "What kind of a pet is that?/What kind of a pet is
that?/He won't say 'moo-moo' but he can say 'boo-hoo'/What kind of a pet
is that?" and when the kids guess correctly she says "That's right- it's
a baby! And probably the baby in the family is the nicest pet of all!"
Beautiful...

Oh yeah- to continue the thread about album covers, I dug up one more
Westminster Gold record. It's called "Flute & Harpsichord Sonatas" but
the cover features a photo of a bassoonist and a cellist! What'll they
think of next...

pea
>
--
                        Pea Hicks
               "Memory is my drug of choice."
               <---Realm 'O' The Optigan--->
               http://www.pilot.com/optigan
               Who will be the next to brave
                   the *perils* of the
                    VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??!

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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: (exotica) Willie Rodriguez (and other bongo delights)
Date: 16 Feb 1997 09:02:16 -0500

Yesterday I was taping some tracks from Jack Costanzo's Learn--Play Bongos
LP, and I got to thinking--what other cool bongo instructional albums are
there? I think Jack "Bongo" Burger and Willie Rodriguez had 'em. Who else
made one? And speaking of Willie Rodriguez, does anyone have "Strings of
Pearl" by Pearl Chertok (a harpist). She made this album on Audio Fidelity
in 1956, and Willie accompanies her. That's right, harp and bongos. The sad
thing is I have the cover but I don't have the record. It has her original
composition "The Strings of Pearl suite" and a side of e-z standards. I want
this album so bad, I can't even begin to tell you. Her poetry is on the back
cover, and it's so weird! The music has got to be a classic. (BTW, Willie
isn't on the cover with Pearl, but her dog and a pile of bongos--and the
harp are on it). The cruel thing is  the Strings of Pearl title looks an
awful lot like "A String of Pearls", which is used on a lot of cheapo big
band records. So I'm often in a "Strings of Pearl!!!.....Oh, krap!" situation.

Thanks for any help or leads, Jessica ^_^


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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) Walter Wanderley
Date: 16 Feb 1997 16:09:25 +0100

aaah, sooooo many won'erful music i learned about in this list! i had never
heard of one Walter Wanderley, and didn't know what bossa nova sounded
like; now i know, thanx to this 2cd "the fantastic Walter Wanderley"
(motor, germany); may sound pricey to us standards, BUT it offers more than
2 hours of excellent and beautiful and trippy instro organ bossa nova, with
20 tracks from 4 brazilain lps, and 25 tracks from 6 us lps.
did WW also make other than bossa nova music?
there are also us cds of his (liek "Samba swing" on Scamp), but i don't
know if they duplicate with this 2cd. anyone?

        Johan
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) exotic lps auction
Date: 16 Feb 1997 10:17:47 +0000

See ROL for details...I've seen the merch, and it's right up your
collective street...
--
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  -   Mimi Schneider  [e-mail]
  |    The Roots of Lounge has moved:
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From: [e-mail] (Wayno)
Subject: (exotica) Current Illustrations of Interest
Date: 16 Feb 1997 16:37:21 -0500

        Occasionally, my illustration assignments cross into territory of
possible interest to readers of this list. Here's some recent material. If
anybody's interested, I'll throw these things up on the list as they occur.

        <LP/CD covers:>

        Billboard Presents Family Lullaby Classics: Ten-song budget
compilation of tunes from various TV and movie sources on Rhino. A fuzzy
scan is viewable at Rhino's on-line catalog <http://www.rhino.com>, Search
for the song "Inchworm" to zero in.

        Sam Butera & The Wildest; On Stage: Live material by Louis Prima's
sax player. Late-70s or early-80s performance (based on Sam covering John
Paul Young's 1978 hit "Love Is In The Air"). Available from www.gethip.com.

        Various Artists; The Makers of Smooth Music: Sequel to "Beat of the
Traps" another collection of "set-your-poems-to-music" masterworks. Read
all about the genre and see the cover at the American Song-Poem Music
Archives site <www.channel1.com/users/fxxm/intro.html>

        Metropole Orchestra; Dennis Farnon's Mother Magoo Suite: Dutch Beau
Hunks-related orchestra performing the music from side 2 of RCA's "Magoo in
Hi Fi" LP. Not (yet) released in the US. View and/or order from BASTA
audio-visuals <http://eastsite.nl/basta>. This is a very well-designed site
offering many items of interest, including the CD reissue of Andre Popp's
"Delirium in Hi Fi"

        <Music Magazine Spot Illustrations (Golden Throats Dept)>

        Tower Records PULSE!; February 1997 issue, p 15. Color caricature
of Fox TV's resident sideshow refugee Tori Spelling.

        Guitar World Magazine; April 1997 issue, p 17. Color caricature of
the ubiquitous Tom Hanks accompanying an article on the music from that
annoying movie he recently directed.

        <Etc:>

        WFMU Beer Coaster set: A premium for contributors to The World's
Best Radio Station. Viewable on-line at <www.wfmu.org/Mara/bc.html>.
Another site worth exploring in general.

        Cool & Strange Music Magazine; issue 4: Cover caricature of
Jean-Jacques Perrey. Ordering info from [e-mail]


        Aloha,

        Wayno

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From: [e-mail] (Hugh Petfield)
Subject: (exotica) Al Hirt
Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:05:53 GMT

Given the publicity that Herb Alpert gets in this
group, I keep seeing adverts for discs and 8tracks
by another trumpeter, Al Hirt.

Is he worth a listen please?

Hugh.

PS the lines from FL seem a bit quiet at present, eh Laura?
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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for EASY NOW SOUND, Feb. 16
Date: 16 Feb 1997 18:46:51 -0700 (MST)

Hello, list,

Not sure if you are interested, but here is my playlist for the first
installment of my radio show EASY NOW SOUND on Subcity Radio, 106.2,
Glasgow, Scotland.

I might add that I lost track of time and threw these records in a bag 5
minutes before my taxi arrived. I almost didn't have enough music and I
certainly hadn't planned what I was playing, but somehow, it worked. PHEW!

TIPSY "Mr. Excitement" (Asphodel)
DIMITRI FROM PARIS "Un Woman's Paradis" (Yellow)
COMBUSTIBLE EDISON "Spy vs. Spy" (Sub Pop)
LALO SCHIFRIN "Shifting Gears" (Warner Bros)
LES BAXTER "Tropicando" (Scamp)
SERGE GAINSBOURG & JANE BIRKIN "69 Annee Erotique" (Fontana)
ANDRE POPP "Java" (Basta)
ESQUIVEL "Spellbound" (RCA)
LES BAXTER "Bacoa" (Capitol)
SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL 66 "Festa" (A&M)
ASTRUD GILBERTO "Aruanda" (Verve)
EARTHA KITT "The Way You Are" (MFP)
BRIDGET BARDOT "Oh Qu'il est Vilain" (Disque AZ)
DIONNE WARWICK "Wives & Lovers" (Scepter)
BEACH BOYS "Friends" (Capitol)
THE HIGH LLAMAS "Cuckoo Casino/Sparkle Up" (Alpaca Park)
NANCY SINATRA "Sugar Town" (Paradiso)
LEE HAZLEWOOD "Not the Lovin' Kind" (MFP)
ENNIO MORRICONE "Come Maddalena" (Colosseum)
RICHARD HAYMAN & WALTER SEAR "The Girl From Ipanema" (Command)
JIMI TENOR "Shore Hotel" (Warp)
WALTER WANDERLEY "Cheganca" (Verve)
TIPSY "Tuatara" (Asphodel)
PETE DRAKE "I'm Sorry" (Smash)
ENNIO MORRICONE "Svegliati E Uccidi" (Colosseum)
DEODATO "Also Sprach        " (CTI)
GARY MOSCHELES "Plot Thickener" (SSR/Crammed Discs)
CURTIS MAYFIELD "Little Child Running Wild" (Buddah)
LALO SCHIFRIN "Ice Pick Mike" (Warner Bros)
SLIM WHITMAN "Indian Love Call" (United Artists)




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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) I reccomend highly...
Date: 16 Feb 1997 19:06:51 -0800

> my current fave organ cd is Jack McDuff's "the honeydripper" (1961): woow!
> funky jazz/blues at his best! word is that "crash" is also as good.

Check out Double Barrelled Soul by Jack McDuff - it's from the mid
sixties, but it's so funky it's unbelievable. GREAT flute on this album
from David Newman. Contains the killer track Duffin' `Round. This is
easily in my top 5 albums _of all time_.

Dan,

I reccomend highly getting everything on Prestive from pretty much 1955 - 1970
Jack McDuff is on almost everything as well as killer jazz/blues/funk
guitarist  guitarist Bill Jennings.
Get everything with Kenny Burrell period. Though his Blue Note stuff doesn't
even comne close to his Verve/Prestige playing

He is one killer diller diller gitar-ist and many of his records have jack
McDuff on them or another great jazz funk organist is Shirley Scott and her
early label was Prestige too.

She then went onto Impulse which is amazing and another whole story in itself

Keep funkin',
Jack


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More reccomedations
Date: 16 Feb 1997 19:40:21 -0800

I forgot to mention that *anything* produced by Creed Taylor up until CTI is
well worth hearing, well worth.
All of his Verve productions are especially noteworthy

Jack


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From: "Robert P. Krajewski" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Tipsy LP
Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:11:05 -0500

Johan Dada Vis writes:

>        i only heard the 12" maxi, and... well, give me a sampler, and i
>        bet i can do this too... anyone could! take a couple of samples, and
>        push "repeat", and that's it.

The B-side is definitely better. Given the build-up Tipsy has got on the
list, I was surprised at the obviousness of the samples on the A-side,
and the lack of imagination in deploying them.

On the other hand, Br. Cleve played something from the LP (yes, vinyl,
and nicely packaged at that) at CE's LuvFest on Friday, and it was pretty
darned good -- it was not exactly a good place for detailed listening but
the samples seem to flow organically into each other. The "feel" was
definitely there even though, of course, it was changing faster than most
original exotica ever did from moment to moment.

While we're on the subject of stuff that uses exotica as a sample base:

* My techno-mad brother-in-law did play me the CD by Gary Moscheles --
_Shaped to Fit Your World Better_ (SSD/Crammed). Yes, it is mostly modern
components; the samples are really just window dressing. It would
probably disappoint most of you out there. I think I'll pass, too. You
might like it if you like mu-Ziq (Moschele's nom de techno).

* Towa Tei's _Future Listening_ album is pretty nice, but only about half
of really excites me. On the other hand, even when it's not up to par,
his editing/blending prowess is pretty impressive. For me, this contrasts
with Dimitri From Paris' _Sacre Bleu_ with is a lot simpler technically
but is quite a lot of fun. Love that bonus track at the end that marries
a honey-thick strings melody with Schooly D.'s "PSK" beat ! (The same one
that Siouxsie lifted for "Kiss Them For Me.")

* Luke Vibert isn't really trying to call attention to his exotica
influences but his versions of trip-hop (Wagon Christ, _Throbbing Pouch_)
and drum & bass (Plug, _Drum and Bass For Papa_) are quite superb. He
gets closer to the intent of exotica without having to resort to being
obvious (well-known samples, neo-retro cover art). I like his stealth
approach better.

* And I know this is even further afield, but the horns on the Dust
Brothers' Nickle Bag mix of "Nice Shot Man" (by Filter) are pretty hot...

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Al Hirt
Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:35:05 -0500

Hugh wrote:
> I keep seeing adverts for discs and 8tracks
>by another trumpeter, Al Hirt.
>Is he worth a listen please?

Well, he did a mean version of Allen Tousaint's "Java", and he's from New
Orleans, the greatest city in the U.S...........

........and "The Horn Meets The Hornet" is a great album of Al playing TV
crime and spy themes (he's pictured with Van "The Green Hornet" Williams on
the cover, unfortunately not with Bruce "Kato" Lee)......

....but generally, I skip Al's records. Am I missing out?

br cleve




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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mort Garson/Jimmie Haskel
Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:29:48 -0800

Mort Garson did a number of non-electronic things as producer.
I don't have any titles for you sorryo to say.

He might be credited somewhere on Logun's Run too.  It's either him or
Jimmie Haskel of Jimmie Haskel Orchestra-Countdown fame and fortune

No he's not Eddie Haskel's brother

Jack


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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mort Garson/Jimmie Haskel
Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:35:48 -0800

Jack Diamond wrote:
>
> Mort Garson did a number of non-electronic things as producer.
> I don't have any titles for you sorryo to say.
>
> He might be credited somewhere on Logun's Run too.  It's either him or
> Jimmie Haskel of Jimmie Haskel Orchestra-Countdown fame and fortune
>
> No he's not Eddie Haskel's brother

Nor Jeffrey "Switched On Buck" Haskell's brother either, I presume...

Pea
>

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) What song started it all
Date: 17 Feb 1997 12:36:08 +0100

A  year back I saw an E.P with Yma Sumac, "Legend of the sun virgin"  and=20
was amazed of the cover, bought it  and really liked the music. So, I got=20
the Exotica-bug up in my brain and it=B4s keeps growing. (At the same time=20=
I=20
started to search and find on the web which helped me a lot.) However beein=
g=20
interested in Incredibly strange films since the mid-eighties I have enyoje=
d=20
their often marvellous soundtracks, but never believed I could get in on=20
Vinyl or CD.

Without the web, all this wouldn=B4t have grabbed me so.

a
Nice life to Your all

Magnus

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From: "James G. McLaughlin" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Robbie the werewolf
Date: 17 Feb 1997 08:58:30 -0600 (CST)

Has anyone got a copy of the lp

Robbie the werewolf - Live at the waleback

for sale.I got a chance to hear this lp some months back and have been
looking for it ever since.It is a collection of spoof horror songs.

Anybody know anything about this character and his lp? Did he have other lps?

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From: Jonathan Perl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) London Bargains
Date: 17 Feb 1997 16:20:00 +0000


Anyone in London might be interested in some cheap CDs I saw in the used
section of SELECT A DISC on Berwick Street, W1:

Sound Gallery 2 - 6.50
Les Baxter - the exotic moods of, double - 8 pounds
This is Easy - double - 8.50

Not dirt cheap, I know, but I paid more for the first two.

Jonny

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From: [e-mail] (STEFAN KERY)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Robbie the werewolf
Date: 17 Feb 1997 20:38:19 +0100 (MET)

It=B4s a real rare record. I=B4ve seen it for sale once in 10 years and that=
=20
copy went for several hundred $$$. I=B4ve got it duped on tape. Here=B4s the=
 low=20
down on him (quoted from ReSearch Incredibly Strange Music Vol 2)
Jello Biafra  (a lucky owner of the LP)says:

- In the "Anybody Can Make A Record" category, the number one front-center=
=20
is Robbie the Singing Werewolf, a folksinger from Santa Monica who in the=20
early 60s recorded Live at the Waleback. The graphicsresembles modern=20
compilations like Sin Alley. I=B4m amazed the Cramps never covered any of=20
these - particularly songs like "Vampire Man" (which is a parody of a folk=
=20
song of the day "Greenback Dollar": "I dont give a damn if the victims=20
holler/drain =E8m as fast as I can") and "The Streets of Transylvania" (a=20
parody of "Streets of Laredo": You can see ny my coffin that I am a=20
vampire/And if you had pneumonia you=B4d be coughin=B4 too!") - that=B4s a=
 great=20
one. Then there=B4s "Tiptoe through the Wolfbane," "Rockin Werewolf",=
 "Frankie=20
Stein" and the tour de force, the ending number where the sound gets crazier=
=20
and crazier with more and more reverb on guitar and voice, to the point=20
whereit really does sound like a Cramps song - Robbie just banging on two=20
guitar chords singing, "I am Count Dracula" while letting out his Bela=20
Lugosi laugh ("heh-heh-heh") over and over. He was a great guitar player and=
=20
obviously a monster talent (no pun intended). end of quote

Through my search for this record I heard one rumour: that he=B4s now=
 working=20
in a flea market somwhere looking like a werewolf on a bad night.=20

A couple of weeks ago I saw a great performance in Stockholm, Sweden by a=20
"horror" duo Count & Ygor (a vampire and a hunchback) their stage antics=20
were incredible and hilarious AND they did a fantastic cover version of=20
Robbie=B4s "Count Dracula", far-out! His show must have been something like=
=20
that. Obviously Count & Ygor had heard my tape copy.=20

Well James if you ever stumble upon copies of Robbie=B4s LP be sure to let=
 me=20
know.=20

Somebody should put out a reissue.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) What song started it all
Date: 17 Feb 1997 14:40:42 -0500 (EST)

Does "Una Paloma Blanca" count as exotic?  If so, that's what did it for me,
when I was somewhere between nine and eleven years old.  It wasn't until
finding the SABPM web site, Vik's Lounge, this list, and the comps on CD
(such as the Ultra Lounge series) that I started to develop and refine my
tastes.


Still working on Bob's Vegas on the Web...


Bobbo

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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) back
Date: 17 Feb 1997 15:11:54 -0400

Hello there, television friends.
Isn't that what Earnest Angley used to say?
A full report on my disappearence later, but a quick request:
Anyone selling a VINYL copy of EDEN'S ISLAND....No, it's not for  me.
Going to sleep in the city that never wakes up,
Lounge Laura

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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What song started it all
Date: 17 Feb 1997 12:31:48 -0800

About 13 years ago, while being forced to help clean out the house of a
deceased relative, I found a stack of old organ magazines from the 70's.
One of them had a flexidisc advertisement for the Baldwin Fanfare home
organ. Basically a cheesy narrator going off about a cheesy organ. That
was it for me.
Pea
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Al Hirt
Date: 17 Feb 1997 17:14:31 -0600 (CST)

>Hugh wrote:
>> I keep seeing adverts for discs and 8tracks
>>by another trumpeter, Al Hirt.
>>Is he worth a listen please?
>
>....but generally, I skip Al's records. Am I missing out?
>
>br cleve
>


'bout the only one i've found worth buying is "Latin In The Horn" (but
that's cause it's arranged and conducted by Lalo Schifrin)

dean




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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Living Trio=Three Suns?
Date: 17 Feb 1997 18:41:12 -0800

Is the Living Trio of RCA's budget Living Strings/Jazz/Voices/etc. series
the Three Suns under another name?  Or just an imitiation of the Suns?

Brad Bigelow
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From: [e-mail] (John Jones)
Subject: (exotica) East of Suez
Date: 17 Feb 1997 23:45:30 GMT

Anyone head this album?....."East of Suez" on the Celebrity label.
Done by one Nasir Eddin. Had it for a while, but just listened to it.
Sounds like Camper Van Beethoven from maybe the early 60's.

And that person layin' on the skins....best thing since Maynard G.

John=20
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From: mark a welsh <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica)What song started it
Date: 17 Feb 1997 19:58:08  -0600


for me was, I guess, "Scheherzade"--I think that's the spelling---from the
album "Bass, Bongos, Flutes and Guitars" by the Grand Award All Stars, a big
band put together by Enoch Light about 1961.  I remember Doc Severinsen was
one of the players.  Great stereo separation test record.......


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From: Vik Trola <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) alt.culture-lounge--how is it?
Date: 17 Feb 1997 20:48:03 -0500

>Has anyone on the list been checking out the new exotica/lounge newsgroup?

it's been a little slow starting with general topics like vodka versus
gin...dean versus frank...appropriate cocktail fashion...and the like.
spammers appeared within the first three posts but then again that is the
nature of newgroups. it's a good start but it still needs to be picked up
by more servers. if you cannot subscribe to "alt.culture.lounge" please
notify your systems admin and request they add it to their newsgroup
server. even if you have no intention of ever subscribing at least it will
be available to the curious.

and on other fronts...i am currently working on establishing a webring
named The Swank Generation Network. any lounge spinners out there
interested in having their sites in the ring, please e-mail me with your
URL. as i am still working out all the details, it will be a week or so
until there is any real progress or info...

waking up in the city that never sleeps,
Vik

Vik's Lounge
http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html

Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
http://www.chaoskitty.com/sabpm/

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) odd finds
Date: 17 Feb 1997 21:50:54 -0500 (EST)

Fishing through the "flush" pile of LP's recently at a Cambridge-based radio
station, I came upon a United Artists late 6T's release "Patty Duke Sings
Songs From Valley Of The Dolls (and other selections)"  One of the 'other'
selections has me finger-popping. It's called "Half-Hearted Kisses". written
by one W. Steadman. While the band really burns in the typical
 swing/MOR-style of the day--it is Patty who unwittingly supplies the song
its fait-accompli.  Her innocent attempts at earnestness are eclipsed only by
her off-key vocals--while trying to be a belter, Ms. Duke, obviously unaware,
comes off as a pre-Gong-Show Strikeout. Clearly riding the coattails of her
TV sitcom fame--not yet adult enough to play the ubiquitous abuse
victim/parent she has recently done so frequently on sunday-fare TV
movies--this LP affords the listener a rare opportunity to catch Patty at the
Crossroads...

