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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 97 14:55:59 PST
From: "B. Yost" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Command discography questions

Hi,

Does anyone have Command 916, 944, or 949, or know the artists/titles of
them?  None of the web-based Command discographies I've seen have the
titles for these releases, including the Spaced Out site.

Even more arcane, has anyone ever heard why there apparently is no Command
803?  Or maybe there once was but it got discontinued?

Any info appreciated, thanks.

Brad Yost



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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 97 19:15:57 -0000
From: Michael D. Toth <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge

"Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>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?

As previously suggested, rush out to get those Rhino Cocktail Mix CDs,
especially Irwin Chusid's "Bachelor's Guide to the Galaxy" volume. Also,
they're a bit uneven, but those Music for a Bachelor's Den comps aren't
bad and feature stuff licensed from many different labels; but I consider
them more interesting than a lot of the Ultra Lounge stuff I've heard.

>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).

I don't know. I'm kinda annoyed with the reality that Ultra Lounge almost
defines this whole genre because they're the only CDs I see EVERYWHERE,
perhaps because they have the distribution and marketing push of
EMI/Capitol. I'm increasingly disappointed in the kind of stuff they pick
(but apparently they know what sells). They're squandering their
resources, IMO. Take for example, Ferrante & Teicher's _Dynamic Twin
Pianos_ LP on UA (recently plugged here by Ross Orr with good reason) and
other stray prepared piano tracks on UA. Am I mistaken or has NOT A
SINGLE ONE OF THESE *amazing* tracks turned up on Ultra Lounge discs?
Idiots!!!

It also seems like there's little chance of convincing them to reissue
prominent cult albums like Russ Garcia's _Fantastica_ or a CD of the
complete UA prepared F&T recordings. It seems that if it isn't the Rat
Pack side of "lounge," it doesn't stand a chance any more.


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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 02:22:23 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Chester W. Nimitz)
Subject: RE: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go!

>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.

I have to say, despite being pretty sleazy (in a not too positive way), the
theme to Loveboat is a TV-theme favourite of mine...what do you listees
think? Otherwise, I prefer all the classics...John Barry, preferably. Out
of movies, Bacharach is the king naturally (atleast to me!) but that movie
with the song "Windmills of our minds"  (or something like that) starring
Steve Mcqueen and Faye Dunayway is pretty good too, but I can't remember
the title of the movie...anyone?

>(Deceased). Also recently the entire series of Patrick McGoohan's 'The
>Prisoner' was screened.

Is he the guy from Avengers? Or is that Patrick McNee? Sorry, I shouldn't
have drunk all that beer and wine tonight, my memory has bought a temporary
one-way ticket to Pluto, hahaha!! :D

HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chester W. Nimitz



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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 02:22:36 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Chester W. Nimitz)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mirageman

>(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".

It seems like The Sound Gallery is divided into two categories; 1)
psych-funk/hammond stuff and 2) String'n'brass-based lounge stuff.
Interesting to see you like the sooner; personally I can't stand the most
overtly funky songs such as the #2 by Mandingo (can't rememeber the
songtitle). However, I do really love all the lovely loungey stuff,
particularly Neil Richardson's "The Riviera Affair" and Alan Hawkshaw's
"Girl In  A Sportscar". What have these two later guys done?? I did a
web-search but couldn't find anything that didn't have anything to do with
their Sound Gallery contributions...

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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 13:00:00 +1000
From: Wayne Davidson <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Thunderbirds are Go!

 Outof movies, Bacharach is the king naturally (atleast to me!) but that
movie
with the song "Windmills of our minds"  (or something like that) starring
Steve Mcqueen and Faye Dunayway is pretty good too, but I can't remember
the title of the movie...anyone?

The Thomas Crown Affair

Is he the guy from Avengers? Or is that Patrick McNee? Sorry, I shouldn't
have drunk all that beer and wine tonight, my memory has bought a temporary
one-way ticket to Pluto, hahaha!! :D

Patrick MacNee is from the Avengers, McGoohan was in Danger Man


Wayne D.

