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exotica-digest         Saturday, July 7 2001         Volume 02 : Number 1009



In This Digest:

(exotica) taking the kitsch out of Tiki Room
Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of Tiki Room
Re: (exotica) ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Mystery Song
Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
(exotica) putting the kitsch back into Tiki Tom's
Re: (exotica) Asian Takeways
(exotica) Playlist Martinis With Mancini 6/29/01
Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki
(exotica) Ernie K-Doe:  The Official Mother-in-Law Site - The Official Site
(exotica) TV "Party"
(exotica) question
Re: (exotica) question
Re: (exotica) TV "Party"
(exotica) [obit] Delia Derbyshire
(exotica) [NYTimes obit] Ernie K-Doe
(exotica) new Lee Hazlewood interview
Re: (exotica) TV "Party"
(exotica) question 2
Re: (exotica) question 2
(exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, July 8

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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 11:52:34 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of Tiki Room

http://newyork.citysearch.com/profile/11510929/?p=1

There's a not very large or helpful photo of the joint at this URL.

The review does not encourage me to make a special visit to the place.
And, of course, if this place fails it will be seen as the end of tiki-themeing in NYC.

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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 09:10:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of Tiki Room

things have tapered off here: dc's "politiki" is now
just a theme bar in the basement of a brewpub. their
website is dead. sigh.
- --- [e-mail] wrote:

> And, of course, if this place fails it will be seen
> as the end of tiki-themeing in NYC.
>
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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 19:03:02 +0100
From: SH <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Mystery Song

[e-mail] wrote:

> Incidentally i noticed Luxuria's site has changed ... anyone got any
> up-to-date news on that?
>
> Sem Sinatra

Sem,
you might check ouòt the Luxuriamusic.com Club at Yahoo! clubs:

http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/luxuriamusic



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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 19:12:02 +0100
From: SH <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki

Hi,
I would be really grateful for the definetive track by track  and/or  album
lowdown on Szabo/Thiele/Plummer material on Impulse! Since I would like to
make compilation suggestions to my employers/or at least encourage rerelease
of this great stuff. The impulse Exotica Jazz comp CALIFORNIA DREAMING can
never be the end to that chapter at Universal Music Germany.
And Alan: The Hugo Montenegro is only one LP (pinkframed mugshot sleeve).

Thanks,

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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 14:13:43 -0400
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki

At 07:12 PM 7/5/01 +0100, SH wrote:
>
>Hi,
>I would be really grateful for the definetive track by track  and/or  album
>lowdown on Szabo/Thiele/Plummer material on Impulse! Since I would like to
>make compilation suggestions to my employers/or at least encourage rerelease
>of this great stuff.

Hmm, I can't be definitive.
But I can tell you what I have.
Bob Thiele recorded a few other records with that same general group of
folks and under his own name.  Bob Thiele and his new happy times orchestra.
But I can't really recommend them. They're not quite the same as Light My
Fire.
There's one called "Thoroughly Modern Millie" which I can never bring
myself to buy.  But I have another one called "Do the Love" featuring the
Sunflower Singers and Steve Allen which has a couple of great cheesy fake
sixties anthems.
(In fact when I debut as a DJ one of these months, I think I'll start my
set with "Do the  love" maybe like someone here always starts with "Come on
in" by the Association)
Gabor Szabo has a whole slew of records on the Skye label.  But the two on
Impulse "Wind Sky and Diamonds" and "Jazz Raga" definitely fit in with the
sound of that Bob Thiele record.  And he produced them.
And then there's the Bill Plummer record.  BP and the Cosmic Brotherhood.
Since this subject still refers to tiki, it's worth noting that Bill is
pictured on the front cover next to these three papier mache figures which
aren't tikis but remind me of them.
This is a great record if only for the cut "Journey to the East".
Truth is that Bill Plummer's sitar playing is almost too "real" - not
cheesy enough - but still, he's one of a kind.
(He's way cheesier on Mancini's "The Party" soundtrack.  I prefer the cheese.)

