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exotica-digest         Tuesday, April 28 1998         Volume 02 : Number 099



In This Digest:

(exotica) Soundtrack hall of fame nominations
(exotica) Basic Hip moog playlist
(exotica) speaking of the silver apples,
(exotica) Look at this! AMAZING!
Re:  (exotica) Soundtrack hall of fame nominations
(exotica) Playlist for "Jimmy's Easy" 4/25/98
Re: (exotica) modern exotic influences?
(exotica) Movies on TV, Educational Exotica Links
(exotica) What exactly is Exotica?
(exotica) Jime Reeves--World Music King
(exotica) Van Dyke Parks...and then keeps moving.
Re[2]: (exotica) Advice on soundtrack reissues
(exotica) fwd: talk radio/spying for kids
(exotica) FS: Mitchum, Yma, Electronic Concepts Orch
Re:(exotica) Basic Hip moog playlist
(exotica) What exactly is Exotica?
Re:(exotica) Basic Hip moog playlist
(exotica) what is exotica anyway?
(exotica) Montenegro and moog
Re:  (exotica) Montenegro and moog
(exotica) Jean Jacques Perrey
Re: (exotica) what is exotica anyway?
(exotica) Compilation Tape: Hit the Tokin' Toad
Re: (exotica) what is exotica anyway?
(exotica) Alakazam the Great
(exotica) World's oldest cigar-smokin' schnapps drinkin' man dies in US at 115
Re: (exotica) Alakazam the Great
(exotica) Family Circus/Dick Hyman
(exotica) minnie riperton
(exotica) Phuture Lounge playlist

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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 19:41:30 +0100
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Soundtrack hall of fame nominations

Jerry Goldsmith has written some really superb music over
the years,  and appears in threads here regularly.   During the
1950's prior to him breaking into the big time with themes
such as "Dr Kildare", his mentor was the late Miklos Rozsa,
whose sound track successes include Ben Hur, Quo Vadis,
El Cid, and of course Spellbound, replete with Theremin....

There's a good CD of Rozsa's greatest film score music,
conducted by him, on Angel Records.

So there are two instant suggestions for the soundtrack
composer hall of fame.  I would also consider putting
forward Michel Legrand, for "Thomas Crown Affair"..
Anyone second that?

Hugh.


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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 14:43:04 EDT
From: BasicHip <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Basic Hip moog playlist

When Nate asked, "WHAT is "moog" - "electronic organ" or somethin'?", it
inspired me to fill the tape I promised him with nothing but moog titles.

This list has no compact discs on it.

Side A
SATURN SKI JUMP  Harry Breuer / Jean Jacques Perrey  "The Happy Moog"
Pickwick
  -  Any of you who have listened to The House Of Games on KFJC will recognize
this as the track Jack Diamond talks over.

COUNTDOWN AT 6  Perrey And Kingsley  "The In Sound From Way Out"  Vanguard
  -  One of the top five most influential records for me.  In 1967 (I was 11),
my buddie's older brother had this record and we listened to it.  It blew us
away.  Years went by and I forgot all about it.  Then, Swan's Splashdown
appeared on the Incredibly Strange Music CD and it all came back to me.
That's when i knew I had to have this record and at any price.  One of the few
moog recordings now on CD.  A must have.

ELEANOR RIGBY  Marty Gold  "Moog Plays The Beatles"  Avco Embassy
  -  [Beatles - 1966]  This was a hard one to find and I was pleasantly
surprised to find sitar on many tracks.

WISHIN' AND HOPIN'  Christopher Scott  "More Switched On Bacharach"  Decca
  -  [Dusty Springfield - 1964]  Nice wordless female vocals on this.

SPANISH FLEA  Sid Bass  "Moog Espana"  RCA Victor
  -  [Herb Alpert And the Tijuana Brass - 1966]  Old Spanish favorites played
in an exciting new way.

DANSERO  Richard Hayman  "Electronic Evolutions"  Command
  -  2 LP set which highlights 3 previously issued recordings,  Cinemagic
Sounds, Genuine Electric Latin Love Machine and The Copper Plated Integrated
Circuit: Plugged In Pop.

