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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 00:13:00 +0000
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Industrial-otica

Will Straw wrote:

>As someone who has Genesis P. Orridge in his closet, too,
>I can't stay out of this one.

I think there are a lot of us out here!

I too was a TG/PTV/C+C fan though sadly I got into TG just as they
split up.  However, my one claim to fame during this era was, as a
member of TOPY I was invited to a small private PTV party where
Genesis was DJing! - and I was offered DRUGS!  The shame of it...

Chris Strouth wrote:

>Corect me if I am wrong, but i think that record was put together in
>full or at least in part by now transplanted  list member Jill
>Mingo!

You could be right there - I remember her mentioning being involved
with C+C at one point.  Weird the way things go around!

BTW, list members might like to know Jill is currently in Hollywood
(alright for some eh?) DJing occasionally at Claudine (if it's still
running!) but is due back in Scotland mid-April and I'm sure will be
back on the list very soon thereafter!


Robbie

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 16:30:02 -0700
From: Eb <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Harris

>From: ChuckTFrog <[e-mail]>
>
>Regarding lyrics, that's another matter.  I don't get into that.  "MacArthur
>Park" has been widely panned by non-musicians but I believe ONLY because of
>the lyrics.  (I rarely listen to lyrics, and in fact have trained myself to
>not hear lyrics.)

No, not just the lyrics. Actually, I think it's just as much due to the
song's overpadded length, and all those silly incongruous instrumental
vamps between verses. Not to mention Harris' rather, er, idiosyncratic
vocal style, and the wacky juxtaposition of that thin trembling wail
against those enormous swamping arrangements. Does everyone remember the
Dave Thomas impression on SCTV of Harris performing "MacArthur Park"? Oh
MAN, that was funny.

That said, I own *five* Richard Harris albums: A Tramp Shining, The Yard
Went On Forever, My Boy, Slides and (now here's the major endurance test)
I, In the Membership of My Days. I think they're all garbage, but they're
just so hilariously overwrought that I get a kick out of having them
around. You haven't truly *squirmed* until you've heard the spoken poems on
I, In the Membership of My Days. "I/ Who was sin/ Began committing
myself/When bread was first broken/On the pubic altar of my greed...." OOF.

And you've *trained* yourself not to hear lyrics? And you're apparently
PROUD of that achievement? :/

>From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
>
>Industrial and gothic are simply cranky descendants of classic exotica.

Uh...this statement is perhaps just a weeee bit oversimplified.

Eb

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:00:29 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) NEW Jean Jacques Perrey Title

Hello all again

OK.  So there is a TYPO on the label of this here new JJ Perrey rekkid and
I do mean REKKID

The REAL title is;

"E K L E C T R O N I C S - VINTAGE '97"

I'm not going to even try and figure out what LABEL it's on, unless 1 of
you 2 want to help me out there @:-O

Jacques Diamante



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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 20:07:12 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) reviews of used LPs

Here are some records I ran across this month that I had some reason to like:

Ebb Tide  Leo Diamond  Harmony  HS 11328
Not as interesting as other of his albums, but I was intrigued by the
harpsichord (I think) and harmonica combination with a swinging version of
"By the Waters of the Minnetonka" and a bongo echo in "Moon River."

Relaxin' With Frances Faye(with Frank Hunter's Orch.) Bethlehem BCP-62
The title is purposely misleading, a joke really.  Frances Faye really
belts out the tunes here.  Great colourful caricature of Ms. Faye on the
cover.

Arriba  Edmundo Ros  London  SP 44080
The usual Ros approach to music, but not as good as his other albums.  It
has a great cover, though (large tribal face masks) and an unusual range of
selections (for instance, Hello Dolly, Holiday for Strings, Oye Negra and,
my favorite, "The Laughing Samba" which is so bad it's good).

Keys Ala Carte (various)  Warner Brothers  WB 1101
I knew I wouldn't care for most of it, but it did allow me to sample ten
different albums.  All but one album I would probably not buy, however I
did discover one guy who's record sounds promising: Geri Galian.  He does a
version of Oye Negra and also a selection called Danza Negra from WB WS1229
"Come Closer to Me."  Everything else on the two record album bored me to
tears, but his cuts were alive.

After Hours Spain  Sonny Lester  Time Records  S/2094
After all day of going through way too many string section dominated
selections, I was prepared to face some more on this one.  Not at all!
Thanks probably to the percussion work of Ted Sommer et al and Organist Moe
Wechsler (why do I suspect it was a pseudonym for Dick Hyman?) EVERY tune
sounds like I've never heard it before, bouncy and new.