Undefinitively yours,

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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 16:44:27 EDT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) putting the kitsch back into Tiki Tom's

this "Tiki Room" thing sounds very Manhattan.
Meanwhile, back in the SF Yay area suburbs...

IT'S NOT A LITTLE grass shack, but Tiki Tom's will take you back to
beau-ti-ful Hawaii, with its pond, air-misters and tropical foliage. The
Walnut Creek restaurant -- featuring hula dancers on Friday nights and a
pirate band on Tuesdays -- opened three weeks ago and is serving up
Polynesian pupus, full meals for lunch and dinner, and a 24-drink (and
growing) specialty drink menu.
You can have your three-rum mai tai at the bamboo bar or hang out on the
patio. Or, better yet, order the Mt. Diablo Fire Bowl (and three straws,
please) and slurp down the 36-ounce citrusy-vodka concoction (with friends)
at one of the dining room's red mahogany tables.
Owner Tom Davies, who also owns Piggy's Pizza and Ribs on Locust Street in
Walnut Creek, is offering up a dozen pupus, including Island Prawns, Maui
Onion Strings and (going fast) teriyaki flank-steak skewers. These appetizers
run $5-$10 while lunch items -- such as fish tacos and tuna-stuffed papaya --
run $7-$10. The $10-$17 dinner menu features Tropical Chicken and mahi-mahi
cooked on the hibachi.
Tiki Tom's. 1535 Olympic Blvd., Walnut Creek. 925-932-9202.

I haven't made it there yet, but I bet it'll be right up there with Hawaii
West or Trad'r Sams!
("pirate band"?)
- -dave


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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 22:46:38 +0200
From: Erik <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Asian Takeways

Arjan Plug wrote:

>
> I noticed this compilation in the local recordshop yesterday, recommended?

This is from the Pizzicato 5 mailing list:

> i recently bought a cd called asian takeaways with pop songs
> form the 50ies or 60ies from hongkong, malysia, seoul, singapore etc.
> these songs just beg for a konishi remix.

I think that's a recommendation!

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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 20:15:11 -0400
From: "Domenic Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist Martinis With Mancini 6/29/01

Hi folks,

Been ages since I've posted a playlist. So here's last weeks. Seems I hit a
lot of the exotica list artists last week.

Domenic Ciccone
"Martinis with Mancini" WJUL 91.5FM Friday's 6-9AM EST
http://www.geocities.com/martinimancini/
http://wjul.cs.uml.edu/misc/wjul/wjul.html (On Real Audio)


Playlist Martinis With Mancini 6/29/01

Brief And Breezy. Henry Mancini
Lilac Wine, Eartha Kitt
Witchcraft, Gabor Szabo
Joanna, Scott Walker
Misty, George Shearing
The Face I Love, Astrud Gilberto
Peppermint Patty, Vince Guaraldi
Temple Bells, Frank Hunter, White Goddess
Why Don't You Do Right, Peggy Lee
I'll Dance At Your Wedding, Peggy Lee
Fugue In C Minor, Swingle Singers
Summer Samba, Walter Wanderly
They Cant Take That Away From Me, Super Sax And L.A. Voices
Mighty Quinn, Trombones Unlimited
Opus In Pastel, Stan Kenton
Makin Whoopee, Rosemary Clooney
Round Midnight, Cal Tjader
Suddenly You, Steve And Eydie
Green Peppers, Herb Albert
Secret Love, Jonah Jones
Le Me Donne A Qui Me Pait, Briget Bardot
Negre Setin, Jack Bongo
Hippie Version Of The 23rd Psalm, Silhouette Segments
Hot Toddy, Gloria Wood
Boo Qui Woo Qui, Hugo Montenegro
Liza, Larry Elgart
Lets Dance, David Carroll
That's Amore, Dean Martin
I've Got You Under My Skin, Sammy Davis Jr
Love And Marriage, Frank Sinatra
Make Me Rainbows, O.S.T. Fitzwilly
Holiday For Strings, Series 2000
Lillions Lust, O.S.T. Bedazzled
Taboo, The Whodads
Peter Gunn Theme, The Revelairs
Miserlou, Exotia 1970
Fried Bananas, Benny Golson
Dem Jive New Yorkers, Babs Gonzales
Bombasteroid, Four Piece Suit
Dog, Bob Dorough
At The River, Groove Armada
Marriage Is For Old Folks, Nina Simone
Marry Me, Nina Simone
Milano Cool, Arling And Cameron
Happy Hour, Seks Bomba
So Danco Samba, Sambossa
Goldfinger, Shirley Bassey Propellorheads Remix
The Man With The Harmonaca, Apollo 4-40
Sweet Cinnamon Punch, Tipsy
Cha Cha On The Moon, Seksu Roba
Je Vous Emmerde, Katerine
Hi Fi Trumpet, Stereo Action Unlimited
Moon River, Henry Mancini