BIG YELLOW TAXI  Claude Denjean  "Open Circuit"  London Phase 4
  -  [Neighborhood - 1970]  Boring?  Dreck?  Geez, I don't think so at all.
Anyone who spent their "wonder years" listening to the originals on a
transistor radio held to their ear is bound to get a kick out of these
versions.  This tune features cha-cha-chas and a cartoony horn honk-honking.

PIPELINE  Hot Butter  "Popcorn"  Musicor
  -  [Chantay's - 1963]  A first?  Moog surf.

POLK SALAD ANNIE  Gil Trythall  "Nashville Gold"  Athena
  -  [Tony Joe White - 1969]

FAT CITY!  The Zeet Band  "Moogie Woogie"  Chess

ABSOLUTE SADIST  Mistress Kat  "Cyborgasm"  Passion Press
mixed over
GIRL, YOU'LL BE A WOMAN SOON  Hugo Montenegro  "Neil's Diamonds"  RCA Victor
  - [Neil Diamond - 1967]  My perverted little mind could not resist this.
Think of it as a personal touch.

Side B
AQUARIUS  The Electronic Concept Orchestra  "Moog Groove"  Limelight
  -  [5th Dimension - 1969]

GOOD MORNING STARSHINE  Mort Garson  "Electronic Hair Pieces"  A & M
  -  [Cowsills - 1969]  Music from the musical, Hair, of course.

TIME IS TIGHT  Dick Hyman  "The Age Of Electronicus"  Command
  -  [Booker T And The MG's - 1969]  Another Hyman moog recording, The
Electric Eclectics, is on CD.

NOWHERE MAN  Gershon Kingsley  "Music to Moog By"  Audio Fidelity
  -  [Beatles - 1966]  The man behind the 1972 top 40 hit, Popcorn.

MAS QUE NADA  Enoch Light  "Permissive Polyphonics"  Project 3
  -  Spaced Out has the great cover, but I prefer this record.

SPINNING WHEEL  The Moog Machine  "Switched-On Rock"  Columbia
  -  [Blood, Sweat And Tears - 1969]

WHAT'S NEW, PUSSYCAT?  Walter Carlos  "By Request"  Columbia
  -  [Tom Jones - 1965]  One of the most wacked-out versions of a pop tune
I've ever heard.

A TASTE OF HONEY  Martin Denny  "Exotic Moog"  Liberty
  -  [Herb Alpert And The Tijuana Brass - 1965]  There may still be a few of
these bootleg CD's of this backed with Les Baxter's Moog Rock in circulation.

DIZZY  Hugo Montenegro  "Moog Power"  RCA Victor
  -  [Tommy Roe - 1969]  One of the good ones from this LP of really good and
really bad.

PINK SWEATBOXES  Bunny And Carrington  "Cyborgasm"  Passion Press
mixed over
MISTY  The Electronic Concept Orchestra  "Electric Love"  Limelight
  -  [Johnny Mathis - 1959]  More audio erotica mixing fun.




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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 14:31:21 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) speaking of the silver apples,

I have a sort of cheesy email interview that Simeon graciously agreed to
participate in -- it's on my website, Mono Lisa's Metropical Page:
http://delta.is.tcu.edu/~labush.  His responses were quite short and to the
point, but he said that this was because they were leaving for their US tour
the day he answered them.  Check it out if you'd like.

amities,
Lisa
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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 13:22:05 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Look at this! AMAZING!

Andy's anagram solver! You write down some words and the computer
generates some anagrams of it.

Some examples
martin denny: an mind entry
les baxter: best relax


Try it out at:
http://www.ssynth.co.uk/~gay/anagram.html






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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 18:26:05 EDT
From: DJJimmyBee <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Soundtrack hall of fame nominations

I second LeGrand for "Les Jeune Filles de Rochefort" as well... ALSO the title
track to "Love Is A Ball"


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Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:56:11 EDT
From: DJJimmyBee <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for "Jimmy's Easy" 4/25/98