Loco Motion  Joe Loco  Columbia  CL 760
I bought a bunch of records last week in Portland, but I consider only this
one worthy of mention here.  He has some good cha chas here.  His music
shows good progress, although I like his later stuff better.  Very colorful
and interesting cover...one of those cartoonish life size standup scenes in
which people can insert their heads into.  This scene features a man and
woman dancing to a pianist playing a mambo (I know what he's playing
because there is a sign above the piano player's head which says "MAMBO").


Byron



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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 20:07:24 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) empty album covers

I am not sure if this is an okay topic, so I will just let interested
people respond to me:

I have some empty album covers which would like to be reunited with
records which have no covers!  I would gladly send anyone who has an orphan
record the cover for it.  For some of them, of course, I would rather get
the record so that *I* can have the entire album. Either way, if you are
interested, email me and I will send you a short list (17).

Byron

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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 23:28:28 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Harris

> >From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
> >Industrial and gothic are simply cranky descendants of classic exotica.
>
> Uh...this statement is perhaps just a weeee bit oversimplified.
>
> Eb

Yup.

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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 00:13:58 EST
From: DaveHiFi <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Recent thrift scores

     I just picked up my first whistling disc today!  Pretty eerie and cool
stuff.
"A visit with RALPH PLATT in God's great outdoors...Where the birds of the
forest sing to the pipe organ music of LORIN WHITNEY"
It's all pipe organized christian tunes with this amazing guy doing birds
calls and great atmospheric whistling bits.  I like it a lot.

     Another weird find from last week : "CONEY ISLAND IN STEREO - The
Thrilling Sounds of the World's Greatest Amusement Park" I saw this record in
mint condition and thought it might be marginally interesting, then I perused
the track listing.  Side 2 track 1 - "Freak Show Barker"!  Unfortunately, I
was to find that there was nothing remotely freakish about this track at all -
just generic midway carnie barker rap.  As a consolation, however, there is a
lot of great, nightmarish calliope music on this record.

     Some other great finds from the last couple of weeks :

Dick Schory's New Percussion Ensemble - Wild Percussion and Horns A'Plenty
Charles Magnante - Roman Spectacular Volume 2
George Wright - The Wright Touch
Marty Gold and His Orchestra - Sounds Unlimited
Fabulous Sounds of the Pipe Organ and Percussion
The Lever Camboulas Steel Band - Live at the New Clay House Inn Bermuda
Artur Murray's Music for Dancing
Enoch Light and the Light Brigade - Pertinent Percussion Cha Cha's
The DiMara Sisters - Cha Cha Italiana
Xavier Cugat - Cha Cha Cha
Luis Mendoza and his Orchestra - Mambo Cha Cha Cha
Let's Cha Cha Cha in 'Stereo'
Al Stefans and his Orchestra - Rhumba Favorites
Bob Freedman and his Group - The Big Bossa Nova
Edmundo Ros - Hi Fi-esta
Rudy Macias and his Pachanga Orchestra - Pachanga if You Please

It was a heckuva cha cha week.

About Caravan - besides the Three Suns and Sir Julian versions (which I love)
I also really dig Michel Legrand's take from "Legrand in Rio" and Charles
Magnante's great accordian interpretation from his Moods for Moderns lp.



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Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 21:38:58 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Joing List from AOL

I have someone who is on AOL, trying to join the list

When they leave the "Subject" blank in their mail program, a message box
comes up and says they have left the blah blah blah and will not send the
mail.

Can you help them in another way than by telling them to get off of AOL ? :)

Thanks,
Jack



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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 03:35:50
From: Jay Schwartz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The 5th Dimension/Jimmy Webb

>Jimmy Webb was (is?) a songwriter in the tradition of the great craftsmen of
>music...  everything else these artists did is crap.  All the good stuff was
>by Webb.

The Fifth Dimension did a lot of great Laura Nyro songs.



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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 03:35:50
From: Jay Schwartz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The 5th Dimension/Jimmy Webb

>Jimmy Webb was (is?) a songwriter in the tradition of the great craftsmen of
>music...  everything else these artists did is crap.  All the good stuff was
>by Webb.

The Fifth Dimension did a lot of great Laura Nyro songs.