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Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2001 22:09:26 -0700
From: "jonathan richardson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki

>Gabor Szabo has a whole slew of records on the Skye label.  But the two on
>Impulse "Wind Sky and Diamonds" and "Jazz Raga" definitely fit in with the
>sound of that Bob Thiele record.  And he produced them.
>And then there's the Bill Plummer record.  BP and the Cosmic Brotherhood.


and there is also the Tom Scott "Honeysuckle Breeze" on Impulse that was a
part of the "jazz raga" and "wind Skye and Diamonds" sessions which includes
pretty much the same players minus Gabor and Bernard Purdie and maybe a few
others, but includes Emil Richards, and of course The California Dreamers,
which I cant figure out if I like or not, they are pretty bad, but not
really in a good way, but definetely cheesy. I dont know, cant quite put my
finger on them, they pretty much run right up the middle for me, not bad,
not good..............

good record, mostly covers, a beatles one, a Donovan, a Jefferson Airplane,
a Joan Baez etc etc... Great for the hippy dippy album cover of Tom lying in
what looks like a patch of fried out Southern California beach weeds with
some dried up old flowers placed strategically around, wearing some fine
Tijuana tire sandals I might add. Pretty bad ass!  though Bill Plummers
sitar is way too low in the mix, same with the Wind Sky Diamonds.

I recently put together a comp of the best tracks of the 3 records on one
cd, I also included some of the Bob Thiele's  "Light My Fire" songs however
the Szabo "Jazz Raga" is the best of them all. (why hasnt that one been
re-issued???) The song "Walking on Nails" is the TITS!! it's a song that I
have always wanted to cover, but felt I could never match Gabor's outtatune
vocal style. WAY TOO CRAAAZY!!! Pretty fat version of Caravan as well.

anyway good luck with the re-issues, im sure the European public would
appreciate them more than we Americans.

- -jonathan

ps Bob Thiele put out some great stuff after he left Impluse on his Flying
Dutchman label, check it out!!
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Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 03:11:36 -0400
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) taking the kitsch out of tiki

At 10:09 PM 7/5/01 -0700, jonathan richardson wrote:
> "wind Skye and Diamonds"  which includes  The California Dreamers,
>which I cant figure out if I like or not, they are pretty bad, but not
>really in a good way, but definetely cheesy. I dont know

I understand your confusion.  It's not quite cheesy enough.  It's not quite
good enough.  It's hard to understand why he made it.
It's hard to understand why it's not better.  Two of the singers are the
Bahler brothers who did a lot of stuff like this.  There's another record
like this - it slips my mind at the moment (anybody???) - where these guys
formed the choir but there was much more going on in terms of harmonies and
arrangements.
They also had the band the Love Generation who were great (if a touch cheesy).
But anyway, yeah I keep this record too but it ain't Jazz Raga.

>
>ps Bob Thiele put out some great stuff after he left Impluse on his Flying
>Dutchman label, check it out!!

But don't check out "I saw pinetop spit blood".  I had such hope.  First
there's that title.  Then there's the musicians.  All the usual suspects.
Tom Scott, Dennis Budimir, Bud Shank...
Then there's the presence of Oliver Nelson.
And Willie Bobo on percussion!!!

But it just lays there.

So disappointing.