"Jimmy's Easy" airs on WMBR-FM, Cambridge Saturdays 6-8am
- -----Billy Taylor Orchestra-The David Frost Theme-----
Clay Pitts-Carribean Sunrise-Partners In Crime CD
John Gregory-Jet Stream-Scamp
Johnny Williams-Sabada-from "Penelope" soundtrack LP
Stanley Wilson-M-Squad Theme-Crime Jazz I on Rhino
Quincy Jones-Shoot To Kill-from "Mirage" soundtrack LP
Armando Tropoli-Sensuale-Irma La Douce
Don Tiki-Polyamore-Taboo
Sugarmen Three-Papa's Got A Brand New Bag-Desco CD
- -Henry Mancini-Brief And Breezy-Cocktails With Mancini CD
- -Nelson Riddle-You Do Something To Me-Time/Warner CD
- -Ray Conniff-It Must Be Him-LP track
- -James Clarke-The Free Life-Scamp TV Dinners 6T's
- -The Hustle Factory-Latin In Manhattan-Hustle Factory LP
- -J.P. Mironze-Sexopolis-Sexopolis CD
- -Soul Providers-Disco Party-from "Revenge of Mr. Mopoji" CD
- -Al Caiola-Experiment In Terror-Ultralounge (Hollywood)
Combustible Esquivel-Miniskirt-Lounge-a-Palooza CD
Hugo Montenegro-Busa Nova-"Man From Uncle" on Razor & Tie
Jack Marshall-Munster's Theme-Ultralounge (TV Themes)
Enoch Lite-Knowing When To Leave-Spaced Out LP
Young Holt Unlimited-Could It Be I'm Falling In Love (new LP)
Cal Tjader-Samba Do Sueno-Talkin' Verve CD
Lalo Schifrin-Off The Way To San Mateo-Soundtrack CD-Bullitt
Chaquito-The Name Of The Game-Soundtrack CD
Love Unlimited Orchestra-Always Thinking Of You-LP
Peter Thomas -Landing On The Moon-Raumpatrouille CD
Ken Thorne-Bossa Nova In The Restaurant-Partners In Crime
George Chakiris-Almost In Your Arms-"Houseboat" Love Theme
- -Spice-Theme From "LoveBoat" (for Eddie Gorodetsky)
- -Piero Ulimani-Le Ragazze Dell Archpelago-Sweden, Heav/Hell
- -Jerry Goldsmith-Theme from "Our Man Flint"-Soundtrack LP
- -Pop Riviera Group-Passport International-Desco CD
- -Rogeiro Du Prat-Rio Back Street
- -Raymonde Le Fevre-Le Gendarme Pop-Orchestral Party 2 CD
- -Franco DeMasi-Altalena Party-Stroboscopia CD
- -Three Degrees-Everybody Gets To Go To The Moon-from the   obligatory smoky
nightclub scene in "French Connection, written by Jimmy Webb....
- -----Lalo Schifrin-Jim On The Move-----


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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 10:15:40 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) modern exotic influences?

> some suggestions on some really good Exotica would be great, that is if
> there is something that sorta stands for what exotica is about and has a

Start at the list's FAQ page:
http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Lists/ExoticaFAQ.html
Especially the category listing at the bottom of the page.

The list's main page has a batch of links:
http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Lists/Exotica.html

Much education is available at The Space Age Pop Standards page:
http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/

Coverage of current artists is available at Vik's Lounge:
http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge2.html

Apologies for not listing the sites of everyone on the list (these are the the
first ones that popped into my head), but that would be a very long posting.
There are links criss-crossing all over, anyway, so this should be enough to
get a newbie started.

m.ace  [e-mail]


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Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 14:37:07 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Movies on TV, Educational Exotica Links

A few movies of possible interest on usa tv this week (eastern daylight
times)...

Tuesday morning on TCM:
8:30 am: "Viva Las Vegas" (1964) Supposed to be in widescreen format.
10:00 am: "Once A Thief" (1965) Music from Lalo Schifrin, w/ Ann-Margret, Alain
Delon & Jack Palance.

AMC supplies a couple of films noir on Wednesday:
8:00 am: "Born To Kill" (1947) W/ Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor & Walter
Slezak.
2:00 am (technically Thursday morning): "Double Indemnity" (1944) Rogue
insurance salesman Fred MacMurray cooks up trouble with bad girl Barbara
Stanwyck. Definitely an episode he kept secret from "his three sons".

Friday on AMC:
11:30 pm: "Master Of The World" (1961) Vincent Price as a megalomaniac (again).
Music by Les Baxter. It was discussed here a while back, but I forget what was
said.