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From: basic hip <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) mod squad
Date: 17 Feb 1997 18:59:21 -0800

awhile back, i posted that "The Mod Squad" original soundtrack had been reissued.
Mistake, I was wrong, sorry.  Turns out it is "M Squad".  Not that should disappoint
anyone - it is one of the best of the classic crime jazz scores from the TV private eye
era.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) odd finds
Date: 17 Feb 1997 22:14:45 -0500 (EST)

In a message dated 97-02-17 21:55:51 EST, you write:

<< this LP affords the listener a rare opportunity to catch Patty at the
 Crossroads...
  >>
and unlike Robert Johnson, Patty Puke didn't sell her soul to the devil at
that crossroads.....or maybe she did, since Patty is out on CD instead of so
much other stuff, which makes my blood boil when i think about it....

JB "Don't Just Stand There" Twist

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From: Steve Sando <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica)What song started it
Date: 17 Feb 1997 18:40:28 -0800

For me it was "Free Bird" by Lynard Skinner. It was the anthem at my high
school and I was so sick of hearing it and pretending to be able to dance
to it that it drove straight into the arms of Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra,
Cugat and Les Baxter.


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica)What song started it (MisterSANDO's)
Date: 18 Feb 1997 01:39:47 -0500

>For me it was "Free Bird" by Lynard Skinner. It was the anthem at my high
>school and I was so sick of hearing it and pretending to be able to dance
>to it that it drove straight into the arms of Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra,
>Cugat and Les Baxter.
>
>Coconut Grove Media, publishers of MisterLUCKY

Considering that Ronnie Van Zant, dead singer of "Free Bird," sang back-up
vocals on the Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and Peppermints," and that
the Martin Denny outfit applied sitar to "Incense and Peppermints" on the LP
"A Taste of India," the [dis]association may not be as free as a bird now,
anyhow.

The righteous performing Rev. Billy C. Wirtz, BTW, does a pretty damning
anti-tribute to Stairway to Free Bird -- definitive had-it-with-roadhouses
gripe fest, very rednekkidly amusing.

Tony
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Dean Elliott
Date: 18 Feb 1997 14:48:21 +0100

I suspect this question has been asked before; if so
bear with me. What did Dean Elliott release apart
from "Zounds! What Sounds"? Old Schwann catalogs list
one additional (untitled) LP on Capitol (ST-1864) from 1963.
Is that anything at all like "Zounds"? Any other releases?
I've seen him credited as arranger on various records, so
I suppose that was his main occupation.

Thanks,
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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sun Ra/Harmonicats/Morricone
Date: 18 Feb 1997 10:48:02 -0500

At 09:11 AM 2/14/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> Anybody know of other
>>swell Harmonicats records?

I found the 78 of "Peg O' My Heart" on Universal which was the song that
sold me on them.

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From: [e-mail] (Howard Enis)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Yummy Synthetic Plastics
Date: 18 Feb 1997 10:55:45 -0500

      Irwin Wrote:

     >Synthetic Plastics IS still in business, operating these days as PPI
     (Peter Pan Industries).

     >PPI still occupies the same Newark, NJ, building, on a depressing,
     decrepit industrial backlot.  They have a vault of old master tapes
     going back almost four decades, including a lot of unreleased
     material. Heaven knows what condition these tapes are in.

     >Don't ask how I know all this. Just don't.


     Irwin,

     You're moonlighting at PPI, arent you?  Be carefull with that
     forklift!

     Some of my favorite records as a child were on the mighty Peter Pan
     label...still have em all...some of these are 7" 78's (from the early
     1960's?) and some were 45's and LP's...

     Also have 4 of my mom's kiddie records on 'Mother Goose' Records also
     manufactured by Synthetic Plastics of Newark!  These are 5" 78's that
     are dated 1939.  One of these jems contain a song entitled 'Go to
     Sleep My little Pickininny'...a very sweet yet very racist lullaby...

     Cal

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From: Randall Rothenberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Al Hirt
Date: 18 Feb 1997 11:41:23 -0500 (EST)


    This brings back memories. When I was dragooned into learning
upright bass for my junior high school drag band (age alert: this was in
1970) the first songs I learned were the Al Hirt version of Java (and
Glenn Miller's "Moonlight Serenade").
        Which may answer a previous posted question regarding "the first
time."


On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Brother Cleve wrote:

> Well, he did a mean version of Allen Tousaint's "Java", and he's from New
> Orleans, the greatest city in the U.S...........

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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dean Elliott
Date: 18 Feb 1997 12:49:49 -0500

Ingemar asked:
> What did Dean Elliott release apart
>from "Zounds! What Sounds"? Old Schwann catalogs list
>one additional (untitled) LP on Capitol (ST-1864) from 1963.

The other Capitol album is called "Heartstrings" (ST 1864, 1963). It is
nothing like "Zounds.."; it is a heavily reverberated strings record, along
the likes of Nelson Riddle's "Sea of Dreams" or Warren Barker's "Music of
Desire".

He also did the crime jazz soundtrack "College Confidential" (Chancellor, 1959).

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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) my trip
Date: 18 Feb 1997 15:13:56 -0400

Was fab-u-lash, thankyou...
I checked out the weird Philly scene. Went to the Continental, The 5
Spot, and other hipster-bars, the names of which escape me and did quite
well on-

REKKIDS:    BORA BORA and MIDNIGHT ON THE CLIFFS-Les Baxter
Andy Williams as a swinger(Doing "Valley of the Dolls" Theme, "Spooky."),
a scary Jim and Tammy Faye Baker puppet album.  I also bought the
soundtracks to THE APARTMENT, VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, and SWEET
CHARITY....plus....I was given for V-Day the SCHULMADEN REPORT CD which
comes HIGHLY recommended from me...And, I scored the DARK SHADOWS 30TH
ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION and PEREZ PRADO'S "VOODOO SUITE."

The Museum is INCREDIBLE!  The Marcel Duchamp collection was great, and
there was a fine collection of 20th century and Oriental art as well....

 I caught Combustible Edison at their V-Day suarez...Great music, smooth
fashion, list-lumanries, you name it!  I had to leave early because of
the most-uncooperative subways, but, it made the yearning greater... And
for the furniture-ly challenged(which I am)-my paramour and I bought two
cool butterfly chairs...A suthen gal like me also tramped(no pun
intended) around in the snow!  Fun,fun, fun...:)
That's it! I've returned....
Lounge Laura

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Yummy Synthetic Plastics
Date: 18 Feb 1997 15:44:15 -0400

Howard Enis wrote:
>
> Irwin, You're moonlighting at PPI, aren't you?  Be careful with that
> forklift!

Creepy thought. Perish it at once.

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From: [e-mail] (Doug Frisby)
Subject: (exotica) Dean Elliott
Date: 18 Feb 1997 13:06:32 -0800

     >Ingemar asked:
     >> What did Dean Elliott release apart
     >>from "Zounds! What Sounds"? Old Schwann catalogs list
     >>one additional (untitled) LP on Capitol (ST-1864) from 1963.

     >The other Capitol album is called "Heartstrings" (ST 1864, 1963). It
     >is nothing like "Zounds.."; it is a heavily reverberated strings
     >record,....
     >He also did the crime jazz soundtrack "College Confidential"
     >(Chancellor, 1959).


     And don't forget he did the music for the movie "The Phantom
     Tollbooth" which definitely has that cartoony flair! Not many people
     know that he did the music (and I don't believe a soundtrack was ever
     released) for that film. The Internet Movie Database is a good place
     to see the other soundtracks he did, but they screwed up the
     information on Phantom Tollbooth and put down the wrong person's name.
     This movie is worth a look....

     Doug



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From: Carver Dan Cordes <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Peter Pan Industries
Date: 18 Feb 1997 15:41:38 -0800 (PST)

other kiddie records?
I have something that was put out on Peter Pan Records (I highly suspect
it's the same thing) called "Snoopy's Christmas".  No picture of Snoopy
anywhere on the cover but there's this thing with huge aviator goggles
bearing a striking resemblance to the representation of the Red Baron on
the back.  It's pretty bland (in my memory anyway) but there's a track
called "Sloopyville Special" upon listening it turns out to be "Yellow
Submarine" with absolutely no credit to its writers!  BTW I caught this
at BanjoCAN during Money Mark's set.  He'd been intergrating it into his
live shows.


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Subject: (exotica) Urbie Green and His 6-tet?
Date: 19 Feb 1997 00:21:54 +0000

I have been in touch with Tony Mottola's son (Tony Jr) recently (just
how many names can a guy drop in one day?!) and he's after a copy of
the above Command LP (RS 857).

Anyone got a cheap and clean copy?


(De-)lurking Robbie

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Subject: Re: (exotica) Living Trio=Three Suns?
Date: 19 Feb 1997 00:21:53 +0000

Brad wrote:

> Is the Living Trio of RCA's budget Living Strings/Jazz/Voices/etc.
> series the Three Suns under another name?  Or just an imitiation of
> the Suns?

AHA!!!  This might just solve a little mystery!

When I met Dick Hyman last August he remarked that he'd been involved
with a Three Suns "pastiche" LP at one time.  Now I know Dick was
involved with Ray Martin on many of those "Living..." LPs (and so
were Tony Mottola and others of that ilk) so maybe *this* is the
record he was talking about!!!

BTW Dick's view of the 'Suns was that they were "too formularised"(!)
and I think this "pastiche" LP was intended to satirise the Suns.  Of
course, I love the Suns to bits and find their records to be pretty
self-parodying as it is - I can't imagine what a Suns "pastiche"
would sound like...

Anyway, what's it like?  Do you have a spare copy? ;-)


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From: Michael Reading <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Esquivel vs. Spring Heel Jack?
Date: 18 Feb 1997 18:30:46 -0800

>and I would go so far as to bet that the preffered current music of
>the majority, in turn, would be trip hop or ambient electronic as
>this is indeed the mood music of the '90s....Any takers?

Ashley, you make an interesting point.  I love the dubby, spacy
trip-hop/ambient/jungle stuff, although in my case i wonder if it has more
to do with the fact that I'm just bored with mainstream music.  After all,
much of the old-line exotica stuff (which I also love) discussed on the list
is coming from a more "composed" esthetic.  The great composers/arrangers
and players of 30, 40 years ago could, after all, read music!  With 90s
technology, 1 person can be the "orchestra, " and if you're creative you can
cut and paste your way to an interesting piece , no traditional music theory
required!  I'm not saying one is better than the other, but I do hope that
the craft of traditional composing doesn't go away.  I know it takes more
time, energy, and money, but you just can't get a synth to sound like a real
string section (yet)!

I'm rambling...uh, what was the question?

Michael

P.S. The CD single of Gentle People's "Journey" is really cool.  Haven't
been able to locate the full album yet, but this song is great!  Thanks to
all on the list who mentioned these guys.  Getting tips like this is why I'm
here.

P.P.S  The "Spring Heel Jack" mentioned in the subject line is a duo from
the U.K.  Their full-length debut has been out in England for a while and
was just released (or is about to be) in America.  Check it out if you're
into jungle or "drum 'n' bass" or whatever the hell it' s being called.  The
CD is titled "68 Million Shades."


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Subject: (exotica) misanthropy 511 playlist
Date: 18 Feb 1997 21:46:53 -0500

MISANTHROPY 511--p.o.box 23093--detroit, mi 48223
e-mail: [e-mail]

A special edition of Misanthropy 511 can be heard this month at the web
site for Vik TrolaÆs Lounge of Self Indulgence using Real Audio. It is a
half hour mix using easy listening/spoken word/found sounds and dialog.
This mix was created specifically for Radio Vik.The lounge is found at:
http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html

PLAYLIST

ARTIST---------TITLE------------------CD/CASS/LP----------LABEL

FEBRUARY 3, 1997

MARTY GOLD-----caravan----------------skin tight----------RCA
MERZBOW/CON.ELEC-horn of the goat-----horn of the goat----FREEK
MERZBOW--------track 1----------------antimonument--------ART DIRECTE
MERZBOW--------intercity 215----------mort aux vaches-----STAALPLAAT
MERZBOW--------amb study kinbaku-bi pt.1-bondage performance 2-EXTREME
INCAPACITANTS--why dont sell all stocks?-asset w/o liability-BULB
PAUL WESTON----nice work if you can---mood for 12---------COLUMBIA
QST------------ground-----------------questionmark-------KORM PLASTICS
G*PARK---------gota-------------------yack park-----------ZABRISKIE PT
HAL------------corridor---------------val0----------------HAL TAPES
DAVE FUGLEWICZ-in a finity--------gentle sounding chaotic-D FUGLEWICZ
BLAZEN Y SHARP-preparen candela 4 ballar-v.a. no structure-INSTAGON F
DACHISE--------pork-------------------palaces-------------AUDIOPHILE
MYSTIC MOODS---paris smiles-----------man and woman-------SOUNDBIRD
ULTRASOUND*WOONSO-grota de lapao------ultrasound*woonsocket-AUTONOMY
FRAGMENTED-----simple chemistry-------knowledge of war----BLUE NITES ER
STILLUPPSTEYPA-see here through-------one side mona lisa--FIRE INC/SOME
IANNIS XENAKIS-bohor 1--------------electro-acoustic music-NONESUCH
HARRY BERTOIA--all & more-------------all & more----------SONAMBIENT

FEBRUARY 10, 1997

MERI ELLEN & COHORTS-my funny valentine-hi-fi antics------DESIGN
STOCKHOLM RADIO-lux aeterna-----------voices--------------MESA
COIL--------die wolfe kommen zurack-1000 lights darkened room-ESKATON
GEORGE WILLIAMS-tiger rag mambo-------the fox in hi-fi----BRUNSWICK
JERRY VAN ROGEN-new york is in china--at 250 miles p hour-CRIPPLED DICK
FRED LOWERY----i whistle a happy tune-i whistle a happy tune-DECCA
JOHN BARRY-----skid row---------------the emi yrs. vol 2--SCAMP
M.B.-----------fetish pinksha---------mectyo bakterium----DYS
KODO-----------chonlima---------------heartbeat drummers--SHEFFIELD LAB
WILD STEREO DRUMS-blue rhumba---------wild stereo drums---CAPITOL
FRED WARING----farewell blues---------fred waring memorial-VIPERS NEST
LUSTMORD-------latent side------------paradise disowned---SIDE EFFECTS
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA-adios nonino----------bandoleon sinfonia--MILAN
KALIDESCOPE----keep your mind open----side trips----------EPIC
BEES-----------voices green and purple-v.a. pebbles vol.2-ESD
FAUST----------faust tapes------------faust tapes---------RER
NURSE W/ WOUND-side 1-----------------spiral insania------TORSO
FERRANTE&TIECHER-chopstick cha cha----blast off-----------ABC
DON ELLIOT-----out of this world------sensational sixties-DESIGN
INCREDIBLE STRING-mercy i cry city----hangmans beautiful dau-ISLAND
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE-the translucent carriages-bakla-------ESP        CURRENT
93-----the seven seals revealed-lucifer over london-DURTRO
ORGANUM--------towers of silence------towers of silence---LAYLAH

FEBRUARY 17, 1997

MORGANA KING---a taste of honey-------a taste of honey----MAINSTREAM
STILLUPPSTEYPA-very own imposs number-one side mona lisa-FIRE INC/SOME
NUX VOMICA-----under the rose---------v.a.no structure 2-INSTAGON FOUN
CURRENT 93-----broken birds fly 1-----horsey--------------DURTRO
ARTHUR LYMAN---one paddle,two paddle--aphrodisia----------LIFE
SCHLOSS TEGAL--the visitation---------the soul extinguished-TEGAL
DANIEL MENCHE--vulgar-----------------vulgar scratch------GENDERLESS K
IF,BWANA-------breathing--------------breathing-----------POGUS
BUSYDITCH------cost of living pt. 1---fudgesicle----------BUSYDITCH
DE LOS RIOS----el choclo--------------kiss of fire--------COLUMBIA
KLANGKRIEG-----korpus 2---------------38cbm---------------N D
DAVE FUGLEWICZ-controlled substances--a gentle sounding...D FUGLEWICZ
FSA/R. MONTGOMERY-goodbye-------------fsa/ roy montgomery-VHF
TECHNO MENSES--dyskinesia 2-----------disco dyskinesia----AUDIOPHILE
HUNGRY GHOST---leftover expectations--sugar skulls--------TONE CASUAL
A. BEIRUTS ORIENTALES-exotic dance----music of the near east-PROMENADE
ZOS KIA/COIL---sicktone---------------transparent---------NEKROPHILE
ZOS KIA/COIL---baptism of fire--------transparent---------NEKROPHILE
ZOS KIA/COIL---violation--------------transparent---------NEKROPHILE
ZOS KIA/COIL---poisons----------------transparent---------NEKROPHILE
ZOS KIA/COIL---truth------------------transparent---------NEKROPHILE

these are great times to be a misanthropist

Misanthropy 511 is broadcast on Sunday nights from mid-2am on CJAM 91.5
fm Windsor, Ontario  Canada. CJAM can be heard throughout the Windsor/
Detroit Michigan area.  Misanthropy 511 features from easy listening to
moments of mayhem. Noises of the modern world in spectra-sonic sound.

We would like to thank all who have sent us promos. It is greatly
appreciated.

Misanthropy 511 is also broadcasted monthly on Radio Marabu. Radio
Marabu is based in Belm Germany and broadcast at various times on 13
different stations throughout Europe. It is also on shortwave. Write to
Radio Marabu for more info and tell them Misanthropy sent you. Radio
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The performance side of Misanthropy, The Hearing Trumpet, have a new 60
minute cassette release on Destroy All Music called #Heart of a Leaf#.
It is the first release recorded entirely in our home studio. Destroy
All Music can be reached at e-mail: [e-mail] for ordering info
and catalog. The Hearing Trumpet has been described by others as
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The Hearing Trumpet has 2 additional cassettes available. #Songs of
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recorded live in the CJAM studio. #Collected Stories# is a 60 min cass
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From: Ray Coffey/School/hmco
Subject: (exotica) Synthetic Plastics Scheme
Date: 18 Feb 1997 19:29:58 EST

> PPI still occupies the same Newark, NJ, building, on a depressing, decrepit
> industrial backlot. They have apparently carved a lucrative niche for
> themselves with aerobics videos and cheesy, cheaply-produced and -packaged
> reissues sold on the truckstop circuit and in discount department store
> chains. They have a vault of old master tapes going back almost four
> decades, including a lot of unreleased material. Heaven knows what condition
> these tapes are in.


OK.  Based on what I've seen about record availability, etc.,
shouldn't an Exoticon be held in New Jersey?

On a side trip to Newark with a guided tour to PPI, (under an assumed name)
we'll shove the *archivist* of the masters into the great vat of black melted
plastic,
savor that moment briefly, then we can each save a few masters, and make our
escape into Newark.

OK, so the escape into Newark part may be a little bit risky, but whaddya say?

The caper may make them sell or secure the archives more readily!

I feel a sort of responsibility to save Peter Pan recordings as they played a
good part of the
soundtrack of my early childhood.

Next, I'll find out from my father, who used to work at RCA in Camden, who
still there has
some dirty little secret that can be used to get them to release something
desirable.

If only I knew back then what I know now, as it seemed his Christmas bonus
consisted of RCA NASA Apollo launch and Christmas records, I could've told him
what to hold out for!

Dang it!


This week's find:  A Liberty Stereo demonstration record sampler
(with actual ping pong game, screw percussion!) featuring a lovely foil cover.
A la Homer Simpson:  Mmmmm...  STEREO!


Ray

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From: Ray Coffey/School/hmco
Subject: (exotica) OK, what are the stakes?
Date: 18 Feb 1997 19:55:44 EST

Says Ashley...

> I would bet good money that a majority of people on this list actually
> gradually got into this stuff through listening to movie soundtracks, as all
> this music is about creating a mood....and I would go so far as to bet that
> the preffered (sic) current music of the majority, in turn, would be trip hop
or
> ambient electronic as this is indeed the mood music of the '90s....Any
> takers?

Can I throw bad money after good?  I think your last conjecture is better than
the first.
But I must consider that I hardly ever saw any movies as a kid.  You may be
onto something.

Wager me this, Catwoman!  Some kind of trade/swap? Or let's just find out?
Let's draft an experiment (questionnaire?) to prove Ashley's hypothesis?

As for me, (this was a introduction question, wasn't it?)
P & K's Kaleidoscopic Vibrations found in the discard box at a radio station
I worked at in high school was the first album that attracted me for its
*exotic*, meaning
*What the hell is this!  Sheeyat!  Never heard nuffin' like this before!*
record that caught me in it's spell.  Switched-On Bach almost did years before.