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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 08:59:19 -0500
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) reviews of used LPs -Reply

Byron wrote:

<<After Hours Spain  Sonny Lester  Time Records  S/2094
After all day of going through way too many string section dominated
selections, I was prepared to face some more on this one.  Not at all!
Thanks probably to the percussion work of Ted Sommer et al and
Organist Moe
Wechsler (why do I suspect it was a pseudonym for Dick Hyman?)
EVERY tune
sounds like I've never heard it before, bouncy and new.>>

Byron this is an uderstatement!  This album simply kicks ass an offers
some of the best treatments of those tired old "Spain" tunes you've heard
millions of times on sub-par records.  The tempo is FAST and the organ
player goes insane - guaranteed to put a smile on yer face!  Everyone
needs this album!  (Mine was once a part of a Catholic church library
collection - those nuns must've rocked!).

BTW - Has anybody heard Sonny Lester's "Paris" album?? (A genre
that's produced some LAME LAME tunes......)

- - Nate


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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 11:15:31 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) exotica on the twonky

A few more movies this week with list relevance (eastern standard times, bla
bla bla)...

"The Andromeda Strain" on Bravo. Today (Jan. 25) 1:40 pm; Tuesday night through
Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 27, 28) 8:00 pm, 2:00 am, 3:00 pm. Seems to be airing
in widescreen format. This features an "out there" electronic score by Gil
Melles.

"Cobra Woman" on AMC. Friday morning (Jan. 30) 11:00 am. As discussed the other
month.

"Spellbound" on AMC. Friday afternoon / early Saturday (Jan. 30, 31) 5:00 pm,
3:00 am. Score by Miklos Rozsa, with Dr. Samuel Hoffman on theremin.

Also, besides tonight at 8:00 pm and 1:05 am (on Bravo), the Dusty Springfield
documentary also airs Thursday night / early Friday (Jan. 29, 30) 7:00 pm, 4:00
am.

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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 13:46:56 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: misanthropy 511 playlist

each time one of these is posted, i wonder: what's the relevance of it in
this group... 90% of it is not exotica at all... just my opinion, nothing
else...

        Johan

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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 13:46:56 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: cee dee's: Get Easy Vol. 3 -- The French Pops Collection

At Tue, 6 Jan 1998, BasicHip <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Would someone who is familiar with the recordings below please offer a  short
>"review"?  (the included descriptions were supplied by the dealer)
>
>1)  Various -- Get Easy Vol. 3 -- The French Pops Collection
>Motor (Germany), Late 60's/1997
>Simply fantastic!  An amazingly insane assortment of groovy groovy French
>vocal pop from the 60's, with tracks that will make your ears pop out when you
>hear them.  Soaring vocals, groovy guitars, and arrangements that have quirky
>little edges that make Serge Gainsbourg sound soft.  Stellar stuff from people
>like France Gall, Nicoletta, Brigitte Bardot, Eddie Barclay, Les Parisiennes,
>Jacques Dutronc, Andre Brasseur, Daniel Gerard, and sooo many others.  Great
>package, great notes, and the kind of stuff that we always dream about, but
>have never been able to find.  Amazing stuff all the way through, and a real
>treat for your groovy groovy ears!

    this proves that they didn't listen to the cd really careful ;-)
    18 out of the 22  tracks are vocal, the other 4 are instrumental.
    they're not all really insane either, just some good and interesting
    french 60's pop, and a lot of mediocre stuff. i liked it better
    though than i had expected from just seeing the track list.
    if you like BB, France Gall and Katerine, then you'll like this cd too,
    i guess, but a lot depends upon where you live. i guess that people
from
    outside europe, even outside france and other french speeking
countries,
    will like it better, because this french pop has something "exotic"
    for them.
    the package is not great at all, it looks ugly and cheap to me,
    others might call it "retro"...
    liner notes are in german. there's 1 track you might already have, by
    Francis Lai called "marseileise generique", on BB's "disque d'or"lp/cd
    AND one of the "inflight entertainment" comps i _think_

    my rate: +++ = good

    if you want to hear some *really* groovy, trippy, insane French
    (instromental) pop, try to find the "Orchestral Party (act 1...)"
    comp cd (i think Vik has a page on it)

    i'm currently listening to vol 4, "the german pops collection",
    and i like it a lot better than the french one up till now;
    later more about that one!

        Johan

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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 13:46:56 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Attileo Mineo Conducts Man In Space With Sounds

congratulations, Jack & Stefan, and thanks for making this rerelease happen!

if you have Russ Garcia's "Fantastica", then imagine about 10 times as much
weird electronic sound fx, and the orchestra being put more way in the
background, et voila: "Man In Space With Sounds".
the really nice thing is that the cd contains a complete lp version WITH
and one WITHOUT the spoken introductions from the Seattle State Worlds Fair.

excellent stuff!

