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From: [e-mail] (ENJOY)
Subject: (exotica) under the covers
Date: 01 Aug 1997 00:19:31 +0800 (SST)


Hello list members!

On a cassette tape of Gilles Petterson's set in Singapore last December, he
dropped a succession of cover tunes which rocked the floor. The first was a
Latinesque/Salsa-ish cover of "Fever" complete with female vocals, then
came a killer cha-cha rendition of The James Bond theme which was quite
groovy and to top it off was a funky version of "Venus".

I've been scouring all stores to find out who's it by since then without
success. Any list members in England who's heard his sets able to
enlightened me please?

On the subject of cover-versions...I'm just curious to know what's everyone
all-time monster cover....the sort that brings a naturalsmile to your face
everytime you put it on.
Mine's Shirley Bassey's Spinning Wheel (Liberty)/Light My Fire (Blue Note)
+ Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66 's "For What It's Worth"

Bobby
zoukclub.com.sg







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From: "Boris Schulz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) They All Played...
Date: 01 Aug 1997 12:12:38 +0000



> How about a program of "Perfidia"?
>
And how about a program of "Fever" Some time ago I started to put
together a C90 tape with all versions of "Fever" but the tape's not
full yet. Which versions do you know???
------------------------

Boris Schulz
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) sacred cows or lionizing pop lions
Date: 01 Aug 1997 13:35:13 -0400 (EDT)


>>how many kids from New Haven (or maybe even Baltimore?) would ever have
>heard real calypso (or blues, or tejano, or ska etc...) without a pop-guide
>to help them along?


Hmmm, I just picked up a Library of Congress release called Folk Music in
America vol.10 - Songs of War and History (1978).

The program notes give some evidence that Duke of Iron himself may have been
a pop-guide/popularizer/missionary of calypso.

The disc includes Duke of Iron and his Calypso Troubadours' CONVOY from 1944.
Here are the notes, written by Donald R. Hill:

Cecil Anderson probably modeled his calypso name after the earlier Iron
Duke, also a Trinidadian singer. Daphne Weekes, an orchestra leader and
sponsor of the annual "Dame Lorraine" Christmas Ball in Manhattan, says that
Anderson often borrowed songs from others. Accompanying himself on the
ukelele, he sang for parties and other affairs in New York's Greenwich
Village until he gained a modest success. He also performed for immigrant
audiences, but apparently was never well known in Trinidad.

--Lou




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From: [e-mail] (Doug Frisby)
Subject: (exotica) Desperatley seeking Swinger
Date: 01 Aug 1997 15:13:12 -0700



     Help!

     Does anyone out there have (and want) to trade their stereo copy of
     "The Swinger" soundtrack??  Please e-mail me privately if you'd be
     willing to part with it. Thanks very much!

     Doug F.
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) 5 Random Things/Sparky?
Date: 02 Aug 1997 09:53:28 -0400 (EDT)



In a message dated 7/30/97 4:47:58 AM, you wrote:

<<This does not fall under the category of "lounge" but i just scored
"Sparky's
Magic Piano" from them.  A kiddie klassic.  Oooooo - that piano's voice is
spooky. >>




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) 5 Random Things/Sparky?
Date: 02 Aug 1997 09:55:28 -0400 (EDT)



In a message dated 8/2/97 1:53:29 PM, you wrote:

<<<This does not fall under the category of "lounge" but i just scored
"Sparky's
Magic Piano" from them.  A kiddie klassic.  Oooooo - that piano's voice is
spooky. >>

What does it sound like ? Is this a cd?
>>




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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) 5 Random Things/Sparky?
Date: 02 Aug 1997 11:10:24 -0400


> From: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: (exotica) 5 Random Things/Sparky?
>
> In a message dated 8/2/97 1:53:29 PM, you wrote:
>
> <<<just scored "Sparky's Magic Piano" from them.  A
>  kiddie klassic.  Oooooo - that piano's voice is spooky. >>
>
> What does it sound like ? Is this a cd?

Yes, I guess it's just been reissued. I see a listing in the Collectors' Choice
Music catalog for "Sparky's Magic Piano and Other Stories" -- I can't figure
out what label (I don't have the disc). According to them it's from 1942. I
remember reading years ago an interview with (of all people) Jeff Beck, where
he went on about it being a big influence on him. Apparently the Magic Piano
had a voice that was created with a piano going through an early vocoder or
voice-box kind of thing. I may have actually heard it somewhere or other at
some time or another, but I may just be remembering my own imagined version of
the sound.

BasicHip can probably tell us more, actually having the disc.

m.ace
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Sparky explained....sort of
Date: 02 Aug 1997 15:56:41 -0400 (EDT)


<< Yes, I guess it's just been reissued. I see a listing in the Collectors'
Choice
 Music catalog for "Sparky's Magic Piano and Other Stories" -- I can't figure
 out what label (I don't have the disc). According to them it's from 1942. I
 remember reading years ago an interview with (of all people) Jeff Beck,
where
 he went on about it being a big influence on him. Apparently the Magic Piano
 had a voice that was created with a piano going through an early vocoder or
 voice-box kind of thing. I may have actually heard it somewhere or other at
 some time or another, but I may just be remembering my own imagined version
of
 the sound.

 BasicHip can probably tell us more, actually having the disc.>>

I'd be happy to fill you in on as much as i can on this all-time great kiddie
record.  Jack Diamond turned me onto Sparky's Magic Piano and Rusty In
Orchestraville.  We were talking children's records, Bozo The Clown and the
like.  He played both for me on his little vintage record player.  Just
amazing, full of imagination.  Shortly after our visit, I learned of the
reissue.

The voice of the piano comes from a "Sonobox", a voice synthesizer you put by
your throat.  The magic piano talks to Sparky in one of his dreams and
enables him become a concert pianist.  In the end, the piano decides that it
won't play for Sparky anymore and he wakes up.

Rusty, Sparky and Bozo records all were released by Capitol.  Written and
produced by Alan Livingston.  Music by Billy May.  Many of the voices which
are used on the Sparky record also are found on Bozo records, including Bozo
himself.

There are four Sparky stories in all...

Sparky's Magic Paino
Sparky's Magic Echo
Sparky And The Talking Train
Sparky's Magic Baton

This is not for everyone, some people may "hear no more" than just a
children's record, so don't rush out to get it.  But, if you have an interest
in original, innovative recordings from days gone by,  than this may be
exactly your cup of tea.




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From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject:       Re: (exotica) Is "Schlager" Exotica?
Date: 03 Aug 1997 01:56:09 EST5EDT


Hi Boris:

> > Hopefully some enlightened German or Germanophile member(s) can
> > shed a bit of light on this music "genre", what it includes, and its
> > relative merits (or lack thereof)... Of course Heino comes
> >first to mind being what I can only describe as Germany's answer
> >to Elvis if there could ever be such a thing!
> I wouldn't say that Heino is the teutonic answer answer to Elvis.
> Though I don't know the complete works of Heino I don't know any
> Elvis or rock'n roll cover by him. An artist who was actually called
> "The German Elvis" is Peter Krauss. The whole performing by him was
> rather upsetting back in the 5o's. I think he is still doing the same old
> stuff probably  being over 60 years now.
Actually I think I meant to make the comparison not so much musically
but relative to cult status. Both Elvis & Heino are I suspect
somewhat unique phenomena in their respective countries. Call me a
masochist but I have to say the concept of a German Elvis is
intriguing in a strange sort fo way...

> > really now, is any of this stuff worth listening to and if so any
> > suggestions would be appreciated.
> I'm living in Germany and I can't think of any stuff which is worth listening to.
> 95 % of these "Schlager" are simply crap and not exotic in any way. Though there
> is a Schlager-revival movement for some time now which is quite popular especially
> in the gay scene. (where they like to dance and sing along with Marianne
> Rosenberg's "Er gehoert zu mir = He belongs to me :-))
> Just one song comes into my mind which is exotic in some sort... It's "Komm mit
> mir nach Afrika" (= Come with me to Africa) with an hilarious text
> sung by a female singer whose name I can't remember now. I will sort it out and
> let you know.
I suspected as much since the few records I've seen here don't look
too interesting.  However you're the second person from Germany to
mention Marianne Rosenberg though now I understand the connection of
the song. But really I mention the German "exotic" connection as
I've been a long time fan of the German AtaTak label. If you listen
to many of the late 70's recordings by Der Plan and Pyrolator there
is a definite "exotic" influence there and I think maybe some fun
being poked at the Schlager scene at the same time. For example
listen to Pyrolator's "Wonderland" and then Martin Denny's "Afro-
Desia". Anyone else see the connection here?

Brian


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From: "Sevo Stille" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Is "Schlager" Exotica?
Date: 03 Aug 1997 11:51:50 +0200



> > > Hopefully some enlightened German or Germanophile member(s) can=20
> > > shed a bit of light on this music "genre", what it includes, and =
its=20
> > > relative merits (or lack thereof)... Of course Heino comes=20
> > >first to mind being what I can only describe as Germany's answer=20
> > >to Elvis if there could ever be such a thing!=20
> > I wouldn't say that Heino is the teutonic answer answer to Elvis.
> > Though I don't know the complete works of Heino I don't know any=20
> > Elvis or rock'n roll cover by him. An artist who was actually called =

> > "The German Elvis" is Peter Krauss. The whole performing by him was=20
> > rather upsetting back in the 5o's. I think he is still doing the =
same old=20
> > stuff probably  being over 60 years now.=20
> Actually I think I meant to make the comparison not so much musically=20
> but relative to cult status. Both Elvis & Heino are I suspect=20
> somewhat unique phenomena in their respective countries. Call me a=20
> masochist but I have to say the concept of a German Elvis is=20
> intriguing in a strange sort fo way...

Well, the big difference certainly is that Heino NEVER had any degree of =

credibility among youths - except maybe parts of the Neo-Nazi movement
(Heino has published records with blatantly nationalist cover notes on=20
a label associated with the biggest Neo-Nazi newspaper). He got a cult=20
status mainly for being ridiculous.

Schlager indeed had the same desire for far away places as Exotica=20
right from its very start - the first huge Schlager hit after WW2, =
"Caprifischer",=20
was fake Italian, and to this day, popular holiday destinations remain =
one=20
of the favourite topics of Schlager. Most Schlager stars were foreign =
(Vico=20
Torriani, Peter Alexander, Karel Gott, Roberto Blanco, Gitte Haenning,=20
Peggy March) or at least sported foreign or exotic sounding pseudonyms=20
(Roy Black, Rex Gildo, Tony Marshall). Heino was the first act to break =
with=20
this "exotic" tradition, with a "German" pseudonym and Schlager =
renditions=20
of German traditionals and marching songs - catering for an audience who =

was considered Schlager dangerous Anglo-American decadence until that=20
time.  This crossover into pop for a traditionalist/reactionary audience =
makes=20
him a German Pat Boone rather than an Elvis...

> > > really now, is any of this stuff worth listening to and if so any=20
> > > suggestions would be appreciated.
> > I'm living in Germany and I can't think of any stuff which is worth =
listening to.
> > 95 % of these "Schlager" are simply crap and not exotic in any way. =
Though there
> > is a Schlager-revival movement for some time now which is quite =
popular especially
> > in the gay scene. (where they like to dance and sing along with =
Marianne
> > Rosenberg's "Er gehoert zu mir =3D He belongs to me :-))
> > Just one song comes into my mind which is exotic in some sort... =
It's "Komm mit
> > mir nach Afrika" (=3D Come with me to Africa) with an hilarious text =
=20
> > sung by a female singer whose name I can't remember now. I will sort =
it out and
> > let you know.
> I suspected as much since the few records I've seen here don't look=20
> too interesting. =20

Tthe bulk of Schlager records is hampered by its 2/4 Polka beat and an=20
endless repetition of musical cliche - so even though Schlager has =
topics=20
related to exotica, it is completely devoid of the music of a Martin =
Denny or=20
Les Baxter.
Some of it however fits nicely into other fringe music genres - Lounge =
(James=20
Last, Hildegard Knef, some Udo J=FCrgens, Novelty (Hazy Osterwald), =
Crime=20
Jazz (Peter Thomas) or Space age pop (Les Humphries Singers), and a=20
plethora of more or less involuntary contributions to ridiculous music =
and=20
lyrics especially from the late sixties.
The percentage of interesting stuff is far lower than in France Variete, =
though -=20
Germany never had anybody of the class of a Gainsbourg.

>However you're the second person from Germany to=20
> mention Marianne Rosenberg though now I understand the connection of=20
> the song. But really I mention the German "exotic" connection as=20
> I've been a long time fan of the German AtaTak label. If you listen=20
> to many of the late 70's recordings by Der Plan and Pyrolator there=20
> is a definite "exotic" influence there and I think maybe some fun=20
> being poked at the Schlager scene at the same time. For example=20
> listen to Pyrolator's "Wonderland" and then Martin Denny's "Afro-
> Desia". Anyone else see the connection here?=20

That it is no coincidence - the Plan members (at any rate Kurt and =
Moritz)=20
have very fine Exotica collections, and Kurt will have had his copy of =
Afro-
Desia (at any rate the tape off Genesis P-Orridges copy which was =
circulating
back then) before he wrote Wonderland.=20

With Der Plan, obviously The Residents were their big early influence -=20
and they in their turn related back ironically to American trash pop=20
culture from Exotica to Bubble Gum pop.=20
The Plan's Schlager relation is rather through Punks "three minutes=20
pop song" credo, and Schlager was Germanys contribution to three=20
minute pop songs...

Sevo


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From: Randall Rothenberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jimmy Scott Explained
Date: 03 Aug 1997 11:30:34 -0400 (EDT)


     All the talk of Jimmy Scott and now Mose Allison moves to inquire
whether anyone knows if Dave Frishberg is still
touring/ writing/performing? More particularly, is he coming back to NYC
anytime soon? (This may not qualify as "Lounge," but it's close enough
that I don't feel unclean.)



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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) epulse : STAFF SERGEANT BARRY SADLER
Date: 02 Aug 1997 19:22:30 +0200


2. military nostalgia of the week:
     Back in 1966, every good red-blooded, patriotic American lined up to
buy 'THE BALLAD OF THE GREEN BERETS,' which stormed the Top 40 with its
tale of our brave troops making the world safe for democracy. The song's
singer,, had written it while laid up in a
military hospital in Vietnam, inspired by a best-selling book, 'The Green
Berets' by Robin Moore. As the song whipped up the charts, Sadler, in full
military dress, made appearances on the day's variety shows, strolling on
with his acoustic guitar, standing ramrod straight and reciting his heroic
tale for the folks at home. Those were the days, eh? "The Ballad of the
Green Berets" is one of those phenomenons rarely played today, even on
nostalgic radio formats. The elite Army unit acquired too much baggage as
the war grew unpopular and the propaganda heavy via the likes of John
Wayne's much ridiculed, jingoistic '69 movie 'The Green Berets.' But that
hasn't stopped Collector's Choice from reissuing Sadler's LP (out now),
since RCA has kept it in the vaults. Sadler isn't around to enjoy the
rebirth, however. His stockfell considerably on the charts and in the
Berets, and he was involved in some unsavory and violent incidents,
including the death of a Nashville songwriter in 1978. He died in 1989, a
year after he was shot in the head during a robbery attempt while he was
entering a cab in Guatemala.




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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bacharach on PBS
Date: 03 Aug 1997 16:17:24 -0400


For those of you within broadcast range, that PBS hour on Burt Bacharach is
re-airing tonight on New Jersey public television (channels 23, 52, etc). 9:00
pm. Sorry for the late nature of the note.

m.ace
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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) They All Played...
Date: 03 Aug 1997 18:07:08 -0400


> From: [e-mail]
> Subject: (exotica) They All Played...
>
> Here are some programs I have started to put together.  Any thoughts about
> additions from EASILY available recordings.  I'm sorry, but I can't use
> cassettes: only LPs or CDs.
> They all played Caravan
> They all played Brazil

Les Paul's pioneering disc-to-disc overdubs (mid to late 40's) include
interesting versions of Caravan & Brazil. It's kind of like listening to a
musical test pilot. Available on "The Legend & The Legacy" -- the 4 cd box that
came out on Capitol several years ago.

m.ace
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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Nova Express leaves the station
Date: 03 Aug 1997 18:40:12 -0400


Writer, culture legend, spoken word recordist, Nike spokesman, William S.
Burroughs has left the planet. Saturday night. Heart attack.

Here's a website...
http://www.peg.apc.org/~firehorse/wsb/wsb.html

m.ace
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Mure and Grimes
Date: 03 Aug 1997 21:28:44 -0700 (PDT)


Three finds this weekend:

If you like Eartha Kitt, you'd like Tammy Grimes.  Columbia CS 8589.  Luther
Henderson arranged and conducted, from 1962.  The album has a lot of music
from the early 1900's...but she just has this way of singing combined with
some percussive arrangements makes this a fun album.  She sounds very much
like Eartha Kitt.  Didn't she host CBS Radio Mystery Theatre after E.G.
Marshall left?  Comparing the singer on LP to the host (on my off-air
tapes), I'd have
say yes...but I don't know for sure.

Around the World in Percussion  Strand SL 1021  Billy Mure and his
orchestra.  This is a cool album...ranks up there with the best of Esquivel.
My copy looks pretty battered but plays okay, clear but crackly.  I will
definitely be looking for a replacement copy!  Cover is a splattered black
inkblot with a solid gold background.  Cuts:  Around the World, Pink Hawaii,
In a Persian Market, Spain, Goodbye to Rome, Hats Off To Mexico, Drums of
India, Petticoats of Portugal, Chinatown My Chinatown, By the Waters of The
Minnetonka, Manague Nicaragua and The Japanese Sandman.

finally, an EP of Volume two of Martin Denny's Exotica.  I already had the
LP, but its nice to have a large scannable image.  Of course, now I have to
find volume two.

Byron Caloz






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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lounge Thesis, What's Next?!
Date: 04 Aug 1997 02:01:20 -0400 (EDT)


In a message dated 97-07-28 23:50:02 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:

<<   I'm sorry, but as a lifelong journalist I, too, used to have the same
 reaction as Michelle does to scholarly inquiries into popular cultural.
 But after years of reading and benefitting from cultural anthropology and
 cultural studies, I've seen the light. As branches of sociology, history,
 economics, anthropology and allied fields, they can be invaluable aids in
 understanding why and how things happen. And "lounge culture" is as valid
 a subject for a master's or Ph.D. thesis as anything else. As in any other
 field, the scholarship (and writing) can be wonderful or execrable. But to
 damn the entire field of inquiry upfront is -- I'm sorry, Michelle --
 narrowminded. (Conference member Will Straw, a cultural anthropologist,
 can do a better explanation that I can. Meanwhile, I again urge members to
 read the wonderful Dick Hebdige exploration of punk, "Subcultures," and
 James Carey's magnificent exegesis on media, "Communications as Culture,"
 to better understand the field[s].) >>


Well, perhaps you are right about my narrow-mindedness and I certainly didn't
mean to affend any list members (who are perhaps too polite to call me on
this) in the fields of study you mentioned.  What is being debated here is
something known as culture wars - where cutting edge or "alternative" topics
which are becoming subjects for serious research or study, face criticism by
the more conservative scholars who prefer more traditional research topics.
 Yes, Randall, who is to say that Lounge can't make a valid thesis.  I have
my doubts, and I'm entitled to my opinion.  But let's just say I would be
very interested to see what the scholar makes of it - as I'm sure would
everyone on this list.  I would imagine this scholor would be delving into
the psycho-social explanations for lounge's resurreance (i.e., that well-worn
list topic "Lounge Attacks"). Therefore, perhaps you should volunteer your
"mating rituals" theory to the scholar?

- Again, I apologize to those I may have offended,

The newly open-minded,
Michele, Flipside


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sparky explained....sort of
Date: 04 Aug 1997 13:09:09 -0400


>There are four Sparky stories in all...
>
>Sparky's Magic Paino
>Sparky's Magic Echo
>Sparky And The Talking Train
>Sparky's Magic Baton

What about "Sparky's Music Mix-up?" Maybe someone should do "Little Marcy
Mixes it Up with Sparky."

tony

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Duke of Iron
Date: 04 Aug 1997 12:55:36 -0400


>Cecil Anderson probably modeled his calypso name after the earlier Iron
>Duke, also a Trinidadian singer. Daphne Weekes, an orchestra leader and
>sponsor of the annual "Dame Lorraine" Christmas Ball in Manhattan, says that
>Anderson often borrowed songs from others. Accompanying himself on the
>ukelele, he sang for parties and other affairs in New York's Greenwich
>Village until he gained a modest success. He also performed for immigrant
>audiences, but apparently was never well known in Trinidad.

Absolutely. As for West Indian popularity, he spent few years in Trinidad,
and when he did, he was probably seen as quaint, an outsider, and
unexceptional. The songs he borrowed, such as "The Big Bamboo," were
excellent, as were his own.

Brief bio/discography: http://www.charm.net/~wilds/Music/duke.html

tony

The Wilds Scene ->  http://www.charm.net/~wilds/

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Spike Jones inquiry
Date: 04 Aug 1997 15:03:49 -0400


Can anybody help this person?
DO NOT REPLY TO ME
REPLY TO: <[e-mail]>


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> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 22:48:57 -0400 (EDT)
> From: [e-mail]
> Subject: spike jones
>
> help! my dad always sings part of a spike jones song that goes like this:
> "she lived next door to a firehouse and the engine went clang clang, she
> fell in love with a fireman..."
> we would love to buy him this recording but do not know the name
> of the song or what album we would find it on . . any suggestions??



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Mel Henke's "La Dolce Henke"
Date: 04 Aug 1997 17:13:03 -0400 (EDT)


Hi, kids --

Hats -- no, WIGS -- off to Ashley at Scamp Records for bringing us Mel
Henke's zany masterpiece, "La Dolce Henke"!  As Doug Frisby wrote here
recently, this truly is "the reissue of the year", brilliant from first
"boing!" to final "ping-thwack!"  While a couple of tracks have already
appeared on DCC's "Music for a Bachelor's Den" series, by no means have you
heard it all.

Henke's hi-fi hijinks await you -- "I'll hold...you twist."


I'll drink to that,

Ben
Washington, DC


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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Nova Express leaves the station
Date: 04 Aug 1997 19:12:15 -0400 (EDT)


At 06:40 PM 8/3/97 -0400, m.ace wrote:
>
>Writer, culture legend, spoken word recordist, Nike spokesman, William S.
>Burroughs has left the planet. Saturday night. Heart attack.
>
>Here's a website...
>http://www.peg.apc.org/~firehorse/wsb/wsb.html


Here's another Burroughs URL:
http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/BurroughsTribute.html

And a fond farewell to another exoticat, Fela.

--Lou




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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mel Henke's "La Dolce Henke"
Date: 04 Aug 1997 21:23:11 -0400



> "La Dolce Henke"!
> While a couple of tracks have already
>appeared on DCC's "Music for a Bachelor's Den" series, by no means have you
>heard it all.

And those tracks were released in mono, as Warner's couldn't find the
stereo mixes. They did have the original 3-track master, which was remixed
by veteran engineer Lee Hirschberg, who has worked at Warner/Reprise since
the early 60's. He used Ashley's stereo copy of the LP as a reference.

br cleve





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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Cook's
Date: 04 Aug 1997 23:11:34 -0400 (EDT)


I ran into this kooky record collector who was all jazzed about a record
label called Cook's.  Cook's Laboratories, I think it was.  Mostly
intrumental, but one of the records he showed me was an spoken word
storytelling affair where they were interviewing cavemen!!??  How bizarre.

I tried to learn more from him, but since he was not "all there", I really
couldn't.  Can anybody here tell me more about Cook's Laboratories?

thanks


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Enoch National Birthday Bash updates
Date: 04 Aug 1997 23:18:58 -0400 (EDT)



Hey Exotica listers:

The multi-city Enoch Light memorial birthday parties are under two weeks
away! A small sampling of the continental US, but enough to justify
calling it a "national" event. Happening in the week surrounding Light's
birthday of August 18th, true jet-setters can attend as many as four,
maybe five, different shindigs! Each of the events will have its own
distinctive personality and sound. The newly added Columbus event will
feature a live performance(!) by The Weird Love Makers, a spinoff of
Evolution Control Committee (the Whipped Cream 7" folks) that does
found-sound collage music, with samples/sound bites ranging from 70s
sexploitation films to...*Enoch Light*.

The local events, in chronological order:

8/15 Columbus, OH (w/ The Weird Love Makers!)
8/16 Harrisburg, PA (possibly starting in the afternoon w/ a pool party)
8/16 Minneapolis, MN
8/16 Cleveland, OH
8/21 Cambridge, MA
8/23 San Francisco, CA (part of Lounge-a-palooza)

I wanted to let you know there's a Web page hosted by Robbie Baldock that
gives further contact info and e-mail/Web links for all these at:

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/birthday/

PS -- Uh oh. I recently discovered Henry Mancini was born in Cleveland...
;-)



Michael David Toth
[e-mail]
[e-mail]




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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sparky's Magic Piano
Date: 04 Aug 1997 20:49:12 -0700


What about Rusty in Orchestraville ?  That's the motherload!  Though Sparky
is pretty damn good too

Jack

At 09:53 AM 8/2/97 -0400, you wrote:
i just scored
>"Sparky's
>Magic Piano" from them.  A kiddie klassic.  Oooooo - that piano's voice is
>spooky. >>



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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Lounge show in UK
Date: 04 Aug 1997 21:11:35 -0700


>Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 17:48:12 -0700
>From: Richard Reynolds <[e-mail]>
>Reply-To: [e-mail]
>Organization: Christ Church, Oxford University
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: Lounge show in UK


Help this guy out, will ya ?

Jack

>Dear Jack
>
>I'm a desperately keen Lounge DJ with a show on Oxygen 107.9fm in the
>oxford area of the UK on a full time student radio station. I present a
>Friday evening show called Panche at 7pm, two hours of the finest loung,
>exotica, disco, kitsch and comedy. Our brutal and ignorant head of
>programming wants to replace it with a rock show, and I'm trying to
>rally support. If you could plug us on your show and suggest that
>Americans tune in when they are on holiday here (we get loads) or even
>e-mail our Head of Programming ([e-mail]) I would be
>eternally grateful,
>thanks very much
>
>Phil Bailey
>Keeping the lounge alive.
>
>


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From: Robert John Sloane <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lounge Thesis, What's Next?!
Date: 05 Aug 1997 01:05:52 -0400 (EDT)


Hi Michele, Randall, and all,

I wanted to just jump in here and introduce myself.  I am the guilty party
mentioned in Michele's post, and I am indeed writing a paper on the
"lounge" thing.

(I just re-read the introductory message to the list, and it appears that
I should have maybe done this introduction a couple of weeks ago, when I
subscribed, so many apologies for my negligence.  Incidentally, I only
just came to the EXOTICA list recently because I thought, obviously
mistakenly, that the topic was *just* the "sub-genre" of exotica, i.e.,
Denny, Baxter, Sumac, etc.  However, I have read extensively from the list
archive, so I feel somewhat prepared to post!)

I don't want to go into my project in detail, because I am sensitive to
list members' concerns about straying away from the music.  I can say,
however, that I, like music scholar Simon Frith, consider myself a music
fan/listener first and an academic second.  That is, my interest in
popular music studies arises from my interest in the music itself, rather
than from a search for a "hip" topic on which to rest my academic hat.  I
am currently finishing up my thesis on lounge for an M.A. in American
Culture Studies (an interdisciplinary program at my school which, in my
own case anyway, draws from the British cultural studies tradition).

My interest in the music itself is, quite simply, because it has blown my
mind open.  What people are calling "lounge" forces me, and I imagine
others, to recontextualize everything we think we know about music.  And
when that type of reshuffling happens, I think it can only be for the
best.  (This weekend, driving along a dark, deserted Michigan road to a
not-very-lounge club, I think I almost started hallucinating(!) listening
to Dick Hyman's _Moog_ reissue from Varese.)

I've been really impressed with much of the writing on this list--both
the extremely knowledgable cataloging of music and the
opinions/justifications about the phenomenon itself.  My project draws on
many "academic" studies of music--a necessity, perhaps--but also tries to
resist the formulation of an unproblematic "blanket" statement or a
knee-jerk explanation.  My paper tries to deal with many topics that
recur in music writing over and over--politics, "resistance,"
authenticity, subcultures--while trying to incorporate thoughts about
the music industry, the audience(s), and, most importantly, about the
music.

The book that Randall has suggested many times--Dick Hebdige's
_Subculture_--is important, but it often gives a reading of punk that is
too easy, too clean.  Reading the "styles" of the movement,
punk=rebellion-against-capitalism for Hebdige (the cultural studies
tradition is influenced by Marxism, among other things), and while punk
was certainly this in part, it was not wholly so.  Unfortunately, punk is
often valorized by academics for its "authentic" expression, and so has
set the benchmark (along with hip hop, in recent years) for politically
engaged music (and thus follows in a long line of subcultures that
position themselves against some notion of a "mainstream").  In this
context, an attraction to lounge, by young people, is certainly
provocative, and provides an excellent forum for discussing some of these
topics.  If you're interested, I think Sarah Thornton's recent book _Club
Cultures_, about the British techno/rave scene, is really interesting, as
she's trying to grapple with this stuff, too.

Okay, that's it.  I welcome personal responses, if you'd like to add your
two cents.  Oh yeah, that's another thing: Hebdige never really lets the
punks speak for themselves.  He reads "their" culture, and ascribes
meaning to it.  Now, clearly, I have my own ideas about lounge
(favorable, to be sure)--but I want to put these in dialogue, in my paper,
with other thoughts from those people to whom the music means a lot.  My
project, like "lounge," I think, is about love--about breaking down
barriers between musics, thought systems, and people.

Thanks,

Rob



On Mon, 4 Aug 1997 [e-mail] wrote:

> Well, perhaps you are right about my narrow-mindedness and I certainly didn't
> mean to affend any list members (who are perhaps too polite to call me on
> this) in the fields of study you mentioned.  What is being debated here is
> something known as culture wars - where cutting edge or "alternative" topics
> which are becoming subjects for serious research or study, face criticism by
> the more conservative scholars who prefer more traditional research topics.
>  Yes, Randall, who is to say that Lounge can't make a valid thesis.  I have
> my doubts, and I'm entitled to my opinion.  But let's just say I would be
> very interested to see what the scholar makes of it - as I'm sure would
> everyone on this list.  I would imagine this scholor would be delving into
> the psycho-social explanations for lounge's resurreance (i.e., that well-worn
> list topic "Lounge Attacks"). Therefore, perhaps you should volunteer your
> "mating rituals" theory to the scholar?
>
> - Again, I apologize to those I may have offended,
>
> The newly open-minded,
> Michele, Flipside



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From: Technical Support Group Mail 1 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hello
Date: 05 Aug 1997 20:14:00 +1100



Hello,

My name is Wayne, I found reference to this list on the internet and was
keen to find out more.

I do a radio show in Melbourne, Australia called 'Suburban Exotica' where I
play all manner of easy listening, exotica, hawaiian music and other groovy
sounds. I like to mix the old and the new by including artists such as
Stereolab, Combustible Edison, Tipsy and The Gentle People.

This is the first mailing list I have ver joined and I look forward to the
postings.

Ciao!

Wayne


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Is "Schlager" Exotica?
Date: 05 Aug 1997 10:16:44 -0400 (EDT)


Well,
a short note to DER PLAN and their connection to the exotica world; the cover
of their LP/CD "Die Peitsche des Lebens" shows some exotica album covers,
including Martin Denny and Les Baxter LPs, in a really weird installation.
And in 1993 they released a CD titeled: "Live at the Tiki Ballroom of the
Senior Maoris Recreation Center in Maketu, Bay of Pleny, New Zealand".

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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) a transitional set
Date: 05 Aug 1997 12:03:17 -0400


Electro-Space
-------------
On the Dark Side of the Moon, Frank Comstock
Sonik Re-Entry, Electrosoniks
Moon Gas, Hyman/Mayo
I Feel the Earth Move, John Keating Space Experience
Porcupine Rock, Perrey
Superstition, Montenegro
Ape Shuffle, Jeff Wayne Space Shuttle

Classic Funk, etc.
------------------
Sheba, Monk Higgins
Johannesburg, Gil Scott-Heron/Bryan Jackson
Ain't No Love Lost, Curtis Mayfield
Hang 'Em High, Booker T./MGs
The Big Bamboo, Duke of Iron

Whitebread Samba
----------------
Tico Tico, Willie Rodriguez
Fuista a Bahia, Russ Garcia
White Ball, Wanderly
One Mint Julep, Kenny Burrell Octet

Screaming Exotica
-----------------
Peking Tiger, Baxter
The Jungle Roars, Carl Stevens
Bird Train, Rex Kona and his Mandarins (whew!)
Jungle Flute, Cugat (early, ultimate jungle effects)
Dance of the Headhunters, Puente
Guarachi Guaro (Manteca), Ellington/Sabu

Latin Soul/Boogaloo
-------------------
Soul Sauce, Shirley Scott
Afro Rock, Afro-Blues Quintet+1
Borneo, Tjader
Guajira Controversial, Al Escobar
Light My Fire, Johnny Rivera and Tequila Brass
Stop, Look, and Listen, Ricardo Ray
Alligator Boogaloo, Sandy Nelson

More Dance
----------
Shimmy Shimmy Watusi, Buttons
Latin Twist, Tito Rodriguez
Guaglione, Prado
Tabu, Fernandez Pray (great Telefunken LP)
Exodus, Ray Barretto

The Wilds Scene ->  http://www.charm.net/~wilds/

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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ennio Morricone
Date: 05 Aug 1997 14:06:47 -0700


Can anyone tell me if the soundtrack to Danger Diabolique was ever releas=
ed
on vinyl OR if it available on CD

Thanx!

Jack

PS  Mel Henke's La Dolce Henke is NOW AVAILABLE to you on CD
I been out of town gimme a break;-)

Review for KFJC-FM;
Mel Henke was a jazz pianist and arranger who composed and arranged Radio=
=20
and TV Commercial Jingles in the 50=92s and 60=92s but this record is lik=
e no
other
anywhere in any galaxy.  Very sexual in content. This is the mad musical
world=20
of Mel Henke which can be compared to the Musical equivalent of Playboy M=
aga-
zine circa 1962, full and overflowing with double-entendres.  Each piece =
is a=20
musical "sketch". Elliot Fisher is featured on Electric Violin on 12.  Th=
e
"music"=20
acts out what is happening along with very sexual, sultry female voices a=
nd=20
sound effects, like if you could imagine the sound of a lady being goosed.
The=20
carnal angel is implied BUT NEVER outright stated.  Music and sound effec=
ts=20
are used instead of words and it is more than clearly defined as to what =
is
going on,=20
nudge nudge wink wink say no more, say no more.  The musicians are the be=
st=20
of the west coast studio scene who were also part of Mancini=92s, Esquive=
l=92s,
Quincy=20
Jones et al orchestras. Extensive liner notes with names of different
actors who performed(Voices) on the record. Walking footsteps, slamming
doors, creaky bed springs, pouring liquid sounds, giggling, gurgling,
laughing w/mostly Female, some Male voices. They are not really songs per
se=92, the music and the voices/spoken word are right up there with Esqui=
vel
or Mancini. Really great swingin'pop/jazz orchestra that are stories told
in a very sexual double entendre way.=20
This is like Spike Jones meets The Jetsons and George is introduced to
Marilyn=20
and Jayne Mansfield while Jane(his wife)is  powdering her  nose in the
ladies room.  Hubba hubba.  The toga=92d guy on the front cover is Tom
Donahue who is THE MAN who started free form radio on the west coast way
back when=20
who went on to form KSAN-Your Jive 95.  Blessings Be Upon You. =20
You Hold It, I=92ll Twist!  5 Stars!!!
Jack Diamond






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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mobile Moog Hallucinations
Date: 05 Aug 1997 20:12:57 -0400


> From: Robert John Sloane <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: (exotica) Lounge Thesis, What's Next?!
>
> This weekend, driving along a dark, deserted Michigan road to a
> not-very-lounge club, I think I almost started hallucinating(!) listening
> to Dick Hyman's _Moog_ reissue from Varese.

Ah, yes! Thanks for highlighting one of the major charms of (broad definition)
exotica. It's so danged VIVID!

Maybe TOO vivid for safe driving.

m.ace
[e-mail]


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Soundtrack Album Covers/Henke etc.
Date: 05 Aug 1997 21:43:59 -0400 (EDT)


1. Saw a new quality paperback called Album Cover Art of Soundtracks or
something like that that.  Seems to be a german release with a foreword by
Saul Bass, creator of many famous movie opening titles. Print and paper
quality could be better, and at $30 retail for 129 pages its not dirt cheap,
but what is ?  No inane text, almost all LP covers, some full page nearly LP
size (like "Baby Doll")  and its got tons of cool crime jazz, spy, psych,
exploitation and all the other stuff we love. Definitely worth a look.

2. Re soundtracks, finally had time to get into "beat at cinnecitta" and Gert
Wilden's " I Told You Not To Cry" -  what a pleasure !

3. Bravo to the "La Dolce Henke" crew. Instead of a Roots of Lounge sticker,
you get a similar black sticker quoting Jack Diamond : "This is sex."  Now
THAT's marketing fellas. Hmmm, two thumbs up?

4. Speaking of Jack, played an old tape of his radio show while traveling,
and it was sheer delight to hear Esquivel's "Frosty the Snowman" pop up by
surprise while cruising thru Death Valley.

JB


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From: Vik Trola <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Vik's Newsletter
Date: 05 Aug 1997 21:51:54 -0500


Recently, Vik was cleaning some ols trash out of the backroom at the lounge
when he made two discoveries. First, there was now room for something new
at the lounge. And second, he found several crates of old vinyl. Putting
the two discoveries together produced an expansion to Radio Vik's Featured
Albums...Vintage Vinyl. Every so often, Vik will crank up the
old...well...victrola and send forth the analog sounds of yesterday via the
digital gear of today. Currently playing are Ferrante and Teicher's "Love
In The Generation Gap", Bob Crewe's "Barbarella" and "Let Me Touch You" and
the Les Baxter produced "Miracles" by Yma Sumac. Play each separately, or
choose Vik's Vintage broadcast for all four. The sounds await you at
http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/radio/features02.html

In other audio news, the folks over at Scamp have just released Mel Henke's
"La Dolce Henke" and Martin Denny's "Quiet Village/The Enchanted Sea" (but
you already knew that, didn't you). Did you know Scamp's throwing a
listening party online. Well, they are! Just drop on over to A Little
Travelling Music (http://www.caroline.com/space/listening.html) to hear Mel
and Martin in your choice of four Real Audio flavors. (Hipsters so inclined
will also find the latest offering from Mike Paradinas aka mu-ziq). There
are also new pages over at Scamp for Mr. Henke and Mr. Denny
    Scamp: http://www.scamp-records.com
    Henke: http://www.scamp-records.com/henke/
    Denny: http://www.scamp-records.com/quiet.html
And watch for Music For TV Dinners coming from Scamp soon...hipster sounds
from the '50s televison and film production music.

Over at Tony Caravan's site (yep, that's his real name), you can check out
his new web radio show...swinging sounds from bossa to cocktail plus
interviews with Vik and King Kini... http://home.earthlink.net/~tcaravan.


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) Exotica Music Films at Fez, NYC
Date: 05 Aug 1997 23:15:27 -0400 (EDT)


Forgive the general audience tone of some of this press release -- I know
everyone here knows who Yma Sumac is -- but subscribers of this list in the
New York area should be very interested in the follwing...


On Saturday, August 16, the Secret Cinema will present Exotica Music Films
at the Fez nightclub in New York. This collection of ultra-rare footage from
a variety of sources -- including very early TV shows and film jukeboxes
from the 1940s ("Soundies") and 1960s ("Scopitones") -- offers a chance to
hear, and see, a wondrous assortment of international music, from a time
before David Byrne rendered "World Music" a politically-correct bore.

All of the films will be projected from 16mm film prints on a giant movie
screen (not video).

The screening begins at 9:00 pm. Admission is $7.00.

Fez, 380 Lafayette Street (between E. 4th & Great Jones)
New York City =95 [phone]


The current explosion of interest in "exotica" music stems from the
publication of Re/Search's "Incredibly Strange Music" books starting in
1993. Since then, prices for old Martin Denny albums have skyrocketed, bands
like Combustible Edison and their ilk are exploring new "cocktail" music,
and the success of Esquivel reissues and martini bars has prompted nearly
every record label to start up a "lounge" division. Previously plentiful
thrift-store records are getting hard to find, and the opportunity to see
vintage exotica music performances on a big screen is a rare one indeed.
Some program highlights...

Korla Pandit - The handsome Hindu master of the Hammond organ captivated
women with his beautiful music and hypnotic eyes, even though he never spoke
during his 15-minute TV show, the first all-music program on television. We
will screen a complete episode of this show, plus other rare clips of Pandit
and his haunting, mystical sounds. Korla was seen recently in the film Ed
Wood, and Fantasy has reissued some of his original '50s albums.

Yma Sumac - Exotica personified, the beautiful Peruvian legend burst onto
the international scene in 1950, displaying all four of her octaves on the
LP "Voice of  the Xtabay," and creating new musical languages with her
abstract, wordless vocals. We'll show a kinescope of Sumac performing on The
Frank Sinatra Show, from his CBS television show of the early 50s.

The Three Suns - Another cause c=E9l=E8bre of the "Incredibly Strange"=
 books,
this guitar/organ/accordion instrumental trio from Philadelphia sold lots of
albums for RCA in the '50s and figure prominently on that label's "Space Age
Pop" series of CDs. Guitarist Al Nevins teamed with Don Kirshner in 1959 to
form Aldon Music, which became the most successful music publisher of the
Brill Building era. We will present rare early footage of the group from=
 1944.

French pop music - A collection of colorful rock video-like film clips made
in the early '60s for the French film jukebox known as Scopitone. Performers
include "Ye Ye" singers Fran=E7oise Hardy, Johnny Hallyday, and Sylvie=
 Vartan,
plus torch singers, jazz and other French oddities.

Plus...Hawaiian sing-alongs, Latin music from the 1940s, and much more!

The Secret Cinema, begun in 1992, is a Philadelphia-based floating repertory
film series that shows unusual and lost film fare of all types at various
locations.




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Oasis "Wonderwall"
Date: 05 Aug 1997 23:17:04 -0400 (EDT)


Does anyone know who did the "lounge" cover of Wonderwall by Oasis.   I saw
the video late night on M2 and thought that I could remember who it was.   So
much for my memory.

Thanx
Jimmy


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From: Technical Support Group Mail 1 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Claudine Longet
Date: 06 Aug 1997 14:54:00 +1100



Does anyone know of any CD releases available by Claudine Longet? I have
checked many catalogues and can't find a thing. She was on A&M so I would
have thought there would be SOMETHING.

Anyone know?

Cheers,

Wayne


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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Claudine Longet
Date: 05 Aug 1997 21:01:40 -0700


Technical Support Group Mail 1 wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of any CD releases available by Claudine Longet? I have
> checked many catalogues and can't find a thing. She was on A&M so I would
> have thought there would be SOMETHING.
>
> Anyone know?
>
All I know of are some Japanese imports, but i haven't seen them in
awhile so i can't remember the exact specs. I know one of them was
"Colors" and it seems to me there may have been something of a "Greatest
Hits."

Hope this helps!
pea hicks


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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Oasis "Wonderwall"
Date: 05 Aug 1997 21:02:35 -0700


[e-mail] wrote:
>
> Does anyone know who did the "lounge" cover of Wonderwall by Oasis.   I saw
> the video late night on M2 and thought that I could remember who it was.   So
> much for my memory.
>
it was The Mike Flowers Pops

pea


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From: Randall Rothenberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lounge Thesis, What's Next?!
Date: 06 Aug 1997 00:42:41 -0400 (EDT)


     I gladly volunteer anything I write to scholarly inquiry, this or
other lists, further journalistic inquiry, or the trash heap. I seem to be
landing on all simultaneously these days!
     Thanks, Michelle. No offense intended at all, so forgiveness begged.




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From: Randall Rothenberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lounge Thesis, What's Next?!
Date: 06 Aug 1997 00:48:48 -0400 (EDT)


      Rob Sloane's note is a good one. He offers a good criticism not just
of Hebdige but of academic inquiry in general -- it tends to favor
interpretation to the exclusion of reportage. (Which is why, I suppose, I
never did cross the line.) I'd like to qualify one point, though: my
recommendation of Hebdige was less to support his conclusions about punk
than to provide an introduction to cultural studies to the uninitiated on
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lounge Thesis, What's Next?!
Date: 06 Aug 1997 01:49:11 -0400 (EDT)


In a message dated 97-08-06 00:44:50 EDT, [e-mail] writes:

<< I gladly volunteer anything I write to scholarly inquiry, this or
 other lists, further journalistic inquiry, or the trash heap. I seem to be
 landing on all simultaneously these days!
      Thanks, Michelle. No offense intended at all, so forgiveness begged.
  >>

I just wrote a big apology to our friendly Lounge academic and list member -
with mud on my face!  Seems I have lots to learn about academia and music
too.  At least the mud spatter allows me to learn more about these things,
than if I had said nothing at all!

- Michele


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Islands restaurant San Diego
Date: 06 Aug 1997 04:23:48 -0400 (EDT)


The Islands restaurant at the Hanalei Hotel in San Diego
(currently home of the very successful "Taboo" club on Friday and  Saturday
nights)
Is "remodeling" their historic, fabulous, untouched since the sixties, bar.

The management says they are ONLY moving the lobby into what is now the bar
area(adjacent to the waterfall/waterway laden restaurant) in order to have it
in a more Tiki atmosphere. But we know how that would ruin the ambiance and
who knows where the lobby will stop?!!

Even if you haven't been there, don't let another Tiki landmark disappear.
Call the Hanalei at
1-800-882-0858

and let them know that you enjoy it the way it is and you don't want them to
change it.


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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica Music Films at Fez, NYC
Date: 06 Aug 1997 01:34:55 -0700


UN-BE-LIEVE-A-BLE!  I'm sooooooooo jealous

Jack


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From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Oasis "Wonderwall"
Date: 06 Aug 1997 04:22:57 -0600


At 21:02 05/08/97 -0700, you wrote:
>
>[e-mail] wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know who did the "lounge" cover of Wonderwall by Oasis.   I saw
>> the video late night on M2 and thought that I could remember who it was.   So
>> much for my memory.
>>
>it was The Mike Flowers Pops

That was my first thought too, but do you own it? Because I really think it
is not by him but by someone else. I had wanted to buy it, but could never
quite find it, and I am pretty sure it isn't by Mike....

Jill "Mingo-go"



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From: Vik Trola <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Oasis "Wonderwall"
Date: 06 Aug 1997 08:49:21 -0500


>>> Does anyone know who did the "lounge" cover of Wonderwall by Oasis.   I saw
>>> the video late night on M2 and thought that I could remember who it was.

it is definitely The Mike Flowers Pops. i was the single that started it
all for him (them) way back last year...

cheers,
Vik




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From: David Retief <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The versatile Henry Mancini
Date: 06 Aug 1997 15:22:01 +0200






I bought a stereo reissue of this this weekend ("The sounds and voices '75"
- seagull on blue backround) which was terribly dissappointing.  The
Liberty mono with the redhead on cream is fantastic in comparison - it
seems they engineered it into stereo and whoever did it ruined it.  At
times whole sounds have been supressed in the interest of stereo
(xylaphone/bells etc very faintly audible).  I remember a thread which
discussed the merits of Mono vs Stereo.  Is this often the case?  Is there
some cut-off date where one shouldn't bother with the stereo pressings or
is arbitrary?




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From: David Retief <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Horst Jankowski
Date: 06 Aug 1997 16:00:14 +0200






Jessica wrote:
>
Still More Genius of  (Horst) Jankowski--I bought this after hearing
Jankowski's version of  "Nola" on one of those time/life CDs that Joseph
Lanza worked on. It's nice stuff--I like it a lot.

If you ever see "Jankowski plays Jankowski" ('69) grab it!  It is
Brilliant!  Also some of his early seventies stuff - one called "In Flight"
has a great german choir - they do a great german "Waiting".
Horst is a genius,
David




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Oasis "Wonderwall"
Date: 06 Aug 1997 10:07:19 -0400 (EDT)


Well, I know George Harrison put out a whole album called Wonderwall, but I
doubt THAT was exotica.
Gloria


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From: [e-mail] (Richard Jay)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Oasis "Wonderwall"
Date: 06 Aug 1997 19:21:00 GMT


On Wed, 6 Aug 1997 04:22:57 -0600, you wrote:

>That was my first thought too, but do you own it? Because I really think=
 it
>is not by him but by someone else. I had wanted to buy it, but could =
never
>quite find it, and I am pretty sure it isn't by Mike....

It was released on a major label and charted very highly (as a single)
so I'm surprised you couldn't find it !?

Regards,
Richard Jay (ICQ:1419053)

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From: "Jim Gerwitz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Claudine Longet
Date: 06 Aug 1997 18:54:42 -0700


> Date: Tuesday, August 05, 1997 8:54 PM
> Does anyone know of any CD releases available by Claudine Longet? I have
> checked many catalogues and can't find a thing. She was on A&M so I would

> have thought there would be SOMETHING.
>
> Anyone know?
> Cheers,
> Wayne

Dont know about CD's, but you should definitely look for her 6th LP "We've
Only Just Begun" on Barnaby Records, her first LP after leaving A & M.  The
inside of the fold out cover has an incredible large picture of her from
the waist up, dressed in a flimsy cotton wrap about ready to fall off. She
even does a little Je T'Aime heavy breathing during the sax fade on Bread's
"Make It With You."  No wonder Andy was always smiling on TV.  What a life,
croon Mancini for a while, then go home to your Aspen spread and make
babies with a beautiful French girl.

In another amazing list-related coincidence today I found Issue #2 of
semi-zine Girlyhead, which has an article summarizing Claudine's career,
love life and her court case, and reviews her records.  I GOTTA see "The
Party" some day.  Girlyhead also has short interviews with Frenchy & Tura
Satana and a poem to Franciose Hardy, who is the next songbird I plan to
investigate.  Bear Family's new 5 CD set of Ella Mae Morse can wait.

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From: "Kerry J. Byrnes" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Martin Denny's "Forbidden Island" Score (?)
Date: 06 Aug 1997 22:27:22 -0700


Aficionados of the exotic sounds of Martin Denny, Les Baxter, and Arthur
Lyman, not to mention all you soundtrack enthusiasts, are urged to take
a look at last month's issue of Lukas Kendall's FILM SCORE MONTHLY (Vol.
2, Number 4) which (humbly) "features" a discussion of "Martin Denny and
the Sounds of Exotica -- A Look At the Unique Circumstances of
'Forbidden Island'".  This 2.5 page article, illustrated by various
exotica and soundtrack LP covers and a photo of Martin Denny's group),
also provides a (humbly) "innovative" "Road Map to Soundtrack Exotica"
which challenges readers to add to or take exception with the 30+
eXotica soundtracks listed by composers from John Barry to Les Baxter to
Jerry Goldsmith to Ennio Morricone to Victor Young, and many inbetween.
No, for those asking yourself, the list does not contain any of the
eRotica genre film soundtracks but am sure that also would make for an
equally interesting list.

Individual copies of or subscriptions to FSM can be obtained directly
from Lukas Kendall's "Film Score Daily" web site at:

    http://www.filmscoremonthly.com

or you might check with the soundtrack mail order outlets such as Craig
Spaulding at Screen Archives Entertainment:  <[e-mail]>

Enjoy the article and let me know what you think.

By the way, all you Martin Denny fans, I hope you are letting Scamp
Records know what a magnificent contribution they are making with their
two-fer reissues of Martin Denny's exotica LPs, the most recent being
"Quiet Village / The Enchanted Sea" (just out in late July - found my
copy at our local Best Buy).  I suspect that the likelihood of
additional re-issues, going beyond Denny's exotica LPs and into his
jazzier and pop-oriented LPs (e.g., "The Versatile Martin Denny" w/
"Quiet Village Bossa Nova") will depend heavily on there being strong
sales numbers on the first four two-fers plus the "AFRO-DESIA" CD which
was the first Denny CD reissued by Scamp.

Please, if you want more of Denny's music to get out of those label
vaults and into your CD player, pass along your words of encouragement,
suggestions, requests for specific LPs to be reissued, etc. to Ashley
Warren (Caroline Records) who has been the chief honcho behind this
wonderful Denny reissue series on the Scamp Record label.  You can reach
Ashley at the following e-mail:  <[e-mail]>

Finally, for those faithfully watching CBN's (Family Channel's) running
of "Hawaii Five-O" -- did you notice in a recent episode that there was
a wall poster in the background on which "Arthur Lyman" was featured?
In this regard, does anyone know if Arthur Lyman or Martin Denny ever
made a musical appearance on the "Hawaii Five-O" series?  If not, that's
one crime where McGarrett forgot to say "Book'em, Danno!"