Actual Exotica hit me a couple years later, when a co-worker lent me a few
Ventures and Martin Denny records and some others.
Denny languished... but isn't that what one does in Hawaii?
I listen to it now, and it still doesn't quite strum my heartstrings.

The Live and Let Die single (Paul McCartney & Wings) was my first
grind it into flour to make my daily bread type of single.
Does that count as a soundtrack, Ashley?

Ray (Guess my age and weight!) Coffey

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From: [e-mail] (Ben Mancine)
Subject: (exotica) Album Covers
Date: 18 Feb 1997 19:39:31 -0500



>Subject: (exotica) Album Covers
>And I'll bet dollars to donuts that many folks on the
>list a) keep record covers on display in their homes

Yes, and LP covers make pretty good *virtual* wallpaper, too!

Does anyone out there collect album cover SCANS?
You know, like graphic GIF, PCX or JPG files of exotica
and other album covers?  I've got a couple dozen I
found on the web, but I've also got many I scanned
myself.  Send e-mail if you have good quality scans
and want to trade.  Thanks!  -BenM.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: MONDO MORRICONE
Date: 19 Feb 1997 00:47:25 +0000


>Anybody have any information on a new comp I saw.  Import.  Titled: MONDO
>MORRICONE - themes from Italian Cult Films, 68-72.  First cut was from Kevin
>King's fav, LUCERTOLA.
>
Yup... it's a winner

Sem Sinatra



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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Delete unless David G.
Date: 17 Feb 1997 16:45:40 -0400

 This msg is for David Greenberg(sp?) at Ryko Disc...could you please
e-mail me?
Thanks,

"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."
Laura Taylor
[phone]

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From: Bruce Rhodewalt <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What song started it all
Date: 18 Feb 1997 08:45:54 -0800

One of two possibilities, from when I was 4 or 5:

o The 78 "When Veronica Plays Her Harmonica (Down on the Pier at Santa
Monica)" by (help me out here)
o "Yellow Bird" by Arthur Lyman, a single which I recall was on yellow
or red vinyl

I'd be happy to hear any corrections to my quickly failing memory.

Bruce Rhodewalt
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From: Ariel Tagar <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) records I bought today
Date: 16 Feb 1997 21:15:34 +0200

This is what i bought today, on my way to the supermarket:

Werner Muller and his orchestra- "instrumental hits"
1)guitar boogie shuffle
2)boola
3)Monkey cha cha
4)Rocky violins

Ray Coniff (son orchestra et choers)- "Say It With Music"
1)besame mucho
2)stranger in paradise
3)just one of things
4)brazil
just thought i'd let you know....

the EASY PAGE (easy listenning and longecore culture)
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3076
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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Oh Johnny Boy
Date: 15 Feb 1997 15:45:54 -0800

 Was he also on "Touch of Evil"?
>As I understand it, JW also played on Bob Drasnin's "Voodoo" (or
"Percussion Exotique"
>or whatever it was called originally).

Yep yep yep.  Darrel be one smart hep cool dude lemme tell you dat right now!

Drasnin's Voodoo was also released ON THE SAME LABEL as Percussion Exotique!
Exclamation point included in original release(!)

In fact the entire cover are large exclamation points.  It's raining
Exclamamtion points!!!

No he was not on Touch of Evil.  Ray Sherman plays piano on that score

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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Living Trio=Three Suns?
Date: 19 Feb 1997 08:05:41 -0500

>Brad wrote:
>
>> Is the Living Trio of RCA's budget Living Strings/Jazz/Voices/etc.
>> series the Three Suns under another name?  Or just an imitiation of
>> the Suns?

I thought the Three Suns quit making records after Al Nevins died (did
they?). "The Best of the Three Suns" from 1966 has a "past tense" tone to
the liner notes. When did Al die, and how did it happen? It's sad since I
always considered him to be the Heart of the group--he produced a lot of
their later albums.

On a less depressing note, who is Mort Goode? He did so many liners for all
those RCA/Camden releases, and his writing style is so inspired. Was he a
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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dean Elliott
Date: 19 Feb 1997 07:59:05 -0500


>     And don't forget he did the music for the movie "The Phantom
>     Tollbooth" which definitely has that cartoony flair! Not many people
>     know that he did the music (and I don't believe a soundtrack was ever
>     released) for that film. The Internet Movie Database is a good place
>     to see the other soundtracks he did, but they screwed up the
>     information on Phantom Tollbooth and put down the wrong person's name.
>     This movie is worth a look....
>

He also did music for lots of those 60s Tom and Jerry cartoons. A great one
is "Advance and Be Mechanized," sort of a furry Jetsons take-off. There are
probably other good ones I don't know about, but that particular cartoon had
really great music. (and I'm not even a Tom and Jerry fan)


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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What song started it all
Date: 19 Feb 1997 09:12:41 -0500

I would suppose "Quiet Village" by Les Baxter; my mother loved her copy of
"Ritual of the Savage".  She and her brother both were/are mad for Yma
Sumac, he decided to play some of her 78's for me one Christmas and I have
been a fan ever since.

Two albums that certainly did NOT start it all were:
Thurston Knudson, although the red vinyl was pretty keen.

"My World" by Jo Basile.  My brother and I are particularly allergic to
Basile.  We both consider this to be among the worst albums my parents ever
bought.  We have tried on several occasions to listen to it and we both
have never made it through the first track, let alone the rest of the album.

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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Peter Pan Records
Date: 19 Feb 1997 11:17:52 -0500

>The Peter Pan label got pretty gonzo in the 70s.
>There are probably other worthy kiddie records out there I
don't know about. Any suggestions?

I have the relative fortune to own quite a horde of Peter Pan
records.  But by far, the two standouts of the collection are
"Witch Doctor" and "Dinner With Drac," a couple of spooky monster
records.  In addition to the requisite vague "creature from the deep"
stories and sound effects to get the ol imagination working,
they're filled out with rock n roll and surf instrumentals
replete with rattling chains, moaning ghouls and shrieking ladies
(in a similar vein to the "hot rod" records, but somehow more
satisfying).  The coolest track is "Dinner with Drac" - here they
decided to slap some lyrics over the music, such as - "The waitress,
a vampire named Perkins, was so very fond of small gerkins. While she
served the tea, she ate 43, which pickled her internal workings."
I guess it's that Jersey air...

Obviously there are no music credits, and I've often wondered
who the bands are.

Anita


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Morte Goode's liners
Date: 19 Feb 1997 12:45:55 -0500

>On a less depressing note, who is Mort Goode? He did so many liners for all
>those RCA/Camden releases, and his writing style is so inspired. Was he a
>music critic or someone famous?

The Liner Notes of the Gods (and Exotica Jukebox) section of the Wilds Scene
features his way-over-the-top prattling about Phil Moore's Polynesian
Paradise on Strand label (exotica classic by the guy who did Leda Annest's
Portrait of Leda music).

Sample:

"The Far Mountain" -- There are caves in the island mountains. They hold
subtle secrets. Melodious phrases roll down with remarkable resonance. It is
not the tribe that is lost.

tony
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Spaced Out Update
Date: 19 Feb 1997 18:09:17 +0000

Phew!  I've just spent the afternoon bashing the Enoch Light website
into shape.

It now has a user friendly menu frame and I think it's looking a lot
better - though you'll now need a frames-friendly browser to make
best use of it!

PLUS!  Added two new interviews - one with Enoch's daughter Julie
Klages (which is fairly terse!) and the "interview" I did with
Esquivel when he took part in that WebChat at the end of last year.

Let me know if you have any trouble finding your way around and/or if
any of the links don't work...


Robbie

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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) estrus cocktail companion
Date: 19 Feb 1997 19:03:54 +0100

don't be fooled by the "cocktail" title, as estrus is a GARAGE ROCK  label,
and this cd has mean surf, vocal sonics-like garage, rockabilly...

        Johan
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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Eden/Drasnin
Date: 19 Feb 1997 15:09:19 -0400

1.  I hear tell the EDEN'S ISLAND vinyl which my friend seeks is
IMPOSSIBLE to find....true?  Is anyone selling it?  Money is no object
for me, since I ain't the buyer....
2.  I have never heard the Robert Drasnin VOODOO album...Now, of course,
the Dionysus folks will write me ;) with accolades, but I wanna hear
what it's like...If it's worth it to get it on vinyl(possible?) or just
get those nicely packaged CDS...
BTW-I'm now on the DIGEST version of this, so if you can post to me
individually and the list, that would be most helpful.

Random thought:   Don't you just love it when people give you free
albums?  When I got back to my office, after a week away, one of my
employees had a copy of that LES BAXTER-ADVENTURES IN SOUND(Btw-when was
that released?  It  has the old Capital label, but it looks like a Brian
Eno album or SOUNDS OF THE AMAZON or something...weird, but not a bad
collection, AND FREE!  Mi hermano got me the MAN AND A WOMAN soudntrack,
which I've wanted for that lush life, baby!
Lounge Laura

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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) EAST-OT-ICON
Date: 19 Feb 1997 15:46:57 -0400

Yeah, I'd like to second that emoticon to hold the EXOTICON on the East
Coast, baby!  I know an earthquake will result on the West Coast as a
result of me suggesting this, but hey, we all love NY or its surrounding
neighbors, right?  What's involved in getting this together?  I'd love
to help, if I can!
Lounge Laura

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From: Vik Trola <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) alt.culture.lounge
Date: 19 Feb 1997 21:15:11 -0500

the subject says it all. those who have written about not finding the new
lounge newsgroup might have the name wrong. it is not
"alt.culture-lounge"...it is "alt.culture.lounge"...dot not dash...

waking up in the city that never sleeps,
Vik

Vik's Lounge
http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge.html

Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
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From: [e-mail] (Brother Cleve)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Living Trio=Three Suns?
Date: 20 Feb 1997 01:39:18 -0500

Jessica wrote:

>I thought the Three Suns quit making records after Al Nevins died (did
>they?). "The Best of the Three Suns" from 1966 has a "past tense" tone to
>the liner notes. When did Al die, and how did it happen? It's sad since I
>always considered him to be the Heart of the group--he produced a lot of
>their later albums.

I believe Al merely quit to persue more production work. I thought he was
still among the living, but I could be wrong about that. But yes, he was
the heart, the leader, and the producer. Check out his excellent solo
albums from the mid-50's (on Vik, if I remember correctly).

After RCA dropped the Suns (around '66), they recorded at least one album
for Musicor. I have "16 Greatest Hits" from '67, I believe, which has
Vinnie Bell on guitar in place of Al.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Byron Caloz website opens
Date: 19 Feb 1997 22:52:36 -0800 (PST)

Well, its not much, but its a start.  My website is now up and it contains
Mister Smooth playlists (well, some of them anyway).  It will soon have
album covers and other interesting stuff.  I may eventually have a weekly
serial (don't expect much, but it will be fun).

Here is the URL (WHAT does that stand for anyway?!):

http://www.hubris.net/zolac/


Byron Caloz
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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) Re: Mondo Morricone
Date: 19 Feb 1997 19:03:36 +0100

>From: [e-mail]
>
>Anybody have any information on a new comp I saw.  Import.  Titled: MONDO
>MORRICONE -

        get it, it won't disappoint you if you like wordless vocals and heavenly
        melodies.

        Johan
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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) funky soundtrax (sort of): easy tempo 1
Date: 19 Feb 1997 19:01:17 +0100

someone asked about comps with blaxploitation...

this italian cd offers 18 tracks from italian sex and crime movies from
1967 to 1975, with a mixed bag of very tasty loungy funk and more up-tempo
groovyness; lots of good melodies, some hammond madness in 1 track, 3
tracks with sitar, 1 really weird mysterious one. you can find more info @
vik's, and buy it from cduniverse at a right price.

        Johan
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From: "Joseph O. Holmes" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dean Elliott
Date: 19 Feb 1997 10:02:00 -0000

>And don't forget he did the music for the movie "The Phantom
>     Tollbooth"

Not to mention the animated "The Cat in the Hat," with lyrics by Dr.
Seuss or course and vocals by Alan Sherman. This one's easy to find in
the kids' section of your favorite video store.

-=-Joe

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dorothy Ashby
Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:26:12 -0800

Finally, should I pick up
>Dorothy Ashby's "The Jazz Harp" next time I go back looking to find the Sun
>Ra Singles?

James,

Ooooooooooooooooohhhh Dorothy Ashby - Jazz Harp. Oooh yyyeeeeaaaaahhhhh

That's on CD huh.  Just scored the vinyl last October.
Frank Wess on Flute from the Regent rekkid label.

get it now!  it is toooooo cool

I love Jazz harp, pop too.  Just discovered the Daphne Hellman Quintet on
Harmony with Mundell Lowe on guitar.
I also really love Harpo Marx who btw for those of you who don't know was a
seriously gifted and wonderful harpist jazz and pop wise.
Dorothy ASshby has a couple of other records including Afro Harping which
has Moog on it too, wild and beautiful it is.

Jack


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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Peter Pan Records
Date: 20 Feb 1997 07:07:41 -0500

> the two standouts of the collection are
>"Witch Doctor" and "Dinner With Drac," a couple of spooky monster
>records.  In addition to the requisite vague "creature from the deep"
>stories and sound effects to get the ol imagination working,
>they're filled out with rock n roll and surf instrumentals
>replete with rattling chains, moaning ghouls and shrieking ladies
>(in a similar vein to the "hot rod" records, but somehow more
>satisfying).


Could it be that those sneaky folks at Peter Pan recycled all those "Frankie
Stein and the Ghouls" they released on the Power sub-label for these two
albums? Sure sounds like it!


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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: (exotica) Martin Denny (later on, that is)
Date: 20 Feb 1997 07:15:59 -0500

I used to have a phobia of Martin Denny's later records, and while I still
bought 'em, I rarely (if ever) laid an ear to them. But a few days ago, I
listened to Spanish Village on a whim, and what do you know? I loved it! I
know this is a major stretch, but it kinda reminded me of another fave, Jazz
Heat Bongo Beat. Maybe a little lighter on the bongos. ;) Speaking of
bongos, no one answered my question about that Willie Rodriguez/ Pearl
Chertok harp and bongos album..  :( I guess it's lost to the ages now.  BTW,
what is that twangy instrument on the first track on "Latin Village"? Is it
a really twangy guitar or something more unusual, like a cymbalum? It just
sounds different to my tired ears.

thanks for the space to babble, Jessica ^_^


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Suspect Information
Date: 20 Feb 1997 10:24:22 -0500

          I wrote:

     PS to Pea Hicks:

     Joe Maphis' guitar on that album cover was built by Paul Bigsby,

          I just got a look at the album cover, and it's a Mosrite
          double-neck, not a Bigsby. Duh.

          Tony Wilds wrote:

     Considering that Ronnie Van Zant, dead singer of "Free Bird," sang
     back-up vocals on the Strawberry Alarm Clock's "Incense and
     Peppermints,"

          I thought it was Ed King, bass player for LS who was associated
          with SAC. Anyway, he says he co-wrote "Incense", but was gypped
          out of credit and royalties.

          I'm incenced.
          Craig

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From: [e-mail] (David Trezza)
Subject: (exotica) Lyman in Hawaii
Date: 20 Feb 1997 09:45:54 -0800 (PST)


Hello

I know this has been brought to the groups attention in the past,
but can somebody tell me where Mr. Lyman is currently performing
in Hawaii.  I think I remember somebody mentioning he perofrms
every Friday at a hotel.  A friend of mine is leaving for the
islands tonight and would like to check him out.

Thanks in advance.

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hawaii vs. Tahiti, Round 2
Date: 20 Feb 1997 13:38:23 -0500

February playlist of Radio Aether: 39 songs celebrating Polynesia, with=
 aloha

* There=92s No Place Like Hawaii 4:25 Sterling Mossman - the master, "hula=
 cop"
* La Tahitite Est Arrivee 2:00 Carlos Rubio & his Orchestra
* Green Rose 2:15 Genoa Keawe - from the great Party Hulas LP
* Caf=E9 Au Lait 1:50 The Hawaiian Surfers
* I=92m a Happy Hawaiian Cowboy 1:50 Hal Aloma -- get all his stuff
* Hawaiian Cowboy 2:45 John Hall - horses whinny, cows moo
* Hellaby 1:53 49th State
* Little Grass Shack 2:25 Georgie Auld & his Hula-Gans - steelarama
* E Hina 2:52 The Tropic Trio
* Pineapple Princess 2:43 Teresa Brewer - compare to Annette's
* Papio 2:25 The Royal Tahitians
* Wailana 2:11 Marty Robbins - best haole doing HI'n falsetto
* Minoi Minoi 2:28 Charles Mauu & the Royal Polynesians
* When Hilo Hattie Does the Hilo Hop 2:33 Hilo Hattie - live
* Vana Vana 2:45 Chango and the Polynesians
* Little Brown Gal 2:26 Ohta San - from Ukulele Isle
* Tahiti 2:10 Johnny Poi & the Oahu Islanders - killer steel LP
* Hawaii=92s Santa 2:02 Prince Kalani - oh lord
* Te Matete 1:41 Te Poppaa Group
* Hawaii 5-0 2:17 Henry Mancini - disco Mancini, waka-waka guitar, mod
horns, yeow!
  ---------- surf break ------------
* Keep Your Eyes on the Hands 2:33 Burl Ives
* Learn to Do the Hula 1:42 Sonny Kamahele
* Te Manu Pukarua 2:24 The Surfers - the boys do the famous "Mutiny" song
* Hukilau Song 1:29 Annette Funicello - the fishnet Annette, not on CD!
* Samoan Medley 2:50 Nani Wolgramm & his Islanders
* Hawaiian Sunset 2:40 King Keoni & his Islanders - Quiet Village rhythm,
steel overlaid
* Ben Je Engay 2:50 The Tahitian Percussionists & Exotic Voices - SERIOUS
exotica
* Poinciana 3:48 Waikiki Beach Boys - one of the most beautiful recordings=
 ever
* "Mutiny on the Bounty" theme 2:32 Catamaran Serenaders - ditto, for a=
 theme
* Kaua Loku 1:47 Sonny Kamahele & his Surf Serenaders
* Vini Vini 2:22 Les Tahitians
* Sweet Someone 2:30 The Invitations, Russ Garcia
* Samoan Knife Dance 1:54 Chick Floyd - with intro
* Hawaiian Worm Raiser 3:37 Irving Taylor - novelty
* To To To E 2:08 Eddie Lund & Tahitians - Tahitian accordion
* Lovely Hula Hands 2:21 Roy Smeck - Wizard of the Strings, and how
* O Vai Oe Tahia 4:15 The Tahitian Native Group
* The Waikikis On Parade 1:54 The Waikikis - oooo, that Farfisa organ
* Goodbye Honolulu 2:35 Francis "Freckles" Lyons and his Beach Boys

What, no War Chant? Pupule, kane, pupule.

Tony
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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) EZ-TV
Date: 20 Feb 1997 14:43:22 -0400

Imagine my sorrow when I came back from vacation-and discovered I had
missed the Tony Bennet Valentine's Special on A&E.  He was also taking
live requests on the radio for luv songs.  I had a great V-Day, but now
my heart is broken:(....
Did anyone catch either the radio or tv event?  Maybe I'd watch more tv
if there was an EZ-TV channel.  Maybe I could be a VJ.
Lounge Laura

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) PP Industries/Sythetic Plastics
Date: 20 Feb 1997 20:18:43 -0800

>Could it be that those sneaky folks at Peter Pan recycled all those "Frankie
>Stein and the Ghouls" they released on the Power sub-label for these two
>albums? Sure sounds like it!

Synthetic Plastics rule the world!!!!!!!!!!!

Jack


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From: "Jim Gerwitz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Harpo & Dorothy
Date: 20 Feb 1997 20:39:20 -0800

I
> I also really love Harpo Marx who btw for those of you who don't know was
a
> seriously gifted and wonderful harpist jazz and pop wise.
> Dorothy ASshby has a couple of other records including Afro Harping which
> has Moog on it too, wild and beautiful it is.
>
Jack, I knew you'd say yes on Dorothy, but since you've brought up Harpo,
what an amazing character.  Played the harp like an angel, smiled like the
devil, chased anything in a dress(ooooh those slinky 30's gowns) and didnt
say a word!  He must have come up with that bumper sticker "Honk if you're
horny."

We've all seen the movies (love that "Monkey Business" Punch & Judy show),
but how about his positively spellbinding rendition of "Take Me Out to the
Ball Game" , definitely the highlight of that famous "I Love Lucy" episode.


Jim G

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [HYPE] Cool & Strange Music! #4 is out
Date: 21 Feb 1997 10:58:04 -0500

#4 Issue of Cool And Strange Music! Magazine Is Out Now!!!

