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exotica-digest         Thursday, April 2 1998         Volume 02 : Number 084



In This Digest:

(exotica) re: Breakfast at Tiffany's -Reply
Re: (exotica) scratch n sniff -Reply
Re: (exotica) Edmondo Ros
(exotica) Bad CD Mastering on Les Baxter's Tamboo- Ritual of The Savage
(exotica) For anyone who cares to participate...
(exotica) For anyone who cares to participate...
(exotica) re: Breakfast at Tiffany's -Reply
Re: (exotica) Ros, Cugat
Re: (exotica) knees up
Re: (exotica) La Dolce Henke
(exotica) Cheap Stories
(exotica) accordion jokes (and others)
Re: (exotica) Re: Mood Mosaic <-> the Mood Mosaic
Re: (exotica) Re: Mood Mosaic <-> the Mood Mosaic
Re: (exotica) re: Breakfast at Tiffany's -Reply
(exotica) 101 Strings: Astro Sounds
(exotica) The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny
Re:(exotica) accordion jokes (and others)
RE: (exotica) Skip the scratch...
(exotica) FWD: La-Z-Boy Inventor Dies in La-Z-Boy
(exotica) knees up las vegas grind criswell
Re: (exotica) For anyone who cares to participate...
Re: (exotica) Skip the scratch...
Re: (exotica) FWD: La-Z-Boy Inventor Dies in La-Z-Boy
(exotica) Edmundo Ros
Re: (exotica) Bad CD Mastering on Les Baxter's Tamboo- Ritual of The Savage
Re: Re: (exotica) FWD: La-Z-Boy Inventor Dies in La-Z-Boy
Re: (exotica) re: Breakfast at Tiffany's -Reply
(exotica) Urban Tiki
(exotica) Caravan for an hour
[Mimi Mayer: Re: (exotica) Edmondo Ros]
(exotica) Ros, Cugat
RE: (exotica) Urban Tiki
Re: (exotica) Mel Henke?
(exotica) Edmundo Ros -Reply
(exotica) ?!?!?
(exotica) Auction
(exotica) moon river
Re: (exotica) re: Breakfast at Tiffany's -Reply

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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 09:08:22 -0500
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re: Breakfast at Tiffany's -Reply

Jordana:

Your validity just totally went down the toilet mentioning that
your favorite part of "BAT" was when Audrey sings "Moon
River" EGAD!!!!  RALPH!!!!  What STOOOOPID ridiculous
lyrics - I HATE THAT SONG!!!!!!

Urrrrrg.

- - Nate


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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 10:10:32 -0500
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) scratch n sniff -Reply

Carl:

Edith's store was in Fell's Point and still exists.  The name is
"Flashback" and they sell used CD's,tapes,vinyl, postcards
and books, and funky "flea market" type stuff.....

This native Baltimoron doesn't see the appeal of Waters or
his films.  Kudos to him that he loves the drive-in theater,
snack bar ads, and my fave director, H.G. Lewis, but the
guy's a bore when you actually talk to him...... And now his
films are being released on laserdisk??  Puhleeease!  Kinda
goes against the whole "anti-establishment aesthetic" doesn't
it???

- - Nate


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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 10:08:40 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Edmondo Ros

At 10:36 AM 3/31/98 -0500, Mimi Mayer wrote:
> As far as his career, Edmondo is/was Canadian....

I really wish you hadn't told me that.  The shame of David Foster and
Celine Dion was about all I could take.  I better go put on that "Poppy
Family" record - "Which way you going Billy?" - and restore my national pride.
Actually I'm sort of not kidding about the Poppy Family.  The guitar player
plays lots of sitar and the drummer plays lots of tabla and bongos.  They
were no Lighthouse but...

>Just curious: Is "United We Stand" recorded with a Latin beat? That would
>be  startling!

It's on "Heading south of the border" (Phase 4) along with versions of
"Light my fire" (of course), "Hey Jude" (the "3rd man theme" of my
generation) and "I was Kaiser Bill's Batman".  And yeah it's a Latin beat.
Or at least Edmondo's always laid back version of such.  There's something
that sounds like a synthesizer on it but it's also tres tasteful.  Not
startling but worth keeping.
I can't believe someone finally agreed with me when I called something
mediocre.  Gives me hope.