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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 10:53:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Randall Rothenberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge

    I dunno, I think the criticism of Ultra-Lounge, based on its
success, is a bit unfair. Brad Benedict, the series producer, came up with
the idea because he really loved the music, the ambience, the cultural
currency of "Lounge." (He'd previously done a wonderful series of
compilations for Capitol, called "Great Men of Song," which enabled tykes
like me to recall the range and reality of, e.g., Vic Damone, Dean Martin,
Bobby Darin, and Matt Munro.) And he's also been involved in spurring new
artists in the tradition; I sat in on a recording session for a
compilation album he was producing last year that was to feature, among
others, the Blue Hawaiians and the Step Sisters. If the "Ultra-Lounge"
series is everywhere, it's probably because Capitol, among major record
companies, got behind the phenomenon more strongly, gave it better and
more consistent design, put some money into it, etc.


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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 17:03:19 +0000
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Christmas on Big Island

T. Mighuel Bishop Pettit wrote:

>They point is, it is pretty good. The songs that are good are
>really good. It is not Lawrence Welk-y at all.

I like this CD too - particularly the way they turn Quiet Village
into "Have Yourself a Very Merry Christmas"!


Robbie

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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 17:03:19 +0000
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Space Safari playlist 21/12/97

A very Happy New Year to all exoticats!

Rather belatedly, here is the playlist from my -last ever-* Space
Safari.  It was another all-digital affair (I had hoped to resurrect
my turntable for this one but found out that a new stylus would cost
me 90 UKP!!!  Jeez, I can get a new turntable for that!).

* - it looks like it might not have been the last Space Safari
as I was offered a similar Sunday evening slot at another Edinburgh
venue! I'll keep you all posted...

Oh, I see Air are going to be releasing their first LP in 98 called
"Moon Safari".  Hmmm...

Anyway, in alphabetic order:

Intro:
first few tracks from Les Baxter's "Exotic Moods" (while I changed
into my space suit!)

The main course:
Art Blakey - Cubano Chant
The Bad Examples - Song Electrique
Blue Hawaiians - Jingle Bells, We Four Kings (Little Drummer Boy)
Willie Bobo - Kojak (from "Blue Movies")
Brigitte Bardot - Harley Davidson
John Buzon - Mr Ghost Goes to Town (from "Organs in Orbit")
Francesco De Masi & A Alessandroni - Tema di Londra M.1
Preston Epps - Bongo Rock
Esquivel - Frosty the Snowman
Mort Garson - Easy to Be Hard (from "In Flight 2")
Barry Gray - Joe 90
Nancy Holloway - Sand and Rain (from "Pop Boutique 1")
Laika & The Cosmonauts - Experiment in Terror, Ipcress File
Michel Legrand - Di-Gue-Ding-Ding (from "In Flight 1")
Enoch Light - I Love Paris, Love is a Many Splendored Thing
Alan Lorber Orchestra - Mas Que Nada, The Look of Love
Henry Mancini - Shot in the Dark
Moog Cookbook - Black Hole Rain, Freefallin'
Nice 'n' Easy Experience - Spaceman (CD single)
Leonard Nimoy - Music to Watch Space Girls By (from "Spaced Out")
Korla Pandit - Temptation (from "Exotica 2000")
Perrey & Kingsley - Cosmic Ballad
Rajput and the Sepoy Mutiny - Up, Up and Away
Edmundo Ros - Light My Fire (from "In Flight 1")
Ananda Shankar - Dancing Peacocks
Roland Shaw - Let the Love Come Through (from "In Flight 1")
Nancy Sinatra - Sugar Town
Stereolab - Miss Modular
Sukia - Feelin' Free
Big Jim Sullivan - Sunshine Superman (from "In Flight 2")
Yma Sumac - Goomba Goomba
Tipsy - Tuatara
Cal Tjader - Lullaby at Birdland, Cal's Bluedo
Turn On - Electrocation of the Fire Ants
unknown - Snowman's Stomp (from "Blow Up")
The Ventures - The Cape (from "Batman" CD)
Link Wray - Rumble Mambo
Mix: William Shatner - Hamlet (from "Spaced Out") + Star Trek sound
FX CD (the Red Alert Klaxon seemed somehow appropriate in places!)

For dessert:
A mix of Louis Armstrong reading "The Night Before Christmas"
(from "Santa Claus Blues" comp CD) and Raymont Scott's "Little Miss
Echo" from Soothing Sounds for Baby Vol 3 - worked rather well!


Robbie ("Bongo Boy")

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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 13:47:05 EST
From: Rcbrooksod <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A UL Christmas (Under-writer Lab approved ! ! !)

I was rather disappointed with the Ultra Lounge Christmas Cocktails Part 2
(especially since I love Part 1 so much).