Will look forward to your comments! Mahalo!

--
Kerry J. Byrnes / Kerry'$ Kollectible$
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From: "Boris Schulz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Serge Gainsbourg en Jamaique
Date: 07 Aug 1997 11:02:26 +0000


Has anyone heard of an album by the french chansonier Serge
Gainsbourg. It has been produced by Bunny Lee and is called "Serge
Gainsbourg en Jamaique" or similiar. I have seen it once and like to
know whether it has been rereleased as a CD or LP.
Thanks for any help!
 Boris
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From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Oasis "Wonderwall"
Date: 07 Aug 1997 04:10:15 -0600


At 19:21 06/08/97 GMT, you wrote:
>
>On Wed, 6 Aug 1997 04:22:57 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>That was my first thought too, but do you own it? Because I really think it
>>is not by him but by someone else. I had wanted to buy it, but could never
>>quite find it, and I am pretty sure it isn't by Mike....
>
>It was released on a major label and charted very highly (as a single)
>so I'm surprised you couldn't find it !?


Yes, it's by Mike, that is true. However, I am thinking of another popular
song from this time period that was covered by a lounge act that is NOT Mike
Flowers. Does anyone out there know what the hell I am talking about. It
came out last summer. Yes, I know "Wonderwall" charted now that I realise it
is NOT the track I am thinking of. And I wish for the life of me, I could
remember what that track was. It did not chart. But was released on 7".
Maybe even on a major that didn't do it justice. It was featured on Radio
1's "Easy" special they did about a year and a bit ago. HELP!

x Jill "Mingo-go"



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From: David Retief <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Girl on a motorcycle
Date: 07 Aug 1997 14:19:44 +0200






Hi all,
I remeber someone mentioning Les Reed & orch - Girl on a motorcycle.  Did
he do the entire soundtrack and was it re-released last year sometime?  The
reason I ask is 'cuase I ordered the soundtrack and now fear it may not be
Les Reed...
Worried about a R100 dud,
David.




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) NOT the original Nairobi Trio
Date: 07 Aug 1997 09:31:16 -0400


J. Diamond wrote:
>
> On Auction;
>
> The Fortune Tellers - Song of The Nairobi Trio
> VG++/Mint-/Stereo/Kapp
>
> Minimum Bid - $40.00
> Minimum Bid Increase - $5.00
>
> This is the group and the recording for Ernie Kovacs TV skit of the same name
> with the 3 gorilla-ish folks doing the BONGO BONGO on top o' de heads
> You've seen it, I don't have to describe it, do I ???

NO WAY, Jack! I have this album and it's NOT the recording Kovacs used
for the famous TV skit. If anyone buys it under this assumption they are
going to be EXTREMELY disappointed. It's a totally different version.

The original version that Kovacs used can be found on THE ERNIE KOVACS
RECORD COLLECTION, which I recently produced for Varese-Sarabande. It
was originally on an M-G-M 45, and as far as I know, it was never on any
Maxwell album (however, he re-recorded it twice for LP).

The Fortune Tellers LP is as wonderful and bizarre as you described. But
it ain't the original "Nairobi Trio."

--Irwin Chusid



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) "The Mike Flowers Pops"
Date: 07 Aug 1997 10:05:56 -0400 (EDT)


Thanx everyone for the info on the CD.    I will be on a search this weekend.
  I must have it !!!

Jimmy


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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: NOT the original Nairobi Trio
Date: 07 Aug 1997 07:38:39 -0700


Irwin,

Are you on my list ?  How did you get this ?

Jack


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From: [e-mail] (Arjan Plug)
Subject: (exotica) Preston Epps
Date: 07 Aug 1997 17:24:36 +0200 (CEST)



>> This is the group and the recording for Ernie Kovacs TV skit of the same name
>> with the 3 gorilla-ish folks doing the BONGO BONGO on top o' de heads

Speaking of bongos...
Anyone out there knows if there was ever a reissue of Preston Epps "Bongo
Bongo Bongo" from the late fifties? I know the German Line label reissued it
in the early 80's but never have been able to track down a copy :(


Arjan




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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) KFJC-FM, 2 - 6PM Thursdays
Date: 07 Aug 1997 09:03:19 -0700


Hello,

I was asked to post this to the list so here we go;

I'm doing a mixed bag kind of show today 8-7-97 and next Thursday 8-14-97
at KFJC, 89.7FM Los Altos Hills, CA from 2 - 6PM (PST, USA)

Tune in at http://www.KFJC.org, click on Internet Broadcast and hope for
the best.

Don't know when I will be back on Sundays from 9 - Noon.  Burnt out on it

Jack


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From: [e-mail] (Tosh)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Serge Gainsbourg en Jamaique
Date: 07 Aug 1997 09:10:38 -0700 (PDT)


I believe in France they released all the original Gainsbourg albums on cd.
For those who may be interested, I will be publishing Gainsbourg's novel
Evguenie Sokolov by late fall.

-----------------
Tosh Berman
TamTam Books
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From: [e-mail] (Tosh)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Claudine Longet& France Gall
Date: 07 Aug 1997 09:24:39 -0700 (PDT)



>
I would also check out France Gall.  She's fab!

-----------------
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TamTam Books
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From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A few recent finds...
Date: 07 Aug 1997 12:19:20 -0400


Uh-oh, here I go again....but first, I'd like to say that despite finding
all this great stuff, I'm a little sad. I went to New Jersey for four days
and only got to go to ONE lousy junk shop. I saw lots more, but  I was a
guest and couldn't scream "STOP!!!!" everytime I saw a Goodwill.  :( Next
time I'm going solo! Another sad thing was that I refused to take a
camera--how was I to know that I would be staying in a town with TONS of
exotica-themed motor lodges?? I'm still reeling from the Bahama-kai, the
Lotus (with very Arthur Lymaneque lettering), and the Tahitian. :(  And
almost every motel in Wildwood NJ had these awesome tin and wood artificial
palm trees. I would have brought one home but I forgot my hatchet. ^_-
Anyway.......

STUFF I FOUND IN NEW JERSEY IN ONE LOUSY THRIFT SHOP:

Jerry Murad's Harmonicats Play Great Themes from TV and Motion Pictures (the
one with the Emma Peel type woman on the cover. Pretty cool for the Cats).

Switched on Nashville (Country Moog) by Gil Trythall (Yeeee-ha!!)

King of Organ with a Beat vol. 2 by Don Johnson (not THAT Don Johnson,
silly! This guy wears a leopard skin jacket and clown mask while playing
"Night Train" on the KANDY label. See why I had to buy this even though the
sleeve was water damaged?)

Send for Me by Julie London (not even a krappy haircut can diminish Julie's
talent)
Sound in the Round (lowbudget THIS IS STEREO record on Concert-disc)
Success Dell'Estate '64 by various Italian singers backed by Ennio
Morricone--cool ^_^
Mr. Jaws and Other Fables by Dickie Goodman

Woody Woodbury Invites You to Have a Party (various artists)--a neat sampler
of  albums on the Duo label hosted by Woody Woodbury.

Happy, Youthful New Sounds of the Guitar Ramblers under the Direction of
Jack Marshall (that's a mouthful--this is a great record with a cool cover
of Dick Dale's "Surf Beat.")

Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross (reissue of High Flying with Lambert,
Hendricks, and Ross)
The Best of Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross
The Best of Stan Freberg
Reflections of my Life by George Wright (produced by Jimmie Haskell and with
drum work by Shelly Manne)
Shades of Today by Pat Williams

STUFF FOUND IN THE CUT-OUT BIN IN A CD STORE IN A MALL IN NEW JERSEY:
can you believe they still had records??

If It's Tuesday this Must be Belgium (late 60s EZ soundtrack stuff)

Feel Good! Look Great! Exercise Along With Debbie Drake (I've been
experimenting with old exercise albums lately--some of them have awesome
perky music on them. This album has an exotic tune called "Javenese Jade"
that's really great if you can get used to the "one, two, one, two..." )

STUFF FOUND BACK IN PENNSYLVANIA:

The Sacred Idol by Les Baxter (a totally mint beauty with the cover on
upside down and it's a PROMO to boot--how weird can you get?)

An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer

A Musical Cruise from Hawaii to Hong Kong by the Royal Polynesian Island
Orchestra (budget label Baxter-esque sounds--reminds me a lot of  "Ports of
Pleasure" or "Carribbean Moonlight." Almost sounds like a Mondo movie
soundtrack. I like this one a lot)

Music from 77 Sunset Strip by Aaron Bell and his Orchresta (budget label
greatness)
The Girl from Ipanema by Jimmy Davis and Norma Lee (wyncote--cool originals)
On Wine: How to Select and Serve
The Twist by the Candymen (cool multi-exposure hips, legs, and heels cover)
Hawaii Tattoo by the Waikikis

Julie London on Guest Star (Julie's early stuff--not bad, and the cuts by
the Ted Comstock orchestra have their moments, too)

Suki and the Invisible Peacock by Joyce Blackburn (religious exotica? Joyce
narrates her story backed by oriental percussion instruments--it almost
sounds like an advant garde poetry album, WORD style!)

Stay Slim with Cathy Rigby (compliments of Stayfree, the number one name in
feminine protection) : I swear to God, there's a track on this album that's
an easy-listening disco version of  the Wicked Witch of  the West's theme song.

Sticks and Bones by Marty Gold (EP version of cool album on Vik)

Adventures in Sound sampler (awesome promo of Adventures in Sound series
with cuts from 19 different AIS LPs--gatefold cover shows 'em all in living
color. WOW!)

NON VINYL STUFF:

Lovely set of four real wood tiki cups ^_^
A book of  Tony Mottola's music for "Danger," complete with pictures from
the show and of  Tony. From 1951!



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Mugs
Date: 07 Aug 1997 13:27:12 -0400 (EDT)


Hello.  Otto referred me to you for some much-needed info.  I am planning a
trip to Boston next Friday for the weekend and tiki-mug hunting is a high
priority.  He gave me the name of Aku Aku, Bali Hai, Kowloon and Honolulu,
which apparently all sell tiki mugs of some kind.  The problem is, I am using
public transportation and getting to all the place may be a problem.  Can you
tell me where the not-to-be-missed places are for their tiki-ness, and if you
can think of any other stops that I should make?

Much appreciated.  Thanks,

Rob


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A few recent finds...
Date: 07 Aug 1997 14:10:19 -0400


> From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) A few recent finds...
>
> how was I to know that I would be staying in a town with TONS of
> exotica-themed motor lodges?? I'm still reeling from the Bahama-kai, the
> Lotus (with very Arthur Lymaneque lettering), and the Tahitian. :(  And
> almost every motel in Wildwood NJ had these awesome tin and wood artificial
> palm trees. I would have brought one home but I forgot my hatchet. ^_-

Wow, Wildwood! Thanks for the reminder. I was there for a day once about, uh,
13 years ago and can second your observations. I didn't know beans about
exotica back then, but I dug the ambience anyway (must've been in my blood,
just waiting). Those fake palm trees ARE amazing. Wildwood has always been a
popular place with the South Philly set -- I wonder if you might find some
similar decor in restaurants & bars there. Anyway, glad to hear that Wildwood's
architectural heritage is still intact. I guess you've revealed a new exotica
vacation destination.

m.ace
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From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Anyone remember it?
Date: 07 Aug 1997 19:56:48 +0100



Hello folks,
Spurred on by hearing "Calling occupants of
interplanetary craft" by the Carpenters, I wonder
if any exotican recalls "world contact day"?
And who are/were Klaatu anyway?

Hugh (not an alien, but it seems like a fun lifestyle)



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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Apology needed ?
Date: 07 Aug 1997 12:12:08 -0700


Hello,

I sent out something to my customers on my Private e-mailing list
Someone from that list then forwarded it to someone else NOT on my list

That person then responded to me in what I have perceived as a FLAME and he
also CC'd the Exotica mailing List

I responded to that person BUT DIDN'T REALIZE that they had also CC'd the
Exotica Mailing List so when I replied to them it also went to the list.

It was a simple and pure mistake as I didn't notice that the list was CC'd

If I owe anyone an apology please let me know and 1 will come forthright

Sincerely,
Jack Diamond


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Apology for previous post
Date: 07 Aug 1997 16:28:26 -0400


A previous post of mine (about The Fortune Teller's "Song of the Nairobi
Trio") to Jack Diamond should not have been forwarded to the E-List.

The original item had been forwarded to me by a Lister, and I assumed it
had originated on the List. I receive the Digest--sporadically, it
seems--and don't always read it all the way through.

My apologies to Jack for any inadvertent consequences of this posting.

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From: [e-mail] (Richard Jay)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Oasis "Wonderwall"
Date: 07 Aug 1997 22:00:20 GMT


On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 04:10:15 -0600, you wrote:

>Yes, it's by Mike, that is true. However, I am thinking of another =
popular
>song from this time period that was covered by a lounge act that is NOT =
Mike
>Flowers. Does anyone out there know what the hell I am talking about. It
>came out last summer. Yes, I know "Wonderwall" charted now that I =
realise it
>is NOT the track I am thinking of. And I wish for the life of me, I =
could
>remember what that track was. It did not chart. But was released on 7".
>Maybe even on a major that didn't do it justice. It was featured on =
Radio
>1's "Easy" special they did about a year and a bit ago. HELP!

I don't know the track, but it doesn't surprise me that someone tried
to jump on the Mike Flowers bandwagon :))


Regards,
Richard Jay (ICQ:1419053)

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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Blue Note, Newport TV
Date: 07 Aug 1997 18:30:29 -0400


Here's a couple more last minute TV notes (sorry)...

Tonight (Aug. 7) at 10 pm (eastern daylight time), the Bravo cable network is
running a documentary on Blue Note Records.

Followed (also on Bravo) at 11 pm (edt) by "Jazz On A Summer's Day", a
documentary film of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

Oop -- the Blue Note program also re-airs at 1:00 am (edt).

m.ace
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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A few recent finds...
Date: 08 Aug 1997 02:17:31 -0700


Jessica Cameron wrote:
>
> Uh-oh, here I go again....

> Feel Good! Look Great! Exercise Along With Debbie Drake (I've been
> experimenting with old exercise albums lately--some of them have awesome
> perky music on them. This album has an exotic tune called "Javenese Jade"
> that's really great if you can get used to the "one, two, one, two..."

for those of you unfortunate enough not to own a copy of Debbie Drake's
"How To Keep Your Husband Happy," here's a particularly helpful bit of
info from the liner notes for you ladies out there:


CHECKLIST FOR KEEPING YOUR HUSBAND HAPPY

1. Firm and graceful body.
2. Be at home when he arrives. (If you must work, try to arrange it so
you're home first.)
3. Clothes, sexy- for your evenings home.
4. Be interested in him and the things he does.
5. A good conversationalist.
6. A bright smile over morning coffee. (This paints a good mental
picture of you for all day.)
7. Nice voice (keep it soft and musical; also a pretty laugh.)
8. Excess fat (taboo).
9. Well-set hair (brushed and clean).
10. Mentally alert (try reading).
11. Pin-curls (if they are a must, pin up after the lights are out and
wear a bed cap).
12. Perfume- just for him, when he's home.
13. A regular manicure.
14. A weekly pedicure.



trying to stay mentally alert by reading email,
pea hix


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From: Ariel Tagar <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Im back!
Date: 08 Aug 1997 14:10:18 +0300 (IDT)


HI EVERYBODY!
I was away for about a month, photographing around the country,
but now im home. in my travels I came upon a man who intoduced
himself as a writer for a big computer tv mag name "Zombit".
anyway, after talking with him, he is going to make an article
about the lounge scene on the internet. any ideas for the show
will be welcomed.
bye for now
Ariel

The EASY PAGE, Easy listening and lounge culture.
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3076
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From: Anthony Thai <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Claudine Longet CD's
Date: 08 Aug 1997 10:14:04 -0700


Hi,

 According to the Summer '96 edition of the CD World Reference Guide,
the
 following 9 Claudine Longet CD's are released in Japan:

 Best of Claudine Longet                 Century CECC-00681
 Claudine                                A&M POCM-1939
 Colours                                 A&M POCM-1942
 Let's Spend the Night Together          Century CECC-00536
 Look of Love                            A&M POCM-1940
 Love Is Blue                            A&M POCM-1941
 Run Wild, Run Free                      A&M POCM-1943
 Sugar Me                                Century CECC-00537
 We've Only Just Begun                   Century CECC-00550

 Anthony

 Technical Support Group Mail 1 wrote:

> > Does anyone know of any CD releases available by Claudine Longet? I
> > have
> > checked many catalogues and can't find a thing. She was on A&M so I
> > would
> > have thought there would be SOMETHING.
> >
> > Anyone know?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Wayne


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From: "Bailey, David BGI MW" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Howdy!
Date: 08 Aug 1997 12:00:00 -0700


Hello Exoticats and Kittens,

Me llamo David, and it's been a while (1 year) since I last subscribed
to the
list. I missed the insights, pointers and trivia...so, bring it on!

I'm only a casual collector of exotica, but love all forms of music,
from new
wave to new orleans jazz. But, I especially like the WEIRD STUFF!

David

P.S. Check out Saturn Records' (Collectible Vinyl) new website and
enormous
catalog: www.saturnrecords.com

It's groovy, if I do say so myself.... ;)


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From: "Mark A. Rosati" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Wildwood, NJ
Date: 08 Aug 1997 15:40:33 -0400


Hi Exoticans,

I'm from the Phila. PA area and it's been a while since I've been to
Wildwood, NJ. So long in fact that I forgot about all the cool motels,
fake palm trees and exotic kitsch. (aahhhh... memories of senior week)
Now I have a reason to go back.

Just north of Wildwood is Point Pleasant, NJ another little shore town.
You can find Martell's Tiki Bar there. It's not very "traditional" as
tiki bars go (I mean, you are still in NJ), but it's a lot closer to me
than Wildwood.

http://www.tikibar.com/

You can see what I mean.

Mark


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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Chicago Spots
Date: 08 Aug 1997 14:04:37 -0600 (MDT)


A friend of mine will be spending a week in Chicago soon.  Can anyone
recommend any nightspots/thrifts/record shops/etc. that would be of particular
interest to someone on this list?

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


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From: [e-mail] (Brian Salter)
Subject: (exotica) Lounge-a-Palooza / Sense-O-Round
Date: 08 Aug 1997 14:48:55 -0000



Hello all,

I would like to invite you to the third annual Lounge-A-Palooza,
the Bay Area's biggest and best lounge music event of the year.
The schedule and lineup follow (note that 'Tipsy' is
headlining!); in addition, the Sense-O-Round DJs (which includes
myself) will be spinning before and inbetween acts, with a
special focus on the musical genius of Enoch Light as part of
the National Enoch Light Birthday Bash (for more info go to:
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/birthday/)

hope to see you there!

-Brian

>
>Lounge-A-Palooza
>
>Saturday August 23, 1997
>Paradise Lounge and Transmission Theater
>11th and Folsom, San Francisco, California
>Doors open at 8:00 pm, show at 9:00 pm
>Tickets available at www.ticketweb.com, bass or call 621-4410
>Tickets $11 in advance, $12 day of show
>
>The Lineup
>
>Paradise Lounge                                    Transmission Theater
>
>9:45 The World Accordion to Ottmar              8:00  DJs
>10:30 Mr. Lucky w/The Xtranaturals             10:00 Phineas Gage
>11:15 Sonny Whipp                                     Travelling Sideshow
>11:35 The World Accordion to Ottmar              from Seattle
>12:15 The New Brass Ring                           11:00 Herb
>                                                            12:15 Tipsy
>
>Above Paradise all night from 10:15 on, The Amazing Embarrassonic Human
>Karaoke Machine.
>


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) MORE New Jersey Exotica
Date: 08 Aug 1997 18:54:44 -0400


I forgot to mention my stop at the Atlantic City Ripley's Believe it or not
museum! They have a whole "jungle/voodoo/false idols" room and it's
incredible. Stone skulls with glowing red eyes, tikis, shrunken heads, and
wax figures of people being tortured, having their faces molded, etc. They
were selling plastic shrunken heads in the gift shop, but they were pretty
cheap looking, so I guess my tiki shelf will have to be "headless" for now.
:(  Maybe I can find a nicer faux shrunken head somewhere. I'd be afraid to
have a real one because it would be cursed and I'd never be able to find any
good records ever again.

Thanks for the space, Jessica ^_^



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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Underground Radio
Date: 08 Aug 1997 17:43:13 -0700


Anyone in the San Jose, CA vicinity might want to tune their radio dial to
104.1FM for some unheard of sounds anywhere else starting at 8PM this evening

I don't think there are ANY call letters to the "station"

Jack


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From: Technical Support Group Mail 1 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Klaatu
Date: 09 Aug 1997 13:00:00 +1100



Regarding the Klaatu posting, I think they were Canadian, there was a lot of
mystery regarding their identitty at the time and due to the mystery there
were rumours that members included The Rolling Stones and The Beatles (but
none of the rumours were true).

They made four albums (I think only four), Klaatu, Hope, Sir Army Suit and
Endangered Species. All are patchy but moments of brilliance on all (Hope
has this amazing rock opera type song called 'The Lonliest Of Creatures'
which employs everything from cocktail music to marching band to choirs!)
Quite bizarre.

I don't know when World Contact Day is, but sounds like a good idea for a
party!

Ciao,
Wayne


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From:    "STEFAAN HURTS" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Klaatu
Date: 09 Aug 1997 14:51:07 +0200


Wayne wrote:
> They made four albums (I think only four), Klaatu, Hope, Sir Army Suit and
> Endangered Species.

There's a fifth album, called "Magenta Lane".

Cheers,
-Stef


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) The White Suit Samba
Date: 09 Aug 1997 10:12:15 -0700 (PDT)


I was just reading Kiss Kiss Bang Bang by Pauline Kael and ran into a short
review of the 1951 movie The Man in the White Suit.  She writes... "the
gurgling, bubbling quirts and drips of the hero's experimental apparatus
were joined to a rhythm and issued by Coral Records as The White Suit Samba."

Sounds interesting.  Anyone ever run into this?

Byron Caloz



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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Blue Note TV, Pt. 2
Date: 09 Aug 1997 15:44:47 -0400


THIS time here's a more timely warning...

Part 2 of that documentary on Blue Note Records airs on Bravo cable network
this coming Thursday night, August 14 at 10:00 pm (all times eastern daylight).
It also repeats at 1:00 am and 5:00 am, early Friday morning.

Also on Thursday, Bravo is running Tom Waits' performance film, "Big Time" at
3:00 pm and 11:00 pm. And again at 12:30 pm, Friday afternoon.

m.ace
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From: Chris Kovin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Captains/Shrunken Heads
Date: 09 Aug 1997 08:24:48 -0400 (EDT)


Re: the cheap novelty shrunken heads, I saw a real shrunken head in a
shop in New Orleans a couple of years ago.  Check the price: $5,000!
Then when I went back a few months later it was gone.  Yes, I asked.
Yes, someone had bought it.  They also had some paintings by that
serial killer who was also a clown and painted Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs (forget the name).

Well, I want to tell you about my favorite Marine Corps Aviator Folk
Group.  They are "The Captains" (quotes theirs) and the LP is _in
Pensacola_.  Liner notes:

Here are "The Captains," at last on record with some of their most
popular songs.  This pair of comical lyricists, Chuck Zangas and
Howie Snider, are known thruoghout the country for their ability to
create songs and tailor parodies to suit their many varied audiences.
They have now brought their accordian and guitar into the studio to
give posterity and shut-ins an opportunity to laugh with them (or at
them) as they gaily exercise with some of the less esoteric selections
from their repetoire.

If at times it sounds as though these singing satirists are smiling,
it is probably because they are.  No one enjoys the Captains more than
the Captains themselves, for despite all their preparation and rehearsal,
they seldom do a number twice the same way--Howie tries, but Chuck ad libs
him to death.  Thus, this permanent recording is a sort of oddity.

Pretty much says it all.  Cuts:

Marine Corps Aviator Fight Song
Icarus (the "first aviator")
Astronaut Jarhead (!)
Marine Green (to the tune of Jean Jean)
Look Her in the Eyeballs (about the topless bathing suit!)
Teen-age Marine
CNABATRA (pronounced sin-a-ba-tra--for Chief of Naval Air Training--great!)
Ballad of Papa Don
Give Me Back That Rib (war of the sexes)
The Captains' Song

In the top 5 of "best dollar I ever spent."

Chris


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From: jordana <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) lounge paper
Date: 09 Aug 1997 15:58:13 -0400


Writing scholarly papers about things you love are always a good idea -
especially in the case of something music-related, so that you can justify
buying lots of records/fanzines/books etc. in the name of academics.  Having
a cultural studies major helped, also.  I could suggest some books to you,
Rob, like a second Hebdige book that has a slightly different focus.  (R -
send me email if you need suggestions.)

Anyway, the real reason for this post is to say that I'm moving, so I'm
unsubscribing from the list for a couple weeks.  Not that I've posted
anything of substance in about a year... but I plan to become a better list
participant once I'm resettled.


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From: Chris Kovin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Captains/Shrunken Head
Date: 09 Aug 1997 16:50:04 -0400 (EDT)



Re: the cheap novelty shrunken heads, I saw a real shrunken head in a
shop in New Orleans a couple of years ago.  Check the price: $5,000!
Then when I went back a few months later it was gone.  Yes, I asked.
Yes, someone had bought it.  They also had some paintings by that
serial killer who was also a clown and painted Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs (forget the name).

Well, I want to tell you about my favorite Marine Corps Aviator Folk
Group.  They are "The Captains" (quotes theirs) and the LP is _in
Pensacola_.  Liner notes:

Here are "The Captains," at last on record with some of their most
popular songs.  This pair of comical lyricists, Chuck Zangas and
Howie Snider, are known thruoghout the country for their ability to
create songs and tailor parodies to suit their many varied audiences.
They have now brought their accordian and guitar into the studio to
give posterity and shut-ins an opportunity to laugh with them (or at
them) as they gaily exercise with some of the less esoteric selections
from their repetoire.

If at times it sounds as though these singing satirists are smiling,
it is probably because they are.  No one enjoys the Captains more than
the Captains themselves, for despite all their preparation and rehearsal,
they seldom do a number twice the same way--Howie tries, but Chuck ad libs
him to death.  Thus, this permanent recording is a sort of oddity.

Pretty much says it all.  Cuts:

Marine Corps Aviator Fight Song
Icarus (the "first aviator")
Astronaut Jarhead (!)
Marine Green (to the tune of Jean Jean)
Look Her in the Eyeballs (about the topless bathing suit!)
Teen-age Marine
CNABATRA (pronounced sin-a-ba-tra--for Chief of Naval Air Training--great!)
Ballad of Papa Don
Give Me Back That Rib (war of the sexes)
The Captains' Song

In the top 5 of "best dollar I ever spent."

Chris



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From: Jan Fornell <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Not "Wonderwall"
Date: 10 Aug 1997 20:37:00 +0900


>However, I am thinking of another popular
>song from this time period that was covered by a lounge act that is NOT Mike
>Flowers. Does anyone out there know what the hell I am talking about. It
>came out last summer. Yes, I know "Wonderwall" charted now that I realise it
>is NOT the track I am thinking of. And I wish for the life of me, I could
>remember what that track was. It did not chart. But was released on 7".
>Maybe even on a major that didn't do it justice. It was featured on Radio
>1's "Easy" special they did about a year and a bit ago. HELP!
Could it be The Nice 'n' Easy Experience's bossa nova cover of Babylon Zoo's
"Spaceman"? I heard (and bought) this some time last year at the Yokohama
Virgin Megastore, where the DJ just happened to be playing it when I was there
,
but I've never seen it anywhere else or anything else by them. I can't even
remember them being discussed on this list. An "album version" is included
on the (CD) single, but I have no idea whether any album actually exists.

The single, anyway, is on Eternal Records, WEA045CD 0630-14476-2.

Jan


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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) shrunken heads: mind-broadening
Date: 10 Aug 1997 11:37:03 -0400


At 08:24 AM 8/9/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Re: the cheap novelty shrunken heads, I saw a real shrunken head in a
>shop in New Orleans a couple of years ago.  Check the price: $5,000!
>Then when I went back a few months later it was gone.  Yes, I asked.
>Yes, someone had bought it.

There was one at the NYC Sunday fleas a few months ago for $45 (passed on
it -- not worth the bad juju at any price).

The world's largest collection of shrunken heads (including rare blondes,
etc.) is in the hands of a fellow who used to be in the Baltimore suburb of
Catonsville. He may be in Annapolis now. At any rate, a slew of major
museums of from DC to NY are vying for it, and it's likely the collection
will be institutionally housed at least, if not exhibited, within the next
few years. Good millenium fare.

Also, the shrunken head carved coconut on my web site soon will be housed
in the forthcoming Coconutorium, a virtual gallery of one very exotic folk
art. Soon!

tony
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From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A Small Pile of REALLY good records....
Date: 10 Aug 1997 14:50:47 -0400


I didn't find much this weekend at the flea market, but  I did score one
incredible, hard-to-find  LP that made me very very very happy. Anyway...

Astro Sounds from Beyond the Year 2000!!!!--I had long ago given up on ever
finding this album, but today I found it in a cruddy old orange crate--for
fifty cents!!!! ^_^ Sorry to gloat, but geez! This is Astro Sounds we're
talking about! I've been walking a little tall all day after finding it. ^_-

Other cool stuff:

Esther Philllips with Beck (no, not _that_ Beck!): For All We Know: Awesome
LP with funk/disco covers of "Fever" and "Caravan" by a lady who kinda
sounds like Eartha Kitt (to me, anyway). This record rules!

Pop Goes the Basie (Amazin' jazzy covers of pop tunes like "Pretty Woman"
and "The Hucklebuck")

Marlene Dietrich in London

The Intimate Valente by Caterina Valente (gender switch cover of  "Girl From
Ipanema" :P)

45: Convention '72 by the Delegates: Cut-up novelty song that puts the words
from "Troglodyte" in Henry Kissenger's mouth! "Gotta find a woman, gotta
find a woman...." Classic. Cool funk/organ original "Funky Butt" on the flip.

Thanks for the space, Jessica ^_^



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) new lps to me
Date: 10 Aug 1997 19:58:44 -0700 (PDT)


Here are some recent acquisitions which I found for sale in the Portland area:

Yippee Ole  WEstern Songs the Latin Way  Melino and his orch.  Jubilee 1042
I thought I heard it all, but I guess I never investigated all the
permutations. I can see someone at Jubilee telling Melino "Hey, how about
this, Western themed songs done with a Latin beat?  We'll put a topless
woman on the cover and it'll sell like hotcakes."  It was pretty good, but
nothing to write home about.  The woman, by the way, is sitting on one of
those tall drums (WHAT are those called?), wearing only fishnet stockings,
cowboy boots and Mexican sombrero.  However, because she's white, some
modesty prevails and we see primarilly her back and she turns behind with
her arms crossed.  Among the cuts:  On the Trail Cha Cha, Yodelin' Cowboy
Cha cha and I'm an Old Cowhand Merengue.

Manny Albam     Brass on Fire    Solid State  18000
No cover found.  An okay album by the double exposure guy of Stereo Action.

Hawaii in Hi Fi  Leo Addeo  RCA camden  CAL-510
Just how many Hawaii albums did he do?

Music for Bang Baaroom and Harp  Dick Schory  RCA LSP-1866
Great stuff, but the noise level is rather high.  I really wish RCA would
reissue all of his material.  The cover is great...and mine is perfect: no
discolorations, scribbling, or ring wear.  Maybe someday I'll find the vinyl
in good shape and I'll be set.

Tenderly Yours  Julie London/Ted Comstock  Guest Star 1417
4 JL cuts interspersed with some good material from TC.  Definitely helps
fill out my JL collection.

The Three Suns  Swingin' on a Star  RCA LPM 1964
What can I say, they were cool.

For Underwater Listening  Ruth Wallis  WLP 16
Didn't come with a cover.  (Might have to put it in that Joe Walsh album
where he is smoking underwater....)  Wish I did have the original cover.
Ms. Wallis wrote some very inventive and risque songs.  I'd like to know
what happened to her. I think my fave was Cape Canaveral Blues about the
scientist who couldn't "get his rocket up."  Most her songs have that
general approach, but each one is entirely different and entertaining, well,
to me anyway.

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ciao Mondo!
Date: 11 Aug 1997 02:15:32 -0500


... watched an Italian spy double feature this weekend:   Danger:
Diabolik     and     The Tenth Victim.    Danger, the more
comic-bookish and sillier of the two, has a terrific soundtrack by
Morricone that I think Jack was asking about (I don't think it's
available, but the letterbox laserdic of the film is....   I taped
the sndtrk from a so-so quality video....  worthwhile none-the-less).
 You've got yer romantic themes (with what must be Edda dell'Orso's
mostly wordless voice), guitar chase music, a hippy drug wig-out
party jam as well as a few heavily electronic weird-out intervals and
more.

The Tenth Victim is a terrific film, wild...  and Piccione's score is
well melded.  From Ursula Andress' opening scene on a catwalk with
the spikey metallic bikini equipped with, um..  hooter shooters(?)
to the choreographed 'Minty' advertisement at the planned denoument
[sp], this one will keep your attention.  And there's more notable
music here than what's included on the soundtrack Lp.

I also viddied the ultraviolence of Dario Argento's latest, The
Stendhal Syndrome, which is scored by Morricone.  Terrible film
riddled with more than the usual plot holes, and oddly erotic
misogyny for a rape-revenge story (give me that Z-movie 'Ms. 45' any
day over this one).  The music is good of course, but sounds
pedestrian next to other Morricone horror scores.  A big skiperoo.

... and, I noticed a film for future viewing...  Mario Bava's first,
Satan's Eyes or Eyes of Satan or something, that credits the score to
Les Baxter!

for those into Stereolab...    Dots and Loops, the new Lp, is due out
next month and is reported to be very 'loungey.'    In the
meantime...   Tim Gane and Sean O'Hagen (former S'lab) have done a
side-project thing called 'Turn On' - more electronic lounge pop...
out in the UK now, in the US later this month


kevin king
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From: "Chrysler Mighuel Stewart" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Scopitone Show!
Date: 11 Aug 1997 00:53:22 -0700


Hello Folx!
    Rev. Chrysler Mighuel Stewart Here!
Just a note to let all in the Pacific Northwest know about a couple of
upcoming things which are happening... The first is a Scopitone show at the
Grand Illusion in Seattle, It's a two hour show featuring (ideally,) all of
the Scopitones they used to show at the old Pike Street Cinema... That's
happening Monday through Wednesday, August 10-13 at 11:00 pm PST. The other
thing is that Pizzicato Five, Tokyo's Coolest Combo, are coming to Seattle
at the Showbox on September 8 at 8:00 (21 and Over- Big Un-plus,
super-bad...) so even though _I_ can't see it, I don't see a reason to keep
those of age uninformed... For those who don't know, Mr. Konishi Yasuharu is
quite the lounge fan, and have the obligatory 'Girl from Ipanema' track on
the upcoming Lounga-Palooza CD. They are definitely worth checking out
ESPECIALLY since tix are just US$10!!!
                                Yours for the lost,
                        Rev. Chrysler Mighuel Stewart
                            [e-mail]
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From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Not "Wonderwall"
Date: 11 Aug 1997 03:49:23 -0600


At 20:37 10/08/97 +0900, you wrote:
>
>>However, I am thinking of another popular
>>song from this time period that was covered by a lounge act that is NOT Mike
>>Flowers. Does anyone out there know what the hell I am talking about. It
>>came out last summer. Yes, I know "Wonderwall" charted now that I realise it
>>is NOT the track I am thinking of. And I wish for the life of me, I could
>>remember what that track was.

>Could it be The Nice 'n' Easy Experience's bossa nova cover of Babylon Zoo's
>"Spaceman"? I heard (and bought) this some time last year at the Yokohama
>Virgin Megastore, where the DJ just happened to be playing it when I was there
>,
>but I've never seen it anywhere else or anything else by them. I can't even
>remember them being discussed on this list. An "album version" is included
>on the (CD) single, but I have no idea whether any album actually exists.
>
>The single, anyway, is on Eternal Records, WEA045CD 0630-14476-2.

YAHOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, it was "Spaceman", and yes, I never saw an LP. And that is the act.
PERFECT!!!! I heard of one of two folks getting the single, but it wasn't a
hit.

Jan, you are the saviour of the week.

Jill "Mingo-go"



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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Chris Kovin: (exotica) The Captains/Shrunken Heads]
Date: 11 Aug 1997 13:08:46 +0100


> From: Chris Kovin <[e-mail]>
>
> Re: the cheap novelty shrunken heads, I saw a real shrunken head in a
> shop in New Orleans a couple of years ago.  Check the price: $5,000!
> Then when I went back a few months later it was gone.  Yes, I asked.
> Yes, someone had bought it.  They also had some paintings by that
> serial killer who was also a clown and painted Snow White and the Seven
> Dwarfs (forget the name).
>

The Pitt-Rivers Museum in Oxford has a case of shrunken heads (with
detailed instructions explaining How To Make Your Own), ghastly gnarly
little things. I think there are some scalps in there as well. This
place is basically a few rooms haphazardly crammed with Plunder of the
Empire -- more like a gigantic Cabinet of Curiosities than a typical
museum. It's got a whole totem pole ascending up a couple of
floors. Perhaps the scariest thing is the case of Primitive Surgical
Instruments... ouch.



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From: Mark Reed <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Captains/Shrunken Heads
Date: 11 Aug 1997 08:12:32 -0400 (EDT)


>
>Well, I want to tell you about my favorite Marine Corps Aviator Folk
>Group.  They are "The Captains" (quotes theirs) and the LP is _in
>Pensacola_.  Liner notes:
>
>Here are "The Captains," at last on record with some of their most
>popular songs.  This pair of comical lyricists, Chuck Zangas and
>Howie Snider, are known thruoghout the country for their ability to
>create songs and tailor parodies to suit their many varied audiences.
>They have now brought their accordian and guitar into the studio to
>give posterity and shut-ins an opportunity to laugh with them (or at
>them) as they gaily exercise with some of the less esoteric selections
>from their repetoire.
>

>Pretty much says it all.  Cuts:
>

>Ballad of Papa Don

FYI, Papa Don is likely Don Schroeder, a popular DJ in Pensacola in the
60's.  He was also a record producer, producing "I'm Your Puppet" by James &
Bobby Purify, "Everlasting Love" by Carl Carlton, and "For Your Precious
Love" by Oscar Toney, Jr.

Anyway, can you give any more info about the album, such as label, date,
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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) new lps to me
Date: 11 Aug 1997 09:27:03 -0400


At 7:58 PM -0700 8/10/97, [e-mail] wrote:

>Music for Bang Baaroom and Harp  Dick Schory  RCA LSP-1866
>Great stuff, but the noise level is rather high.  I really wish RCA would
>reissue all of his material.

This LP was reissued last year on high grade vinyl by a NY company (whose
name escapes me) who specialize in the field. Check out stores that
specialize in audiophile records (Living Presence, Living Stereo, etc) or
look for ads in mags like Absolute Sound. The LP's sold for around 25 bucks.

br cleve





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From: Joe Batutis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) SF trip
Date: 11 Aug 1997 10:54:31 -0500


Hi there-
My girlfriend and I are taking a trip out to San Fran next week and I was
hoping that someone out there might be able to suggest cool CD shops with
good lounge selections and lounges or bars with that "special" swank
atmosphere.

Thanks,
enok lite




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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Theremin painting, Millionaire story
Date: 11 Aug 1997 12:10:17 -0400


On display at the Wilds Scene now is an original "funk-naif" painting of
Leon Theremin, Clara Rockmore, Lavinia, and terpsichordia. The artist, Alix
Southworth, has been known to play Caravan on the nose flute, sings jazz,
and knows cocktails from way back. Stay tuned for her painting of a
Tazmanian Reef Hound, the exotica dawg.

Also she intervened years ago at Washington DC's The Bayou to get the
Millionaire served a drink. (It's a Bud bar, what do you want.) Not one to
take any crap from anyone, she was amazed at Swinger Numero Uno's Bruce
Waynish mild-mannered humility in the face of abysmal service -- he was the
star, no less. The Millionaire, of course, was thirsty. You've combusted a
long way, man!

Hear a min, there a min, everywhere a min.

Tony Wilds

The Wilds Scene ->  http://www.charm.net/~wilds/


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From: [e-mail] (Arjan Plug)
Subject: (exotica) Soothing Sound for Baby (Raymond Scott)
Date: 11 Aug 1997 20:01:01 +0200 (CEST)


Apologies if this has been discussed recently (only a week on this list) but
a couple of weeks ago I bought vol.1 of the excellent Dutch reissues of
Raymond Scott's "Soothing Sound for Baby". The series consists of three
volumes: 1-6 months, 6-12 months and 12-18 months. All are accompanied with
booklets with an extensive Raymond Scott bio (written by Irwin Chusid).

The foreword (by Joachim Gurewitz):

"Despite it's title, Soothing Sounds for Baby" isn't just for infants. When
it was recorded by composer/electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott in 1962
or '63 (exact dates are unknown), it was intended for babies-but history has
endowed this deceptively simple work with a broader significance. Had Scott
known that this elemental music's appeal would continue as its target
audience grew up, he might have entitled the series Sophisticated Sound for
Baby.
        Released on three long-playing records in conjunction with the
Gesell Institute of Child Development, Inc., Soothing Sounds... was intended
to serve as an "aural toy" during the "feeding, teething, play, sleep and
fretful periods" of infants in three distinct age groups. The original album
notes stressed that a young child's sense of hearing is better developed
than many people realize. Besides soothing infants, these recordings were
intended to be "pleasantly stimulating". Babies like "new sights and new
sounds," explained a booklet slipped inside the LP's. Music consists of
vibrations, which babies also like-"just vibrate baby's bed gently", the
booklet noted, and "crying often stops". By approximating "the rhythmic
tinkle of a music box" and "a tickling watch held close to [the] ear",
Soothing Sounds provided a "quieting" atmosphere of relaxation, warmth, and
contentment.
        Ironically, these same qualities were embodied in a type of adult
music that evolved in the 1970's and 80's. Brian Eno's 1975 album Discreet
Music is often cited as the first deliberate attempt at "ambient music"
(though Eno cited his collaborations with guitarist Robert Fripp, No
Pussyfooting (1973) and Evening Star (1975), as forerunners). In his book A
Year with Swollen Appendices, Eno stated, "Ambient Music is intended to
induce calm and a space to think. [It] must be able to accommodate many
levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must
be as ingnorable as it is interesting." His subsequent albums On Land, Music
for Airports, Thinking Music, The Shutov Assembly and Thursday Afternoon,
along with Fripp's solo "Frippertronics" and "Soundscapes", defined a genre
of music that could justifiably be termed Easy Listening for the
avant-garde. (For a complete history of sonic sedatives, read Joseph Lanza's
"Elevator Music", published by Quartet Books, UK). This music, intended to
pacify and mesmerize, later mixed with dance beats into such styles as
ambient house, trance, techno, and trip-hop. Echoes can be heard in the
recordings of The Future Sound of London, Aphex Twin, The Orb, and
Stereolab, amongst countless others.
        By Eno's definition of "ambient", Soothing Sounds for baby
qualifies, while pre-dating Discreet Music by over a decade. There's another
parallel: Discreet Music was used to facilitate childbirth. Eno provided
extended versions to hospitals when his recordings were found to have a
calming effect on a mother's breathing. Soothing Sounds for baby would have
been useful after these mothers brought their newborns home from the hospital.
        This reissue re-introduces Scott's seminal work to new generations
of fans, whether their listening is active or passive-and regardless of the
age of those particular generations. In fact, since the original releases
had such limited circulation, it could be claimed that this reissue is
actually "introducing" this music to the world. It was easy to overlook the
first time around-it doesn't scream for attention.
        So, relax. Listen closely. Or don't. In a world fraught with tension
and insecurity, we trust you'll find Raymond Scott's gentle melodies and
childlike rhythms to be soothing companions."

The CDs are on the Basta-label which has issued more excellent Raymond Scott
material over the last few years. Check out theire website at:

http://www.basta.nl   (or http://eastsite.nl/basta)

They also do mailorder.


Arjan




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From: Frank <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Trigger Happy
Date: 11 Aug 1997 15:12:07 -0400


An eye catching topic, hm? Anyone know if the soundtrack to this film
(very funny noir-ish thing with Gabriel Byrne [sp?], Burt Reynolds [!],
etc.)? 100% lounge soundtrack; wrote tunes I recognized down...
somewhere. If you haven't seen it, humbly: you must.

F




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From: Chris Kovin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Dark Shadows!
Date: 11 Aug 1997 17:18:23 -0400 (EDT)


Maybe the best afterschool activity of ours was rushing home to catch
this most excellent of shows.  Hell, we didn't know it was a soap
opera!  All we knew is that it was really creepy and we might get to
see Quentin turn into a werewolf.

Well, I just got the LP of this that I ordered from Jack Diamond, and
very rapid response I might add (thanks, Jack!).  And I must say it
defintely exceeded my expectations by a wide margin!  From the opening
theremin, I was again that scared shitless 7-year-old-kid, and it brought
back images of the old house with the hidden rooms I hadn't thought
about in years (sort of made a mental note to catch reruns on the SciFi
Channel but haven't done so so far - I will now if it's still on).

Besides lots of creepy crawly theremin and sickly sweet strings, there's
even some twisted surf / electronica ("No. 1 at the Blue Whale" and "Back
the the Blue Whale").  This LP definitely delivers the thrills and chills!

Chris


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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) new lps to me
Date: 11 Aug 1997 19:43:51 -0400 (EDT)


At 09:27 AM 8/11/97 -0400, Br. Cleve wrote:
>At 7:58 PM -0700 8/10/97, [e-mail] wrote:
>>Music for Bang Baaroom and Harp  Dick Schory  RCA LSP-1866
>>Great stuff, but the noise level is rather high.  I really wish RCA would
>>reissue all of his material.

>This LP was reissued last year on high grade vinyl by a NY company (whose
>name escapes me) who specialize in the field. Check out stores that
>specialize in audiophile records (Living Presence, Living Stereo, etc) or
>look for ads in mags like Absolute Sound. The LP's sold for around 25 bucks.


This LP was re-released by Classic Records. Here's their URL:
http://www.classicrecs.com/catlpop.htm

Spend a little time at the site: there's an interesting area on the
mechanics of re-releasing LPs and also a section on the now-obsolete vinyl
vs. CD debate (obsolete now that there's the vinyl vs. DVD debate to gear up
for).

-Lou




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From: Chris Kovin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Silver Apples of the Moon?
Date: 12 Aug 1997 10:39:35 -0400 (EDT)


A friend of mine found a copy of this what he describes as a
"random noise platter" that is "hard to listen to in one sitting"
and he would like some more info about it if anyone's got any.

Thanks,

Chris


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) DVD's or BVD's?
Date: 12 Aug 1997 11:15:33 -0400


> From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) new lps to me
>
> also a section on the now-obsolete vinyl vs. CD debate
> (obsolete now that there's the vinyl vs. DVD debate to gear up for).

If they ever settle on their audio-only DVD standard. Last I heard (admittedly
this was early in the year), they were still wrangling that around. There is
the possibility of a 96 kHz sampling rate, which would be more than double the
resolution of CD's -- not bad. Hmmm...besides the vinyl vs. whatever debate, I
can also imagine future CD retro-fans making their own arguments: "The pleasant
graininess of the 44.1 kHz CD sampling rate is far superior to the overly
glassy sound of DVD's."

The real question: DVD's or BVD's?

m.ace
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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Persistence Of Memory
Date: 12 Aug 1997 11:29:22 -0400


I've been saving this thread suggestion for a slow spell, and we seem to =
be in
one. First of all (mindful of desert island scenarios), if you don't like=
 this
idea, my apologies. You are, of course, free to ignore and delete -- as a=
lways.

Anyhoo, I think it would be interesting to share our earliest possible me=
mories
of records, record playing, early favorites, etc. I realize this isn't ov=
ertly
on-topic, but I think it's relevant in a "meta" kind of way. Also, it see=
ms to
come up on its own now and then -- so why not examine it head-on?

Pushing my memory back as far as possible, it's hard to remember particul=
ar
records, but I do remember our old record player. It was a tabletop porta=
ble
with a single speaker in the front and a two-tone tan and off-white textu=
red
(vinyl?) covering. The top opened up and removed altogether, for easy acc=
ess to
the platter. It was a stacking automatic with the four standard speeds. W=
e
didn't have any 78's, but it was always fun to crank it over there and ge=
t that
platter really spinning (or play an LP at that speed -- who needs officia=
l
Chipmunks records?). There was a wide horizontal slot in the back where t=
he
power cord stored away, but it was really more for cooling. Inside, you c=
ould
see the tubes glowing bright orange -- oooh. My initial imprinting on the=
 tube
mystique.

One record that does register as an early favorite, especially since I st=
umbled
across my old copy of it, is a Rocky & Bullwinkle 45 on Golden Records (F=
F659,
composer credit on both sides is Paul Parnes). Unlike some Golden Records=
, this
features the real voice artists. Considering the heavy wear, this had to =
be in
high rotation on my toddler playlist. And listening to it, I DO remember =
it!

"I Was Born To Be Airborne" features a solo Rocky doing a little march-ty=
pe
song about his love of flying. Plenty of jet noises and sonic booms are m=
ixed
in.

But the hit side for me was "I'm Rocky's Pal" featuring Rocky AND Bullwin=
kle in
what amounts to a bit of audio vaudeville. Bullwinkle opens with the titu=
lar
song ("I'm Rocky's pal, I'm Rocky's chum -- So greetings, culture buffs!"=
)
after which the twosome basically do a standup routine, including...
R: "Well, Bullwinkle, we're on a record at last."
B: "Yeah. Sorta makes me dizzy spinnin' around like this=85and around [CL=
ICK] and
around [CLICK] and around [CLICK]"
R: "What's the matter, Bullwinkle?"
B: "Must have a scratch on my tonsils."
Which was my introduction to both medium-referential humor and strangely
rhythmic loops.

Those are some of my earliest record memories. Hope some of you think thi=
s is
worthwhile. Pea, I expect to hear from you at least, given your usual sig=
nature
line.

m.ace
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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Silver Apples of the Moon?
Date: 12 Aug 1997 11:49:47 -0400


> From: Chris Kovin <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) Silver Apples of the Moon?
>
> A friend of mine found a copy of this what he describes as a
> "random noise platter" that is "hard to listen to in one sitting"
> and he would like some more info about it if anyone's got any.

From what I can remember from the electronic music segment of music theory
class, I think this was by Morton Subotnick and put out by Nonesuch. There was
another one that he did around the same period, also on Nonesuch, but I can't
recall the title. I think he used the Buchla synthesizer (one of the heavy
hitters in the early days before Moog hit it big), but that's in the hazy
memory area, so don't take that as fact. From what I remember of "Silver
Apples", I thought it was a fun piece of work, certainly not as tortuous as
this description. But that's subjectivity for you. Anyone else know more?

Well, I THOUGHT we were in a slow spell,

m.ace
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From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Persistence Of Memory
Date: 12 Aug 1997 11:16:36 -0400


>Anyhoo, I think it would be interesting to share our earliest possible memories
>of records, record playing, early favorites, etc. I realize this isn't overtly
>on-topic, but I think it's relevant in a "meta" kind of way. Also, it seems to
>come up on its own now and then -- so why not examine it head-on?

I'll bite--when I was a kid, I used to go with my father to the record store
and just look at covers while he browsed. The ones that stuck with
me--anything with a cartoon cover,  and anything scary. I remember being
terrified of those Iron Maiden or Megadeath (I forget which) records with
the skull-face guys on the covers. That Peter Gabriel record with the
melty-face cover freaked me out, too. OK, I'll try to be on topic now. I
also have vivid memories of that Gershon Kingsley halloween record on Peter
Pan with the George Peed artwork. It shows a bunch of chained green
monsters, a vampire, a devil, and some ghosts. WOW! I had tons of those
little 45s that came with a storybook. You know, the *beep* turn the page
kind. There was a Disney one--Mickey and the Beanstalk, I think, that had
these amazing abstract vocals (from an enchanted harp owned by the giant)
that I used to play over and over and over. I also liked the Soundtrack
album from Disney World, featuring the Enchanted Tiki Room, Grim Grinning
Ghosts (from the Haunted Mansion), and even some steel drum music! When I
was a little older Yma Sumac's cut from the "Stay Awake" Disney tribute
album got played a lot, too. Some other kids albums I owned (maybe not
exotic, but still pretty cool): Droid World (a star wars story that caused
my lifelong fascination with robots), Sesame Street Fever (the Sesame Street
disco album), and Flashbeagle (the soundtrack to the Snoopy goes 80s special
of the same name--this was an Easter present). I also had two of those
beautiful Disney picture discs that are both long gone. :(  When I was a
surly pre-adolescent I got rid of all my kiddie records and I'm just now
replacing them.