Nat

>
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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 07:24:53 -0800
From: Alan Caggiano PsyD <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bad CD Mastering on Les Baxter's Tamboo- Ritual of The Savage

I just bought T"amboo- Ritual of the Savage" by Les Baxter   on Tiki
Tune and it really sounds BAD.

It sounds like it was mastered from a worn out record. The volume peaks
are fuzzy wth distortion.

Anyone know if Tikitune usually issues junk or did I get a bad copy?

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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 98 10:04:47 -0000
From: Q <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) For anyone who cares to participate...

Hi everyone,

I have a couple of requests for anyone who cares to participate.  I'm
trying to decide between many albums and want to make sure I get the best
ones:

1.  An ordered list of Esquivel albums ranked from best to worst.
2.  The same kind of list for all those "erotic exotica" albums people
were talking about a short while back.
3.  Anyone know of the availability of that Honor Blackman album or,
specifically, "Kinky Boots"

Thanks a lot!
Q

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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 98 10:04:47 -0000
From: Q <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) For anyone who cares to participate...

Hi everyone,

I have a couple of requests for anyone who cares to participate.  I'm
trying to decide between many albums and want to make sure I get the best
ones:

1.  An ordered list of Esquivel albums ranked from best to worst.
2.  The same kind of list for all those "erotic exotica" albums people
were talking about a short while back.
3.  Anyone know of the availability of that Honor Blackman album or,
specifically, "Kinky Boots"

Thanks a lot!
Q

                            Quentin Matheson
                            Multimedia Developer
                            Renaissance Interactive Studios Inc.
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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 09:08:22 -0500
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re: Breakfast at Tiffany's -Reply

Jordana:

Your validity just totally went down the toilet mentioning that
your favorite part of "BAT" was when Audrey sings "Moon
River" EGAD!!!!  RALPH!!!!  What STOOOOPID ridiculous
lyrics - I HATE THAT SONG!!!!!!

Urrrrrg.

- - Nate


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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 11:10:02 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ros, Cugat

At 08:57 AM 3/31/97 -0500, Jonathan M Perl wrote:
>He is definitely no Cugat or Prado, but both of these released patchy
>albums too; in particular, I'm not fond of the Cugat material on Columbia
>which I own.

I guess all I was saying was that if you don't want to keep too many
records that you're not fond of, then you probably wouldn't keep A LOT of
Edmondo Ros albums.
Maybe you would keep Cugat records that you're not fond of because in
general, you have enjoyed his records and it's harder to dismiss the ones
that aren't up to his general standard.
Somebody here wrote that Ros made more than 50 albums but in the meantime,
his defenders keep coming up with the same 4 or 5 records to prove his worth.
Don't worry.  Eventually I'll get the hang of this and I'll figure out that
as long as a musician stumbles their way into making a couple of "good"
records, that automatically elevates all their dross
Nat



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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 11:09:57 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) knees up

At 02:59 AM 3/31/98 PST, Robert McKenna wrote:
>
>OK this has to stop, i don't care what anyone in America says.   A knees
>up is  a party,

Maybe we're confused - and I include Canadians - because we've never danced
in any manner which caused our knees to go up.   Except maybe in aerobics
class.
If we had spent our lives clogging or auditioning for the Riverdance, maybe
we would have figured out what "knees up" meant but the only time our knees
are up is when we're on a barstool and someone tries to squeeze by us.
I guess there's other times I can imagine putting my knees up but I'll
leave that for your jokes...
Nat



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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 11:09:59 -0500
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) La Dolce Henke

At 10:16 AM 3/31/98 -1000, Stephen Funk wrote:
>Some may cry "Novelty Record", but I think there's too much clever talent
>here to justify that restrictive label.

I don't know the particular record but the way it's described, it sounds
like a novelty record to me.  And so what if it is?  If I've learned
anything on this list so far, it's that one man's novelty record is another
man's holy grail.
Is there actually some kind of standard for a "novelty record"?
I think there was a lot of "clever talent" involved in that old "It's a
gas" record we got in Mad Magazine - and I'd love to get that back - but
I'd say that was a novelty record.
I love my Country Moog record but hey, if that isn't a novelty record...
Having said this, I still reserve my right to dismiss half the stuff
discussed on this list as "novelty records".
Nat



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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 08:10:51 PST
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Cheap Stories