I did enjoy the "Christmas Island" cut on Part 2 and just about wore it out
(along with my wife's patience).

If they decide on a Part 3 (and I bet they will ! ! !) I hope that they "dig"
a little deeper into their "vaults".  Or better yet, get some non-Capital
artists.  They gotta be running out of suitable stuff using just their own
stuff.

Final note, I like how they have labels on the UL CD's now that say "THE
GRAMMY AWARD WINNING . . . "  The award was for the packaging -- gimme a
break.

Tiki Bob

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Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 14:30:56 -0800
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Lightning/Thunder and Lightning

For me, the "Mirageman - Lightning" CD from Irma America is INFINITELY
better than the "Thunder and Lightning"

Thunder and Lightning seems to have much more of that "70's" bad rock
guitar in it as the "Lightning" is way more great crime jazz/great sound
gallery sounding

But that's just me:)

Jack

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Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 18:46:34 -0500
From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Exotica on CD?

Shhhhh--please don't say lounge! This catchall term for instrumental music
is starting to drive me crazy--I have a friend who was calling an
instrumental Marvin Gaye track on a Motown Christmas tape he had "lounge
music." ^_-;;;  Then again I stopped saying "exotica" long ago because
people around here thought I was talking about the music topless dancers use
. :O Right now I'm split between "easy listening/instrumental" and
"orchestral novelty albums (a little too highbrow I guess)"

If an album has a title like "Instrumental Favorites from the Coal Town Inn
Bar and Grill," _then_ that's really lounge music. Or music that was
performed in a lounge but re-recorded for an album, like the John Buzon
trio. I guess that's a grey area. ^_-

Anyway--do any of you think that a lot of the really really great, classic
recordings we all love so much are being neglected in favor of more
middle-of-the-road stuff? I don't mean that Lawrence Welk CDs are outselling
any of the popular Ultra-Lounge releases, but instead of  really really good
stuff, the folks at Capitol seem to be giving us so-so, kinda cute
stuff--like Ferrante + Teicher's "Barbarella." It's nice, it's funny, but
compared to "Cold Turkey?" :P The champion of the arts in me thinks it's
great that the talented musicians and singers that made these recordings are
getting their digital due, but the cynic in me thinks they just want to keep
people out of the thrift shop bins. 15 bucks is too much for average stuff I
can get for 50 cents at the flea market, so my new years resolution is : no
more ultra lounge! (that doesn't mean I think you all should stop buying
CDs--if you have the money, go for it! I'm just a poor college student with
more time than money ^_-).  Getting back to the music--I hate to say this,
given the battles this list has had over 'em before, but the bootlegs seem
to be getting out more "desert island" (uh-oh, another hot potato!) material
than any of the major guys (however, Scamp is doing a terrific job, IMHO
^_^;;). I guess it all boils down to taste--but I'd rather have Sabu than
George Shearing and Ray Anthony.

This was probably one of the most weak-kneed bitch posts ever. Sorry. :(

Thanks for the space and Happy 1998, Jessica ^_^

PS--Speaking of CDs, don't nobody buy records anymore? Seems like all that's
been discussed lately is reissues.! ^_^;;;


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Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 13:39:18 -1000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Hau`oli Makahiki Hou!

Pal Joie de vivres-

Hau`oli Makahiki Hou from da islands... Hope that your New year
is a great one! We wish you get what you want, want what you get,
and knew that what you got is what you wanted. Keep your tiki
torches lit in '98!

Fluid Floyd + Perry Coma

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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 98 18:55:05 -0000
From: Michael D. Toth <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge

Randall Rothenberg <[e-mail]> wrote:

>I dunno, I think the criticism of Ultra-Lounge, based on its
>success, is a bit unfair. Brad Benedict, the series producer, came up with
>the idea because he really loved the music, the ambience, the cultural
>currency of "Lounge."

Yeah, sorry if I seemed TOO hard on Brad. His heart does seem to be in
the right place. Our taste and interests just seem to be in different
places (although they overlap quite a bit and it's more a matter of what
I prefer more than incompatible dislikes). I'm much more the Cocktail Mix
(Rhino comp) Vol. 1 speed, and the Ultra Lounge direction seems to be
much more of the Vol. 3 variety. But in some cases, I still think he
squandered his opportunity with some of those comps (most specifically
the space-themed ones).