AZ





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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 07:17:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ernie K-Doe:  The Official Mother-in-Law Site - The Official Site

Sorry to say that Ernie K-Doe has passed away.  I have hung out at
his Lounge with my friends quite often.  Ernie K-Doe was always
there and ready to sing his biggest hit "Mother in Law"  His
lounge, which was also his house, was one of the more surreal
places in New Orleans.  Here's the official site:

http://www.k-doe.com/




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Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 22:22:02 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) TV "Party"

List perennial, "The Party" (1968) airs on TCM Saturday afternoon at 4:00pm
(eastern). Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, sitar music and the whole shebang.

Long, long ago, there was a tiny thread about the 80s series (set in the
early 60s), "Crime Story". A&E starts a rerun of the series this coming
Monday night at 9:00pm (eastern). A cops vs. mobsters story, it took the
plot through more changes than the average series, starting off in Chicago
and moving to Las Vegas partway through season one (two seasons total). I
recall it as being entertainingly over the top, perhaps a predecessor of
the Pulp Fiction groove. Of course, if I watch it now, I might not think
so. It was wonderfully out of hand though, capable of going from gritty
character conflicts to Three Stooges knuckleheaded comedy in a single
bound. Lots of nifty period (or fake period) architecture and furniture
too. Can't recall the music, other than Del Shannon doing a remake of
"Runaway" for the opening titles. So, there you go... take a chance if you
want. The really whacked out stuff developed in season two (a prosecutor
gives up, flips out and goes out into the desert to be a peyote head --
little things like that).

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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 19:28:54 -0700
From: PjB <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) question

where can i access the list archives?  i mean the real old ones, from the
beginning.

thanks,

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Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 06:51:57 -0700
From: "jonathan richardson" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) question

>where can i access the list archives?  i mean the real old ones, from the
>beginning.
>
>thanks,
>

the archives are here:

http://www.xmission.com/pub/lists/exotica/archive/

Not sure if its complete and i cant quite figure out the order, but you
gotta do some clicking around to find stuff.

some are dating back to 1972!! WOO HOO!! Thats some archive!!!

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 09:20:53 -0500
From: "Colleen Pyles" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) TV "Party"

I loved that show!  I was so disappointed when it was canceled.  It
WAS over the top.  But then, I'm a "wise guy" junkie.  Can't get
enough of those "good fellas".  Dennis Farina was excellent in this.
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List perennial, "The Party" (1968) airs on TCM Saturday afternoon at
4:00pm
(eastern). Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, sitar music and the whole
shebang.

Long, long ago, there was a tiny thread about the 80s series (set in
the
early 60s), "Crime Story". A&E starts a rerun of the series this
coming
Monday night at 9:00pm (eastern). A cops vs. mobsters story, it took
the
plot through more changes than the average series, starting off in
Chicago
and moving to Las Vegas partway through season one (two seasons
total). I
recall it as being entertainingly over the top, perhaps a predecessor
of
the Pulp Fiction groove. Of course, if I watch it now, I might not
think
so. It was wonderfully out of hand though, capable of going from
gritty
character conflicts to Three Stooges knuckleheaded comedy in a single
bound. Lots of nifty period (or fake period) architecture and
furniture
too. Can't recall the music, other than Del Shannon doing a remake of
"Runaway" for the opening titles. So, there you go... take a chance
if you
want. The really whacked out stuff developed in season two (a
prosecutor
gives up, flips out and goes out into the desert to be a peyote head -
- -
little things like that).

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Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 15:24:58 -0400
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Delia Derbyshire

Delia Derbyshire

Pioneer of electronic music who produced the distinctive sound of Dr Who

Brian Hodgson
Saturday July 7, 2001
The Guardian

In 1963, soon after joining the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Delia Derbyshire,
who has died of renal failure aged 64, was asked to to realise one of the
first electronic signature tunes ever used on television. It was Ron
Grainer's score for a new science fiction series, Dr Who.
Grainer had worked his tune to fit in with the graphics. He used expressions
for the noises he wanted - such as wind, bubbles, and clouds. It was a world
without synthesisers, samplers and multi-track tape recorders; Delia,
assisted by her engineer Dick Mills, had to create each sound from scratch.

