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exotica-digest      Wednesday, December 31 1997      Volume 02 : Number 029




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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 01:28:48 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) presents

I got Easy-Tempo volumes 1-3, Montefiori Cocktail, James Taylor Quartet's
JTQ, Mo Plen 2000 and 3000,  and KLF. Now I'm drowning in 7T's wa-wa
blaxploitaiton pseudo funk and Continental Latinova on the E-Z side, with a
nice dose of heavy playing from JTQ and some techno e-z from
Montefiori......happy New Year all......Jimmy Botticelli

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 05:52:34 PST
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Gifts

Found in or near my sock:

CD: Combustible Edison: Schizophonic; Johnny Burnette: Rock 'N' Roll
Trio/Tear It Up
LP: Irv Cottler: Percussion Around the World; Wild Stereo Drums;
?:Ancient Voices of Children (Nonsuch); Thunderball soundtrack; Little
"Butchie" Saunders & His Buddies: Rock 'N' Roll Indian Dance; The
Shadows: Out of the Shadows.

Season's Greetings to all,

BW

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 11:51:19 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Mull

> albums~~.Affiliated with  Fernwood and Mary Hartmann too...

Yes -- after his little stint on "Mary Hartman" (his character wound up being
impaled on an artificial Christmas tree), he hosted its summer replacement,
"Fernwood 2-Night" (1977), a hilarious fake talk show. They gave Tom Waits some
of his early exposure. It was followed the next summer by "America 2Night" --
same thing, except the show had (fictionally) moved from Fernwood to Alta Coma,
California, "the unfinished furniture capital of the world." This gave them the
excuse to have more celebrity guests on the show. Frank DeVol led the house
band, "Happy Kyne and The Mirthmakers", which included Tommy Tedesco on guitar.
Just to tie it all back into music.

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 12:20:43 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Mull

>Yes -- after his little stint on "Mary Hartman" (his character wound up being
>impaled on an artificial Christmas tree), he hosted its summer replacement,
>"Fernwood 2-Night"

Actually, it was two characters.  Garth and Barth Gimble were twins and
Garth was the one impaled, I think.

To keep it even MORE musical, Martin Mull does play guitar and DeVol has
many credits to his name, however, some of the musical highlights(?) of the
program were "Ice Cream Baby" with vocals by Kyne, who also did a version
of "Shake Your Booty".

There was also a pianist in an iron lung, who accompanied a tap dancing
Shirley Temple-style moppet, I cannot recall her name.

Do leisure suits cause cancer?
Brian Phillips

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 19:10:51 +0100 (CET)
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Help with archives

>I finally got an index of the archives, but when I ftp there to retrieve
>documents it won't let me in without a password.

    for anonymous ftp, use your e-mail address as "password"

        Johan



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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 19:10:48 +0100 (CET)
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #21: DJs + music writers

    hi again,

    i just read this:

>Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 10:10:20 -1000
>From: [e-mail]
>Subject: (exotica) Don Tiki Part2
    <--cut-->
>Don't forget to include your address! Of course, DJs + music writers get
>a CD and press kit just for asking. Until zen...

    well, I AM a dj, and write about exotica cd's on my web site,
    so i'd love to get the cd for free ;-)

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

        the radio pages on my web site:
        http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/radioq/radioq.htm

        Johan

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 19:11:02 +0100 (CET)
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist Fantastica

Fantastica runs on Radio Scorpio, FM106, Leuven, Belgium, each Saturday
15-16 h.