Issue #4 of Cool And Strange Music! Magazine is here, and it's another
winner! It's another big issue, a whopping 48 pages, beautifully
offset-printed, with a cool color cover (by List-member Wayno), loads more
photos, tons
of new wacky and weird CD reviews and more fun that a million Kenny G
records! This
issue features articles on Jean Jacques Perrey, Louis Prima, a history of
Electronic Music, Julius Wechter, the Ukulele Expo, a photo-spread of Moog LP
Covers and lots more!! It's 48 pages of musical mayhem and madness!

It all starts with a cool cover story about the amazing music of Jean Jacques
Perrey. Armed with only a few keyboards, a tape recorder, some splicing tape,
a wacky sense of humor and a whole lot of imagination, Perrey served up some
of the 60's most inventive, amusing and unusual music. A true pioneer of the
Moog Synthesizer, Perrey blazed a trail that even the Beatles and Beach Boys
followed, with Moog sounds appearing on their albums, and even an appearance
of Perrey's music on the Beatles' Christmas message LP! We feature an
exclusive interview with the elusive Mr. Perrey from his home in France, and
include a thorough discography.

Next, we'll take a look at the career of Louis Prima, a true character of
jazz. Prima practically invented the 'swinging lounge act', and his
particular combination of high velocity swing, shuffles and wild energy is
almost as exciting on record, as we imagine it must have been to see this
powerhouse of a performer in action.

We serve up a brief history of Electronic Music, lament the recent loss of
Tiny Tim, and feature a rare interview with Julius Wechter, marimbist
extraordinare of Martin Denny and Baha Marimba Band fame. There's also a
piece on the little-known electronic musical instruments invented by a true
genius, and the grandfather of Space Age Pop, Raymond Scott.

Tie it all together with lots more loads o' fun stuff than we dare mention,
and you'll find a very cool Issue #4 of COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC! MAGAZINE. So
get on board! It's gonna be a cool ride throught the wild, wacky and
sometimes tacky world of records!

COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC! MAGAZINE is available at all Tower Records and Tower
Books stores and the following bookstore chains: Barnes & Noble, Bookstar,
and Bookstop. We are also in hundreds of newsstands and independent
bookstores around the U.S., so take a look!

If you have trouble locating  COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC! MAGAZINE locally (our
#1 and #2 issues have sold out), we'd be happy to mail you a copy of the
latest issue for a measly $3.95 (US and Canada) and $5 to all other
countries. (Post-paid.)

Subscriptions are just $12 a year (4 issues) for cool guys and gals in the
U.S.A. and Canada, and $25 for our foreign buddies! All prices includes
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Send your Check or Money Order to:

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Issue #4 is out NOW, so don't delay! Subscribe before you miss out!

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From: Jonathan Perl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 7 Uomini d'oro
Date: 21 Feb 1997 11:50:00 +0000


I just got hold of the Cam CD 2-fer of 'The 7 Golden Men' and 'The Seven
Golden Men Strike Again' by Armando Trovaioli.
I've got to say it's pretty over the top and in your face, but I like it.
Anyway, it was bought for me from the Tower Outlet in NYC for a mere 6.99,
so I would advise anyone in the area to pick it up if they don't have it.  I
didn't realise before that it was on CD - it looks like there may be a lot
of cool things on the Cam label.

Jonny

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) MORE CLUB VELVET IN HI-FI!
Date: 21 Feb 1997 12:13:28 -0600 (CST)

<bold><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><bigger>now, while viewing the
swingin' sites on the CLUB VELVET webpage, you can hear the swank
SOUNDS too!  <color><param>DD00,0000,0000</param>NEW SHOW ADDED!!   GO
CHECK IT OUT!!

</color>

Over 3 hours of pure Kini sonic satisfaction LIVE over the internet,
accessable day or night with the click of a button (and the help of
RealAudio software [downloadable for free])!


Go to the website:



</bigger></fontfamily></bold><fontfamily><param>Geneva</param><bigger><under=
line>http://www2.bitstream.net/~clean</underline><bold>


and look for the  <underline><bigger><bigger>in
Hi-Fi</bigger></bigger></underline>  sign where you will find the
button and/or all the info you need, including a comlpete track listing
for the first show:  "FABOO!" <color><param>DD00,0000,0000</param>AND
NOW A SECOND SHOW: "The Passion and the Percussion!"</color>



more to come!</bold></bigger></fontfamily>





visit...=20


+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

          King Kini's  C L U B  V E L V E T

          http://www2.bitstream.net/~clean

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) THAT SNOWBALL'S CHANCE
Date: 21 Feb 1997 14:09:28 -0400

ATTENTION ALL JOURNALISTS!
I am trying to score an interview with John Cale, who is coming here to
Tampa in a few weeks.  The helpful guy at Ryko Disc says he doesn't
really do interviews, especially with *radio.*  But, a thread on the
Bomp list a few weeks ago was about "brushes with Cale."  What gives?
Did he used to do press, but no longer does?  On a related note, I just
called up Moe Tucker at her home a few nights ago for an interview(she's
coming here , too !:)...and talked with her for about a half hour.  She
is way-cool...and as friendly and accomodating as Lenny Dee.  I could
even hear her pet bird in the background.  I believe she was in her
kitchen.  *Finally*-good shows coming here, though I regretably  missed
the Sub Sonics...anyone on either list(except for Mark Reed!), into this
groovy group?
Lounge Laura-mit Friday on my mind!

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Hillsboro, OR Thrift LPs
Date: 21 Feb 1997 11:44:56 -0800 (PST)

Well, I really found some cool LP's today in my journey to three thrift
stores in Hillsboro, Oregon.  All were obtained for 50 cents to one dollar.
One dollar seems to be the going price for LPs in the Portland area, so it
was nice to find one store with lower prices (Saint Vincent de Paul's).
Luckilly, they had some recent donations which yielded some great
prizes...but they also had some LPs I just had to try out.  If even half
were yucky, I'd be doing well.

I'll spare you with the complete list, but I will leave you with some of my
faves.  Check my website Friday evening for an update with, I hope, some
scans.  There are some really funky covers and even one record (vinyl) that
deserves a look.

I started to listen to them, but my used turntable stopped turning. Oh well.


Perez Prado Greats & Other Latin America Favorites
Perez Prado
Celebrity Records UTS-164 Stereophonic
Colorful cover of musician and timbales in mirror image. Not terribly
exciting music, but quite acceptable.

Stereo Demonstration Record
Jack Wagner narrator, music of primarilly Orrin Tucker?
bel canto SR/2000 Stereophonic
Record is multicolored vinyl: yellow, red, blue,green,orange!

Exotica
Martin Denny
Liberty LST-7034 Spectra-Sonic Stereo
A classic! Original shrink wrap with Fred Meyer price sticker of $3.88! Side
1 great, side 2 huge scratch (wah!)

Fabulous Harmonic played by the Yama Yama Man
Riviera R008
No record, but the cover was so cool: an oriental man in colorful kimono and
headband playing a huge harmonica!

Living Jazz: The Girl from Ipanema and Other Hits
Phil Bodner (by courtesy of Recording Industries Corporation)
RCA Camden CAL-848 Mono  (it can be obtained in stereo)
Not bad, but how can you go wrong with Desafinado, etc. Gold (almost foil
cover with woman  sitting on large tree root)

Coffee Break With a Latin Beat
Various including Xavier Cugat
Columbia Special Products XTV 82075
Really, just for the XC, and the colorful cartoonish cover of a Mexican
couple dancing  outside under a glaring sun at 1:30 p.m.

The Shadow of Your Smile
Arthur Lyman
Hi-Fi Records Life Series L 1033 Mono (avail in stereo)
like new condition, some good selections, cover: Hawaiian beach at dawn (or
dusk).

Exciting Stereo Sounds from Romantic Places
Leo Diamond's Orchestra
ABC-Paramount ABCS-268
like new, varying harmonica w/band, great colorful cover (of a swimsuited
woman on a sandy beach, of course)

This is Stereo
Narrated by Spike Jones with David Seville and the Chipmunks
Music by Julie London, Martin Denny, Felix Slatkin et al
Liberty LST 101
Red Vinyl record w/original sleeve and blue velvet cover with gold inlaid
record. How could I go wrong?

The Enchanted Sea
Martin Denny
Liberty LRP 3141 Mono (yes, its also in stereo doggone)
Vinyl and cover in excellent shape, not original sleeve, probably good music.

Banjorama
Carmen Mastren
Mercury SR60014 STEREO HI-FI
near new, all original. Intriguing concept: banjo with bass, drums, rhythm
banjo, piano and guitars.  By the way, John Pizzarelli is one of the
guitarists and playing the piano is "The Renowned Riccardo."  Probably hum drum.

South Sea Island Magic
Various including Kalua Beach Boys, The Islanders
Reader's Digest (RCA Custom) UR2M-3009  Mono
All there in good shape, 4 LPs, very informative liner notes!

plus...
4 LPs from The Three Suns

Soundtracks to Thunderball, The Pink Panther

several other Hawaiiana LPs: Addeo, Hawaiians, 101 Strings, Kauhi, Merrill,
Kai, Mure.

2 other stereo demos: Total Sound Stereo Hi-Fi Packard Bell (from Warner
Bros.) (just record) and the complete "Listening in Depth" SF-1 on Columbia
(box, booklet, record)

Helmut Zacharias and his Magic Violins "2,000,000 Strings" (great cover...
artist's depiction of numerous cellos and violins floating on a sea )

The Hit World of Klaus Wunderlich (28 hits in 10 medleys).  I didn't get it
for the scantilly clad woman on the front cover, really.  Its just that on
many of his previous albums, K.W. plays moog (Klaus Wunderlich,
"Synthesizer" mit Rhythmusgruppe)


Oh, well, I've wasted enough of your downloading time.  If anyone has more
info on any of these (especially Klaus Wunderlich or the Yama Yama Man),
return email me.

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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Boone-Date,A Day in Paul's Life
Date: 21 Feb 1997 15:14:13 -0400

This sounds like a great publicity stunt!  Maybe he'll even pierce
himself!
With apologies to Win Shields,
 I am,
Lounge Laura


PAT BOONE TO DEFEND HIMSELF, OR SWITCH NETWORKS
   (Los Angeles) -- Pat Boone will either fight, or switch. Booneáis
scheduled to appear on The Trinity Broadcasting Network on Aprilá15th to
defend the heavy metal phase he's going through. Theánetwork took
Boone's gospel show off the air when viewersácomplained about the album
of heavy metal tunes he released. ButáBoone says he's negotiating with
another network to pick up theáshow. So if he can't convince his fans
that his heavy metal albumáis a joke, he may leave Trinity anyway.

MCCARTNEY TV MOVIE
   (London) -- A sequel of sorts is in the works to ''The
BeatlesáAnthology'' documentary. Paul McCartney is making an hourlong
T-Vámovie that will update what he's been doing since the Beatles
brokeáup. The film will include interviews and music from his
upcomingáalbum. The movie will air in Britain sometime in May, which is
whenáhis album is coming out, too.

"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr.  Leslie Baxter
Laura Taylor
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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Compulsion to Skip
Date: 21 Feb 1997 15:18:18 -0400

How does one get in touch with Skip Heller?  He isn't on this list, is
he?  He just seems like a swingin' gato, whose brain I'd like to pick
for journalistic and wholistic reasons...

"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr.  Leslie Baxter
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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) Re: OK, what are the stakes?
Date: 21 Feb 1997 18:52:43 +0100

>Says Ashley...
>
>> I would bet good money that a majority of people on this list actually
>> gradually got into this stuff through listening to movie soundtracks...

        the other way round for me: i got into movie soundtracks through
listening
        to (all other kinds of) exotica. the only movie soundtracks i had
before i got
        into "ISM" were some Morricone spaghetti's...

>>and I would go so far as to bet that the preffered (sic) current music of the
>>>>majority, in turn, would be trip hop or ambient electronic...

        yuk! ;-))) i dislike all those. i do have the impression though
that most,
        if not all people on this list, listen to all possible kinds of
music, from the
        past and the present...

        Johan
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From: Katherine Ramsey <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) And another thing about Hee Haw...
Date: 21 Feb 1997 16:37:30 -0600

>Joe Kilmartin wrote:
>>At 04:53 AM 09/02/1997 -0500, you wrote:
>>>According to Total Television: 1969-1971 CBS, Syndicated  1971-1992.
>>>
>>>Also gave birth to a spinoff, The Hee Haw Honeys(1978-1979).  Part of the
>>>theme song was some of the women of the show singing, "We're keepin' our
>>>sunny side up and our greasy side down...".
>
>Lets not forget Kathie Lee Gifford's desperate attempts to cover up the fact
that she was first noticed by Frank back when she was a HEE HAW Honey on
the original HeeHaw series!!! She' s even gotten herself removed from
>the syndication package,....

Wow--didn't know that.  I do remember her from "Name That Tune" (70s
version) and some Christian show.  I think it was the 700 Club.

Sorry about the off-topic.

Kathy (the anti-Kathie) Ramsey
>
>

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) I need to know...
Date: 21 Feb 1997 19:14:25 -0800

Hello,

I need to know if there is a CD available of TV themes from Japanese
cartoons of the 60's like;
Kimba The White Lion, AstroBoy, Gigantor, etc etc etc

Will someone please help me out with that info

Thanx,

Jack


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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) rubber baby buggy bumpers
Date: 21 Feb 1997 21:37:29 -0500

Pram fans and those curious should pick up the new single
Omnichord/Sixty Years of Telephony immediately.  The a-side is very
spy/space poppish and someone here keeps playing it over and over
again.  Nice descriptions on back sleeve - "powerful theme featuring
electronic flourish effect with harp and piccolo.  Heavy bossa-nova
beat." and "strong pop-flavored theme in medium tempo featuring
marimba and flugelhorn with percussion, guitar and constant active
rythm."  this one's even tastier than the recent ep...  it's on
wurlitzer jukebox (small label)  so grab 'em quick - the local indie
shop ran out in a number of hours!  sounds like pram have been
hanging out with stereolab...  and they have.  Pram's Rosie and
S'lab's Laetitia have a side band called Monade who have a single
coming out soon.  Lastly on the 'lab - a mailing list has just formed
called Peng.  Send 'subscribe peng' in the body to [e-mail]

Thanks for the tips on Tipsy!  Luv that cd...  Anyone up for a name
that sample challenge?  Some I recognize right off..  others drive me
nuts because I can't place them but they're so familiar.  Sound like
a contest (eh, Vic?)

Also....  I've just been turned on (in a big way) to a 60's group
called The United States of America.  Wow!  Led by one Joseph Byrd
who experimented with electro-acoutics, this is quite a trippy
outfit.    I REALLY love this record!  Great female vocals (his are
ok), hip shaking rythm with electronic enhancements and bleepy bloopy
bips and whooshes in places.  Not really exotica, but somehow I
thought this would be of interest to many on the list (and
undoubtably familiar to a few).

Lastly - had good luck thrifting recently.  Got Sergio Mendes Trio's
So Nice (beauty), Perez Prado's Mambo Happy!, Webley Edward's Fire
Goddess (luv that cover!), Leo Diamond's Subliminal Sounds, Chet
Atkins' Finger-Style Guitar.  Not bad at 50 cents apiece, except for
Subliminal which was 2 bucks at Salvation Army.

Whew!

kevin king
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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Seen this one yet ?
Date: 22 Feb 1997 10:27:53 -0800

KFJC play list 8/25/96 for Jack Diamond

 ARTIST                         TRACK                  ALBUM
 Planets                        Chunky

 Cannonball Adderly             Spectacular               Emarcy
 Nat Adderly-Cornet             Sam Jones-Bass            Soph. Swing

 Esquivel                       Speak Low                 O.W.O.S./58

 Ron Granier                    A Man in a Suitcase

 Dominique Frontiere            The Harvest               Pagan Festival

 Fred Katz with                 Paul Horn, Chico Hamilton
 Carson Smith                   John Pisano               Pacific Jazz, 1957
                `               Lord Randall

 Jerry Goldsmith                No Escape                 Planet of the Apes

 Eric Winstone Orch.            Doctor Whooooooooooooooo
 Tom Scott with the                                       Impulse, The Now Sound
 California Dreamers            Never My Love             1967, 1ST Lp

 Dick Hyman                     Living on Borrowed Time   Command, Lowery

 Frank Hunter                   Strange Echoes            White Goddess

 Johnny Keating                 Good Morning Starshine,   Sounds
                                Telstar                   Galactic
 George Duning                  I Wish I Could            Kim Novak-
 Bell, Book & Candle                                      Oohing and Ahing
 Candoli Bros. W/                                 Bell, Book &
 Barney Kessel-Guitar           Shep Shook                Candle

 101 Strings                    Barrier X-69              Astro Sounds...

 Hugo Montenegro Orch           Aces High

 Louise Huebner                 Orgies-A Tool for
                                Witchcraft

 Pierro Piccioni                Nothing to Say            Moment of Truth

 Phil Moore                     Naked Island              N.Y. Sweet

 Skip Martin                    Riff Blues                Mike Hammer

 Leith Stevens Orch             Black Rebels Ride         The Wild One, Decca

 Schulmadchen Report 2          Gert Wilden Orch          Dirty Beat

 Neal Hefti                     Turkish Delight           RCA

 Mort Garson                    Capricorn                 Zodiac Cosmic
                                Aquarius                  1967,ELEKTRA

 Andre' Popppp                Musique Mechanique        Presenting
 Dena-Vocals                    Shiek of Araby
 Danny Guglielmi-Music

 Chun King Commercial           1966

 Mundell Lowe Orch              Lake in the Woods         Satan in High Heels

 Ken Nordine's Twink            Winshield Wipers, Tears
                                Suede, Zebra,Sidewalks

 George Martin                  Theme One                 Scamp New Release

 Benny Golson                   Happiness Is...           Verve

 Kenton,Pete Rugolo             Capitol Punsihment        ENCORES,1ST 10

 Animated Egg                   Sippin' and Trippin'      Alshire

 Chaino and Mate                Jungle Chase              Omega, Stereo

 Tony Hatch Orch                Sportsnight

 Mancini                        Arabesque

 Machito Afro Cubans            Tanga, Caravan            Flip Phillips

 Les Reed Brass                 The Saint

 Hershel Gilbert                Drum Maddness             Burkes Law

 Pete Rugolo                    Diamond on the Move

KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) new loungelinks page!
Date: 22 Feb 1997 16:30:25 -0600 (CST)

http://www2.bitstream.net/~clean/loungelinks.html


i THINK i got everyone!




visit...

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
          King Kini's  C L U B  V E L V E T
          http://www2.bitstream.net/~clean
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) unknown music & questions
Date: 22 Feb 1997 17:57:59 -0800 (PST)

Part of the joy of finding older LPs is looking at the original inner
sleeves with the info about other LPs I don't have.  Unfortunately, there is
little information.

Some of them intrigue me.  Does anyone know anything about:

"Music to Break a Sub-Lease"
Don Costa's Freeloaders
ABCS-212

"Music to Break a Lease"
(unknown artist...Don Costa?)
ABCS-107

"Ferrante and Teicher with Percussion"
Ferrante and Teicher
ABCS-248

"SHOCK Music in Hi-Fi"
The Creed Taylor Orchestra
ABCS-259

"O.P.'s Jazz Men"
The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra
ABCS-227
(I LOVE the cover anyway.  The "Men" are huddled together, but amongst all
of them is the bottom edge of a dress and two feminine feet in pumps...and
O.P. staring directly at the viewer with a sly smile.)

"Fantastic Percussion"
Felix Slatkin
Liberty LST-7150

"Exotic Sounds from the Silver Screen"
Martin Denny
Liberty LST-7158
(By the way, is the woman on most MD covers the same one? If so, she's quite
the chameleon and attractive at that!)

"Mallet Mischief"
Harry Beuer and his Quintet
Audio Fidelity AFSD 5882
(The cover is featured on one of those Incredibly Strange Music books, but
what's the music like?)

"Mallet Magic"
Harry Breuer and his Quintet
Audio Fidelity AFSD 5825

"The Vibe Sound of Peter Appleyard"
Peter Appleyard
Audio Fidelity AFSD 5901

"Hawaii"
Johnny Pineapple and His Islanders
Audio Fidelity AFSD 5850
(Do the palm leaves cover nudity or just a very small bikini?  But, what
about the music?!)

"Music of the African Arab"
Mohammed El-Bakkar and his Oriental Ensemble
Audio Fidelity AFSD 5858
(Yes, upper torso nudity...and just what is that bearded guy looking at?  Is
this authentic or just exoticized?)

"Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha"
Pedro Garcia and his Del Prado Orchestra
Audio Fidelity AFSD 5837

Also, there is a featured conga player on several LP's named Candido.  Is
anyone familiar with him?

Check out the first Mr. Smooth LP Collection Gallery on my homepage:
http//www.hubris.net/zolac/

Tell me what you think! I don't know if the scans are very good: all I have
is a 13 inch b/w VGA monitor.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) bad URL
Date: 22 Feb 1997 21:43:38 -0800 (PST)

sorry.  my last post had a typo in my URL.  Try this one:

http://www.hubris.net/zolac/


I forgot the colon after http.  How could I?!