Thanks for the space, Jessica ^_^



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:   (exotica) Persistence Of Memory
Date: 12 Aug 1997 12:38:38 -0400 (EDT)


Not to date micelf, but my earliest significant memory was in 1958 when I
received from my parents 3 45's--"The Witch Doctor" by David Seville on
Liberty (I love labels), the flip of which is called "Almost Good" and its a
kinda pseudo-jazz piece that I think this crowd might like. They also gave my
"The Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley on M-G-M, whose flip "I Can't
Believe You're Mine" was a country-ish tear-jerkin' ballad. The third single
was "Chantilly Lace" by The Big Bopper (RIP), the flip of which was called
"The Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor" and--wouldn't you know it. I
forget the label........That started me on my vinyl pursuit. Before long I
had "Turn Me Loose" by Fabian on Chancellor whose flip "Tiger" had me doin'
the "Elvis" in front of Mom's full-length mirror...."Memories Are Made Of
These"....Jimmy Botticelli


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From: Kerry Keane <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Persistence Of Memory
Date: 12 Aug 1997 12:10:04 -0500 (CDT)



>>Anyhoo, I think it would be interesting to share
>> our earliest possible memories
>>of records, record playing, early favorites, etc. I realize this isn't overtly
>>on-topic, but I think it's relevant in a "meta" kind of way. Also, it seems to
>>come up on its own now and then -- so why not examine it head-on?

Certainly, my exotic and offbeat record collecting habits grow from my
earliest experiences with vinyl.  You know, they give you a record player
for your birthday or something (mine was Sears--with 78 and 16 rpm's on it),
but you don't get enough records--a few children's records that you
either love or hate, plus whatever albums your parents aren't listening
to anymore.  My parents favorite music was too adult for me, so I used to
raid my *grandparents* records.  They had a lot of orchestral, with
things like "Sabre Dance" on them.  We used to put that one on at 78rpm,
so it would go even faster.

I think that the time when I was a kid (early 70s) was probably just
about the best time to be that age, because of the high-quality pop
culture that was directed at us (cartoons, cereal, music, educational tv).
I especially loved bubblegum rock, and cartoon rock like the Archies and
Banana Splits.  We also liked anything silly and novelty.  I had some
really embarrassing records too, like this thing called Journey to the Moon,
which was a fake psychedelic tribute to the moon landing.  Some of the
songs on it were written by none other than Daryl Hall (ew!).


Jessica Cameron wrote:
>
> I'll bite--when I was a kid, I used to go with my father to the record store
> and just look at covers while he browsed. The ones that stuck with
> me--anything with a cartoon cover,  and anything scary. I remember being
> terrified of those Iron Maiden or Megadeath (I forget which) records with
> the skull-face guys on the covers. That Peter Gabriel record with the
> melty-face cover freaked me out, too.

Wow, that wasn't too long ago!  I had the same experience with Black
Sabbath--scared, but intrigued.

> OK, I'll try to be on topic now. I
> also have vivid memories of that Gershon Kingsley halloween record on Peter
> Pan with the George Peed artwork. It shows a bunch of chained green
> monsters, a vampire, a devil, and some ghosts.

Yes, I found this one in a thrift store a couple of months ago.
There isn't enough music and noise on it, although I've made tape loops
of some of it.


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From: Kerry Keane <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) "fuck this!"
Date: 12 Aug 1997 12:15:32 -0500 (CDT)




There is an interview with Burt Bacharach in last week's Entertainment
Weekly.  Someone left a copy in the lounge at work, so I read it over lunch.
It's pretty good.  The writer asked him if he ever called the Psychic Friends
Network, and he said that he saw it on t.v. one night and wondered what
it was like.  He said that he called and was put on hold, so he said,
"Fuck this!" and hung up.




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From: "allanc" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Morton Subotnick/Silver Apples of the Moon
Date: 12 Aug 1997 16:13:01 -0400


The other electronic lp that Subotnick recorded for Nonesuch Records was
"The Wild Bull" (H-71208). I haven't listened to it in years, thanks for
reminding me I had this!..."You don't need to call it music, if the term
shocks you." John Cage



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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Marty Manning's Twilight Zone
Date: 12 Aug 1997 14:42:32 -0700


Anyone want to express a view on this UN-BE-LIEVE-A-BLE Electronic Outer
Space Easy Listening LP ?

Jack


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From: Chris Kovin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) That Batman LP
Date: 12 Aug 1997 18:48:15 -0400 (EDT)


Okay, the album I was referring to earlier is "Batman TV Theme" (Panda
Children's Records) (PAN-3035), Played by "The Dynamic Batmen!"
Copyright 1966, National Periodical Publications, Inc.; distributed
by Connoisseur Record Corp., Kearny, New Jersey.  Tracks:

Batman Theme / The Joker Laughs / Riddle, Riddle, Riddle / Take Off
the Wheels / Robin the Bird / Zap / Pow / Bats Away / The Penguin's
Walk

What a record!

Chris




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From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Marty Manning's Twilight Zone
Date: 12 Aug 1997 18:51:04 -0400


>Anyone want to express a view on this UN-BE-LIEVE-A-BLE Electronic Outer
>Space Easy Listening LP ?

I will, I will! This is an incredible album! It's not soundtrack music from
the show, BTW, it's far out space music with wild abstract vocals (and a few
screams ^_- ), cool electronic noises, and Jerry Murad on "serpent" (huh?).
My high school library had a copy of this album, and I seriously considered
saying I lost it and offering to pay for it when I checked it out. I didn't
have the guts to carry out my plan so I just made a tape. :(  But it's a
killer.  I wish I could find my own copy.

BTW, the library also had "Double Impact" and "Sounds of Exotic Island."
Pretty cool, huh? ^_^

Regrets? I've had more than a few. Thanks for the space, Jessica



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From: [e-mail] (Craig Carlson)
Subject: (exotica) Re: Persistence of Memory
Date: 12 Aug 1997 20:27:56 -0700


First record memory: "How Much is Doggie in the Window" - Patti Page
First record owned:  "Billy" - Kathy Linden
First record(s) bought with my own money: "Louie Louie" by the Kingsmen and
"Hot Pastrami" by The Dartells (?)
First album: "Beach Boys Today" - The Beach Boys
First Exotica/Lounge: "Coktail Hammond" - Don Baker (?)

I still have all except "Hot Pastrami", and...

Lost Treasures (blatant plea for help):

Two 45 rpm albums put out by Capitol. One was Mel Blanc doing a Bugs
Bunny/Yosemite Sam story, the other was a Robin Hood adventure that
featured a whistling arrow. The albums contained 3 or 4 45s and were also
little books you could read along with. Anybody?

Craig



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From: Gary Hoeffler <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Persistence of Memory
Date: 12 Aug 1997 19:54:37 -0500


I remember looking through my parents albums at home and always enjoyed
looking at a (comedian) Woody Herman lp with a cover of a photo/drawing
of Woody looking through a keyhole at a nude (from the waist up) woman,
as seen from behind.  (Sex)

I also have a memory of my mom taking me shopping for my first lp's
(circa 1962). I remember having the option of paying $3.67 for the lp or
$4.67 for the same lp in the stereo version.  Is this really accurate
or  just my imagination????


            gh
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Persistence of Memory
Date: 12 Aug 1997 21:27:03 -0400 (EDT)


First record memory: Bozo Under The Sea - about 1960
First record owned (that I can remember):  Roger Miller's Greatest Hits -
1965
First rock record bought (in Berkeley):  Blood Sweat And Tears - 1968
First memories of a song first heard on a radio:  Pretty Woman and She Loves
You - 1964




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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Marty Manning's Twilight Zone
Date: 12 Aug 1997 18:28:04 -0700


UN-BE-LIEVE-A-BLE Electronic Outer
>>Space Easy Listening LP ?
>
>I will, I will! This is an incredible album! It's not soundtrack music from
>the show, BTW, it's far out space music with wild abstract vocals (and a few
>screams ^_- ), cool electronic noises, and Jerry Murad on "serpent" (huh?).

Cool high school;-)

Jerry Murad is on Harmonica and Effects
Arnold Fromme is on the Serpent, whatever the %^$% that is

Mundell Lowe on Guitar, Marty Manning - Martenot and Ondioline, Harry
Breuer-Percussive Effects, Lois Hunt - Female Voice and Effects plus many more
From 1960

Is that it ?  No one else has this rekkid ?

Anyone know what a Serpent is ?

Jack



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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) What is a serpent
Date: 12 Aug 1997 22:37:24 -0400 (EDT)


At 06:28 PM 8/12/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Anyone know what a Serpent is ?
>Jack

This description comes from the Serpent Website <http://shoga.wwa.com/~ocleide>

What is a Serpent?
The Serpent is an ancient musical wind instrument, related to the modern
Tuba, Euphonium, and Baritone. It is blown with a cup shaped mouthpiece
which is very similar to that of a trombone or Euphonium/Baritone. Played
softly, it has a firm yet mellow tone color, or timbre.
At medium volume, it produces a robust sound which seems to be a cross
between the tuba,
the bassoon, and the French horn. When played loudly it can produce
unpleasant noises reminiscent of large animals in distress. It has a musical
range from C below the bass clef to at least a half octave above middle C.

The Serpent gets it's name from its unusual shape, which can be described as
a double 'S' curve;
picture one 'S' connected to the bottom of another 'S'. The shape results
from the
need to bring the finger holes within reach of the player, on what is
actually a rather large instrument.
In addition to the basic shape, there is a curved metal crook or bocal which
fits between the mouthpiece and the main body of the instrument.

Many observers are confused in their efforts to classify the Serpent. The
use of wooden construction with finger holes does not mean that the Serpent
is a woodwind instrument! Because the sound originates with the vibration of
the player's lips in the cup mouthpiece, the Serpent is classified as a
brass instrument.

Now you know.

-Lou




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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What is a serpent
Date: 12 Aug 1997 19:56:14 -0700


>Now you know.
>
>-Lou

Lou,

Thanks!

Jack




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Marty Manning's Twilight Zone
Date: 12 Aug 1997 23:25:43 -0400 (EDT)


<< Anyone want to express a view on this UN-BE-LIEVE-A-BLE Electronic Outer
 Space Easy Listening LP ? >>

sure.  ever since you turned me onto it the very first time we met over a
cup-o-joe at the cafe, i've been looking for it.  that was over three years
ago and to this day, i've never, ever seen it in a store or on a collector's
FS list.

Maybe jessica will find it for 50 cents in a musty, old garage.  Yes,
jessica, i AM green with envy!  ]:o  If it's five bucks, don't pass it up!



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From: Technical Support Group Mail 1 <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Persistence Of Memory
Date: 13 Aug 1997 15:07:00 +1100




Not my first record (that would have been one of those *ding* turn the page
books as mentioned in a Jessica Cameron's previous posting) but a great
exotica memory when my sister (6 years my senior) was having a party with
her college friends and I put on my favourite LP at the time  - Living
Strings And Living Marimbas Play Songs Made Famous By Herb Alpert.

I think we got through 'A Taste Of Honey' and 'The Mexican Shuffle' before a
partygoer whisked it off the turntable in favour of the soundtrack to
'Fame'. Such is life.

Wayne Davidson


PS: Now I think of it my first album was likely to be one of those K-Tel
novelty records - 'Looney Tunes' was the one (featuring 'I Love Onions' and
'They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha  Ha'). Of course I still have it!





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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Chicago Spots
Date: 13 Aug 1997 03:24:19 -0400 (EDT)


Tiki spots

Trader Vic's
Cyril House of Tiki
Hala Kahiki, in River Grove
and especially the Kona Kai at the Marriot near the airport with live
entertainment from Sonny Kuni


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From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Persistence Of Memory
Date: 13 Aug 1997 02:42:28 -0600


This is a fun and strange thread. I don't know if anyone else has this
problem, but I was so obsessed by music for as long as I can remember, I
can't really pick out one great memory. Of course, I grew up listening to my
parents Herb Alpert records, and we all had those weird kids records. I
still have my Disneyland Thrilling, Chilling Sounds of the Haunted House LP,
of course. Lots of Sesame Street, including "I Stand Up STraight and Tall"
sung by Grover on 45.

But considering I was getting LPs as far back as my 3rd birthday (Sonny
Bono's "Inner Vision" I think it was called. I loved him. But there was a
line in it about "your mother was a virgin" and apparently I sang this daily
so my parents hid it from me resurfacing about 14 years later, found by my
sister who's had it ever since...not for long, sis! It is a psychedelic solo
LP as written about in ISM Vol. 1)

For my fourth, I got a Donny Osmond LP, which I recently saw the other day
in a charity shop. And since I was 6, I was saving up my 25 cent allowances
to buy LPs. Not 45s (though I bought those too), but LPs. Such as Queen II
and David Bowie's "The MAn who Sold the World", which I still have. My first
import was bought when I was 10. TUBEWAY ARMY, still have it, for $10. Plays
great too. First record player - Winnie the Pooh deck with one of those big
round stylus thangs. First kiddie stereo at age 6. First proper stereo (an
all in one thang)at age 12. And first components (still have) at age 15.
First exotica LP that I seriously tried to track down, but finally got from
wonderful Robbie, my DJ partner at Space Safari, ENOCH LIGHT's "Permissive
Polyphonics". First started hunting for it at age 10. Given to me at 27!

So when buying and listening to LPs have been so ingrained in your brain
from such an early age, it is hard to remember those key moments...though I
think the Sonny tale is quite an amusing one!

Jill "Mingo-go"



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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) What is a serpent
Date: 13 Aug 1997 15:01:45 +0100


> From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>

> >Anyone know what a Serpent is ?
> >Jack
>

[snip]

> the bassoon, and the French horn. When played loudly it can produce
> unpleasant noises reminiscent of large animals in distress. It has a musical

If memory serves, Bernard Hermann also used a serpent in the score for
"Journey To The Centre Of The Earth", which is on "The Fantasy Film
World Of Bernard Hermann" (Decca Phase 4, also on CD now). If I'm not
mistaken, it is used primarily to make the dangerous grunting sounds
for the Attack Of The Giant Chaemeleon.

-- Pete.



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From: Derek Kompare <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Persistence of Memory
Date: 13 Aug 1997 09:10:22 -0500


Great thread!  BTW, since this is my first post on the list, I'll introduce
myself.  I'm Derek Kompare, a grad student in communications/cultural
studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  *This* close to a PhD.  Really.

I've been collecting almost all kinds of music since I was 13 or so.  My
favorite find of the last year was Martin Denny's Exotic Moog on vinyl.
Lots of issues with the whole 90s exotica/lounge thing, but I'll save that
for a later post...

Anyway, musical memories.  How are these?  We had a Sony R-to-R deck, and I
*vividly* remember  Sgt. Pepper being on a great deal.  My folks were into
60s-70s rock and folk when I was little (it was the 70s, after all), so in
addition to the Beatles, the usual stuff (Stones, Simon and Garfunkel,
Roberta Flack, etc.).  But I also remember some disconnected bits...

-- Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight" being my favorite song at one
point (summer of '76?)

-- Switched On Bach (and also a moog Chopin album?)

-- Great Hanna-Barbera story records, which have long since vanished.
Little Red Riding Hood with Snagglepuss and Yogi Bear, that sort of thing.

-- Disney story records (LPs) for their features (Bedknobs and Broomsticks,
Robin Hood, etc.) and non-features (i.e. More Jungle Book, The Tin Woodman
of Oz (which really freaked me out; anyone else remember this one?)

-- Naturally, the LP every mid-70s kid had:  Free To Be You and Me

-- Those fantastic Caedmon spoken word story LPs!  We had Puss In Boots, and
Leonard Nimoy reading two Bradbury stories from The Martian Chronicles (I
picked up Roald Dahl reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for a buck a
few months ago).

-- 1st "kids" stereo:  simple brown and white plastic JC Penney deal circa 1976.

-- 1st 45s:  big into disco from 77-79 (Donna Summer, Bee Gees, Village
People, MECO, etc.)

-- 1st fix of "old" vinyl:  Mom's teenage 45 collection (a few dozen amazing
late 50s 45s in a Dick Clark case!)

-- 1st fix of exotica (aside from James Bond and Pink Panther films):  a
Gleason/Velvet Brass 45 among my Mom's old music

-- flexi-discs in Mad magazine, on cereal boxes...long, long gone,
unfortunately.

That was childhood.  After that it was the usual search for new "cool stuff"
in Junior High and High School from 80-86 (XTC to REM to Husker Du to
Fishbone), the bleakness of late 80s music in college, and an all-out vinyl
binge since then.  As for "exotica" these days, I'm mostly interested in
soundtracks and mod-era 60s easy listening.  I avoid collectors' prices
wherever possible, but it's getting tougher...

Best recent finds (last month):
    Bud Shank -- Michelle (World Pacific WP-1840; w/Chet Baker)
    Paul Mauriat -- Blooming Hits (Philips PHS 600-248)
    Sandler & Young -- International Flight (Pickwick SPC-3525)
       (great cover:  jet-set glamour circa 1978)
    Walter Wanderley -- Rain Forest (Verve V6-8658)
    Roland Shaw Orchestra -- Themes From the James Bond Thrillers (London PS
412)

--  DK



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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Persistence of Memory
Date: 13 Aug 1997 10:51:49 -0400


On first records bought, etc. . . .

When I was ages 6-9, we lived in northern Manitoba, on a
native reservation, and had little access to radio or record stores.
But we had a turntable and listened to a lot of kids' records, mostly,
I remember, by Burl Ives

By the mid 1960s, we'd moved back to southern Ontario, and my father,
who had been a jazz trumpeter before deciding (somehow) to become an
Anglican clergyman, took up trumpet again.  He rode the Tijuana Brass
wave, keeping his day job but playing with brass bands and so on, and
that kind of music was around the house a lot.

The first record I ever bought was London a Go-Go, a soundalike compilation of
British invasion hits.

I went through every horrible musical taste I could find:  folkrock in the
early
1970s, then bad progrock.  My life changed when, in 1973, I was turned on to
the first Eno album by Ted White, science-fiction writer/editor, who was a
major
source of advice on tastes.  I got into Eno, Roxy, Canterbury School and so
on,
then drifted out of music until punk broke.  From 1978-1982, I went to
nightclubs
2-3 times a week, totally mesmerized by post-punk dance music.  I spent most
of the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s immersed in housey dance music,
amassing a collection of about 5,000 12" dance singles.

I'd been collecting loungey/exotica stuff all along, but that's exploded in
the last
3-4 years, and I drag home dozens of albums from each trip to a new city or
new part of town.

I got home from a trip to London in June-July to find that 300 of my CDs
had been stolen.
I'm still awaiting replacement from my insurance company, but this will
allow me to replace
a lot of mediocre material (rap CDs bought in dollar stores, for example)
with pristine
compilations of r&b, soul-jazz, etc.

That's my life.

Will


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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Persistence of Memory
Date: 13 Aug 1997 08:56:06 -0700


flexi-discs in Mad magazine, on cereal boxes...long, long gone,
unfortunately.

I remember being extremely excited about getting that flexi-disc with the
BURPING TUNE, can't remember the year though.

I was a late starter folks

Also 2 that really stick out in my mind were for my Bar Mitzvah in early 1967;

1) Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced and
2) Cream - Disraeli Gears

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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Persistence of Memory
Date: 13 Aug 1997 08:55:32 -0700


flexi-discs in Mad magazine, on cereal boxes...long, long gone,
unfortunately.

I remember being extremely excited about getting that flexi-disc with the
BURPING TUNE, can't remember the year though.

I was a late starter folks

Also 2 that really stick out in my mind were for my Bar Mitzvah in early 1967;

1) Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced and
2) Cream - Disraeli Gears

Jack



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From: Kerry Keane <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Persistence of Memory
Date: 13 Aug 1997 11:11:27 -0500 (CDT)




On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, J. Diamond wrote:

>
> flexi-discs in Mad magazine, on cereal boxes...long, long gone,
> unfortunately.
>
> I remember being extremely excited about getting that flexi-disc with the
> BURPING TUNE, can't remember the year though.

There was also the disco one--  "clap, clap, clap to the disco beat"
B-side was something like "there are no words, there are no words, there
are no words to this song, don't try to sing along".

I understand that these things go for a lot of money now.

Oh, and I found that Sonny Bono lp that someone else mentioned in a
thrift store.  The lyrics are "your mother's cooking sturgeon / your
sister's still a virgin".


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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update
Date: 12 Aug 1997 21:01:52 +0200


A new update to the eXotica Releases Overview is now available, containing
860 entries.

The main "raison d'etre" of this XRO still is:
to give anyone an idea of what is currently available in the "exotica"
genre, and to give you exact titles and release details to make your life
easier :-)

        eXotica Releases Overview:
        http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/disq/disq.htm
        or
        http://195.13.24.3/Dada/disq/disq.htm

        Dada'quariums Exotica:
        http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/index.htm
        or
        http://195.13.24.3/Dada/index.htm

        Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis
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From: [e-mail] (Susan Pascal)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Persistence Of Memory
Date: 13 Aug 1997 10:27:40 -0700 (PDT)


I had this cool little kiddie record player with a mirrored carousel
ornament that sat over the spindle so that when you played the record it
revolved also, reflecting the pattern of the record labels, which had some
ponies or other carousel-like graphics on it.  Mesmerizing!!

We also had a collection of classical symphonic music on ancient 75s, which
my sister and I would conduct in a grandiose manner.

Susan Pascal
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From: Tom Marazita <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Silver Apples of the Moon.
Date: 13 Aug 1997 11:41:10 PDT



>     Chris Kovin spewed:
>     A friend of mine found a copy of this what he describes as a
>     "random noise platter" that is "hard to listen to in one sitting"
>     and he would like some more info about it if anyone's got any.

>     and then m.ace piped:
>     From what I can remember from the electronic music segment of
>     music theory class, I think this was by Morton Subotnick and put
>     out by Nonesuch.  There was another one that he did around the
>     same period, also on Nonesuch, but I can't recall the title.  I
>     think he used the Buchla synthesizer (one of the heavy hitters in
>     the early days before Moog hit it big), but that's in the hazy
>     memory area, so don't take that as fact.  From what I remember of
>     "Silver Apples", I thought it was a fun piece of work, certainly
>     not as tortuous as this description.  But that's subjectivity for
>     you.  Anyone else know more?

Well, I might be able to help out here.  I've been a big fan of
Morton Subotnick for many years.  Everything Mr.  Ace says is
true.  Silver Apples of the Moon was composed on the Buchla
synthesizer and released by Nonesuch.  It has the distinction of
being the first piece of electronic music comissioned and
composed for the recorded media (or so the record says).

It was followed shortly by The Wild Bull, another beautful
composition on the Buchla.  Thereafter, Subotnick composed a few
other Buchla pieces (the Sidewinder comes to mind) before moving
more into "ghost" electronic compositions in which he artfully
modified various instruments electronically.

Silver Apples and the Wild Bull may seem like chaotic noise to
those unused to the serial, 12 tone, and aleatoric composition of
the 20th century, but they certainly can affect an interesting
mood.  It's definitely "exotic" although not properly "Exotica"
or "lounge" oriented by any means.  The LPs of Silver Apples and
The Wild Bull were released on a single CD about two years ago.
I think it is still available, and I'd be happy to help anyone
looking for it.

As a side note, the 60's psychedelic band "Silver Apples" seems
to have been influenced by the aformentioned Subotnick piece.
Ah, but I'm now digressing from our regularly scheduled
exotica...

Tom


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From: [e-mail] (Brian Salter)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Silver Apples of the Moon.
Date: 13 Aug 1997 12:18:44 -0000


>or "lounge" oriented by any means.  The LPs of Silver Apples and
>The Wild Bull were released on a single CD about two years ago.
>I think it is still available, and I'd be happy to help anyone
>looking for it.
>
>A

I would also recommend 'Touch', which has also been re-released
on CD.  Originally released on columbia (in stereo and quad!)
For me, 'Touch' is his best...

Subotnik's Buchla synthesizer recordings that I know of:

Silver Apples of the Moon
The Wild Bull
Four Butterflies
Touch
Sidewinder

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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) KUSF Rekkid Swap Sunday!
Date: 13 Aug 1997 13:09:10 -0700


The KUSF-FM Rekkid Swap will be happenin' this Sunday August, 17 starting
at 10AM in McLaren Hall opn the USF Campus off of Golden Gate Ave. in San
Francisco

Early Birds get to pay 10 bucks to get in early (obviously)

Regular time of entry costs 2 bucks at the door

I'll be there sellin' rekkids AND YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE HOW I HAVE SLASHED
MY PRICES!!!

Stuff that was $15 is now $5, LP's that were $30 are now $10

AND I WILL STILL GIVE YOU A BETTER DEAL THAN THAT!!!

Come 1 come all

Thanx,

Jack Diamond


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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Buchla synthesizer
Date: 13 Aug 1997 13:18:51 -0700


Tom,

Are you interested in other Buchla synthesizer LP's ?

I have a 3 record set by Douglas Leedy called Entropical Paradise for $30 ?

By records at all Tom ?

Jack


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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Buchla Synth
Date: 13 Aug 1997 13:21:03 -0700


What about Douglas Leedy ?

Jack


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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Buchla synthesizer
Date: 13 Aug 1997 13:27:09 -0700


Sorry about that Exotica Mailing List!
I didn't note that the lsit was CC'd;-(

>Are you interested in other Buchla synthesizer LP's ?
>
>I have a 3 record set by Douglas Leedy called Entropical Paradise




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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Silver Apples of the Moon.
Date: 13 Aug 1997 13:44:08 -0700


Brian Salter wrote:
>
> >or "lounge" oriented by any means.  The LPs of Silver Apples and
> >The Wild Bull were released on a single CD about two years ago.
> >I think it is still available, and I'd be happy to help anyone
> >looking for it.
> >
> >A
>
> I would also recommend 'Touch', which has also been re-released
> on CD.  Originally released on columbia (in stereo and quad!)
> For me, 'Touch' is his best...
>
while we're on the subject of totally serial electronic music from the
mid 20th century, Milton Babbitt needs to be mentioned along with
Subtonick. Check out "Philomel" or "Ensembles For Synthesizer" or any of
his electronic works, composed on the RCA Synthesizer.

Walter Carlo's mentor, Vladimir Ussachevsky, also released some very
cool things. Pretty much anything that came from the Columbia-Princeton
school is good. One of my favorite composers from there, though a bit
more obscure, is Halim El Dabh. Definitely a great marriage of "exotica"
and "avant-garde electronica."

and as for Subotnick's piece being the first to be commissioned for
recorded media, i would say that unless you're strictly talking about it
in terms of it being a commercially available (ie vinyl) release, it's
easily outdated by at least one piece: "Poeme Electronique" (i think
that's the title, anyway!) by Edgard Varese. He wrote it to be played on
a tape loop in one of the pavillions in the world's fair in... well,
can't remember, but sometime in the 50's i think...
and i'm sure all those French musique concrete guys had commissions
under their belt long before "Silver Apples" came out...
anyway... trivia trivia....

pea


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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Brother Theodore
Date: 13 Aug 1997 14:56:05 -0700


I'm looking for records/CD's by a guy out of Los Angeles (I believe) name
of Brother Theodore.

It's spoken word

Anyone have any info on him ?

Thanks,

Jack


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Silver Apples -- Edgard's Funhouse
Date: 13 Aug 1997 18:50:07 -0400


> From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: (exotica) Silver Apples of the Moon.
>
> easily outdated by at least one piece: "Poeme Electronique" (i think
> that's the title, anyway!) by Edgard Varese. He wrote it to be played on
> a tape loop in one of the pavillions in the world's fair in... well,
> can't remember, but sometime in the 50's i think...

"Poeme Electronique" is included on "Music of Edgar Varese," a 1996 reissue cd
on One Way Records (the rest of the tracks are non-electronic pieces conducted
by Robert Craft -- it doesn't mention the original vinyl release of this
material). Anyway, it was created for the Brussels Exposition in 1958. Also
says that Varese preferred the term "organized sound" to "musique concrete."
I'm going to quote a chunk of liner notes here, 'cause the whole scene sounds
pretty darned entertaining...

"Poeme Electronique...was created in close collaboration with the architect Le
Corbusier for the Philips Radio Corporation's pavilion at the Brussels
Exposition. Le Corbusier designed the pavilion in the shape of a three-peaked
circus tent externally and (to use his own analogy) in the shape of a cow's
stomach internally. This provided a series of hyperbolic and parabolic curves
from which Varese could project his 480-seconds-long composition. Along these
curves, placed with infinite care, were no fewer than 400 loudspeakers through
which the Poeme swept in continuous arcs of sound. The sound itself was
accompanied by a series of projected images selected by Le Corbusier, some of
them photographs, others montages, paintings, printed or written script. No
synchronization between sight and sound was attempted by the two artists; part
of the effect achieved was the result of a discordance between aural and visual
impressions and part the result of their not infrequent accidental concordance.
The audience, some fifteen or sixteen thousand people daily for six months,
evinced reactions almost as kaleidoscopic as the sounds and images they
encountered -- terror, anger, stunned awe, amusement, wild enthusiasm."

Zowie! Sounds like a real groundbreaker as far as multi-media mischief. I
wonder if any of our European members were exposed to this avant-funhouse in
their youngest days?

m.ace
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From: Jeff Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: SF trip
Date: 13 Aug 1997 15:39:34 -0700


Joe Batutis wrote:

> My girlfriend and I are taking a trip out to San Fran next week and I was
> hoping that someone out there might be able to suggest cool CD shops with
> good lounge selections and lounges or bars with that "special" swank
> atmosphere.

Naturally you will want to visit the Tonga Room in the Fairmont Hotel
(California & Mason, most enjoyably approached by the California Street
cable car from Market Street), and I suggest you do so between 5-7pm on a
weekday (other than Friday, when it's REALLY busy), because the drinks are
cheaper, there's no LAME band playing 90's covers for which you are gouged
(is that where the term "cover charge" came from?), and you can have your
fill of greasy appetizers for $5.  The drinks are made FAIRLY well, and will
whet your appetite for the GREAT drinks at...

...the Lilo Lounge (18th Street? & Kansas? on Potrero Hill).  This bar is of
the tiki-come-lately variety, having opened, closed, and opened again in the
last few years.  But whoever designed it, did so with class.  A clean,
well-lighted place for a tiki bar, the Lilo Lounge is attached to a Thai
restaurant, from which you can order appetizers and pretend to eat Pu-pus.
The drinks are large, strong, and very well-made.

Now that you've seen the future of Tiki, you'll want to get down and dirty
by going to the venerable Trad'r Sam's (Geary & 27th?  28th?  29th?  I
forget).  This bastion of crusty salts has kept generations under Tiki's
influence for many, many years.  I recall that each table is in it's own
hut, distinguished from one another by names of different islands.  Haven't
been there in a couple years, so I'd better make sure it's still afloat.

So!  You say you're in need of a martini now?  Sure, you're in the city of
Herb Caen's Vitamin V and can get vodka martinis by the liverful if you
want.  But a gin martini should be prepared by one person only, and that's
the bartender at Persian Aub Zam Zam (on Haight Street).  Fact is, you may
get thrown out of the joint if you order anything but!  Aub Zam Zam's is
gaining a reputation as the best-made gin martini on the planet.

You'll likely be told to go to Elroy's, the happ'nin' newish astro-bar on
Folsom & Beale in SOMA (South Of MArket).  It's got some great high-priced
Southwestern cuisine, but I wouldn't bother unless you need some neat-o keen
lighting-fixture ideas.  Basically, all the semi-professionals who used to
hang out after work at Gordon Biersch moved over there, and they don't play
music to match the Jetsonesque atmosphere.

Don't know the record stores in SF very well yet (I live in Oakland), but
you should do fine by checking out Streetlight on Market near Castro.  I
highly recommend you visit the East Bay for some fine pickings at Saturn (on
College Avenue & Lawton in Oakland) and Amoeba (on Telegraph & Haste in
Berkeley).  Saturn (nee Asta's) used to be known as a place where "you can
find worn, scratched up records for 75 cents and worn, scratched up records
for 75 dollars."  If you want to pay, they've got a good selection.  Amoeba
is probably the best independent all-around record store I've seen.

Now that you're across the Bay, head to Club Mallard (San Pablo Avenue in
Albany, three blocks north of Solano) where mention was made on the list
earlier this year of the flaming tiki torches you can see from the street.
Best to check out their outdoor tiki bar when it's a little warm outside.
No special drinks, but they do have Martin Denny on the jukebox.

I hope this gives you some ideas to start with, and I hope you'll email the
list with some gems you may hear about from others.  I'm sure Otto v.
Stroheim can give you more great ideas, and Ursula from Action Plus seems to
know where the action is.

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips

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From: Vernon Stoltz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Persistence of Memory
Date: 13 Aug 1997 23:11:19 GMT


Here are a few memories for you

= First Record Memory (probably first psychedelic experience also):  Being
fascinated with how those Beatle Capital singles looked when revolving at 45
rpm.  Those endlessly swirling orange and yellow colors amazed me.

= Early Childhood Record Memory #2: Pinky Lee's Birthday Party (sample
lyric: I'm a Poet and I Know It)

= Early Childhood Record Memory #3:  Acting out the Royal Guardsmen song
"Snoopy vs the Red Baron": starting out sitting on the edge of the sofa,
ending up playing dead on the floor (with the favorite part being the
machine gun effects in the middle)

= First (and only) TV Studio Music experience:  Going to a local TV studio
where my two older brothers played electric guitars on "These Boots Are Made
for Walking" for some small low-budget Talent Show.

==1st LP purchased (as gift)
K-TEL "Dynamite" compilation (1st song - Paper Lace "The Night Chicago Dies")

== 1st LP Purchased for myself:
K-TEL "Musical Express" compilation (1st song - Captain and Tennile's "Love
Will Keep Us Together)

== 1st time yelled at for playing my music too loud:
2 songs into the above "Musical Express" K_Tel record (I think the song was
the KC and Sunshine Band "Get Down Tonight")

= 1st solo group LP purchased:
Queen's A Night At the Opera

=  1st Record I had to repurchase because I left it lying in the sun:
The Psychedelic Furs First LP

=  Most Recent Recording Bought:
Brave Combo's "Group Dance Epidemic"
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vern Stoltz
Cannot Become Obsolete
PO Box 1232
Lorton, VA 22199-1232
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From: [e-mail] (Craig Carlson)
Subject: (exotica) Burping
Date: 13 Aug 1997 19:31:59 -0700


Jack Diamond wrote:

"I remember being extremely excited about getting that flexi-disc with the
BURPING TUNE, can't remember the year though.

I was a late starter folks"

You probably started in 1962 or 1963. "It's a Gas" was the flexi from "The
Worst From Mad", either number 5 or 6 ('62-'63). I still have mine. It was
later disco-ized, but the vocal remained the same. The original album was
called "Mad Twists! Rock and Roll"

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From: Aj <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Brother Theodore
Date: 13 Aug 1997 20:56:44 +0000


Jack Diamond wrote:

> I'm looking for records/CD's by a guy out of Los Angeles (I believe) name
> of Brother Theodore.
>
> It's spoken word
>
> Anyone have any info on him ?


Man, isn't Brother Theodore that crazy evangelical guy who used to have
a wild radio show? I remember hearing his recordings on a special Brave
New Waves (CBC) show many years ago.

Sorry I can't help re: recordings, but I'd also like to find out more
about him.

Aj


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From: Aj <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Persistence of Memory
Date: 13 Aug 1997 21:05:00 +0000


Vern Stoltz wrote:

> Most Recent Recording Bought:
> Brave Combo's "Group Dance Epidemic"


Isn't Brave Combo that amazingly energetic and witty polka band that
plays "Do Something Different" ? I found some of their songs on a Polka
compilation CD I picked up at a street market in Tokyo and have been
looking for them ever since. I would really appreciate if you could send
more info re: the CD.

Thanks,

Aj


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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) KFJC 2-6PM Thursday
Date: 13 Aug 1997 19:41:34 -0700


Hello again,

Tune in to http://www.KFJC.org from 2 - 6PM PST (USA) as I will be rockin'
your world like you never coulda imagined possible.

It'll be the mac, the bomb, the shit.

Or for those of you in the SF bay area, 89.7FM - KFJC

llllllllllater,

Jack


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From: Vernon Stoltz <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Persistence of Memory
Date: 14 Aug 1997 03:13:26 GMT


>
>Isn't Brave Combo that amazingly energetic and witty polka band that
>plays "Do Something Different" ? I found some of their songs on a Polka
>compilation CD I picked up at a street market in Tokyo and have been
>looking for them ever since. I would really appreciate if you could send
>more info re: the CD.
>
Yep, That's the band.  They have a web site at http://brave.com/bo

Brave Combo has 10 CDs available through Rounder Records. Their latest
"Group Dance Epidemic" (Rounder CD 9055) includes 12 dance tunes, along with
a booklet that gives the instructions for each dance. Included are two
versions of the Hokey Pokey (in both Ozzy Osborne Heavy Metal style and a
hip hop version), along with new versions of the Mexican Hat Dance, Limbo
Rock/Hand Jive, the Hustle, Peanut Vendor, Never on Sunday, etc...

Their CD "Polkas for a Gloomy World (R 9045)" was nominated for a Grammy (in
the polka category), they did backups for the recently deceased Tiny Tim (R
9050) with songs that included 'Bye Bye Blackbird', a jazzy 'Stairway to
Heaven' and a cha-cha version of 'Hey Jude.'

Although its easy to categorize Brave Combo as a band that does mainly
unusual and 'quirky' covers, I think some of their best stuff is when they
do 'straight' versions of the old standards from the 50's and 60's.
Excellent arrangements, technically proficient musicians, they definitely
deserve a wider audience.

Their live shows are Fantastic. . .I saw them perform one week ago here at
Wash. D.C.s National Geographic Auditorium.  This was one of those sloped
floor, upholstered fold-down movie seat places, but that did not prevent
most of the crowd from going into the aisles to dance.  Probably the liviest
crowd that the auditorium has EVER seen.

Vern
. . . . . . . . . . . . .
Vern Stoltz
Cannot Become Obsolete
PO Box 1232
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From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Persistent Percussion of Memory
Date: 14 Aug 1997 00:07:20 -0400


Some fragmentary proto-exotic eperiences for me:

The first song I can clearly remember is the Beatles "Here Comes the
Sun"--my older brother or sister had bought it. Somehow I became fascinated
with this, and made my own tape of the song by pressing the microphone of
an incredibly cheesy little reel-to-reel tape recorder against one speaker
of our home stereo. Interestingly, my tape recorder (it was powder blue)
had no capstain to keep the tape running at a constant speed, so on my copy
the pitch wandered all over the place, ending up several notes higher than
where it started. Was this this the beginning for me in tolerating weird
music?  [A thread for some other rainy day: Are The Beatles honorary
Exoticans?]

I went off to college taking whatever odd youthful-type records had been
left behind by the sibs when they moved away. Mostly old Beatles records I
think. However I distinctly remember one Vanilla Fudge record! As I recall
it this had some confusing psychedelic freak-out sections, which were not
exactly music as I then understood it. I don't remember finding these
particulary convincing. Very soon this LP became the butt of rough humor
among my dorm mates, and I hid it away. . . Lost track of it somewhere. . .
(naturally I would love to have it today.)

First record I can definitely remember going out to buy for myself: Talking
Heads _More Songs About Buildings and Food_ . Still love it. (I was a late
bloomer, record-buying wise.)

Rang in the year 1984 blasting the Dead Kennedy's "California Ueber Alles"
("And now it's 1984/Knock Knock on your front door/It's the Suede Denim
Secret Police. . .") Later that year I was at a flea market with a
master-thrifting girlfriend. Idly flipping through a record bin I came
across a Webley Edwards "Hawaii Calls" LP--nothing I'd get excited about
today, though I loved the surf-effect segues at the time. . .

But then I found IT. ALBUM ZERO:  _The United States Navy Steel Band Plays
"Blowin' In the Wind"_ This was so startlingly weird (including a steel
drum cha-cha version of "the Hall of the Mountain King") that a seed was
definitely planted. . .

Later, in about '93, when I discovered that legendary "Easy Listening" bin
(down at ankle level at our public library's weekly basement benefit sale),
that seed would fall on oh-so-fertile ground. Pipe Organ and Percussion!
Enoch Light! Harmonicats! Three Suns! And now I have grown into that
mamboing, metaphor-mixing Exoticat you see before you today.

Righto, hope this whole Bildungsroman wasn't too tedious,

 --Ross

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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Silver Apples of the Moon
Date: 14 Aug 1997 16:52:51 +0100


> From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>

> >
> while we're on the subject of totally serial electronic music from the
> mid 20th century, Milton Babbitt needs to be mentioned along with
> Subtonick. Check out "Philomel" or "Ensembles For Synthesizer" or any of
> his electronic works, composed on the RCA Synthesizer.
>
> Walter Carlo's mentor, Vladimir Ussachevsky, also released some very
> cool things. Pretty much anything that came from the Columbia-Princeton
> school is good. One of my favorite composers from there, though a bit
> more obscure, is Halim El Dabh. Definitely a great marriage of "exotica"
> and "avant-garde electronica."

The range of things on this list that get mentioned never (well,
hardly ever) ceases to amaze me. Halim El Dabh! I have a great album,
just called something like Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music, which
has pieces by all of these vanguardians. I played it to my crony in
avant-garde exploration, and we just cracked up when we got to Mr. El
Dabh -- the weird shrieks of the madman did us in. The best thing was
the first track, Stereo Electronic Music No. 1 by Bulent Arel. Like
Mr. El Dabh, I've never heard of him before or since, but would
certainly like to know if there's more pieces released.

>
> and as for Subotnick's piece being the first to be commissioned for
> recorded media, i would say that unless you're strictly talking about it
> in terms of it being a commercially available (ie vinyl) release, it's

I've not got any Subotnick -- though I've been searching for years,
ever since I heard some on BBC Radio 3's "Mixing It" -- but could it
possibly be that this was the first that was entirely done using
electronically generated sound ("Poeme Electronique" uses both signal
generator noises and recorded sounds).

> easily outdated by at least one piece: "Poeme Electronique" (i think
> that's the title, anyway!) by Edgard Varese. He wrote it to be played on
> a tape loop in one of the pavillions in the world's fair in... well,
> can't remember, but sometime in the 50's i think...

I'm not sure of the date -- the pavilion was designed by Le Corbusier,
and had dozens of speakers arrayed through it. This was spatially
arranged sound, using multiple channels. The pavilion was pulled down
after the fair finished, though.

> and i'm sure all those French musique concrete guys had commissions
> under their belt long before "Silver Apples" came out...
> anyway... trivia trivia....
>

Musique concrete and "electronic music" were, I believe, theoretically
separated by the use of electronic manipulations of recorded sounds
vs. the use of electronically generated sounds. It must have seemed
significant.

Incidentally, Pierre Henry assisted Varese in producing the tape
portions of "Deserts", a large scale work which uses both orchestra
and recorded sounds. However, Varese mucked around with it afterwards
(he was going deaf so couldn't hear it properly) resulting in massive
distortion in the tape portions.

Ever more trivially,
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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: (exotica) electronic music
Date: 14 Aug 1997 10:41:06 PDT


Just a few more recommendations (I had to weigh in when the talk began to lean
to 20th C electronic)...

I am a huge fan of Iannis Xenakis release on Elektra/Nonesuch "Electroacoustic
Music." It is some of the best musique concrete around. Where most musique
concrete is fairly staccatto and jilting, Xenakis' work is much more
fluid and is more of a wash of manipulated sound. HIs pieces are long and
metamorphose in surprising ways. One piece on that record starts as almost
a sound of a bamboo windchime and by the end of the 20-minute piece, seamlessly
transforms to a screaming white noise jet engine.

Also worht mentioning is John Eaton and his "Synket" machine. Eaton has a
couple of releases on Columbia(?). One is of solo synket, and the other
includes synket and Moog. Synket is capable of really wild pitch shifts. The
sound is fairly chaotic, and unique in electronic instruments.

The debate about "electronic music" and "Musique concrete" is an old one, as
old really as Germans vs. French (respectively). Today, the meaning is
really blurry. In the late 40s and through the 50s, the various avant garde
camps cared about the distinction a whole lot more than anyone does today,
especially with the sampler becoming the prime tool of both modern
musique concrete *and* electronic artists.

I have a question: Is the El Dabh piece on one the the Columbia-Princeton
house label electronic music releases? If so, I'll have to dig out what I thot
were back-shelfers... Thanks for the tip!

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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Persistence Of Memory
Date: 14 Aug 1997 18:56:14 +0000


Can't remember exactly where it all started but...

Very early memory of doing drama classes at school (age 10?) where we
had to move around to abstract electronic music - been looking for
the record ever since and a couple of months back my fabulous friend
Jill Mingo FOUND it!  It's called "Listen and Dance No 4: Moving
Percussion and Electronic Sound Pictures" (EMI, 1966).  The cover
is one of the bext things about it: rocket ship, maracas, congas,
tympani, octopus(!) and witches hat all dancing in space!  Good luck
to anyone who wants to try and find another copy - it's taken me
about 20 years!!!

I also remember spending a lot of time in the attic playing with my
Dad's ancient valve amp/tuner and 78 turntable.  Particularly strong
in my my mind are old Les Paul 78s, Sparky's Magic Piano, Goon Show
songs and a great rocking version of "Sh,Boom Sh,Boom!" (anyone know
who that might have been by?)...

I also got into my Dad's collection of Moog records: Switched-On
Bach, Moog Indigo, Kaleidoscopic Vibrations, Spaced Out - now have
these LPs myself!

Oh oh oh - and on a 7" EP: a fantastic version of "Whatever Lola
Wants" by Sarah Vaughan: still looking for a decent copy of this...

My Dad was also a fan of Wes Montgomery and Charlie Byrd but I
never really got into those much - but recent mention of Wes on this
list has encouraged me to investigate further...

Funny how we return to where we started!


Robbie

** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** **
** ** ** http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/ ** ** **



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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) electronic music
Date: 14 Aug 1997 14:01:55 -0500


Clark Scheffy wrote:

> I am a huge fan of Iannis Xenakis release on Elektra/Nonesuch
> "Electroacoustic Music." It is some of the best musique concrete
> around.

Did someone say 'revival?'  You might be interested in a brand new
recording of Xenakis' masterwork 'Kraanerg' which was just released
on...  (dammit, i don't have the label or cat. no. as i've
transferred everything to those pro-sheets and the liner tells me
nothing, tho' it has other relevant info including a brief
interview)...   It's a recording of a recent performance in new
york.. with none other than DJ Spooky mastering the electronic
manipulations - which is what this is:  electro-aucoustic music
meaning no bleeps bloops and such, but traditional orchestral
instruments used live and through electronic alterations to produce a
mesmerizing cacaphony.  This isn't pop(p?) at all and it's not for
everyone, so be forwarned.

kevin king
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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Silver Apples - Saturday Night at The Scope
Date: 14 Aug 1997 14:14:02 -0400


Speaking of early electronic music, you may want to read Thomas Pynchon's 1965
novel, "The Crying Of Lot 49" (if you haven't already). It includes a scene set
in a bar called The Scope. To quote:

>
"That's by Stockhausen," the hip greybeard informed her, "the early crowd tends
to dig your Radio Cologne sound. Later on we really swing. We're the only bar
in the area, you know, that has a strict electronic music policy. Come on
around Saturdays, starting midnight we have your Sinewave Session, that's a
live get-together, fellas come in just to jam from all over the state, San
Jose, Santa Barbara, San Diego---"
>

And in his earlier novel, "V." there is the character, Rooney Winsome, an
executive at Outlandish Records, which sounds like a pretty cool label, putting
out such albums as "Volkswagens In Hi-Fi" and "The Leavenworth Glee Club Sings
Old Favorites".

Was Pynchon a pioneer in this exotica fan stuff, or what?

m.ace
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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) electronic music
Date: 14 Aug 1997 15:07:47 -0500



> recording of Xenakis' masterwork 'Kraanerg' which was just released
> on...  (dammit, i don't have the label or cat. no. as i've

...  it's on Sombient, manufactured by Asphodel.   no. 0975


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From: Martin Wheatley <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Silver Apples of the Moon.
Date: 14 Aug 1997 21:19:53 +0100


Whilst following up a couple of the mentions on this thread I came across
an album I have had for many years which seems relevant
'Music From Mathematics'   from 1962
It's music played by (and I quote) IBM 7090 Computer and Digital To Sound
Transducer.
It seems to have been put together by a number of people at Bell Telephone
Laboratories
There are versions of 'Frere Jacques' and 'Bicycle Built For Two' as well
as a couple of classical bits and a lot of original stuff.  A real periods
piece!  It was on Brunswick in the Uk so probably MCA in the US

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From: [e-mail] (Arjan Plug)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Burping
Date: 14 Aug 1997 22:30:09 +0200 (CEST)



Jack Diamond wrote:

>"I remember being extremely excited about getting that flexi-disc with the
>BURPING TUNE, can't remember the year though.

Craig:

>You probably started in 1962 or 1963. "It's a Gas" was the flexi from "The
>Worst From Mad", either number 5 or 6 ('62-'63). I still have mine. It was
>later disco-ized, but the vocal remained the same. The original album was
>called "Mad Twists! Rock and Roll"

Isn't this on one of the "Songs the Cramps taught us" series?

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From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mad flexies
Date: 10 Aug 1997 13:20:33 +0100


Craig wrote:
>You probably started in 1962 or 1963. "It's a Gas" was the flexi from "The
>Worst From Mad", either number 5 or 6 ('62-'63). I still have mine. It was
>later disco-ized, but the vocal remained the same. The original album was
>called "Mad Twists! Rock and Roll"

I had a flexi from another 'worst' entitled "She lets me watch her
mom and pop fight" - was that also on a Mad album some time?

Has any of this stuff been reissued?

Hugh. (with an eggplant and a grunch over there....).


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From: Kerry Keane <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Persistent Percussion of Memory
Date: 14 Aug 1997 17:15:04 -0500 (CDT)


On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Ross Orr wrote:

> Some fragmentary proto-exotic eperiences for me:
> where it started. Was this this the beginning for me in tolerating weird
> music?  [A thread for some other rainy day: Are The Beatles honorary
> Exoticans?]

No, but Exoticans have played Beatles songs.  Have you heard the Exotic
Beatles CDs?


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Persistence Of Memory
Date: 15 Aug 1997 00:25:12 -0400 (EDT)


I requested my first record player when I was 3 and insisted that it include
"a brown Roy Rogers record."  I was very, very disappointed to get a record
player with a red 45.

First record I bought with my own lawn-mowing money: Henry Mancini's greatest
hits.  "Hey," I thought at the time, "It has Pink Panther *and* Baby Elephant
Walk on it!"

Found my older sister's abandoned stack of sixties 45s: "A Question of
Temperature" by The Balloon Farm and "Mony Mony" by Tommy James & the
Shondells and "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" by Otis.  Also her LP
PSYCHEDELIC LOLLIPOP by Blues Magoos.  Loved and played them to death.

My Dad brings home stereo pieces from various yard sales.  My stereo is a
frankenstenian monster with a special 8-track deck plugged in.  8-Tracks
dominate my early collection because I can play them in the car:  Toys in the
Attic by Aerosmith and an amazing 4 tape set from Atlantic records (featuring
early 70s Beach Boys "Surf's Up" and early 70s Bee Gees).

First Record bought at a flea market in So. Fla (Thunderbird Drive In): IN
TOO MUCH TOO SOON by The New York Dolls.  Still my favorite record of all
time

Favorite cheapie score: Jack Bongo Burger THE END ON BONGOS (painted cover)
for twenty-five cents at a perpetual garage sale two doors down.

--David


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From: "Derek Grime" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Persistence of Memory
Date: 15 Aug 1997 02:08:55 -0400


First Record Memory: Beatles Hard Days Night
Strong early impressions made by: Downtown, Surfin' Bird, Psychotic Reaction
They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha Ha

1st LP purchased (as gift): On Top Of Spaghetti
I was scared blind by these lyrics:
Oh Dunderbeck, Oh Dunderbeck
How could you be so mean
For ever have inventing the sausage meat machine
Now all the little cats and dog will never more be seen
For they'be been ground to sausage meat in Dunderbeck's machine

1st LP Purchased for myself: Alice Cooper, Billion Dollar Babies

Most costly!: Revells, Go Sounds of the Slots LP
Dean Carter, Jailhouse Rock 45






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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Exotica Music Films at Fez this Saturday!
Date: 15 Aug 1997 02:02:00 -0400 (EDT)


This is the last reminder...