Fantastica # 44: Cartoons in stereo - B




* The Renegades: "Geronimo"
      [compil. CD: "Wa-Chic-Ka-Nocka"]
* Bob Prescott: "The Races"
      [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"]
* Kai Winding: "Till"
      [LP: "Mondo Cane #2"]
* Phil Cammarata: "The Last Blast Of The Bugler"
      [Transcription LP: "Dr. Demento Show # 87-33"]
* Ennio Morricone: "The Devil Was Angel"
      [CD: "Golden Film Themes"]
* Creed Taylor: "Heartaches"
      [LP: "Panic, The Son Of Shock"]
* Bob Prescott: "The Shooting Gallery"
      [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"]
* The Little Big Horns: "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
      [compil. CD: "Ultra-Lounge On The Rocks Part Two"]
* Bob Prescott: "Calisthenics"
      [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"]
* Miss Piggy: "Dream Dancin'"
      [LP: "Aerobique Exercise Workout Album"]
* Dean Elliott: "I Didn't Know What Time It Was"
      [LP: "Zounds! What Sounds!"]
* Bob Prescott: "The Time"
      [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"]
* Ferrante & Teicher: "Three O'Clock In The Morning"
      [LP: "With Percussion"]
* Judy Sheppard Missett: "Chase The Clouds Away - Chuck Magione"
      [LP: "Jazzercise"]
* Creed Taylor: "Time Runs Out"
      [LP: "Shock"]
* Bob Prescott: "The Railroad"
      [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"]
* Jack McDuff: "The Honeydripper"
      [CD: "The Honeydripper"]
* Mel Henke: "Adventure On The Rails"
      [LP: "Dynamic Adventures In Sound"]
* Creed Taylor: "The Operation"
      [LP: "Panic, The Son Of Shock"]
* Doodoo Wah: "The Dental Yodel (Edit)"
      [CD: "For Amusement Only"]
* Bob Prescott: "The Dentist"
      [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"]
* Bob Prescott: "Cristopher Columbus"
      [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"]
* B. Bumble And The Stingers: "Nautilus"
      [CD: "Nut Rocker And All The Classics"]
* Leo Diamond: "The Skin Divers - 2"
      [LP: "Skin Diver Suite"]
* Stevens & Grdnic: "Fast Food"
      [compil. LP: "Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Novelty Records Of All
       Time Vol 5: The 1980'S"]
* Bob Prescott: "The Intruder"
      [LP: "Cartoons In Stereo"]
* Nervous Norvus: "Transfusion"
      [compil. LP: "Dr. Demento Presents The Greatest Novelty Records Of All
       Time Vol 2: The 1950'S"]




        the radio pages on my web site:
        http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/radioq/radioq.htm

        Johan |)/\|)/\ Vis

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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 17:05:44 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Mull

> From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: (exotica) Martin Mull
>
> Actually, it was two characters.  Garth and Barth Gimble were twins and
> Garth was the one impaled, I think.

Yes, Garth was the one who became a tree ornament. Barth was the tv host on the
run from statutory charges in Florida (or something like that).

> To keep it even MORE musical, Martin Mull does play guitar

Indeed -- a big, blonde Gibson archtop. I seem to recall that he could do a
nice job on a bossa nova. His stage design when touring in the 70's was a
living room sort of setup, tv tables and everything, billed as "Martin Mull &
His Living room Furniture" (or something like that -- maybe it was an album
title also?). Whatsizname from The Cars played keyboards in the backing band at
one point (keyboard was set up on an ironing board).

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 13:17:17 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Ultra Lounge

I have a question.  Or, multiple questions:

The first is, how biased is the Ultra Lounge series towards Capitol Artists?  Is
there anybody I might be missing hearing stuff from because they didn't record
with Capitol?  (Like say, Martin Denny or Esquivel or Ferrante & Tiecher or the
Three Suns)  Or did they do a decent job licensing stuff from other companies?
I have the Christmas Cocktails disc and have heard some of the Crime Story disc
and I like about 70% of what I hear.  How do the rest stack up?

Also, are there other comps a newbie should start with besides these?  Maybe
something a little less staid and a little more rambunctious?  Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Peter

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 13:19:25 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Blue Hawaii

I saw a disc in a store called, I think, Blue Hawaii Christmas.  It looked like
a Lounge comp of Hawaiian-style Christmas tunes.  Can anyone recommend or revile
this?
How exotically Hawaiian is it (versus Lawrence Welk-y Hawaiian)?
How's the selection of artists?