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From: [e-mail] (R.Preston Peek)
Subject: (exotica) Exotica/Et Cetera Issue #8
Date: 23 Feb 1997 13:02:14 -0400

Hello All --

A quick word to announce that Exotica/Et Cetera Issue #8 is at the printer
and will soon be ready to mail.

IN THIS ISSUE:

Combustible Edison's Brother Cleve debuts "The Esquivel Page," a regular
column that keeps all abreast of The Maestro's activities down in Mexico
City (as well as historical gems from his past).

Jayne Mansfield Cover Art -- Article and gallery of 14 Mansfield covers.

Vinyl Karma -- It could happen to you!

Capitol Record art director Jim Silke on those wonderful covers of yore.

PLUS Reviews (new Denny, Sex Kittens in Hi-fi, twisted German soundtracks,
etc.), Bizarre Vinyl, Cover Madness, The Cheese Gallery, and MORE...

Not to mention more than 400 Clean & Original Issue LPs for sale--a few
highlights include Moon Gas, Dennis the Menace, Orienta, Les Baxter's
Barbarian, Comstock's Music From Outer Space, Garcia's Fantastica,
Mansfield's Panic Button--and on and on.

Free sample issue, otherwise $10 for a 6 issue/one year sub in US ($30
Priority Mail), $15 Canada, $30 non-US.

Thanks for the space,

Preston Peek
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From: chris strouth <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Compulsion to Skip
Date: 24 Feb 1997 01:18:41 -0600


>How does one get in touch with Skip Heller?  He isn't on this list, is
>he?  He just seems like a swinging' gato, whose brain I'd like to pick
>for journalistic and holistic reasons...

What an opportune time to mention  this but at the end of march, my company
UltraModern, is releasing the Skip Heller Generation's Lonely Town CD, a
collection of Bosa Nova Noir tunes. It a killer group with Jay work from
the Bonedaddies, and DJ Bonebrake.  I really love the record but then again
I am biased.  Twelve tracks, four of which are covers (a really great
version of Forget that Girl) . and a bonus track , that well, you'll just
have to hear to know what it is... Anyway the record is out the end of
March,  It is being serviced to radio and press this week. So if your at a
radio station or mag that thinks you should be serviced let us know.
Otherwise he has  a record coming out on SCI Fi western records with rock a
billy legend Ray Campi (and some other guys too Dave Alvin, Tony Gilkunson,
and Stan Ridgeway) that should be out in April or May. There is also a big
interview with the Skipster in the current issue of Chesseball
.Theoretically there will be a website up in the net few weeks. and that
concludes the Skip Update...
your friend on the other end

Chris Strouth
(Hoping that this didn't sound too much like an infomercial, and if it did
he apologizes)


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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: (exotica) Another Great Day at the Flea Market!
Date: 24 Feb 1997 07:35:07 -0500

Here's what I found yesterday....this time of year the pickin's get way
better...someone told me once that this is the best time of year for finding
second hand junk because more people sell their houses in February and March
than in any other month? Is that true?

Oh well...here's my list:

Introducing Linda Lawson (like, wow!) ^_^

Pretty Baby--Dean Martin (priceless cover pic)

The Adventures of Raindrop (scary childrens' record from the "Unshackled"
school of Dramatic Writing)

A Child's Introduction to the Orchestra (solo by Terry Synder on "Peter
Percussion")

Grant Takes Rhythm--Earl Grant (w/ "House of Bamboo", other smoky tunes)

Flying Saucer Sampler (inspirational cover on a stupid "Top Tunes" budget
record. A lone vinyl platter soars past Mars)

Surfin' With the Astronauts (greatness w/ "Baja", "Kuk", etc. They mixed up
two tracks on side two. What gives?)

The Sounds of the Seventies--Peggy Lee (cool covers of standards like
"Spinning Wheel" and "Manana" )

New Original TV Themes--Green Hornet/Tarzan/The Man from U.N.C.L.E (one of
those cool generic tv theme albums. Nice original tunes, too!)

The Superrecord of Superheroes--the Super Dupers (weird kiddie album that
goes from surf instro to lame vocal to cocktail jazz organ and back again!)

Mission: Impossible and Other Action Themes--another cheap theme record on
the Design label. Hilarious low budget action shots on the cover (taken
outside the Peter Pan Industries building???) Has some tracks lifted from
Design's James Bond?Spy LP. ORGAN-ized versions of "Star Trek", "Mannix."

Belle Barth in Person--Miami Beach greatness

Phyllis Diller Laughs

The Beautiful Phyllis Diller

Songs of the Islands--Lorin Whitney, Bud Tutmarc (beautiful
religious/Hawaiian LP)

Music from the TV Series the Mancini Generation--who else? (anyone know
anything about this show? The record starts each song with an ARP synth solo
and then goes into a standard big band arrangement.)

Gypsy!--Werner Muller (the fortune telling nomads, not the Ethel Merman
extravaganza)

Paradise Regained--Leo Addeo (Stereo Action exotica that paved the way for
all those RCA/Camden Addeo Hawaiian LPs)


PS--Where is everybody? Things seem slow lately

PPS--James Cimarusti, everytime I try to send you mail it bounces back! Just
so you know I haven't forgotten you... :(


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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: (exotica) Boo!
Date: 24 Feb 1997 07:49:48 -0500

This is sorta related to the whole "Kiddie record" thread, so I thought I'd
ask? How many cool ghost story albums are there? I have the Alfred Hitchcock
one, and I know Boris Karloff did one. What about Martha Wentworth (do I
have the name right?)? I seem to remember reading something about
her...maybe on the list. She did an album called the Sea Hag, or the Sea
Witch, didn't she?

I also remember this spook show type album I used to have. I forget the
title, but I think it was on Wyncote. It had tunes like "Red Eyed Rats" and
"Theme From some Horror Movie I can't remember the name of right now" (that
wasn't the exact title, BTW) ;) , and maybe some James Bond rip off tunes. I
know this is super sketchy, but if anyone could help out, I'd appreciate it.
Was this some kind of "Shock" ripoff or what?

Thanks for any suggestions or help, Jessica ^_^


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) RE:Another Great Day at the Flea
Date: 24 Feb 1997 18:16:16 +0100

[e-mail] wrote:

Surfin' With the Astronauts (greatness w/ "Baja", "Kuk", etc. They mixed up
two tracks on side two. What gives?)

"Kuk"
 I have that song with the Trashmen.
Did You know that Kuk in Swedish is the most usual word for the things men=20
have between their legs?

"Baja" means "to shit" in swedish

The record companies sure didn=B4t know that!

 -Magnus-

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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: Re: (exotica) PP Industries/Sythetic Plastics
Date: 24 Feb 1997 12:03:22 -0500

>Could it be that those sneaky folks at Peter Pan recycled all those "Frankie
>Stein and the Ghouls" they released on the Power sub-label for these two
>albums? Sure sounds like it!

I've again been slapped by that wily hand of fate!  Found a copy
of the "Frankie Stein and the Ghouls" record this weekend (unfor.
sans cover).  3 of the tracks from the Dinner with Drac and Witchdoctor
records appear on it.  The rest were probably outtakes. Sneaks they are!

The weekend yielded a potpourri of worthy finds, incl. Doc Severinson's
"Tempestuous Trumpet", Terry Baxter & his orch. "Hits of 1968" (great
EZ jazz version of the Good Bad and the Ugly theme), Living Strings
Play Mancini, A Dick Hyman "Knuckles O'Toole" album on Grand Award,
"Hollywood 1966" on Command and Peter Nero's "Love Trip" (which has
some surprisingly stand out tracks), plus heaps of 45's - Mancini,
Les Baxter, Curtis Mayfield, Otis Redding and more.

And I had my second run in with Nipsy Russell in two months!

Now, if someone would just hand me a bucket of free money...

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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Another Great Day at the Flea Market!
Date: 24 Feb 1997 12:14:53 -0800

Jessica Cameron wrote:
>
> Here's what I found yesterday....
>
> The Adventures of Raindrop (scary childrens' record from the "Unshackled"
> school of Dramatic Writing)

I *love* this record!!!! I'm glad someone else has found a copy.
(my 2 cents...)
Pea

--
                        Pea Hicks
               "Memory is my drug of choice."
               <---Realm 'O' The Optigan--->
               http://www.pilot.com/optigan
               Who will be the next to brave
                   the *perils* of the
                    VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??!

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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) WOGGLES/SUBSONICS
Date: 24 Feb 1997 15:26:23 -0400

Hiya, (cyber)Space Persons...
I am happy to report to you that Prof. Manfred Jones, who let his
backbone slip last month, shook it HARD Friday night in Orlando,
Florida.  Yup, the Woggles remain one of the BEST GARAGE BANDS in
America.  Manfred was all barbe-qued and raved-up....They did a lot of
the songs off THE ZONTAR SESSIONS...plus, my fave, JEZEBEL...during
which I got to hold Manfred's torso.  Orlando's almightly Hate Bombs
were there, and although they did not open, they still managed to get on
stage with the Woggles, and for a version of , gosh, now I"ve forgotten
which Who song, I think it was "Can't Explain."
As for the Subsonics(another Georgia band), I just got a copy of their
recent album on GET HIP(help me, Mark Reed, with the title.)  If you
liked GOOD VIOLENCE, then this is better, fuller, fatter, and WEIRDER!
Clay Reed's voice and his,uh, Lou Reed guitar, zound terrific.  If you
like Buddy Holly, The Velvet Underground, Richard Hell or Television,
then the Subsonics are the band fer u!
p-s:  Andrea , Tony, and Esquerlita, write me for more details.
Swingin' on a dreadful Monday,
Lounge Laura

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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) scott walker viddy
Date: 24 Feb 1997 15:48:33 -0400

Anyone know of any UK(or domestic) videos of Scott Walker?
"Damn that video...I'll have to take it down...."
Lounge "I love Scott about as much as Brian Jones now" Laura

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From: "Derek Grime" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Boo!
Date: 24 Feb 1997 20:14:15 -0500

On Feb 24,  7:49am, Jessica Cameron wrote:
> Subject: (exotica) Boo!
> This is sorta related to the whole "Kiddie record" thread, so I thought I'd
> ask? How many cool ghost story albums are there? I have the Alfred Hitchcock
> one, and I know Boris Karloff did one.

William Castle also has an LP of ghost stories.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Children's Records
Date: 24 Feb 1997 23:40:47 -0500 (EST)

Thought I'd throw in my $0.02 on this topic... my fave Kid's records since
I was one myself were made by "two Los Angeles bachelors" Jim Copp and Ed
Brown.They're filled with weird and edgy characters(all voiced by  Copp and
Brown) set in peculiar elliptical tales that are frequently delivered in
erudite rhyme, all backed up by jaunty yet unsettling music performed on a
celeste and a wheezing harmonium.

Highly recommended for those who believe a strong dose of sardonic humor
and surrealism is good for small children (or cranky adults).

For years I treasured my unplayably scratchy, coverless copies of "Gumdrop
Follies" and "Jim Copp Tales", only to discover a couple of years back,
that they'd never gone out of print! It was like getting a package of Sea
Monkeys(tm) that really did turn into 3'' tall, pink, crown-wearing
homunculi! That's the kind of astonishment I'm talking about here!

These records are now almost as frequently on my turntable as they were
when I was five.

Anyway,there's about 8 of 'em in all and I believe you can still order them
from:

Playhouse Records
Box 36061
Los Angeles,CA
90036



Thee Millionaire



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) bulletproof tunes
Date: 25 Feb 1997 00:02:54 -0500 (EST)

I would like to offer my appreciation of a few tunes which i find to be handy
when deciding whether or not  to buy a record. In my experience there are
some tunes which always sound great no matter who's doing them. They are:
Caravan, Peter Gunn theme and Night Train.  Anybody else feel the same way?
 Have any other surefire indicaters of an LP's worth? Any other tunes  which
have bulletproof status?

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From: Ray Coffey/School/hmco
Subject: (exotica) Spike and Maoi
Date: 24 Feb 1997 13:25:31 EST

I saw a huge full page ad in the paper from the
Good Music Record Company (was this place previously mentioned?)
PO BOX 1782, Ridgely, MD  21681-1782

They had a two-CD set of Spike Jones that caught my eye.
Has anyone heard this and could they comment about it, please?
Basically, should I go for it?

Also, for our Pacific Islander fans on the list,
I noticed that Science News Books has a SALE on
Easter Island:  Archaeology, Ecolgy, and Culture,
published by Smithsonian Institution Press (1994),
hardcover, for 26 bucks down from 45 bucks.

They have a web site <http://www.scincenews.org>
and a book store e-mail address <[e-mail]>
if anyone is interested.

Ray (He's an EZ Lover) Coffey

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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: Re: (exotica) bulletproof tunes
Date: 25 Feb 1997 07:02:40 -0500

> Have any other surefire indicaters of an LP's worth? Any other tunes  which
>have bulletproof status?

I once tried to set a rule for myself regarding records: don't buy one
unless it has four standards you like. I never did follow it! ^_^ Too many
records have just 1 or 2 great tracks.

Here are some of my faves:

STANDARDS

"Caravan" (again, naturally)
"Misirlou"
"Hava Nagilah"
"Tanghi Tahiti"
"Jungle Fantasy"
"Jungle Drums"
"Lonesome Road"
"Sentimental Journey"
"Bahia"
"Love Dance"
"Lotus Land"
"Lover"
"Music to Watch Girls By"

ORIGINALS (only ever seen 'em once--but I could be ignorant of other versions)

"Satan and the Polar Bear"
"E.V.A"
"Karma Sitar" ;)
"Congo Serenade"
"Aurora Borealis" ( I might have the spelling wrong, but I'm in a hurry)


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From: "Trick Velour, TV Eye" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Capitol Children's Records
Date: 26 Feb 1997 06:48:02 -0500

Can anyone reccomend a good source for obtaining
children's records from the 40's to the 60's on the
Capitol label? I'm trying to locate records with
Mel Blanc, Pinto Colvig, and other people who did
character voices in the classic cartoons of that
period? Any suggestions?

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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: Re: (exotica) bulletproof tunes
Date: 25 Feb 1997 05:31:37 -0700 (MST)

>I would like to offer my appreciation of a few tunes which i find to be handy
>when deciding whether or not  to buy a record. In my experience there are
>some tunes which always sound great no matter who's doing them. They are:
>Caravan, Peter Gunn theme and Night Train.  Anybody else feel the same way?
> Have any other surefire indicaters of an LP's worth? Any other tunes  which
>have bulletproof status?


Methinks that "Poinciana" and "Quiet Village" are usually good bets too.

Jill




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From: Ariel Tagar <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) records I bought today
Date: 25 Feb 1997 14:29:16 +0200

>If You don=B4t have it, buy "Hawaiian Swing" of M=FCller. It=B4s great!=
 Kind of=20
>spooky sound.
=20
Its a bit hard to find these things here in Tel Aviv (ISRAEL)
but god knowes i'll try!
ariel=20

the EASY PAGE (easy listenning and longecore culture)
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3076
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From: [e-mail] (Howard Enis)
Subject: Re: (exotica) bulletproof tunes
Date: 25 Feb 1997 09:40:19 -0500



I would like to offer my appreciation of a few tunes which i find to be handy
when deciding whether or not  to buy a record. In my experience there are some
tunes which always sound great no matter who's doing them. They are: Caravan,
Peter Gunn theme and Night Train.  Anybody else feel the same way?
 Have any other surefire indicaters of an LP's worth? Any other tunes  which
have bulletproof status?

***********************************************

     My litmus testers:

     Tico Tico
     Canadian Sunset

     These tunes have never failed me.

     Cal


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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Boo!
Date: 25 Feb 1997 11:10:44 -0500

At 08:14 PM 2/24/97 -0500, Derek Grime wrote:
>On Feb 24,  7:49am, Jessica Cameron wrote:
>> Subject: (exotica) Boo!
>> This is sorta related to the whole "Kiddie record" thread, so I thought I'd
>> ask? How many cool ghost story albums are there? I have the Alfred Hitchcock
>> one, and I know Boris Karloff did one.
>
>William Castle also has an LP of ghost stories.
>
As does William Conrad.
-L


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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Living Trio=Three Suns?
Date: 21 Feb 1997 14:34:15 -0500

At 12:21 AM 2/19/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Brad wrote:
>> Is the Living Trio of RCA's budget Living Strings/Jazz/Voices/etc.
>> series the Three Suns under another name?  Or just an imitiation of
>> the Suns?
>
>AHA!!!  This might just solve a little mystery!
>When I met Dick Hyman last August he remarked that he'd been involved
>with a Three Suns "pastiche" LP at one time.  Now I know Dick was
>involved with Ray Martin on many of those "Living..." LPs (and so
>were Tony Mottola and others of that ilk) so maybe *this* is the
>record he was talking about!!!
>
OK, one mystery (possibly) solved.
Now, does anyone know who the Four Colortones (Hammond organ, accordion,
guitar, bass) on Colortone Records were?

-Lou


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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) RE: Capitol Children's Records
Date: 25 Feb 1997 12:43:14 -0500


>Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 06:48:02 -0500
>From: "Trick Velour, TV Eye" <[e-mail]>
>Can anyone recommend a good source for obtaining
>children's records from the 40's to the 60's on the
>Capitol label? I'm trying to locate records with
>Mel Blanc, Pinto Colvig, and other people who did
>character voices in the classic cartoons of that
>period? Any suggestions?
>
The Kiddie Rekord King has a WWWsite you may want to visit:
http://members.aol.com/kiddie78s/index.html

I haven't dealt with the guy, so I can't vouch for him in any way.

Tell us how your search turns out.
--Lou


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From: [e-mail] (Howard Enis)
Subject: Re[2]: (exotica) Boo!
Date: 25 Feb 1997 12:42:54 -0500



On Feb 24,  7:49am, Jessica Cameron wrote:
> Subject: (exotica) Boo!
> This is sorta related to the whole "Kiddie record" thread, so I thought I'd
> ask? How many cool ghost story albums are there? I have the Alfred Hitchcock
> one, and I know Boris Karloff did one.

William Castle also has an LP of ghost stories.

     ************************************************

     Last month I found a great scary story halloween record read by
     William Conrad (Cannon, Rocky & Bullwinkle, etc.)

     Cal



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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Spike and Maoi -- *Moai*
Date: 25 Feb 1997 13:49:17 -0500

>Also, for our Pacific Islander fans on the list,
>I noticed that Science News Books has a SALE on
>Easter Island:  Archaeology, Ecolgy, and Culture,
>published by Smithsonian Institution Press (1994),
>hardcover, for 26 bucks down from 45 bucks.
>
>They have a web site <http://www.scincenews.org>
>and a book store e-mail address <[e-mail]>
>if anyone is interested.


I can recommend the book as being one of the latest and certainly the best
on Rapa Nui. Dr. Jo Anne Van Tilberg is the author. It's a serious but
enjoyable, comprehensive read full of compelling photos, worth it even at
$45. Large format.

Book will distill heavily into the Rapa Nui web page...coming soon to the
Wilds Scene.

Tony Wilds, member, Eastern Pacific Research Foundation
__________________________________________________________
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) The Composer's Ghostwriter
Date: 25 Feb 1997 12:52:19 -0400

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

OK kiddies, a bit lengthy, but I'm sure you'll have fun tossing this one
around the net:

Pete Briggs <[e-mail]> writes:
> > .... and while watching "Ryan's Daughter" it occurred to me -
> > might we not be talking about Jarre himself, here?
> > His output in recent years has been less-than-prolific...

> We could be.  The problem is that the column was written in 1992 and
> we're not told how many years before that the incident occurred.
> But, I could have posted more. So here's an extract from the article:

From Ken Hughes in Hollywood - December 1992

Some years ago I contracted an internationally renowned and celebrated
film composer, with over a dozen credits for major motion pictures, a
recipient of an Academy Award, whose name I would dearly love to reveal,
to compose the score for a production I was currently directing.

The contracts were drawn up and this world renowned composer was paid a
very substantial sum of money up front.  More than that, I flew this
eminent composer to London (first class of course) accompanied by his
wife, booked him a suite at the capital's most exclusive hotel, and we
spent the next two weeks discussing the score.

Disarmingly, the internationally famed composer was utterly charming and
our meeting ended in mutual agreement and a promise of great things to
come.  He then departed for Hollywood, where he was resident, and I sat
back, relaxed in the confident notion that the music was in safe hands.