        Johan

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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 13:46:56 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Arthur Lyman Pop

David Retief wrote:
>>I noticed a Rykodisc release of Arthur Lyman's Sonic Sixties
>>... and was wondering
>>whether the treatment of the standards made them worthwhile?

At Tue, 6 Jan 1998, [e-mail] wrote:

>I'd say if you don't like Dave Brubeck, you wouldn't like it.  If you dig
>cool jazz, this does very well.

    i'm afraid the mentioning of Mr. Brubeck _might_, repeat _might_ ,
    scare off people who don't like "real" jazz
    (take note of the quotes there, OK?!)
    i'd say Lyman's jazz sounds very much "pop", as opposed to difficult,
    which a lot of jazz IS. Sonic Sixties is very relaxed and easy
    "cocktail" jazz, i absolutely looooooooooove that cd!

        Johan

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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:01:15 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Happy Birthday, Skitch Henderson

He's 80!


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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 14:08:44 -0500
From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) French pop

Here in Montreal, one of the best 2nd-hand music stores has
brought out a CD compilation, "Ultra Chicks:  Filles in the Garage Volume 1",
which looks quite illegal (there are no production credits, label addresses or
anything else).  It has 24 tracks from mostly-unknown female performers of the
1960s, and I assume it's divided somehow between French and Quebecois.
But it's a very nice record, and worth trying to get.

Any comments on "Sexopolis:  9 tracks from the 70s French funky pop scene,"
a comp on Fantomas which grooves along quite nicely?

Will

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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:57:30 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) exotica on the twonky

I posted this Sunday morning, but it seems like Xmission had another bout of
indigestion, and it hasn't turned up yet. I know it'll probably make it through
eventually, but by then it may be too late (some is already irrelevant), so...
- --------------------------
> A few more movies this week with list relevance (eastern standard times, bla
> bla bla)...
>
> "The Andromeda Strain" on Bravo. Today (Jan. 25) 1:40 pm; Tuesday night
through
> Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 27, 28) 8:00 pm, 2:00 am, 3:00 pm. Seems to be
airing
> in widescreen format. This features an "out there" electronic score by Gil
> Melles.
>
> "Cobra Woman" on AMC. Friday morning (Jan. 30) 11:00 am. As discussed the
other
> month.
>
> "Spellbound" on AMC. Friday afternoon / early Saturday (Jan. 30, 31) 5:00 pm,
> 3:00 am. Score by Miklos Rozsa, with Dr. Samuel Hoffman on theremin.
>
> Also, besides tonight at 8:00 pm and 1:05 am (on Bravo), the Dusty
Springfield
> documentary also airs Thursday night / early Friday (Jan. 29, 30) 7:00 pm,
4:00
> am.
>
> m.ace  [e-mail]
> OOK   http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/


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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:57:30 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) exotica on the twonky

I posted this Sunday morning, but it seems like Xmission had another bout of
indigestion, and it hasn't turned up yet. I know it'll probably make it through
eventually, but by then it may be too late (some is already irrelevant), so...
- --------------------------
> A few more movies this week with list relevance (eastern standard times, bla
> bla bla)...
>
> "The Andromeda Strain" on Bravo. Today (Jan. 25) 1:40 pm; Tuesday night
through
> Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 27, 28) 8:00 pm, 2:00 am, 3:00 pm. Seems to be
airing
> in widescreen format. This features an "out there" electronic score by Gil
> Melles.
>
> "Cobra Woman" on AMC. Friday morning (Jan. 30) 11:00 am. As discussed the
other
> month.
>
> "Spellbound" on AMC. Friday afternoon / early Saturday (Jan. 30, 31) 5:00 pm,
> 3:00 am. Score by Miklos Rozsa, with Dr. Samuel Hoffman on theremin.
>
> Also, besides tonight at 8:00 pm and 1:05 am (on Bravo), the Dusty
Springfield
> documentary also airs Thursday night / early Friday (Jan. 29, 30) 7:00 pm,
4:00
> am.
>
> m.ace  [e-mail]
> OOK   http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/


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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 22:25:30 +-200
From: Shangri-la <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Recent thrift scores

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To:     [e-mail]
Subject:     Re: (exotica) Recent thrift scores



The Big Sound of Billy Strange: Secret Agent Man (?)