She used concrete sources and sine- and square-wave oscillators, tuning the
results, filtering and treating, cutting so that the joins were seamless,
combining sound on individual tape recorders, re-recording the results, and
repeating the process, over and over again.

When Grainer heard the result, his response was "Did I really write that?"
Most of it, Delia replied. She deserved at least half the royalties,
insisted the composer. She did not get them. At that time the BBC preferred
to keep members of the workshop anonymous and uncredited.

Shortly after Delia had arrived at the workshop in 1962, I was also invited
to join. I was stunned by her beauty, awed by her talent, and we began a
friendship and a working partnership, within the BBC and outside, which was
to delight and infuriate us for 40 years.

Delia was born in Coventry and educated at Coventry Grammar School and
Girton College, Cambridge, where she took a degree in music and mathematics.
After briefly working for the United Nations in Geneva, she joined the BBC
in 1960 as a studio manager.

In those days BBC career progression was a slow affair, but before long she
was sitting in, off-duty, at the new Radiophonic Workshop in Maida Vale. The
senior studio manager, Desmond Briscoe, realising that the tall, quiet,
auburn-haired young lady was not only enthusiastic but enormously creative
and talented, invited her to join the department on attachment; she was to
remain until 1973.

Delia used, he realised, an analytical approach to synthesise complex sounds
from electronic sources. "The mathematics of sound," he said, "came
naturally to her."

Delia thought that perhaps she just had a very strange mind. She analysed
everything: the pace, the cutting, the editing of a film, every inflection,
every comma, the subtleties in the human voice. "I suppose in a way," she
observed, "I was experimenting in psycho-acoustics."

Although Dr Who made Delia and the Radiophonic Workshop nationally famous,
it was her other drama and features work that showed her true talent. Her
collaborations with the poet and dramatist Barry Bermange for the Third
Programme showed her at her elegant best.

He put together The Dreams (1964), a collage of people describing their
dreams. It was set by Delia into a background of pure electronic sound. In a
second 1964 Bermange piece about people's experience of God and the devil,
Amor Dei, he asked her to create a gothic altarpiece of sound. She composed
this with snippets of archive and voices, again with only the simplest of
equipment and facilities, often working through the night, for weeks on end.

Among her outstanding television work, one of her favourites was composed
for a documentary for The World About Us on the Tuareg people of the Sahara
desert. It still haunts me. She used her own voice for the sound of the
hooves, cut up into an obbligato rhythm, and she added a thin, high
electronic sound using virtually all the filters and oscillators in the
workshop.

"My most beautiful sound at the time was a tatty green BBC lampshade," she
recalled. "It was the wrong colour, but it had a beautiful ringing sound to
it. I hit the lampshade, recorded that, faded it up into the ringing part
without the percussive start.

"I analysed the sound into all of its partials and frequencies, and took the
12 strongest, and reconstructed the sound on the workshop's famous 12
oscillators to give a whooshing sound. So the camels rode off into the
sunset with my voice in their hooves and a green lampshade on their backs."

In those days, the Radiophonic Workshop received a stream of visiting
musicians, composers and writers - from Berio to Brian Jones - and she
entranced them with her intellect and the joy of her company. But Delia was
never starstruck; she cheerfully devoted as much time to encouraging young
students as to talking with celebrities.

In the mid-1960s she and I worked with Peter Zinovieff, the composer and
visionary pioneer of synthesisers, in a company called Unit Delta Plus.
Delia became involved in an early electronic music concert at the New Mill
Theatre in Newbury that also featured a pioneering light projection show by
Hornsey College of Art and magnetic sculptures by Paul Takis.

She worked on Guy Woolfenden's electronic score for Peter Hall's 1967 Royal
Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth with Paul Scofield, and on Hall's
film Work is a Four Letter Word (1967). It was at Zinovieff's Putney studio
that she first met Paul McCartney.

Later, Delia, her protege David Vorhaus and I set up Kaleidophon, a Camden
Town-based independent studio. There she worked on the album Electric Storm
(1968), now considered a classic, which was credited to White Noise and
released on Island Records.