Thanks,
Peter

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 16:19:41 +0200
From: "Waldo Muller" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) easy tempo

DJ Jimmy Bee wrote:
>
> I got Easy-Tempo volumes 1-3, Montefiori Cocktail, James Taylor Quartet's
> JTQ, Mo Plen 2000 and 3000,  and KLF. Now I'm drowning in 7T's wa-wa
> blaxploitaiton pseudo funk and Continental Latinova on the E-Z side ...

As far as my taste goes, Easy Tempo vol. 3 looks like the best of the trio.
Is it worth buying? Is it sort of like the Peter Thomas or Horst Jankowski
bossa stuff? Is it mostly bossa or does it lean more towards the other
Latin beats? (Jimmy mentions KLF ... my love for the elevator sounds of
Acker Bilk started when they sampled "Stranger on the shore" on Chill Out
... Here Johnny Pearson's "Sleepy shores" - on Music for TV Dinners - also
comes to mind. I recently compiled a 90 minute tape of early seventies
Johnny Pearson and Sounds Orchestral - but I will spare you the track list)

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 16:48:38 +0200
From: "Waldo Muller" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) r-a-m-b-u-n-c-t-i-o-u-s

Peter wrote:

> Also, are there other comps a newbie should start with besides these?
Maybe
> something a little less staid and a little more rambunctious?  Any
suggestions?

More rambunctious, heh? Try Gert Wilden's crime jazzy, twisty CD comp "I
told you not the cry" (think that is what it is called) on Crippled Dick
Hot Wax. Also Hugo Montenegro's "Man from U.N.C.L.E." CD reissue (much more
rambunctious than Ultralounge crime comp). Harder, but more seventies, in
sound are the British Blow Up compilations or the first Easy Project
Loungecore compilation. And on the Latin side, Yma Sumac's "Mambo" CD is
also pretty rambunctious.

staid Waldo

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 07:05:01 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Ultra Lounge

At 01:17 PM 12/30/97 UT, peter_risser wrote:
>how biased is the Ultra Lounge series towards Capitol Artists?

very.  they do have some denny (capitol put together a 2-disc set of
denny, in fact) but they don't include Esquivel or the 3 Suns because
those are RCA.  I don't recall Ferrante&Tiecher on UL.

For RCA artists there are 3 CDs in the Space Age Pop series which has
some E and 3S as well as other greats.

Also, check out the Cocktail Mix series on Rhino.  They were able to get
a full range of artists including Dean Elliott, The 3S, F&T and Lenny Dee
from respectively Capitol, RCA, ABC-Paramount and Decca!  Volume 1 is my
favorite.

Hi-Fi Rykodisc owns Arthur Lyman but also Jack "Bongo" Burger and some other
folks which are okay.  Try "In a Cocktail Mood."  They also have packaged three
of their discs in a boxed set.

Then there is  Incredibly Strange Music, Volume 1...the CD on Caroline
Records. I heard there is a Volume 2 CD but I have never seen it.  Anyway,
Vol. 1 has Harry Breuer, Dave Harris, Perrey & Kingsley, Billy Mure...

The new Varese Sarabande disc "The Ernie Kovacs Record Collection" has a
good cross section including several F&T selections, Yma Sumac, The Tony
DeSimone Trio and the Les Baxter Orchestra...and, of course, Ernie Kovacs!

All the Enoch Light and Command stuff has not gone onto a compilation,
although several CD's from some of the Percussion albums have been
made...but NOT on UL.

With all those, I think you have a beginning sampling of a good range of
this kind of music.

Byron

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 17:22:49 +0200
From: "Waldo Muller" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) r-a-m-b-u-n-c-t-i-o-u-s, g-l-o-s-s

This has nothing to do with music but i must in retrospect explain why i
used RAMBUNCTIOUS over and over in my previous e-mail. English is my second
language and I learned a new word. Join the exotica mailing list and
increase your word power!

tipsy Waldo

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Date: Sun, 28 Dec 1997 07:59:25 -0800
From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) easy tempo

From Waldo Muller:

>As far as my taste goes, Easy Tempo vol. 3 looks like the best of the trio.
>Is it worth buying? Is it sort of like the Peter Thomas or Horst Jankowski
>bossa stuff?