Ive got a Billy rekkid where he does a track combining Hava Negila and =
Tequila...as Hava Tequila. It's perfect for playing inbetween seperate =
versions of the two songs to confuse a dancefloor a little or to make =
those olives sway wildly...

June Christy: Something Cool
       I found this recently too. It's got a beautiful fifties cover =
with her face and a really tasty lemonade.  I really enjoyed it but it =
was just a little too        scratched for my ear. A pity.....


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Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 10:32:40 +0000
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Harris

There's been a lot of comment, mostly surprisingly unkind, about
'MacArthur Park'.

Anyone noticed what sounds like studio staff voices faintly at the
start of one of the instrumental passages in this record?

Also, out of curiosity, did a cover version of this track ever
appear on a cheap "Hits of 1968" supermarket-type album?  Although
I like the real record, it would seem difficult for anyone else
to sing the song and it not be an improvement on Richard Harris.

Hugh.



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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:08:23 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More NEWS about JJ Perrey

David Chazam will also have news of what's happening with Jean Jacques
>at present:  Today Jean Jacques Perrey is preparing to return to America,
>to undertake a lecture-demonstration tour of universities, prior to
>recording new material with the creative team who designed 'Moog Indigo' in
>1970.


At home in Vichy, central France he is patiently transferring
>magnetic tape to Zip Drive, digitising his life's archive of far out field
>recordings & musique concrete.  'e k l e c t r o n i c s' is released this
>month. With a young generation now beginning to discover the exotic moods &
>deliciously weird breaks of Jean Jacques Perrey, another chapter in this
>life of many adventures, is about to begin.

Sent to me by Jean Jacques British Representative, Desmond Hill

Jack




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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:11:31 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) MacArthur Park

I just played MacArthur Park from Hugo Montenegros MOOG POWER yesterday on
my show and that tune RULES!!!!!!!!!

But that's just me;-)

- -J



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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:29:32 PST
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Al Caiola

One item I forgot to include in my Thrift post, that I have to mention
(as it spins on the hi-fi): Al Caiola and Orchestra: Guitars, Woodwinds
and Bongos: UA WW 7503, "Wall To Wall Sound." This is by far the best
Caiola lp I have. Now to find the Stereo version....

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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 13:46:56 +0100
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: scat & humming

[e-mail] (nakatsu) wrote:

>Does somebody knows some nice scat & humming numbers?

    Peter Thomas has several of those, with a male voice (James Atterly)
    doin' "pubadubbadoo", but i can't remember song titles... the
    "Raumpatrouille" soundtrack cd has at least one cut, i think each
    album of his has several of those... check that man out if you
    haven't done so already!
    BTW: the "100% cotton" double cd/lp is truly fantastic! or did
    you expect anything else? ;-) almost no duplicates with the
    "easy loungin" or "film muzik" cd's! i recommend getting the cd,
    as there are many many miniature tracks on it.

        Johan

        [e-mail]   +   [e-mail]

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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:13:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Schlock! <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) MacArthur Park

>
>I just played MacArthur Park from Hugo Montenegros MOOG POWER yesterday on
>my show and that tune RULES!!!!!!!!!



I saw Buddy Greco do it LIVE in Vegas a couple of years ago. Not a dry eye
in the place! JC



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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:58:10 -0800 (PST)
From: [e-mail] (Tosh)
Subject: Re: (exotica) French pop

Two things:

Has anyone heard the Les Fantomas cd?

and second:

I am publishing a novel by Serge Gainsbourg, and I am looking for Ms.
Bardot, Jane Birkin, France Gall and others' addresses.  I want to write to
them to see if I can get a blurb for the book.

If anyone has any leads, please backchannel the info to [e-mail]

best,
tosh

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TamTam Books
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:02:06 EST
From: Stilgloria <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  RE: (exotica) Recent thrift scores

In a message dated 1/26/98 11:39:06 PM, [e-mail] wrote:

<<June Christy: Something Cool
       I found this recently too. It's got a beautiful fifties cover with her
face and a really tasty lemonade.  I really enjoyed it but it was just a
little too        scratched for my ear. A pity.....>>

<<June Christy: Something Cool
       I found this recently too. It's got a beautiful fifties cover with her
face and a really tasty lemonade.  I really enjoyed it but it was just a
little too        scratched for my ear. A pity.....>>

I have a 12" of this and a 10" of this. The cover is really wonderful. I
noticed on one of the web sites that someone has a COLOR cover of this. I'm
assuming this is on a CD, is that correct? The cover is the best!! I've got
them both on my wall, one under the other. Love that Pete Rugolo is the band
leader.
Gloria


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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:38:41 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Genesis P.Denny changed my life

Just wanted to ante up my two cents....way back in '82 or so, a friend
played a baffling,uncategorizable record for me that moved me,excited
me,and in a way,fundamentally changed the way I heard music...it was
Denny's "Quiet Village", and my friend had gotten into through the TG
connection.Thank you Genesis!