Does anyone know if Cheap Stories exists on vinyl (or cd)? I have a
cassette copy but would like something a little more durable (and I
don't care for commercial cassettes). For those who aren't familiar,
Cheap Stories consists of brief readings from lurid pulp novels of
1940's-60's. The narration is intentionally cheesey and over-dramatized
(occasionally, the narrator nearly loses his composure
and comes close to cracking up) and accompanied by equally cheesey
(ambience establishing)jazz. I use cuts on comps occasionally as a sort
of sonic spanner to wreck the groove. Does anyone know of any similar
sort of thing? I can't recall offhand who is responsible for Cheap
Stories... I believe it was a theatrical group that was somewhat active
in DC/MD in the 80's. I'd be happy to exchange tapes if anyone is
interested in this sort of thing. It is an excellent McKuen purge and
sounds sort of like Kenneth Patchen might have had he never run into
Miriam.

I was a boy, but now I'm a dirty, stinking man,

Ben

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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 11:23:30 +0000
From: "Moritz R«" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) accordion jokes (and others)

Accordion Jokes

If you drop an accordion, a set of bagpipes and a viola off a 20-story
building, which one lands first?
       Who cares?

What's the difference between an Uzi and an accordion?
       The Uzi stops after 20 rounds.

What's a accordion good for?
       Learning how to fold a map.

What do you call a group of topless female accordian players?
       Ladies in Pain

Minimum safe distances between street musicians and the public:
       Violinist: 25 feet
       Bad Violinist: 50 feet
       Tone Deaf Guitar Player who knows 3 chords: 75 feet
       15 year-old Electric Guitar Player with Nirvana fixation: 100
feet
       Accordionist: 60 miles

CHANG Jokes

A "Chang" is a Central Asian instrument (from countries such as
Uzbekistan). It's something like a hammered dulcimer with a damper
pedal.

How long does it take to tune a chang?
       Nobody knows.

Why is it so difficult to tune a chang?
       So that violist can feel superior about something.

OTHERS

Why do bagpipe players walk while they play?
       To get away from the noise.


How many country & western singers does it take to change a light bulb?
       Three. One to change the bulb and two to sing about the old one.

What happens if you play blues music backwards?
       Your wife returns to you, your dog comes back to life, and you
get out of prison.

What do you get when you play New Age music backwards?
       New Age music.

How many Deadheads does it take to change a lightbulb?
       12,001. One to change it, 2,000 to record the event and take
pictures of it, and 10,000 to follow it around until it burns out.


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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 15:50:30 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Mood Mosaic <-> the Mood Mosaic

first there was a "Mood Mosaic" series from British RPM records, with titles=
:

Mark Wirtz: The go-go music off Mark Wirtz (Mood Mosaic Volume 1)
v/a: The Thriller Memorandum. Mood Mosaic Volume 2
OST by Les Reed: Girl on a motorcycle (Mood Mosaic Volume 3)


then followed the Italian "THE Mood Mosaic" series from YellowStone, all
comps, with titles:

The Mood Mosaic - The Hascisch Party! =3D vol 1     rated ++++
The Mood Mosaic 2: Barnie's Groove
The Mood Mosaic 3: Sexplotation
The Mood Mosaic 4: Les Yper Sound!
The Mood Mosaic 5: Supervixens
The Mood Mosaic 6: Jazz =E0 Go Go            rated ++++

I'm not sure (yet) if the Silhouettes: "Conversation with Silhouettes" is
also part of the "Mood Mosaic"

        Johan

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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:20:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Mark Turner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Mood Mosaic <-> the Mood Mosaic

>
>
> first there was a "Mood Mosaic" series from British RPM records, with titles:
>
> Mark Wirtz: The go-go music off Mark Wirtz (Mood Mosaic Volume 1)
> v/a: The Thriller Memorandum. Mood Mosaic Volume 2
> OST by Les Reed: Girl on a motorcycle (Mood Mosaic Volume 3)

Are these available on CD and/or vinyl, and how are they?

- --
 Mark Turner
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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 14:28:42 -0500
From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) re: Breakfast at Tiffany's -Reply

At 09:08 AM 01/04/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Jordana:
>
>Your validity just totally went down the toilet mentioning that
>your favorite part of "BAT" was when Audrey sings "Moon
>River" EGAD!!!!  RALPH!!!!  What STOOOOPID ridiculous
>lyrics - I HATE THAT SONG!!!!!!
>
>Urrrrrg.
>
>- Nate

Its a key moment in the movie, man, it won an Academy Award and is the song
both Mercer and Mancini are remembered for...

