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exotica-digest        Tuesday, August 21 2001        Volume 02 : Number 1032



In This Digest:

(exotica) Syracuse
(exotica) Skin Tight mp3
(exotica) the prisoner
Re: (exotica) the prisoner
(exotica) I Spy
(exotica) re: The Prisoner
(exotica) Ferrante and Teicher
Re: (exotica) the prisoner
Re: (exotica) re: The Prisoner
(exotica) I Spy
Re: (exotica) Ferrante and Teicher
RE: (exotica) Back to the list
(exotica) Ventures Batman
(exotica) up at the old car boot
(exotica) to whom it may concern
RE: (exotica) to whom it may concern
(exotica) [obits] Art Seid, Lester Pine,Gilyan Francesco,Jack Elliott,Betty Everett
Re: (exotica) Skin Tight mp3
RE: (exotica) [obits] Gilyan Francesco,Betty Everett
(exotica)Foraging the Digital Jungle
Re: (exotica) [obits] Art Seid, Lester Pine,Gilyan Francesco,Jack  Elliott,Betty Everett
Re: (exotica)Foraging the Digital Jungle
Re: RE: (exotica)Foraging the Digital Jungle
(exotica) Finds........

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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:44:53 -0400
From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Syracuse

Johanne and I just got back (a couple of hours ago), from a meandering road
trip through upstate New York.  I found many 1950s crime magazines in
antique stores, and dutifully paid the prices they were asking for many of
them.  The big surprise was the quality of the Salvation Army stores in
Utica, Glen Falls and Plattsburgh.  Here are some of the finds:

Music of the African Zulus
Bacharach Baroque -- the Renaissance
Power House -- Bobby Hammack Quartet
assorted Leroy Holmes albums
A Latin Happening -- Tony Hatch
La Dolce Henke -- Mel Henke
The Avengers -- Laurie Johnson Orchestra
Trio 64 -- Bill Evans

and holes in my Enoch Light, Buddy Rich and folkie collections.

Each of the Salvation Army stores had one or two 1950s men's suits, and
while they were too small for me, they've long disappeared from
Sally-Anne's here, and my faith was reborn.

Lake George, in NY State, is full of post-war regional resort treasures
(unlike Saratoga Springs, which is stomach-turningly gentrified).  There's
a Howard Johnsons-run Tiki restaurant with a Polynesian floor show and
dinner every night, a Tiki on the front lawn and nicely angled
architecture.  Unfortunately, we only stumbled on it in early afternoon,
and they wouldn't let us take a peek at the restaurant (and we couldn't
stay.)

Will

Will Straw,
Associate Professor and Acting Chair,
Department of Art History and Communications Studies
McGill University
853 Sherbrooke Street W.
Montreal, QC  H3A 2T6
Canada

Phone:  [phone]  Fax:  [phone]

Co-Investigator, Culture of Cities Project,
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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 01:13:45 +0000
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Subject: (exotica) Skin Tight mp3

Marty Gold and His Orchestra
"Skin Tight"
RCA Living Stereo, 1960

Yeah, it's a nice one.  Thanks to someone on the list I
have mp3s of it and front and back cover graphics.  I
think I even got a graphic of the insert of orchestra
lay out.

If anyone wants to hear it send me a CD-R.

- -Roy


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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 01:22:52 +0000
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Subject: (exotica) the prisoner

Funny, I've recently been watching the DVDs of the show,
thanks to Netflix and I too found the music very groovy.
The show is exceptional also. I recorded the theme song
off the DVD and mp3-ized it just so I could have a copy
to listen to, but if anyone has more music from the show
I'd love to hear it.

I've also been watching "I Spy" on DVD and the music
from that is killer. The show is great too. In the next
few days I have an "I Spy" related question that I need
to ask the list members.  Till then.

Roy G. Biv


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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:30:44 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) the prisoner

At 08:20 AM 8/20/01, william in taipei wrote:
>    today i was watching the prisoner. and found myself quite digging the
>music. was there ever a soundtrack released?


I seem to recall it was on Varese Sarabande...with the "bicycle" dominating
the front.  I would confirm with the VS catalog but their website won't get
started for me, for some reason.

Byron



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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:38:50 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) I Spy

At 06:22 PM 8/20/01, Roy wrote:
>I've also been watching "I Spy" on DVD and the music
>from that is killer.