Did you know Volume 4 has been released?  More excellent mod and funky
sounds from Italian soundtracks and studio projects.  The double LP is a
beautiful thing to behold but the CD exists, too.

Also out:  Beat at Cinecitta, vol. 2 and Blowup, vol. 2,  the latter
consisting of more wild library music.

Cool name, Waldo!

C. "Ratso" Russo





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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 11:00:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Randall Rothenberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge

    My recollection, from my interviews with Brad Benedict, the series
producer at Capitol, is that Ultra Lounge is entirely from Capitol's
vaults. Now, there may be some occasional crossover; rights-sharing and
favors are done among companies on archival compilations.  Ashley and Br.
Cleve would no better about this, though.


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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 06:43:30 -0800
From: "Sean Berry" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge

> I have a question.  Or, multiple questions:
>
> The first is, how biased is the Ultra Lounge series towards Capitol
Artists?  Is
> there anybody I might be missing hearing stuff from because they didn't
record
> with Capitol?  (Like say, Martin Denny or Esquivel or Ferrante & Tiecher
or the
> Three Suns)  Or did they do a decent job licensing stuff from other
companies?
> I have the Christmas Cocktails disc and have heard some of the Crime
Story disc
> and I like about 70% of what I hear.  How do the rest stack up?

- --All of the artists on the Ultra-Lounge compilations recorded for Capitol.
Martin Denny was one of them. You'll find a few of his tracks on several of
the Ultra-Lounge CD's, PLUS, Capitol released an excellent 2-CD set of his
exotic material last year. They also released great 2-CD sets by Jackie
Gleason and Les Baxter. As far as I know all of the tracks on these CD's
were taken from the Capitol vaults and no outside material was used. I have
the complete set and like just about all of them. The only one that I found
disappointing was Space Capades, which was fairly tame and had tracks that
didn't really fit in with the space theme. My favorites are Cha-Cha de
Amor, Bossa-Nova Ville, and Christmas Cocktails I.

Thanks,

Sean

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:13:07 +0100 (CET)
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: exotica-digest V2 #21: DJs + music writers

oh boy, i screwed up the header of that message... sorry guys, i wasn't
meant to be sent to the list!

Johan



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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 14:33:43 -0500
From: "allanc" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge

 Peter wrote:
> Also, are there other comps a newbie should start with besides these?
> Maybe
> something a little less staid and a little more rambunctious?  Any
> suggestions?

 I would suggest buying the following compilations: "Las Vegas Grind" (3
 volumes on cd) and "Jungle Exotica" (2 volumes) all released by the good
 people at Strip Records. Wild 'n' Raucous tunes.

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 14:59:30 -0500
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge

At 1:17 PM +0000 12/30/97, [e-mail] wrote:

>The first is, how biased is the Ultra Lounge series towards Capitol
>Artists?  Is
>there anybody I might be missing hearing stuff from because they didn't record
>with Capitol?

The Ultra Lounge series only uses artists who were on Capitol, or any of
the labels that are also currently owned by the parent conglomerate, EMI.
Therefore, you have artists whose original records were on Capitol,
Liberty, EMI, United Artists, Tower, Blue Note and Imperial (I think that's
all of them).

So, you're not hearing artists who recorded for RCA, Command, Warner Bros,
ABC-Paramount, Columbia, A&M, Time, Richmond, Omega, Atlantic, Elektra,
Reprise, Mercury, MGM, Hi-Fi, Westminster, Decca, Coral, London, Epic, etc
etc etc

In other words, Ultra Lounge only provides a tip of the iceberg, albeit one
with some very important artists.

br cleve



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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 15:11:49 -0500
From: "allanc" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for The Single Eye" December 28, 1997

The Single Eye can be heard on Sundays at 4pm on CKUT 90.3 fm in Montreal,
Quebec, Canada.