Also, I sent a post earlier with links for the newbie who asked for exotica
education, but that message seems to have bounced off into the ether, so here
are those links again (this usually causes lost messages to turn up
immediately):

Start at the list's FAQ page:
http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Lists/ExoticaFAQ.html
Especially the category listing at the bottom of the page.

The list's main page has a batch of links:
http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Lists/Exotica.html

Much education is available at The Space Age Pop Standards page:
http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/

Coverage of current artists (and more) is available at Vik's Lounge:
http://www.chaoskitty.com/t_chaos/lounge2.html

Apologies for not listing the sites of everyone on the list (these are the the
first ones that popped into my head), but that would be a very long posting.
There are links criss-crossing all over, anyway, so this should be enough to
get a newbie started.

m.ace  [e-mail]


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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 12:07:31 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) What exactly is Exotica?

Brian Karasick wrote:

>> Even some of the German songs seemed very familiar, though it
>> is amazing how many of them are either versions of American songs or
>> about America.I certainly would consider this music "exotic" from my perspective
>> but then again I'm sure Germans may consider America exotic so
>> it's all relative to where you are.
>>
Not when you grow up with it. But I know what you mean... "The List"
(Exotica) is starting another discussion of what exactly is Exotica. My
suggestion "anything faaaar away" was apparantely forgotten and so some
try to find definitions again. To me it sounds a bit like an attempt to
define "foreign" or so. To me "Exotica" originally was only things like
Martin Denny etc and I think I still want it to have it that way. It had
to do with the South sea and not Africa, could trace back roots to Latin
America, but that's it. Practically the list discussed many more
subjects that were far away from that, such as Electronic Music, which
is something completely different, I think. But  OK, why not. The list
should really be called "Incredible Strange Music list". Somebody
suggested Van Dyke Parks as a subject to the Exotica list. Van Dyke
Parks? Why not the Beach Boys? They had quite some Hawaiian Songs. I
don't know. I'd rather stay within a more limited definition and include
more aspects aside bare record collecting. Exotica to me is really not
only music. It's very similar in the KLF-list, which is the other list
I'm in. A few people always answer, when I put in some questions on
wider subjects, surrounding phenomena such as conspiracy theories f.e.,
but when you leave it alone it falls back to the record collectors
business as usual within a few days.
I think we don't get to the point of the cultural Exotica feeling, when
we discuss the scratches on our records. Austrian performance artist
Herrmann Nitsch is starting a 6 days happening next month. There will be
bulls slaughtered, Maidens thrown into the blood, people drinking and
taking drugs for 6 days, worshipping the sun, life, extasy, I don't know
what. I probably won't go there, but to me this sounds more like trying
to find out something about our inner capabilities of exotic/ecstatic
living than anything I've read in the list so far. I'm not even saying,
that both exclude each other, but I just never read really personal
statements of experiences somebody has made with his exotic...desires?
lifestyle? determination?




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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 04:39:41
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jime Reeves--World Music King

Br. Cleve wrote:

> One of the most bizarre things I used to encounter in my days of working in
> used record stores was the many, many Jamaicans who would come in looking
> for records by Jim Reeves

Years ago, I read in an interview with King Sunny Ade that Jim Reeves was
one of the most popular artists in West Africa in the 1960s.  Since then,
I've bounced this off several native Africans, including a Ghanaian cab
driver in Chicago and a Kenyan hotel desk clerk in San Francisco.  They all
recognized the name and confirmed that he was widely heard on African
radio.  In the words of the cabbie:  "Oh, man--Jim Reeves, he was the
greatest."

What's weird is that Jim made a brief and unsuccessful attempt to crossover
into films with a western set and shot in South Africa, titled, "Kimberley
Jim."  Guess the word didn't get out about that.

I also have to pass on someone else's insight into one of Jim's biggest
hits, "He'll Have to Go" ("Put your sweet lips a little closer to the
phone;  We'll pretend that we're together, not alone."):  It's about an
obscene phone call.

Brad


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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 08:42:47 -0400
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Van Dyke Parks...and then keeps moving.

My memory of Van Dyke Parks was around the time of the "Tokyo Rose" LP.
"Night Music" (did anyone else watch this show?) postponed it's usual
opening to show Parks playing "America, the Beautiful" with a full band of
violins, horns, singers and kotos.  I would concur with the previous poster
that he has had his exotic moments.