I bought "the" I Spy soundtrack LP years ago and was unhappy with most of
it.  Then I learned there was ANOTHER I Spy soundtrack (from a book of LP
covers I noticed it was on another label and a different look), so I found
a copy of that one.  Turns out the second one I got was MUCH better than
the first.

So, if you have your choice, always go for the orange one first
IMHO.  Thats the Warner Brothers 1637 in Stereo.  There the main theme is
upbeat and sounds more like the real thing.  The red cover one is on
Capitol ST2839 and the main theme is laid back.

Of course, the red one is not ALL bad...but I was so glad to get the orange
one with the upbeat main theme!

Byron




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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:21:16 -0400
From: "Bill J. Parker" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) re: The Prisoner

I got two of the three Prisoner CDs from Silva Screen directly from the
label about a year or a year and a half ago (I got the other one on eBay).
The original music on volume one is great, but two and three are full of
great cuts from the Chappell library. I doubt I got the last copies Silva
had, so if you call them (the number on their website is [phone]) you
may get lucky. If the NYC number didn't tip you off, I'm talking about Silva
America, not the UK office (although the discs are actually from the UK).
The part numbers are FILMCD 042 (Volume One), FILMCD 084 (Volume Two) and
FILMCD 126 (Volume Three).

By the way, I've also found that the Manabu Iwamura CD "This Is How I Feel
About JAZZ" reminds me of the incidental music from The Prisoner for some
reason.

Be seeing you (sorry... I couldn't resist),

Bill



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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:48:34 -0700
From: "Brian Linds" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ferrante and Teicher

Hi folks! This looks like a winner. Made when they were Julliard students.
Plus 18 minutes of material recorded in 2000. It looks terrific! Artwork and
liner notes by Keith LoBue.
http://www.varesesarabande.com/details.asp?pid=302%2D066%2D261%2D2
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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:45:32 -0400
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) the prisoner

At 01:22 AM 8/21/01 +0000, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>I've also been watching "I Spy" on DVD and the music
>from that is killer. The show is great too. In the next
>few days I have an "I Spy" related question that I need
>to ask the list members.  Till then.

If the question is about the soundtrack record, I'm sad to say that it's
not as good as I dreamed it would be.  I guess the only good news there is
that I actually heard it at someone else's house rather than buying it.  I
still want it I guess but only because that was one of my favorite shows of
all time, as a kid, and I kind of think it almost holds up when I see it
now.  And for sure, that opening credit sequence is still one of the best
ever.  My heart skips a beat when his tennis raquet turns into a gun.



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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:52:00 -0400
From: alan  zweig <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) re: The Prisoner

I know the Prisoner was brilliant but I always had a problem with it.  And
I'll tell you why.  It was all the fault of Stephen Moses and a couple
other of my childhood friends. They would watch the show with a pad of
paper, taking notes. Then they would try to figure out who Number One was.
And other such problems.  They also played chess by the way.  I hated chess
because you had to think and I never liked stuff where you had to think.  I
liked stuff where you just use intuition.  Like dodge ball for instance.
But they don't organize dodge ball for adults.
Anyway I guess I didn't like the Prisoner for the same reason I didn't like
chess.  And the idea of my friends actually taking notes didn't help.
Also it was kind of ponderous.  I loved Patrick McGoohan from his days on
Danger Man (or Secret Agent Man to you Yanks.) But he didn't get to do
anything cool on the Prisoner.
Finally the idea that the Prisoner was himself "Number One" was stupid,
even if it was also obvious.
You can return to your discussion now.

AZ



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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 22:10:34 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) I Spy

At 06:22 PM 8/20/01, Roy wrote:
>I've also been watching "I Spy" on DVD and the music
>from that is killer.


I bought "the" I Spy soundtrack LP years ago and was unhappy with most of
it.  Then I learned there was ANOTHER I Spy soundtrack (from a book of LP
covers I noticed it was on another label and a different look), so I found
a copy of that one.  Turns out the second one I got was MUCH better than
the first.

So, if you have your choice, always go for the orange one first
IMHO.  Thats the Warner Brothers 1637 in Stereo.  There the main theme is
upbeat and sounds more like the real thing.  The red cover one is on
Capitol ST2839 and the main theme is laid back.

Of course, the red one is not ALL bad...but I was so glad to get the orange
one with the upbeat main theme!