Yeesh Nate.. relax <g>

Mahna Mahna has stoopider lyrics but its a great song.. <g>



Thinkin we're above this <g>,


Joe in Toronto

*re-lurking*



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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:36:15 -1000
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Funk)
Subject: (exotica) 101 Strings: Astro Sounds

Listened to most of this one last night:
        101 Strings: Astro Sounds from Beyond the Year 2000

Hmmmmmmm.... sort of sat there scratching my head, wondering what the hell
to make of this one.  This is a truly "bad" album, and not in an endearing
kind of way, at least not to me... therin lies its appeal, I suppose, that
it makes no pretenses about being anything but "bad" and "cheezy" and a
"ripoff".

I'm not sure under what chemically altered state I'll ever truly appreciate
this album, but it'll be fun trying.

- - Steve




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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 10:39:22 -1000
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Funk)
Subject: (exotica) The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny

How about this 2 disc compilation, "The Exotic Sounds of Martin Denny" on
Capitol?

I sure love "the Exotic Sounds of Les Baxter". I'm not sure I'm ready to
splurge on all the 2 album on 1 CD seperate releases of Mr. Denny at this
point.

Has anyone figured out how many of the "Exotic Sounds" tracks also appear
on various "Ultra Lounge" CDs, particularly the "Mondo Exotica" one, which
I have (and don't listen to half as mucn as the Les Baxter discs)

- - Steve




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Date: Wed,  1 Apr 1998 19:40:46 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:(exotica) accordion jokes (and others)

<<
How many Deadheads does it take to change a lightbulb?
       12,001. One to change it, 2,000 to record the event and take
pictures of it, and 10,000 to follow it around until it burns out.
>>

Seems to me, they'd follow it around even after it'd burnt out.
But that's just one man's opinion.  :)

Peter


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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 22:26:59 +-200
From: Shangri-la <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Skip the scratch...

On a semi-related note, in the Book of Rock Lists, one of the critics
complained that a hippie group sent a magazine he worked for an album that
smelled of patchouli so horribly, they had to bury it in the lot behind the
office, "like a dead skunk".

>>some Madonna album which reeked of patchouli
LIKE A PRAYER ??


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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 16:57:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) FWD: La-Z-Boy Inventor Dies in La-Z-Boy

By BURT HERMAN Associated Press Writer

MONROE, Mich. (AP) -- Edwin Shoemaker lived the La-Z-Boy life to the very
end. He invented the plushly padded, rocking-and-reclining chair, and he
died in one, slipping away after settling in for a nap at the age of 90.

But the man who left a legacy of leather-bound leisure was no lounger himself.

``This is a guy that wanted to be productive every moment,'' says Matthew
Switlik, director of the Monroe County Historical Museum. ``Mr. Shoemaker
was in no way ready to lounge around -- he had to be busy.''

Shoemaker died March 15 at his winter home in Arizona.

Shoemaker and his cousin Edward Knabusch built La-Z-Boy from a struggling,
Depression-era enterprise operating out of a Monroe garage. Together, they
produced an American icon of sorts -- ``the bubba chair,'' as Nancy Butler,
recliner writer for the trade publication Furniture Today, puts it, ``a guy
with beer in one hand and the remote in the other.''

In 1928, while tinkering with pieces of plywood and a yardstick, Shoemaker
and Knabusch fashioned an austere, wood-slat reclining lawn chair. After a
buyer for a furniture store refused to buy the chair unless it came
upholstered, they added that feature.

They knew they were on to something. But what to call it? They held a
name-the-chair contest, and La-Z-Boy beat out the Sit-N-Snooze, the
Slack-Back and the Comfort Carrier.

Thirty-three years after the first La-Z-Boy, all the work really paid off.
In 1961, Shoemaker combined a platform rocker with a recliner. The result:
the La-Z-Boy Reclina-Rocker. It was the right chair at the right time.
Television's takeover of America's living rooms was nearly complete.

``I don't think there's any doubt that the recliner and the television are
the perfect marriage,'' Butler says.

Despite the name, La-Z-Boy executives insist that their chair is not meant
to encourage, well, laziness. ``There's a fine line between relaxation and
sloth,'' says John Case, vice president of marketing. ``When it starts to
move toward the sloth side, that's when we take exception.''