The Camberwell Now: Greenfingers "Greenfingers"
Silver Apples: Cosmic String "Beacon"
Amon Tobin: One Small Step "Bricolage"
Brainticket: Era of Technology "Celestial Ocean"
The Lords: Don't Mince Matter (live) "The Continent Lashes Back!"
The Ooze: We're Living Now "Visions of the Past Vol 1"
Piero Piccioni: Notti Caldi "Beat at Cinecitta Vol 2"
The Ray McVay Sound: Kinda Kinky "The Easy Project"
Bruno Nicolai: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang "Beat at Cinecitta Vol 2"
Eden Ahbez: Tobago "Lost Treasures!"
Kid Koala: Taboo Soda "Scratchhappyland"
Pasquale & the Lunar-tiks: Moon Madness "Jungle Exotica Vol 2"
Improved Sound Ltd: Hit 'em in the Face "Electrick Loosers"
Kid Koala: Thank you, Goodnight, Drive Safely "Scratchhappyland"
Tony Rodelle Larson: Bear Rug "Swing for a Crime"



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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 14:15:13 -0800
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Looking for Jerry Larson

Jerry,

If you're here, I need your address

Jack

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 11:18:24 -0800
From: Steve Sando <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge

>--All of the artists on the Ultra-Lounge compilations recorded for Capitol.
>Martin Denny was one of them.

Weren't a lot of these tracks originally on labels later acquirred by
Capitol/EMI, like Liberty and Blue Note?

By the way, I think what works best about the Ultra-Lounge series is that
they do mostly maintain the "Capitol Sound" rather than try to be all
things to all people.


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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 00:48:30 EST
From: BasicHip <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) it's a good time to be a newbie

peter, you could drop a quick grand on all those comps that are out now!
consider yourself fortunate that you have all of these CD's to feast upon.

it was not long ago that all you had to pick from CD-wise was "Incredibly
Strange Music", Rhino's Martin Denny collection and Esquivel's "Space Age
Bachelor Pad Music".

to this day, Capitol has given us something like 18 Ultra-Lounge comps but has
still yet to release any of Les Baxter's greatest LP's.

so there is still more to come.

and that's STILL only the tip of the iceberg, because as soon as you dust off
your turntable you'll be amazed at how much more is out there that will never
see it's way to a Virgin Megastore.

Piero Umiliani's "Svezia Inferno E Paradiso" is tremendous.  might want to
check out "Vampryos Lesbos" too.

you mentioned The Crime Scene.  You should consider Rhino's two fine new Crime
Jazz collections.

happy new year and all that jazz...

if ya drink, don't drive.




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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 09:01:46 -0500
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go!

Okay gang, enlighten me.

A couple of weeks ago I picked up this CD ("Pulse" label.....? I forget) -
subtitled "Kiddie Shows for Adults" or something like that.  It's got tracks
to TV shows like "Stingray" and "Doctor Who."

These tracks sound like they're in mono (makes sense since these tunes
would only be heard through a small, tinny TV speaker).

Are all/most of these shows British or what??  I'm not that old to
remember Thunderbirds or any of the other shows listed.

I'd highly recommend this CD for some swingin' theme music - almost all
the tracks are a lot of fun - there's about 4 or 5 duds.

- - Nate

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 09:41:56 EST
From: BasicHip <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go!

In a message dated 97-12-31 09:05:21 EST, you write:

<< Are all/most of these shows British or what??  I'm not that old to
 remember Thunderbirds or any of the other shows listed. >>

All British.  Thunderbirds, Stingray, Fireball-XL-5, Captain Scarlet, Supercar
all scored by the Barry Gray Orchestra.  You should go to a good video store
and check these out.  sci-fi shows done with marionettes with thick lips and
thicker eye brows who fly through through space and face danger.

scamp's Shadows Are Go has Lady Penelope's pink car on the cover.

something you have to see if only once.

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 09:55:02 -0500
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go! -Reply

Yeah, I've seen the Thunderbirds show, and have a vague recollection of
this being on when I was a tot.......I've got that Scamp Shadows CD too...

Can't really get into the puppet thing.  They also did this for a "horror
movie" whose name escapes me at the moment - its got all the classic
monsters running around in a classic "old castle" setting.....Boris Karloff
does one of the voices.....anybody know the title???

- - Nate



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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 12:13:05 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go!