Six weeks passed, and all I heard from Hollywood was "tacit", "mute" and
molto pernissimo - or as they say here, zilch!  Not wishing to harass
the gentleman, I made a tentative phone call.  "How's it going?" I asked
politely. "Great...terrific...you're gonna love it!" Encouraged, I put
the phone down and left the genius alone.  Another six weeks later,
under pressure from a heavy American producer who did not share my
respect for creative talent, I called again. "Great.. terrific.. you're
gonna love it!" came the answer.

I was on the next plane to Hollywood.  We sat in his Beverley Hills
house, about the size of the palace of Versailles with a lawn large
enough to land a Boeing 747.  Have you put anything on paper? I asked.
No ... it is all in my head. Well, could you play me a few bars, give
me some idea. He didn't answer.  I looked around but there wasn't even
a piano in the room. "Well, do you think you could hum something?" I
asked in desperation.

He didn't put anything on paper...and he didn't hum anything .... and he
never even wrote a single solitary note of music, not even on the back
of a used envelope! And if I were to reveal his name, you would call me
a liar. After all, the man has credits and awards up to his ears for
movie scores.

I returned to London empty handed and bemoaned my fate to my agent.
"Didn't you know", he said, "he can't write music."  I decided then that
my agent was mad.  "But what about all those major motion pictures he's
credited with?" "He never wrote them.  He has a ghost writer, everybody
knows that!"

Everybody, it seemed but me!  "So, where is his goddamned ghost writer?"
I asked. "He died", my agent replied. And that, my friends, is a true
story. There are no prizes for guessing the name of this internationally
celebrated composer.  In any event, the law being what it is in
California, if I revealed his name, he would probably sue me for libel,
and win.

A while ago, I was invited to a famed musician's house in Beverly Hills
(where else?) for dinner. There were a number of other guests and I was
soon introduced to a fine-looking man in his forties by the name of Pete
Rugolo. "Not THE Pete Rugolo who wrote all those fantastic arrangements
for the Stan Kenton Orchestra back in the fifties?" I asked.  Mr Rugolo
was impressed.  That an Englishman from London had even heard of Stan
Kenton, let alone his star arranger made him a friend for life.  We got
talking and I told him of my recent experience with the internationally
renowned-composer. "But he can't write music," he told me. "I thought
everybody knew that!"

-- Geoff Leonard <[e-mail]>

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From: Andrew Grypa <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) switchblade sisters
Date: 25 Feb 1997 13:54:52 -0500 (EST)


does anyone know about the re-release of "switchblade sisters?"
From what I had originally understood, Les Baxter did the music for the
original version, now someone named "Medusa" is listed as doing the music
for the Rolling Thunder re-release.  I imagine that Medusa isn't Les
Baxter, or is he/she?





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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) EXOTICA-TV
Date: 25 Feb 1997 15:14:33 -0400

While my Ex-TV pilot just don't seem to be flyin', I'm determined to find
some answers!  Over the year, we've talked about what is available
exotica/lounge/etc-wise on video(Hey, Cleve or Riviera, did Com Ed ever
make tv-ready viddies?)
We know about the Esquivel/Ernie Kovacs thing, plus the availabilty of
Korla Pandit.  We know you can rent PETER GUNN episodes(and probably
other crime-jazz-esque shows.)  We know THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM and
BABY DOLL appear on screens and cable.  Many of us have had the recent
opportunity to witness THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG on TV.
So far, I've received NO responses on my quests for Yma and Scott Walker.
 And, for goodness sakes, Serge Gainsbourg MUST have done some TV prior
to the 80s...and there must be some sort of TOP OF THE POPS thing with
Brigette Bardot.
 Plus, one broad on this list bragged about having the video from which
the LOST EPISODE stuff came.  Surely, there were cool folks on say, the
Steve Allen show?  Look, I love ear kandy as much as collectively you
do, but I need to SEE performances, real or synched.  So come on!  If
you have knowledge and/ or tapes of
what we all need, share the wealth, sugar!
Lounge"I want my ETV" Laura
"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr.  Leslie Baxter
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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: bulletproof tunes
Date: 25 Feb 1997 12:21:34 -0800

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> I would like to offer my appreciation of a few tunes which i find to be handy
> when deciding whether or not  to buy a record. In my experience there are
> some tunes which always sound great no matter who's doing them. They are:
> Caravan, Peter Gunn theme and Night Train.  Anybody else feel the same way?
>  Have any other surefire indicaters of an LP's worth? Any other tunes  which
> have bulletproof status?

Hawaiian War Chant
Wichita Lineman
Little Green Apples
Spanish Flea

Gary Numan songs are far from bulletproof, however...

Pea


--
                        Pea Hicks
               "Memory is my drug of choice."
               <---Realm 'O' The Optigan--->
               http://www.pilot.com/optigan
               Who will be the next to brave
                   the *perils* of the
                    VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??!

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From: [e-mail] (Joe Batutis)
Subject: (exotica) EXOTICA-TV
Date: 25 Feb 1997 15:44:27 -0500

You can see the Les Baxter video that is used in for the "Lost Episode" CDs at
the Museum of TV and Radio in NYC. I don't know whether they are in the
collection at the LA branch.

They also have a Korla Pandit episode AND you can see "The Continental". (As
featured on the Ultra-Lounge CDs!)

I also bought a video featuring Martin Denny on some hawaiian TV show from
someone here on the list.



-Joe

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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: (exotica) Re: bulletproof tunes
Date: 25 Feb 1997 15:43:39 -0500



>Gary Numan songs are far from bulletproof, however...

You mean you'd *pass* if you found an EZ version of "Praying to
the Aliens"?!


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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) EXOTICA-TV
Date: 25 Feb 1997 16:07:55 -0500

There is moving footage of Yma Sumac in the movie "Secrets of the Incas",
which features Charlton Heston.  Her syncing is not the best!  It is great
to see her singing in full Inca garb.  More fun than Heston's struggling
with weird direction and so-so script.

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: The Composer's Ghostwriter
Date: 25 Feb 1997 16:29:03 -0500

OK - here's my 2 bits.
Contrary to the next quoted segment, we *are* told when the events took place.
The 1992 article refers to a Pete Rugolo "in his forties".
Rugolo was born in San Piero, Sicily on Christmas Day, 1915.
That puts the decade of his forties between the years 1955 & 1965.
The article then refers to "back in the Fifties".
So the events must have taken place in the early Sixties.
I now pass the baton to the next runner in this guessing race.
-Lou

>> We could be.  The problem is that the column was written in 1992 and
>> we're not told how many years before that the incident occurred.

>>From Ken Hughes in Hollywood - December 1992
<<snip>>
>A while ago, I was invited to a famed musician's house in Beverly Hills
>(where else?) for dinner. There were a number of other guests and I was
>soon introduced to a fine-looking man in his forties by the name of Pete
>Rugolo. "Not THE Pete Rugolo who wrote all those fantastic arrangements
>for the Stan Kenton Orchestra back in the fifties?" I asked.


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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: bulletproof tunes
Date: 25 Feb 1997 16:55:27 -0500

They most certainly are bulltproof...

...in Cars.

>>Gary Numan songs are far from bulletproof, however...


Beep,
Brian Phillips

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From: [e-mail] (Br. Cleve)
Subject: Re: (exotica) EXOTICA-TV
Date: 25 Feb 1997 20:12:04 -0500

As per Lounge Laura:
>(Hey, Cleve or Riviera, did Com Ed ever make tv-ready viddies?)

"Millionaires Holiday", "Bluebeard", "Vertigogo"

>So far, I've received NO responses on my quests for Yma and Scott Walker.

Yma appeared on the Ernie Kovacks show, as did Ferrante & Teicher
performing prepared piano antics (and the infamous Esquivel 'animated
furniture' shorts). These exist and will probably see the light of day
sometime. I don't believe Scott Walker, solo, was ever on U.S. TV, but he
must have been on British telly.

> And, for goodness sakes, Serge Gainsbourg MUST have done some TV prior
>to the 80s...and there must be some sort of TOP OF THE POPS thing with
>Brigette Bardot.

Bardot did a supposedly amazing TV special in '67 on French TV; that and
the Serge videos are available in France, on their particular format (is it
SECAM?) at FNAC's and HMV's all over the country. I believe the infamous
Serge/Whitney Houston exchange is available uncensored on a Gainsbourg
documentary.

a votre sante!
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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hartz Mountain Master Canaries)
Date: 25 Feb 1997 20:30:01 -0400

Hi, folks:

One of my students asked me if I could find the date for a
canary training single featuring the Hartz Mountain Master Canaries.
I think I actually have my own copy somewhere, but can't find it.
Can anyone help?

Will
Will Straw
Associate Professor and Acting Director, 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: [e-mail] (Candi Strecker)
Subject: (exotica) Children's Records
Date: 25 Feb 1997 17:32:03 -0600

>Thought I'd throw in my $0.02 on this topic... my fave Kid's records since
>I was one myself were made by "two Los Angeles bachelors" Jim Copp and Ed
>Brown.They're filled with weird and edgy characters(all voiced by  Copp and
>Brown) set in peculiar elliptical tales that are frequently delivered in
>erudite rhyme, all backed up by jaunty yet unsettling music performed on a
>celeste and a wheezing harmonium. Highly recommended for those who
>believe a strong dose of sardonic humor
>and surrealism is good for small children (or cranky adults).
>Anyway,there's about 8 of 'em in all and I believe you can still order them
>from:
>Playhouse Records
>Box 36061
>Los Angeles,CA
>90036


For anyone interested, at least one of these extravaganzas is available on
CD - - I bought one at a Tower in San Francisco. - - Candi



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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: (exotica) bulletproof tunes
Date: 25 Feb 1997 17:57:52 PST

For straight exotica, Quiet Village is a sure winner for me. I
always like it.

Clark

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From: mark a welsh <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE:(exotica) Spike and Maoi
Date: 25 Feb 1997 20:57:13  -0600



>
> I saw a huge full page ad in the paper from the
> Good Music Record Company (was this place previously mentioned?)
> PO BOX 1782, Ridgely, MD  21681-1782
>
> They had a two-CD set of Spike Jones that caught my eye.
> Has anyone heard this and could they comment about it, please?
> Basically, should I go for it?
>
I can't comment on the Spike Jones set but I did post the Good Music Co.
address a couple o' weeks ago.  I had seen so much interest in The Three
Suns that I wanted others to know that this company sells a Suns CD.  I've
bought several CD's from them and have never been disappointed.
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From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Byron's Mono Denny LP
Date: 25 Feb 1997 23:11:20 -0500

>The Enchanted Sea
>Martin Denny
>Liberty LRP 3141 Mono (yes, its also in stereo doggone)

Funny you should mention this: This is an LP that by fluke I got in *both*
Mono and Stereo versions, from the same Manistee, MI salvation army.
Furthermore 3 of the tracks also appear on the stereo CD _Enchanted
Islands_  (CEMA Special Markets [Capitol] S21-56638). So I figured this
would be the perfect way to see for myself what was hype vs. reality in the
eternal formats controversy.

To make a long story short, I found that the Stereo versions tended to
over-emphasize the kitchier aspects of the music: extreme stereo
separation, over-bright tinkly sounds--and the vinyl was more extreme than
the CD in this, contrary to what everyone usually says.

The mono vinyl was recorded with an enormously larger amount of room
ambience--so the music seems to be coming from 10 feet further away from
you. However that mono vinyl gave the warmest and fullest piano sound. . .
Like many people I had approached Denny as "that silly bird calls guy" for
so long that I was quite amazed at the piano playing that came through on
that mono LP. . .

I have often felt that the masters of producing Mono LPs achieved amazing
things-- particularly in creating a wonderful sense of front-to-back
depth--and that early stereo was sometimes quite crude in comparison. So
don't write off those Mono disks. . .

--Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr  <[e-mail]>

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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: bulletproof tunes
Date: 25 Feb 1997 15:08:43 -0800

ANITA SERWACKI wrote:
>
> >Gary Numan songs are far from bulletproof, however...
>
> You mean you'd *pass* if you found an EZ version of "Praying to
> the Aliens"?!
>
Oh- I'm always game to hear people's attempts, but I've yet to hear any
"successful" Numan covers. My band does "Down In The Park" but I don't
even think *that's* very good! ;)

pea

--
                        Pea Hicks
               "Memory is my drug of choice."
               <---Realm 'O' The Optigan--->
               http://www.pilot.com/optigan
               Who will be the next to brave
                   the *perils* of the
                    VIRTUAL OPTIGAN??!

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From: Michael Reading <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Spike Jones Querry
Date: 25 Feb 1997 21:46:44 -0800

>They had a two-CD set of Spike Jones that caught my eye.
> Has anyone heard this and could they comment about it, please?
> Basically, should I go for it?

If this is the Rhino set that they're listing, it is up to their usual
standard of quality.  It's certainly the best *sounding* Spike Jones
collection out there.  As for the contents, it satisfied MY Jones jones, but
I don't consider myself to be a true Spike aficionado.  I dare say though,
that if you're looking for the "hits," the Rhino set should do nicely.

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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: (exotica) Schoolhouse Rock
Date: 26 Feb 1997 04:22:17 -0700 (MST)

Considering all the discussion about kids records lately, I am surprised
that no one has mentioned the reissue of the Schoolhouse Rock tunes. I had
no idea they had been reissued until a recent trip back to the States. The
box set, while pricey, has all the original tunes in their entirety. I have
been playing them here in the UK where they have no recollection of them
other than "3 is the Magic Number" because it was sampled by De La Soul, and
I have been getting a very good response.

The tunes are rather groovy on their own despite not having the visuals. As
for the cover versions CD, can't comment. I was told it was pretty bad so I
never got it. Any comments out there???!

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bullet Proof Songs
Date: 26 Feb 1997 10:28:24 -0500 (EST)

My vote for a song that I'd listen to ANY version is: "Bali Hai". God, I love
that song.
Gloria

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jim Copp & Ed Brown
Date: 26 Feb 1997 11:15:25 -0500

At 11:40 PM 2/24/97 -0500, Thee Millionaire wrote:
>Thought I'd throw in my $0.02 on this topic... my fave Kid's records since
>I was one myself were made by "two Los Angeles bachelors" Jim Copp and Ed
>Brown.They're filled with weird and edgy characters(all voiced by  Copp and
>Brown) set in peculiar elliptical tales that are frequently delivered in
>erudite rhyme, all backed up by jaunty yet unsettling music performed on a
>celeste and a wheezing harmonium.

I'll see your $0.02 and raise you another $0.02!
Copp & Brown were a brilliant hermetically-sealed duo.
I believe all 9 of their creations are still available on cassette, 7 on LP,
and Copp is starting a CD re-issue series.
The best introduction to their work is the CD Agnes Mouthwash & Friends
Vol.1, which is a Best Of.
The CD comes with a great 20page booklet, including articles by Copp, David
Owen, and guitarist Henry Kaiser(?!?).
Here's the first paragraph from the booklet:
Working at home far into the night with 3 Ampex tape machines, a piano,
a kazoo, to say nothing of a celeste, a pump-organ, bongo drums (and don't
forget the ratchet, the Autoharp, the tambourine, tin whistle, castinets,
teacher's desk-bell) plus myriad reels of tape and editing gear, Jim Copp
conjured a lunatic land that streched all the way from Thimble Corner to
Flumdiddle.

Playhouse Records
P.O. Box 36061
Los Angeles, CA 90036
[phone]

-Lou


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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) TV GUIDE NEEDED
Date: 26 Feb 1997 11:20:53 -0400

Please reply directly to me today, as I am on digest versions of both
lists....Anyone know when  BEACH BALL on VH-1's Rock and Roll
Picture Show, mit  Edd "Kookie" Byrnes in the lead - and
the Walker Brothers will run again?  And, what song (s) do they do?
Please reply asap, if u know!!!!

"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr.  Leslie Baxter
Laura Taylor
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) *I*N*S*E*C*T*S*
Date: 26 Feb 1997 17:52:22 +0100

HI

Thanks for the answers I got from my earlier questions.

Now I have another.

I would like to know if someone of You know about any records with=20
insect-sounds?
I have a concept-album with music made from actual insect-recording from th=
e=20
early 90:s by Graeme Revell.
It=B4s called "The Insect musicians" (Its actually really exotic).
I know Graeme mentions in the booklet one earlier attempt of recording the=20
sounds
 of Insects. I just don=B4t remember that guy=B4s name just now.

Is there more? I=B4m interested in that concept. Tse-tse fly on "Afro-Desia=
"=20
is
 something near what I=B4m looking for.



There were a lot of Bee-movies in the 70:s Is the soundtracks any good??



PS
The answers I want is that several of You have a lot of astounding=20
insectalbums
 and are willing to send them to me for free. Just so You know    :-)
DS

Magnus


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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bullet Proof Songs
Date: 26 Feb 1997 12:29:23 -0500

Mine would be "Brazil" or "Delicado"

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From: [e-mail] (David Trezza)
Subject: (exotica) Lyman reviews
Date: 26 Feb 1997 09:28:09 -0800 (PST)


Can somebody give a review of Lyman's "Leis of Jazz" and "Legend of
Pele" LPs.  These are two that I've yet to come across and want
some info on how they rate against other Lymans such as Taboo and
Bwana A'.

Thanks

Dago


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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Schoolhouse Rock
Date: 26 Feb 1997 12:23:11 -0500

>The tunes are rather groovy on their own despite not having the visuals.

"VERB! That's what's happenin..."
If only we could have learned all of our grammar with a blaxploitation
groove...

I believe "Multiplication Rock" was the only installment released on
vinyl back in the 70's (my college roommate had it and I often tried
to beg and barter for its possession). Anyone know if any of the other
series were originally released on record?  I've often searched, but
never found...

Anita

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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) Airto
Date: 26 Feb 1997 19:03:02 +0100

just listened to a beautiful latin/funk/jazz fusion cd album by Airto
Moreira: "free". reminds me a bit of Denny and Waldo (subtle exotic
percussive sounds) and Baxter (primitive atmosphere). several very long
tracks.

       Johan
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From: the_curator <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Return of Son of Other Worlds Other Sounds
Date: 26 Feb 1997 15:31:04 +0100

Now Thursday night is the *A*L*L* *N*E*W* Other Worlds Other Sounds Night

Those tenacious Misterogers Twins invite YOU to take another ricketty trip
into the unknown with

                        *****************************
                        * Other Worlds Other Sounds *
                        *****************************

at the Tea Rooms des Artistes, 697 Wandsworth Rd (where it crosses North
St, near Clapham Common tube and Wandsworth Rd BR )

We'll be playing our subnormal selection of Exotica, Erotica, Eazotica and
Esoterica.

27th February is '5000 Nude Guitars visit Satan's Garage' Night.

It's free to get in, it's very mellow and it starts about 9 and you won't
be asked to go back to the real world until 12 or 12.30.

Don't forget: "Everybody's fancy".... even if it's only on the inside.

We're waiting for you...


The Misterogers Twins.



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From: [e-mail] (Hugh Petfield)
Subject: (exotica) Re: bulletproof tunes
Date: 26 Feb 1997 19:24:00 GMT

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> I would like to offer my appreciation of a few tunes which i find to be handy
> when deciding whether or not  to buy a record. In my experience there are
> some tunes which always sound great no matter who's doing them. They are:
> Caravan, Peter Gunn theme and Night Train.  Anybody else feel the same way?
>  Have any other surefire indicaters of an LP's worth? Any other tunes  which
> have bulletproof status?

Wichita Lineman
Traces
Man from UNCLE theme

Around the same time that Little Eva charted with "The Locomotion",
British 'comedian' Freddie Starr & his backing group The Midnighters
made a single called "Peter Gunn Locomotion" which you would not
want to hear a second time....  Freddie Starr is best known for the
all-time tabloid headline "Freddie Starr ate my hamster".

Hugh.
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From: [e-mail] (Joe Batutis)
Subject: (exotica) Only $20 bucks!
Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:42:20 -0500

Here's a little something to jazz up your bachelor pad:

http://www1.autographs.com/celebrity/celebrity/f/ferranteteicher.html


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

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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) One hits wife-the other busts balls
Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:58:03 -0400

JAMES BROWN PROPOSES TO ROLONDA
   (New York) -- In the audience at the Grammys tonight, JamesáBrown and
his new squeeze, talk show host Rolonda Watts. Brown andáWatts have been
dating occasionally since he appeared on her talkáshow last month. She
sees him as an ''uncle'' -- so you can imagineáher surprise when Brown
called her show yesterday to propose. Wattsárefused to give him an
answer. She told him: we'll talk.

PAT BOONE GETS TO KEEP HIS GOLF TOURNAMENT
   (Chattanooga, Tennessee) -- Pat Boone's heavy metal phase won'tácost
him his golf tournament after all. Boone's hosted the charityáevent for
20 years, raising money for Bethel Bible Village. Then heárecorded an
album of heavy metal tunes -- and the home for troubledáchildren
wondered if it should let Boone go. The board took a voiceávote -- and
agreed to invite Boone back this year. Board membersásay they realize
Boone's new image is a joke -- and that he has notá''left his family
values or his good godly Christian character.''