Randall, in your Esquire article, you rightly described the "Space Age
Bachelor Pad" types of music as one subsection of what gets collectively
referred to as "Lounge Music." The greater public, I think, has a greater
frame of reference for stuff like Rat Pack lounge (quick!
man-on-the-street survey! "Have you heard of Dean Martin? How about Dean
Elliott? Martin Denny?!?"). Rat Pack Cocktail Music was neglected long
enough but still familiar enough that it should come as no surprise that
this is the stuff that instead attained the biggest mass interest in this
revivial of old music. But most of the stuff I'm attracted to seems more
akin to the Pee Wee's Playhouse aesthetic than smooth crooners with
cigars and martinis. As such, I don't know how accurate of a picture of
SABPM the term "lounge" forms for people whose only reference to this
scene may be the movie Swingers, and I still have a hard time trying to
explain to friends just WHAT this "other" kind of music is that I started
getting into a few years back.

>(He'd previously done a wonderful series of
>compilations for Capitol, called "Great Men of Song," which enabled tykes
>like me to recall the range and reality of, e.g., Vic Damone, Dean Martin,
>Bobby Darin, and Matt Munro.) And he's also been involved in spurring new

I'll definitely admit to having a deeper, albeit mostly academic,
appreciation for those kind of artists than I did five or ten years ago,
but with a record collection running out of control, I still don't own a
single whole LP or CD by *any* of those guys you mention, and I'm still
not enamored enough with them to have any intention to.

Brad is just going a different direction with the emphasis of the series
than I would like, which is ultimately MY personal problem I guess. I
suspect I'm being whiney cuz things aren't going my way. :-)

Michael David Toth
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Date: Thu, 01 Jan 1998 15:59:44 -0800
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica on CD?

>PS--Speaking of CDs, don't nobody buy records anymore? Seems like all that's
>been discussed lately is reissues.! ^_^;;;

Let's see, what have I scored lately that I really love;

Bill Page's Sonic Sixties(Capitol), Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, George
Barnes-Country Jazz on Colortone, Mel Brown-The Wizard(Impulse) Ann
Margaret-"Sings Songs From The Swinger" (RCA)
There's 5 killers for ya babe @;-O

Well, I have never bought ANY of the Ultra Lounge series CD's.  I look at
them in stores and I say to self, "what a bunch of junk" because I do know
what all of that stuff sounds like and I don't mean to say that or to sound
like I am some sort of snob or elitist, it's just a simple fact

Now true, there are a few tracks here and there that are really good BUT
for the most part, it is truly gar-bahggggg.

What most "regular people" don't seem to realize or want to know about
record companies is this;  They don't care.  They just don't care.  It's
just that simple.  If it sells, that is ALL they care about, PERIOD, end of
subject

"Capitol" is not going to break out the really good stuff if they don't
have to, right ?
I mean, why should they if idiots are continuing to buy the "middle of the
road"

Doesn't make any sense to me.

It may cost them a few more dollars too and why should they do that when
their ONLY BOTTOM LINE is how much do we really need to spend VS how much
are we making.

The sad but very real and true reality is that record labels/companies
don't give a damn about anything except the bottom line whether it be
Capitol/EMI
or some ho-dunk label in Norway, Sweden, Germany, UK et al or anywhere else
on the planet

MONEY is the ONLY bottom line that matters and that very real BOTTOM LINE
is money going out and money coming in.  This is not about or has anything
to do with ART, this is biz-ness, plain and simple.

Everyone who is anyone has all heard horror stories about the (actual)
artist who got screwed and didn't get dime 1 from the record company,
correct ?
That is still very much a reality even in 1998, it is still going on.

I will say that I do LOVE the CD Releases that Ashley Warren and his little
"off shoot" label, SCAMP has done because he sticks directly to the
original and I LOVE originals, no matter what shape or form it is.

The Martin Denny CD Reissues, Mel Henke, Jackie Gleason et al reissues from
Scamp are IMHO some form of an "original" art form release, even if it is a
CD:) are gorgeous works of art in themselves.

Compilations for me are great, I love 'em.
Both SCAMP Sound Galleries are tre-mendous for me.  The John Barry
collections are incredible and the liner notes are worth the price of
admission alone.
I learned soooooooooo much incredibly interesting stuff from those

I really do love comps, BUT those Ultra Lounge series releases that I have
seen and I have seen them all are just bottom of the rung on the ladder for
me, they are the K-Mart of comp reissues where as the SCAMP reissues are
Nordstrom or Bloomingdales.