At Kaleidophon we put together electronic music for the London theatre of
the late 1960s. There was Medea and Alan Dobie's Macbeth for the Greenwich
Theatre; On the Level, a musical by Ron Grainer; and Tony Richardson's
Hamlet at the Roundhouse.

She also took part in a Roundhouse concert of electronic music including
early electronic works by McCartney. She even recorded a score for an
ICI-sponsored student fashion show, which was the first in the world to use
electronic music.

H er 11 years and nearly 200 programmes at the workshop represented probably
the most productive times of her life. They also took their toll. To work
with Delia during the late 1960s and early 70s was to witness the joy and
energy-sapping pain of creation. "I think I must have reverse adrenalin,"
she said. "As the deadline gets closer most people speed up - I just get
slower."

By 1973 Delia had become progressively more unhappy with her life at the
workshop and she left to join me at Electrophon, an electronic music studio
I had set up in Covent Garden. There, unfortunately, she found little relief
from her unhappiness and decided to leave London. She became involved,
bizarrely, in the laying of the national gas main as a radio operator, she
worked in a Cumbrian art gallery, and she worked in a bookshop.

In 1980 she met Clive Blackburn, who was to be her partner for the rest of
her life. Probably for the first time, she found happiness and settled into
what, for her, was a normal existence.

For others it still appeared to be organised chaos - yet she did have a tidy
and organised mind. She was still fascinated by the act of creation; still
encouraging, scolding and praising her many friends.

In the last few years she was beginning once more to take an interest in
electronic music, encouraged by a younger generation to whom she had become
a cult figure. The technology she had left behind was finally catching up
with her vision.

One night many years ago, as we left Zinovieff's studio, she paused on
Putney bridge. "What we are doing now is not important for itself," she
said, "but one day someone might be interested enough to carry things
forwards and create something wonderful on these foundations." Her partner
survives her.

=95 Delia Derbyshire, composer and arranger, born May 5 1937; died July 3=
 2001

http://www.google.com/search?q=3D%22Delia+Derbyshire%22
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Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 15:26:01 -0400
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [NYTimes obit] Ernie K-Doe

July 7, 2001
Ernie K-Doe, 65, Who Sang 'Mother-in-Law' Is Dead
By NEIL STRAUSS
Ernie K-Doe, the eccentric rhythm-and-blues singer best known for his 1961
No. 1 hit "Mother-in- Law," died on Thursday at a New Orleans hospital. He
was 65.

The cause was cirrhosis, said his wife and manager, Antoinette.

Mr. K-Doe's career peaked in the early 1960's with a series of catchy,
sing-along rhythm-and-blues hits, but afterward his career floundered and he
became an alcoholic. In the 1990's, however, he sobered up and reinvented
himself as one of the most memorable cultural figures in New Orleans, where
he lived. He became a fixture there in 1995 when he opened the Mother-in-Law
Lounge, where on almost any night Mr. K- Doe could be found entertaining
customers with renditions of his songs and his self-worshiping maxims.

"There aren't but three songs that will last for eternity," he used to tell
patrons. "One is `Amazing Grace.' Another is `The Star-Spangled Banner.' And
the third is `Mother-in- Law,' because as long as there are people on this
earth, there will always be mother-in-laws."

The son of a Baptist minister, Mr. K-Doe was born Ernest Kador Jr. at
Charity Hospital in New Orleans. He began singing in church choirs and
gospel groups, including the Golden Choir Jubilee of New Orleans and the
Divine Traveler.

As a teenager he performed regularly at local talent shows, where he met
singers like Little Richard. Mr. K-Doe always said that he cobbled together
his style from a combination of the energy, singing and marching of Baptist
church services and performers he shared the stage with, like Little
Richard, Sam Cooke, Huey (Piano) Smith and, later, James Brown. He is
believed to have toured briefly with the Flamingos and the Moonglows before
returning to New Orleans to join the Blue Diamonds. In 1959 he recorded his
first local solo hit, "Hello, My Lover."