On Saturday, August 16, the Secret Cinema will present Exotica Music Films
at the Fez nightclub in New York. This collection of ultra-rare footage from
a variety of sources -- including very early TV shows and film jukeboxes
from the 1940s ("Soundies") and 1960s ("Scopitones") -- offers a chance to
hear, and see, a wondrous assortment of international music, from a time
before David Byrne rendered "World Music" a politically-correct bore.

All of the films will be projected from 16mm film prints on a giant movie
screen (not video).

The screening begins at 9:00 pm. Admission is $7.00.

Fez, 380 Lafayette Street (between E. 4th & Great Jones)
New York City =95 [phone]


The current explosion of interest in "exotica" music stems from the
publication of Re/Search's "Incredibly Strange Music" books starting in
1993. Since then, prices for old Martin Denny albums have skyrocketed, bands
like Combustible Edison and their ilk are exploring new "cocktail" music,
and the success of Esquivel reissues and martini bars has prompted nearly
every record label to start up a "lounge" division. Previously plentiful
thrift-store records are getting hard to find, and the opportunity to see
vintage exotica music performances on a big screen is a rare one indeed.
Some program highlights...

Korla Pandit - The handsome Hindu master of the Hammond organ captivated
women with his beautiful music and hypnotic eyes, even though he never spoke
during his 15-minute TV show, the first all-music program on television. We
will screen a complete episode of this show, plus other rare clips of Pandit
and his haunting, mystical sounds. Korla was seen recently in the film Ed
Wood, and Fantasy has reissued some of his original '50s albums.

Yma Sumac - Exotica personified, the beautiful Peruvian legend burst onto
the international scene in 1950, displaying all four of her octaves on the
LP "Voice of  the Xtabay," and creating new musical languages with her
abstract, wordless vocals. We'll show a kinescope of Sumac performing on The
Frank Sinatra Show, from his CBS television show of the early 50s.

The Three Suns - Another cause c=E9l=E8bre of the "Incredibly Strange"=
 books,
this guitar/organ/accordion instrumental trio from Philadelphia sold lots of
albums for RCA in the '50s and figure prominently on that label's "Space Age
Pop" series of CDs. Guitarist Al Nevins teamed with Don Kirshner in 1959 to
form Aldon Music, which became the most successful music publisher of the
Brill Building era. We will present rare early footage of the group from=
 1944.

French pop music - A collection of colorful rock video-like film clips made
in the early '60s for the French film jukebox known as Scopitone. Performers
include "Ye Ye" singers Fran=E7oise Hardy, Johnny Hallyday, and Sylvie=
 Vartan,
plus torch singers, jazz and other French oddities.

Plus...Hawaiian sing-alongs, Latin music from the 1940s, and much more!

The Secret Cinema, begun in 1992, is a Philadelphia-based floating repertory
film series that shows unusual and lost film fare of all types at various
locations.

::: PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ANY INTERESTED PARTIES :::

 Jay Schwartz

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From: Mark Reed <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Persistence of Memory
Date: 15 Aug 1997 08:55:59 -0400 (EDT)


At 02:08 AM 8/15/97 -0400, you wrote:

>1st LP purchased (as gift): On Top Of Spaghetti
>I was scared blind by these lyrics:
>Oh Dunderbeck, Oh Dunderbeck
>How could you be so mean
>For ever have inventing the sausage meat machine
>Now all the little cats and dog will never more be seen
>For they'be been ground to sausage meat in Dunderbeck's machine
>

Interesting, my mother taught me this song with slightly changed lyrics
which she learned in the Boy Scouts (yes, my mother was in the Boy Scouts in
the 1940's) as an old folk song.



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From: Joe Batutis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Brother Theodore
Date: 15 Aug 1997 09:41:52 -0500


No, Brother Theodore is that wacky old german guy who used to go on
Letterman, obsessing about his wife's teeth. It's been a long, long time
since he's been on Letterman (the old show), it's just what his show needs.

I saw him perform live at a little theatre here in NYC, just a few months
ago. He's REALLY old and REALLY scary now. See him soon.

I'd love to hear if he's ever produced an album... if anyone out there has
seen it, let me know.


ENOKLITE




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From: Joe Batutis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New Serge Gainsbourg Page
Date: 15 Aug 1997 09:44:32 -0500


Yes, I just created a Serge Gainsbourg page. It has a discography,
biography, links and lots of soundbites.

check it out.

Serge Gainsbourg Page
http://home.dti.net/enoklite/serge/


Lemme know what you think.

ENOKLITE




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) EZ Question
Date: 15 Aug 1997 10:14:25 -0400 (EDT)


Maybe this is going to sound stupid, but if anyone on the list has the time,
can you explain what is EZ Listening???  Is this another name for "lounge"
music or another genre of lounge, what is it??  Does it have a history apart
from the lounge scene?

- Still learning
Michele
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From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Brother Theodore
Date: 15 Aug 1997 09:43:27 -0400


>No, Brother Theodore is that wacky old german guy who used to go on
>Letterman, obsessing about his wife's teeth. It's been a long, long time
>since he's been on Letterman (the old show), it's just what his show needs.

>I'd love to hear if he's ever produced an album... if anyone out there has
>seen it, let me know.

Brother Theordore released  two albums in the 50s billed as just "Theodore."
They'e supposed to be pretty hard to find. My comedy record book (which is
usually pretty snotty) sez he's "like Peter Lorre crossed with Mel Brooks."
Don't know if that's true, but I do love Peter Lorre and will bring his name
up whenever possible. ANYWAY, There are two Theodore albums:

Entertainment of Sinister and Disconcerting Humor (Proscenium, available as
a 10 or 12 inch disc)
Coral Records Presents Theodore in Stereo

Hope this helps, Jessica ^_^

PS--the book also sez that he was on the Merv Griffin show a lot in the late
60s. It was Merv who gave him  the "Brother" handle.



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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Brother Theodore
Date: 15 Aug 1997 10:35:07 -0400 (EDT)


At 09:41 AM 8/15/97 -0500, Joe Batutis wrote:

>I'd love to hear if he's ever produced an album... if anyone out there has
>seen it, let me know.

Here's Theodore's complete recorded ouvre.
Y'all may also want to do a Deja-news search on Bro. Theodore -- he comes up
in conversation on various newsgroups every now and then. A search of the
Exotica list archives should also turn up some info.

* ENTERTAINMENT OF SINISTER AND DISCONCERTING HUMOR
  (live recording) 1955, Proscenium (both 10" and 12" releases)

* CORAL RECORDS PRESENTS THEODORE
  (studio recording) 19??, includes version of Poe's "Berenice"

--Lou




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From: Joseph Levy & Zoe Nousiainen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Brother Theodore
Date: 15 Aug 1997 10:46:33 -0400


 J. Diamond wrote:

> I'm looking for records/CD's by a guy out of Los Angeles
> (I believe) name of Brother Theodore.

Aj wrote:

> Man, isn't Brother Theodore that crazy evangelical guy who used to
> have
> a wild radio show?

Theodore (given name: Theodore Gottleib), was dubbed "Brother Theodore"
by Merv Griffen in reference to his all-black garb. Originally from
Austria, he has lived in New York City since his escape from the Nazis.
Now about 92 years old, he was performing as recently as this past
spring in a small theater in Greenwich Village, as he has been since the
1950's.

There are two hard to find LP's:

1. An Entertainment Of Sinister And Discerning Humor [or] Tears From A
Glass Eye, Proscenium 21 (10" and 12" versions with different covers),
recorded live at midnight at Carnegie Hall on May 21, 1955. [If anyone
has these for sale, please e-mail me!]

2. Coral Records Presents Theodore, Coral S 7322, a studio recording
from the early 1960's.

Both in mono only. Neither has been reissued on CD.

Both contain stories told in his unique style of sinister and hilarious
black humor.

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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) R.I.P. Dick Marx
Date: 15 Aug 1997 11:02:48 -0400 (EDT)


 First Fela, then Conlon Nancarrow and now Dick Marx. What a week.
-Lou

    CHICAGO, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Dick Marx, who was responsible for such
memorable jingles as ``Double your pleasure, double your fun'' and
``Aren't you glad you use Dial,'' is dead. He was 73.
    Marx, a jazz pianist, arranger and composer, died this week at
Highland Park Hospital from injuries suffered in an auto accident. He
had lived in Los Angeles since 1986.
    Marx graduated from Sullivan High School in Chicago and learned to
play piano before his hands were big enough to reach major chords.
    He founded Dick Marx and Associates and was noted for being brutally
honest about what he thought of proposed commercials, opinions that cost
him work.
    His wife, Ruth, and son, Richard, often did the vocals in his
jingles.
    His movie and TV soundtrack credits included ``A League of Their Own''
and ``Fudge.'' He also recently completed the orchestration for the
upcoming feature ``Edwards and Hunt.'' Marx did arrangements for such
artists as Joe Cocker and Japanese superstar Yoshiki.
    Besides his wife and son, Marx is survived by another son, two
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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mad flexies
Date: 15 Aug 1997 11:35:51 -0500


At 1:20 PM +0100 8/10/97, Hugh Petfield wrote:

>I had a flexi from another 'worst' entitled "She lets me watch her
>mom and pop fight" - was that also on a Mad album some time?
>
>Has any of this stuff been reissued?

Rhino put a Mad compilation out last year, with tracks from the 2 Mad rock
'n roll albums, and tracks from "The Mad Show" Original Cast album (from
the Off-Broadway show from '65). It may have had a track or two from the
first Mad album that Bernie Green did on RCA in '58 as well.

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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) R.I.P. Dick Marx
Date: 15 Aug 1997 10:01:15 -0700


Lou Smith wrote:
>
>  First Fela, then Conlon Nancarrow and now Dick Marx. What a week.
> -Lou
>
Conlon Nancarrow died?!?!?!

boy... i've *really* been out of it this week....

...wonder if they'll ship his pianos back to the states...

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From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Electronic music and Thomas Pynchon
Date: 15 Aug 1997 10:08:14 PDT


>Was Pynchon a pioneer in this exotica fan stuff, or what?

Pynchon was more of a jazzman (bop), but he does occasionally do liner
notes for records and did one for a Spike Jones reissue, it's available
on a website near you.

Also regarding the earliest commissions the Subotnick for Nonesuch is of
course nowhere near, Varese was actually commissioned in the 40s to do a
piece but he never had the equipment and it was in the middle of a 20
year period during which he didn't produce.

There is an excellent retelling of the sometimes vicious fight between
Pierre Schaeffer and the Musique Concret movement and Stockhausen and
the Elektronische Musik movement in Peter Mannings "Electronic and
Computer Music" 2nd Ed., Oxford, Clarendon Press 1993 0198163290
(Different in America). Which also has sections on more or less everyone
mentioned in this thread, it really is a fine book.

It also mentions Daphne Oram ex of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (which
caused me and nearly all the children of the 70s in Ireland to hide
behind the couch when Doctor Who came on) who I meant to email Pea Hicks
about as she invented a system (called oramics)of controlling her
synthesisers with what look like seismograph printouts on clear plastic,
possibly the first graphically controlled synthesiser (if you exclude
the photocells of the RCA synthesiser in Columbia - Princeton). The book
also has a picture of the Philips pavillion in the 1958 world fair and
old electronic kit - very sexy.

I've been on this list for about 2 yrs and rarely break silence but re
persistence of memory, sadly my first memory as it pops into my mind now
is of Dana winning the Eurovision Schlock Contest in 71 or so. the guy
living behind us wrote the song, life got revenge on him and his wife
left him and he never got a penny from it. It's terrifying to think that
she wants to be president of Ireland...
recent buys
Varese 'Ionisations', Les Paul & Mary Ford 'Brazil', Perez Prado 'Mambo
Fever', DJ Spooky, Sun Ra 'Hours After', Raymond Scott 'Popular Music'
(awful GlennMiller like stuff with only one "quintet"(sic) tune, still
Scott on vinyl was too much to pass on. I never want to hear an English
list member complain about the difficulty of finding stuff in London,
I've lived there you should try Dublin (though the prices can be cheaper
here).
Thanks
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From: Frank <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Brother Theodore
Date: 15 Aug 1997 13:28:38 -0400


>  "like Peter Lorre crossed with Mel Brooks."

Peter Lorre and David Lynch, maybe:

From the good Brother to David Letterman regarding the joys of statutory
romance:

"My lovely little Lolita, the perfect portable mistress."

And having some fun with Also spracht Zarathustra:

"You can only truly dance after you have had both of your legs cut off."

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From: "allanc" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) electronic music
Date: 15 Aug 1997 13:59:05 -0400


All this talk about old-style electronic music prompted a visit to my
collection (like I need an excuse!) in order to play my copy of "Sounds of
New Music" (Folkways FX 6160). This lp features tracks by El-Dahb (Spectrum
#1), Ussachevsky, Cowell, Varese, Cage, Mossolov & Meytuss (The latter two
are examples of Russian Futurist music). Of particular note is the opening
cut "Bahnfahrt" which was recorded in the mid-20's & is a "...a type of
music [that] first found favour in Burlesque orchestras at the turn of the
century and continues, much to every child's delight, to be the standard
accompaniment to the animated cartoon of today".
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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) R.I.P. Dick Marx
Date: 15 Aug 1997 19:31:19 +0100


Pea Hicks wrote:
> Lou Smith wrote:
> >
> >  First Fela, then Conlon Nancarrow and now Dick Marx. What a week.
> >
> Conlon Nancarrow died?!?!?!
>

I missed this too. I picked up Vol 2. of the Arch Records releases
last week and spent some "quality time" exploding my head. I was
thinking "Christ, I wonder what he's up to nowadays". Truly unique.



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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Folkways Label
Date: 15 Aug 1997 12:24:22 -0700


At 01:59 PM 8/15/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>All this talk about old-style electronic music prompted a visit to my
>collection (like I need an excuse!) in order to play my copy of "Sounds of
>New Music" (Folkways FX 6160).

Folkways was such a diverse and outstanding label

I've got a great electronic outer space sound effects record on Folkways

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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) SUBOTNICK
Date: 15 Aug 1997 12:26:53 -0700


Anyone want to buy any subotnick rekkids for fairly cheap ?

Jack


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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) EZ Question
Date: 15 Aug 1997 15:34:26 -0400 (EDT)


At 10:14 AM 8/15/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Maybe this is going to sound stupid, but if anyone on the list has the time,
>can you explain what is EZ Listening???  Is this another name for "lounge"
>music or another genre of lounge, what is it??  Does it have a history apart
>from the lounge scene?
>
>- Still learning
>Michele

I remember when Easy Listening format radio stations changed the name of
their format to 'Beautiful Music.' I guess the only reason we now talk about
'EZ' is that it's easier to type with straight fingers than 'BM'.

Both Easy L. and Lounge were originally functional musics, and their
functions were very different, as you can imagine. Music for houswives in
their kitchens differs a bit from music performed live as a background for
exhuberant and convivial public imbibing.

I'm not even sure that Easy Listening = EZ at this point.
Nowadays, though, it all starts to blend under one umbrella.

Best place to start is with Lanza's 'Elevator Music' which should be stocked
in most large book stores.

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From: Kerry Keane <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hefti redux
Date: 15 Aug 1997 15:04:21 -0500 (CDT)




I was flipping through my Collector's Choice music catalog, and
saw that there is a reissue of the music from the Batman t.v. show.
It's a pretty cheap CD, too.

The thing is, I've got some Hefti besides Batman and don't like it that much,
but I love the Batman theme and t.v. show.  I don't remember much about
the rest of the music, though.

Does anyone know about this CD?  I want to know if it's just going to
background ambience, or swinging and modish.  Was there ever an album of
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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) electronic music
Date: 15 Aug 1997 16:53:16 -0400


As long as we're quoting John Cage, here's an interesting one from Edgard
Varese:

"I do not write experimental music. My experimenting is done before I make the
music. Afterwards, it is the listener who must experiment."

Thinking about it, this may be relevant to the list as a whole. Might we all be
experimental listeners (meaning, listeners who are willing to experiment)?

m.ace
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Subject: Re: (exotica) Hefti redux
Date: 15 Aug 1997 15:28:48 -0600


>I was flipping through my Collector's Choice music catalog, and
>saw that there is a reissue of the music from the Batman t.v. show.
>It's a pretty cheap CD, too.
>
>The thing is, I've got some Hefti besides Batman and don't like it that much,
>but I love the Batman theme and t.v. show.  I don't remember much about
>the rest of the music, though.
>
>Does anyone know about this CD?  I want to know if it's just going to
>background ambience, or swinging and modish.  Was there ever an album of
>this stuff?
>


definitely "swinging and modish".  the CD is a compilation of 2 original
LPs by Hefti.  Both are great; i like the first one better, although there
are folks here on the list who swear by the second.  Both full LPs are on
the CD.  buy it, i say.





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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hefti redux
Date: 15 Aug 1997 14:10:52 -0700


buy it, i say.

I already "ordered him" to buy it Dean;)

-J


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Persistence Of..
Date: 15 Aug 1997 14:25:39 -0700



     Damn, you guys steamrolled right over that "Persistence" thread in no
     time flat. Though it seems odd to me that people can actually remember
     their first song...  My house had an AM radio playing 24 hours a day
     in our kitchen, plus I had older brothers handing down stacks of LP's
     to me when they became bored with em' so I have no idea of my first
     song memory. Could have been Zager & Evans' "In the Year 2525"... or
     "Curse of The Red Baron" by the Royal Guardsman... who knows..

     - 1st 45" bought FOR me - Tie a Yellow Ribbon (Tony Orlando)
     - 1st 45" bought BY me - No No Song - (Ringo Starr)
     - 1st LP Record bought FOR me - Bee-Gees (It had a picture of a nude
     woman sitting in a teaspoon on the cover, what was mom thinking?)
     - 1st LP Record bought BY me - Queen - Night at The Opera
     - 1st music related fashion bought - "Disco Sucks" t-shirt (almost as
     popular at the time as "Khomeini Sucks" t-shirt)

     (Bummer that none of the above are exotica or particularly conclusive
     as to why I like "Loungey" music today....)

     By the way, for those interested "It's A Gas!" IS on the Rhino CD
     reissue as well as a disco song that came from a Mad Magazine flexi
     disc. Also, here is a site recommended by Yahoo that I never knew
     existed about www.phoenixnewtimes.com/extra/gilstrap/crawl.html which
     is a website with a large collection of oddball records. Pretty nice
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From: [e-mail] (Craig Carlson)
Subject: (exotica) Potrzebie
Date: 15 Aug 1997 19:45:16 -0700


Hugh (Axlotl) Petfield wrote:

"I had a flexi from another 'worst' entitled "She lets me watch her
mom and pop fight" - was that also on a Mad album some time?

Has any of this stuff been reissued?"

I hate to answer "I think so", but I *think* one of the flyers I got from
either Collectors Choice or Rhino did have this on CD, but it was
expensive, maybe an import. "Mom and Pop Fight" was indeed on Mad Twists.."
along with "Agnes, the Teenage Russian Spy" and "She Got a Nose Job" (also
a flexi).

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Mad Magazine
Date: 15 Aug 1997 20:44:56 -0400 (EDT)


All you Kaputnicks:  Rhino re-released all their flexi-disc material on Kid
Rhino about a year ot two ago.. "It's A Gas", "She Got a Nose Job", "She Lets
Me Watch Her Mom And Pop Fight", "The Boy From.." (sendup of "Girl From
Ipanema"). Its sounds great and its Kinda Cheap (but more than 25 Cents)


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Who you calling EZ?
Date: 15 Aug 1997 22:29:02 -0400 (EDT)



That  diva of lounge, Michele, writes:

<<can you explain what is EZ Listening???  Is this another name for "lounge"
music or another genre of lounge, what is it??  Does it have a history apart
from the lounge scene?>>

I always categorized EZ as music that was intended for one demographic that
was changed to suit another demographic.  Most usually a younger folks song
tuned down for older generations.  Like taking MacArther Park and setting it
to Muzak so old folks (and we nutty exotica types) would like it.

I think this is the essence of the two EZ listening Ultra Lounge CD's.

I guess our parents could not take the beetles without a little Lawrence Welk
influence.

I think later (in the 7t's) any thing slow and mellow (God I hate that word)
took on the title of EZ listening.

Me,  I still prefer the true exotica (he said as the Hypnotique cut started
to spin at a  33 1/3 RPM on the Magnavox platter).

Regards,

Robert
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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) What is NOT Easy Listening
Date: 15 Aug 1997 21:55:37 -0700


Certainly not a conclusive list

IMHO, what is NOT Easy Listening;

Martin Denny
Esquivel
Richard Hayman - Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine
Les Baxter - Jungle Jazz

What is (great) Easy Listening;

Russ Garica - Fantastica
Harry Revel's;
Music From Out of Space
Peace of Mind
Perfume Set To Music
Music Out of The Moon

Opinions opinions opinions...hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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From: Jack Fetterman <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) NYC In Hi-Fi
Date: 16 Aug 1997 01:17:51 -0400 (EDT)


In Hi-Fi has expanded the scope of it's website to list and review genre
related weekly parties (like the 999999's, Get Sleazy!, In Hi-Fi, Lo Fi
Presents the Retro Music X-travaganza, the Stork Club, Strato-Lounge, Swank,
Swingin' '90's, the Vampyros Lesbos Party, and special events (like Secret
Cinema's Exotica Film Festival at the Fez and "Reckless Night On Board the
Bottom Line: A Live Music Birthday Tribute to Raymond Scott) in New York City.

If interested, please check out...


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From: the_curator <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Vera Gray is dangerous
Date: 16 Aug 1997 02:16:18 +0100


Robbie

>Very early memory of doing drama classes at school (age 10?) where we
>had to move around to abstract electronic music - been looking for
>the record ever since and a couple of months back my fabulous friend
>Jill Mingo FOUND it!  It's called "Listen and Dance No 4: Moving
>Percussion and Electronic Sound Pictures" (EMI, 1966).  The cover
>is one of the bext things about it: rocket ship, maracas, congas,
>tympani, octopus(!) and witches hat all dancing in space!  Good luck
>to anyone who wants to try and find another copy - it's taken me
>about 20 years!!!

"drama classes" was it?  ... at my school in the late sixties /early
seventies it was called "Musical Movement"

the late blooming

Sem Sinatra

p.s. my copy of the above record was the first record I stole ...anyone
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From: "Phil Clark" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re: Vanilla Fudge "freakout record"
Date: 16 Aug 1997 09:25:44 +0100


Ross Orr <[e-mail]>

 wrote:

I went off to college taking whatever odd youthful-type records had been

left behind by the sibs when they moved away. Mostly old Beatles records I

think. However I distinctly remember one Vanilla Fudge record! As I recall

it this had some confusing psychedelic freak-out sections, which were not

exactly music as I then understood it. I don't remember finding these

particulary convincing. Very soon this LP became the butt of rough humor

among my dorm mates, and I hid it away. . . Lost track of it somewhere. .
.

(naturally I would love to have it today.)

..........


this sounds like it could be "The Beat Goes On" which came out on Atlantic
in 68. it was the Fudge's second album I think. In this the Fudge modestly
do kinda a potted history of music thing with little sections from each
era. I haven't heard this for years but I rememebr it being along these
lines: Stand by voice-over with heavy reverb: "Phase One!!" Stand by
various not-stoned-at-all-no-honestly studio doodling. "Phase Two!!" more
completely serious doodles.

quite fun really!

Also glad to see a mention of "Music from Mathematics" from Martin Wheatley
<[e-mail]> which I've been looking for for ages - anyone gotta
copy they wanna sell me? this came out in 62. It recently cropped up on
Rare Music ttp://www.raremusic.com) . it was one of those marvy
white-coated-science-meets-popular-culture things in which an IBM mainframe
was programmed to play music. Like Martin says, "Frere Jacques" and some
original stuff.

I wonder if this used to be a popular thing to do with early computers -
earlier this year I was at the Bletchley Park museum here in the UK and
they have a selection of old computing equipment in one section, and the
curator was delighted to run a paper-tape program to make an Elliot 803 (I
suspect early 60s again) play a nifty tune through its console.

groovily

Phil

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From: Shangri-la <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) new arrival
Date: 16 Aug 1997 17:18:58 +-200


Hello to everybody globally. THis is my first time on the list...

My name is Charl. I'm from Cape Town in South Africa. I work in a CD =
shop. On Saturday evenings I DJ music of the Loungy variety as DJ Uneasy =
at local cigar and jazz bar 'The Piano Lounge' It is a small venue =
(150-200 people max). My DJ partner is DJ Bonanza who also DJ's around =
as trip hop d&b and other modern styles DJ. Our evening is called =
Loungecore (after the Easy Project compilation). Bonanza plays stacks of =
bossa and Karminsky type stuff to Jimmy Smith. When he feels naughty he =
gets out his rare funk 12'' s...I do light jazz and exotica early on and =
when the dancefloor picks up we do mostly latin and that rocky shuffle =
cool stuff like the Blow Out compilation and Ray Davies' cool =
moments....

I Have a rather big collection that makes moving through my room a bit =
difficult. My last big find is the Three Suns' Twilight Time LP for R5!=20

The easy scene in CT is minute but we do have a few faithfull =
enthusiasts and newcomers by the day.=20

On Sunday evenings my friend Craig, who is a 16 mm film fan shows trashy =
films from the 40's and 50,s f.e. next sunday: Teasearama ; The =
Choppers.

I do listen to a very wide range of music and have been into anything =
from Kylie Minogue to Nurse with Wound.
My early memories include my parents listening to ABBA and George Baker =
selection in the car. My first record bought was Kim Wilde - Kim Wilde. =
Soon after I remember buying Kraftwerk - The Man Machine and Trio...

When I was 12 (now 26) I used to make my own music using tape cut ups =
and my zx spectrum. With overdubbing using multiple mics and tape =
recorders I layered piano and bugle at times to create a rather strange =
soundscape that drove my parents up the walls. My first project was =
called Charlo and then later Bizarre Bazaar.

More recently I have mostly been DJing. Two years ago at local ambient =
club the GEL. After a year and a half this got more dance friendly and =
then closed......My focus moved toward Easy Listening and subgenres and =
since Dec 96 I have been pretty much swankly occupied. THis is my niche =
however and pretty much where I think I'll stick to.....


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From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What is NOT Easy Listening
Date: 16 Aug 1997 11:38:07 -0400


>IMHO, what is NOT Easy Listening;
>
>Martin Denny
>Les Baxter - Jungle Jazz

Agreed! However, Les Baxter did dimiss Denny's work as "just cocktail piano"
in an interview I read in some trendy magazine a year ago. He was so bitter.
:(  Baxter's jungle or outer space stuff isn't ez at all, but his early hits
are. I learned the hard way when I shelled out 15 clams for "Midnight on the
Cliffs." I thought it would be fire-and-brimstone shrieking violins Bernard
Herrmann type music. Instead I got the Les Baxter singings crooning "Wake
the town and tell the people." I wasn't angry, but I was disappointed. His
"Love is a Fabulous Thing" and  "Thinking of You" LPs are pretty general
easy-listening as well.
>
>What is (great) Easy Listening;

Can I add Robert Maxwell to this list. He made some beautiful easy harp
albums. "Harp Magic" is great! His wackier stuff is, I don't know, maybe
more listenable, but this one I love. Michel Legrand made a strings and "ba
ba ba" voices album that is great, too. The Three Suns' easy stuff is always
very pretty and enjoyable ("Soft and Sweet" has terrific versions of "Autumn
Nocture" and "Flamingo."). Norrie Paramor has some easy albums with abstract
vocals by some woman named Patricia something or other. She's really good.
Jackie Gleason's easy albums are  good, esp. "The Torch with the Blue
Flame", "Oooo!", and "Lonesome Echo."  Soundtracks have some great easy
tracks on them. "Valley of the Dolls" and "The Love Machine" are two of my
favorites.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Ideas for 1999?
Date: 16 Aug 1997 09:24:57 -0700 (PDT)


Here are the Mr. Smooth Hours planned through the end of 1998.  Do you
have ideas for 1999?  That will give me time to find the recordings I need.

Byron Caloz

The Mister Smooth Hour 1997-1998
(names and titles correct, dates may be off)

May 1 #25 Si Zentner
May 8 #26 Terry Snyder
May 15 #27 Perez Prado
May 22 #28 Julie London
May 29 #29 Arthur Lyman
June 5 #30 Xavier Cugat
June 12 #31 Mr. Smooth Goes to France
June 19 #32 Werner Muller
June 26 #33 1997 Top 69 part 1 of 4
July 3 #34 1997 Top 69 part 2 of 4
July 10 #35  1997 Top 69 part 3 of 4
July 17 #36  1997 Top 69 part 4 of 4
July 24 #27  (R) Perez Prado
July 31 #37  All Cha Chas
August 7 #38  Billy May
August 14 #39 Danny and Dena Guglielmi
August 21 #40 The Three Suns
August 28 #41 Henri Rene
September 4 #42 David Carroll
September 11 #43 Dick Schory
September 18 #44 Katie Lee
September 25 #45 Skip Martin
October  2 #46 Mike Simpson
October  9 #47 Sid Ramin
October 16 #48 Cha Cha Cha Cha
October 23 #49 Ray Martin
October 30 #50 Halloween II
November 6 #51 Mr. Smooth on Broadway
November 13 #52 Juan Esquivel II
November 20 #53 Les Baxter
November 27 #54 Ernie Kovacs music
December 4 #55 Edmundo Ros
December 11 #56 Meriano Merceron
December 18 #57 Marty Gold
December 25 #58 Christmas II

--1998--

January 1 #59 They all played The Third Man Theme
January 8 #60 Marjorie Meinert
January 15 #61 David Rose
January 22 #62 Lenny Dee
January 29 #63 Ethel Smith
February 5 #64 Mr. Smooth Goes to Hawaii
February 12 #65 Ruth Wallis
February 19 #66 Martin Denny
February 26 #67 Arthur Lyman
March 5 #68 Eartha Kitt II
March 12 #69 Julie London III
March 19 #70 Monica Lewis
March 26 #71 Lizabeth Scott
April 2 #72 Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha Cha
April 9 #73 They all played Caravan
April 16 #74 Henry Mancini II
April 23 #75 Enoch Light
April 30 #76 Ferrante & Teicher
May 7 #77 Xavier Cugat II
May 14 #78 Manny Albam
May 21 #79 Mr. Smooth Goes to the Movies
May 28 #80 Mambomania
June 4 #81 Jack "Bongo" Burger
June 11 #82 Bernie Green
June 18 #83 Markko Polo Adventurers
June 25 #84 Russ Case
July 2 #85 Sauter-Finegan Orchestra
July 9 #86 The Mr. Smooth Top 69 of 1998 part 1
July 16 #87 The Mr. Smooth Top 69 of 1998 part 2
July 23 #88 The Mr. Smooth Top 69 of 1998 part 3
July 30 #89 The Mr. Smooth Top 69 of 1998 part 4
August 6 #90 Sid Bass
August 13 #91 Leo Addeo II
August 20 #92 They All Played El Choclo
August 27 #93 Dean Martin
September 3 #94 Bobby Darin
September 10 #95 Wayne Newton
September 17 #96 Jack Constanzo
September 24 #97 Mr. Smooth Watches Television
October 1 #98 Ross Bagdasarian
October 8 #99 The Waikikis
October 15 #100 Bob Thompson
October 22 #101 Bongomania
October 29 #102 Halloween III
November 5 #103 Mauna Loa Islanders
November 12 #104 Eden Ahbez
November 19 #105 They All Played Hernando's Hideaway
November 26 #106 Les Baxter
December 3 #107 Mr. Smooth Goes to Cuba
December 10 #108 Yma Sumac
December 17 #109 James Bond Exotica
December 24 #110 Christmas III
December 31 #111 Louis Prima







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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Easy, etc.
Date: 16 Aug 1997 12:32:17 -0400


Just to muddy the waters, a while back DJ Jimmy Bee (I think) posted this:

"Easytune -- It's very danceable, it incorporates lots of loungey/bossa/MOR
values and the beat isn't the typical 130+BPM of House--those beats vary and
Richard Cameron of Amsterdam spun some nice Easytune at Brother Cleve's
"Saturnalia" spin last night."

Around here, back in the 70's (or as late as the early 80's), there was a muzak
radio station that called itself EAZY 101. Their TV ads featured actor, Patrick
O'Neal, who drawled out the words, "E-e-e-e-a-a-z-z-y 101" in a really
distinctive manner. He got more screentime as psycho-killer, Jason Cravatte, in
"Chamber Of Horrors", but I think he was even scarier in these ads. Was he a
national spokesman for a group of these stations or was this just a regional
thing?

m.ace
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From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
Date: 16 Aug 1997 11:49:53 -0400


I mentioned soundtracks in my last post, and I thought it would be neat to
talk about our favorite soundtracks. There are so many out there! And not
just LPs, 45s that were sold in the movie theater too (I have never ever
found one of these. :( ). I read somewhere that the great outer
space-rock-go-go theme song from "Green Slime" was released on a 45.
"Supernatural Voodoo Woman" from "Sugar Hill" was on a 45 also. Anyway, I'll
start by mentioning some of my favorite soundtracks, and the best tracks on
them.

Mondo Cane (probably my all-time fave ST)
Hong Kong Cha Cha/Breakfast at the Colony
Freeway (great!!!)
Damned Island

Mondo Cane no. 2
theme from Mondo Cane no. 2 (beautiful, eerie tune)
Cimici de Sera
Flamingos

Experiment in Terror
Experiment in Terror title theme
Fluters' Ball
Nancy
Teen-age Hostage
Final Out at Candlestick park
(can you tell I LOVE this one? ^_- )

The Love Machine
New Threads on Parade
House Party parts 1+2
Farewell Amanda
The White Fox Returns

Forbidden Planet
Main Titles-Overture
Deceleration
Krell Shuttle Ride and Power Station
Battle with the Invisible Monster

Don't Make Waves (by Vic Mizzy!)
Daybreak at Malibu, parts 1+2
Girl on the Trampoline
Vox Box

Lord Love a Duck
Arsenic in the Face (great spooky scare piece by Neal Hefti)

Oops! Didn't mean to go on for this long--thanks for the space, Jessica ^_^



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From: Darrell Brogdon <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
Date: 16 Aug 1997 12:05:53 -0700


Jessica Cameron wrote:

> I read somewhere that the great outer space-rock-go-go theme song from "Green Slime"
> was released on a 45. "


Speaking of this, and Morricone's "Danger: Diabolik" theme (mentioned in an earlier
post)...both were included on "Great Science Fiction Film Music", an LP on the Japanese
label Poo (LP 104) back in the '70s.  "The Green Slime" was co-written by Charles Fox,
who contributed to the score for "Barbarella", among other things.  "Diabolik" is sung
in the original Italian--in the U.S. video release, it's done in English.

Other tracks include "The Blob" (co-written by Burt Bacharach, I heard), "Mothra" (Akira
Ifukube Orchestra), "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (Ray Anthony), "Godzilla" (complete
with the Godzilla roar) and "I Bury the Living" (Gerald Fried, of "Orienta" fame!).

Got mine new 15+ years ago. Long out of print, I'm sure, and maybe never released on CD,
but well worth the effort to track it down.


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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: 101 Strings Plays the Blues
Date: 15 Aug 1997 20:40:09 +0200


>>2. Is "101 Strings Plays the Blues" worth getting?

    yes, i think so.

        Johan
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From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Persistence Of Living Brass
Date: 16 Aug 1997 12:53:04 -0400


> I put on my favourite LP at the time  - Living
>Strings And Living Marimbas Play Songs Made Famous By Herb Alpert.
>
>I think we got through 'A Taste Of Honey' and 'The Mexican Shuffle' before a
>partygoer whisked it off the turntable in favour of the soundtrack to
>'Fame'. Such is life.

I just  realized that I have this record--it got me off my anti-Herb Alpert
kick. It still bugs me that his albums are EVERYWHERE, but I like "Going
Places" and "The Lonely Bull." And I bought a copy of "Whipped Cream" just
because no record collection should be without it. It's a  tradition! ^_-

Sifting through my mailbox, Jessica





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From: Vernon Stoltz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Martin Denny & Zippy
Date: 16 Aug 1997 17:41:28 GMT


FYI;

       Today's (Aug 16) "Zippy the Pinhead" comic strip features a 4 panel
debate on the appeal of Lounge Culture.  The 'pro-lounge' Mr. Toad character
even mentions Martin Denny in the first panel. It's worth checking out.

Vern





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From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: 101 Strings Plays the Blues
Date: 16 Aug 1997 12:56:58 -0400


At 08:40 PM 8/15/97 +0200, you wrote:
>
>>>2. Is "101 Strings Plays the Blues" worth getting?
>
>    yes, i think so.

Another good Strings album is "101 Strings After Dark" aka "The Soul of
Harlem." It's cool and (sort of) jazzy like "Plays the Blues."

Thanks for the space, Jessica



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) first record stolen........
Date: 16 Aug 1997 14:18:20 -0400 (EDT)


My first theft was from Turnstyle (dept. store) in Waltham, Mass. It was
"Dear Lady Twist" by US Bonds (before Gary was added I believe). I scratched
it on a rock and told Mom someone gave it to me.........(Get up out of YOUR
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Soundtracks Thread
Date: 16 Aug 1997 14:22:52 -0400 (EDT)


I think I have become a Mancini compleatist, and so I "obtained" a copy of
"10" with Bo Derek. It has some excellent E-Z trax on it.....OK Cleve, jump
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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny & Zippy
Date: 16 Aug 1997 14:58:22 -0400


> From: Vernon Stoltz <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) Martin Denny & Zippy
>
>        Today's (Aug 16) "Zippy the Pinhead" comic strip features a 4 panel
> debate on the appeal of Lounge Culture.  The 'pro-lounge' Mr. Toad character
> even mentions Martin Denny in the first panel. It's worth checking out.

Viewable online here:
http://www.sfgate.com/sf/zippy/

And here's more Zippy resources:
http://clio.lyris.net/zippy/

are we exotic yet?

m.ace
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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Jack
Date: 16 Aug 1997 12:23:33 -0700


KFJC play list 8/7/97 for Jack Diamond
Thursday 2 - 6PM

 ARTIST                           TRACK                     ALBUM
____________________________________________________________________________
_________
 Don Julian                       Savage                     1973 Soundtrack
 Things of Nownow                 Tanzen Verboten            Nownowism
 Julie Cruise                     The Nightingale            Twin Peaks
 Allen, Davie & the
 Arrows                           The Glory Stompers
 Det Moore Orchestra              Jazz Dramatique

 Hyman, Dick                      Topless Dancers of Corfu   Moog, the Electric
                                                            Eclectics
 Pierro Piccioni                  Beer, Vermouth & Gin

 Outrageous Cherry                Genevieve                  Nothing's Gonna Cheer You
                                                            Up
 Don Helms                        Big News                   Steel jazz
 Flaming Lips                     Frogs
 Silver Apples                    Oscillations               Kapp
 Barry Grey Orch                  Stingray
 Bugskull                         Winkys Wild Ride           Distracted Snowflake
 Gainsbourg, Serge                Requiem Pour Un Twisteur   Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin
 Nora Orlandi                     Riffa Cha Cha              Armando Travajoli
 Chop Shop                        Demon Bitch                Hip Hop Collage
 Henke, Mel                       All that Meat              La Dolce Henke
 Charles Earland                  Snake                      Dynamite Bros.
 Amps for Christ                  A Very Mode-Ular Song      Thorny Path
 Ennio Morricone                  Astrazione Con Ritmo       Il Serpente

 Tortura                          Sounds of Pain and         Bondage Records
                                  Pleasure
 The Hellers!                     Take 46                    Command/Now Sounds
 O'donel Levy                     Kilimanjaro Cookout

 Adams, Johnny                    Neither One of Us          Room with a View of the
                                                            Blues
 Teenage Fanclub                  Metal Baby                 I Love this Tune!!!!!!
 Evan Johns H-Bombs               Mad House                  Alternative Tentacles

 Thompson, Hunter S.              Huge Bats                  Fear and Loathing in Las
                                 The Drug Cache              Vegas

 Black Sabbath                    Fairies Wear Boots/Jack The Ripper

 Unknown Narration                Mondo Topless-Intro        [coll]: Russ Meye
 Sloe Gin Joes, the               I Can't Go Home Like this  Sloe Gin Joes, the
 Jud Conlon Singers               Dobie Gillis Theme
 Francois Reuber                  Playtime                   Jacque Tati
 Jimmy Castor Bunch               King Kong
 Teo Usuelli                      Piacere Sequence           [coll]: Beat at C
 Gregory Corso                    Bomb
 Jack Hammer                      Like
 Soul Providers                   Switchblade                Soul Tequila

 John Carradine                   Night Song for the Sleepless/Jazz Canto, 1957

 Woody Leafer                     Drums in the Typewriter
 Jr. and His
 Soulettes                        Pimp                       Psych-o-delic Sounds
 Donaldson, Lou                   The Humpback               Mr. Shing-A-Ling
 Shorty Rogers                    Wampuskitty                Bug in
 Brother Weasel                   Rock-A-Bye                 Brother Weasel

 Scott, Raymond                   The Music Box              Soothing Sounds for Baby
                                                            Vol 1
 John Keating                     Telestar                   Astromusical Odyssey
 Ellie Girl                       Let's Make It

 Psychedelic Seeds                Psychedelic Piano           Bell
                                  Playground

KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
http://www.KFJC.org
KFJC-FM is now On Line!
Tune your favorite browser to this here URL above and rock on bruhthuhs and
sistahs
to the BEST damn station NOW in the WORLD

Jack


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Subject: (exotica) Another Playlist for Jack
Date: 16 Aug 1997 12:34:26 -0700


KFJC play list 7/24/97 for Jack Diamond

 ARTIST                                 TRACK                   ALBUM
____________________________________________________________________________
_____
 Donaldson, Lou                      Peepin'                    Mr. Shing-A-Ling
 Bob Adams & Henry
 Kaiser                              God Is My Co-Pilot         [coll]: Slide Crazy
 Cucumber                            Under                      60'S Fuzz Fest
Psych-Out

 Cale, John                          Kiss Movement 06           Eat/Kiss: Music for
                                                    the Films

 Ramones                             Do You Remember R & R Radio ?

 Elecectronic Concept Orch              Rock Me                    Limelight
 Amps for Christ                     Whistletron                Thorny Path

 Zoogz Rift                          Comprachico Boogie         Five Billion Pinheads
                                                                  Can't...
 Mezmerizing Eye                     Psychedelia                Smash
 The Dils                            I Hate the Rich
 Black Sabbath                       War Pigs                   Paranoid
 Aladdins, the                       Berlin-Blues               [coll]: Russ Meyer
 F.H. Hill Co.                       Elvis Preston              Parlor Song
 Animated Egg                        A Love Built on Sand       Alshire
 Originals Sins                      Dead Gone Train
 Bugskull                            Ssun                       Distracted Snowflake
 Boogaloo Joe Jones                  Poppin'                    1970
 Larry Coryell;Sitar                 Guru-Vin                   Distant Galaxy
 Stanley Meyers                      Kinky Dolly                Kaleidescope soundtrack
 George Duning                       At the Namkok              [coll]: Soundtracks...
 Big Sandy and His Fly
 Right...                            The Loser's Blues          Feelin' Kinda Lucky
 Wray, Link                          Geromino                   Shadowman
 Dissvelt, Tom/Kid                    Song of the Second Moon
 Baltan                                                     Song of the 2nd Moon
 Dating Godot                        Timberline                 Night Porters
 Astros                              Space Walk
 Teenage Fanclub                     Metal Baby (again!)
 Premiers                            Get On this Plane
 Sloe Gin Joes, the                  Hot Link                   Sloe Gin Joes, the
 Mel Henke                           The Twisters               La Dolce Henke
 Mindexpanders                       Pul-Sation                 Ondioline, Combo Organ
 The Four Tops                       Are You Man Enough ?       Shaft in Africa
 Teo Usuelli                         Piacere Sequence           [coll]: Beat at C
 Hugo Montenegro                     Noah's Arp                 Others X Brothers
 O'Donel Levy                        Bad Bad Simba
 Marshall Mc Luhan                   The Medium Is the Massage!
 Things of Nownow                    Down the Chimney           Nownowism

 Yips, the                           The Clouds Were Ships      Blue Flannel Bathrobe
                                                                   Butterflies

 Optiganally Yours                   Compressor/Expander        Spotlight on
                                                                   Optiganally Yours
 Nomi, Klaus                         Lightning Strikes
 Ken Nordine                         There's a She and a He
 Lalo Schifrin                       Turning Point
 Mort Garson                         Music for Sensuous Lovers  By "Z
 Jr. and His Soulettes               Slow                       Psychodelic Sounds
 Mel Brown                           Chunk a Funk

 Satelliters,The                     She's Evil                 Mysterious Sounds From
                                                                   Outer..

KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
http://www.KFJC.org
KFJC-FM is now On Line!
Tune your favorite browser to this here URL above and rock on to sounds
un-a-vail-a-ble
ANYWHERE ELSE ON THE PLANET!

Jack



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) mancini... again
Date: 16 Aug 1997 15:42:11 -0600


we all discussed this once before, but maybe y'all could refresh my memory...

the Liberty LPs:

"The Versatile Henry Mancini"  (mono)
vs.
"The Versatile Henry Mancini" (stereo)
vs.
"Driftwood and Dreams"

don't they differ somehow mix-wise or somethin?

help me out





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From: Jack Fetterman <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) NYC In Hi-Fi....again (with apologies)
Date: 16 Aug 1997 17:59:03 -0400 (EDT)


my apologies for posting this twice. my signature including the referred to
urls did not make it on the original post.


jack



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) ...and a few more things
Date: 16 Aug 1997 15:53:44 -0600


while i'm thinking about it...


1. did Perez Prado ever record a version of "Anna" and if so, on what LP
can it be found?

2. which Julie London LP contains her version of "Pousse Cafe"?

anyone?

bueller?





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Subject: (exotica) Raid of Crossroads Music
Date: 16 Aug 1997 18:11:08 -0700 (PDT)


Crossroads Music is a used recordings co-op in Portland.  There are at least
ten different dealers but only one cash register.  Its sort of like an
antique mall for records, 8-tracks, CDs, cassettes and laser disks.

I visited them for the first time today and found all sorts of records I did
buy and many I did not buy (but believe I would have liked to).

Here is what I got:

Exotica Ted Auletta and his orch.  Cameo SC 4008
Pretty good, although a bit laid back.  Great cover...sort of a primitives
still life with the word "Exotica"  over the top right quadrant. Phil Bodner
does flute and Eddie Costa plays marimba with Dennis Regor doing bird calls.

spectra sonic SOUNDS  Leo Arnaud and his Orch.  Liberty LRP 3009
Another great cover (abstract triangular shapes in a rose light with a
rainbow chevron in the center). Recorded January 1955 in Beverly Hills, CA
with such cuts as Taboo, Moon of Manakoora and Bombo Mambo played by 15
musicians on percussion instruments.  Arnaud was born in France, but in 1939
became a U.S. citizen.  The music is more original sounding than Auletta's.

Movie Themes  John Carolton and The Craftsmen All-Stars  Craftsmen C8002
I got this primarilly for two reasons: another version of The Third Man
Theme and the Kim Novak cover.  I wasn't expecting much else and didn't get
much else. It's pretty much standard arrangements of unexciting theme music.
In the same place I found other copies ranging up to $20, some for better
quality but also by differing approach to pricing by the various merchants.

Rumbeada  by Lobo and Melon and their Group   RCA MKL-1381
I always keep my eye out for the RCA Latin series (MKL).  I don't understand
the album notes and don't buy the ones where the music clearly doesn't match
my interests, but when I think it may be worthwhile it usually is.  Good
stuff played on bass, piano, trumpet and a variety of percussive instruments
by six guys all singing: Rumbead en Pueblo Nuevo, Blem Blem, Kikiriki and
Cha Cha Cha de Paris among others.  NOTA IMPORTANTE;- Esta es undisco "Neuvo
Ortofonico" Alta Fidelidad, disenado para tocarse en los aparatos de hoy y
manana.

!WILD! Stereo Drums  Pepe Dominguin, Les Baxter, Billy May, Felix Slatkin,
Dick Harrell  Capitol ST 1553
The vinyl looked a bit dirty but the price was low enough to try it out
($2).  I knew it would have to be good. Actually the sonic quality was
better than I expected. Billy and Felix each get one cut, Les and Harrell
get two each and Pepe gets three!

Give Me The Simple Life  Al Caiola and his Orchestra  United Artists UAS 6280
As this was formerly titled Guitars, Woodwinds and Bongos, I thought it
might be cool.  Anyway, SOMEWHERE in Garden City Kansas I have a bunch of
other Al records but not this one, so I had to get it. I am so glad I did:
now my favorite AC LP! Al is on the cover with his Epiphone electric guitar,
sitting in a red modern-style chair mounted on a bear skin rug with a a
woman in a red caftan sitting in front on the rug.

Hawaiian Eye TV Soundtrack  Warner Brothers WB 1355
Warren Barker does the orchestral stuff, then an anonymous Hawaiian quintet
from The Shell Bar does a bunch of others with vocals by Connie Stevens,
Robert (Wild Wild West) Conrad and Poncie Ponce.  Quick, what was the name
of the character played by Conrad on this TV show?*  Actually, I've never
seen the show, but it looks cool.  It certainly sounds cool.  Connie Stevens
sings very seductively "Let's Do  It"  and all the cuts are good exotica.

Paul Frees and the Poster People MGM SE 4735
I have a 45 issued from this LP and have long since wanted more.  Well, here
it is!  Paul Frees imitates old movie stars doing more modern hits.  Boris
Karloff singing "The Look of Love,"  W.C. Fields singing "Mama Told Me Not
to Come"  Well, you have the idea.  You've heard Paul Frees almost
everywhere.  He usually is the narrator with the mock serious tone in comedy
bits (History of the U.S. Volume One, Stan Freberg).  He also did Boris
Badnov in "Bullwinkle."  In fact, he LOOKS like Boris (or is it vice versa?).

House Party  Ruth Wallis  King Records  395-507
I am a big fan of Ms. Wallis, not only for singing-songwriting abilities,
but for her saavy in forming her own record company so she could issue her
own material.  Finally I get to know more about her and see a picture of
her! Of course, she is a redhead. Is she still alive?  If only I were
older.... This is a reissue of music originally issued on her own label
including "It's a Scream How Levine does the Rhumba."

What's New? on Capitol Stereo Vol 1.  Capitol SN 1
This features Voodoo Dreams from Les Baxter's Jungle Jazz and The River Kwai
March from Jack Marshall's Soundsville.  For now, this is the closest I'll
get to these two desirable albums.  I like the cover for the miniature
versions of the covers for the various albums represented in the collection.

The Best of Si Zentner Vol. 2  liberty LST-7457
From Russia With Love  ST John Barry  United Artists UAS 5114
Here's Lou Monte  RCA Camden  CAL 455
Stormy Weather  Lena Horne  with Lennie Hayton's Orch.  RCA LPM-1375
June Christy Recalls Those Kenton Days  Capitol T1202

----
I also got these for premium prices (nonexotica) (well, premium to me):
Co*Star with Fernando Lamas  CS-102  Now I need 11 more to finish my collection.
Omnibust  Spike Jones Liberty LRP 3140 Wish I had the ORIGINAL cover concept.
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Other LPs I did not get but am curious about...does anyone have more info?

The Savage and the Sensuous Bongos  Don Ralke   Warner Brothers WS 1398
Rapture  The Outriggers    Warner Brothers  WS 1224
Frances Faye in Frenzy  (with Russel Garcia Orch.)  Verve
Marriage is For Dinosaurs  Muriel Landers and Stanley Adams  Big Top

Byron Caloz

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From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Vanilla Fudge
Date: 16 Aug 1997 21:26:46 -0400


>this sounds like it could be "The Beat Goes On" which came out on Atlantic
>in 68. it was the Fudge's second album I think. In this the Fudge modestly
>do kinda a potted history of music thing with little sections from each
>era.

That's the one exactly! This is why we love the Net, someone living 4000
miles away can remind you about details of a record you haven't heard in 20
years. Now the name "Carmine Appice" floats back to me. . . I remember
wondering, 'what the heck kind of name is THAT?"



Meanwhile speaking of "EZ"--that term still has some negative connotations
for me. Like old showtunes that have been completely anethetized under a
smothering blanket of strings. . .