Maybe that's also why the Ultra Lounge outsells the SCAMP reissues by such a
high margin.

There are just more people interested in shopping at K-Mart than at Nordstrom.

There are an infinite amount more people with no taste or class than there
are with.

Nothing new there either.  If it were different we wouldn't be struggling
with the Endowment for the Arts, now would we ?
Time for a nap, I'm a cranky boy on this 1st day of the new year and sick
of a lotta crap, namely rekkid labels/companies:)

Jack

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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 19:20:18 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica on CD?

> From: Jessica Cameron <[e-mail]>
> Subject: (exotica) Exotica on CD?
>
> Shhhhh--please don't say lounge! This catchall term for instrumental music
> music." ^_-;;;  Then again I stopped saying "exotica" long ago because
> . :O Right now I'm split between "easy listening/instrumental" and
> "orchestral novelty albums (a little too highbrow I guess)"

How about "Multi-Colored Hi-Fi Music"? Or "Eclectica"? I'm none too crazy about
"Lounge" myself, but if WE can't come up with anything better, we're probably
stuck with it. The name game is pretty hopeless, I fear.

> Anyway--do any of you think that a lot of the really really great, classic
> recordings we all love so much are being neglected in favor of more
> middle-of-the-road stuff? I don't mean that Lawrence Welk CDs are outselling
> any of the popular Ultra-Lounge releases, but instead of  really really good
> stuff, the folks at Capitol seem to be giving us so-so, kinda cute

Since the subject is hanging around, I guess I might as well throw in my two
cents on the "Ultra Lounge" series. Uh, it's great that they've been putting
all of this stuff out, and perhaps setting little traps that may snare new
listeners into the fold. But 18 volumes?!? Is that what it's up to now? It's
time to stop doing compilations with cute names and get down to serious
business -- like straight up reissues of the Baxter catalog (and did I
understand correctly that they're also sitting on F&T's early stuff?). I mean,
I got the first 3 volumes in the series, but for one with limited means, it's a
bit too much of a shotgun approach. I'd rather put my moolah into something
more focused. And with the number of volumes they've done, it just feels
exploitative to me at this point. But (as Jack says) that's just me. And yes,
better this than nothing at all from Capitol, but still...

> PS--Speaking of CDs, don't nobody buy records anymore? Seems like all that's
> been discussed lately is reissues.! ^_^;;;

Maybe it's too cold for hunting?

Happy '98,

m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 17:26:28 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Records preferred

Jessica wondered whether anyone was into records anymore?  Of course!  You
have got to admit some records you will NEVER find (and if you do you are
lucky or had to burn a BIG hole in your pocket)...which is where some CDs
come in.

The record market got a little slow over the past couple of weeks.  The
stores didn't do a lot of restocking.

However, here is what I found most recently:

Henri Rene  White Heat   Imperial 9074   Mostly big band type stuff but
"Runnin' Wild", "Woody Woodpecker" and "Limehouse Blues" had a good
percussion thing going.  (I did have the cover for this but no record.  The
record I got was in top condition but the cover a bit beat up, so I did a
switchero and I am all set!)

Enric Madrigruera/Chu Reyes   Sambas (Arthur Murray)  Capitol T260  I love
this series and here the record and cover were in perfect condition.  This
has Tico Tico on it which alone makes the album worth the buck I paid.

Ann Southern  Southern Exposure  Tops L 1611  Occasionally Tops puts out
something good (usually I only buy their albums for the cover!). These are
standards with nothing really spectacular going on in Ian Bernard's
orchestra, but some of the tunes are sort of neat.

The Velvet Sounds  Twilight Dance Time  International Award Series  AK-181
Yes, someone (who we don't know) is doing their take on the Three Suns
material and doing a credible job on such tunes as "Song of India."

Johnny Desmond Swings  Tops L 1635  Here is the OTHER Tops LP I like.
Johnny (actually Giovanni Alfredo di Simone) sings standards with the John
T. Williams Orchestra.  Just how many John Williams are there in the music
biz anyway?

Wish I could report on more.  When I celebrate my 39th orbit around the sun,
I'll have a chance to see the San Francisco market.  I don't know *WHAT* I
will do there, but I plan to be there January 8-14, so any ideas would be
welcome.  I will stay at Fort Mason and stop at the Book Bay, of
course...and probably also visit at least the Mission District.  Anywhere
within reach of BART, MUNI, Caltrain and the San Mateo bus system is possible.