Byron




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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:23:01 -0700
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ferrante and Teicher

At 08:48 PM 8/20/01, Brian wrote:

>Hi folks! This looks like a winner. Made when they were Julliard students.
>Plus 18 minutes of material recorded in 2000. It looks terrific! Artwork and
>liner notes by Keith LoBue.
>http://www.varesesarabande.com/details.asp?pid=302%2D066%2D261%2D2


Cool!  This is the one I (and I hope others) have been waiting for!

While there I was also going to order the Steve Allen CDs.  Yarg!  Out of
print!  Luckilly I had already purchased the two Enoch Light Percussion
CDs, as those are *also* out of print.  Anyone know anything about the
Enoch Light Beatles CD (which IS still available)?  I already had the Ernie
Kovacs CD which is still there.  There was a Pete Rugolo soundtrack I was
unfamiliar with, but I played a few samples and thought it was pretty cool,
so I got it while I could.

Unless a CD is at the top of the charts, don't expect it to be around in
the shops for long!  Get it if you want it.  Some go on sale, some make it
back to the used bins and maybe the cutouts, but alot of them simply
disappear never to be found again!  I missed out on some Les Baxter CDs
because I did not act when I saw them (and the warning we got about
end-of-lifeing them didn't give me enough time to run down and purchase my
copy).

BTW I am less convinced Varese Sarabande released "The Prisoner" ST CD
because it was not on their list of available CDs (or even those on the
list which were out of print).  Of course, that is not totally a perfect
indicator.  I have VS CDs which are no longer carried which are not on the
web list.

Byron



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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:06:20 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: (exotica) Back to the list

Roy,

There are 3 that come to mind immediately,  Firstly Johanns site which has
reviews mostly culled from here, Popnouveau and Jack Diamond's site.  He
says send in your comments!  It sometimes lags a bit behind the discussions,
but s Johann is doing the work himself I think thats forgivable.

Then theres the Ben Waugh and Bruce Lenkei's site the Exotica review.  Its
more like the Space Age Bachelor Pad site and less databasey in feel.

And last is Jonny's musical taste page, this is more a 'submit a favourite
song' page and is driven by contributors,  lots of non-exotica here, lots of
Brazilian tracks thanks to Jonny (maybe he should send them to Johann,  who
says Brazil is under represented on his site).

eXotica releases overview (Johanns site)
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/1936/disq/disq.htm
The Exotica Review:
http://www.bway.net/~er/
Musical taste
http://www.psychedelicado.com/indexmt.html


El Maestro Con Queso

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> I recall back 6-8 months ago some folks were talking
> about starting an on-line database were folks could
> input artists names and album titles and then give brief
> reviews.  Has anything happened with that?  It seemed
> like such a great resource that it stuck in my mind.
>
> More to come,
> Roy
>
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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:44:59 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Moritz R)
Subject: (exotica) Ventures Batman

Since you mentioned it Martin, I think I have it. Is it the one with Batman Theme, Zocko, The Cape, Get Smart, The Man From UNCLE, Hot Line, Joker's Wild, Up,Up and Away, Green Hornet 66, 00-711, Vampcamp, Secret Agent Man?

Mo

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:46:12 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) up at the old car boot

We had visitors this weekend who wanted to go up to the old Car Boot sale
even though it was very, very rainy.  There was hardly anyone up there
unsurprisingly, but it meant that even though we were very late there was
actually good stuff still around and pretty cheap.  For 30p each I got:

101 Strings - Million seller hits of today.
Orchestra under the direction of DL Miller 'with a swinging rhythm section
from Britain'.  fair enough then,  a nice track selection.  This is by and
large the kind of super easy sound you expect from the 101 strings, I'm sure
this LP has been discussed recently, because hidden away between Macarthur
Park, Honey, and (a pretty good) Look of Love are a couple of tracks from
Astro sounds,  one of which 'Sure Listic' is pretty Byrds like and groovy,
and the other has an extremely noisy fuzzed and tremeloed guitar starting it
off.  Very good condition and a nice pressing with a psychedelic picture on
the sleeve.  Quite tastefully done of course.