Brian "Post Cycle" Phillips


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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 13:39:42 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re[2]: (exotica) Advice on soundtrack reissues

<<
Oh, the reissue of After The Fox has come out now??? When was it released?
I must've missed it somehow...what's the catalog #? Thanks.
>>

The re-release is on Rykodisc/MGM.
I dunno the catalog number.


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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:26:06 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Lou Smith)
Subject: (exotica) fwd: talk radio/spying for kids

Talk Radio Daily
At this Web site, you can find a daily update on what people across
the United States are talking about on Talk Radio. The site includes
details on some ten to twenty talk radio programs each day, including
the best quotes from each program.
World Wide Web: http://www.talkers.com/daily.html

Spying For Kids
So kids can practice at being James Bond, or his American counterpart,

the CIA has launched a Web site aimed at introducing kids to the
basics  of spying. They can also find out about the canine unit, using
pigeons to spy for you and elementary disguise.
World Wide Web: http://www.odci.gov/cia/ciakids



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Date: 27 Apr 1998 07:38:30 PST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) FS: Mitchum, Yma, Electronic Concepts Orch

Greetings Exoticats y Kittens and please pardon the comercial intrusion.

I am offering up some of my cooler items to the best offer. The current
high offer is noted.

Sumac, Yma
  Fuego Del Ande, Capitol ST 1169(Stereo), NM/NM, offer at $22.50

Mitchum, Robert
  Calypso - Is Like So..., Capitol T 853, VG++/VG++, offer at $38.00

Electronic Concept Orchestra
  Electric Love, Limelight LS 86072(Stereo), VG+(cvr)/VG++(vinyl), offer
at $23.00

If you need more info or would like to bid, email me at:

[e-mail]

or phone at:

[phone]

Again, please excuse the intrusion but these seemed like things some of
y'all might be into. Also, please check the other things I'm selling off
on my homepage at:

http://members.tripod.com/~CameronVinyl/index.html  (the URL is case
sensitive)

Thanks,

Kevin King
[e-mail]
[phone]



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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:03:34 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re:(exotica) Basic Hip moog playlist

Lessee:

DANSERO  Richard Hayman  "Electronic Evolutions"  Command
TIME IS TIGHT  Dick Hyman  "The Age Of Electronicus"  Command


Richard Hayman.
Dick Hyman.

Are these the same person, or is this some sort of coincidence?

PeterR


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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:55:57 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) What exactly is Exotica?

This article/URL has been mentioned on the list in the past -- one of the
best introductions to Exotica/SABP is the cover story to an issue of
Goldmine magazine.

You can find an abridged version of the article at:
<http://www.krause.com/goldmine/is_411/cvrstry/cvrstry.htm>

- --Lou




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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:59:56 -0600
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:(exotica) Basic Hip moog playlist

>Lessee:
>
>DANSERO  Richard Hayman  "Electronic Evolutions"  Command
>TIME IS TIGHT  Dick Hyman  "The Age Of Electronicus"  Command
>
>
>Richard Hayman.
>Dick Hyman.
>
>Are these the same person, or is this some sort of coincidence?

Coincidence.

Jill "Mingo-go"



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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:40:06 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) what is exotica anyway?