I've always seen a confluence between the musical worlds of
Exotica,Psychedelia and Industrial music; a profoundly psycho-active
quality being one (but not the only..)characteristic they  share.

Incidentally,I've played TG's "Exotica" track on numerous occasions at my
sporadic DJ gigs,with nary a raised eyebrow from the crowd!

And as for Genesis P. being evil,well...everybody knows that EZ listening
is the <real> devil's music.

Diabolically,

The Millionaire




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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 20:01:24 -0800
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jean Jacques Perrey Talks About Musique!

Go here!

http://www.fly.co.uk/jjp.html



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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 23:05:09 EST
From: ChuckTFrog <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Happy Birthday, Skitch Henderson

In a message dated 98-01-26 14:26:28 EST, you write:

<< He's 80!
  >>
Real name:  Sidney Ferguson!!


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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:05:39 EST
From: HOUSEOBOB <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) MacArthur Park

I have to say that when I was younger, I thought that "MacArthur Park" was the
most god-awful record in the world. I have inexplicably grown to love it and
one of my favorite versions is by the 101 Strings.


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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 05:52:07 +0000
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Harris

There's been a lot of comment, mostly surprisingly unkind, about
'MacArthur Park'.

Anyone noticed what sounds like studio staff voices faintly at the
start of one of the instrumental passages in this record?

Also, out of curiosity, did a cover version of this track ever
appear on a cheap "Hits of 1968" supermarket-type album?  Although
I like the real record, it would seem difficult for anyone else
to sing the song and it not be an improvement on Richard Harris.

Hugh.



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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 11:15:57 -0800
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Attileo Mineo Conducts Man In Space With Sounds

Johan and all,

The LP was originally released in 2 different versions.
1 w/ Spoken Word Introductions about "The Promise of The Future and Welcome
To Century 21" et al and 1 without Spoken Word Intros.
2 different catalog #'s on the LP's

Funny story:

Neither Stefan nor I knew this very real fact until I sent my catalog # 66666
LP to Sweden for the mastering, as there are no master tapes.
Once Stefan got my LP, he e-mailed me to let me know that his copy is
cataog # 55555 WITH spoken word intros.
So for the 1st 12 tracks of the CD is the #55555 LP and for the tracks
13-24 is the #66666 LP

We are re-doing the back liner and this very important and interesting info
will be there.
Some people like the spoken word and others like it without and you
actually have a choice as to which version you can listen to.
I know people that have had this LP for 15 years and NEVER KNEW there were
2 different releases.  Mr. Mineo didn't even know!

Jack

At 01:46 PM 1/26/98 +0100, you wrote:
>congratulations, Jack & Stefan, and thanks for making this rerelease happen!
>if you have Russ Garcia's "Fantastica", then imagine about 10 times as much
>weird electronic sound fx, and the orchestra being put more way in the
>background, et voila: "Man In Space With Sounds".
>the really nice thing is that the cd contains a complete lp version WITH
>and one WITHOUT the spoken introductions from the Seattle State Worlds Fair.
>excellent stuff!




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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 07:26:40 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Harris

>There's been a lot of comment, mostly surprisingly unkind, about
>'MacArthur Park'.
I still like the record, because the middle part sounded like a spy movie
when I heard it as a boy.  I always used to think that there was a special
show on when they played it(it's pretty long).

Outside of Donna Summer, I believe that the Four Tops did a version of this
as well.


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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:00:48 EST
From: ChuckTFrog <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Harris

In a message dated 98-01-27 07:22:58 EST, you write:

<< Outside of Donna Summer, I believe that the Four Tops did a version of this
 as well.
  >>
Also the Templeton Twins did a hilarious old-timey version that is terrific!


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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 19:15:06 -0500
From: Mark Reed <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) MacArthur Park Revisited

Try the version of MacArthur Park by Waylon Jennings and the Kimberlys.
Yes it's country, but it is, IMHO, the best version.


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