Listening uneasily,

 --Ross

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From: Shangri-la <[e-mail]>
Subject: FW: (exotica) mancini... again
Date: 17 Aug 1997 03:47:02 +-200




"The Versatile Henry Mancini"  (mono)
vs.
"The Versatile Henry Mancini" (stereo)
vs.
"Driftwood and Dreams"

don't they differ somehow mix-wise=20

I Have not heard the mono one but my stereo one has given me many a =
dreamy night of ambient heaven......strongly recommended.....THe =
Driftwood release was 70's and I don't know who remixed or remastered it =
but they did quite an appalling job......a lot of the sounds just =
disappear and sound dull and unnatural......in my opinion =
anyway....***Charl Henning=20

Can anyone shed light???


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From: Shangri-la <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) ...and a few more things
Date: 17 Aug 1997 03:47:38 +-200





1. did Perez Prado ever record a version of "Anna" and if so, on what LP
can it be found?

Well I don't know which Julie london and so on and also I dont know =
which Perez LP, but Anna (or El negro zumbon) was released by the =
Saludos Amigos label on Perez Prado - Ciliegi Rosa which is a very =
comprehensive compilation. Exotica fans will enjoy his Voodoo Suite =
album but I find it a bit 'heavy'.

I can strongly recommend the 'Prez' and 'Havana 3am' albums and the =
brilliant 'Twist goes Latin' if you like the more zany/chirpy =
stuff...***  Charl Henning


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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Raid of Crossroads Music
Date: 16 Aug 1997 19:04:57 -0700


>Hawaiian Eye TV Soundtrack  Warner Brothers WB 1355
Quick, what was the name
>of the character played by Conrad on this TV show?*

Ca't remember Conrad's name but the "other guy", wasn't his name Steele ?

Jack


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Subject: Re: (exotica) Raid of Crossroads Music
Date: 16 Aug 1997 19:13:12 -0700


The Savage and the Sensuous Bongos  Don Ralke   Warner Brothers WS 1398

This is right up there with Jungle Jazz in it's own way:)

Jack


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) for the birds
Date: 16 Aug 1997 23:02:41 -0400 (EDT)


I picked up a new whistling record today - and what an unusual one it is.

The title is "The Birds Sing His Praise".  Ralph Platt must think he is a
bird as he warbles religious numbers, accompanied by Lorin Whitney, who plays
a wickedly depressing pipe organ.  The label is - get this - Sacred Stereo,
from Waco Texas.  F@#k, yeah!!!  Looks like late fifties, very early sixties.
 The cover is a simple oil painting of a nature scene with birdies, of
course.

"There is something about the great outdoors and the thrill of beutiful birds
singing in the treetops that can make a man aware of his Creator.  Lovers of
wildlife, and all you appreciate God's great creations, will have many
pleasant experiences listening to these familiar gospell tunes treated so
differently.  Like whiffs of fresh, clear spring air..."

jumpin' jeeuz, this is a really strange record.  Imagine attending a funeral
with bird calls - that's what it sounds like.  And there is something about
these seemingly innocent religious recordings that contain a subtle ring of
dark and evil.  Look at Little Marcy.




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
Date: 16 Aug 1997 23:18:46 -0400 (EDT)


Jessica sez:

<< I mentioned soundtracks in my last post, and I thought it would be neat to
 talk about our favorite soundtracks >>

mission impossible
the ipcress file
staccato
man with the golden arm
bell book and candle
the naked city
baby doll
in like flint
our man flint
in cold blood
rosemary's baby
experiment in terror
peter gunn (and more music from)
mike hammer
lady in cement
spellbound
girl from uncle
richard diamond
jazz themes from the wild one
jazz themes for cops and robbers (private hell 36)
seven golden men
crime in the streets
checkmate
m squad
the knack
planet of the apes






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From: Darrell Brogdon <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hawaiian Eye
Date: 16 Aug 1997 22:42:25 -0700


J. Diamond wrote:
>
> >Hawaiian Eye TV Soundtrack  Warner Brothers WB 1355
> Quick, what was the name of the character played by Conrad on this TV show?*
>
> Can't remember Conrad's name but the "other guy", wasn't his name Steele ?


You got it in one, Jack!  Anthony Eisley played Tracy Steele, owner-operator of Hawaiian
Eye, with Bob Conrad as Tom Lopaka and Connie Stevens as Cricket Blake.  As I remember
the show, Conrad handled most of the fistfights while Tony Eisley smoked lots of
cigarettes.

Series ran on ABC 1959-1963, sort of a Hawaiian version of "77 Sunset Strip".  Matter of
fact, during a writers strike Warner Bros. simply dusted off old "77" scripts, changed
the characters' names and reshot 'em as "Hawaiian Eye" episodes!

I'm old enough (barely) to have watched this show when it was first run.  Never forget
the opening titles, superimposed over a massive tiki!


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From: "J. Diamond" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
Date: 16 Aug 1997 21:23:04 -0700


Only 1 Kenyon Hopkins ?


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: 101 Strings Plays the Blues
Date: 17 Aug 1997 00:42:28 -0400 (EDT)


Any LP with an oxymoron title (i.e. 101 strings play the blues, or jerry
lewis sings) has got to be worth the fifty cents or buck its gonna cost you !

JB "if its cheap its mine" Twist


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From: Matt Hinrichs <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Finds and newbie questions
Date: 16 Aug 1997 22:55:02 -0700


Hello!
My name is Matt- I've been lurking on this list for a month or so and
thought I'd post some records I bought today, from an antique store
(remember, this stuff isn't always at the thrift or record shops) for 50
cents each:

Si Zentner & Orch.: Play The Stripper and Other Big Band Hits
George Shearing Quintet: Touch Me Softly
Les Baxter: Confetti
Xavier Cugat & Orch.: VIVA Cugat!
Arthur Lyman: Bwana A
Enoch Light: A New Concept of Great Cole Porter Songs
(1971 reissue with spacey cover art)
Sir Christopher Scott: More Switched On Bacharach
(truly strange moog music - what other albums did this guy make?)
Seen but not bought, for $5: Les Baxter/101 Strings: Que Mango!
(is this worth getting? I only spend $5 on the very special stuff!)

As a newcomer to this stuff, what I want to know is how often do people
check back again after looking at a certain place? The dealer above
didn't have anything worthwhile a month ago. Or does it depend on where
you live?

Also, last week I bought Ray Martin's Excitement, Incorporated on RCA
Stereo Action. This is the only Stereo Action I've seen with a silver
cover. What's the difference between the silver and white cover Stereo
Actions?

Thanks for your help and keep on keeping on!

- Matt
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From: [e-mail] (Ingemar Breithel)
Subject: Re: (exotica) ...and a few more things
Date: 17 Aug 1997 10:12:06 +0100



>2. which Julie London LP contains her version of "Pousse Cafe"?

It's on "London by Night", the one where Julie poses on the cover
as a woman of easy virtue, leaning against a brick wall, wearing
what appears to be a dress made of plaster of paris.




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From: Shangri-la <[e-mail]>
Subject: FW: (exotica) Finds and newbie questions
Date: 17 Aug 1997 10:55:24 +-200


As a newcomer to this stuff, what I want to know is how often do people
check back again after looking at a certain place?=20

Ive found that you can never check too often....sometimes things arrive =
daily sometimes only once a month.........I suppose it depends on the =
rate of business in the area and what the source of stock and =
involvement of the people that run the place is..Fleamarkets are the =
most unpredictable (and surprising).......Charl Henning



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Finds and newbie questions
Date: 17 Aug 1997 02:26:24 -0700 (PDT)


At 10:55 PM 8/16/97 -0700, Matt wrote:
>I've been lurking on this list for a month or so and
>thought I'd post some records I bought today....
Welcome,  Matt, great finds!
>As a newcomer to this stuff, what I want to know is how often do people
>check back again after looking at a certain place?
Every place is different, every dealer is different.  Then, it depends on
who services the dealer.  Often there are people who scour the thrift stores
and sell their stuff to the dealer, who then fishes out his collector's
guide to LPs and ceremoniously puts in in the boxes or racks expecting
everyone to want it at the same price.  The record may likely stay for
sometime.  However, if the prices are below guide prices, you might want to
check as frequently as you can.

In any case, there ARE NO RULES.  You have to feel out the trends for each
store and hope that once you've fixed your return time that some good ones
don't show up in between.
>Also, last week I bought Ray Martin's Excitement, Incorporated on RCA
>Stereo Action. This is the only Stereo Action I've seen with a silver
>cover. What's the difference between the silver and white cover Stereo
>Actions?

As far as I can tell: none, it was simply a design decision for that one LP.
I have a Dick Schory LSA (stereo action) with a gold cover.  All LSA
originals come with the die-cut sleeve, but there were reissues of some of
them in a normal LP sleeve.  RCA even reissued some of them in mono.
However, if you get them in the diecut sleeve it is the original issue.
Most of them were white, but there were a number of them in silver and gold.
I have not seen any other colors, though.

It's been real...

Byron Caloz
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Portland, OR
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:(exotica)Persistance of...
Date: 17 Aug 1997 02:26:55 -0700 (PDT)


At 12:53 PM 8/16/97 -0400, Jessica wrote:
>I just  realized that I have this record--it got me off my anti-Herb Alpert
>kick. It still bugs me that his albums are EVERYWHERE, but I like "Going
>Places" and "The Lonely Bull." And I bought a copy of "Whipped Cream" just
>because no record collection should be without it. It's a  tradition! ^_-

I was listening to the only AM station here that plays music and they were
playing Tijuana Taxi by Herb.  As I listened, I tried to hear it as if for
the first time and realized it would be a great exotica tune...the marimbas,
the honk....  However, I doubt I will play it on my program simply because
it has become so ubiquitous.  Good material gone bad through overplaying.
Tis a pity.

That same station played an Elvis Presley tune I WOULD consider using, but I
don't recall the title.

Then, they played Bobby Darin with his version of Across the Sea.  Darn, he
is good.  I just wanted to hear that all day.  I noticed him in the Ultra
lounge series and the one I played from my sampler was just as good.  I
remember him doing a finger snapping version of Mac the Knife on TV that was
killer material. Anybody else have a thought about Mr. Darin?  Is he still
around or did he die in a car crash or something?

Byron Caloz


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From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Walden Cassotto
Date: 10 Aug 1997 19:21:52 +0100


Byron wrote:

>Anybody else have a thought about Mr. Darin?  Is he still
>around or did he die in a car crash or something?

Bobby Darin (or, to be precise Bob Darin as he renamed himself
in 1970) died December 20, 1973 after an unsuccessful op on his
heart to correct problems after an earlier op.  Apparently he'd
had heart problems since his youth when he had rheumatic fever.

What I never could figure was how Darin came to record for Atco,
which was a label better known for soul brothers and sisters.
Bizarrely, in the UK he's regarded as a country artist, with
"18 yellow roses" getting regular plays on Country 1035AM.

Hugh.


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From: the_curator <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Date: 17 Aug 1997 10:19:52 +0100


Hey there sistren and brethren

I spent a very enjoyable 40 minutes in the company of Screamin' Jay Hawkins
last night, which reminded me that the last time he was due to play in
London, he cancelled, supposedly due to a disappearance.

Can anyone shine a light on this one?

friendly

Sem Sinatra




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  Re:(exotica)Persistance of...
Date: 17 Aug 1997 11:08:11 -0400 (EDT)



In a message dated 8/17/97 2:29:07 AM, you wrote:

<<Is he still
around or did he die in a car crash or something?>>

Bobby Darin died on the operating table during heart surgery years ago.




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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Eye
Date: 17 Aug 1997 11:37:09 -0400


> From: Darrell Brogdon <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) Hawaiian Eye
>
> You got it in one, Jack!  Anthony Eisley played Tracy Steele, owner-operator
of Hawaiian
> Eye, with Bob Conrad as Tom Lopaka and Connie Stevens as Cricket Blake.
>
> Series ran on ABC 1959-1963, sort of a Hawaiian version of "77 Sunset Strip".
 Matter of
> fact, during a writers strike Warner Bros. simply dusted off old "77"
scripts, changed
> the characters' names and reshot 'em as "Hawaiian Eye" episodes!

AND Tura Satana ("Faster Pussycat") also appeared on the show! Maybe a tiny
role on one episode, maybe more -- I don't know the details.

m.ace
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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
Date: 17 Aug 1997 11:58:33 -0500



>  I mentioned soundtracks in my last post, and I thought it would
> be neat to talk about our favorite soundtracks

Very difficult question.  Because, as with the films they were
written for I suppose, different soundtracks sound better depending
on the mood I'm in.

Though if i had to choose one that could never fail to put a smile on
my face it would probably be Nino Rota's Juliet of the Spirits score.
 I love the film as well and listening to the sndtrk always evokes
images...  one of my favorites is of the two little girls twisting to
the main theme as the camera pans by...   (smile)     what a
profoundly sweet film!

Other picks would be:
John Barry's flawless Ipcress File and Beat Girl
Peter Thomas' Space Patrol (definitely an all-time favorite)
Morricone's Lucertola and Duck You Sucker!
Kenyon Hopkins' East Side/West Side and The Reporter
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Pete Rugolo's Richard Diamond
Piccioni's The Tenth Victim
Quincy Jones' In Cold Blood
Goldsmiths' Our Man Flint
the Reveberi's Venus In Furs
The Trip

and under not really the soundtrack, but...
Marty Manning's Twighlight Zone

favorite cover versions...
Hugo Montenegro's Come Spy With Me
Bill Ramal's Young America Dances To TV's Greatest Themes
(ondioline madness!)

and now I can't stop...  but i will.....
you're welcome

most recent acquisition:
Shelley Manne's Daktari - great great record which has interesting
liners describing Manne's reluctance to do a tv score and his
insistance on creative control... which he fortunately got.  He
gathered a small combo, some conventional instruments (including
African) and some improvised...  then they jammed.  Personnel
included Bud Shank, Frank Stozier, Art Smith, Emil Richards (who made
some of the percussion instruments) and Frank Carlson.   mmm... mmm

also a side note...  I finally saw a Jess Franco film..   Succubus..
and it was as strange as it was entertaining.  I can imagine him
thinking up the story:  'she'll be this dominatrix type who....
lives in the tower of Belem with....  a bunch of mannequins...
yeah!'     anyway...   the hilarious strip scene with Ruoyen's
ba-ba-boom music is alone worth watching this.


kevin king
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Todd Goes Exotica
Date: 17 Aug 1997 14:07:45 -0400


* * * * * * * * * *

Something I learned from a musician who worked on it:
Todd Rundgren's next album will feature BOSSA NOVA renditions of his
early hits.
The CD is tentatively entitled WITH A TWIST.
According to this musician, the approach to the genre was "reverent."

--Irwin Chusid

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hawaiian Eye
Date: 17 Aug 1997 15:18:23 -0400 (EDT)



In a message dated 8/17/97 4:27:24 AM, you wrote:

<<Can't remember Conrad's name but the "other guy", wasn't his name Steele
?>>
Tom Lopaka was played by Bob Conrad
Tracy Steele was played by Anthony Eisley

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) "Introduction"
Date: 17 Aug 1997 17:09:26 -0400 (EDT)


Hello Everybody-
Have been lurking for a few weeks, enjoying the (mostly) interesting
postings.  Having read somewhere that it's time to introduce myself, here it
comes----
I began a few months ago trying to sell my collection of several thousand
lp's--which I have begun to do--but now I've got more lp's than I started
with!!!  How did THAT happen ;-)  !!   Ain't it something how this stuff can
hook you!

Anyhow, I have been a professional guitar player for the last 37 years or so,
and my career looks like a who's who in Lounge music.  Records, movies, TV,
etc.  Got my pic on the cover of  Paul Horn and the Concert Ensemble on (Dick
Schory's?) Ovation label (#14-05 I believe) (brings a buck at the flea mkt) -
that's me on the left holding a guitar with flowers all over it (it was the
60's after all).  Also appear on screen in the movie "Being There" with Peter
Sellers (for about 2 seconds) with Johnny Mandel conducting and some great
players!  Was on the staff at the Shubert Theater in LA for several years,
and played a lot of shows there also.  Have had the privilege of working with
some of the best musicians in the business.

Worked with Connie Stevens at Magic Mountain (near LA) back in the 70's,
Chita Rivera at "Scandals" on La Brea in Hollywood, and recorded with John
Denver, Andy Williams (did his TV show in 70-71) just to mention a couple.
 Even (are you ready)  Elizabeth Waldo, the DeCastro Sisters, Eartha Kitt,
Carol Channing, Zero Mostel, etc etc.  Am I a lounge-type or what?

Am now living in N. Florida, but am getting tired of all the fresh air and
nice people---need to get back to LA!   Have a couple of college music dept.
positions,  teach guitar and music theory privately, and play a lot of gigs.
 (Last nite somebody requested "White Xmas"--and it's friggin' August!  Hell,
we played it anyway!)  Have a wife and 2 kids,  a swimming pool and a big
mortgage!  But I digress...
Have a bunch of lp lists floating around in cyberspace and would love to post
to this one, but I think it's against the rules.
Am working on a couple of books, seems like there's never enough time....

Regards to all, and see you on the list!
Chuck Collazzi


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From: [e-mail] (Ingemar Breithel)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Todd Goes Exotica
Date: 17 Aug 1997 23:38:06 +0100



>Something I learned from a musician who worked on it:
>Todd Rundgren's next album will feature BOSSA NOVA renditions of his
>early hits.

Hopefully this manifests Todd's stature as a major contemporary
songwriter. Many of his songs lend themselves superbly to
jazzy--EZ arrangements, as witnessed by several cover versions
by the Dutch singer Mathilde Santing on various albums of hers.




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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Vera Gray is dangerous / Stealing Records
Date: 17 Aug 1997 23:28:40 +0000


Sem Sinatra wrote:

> "drama classes" was it?  ... at my school in the late sixties /early
> seventies it was called "Musical Movement"

OK, OK, it was a long time a go!

> p.s. my copy of the above record was the first record I stole
> ...anyone want to continue this thread?

STEAL a record?!?!?  Blasphemer!  I think my reputation is as white
as the driven snow on this count at least...


Robbie

** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** **
** ** ** http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light/ ** ** **



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From: "Jim Gerwitz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
Date: 17 Aug 1997 00:15:08 -0700


Yeah, what about Kenyon's score to "Mr. Buddwing", inspiring a subgenre of
crime/nervous jazz called amnesia jazz - great urban cacophony at times
after head-pounding amnesiac James Garner wakes up on a park bench in a
daze and with a phone number in his pocket, then walks through the city
streets trying to remember who he is, meeting various babes along the way
(Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Katherine Ross and gulp, a trampy Angela
Lansbury.)  Is that the secret to improving one's memory?  Hmmm. I dont
have the LP, but the movie was a pleasant surprise on TCM a few months
back. Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) and Jack Gilford show up in a hot crap
game.  A forgotten little gem.

My # 1 is Elmer Bernstein's "Walk on the Wild Side."  Classic title track,
and some achingly, heartbreakingly gorgeous, moody and haunting orchestral
pieces, that still move me after almost 35 years of listening.  To
paraphrase Jimi, "not necessarily exotic, but beyootiful."

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> From: J. Diamond <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
> Date: Saturday, August 16, 1997 9:23 PM
>
>
> Only 1 Kenyon Hopkins ?
>
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From: Shangri-la <[e-mail]>
Subject: FW: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
Date: 17 Aug 1997 10:48:52 +-200




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Sent:     17 August 1997 01:18

Has anyone heard the Killer Force soundtrack by George Garvarentz? It's =
Seventies and stars Telly Sevallas and OJ Simpson. Very cool. Also I =
know there are many but can anyone recommend good 60's and 70's Indian =
movie soundtracks. I've got one called Mehbooba but it's a bad recording =
with lots of sitar and tablas that break into a poppy song or dance tune =
here and there.....It is quite boring and does however not live up to =
that sitar moments on Vampyros Lesbos soundtracks.........***Charl =
Henning


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Finds and newbie questions
Date: 17 Aug 1997 22:08:49 -0400 (EDT)


In a message dated 97-08-17 05:37:27 EDT, Byron C wrote:

<< Most of them were white, but there were a number of them ( RCA Stereo
Action Series in silver and gold.  I have not seen any other colors, though.
>>

Crazy Rhythm by the Guitars Unlimited + 7 is in black.  the only black one i
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
Date: 17 Aug 1997 22:27:55 -0400 (EDT)


<< Only 1 Kenyon Hopkins ? >>

I forgot to include "The Yellow Canary" and really haven't listened to
"Mister Buddwing" yet.  Did not count "Shock" or "Lonelyville".

I continue to search for:

East Side, West Side
Eleven Against The Ice
Fugitive Kind
THE HUSTLER
The Reporter
THE STRANGE ONE
how about...Something Unique
is Lilith any good?  its all good
wasn't too crazy about This Property Is Condemned (Natalie Wood)

all are high on my want list, but continue to elude me....

Hey!  I forgot "I Want To Live".









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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) SF Exotica, Sat, Aug 23
Date: 17 Aug 1997 22:37:16 -0400 (EDT)


San Franciscans will be treated to two delicious entertainment choices
tonight:
(Since they are across the street from each other you may want to choose BOTH
as I am)

Jumbo Shrimp - SFs premiere instrumental band - opens for Dick Dale - the
worlds oldest surf originator.
Slim's 9pm
on 11th near Folsom
Lounge-A-Palooza
3rd Annual local loungester showcase features
The World Accordian to Ottmar - Bay area piano bar solo accordianist
Mr. Lucky - SF's original neo-Lounge crooner applying his Sinatra style to
60s tunes rearranged/dearranged by his pals The Xtranaturals
Sonny Whipp - solo ukuleleist
The New Brass Ring - tight, great, longtime SF loungers
Herb - Not H. Alpert but an incredible simulation
Phineas Gage Travelling Sideshow from Seattle
The Amazing Embarrassonics - "human Karaoke machine"
Tipsy - dj  beat mixes from Lounge/Exotica sources

Meanwhile, the Sense-O-Round djs will provide musical interludes

Paradise Lounge (which is not really a lounge)
9:45 pm


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Stereo Action label colors
Date: 17 Aug 1997 20:29:06 -0700


> Most of the Stereo Action labels I've seen have been BLACK
>
> Jack

> ><< Most of them were white, but there were a number of them ( RCA Stereo

> >Action Series in silver and gold.  I have not seen any other colors,
though.
> >Crazy Rhythm by the Guitars Unlimited + 7 is in black.  the only black
one i
> >have outta several.



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Finds and newbie questions
Date: 17 Aug 1997 23:57:51 -0400 (EDT)



In a message dated 8/17/97 4:53:13 PM, you wrote:

<<As a newcomer to this stuff, what I want to know is how often do people
check back again after looking at a certain place? The dealer above
didn't have anything worthwhile a month ago. Or does it depend on where
you live?

Being an addict myself, I can't pass a store that I've found stuff in
previously without checking for new stuff. You never know what might have
just come in.......
But I'm obsessed (ask my wife).

>Also, last week I bought Ray Martin's Excitement, Incorporated on RCA
Stereo Action. This is the only Stereo Action I've seen with a silver
cover. What's the difference between the silver and white cover Stereo
Actions?>>

I believe that the white die cut covers were special give aways with new
stereo systems and were later repressed with the simpler covers.

>Sir Christopher Scott: More Switched On Bacharach
(truly strange moog music - what other albums did this guy make?)
Seen but not bought, for $5: Les Baxter/101 Strings: Que Mango!
(is this worth getting? I only spend $5 on the very special stuff!)

You gotta love it when they want $5 for the Les Baxter ,which is on cd  and
$.50
for the Switched On Bacharach, which is not, and damn hard to find too(and if
you get tired of it and want to trade something, let me know).

Bob



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Todd Goes Exotica
Date: 18 Aug 1997 00:00:31 -0400 (EDT)



In a message dated 8/17/97 10:23:56 PM, you wrote:

<<>Something I learned from a musician who worked on it:
>Todd Rundgren's next album will feature BOSSA NOVA renditions of his
>early hits.

Hopefully this manifests Todd's stature as a major contemporary
songwriter.>>

Hopefully it will take him out of bankruptcy too.




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From: Steve Sando <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) SF Exotica, Sat, Aug 23
Date: 17 Aug 1997 21:03:41 -0700


At 10:37 PM 8/17/97 -0400, [e-mail] wrote:
>Mr. Lucky - SF's original neo-Lounge crooner applying his Sinatra style to
>60s tunes rearranged/dearranged by his pals The Xtranaturals

Pls note that this is not me!

I started my radio show MisterLUCKY in 1987 (which means it's my 10 year
jubilee celebration) and the rag was started in 1993. Somewhere in there
someone else started his nightclub act and called it 'The Mr Lucky
Experience'. Locally it causes some confusion but I can't raise too much of
a stink since neither of us were very original, even though I was first!

I've never had the pleasure of hearing him but I'm sure he's very very good.

I won't be singing at Lounge-a-paloza, but I've been known to sing my
moving rendition of Eydie Gorme's 'I Feel So Spanish!' at the drop of a hat.



* * *
Steve Sando, Coconut Grove Media
PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107
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From: Hal Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Persistence Of..
Date: 18 Aug 1997 00:27:08 -0400


Sorry about the late response...

[e-mail] wrote:
>
>
>      Damn, you guys steamrolled right over that "Persistence" thread > in no
>      time flat. Though it seems odd to me that people can actually > remember
>      their first song...

    Hmmm.  I doubt I remember my first SONG, as I must have heard music
before I knew how to speak... I know the first song I remember, though:
"Abracadabra" by Steve Miller.  Keep in mind that I'm much younger than
the rest of this list apparently is, having been born in 1979.  I don't
know how old I was, but I do vaguely remember seeing the video on MTV
once, and I was two when that channel showed up.  I also heard it on the
radio several times, so it was likely the year it came out in.
    The first record I ever bought (well, owned; by the time I was buying
my own music, CDs were all the rage, and don't hate me 'cos I'm a baby)
was a Sesame Street LP, as a VERY young child, followed by one or two
others (The Anniversary Album is the only one I recall the name of).  My
first "real" record, though, was probably Man In The Mirror by Michael
Jackson during the mid-80s.  My first full LP was probably either the
Bad LP that "Man In The Mirror" was taken from, or Weird Al Yankovic's
parody, Even Worse.  My current collection began accumulating in the
early 90s, though, so my first this-or-thats probably wouldn't be of any
interest.
    And here I am.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
Date: 18 Aug 1997 00:33:29 -0400 (EDT)


Kenyon! Yeah!

The Reporter has a great bongo chase cut with a snake charmer exotic melody.
 Brings on images of belly dancers being chased through the back alleys of
NYC.

Check out Kevin King's website - he probably has samples from several of
those KH classics you mentioned.

--David


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Persistence Of..
Date: 17 Aug 1997 21:43:34 -0700


At 12:27 AM 8/18/97 -0400, you wrote:

>    Hmmm.  I doubt I remember my first SONG, as I must have heard music
>before I knew how to speak... I know the first song I remember, though:
>"Abracadabra" by Steve Miller.

The last time I saw Steve Miller was at Winterland in SF and it was right
when this LP came out, coulda been 1976 ?  1974 ???

Anywho, it wasn't he who I paid my 3 bucks to see on a weekday night.

It was King Crimson:) and they were gooooooooooooooooood

That light show they had with the lights coming up from the floor was
toooooo coooooool.  I was on a hit of Popeye $1 acid

Anyone else catch them that same tour ?

Please e-mail me direct
Sorry if I am screwing up the flow of the list

Thanx,
Jack




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Thurs, Aug 21, SF
Date: 18 Aug 1997 00:43:25 -0400 (EDT)


It's Tiki Party time again

This Thursday at the Chameleon (Valencia near 20th)
Voted Best Place for Tiki Lovers to Meet
Tiki News magazine presents the mellow marimba sounds of Fisherman featuring
Frenchy mallet man Brian
AND
The return of the Torpedoes scorching a path through the Surf scene with
their high speed attack.
Doors 9
Show 9:30
$3.00


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From: "Lar E. Warner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:(exotica)Persistance of...
Date: 17 Aug 1997 22:23:14 -0700 (PDT)


>Then, they played Bobby Darin with his version of Across the Sea.  Darn, he
>is good.  I just wanted to hear that all day.  I noticed him in the Ultra
>lounge series and the one I played from my sampler was just as good.  I

I love that song.  I sang it a capella at a summer camp where I worked a few
years back (didn't have time to prep an arrangement with the guitar/casio
keyboard folks).  Scary to sing alone, but since I had managed to practice it
everywhere (shower, car, etc.) I belted it out ok.

When I think of the perfect bachlor pad my mind is transported to Mr. Darin's
digs in the movie _That Funny Feeling_ with Sandra Dee.

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From: Technical Support Group Mail 1 <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What is NOT Easy Listening
Date: 18 Aug 1997 17:37:00 +1100




Jessica's posting reminded me of  my greatest soundtrack quest - that is to
get a copy of 'The Valley Of The Dolls' soundtrack - can anyone help me with
this?? I have been seeking a copy for years but have never been able to find
it. Even a tape of it would be a start!

Soundtracks - my absolute fave has got to be 'Barbarella' which is
brilliant, especially the instrumental tracks such as 'The Black Queen's
Beads'. I believe EMI are re-releasing this on CD (rpm in the UK were going
to do it but EMI wouldn't licence it to them).

I found one for a movie called 'Seven Golden Men' which is Italian and has a
fantastic swingle-singery track on it called 'The Chase' (you know, ba ba ba
da douby douby dbouby daaa...).  Also the soundtrack from 'Dr Goldfoot And
The Girlbombs' has it's moments.

Others:

Ed Wood
Need I say more.

Spirits Of The Air, Gremlins Of The Clouds
Australian film from the 80's, all spooky synthesizer sounds and similar
(but pre) Julee Cruise style female vox.

Some other good *spooky* soundtracks - Halloween, Creepshow, Martin, Psycho
(amazing) and Les Baxter's 'Dunwich Horror', Forbidden Planet .

Not strictly EZ or Exotica but the Nyman soundtracks to A Zed And Two
Naughts, Drowning By Numbers are cool.

Also - Casino Royale, and Mancini's magnificent 'Charade' (gr8 film too!)

Wayne Davidson










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From: David Retief <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
Date: 18 Aug 1997 09:54:45 +0200






>  I mentioned soundtracks in my last post, and I thought it would
> be neat to talk about our favorite soundtracks

I could carry on with this one for weeks...A soundtrack actually got me
into this'all in the first place.  I've always had an incredible fixation
with the seventies - most intensely that of the soaring string crescendo (I
always see highways & palms).
The soundtrack that did the deed ... Killer Force - George Garvarentz.

Other faves:
* Any Montenegro (Love licks from the flicks - not strictly a soundtrack -
was an early earth-mover)
* Breakfast at Tiffany's - I haven't seen the movie/nor had I heard
anything beyond Moon river...
* John Gregory - still my favourite versions of ALL the big 70's tv shows

Why can't I find more John Gregory...did he ever score any movies?

David
(See Charl..I do post, ocassionally)




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From: David Retief <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Crooners
Date: 18 Aug 1997 10:17:12 +0200






Us here in Cape Town have recently been getting into crooners.  It started
with Engelbert Humperdink I think...my enjoyment of this sound isn't
dominated by irony either.  Recently I was playing my 2nd set-for-fun at
the piano lounge which Charl
mentioned.  Later when closing time came I decided to exit with "I'm a
better man".  Now this one guy came running at me
absolutely horrified that I could actually play him.  His disgust seemed
very tied in with being-around when Engelbert was big.
I'm 22 now, so this is my first encounter with this sound and some of it
strikes me as beautifully lush, often brilliant songs and very well
orchestrated/arranged.
Charl mad me a brilliant crooners compilation last week with Roger Whitaker
and other great's and I wonder that this stuff
could ever be taboo.

Or was I imagining the whole thing,
David.

Track of my driving week: The Peddlers - Ebb Tide




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From: Jonathan Perl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Perez/ Que Mango
Date: 18 Aug 1997 12:46:00 +0100



>1. did Perez Prado ever record a version of "Anna" and if so, on what LP
can it be found?
>>Anna (or El negro zumbon) was released by the =
Saludos Amigos label on Perez Prado - Ciliegi Rosa which is a very =
comprehensive compilation

I had a feeling it was on 'Pops and Prado', but I'm probably wrong.  I
second that recommendation for 'Ciliegi Rosa' - the compilation on the
Saludos Amigos label.  The artwork for their CDs leaves something to be
desired, but the quality of the recordings is always great - I haven't been
let down yet.

>anyone?

>bueller?
So THAT'S how it is in their family!

Also:
>Seen but not bought, for $5: Les Baxter/101 Strings: Que Mango!
>(is this worth getting? I only spend $5 on the very special stuff!)

YES!  Go back to the store and buy it NOW!  Please!
It is a fantastic easy listening (in my opinion) album

regards
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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A persistent "Mom"-ory of soundtracks...
Date: 18 Aug 1997 08:08:15 -0400


Firstly, a big welcome to Mr. Collazzi, Mr. Hinrichs and Mr. Henning!

Secondly, the first record that I have recollections of is a two-sided
recording of "The Little Match Girl" ("Matches!  Who will buy my matches?).
 I also used to play a Terrytoons record, which were audio retellings of
cartoons:

"I'm Heckle.  I'm Jeckle.
We're those two clever birds,
That you know so well!"

Both my brother and I grew up listening to Danny Kaye's "Hans Christian
Andersen" backed with "Tubby the Tuba", narrated by Paul Tripp, I think.
The fist Exotica I recall seeing was Les Baxter's "Le Sacre du Savage"(10
inch)", Thurston Knudson (Hollywood Records, on red vinyl) Taboo (on
Somerset Records. Does anyone know the credits on this or have it?  It
features "Yow Cow Le") and Music of the Far East(I have never heard this
record, as the lady on the cover was much more interesting to me at the
time and then we moved).

For Soundtracks (my mother is a huge soundtrack fan as well), the first I
recall seeing is "Vertigo" on Mercury and "The Vikings".

I have enjoyed the Gerhardt reissues on RCA, Sea Hawk(Korngold), Citizen
Kane(Herrmann); speaking of Herrmann, my mother was so fond of the Piano
Concerto from "Hangover Square", I had her sing me part of it before I went
to sleep.  It worked for me.  I still like the Concerto, although I stay
very much awake when hearing it.  Does anyone else feel that Laird Cregar
and Craig T. Nelson qualify in the "Separated at Birth" category?

My earliest fave soundtrack was "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" by John
Barry, which is still my favorite Bond Soundtrack, Nina's "Do You Know how
Christmas Trees are *Groan*(misspelling mine), notwithstanding.  Other good
'uns are The Day the Earth Stood Still(hello out there, Lounge Laura!),
Maurice Jarre's soundtrack to "The Tin Drum".

Must get to work now,
Brian Phillips


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From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
Date: 18 Aug 1997 10:03:37 -0400


>>  I mentioned soundtracks in my last post, and I thought it would
>> be neat to talk about our favorite soundtracks
>
>I could carry on with this one for weeks...A soundtrack actually got me
>into this'all in the first place.

ARGH! I started this thread and I forgot that my first exotica purchase was
a soundtrack! Murderers' Row, the Matt Helm film scored by Lalo Schifrin. If
it hadn't been for "The Pin" I probably wouldn't be here today. ^_- (whether
this would have been a good or bad thing is up to the list members to
decide. ^_- )

Thanks for the space, Jessica ^_^




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From: Mark Reed <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Denny & Zippy
Date: 18 Aug 1997 11:52:34 -0400 (EDT)


At 05:41 PM 8/16/97 GMT, you wrote:

>       Today's (Aug 16) "Zippy the Pinhead" comic strip features a 4 panel
>debate on the appeal of Lounge Culture.  The 'pro-lounge' Mr. Toad character
>even mentions Martin Denny in the first panel. It's worth checking out.
>
>Vern

Is Zippy available online anywhere?



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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:(exotica)Persistance of...
Date: 18 Aug 1997 12:11:53 -0600 (MDT)


> Anybody else have a thought about Mr. Darin?  Is he still
> around or did he die in a car crash or something?

Bobby Darin was mind-numbingly talented.  I can wholeheartedly recommend the
Rhino box set, which sandwiches two discs of killer vocal pop between one disc
of his early teenybop-rock and one disc of his later folk/country stuff.  The
pop discs get the most play at my place but the other material is better than
I expected as well.  And like you say, I could listen to "Beyond The Sea" all
day long.

--
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From: "Bailey, David BGI MW" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) RE: soundtracks
Date: 18 Aug 1997 12:10:00 -0700


Try this on-line catalog:

<http://www.saturnrecords.com>

I've found a lot of hard-to-find items here...kinda pricey, but it's
there. :)
________________________________________________________________________
_______
_

Jessica's posting reminded me of  my greatest soundtrack quest - that is
to
get a copy of 'The Valley Of The Dolls' soundtrack - can anyone help me
with
this?? I have been seeking a copy for years but have never been able to
find
it. Even a tape of it would be a start!

Soundtracks - my absolute fave has got to be 'Barbarella' which is
brilliant, especially the instrumental tracks such as 'The Black Queen's
Beads'. I believe EMI are re-releasing this on CD (rpm in the UK were
going
to do it but EMI wouldn't licence it to them).

I found one for a movie called 'Seven Golden Men' which is Italian and
has a
fantastic swingle-singery track on it called 'The Chase' (you know, ba
ba ba
da douby douby dbouby daaa...).  Also the soundtrack from 'Dr Goldfoot
And
The Girlbombs' has it's moments.

Others:

Ed Wood
Need I say more.

Spirits Of The Air, Gremlins Of The Clouds
Australian film from the 80's, all spooky synthesizer sounds and similar
(but pre) Julee Cruise style female vox.

Some other good *spooky* soundtracks - Halloween, Creepshow, Martin,
Psycho
(amazing) and Les Baxter's 'Dunwich Horror', Forbidden Planet .

Not strictly EZ or Exotica but the Nyman soundtracks to A Zed And Two
Naughts, Drowning By Numbers are cool.

Also - Casino Royale, and Mancini's magnificent 'Charade' (gr8 film
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From: "Ray Coffey"<[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Zippy
Date: 18 Aug 1997 15:42:11 -0400



 Yow!  I will have to check Saturday's paper!
 The online version is only for weekdays.

 For Zippy online:
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From: misanthropy <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) misanthropy 511 playlist
Date: 18 Aug 1997 17:39:19 +0000


MISANTHROPY 511--p.o.box 23093--detroit, mi 48223
e-mail: [e-mail]

Misanthropy is pleased to announce the release of a split 7 inch
featuring The Hearing Trumpet and Knurl. Write for info.

PLAYLIST

ARTIST--TITLE--CD/CASS/LP--LABEL

AUGUST 4, 1997

DAVID TUDOR--pulsers--3 works for live electronics--LOVELY
EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN--besetzt--faustmusik--MUTE
IN BE TWEEN NOISE--corner.wood.fuzz--splint--INTERIOR
THE SABRES--life can be beautiful--riding high--RCA
THE SURFARIS--earthquake--surf party--GNP
FLYING SAUCER ATTACK--distance--distance--VHF
CIRCULAR FIRING SQUAD--moraine--oxide--ARTIFACT
S. STUART--yummy,yummy dum-dum--breakdown absurdity--CARNAGE
DUE PROCESS--pro rock explosion--pro rock explosion--RRR
ROGER ROGER--tele-ski--grands travaux--KOCH
ROBERT HENKE--piercing music--piercing music--IMBALANCE
KOREAN CHILD CHOIR--everything is beautiful--world w/ love--WORD
MERZBOW--noizhead--noizhead--BLAST FIRST
PASQUALE & LUNAR TIKS--moon madness--v.a.jungle exotica 2--STRIP
STEREOPHONIC SPACE--funky planet--plays lost tv themes--MAI TAI
RICHARD KIRK--amnesic disassociation--disposible 1/2 truths--MUTE
CLOCK DVA--the connection machine--the hacker--WAX TRAX
LES THATCHER--love is blue--multiple guitars--ALSHIRE
ADA FALCON--la morocha--tango ladies--INTERSTATE

AUGUST 11, 1997

G. MARSHALL--out in the woods--v.a. breakdown absurdity--CARNAGE
CRANK STURGEON--side 1--crank sturgeon--CRANK
SKIN CRIME--aural stimulation--7 inch--SELF ABUSE
EMIL BEAULIEAU--anti 21/12/90--memories--PURE
THE HATERS--drunk on decay #3--drunk on decay--RELEASE
TREBLE TONES--safari--v.a. jungle exotica 2--STRIP
DANIEL MENCHE--sudden disappearance--chrome homicide--BANNED
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY--1930--records--ATAVISTIC
CIRCULAR FIRING SQUAD--floating threshold--oxide--ARTIFACT
ABFALL/PROOF OF SHOOTING--side 1--collaboration--SOUND PROBE
LES BAXTER--les manches--la femme--CAPITOL
A PRODUCE--smooth surface (ext)--mirror responds--TRANCE PORT
DAVE FUGLEWICZ--opaque tapestry--the portal--D.F.
TUU--crack between the worlds--mesh--FATHOM
BRUME--segment 1--drafts of collusions--CROWD CONTROL
H.MCGEE/K.NICOLAY--side 1--sounds from microlounge--HAL TAPES
PSI FIELD--last rites--v.a. hear roar of mountains--AUDIOPHILE
ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO--sin titulo--v.a. sinn & form--DATA
NACHTLUFT--transition--v.a. testament--RRR
APPI--haben sie kopfischmerzen--v.a. testament--RRR
            A MISANTHROPY TRIBUTE TO W.S. BURROUGHS

AUGUST 18, 1997

THE RESIDENTS--baby king 1/dont be cruel--cube-e live--ENIGMA
NURSE W/ WOUND--poss. organic devel--senseless beauty--UNITED DAIR
AKITA/AZUMA/HASWELL/SAKAIBARA--ich--ich schnitt--MEGO
MERLIN--one love--tribute to ken griffin--PICKWICK
JOHN DUNCAN--breath choir--john see soundtracks--RRR
DAVID TUDOR--phonemes--3 works for live electronics--LOVELY
GORDON JENKINS--the nightmare--seven dreams--DECCA
SUN RA    --outer space plateau--the singles--EVIDENCE
H. LECAINE--dripsody--v.a. intro to canadian music--NAXOS
DICK SCHORY--stumbling--wild percussion--RCA
KORLA PANDIT--underwater worshippers--exotica 2000--SYMP
FAUST--spot--v.a. 4 years in 30 seconds--DIRTER
BAND OF PAIN--acid--v.a. 4 years in 30 seconds--DIRTER
RLW--kitnabudja kid--v.a. 4 years in 30 seconds--DIRTER
KNURL--side 2--paraphasm--PANTARHEI
FLYING LIZARDS--money--7 inch--VIRGIN
CRANIOCLAST--walking down the street--v.a. testament--RRR
ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI--razim 2--v.a. testament--RRR

This is the #Summer of Misanthropy#

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 throughout
Europe. Write to Radio Marabu for more info and tell them Misanthropy
sent you. Radio Marabu p.o.box 1166,  49187, Belm  Germany .  e-mail:
[e-mail]
web site: http://www.dma.be/p/amphion/sztuka/Marabu.htm

The performance side of Misanthropy, The Hearing Trumpet, have a new
release on Cling-Film Records (Belgium) called #llallopp#. It is
released in very special packaging and is limited edition of 100.
Cling-Film Records can be reached e-mail: ([e-mail]) or
at: eikendreef 9, 8210 loppem, belgium.
Also available is a cassette release on Destroy All Music called #Heart
of a Leaf#. 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 #hallucinogenic soundscapes#, #you think
something aweful might happen#, & #distant rumblings#. The Hearing
Trumpet has 2 additional cassettes available. #Songs of Mystery and
Magnetics# is a 45 min. cass featuring 2-20 min. pieces recorded live in
the CJAM studio. #Collected Stories# is a 60 min cass featuring several
shorter pieces all recorded live for our radio show. Write for more info
or ordering.

David Warmbier & Greg Hallock


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Perez, mancini, london
Date: 18 Aug 1997 17:11:30 -0600


>>1. did Perez Prado ever record a version of "Anna" and if so, on what LP
>can it be found?
>>>Anna (or El negro zumbon) was released by the =
>Saludos Amigos label on Perez Prado - Ciliegi Rosa which is a very =
>comprehensive compilation
>
>I had a feeling it was on 'Pops and Prado', but I'm probably wrong.  I
>second that recommendation for 'Ciliegi Rosa' - the compilation on the
>Saludos Amigos label.  The artwork for their CDs leaves something to be
>desired, but the quality of the recordings is always great - I haven't been
>let down yet.

definitely not on "Pops & Prado".. theres a "Carolina," an " Ida,"  and a
"Suzie," but no "Anna".  I'm beginning to think it was on a mexican
release.  if someone knows otherwise, please inform.  thanks for the
'Ciliegi Rosa' CD tip, BTW.

as for the

>"The Versatile Henry Mancini"  (mono)
>vs.
>"The Versatile Henry Mancini" (stereo)
>vs.
>"Driftwood and Dreams"

i'm certain the "Driftwood and Dreams" isn't a 70's release (its not the
Sunset label one with a seagull on it).  it's a Liberty release (LRP-3049),
got a woman's head sleeping on sand on the cover.  did this issue come
before or after the butt-ugly Mancini portrait "The Versatile Henry
Mancini" release?

as for the

Julie London "Pousse Cafe" info...  thanks!  i found it!

 - dean




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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jack Diamond Music
Date: 18 Aug 1997 19:13:39 -0700


Hello,

My name's Jack and I sell high quality previously enjoyed records from
primarily the late 1940's through the 70's, specializing in BUT not limited
to;

Exotica, Space Age Pop, West Coast Jazz, Beatnik Poetry, Spoken Word,
Instrumental Steel Guitars, 60's Instrumental Pop/Rock Guitar, TV and Film
Soundtracks, Easy
Listening, Beatnik and Private Eye Jazz, Outer Space Exotica, Wordless
Vocals, Male and Female Jazz/Jazz Pop Vocals, Moog, Musique Concrete,
Electronics, Psychedelic, Blues, R & B, Jump, Rockabilly, Country Jazz,
Theremin, Nude/Cheesecake Album Covers, Jungley Tropical Rhythms
Pounding Out Voodoo Beams of Love and Erotica AND much much more;-)

Much of the music that I play on my radio show at KFJC-FM
(http://www.kfjc.org)
KFJC now has an Audio Feed at their web site and you just may be able to
pick us up through your computer!  It's a god damn miracle

Some of the LP's are expensive and some are not but 1 thing is for sure is
that I don't sell junk.  All killer no filler

I have an e-mail mailing list in which I send out lists of LP's I have
for sale that are graded Goldmine Collecting Standards *strict*, that
have extensive "Liner Notes" describing the sounds that lie within the
grooves leaving nothing to the imagination ;)

Do you want to be on my e-mail mailing list ?  If so then just reply
with a "Hey Jack!  Please add me to your mailing list dude" or some
reasonable facsimile there of;)  If not, then just don't.

Thank you very much for your time and bye for now.

Sincerely,
Jack Diamond
http://www.jackdiamond.com
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Kenyon Hopkins...
Date: 18 Aug 1997 22:25:15 -0400 (EDT)


<< Hey!  I forgot "I Want To Live" >>

Johhny Mandel and Gerry Mulligan on the above - not K. Hopkins



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) What happened to Bobby Darin
Date: 18 Aug 1997 22:34:07 -0400 (EDT)


In a message dated 97-08-18 14:28:58 EDT, you write:

<< > Anybody else have a thought about Mr. Darin?  Is he still
 > around or did he die in a car crash or something?
  >>

Mike, who is a big fan of Bobby, says he had a bad ticker and had heart
surgery in 1974 and didn't recover and died in Big Bear, California (we think
he was living up there).  I apologize if someone has already posted an
answer.

- Michele
Flipside


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) More info on Darin
Date: 18 Aug 1997 22:41:41 -0400 (EDT)


"....He continued to record hits and appear in Las Vegas and on television,
and worked extensively for Robert Kennedy during the 1968 presidential
campaign.  Badly shaken by Kennedy's murder, he stopped working and moved to
Big Sur, California, eventually recording again on his own Direction Records
and Motown.  On December 20, 1973 he died during heart surgery."

liner notes from "The Ultimate Bobby Darin" on Warner Bros.  1986.

I stand correcting myself.

- Michele
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Bobby Darin
Date: 18 Aug 1997 23:03:12 -0400 (EDT)


Does anybody know who wrote those arrangements?  (Mack, Beyond the C)  I
don't recall ever seeing a credit listed on the recordings (I ALWAYS look!)
Regards,
Chuck


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From: "Derek Grime" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) for the birds
Date: 19 Aug 1997 02:14:38 -0400


On Aug 16, 11:02pm, [e-mail] wrote:
> Subject: (exotica) for the birds
>
> I picked up a new whistling record today - and what an unusual one it is.
>
> The title is "The Birds Sing His Praise".

> jumpin' jeeuz, this is a really strange record.  Imagine attending a funeral
> with bird calls - that's what it sounds like.  And there is something about
> these seemingly innocent religious recordings that contain a subtle ring of
> dark and evil.

There must be an entire sub-genre of these.  I have a 7" by a group called
"The American Radio Warblers"  that sounds like a Fats Waller 78 being pecked
to death by a hungry flock.  This 45 has NO high or low frequencies. It
sounds like a bad phone connection which just adds to its creepiness.

--
Derek Grime                                  EMail: [e-mail]
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From: BattleMonkey <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) RE: Soundtracks
Date: 19 Aug 1997 07:00:17 -0700 (PDT)


Though I didn't realize it at the time, some of the first soundtracks
I listened to are very much exotica, or at least lean heavily toward
exotica. I've been off this list for about three months, but I
remember discussion around the music from the film MOTHRA last time I
was on here.

Perhaps you ar familiar with Mothra, the giant moth of Japanese
monster movie fame. She was from an island in the south pacific, and
as such, the music accompanying her was always heavily exotica-tinged.
Some of the vocal chants and songs performed by the group The Peanuts
(who also appeared as the tiny mothra twin faries) sound similar to
Yma Sumac (without the crazy vocal range though), and much of the
music is similar to the compositions that accompany Yma's singing.

The composers of music for films featuring Mothra (there were two main
ones, I forgot the first man's name, but the second was Akira Ifukube)
wrote most of the vocals not in Japanese, but in ancient Tagalog (an
old version of the language spoke in the Phillipines) or in the native
tongue of the Ainu (indiginous tribes of Japan who, like most
indiginous tribes, were mostly killed off and live in poverty now).

Anyway, it's really great stuff if you can find some recordings of it.
There is an excellent collection called HISTORY OF MOTHRA that most
Japanese sci-fi type stores and mail order places carry. It has some
amazing songs that I think a lot of people here would like.

And it is good to be back reading this list again.

-Keith, still stuck in Charlotte



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From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Kenyon Hopkins...
Date: 19 Aug 1997 15:05:31 +0100


> From: [e-mail]
>
> << Hey!  I forgot "I Want To Live" >>
>
> Johhny Mandel and Gerry Mulligan on the above - not K. Hopkins
>

There's two "I Want To Live" soundtrack albums: one of the Mandel
music that was the "actual" soundtrack and one of the music that the
band in the film was playing. Right.



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From: Shangri-la <[e-mail]>
Subject: FW: (exotica)  mancini again
Date: 19 Aug 1997 18:33:58 +-200


i'm certain the "Driftwood and Dreams" isn't a 70's release=20

did this issue come
before or after the butt-ugly Mancini portrait "The Versatile Henry
Mancini" release?

After the portrait one I think...
Yes, My mistake about the seagull cover...It is however the same music =
but badly mixed or something (anyone?) As for the portrait.....He does =
look rather sinister. 'A touch of evil' maybe? =20
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From: Martin Wheatley <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
Date: 19 Aug 1997 18:04:14 +0100


[e-mail] enquired
>I know there are many but can anyone recommend good 60's and 70's Indian
>movie soundtracks. I've got one called Mehbooba but it's a bad recording
>with lots of sitar and tablas that break into a poppy song or dance tune
>here and there.....It is quite boring and does however not live up to
>that sitar moments on Vampyros Lesbos soundtracks
You have to get used to that!  Almost all Indian soundtracks have those
song and dance sequences - even the serious ones.  They are never sung by
the actor/actress who does it in the film but by a small group of specialist
performers who turn out thousands of these tracks (and that's not an
exageration since every film in a very large film industry has them!)
If you want poppy sitar go for the US recorded albums - if you want serious
stuff go for the classical like Ravi Shankar

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From: "Phil Clark" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) BBC radiophonic workshop
Date: 17 Aug 1997 09:59:34 +0100


Greetings pop-pickers

"Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]> mentioned the BBC Radiophonic
Workshop, responsible for much ground-breaking electronic music espeically
in the 60s and 70s, mainly for BBC radio & TV (most famous example: Dr Who
theme by Ron Grainer) well just though I'd add that I read recently that
it's been closed. Apparently the new-style BBC found no place for it since
mood music can now be obtained very easily and very cheaply elsewhere.

sad that.