Dozo Yoi Otoshi Wo!

Byron




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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 22:31:31 -0500
From: "Michael Bennet" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) stylaphone

There was a thread a couple of months ago about weird instruments, and I
apologize if this was already discussed, but I just ran across something
pretty odd called a stylaphone.  It's about the length and width of a VHS
cassette, and it consists of a flat single octave keyboard with a pencil
made out of either plastic or metal attached (kind of like one of those
things attached to kids' drawing pads, where you lift the cover sheet to
erase what's just been written).  You use the pencil to touch the keys and
it creates an electronic tone for each key it touches (which lends itself
to Speedy West style excursions).  What I was wondering is if anyone has
actually heard of this thing being used on a record.  Is there a master of
the stylaphone?

Michael Bennet

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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 20:06:49 -0800
From: Action Plus <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) stylaphone

What I was wondering is if anyone has
>actually heard of this thing being used on a record.  Is there a master of
>the stylaphone?
>
>Michael Bennet


*You've* probably heard it on a record--that's a stylophone on David
Bowie's "Space Oddity," and you can also hear it on Ennio Morricone's main
title from "Ad Ogni Costa," which appears on the Rhino Morricone anthology.
The sylophone produces a sort of square-wavey synth sound, and it cand
sound a lot bigger and deeper than its tiny size would suggest.



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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 23:40:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Randall Rothenberg <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ultra Lounge

    Nah, Michael, not whiney at all. It's just that music is so vast
and taste so personal and time so short that we can't get everything we
want in the way we want it when we want it. We've got to take shortcuts;
the compilation albums seem like a good way of doing it; and when they
fall short, we get pissed off. I just wanted to give a vote of support for
the producer of "Ultra Lounge," who really did have the music and
musicians at heart -- in the same way that the handful of producers on
this conference do.
    Personally, I find all the definitional arguments -- is it
"Lounge" or "exotica" or "SABPM"? -- somewhat jejune. It's whatever you
want to call it, at least to the extent that other people with whom you
might discuss it will understand what the hell you're talking about.


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Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 13:57:20 +0100
From: "Arjan Plug" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New Year Sounds

Been amusing myself the last couple of days with a number of records
borrowed from my brother (who DJ's quite regularly), A few titles might be
of interested to the list I think.

# Beat Actione (Actione Records ACT 01), Italian compilation with odd
sixties stuff, "Crazy beats and wild".
songs (with a few short instrumental cuts thrown in between) featured are:

The Do-Re-Me Children Choir - Spooky
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - Bedazzled
Jacques Lossier - Ballet Photo Rouge
Lyn Christopher - Take Me With You
Don Harper  - Dr Who Theme
Leroy Holmes - Emotions
Bill Plummer & The Cosmic Brotherhood - Journey to the East
Jacques Lossier - Clara's Jerk
Silver Apples - A Pox On You
The Mike Samms Singers - He Who Would Be Valient Be
Dick Hyman and Mary Mayo - Moon Gas

Especially the synthijazz version of the Dr Who Theme is weird. Recommended

# Piero Umiliani - Mah Na Mah Na
Italian 12"on Easy Tempo (MET 205) with the original version from 1968.
There's also a recent 12" with a couple of remixes of this funny song
around.

# Espresso : a lightly latin brazilian blend (Deram), a double album from
last year compiled by the Karminsky Experience mostly all latin orientated
material by amongst others Cugat, Bacharach, Last. Specifically like the
Serge Gainsbourg and long Astrud Gilberto songs.

# The People's Groove (Root Down Records 1995), another double vinyl which
touches late 60's, early 70's rare groove/jazz/funk. Of note is the
inclusion of Lalo Schifrin's "Danube Incident", sampled with great success
on Portishead's first album. Also quite liked Eugene McDaniels "Supermarket
Blues"


Arjan


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Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 15:35:19 +0000
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) stylophone

Michael wrote

>Is there a master of the stylaphone?

Australian Rolf Harris was, I believe, the inventor of the gadget,
and if you bought one new in the 60's you got a book and a flexi-disc
with him playing.  I seem to recall you could buy one which had a
lower range as well.  The keypads would get a little corroded and
crackly, but would clean up very well using that impregnated wadding
stuff for cleaning silver.