It also had the original inner sleeve with pictures of other 101 strings
LP's to tantalise.  So how are:
Here come the birds
Sounds of 69
Million Seller hits in a Latin style
Play the Supremes

Kabu Kei Vuda Entertainers - Exciting Fiji
Salem Stereo XPS 5068
Made in NZ with 'Quantas' plastered all over the sleeve.  Great sleeve notes
(beautiful love songs and the latest rock and roll types of tunes) and a
picture of a man in a leaf skirt on the cover.  The LP seems to have been
recorded by a hotel band sometime in the mid sixties (they were formed in
62) and the sleeve notes go to great lengths to stress the authenticity of
the group.
Its not bad,  not particularly percussive or 'Hawaiian' - there are no steel
guitars or bird calls.  The instrumentation is drums (not a kit I think)
bass and accoustic guitar, the vocals are male and often chanted in unison,
but there is some singing.
To me it is reminiscent of mariachi music or modern African music in feel
(no chiming guitars obviously). But it would be hard to describe why.  It is
quite hooky, I expect I'll be able to sing along after I've played it a few
more times
Again very good condition , I'm happy.

I also picked up an original Walker Brothers and a Cream LP for 30p each,
but I don't expect you want to hear about them....

El Maestro Con Queso

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:40:26 +0200
From: [e-mail] (Moritz R)
Subject: (exotica) to whom it may concern

I've set up  some pix online from my Ritual of the Savage party at last, after 8 months, mon dieu...
you find it on my Tikiland homepage http://tikiland.de when you click on the 3rd head of the skull rack.


Mo

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:52:02 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: (exotica) to whom it may concern

Now thats what I call a party.
good work!

El Maestro Con Queso

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> I've set up  some pix online from my Ritual of the Savage party at last,
> after 8 months, mon dieu...
> you find it on my Tikiland homepage http://tikiland.de when you click on
> the 3rd head of the skull rack.
>
>
> Mo
>
>
>


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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:27:42 -0400
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Art Seid, Lester Pine,Gilyan Francesco,Jack Elliott,Betty Everett

Art Seid, 87, a highly respected editor of motion pictures and television
shows for more than half a century who worked on "The Three Stooges," "Perry
Mason" and "Dobie Gillis," died Aug. 9 at Pacific Convalescent Home in Santa
Monica.

Born in New York but raised in Hollywood, Seid began his career in
post-production at Columbia Pictures. During World War II, he worked in
England and Hollywood on war documentaries as an officer in the Army Motion
Picture Signal Corps.

Returning to Columbia, he edited "Three Stooges" features and such classics
as
"Lost Horizons." Seid moved to 20th Century Fox Television in the mid-1950s,
where he supervised such series as "Broken Arrow" and edited the pilot for
Raymond Burr's "Perry Mason." He went on to become the series supervising
film
editor and associate producer, and later produced the 1970s version, "The
New
Adventures of Perry Mason." Seid continued editing television movies into
the
late 1980s.
- ----------

Lester Pine, 84, a stand-up comedian of the 1940s who became a television
and
motion picture writer for such series as "Ben Casey" and such films as
"Claudine," starring Diahann Carroll, died Saturday in Los Angeles of
prostate
cancer.

A native of Chicago, Pine established himself in the mid-1950s as a writer
for
such TV series as "Mr. Lucky," "Dobie Gillis" and the pioneering medical
show
"Ben Casey."

With his late wife, Tina, Pine wrote such films as the 1966 "A Man Called
Adam" starring Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Armstrong and Mel Torme. The Pines
also
wrote "Claudine" and the 1969 film "Popi" starring Alan Arkin and Rita
Moreno.
They later turned "Popi" into a 1975-76 television series featuring Hector
Elizondo as a hard-working Puerto Rican widower supporting his two young
sons
in New York City. Pine continued writing novels, plays and screenplays until
his death.
- -----------

Gilyan Francesco

GILYAN FRANCESCO, who has died aged 82, was
known as South Africa's "National Clown" but was a
performer of volatile temperament.

On one occasion, while he was working with a small circus
in Mauritius, two of the show's performing monkeys
escaped. They found Francesco's make-up kit, daubed
themselves like clowns and ran into a dressing tent,
destroying all the costumes before being caught. Francesco
insisted either the monkeys went or he did; so they were
given away to a Mauritian.

A few weeks later Francesco asked how the monkeys were.
"They were delicious" the man replied.

One of Francesco's acts involved him dressing up as an
Oriental Princess, and hypnotising a horde of crocodiles
before walking up and down a ladder of sharp swords.
When he cut his bare foot on one of the swords, badly
placed by a careless assistant, Francesco attacked the boy
responsible in front of the audience. The next day, a nun
knocked on his door inquiring about the condition of the
poor lady who had been in a fight in the ring the night
before.