Still, some models make it quite easy to spend life with your feet never
touching anything but a padded footrest. Sore muscles? Turn on the massager
nestled in the cushions. Can't make it to the phone? Here's a built-in
speakerphone. Want to check your stock prices online? Plug your laptop into
the chair.

The interesting thing is that Shoemaker was not the sort of guy to put his
feet up for very long.

Up until his death, the man with an eighth-grade education served as
executive vice president of engineering and vice chairman of the board. In
his later years, he spent much of his time working with the La-Z-Boy museum
director on the company's history, and went into the office two or three
times a week when in Michigan.

``His concept was that everybody put in a good day's work and should be
rewarded with a relaxing chair to sit in,'' says his son, Robert Shoemaker.

Or as Switlik puts it: ``He could view the chair as almost like a medical
device to get your energy level back up and get back at things again.''

At first, the market for the La-Z-Boy was largely men -- the men who at the
time brought home the bacon, then sat back while their wives cooked it.
``The king of the house should have a throne, here's a Reclina-Rocker all
your own,'' said one 1963 advertisement.

Now La-Z-Boy says women account for half the company's sales. What's more,
recliners such as the La-Z-Boy can be hip accessories in the apartments of
twenty- and thirtysomethings. A La-Z-Boy is often a piece of furniture as
beloved and as personal as, say, a favorite sweater.

``It's the one chair in the house everybody wants,'' says Jill Smith of
Sterling Heights, whose family room La-Z-Boy has held up well for 15 years.
It was the favorite chair of Sandy, the 21-year-old family cat, who died in
October.

And when the time comes to go, there are worse ways than in a reclining
rocker. Switlik says his own father died sitting in his La-Z-Boy during
halftime of a football game.

``That beats the hell out of a cancer ward,'' he says.




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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 22:50:54 +0100
From: "Phil Clark" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) knees up las vegas grind criswell

greetings popsters

"Knees-up" - what a quaint old expression - made me smile I can tell ya.
Although since I live in East London I can reveal that it's JUST like
Eastenders dahn our way ...oh yes.  Mornin' missus! (cont. on a Small Faces
LP near you).   <g>

I read some mentions of "Las Vegas Grind" - I dig those albums to the max
when in da mood. I too have wondered where the music came from, who
bought'em originally ?!?! Can someone give me some info on  "Frolic Diner"
(Romulan UFO) and "Forbidden City Dog Food" ? Great titles alone! I need to
know more about those reckids.

As for the Criswell CD ... I got that the other week... loooove those
oddities too.

lllllllllllllatersville


phil




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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 09:07:00 +1000
From: Wayne & Tony <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) For anyone who cares to participate...

Q wrote:

> 3.  Anyone know of the availability of that Honor Blackman album or,
> specifically, "Kinky Boots"
>

I don't know the availability of this item (but a CD re-release is long
overdue!!) but I just wanted to mention that I happened to see Honor Blackman
just yesterday on a British infotainment show called "Liz Earle's Lifestyle". I
walked in on it half way through so unfortunately I missed some but from what I
could tell Ms Blackman was discussing a back injury she had suffered in recent
years and been in rehab for. She must be 70something now with a great warm
personality and is still very beautiful. It's refreshing to see a celebrity
allowing herself to grow old gracefully (and without surgical enhancements! - is
it just my perception or does every celebrity who's had  a facelift sooner or
later end up resembling Liberace?).

Go Honor!!

W



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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 09:08:00 +1000
From: Wayne & Tony <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Skip the scratch...

It was Like A Prayer.

W

Shangri-la wrote:

> >>some Madonna album which reeked of patchouli
> LIKE A PRAYER ??





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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 01:30:28 +0000
From: "Moritz R«" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) FWD: La-Z-Boy Inventor Dies in La-Z-Boy

Thank you for that story that made the exotica list worth reading today!



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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 21:15:22 EST
From: Pearmania <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Edmundo Ros

Did someone say that Edmundo Ros was no Cugat?

While he's certainly no Machito and no Prado either, I have yet to hear Cugat
throw down anything which cooks like Ros' Oye Negra from the Arriba album.

Also, when I play Ros' version of Jobim's Meditation (from the Latin Boss
album), I can almost feel an ocean breeze blowing indoors when I have all the
windows closed.  It's better than Jobim's own rendition.  Cugat was never
quite that cool -- even when he had Machito in his band!