Recording for the Minit label at the time, he stumbled across a song in a
studio trash can that would forever be associated with his name. The song
was "Mother-in-Law." Its producer and writer was Allen Toussaint, who was
only 23 at the time. Mr. Toussaint played piano on the song and a bass
vocalist, Benny Spellman, who happened to be rehearsing in the studio,
performed the memorable bass backing. The song reached No. 1 on the
rhythm-and- blues and the pop charts in 1961.

Mr. K-Doe also recorded many minor hits, including "Te-Ta-Te-Ta- Ta," "A
Certain Girl," " 'Taint It the Truth" and "Later for Tomorrow."

In the late 60's Mr. K-Doe fell into a depression, fueled by whiskey and the
realization that while he was earning fame the business people handling his
career were earning most of the money. His career came to a halt in the 70's
and 80's as he wandered the streets in an alcoholic fog, often singing for
spare change and occasionally appearing on radio.

Then in the mid-1990's he met his future wife, Antoinette Fox, who helped
turn his life around. She weaned him from alcohol, and they found a vacant
building on Claiborne Avenue in a seedy New Orleans neighborhood. Friends
helped the couple convert the place into a lounge, and Mr. K-Doe became an
active member of the New Orleans community again.

The lounge soon became a favorite haunt for locals and visiting music fans.
Outside, Mr. K-Doe's touring van was usually parked, with his name
emblazoned on it surrounded by stars. Inside, he typically stood behind the
bar, with nails jutting several inches past his fingertips; long, curly hair
(which some said was a wig); and a bright jacket covering the ruffled lapels
of his shirt. The jukebox was full of Mr. K- Doe's songs. If a customer
played one, Mr. K-Doe would usually pick up a cheap microphone behind the
bar and sing along, often having dialogues with his recorded voice. "Really,
K-Doe?" he'd ask, and then exclaim, "I'm cocky, but I'm good."

At least once a week he would step out from behind the bar and perform with
a keyboardist in front of a giant mural of himself. After he married
Antoinette, his flesh-and-blood mother-in-law could often be found watching
television in a back room of the lounge. As word leaked out of Mr. K-Doe's
rehabilitation, music fans embraced him. He was inducted into the Louisiana
and New Orleans music halls of fame, and then accepted a Rhythm and Blues
Foundation Pioneer Award in Manhattan in 1997. In May he received a lifetime
achievement award from Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster.

Mr. K-Doe flourished in the limelight, nicknaming himself the Emperor of the
World. His appearances at events were always memorable: he would show up in
a limousine with a "Mr. Mother-in-Law" sign on the side, and he would wear
outrageous clothes tailored by his wife, including a bright pink tuxedo, a
gold-colored crown or a cape reading "Emperor K-Doe."

Besides his wife, Mr. K-Doe is survived by four children from previous
marriages.

His last release was a two-song compact disc with a stay-in-school anthem,
"Children of the World," and the racial-harmony plea "White Boy, Black Boy,"
which he recorded and sold in his lounge. He also appears in a forthcoming
movie, "Happy Here and Now."

"Tell all his fans that they can send flowers to the lounge," Mrs. K- Doe
said. "And if they can send money, it should be cash money." She added that
the money would be used to promote his legacy.





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Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 15:37:36 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) new Lee Hazlewood interview

Here's a good, long, new Lee Hazlewood interview:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2001-07-05/music.html

Looks like he's playing a show in Phoenix on Monday night!

Spotted this via the Scrubbles weblog ( http://scrubbles.net/ ). I suspect
that the proprietor is on this list.

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:13:42 -0400
From: "tiki kiliki" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) TV "Party"

Miles Davis sighting!!!

I can't believe that Crime Story will air again!! I bought the box set on
Ebay a couple of years ago for way too much money.  Michael Mann did this
series in conjunction with Miami Vice.  It was much better in my opinion but
I still have a soft spot for Miami Vice due to the special guest artists.
Great music!!  Spot some of the tunes playing, Chet Baker was a favorite.