> Can't really get into the puppet thing.  They also did this for a "horror
> movie" whose name escapes me at the moment - its got all the classic
> monsters running around in a classic "old castle" setting.....Boris Karloff
> does one of the voices.....anybody know the title???

"Mad Monster Party" (1969). Not a Gary & Sylvia Anderson SuperMarionation
project (they used actual marionettes with strings and everything), but a stop
motion animation thang from Rankin & Bass. Besides Boris himself and some Peter
Lorre and Charles Laughton sound-a-likes, it also includes the inimitable pipes
of Phyllis Diller. Mad Magazine founder, Harvey Kurtzman, co-wrote the
screenplay and you can see some influence from his art in the character design,
especially the fabulous babe character. I can't remember who did the music, but
I seem to recall (shudder) songs. Sort of like a mutated relative of the old
"Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" TV special. It's an interesting curio.

Getting back to the Andersons (Thunderbirds, Stingray, Captain Scarlet, etc.),
Outre Magazine has been doing a series of stories on their career for the last
few issues. Also, the feature films, "Thunderbirds Are Go!" (1966) and
"Thunderbird Six" (1968) seem to turn up regularly on Turner's channels,
although curiously, they are flagged as "edited for content" at the beginning!
"Thunderbirds Are Go!" includes a musical segment with puppets of Cliff Richard
& The Shadows performing in space (as seen on the cover of the Scamp cd).

Happy New Year everyone.

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 12:53:37 EST
From: Micheleflp <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Thunderbirds and the Giant Wheel show

In a message dated 97-12-31 09:59:14 EST, [e-mail] writes:

<< Yeah, I've seen the Thunderbirds show, and have a vague recollection of
 this being on when I was a tot.......I've got that Scamp Shadows CD too... >>

Hey, they show that Thunderbirds show on the Televisions at the local
nightclub here in L.A. (Silverlake) - Spaceland.  Thunderbirds were really
cool!  Does anyone remember a show where a horse and some other animals would
get in a big wheel (the wheel was like a vehicle for them) and they would
travel in it?  It was done during the Kimba the White Lion/Speed Race
style/era.  I'm still trying to find someone that remembers that show.  What
is the name of it?????

Anyway, none of you said whethere these CDs were any good.  So let us all know
what you thought of the Cds, some of us may want to purchase them.

- - Michele
Flipside Fanzine

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 19:49:59 +0100 (CET)
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: John Zacherle: "Dinner With Zach

it's a bootleg i guess, and you can get it from Norton
<http://members.aol.com/nortonrec/norton.html>

it has some tracks that are also on the "monster mash" LP i have, but also
other ones; i don't have the track list right now.

        Johan

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 19:49:55 +0100 (CET)
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mirageman

got that new cd by Mirageman, called "thunder and lightning", on Irma
(Italy), and i like it a     lot! if you digged the sound gallery
stuff, you'll like this - and i quote fom the sleeve - "psychedelic acid
funk with violent trashings of fuzz guitar intertwined with a total freak
out on the Hammond organ".
ignore the "file under easy listening" label, as this is wild and dangerous
stuff! (beautiful digi-pack sleeve too!)

        Johan

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 19:49:42 +0100 (CET)
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) about 3 James taylor Quartet cd's

i checked out the 3 James taylor Quartet cd's that were mentioned here:

Mission Impossible
The Money Spyder
Get Organized

i liked the first 2 mentioned very much, and can recommend them if you like
this kind of thing (jazz-influenced spy-flavored energetic instro rock).
the third is a bit too "free" for me, more like nervous, freewheelin' funky
acid-jazz. not bad, but not the same thing as the other 2 mentioned.

        Johan

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 11:28:16 -0800
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mirageman

At 07:49 PM 12/31/97 +0100, Johan Dada Vis wrote:
>
>got that new cd by Mirageman, called "thunder and lightning", on Irma
>(Italy), and i like it a     lot! if you dug the sound gallery
>stuff, you'll like this - and i quote from the sleeve - "psychedelic acid
>funk with violent trashings of fuzz guitar intertwined with a total freak
>out on the Hammond organ".
>ignore the "file under easy listening" label, as this is wild and dangerous
>stuff! (beautiful digi-pack sleeve too!)