I admit to liking some early Cugat (1930's), but I'm convinced that Cugat
traded in his Latin roots for the Yankee dollar early in his career!


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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 22:23:45 EST
From: BasicHip <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bad CD Mastering on Les Baxter's Tamboo- Ritual of The Savage

<< Anyone know if Tikitune usually issues junk or did I get a bad copy? >>

there is no "Tikitune".  that's one of a number of bootlegs that came out a
couple of years ago.  sometimes, the tracks don't match the liner listings and
you can find typos.

others in the two-fer "series":

african jazz paired with...i forget
astro sounds and miracles
skin diver suite and music for a pack of hungry cannibals
the passions
shock / panic / nighmare
stones / psycho percussion
zounds with sounds / music from a surplus store
the tenth victim with somethin'

someone said those mood mosaics could be boots too.





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Date: 02 Apr 1998 02:05:18 GMT
From: [e-mail] (cheryl shinfield)
Subject: Re: Re: (exotica) FWD: La-Z-Boy Inventor Dies in La-Z-Boy

[e-mail],Internet writes:

>>Thank you for that story that made the exotica list worth reading today!

While I found the La-Z-Boy story interesting, I'd like to thank Moritz for
the best joke I've heard in a while -

>>What do you get when you play New Age music backwards?
       New Age music.


Still giggling about it...

cheryl


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Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 23:04:42 EST
From: BasicHip <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) re: Breakfast at Tiffany's -Reply

<< Jordana:

 Your validity just totally went down the toilet mentioning that
 your favorite part of "BAT" was when Audrey sings "Moon
 River" >>

Nate, did you ever get any information on that Sergio Menendes (sic) guy you
had asked about in the below message?

 <<<Never heard this dude, is he worth picking up?  I've seen his
...Brazilia '66" a few times but am assuming that his band is
yet another "Herb Alpert" type group???>>>























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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 00:44:38 EST
From: Otto temp <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Urban Tiki

As part of their seasonal Tiki-for-sale display Urban Outfitters has added
Tiki News to select stores

Tiki News will be available at the following stores between Monday April 6 and
the end of July:
Austin
Miami Beach
Santa Monica
San Francisco
Seattle
New York

Also I, Otto von Stroheim, will be djing in the SF store on Sat April 25 from
2-5 (for free)


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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 22:30:17 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Caravan for an hour

My first program with Caravan as the only music has now been recorded
(playlist on the Mr. Smooth website).  I had so much material I think I
will record another show tommorrow.
Thanks for your help.  A quick rundown of the artists in order: Kaempfert,
Ellington, Hirt, Last, Julian, Black, Magnante, Denny, Cottler, Belmonte,
Buzon, Rose, Kraus, Suns, Dee, Pell, 80Drums, Lawrence.  It was fun!    Byron

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Portland, Oregon, USA, Earth, Sol, Milky Way
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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 14:26:07 +0100
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: [Mimi Mayer: Re: (exotica) Edmondo Ros]

> From: Mimi Mayer <[e-mail]>


> Tepid is the perfect word for his arrangements, IMHO. Well-drilled and
> mechanical also apply. As far as his career, Edmondo is/was Canadian who
> ended up leading an orchestra in a London nightclub for years. (Anybody
> know more?) Maybe Ros and his musicians were just bored--and perhaps they

In fact, he was Venezuelan.




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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 14:30:36 +0100
From: Peter Hipwell <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ros, Cugat

> From: [e-mail] (Jonathan M Perl)

> with Edmundo'.  It can all get a bit scary when he starts singing.  I
> think possibly my favorite track by him is 'What a difference a day
> makes', although this was on CD - does anyone know which album it's from?

The New Rhythms Of The South.



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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 08:34:36 -0500
From: "Rajnai, Charles, NNAD" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Urban Tiki

Where is the New York Urban Outfitters store, exactly?

Charlieman


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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 08:42:28 EST
From: LTepedino <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mel Henke?