If you want to mention Van Dyke Parks here or share your reaction to his
recent appearance on "Politically Incorrect"... go ahead.  And I don't
really care if it's not exotica but I don't think it is.
Yes the word "exotic" is contained in "exotica".  And in "real life" that's
a relative term I guess.  So if something is exotic, is it exotica?  I
think exotica is a broad term but not that broad.
I mean, Wonder Bread was exotic to me the first time I tried it.
Having said that, I never thought this list was about the specific group of
Eastern and Latin influenced musicians in the 50's and 60's whose music was
typified by bird calls and bongos.  And I never thought it was all that
much about tiki bars, though I've been proven wrong there.  And that's okay.
I thought it was about easy listening music, lounge, loungecore, space-age
pop etc and since that music comes from jazz and big band and soundtrack
music and Latin and muzak and early ambient pioneers and just good old
middle-of-the-road American entertainment, it's going to flow in lots of
different musical directions.
So it's hard to bring up something that has NO connection to exotica in
some form.  But I don't think Van Dyke Parks is particularly connected,
even though he made an almost-calypso record.
And the reason he's not particularly connected for me is because he's not
"generally associated" with that kind of music.  And for me, a lot of what
is and isn't appropriate for this list is about "general associations".
Yeah, that's narrow-minded I know.  Free up your associative powers, right?
If instead it's about "how many connections can you find between exotica
and all other forms of music?" then great, let the floodgates open.  I'll
probably be at least as interested in your posting about Coltrane or Neil
Young or Captain Beefheart or Tortoise, Slint, Pavement as I am about some
of the other things here.  Don't let me stop you.  I'd like to draw the
line at Celine Dion but then again, she's pretty exotic to me.  What could
be more exotic and otherworldly than a robot who sings?
Oh and by the way, since I assume many people here are record collectors or
accumulators, you can always brighten my day with stories of your
obsession, how you found a record, finding records on the street or about
how your Three Suns records are now numbering in the three figure range.  I
also like to hear about records on the floor, in the stove, in the washroom
and on the bed.

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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 14:40:08 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Montenegro and moog

While we're still on the subject of moog I'd like to express my severe
disappointment with Montenegro's "Rocket Man" record.  I don't know why I
expected that "a tribute to Elton John" with moog would be good but
Montenegro is the guy who breathed new life into "Classical Gas" and "Love
is blue" so why not?
The liner notes make a big deal of the participation of Hugo's son, John
Montenegro.
("John" doesn't quite work with "Montenegro", does it?)
I blame him.  This is more a bad fusion record than anything else.
It looks like Hugo thought his son was bringing new life and new influences
to his music but really he should have let John make his own records.  Then
again, if I'd seen the name "Montenegro" with any first name, I probably
would have grabbed it.  Maybe someone can spin off this posting into a
discussion of the sons and daughters of exotica heroes.
Where are the Dino Martins and the Hunt and Tony Sales of the exotica
world?  I guess there must be a Desi Arnaz Jr. mambo record out there
somewhere.

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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 19:41:22 EDT
From: DJJimmyBee <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Montenegro and moog

Funny you should mention the father son team of Montenegro. I recently found
an LP by both of them called "Other Brothers' Music" featuring young John on
the Arp synthesizer...The album, while stylistically interesting and filled
with familiar tunes, perfectly captures the ice-cold sound of the future that
the early to mid-7T's sometimes typified when they dipped into too much
synthesizer...Scary, but a real "period" piece...Jimmy


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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 18:20:49 -0700
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Jean Jacques Perrey

I haven't read it yet, BUT in the June Issue of Record Collector Magazine
there is a really cool article/interview with Jean Jacques

It also lists all of his recordings with the DATE of the recording
and the country of the pressing and some cool different album covers

He just sent it to me with a great tape of his EP: MISTER ONDIOLINE

Considering that it's 1956, it sounds unfreakinbelieveable
It is ab-so-lute-ly astounding that it's 1956

and no,
I can't make you a copy.

Just be thankful with all the new cool info that whomever lays upon thee.

J



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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:09:08 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) what is exotica anyway?

Dear Nat,

I didn't mean to exclude any connections that you can find when you
discuss music. I must say I never read that general proposition by
laszlo that stands on top of the exotica list and says "discussing
musical styles (...) early electronics" etc. I did read this yesterday
evening for the first time and I must admit it fits pretty well what is
actually happening in the list. I like music and all kinds of styles
myself too much to not understand what it means to find a rare record on
the swap meet or tracing back musical influences by the musicians who
are involved in it etc etc. (I love Van Dyke Parks AND the Beach Boys,
by the way) I only think that a deeper understanding of the things that
happened musically always includes an understanding of the whole, the
cultural history. And that includes even more than musical questions.
Things like art, politics, psychology, history...I'm shure you know
that, I just hardly find it in the mails. When I hear Denny I ask
myself: Why did he do it? What did he like about it? Why listened so
many people to this at that time and why did it all dissappear? Etc etc.
And only then I can understand why this man collected music instruments
from all over the world and why the bird calls still ring a bell of a
punk rocker from germany in 1981. My point was to make the discussion
wider instead of more narrow, but I think that's practically only
possible if you concentrate on  a smaller field of original material on
the other hand. So why do I not open up a Tiki-mailing list you may ask.
The answer is: I don't know how and I don't think it's worth the effort
for 2 or 3 people. I thought, the Exotica list was what I was looking
for. I think I'm leaving it for a while. I want to visit the Kontiki
museum in Oslo and the newly discovered pyramids on Teneriffa and
hopefully Thor Heyerdahl himself who lives there. Report when I'm back.
Promised.