In another incident Francesco was found bashing a dwarf
clown over the head with a metal bucket, because he was
infuriated by the dwarf's having resigned in the middle of a
performance.

Gilyan Francesco was born at Wellington, in the Cape, in
1919, although there is some doubt about his age. He made
his stage debut aged six, playing a mouse in the pantomime
Dick Whittington, with the words "eek! eek!", which he
spoke through a hole in the scenery. He began his career as
an actor, taking theatrical tours to the most remote parts of
the continent, and often sleeping under bridges or beneath
bits of stage scenery due to lack of funds.

His clowning skills, however, were taught to him by the
Australian clown Tony Murrell, who paid him 25 cents a
week, "and a clip on the ear every time I didn't clean
Murrell's shoes properly". Francesco became an auguste
(traditionally the clown with a red nose and baggy trousers)
and played this part for some years at Pagel's circus, until
Madame Pagel decided he should become an elegant
white-face clown in spangled costume.

In the 1950s Francesco, known as "Fanny" to circus folk,
moved to Boswell's Circus, one of South Africa's greatest
touring shows. Francesco then joined Wilkie's Circus to
work with the British clown Charlie Bale, but had a
disagreement with the owner and left after a week.

Boswell's later merged with Wilkie's show and Francesco
toured with it during the 1970s. Such was his fame during
this period that a wig-making firm took a half page
advertisement in the programme proclaiming that it had
made Francesco's hairpiece. Francesco was retained by the
South African Ministry of Education to lecture to school
children on a variety of subjects, from animals to road
safety.

Francesco, who was still performing a few days before his
death, liked to say that his face was lined by a lifetime of
laughter rather than age: "Yesterday I felt 121; tomorrow I
may feel 33."
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August 19, 2001

OBITUARIES
Jack Elliott; Composer Led Mancini Institute

By JON THURBER, (L.A.)TIMES STAFF WRITER

Jack Elliott, arranger, composer and conductor for scores of hit television
shows and movies, died Saturday of a brain tumor at UCLA Medical Center. He
was 74.

The tumor was diagnosed just three weeks ago as Elliott worked as musical
director of the Henry Mancini Institute, which brings gifted young musicians
from throughout the world to Los Angeles for a summer training program, his
son said.

Born Irwin Elliott Zucker in Hartford, Conn., Elliott graduated from the
Hartt School of Music at the University of Hartford. He studied composition
with Isadore Freed, Lukas Foss and Arnold Franchetti. After completing his
education, Elliott moved to New York, finding work as a jazz pianist at such
rooms as the Stork Club. In the 1950s he lived in Paris, where he worked as
an orchestrator and developed friendships with other expatriate musicians,
including Quincy Jones.

Returning to New York, Elliott became a dance arranger and orchestrator for
Broadway musicals, including "Fiorello" and "Tenderloin."

In the early 1960s, he was lured to Los Angeles to work as a musical
arranger on Judy Garland's television show. He then worked as musical
director for Andy Williams on his long-running NBC program. Elliott later
produced and conducted the NBC television special "Live From Studio 8H: 100
Years of America's Popular Music."

For Elliott, work created more opportunities, and he fashioned a career as
one of the top composers and arrangers in Hollywood.

Through the 1970s, if a show was popular on TV, it most likely had the music
of Elliott and his frequent collaborator Allyn Ferguson. Those shows
included "Police Story," "Barney Miller," "Starsky and Hutch," "Charlie's
Angels" and "The Love Boat."

Elliott also worked in films, often with director Carl Reiner, on projects
including "The Comic," "Where's Poppa?" "The Jerk" and "Oh God."

He became the musical director of choice for big event telecasts, working on
several Academy Award shows, Emmy Award shows and Kennedy Center Honors. He
was the only director of the Grammy Award orchestra in its 31-year history.

In 1984, he served as music director for the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles,
writing music for the opening and closing ceremonies as well as conducting
the orchestra.

In the late 1970s, Elliott cut back on his lucrative television work to help
found the New American Orchestra, which commissioned and performed new
compositions, mainly from American jazz composers.

With a base in Los Angeles and performances at the Music Center, the
orchestra included some of the top studio musicians in town and noted guests
such as Gerry Mulligan, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Shelley Manne, Sarah
Vaughan and Phil Woods.

The orchestra presented inventive programming well into the 1990s. But
though the music was critically well received, the orchestra had trouble
finding an audience and the money to pay for its creative endeavors.