Phil

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From: Technical Support Group Mail 1 <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More Soundtracks
Date: 20 Aug 1997 09:35:00 +1100




Still on this kick I was looking thru my records last night and I came
across the soundtrack to 'Liquid Sky' (a 1980's "new wave" alien film). The
sound track is electronic and all recorded using that new fangled piece of
technology the Fairlight synthesizer (it all seems so long ago!). There's
lots of kooky electronic music on the soundtrack.

By the way, does anyone know what happened to the star of that film, Anne
Carlisle? She appears in 'Desperately Seeking Susan' for a nanosecond but
I've never seen her in anything else.

Anyone?

Ciao

Wayne Davidson
 ------------------------------
PS: While I've got the space may I also direct you to my band's web page at:

http://tiger-town.com/stinky

The band is called Stinky Fire Engine and we do a kind of easy
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From: Derek Kompare <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) More Soundtracks
Date: 19 Aug 1997 18:12:58 -0500



>By the way, does anyone know what happened to the star of that film, Anne
>Carlisle? She appears in 'Desperately Seeking Susan' for a nanosecond but
>I've never seen her in anything else.

She was the villain du jour in an episode of Miami Vice circa 1985.  But
after that, I dunno.

--  DK



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From: "Jim Gerwitz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) KUSF Record Swap - Orgy In Vinyl
Date: 19 Aug 1997 19:43:04 -0700


SF Bay area thrifts are bone dry (Jessica would jump off the GG Bridge in
about a week), garage sales and fleas too time consuming, and record stores
gotta pay rent.
So for the last year I've focused on the record swaps, almost everything
you could want in one HOT room, with bargains and ripoffs galore. Sunday i
bought 90+ records, average $4 each, average skewed by a few pricey Holy
Grails I've been seeking for ages. Some highlights:

Harpo Marx - Harpo in Hi-Fi  (with Fred Katz on cello)  Heavenly!!!  And
look for The Unknown Marx Brothers documentary playing on PBS stations
during current pledge season.
Diana Dors - Swinging Dors   Almost fainted when I finally found this NM
Stereo
Erne Kovacs - The Ernie Kovacs Album   Percy Dovetonsils anyone?
Paul Frees - Paul Frees and the Poster People - Paul as Charlie Chan sings
"Let It Be" soooo politically incorrect for San Francisco
Kenyon Hopkins - Mr. Buddwing OST -  'Headache Montage"   ouch
Kenyon Hopkins (Creed Taylor) - Lonelyville -The Nervous Beat
Buddy Morrow - Poe for Moderns
Bob Thompson - MMMM Nice
Sandy Nelson - Boogaloo Beat
Mongo Santamaria - Feelin Alright   Even Mongo can't breathe life into
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Connie Stevens - As Cricket
Duke of Iron - Calypso Carnival
Russ Garcia - Sounds in the Night (2 copies -bought mono then found stereo)
Gomer Pyle USMC - Shazam
Richard Hayman - The Music of Cleopatra
Jack Costanzo - Afro Can Can
Jack Costanzo -Learn/play Bongos
Chico Hamilton - Gongs East  w/Eric Dolphy
Katie Lee - Love's Little Sisters - A Tender Documentary of the Early
American Whore
Skip Martin & His Prohibitionists- Songs & Sounds from the Era of the
Untouchables
Helen Gurley Brown - Sex and the Single Girl (includes "How to Love a Man
if You Aren't Pretty" and for men, "How to Behave at Home -If You're
Misbehaving Away from Home"
Julie Wilson - Julie Wilson at the St Regis - liner notes by Hef!
Richard Shores - Music to Read Lady Chatterly's Lover By
Roman De Vries - 'Lift your Face the Natural Way"  - Includes amazing photo
booklet  of facial exercises.  Think of Gleason's "Oooooh" cover photo.

AND FINALLY, if you've read this far, the only record I came looking for:
Edd Byrnes - KOOKIE    with Connie Stevens & Joanie Sommers from my
hometown of Buffalo NY -  I watched someone buy this and bemoaned the fact
i'd been searching for it.  Ten minutes later he came back to me and said
he'd found a better copy, and did i want his extra mono copy at cost. He's
on this list somewhere -  thanks amigo, I am forever indebted, and owe you
a favor.

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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) More Soundtracks/Where's Anne Carlisle?
Date: 19 Aug 1997 19:29:01 -0400


> From: Technical Support Group Mail 1 <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) More Soundtracks
>
> Still on this kick I was looking thru my records last night and I came
> across the soundtrack to 'Liquid Sky' (a 1980's "new wave" alien film).
> By the way, does anyone know what happened to the star of that film, Anne
> Carlisle? She appears in 'Desperately Seeking Susan' for a nanosecond but
> I've never seen her in anything else.

I just did a quick web search and had the usual inconclusive results. I did
find that she appeared in a Larry Cohen film, "Perfect Strangers" in '84.
Then, presuming it's her, she directed a video for a band called Malaria in
'85.
And she did an episode of "Miami Vice" in '86.
There are also references to an author and an artist (don't know if they're one
and the same) named "Anne Carlisle", but whether they might be her is the prize
question.

If this sets off a Miami Vice thread, I'll drop a log.

m.ace
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jack Diamond Music
Date: 19 Aug 1997 23:39:53 -0400 (EDT)


I was dismayed to learn that Jack Diamond has been banned from the list for
the message that follows:

<< Hello,

 My name's Jack and I sell high quality previously enjoyed records from
 primarily the late 1940's through the 70's, specializing in BUT not limited
 to...

 I have an e-mail mailing list in which I send out lists of LP's I have
 for sale that are graded Goldmine Collecting Standards ...

 Do you want to be on my e-mail mailing list ?  If so then just reply
 with a "Hey Jack!  Please add me to your mailing list dude" or some
 reasonable facsimile there of;)  If not, then just don't.

Thank you very much for your time and bye for now. >>


I understand that using the list for the selling of records and CD's is a
violation of policy, but I see nothing wrong with a generic, broadcast letter
that alerts many of the new list members that he has a private mailing list
available for this purpose.

What do you think?

my two cents, as they say....




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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jack Diamond Music
Date: 19 Aug 1997 23:46:14 +0000


I don't object to someone indicating they have lists of records
for sale and soliciting private requests for the same list.   Free Jack
Diamond!

Will

Will Straw

Associate Professor and Acting Director,
Graduate Program in Communications
McGill University
3465 rue Peel,
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 1W7

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

Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and
Institutions
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/

Co-editor.  Topia:  A Journal of Canadian and Cultural Studies
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From: [e-mail] (Subliminal Sounds)
Subject: (exotica) Jack Diamond Music
Date: 20 Aug 1997 11:39:00 +0200 (MET DST)


FREE JACK DIAMOND!





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From: Mark Reed <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jack Diamond
Date: 20 Aug 1997 08:58:41 -0400 (EDT)


Hey, guys!  Lighten up!

Jack's message was certainly relevant to the list.  I've been on Jack's
mailing list for several months now, and I find his sale lists to be as
educational as any postings to this list.  He gives several lines of detail
on each item he has for sale.  While I will probably not buy from him
because his prices are (how shall I say this nicely?) "fully reflective of
the value of the records," I enjoy reading his sale lists.

FREE JACK DIAMOND!!!



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) free jack diamond
Date: 20 Aug 1997 09:05:32 -0400


..mark reed wrote:

"Hey, guys!  Lighten up!

Jack's message was certainly relevant to the list.  I've been on Jack's
mailing list for several months now, and I find his sale lists to be as
educational as any postings to this list.  He gives several lines of detail
on each item he has for sale...

FREE JACK DIAMOND!!!"

..couldn't have said it better myself..FREE JACK DIAMOND!!!




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) KUSF Record Swap - Orgy In Vinyl
Date: 20 Aug 1997 10:36:00 -0400 (EDT)


I was at the KUSF record swap as well. Here's what I got:
77 Sunset Strip - Frankie Ortega & Sy Oliver (I have several versions of
people doing 77 Sunset Strip and this is by far the BEST I've ever heard. I
especially like, "After Sunset".
77 Sunset Strip - Aaron Bell Orchestra
TV Western Themes (doesn't say who does this, one of those real cheapos)
Dee Dee Sharp - All The Hits
Ronettes - Presenting The Fabulous
The Chantels - There's Our Song Again
Soundtrack - Tammy and the Bachelor
Henri Rene - Music for Bachelors (Jayne Mansfield cover)
Jack Costanzo - Naked City
Les Baxter - Ritual of the Savage
TV Themes - Richard Gleason Orchestra
Buddy Morrow - Double Impact
TV Soundtrack - Dennis the Menace
Arthur Lyman - Taboo Vol. 2
TV Jazz Themes - Skip Martin
Les Baxter - Tamboo!
The Surfmen - The Sounds of Exotic Island
Soundtrack - Baby Doll
AND.....
Les Baxter - The Passions!! (I was ecstatic to finally get this. I haven't
played it yet....I'm a little bit frightened!)
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From: [e-mail] (John Jones)
Subject: (exotica) FREE JACK DIAMOND!!!!
Date: 20 Aug 1997 15:18:37 GMT


Jack was banned?

His ads are a must read for any discerning music lover.

This is an outrage!

Jack should be given a humble apology from those responsible for
banning him, and then they must slap themselves upside the head with
any available Heino album for being foolish.

John
--
No one will ever know exactly why or how, but by the
year 2050, everyone born in Baltimore will look=20
exactly like Ernest Borgnine.

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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: (exotica) Free Mr. Diamond
Date: 20 Aug 1997 09:16:31 PDT



The ACLU is going to hear about this...

Seriously, Jack's salesmanship is tolerable given his knowledge and insight.
If anyone finds his lists patently offensive, look to the key just above the
arrow keys labeled "Delete." Perhaps the list constitution needs an
ammendment to say that attempts to sell records are Ok as long as each digit in
the price of the record is suplemented by 100 words of educational description.

flip as always, and missing Mr. Diamond.

Clark


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From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jack Diamond Banned? I don't get it. :(
Date: 20 Aug 1997 11:37:50 -0400


I don't think I understand why Mr. Diamond was kicked off the list. The only
thing he sent (I think) was that "Hi, I'm Jack Diamond--I sell records"
thing and he's posted that before without getting in trouble. Anyway, I
think he's important to the list and should be let back on.

Thanks for the (rant) space, Jessica ^_^



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From: Tony Wilds <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Advertising, inside pitch
Date: 20 Aug 1997 13:22:05 -0400


[Just when I was about to announce the budget LPs that have Sabu and maybe
Chaino...]

Since we (or I) haven't heard anything from the list admin., I can only
surmise from my own experience that Jack was warned first and then went
ahead anyway. Can't blame him for cynicism, though. It's a tough passion,
LPs, these days and on this list. On the other hand, rules is rules, obey
'em or break 'em.

What I don't like about his ads is that they're the same message, over and
over. Generic announcements [to look somewhere else] do nothing for me.
That's what sigs are for. (And filters, for the disgruntled recipient.) But
I wouldn't censor him for it; after all, it's what the list rules allow
specifically. _The rules_ are my objection.

I don't see why people shouldn't be able --even encouraged-- to post a
handful (less than 12) of good records for sale as they get 'em in. The
only difference between that and the score-brags we have now is that it's a
thousand times more interesting if there's a chance you can actually get
the music (at least for those of us who like records).

If not to make excellent trades and buys with old and new people on the
list, why even bother? Sources for info on and copies of records like Blue
Mitchell's Bantu Village and Horace Silver's Song for My Father just are
not here. (Dusty Groove is the one online source I've bought from
repeatedly.) And it's simpler --though not always as much fun-- to sell
cheesy pop records at shows (oh yeah!), not that I plan to fool with this
stuff too much longer.

I think the list admin. could be more concerned with the appeal and content
of so-called "exotica," which continues to slide as the remaining, more
eloquent and informative voices depart or quieten, than with administrative
issues. Either that or rename it "lounge" or "cheese" to reflect the
dominant interest and enthusiasm. Then those of us concerned with ethnic
jazz and pop will feel less entitled to inflict our *elitism.* God help us
if we all have to subvert true passion to over-it *irony.*

As a case in point, last night I wrote Jack Fetterman about a great space
LP he doesn't have as well as [my third copy now of] Esquivel's Merriest of
Christmas Pops. _That_ Jack left months ago, despite his recent
announcements and the fact that he's one of the few people doing anything
of integrity with old records. And I bet there are more than a few other
people interested in that space LP, not to mention the *rare* Esquivel, who
aren't already Wilds Sounds shoppers or at least on the new-arrivals list.

Oh well. Guess I could post that I'm looking for Flaming Carrot comics or
something. Anything but hard-to-find, exotic records.

Tony Wilds, humorless record fan
Madman, the Wilds Scene -- you won't find it on the Exotica List Home Page!
Pop music reviewer, All-Music Guide
Part-time record and CD trader
The Wilds Scene:  http://www.charm.net/~wilds/
  REAL EXOTICA    LPs * Sabu Home Page * Tiki Gallery
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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) FREE JACK
Date: 20 Aug 1997 13:58:00 -0400


"Freejack" (1992) dir. Geoff Murphy. Emilio Estevez plays an inept racing
driver who is sucked into the future just before splattering himself across the
landscape. In tomorrowland, he is pursued by bounty hunter, Mick Jagger, who
only wants him for his body... er, to serve as a replacement part for aging
zillionaire, Anthony Hopkins. Rene Russo gets stuck with the running &
screaming woman role.

Sorry, couldn't resist the coincidence.

As for our bad cad, Jack -- if he really needs to be punished, couldn't you
just send him to the nearest dominatrix parlor? (Yes, I can hear him now,
"Please B'rer Fox, don't throw me in the briar patch!") But let him back on the
list, so he can tell us about it afterwards.

(half wondering if this is some sort of summer craziness hoax)

m.ace
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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jack Diamond
Date: 20 Aug 1997 12:11:20 -0600 (MDT)


I'm afraid I overreacted to Jack's message.  I shouldn't have "banned" him,
and I apologize to him and to the list for doing so.  (Jack wasn't removed
from the list, but I did tell him that he was no longer allowed to post.  I've
since lifted that restriction.)

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) August on GROOVIE MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS
Date: 20 Aug 1997 13:28:39 -0600


>>Date: Sat, 19 Jul 97 14:01:53 UT
>>From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
>>To: "Jack Diamond" <[e-mail]>
>>Subject: August on GROOVIE MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS
>>
>>======== P R E S S   R E L E A S E ========
>>
>>August Highlights from
>>GROOVIE MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS
>>Sundays, 7 - 8 pm (PST) on KUSF 90.3 FM, San Francisco
>>
>>
>>RealAudio BROADCAST: < http://wed.usfca.edu/kusf > for instructions
>>
>>CONTACT:  Ratso Russo, Producer.  E-mail: [e-mail]
>>
>>
>>SHOW 5:  August 3
>>Aside from being the best thing ROGER EBERT ever wrote, "BEYOND THE VALLEY
>OF
>>THE DOLLS" (70) also brought together Hollywood's grooviest girl band, THE
>>CARRIE NATIONS.  MARIO MOLINO'S funky Moog synthesizer from "GLI ANGELI DEL
>>2000" (69) brings to mind a Mafia stag party.  Plus a dynamic duo of British
>>dicks:  ALEX STONE's "MAN IN A SUITCASE" (68) and ROY BUDD's "GET CARTER"
>>(71).
>>
>>SHOW 6:  August 10
>>On the streets or in the sheets, he's "SAVAGE!" (73) and so is DON JULIAN's
>>bad-ass score.  THE ALADDINS generate music to jiggle by in RUSS MEYERS'
>>"MONDO TOPLESS" (66).  GIBSON KEMP whistles while he works in the German
>>hippie flick "MAKE LOVE NOT WAR" (68).  Includes a "GUMBY" tribute featuring
>>FRANK SINATRA, JR. and ex-TURTLES/MOTHERS OF INVENTION pals, FLO AND EDDIE.
>>
>>SHOW 7:  August 17
>>1968 musical flashbacks: The youth-gone-mad satire "WILD IN THE STREETS"
>much
>>resembles the "realistic" documentary "YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT."  That same
>year
>>GROUCHO MARX was making his final curtain call playing God in the outrageous
>>"SKIDOO" (HARRY NILSSON sings the credits!).  Also JACK ELLIOTT's
>bittersweet
>>theme for crazy RUTH GORDON in the cult classic "WHERE'S POPPA?" (70).
>>
>>SHOW 8:  August 24
>>As we near the the 30th anniversary of "THE PRISONER" TV series, we
>present a
>>medley of RON GRAINER's pieces while you ponder the cosmic question: "Who
>the
>>hell IS Number One anyway?"  The DARIO ARGENTO blood opera "DEEP RED" (75)
>is
>>made a little more bearable by GOBLIN's acid-jazzy score.   And excerpts
>from
>>another RUSS MEYERS' breast-travaganza "FINDERS KEEPERS, LOVERS WEEPERS"
>(68).
>>
>>SHOW 9:  August 31
>>SINATRA stumbles across a "LADY IN CEMENT" (68), composer HUGO MONTENEGRO
>>turns it into a swingin' affair. But things are bad all over: take "VIOLENT
>>NAPLES" (c. 77) and "VIOLENT ROME" (c.78), cities with their own suspenseful
>>themes by the DE ANGELIS BROTHERS.  Back in Gotham City, The Penguin
>(BURGESS
>>MEREDITH) and The Riddler (FRANK GORSHIN) plan BATMAN's demise!
>>
>>
>>PLEASE NOTE:  If you do not wish to be on my monthly press list, simply
>reply
>>to this message with the words "SCREW YOU" in the Subject box.
>>
>>RATSO RUSSO
>>[e-mail]
>>
>>
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Sept. on GROOVIE MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS
Date: 20 Aug 1997 13:29:10 -0600


>>Date: Mon, 11 Aug 97 06:39:35 UT
>>From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
>>To: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
>>Subject: Sept. on GROOVIE MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS
>>
>>============== P R E S S   R E L E A S E ===============
>>
>>September Highlights from
>>GROOVIE MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS
>>Sundays, 7 - 8 pm (PST) on KUSF 90.3 FM, San Francisco
>>
>>RealAudio BROADCAST: < http://wed.usfca.edu/kusf > for instructions
>>
>>CONTACT:  Ratso Russo, Producer.  E-mail: [e-mail]
>>
>>===================================================
>>
>>SHOW 10:  September 7
>>OPAL BUTTERFLY's theme from "GROUPIE GIRL" (69) glamorizes the go-go world
>of
>>backstage "freak scenes" while record producer ALAN LORBER interviews
>>real-life randy rockers on the exploitation album "THE GROUPIES" (69).  Also
>>eager to cash in on the sexual revolution was popular TV host ALLEN FUNT
>>("CANDID CAMERA") whose voyeuristic antics hit the big screen in "WHAT DO
>YOU
>>SAY TO A NAKED LADY?" (70), featuring the music of STEVE KARMEN.  Plus BARRY
>>GRAY's hip soundtracks from the "super-marionation" action puppet shows
>>"STINGRAY" (65) and "CAPTAIN SCARLET" (67).
>>
>>SHOW 11:  September 14
>>Pint-sized patrolman ROBERT BLAKE can rev up a Harley like the big boys in
>>"ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE" (73), with scenes of hot pursuit scored by the
>film's
>>director, JAMES WILLIAM GUERCIO.  British Wavers TRAFFIC lead us on a mod
>romp
>>through swingin' England in "HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH" (68).
>>Composer DOMINIC FRONTIERE rips off MORRICONE with a vengeance matched
>only by
>>CLINT EASTWOOD's search for his lynchers in "HANG 'EM HIGH" (68). But
>revenge
>>is brought to a jazzy climax in "FEAR IS THE KEY" (72) with ROY BUDD's title
>>theme.
>>
>>SHOW 12:  September 21
>>Home Girl Makes Bad!  Broadcasting a few blocks from the SLA's eight-month
>>hideout, KUSF is pleased to present SCOTT JOHNSON's theme from "PATTY
>HEARST"
>>(88), with NATASHA RICHARDSON recreating our revolutionary sweetie's
>recorded
>>rant addressed to her media magnate parents.  RAY DENNIS STECKLER's
>cult-trash
>>flick "RAT PFINK A BOO BOO" (66) gets sleazed up with the help of garage
>>stompers RON HAYDOCK AND THE BOPPERS.  And CAPTAIN BEEFHEART provides
>>hard-hammerin' rhythm 'n' blues from PAUL SCHRADER's Detroit actioner "BLUE
>>COLLAR" (78).
>>
>>SHOW 13:  September 28
>>Hollywood misogyny reached a new low with the release of "LIPSTICK" (76),
>>though MICHEL POLNAREFF's eerie electronic score is worth a listen. The
>suave
>>burglar from TV's "IT TAKES A THIEF" (68-70) is a lady killer of a different
>>sort as CHAQUITO's version of the theme indicates.  The girls turn the
>tables
>>in RUSS MEYER's "MOTOR PSYCHO" (65), which boasts "reckless women gambling
>>with more than they could handle" and a psychotic soundtrack by BERT SHEFTER
>>and PAUL SAWTELL. Also two from groove-master ISAAC HAYES: "TRUCK TURNER"
>(74)
>>and "THREE TOUGH GUYS" (74).
>>
>>
>>Visit the GROOVIE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK Web Page-with complete playlists-at
>><www.sanfransicko.com>!
>>
>>PLEASE NOTE:  If you do not wish to be on my monthly press list, simply
>reply
>>to this message with the words "SCREW YOU" in the Subject box.
>>
>>RATSO RUSSO
>>[e-mail]
>>
>>
>>
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From: "Lazlo Nibble" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Advertising Policies
Date: 20 Aug 1997 12:31:49 -0600 (MDT)


Lately I've been getting a frustrating amount of sniping and griping in my
mailbox over the issue of who gets to advertise on this list and how they're
allowed to do it.  I think the root cause of this is the ambiguity of the
current rules, which makes it harder for me to interpret and enforce them on a
consistent basis.  Therefore I'd like to change the rules somewhat, primarily
to make them a little more specific but also to open up what's allowed in
exchange for tighter restrictions on how often ads can be posted and how they
have to be labeled.

I've spent most of the morning trying to come up with something that balances
allowing individuals to buy, sell, and trade records amongst themselves
against protecting the list from the flood of junk mail that'd result if there
were no rules at all.  But I recognize that there's still room for improvement
-- so please look over the following (proposed) guidelines and let me know if
you have any suggestions.

> This list is a discussion forum, not an advertising forum.  Personal or
> business advertising is therefore ONLY allowed on the list under the
> following conditions:
>
>  * List members may post up to three ads a month that are five lines in
>    length or less.
>
>  * List members may post one ad a month that is between six and fifty
>    lines long.  Advertisements longer than fifty lines are not permitted.
>
>  * All such ads MUST be for items or services directly related to the
>    topic of the list and MUST have "AD:" at the start of the subject line.
>
>  * Messages containing three or more lines in the signature describing a
>    business or items for sale are considered ads and are subject to the rules
>    above.  Signatures containing one or two such lines may be used without
>    restriction unless the member seems to be posting to the list simply in
>    order to propagate this information.
>
>  * Members who violate the above advertising rules are subject to having all
>    their postings approved by the list admin before they are posted.

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 'Liquid Sky'
Date: 19 Aug 1997 18:07:37 -0700


last night and I came
>across the soundtrack to  (a 1980's "new wave" alien film).
There's lots of kooky electronic music on the soundtrack.

I just scored this LP though I haven't listened to it yet

I saw the film when it 1st came out (showin' my age again) about a DOZEN TIMES

IT IS TOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY!

The premise is that these "outer space" people need endorphins (sp ?) to
live and they have landed on earth because of all the sex that is happening
and ZAP people just when they orgasm just for the endorphins (sp ?)

Carlisle plays the 2 main roles as male and female (separately of course)
but it is sooooooo obvious that they are both her that it hurts:^)

Rent it NOW!  That's an order.  It is soooooooooo dated

Jack


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jack Diamond Banned? I don't get it. :(
Date: 20 Aug 1997 13:05:15 -0400 (EDT)


Let me be one of the first to say I support Lazlo's decision. We have rules
on this list. Everyone was sent them when they joined and many of us were
recently resent the rules.

If Mr. Diamond cannot follow the rules, which are very simple (no
advertising), then he should not be on the list. The list is a privelege,
not a right.

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Thank you all:)
Date: 20 Aug 1997 11:32:18 -0700


I'd like to thank ALL of you who came to my defense

You didn't have to do that:)

I am humbled yet again

Sincerely,
Jack


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From: Joseph Levy & Zoe Nousiainen <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Perez, mancini, london
Date: 20 Aug 1997 15:01:19 -0400


> 1. did Perez Prado ever record a version of "Anna" and if so, on what
LP can it be > found?

It appears to have only been released as a 45rpm or 78rpm single.

1951 - "Anna" b/w "Silvana Mangano" (RCA 47-5367) [45] and (RCA 20-5367)
[78].
The song  "Silvana Mangano"  is named for the star of the film "Anna."

In 1962, Prado released an album called "Twist Goes Latin," (RCA
LPM/LSP-2524) which includes a version called "Anna-Twist."

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jack Diamond
Date: 20 Aug 1997 11:44:51 -0700


>> Thank you Lazlo
Jack

>> At 12:11 PM 8/20/97 -0600, you wrote:
>> >I'm afraid I overreacted to Jack's message.  I shouldn't have "banned"
him,
>> >and I apologize to him and to the list for doing so.  (Jack wasn't removed
>> >from the list, but I did tell him that he was no longer allowed to post.
>> I've
>> >since lifted that restriction.)

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jack's on 2-6PM Thursday
Date: 20 Aug 1997 12:43:56 -0700


Hello all,

I'm going to be on the radio,89.7 KFJC-FM Tomorrow Thursday August 21 from
2-6PM
PST (USA) for a really whacked out mixed bag o' audio fun and silliness
unavailable anywhere else on this planet or any other for that matter;^)

If you are 1 of the true lucky one's you can get us on your pewter by
directing your sexiest web browser to http://www.KFJC.org and clicking on
Internet Broadcast

Studio Line: 650-941-2500

llllllllllllllllater,
Jack


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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jack Diamond
Date: 20 Aug 1997 14:55:37 -0400


I think it's time for huggies all around.

Will
Will Straw

Associate Professor and Acting Director,
Graduate Program in Communications
McGill University
3465 rue Peel,
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 1W7

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

Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and
Institutions
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/

Co-editor.  Topia:  A Journal of Canadian and Cultural Studies
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/topia/





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From: Shangri-la <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Brags
Date: 20 Aug 1997 22:54:46 +-200


I really think brags are OK. I know about 5 people only that will share =
my joy in finding a new Roberto Delgado record (except for those that =
will eventually dance to it). So why not share it with the world?

So the dust is settling around the Jack saga. Good turnout I think.

 Today I had my halfday off and the first thing I did was to go record =
hunting! This only happens once a month because I get only one day a =
month off. So with adrenalin pulsing I rushed to a shop where I haven't =
been for about 6 months. What a surprise I got to find a hole string of =
goodies. Nothing too rare but all things I either thought I'll   never =
find or that I hoped I will find. Not all are relevant but I'll list =
them anyway...

Viva South America - Polydor compilation
Nat King Cole Espanol
Peggy Lee - Latin ala Lee
Carnaval - Copacabana Special 73
San Sebastian Strings - Summer (comp&arr Anita Kerr/written&spoken Rod =
McKuen) very kitsch!
Frank Pourcel - EMI Gold compilation
Astrud Gilberto - I haven't got anything better to do
Bossa Nova Brazil! - Parlophone EMI compilation
Los Wawanco - Inconfundibles=20
Pedrinho Rodrigues - Os Nacionais
Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock (this I had on tape, but it is so =
strange.....)
Berry Lipman and orch. - From Germany with Love (brill 70's stuff)
Roberto Delgado - Latino Dancing
                       Dance Time
                       Concerto D'Aranjuez
                       Caramba 3
                       When Bouzoukis Played
                       ***

CHARL HENNING


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From: Shangri-la <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jack Diamond Music
Date: 20 Aug 1997 23:07:53 +-200



FREE JACK DIAMOND! Laat hom asseblief gaan!

CHARL



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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Liquid Sky
Date: 20 Aug 1997 14:45:44 -0700


Liquid Sky is on the turntable now.

weird and cool;)

I'll play it tomorrow afternoon.

Tune in, OK ?

-J


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From: [e-mail] (Jonny.S)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Liquid Sky
Date: 20 Aug 1997 17:21:46 -0500


Don't laugh, I went to the premier. i probably wore a houndstooth suit and high
top sneakers.

Jonny Sender




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Eartha in jeopary
Date: 20 Aug 1997 19:38:59 -0400 (EDT)


In case you missed the original airing, Eartha Kitt will be on the Jeopardy
Celebrity Tournament rerun tomorrow (Thursday the 21st).

Don't we all hope we can be that fit, hot and smart when we are 70+.

Cherie


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From: JPM <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jack Diamond off the list ?  Grow Up !!!
Date: 20 Aug 1997 22:46:14 +0000


Jack Diamond is off the list ..........????

Jack Diamond "IS" the list......!!!!!

Jack should start his own list !!!!!

I'll be the first to jump in on that one !!!!!




and remember boys and girls .....rules were made to be broken !

--
Jason.......

JPM
The Pygmy Taxi Corp
http://www.spacelab.net/~mugen/
Vocod'o'rama (Please update your links to the one below)
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Thursday night
Date: 21 Aug 1997 02:19:42 -0400 (EDT)


just a reminder that Tiki News night at the Chameleon is this Thursday at 9
Show starts at 9:45


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Jack Diamond and those lists!
Date: 21 Aug 1997 02:34:45 -0400 (EDT)


In a message dated 97-08-20 16:37:40 EDT, [e-mail] write:

<< Jack's message was certainly relevant to the list.  I've been on Jack's
 mailing list for several months now, and I find his sale lists to be as
 educational as any postings to this list.  He gives several lines of detail
 on each item he has for sale...
  >>

Well I have to agree.  It is only a minor annoyance to see his solicitation
on the list and after all - what's the difference whether I'm reading a list
of so and so's record finds or a solicitation from Jack!  Personally I don't
like reading any of the record list postings of stuff you guys just bought at
a local thrift for a dollar (I'm not in your leagues as a collector - no
time!  Someday though when I do find the time to hunt thrifts for lounge
records, I'll greatly appreciate reading those lists in the Exotica archives,
but for now  those endless postings are sheer annoyance!)  In any case, let
the guy back on the list - things around here just won't be the same without
him!

- Michele
Flipside Fanzine



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: He's back and with another list!
Date: 21 Aug 1997 02:42:30 -0400 (EDT)


In a message dated 97-08-21 01:29:07 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:

<< I'd like to thank ALL of you who came to my defense

 You didn't have to do that:)>>


Yay!  He's back and with another list!

- Michele
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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Prado/"Anna"
Date: 21 Aug 1997 05:53:38


To answer a previous post, Perez Prado did a cover of "Anna" on his Twist
LP on RCA from 1962.  I'd include the catalog number, but my albums are
still boxed up in the garage.  "Anna" rates up there with "Never on Sunday"
and "The Third Man Theme" as one of the most-covered foreign film themes.

I walked into a MacFrugal's here in San Antonio Sunday and heard a female
Tejano group doing a cover of "Never on Sunday" on the Muzak.  A memorable
exotica moment.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) The Fabulous Portsmouth Sinfonia
Date: 21 Aug 1997 14:03:04 -0400 (EDT)


The day after asking a friend if he had the Portsmouth Sinfonia record, I
found it (along with Raga Rock and some other great things) for $1 . It is a
Brian Eno project - an orchestra full of musicians who were not very talented
playing classical music. It is as - um - unique as I remembered it. My
question is - Why did Columbia release it? What were they thinking?  Eno,
btw, plays clarinet and Gavin Bryars plays cello.


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Raga/RagaRok
Date: 21 Aug 1997 11:18:46 -0700


At 02:03 PM 8/21/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>The day after asking a friend if he had the Portsmouth Sinfonia record, I
>found it (along with Raga Rock

What about RagnaRok by Beaver and Krause ?

Is the Raga Rock in Stereo ?  I've had that rekkid 3 times and still have
never scored 1 in stereo;-(

Tune in today and hear it

-J


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Portsmouth Sinfonia
Date: 21 Aug 1997 14:32:49 -0400


> From: [e-mail]
> Subject: (exotica) The Fabulous Portsmouth Sinfonia
>
> The day after asking a friend if he had the Portsmouth Sinfonia record, I
> found it (along with Raga Rock and some other great things) for $1 . It is a
> Brian Eno project - an orchestra full of musicians who were not very talented
> playing classical music. It is as - um - unique as I remembered it. My
> question is - Why did Columbia release it? What were they thinking?

Wow, I bought that when it was practically a new release, but checking for my
copy just now, I was shocked to find that it's missing! Huh. As I recall, Eno
wasn't the the original motivating force of the group. But once he got
involved, I'm sure he was the one that got them onto vinyl. He's also listed as
producer, right? Their ineptitude did result in some interesting effects. What
was the record company thinking? Maybe that it was fun? Amusing? The concept of
the novelty record was not as dead then as it seems to be today. Or maybe it
was a trade to get Eno to produce someone for them. ???

m.ace
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Jack's Baaaaack!
Date: 21 Aug 1997 09:18:53 -1000


Like those fast food bumper stickers say... "Don't blame me, I voted for
Jack." Glad to see the support for our man Diamond here. His passion for
the music and depth of knowledge makes him a key contributor to the
list... IMHO (now that i know what that means). It also helped clarify
the rules, thanks Lazlo! Jack was also one of the first DJ's to give us
airplay along with Radio Vik.

Now a tip o' the tiki (hope this doesn't come off sounding like more
advertising!) to R.Preston Peek @ Exotica/Et Cetera and Otto von
Stroheim @ Tiki News for rave reviews and features on us in their recent
issues. These fine upstanding gentlemen publish highly amusing and
informational labor of love pubs that should be read by all here. So, to
them and Jack and all who've offered encouraging words along the way...
the keepers of the tiki torch... IMUA! (Go Forward!)

can't we all just get a gong?
Fluid Floyd/Don Tiki


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From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Eight tracks (the e is for "exotica" ) ^_-
Date: 21 Aug 1997 17:07:18 -0400


I don't collect 8-tracks, but they fascinate me. So I usually look at them
when I'm out record hunting, and I always visit the 8-track heaven web page
to see the "eight track of the moment." (some of them are really funny!)  I
even have an 8-track of  "Que Mango" on display in my room. Anyway, I've
noticed that a lot of old exotic music and space pop was rereleased on
8-tracks with new titles, in compilations, etc. I just saw a reissue of
"Bongos and Brass" that had been retitled  "All Time Favorites by Hugo
Montenegro." (!!!) I've also read that RCA reissued the "Stereo Action
Unlimited" comp on 8-track. I thought it would be nice if some of the
8-track collectors on the list could share with us some of their finds--just
for the heck of it . ^_^

Thanks for the space, Jessica ^_-



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From: "Phil Clark" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) BBC radiophonic workshop
Date: 21 Aug 1997 22:46:07 +0100


 re BBC Radiophonic Workshop...

Derek Kompare said re its closure:

>
>That is a shame, though what did you expect from the BBC?  If they follow
>past form, they'll probably start trashing old master tapes (they
probably
>already have) before someone like us cries foul.  They lost a lot of
their
>50s-60s TV in an archival purge in the mid-70s.  Stoopid.

yes - AFAIK in the first place a lot of the original 60s/early 70s tapes of
entertainment shows just weren't kept, because they weren't thought worth
keeping - instead, just selected "examples" were kept for posterity. Then
in the mid 70s some of what was kept was famously wiped because of lack of
space/management interest. Luckily they seem to have gotten hip to what
they had after that and have preserved it - otherwise we'd have no archives
at all.

I've heard tales of tapes being "found" in obscure places as well - copies
were often sent abroad to foreign TV stations for example.

>
>Anyway, an interesting tidbit about the BBCRW is that one of their
original
>innovators was female.  Ron Grainer may have written the music for the
>Doctor Who theme in 1963, but Delia Derbyshire  made it a classic through
>the use of waveform oscillators, tape splices, and a lot of patience.
Since
>they had no synthesizer to speak of at the time, she basically
hand-stiched
>the music together from bits of tape.  She also recorded some other great
>atmospheric electronic stuff in the 60s that wound up in the BBC's stock
>music library.

DD was also involved in the seminal "White Noise, An Electric Storm" album
in '69, with David Vorhaus - this is  a complete classic and features all
manner of tape trickery, mellotron, pitch shifters, oscillators, wild
stereo effects, theremin etc. Definitely my kind of technology

>
>I wish more of the BBCRW stuff was available, but for now all that's out
is
>on Doctor Who soundtrack CDs (on Silva Screen), a 30th Anniversary sound
>effects CD (BBC Records 1993), and another sound effects LP (and later
CD)
>featuring 1978-82 effects for the likes of Doctor Who, Blake's 7, and The
>Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
>
>Anyone know if any more (particularly non-Doctor Who) material is
available?
>
>--  DK
>

Yes I think there was a series of BBCRW albums in the 70s, released on the
BBC's own label. There were possibly also some "film music" albums for KPM
or similar? not sure about that. Anyhow they used to provide incidental
music for all manner of BBC productions - lots of radio work for example. I
distinctly remember hearing them on schools radio in the mid 70s.

radiophonically

Phil
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From: [e-mail] (Wayno)
Subject: (exotica) Rodd Keith discussion on NPR
Date: 21 Aug 1997 20:25:23 +0100


Below is a description of Ira Glass's NPR radio program "This American Life"
for the weekend of August 23, 1997. The guy mentioned in the second
sentence is Ellery Eskelin, the son of song-poem genius Rodd Keith.

-------------------------->

"Is it Art?"

David Sedaris details his brief career as an aspiring "performance artist."
A guy whose dad was the king of the studio musicians behind those "send us
your lyrics we'll write you a song" ads that appear in magazines. What
people say to each other while standing in front of the world's great
paintings. And other stories.

-------------------------->

My local NPR station sticks this program at 10:00 PM on Sundays. After
broadcast, some of the programs are archived in RealAudio format on the
program's web site <http://www.kcrw.org/c/tamlife/tamlisten.html>, so if
you miss it, you might find it there next week.

Rodd's story, as told by Ellery, can be viewed at
<http://home.earthlink.net/~eskelin/Rodd.html>.

Much more information on the song-poem genre is available at the American
Song-Poem Archives web site <http://www.channel1.com/users/fxxm/intro.htm>.


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From: "Robert McKenna" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Nusrat Fateh ali Khan
Date: 22 Aug 1997 09:46:46 PDT


If this is too off topic I apologise but I feel I must note the passing
of one of the worlds great singers at the age of 49 last weekend (I only
heard last night). It could be argued that as well as being a leading if
unorthodox qawwall singer Nusrat was a modern exotician, doing an album
with canadian producer Michael Brook and being remixed by Massive Attack
as well as doing some Bollywood music (mentioned and derided on the list
very recently I recall, I believe from the Guardian today that Musst,
Musst was used in a Bollywood film as well as his recent collaborations
(we wont mention Eddie Veder)). Whatever your take he was for me one of
the most emotionally effecting singers on the planet and he will be
missed by millions.
Thanks
Robert MCKenna

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From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Nusrat Fateh ali Khan
Date: 22 Aug 1997 10:04:57 -0700


Robert McKenna wrote:
>
> If this is too off topic I apologise but I feel I must note the passing
> of one of the worlds great singers at the age of 49 last weekend

boy....
am i the only one that's starting to think there's something weird going
on here, as if all these great souls are just kinda making a quick exit
before the millennium hits...?
kinda foreboding if you ask me.

pea


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Odd Couple Question, Lalo Schifrin Site
Date: 22 Aug 1997 14:38:02 -0400


I think this was mentioned here recently, but I've cleverly forgotten the
answer and can't track it down. Apologies for any repetition. But it's really
bugging me.

Who did the music (theme & background cues) for "The Odd Couple" TV series?

Also, I just stumbled on this rather serious Lalo Schifrin website:

http://siteworks.com/szabo/schifrin.htm

Hope it's not old news to all. If its creator is on the list, sorry if I'm
stepping on your toes by listing it.

m.ace
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Couple thingee's
Date: 22 Aug 1997 11:15:00 -0700


     Hi Folks,

     1. Could anyone tell me if the Columbia/Legacy cocktail reissues
     "Instrumental Themes For Young Lovers" and "Martinis and a Broken
     Heart to Go" are as good musically as the packaging is artistically?
     There was no listing of artists.

     2. oh!, Did anyone notice what the "Cool Site Of The Day" is today?
     Check it out at http://cool.infi.net  (Local exotica/mailing list boy does
     good!) I've always know his site was great, and apparently now so do a few
     thousand more people.

     Bye!



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From: [e-mail] (Brian Salter)
Subject: (exotica) TEST--ignore
Date: 22 Aug 1997 11:54:35 -0800



test post  8/22  11:52 AM



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From: Darrell Brogdon <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Barbarella
Date: 22 Aug 1997 15:39:20 -0500


Anybody on this list know anything definite about the supposed CD reissue of
the "Barbarella" soundtrack?
I keep hearing rumors but so far not many specifics.  Any information would
be appreciated.

                          DARRELL BROGDON <[e-mail]>



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From: [e-mail] (Brian Salter)
Subject: Re: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
Date: 22 Aug 1997 14:43:11 -0800



I've recently been getting into the wonderful soundtrack work
of Neal Hefti; picked up the new 'Batman' reissue and on LP I
have the 'Odd Couple' (great!) and 'Oh Dad, Poor Dad...' (good).
any suggestions on what Hefti soundtracks are worth tracking
down, and is there any of his non-soundtrack work that is in a
similar vein or otherwise noteworthy?

-Brian



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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Neal Hefti
Date: 22 Aug 1997 14:49:40 -0700


and is there any of his ______non-soundtrack________ work that is in a
>similar vein or otherwise noteworthy?
>
>-Brian

Nope

Jack



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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Lolita
Date: 22 Aug 1997 14:53:38 -0700


Nelson Riddle's score to the wonderful and twisted sick-o type of action
featuring Hubert Humbert(???) has just been released on Compact Disc.

Got a promo copy is how I know.

Haven't listened to it yet BUT I'm sure it is Ga-Roooooooooo-Rooooooooooo-Vy!

Lots and lots o' tracks too

-Jack


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) My $.02 worth on Jack Diamond
Date: 22 Aug 1997 18:54:11 -0400 (EDT)


Being rather new on the list and way behind on my eMail I have belatedly
tuned in to the Jack D. "controversy."
I have enjoyed numerous dealings with Jack and have found him to be
knowledgable, savvy, fair, honest, and possessing a fascinating range of
musical tastes (mostly wack-o, of course( ; - > ).  His postings are always
fun and informative.
I would support unequivocally any change in the rules governing this list
that he favored.  Restricting him would be a horrible idea IMHO.
OTOH, whoever runs the list has a job to do, and ordinarily does a GREAT job.
 Perhaps these 2 creative forces need to get together with the intention of
stretching the rules to include some limited buying/selling--perhaps this is
in the works?!?!




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Portsmouth Sinfonia
Date: 22 Aug 1997 19:01:43 -0400 (EDT)


One of the great kicks is to put Also Sprach Zarathustra on the TT while
handing the JKT to an innocent-bystanding classical music fan to peruse
(deadpan, of course).  When the 1st climax (C major-Cminor orch. chords)
occurs,  the guest is on the floor.


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
Date: 22 Aug 1997 22:03:03 -0400 (EDT)


In a message dated 97-08-22 17:44:21 EDT, Brian wrote:

<< any suggestions on what Hefti soundtracks are worth tracking
 down,  >>

you might try and enjoy:

Sex And The Single Girl
Synanon

i don't know about:

Barefoot In The Park
Duel At Diablo
Lord Love A Duck
Harlow
How To Murder Your Wife
Boeing, Boeing



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Nelson Riddle's Lolita OST
Date: 22 Aug 1997 22:09:00 -0400 (EDT)


Rhino and TCM(Turner Classic Movies) have released Nelson Riddle & Bob
Harris'  OST for Kubrick's Lolita. I read a long while ago that Tomahawk Ted
was buying up rights to tons of movies for his cable stations. They put out
that Mambos Marimbas whatever CD a couple months ago with some Cugie stuff
from Esther Williams movies.  Who knows what may be next, "Bop Girl goes
Calypso" ?
Meanwhile, the Lolita CD is fine, with many choice dialogue sound bites and
songs that weren't on the MGM OST release, like the Shelly winters seduction
cha-cha (which will sound pretty sedate to most of us cha-cha experts.)  Its
in mono, and says the original was released to an unsuspecting public in
"ersatz" stereo, which must be  why the voices in the LP Ya-Ya always sounded
so distorted. For some reason they left off the menacing track called
"Humbert Contemplates Killing His Wife" , and the CD cover coloring is awful
compared to the beautiful original LP.  However, there is a great booklet
with pics (#1 hound dog prez JFK at the premiere) and informative &
entertaining liner notes by the esteemed Joseph Lanza. I didnt know Errol
Flynn was dying to play Humbert and Tuesday Weld was considered for Lo. Its
not a must have unless you are a Lolita Ya Ya fan  like myself.  See the
brilliant movie again, it gets better and funnier every time.

Real Humberts will be happier with Charlotte Gainsebourg's import "Lemon
Incest" CD with Papa Serge. It's one of the "Actrices" series that has cd's
by Be-Be, Deneuve, Moreau, Birkin, & Adjani.  Sacre bleu, Serge, what the
hell were you up to over there !

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) More Soundtrack Reissues
Date: 22 Aug 1997 22:23:27 -0400 (EDT)


Razor and Tie just released the original and very hard-to-find Edwin Astley
british television scores to:

The Saint
Secret Agent (tons of harpsicord)

Unlike the Batman reissue, these are sold separately - no "two-fers" this
time.  Still at the "budget" price (about thirty minutes each) no extra
tracks.

God Bless You, Razor and Tie













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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Free Mr. Diamond
Date: 23 Aug 1997 02:50:11 -0400 (EDT)


>flip as always, and missing Mr. Diamond.

>Clark

Clark,
you must really have a thing for Jack if you are "missing" him.
In case you didn't notice, this fiasco has actually INCREASED Jack's frequent
postings


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Moondog
Date: 23 Aug 1997 00:31:49 -0700


I had heard that Moondog had just recently passed away.

Is there anyone else here that can verify this in any way like maybe you
heard it too ?

Thanks,
Jack


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Hanalei reminder
Date: 23 Aug 1997 04:19:35 -0400 (EDT)


For those of you who didn't get my email the first time or lost the number
here's Lounge's announcement:

THE ISLANDS/HANALEI -- On a sad and frustrating note, the management of
the magestic tiki lounge, The Islands has announced that they will
remodel the interior at the end of this month. This is not good. In fact
this is very bad. For all of you who have visited the weekly club 'Taboo'
you know that this is a treasure that must be preserved. We invite and
request that everyone on this mailing list call teh Hanalei at 1 (800)
882-0858 and urge them to keep the Islands Lounge intact. We will keep
everyone posted on preservation efforts.


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From: the_curator <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jack and Jay
Date: 23 Aug 1997 09:39:24 +0100


Now that Jack is free, why don't we try to spring Screamin' Jay Hawkins as
well?


friendly

Sem Sinatra

Silencer: http://www.sonnet.co.uk/silencer ...."as if music mattered"




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Silvestre Revueltas
Date: 23 Aug 1997 11:10:56 -0400


* * * * * * * * * *

This is a commercial message, but not from me. I found the following on
the OrchestraList and am passing it along to the ExoticaList. I have no
vested interest whatever in this release.

Silvestre Revueltas was cited by Esquivel as a big influence. Revueltas
does not sound like Esquivel, but he was an avant-garde Mexican composer
who inspired Juan during his formative years, hence he might of interest
to some on the list.

> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 14:51:39 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Monique Durham <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Silvestre Revueltas
>
> The University of New Mexico Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of
> Jorge Perez-Gomez, has just released a new compact disc of the music for
> chamber orchestra of the important 20th-century Mexican composer Silvestre
> Revueltas (1899-1940).  This compact disc includes the first recording of
> "Batik" from 1926, and other unknown works as "Siete Canciones" , "Pieza
> para Orchestra", "El Renacuajo Paseador", "Tres sonetos" "Ocho por Radio"
> and  "Hommage to Federico Lorca".  This compact disc is $14 in
> the U.S. and $16 outside of the U.S.  If interested, please contact Jorge
> Perez-Gomez at : [e-mail]  or call 505-277-5135
> or contact me directly by e-mail.
> Also in the work is another CD of Revueltas' music.  Jorge is in contact
> with the Revueltas' family in Mexico City -- they are releasing some of
> the composer's work to him.
>
> Thank you so very much!!
> Monique Durham
> University of New Mexico
> Center for Southwest Research
> John Donald Robb Archives of Southwestern Music
> Albuquerque, New Mexico
> 87131-1466   505-277-7107 (office) 505-277-6451 (message)
> Fax:[phone]
> e-mail:  [e-mail]

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From: "kevin king" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A New Thread--Soundtracks!
Date: 22 Aug 1997 19:34:13 +0000



> I've recently been getting into the wonderful soundtrack work
> of Neal Hefti; picked up the new 'Batman' reissue and on LP I
> have the 'Odd Couple' (great!) and 'Oh Dad, Poor Dad...' (good).
> any suggestions on what Hefti soundtracks are worth tracking
> down, and is there any of his non-soundtrack work that is in a
> similar vein or otherwise noteworthy?

Synanon is a mostly great one imo.  A couple of throwaway vocals
(chorus), a few jazz loungers and some go-go like music similar to
Batman's...  on vinyl it's easy to find I think.  There's a sample
and scan at http://www.radix.net/~xanadu/spyjazz/synanon

kevin
...who's addicted to that amazingly entertaining 'the Bins' site Doug
suggested


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Help! What is this?
Date: 22 Aug 1997 19:32:17 -0400 (EDT)


Hello all-
I picked up "Theatrical Movers"--it's in a really cool jkt--opens (front)
like the back of a truck to reveal a pull-down 4-level 3-dimensional display
of silhouetted B'way stars.  The back looks like the front of a truck comin'
at ya with a US flag and the words "Yankee Doodle Dandys" above the radiator.
 It reads "Exxon Chemical Co. USA brings you the B'way Stage, with some of
the most memorable moments, blah blah blah".  The lp is a couple dozen
selections from shows  (Carousel, S.Pacific, King & I, Show Boat, etc) , and
the label reads "Yankee Doodle Dandys" in a red-white-blue banner at 12
o'clock and "Exxon Chemicals" at 6 o'clock ("Fleetwood Microsonic Compatible
Stereo").
            Has anybody seen this?  Is it "rare"?
Thanks in advance
Chuck


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From: Philip Jackson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Fabulous Portsmouth Sinfonia
Date: 23 Aug 1997 17:35:26 +1000 (EST)


There are at least three PS albums.

I have "Portsmouth Sinfonia plays the popular classics"
       "Hallelujah - live at the royal albert hall"
       "PS - 20 clasic rock classics" which includes a wonderful version
of "A Day In The Life" ( L/Mc)

                      _---_      Philip Jackson      ()_()
                   ?  V. .V      Melbourne           |. .|  !
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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Music For TV Dinners
Date: 23 Aug 1997 11:16:34 -0400


From this weeks Tower epulse [Fri, 22 Aug 1997]

>1. madame, the canned peas are over there...
>     Easy listening music once was an untouchable genre in so-called
>hipster circles -- until underground cartoonists started championing the
>textural aesthetic delights proffered by the old Esquivel and Les Baxter
>albums they were scoring in thrift stores on the cheap. Back in the heyday
>of Googie-style coffee shops and tailfinned sedans, before rock'n'roll took
>over, easy listening was ubiquitous: You'd hear it in TV commercials, in
>supermarkets, practically everywhere. The market demand for these
>business-music products was solid, and snappy easy-listening
>mini-masterpieces were getting cranked out like sausages by jingle houses
>that specialized in the stuff; many of these firms were located in England.
>THE MOODSONG PROJECT's 'MUSIC FOR TV DINNERS' (Scamp, out now), which
>depicts a mouth-watering Swanson's "Salisbury steak" dinner on its cover,
>collects 16 of these tasty orchestrated confections that were originally
>conceived to function as stock tracks for ad-agency sound libraries. These
>evocative little symphonettes range from Percy Faith-style orchestral romps
>to Raymond Scott-like cartoon soundbeds to cheesy '60s period pieces a la
>the Tijuana Brass-meets-Paul Mauriat on a soft-porn soundtrack. Whilst the
>profoundly utilitarian nature of these tracks works for elevators, on-hold
>telephone programmes, 'Ren & Stimpy' episodes and parties fashionable or
>trashy, there are many other applications, in both the business and
>pleasure orbits. The disc's executive producer, frequent Pulse! contributor
>Joseph Lanza, promises that a second volume is due sometime in October.