Just the other night flipping channels and a Miami Vice marathon was on and
featured James Brown as an Evangelist with psychic powers.  He really didn't
have to act at all, just his always cool self with that slight pompadour.

I would definitely recommend watching Crime Story if you want to catch a
glimpse of Miles Davis.  I believe it is the 5th or 6th episode in which
Luca ( the main wiseguy ) takes Abrams ( the do-gooder attorney ) for a
drink at a jazz club that was in the groove to convince him to join his
posse.  Pam Grier also has a great role in this series.  It's worth to watch
for other surprise guest artists.

Dennis Farina was excellent in this series.  David Caruso actually had a
wonderful role and did an equally great job.  He was really young and a punk
wiseguy, perfect. Lots of great acting!!  The Phil Bartoli character should
be getting some work these days in the Sopranos!!

The wallpaper and furniture is to die for in this series.  The clothes, the
cars!!  Just one flaw - if you are watching - the department store robbery
scene!  This is not the scene of a 60's department store!

Can you tell I've watched the show a couple of times!!

Aloha,
Tiki Kiliki




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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 15:38:21 -0700
From: PjB <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) question 2

is there any interest in near mint copies of many of the early original TV
spy jazzand the like, and also many records by tv stars singing,  like ben
casey etc etc?  i was at a shop today that had a TON of these kinds of
records, all in great shape, and cheap.

are these worth procuring?

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Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 19:36:15 -0700
From: "basic hip" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) question 2

> is there any interest in near mint copies of many of the early original TV
> spy jazz and the like, and also many records by tv stars singing...

You mean you are seeing near mint copies of stuff like Staccato, Richard
Diamond, M Squad, Mike Hammer, 77 Sunset Strip, I Spy, Mannix, etc etc.  And
could you be so lucky as to find a Burke's Law or Honey West or  in there,
too?

Most of those I mentioned are "private eye" jazz, which in my mind is more
of a cop, late 50s, black and white thing.  I always think of "spy jazz" as
when 007 hit the scene with the international espionage / secret agent
thrillers.

Two different kinds of sounds, but if you like one, you'll like the other.

It's all great and well worth picking up.  Mancini's Peter Gunn and More
Music From Peter Gunn, Mr Lucky, are great.  Common, but great.   Mission
Impossible is great - get it.

I bought all of these during the surge of interest a few years ago and never
found any really cheap, except the Mancinis.  It seems to have quieted down
now.  Pete Rugolo's Music From Richard Diamond regularly dies on ebay
without a bid and it's superb.  But certain others still create quite a
stir.

PS - sorry about the MP3 troubles, I downloaded with no problem from two
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Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 00:28:41 -0400
From: "cheryl" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, July 8

Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can
be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm Eastern time on CKUT 90.3 FM in
Montreal, Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at:

http://www.ckut.ca

As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome.

Space Bop #150   Brazilectrotiki


This week, lots of great new tunes - with musical influences from around the
globe.

Sunny Face:  Merci Du Cool  "Temptation"  (thanks, Jimmy B!)
Nicola Conte:  Missione A Bombay (Ursula 1000 Remix)  "La Coda Del Diavolo /
Missione A Bombay"
Mr. Alfa & Senor 45:  Moulinex  "Popshopping Mixed Up"

Nicola Conte:  La Coda Del Diavolo (Karminsky Remix)  "La Coda Del Diavolo /
Missione A Bombay"
Buscemi:  Ramiro's Theme  "Glucklich 4"
Balanco:  Theme From Cocktail Nova (Nicola Conte Jet Sounds Rework)  "Theme
From Cocktail Nova / Mrs. Beat"

Balanco:  Mrs. Beat (Mr. Minute-Mix Le Hammond Inferno Remix)  "Theme From
Cocktail Nova / Mrs. Beat"
Mo'Horizons:  Prince Charles' Latest Affair  "Virtual Brazilia"

Le Hammond Inferno:  Move Your MP3 (Edit)  "Move Your MP3"
The Bad Examples:  Let's Pretend We're  Sequencer  "Merino EP" (thanks,
Frank!)


Thanks for reading, and thanks for listening

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