Yeah, I have to listen to that 1 again.
Fabrezio, head of Irma America, sent me their entire catalog except the 1 I
really wanted which is Montefiori Cocktail!, show biz is everywhere, even
amongst small indie labels, and that was 1 of them.

I'm sure since he saw that I reviewed it for KFJC and loved it, I didn't
need "my own" copy, since I'm going to start carrying it

So like I said, I have to listen to it again to really "get it", 'cause I
didn't "get it" yet, meaning it didn't make me crazy.

There's another "Mirageman", just in case you didn't know and I love that
cover with the "chalked out" silhouette of a man on the ground thing

Jack

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Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 15:28:24 -0800
From: Antho=?iso-8859-1?Q?=F1?=io Mighuel Pettit <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Blue Hawaii

Ohayo!
         Regarding the Blue Hawaiians' "Christmas on Big Island" CD:
I first heard it while trying on clothes at Urban Outfitters in Seattle.
They were playing a bunch of loud thumpy Gen-X-type stuff, when out of
nowhere came an intriguing twang followed by the perfect Hawaiian Christmas
tune. It sounded like it could have been old late-forties country music.
Very campy. My friend and I were both immediately taken by the song, so we
approached one of the sales drones and asked what was playing. They showed
us the CD but said that they had had it a couple of years etc etc etc...
Blah blah blah We head out to all of the Disc shops on Capital Hill, but
everyone gave us one of those
"No-we've-never-heard-of-it-and-why-the-Hell-would-you-want-it-anyway" type
looks. Even the upscale downtown Book 'n' CD shoppe "Borders" didn't stock
it, and they have everything (albiet marked up 15%.) We had pretty much
given up hope, when as a last resort we stopped into Tower Records and they
cheerfully said that they had 15 copies in stock blah blah blah...
      They point is, it is pretty good. The songs that are good are really
good. It is not Lawrence Welk-y at all. Exotica-yes, in that it's Hawaiian,
but it doesn't sound THAT  The particular track that I had initially heard
and was so impressed by, ("Jingle-Jangle") was actually kind of a rarity in
that the rest of the songs are definately more modern. It is kind of modern
surf music otherwise. There are quite a few really catchy tunes, but they
had to grow on me just a little bit for me to appreciate them. I think you
should buy it... I ended up being happy with it.
         Sorry to go on and on, but I'm on company time...

Regards,
T. Mighuel Bishop Pettit
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********* Records, Tokyo

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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 08:25:00 +1000
From: Wayne Davidson <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go!

Here in Australia on the cable channel Nick At Nite they screen Stingray,
Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, Fireball XL5 and (the quite amazing) UFO every
Saturday night. They call the block of shows 'Strung Out In Space'.  All are
Gerry Anderson productions. The theme from UFO is one of my favourite TV
themes, it's another by Barry Gray who scored all of these shows.

Something which may be of interest to TV fans: on the same channel they also
screen such British spy/adventure shows as The Man From UNCLE, The Saint,
Department S, Jason King (the Laurie Johnson theme to this show can be found
on the second 'Sound Gallery' compilation) and Randall And Hopkirk
(Deceased). Also recently the entire series of Patrick McGoohan's 'The
Prisoner' was screened.

The cable channel of my dreams!

Ciao,

Wayne Davidson



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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 16:50:42 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go!

> From: Wayne Davidson <[e-mail]>
> Subject: RE: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go!
>
> Here in Australia on the cable channel Nick At Nite they screen Stingray,
> Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, Fireball XL5 and (the quite amazing) UFO every
> Saturday night. They call the block of shows 'Strung Out In Space'.
>
> Something which may be of interest to TV fans: on the same channel they also
> screen such British spy/adventure shows as The Man From UNCLE, The Saint,
>
> The cable channel of my dreams!

You would be REAL disappointed by the U.S. version of Nick At Nite. Sheeeit,
I'm movin' to Australia. ;)

(oh, "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." was a US production, I think)

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