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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Fabulous Portsmouth Sinfonia
Date: 23 Aug 1997 22:57:38 -0400 (EDT)



In a message dated 8/23/97 9:58:25 PM, you wrote:

<<There are at least three PS albums.

I have "Portsmouth Sinfonia plays the popular classics"
       "Hallelujah - live at the royal albert hall"
       "PS - 20 clasic rock classics" which includes a wonderful version
of "A Day In The Life" ( L/Mc)
 >>

I am now dreaming of the day when I find "20 Rock Classics". Sounds great.
What are the other tunes?


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From: [e-mail] (Peter Principle)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Perez, mancini, london
Date: 23 Aug 1997 22:36:14 -0500


Hi

>>>1. did Perez Prado ever record a version of "Anna" and if so, on what LP
>>can it be found?
>>>>Anna (or El negro zumbon) was released by the =
>>Saludos Amigos label on Perez Prado - Ciliegi Rosa which is a very =
>>comprehensive compilation
>>
>>I had a feeling it was on 'Pops and Prado', but I'm probably wrong.  I
>>second that recommendation for 'Ciliegi Rosa' - the compilation on the
>>Saludos Amigos label.  The artwork for their CDs leaves something to be
>>desired, but the quality of the recordings is always great - I haven't been
>>let down yet.
>
>definitely not on "Pops & Prado".. theres a "Carolina," an " Ida,"  and a
>"Suzie," but no "Anna".  I'm beginning to think it was on a mexican
>release.  if someone knows otherwise, please inform.  thanks for the
>'Ciliegi Rosa' CD tip, BTW.

Yep, Mexican release RCA MKL 1287 Las Novias Del Mambo  by Perez Prado Y Su
Orchesta  Vol VI... all the titles are named after women Elsie, Marilyn
Monroe, Sylvana Mangano, Lupita, Estrellita, Marta  well you get the
picture .  This is just one of many Perez Prado Mexican only releases,
there is a cover album of almost all of those songs by Orquesta de
Ingenieria on Mexican RCA Camden but Anna is replaced by Laura ! <;-0 ,and
anyway there are many other great Mexican exoticians like Pablo Beltran
Ruiz, Juan Tores, Llobet Y Spinola, Pepe Castillo y su banda, Guty
Cardenas, Los Mambolocos,etc.  asz you can imagine I have made a few record
hunting safariis south of the border in my time...

cheers
peter


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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Fabulous Portsmouth Sinfonia
Date: 24 Aug 1997 09:03:50 -0400


I forgot to mention that I saw the Portsmouth Sinfonia on Ripley's Believe
It or Not some years ago.  They were performing, the audience was laughing
and the narration (the wonderfully breathy Jack Palance) was poking fun,
saying things along the lines of the orchestra playing Beethoven and
Beethoven lost, etc.

After the performance, one of the players was interviewed.  To answer the
charge that they were considered the World's Worst Orchestra, he said that
he liked to think that their orchestra was best and all of the others were
bad.

Incidentally, the "Schickele Mix" program did a show on musical mistakes,
including an orchestra (he withheld the name) that was truly awful.

One last anecdote: the Bocham Philharmonic was not the best of orchestras
and a famous conductor (I cannot recall the name) who was the guest
conductor that night was asked after a performance, "Maestro, when was the
last time that you conducted the Bocham Philharmonic?"

He replied, "Tonight!"

Believe it(inhale) or (exhale) not,
Brian Phillips


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From: Ariel Tagar <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) weekend finds!!!
Date: 24 Aug 1997 22:59:35 +0300 (IDT)


After a long week of photographing somewhere in the far north of the country
I went right to the flea market:

NEW SOUND TANGOS- Franck Pourcel et son grand orchestra- for those who dig
the tango (I dont really do)

OTRA- "Fiesta Feliz" con los Primos (eehhh)

DANCE PARTY DISCOTHEQUE-  a 5 (!) LP set by: Tito Martinez & orchestra, Joel
Perez and the grayhounds- a great set of music!!!!

Le grand orchestra de Paul Mauriat- "Apres Toi" no need to specify!

DO YOU WANNA DANCE! performed by the " Soul Seneation". mainstreem soul

SPECIAL DISCO PARTY vol.1- get your copy now!!!!


The EASY PAGE, Easy listening and lounge culture.
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/3076
Ariel Tagar <[e-mail]>




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Eartha Kitt sighting
Date: 25 Aug 1997 09:08:56 -0400 (EDT)


Did anyone else catch Eartha Kitt on Jeopardy the other night? She is no
great shakes as a triviologist--this I now know


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Time reissued
Date: 25 Aug 1997 10:23:08 -0700



     The crazy folks at Time Records have reissued their old LP's. From the
     archives of TIME records comes the cafe musics series which features
     Hugo Montenegro, Hal Mooney, Al Caiola, Manhattan Pops Orchestra,etc..
     all remastered. The only problem is they mixed the songs all up across
     various cutesy 12 song compilations. Here are the full-stereo
     compilations available now:

     Cafe Brasso -      Brass Favorites
     Cafe Amoretto -    Italian Love Songs
     Cafe Tango Mambo - Latin ballroom Dance Tango, Cha-Cha
     Cafe Vienna Waltz -Waltzes orchestral
     Cafe O Le -        Spanish romantic
     Cafe Java Bongo -  Percussion bongos and congas
     Cafe Encore -      Brodway songs
     Cafe Noir -        Murder and mystery themes
     Cafe Expresso -    Standard Ballroom, Fox trot, etc..
     Cafe DeCafe -      Up tempo work out themes
     Cafe Smooch -      Romantic late night
     Cafe de Paris -    French love songs

     Oh, I forgot to mention they also put some coffee beans in the CD
     jewel case. That is the extent of their no budget packaging. The
     downside: No liner notes or reference material. The upside: They go
     for $6.99



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From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Junk stores, etc.
Date: 25 Aug 1997 12:37:23 -0400


I was talking with one of my students recently about the market for used
CDs and records and he mentioned that in his homeland, Argentina, there
are virtually no used CD stores.  People are ashamed to buy things second-
hand, and they prefer the new.  I've found the same thing in Mexico City,
which has almost the population of Canada but fewer used CD and record
outlets, it seems, than the city I grew up in.  There, as well, there was the
sense that the middle-class wanted nothing to do with second-hand music.
Books were ok as second-hand purchases as long as they fell under the
antiquarian umbrella.  As for second-hand clothes . . . well, forget it.

Does anyone else out there have observations on the status/rarity of
second hand record and CD markets in other countries?

Will
Will Straw

Associate Professor and Acting Director,
Graduate Program in Communications
McGill University
3465 rue Peel,
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 1W7

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

Director, The Centre for Research on Canadian Cultural Industries and
Institutions
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/crccii/

Co-editor.  Topia:  A Journal of Canadian and Cultural Studies
http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/gpc/topia/





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From: [e-mail] (R.Preston Peek)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Junk stores, etc.
Date: 25 Aug 1997 14:12:08 -0400


>
>Does anyone else out there have observations on the status/rarity of
>second hand record and CD markets in other countries?

I'm not sure whether this reflects any sociological trend toward acceptance
of the "used" or not, but I uncovered quite a few used record stores whilst
on a recent trip to Mexico City, including a couple in modern malls (when's
the last time you found used LPs in a Sam Goody?).  It may be of note that
several of the stores had only recently opened (one the day before I showed
up).  Most of the stores were hoppin', so I can only surmise that the
owners are doing quite well.

A write-up of my adventures in MC will be featured in the upcoming Issue 10
of Exotica/Et Cetera (which, incidentally, has just been picked up by
Desert Moon Periodicals!).

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From: Jeff Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Eight tracks (the e is for "exotica" ) ^_-
Date: 25 Aug 1997 10:14:43 -0700


Jessica Cameron wrote:

>>>I thought it would be nice if some of the
8-track collectors on the list could share with us some of their finds--just
for the heck of it . ^_^ <<<

Well, I must admit that the very first Enoch Light album I ever owned was
Persuasive Percussion, and yes, IT WAS AN 8-TRACK.  It was the beginning of
a long, Light-headed relationship.  While the sound quality doesn't quite
compare to that on the Lp, it sure sounded great in my 1972 Oldsmobile 98.
GOD I MISS THAT CAR!

EZ does it,

Jeff Phillips

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From: Steve Sando <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Junk stores, etc.
Date: 25 Aug 1997 11:16:42 -0700


At 12:37 PM 8/25/97 -0400, Will Straw wrote:
>Does anyone else out there have observations on the status/rarity of
>second hand record and CD markets in other countries?

In Milano, I found two stores. One was exclusively jazz and the other, way
on the outskirts of town, had some great old 1960s Italian pop, plus some
classic rock, but the prices were ridiculous. This was 10 years ago and CDs
were just starting to hit in Italy. I wonder if the situation is different
now.

I remember asking my Italian friends if there were any vintage clothing
shops (I wouldn't mind some classic Italian rags!) and they were horrified
that I'd even consider wearing used clothes.

* * *
Steve Sando, Coconut Grove Media
PO Box 78146, San Francisco, CA 94107
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Persistence of Darin
Date: 25 Aug 1997 14:27:13 -0400 (EDT)


One of my earliest--in fact THE earliest visual memory I have musically
speaking is seeing Darin sing "Queen Of The Hop" on the saturday night Dick
Clark show, and thinking to myself--which of my favorite way--"Hey this guy
is what manhood is about"


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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Retro
Date: 25 Aug 1997 14:44:37 -0400 (EDT)


FYI Y'all.
-Lou

>11. Retro--The Magazine of Classic 20th Century Popular Culture [RealAudio,
>Quicktime]
>http://www.retroactive.com/
>
>This bimonthly ezine, provided by Retro LLC, concentrates on "celebrating
>classic popular culture of the first three-fourths of the 20th century." It
>is highlighted by RetroRadio, RealAudio music selections presently
>featuring an article on the Monterrey Pop festival of 1967, which includes
>selections from Otis Redding, Janis Joplin, The Mamas and the Papas, The
>Jefferson Airplane, and Jimi Hendrix, among others. Previous articles have
>featured blues and cowboy music. Tip Tray offers articles on fashion,
>shopping, and collecting, as well as book and CD-ROM reviews. Teletype
>offers daily commentary along with hypertext links when available. You can
>also send an electronic card from the Card Rack (pulp magazine and 1920's
>sheet music covers are some of the choices available). An archive of back
>issues is available. Users are encouraged to take the "first time tour" to
>help navigate this eclectic and fun site.




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) I'm HOOKED
Date: 25 Aug 1997 15:02:59 -0400 (EDT)


I went to a "used" record sale and bought 300+ lp's.  Just got through
listing the lounge/exotics.  My eyeballs are fried.
If anyone would like their own "personal" copy of the list ( ; - } )   please
LMK, and we can commiserate.
Good vibes to all!
Chuck


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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: (exotica) Junk stores
Date: 25 Aug 1997 12:13:33 PDT


A really interesting thread. . .

And my first question is, so where are all the used records and/or clothes
in these countries? The dump? Still in the collective attic? Sounds like
Mexico City is *the place* to open a used record store (and get first pick
on what comes over the counter).

I have a friend in Paris who has been finding amazing used records for me
over there (if you like French stuff). Mostly Pierre Henry, Jacques Dutronc,
and Serge Gainsbourg (that's what I'm after, so that's what she tells me
about). The prices are steep - definitely collector's stores.

Also, as an antithesis to these countries that fear the used clothing item,
consider Japan which has a huge market in high-priced American jeans
(and records for that matter). My understanding from various magazine articles
is that a used pair of Levi's goes for double or more the cost of a new pair,
especially if it has a dipper's ring (mark from a tin of Copenhagen snuff)
peering through the back pocket to identify it as authentic American cowboy
clothing.

It all comes down to cooties.

Clark


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Junk stores
Date: 25 Aug 1997 16:55:08 -0400


> From: Clark Scheffy <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) Junk stores
>
> Also, as an antithesis to these countries that fear the used clothing item,
> consider Japan which has a huge market in high-priced American jeans
> (and records for that matter). My understanding from various magazine
articles
> is that a used pair of Levi's goes for double or more the cost of a new pair.

Similarly, a little while back I saw a TV news item on used U.S. sneakers
selling for big bucks in Japan -- like hundreds of bucks. And the more worn,
the better. Of course, this was TV news, so I took it all with a grain of salt.
Is there anyone from Japan on this list? If so, feel free to give us the real
word on this.

m.ace
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From: [e-mail] (Tosh)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Junk stores
Date: 25 Aug 1997 14:03:18 -0700 (PDT)


>> From: Clark Scheffy <[e-mail]>
>> Subject: (exotica) Junk stores
>>
>> Also, as an antithesis to these countries that fear the used clothing item,
>> consider Japan which has a huge market in high-priced American jeans
>> (and records for that matter). My understanding from various magazine
>articles
>> is that a used pair of Levi's goes for double or more the cost of a new pair.
>
>Similarly, a little while back I saw a TV news item on used U.S. sneakers
>selling for big bucks in Japan -- like hundreds of bucks. And the more worn,
>the better. Of course, this was TV news, so I took it all with a grain of salt.
>Is there anyone from Japan on this list? If so, feel free to give us the real
>word on this.
>
Particually true!  The Japanese market are well aware of Levi and Tennis
shoe history.  They know what line of levi might have been 'small edition'
or exactly what era that jean or shoe was manufactered.  So it is not
exactly how worn the item is, but where it came from and from what time
period.

On the record front, Japan (Tokyo) has the best record stores than any
other city.  Simply amazing!

-----------------
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TamTam Books
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Thrift Score on Tour
Date: 25 Aug 1997 17:39:52 -0400 (EDT)


I just got a postcard from Al Hoff, creator of the zine ThriftSCORE.
This info pertains to NY, but maybe she'll be coming to *your* town, too.

Party to Honor Al Hoff on the publication of her new book "ThriftSCORE."
Thursday, Sept. 4 8:00PM
Motor City Bar (127 Ludlow St. between Rivington & Delancy   212-358-1595)
-Fashion show styled by Al Hoff at 9PM!
-Free raffle of thrift items & Al's book!
-Second-hand music by DJ Shakey!
Free admission - Bring in your old clothes to donate to our rummage tables
Take clothes home free!

Also: Al will be at See Hear Books  (33 St. Marks Place NY 212-505-9781)
Friday, September 5 from 7-8PM

Just another FYI from
Lou




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrift Score & Sun Ra Books
Date: 25 Aug 1997 20:59:38 -0400 (EDT)


A Thrift Score Book?  Now everybody will start snatching up those USA
Bicentennial souvenirs the zine recommended a while back.  Get your "Amana
Presents Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass" while you can.

While at your bookstore, look for what appears to be a very interesting Sun
Ra bio called "Space is The Place."  Browsing on my luch hour has proved
fascinating so far.

JB


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Dirty smelly sneakers
Date: 25 Aug 1997 22:27:52 -0400 (EDT)


In a message dated 97-08-25 17:18:44 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:

<<
 Similarly, a little while back I saw a TV news item on used U.S. sneakers
 selling for big bucks in Japan -- like hundreds of bucks. And the more worn,
 the better. Of course, this was TV news, so I took it all with a grain of
salt.
 Is there anyone from Japan on this list? If so, feel free to give us the
real
 word on this. >>

Im not from Japan but frequent the Rose Bowl swap meet (in Pasadena,
California) quite a bit and my parents are dealers and collectors of pottery,
etc.  There are tons of dirty smelly old sneakers and jeans for sale there.
 Like 2 or 3 isles worth of dealers.  My mom told me an interesting story
about how her friend had a pair of old sneakers that someone offered to buy
for $200!  The person then turned around and had them for sale at their stall
for $700!  Apparently the demand is coming from the Japanese - why someone
would pay $700 for a pair of dirty old sneakers is beyond me - but then I
collect dirty old Heywood Wakefield, which has become an extremely expensive
and coveted furniture item at the flea markets, so I guess desire is in the
eye of the beholder.

- Michele
Flipside Fanzine


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Help! What is this?
Date: 25 Aug 1997 19:56:32 -0700 (PDT)


At 07:32 PM 8/22/97 -0400, Chuck wrote:
>I picked up "Theatrical Movers"--it's in a really cool jkt-...
>            Has anybody seen this?  Is it "rare"?

Chuck, like so many records (other than Herb Alpert's Whipped Cream LP), I
have only run across this one once!  I got it because I am a nut for
innovative LP packaging (you can't do that pop-up art with a CD, I bet!).
So, I guess its more rare than Herb Alpert, but there are at least two of
them that we know of now.

I am no big broadway fan, but I keep the records...and will definitely hang
on to this one because of its unique packaging.

Other records I enjoy because of their cool packaging (original issues only,
reissues usually eliminated the die cuts, extra stuff and provided
photographic reproductions instead):

Sticky Fingers    Rolling Stones     It has an actual zipper
(unknown title)   Led Zeppelin       Cardboard wheel turns...
Some Girls        Rolling Stone      Wig ad turned into pop art
Stones            Neil Diamond       String Tied closure
The Good Book     Melanie            Little lyric book behind cover tabs

I know I have others I value for these little extra touches.  Any others
people enjoy?

Byron Caloz


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Dirty smelly sneakers
Date: 25 Aug 1997 20:53:24 -0700


What KIND of old sneakers ?

Chuck Conners High Tops ?  What ???

Jack


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Dirty smelly sneakers
Date: 26 Aug 1997 00:12:01 -0400 (EDT)


In a message dated 97-08-25 23:56:05 EDT, you write:

<< What KIND of old sneakers ?

 Chuck Conners High Tops ?  What ???
  >>


I don't know but they musta been SOME sneakers.

- Michele

P.S.  Seriously, I think they are interested in like old Nikes.  I don't
think my dad's circa 1970's L.L. Cool Jay's would make the desirability list.

- Michele
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Time reissued
Date: 26 Aug 1997 00:20:56 -0400 (EDT)



In a message dated 8/25/97 5:49:21 PM, you wrote:

<<Cafe Java Bongo -  Percussion bongos and congas

     Cafe Noir -        Murder and mystery themes>>

Are these two any good?  They sound the most interesting.


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Beat Jazz/Jazz Beat
Date: 25 Aug 1997 21:51:15 -0700


When I was back east in Boston a few weeks ago for my niece's wedding, 1 of
the true top 5 highlights was when all of the family obligations were over
and I had a day to look for the black shiny flat plastic things AND scoring
this rekkid called;

Beat Jazz - Pictures From A Gone World.

It has 2 or 3 pieces from Jazz Cannto-An Anthology of Poetry and Jazz
(World Pacific, 1957), a super cool Slim Gaillard # I never heard before
and a bunch of great beat spoken word and jazz titles that are the mac
A insanely wonderful title by Jack Hammer called "Like"

At least 12 titles all told

It's the shit!

It's on Pesky Serpent Rekkids.  Only found in yer 1 off type o' indie
rekkid stores

Good luck and have fun

Jack


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Jim Copp and Ed Brown
Date: 26 Aug 1997 00:54:24 -0400


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

Fans of the whimsical kiddie eccentricities of (the possibly
soon-to-be-late) Jim Copp and (the already late) Ed Brown should check
out a website created by Playhouse Records, who are releasing some of
the pair's work on CD:

http://members.aol.com/playhytone/

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From: Philip Jackson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Fabulous Portsmouth Sinfonia
Date: 26 Aug 1997 14:49:31 +1000 (EST)


On Sat, 23 Aug 1997 [e-mail] wrote:

>
> I am now dreaming of the day when I find "20 Rock Classics". Sounds great.
> What are the other tunes?

Track List is:
Pinball Wizard
Apache
Leader of the Pack
A Whiter Shade of Pale
You Really Got Me
Uptown Top Ranking
Glad All Over
Heartbreak Hotel
Telstar
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Nut Rocker
Don't Cry For Me Argentina
Rock Around The Clock
You Should Be Dancing
It's Only Make Believe
Nights In White Satin
My Boy Lollipop
God Only Knows
Satisfaction
A Day In The Life

Hope you find a copy.

                      _---_      Philip Jackson      ()_()
                   ?  V. .V      Melbourne           |. .|  !
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [LONG] Cool & Strange Music! #6 is out
Date: 26 Aug 1997 11:38:27 -0400 (EDT)


I'm forwarding this announcement for Dana Countryman, honcho of C&SM!.
Sorry about the length, but Dana does go on a bit.
--Lou

Issue #6 of Cool And Strange Music! Magazine is here, and it's our best
yet!!

It's another cool issue, a whopping 48 pages, beautifully offset-printed,
with a cool color cover, loads more photos, tons of new wacky and weird CD
reviews and it's more fun than a taking Grandma to a Marilyn Manson
concert!

Featuring articles on Halloween Music, Little Marcy, Industrial Show
Music, the coolness of Wayne Newton, an exclusive interview with Doctor
Demento, an article about The Optigan, Mattel Toy's ill-conceived
disc-playing musical instrument, a photo-spread of Honky Tonk Girls LP
Covers, a look at the wonderfully weird record collection of minor media
celebrity Ed Kaz, lots of wacky, new CD reviews, and loads more!! There's
even a contest where you can win some or Nick At Nite Records' new CDs!
It's 48 pages of musical mayhem and madness!

It all starts with a cool cover story/interview about Doctor Demento, a
true championing pioneer of unusual records. Demento can claim to be
responsible for discovering "Weird" Al Yankovic and Barnes & Barnes, among
hundreds of other wacky musicians, groups and singers with a taste for the
weird. Jeff Morris interviewed the highly influencial Doctor, and
photographed him exclusively for COOL AND STRANGE MUSIC! MAGAZINE.

Next, we have an EXCLUSIVE interview with Marcy Tigner of LITTLE MARCY
fame! Yep, the same Little Marcy that you've no doubt seen in countless
thrift shop used record bins. Courtesy of Dr. Zomb's Stereo Obscura (he
wrote the article), we'll find out all about the singing Christian
ventriloquist doll, (yes, she STILL exists!), and we're proud as punch to
have found Little Marcy alive and well, and to feature her in the
magazine! Bet you'll never see an article on her anywhere else, kids!

If you never really thought Wayne Newton was all that cool, this next
article might just change your mind. Writer Rich Wilhelm tells how he
became a "WayneHead", and gives a tour through the Wayneman's career and
his records.

Wilhelm Murg talks about some of his favorite Halloween Records, in a
hilarious look at the "other" musical holiday. Hey, "Monster Mash" is
nowhere to be found in this one, but there's plenty more great Monster and
Horror tunes out there to go around!

Find out all about "The Optigan", a short-lived organ-like musical
instrument made by Mattel in the early '70s. A rather badly designed
keyboard, it was only produced for a few short years, quickly dropped from
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onto one in a thrift shop, and now has practically devoted his life to
spreading the gospel of the Optigan sound. Mr. Hicks tells the Optigan's
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Our favorite girl reporter, Courtney Bombeck interviews the almost famous
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And speaking of LP covers, we have a delish centerfold of leggy and busty
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From: "Bailey, David BGI MW" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Rosebowl Flea Market
Date: 26 Aug 1997 08:49:00 -0700


My wife and I are planning on going to the Rosebowl Flea Market next
month
(driving down from S.F.) Any tips? What to check out? What to avoid? I
understand that it's GIGANTIC! We don't want to burn-out looking at old
tennis shoes... :)

Thanks, David (and Pam)

Also any nice, but cool hotel recommendations? Not too pricey...
Or any cool bars that will actually let us in the door?


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Soundtracks
Date: 26 Aug 1997 12:27:48 -0400


I don't know about the availability of this on round, rotating objects, but
I've gotta give a shout for Masaru Sato's score for "Yojimbo" (1961, dir. Akira
Kurosawa). It's a very successful mix of eastern and western elements. Main
instrumentation is percussion, horns, woodwinds and harpsichord. Maybe a touch
of electric guitar in the opening theme. If you can't find the music otherwise,
get the movie -- it's excellent ("Fistful Of Dollars" was virtually a
shot-for-shot remake). Japan seems to be dominating my personal synchronicity
this week. Besides this movie, there's also the used jeans/sneakers thread, and
last night I caught the Kodo drummers on PBS. Good show, if it turns up on your
local pledge drive.

m.ace
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From: [e-mail] (Subliminal Sounds)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Time reissued
Date: 26 Aug 1997 18:48:21 +0200 (MET DST)


Any one got a contact adress, fax, e-mail for Time Records?

Stefan/Subliminal Sounds



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From: [e-mail] (Subliminal Sounds)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Junk stores, etc.
Date: 26 Aug 1997 18:54:38 +0200 (MET DST)


Will Straw wrote:
>I was talking with one of my students recently about the market for used
>CDs and records and he mentioned that in his homeland, Argentina, there
>are virtually no used CD stores. =20

Oh, I have a friend who just came back from Argentina and he had hit loads=
=20
of great used vinyl/CD/clothes stores over there. Lots of rare exotica,=20
psych, funk and darn cheap too and he was only there 3 weeks on vacation.=20
There=B4s also several great mail-order lists from there. BUT records from=
=20
South America are usually pretty trashed.

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From: [e-mail] (Subliminal Sounds)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Junk stores, etc.
Date: 26 Aug 1997 19:02:17 +0200 (MET DST)


Steve Sando wrote:
>I remember asking my Italian friends if there were any vintage clothing
>shops (I wouldn't mind some classic Italian rags!) and they were horrified
>that I'd even consider wearing used clothes.

Most Italians I know (ages between: 20-35) wears nothing but used American
clothes from the 50s-60s, bowling shirts etc so I guess it depends on where
you look.

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From: Ross Orr <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hawaii--Real or Fake?
Date: 26 Aug 1997 13:13:00 -0400


I wonder if anyone on the list can recommend some good books or articles on
Hawaiian music . . . I'm starting to feel like I could use a little help
sorting out who is who. . .

I have always had this strange fascination with so-called "Hawaiian" LPs of
all kinds. These can turn out to be anything from haunting, traditional
artists, to swingin' crossover hotel bands, to total honkie studio vets who
have never laid eyes on a *photo* of Hawaii.

For example this weekend I got one completely suspect budget-label LP, and
two delightful 10" 33s from "Terna Hawaii Recording Co." The 10"ers had
great Deco-y abstract cover art, and covered many   of the standards we on
the mainland think of as Hawaiian--i.e. only English-lyric songs like "Huki
Lau" and "Lovely Hula Hands"--but with excellent steel guitar and in a
musical style that sounded fairly genuine to me.

Meanwhile this Crown Records _Holiday in Hawaii_ has tracks that I've heard
recycled over and over on several budget labels, under 3 different band
names, with various bogus song titles. The one track called "Hawaiian Rock"
(a.k.a. "Hawaiian Holiday") is a wild-ass hawaiinized rockabilly kind of
thing, with a bleary yodeling vocal I don't believe is in ANY Earth
language, let alone a polynesian one. Nonetheless it is a great track and
I'm glad to own it despite the utter cultural insensitivity. But who was
this really???

(Speaking of insensitivity, the Acorn/Golden Tone release of this music has
a stock photo of three happy islanders on the cover "courtesy British West
Indian Airways"--oh well all those happy brown people are the same, right?)

The whole question of what is 'authentic' Hawaiian music is complicated by
the fact that Hawaii has been a cultural crossroads for centuries,
enthusiastically embracing musical ideas from all over. I have a great
Raymond Kane/Leonard Kwan record from 1960--these guys are as "real" as it
gets--but at that time they seem to have fallen deeply in love with plate
reverb, which they use on this disk at sometimes-psychedelic levels. And I
love it!

Righto, hope someone can point me towards the straight dope,

 --Ross

|| Ross "Mambo Frenzy" Orr  <[e-mail]>
|| Ann Arbor, Michigan USA




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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Jack
Date: 26 Aug 1997 11:14:32 -0700


KFJC play list THURSDAY 8/14/97 for Jack Diamond
Http://www.KFJC.org
Http://www.KFJC.org/Diamond

A different mix:


ARTIST                    TRACK                    ALBUM
____________________________________________________________________________
__________
Disposable Heroes...        California Uber Alles
Specials                    Ghost Town                Extended Mix
Hotel Easy                San Francisco Beat
Allan, Davie                Blues Theme                [coll]: Angel Dust
Outrageous Cherry            Nope
Frigg a Go Go                Preteen Love
Beme Seed                    Flange Song                Purify
Day the Earth Stood Still    The Glowing Alone...
Naked City                A Shot in the Dark            Naked City
Bob Mersey                W-N-E-W T V 50'S Sat Morn    Detective Show Theme!!!
Aladdins, the                Zizie La Touche            [coll]: Russ Meyer
Gainsbourg, Serge            Black Trombone                Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin
Dickies, the                Killer Klowns                Killer Klowns From Outer Space
Friends of Dean Martinez    Rattler                    Retrograde
Mina                        Spiral Waltz                10TH Victim Soundtrack
Fifty Foot Hose            Red the Sign Post            Cauldron
Valentine Six                Silencer                    Valentine Six
Creed, Helios                Scorpio Girl                Nugg" the Transport
Robert Cobert                Dark Shadows                Theremin, Electronics
Duke Robillard                Glide on                    Swing
Doctor Bop                Satin and Velvet
Allen, Davie & the Arrows    The Born Losers Theme        new 7" rips
Conn, Bobby                Never Get Ahead            Bobby Conn
Ananda Shankar                Metamorphosis                1970, Reprise
Frontier                    Space Invaders                Heater
Black Sabbath                Iron Man                    Paranoid
Ennio Morricone            Nobody Is Faster            My Name Is Nobody
Fleur De Lys                Hammerhead                Fuckin'amazing!
Roy Glenn                Big High Song for Somebody        Philip Whalen, 57
Satelliters,The            Nights in Spanish Harlem    Mysterious Sounds
Lyres                    You'll Never Do It Baby        Lyres Lyres
Chop Shop                    Jazz & Drums                Hip Hop Collage
Jr. and His Soulettes        Flip Will                    Psychodelic Sounds
Johnny Graas Nonet            Id                        Art Pepper,Decca, 56
Hugo Montenegro            Macarthur Park                Moog Power
Quincy Jones                One More Time                Walk, Don't Run
Charles Earland            Shanty Blues
Phil Upchurch                Cold Sweat
Henke, Mel                Last Night on the Back Porch    La Dolce Henke
Dot Dot Dot                3 Sons                    Dot Dot Dot Story, the
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Cosmic Rays,                The Dreaming                [coll]: Sun Ra - the Singles
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Fleshtones, the            Next Time                    Hitsburg Usa!
Mort Garson                Aries                    Zodiac Cosmic Sounds
Bob Mersey                Beatnik
Brother Weasel                Black not Red                Brother Weasel
Bruno NicolaiI                Want It All                [coll]: Beat at Cinecitta
Barry Adamson                The Man with the Golden Arm

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From: "Andrea Rota" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Junk stores
Date: 26 Aug 1997 16:45:25 +0200


> Does anyone else out there have observations on the status/rarity of
> second hand record and CD markets in other countries?

Hi, my name is Andrea and I live in Genoa (ITALY). Here there're many
second hand stores, records and clothes too. I've found last week some good
records: "007 theme" by Nancy Sinatra, "music for dining" and "music for
reading" by V.A.. For these 3 records i've paid (only??) 7$. You can find
in it some good rarities, ok maybe in U.S. these are not but in Italy they
are. In some clothes stores you can buy really cheap dresses and shoes.

Andrea.


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What is this? Wacky Packages!
Date: 26 Aug 1997 15:55:37 -0400


> From: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: (exotica) Help! What is this?
> Other records I enjoy because of their cool packaging (original issues only,
> reissues usually eliminated the die cuts, extra stuff and provided
> photographic reproductions instead):
> Sticky Fingers    Rolling Stones     It has an actual zipper
> (unknown title)   Led Zeppelin       Cardboard wheel turns...
> Some Girls        Rolling Stone      Wig ad turned into pop art
> Stones            Neil Diamond       String Tied closure
> The Good Book     Melanie            Little lyric book behind cover tabs
> I know I have others I value for these little extra touches.  Any others
> people enjoy?

Captain Beefheart's "Clear Spot" has a clear plastic cover with the title logo
embossed on a foldover flap. Unfortunately, this has gotten rather brittle over
the years.

The Faces' "Ooh La La" has a sliding die-cut action thingy of a posh gentleman
spotting a fab gal out the side of his eyes and dropping his jaw. "To move
face, squeeze top of album down." Interior gatefold art features can-can dancer
at full kick.

Jethro Tull's "Thick As A Brick" folds out into a full newspaper -- a parody in
the style of Monty Python. Much more entertaining than the music, actually --
depending on your tastes, that is.

Don't forget there were 2 versions of the Stones' "Some Girls". A briefly
available initial version which used photos of celebrities without their
permission, and was quickly replaced by a modified version ("Pardon our
appearance / Cover under reconstruction").

Dang, sorry about the nil exotica content here. Consider this a discussion of
exotic packaging (leaving the music aside for a moment) and maybe we're
alright?

m.ace
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Day-Glo A Go Go
Date: 26 Aug 1997 17:00:28 -0400 (EDT)


    CLEVELAND, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- A Saturday memorial service has been
scheduled for Robert Switzer, the co-founder of the Day-Glo Color Corp.,
who died Wednesday at his suburban Shaker Heights home at the age of 83.
    He and his brother, Joseph, began experimenting with fluorescent
pigments in 1934 at their mother's home in Berkeley, Calif., with an
initial outlay of $1.75. Two years later they moved to Cleveland and
developed fluorescent printing ink for theatrical posters.
    Their continued experiments led to the discovery of a fluorescent
pigment that produced colors with a brightness of up to four times that
of ordinary colors. They founded Switzer Brothers Inc. in Cleveland in
1946 and changed the name of the company to the Day-Glo Corp. in 1969.
    When Robert Switzer retired in 1985 as chairman of the board, the
company's annual sales were about $35 million.
    The Switzer brothers' fluorescent paints were initially used mostly
by show business during the 1930s, applied to nightclub and theater
walls and even on chorus girls' skirts. But during World War II, the
paints were used for signaling devices and later to provide higher
visibility on uniforms.
    Day-Glo pigments today are used on tennis and golf balls, billboards,
packaging, traffic safety cones, hunting vests, police raincoats,
construction hardhats, toys and various tools.
    Robert Switzer is survived by his wife of 61 years, Patricia, and two
sons, a daughter, seven grandchildren, a great-granddaughter and his
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From: [e-mail] (R.Preston Peek)
Subject: Re: (exotica) What is this? Wacky Packages!
Date: 26 Aug 1997 17:19:49 -0400


>> From: [e-mail]
>> Subject: Re: (exotica) Help! What is this?
>> Other records I enjoy because of their cool packaging (original issues only,
>> reissues usually eliminated the die cuts, extra stuff and provided
>> photographic reproductions instead):
>> Sticky Fingers    Rolling Stones     It has an actual zipper
>> (unknown title)   Led Zeppelin       Cardboard wheel turns...
>> Some Girls        Rolling Stone      Wig ad turned into pop art
>> Stones            Neil Diamond       String Tied closure
>> The Good Book     Melanie            Little lyric book behind cover tabs
>> I know I have others I value for these little extra touches.  Any others
>> people enjoy?


Just a few off the top of my head:

Leo Diamond's "Subliminal Sounds" comes (if you're lucky) with a winking
holographic eye on the cover.

RCA's "Music For Frustrated Conductors" includes (again, if you're lucky) a
conducting baton.

Webley Edwards' "Hawaii Calls Deluxe Set" is a 3-LP set in a burlap cover.

"Ronco Presents 'A Christmas Present'" is a gatefold that opens to reveal a
pop-up Christmas scene, complete with Santa's Toy Shop, decorated trees,
and The Man Himself with the 8 reindeer.

The Mallet Men's "Percussion! Staged for Stereo!" comes in a grey
heavy-duty plastic case with a clear window that snaps shut.

Both "Swingin' with Prince Igor" (Skip Martin) and "Motion in Percussion"
(Hollywood 'Pops' Symphony) have hologram-like doodads on the cover that
"move" as you turn the cover back and forth (the words "Swingin'" and
"Motion," respectively).

Betty Glamann's "Christmas Fantasy" (circa late 50s?) has a 7 x 10
"3D-Lentograph" on the cover.  Something along the lines of the Stones'
Satanic Majesties Request 3-D picture, but technically much more realistic.
Quite amazing.

Preston

Oh -- The Zep with the cardboard wheel is Led Zeppelin III.




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From: "David J. Strauss" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) too much
Date: 26 Aug 1997 18:24:50 -0400 (EDT)



> << any suggestions on what Hefti soundtracks are worth tracking
>  down,  >>
>
> i don't know about:
>
> Lord Love A Duck

Utterly brilliant film, which I've never been able to find on video.
Directed by a Billy Wilder collaborator, and author of the Manchurian
Candidate screenplay. Plot is beyond description.


> From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) Moondog
>
> I had heard that Moondog had just recently passed away.

This would be too much...

DS
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From: "David J. Strauss" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) too much
Date: 26 Aug 1997 18:24:50 -0400 (EDT)



> << any suggestions on what Hefti soundtracks are worth tracking
>  down,  >>
>
> i don't know about:
>
> Lord Love A Duck

Utterly brilliant film, which I've never been able to find on video.
Directed by a Billy Wilder collaborator, and author of the Manchurian
Candidate screenplay. Plot is beyond description.


> From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) Moondog
>
> I had heard that Moondog had just recently passed away.

This would be too much...

DS
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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) too much
Date: 26 Aug 1997 16:28:05 -0700


Well someone confirmed that HE IS NOT DEAD

He is very old, like 96 or something, lives in Germany
BUT STILL lives on:)

Jack

>> From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
>> Subject: (exotica) Moondog
>>
>> I had heard that Moondog had just recently passed away.
>
>This would be too much...



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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What is this? Wacky Packages!
Date: 26 Aug 1997 16:32:38 -0700


>>> Subject: Re: (exotica) Help! What is this?
>>> Other records I enjoy because of their cool packaging (original issues
only,
>>> reissues usually eliminated the die cuts, extra stuff and provided
>>> photographic reproductions instead):


How about Sy Zentner and His Orchestra play the music of Martin Denny
Composed by Les Baxter and Arranged by Bob Florence

WHATTA-ALBUM-TITLE TOP AWARD!!!

it also comes with a burlap flap half fold out cova, kids:)

Jack


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) too much
Date: 26 Aug 1997 20:06:05 -0400


> From: David J. Strauss <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) too much
>
> > Lord Love A Duck
>
> Utterly brilliant film, which I've never been able to find on video.
> Directed by a Billy Wilder collaborator, and author of the Manchurian
> Candidate screenplay. Plot is beyond description.

Indeed, a must-see film. Directed by George Axelrod, starring Roddy McDowall
and Tuesday Weld -- great theme song. Very ahead of its time with post-whatever
touches like boom mikes hanging down in the picture occasionally -- on purpose.
I have seen it in a video catalog sometime in the past year -- so don't give
up.

Another excellent film with a similar feel is "The Loved One" -- more 1960's
Southern California surrealism. And a totally amazing cast. I'm won't even
think of listing them -- there's too many. Let's just say everyone from John
Gielgud to Jonathan Winters to Liberace. And of course, Mrs. Joyboy.

m.ace
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From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Moon Doggie Dogg
Date: 26 Aug 1997 19:56:40 -0400 (EDT)


At 04:28 PM 8/26/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Well someone confirmed that HE IS NOT DEAD
>He is very old, like 96 or something, lives in Germany
>BUT STILL lives on:)
>Jack

He's old but not *that* old - he's 81.
Here's a bit o' bio stolen from somewhere or other.
-Lou

Louis Hardin was born in Marysville, Kansas, May 26, 1916. His father was an
Episcopal minister. In 1933, he attended the Missouri School for the Blind
at St. Louis and it was around this time that he decided he wanted to be a
composer. He finished his schooling at the Iowa School for the Blind where
he got his first formal training in music and heard his first classical
music. He left the Iowa School in 1936 and lived in and around Batesville,
Arkansas until 1942 when thanks to Virginia Sledge he won a scholarship to
study in Memphis. His patron was I. L. Meyers. In the autumn of 1943 he went
to New York and met Artur Rodzinski who let him attend the rehearsals of the
Philharmonic. There he met Leonard Bernstein who was the assistant
conductor. Artur later introduced Louis to Toscanini.

He started using the Moondog pen-name in 1947 in honour of a dog he had in
Hurley, Missouri, who used to howl at the moon more than any dog that Louis
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) album covers
Date: 26 Aug 1997 20:30:09 -0400 (EDT)


Rick James used to be in a band around '72 and had a fold-out LP cover with
an interesting artwork/photography combination.  I am unable, however, to
remember the name of the band and I reach out for help (so I can locate it in
my collection which is alphabetized).


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From: "Lar E. Warner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Junk stores, etc.
Date: 26 Aug 1997 18:19:07 -0700 (PDT)


>Steve Sando wrote:
>>I remember asking my Italian friends if there were any vintage clothing
>>shops (I wouldn't mind some classic Italian rags!) and they were horrified
>>that I'd even consider wearing used clothes.
>
>Most Italians I know (ages between: 20-35) wears nothing but used American
>clothes from the 50s-60s, bowling shirts etc so I guess it depends on where
>you look.
>
>Stefan/Subliminal Sounds

Right, just like here, I'm sure we all know a lot of folks who eschew used
stuff altogether.  When I visited my brother in Fresno and asked him to take me
to the thrift shops, he thought I was loony, even though his budget is tight.

My Mom used to advise me to always wash thrift shop clothes before wearing
them.  Probably not bad advice, but indicative of a sort of phobia.  It's all a
spectrum issue.  I met a girl in a park who was overjoyed to have found a
random pair of shoes on the ground that fit her.  She left her old shoes there
for the next person.  (I was disgusted but held my tongue - she was homeless
and didn't have much of a choice).

L


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From: [e-mail] (Craig Carlson)
Subject: (exotica) Junky Lolita
Date: 26 Aug 1997 21:30:01 -0700


JB Twist wrote:

    "Real Humberts will be happier with"

They might be happier with Jeremey Irons reading Nabokov. It's a
books-on-tape thing available now and it's great, as is the incredible
novel. Don't miss it. Lo-leee-taaa. I guess they're having a problem
distributing/releasing the new film.

When we were in England last April, pretty much every sizable town (Dorset
area) had a thrift, no, charity shop. Drove the family crazy because I
would spend more time in them than at the castles...The shops were quite
popular, and seemed to have the same stigma as US shops. Hip kids looking
for duds and old duds looking for hip records (not Lolitas).

Craig
Craig

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From: "Jim Gerwitz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mina's Grandi Successe
Date: 26 Aug 1997 18:55:04 -0700


Anyone familiar with or have an opinion on a Mina CD i saw in the Italian
section at Virgin? Called "I grandi successe de Mina vol 3", all from 1962,
and one Morricone tune. Is this strange and worth the $14 ?  The bastards
wouldnt let me listen to it after all the $$$ I've spent in there !

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Are you talkin' ta me ???
Date: 26 Aug 1997 19:37:47 -0700


Just scored a couple of copies of the Taxi Driver soundtrack score by
Bernard Herrmann.

Ooooooooooooooooooooh, YES!
Never listened to it before
Dark and mooooooooooooody and very very cool CRIME oriented.
Even some semi blaxploitation funky soul type o' sounds there

Of course the infamous and wonderful spoken word piece from Deniro
(sp???  Irwood, help me out please) is about 5 minutes long and is __the__
___best___

Jack


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Mina's Grandi Successe
Date: 26 Aug 1997 19:57:43 -0700


> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:38:12 -0700
> To: "Jim Gerwitz" <[e-mail]>
> From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: (exotica) Mina's Grandi Successe

> I'd buy it:)
>
> Jack
>
> PS  IMHO, Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) derived his entire vocal style from
> Mina's vocalizing on "Spiral Waltz" from Pierro Piccioni's score to the
> 10th Victim!
>
> Jack
>
> At 06:55 PM 8/26/97 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >Anyone familiar with or have an opinion on a Mina CD i saw in the Italian
> >section at Virgin? Called "I grandi successe de Mina vol 3", all from 1962,
> >and one Morricone tune. Is this strange and worth the $14 ?  The bastards
> >wouldnt let me listen to it after all the $$$ I've spent in there !
> >
> >[e-mail]




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From: Darrell Brogdon <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What is this? Wacky Packages!
Date: 26 Aug 1997 22:14:31 -0700


And don't forget "Rhythm in Motion", the John(ny) Williams Orchestra, Stereo Action-
wannabe from the early '60s.  The cover has a little hologram-like trumpet on the cover
that moves up and down when you tilt the album.  Not an actual hologram but I don't know
what you call it.

Some doofus had torn it off my first copy--luckily just found a new copy with the gizmo
intact!


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From: Joe Batutis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Criswell Predicts
Date: 26 Aug 1997 23:18:37 -0500


hey there-

I just picked up a CD called "Criswell Predicts" with Criswell predicting
all sorts of bizarre things... from some of the predictions I can tell the
original recordings are pre-1977. Anyone out there wanna fill in the
blanks? Did he make many recordings? Is he dead?

We are all interested in the future, because that is where we will spend
the rest of our lives...

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What is this? Wacky Packages!
Date: 26 Aug 1997 20:39:19 -0700


At 10:14 PM 8/26/97 -0700, you wrote:
>And don't forget "Rhythm in Motion", the John(ny) Williams Orchestra,
Stereo Action- >wannabe from the early '60s.  The cover has a little
hologram-like trumpet on the cover >that moves up and down when you tilt
the album.  Not an actual hologram but I don't know
>what you call it.

Hey!  That reminds me.  There's 1 of those things on Michel Magne's
"Tropical Fantasies LP on Columbia.  It's a set of hands slappin' some bongos!

Tooooooooo Coooooooooooool!  If you don't have that rekkid, find it however
you can:)

It's truly 1 of a kind, if you know what I mean AND I THINK you do

-J




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From: Aj <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Used in Japan
Date: 27 Aug 1997 00:05:47 +0000


> Similarly, a little while back I saw a TV news item on used U.S. sneakers
> selling for big bucks in Japan -- like hundreds of bucks. And the more worn,
> the better. Of course, this was TV news, so I took it all with a grain of salt.
> Is there anyone from Japan on this list? If so, feel free to give us the real
> word on this.

I'm not from Japan but I lived there for a few years and can vouch for
the unusual market for used American clothing.

As for used music, I never came across used record stores (though I
wasn't looking for them at the time). They do, however, have a wonderful
variety of well-stocked CD rental shops. A one-week CD loan cost 300 yen
(about US$2.60), which was a blessing for music fans faced with the
exhorbitant prices for new CD's in there. (A Japanese-made album of any
type runs anywhere from US20.00 to $40.00 - making it the only place I
have seen where the prices of domestic releases were lower than those of
identical import items.)

Mata ne,

Aj


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From: Steve Sando <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mina's Grandi Successe
Date: 26 Aug 1997 23:38:35 -0700


At 06:55 PM 8/26/97 -0700, Jim Gerwitz wrote:
>>Anyone familiar with or have an opinion on a Mina CD i saw in the Italian
>section at Virgin?

This is almost embarrasing but I have almost every recording made by Mina.
I actually have a gig now where I lecture at Stanford University on Post
War Italian Popular Music. It's weird but it's true!

Mina has been singing for years and 'Spiral Waltz' is not really reflective
of her career as a whole, but she's always pretty wild. Her music was
kookier in the beginning but her voice kept getting better with age. If you
like female vocalists in general, she's one of the best. Her early
catalogue must be in public domain because there are dozens of early
compilations all repeating various tracks.

If you're really interested I could email a list of what I think are
essential songs. Also, there's a review of her new album, 'Napoli' , on the
MisterLUCKY website, although it isn't even vaguely related to
Lounge/exotica except that I think members of this list tend to be open to
most any kind of music (remember the Neil Diamond thread?)


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica Digest V2 #257
Date: 27 Aug 1997 02:59:29 -0400 (EDT)



> From: David J. Strauss <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) too much
>
> > Lord Love A Duck
>
> Utterly brilliant film, which I've never been able to find on video.
> Directed by a Billy Wilder collaborator, and author of the Manchurian
> Candidate screenplay. Plot is beyond description.

>Indeed, a must-see film. Directed by George Axelrod, starring Roddy McDowall
>and Tuesday Weld -- great theme song. Very ahead of its time with post-whatever
>touches like boom mikes hanging down in the picture occasionally -- on purpose.
>I have seen it in a video catalog sometime in the past year -- so don't give
>up.

>m.ace
>[e-mail]

We're way off topic here, but...

Why do you think the mikes in the picture are on purpose? They're in a lot
of movies, usually not on purpose, except to the extent that
cinematographers know that they will usually be cropped out by severe
masking on the theater screen.


Anyway, here's a description of LLAD:

Lord Love A Duck (1966 - U.S.A.) Dir: George Axelrod

This almost indescribable satire was way ahead of its time, paving the way
for films like HEATHERS 20 years later. Roddy McDowall stars as Alan
"Mollymauk" Musgrove, a fey, obsessive high school student who uses his
superior intellect to manipulate the events and people around him. Smitten
by a luscious-but-helpless classmate (Tuesday Weld), he conspires to grant
her every wish, including good grades, social standing, an athlete husband
and an acting career.

Along the way, LORD LOVE A DUCK savages the sillier aspects of a
still-emerging Southern California lifestyle: spoiled kids, "progressive"
schools where botany is called "plant skills," drive-in churches, sex
seminars and insipid beach movies (hey, I like those!).

LORD LOVE A DUCK was the first movie directed by George Axelrod, who staged such
Broadway hits as Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? He also wrote many classic
screenplays, including The Seven Year Itch, Breakfast At Tiffany's and The
Manchurian Candidate.

The cast includes such notables as Harvey Korman, Ruth Gordon, and Lynn Carey
(daughter of actor Macdonald Carey, singer for the atrocious early-'70s rock
band Mama Lion, and most importantly, the actual off-screen voice for the
"Carrie Nations" in BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS).






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From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Mina
Date: 27 Aug 1997 05:33:47


"Jim Gerwitz" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
>Anyone familiar with or have an opinion on a Mina CD i saw in the Italian
>section at Virgin? Called "I grandi successe de Mina vol 3", all from 1962,
>and one Morricone tune. Is this strange and worth the $14 ?  The bastards
>wouldnt let me listen to it after all the $$$ I've spent in there !

Mina is the warhorse of Italian torch singers.  Hard to think of an
American singer you might compare her to--maybe Barbra Streisand.  Her 60s
stuff is a lot like Lola Beltran, the great Mexican sob-story singer who
sings on the opening of "Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown."  She's
still performing and recording, but the mid-1960s were her heyday.  She did
a whole bunch of over-wrought rock-flavored stuff (think Neil Diamond) in
the 1970s.

Worth getting?  Not if you have other things to spend the $14 on.  If you
really want to check her out, send me a blank tape.  My in-laws gave me all
their Mina records and I think I also have "I grandi successe vol. 2."

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Dick, Tony and Brother Lee
Date: 27 Aug 1997 07:02:45 -0700 (PDT)


This is NOT a list of things I bought at thrift stores, just some comments
on music that I recently bought there.

Fabulous: Dick Hyman and His Orchestra  Command RS 862 SD

I can not argue with the title of the LP.  This is amazing stuff.
Unfortunately, I have no notes: I got it sans LP jacket.  There was one cut
which had some weird abstract stuff to begin it which I didn't like, but
everything else I was blown away by.

Zenith Extended Range High Fidelity Demonstration Record  (Columbia
Transcriptions)  TV 20928

Its fun to listen to a young Mike Wallace hype the advantages of hi fi (its
not just the sound, its the system of "instruments").  The two cuts of
exotica included are Carioca by Tony DeSimone and Orchestra  and Midnight
Festival by Brother Lee Roy and his Band.  I think I have encountered Tony
before... wasn't his trio responsible for some of the music Ernie Kovacs
used?  I just am not familiar with Tony's recording ouvre.  This was the
first I have heard of Brother Lee Roy.

Any additional info on Dick, Tony or Brother Lee would be appreciated.

For instance, while I know of Dick from his synthesizer LPs and his jazz
piano work, I don't know which of his LPs are most exotica.  Are there other
albums out there as good or better than Fabulous?  I'd also like any
recording information or bios for Tony or Brother Lee.

Byron Caloz

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From: [e-mail] (Subliminal Sounds)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Junk stores, etc.
Date: 27 Aug 1997 16:11:06 +0200 (MET DST)


>what is subliminal sounds?