MO



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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 14:02:34 +0200
From: "David Retief" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Compilation Tape: Hit the Tokin' Toad

#Luiz Bonfa - Dois Amores "Black Orpheus Impressions"
#Edmundo Ros - Latin Shalom "New Rythms of the South"
#The Caterina Valente Singers - Desafinado "Acc & dir Johnny Keating"
#Ricardo Santos & his orchestra - Cherry Blossom Time "Cherry Blossom Time
in Japan"
#Caterina Valente - Fiesta Cubana "Ihre Grossen er Folge"
#Chaquito & his orchestra - Speak Up Mambo "Hot Cha-Cha-Cha"
#Les Baxter - Cairo Bazaar     "The New Exotic Sounds"
#Bert Kaempfert - The Portuguese Washerwomen "April in Portugal"
#Peter Thomas - Cristallo Cristallo "Schusse aus dem Geigenkasten"
#The Caterina Valente Singers - Moon River "Acc & dir Johnny Keating"
#Paul Desmond - Lady in Cement "Summertime"
#Luiz Bonfa - Rio with Love "Black Orpheus Impressions"
#Gary Blake & his orchestra - Do it again "A Swinging Party"
#Angelo Di Pippo - Sorrento Blue "Chella Lla"
#Perez Prado - Paper Doll "Pops and Prado"
#Caterina Valente - Istanbul "Caterina Cherie"
#Marty Gold & his orchestra - That Old Black Magic "It's Magic"
#Nipso Brantner, Johnny Perdue, Tal Holbrock and the western playboys -
Cripple Creek "Western Aus Texas"

#Kenyon Hopkins - Casino "Verve Rec & Esquire Mag present Sound Tour:
France"
#Si Zentner & his orchestra - It's nice to go trav'ling "It's nice ..."
#Caterina Valente - Pardon, Madam "Caterina Cherie"
#Johnny Keating - Serenata "The Keating Sound"
#Peter Thomas Orchestra - Party is over/Kik and Finger Snap "Schusse..."
#Ricardo Santos - Japan Bridge "Cherry Blossom Time in Japan"
#Tak Shindo - The Song of Delilah "The New Exotic Sounds"
#Henry Mancini - Experiment in Terror  "Experiment in Terror OST"
#Des Champ - Yes and No "Penthouse Magazine presents The Bedside Bond"
#Leo Addeo & his orchestra - The Music goes 'Round and 'Round "The
Music..."
#Angelo Di Pippo - Quando Dico che ti Amo "Chella Lla"
#Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra - Eloise  "Viva La Feria"
#Ray Davies & Button Down Brass - Up, Up and Away "Best Of"
#Lew Howard and the 'All Stars' - Hula Rock "America '76"
#Edmundo Ross & his orchestra - What a difference a day made "New
Rythms..."
#The Caterina Valente Singers - Midnight in Moscow

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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 05:47:50 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) what is exotica anyway?

I thought, the Exotica list was what I was looking
>for. I think I'm leaving it for a while. I want to visit the Kontiki
>museum in Oslo and the newly discovered pyramids on Teneriffa and
>hopefully Thor Heyerdahl himself who lives there. Report when I'm back.
>Promised.
>
>MO

As long as there isnt an Exoticalist, discussing the phenomenon and
cultural background as you wanted, why dont stay on this one. I
appreciate your postings, and I'm sure a lot of the others do too. The
problem with me is that I really dont know much about the background to
be that good discussionpartner, I'm mostly in it for the music (at least
for now, though I likes Hawaiian vintage shirts) and rather a newbie on
this actually, but there are others with lots of knowledge... Some even
have there own fanzines ;)

I want to read an discuss everything from Jungle movies to visions while
listening to Fantastica to Heyerdahl to Clubs and events...

Playlists and compilationtape descriptions really bores me but I can
live with it. As long as people chat its OK.