Well, shucks!  Whaddabout the bucks?!?!

"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr.  Leslie Baxter
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Schoolhouse Rock
Date: 26 Feb 1997 16:54:34 -0500 (EST)

Jill,

I also have the Schoolhouse box set which I quite enjoy, particularly the
swinging Bob Dorough "numbers."  ("I've Got Six" "Conjunction Junction")  The
cover set isn't bad - I actually prefer Daniel Johnston's version of "Unpack
Your Adjectives" and Schooly-D's rap version of "Mr. Morton" is great.
 Otherwise though - the originals are better.  I eventually tracked down two
solo albums by Bob Dorough - very cool in a jazzy, sub-Mose Allison way.  One
cut has lyrics by Dr. Seuss!  Dorough is most famous (pre-Schoolhouse) for
doing "Blue Xmas" with Miles Davis and a vocalese version of "Yardbird Suite"
telling the history of Charlie Parker.  All hip.  Apparently Dorough worked
up a big band chart arrangement of "Conjunction Junction" for Jack Sheldon to
do (Jack's a big band trombonist).

--David

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Spaced Out & Space Safari URL updates
Date: 26 Feb 1997 23:41:37 +0000

As my web-space account is about to expire and I can't afford to
renew it, I'm migrating all my sites to freebie servers.  Anyone on
the list with links to either the above sites could you please update
them to:

Spaced Out - the Enoch Light WWW Site
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/5310

Space Safari: To Hi-Fidelity and Beyond!
http://members.tripod.com/~space_safari/

Thanks!


Robbie


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Chris Dedrick/Free Design
Date: 26 Feb 1997 23:41:37 +0000

I've just been browsing through the Internet Movie Database and
discovered that a *new* Canadian movie, "The Angel", has a music/
orchestration credit to ex-Free Designer Chris Dedrick.  Anyone
seen/heard this?

On a related note, I have put some links to the IMDb on the Spaced
Out "other Enoch Light resources" page.  Several of the "Light
brigadiers" have a few TV/movie music credits to their name...


Robbie

Spaced Out - the Enoch Light WWW Site   ** ** ** ** **
** ** http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Palms/5310/

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From: [e-mail] (Wayno)
Subject: (exotica) Jim Copp & Ed Brown
Date: 26 Feb 1997 19:17:19 -0500 (EST)

Candi Strecker wrote recently about the absolutely brilliant children's
albums by Jim Copp and Ed Brown. Way to go, Candi! These albums (there were
originally 9 released) are classics. I missed them as a kid, but while
attending the University of Pittsburgh in the late 70s, a chum let me
borrow his beat-up copy of "A Journey to San Francisco with the Glups."
After that I searched for a copy for years. It's a wonderful, surreal epic
about a hapless family of New Englander named Glup. Humor with a dark edge
that doesn't patronize the listener.

Ed Brown passed away in 1978, and shortly thereafter, Copp put Playhouse
into semi-retirement. Encouraged by filmmaker and Copp/Brown fan Ted Leyhe,
Copp recently revived the label, issuing cassette versions of the original
albums and new CD collections.

Last time I was in contact with them, very few LPs were available, but
they're worth asking about. The records usually came in gatefold sleeves,
with inserts, game pieces, etc. There are two CD compilations available,
with unreleased bonus cuts.

You can call Playhouse toll-free at 1-800-613-6968, or steer your
web-browser to <http://members.aol.com/playhytone> and read reviews from
Atlantic Monthly, a Copp interview from NPR, and get the scoop on the
recordings.

When you order, you might want to ask Mr. Copp to autograph your purchase.
Tell 'em Wayno sent you.

From East of Flumdiddle,

Wayno

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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Bullet-Proof Hits
Date: 26 Feb 1997 19:37:12 -0800

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> I would like to offer my appreciation of a few tunes which i find to be handy
> when deciding whether or not  to buy a record. In my experience there are
> some tunes which always sound great no matter who's doing them. They are:
> Caravan, Peter Gunn theme and Night Train.  Anybody else feel the same way?
>  Have any other surefire indicaters of an LP's worth? Any other tunes  which
> have bulletproof status?

<plug on>
This is precisely the genesis of my web site, the Exotica Standards.
Check it out for background on songs, songwriters, arrangers, performers,
and recordings of tunes like:

Caravan
Peter Gunn
Quiet Village
Hawaiian War Chant
Moonglow/Theme from "Picnic"
Harlem Nocturne
The Breeze and I
Tico Tico

and my favorite, The Third Man Theme.

... for which a 110-minute compilation, "All Third Man, All the Time," is
available for a blank tape and $3 for packaging and postage.

Check out the Exotica Standards site at:

http://www.netrail.net/~bbigelow/index.htm

and EMail me if you're interested in the Third Man tape.

<plug off>

Brad

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From: Peter Ledebur <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Music for Better Living Playlist
Date: 26 Feb 1997 21:52:17 -0500

          *** Feb. 26th ***

M'Gambo Mambo -- MARTIN DENNY (Primitiva)
Soul Bossa Nova -- QUINCY JONES (V/A - Cocktail Mix Vol.2)
Taboo -- TITO RIVERA & HIS CUBAN ORCHESTRA (Cha Cha Cha)
Magnificent Seven -- AL CAIOLA (The Best of)
La Dolce Vita -- CHET ATKINS (Travelin')
Alley Cat -- LIVING GUITARS (The Big Guitar Sound)
How Insensitive -- TONY MOTTOLA (Lush, Latin & Lovely)
Un Jour Comme Un Autre -- BRIGITTE BARDOT (Bubble Gum)
Perfidia -- SKIP MARTIN (Perspectives in Percussion Vol.1)
Blue Moon -- LOS ADMIRADORES (Bongos)
That Old Black Magic -- ENOCH LIGHT (Command Performances)
Danube Incident -- LALO SCHIFRIN (Mission: Anthology)
Crazy Kisses -- SANDY WARNER (Fair & Warner)
Goldfinger -- COUNT BASIE & HIS ORCHESTRA (V/A - Saxophobia)
Love Is Just Around the Corner -- THE MONTEREY BRASS (Great Songs from Movies)
Fly Me to the Moon -- BILLY MURE'S SUPERSONIC GUITARS (Teen Bossa Nova)
Perdido -- KEITH TEXTOR (Sounds Terrific!)
Theme from "Exodus" -- EARL GRANT (Ebb Tide)
Green Eyes -- BOB FLORENCE BIG BAND (V/A - Shaken, not Stirred)
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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jimmie Haskel-Countdown
Date: 26 Feb 1997 19:28:31 -0800

Anyone here have Jimmie Haskel Orchestra - Countdown
on Imperial ?

Jack


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) An instrumental is not a song
Date: 26 Feb 1997 19:35:21 -0800

Like the subject says;  An instrumental is not a song

You guys and ladies are calling Instrumenatls "Songs".  A song is sung

Instros are not sung because of the obvious.

Someone e-mailed me the other day asking about a spoken word piece I played
and they asked
"What is the name of that SONG you played about..."

I said a spoken word piece is not a song and you guys, which includes you
ladies are even worse

Get it together.  It's not that difficult

Jack


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Insects
Date: 26 Feb 1997 19:37:12 -0800

I would like to know if someone of You know about any records with
>insect-sounds?

The intro to 10 Victim are insect sounds

Jack


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: One-hit bullets
Date: 26 Feb 1997 22:49:29 -0500

Brad plugged:
>a 110-minute compilation, "All Third Man, All the Time," is available for a
blank tape and $3 for packaging and postage.
>Check out the Exotica Standards site at:
http://www.netrail.net/~bbigelow/index.htm

<BANG>
Heartily recommend both of those, natch. Other comps of one song to take a
bullet by:

The continuing saga of something like FIVE hours of the Hawaiian War Chant
(have to check and see if the shooter is still allowing them out of the armory).

And from yours truly (90+ mins.):

Patricia, It's Patricia (the Prado mambo -- an insidious but glorious stereo
bongo fest)
Tea For Two Cha Cha (deadly -- even a T42 Ska as the intermission number)

More or less the same deal as Brad's.
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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jack Sheldon/Bob Dorough
Date: 26 Feb 1997 19:49:48 -0800

Apparently Dorough worked
>up a big band chart arrangement of "Conjunction Junction" for Jack Sheldon to
>do (Jack's a big band trombonist).

Ahem, excuse me.  Jack Sheldon is NOT a big band trombonist sir.

He is though one of THE KILLIN'EST WEST COAST JAZZ TRUMPETERS THIS SIDE OF
MILES DAVIS.

His was a major west coast studio guy that backed up every singer on ALL the
major labels.

His jazz records are EXTREMELY RARE and desireable

He eventually ended up on the Merv Griffin Variety show in the 70's leading
a crack all star orchestra that also included the likes of Shelly Manne,
Herb Ellis and Ray Brown.

He is also a tremendously funny guy too as in comedy, whoa! what a stretch
for a musician (sarcasm is a tough call on a pewter screen)

Jack Sheldon is hardly a trombonist

Bob Dorough is pretty damn wonderful too.  His 1st lp came out on Bethlehem
circa 1955 that is that OfF KiLtER vOcAl sTYle that is jazz and also PoP
Almost talk/singing.  Find everything you can by the guy and BUY IT NOW!

Jack "I'm here to fuck wit yo shit" Diamond


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Airto
Date: 26 Feb 1997 23:24:11 -0500 (EST)

Johan,
Look for his "Fingers" LP with the blood red hand on the cover, probably on
CTI.  Came out before "Free", and not really fusion, but gorgeous  melodic
party music with his Brazilain/Uraguayan touring band from the early 70's,
not the jazz all-stars on "Free".  Fingers has some cool Portuguese scattin,
fantastic long groove jams, and sweet electric guitar from David Amaro.
 Maybe around half of Fingers is on the recent Best of Airto mid-price CD, a
nice intro to him.  He put out an earlier LP called "Seeds in the Ground",
which has a cool cover of Airto buried in the sand holding some unusual
percussion instruments, but it isn't as rollicking as Fingers.  I prefer the
early Airto to his later fusioney stuff, cuz i saw him live many times with
his early touring bands and what a showman, funny, engaging, and joyously in
love with his music !  Once when his bass player was late Airto did a
mind-blowing 20 minute improv on berimbau and hand-carved bird whistles,
which he would dig out of a big grab bag and just mess with til he got a
thing goin on.  He occasionally sat in with the Dead during Drums/Space, and
was all over the early 70's jazz scene primarily as a percussionist, but
played great traps too.  Some substance problems got his wife Flora in
trouble with immigration, so they couldnt't come to the US for a while.
My apologies to the list old-timers, as I posted some of this info about a
year ago, but those Airto shows are up there with my all-time faves, and his
energy far overwhelms some of the boring latin stuff i've bought lately.

JB  (B for Berimbau) Twist


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From: [e-mail] (Candi Strecker)
Subject: (exotica) Re: One-hit bullets
Date: 26 Feb 1997 21:02:37 -0600

In the spirit if not the genre of

>>a 110-minute compilation, "All Third Man, All the Time,"
>
>The continuing saga of something like FIVE hours of the Hawaiian War Chant
>
>Patricia, It's Patricia (the Prado mambo
>(and)
>Tea For Two Cha Cha (deadly -- even a T42 Ska as the intermission number)


- - I used to have a tape I made off the air of one of KPFA's bluegrass djs
playing 90 minutes' worth of different versions of "Corrina, Corrina."
Sheer bliss.

(Don't believe I have it any more so don't ask me to dub you a copy of it!)

- Candi

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From: Bruce Rhodewalt <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lyman reviews
Date: 26 Feb 1997 21:51:59 -0800

>
> From: [e-mail] (David Trezza)
> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 09:28:09 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: (exotica) Lyman reviews
>
> Can somebody give a review of Lyman's "Leis of Jazz" and "Legend of
> Pele" LPs.  These are two that I've yet to come across and want
> some info on how they rate against other Lymans such as Taboo and
> Bwana A'.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dago

David,

I'm hardly a disinterested observer, but I would rate both of those
required.  You can hear a small sample from each at my tribute pages:
http://www.tikipub.com/lyman

By the way, I recently got a call from someone who stumbled on this site
and who claims to be a friend of Arthur's trying to help him track down
information about CDs.  (Based on a number of details, I believe him.)
A story we've all heard many variations of: Artist loses track of
recordings which resurface unbeknownst to him.

Bruce Rhodewalt
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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: One-hit bullets
Date: 26 Feb 1997 23:58:42 -0800

Tony Wilds wrote:
>
> Brad plugged:
> >a 110-minute compilation, "All Third Man, All the Time," is available for a
> blank tape and $3 for packaging and postage.
> >Check out the Exotica Standards site at:
> http://www.netrail.net/~bbigelow/index.htm
>
> <BANG>
> Heartily recommend both of those, natch. Other comps of one song to take a
> bullet by:

I've been working on a "Wichita Lineman" comp for awhile now. Not quite
enough to fill a whole 90 minute tape yet, though...

pea
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From: Ariel Tagar <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re: *I*N*S*E*C*T*S*
Date: 27 Feb 1997 14:06:33 +0200

2 insects related tracks:
KLAUS WUNDERLICH- Super star sound (Hammond Gala)
track 1- Hummelflug.

MONEY MARK's latest solo album -Mark's keyboard repair
track 7- "INSECTS ARE ALL AROUND US"
ariel.

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From: "R. Mike Murray" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Jonathan and Darlene Edwards
Date: 27 Feb 1997 07:59:04 -0500 (EST)

At 10:01 PM 2/26/97 -0500, you wrote:

> -- Jonathan Edwards - The Piano Artistry of : Could someone please refresh my memory as to Jonathan & Darlene's real names? I think I know, but I'd hate to have it wrong and make a fool out of myself on the air.

Jonathan and Darlene Edwards were actually the late Paul Weston and Jo Stafford

Cheers
Mike Murray

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) *I*N*S*E*C*T*S*
Date: 27 Feb 1997 14:36:42 +0000

Magnus wrote:

> I would like to know if someone of You know about any records
> with insect-sounds?

How about "Insects are All Around Us", a track on Money Mark's recent
CD "Mark's Keyboard Repair"(Mo Wax MW054) - has instructions on how
to tell the temperature by listening to crickets!

Also I have vague memories of a UK band The Startled Insects who made
some interesting music though it's quite probable that they never
actually used the sound of insects...

Bzzz


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Synthetic Plastics - the Enoch connection
Date: 27 Feb 1997 14:36:42 +0000

Hey - I just spotted in Richard Gradone's doctoral dissertation on
Enoch Light that he was an A&R man for Prom records - a division of
Synthetic Plastics - from 1953-54!

Light also made numerous kids records at Lincoln from 1950-1952.

I've not heard *any* of these though I can imagine Enoch recording
for kids might have been quite fun!

Full listings on the website.


Robbie

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From: "Alex V. Cook" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) One-hit bullets/Playtape
Date: 27 Feb 1997 09:08:22 -0800

> > >a 110-minute compilation, "All Third Man, All the Time," is available for a
> > blank tape and $3 for packaging and postage.
> > >Check out the Exotica Standards site at:
> > http://www.netrail.net/~bbigelow/index.htm

> I've been working on a "Wichita Lineman" comp for awhile now. Not quite
> enough to fill a whole 90 minute tape yet, though...
>

a friend of mine did a a 90-minute tape of "Caravan" that is brilliant,
but I don't know if it's available for trade or whatever.

but, i'm inspired now. I've been wanting to do a 60-minute 8-track of
"One Note Samba" to use as a sound track to an art show. I'll let the
list know if it ever comes out on tape.

On a side note, I have an old 2-track Playtape player called the
"hipster" that came with a Righteous Brothers tape. Does anyone know
about these things, or has some tapes they wish to dispence with.

Good article on Playtape from 8-Track Mind:
http://www.bway.net/~abbot/8track/playtape.html

later,
alex



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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: (exotica) Schoolhouse Rock
Date: 27 Feb 1997 10:53:57 -0500

     One more side note on this thread...found out yesterday that
Dick Hyman and Zoot Sims played on a several Schoolhouse Rock tracks.


Anita

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From: [e-mail] (Johan Dada Vis)
Subject: (exotica) Re: Children's Records
Date: 27 Feb 1997 19:02:08 +0100

>From: Candi Strecker

>>Jim Copp and Ed
>>Brown. (..)
>>Playhouse Records
>>Box 36061
>>Los Angeles,CA
>>90036

>For anyone interested, at least one of these extravaganzas is available on
>CD

        could you give a title please? are they filed as Jim Copp & Ed Brown?
        thanx!
        Johan
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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 2 or more on 1 LP = BUY IT!
Date: 27 Feb 1997 10:18:25 -0800

Off the top o' my head I'd have to say;

Poinciana
Caravan
Bali Hai
Tabu
Taboo
Quiet Village
Moon of Manakoora
Hawaiian Wedding Song
Hawaiian War Chant
Miserlou
Malaguena
Cherokee
Peter Gunn
Richard Diamond (no relation)
Riff Blues
Echo Four Two
The Saint
I Spy
Sleepwalk
Holiday for Strings
Experiment in Terror
Baby Elephant Walk
Walk on The Wild Side
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Toy Parade (Leave it to Beaver)
Batman

Any 2 of these on 1 LP is a sure winner

More later

Jack


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From: [e-mail] (John Jones)
Subject: (exotica) Hava nagila(sp?)
Date: 27 Feb 1997 18:34:47 GMT

Bob Dylan's version of Hava nagila is surely the standard by which all
others must be judged....;)

John

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Funeral music
Date: 27 Feb 1997 14:52:04 -0500

I just came across the following in the rec.music.collecting.vinyl
newsgroup.
It's an obvious topic that I haven't seen discussed before, let alone
thought about myself.
I haven't settled on my choice yet -- though the first thing I though
of was No Woman No Cry -- just wondering if anyone out there has
written any exotica into their wills.

-Lou

>I read an article in the paper the other day about people these days
>asking for pop records to played at thier funerals. The favourite one
>in the UK at the moment being Whitney Houston "I will always love you"
>Anyway what about starting a thread about what we folks would like?
>So folks what's your choice. Regards, Steve


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From: [e-mail] (Candi Strecker)
Subject: (exotica) Insects
Date: 27 Feb 1997 11:58:55 -0600


>I would like to know if someone of You know about any records with
>>insect-sounds?

Not exactly what you're looking for but pretty cool anyway: Eno's "The
Great Pretender" on TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN BY STRATEGY. It opens with a
rhythm established by an insistent, sinister, scraping cricket-like sound
(electronically generated, I believe), which drops into the background
during the lyrics of the song, then at the end return to the forefront,
loud, relentless, throbbing, for what seems like a very very long time. I
think that on the vinyl version, this cut (which was the last on the side)
ended with an endlessly repeating inner groove so that if you were too
stoned to get up and pick up the needle yourself, you'd have sinister
crickets all night long ... or else there were just so many minutes of the
cricket sound at the end of the song that you'd THINK it was in an endless
groove.

Candi


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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) another eno fan!
Date: 27 Feb 1997 15:10:51 -0400

Eno ain't exotica, but I'm so glad you brought him up.  That early stuff
is GENIOUS, and I think he is under-rated for the wrong reasons, and
over-rated for the wrong ones, too...Although SWASTIKA GIRLS and MUSIC
FOR AIRPORTS, FILMS, might be the exotica of the FYYYOOO-TUREEEE...We'll
see...
Lounge Laura

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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) LIST DROP OFF
Date: 27 Feb 1997 15:13:02 -0400

It does seem like this is occurring.  I am still having as much fun as I
ever did on this list...and there are a lot of new names as of late.  I
want to know two things from newbies:
1.  Who lives in Florida?
2.  Who lives in Massachusettes, or extremely nearby?
Thanks,
Lounge Laura-"Stuck inside of Tampa, with the Boston blues
agaaaaiiiiinnnn....."

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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) RE: Re: another eno fan!
Date: 27 Feb 1997 15:30:53 -0400

Hey, some use bird calls, others insects...He's the Martin Denny of glam
rock!
Oh yeah, the New York Dolls  STRANDED IN THE JUNGLE is about as
Denny-on-crack as you can get!

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Candi Strecker wrote:
>>Eno ain't exotica, but I'm so glad you brought him up.  That early
stuff
>>is GENIUS, ...Although SWASTIKA GIRLS and MUSIC
>>FOR AIRPORTS, FILMS, might be the exotica of the
FYYYOOO-TUREEEE...We'll
>>see..
>
>You go girl - - Eno Rules! Though I think he's as exotica as can be ...
my
>definition may be looser than yours, of course... (My definition is
pretty
>much "anything I LIKE that's the slightest bit out of the mainstream is
>exotica")
>
>Best, Candi
>
>^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
>
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>



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From: "Robert P. Krajewski" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Baxter's Manchurian Beat
Date: 27 Feb 1997 20:20:59 -0500

So, I was checking out the "Collector's Edition" laserdisc of _The
Manchurian Candidate_ last night. One of the frames in the "promotional
items" supplement was a 45 by Les Baxter. It was hard to read the
accompanying blurb, but the b-side of the single was definitely called
"The Manchurian Beat."