Excuse the shameless self promotion but I=B4m only answering the question:

It=B4s a record label, our next release is Art Mineo: Man In Space With=
 Sounds=20
(the ultimate early 60s space age exotica recording, original vinyl copies=
=20
are ultra rare) and a shop/mailorder (worldwide) opperation for records,=20
books, videos, vintage clothes, toys, vintage movie posters, Tiki stuff etc
Everything we sell/release falls in one way or other under the Exotica=20
banner. We=B4re based in Stockholm, Sweden but cater to customers round the=
=20
world. We also have a web-site but sadly it=B4s not at all up-dated. Our new=
=20
web-operator is working on that right now and he informs me everything will=
=20
be up and running in about 3 weeks. You can also get our mail-order list=20
through e-mail. Our contact adress is:

Subliminal Sounds & Stuff
S:t Paulsgatan 16
S-118 46  STOCKHOLM
SWEDEN
tel/fax office: [phone]
tel shop/mailorder: [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]
web-site: www.interloop.se/subliminal  (but please wait until the middle of=
=20
september when it=B4s up-dated).

Stefan/Subliminal Sounds



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From: [e-mail] (Subliminal Sounds)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Day-Glo A Go Go
Date: 27 Aug 1997 16:14:14 +0200 (MET DST)


>    Day-Glo pigments today are used on tennis and golf balls, billboards,
>packaging, traffic safety cones, hunting vests, police raincoats,
>construction hardhats, toys and various tools.

Add record sleeves to the list.

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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Are you talkin' ta me ???
Date: 27 Aug 1997 08:23:22 -0700


At 08:34 AM 8/27/97 -0400, Brian Phillips wrote:
>Isn't part of that soundtrack by Tom Scott (seemingly the only person that
>Hollywood thought played Jazz in the 1970's)?  I agree with you on the
>Herrmann side of things.

Now that I look at the notes on the back cover (Taxi Driver), in tiny tiny
lettering it does say that Tom Scott does appear courtesy of blah blah blah

-J


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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) SF stores and beyond
Date: 27 Aug 1997 08:34:56 -0700


>I found it at Recycled Records for $10!

Recycled is a great store.  Rekkids and CD wise

I'd suggest you pick up a couple of free rags;

1 is the SF Weekly and the other is the Bay Guardian

They have ads for everything that is ANYTHING in SF and around

Store wise that may not advertise is Medium Rare on Market just down the
block from Cafe' Flor and right across the street from Cafe' Flor is The
Record Finder

Acroos the street on Market in a little "mall" situation is another record
store called something like 2nd time around.

Down a few blocks on Market towards downtown is GROOVES and then back
towards Medium Rare a few doors is Streetlight though they aren't really
THAT good at all.

Up to the Haight Ashbury area where Recycled is are a few more stores more
towards in THE HAIGHT;
Monster Records and then there's a great vintage/used clothing and stuff
place called     WASTELAND.

Those are just off the top of my head

Get a SF Weekly and a Bay Guardian though, that's important.

Over in the East Bay:  Berkeley and Oakland there are Amoeba-that's THE BEST
and then there's Rasputin's.
They are both in Berkeley proper, right by the college on Telegraph.

And then the last stop is Saturn which most undoubtedly is the most
expensive BUT IS THE MAC DADDY
It's on College Ave and is in the "Rockridge" area
It's borderline Oakland/Berkeley

Everywhere you go tell 'em Jack Diamond sent you and they'll charge you
double:)

Good luck and have fun.  If you want to give me a call my # is 650-325-2284

lllllllllllllllllllater,
Jack


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From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Silvestre Revueltas/Esquivel/Nacarrow?
Date: 27 Aug 1997 18:02:06 +0000


[e-mail] wrote:

>Silvestre Revueltas was cited by Esquivel as a big influence.
>Revueltas does not sound like Esquivel, but he was an avant-garde
>Mexican composer who inspired Juan during his formative years, hence
>he might of interest to some on the list.

On a related theme... I got Volumes III and IV of Conlon Nancarrow's
"Studies" out of my local CD library last week (they didn't have I
& II in) and aside from being generally astonished, one thing that
struck me was how familiar sounding some of the high-speed glissandi
were: I figured Esquivel *must* have been hanging out with Conlon
too: after all, Conlon was a fellow Mexico City resident, composing
from the mid-40s.

Can anyone (Br Cleve?) confirm this?

I was also reminded in places of Ferrante & Teicher who I reckon must
have been at least *interested* in Nancarrow, though I guess they
were inspired at least as much by John Cage and his prepared pianos.

Zing!


Robbie

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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Criswell Predicts
Date: 27 Aug 1997 13:09:15 -0400


>> There was also a book by the same title.  All of the predictions seemed to
>> end with exclamation points ("Mark my words if this is not true!").  The
>> only other record that I know of is spoken word, with musical backing,
>> "Someone Walked Over My Grave".  He died in 1978 of arteriosclerosis.
>>
>> http://matrix.binary.net/bile/criswell/
>>
>> This is a pretty nice Criswell site.
>>
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From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Silvestre Revueltas/Esquivel/Nacarrow?
Date: 27 Aug 1997 13:34:05 -0400


At 6:02 PM +0000 8/27/97, Robbie Baldock wrote:

>On a related theme... I got Volumes III and IV of Conlon Nancarrow's
>"Studies" out of my local CD library last week (they didn't have I
>& II in) and aside from being generally astonished, one thing that
>struck me was how familiar sounding some of the high-speed glissandi
>were: I figured Esquivel *must* have been hanging out with Conlon
>too: after all, Conlon was a fellow Mexico City resident, composing
>from the mid-40s.
>
>Can anyone (Br Cleve?) confirm this?

I'll ask him about it and let you know.

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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist Fantastica
Date: 27 Aug 1997 17:23:15 +0200



Enoch Light and his Orchestra: "Istanbul"
   [ lp: "Far Away Places Volume 2"]
=46rank Hunter Orchestra: "Ritual Of The Torch"
   [compil. cd: "Music for a Bachelor's Den Volume 2 - Exotica"]
Sammy Davis, Jr.: "Be-Bop the beguine"
   [compil. cd: "Cocktail mix volume 3 - Swingin' Singles"]
Doc Severinsen & his orchestra: "Stardust (on 78 rpm)"
   [ lp: "Tempestuous trumpet"]
A. J. Dervaux et son orchestre: "Quand on est musicien"
   [compil. lp: "Ambiance jeunesse actualit=E9 7"]
A. J. Dervaux et son orchestre: "Fire"
   [compil. lp: "Ambiance jeunesse actualit=E9 7"]
Jo Nell: "The house of the rising sun"
   [ lp: "Sings unforgettable songs 1"]
The Torqu=E8s: "Surfin' bird"
   [compil. lp: "The Big Itch"]
Jim Fassett: "fragment from side A"
   [ lp: "Strange to Your Ears"]
Martin Denny: "Quiet village"
   [ cd: "Exotica! the best of Martin Denny"]
Lorin Whitney & Ralph Platt: "Jesus is all the world to me"
   [ lp: "Pipe Organ Melodies with bird calls"]
Muzzy Marcellino and his House Party Group: "Whistlin' dixie"
   [ lp: "House Party Music Time"]
King Uszniewicz and his Uszniewicztones: "The birds & the bees"
   [ lp: "Doin' the woo hoo with"]
Magnificent Mortier (fairground organ): "Flight of the bumble bee"
   [ lp: "Continental superstar"]
Jim Fassett: "fragment from side B track 1"
   [ lp: "Strange to Your Ears"]
Gershon Kingsley: "Sounds of silence"
   [ lp: "First Moog Quartet"]
The Nite Blues Steel Band: "The sound of silence"
   [ lp: "Carnival time"]
The Three Suns: "Caravan"
   [compil. cd: "The History of Space Age Pop volume 2 -Mallets in Wonderlan=
d"]
Rajput & the Sepoy: "Up, up & away"
   [compil. cd: "Incredibly Strange Music volume 1"]
Roy Budd: "Get Carter"
   [compil. cd: "The Sound Spectrum"]
Terry Snyder: "Once in a while"
   [compil. cd: "Music for a Bachelor's Den in Hi-Fi"]
Gershon Kingsley: "Eleanor rigby"
   [ lp: "First Moog Quartet"]




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        http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/radioq/radioq.htm
        or
        http://195.13.24.3/Dada/radioq/radioq.htm

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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lord Love A Boom
Date: 27 Aug 1997 14:06:48 -0400


> From: [e-mail]
> Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica Digest V2 #257
>
> > > Lord Love A Duck
> >Very ahead of its time with post-whatever
> >touches like boom mikes hanging down in the picture occasionally -- on
purpose.
>
> Why do you think the mikes in the picture are on purpose?

They seemed REALLY blatant -- not just the tip of the mike peeking out, but the
boom, cable and everything showing. And given the level of craftsmanship in the
film as a whole, it seemed unlikely that they would have missed this. But of
course, I could be wrong.

m.ace
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From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) I'm Bedazzled
Date: 27 Aug 1997 12:30:32 -0700


Who's got this soundtrack by Dudley Moore ?

If anyone it's JESSICA!!! -_-

I'm taping it now for you Cleve, sorry about the delay:)

Veeeeeeeeeeeery _______very_______ ga-roooooooo-oooooooooo-vy




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From: "Derek Grime" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Help! What is this?
Date: 27 Aug 1997 16:52:58 -0400


> I know I have others I value for these little extra touches.  Any others
> people enjoy?
>
> Byron Caloz

Man or Astroman? UFO's and the Men Who Fly Them        Folds into UFO
Shadowy Men     Schlagers                Board game
Various         Akron Complilation            Scratch'n'sniff tire

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Rosebowl Flea Market
Date: 28 Aug 1997 03:10:22 -0400 (EDT)


In a message dated 97-08-26 19:46:17 EDT, you write:

<< My wife and I are planning on going to the Rosebowl Flea Market next
 month
 (driving down from S.F.) Any tips? What to check out? What to avoid? I
 understand that it's GIGANTIC! We don't want to burn-out looking at old
 tennis shoes... :)
  >>

You are talking to the expert.  I have the cart, the cooler, the hat and the
block out - all things you should plan on having if you are planning to
really buy some stuff.  It gets really hot in Pasadena and September and
October are usually hot months here, but I don't know if that will be so
because of the El Nino eftect.  Definitely wear hats with brims, sunglasses
and bring block out.  If it gets really hot and you don't have your own mini
cooler with waters and sodas, you will be buying lemon freezes from their
vendors for $3 each.  If you don't have a cart, you want to bring a backpack-
its hard to carry even lightweight bags of purchases for very long.

Don't go without at least $300 (serious shoppers) because you'll see stuff
that you'll wish you had the money to buy (but like you ran out of cash in
the first hour).  If you go after 9am, it costs $5.  If you go before then,
it costs either $10 or $15.  I think someone told me it had gone up to $15.
 If I get there by 9am, I usually can't get through the whole thing by 2pm,
which is about when the dealers start packing it up!   IYou can get there
really early at like 7am so you can try and beat the dealers to the best buys
and get a head start on that crowd that shows up after 9am.  iIf you do this
be prepared to either ask dealers what they have on their truck (since many
won't be totally set up by then) or be prepared to circle back.  There is one
area that seems dedicated to old beat up tennis shoes and old jeans - you can
just skip those isles.

It is a great place to buy vintage clothes, Hawaiian shirts, tiki mugs,
Heywood Wakefield and other Mid-century furnishings and dishes, etc.  Dealers
come from as far away as Colorado to sell their wares there, so that's why I
say be prepared to spend lots of money.  If you run out of money, some of the
dealers take checks and credit cards.  Bring a pen and paper to write down
names and phone numbers of dealers if you are hedging on something.

Good luck and have a great time!

- Michele


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) The Hellers
Date: 28 Aug 1997 09:09:31 -0700


Hello,

The Hellers - Singers...Talkers...Players...Swingers...Doers

Anyone familiar with this LP on Command ?

Jack


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Esquivel again
Date: 28 Aug 1997 09:45:03 -0700



     Just dusted the lint off of some of my record store credit slips and
     handed em in for the two new Spanish Esquivel reissues, "Infinity In
     Sound" and "Exploring New Sounds.." Although they used the mono cover
     art, the reissues are indeed Living Stereo! As was earlier reported,
     there were supposed to be bonus tracks on each. This is not the case.

     Other reissues of note in the same Living Stereo series which should
     be in stores now are:

     Henry Mancini - "Mancini 67"
     Henry Mancini - "Experiment In Terror"
     Henry Mancini - "Combo"
     * Mario Ruiz Armengol - "A Night In Acapulco"
     * Luis Arcaraz - "Latin Airs"
     * Pablo Beltran - "Dust On The Moon"


     * Anyone know if these albums are any good?



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From: Philip Jackson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Dick, Tony and Brother Lee
Date: 28 Aug 1997 14:30:26 +1000 (EST)


On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 [e-mail] wrote:

> Fabulous: Dick Hyman and His Orchestra  Command RS 862 SD
>
> I can not argue with the title of the LP.  This is amazing stuff.
> Unfortunately, I have no notes: I got it sans LP jacket.  There was one cut
> which had some weird abstract stuff to begin it which I didn't like, but
> everything else I was blown away by.

I have this and it sports a lovely cover. It is "Fabulous - Dick Hyman at
the Lowrey Organ" The notes are as follows.

fab-u-lous "passing the limits of belief:incredible" New College standard
Dictionary.
that's the only word for this album.
Only "fabulous" can describe this fantastic combination of artist,
instrument and performance.
Only "fabulous" can describe the unique technical and musical resources
of the Lowrey organ which actually allow a musician to play a literal
stereophonic performance.
Only "fabulous" can describe the brilliant imagination and incredible
artistic skill that Dick Hyman brings to this amazing instrument.
Only "fabulous" can describe the fantastically exciting music that is
produced by this extraordinary meeting of fabulous music man and fabulous
music instrument- recorded in the worl famous and world fabulous
recording techniques that have made command the most exciting name in
stereo recording.

----

BTW I rather like the "absract"track you mention. It is a pre-synthesiser
attempt at something a little spooky. How about the out of tune start to
"Danke Schoen"? Fab-u-lous!


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Help with Staccato
Date: 28 Aug 1997 10:20:23 -0400 (EDT)


Okay all you list veterans.   Does anyone out there know where I can find a
copy of the Elmer Bernstein soundtrack album, "Staccato"?  It is not in print
on a CD, I've looked through all the Goldmine ads and don't have the time to
look in thrifts (which I'm sure is like looking for a needle in a haystack).
 I'm not in any hurry on it and don't want to pay more than $20.

HOw difficult is it to find this album?  Should I just keep hoping it pops up
at the record swap meet or should I call one of those record finders
services?  And how much does that cost????  Thanks for any help you may
provide.

- Michele
Flipside Fanzine


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From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Where is this list?
Date: 28 Aug 1997 04:16:59 -0600


Is this list incredibly dead or am I having problems with my server? I have
not had an exotica posting in about a week. I resubscribed thinking that I
got booted off when my mailbox was down, but still nothing. Help!

Was in Germany DJing and working and shopping. Really impressed with this
compilation CD of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." music that I got. And really
digging this "The Haschisch Party" compilation I also got. Does anyone know
this?

Anyway, hopefully I will get my own message back....

Jill "Mingo-go"


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Petula Clark: But you already knew this...
Date: 28 Aug 1997 13:21:27 -0400


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

The late, great classical pianist, Glenn Gould, from "In Search of
Petula Clark," on the singer's hit "My Love":

"The only extradiatonic event which disturbs [the] proceedings is the
near-inevitable hookup to the flattened supertonic for a final
chorus--two neighborly dominants being the pivots involved. Indeed, only
one secondary dominant, which happens to coincide with the line, 'It
shows how wrong we all can be,' compromises the virginal propriety of
its responsibly confirming Fuxian basses, and none of those stray,
flattened leading-tones-as-root implies a moment's lack of resolution."

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



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From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) eXotica Releases Overview update: "New additions" page
Date: 28 Aug 1997 16:38:39 +0200


I've added a page with the most recent additions to the

        eXotica Releases Overview:
        http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/disq/disq.htm
        or
        http://195.13.24.3/Dada/disq/disq.htm

        Johan
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From: [e-mail] (David Trezza)
Subject: (exotica) Belmonte
Date: 28 Aug 1997 11:05:29 -0700 (PDT)



WHat up people?

I have two living stereo releases by Belmonte
"PLays Latin for Americans"
"Rhumba"

Does anybody know anything about Belmonte.  These two LPs
feature incredible covers and the music is tight.  But I
have never come across any information about just who
Belmonte is.


On another note:  I've been getting familar with 3 Suns
"Movin & Groovin" lately.  Can anybody come up with a better
example of ear candy than that?  It's like a decadent slice
of chocolate cake.  You know for damn sure that's it's not
good for you, but it's just so darn yummy you can't resist.
Know what I mean?

Trezza



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From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Petula Clark: But you already knew this...
Date: 28 Aug 1997 14:35:44 -0400


(Gould Quote snipped)
...aaah, her love is stronger than that.  I bet Gould couldn't teach that
to a bunch of elephants.


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From: [e-mail] (Clark Scheffy)
Subject: (exotica) Liberace
Date: 28 Aug 1997 11:55:08 PDT


OK, I know. This is new low for list subject matter.

But did anyone catch the A&E channel Biography episode on none other
than Vladzu (yes, Vladzu) Liberace a couple of nights ago? Really
fun, as most of A&E's Biography is.

Did anyone know, for instnace, that Liberace was gay? I didn't because
he never admitted it to the public in his lifetime. Or that he grew up
in Milwaukee? An interesting life, and a type of showmanship that few
others (perhaps Sigfried and Roy, David Copperfield) share.

PS: that's a joke about Liberace's "secret"

Clark


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Where is this list?
Date: 28 Aug 1997 16:27:49 -0400 (EDT)



In a message dated 8/28/97 5:15:26 PM, you wrote:

<<And really
digging this "The Haschisch Party" compilation I also got.>>

What's on it? How is it?


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Esquivel again
Date: 28 Aug 1997 20:59:31 -0400 (EDT)



In a message dated 8/28/97 11:57:30 AM, you wrote:

<<* Anyone know if these albums are any good?>>

David Smay, of this list, gave me his vinyl copy of Henry Mancini's "Combo"
when he got the CD. It's the most fantastic "new" find for me in a long time.
I absolutely LOVE it!!
Gloria




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Belmonte
Date: 28 Aug 1997 21:08:25 -0700 (PDT)


At 11:05 AM 8/28/97 -0700, David Trezza wrote:
>I have two living stereo releases by Belmonte
>"PLays Latin for Americans" "Rhumba"
>Does anybody know anything about Belmonte.
Well, actually, I know as little as you, but I know of at least one
more LP on Columbia CL 598: Belmonte and his Afro-American Music, "Mambo at
Midnight."  The liner notes say nothing.  In fact,I did not know of the two
you mentioned. Must be RCA if they're Living Stereo, right?  I agree his
band does an excellent job.  Anyone with more info?

Byron Caloz
[e-mail]
Portland, OR
/   _
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica Digest V2 #258
Date: 29 Aug 1997 02:59:07 -0400 (EDT)


>> There was also a book by the same title.  All of the predictions seemed to
>> end with exclamation points ("Mark my words if this is not true!").  The
>> only other record that I know of is spoken word, with musical backing,
>> "Someone Walked Over My Grave".  He died in 1978 of arteriosclerosis.


Mae West, on one of her 45s (1950s I think), had a b-side ABOUT Criswell,
called "Criswell Predicts."

 Jay Schwartz

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From: Clark Draper <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Liberace
Date: 29 Aug 1997 04:52:08 -0400


It is at least the second time they've shown it. I saw it both times and
really found it interesting. Biography can be really great at times. Has
anybody been to the Liberace museum? I've never really had the desire to go
to Vegas (baby!) but that museum may change my mind . . . . . .

(the east coast) Clark

At 02:55 PM 8/28/1997 -0400, you wrote:
>
>OK, I know. This is new low for list subject matter.
>
>But did anyone catch the A&E channel Biography episode on none other
>than Vladzu (yes, Vladzu) Liberace a couple of nights ago? Really
>fun, as most of A&E's Biography is.
>
>Did anyone know, for instnace, that Liberace was gay? I didn't because
>he never admitted it to the public in his lifetime. Or that he grew up
>in Milwaukee? An interesting life, and a type of showmanship that few
>others (perhaps Sigfried and Roy, David Copperfield) share.
>
>PS: that's a joke about Liberace's "secret"
>
>Clark
>


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From: Joe Batutis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Criswell Predicts Again
Date: 29 Aug 1997 08:53:38 -0500


I've gotten a bunch of e-mail requesting more info about the Criswell
Predicts CD. So here's all I know:

The Legendary Criswell Predicts Your Incredible Future DEC-1
Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God
P.O. Box 420464, San Francisco, CA 94142

I got it at Recycled Records in San Francisco for $10.

Any ideas where the original recording is from?

-ENOK LITE




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From: Mark Reed <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) What is this? Wacky Packages!
Date: 29 Aug 1997 10:00:26 -0400 (EDT)


Other unusual packages:

Four Seasons' "Genuine Imitation Life Gazette" is done as a newspaper.  This
was their attempt at a "relevant" album.  One especially cute joke: the
grocery store ad featured a sale on Elvis Parsley.

Alice Cooper's "School's Out" album was done to look like a well-worn school
desk.  The really interesting thing was that early copies of the album had a
paper girl's panty as the inner sleeve.  The sleeve was later banned because
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From: [e-mail] (Subliminal Sounds)
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Where is this list?
Date: 29 Aug 1997 17:26:59 +0200 (MET DST)


>
>
>In a message dated 8/28/97 5:15:26 PM, you wrote:
>
><<And really
>digging this "The Haschisch Party" compilation I also got.>>
>
>What's on it? How is it?

Who did it? Contact adress?



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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lord Love A Boom
Date: 29 Aug 1997 11:43:07 -0400


> From: [e-mail]
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: (exotica) Lord Love A Boom
> Date: Friday, August 29, 1997 12:06 AM
>
> According to my friend at college who ran the local film society (and whose
> family back in New Haven owned five cinemas), boom mikes are on most prints
> of movies and it is up to the projectionist to screen out the top of the
> print.  The boom's had to get close just to pick up the sound.  As film sound
> got more sophisticated (70s) this problem was alleviated.  That's what he
> said - and he oughta know.
>
> --David

Yes, I have been set straight on this by a few parties. Thanks. I was somewhat
aware of this stuff, but it somehow seemed intentional in this case, what with
Tuesday Weld more or less ascending into "movie reality" at the end of the
film. Oh well -- lesson for the week. Thanks again.

m.ace
[e-mail]


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From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tonight...on Biography
Date: 29 Aug 1997 12:41:55 -0400


Speaking of A&E's "Biography" program, tonight they're profiling Dean Martin,
followed by Jerry Lewis -- 8:00 to 11:00 pm, eastern daylight time.

m.ace
[e-mail]


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From: Jonathan Perl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) ADIOS! / Staccato
Date: 29 Aug 1997 18:01:00 +0100



In response to Michele's "Staccato" query, I have personally hardly ever
seen this one, and believe it normally goes for about $30-$40.
I was lucky enough to find my copy for next to nothing, but it is in pretty
bad condition.  One way to find records like this is to use Internet
services which let you post your wants.  This is usually free.  Our friend
Lazlo operates a service like this which I have found pretty helpful:

http://www.swcp.com/~lazlo/Wantlists/index.html

http://www.gemm.com
is also an invaluable resource when looking for records on the internet - it
is a massive database of different stores - you just enter the artist and
you can see all the info on one page.  There is very pricey stuff there (eg
one Esquivel record is $500!) but also bargains - a friend of mine recently
picked up Infinity in Sound vols 1 and 2 for just 4 or 5 bucks each.

Incidentally, I think there might be a Japanese CD of Staccato - there is
certainly one of 'the man with the golden arm'

Anyway, I'm finally off to NYC (leaving on Wed), so I am unsubscribing - not
sure if/when I will be back online.
I wish everyone happy hunting.  Funny how the fact that I was trying to sell
my records to make money didn't stop me keeping on buying more in the
meantime.

Regards

Jonny


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Ethel Azama etc.
Date: 29 Aug 1997 18:02:08 -0400 (EDT)


Is anyone familiar with "Cool Heat" by Ethel Azama on Liberty?  I''ve seen
the cover of "Exotic Dreams" and heard a bit of it, but nothing on this
one...only that she recorded "one other" album.

Also...anything on "Sound of Sitar" by Chim Kothari (sic?) (Deram DE 16001)?
Is this a rock/sitar album along the lines of "Raga Rock" and "Sitar Beat"?

Thanking you in advance,
Larry House


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Friends of Dean Martinez
Date: 29 Aug 1997 21:18:43 -0700


If anyone loves that moody dark dark DARK cool ennio morricone-ish sounds
via the electric guitar such as Al Caiola then you may want to pick up the
new
Friends of Dean Martinez CD release as it is very much like that.

Very good.


Thank you,
Jack


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From: [e-mail] (Tosh)
Subject: (exotica) Tipsy
Date: 29 Aug 1997 21:28:59 -0700 (PDT)


A dear friend just turned me on to Tipsy.  I think they're fantastic.  Does
anyone out there have any information on this S.F. band?


-----------------
Tosh Berman
TamTam Books
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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) 8/21/97 Playlist for Jack
Date: 29 Aug 1997 21:57:10 -0700


KFJC play list 8/21/97 for Jack Diamond
http://www.KFJC.ORG
89.7FM
12345 El Monte Rd.
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
[phone] - Studio Line

Jack Diamond's House of Games
Sundays 9AM - Noon
89.7FM, since Jan. 1993




The ARTIST                      The TRACK                     The ALBUM
____________________________________________________________________________
_________
Screaming Trees                E.S.K.1992
"Campilongo, Jim"                 Bully Cat...                 and the 10 Gallon Cats
Beaver and Krause                Interplay                        Ragnarok
Ramone, Marky & the Intruders    Oh, no not Again                S/T
Chop Shop                        Jazz & Drums                Hip Hop Collage
Chet Baker Qrt.                Maid in Mexico                Pacific Jazz, 1955
Drags, The                    Bacon Striptease            Stop Rock and Roll
Carl Brandt Orch                Patty Duke Theme            1964
Valentine Six                    Thin Red Line                Valentine Six
Soulful Strings                Inner Light
The 360'S                        Speak Through Water                1992
Bill Jennings/J.McDuff            Glide on                    Al Jennings-Vibes
Jean Jacques Perrey                E.V.A.                    Guess!!!
Bob Mersey                    Beatnik
Creed, Helios                    Alien Landscape            "Nugg" the Transport
Steely Dan                    Deacon Blues!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Read it and weep Scurry)
Negativland                    Why Is this a Commercial?                             Seipsipd/Pseidsip/Ipsdesip...
Shonen Knife                    Twist Barbie
Jook                           Aggravation Place          [coll]: Roots of Power Pop
Quincy Jones                    Main Squeeze                The Lost Man
Chanteurs, The                    The Grizzly Bear        [coll]: Show Me What You Got
Nick Lowe                        Breakin' Glass                !!! (I'm a pop nut)
Frontier                      Space Invaders             Heater. This is awesome!
Eddie Fisher                    Land of Our Father            Not that Eddie Fisher:)
Jack HammerLike
Kantor, Igo/Loose, William        Harry and Cherry            [coll]: Russ Meyer
Sounds of Love...A - Z            Black and Blues            S.I.N.Thesized Sounds
Velocity Girl                    Catching Squirrels            Copacetic
Ennio Morricone                Nadine                    Il Serpente
Black Sabbath                    Hand of Dooooooooom            Paranoid
Phil Upchurch                    You've Got a Friend
Hectics, The                    Snake                    Everything I Need
Jimmie Haskel Orch                Venus                    Countdown
Jr. and His Soulettes            Pimp                        Psychodelic Sounds(Find this)
Loons, The                    Unwind                    Slow Knife/Unwind
Dudley Moore                    Strip Club                Bedazzled
Mindexpanders                    "Psychedelic Soul"        Combo Organ,Ondioline, Martenot
Fleur De Lys                    Circles!!!                Un-Be-Lieve-A-Ble
Charles Earland                Neverending Melody            Dynamite Bros.
Enoch Light                    Pass and I'll Call You        Vinnie Bell-Gtr and effects
Soul Providers                    The Landlord                Soul Tequila
Satelliters,The                Liar                    Mysterious Sounds From Outer..
Friends of Dean Martinez        Westbound #11                Retrograde
Boris Karloff                    Never Kick a Black Cat    Tales of the Frightend
Cosmic Invention                Help Your Satori Mind        Help Your Satori Mind
Boogaloo Joe Jones                No Way!                    Prestige, 1971
Sounds for Little Ones            The Happy Dragon's Tongue    S/T(Awesome!)
Takeshi Terauchi                 It's in Japanese (???)        The Bunny's, 69
Conn, Bobby                    Never Get Ahead            Bobby Conn
The Runaways                    Mama Weeere All Crazee Now
Flower Power                    You Make Me Fly            Subliminal Sounds (Sweden)
Gainsbourg, Serge                Coco and Co                Du Jazz Dans Le Ravin
Cannonball Adderley                Aries                    Soul Zodiac
"101 Stings/KFJC Mix                    Whiplash                    Astro Sounds
Riz Ortolani                    Beat Fuga Shake            [coll]: Beat at Cinecitta
Pierro Umiliani                You Tried to Warn Me        High Church Treatment
Allen, Davie & The Arrows        The Born Losers Theme        Born Losers/Glory Stompers
                                                    (This Rules!)
KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

KFJC-FM is now online!  There is a great chance that YOU can actually hear
a truly free form station whom many of its staff are nazi's about being
non-commercial, and damn proud of it
too~!!~

Please direct your favorite browser to http://www.KFJC.org and click on
internet broadcast
OR if you happen to be in the San Francisco bay area, then tune in your FM
radio dial to 89.7 and rock on bruhthuhs and sistuhs like you could never
imagine possible!

KFJC is ALWAYS in the top 5 of all non-commercial free form radio stations
(now) worldwide

Also included in the KFJC-FM Web Site are
DJ Home Pages, Our IMMENSE COLLECTIVE of Music Reviews, Music Added to the
KFJC Libraries,
Keyword Search for Music and Beyond, DJ Playlists and all sorts of other
qu-el stuff.

Thanks for listening and supporting KFJC

Jack Diamond

PS  None of us gets paid there and we are all registered students in the
class at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, CA (94022) known as KFJC-FM,
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From: [e-mail] (Ingemar Breithel)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ethel Azama etc.
Date: 30 Aug 1997 11:05:43 +0100


At 18.02 970829, [e-mail] wrote:
>Is anyone familiar with "Cool Heat" by Ethel Azama on Liberty?  I''ve seen
>the cover of "Exotic Dreams" and heard a bit of it, but nothing on this
>one...only that she recorded "one other" album.

"Cool Heat" was arranged by Marty Paich and featured Art Pepper, so
the exotica content is nil--it's just a great vocal album with big band
arrangements. And it came out after "Exotic Dreams", so maybe Liberty's
idea was to show her off as a straight jazz vocalist too, not just a
novelty act. Anyway, both records are really wonderful, but quite
different.

Ms. Azama also makes a guest appearance on Arthur Lyman's "Leis of
Jazz", where she sings "Lullabye of the Leaves". As far as I know, that's
the extent of her recorded output.

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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Are you talkin' ta me ???
Date: 30 Aug 1997 12:06:40 -0400 (EDT)


In a message dated 97-08-28 18:29:35 EDT, [e-mail] (Jack Diamond)
writes:

>At 08:34 AM 8/27/97 -0400, Brian Phillips wrote:
>>Isn't part of that soundtrack by Tom Scott (seemingly the only person that
>>Hollywood thought played Jazz in the 1970's)?  I agree with you on the
>>Herrmann side of things.
>
>Now that I look at the notes on the back cover (Taxi Driver), in tiny tiny
>lettering it does say that Tom Scott does appear courtesy of blah blah blah
>
>-J

To clear things up on Taxi Driver, the score was Bernard Hermann's last
score. He died shortly after composing it. As there is not a lot of his score
(actually his score only consists of what - when the album was issued -was
the side two stuff). In order to issue a full length album, Tom Scott was
brought in to "reinterpret" Hermann's score with a jazzy NY feel and fill out
the album. None of the Tom Scott tracks appear in the film.

Ashley


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Liberace
Date: 30 Aug 1997 12:19:01 -0400 (EDT)


In a message dated 97-08-29 06:09:46 EDT, [e-mail]
(Clark Scheffy) writes:

>Did anyone know, for instnace, that Liberace was gay? I didn't because
>he never admitted it to the public in his lifetime. Or that he grew up
>in Milwaukee? An interesting life, and a type of showmanship that few
>others (perhaps Sigfried and Roy, David Copperfield) share.
>
>PS: that's a joke about Liberace's "secret"
>
>Clark

Very funny, Clark!!!

One interesting note - if you folks look hard enough, circa 1953-54 (I
believe) Liberace has full page ads for Blatz beer in Life magazines! The
headline reads"I'm from Milwaukee, so I ought to know - Blatz is Milwaukkee's
finest beer!" (There a wonderful close up shot of Liberace holding a glass of
Blatz with the grand piano in the background and photos below of him
entertaining his friends with Blatz on the table). Definetely suitable for
framing - I ought to know - I have it framed and hanging up in my kitchen, as
does the Liberace museum on its walls!


Ashley

P.S. Since those days, for those who don't know, Blatz has become a REAL
discount brew. In fact, about 4 years ago a punk 7" came out by a band whose
name I can't recall, the title of which was "Blatz - cheaper than beer." - Oh
how the mighty have fallen!
Ashley


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From: "Phil Clark" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) BBC radiophonic workshop
Date: 30 Aug 1997 20:16:59 +0100


Re "White Noise Electric Storm in Hell" seminal album, someone asked if it
was ou t on CD - the news is yes indeed. It's midprice, on Island, at least
it
>> was a year or so ago.
>>
>> hth
>> Phil
>>
>> [e-mail]




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From: "Mark A. Rosati" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tipsy
Date: 30 Aug 1997 12:32:34 -0400




Tosh wrote:

> A dear friend just turned me on to Tipsy.  I think they're fantastic.  Does
> anyone out there have any information on this S.F. band?
>

Speaking of Tipsy... I heard about a 5 sec clip of I think "Mr. Exicitement" on
the very end of the MTV Music Video Awards promo.

It was so short, that I had to quickly mute the TV and hum the rest of the song
in my head untill I could figure out how it was!

...ba, ba, ba, bum, bum....

Mark


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From: "Mark A. Rosati" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Friends of Dean Martinez
Date: 30 Aug 1997 12:17:37 -0400


[e-mail] wrote:

> If anyone loves that moody dark dark DARK cool ennio morricone-ish sounds
> via the electric guitar such as Al Caiola then you may want to pick up the
> new
> Friends of Dean Martinez CD release as it is very much like that.
>
> Very good.
>
> Thank you,
> Jack

I couldn't agree more, Jack!!!!!

I have "The Shadow Of Your Smile" CD and I love it. They have a version of
"Misty" that is almost spooky!!!! Very laid-back, southwestern and shall I say
"cactusy".

I'd love to hear more from them.

Mark


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Raymond Scott concert
Date: 30 Aug 1997 12:45:51 -0400


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

[please forward around the net]


=3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D =3D=
=20

RECKLESS NIGHT ON BOARD THE BOTTOM LINE:
A Live Music Tribute to RAYMOND SCOTT

The spirit of Raymond Scott, the master of BUGS BUNNY-bent musical
mosaics, returns to haunt New York's Bottom Line (SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
27). Irwin Chusid, Director of the Scott Archives, is producing the 2nd
annual live tribute featuring an eclectic group of musicians with a
penchant for Scott's looney tunes & merry melodies.

The RAYMOND SCOTT QUINTET's late '30s novelty jazz (especially
"Powerhouse") has been immortalized in the last 50 years, having been
adapted in 115 classic WARNER BROS. cartoons. It's also been featured in
REN & STIMPY, THE SIMPSONS, Duckman, and Animaniacs; sampled twice by
SOUL COUGHING, and recorded by DON BYRON and the KRONOS QUARTET. (The
original RSQ recordings can be heard on "The Music of Raymond Scott:
Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights" - Columbia 53028.)

Last year's first-ever Scott trib was a rousing success, and this year's
show promises some rare treats. Players (below) will present slight or
radical departures from the original cartoon-jazz arrangements. Along
with RS Quintet favorites, the program will include rarely-heard Scott
compositions from the '40s and '50s.=20

ROBERT MOOG, inventor of the Moog Synthesizer and a colleague of the
late, great Scott, will be on hand to demonstrate the only existing
model of the CLAVIVOX, a keyboard theremin Raymond invented in the
1950s. The device will then be played for the FIRST TIME EVER in public
performance by Dave Amels in one of Raymond's compositions.

The KUSTARD KINGS (of Loser's Lounge fame)--who served as house band at
last year's show--will return, as will WNYC's DAVID GARLAND, who will
sing a medley of Scott songs.=20

Coffee, a band from Rochester, have arranged four little-known Scott
numbers, and jazz accordionist Will Holshouser is arranging three RS
Quintet titles.

=95 VENUE: THE BOTTOM LINE, 15 West 4th St., NYC - 212-228-6300
=95 DATE: Saturday, SEPTEMBER 27 - two shows (7:30 / 10:30 PM)
=95 TICKETS:  $17.50 (at box office--advance sale or day of show)

Lineup:=20
DAVE AMELS - Clavivox
STEVEN BERNSTEIN - trumpet (Lounge Lizards, They Might Be Giants)=20
CHRIS BUTLER - guitar, bass (Waitresses)
BRIAN DEWAN - piano, accordion
DENNIS DIKEN - drums (Smithereens)
KELLY FLINT - vocals (Dave's True Story)
DAVID GARLAND - vocals (WNYC, Worlds of Love)
ENRICO GRANAFEI - harmonica
MIKE HASHIM - sax (Dizzy Gillespie, Cab Calloway)
WILL HOLSHOUSER - accordion
PHILLIP JOHNSTON - soprano sax (Microscopic Septet, Big Trouble)
BIANCA "BOB" MILLER - keyboards (ex-Flystrip, Pianosaurus)
R. STEVIE MOORE - guitar, bass
CHRIS NAPPI - tuned percussion (Steve Reich, S.E.M. Ensemble)
ROB THOMAS - violin (Jazz Passengers, Eddie Harris)
The KUSTARD KINGS (David Terhune, Joe McGinty, George Rush, Clem
        Waldmann, Kris Woolsey)
COFFEE (Phil Marshall, guitar; Tim Poland, bass; Dave Cross, drums)
and others....

"Reckless Night" webpage link at:
http://users.aol.com/DevilDrums/RNBL.htm

Visit the Raymond Scott website at:
http://users.aol.com/DevilDrums

For further information, contact=20
IRWIN CHUSID=20
[e-mail]

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From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Capitol reel-to-reel
Date: 30 Aug 1997 22:15:30 +0100


I've just acquired a mid-60's Capitol 7.5 ips reel to reel
tape, and the box also included a catalog of Capitol's open
reel releases dated Nov 1966.

Anyone who'd like a photocopy of this catalog, email me
a snailmail address and I'll send a copy.  Les Baxter is
included, as is Felix Slatkin, and even Dean Elliot's
"Zounds, what sounds!" came out on open reel (ZT-1818).

Hugh.




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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Are you talkin' ta me ???
Date: 30 Aug 1997 14:58:00 -0700


>To clear things up on Taxi Driver, the score was Bernard Hermann's last
>score. He died shortly after composing it. As there is not a lot of his score
>(actually his score only consists of what - when the album was issued -was
>the side two stuff). In order to issue a full length album, Tom Scott was
>brought in to "reinterpret" Hermann's score with a jazzy NY feel and fill out
>the album. None of the Tom Scott tracks appear in the film.
>
>Ashley

Someone else also told me that the musicians that play on Taxi Driver were
the stable of CTI
CTI = Creed Taylor

Creed Taylor was the main production head of Verve which then became CTI in
the 70's

-J


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From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Look at these cool promo LPs!
Date: 30 Aug 1997 20:04:31 -0400


For those of you who don't read the vinyl marketplace newsgroup, I just had
to share this list. Don't worry, I've censored the for sale parts. ^_- But
there are some real oddballs here I've never seen/heard of.  So enjoy, OK?

>Wes Harrison- The One And Only. 1960's private issue, stereo, autographed
>   Only sold by him from his home via mail order.  He is "Mr. Vocal
>  Sound Effects" and previously did cartoon sound effects, 20,000 Leagues
>  Under The Sea, Peter Pan and more Disney work.  Probably the inspiration
>  for the "Police Academy" movie guy, as the material is similar.  Simply
>  amazing and another one of a kind.  Recorded live.
>
>Music of Ingram Walters-Themes from Motion Pictures and TV Soundtracks/Suite
>  for Piano.  private LP no label  1960s  homemade cover
>  Film noir/melodrama-ish music to set movie moods to. Might be a demo LP
>  or released by him from his own tapes.  Very obscure.  Song
>  titles are: God's House (Main Title), Rape Scene, Beach Love Theme,
>  Nightmare (montage), Strange Journey, Abortion Theme, Necklace Theme, Time
>  Of Decision, Pawnshop Scene and Necklace Theme, Death Scene and End Title.
>  That's all on side 1! Side 2 is less interesting as it has the piano suite
>  and some B'way type big band sound.  There is cool voice over
>  soundclips of the Philip Morris and The Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball Shows.
>  This is the epitome of weird, cool and strange.
>

>Celanese Presents The Spring Thing-  NBC promo for the TV show aired 4/28/69
>  With Noel Harrison/Bobbie Gentry/Harper's Bizarre/Rod McKuen/Shirley
>  Bassey.  But wait!  Side 2 is an all MOOG synthesizer feast by Celanella,
>  performing variations on her theme from the commercial messages in "The
>  Spring Thing".
>
>AMF Presents "Music For Swingers". AMF 6001 stereo late 1960s
>  Special promo for bowlers around the globe, includes the "Swingers Theme"
>  from the TV commercial.  Dig those swinging chicks hanging out at the
>  bowling alley!  Brassy tunes mostly, a la Herb Alpert, but not bad.
>
>Ballentine Presents- Music To Sell Ballantine Beer By.  Private company one-
>  sided advertising LP, pressed by Columbia  mono 1960   Comes in paper
>  sleeve.  "...this record contains 9 of the greatest musical variations on
>  our 'Hey, getcha cold beer' theme you've ever heard! Put them all together
>  and you've got Ballantine Beer's terrific new radio jingle campaign for
>  1960..."  I couldn't have said it better.
>
>Meet The Swinger- Polaroid Radio Transcription For Use By Retailers.
>  Polaroid Corp 1965 mono  One-sided LP with cardboard pic cover.
>   Band One: Complete swinger Commercial with Announcer (53 secs)
>  Band 2: Swinger Commercial Music and Singers Only (53 secs)
>  Band 3: Swinger Music Only (60 secs)
>  All bands are then repeated to give a total of 6 bands on the side.
>  Very swinging mid-60s mod/beat music used to introduce the (then) new
>  Swinger instant camera to the product markets.  I remember those things,
>  do you? :)  Of course, I was VERY young then <ahem>!
>
>Squirt Does Its Thing- Semi-Soft Music in Tijuana Style.  Mark 56 570 1970
>  Amazing product record!  Done up by George Garabedian for Squirt soft
drink, this features the specially >composed   "Tequila And Squirt" tune.
Excellent cover with a barefoot blonde babe sitting on the floor with her
>  portable record player, Squirt in hand, as she rocks to Disraeli Gears and
>  Magical Mystery Tour! Mostly Herb Alpert covers but this is just too cool.
>
>George Liberace Songsmiths, Inc. Proudly Presents- New Songs For Tomorrow.
>  Late 50s- Early 60s Yellow Vinyl publishers demo LP.  Limited edition and
>  numbered 140.  Yes, this IS Liberace's brother.  All the music was done by
>  Mr. G Liberace and his orchestra. The music is lame MOR, as expected, and
>  the pressing is so-so, but it's a unique one of a kind LP these days.
>  Also known (humorously) as "The Liberace Garage LP"

>Steel Blue- As Introduced at The 1966 US Steel Automotive Presentation,
>  Detroit.  Columbia Special Products CSS 487 1967  Incredibly cool and
>  limited issue tribute LP to the futuristic cars shown at the industry
>  trade show in 1966.  Space-age REAL experimental cars featured on the
>  cover and inside
>  the thick fold out cover (The futuristic Innovari, to be exact!).
>  Specially commissioned by USS, the LP features exclusively recorded
>  tracks by (side 1) The Jack Brohenska Quartet (original percussionist
>  with the Australian Jazz Quartet) and, (side 2) by The Lenore Paxton Trio.

Thanks for the space, Jessica ^_^



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Liberace
Date: 31 Aug 1997 03:19:53 -0400 (EDT)


In a message dated 97-08-29 06:09:46 EDT, Clark wrote:

<< OK, I know. This is new low for list subject matter.

 But did anyone catch the A&E channel Biography episode on none other
 than Vladzu (yes, Vladzu) Liberace a couple of nights ago? Really
 fun, as most of A&E's Biography is.
  >>

What i want to know is who did the song snippet that appeared in the bio ?
The one with the young girl singing "That's what I feel, when Liberace winks
at me"  Did that make the charts ?  Gotta hear the whole thing someday.

Waiting patiently for Vik and Amy's Las Vegas trip report, as I had
recomended the L Museum as a must-see.

And a Hollywood Babylon type ripoff book called Palms Springs Babylon delves
into Lee's seamy life there as Chickenhawk Supreme, including allegations
made in 20-something castoff and palimony-hungry chauffeur Scott Thorson's
 cash-in tell-all book "Behind the Candleabra," which I must read now.

Also don't miss his movie "Sincerely Yours" which has been discussed here
previously.  All the Lee you can handle, and more.

JB





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From: Shangri-la <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Soundtracks!*neal hefti
Date: 31 Aug 1997 13:04:40 +-200


I've got a Neal Hefti called little darlin and it features loads of =
jazzy harpsichord. I also have Doris Day Bright and Shiny with music by =
him and it is great for Sunday hangovers. Both albums are non =
soundtracks but very enjoyable.................

Beam me up

CHARL HENNING


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From: Shangri-la <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Dick
Date: 31 Aug 1997 12:39:01 +-200


I do tend to agree. I first heard some of this album when I was dancing =
at the Piano Lounge and my cousin was DJing. All those running notes =
almost made my olive slip out....

CHARL HENNING


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From: Shangri-la <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Swank Clubs
Date: 31 Aug 1997 13:11:50 +-200


Can anyone describe some other easy and exotica clubs/bars/places =
especially where there is a bit of dancing going on and what music is =
played??? I don't get much such info and am very curious. The Piano =
Lounge had a milestone evening last Saturday and I really enjoyed an =
almost 4 hour set with people at one stage jumping up and down to 180 =
bpm swing by the likes of Jack Fascinato, Sammy Davis Jr. and the =
Peddlers. Also the raving hands in the air to a Johnny Colon salsa =
number was rather peculiar.....

Charl


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From: Shangri-la <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Belmonte+3 SUNS+Petula Clark
Date: 31 Aug 1997 12:51:04 +-200


"Movin & Groovin"  Can anybody come up with a better
example of ear candy than that?=20
Fever and Smoke also by the three suns could suffice if you don't want =
to listen to movin and groovin twice in one go......

I recently found three 3 Suns records in three weeks:Twilight Time
                                                                         =
         Soft and Sweet =20
                                                                         =
              and Malaguena

All in near mint condition. Is this a plot? Even stranger I was =
listening to Petula Clarks Greatest Hits while reading the Gould thread. =
A mere coincidence???

Charl Henning


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From: Shangri-la <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Liberace
Date: 31 Aug 1997 16:41:15 +-200


>One of the strangest songs I've heard is "cement mixer" where Liberace gets all sentimental about mortar and all that.
CHA CHA CHARL



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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) This Sunday morning, 89.7FM
Date: 31 Aug 1997 08:05:48 -0700


I forgot to post that I'm going to be on this Sunday
west coast time from 9AM - Noon

HTTP://WWW.KFJC.ORG
Click on Internet Broadcast and hope for the best;)

Later,
Jack


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Groovy Criminals (Peter Thomas)
Date: 31 Aug 1997 19:40:59 -0400 (EDT)


Just picked up a Polygram CD of PETER THOMAS FILMMUSIK (originally issued in
1967) featuring his compositions for Edgar Wallace Bryant German Krimi films
(a favorite of Lux Interiors of the Cramps, btw).  Scored it at Medium Rare
Records here in SF (so don't bug me for their number, call information.  They
do phone orders).

It's great stuff, lots of mid-60s grooviness with the crime jazz.  One suite
opens with a jaunty sitar and organ bit.  Others feature bongos, electric
guitars, wordless vocals - the very stuff that makes this list sigh a
collective sigh of desire.  The closest comparisons would be Mancini's
mid-60s stuff (particularly the twist elements in EXPERIMENT IN TERROR) and
also the nigh-perfect Flint soundtracks.

Also recently picked up Razor & Tie's reissues of the SECRET AGENT
(pre-PRISONER) and THE SAINT soundtracks.  SECRET AGENT is more uptempo, and
spy-jazzier with lots of mid-decade harpsichord.  Sounds good next to John
Barry's IPCRESS FILE and Lalo compositions like "Danube Incident"  The best
part of THE SAINT is the extended version of the main theme, the rest tends
to the Easy side of the sound spectrum (as the UK tends to label these
things) with lite-latin rhythms, Herb A. like brass, girly choruses etc.  Got
get 'em!

--David


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From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Saint/Secret Agent ?
Date: 31 Aug 1997 17:32:44 -0700


David,

Why didn't you just buy the bootleg CD w/ the Saint and Secret Agent both ?

Jack


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From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) October on GROOVIE MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS
Date: 31 Aug 1997 22:20:21 UT


Hello Exotics!

My beatnik pal, Jack Diamond, turned me on to this happening place.

Here's info on my radio show:

=====================

October Highlights from
GROOVIE MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS
Sundays, 7 - 8 pm (PST) on KUSF 90.3 FM

RealAudio BROADCAST: < http://wed.usfca.edu/kusf > for instructions

SHOW 14:  October 5
Good thing it's only radio because money-shots abound with the music of two
X-rated blockbusters:  THOMAS "FINGERS" CHELSEA and band cover the theme from
"BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR" (72) and ALDEN SHUMAN brings out "THE DEVIL IN MISS
JONES" (73).  JOHNNY GRAY jazzes up "SHALAKO" (68) till it's no longer
recognizable as a pulpy western.  Plus "nervous jazz" maestro ELMER BERNSTEIN
then and now:  "THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM" (55) and "BULLETPROOF" (96).

SHOW 15: October 12
The hyper, genre-blending films of India carry over into their soundtracks.
Straight from the heart of Bollywood Babylon comes singer USHA UTHUP's crazed
cha-cha from "SHALIMAR" (78) and popster VIJAYA ANAND's speedy dance number
from "THE EMPEROR AND THE PRINCE" (89).  Back in the crumbled Empire, blokes
set their sights on colonizing the local "birds" in "THE KNACK...AND HOW TO
GET IT" (65), with music by JOHN BARRY.  Includes an ENNIO MORRICONE birthday
salute.

Show 16: October 19
LALO SCHIFRIN's frantic grooves in "BULLITT" (68) take gratuitous San
Francisco chase scenes to new heights.  Middle America's grooviest
schmaltzmeister MIKE CURB sets the scene for runnin', lovin' and moonshinin'
in the chain-gang escape flick, "THE DEVIL'S 8" (69). And in anticipation of
next week's on-air Halloween bash, BARNABUS COLLINS (JONATHAN FRID) rises from
the grave for a 30th anniversary celebration of  the Gothic TV vampire soap
"DARK SHADOWS" (66-71).

Show 17: October 26
A Groovie Ghoulie Halloween special that will leave you spiking the kiddies'
apples with razor blades!  If delivering Satan's spawn wasn't enough,
CHRISTOPHER KOMEDA's creepy lullabies in "ROSEMARY'S BABY" (68) probably drove
star MIA FARROW to take up child adoption.  LON CHANEY, JR. howls the theme
from the twisted shocker "SPIDER BABY" (64).  Also LES BAXTER's voodoo rhythms
from "THE DUNWICH HORROR" (70), HUBLER & SCHWAB's "VAMPYROS LESBOS" and much
more.


Outside the Bay Area?  Listen on the Internet!  http://web.usfca.edu/kusf
Visit the Groovie Movie Soundtrack Web Page-with complete playlists-at
www.sanfransicko.com

Thanks!
Ratso Russo
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