In a message dated 98-03-31 13:59:07 EST, [e-mail]
writes:

<<  Compared
 to
 Henke, Farland has so much more understanding of the Latin roots they all
 use,
 this sense of humor between the lines etc etc. Find out yourself. >>

Maybe I don't understand Henke, but I've listened to this CD several times and
I don't hear Henke showing any Latin roots whatsover (as far as I know he
never had any, it was more piano jazz) and so trying to say that McFarland is
better at displaying Latin roots than Henke is like saying the Sex pistols are
better at displaying the punk sound than Percy Faith! I love the Gary
McFarland CD and think it is fantastic (and anyone on this list should pick it
up!), but the above is an apples to oranges comparison...Perhaps I will just
adjust what has been said above to show how silly the statement was:

"compared to McFarland, Henke has so much more understanding of small combo
piano-based jazz they all use, this sense of humor between the lines etc etc.
Find out yourself."

Henke may not be to your taste, I'm sorry to hear that, but to bring up non-
existent Latin roots, and to call Henke's arrangements third rate when he was
considered one of the top arrangers the '60s are are more misguided statements
reflecting the respondent's own personal taste than a valid musical criticism

ashley


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Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 08:50:57 -0500
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Edmundo Ros -Reply

Simple:

Edmundo Ros = Boredom

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA!  Mentioning Perez in the
same breath- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!


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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 12:00:09 -0500
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) ?!?!?

Is it just my imagination, or is this list starting to sound like some
alt.rock.kiddypunk newsgroup?

m.ace  [e-mail]
OOK   http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/


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Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 09:46:40 +0000
From: "Tim @ World Wide Wax" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Auction

I've started a new auction--The Moog, The Jazz, and The Funny at:

http://www.worldwidewax.com/mjf/

With about 8 electronic records, a few rare jazz records, and 17
comedy/personality LPs/45s.  All covers/labels are scanned!


Tim Barron
World Wide Wax - Your source for classic vinyl
Over 4,000 lps for sale & 600 scanned covers at:
http://www.worldwidewax.com



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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 23:23:29 PST
From: "Jordana Robinson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) moon river

Nathan Miner <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Your validity just totally went down the toilet mentioning that
>your favorite part of "BAT" was when Audrey sings "Moon
>River" EGAD!!!!  RALPH!!!!  What STOOOOPID ridiculous
>lyrics - I HATE THAT SONG!!!!!!

Yikes!  Well, I could say that your credibility went down the toilet
when I got 7 copies of your message, but that probably wasn't your
fault.  :)  (I'm not mad.)

I'm sorry that "Moon River" pushes the wrong buttons for you.  I
admitted that Audrey's not a great singer, and it's actually not my
_favorite_ part of the movie (though I might have said that, I don't
remember).  I like it because it's cute and sappy, like the rest of the
movie, and that rubs some people the wrong way.  The lyrics aren't any
worse than a lot of other songs.  No cake is left out in the rain, for
instance.

Maybe this is the start of a new thread?  I actually can't think of any
exotica-ish songs that I really despise.  And I can think of some that
probably annoy almost eveyone but me (like "Witchita Lineman," even when
Jim Neighbors sings it).

- -Jordana
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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 1998 23:41:28 PST
From: "Jordana Robinson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) re: Breakfast at Tiffany's -Reply

BasicHip <[e-mail]> wrote:

>Nate, did you ever get any information on that Sergio
>Menendes (sic) guy you had asked about in the below message?
>
> <<<Never heard this dude, is he worth picking up?  I've seen his
>...Brazilia '66" a few times but am assuming that his band is
>yet another "Herb Alpert" type group???>>>

Sergio Mendes put out several albums with Brasil '66.  They're very
plentiful in thrift stores, so don't pay too much.  The sound is
Brazilian samba/bossa nova, not Mexican-derived like Herb Alpert's
stuff.  In other words, less brassy and upbeat, more guitary and slinky.
They do all the Brazilian pop standards: "One Note Samba," "Bim Bom,"
"Batucada," "So Nice" etc.

I have a healthy appreciation for this group, because I love Brazilian
music and my parents listened to them often when I was little.  If you
like stuff like Astrud Gilberto, A. C. Jobim, etc. you'll probably like
it, but it might seem a little generic.  On later records, they used
sitars and odd effects every once in a while, which spiced it up a bit.
Also the occassional Beatles cover or what-have-you.

I think SM is still putting out records now, but in a blander,
adult-contemporary sort of genre.  There's also the Sergio Mendes Trio
(an early record that sounds like the Brazil '66 stuff) and some records
with Brazil '77 that might be disco or something.

That was probably more than you wanted to know.

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