So, anybody encounter this artifact ? It would be pretty amusing to hear
how Baxter used (or didn't use) the mostly uneasy musical themes of the
film in a beat-combo single...

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From: "Brad Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Insects...
Date: 27 Feb 1997 20:52:41 PST

A friend of mine once pointed out (and there is some validity to this) that
on some of Jon Hassell's "fourth world" recordings with Brian Eno, his
electronically processed trumpet sounds remarkably like a flying insect
trapped in a jar.  Mind you, I'm a fan, but I've not been able to listen to
those recordings since without noting that similarity.

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From: basic hip <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Funeral music
Date: 27 Feb 1997 20:11:59 -0800

Lou Smith wrote:

> >I read an article in the paper the other day about people these days
> >asking for pop records to played at thier funerals.

"...i see clearly that to die and be released is BETTER for me.  The hour of departure
has arrived, we go our ways, i to die, you to live.  which is better?  god only knows".

from poitier meets plato

please spin mancini's bateau mouche from charade when my hour arrives.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) pucho info?
Date: 27 Feb 1997 23:39:19 -0500 (EST)

Saw this cd that looked great - Pucho and the Soul Brothers. Can't remember
the name but the first cut is a Curtis Mayfield Medley (Superfly, Freddie's
Dead and 1 other) and one of the instruments listed is a "sitar guitar".
Anyone heard this?

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Baxter's Manchurian Beat
Date: 28 Feb 1997 02:02:25 -0500

At 08:20 PM 2/27/97 -0500, you wrote:
>So, I was checking out the "Collector's Edition" laserdisc of _The
>Manchurian Candidate_ last night. One of the frames in the "promotional
>items" supplement was a 45 by Les Baxter. It was hard to read the
>accompanying blurb, but the b-side of the single was definitely called
>"The Manchurian Beat."
>
>So, anybody encounter this artifact ? It would be pretty amusing to hear
>how Baxter used (or didn't use) the mostly uneasy musical themes of the
>film in a beat-combo single...

Wow! Love for Baxter and gargantuan hope for this turning up will have to
take a back seat. This is one of the greatest films ever. It was "buried"
for many years bc of the Kennedy assassination (uncanny similarities in the
theme of the film) and Cold War nonsense. Mercifully, it was rescued,
restored, and re-released a few years ago. Those who haven't yet, do not
fail to see it. It deserves its place in the American canon every bit as
much as Citizen Kane and It's a Wonderful Life. Maybe it's a wack
association, but the excellent "The Prisoner" series, in all its Kafka-esque
glory, owes considerable spiritual debt to this masterpiece. And man, that
Les Baxter was one heavy cat. Heunh!

Impressed. Very.
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Composer's Ghostwriter: Revealed
Date: 28 Feb 1997 00:42:15 -0400

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> The Film Muisc List has decided that the composer in the story is
> FRANCES LAI - leaning heavily on the 'oscar-winner' clue.
>
> Date:    Tue, 25 Feb 1997 08:36:42 +0000
> From:    Geoff Leonard <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Mystery composer
>
> I wasn't sure whether I should post this or not, but since the answer I
> have been given (anonymously) appears not to show the composer in such a
> bad light I will do so.  Thanks to all for their contributions and I
> trust I didn't upset too many!
>
> FRANCES LAI's 'ghost' was somebody named Christian Gaubert, I believe.
> "They" did A Man and a Woman, Live for Life, Love Story and about a
> dozen others. Lai could NOT write music, but he could "whistle" into a
> tape recorder (to give him full credit!) and Christian would greatly
> 'DEVELOP' this into the masterpiece it finally was!  He had a great gift
> for lovely melodies!
> --Geoff Leonard
>
>
> Date:    Tue, 25 Feb 1997 12:52:13 -0600
> From:    demary <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: Mystery Composer
>
> > FRANCES LAI's 'ghost' was somebody named Christian Gaubert, I believe.
>
> Thank goodness that's over.  At least, Peter B. deserves a prize for
> knowing what an "internationally renown" composer is, even if it wasn't the
> right one.  If I had a prize, I'd give to you, Pete.
>
> Sunday, I encoded:
>
> >F riends! Surely
> >r eason should tell you that
> >a mere mystery is
> >n ot a sufficient
> >c ause to speculate
> >i n the dark about a
> >s uspected non-talent.
>
> >L ikely, no one who knows will tell,
> >a nd making wild speculations
> >i n public only besmirches good reputations.
>
> Tom DeMary
> gutless wonder
> ----------------------------
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Singing Science Records
Date: 28 Feb 1997 8:44:54 +0100

A bit late on the children's records thread here, but is
anyone familiar with the "Singing Science Records"?
Subtitled "Ballads for the age of science", they were a
series on the Motivation record label apparently released
in the 60's: "A remarkable combination of charming melodies
and delightful lyrics, they contain an amazing amount of
scientific information", the liner notes claim. The only ones
I have, "Nature Songs" and "More Nature Songs", consist
of rather obnoxious songs like "How Does a Frog Become
a Frog" and "What Are the Parts of a Flower", sung in an
out-of-tune deadpan delivery by the duo Joseph Marais
and Miranda, who, by the way, sound very British.

A few of the others in the series look decidedly more promising,
especially "Experiment Songs" ("songs that introduce such
phenomena as magnetism, heating by friction, evaporation")
and not least "Space Songs" ("a delightful song-journey into
outer space"). I was wondering if anybody had heard these?

I thought I had found "Weather Songs" at a flea-market a few
weeks ago, but the sleeve turned out to contain a Tina Charles
LP, and I failed to find the matching disc... Damn!

Ingemar



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From: [e-mail] (Jill Mingo)
Subject: (exotica) EASY NOW SOUND playlist, Feb. 23.
Date: 28 Feb 1997 05:21:11 -0700 (MST)

If this has been sent twice, I apologize, but I sent it last night to the
list, and it hasn't appeared yet. I have been having a few problems with my
email and server. So bear with me....

Again, the playlist for my show on Subcity Radio, 106.2FM, Glasgow, Sunday
from 4-6pm.

JAMES BOND & HIS SEXTET "You Only Live Twice" (Hi-fi/Rykodisc)
TAK SHINDO "Poinciana" (Capitol)
LEW HOWARD ALL STARS "Rock Funk" (Trunk)
JIMI TENOR "Wiping Out" (Warp)
HUGO MONTENEGRO "Moog Power" (RCA Victor)
ANDRE PREVIN "Executive Dance Party" (United Artists)
CURD DUCA "Moon Bossa" (own label)
RICHARD HAYMAN & WALTER SEAR "The Look of Love" (Command)
CHRIS MONTEZ "Little Red Riding Hood" (A&M)
CLAUDINE LONGET "When I'm 64" (A&M)
SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL 66 "The Frog" (A&M)
ROLAND SHAW & HIS ORCHESTRA "Let the Love Come Through" (Deram)
KORLA PANDIT "The Magnetic Theme" (SFTRI)
ARTHUR LYMAN "Bwana a" (Hi Fi)
LES BAXTER FEAT. BAS SHEVA "Despair" (Oriental Pacific)
LEW HOWARD ALL STARS "Mysterioso Melancholia" (Trunk)
TIPSY "Nude on the Moon" (Asphodel)
ENOCH LIGHT & HIS LIGHT BRIGADE "Marrakesh Express" (Project 3)
DICK HYMAN "Topless Dancers of Corfu" (Command)
MICHEL LEGRAND "Come Ray and Come Charles" (Deram)
ASTRUD GILBERTO "Nega" (Verve)
SERGE GAINSBOURG "Comic Strip" (Phillips)
DIONNE WARWICK "Are You There with Another Girl" (UA)
NANCY SINATRA & LEE HAZLEWOOD "Arkansas Coal" (RCA)
LEE HAZLEWOOD "In Our Time" (MGM)
SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK "Unpack Your Adjectives" (Kid Rhino)
HOT BUTTER "Mah-Na Mah-Na" (Intercord)
MR. SPOCK "Highly Illogical" (Verese Serabande)
JULIE LONDON "I Remember You" (Liberty)
ENNIO MORRICONE "La Lucertola" (Colosseum)
JIMI TENOR "Atlantis" (Warp)
GARY MOSCHELLES "Goodbye Jazz People" (SSR)




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Funeral Music
Date: 28 Feb 1997 07:13:29 -0500

     Louie Louie by The Kingsmen

     Me gotta go.
     Craig

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Funeral Music
Date: 28 Feb 1997 09:43:30 -0500

Eitther "Yellow Days" by Willie Bobo
"Si Mi Pierdo En La Vida" by Miguel Poventud(with Yomo Toro)
I don't know Poventud is/was but it's a beautiful song and it reminds me of
my late father.

Star-Crossed Lovers - Abdullah Ibrahim's version of Duke Ellington's song.

Kyrie Eleison from the Messe de Notre Dame by Guillame de Machaut

In "Passed Away" with Bob Hoskins, at the after-funeral gathering a singer
sang a wonderful song ("Mary's Wedding") that was played at the deceased's
wedding, which was the best moment in the film.

So, if I wanted an upbeat note (because I am a upbeat A+ Lunch Bunch kind
of guy), perhaps I would choose:

Bed - Flanders & Swann
Brown-Eyed Handsome Man - Chuck Berry(MAYBE not the best idea in a church,
the offended could speak to me afterwards)

If I wished to annoy people:

Lift Every Voice and Sing - Shooby Taylor(people would rush the casket at
the sound of his "EE-doodley-blobby!")

If I collapsed right now:

Play Beep-beep-meep(911) and get me to the hospital!

If I died disgraced:

"Death of a Scoundrel" (Main Title) - Max Steiner.

At the very end of the funeral and if the record existed,
"Get Up, Get Out of Here and Go Home" - Buddy Bolden...well that's how HE
ended his shows.

Waking in the list that is thinking about the Endless Sleep,
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Insects...
Date: 28 Feb 1997 09:59:22 -0500

In 1995 BMG/Milan released The Residents "Hunters: The World Of Preditors
And Prey".
This is the soundtrack to a 10 part Discovery Channel TV series.
Track 10 is The Crawling Kingdom, with lots of synthesized and possibly
sampled insect sounds.
The music is typical instrumental Residents work and, given the subject,
full of primal unease.
--Lou


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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Singing Science Records
Date: 28 Feb 1997 10:14:38 -0500

At 08:44 AM 2/28/97 +0100, you wrote:
>A bit late on the children's records thread here, but is
>anyone familiar with the "Singing Science Records"?
> The only ones
>I have, "Nature Songs" and "More Nature Songs", consist
>of rather obnoxious songs like "How Does a Frog Become
>a Frog" and "What Are the Parts of a Flower", sung in an
>out-of-tune deadpan delivery by the duo Joseph Marais
>and Miranda, who, by the way, sound very British.
>
Marais & Miranda (husband and wife) are South African.
-Lou


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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: (exotica) Is it a Dream...Or a Dud?
Date: 28 Feb 1997 11:02:02 -0500

Hi! There's this record I see everytime I go to this one flea market--it's
on Wyncote and it's by the Cheltenham orchestra. The title is "Born Free",
but it has all these cool generic jungle titles lile "Kulianga Kill" (or
something like that), "Jungle Beat" and seems really neat. I've been let
down by these low-budget LPs before, so I'm nervous. Should I buy it?

Any advice will be appreciated!

Love, Jessica ^_^

PS--did Frank Hunter make any other worthy LPs besides "White Goddess"? Just
asking.


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From: [e-mail] (Jessica Cameron)
Subject: (exotica) MONDO movies
Date: 28 Feb 1997 11:04:33 -0500

Can anyone recommend some good Mondo movie soundtracks? I love Mondo Cane
and Mondo Cane No. 2, and if I'm not mistaken, a lot of these soundtracks
were released in America to cash in on "Mondo Cane" (and "More", naturually).

Thanks for any help!

Love, Jessica ^_^


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From: [e-mail] (ANITA SERWACKI)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Singing Science Records
Date: 28 Feb 1997 10:45:41 -0500

>A few of the others in the series look decidedly more promising,
>especially "Experiment Songs" ("songs that introduce such
>phenomena as magnetism, heating by friction, evaporation")
>and not least "Space Songs" ("a delightful song-journey into
>outer space"). I was wondering if anybody had heard these?

I've got "Space Songs" and "Weather Songs".  Music by the Tony
Mottola Orchestra. If I remember correctly, there's a bossa nova
about lightening on "Weather Songs". Ya never can tell where those
Light Brigade folks are going to surface.

anita

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From: Kerry Keane <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Children's Records
Date: 25 Feb 1997 08:19:58 -0600 (CST)


Does anyone have the Songs of Science and Nature series by Miranda and
Marais?  I think those are the names.  I've got a couple of these and
they're extremely witty folk songs about science and nature.  I think
someone well-known in the folk world wrote some of the songs.  What's great
about them is that Marais has this really over-the-top mannered
fey singing style, while the woman's voice is really pristine.  They
play off each other really well, especially when singing words like,
"We are all solid members of the rock family,
 There's metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary."

There's also one that goes something like,

"What is a fossil, one thing is true--
 I'm not a fossil and neither are you."


These records reminded me of the Incredible String Band for some reason.

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From: Jonathan Perl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Anyone seen this?
Date: 28 Feb 1997 18:00:00 +0000


Take a look at this:
http://www.101strings.com/

Very interesting to anyone who has read or would like to read Joseph Lanza's
'Elevator Music'

Jonny

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From: Kerry Keane <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) pucho inf
Date: 28 Feb 1997 09:10:40 -0600 (CST)


I think I saw that one too.  Unfortunately, I was too broke to buy it.
Is that the one that had something called Psychedelic Soul or something
like that on it?  I swear there was a CD that combined Latin, Psych and Soul,
which to me is the ultimate combination.  If anyone's heard this--please
let us know.  I could kick myself for being so cheap.

I also saw some CDs once called "Sitar Rock".  It's a guy from India
playing rock songs on a sitar.  There were all these critic's blurbs on
the CD, but I don't take any stock in that.  They were expensive, so I
passed on them, thinking that it could be some horrid, slick NPR-friendly
ethno-pop record.  But the title made me salivate.


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From: Paul Lewis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New material
Date: 28 Feb 1997 15:50:56 -0500 (EST)


This list has really fallen off lately...  There have been the occasional
gem of a post, but the signal/noise ration has dropped rapidly.  It seems
like anything besides Top 40 records is fair game here.  Maybe we can get
a little more focused.

So, I thought an interesting thread might be a discussion of LPs that
were either huge surprises or huge disappointments.  I'll give a couple
of moogy examples:

SURPRISE:

Jean Jacques Perrey:  Moog Indigo
  I found this in a store and based on a recommendation, I picked it up.
MAN ALIVE there is some funked out shit on this record.  The first side
is a damned trip...  Soul City and E.V.A. will knock you down once the
needle drops...  sure there are some wacked out goofy space sounds ala
standard Moog weirdness, but the funkiness cannot be denied.  The
'Flight of the Bumblebee' will shock and surprise.  Forget Side
2... it's almost a complete wash.  Still, pick up this record and funk
out...


DISAPPOINTMENT:

Enoch Light:  Spaced Out
  I found myself a mint copy of this record and salivated as I slapped it
on the turntable...  DAMN was I was dropped by some real cheesy late 60's
electric brass sitcom theme crud.  Bach, Beatles and Bacharach done wrong.


pick up the thread...


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From: "Alex V. Cook" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "Jamaican Ska" on Diplomat
Date: 28 Feb 1997 13:55:29 -0800

I was looking at the back of a Diplomat (or whatever label has "Popular
Favorites" on the back cover) cut out LP ("Hawaii Goes Percussive" I
think) and in the other titles of polka and xmas albums there was one
called "Jamaican Ska." Does anybody have this one? Drop me a line if'n
ya do.

no record no cry,
alex
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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) See Laura!
Date: 28 Feb 1997 15:38:00 -0400

http://www.Nashville.Net/~theremin/TBandsNZ.html

Is where you can see a new pic and read all about my new band, THEE
CRYPTKICKER 5.  It's on Jason Blue Barile's fab THEREMIN HOME
PAGE....under BANDS CURRENTLY USING THEREMINS (n-z)
p-s to Jason:  THANKS! It's fine where it is!
Lounge Laura

"It's just my nature to do weird stuff..."-Mr.  Leslie Baxter
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From: Laura Taylor <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) I Like Johnny, but not Scooby(shoot me!)
Date: 28 Feb 1997 16:27:42 -0400


          ! ENTERTAINMENT !

Songwriter Ben Raleigh dies in fire


    (Los Angeles)  The man who wrote the words to both JohnnyáMathis' song
''Wonderful, Wonderful'' and the theme to the cartoonáshow ''Scooby
Doo'' has died.
    Ben Raleigh died in a kitchen fire. He was 83.
    A spokesman for the coroner's office in Los Angeles says Raleigháwas
cooking in his apartment when a burner set his robe on fire.
    Raleigh won a Grammy Award for writing the Lou Rawls hit ''Loveáis a
Hurtin' Thing.'' He also wrote ''Tell Laura I Love Her'' foráRay
Peterson.

    (sound: upcoming)


    (Copyright 1997 by The Associated Press.  All Rights Reserved.)

APNP-02-28-97 1602EST



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) I Got Tipsy....
Date: 28 Feb 1997 22:38:33 -0500 (EST)

I got "Tipsy " and it's great!  Not for purists as it contains a fair amount
of electronics and even some turntable scratching, but I'm having a party
just to play the thing in a suitable atmosphere.

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) An instrumental is not a song
Date: 27 Feb 1997 09:53:41 -0500

At 07:35 PM 2/26/97 -0800, you wrote:
>Like the subject says;  An instrumental is not a song
>You guys and ladies are calling Instrumenatls "Songs".  A song is sung
>Instros are not sung because of the obvious.
>Get it together.  It's not that difficult
>Jack

Random House Dictionary Of The English Language, Second Edition:
SONG,n., 1...  2.a musical piece adapted for singing or simulating a piece
to be sung: Mendelssohn's "Songs Without Words."
Lou


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From: miguelito bandito <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) theremin albums?
Date: 25 Feb 1997 15:48:12 -0500 (EST)


does anyone have any suggestions on the best theremin albums
or reissues? Is "The Day the Earth Stood Still" as good as it sounds?
justa wonderin...

mike
davidson college, nc

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Funeral music
Date: 27 Feb 1997 15:51:23 -0500

>pop records [dead people want] played at their funerals


Dying: Don't Sing Aloha When I Go -- Marty Robbins

During interment: Who's Sorry Now -- Barry Sisters or Connie Francis

After the grass is growing: Zombie Jamboree -- Duke Errol and the Lords


Bet P.Hix has some good ones.


Mr. Dyeingly Sad
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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Singing Science Records
Date: 28 Feb 1997 13:38:16 -0500

At 10:14 AM 2/28/97 -0500, you wrote:
>At 08:44 AM 2/28/97 +0100, you wrote:
>>A bit late on the children's records thread here, but is
>>anyone familiar with the "Singing Science Records"?


Dorothy Collins, wife of Raymond Scott, did a terrific, valiumatic one
called Science Experiment Songs or something. Definitely was played at the
elementary school in Stepford (for you "Stepford Wives" fans). Think I
recall it from my own edjimicational trauma.

"The Earth is like a great big grapefruit....la la lee"

tony
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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) another eno fan!
Date: 27 Feb 1997 15:23:22 -0400

Hear, Hear!

Eno's first 3 albums changed my life and musical tastes, and the
crickets on Taking Tiger Mountain, which did, indeed, repeat endlessly
at the end of the vinyl, send waves of Proustian nostalgia through me
when I hear them now.  Over this year's Christmas holidays, I house-sat for
someone
who had CD remasterings of these discs, and I felt like I was back in
my 1975 student co-op house, smoking hash and singing along with
Robert Wyatt on the background vocals he adds to at least one of the cuts.

Will
Will Straw
Associate Professor and Acting Director, Graduate Program in Communications/
Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and
Institutions
McGill University
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From: [e-mail] (Richard Earls)
Subject: (exotica) INSECTS
Date: 28 Feb 1997 12:20:30 GMT



I don't know if this is any help but Blanket Warm
by Lullaby For The Working Class on Bar None records
in Hoboken NY has about ten minnutes of insect (cricket ?)
noises after the last track. Presumably to gently lull
you to sleep last thing at night.
The album itself is not really ,I think ,very much
in the style of this list ,but it's good nonetheless.

Cheers

   Richard


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