Another record which sounds as if it's using one is Brenton Wood's
'Gimme a little sign'.

While I'm here, Happy New Year to all.

Hugh.


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Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 19:02:02 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Ingemar Breithel)
Subject: Re: (exotica) stylophone

>>Is there a master of the stylaphone?
>
>Australian Rolf Harris was, I believe, the inventor of the gadget,
>and if you bought one new in the 60's you got a book and a flexi-disc
>with him playing.  I seem to recall you could buy one which had a
>lower range as well.  The keypads would get a little corroded and
>crackly, but would clean up very well using that impregnated wadding
>stuff for cleaning silver.
>
>Another record which sounds as if it's using one is Brenton Wood's
>'Gimme a little sign'.

Rolf Harris used the Stylophone on his TV show and on records (along
with other strange instruments like the wobble board) but he didn't
invent it -- it was manufactured in England by a firm called Dubreq
Studios Limited and marketed as a "pocket electronic organ". I've had
one since I was a kid -- it's still in its original box; I never quite
became the virtuoso. The only control switch is for vibrato: on or off.
The volume was adjusted by putting your hand over the speaker. I think
there were other, larger models too. It was surely meant to be more
than a gadget; the accompanying booklet declares: "The Stylophone is
an ideal extra instrument for groups and can be used with any
amplification system. Get together with other Stylphone enthusiasts
and form music clubs. The Stylophone is today's instrument!"

There's a Stylophone track on the recent Dimitri from Paris "Sacre
Bleu" album, and Paul Buckmaster's 60s pop exploitation group Sounds
Nice feature a Stylophone ensemble on their version of the Beatles'
"Flying".

There must be more...





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Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 14:20:43 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Carpenters and Mummers

Last night I caught a little bit of yet another Carpenters documentary -- this
one was on VH-1. Must be a box set cooking, the way these documentaries are
suddenly sprouting up. Anyway, it featured this surprising (considering the
source) quote from Richard regarding his quaalude addiction in the late 70's /
early 80's...

"Shit happens."

Meanwhile, here's a news story on yesterday's Mummers Parade in Philadelphia.
Death toll of three, apparently, but they don't go into details!

http://www.phillynews.com/daily_news/98/Jan/02/local/MUMM02.htm

Photos here:

http://www3.phillynews.com/photo/mummers98/

m.ace  [e-mail]
OOK   http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/
(Movies Of The Week tv picks for Dec. 28 to Jan. 4 now posted)

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Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 21:32:03 +0200
From: "Waldo Muller" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) music

Jessica wrote about how she is more inclined to use the description "easy
listening" than "lounge" or "exotic" these days. Amen.

Also:

"I guess it all boils down to taste--but I'd rather have Sabu than
George Shearing and Ray Anthony."

I'll will take all three thank you - each can be super in his own sweet
way. Variety and changes in intensity can be very healthy - listen to a
Tito Puento percussion work-out and then smooth early sixties vibes from
Milt Jackson, some Three Suns or Jean Jacques Perry and then the solo bossa
guitar of Baden Powell or early seventies Enoch Project 3 go-go followed
by, heck, Bobby Goldsboro! It can all be enjoyed.

For me it is about mood music or mood swing music or music for wild mood
swings or just plain music ...

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Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 20:36:17 +0100 (CET)
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: "The Typewriter" & "Switched On Bacharach"

>Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 00:50:40 +0100
>From: [e-mail] (Chester W. Nimitz)
>
>>* Werner Muller: "The Typewriter"
>Could someone please describe his music, what he sounds like?

    of course, this is a Leroy Anderson tune, but you knew that
    i guess; there are tens (hundreds?) of versions, but not all are
    as good as this one, or as Leroy's own (which i found on a 78 rpm,
    but which also was released on some cd. *don't* buy the cd by
    Erich Kunzel and Rochester Pops (on maxiplay pops) entitled
    "blue tango, Leroy Anderson's greatest hits", it sounds awfully
    thin and metalic and boring; the typewriter is way too far in the
    background...

>Finally, "Switched On Bacharach", is that a recommended record? How
>re-worked are these versions?

    err, i'm not a big bacharach fan, but i liked this lp a lot!
    i think there's just enough moog sounds and effects on it to
    please moog fan(atic)s, and yet the sound is still gentle,
    fresh, soft, subtle ... and there are lots of "lalala" voices!

        Johan

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