"It's absolutely crazy," Elliott once lamented in an interview. "We've
presented important works that have never been heard before, and who knows
when they can be heard again? It's a crime that this orchestra is not
recorded."

In 1993, the orchestra--under its new name, the American Jazz
Philharmonic--did record a compact disc on the GRP label that was nominated
for a Grammy.

Some of Elliott's most important work came during the last five years
through the American Jazz Philharmonic's association with the Henry Mancini
Institute. Named for the legendary film composer, the institute offers a
monthlong program of concerts, seminars and master classes.

Aware of the value of versatility in his career, Elliott shaped a program
that reflected his far-ranging skills, insisting that each of the players,
regardless of their backgrounds, experience film music, jazz, improvisation,
contemporary and classical music in large and small ensembles.

"There isn't anything else around quite like this," Elliott said of the prog
ram last year in an interview with Don Heckman, who writes about jazz for
The Times. "They're playing music that just doesn't exist in this form in
many places. . . . And many of them show up unprepared for the shock of
playing this range of music. It's totally unique."

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Henry
Mancini Institute, P.O. Box 34575, Los Angeles, CA 90034-0575.

Funeral arrangements are pending and will be announced.
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Legendary Soul Singer Passes Away

Chicago, Monday, August 20, 2001

Legendary Soul singer, Betty Everett, passed away in her home in Beloit
Wisconsin over the weekend. Her body was found by her family on Sunday.
Cause of death has yet to be determined.

Born in Greenwood Mississippi on November 23, 1939, Betty Everett is
remembered primarily for one huge hit in the 60's, but she was also one
of the very best soul singers and actually recorded many songs. Starting
at age nine she played the piano and sang in church. She continued to
sing in gospel choirs, and eventually moved to Chicago in 1957. While
there she continued to sing. She recorded songs on some of the local
Chicago labels such as C.J., Cobra and OneDerful in the late 50's and
early 60's, coming up with local hits such as I'll Be There and I've Got
A Claim On You. She signed a contract with VeeJay, a label that was
issuing some hits by the Beatles at around the same time. Her release of
"You're No Good" just missed the top fifty late in 1963 and was covered
in the UK by the Swinging Blue Jeans. Then she hit big.

Betty Everett recorded "The Shoop Shoop Song [It's In His Kiss]" in the
Spring of 1964 and it soared to Billboard's Top-10. Other records, such
as "I Can't Hear You" and "Getting Mighty Crowded" extended her fan
base. She then did a duet with another prominent Chicago-area singer,
Jerry Butler, and their single, "Let It Be Me" also made the top ten
that year. Other Betty Everett/Jerry Butler duets came along, such as
their single "Smile" and their LP "Delicious Together." Betty Everett
made a wildly successful tour of England in the mid-60's in support of
these releases. After Vee Jay folded in 1967, Betty went to ABC without
success before coming back on Uni in 1969 with "There'll Come A Time,"
her last top forty hit. This song was her first entry in the soul charts
where it went to number two. Betty had five more entries in the soul
charts on Uni and Fantasy by 1971.


The song that Betty Everett is remembered for, however, is one that
everybody knew in 1964, "The Shoop Shoop Song [It's In His Kiss]."
Betty most recently appeared on DOO WOP 51 (PBS) with Jerry Butler. It
was her last public performance.







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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:42:18 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Skin Tight mp3

I'd love to hear that!  You can send your postal addy to me at [e-mail] .

[e-mail] wrote:
>
Marty Gold and His Orchestra
"Skin Tight"
RCA Living Stereo, 1960

Yeah, it's a nice one.  Thanks to someone on the list I
have mp3s of it and front and back cover graphics.  I
think I even got a graphic of the insert of orchestra
lay out.

If anyone wants to hear it send me a CD-R.


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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:48:27 +0100
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: (exotica) [obits] Gilyan Francesco,Betty Everett

Lou,
the Francesco obit is up there with Catch Ketchamori and the fake lava wall.
Sad to hear about Betty Everett, I'm playing at a soul weekender this
Saturday and had dug out one her LP's for the occasion,  guess I'll be
playing quite a bit of it.