Magnus





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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 06:32:56 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Alakazam the Great

     Alakazam the Great (1961) Music by Les baxter


A friend has bought the soundtrack for me, but I havent got it yet...
anyone have it? Is it any good?

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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 14:55:24 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Lou Smith)
Subject: (exotica) World's oldest cigar-smokin' schnapps drinkin' man dies in US at 115

   PARIS, April 27 (AFP) - Christian Mortensen, a cigar-loving
schapps drinker believed to be the world's oldest male, has died in
the United States aged 115, a doctor revealed.
   Danish-born Mortensen's death on Saturday in San Rafael,
California, was confirmed Monday by Michel Allard, a French
specialist on centenarians.
   In his final years, despite being blind, nearly deaf, and unable
to walk, he continued to devote himself to his central pleasure of
cigar smoking. A table next to him in his retirement home was laden
with boxes of cigars sent by wellwishers from around the world.
   Even on his 115th birthday he entertained fellow residents with
traditional Danish songs, and clearly revelled in the media
attention his longevity attracted.
   Born on a dairy farm in Denmark in 1882, he worked on the farm
and as an apprentice tailor before leaving for the United States in
1903.
   He retired in 1950 after a number of jobs, including 21 years in
a canning factory.
   Mortensen said he had forgotten the name of the woman he was
married to for several years, saying it was long enough for him to
learn not to remarry.
   He shunned red meat and only occassionally ate chicken or fish.
He also drank lots of water and rarely took medication.
   On his last birthday in August Mortensen was considered by
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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:58:43 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Alakazam the Great

> Alakazam the Great (1961) Music by Les baxter
> A friend has bought the soundtrack for me, but I havent got it yet...
> anyone have it? Is it any good?
>
> Magnus

I can't say on the music, but the Maltin Guide describes the movie as:

"Japanese-made cartoon is good children's entertainment; story centers on
magical monkey's ambitious adventures, from bullfight in the pit of a volcano
to an epic battle with Hercules of the Universe. Voices of Jonathan Winters,
Frankie Avalon, Arnold Stang, Sterling Holloway."

I'm *guessing* AIP acquired it and re-dubbed the sound for the US market.

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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 11:04:46 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Family Circus/Dick Hyman

Okay, the previously mentioned "Family Circus" cartoon with the Dick Hyman
reference (April 14) is now viewable online...

http://www.kingfeatures.com/comics/familyc/index.htm

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 00:15:43 +0800
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) minnie riperton

not exactly exotica....but was wondering if anyone know wher i can score a
copy of Rotary Connection's "Black Gold Of The Sun" with Minnie Riperton on
vocals?

un saludo!

Bobby


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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 10:20:54 -0600
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Phuture Lounge playlist

Hey, exoticows,

I'm back on air for one fabulous month in sunny Glasgow, Scotland on Subcity
Radio, 106.2 FM on Sundays through MAy 22 at 3.30pm - 5pm. As usual, if you
are looking for more specific info, just drop me a line.

Here is last week's playlist from April 26:
FIFTH DIMENSION "California My Way"
THE FREE DESIGN "When Love is Young"
CLAUDINE LONGET "Love is Blue"
CHRIS MONTEZ "The End of a Love Affair"
SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL 66 "Wave"
DICK HYMAN "Fantomfingers"
KOSMOS "Kosmoska"
BLACK MASS LUCIFER "Incubus"
TURN ON "Young Cherry Trees Secured"
THE HIGH LLAMAS "Glide Time"
AIR "Modular Mix"
FRANCE GALL "Made in France"
BRIGITTE BARDOT & ALAIN GORAGUER ORCH. "Je Danse Donc Je Suis"
KATERINE "Mon Couer Balance"
THE BAD EXAMPLES "Song Electrique"
GARY MOSCHELLES "Plot Thickener"
THE MIKE SAMMS SINGERS "He Who Would Valient Be"
GRADY TATE "I Got Six"
ENOCH LIGHT & THE LIGHT BRIGADE "Puppet Man"
LEW HOWARD ALLSTARS "Rock Funk"
MORTON STEVENS "Beach Trip"
JOHNNY WILLIAMS "Sadaba"
SERGE GAINSBOURG "Mambo Miam Miam"
NANCY & LEE "You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling"



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