Maybe the The Nutty Squirrels are what Alvin and the Chipmunks
would have become had they smoked too many cigarettes, drank
too much coffee and hung out in smoky jazz clubs. Find out for
yourself on this week's Retro Cocktail Hour webcast.
Also on the menu: Piero Umiliani's swinging "Man and the City"
and "Requiem for a Secret Agent" CDs; music from the Perry
Rhodan sci-fi adventure "4...3...2... 1...Morte"; singer Robert
Hicks' tribute to Jack Costanzo (featuring Mr. Bongo himself and
the Pete Rugolo Orchestra); jungle jazz by Les Baxter, Don Tiki,
Nardini/Roger's "Jungle Obsession" and Eden Ahbez; the latest
caffeine-drenched musings by poet Ralph Alfonso; plus tunes by
Buddy Cole, Al Caiola, John Buzon, Jimmie Haskell and the Velvet
Fog.
To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour anytime on the web, just visit:
http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html
As always, comments and suggestions welcome. Next week: win
a free copy of "Shake Those Hula Hips" by Big Kahuna and the
Copa Cat Pack.
Mahalo!
Darrell Brogdon
The Retro Cocktail Hour
KANU FM 91.5
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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:49:53 -0400
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) who is Alvino Rey?
At 08:00 AM 6/25/01 -0700, james brouwer wrote:
>>The whole thing reminds me very much of Esquivel.
>> so, did alvino rey play guitar in Esquivel's orchestra?
and basic hip replied:
>He did! Good ear! I've got a couple of Alvino Rey records. I have no idea
>how many there are - more than the two I have, that's for sure.
This is deja vu all over again, like they say.
When I first joined this list, I had the same exchange only with the
legendary JACK DIAMOND!!!!!!!
I had just bought the Alvino Rey record "A Swinging Fling" and I recognized
that steel guitar sound just like my fellow Ontarian james brouwer did.
I agree that his records are very "Esquivelian" but I have to say that in
the end, unfortunately, that beautiful guitar sound does not quite put them
in Esquivel's league. Alvino's arrangements are fair and the steel guitar
sound is a really interesting touch but they don't add up to Esquivel.
I don't know much about Alvino except the apparent. He was a big band
leader from the forties and he was one of the originators of the steel guitar.
There's this movie. I've seen it on TV twice. I don't remember the name,
though it might be something like "Jazz Babies of 1941". There's a lot of
music in it. Maybe it's all music. And at the end, they introduce the
band leaders and musicians who have participated, one by one.
And one of them is Alvino Rey. He's not playing a pedal steel in the sense
that we think of it but I guess what you'd call a "lap steel". Looks like
a guitar played on his lap. When they show him, there's this huge ringing
guitar sound.
It definitely was a unique sound.
I heard his name when I was a kid and I loved the sound of it but I don't
think I ever heard his music till recently.
Alvino Z
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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 13:50:45 -0400
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) who is Alvino Rey?
At 08:00 AM 6/25/01 -0700, james brouwer wrote:
>>The whole thing reminds me very much of Esquivel.
>> so, did alvino rey play guitar in Esquivel's orchestra?
and basic hip replied:
>He did! Good ear! I've got a couple of Alvino Rey records. I have no idea
>how many there are - more than the two I have, that's for sure.
This is deja vu all over again, like they say.
When I first joined this list, I had the same exchange only with the
legendary JACK DIAMOND!!!!!!!
I had just bought the Alvino Rey record "A Swinging Fling" and I recognized
that steel guitar sound just like my fellow Ontarian james brouwer did.
I agree that his records are very "Esquivelian" but I have to say that in
the end, unfortunately, that beautiful guitar sound does not quite put them
in Esquivel's league. Alvino's arrangements are fair and the steel guitar
sound is a really interesting touch but they don't add up to Esquivel.
I don't know much about Alvino except the apparent. He was a big band
leader from the forties and he was one of the originators of the steel guitar.
There's this movie. I've seen it on TV twice. I don't remember the name,
though it might be something like "Jazz Babies of 1941". There's a lot of
music in it. Maybe it's all music. And at the end, they introduce the
band leaders and musicians who have participated, one by one.
And one of them is Alvino Rey. He's not playing a pedal steel in the sense
that we think of it but I guess what you'd call a "lap steel". Looks like
a guitar played on his lap. When they show him, there's this huge ringing
guitar sound.
It definitely was a unique sound.
I heard his name when I was a kid and I loved the sound of it but I don't
think I ever heard his music till recently.
Alvino Z
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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:36:34 -0400
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) Hula Dancers & Tiki Gods
I've just stumbled across this book listing. Has anyone seen it? It's a bit pricey - but is it worth it??
(And what's this amazon.com "sourcing fee"???)
Lou
lousmith@pipeline.com
Hula Dancers & Tiki Gods
by Chris Pfouts
List Price: $39.95
Our Price: $39.95 + $1.99 sourcing fee
Hardcover - 208 pages (January 1, 2000)
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.; ISBN: 0764312472
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
The dream of pure freedom in the South Pacific islands has never died on the mainland; sometimes it's more of an ache than a dream. Over time and through the mill of popular culture, the dream has been distilled into two enduring images: the hula dancer and the tiki god. This book displays over 500 color images of collectible hula dancers and tiki gods with which readers can have a little exotic fun and maybe catch a tropical thrill along the way. The hula dance provided an escape in its original culture, and here the dancers are shown in sections devoted to flat images, three-dimensions, crank girls, and Hollywood's versions from the twentieth century. The tiki gods that 1960s surfers wore for luck around their necks may have deeper meanings as well, and became the most important symbol of cool adulthood that mainland youngsters could imagine. Here lamps, figures, posters, and souvenirs all come together for entertainment and enjoyment. All dreamers of tropical pleasures will!
!
covet copies of this book to linger over. And the values guide will bring them quickly and happily back to reality. , 540 photos, 8 1/2" x 11", Price Guide --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Customers who shopped for this item also shopped for these items:
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:18:17 +0200
From: Moritz R <tiki@netsurf.de>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Hula Dancers & Tiki Gods
nytab@pipeline.com schrieb:
> I've just stumbled across this book listing. Has anyone seen it? It's a bit pricey - but is it worth it??
> This book displays over 500 color images of collectible hula dancers and tiki gods
doesn't sound too bad, no?
> The tiki gods that 1960s surfers wore for luck around their necks may have deeper meanings as well,
some surfer type from Australia talked to me in Bali about my Hawaiian tiki that I wore, and told me that these Hawaiian Ku gods represent the "consciousness of the body" (or so), shown by the way the "hair" grows from the head down to the back of the figure... these deeper meanings may in part be urban american legends from the 60s...
>
> Customers who shopped for this item also shopped for these items:
>
> Tiki a Go-Go by Walter Foster
anyone know what this is?
> Aloha Spirit by Douglas Congdon-Martin
> Tiki Drinks by Adam Rocke, Shag (Illustrator)
> Taboo by Martin McIntosh, Sven Kirsten
Mo
- --studio R
senses for a senseless world
http://moritzR.de
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 06:50:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <sophisticatedsavage@yahoo.com>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Bar Sighting
Last night on Bravo, an espionage/conspiracy thriller,
The Package, starring Gene Hackman & Tommy Lee Jones.
Hiding from rogue CIA hitmen, Hackman takes refuge in
Chicago's House of Tiki. Camera did a bit of panning,
just enough to tease.
Any other films that have scenes in tiki bars? The