El Maestro Con Queso

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> Gilyan Francesco
>
> GILYAN FRANCESCO, who has died aged 82, was
> known as South Africa's "National Clown" but was a
> performer of volatile temperament.
>
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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:15:26 -0400
From: Peter Gingerich <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica)Foraging the Digital Jungle

Relatively interesting article from Neil Strauss of the NYTimes regarding
his search for life beyond Napster, with comments and critiques of other
programs. He disses live365.com, settles for Aimster and KazaA.
Hotlinks to radio sites like drugmusic.com and radioparadise.com.....

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nyt/20010820/tc/a_sound_hound_forages_for_music
_in_the_digital_jungle_1.html

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:02:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obits] Art Seid, Lester Pine,Gilyan Francesco,Jack  Elliott,Betty Everett

Other passings of note:

Jeanne Loriod: Ondes Martenot performer who died at
the age of 73 in Juan-les-Pins (Locus of Cyril
Connolly's  Brit expatriate dissipations in The Rock
Pool). She performed with US and European orchestras;
film soundtracks (Mars attacks, etc).

Flip Phillips: Tenor Saxman, at 86. Played in Woody
Herman's band.

More, no doubt, to follow.

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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:08:06 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica)Foraging the Digital Jungle

I remember Neil Strauss when he first came to New York, all
WIDE-EYED and WOW-FILLED.  Now he's a jaded ponce with
his snoot in the air.  I wouldn't trust a word he says, about
anything.

[e-mail] wrote:
>


Relatively interesting article from Neil Strauss of the NYTimes
regarding
his search for life beyond Napster, with comments and critiques
of other
programs. He disses live365.com, settles for Aimster and
KazaA.
Hotlinks to radio sites like drugmusic.com and
radioparadise.com.....

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nyt/20010820/tc/a_sound_hound_f
orages_for_music
_in_the_digital_jungle_1.html


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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:47:12 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: RE: (exotica)Foraging the Digital Jungle

[e-mail] wrote:
> yeah well I guess that happens to all these rock critics. When
they work for
newspapers. (or at least the New York times).
  Or are you in a band that he wrote about?

pg

Haa!  No, but nice guess.  When he first came to NYC, he sought
out everything that was weird, wunnerful, and unneground, and I
was part of a local network of alternative music cassette traders.
Suffice to say after treating him to dinner, he quickly had our fill of
us and never cared to have anything to do with us again.  At first
he wrote on spec for the freebee New York Press.  Then he
pulled the NY Times coup off, and now he is "Mr. Pop Life."
Ewwww.

Ain't bitter, though !


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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 13:28:09 -0400
From: "Nathan Miner" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Finds........

Over the weekend while returning from the beach I spied a small local =
thrift shop and pulled in to see what I could see.

I almost didn't bother going through the three boxes of records that they =
had.  Especially after sifting through the first box of the requisite Sing =
Along With Mitch and Christmas LP's.

But lo and behold, the third box contained three cool LP's in a row:

Tito Puente "Tambo" - This is on RCA's "Living Stereo."  Inside of the =
boxed RCA logo it even says "Savage Drums" as if to help you categorize =
this particular record (that is, if the great cover of jungle over-growth, =
a native dancing wildly in a tiki mask in the background and Tito hunched =
over various drums in the foreground didn't key you in).

Song titles are great - Dance of the Headhunters, Witch Doctor's Nightmare,=
 and Voodoo Dance at Midnight being favorites.  Yes, it sounds like you'd =
want it to - wild drums, bird calls, etc.

Martin Denny "A Taste of India" - Of course, this is Denny "in name only" =
mostly bland tracks, but an interesting softer version of Hypnotique and a =
cool version of Incense and Peppermints (This is India? I guess the =
"incense" qualifies it!?.........).

And lastly, on the "Sutton" label (a shield with a unicorn in the center) =
is a *very* weird album called The Great New Sound of the Beagle and the =
Four Liverpool Whigs.  Another entry into the "we'll make you think this =
is the Beatles" sweepstakes.  The cover is a multicolored "Shutter lens" =
design (like in the Bond films) with a b&w pic of four teenagers in black =
suits w/skinny ties and scary Beatles wigs crawling around on their heads =
in the center.  In the lap of one guy is a beagle dog happily staring off =
stage-left - Weird.

All of the song names are "originals" except for the recognizable I Want =
to Hold Your Hand, which is singled out near the albums title to further =
the hoax.  I haven't listened to this yet.

The same label also released "Pervasive Percussion" along with the usual =
"Hawaii" and "Movie Hits" collections which are all advertised on the =
back.  There are no liner notes.

- - Nate




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