The nice thing about this set is that it includes stickers of
the original 78 labels that you can stick on your Doris Day
and Vaughan Monroe 78s to make them fetch big bucks at ebay.
(Don't laugh... it is going to happen.)
See ya
Steve
Stephen Worth
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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 19:13:55 -0700
From: "basic hip" <basichip@home.com>
Subject: (exotica) Cover Power - Beck's 50 best LP covers
the november issue of Vanity Fair is the music issue which includes a "best
of" list of Becks 50 top LP covers. The article is supposedly written by
Beck Hansen himself.
"exotica" related titles are
Dick Hyman - Age of Electronicus
Gabor Szabo - Jazz Raga
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson
The Louvin Brothers - Satan Is Real
Some of the others - all pictured with little "reviews" of why he likes
them:
Bjork - Homogenic
Devo - Freedom Of Choice
David Bowie - Pinups
Black Sabbath - Never Say Die!
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Roxy Music - Country Life
Kraftwerk - Computer World
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Frank Sinatra - No One Cares
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Lou Reed - Transformer
Phil Ochs - Rehersals For Retirement
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
The Beatles - Revolver
Issac Hayes - Black Moses
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:35:00 +0200
From: moritzR@t-online.de (moritzR)
Subject: Re: (exotica) new album uploaded
basic hip schrieb:
> honey west is gone and a new album has replaced it.
>
> A DOG'S LIFE - An Actual Story In Sound As Broadcast On The CBS Radio
> Workshop
>
Thanks again, Mr. Hip, for this incredible service. It's a cute record, although I miss music a bit. The way you do it, is a "classic" from the beginning. The cover, the MP3s and a little comment by yourself about the album on one internet page - perfect. I used all of the information for my cover artwork of A Dog's Life...
It could be a very interesting perspective for mailing lists like this, if more people would join in this kind of service and provide unknown hard to get albums online like this. Often I miss the fun of discussing records simply because I can't listen to them.
I hope to get more web space soon and then start my own first publication of a rare exotica album...
- --Mo
...........................
studio «
http://moritzR.de
exotica@web.de
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:43:19 +0200
From: Joe <joe@jandj.co.il>
Subject: (exotica) audiogalaxy group
Oops pardon my verbiage... you can't really chat at audiogalaxy. The
groups in audiogalaxy are more of a message board. You can also trade
mp3s of interest.
I think audiogalaxy is better than napster ever was, since you can
search and then queue any file that was ever shared on the service and
then download it once it becomes available again. Your queue is also
saved via the browser, so you can queue up hundreds of tunes and then
just wait for 'em to come flooding in.
Until they get the shutdown order, that is.
- -Joe (formerly enok lite)
Join the loungexotica group at http://audiogalaxy.com
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 13:57:39 +0100
From: Michael Jemmeson <michael@moreover.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) audiogalaxy group
Joe wrote:
>
> Oops pardon my verbiage... you can't really chat at audiogalaxy. The
> groups in audiogalaxy are more of a message board. You can also trade
> mp3s of interest.
>
> I think audiogalaxy is better than napster ever was, since you can
> search and then queue any file that was ever shared on the service and
> then download it once it becomes available again. Your queue is also
> saved via the browser, so you can queue up hundreds of tunes and then
> just wait for 'em to come flooding in.
>
> Until they get the shutdown order, that is.
they do search for and prevent access to any copyrighted songs - which
is why a lot of the tracks on AudioGalaxy have the artist/track name the
wrong way round, or the album title in with the track name etc, but it's
still easy to find plenty of stuff. The search results returned are much
better than Napster's hopeless search.
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 06:47:34 -0700
From: "basic hip" <basichip@home.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) new album uploaded
> It could be a very interesting perspective for mailing lists >like this,
if more people would join in this kind of service >and provide unknown hard
to get albums online like this. >Often I miss the fun of discussing records
simply >because I can't listen to them.
Hey, thanks! Glad to do it. Ever since I was a kid, I liked to play
records for people. My friends, my mom, anybody I could get to sit still
long enough. I'm terrified of a microphone, so a broadcasting career was
never a consideration :)
It's very easy to do and does not take a whole lot of time either. The
essentials are you do need more web storage than the personal space ISP's
give free with their service. I pay about twenty bucks a month for 100MB.
This is in addition to my cable service, another requirement (or DSL) to
upload the files quickly and recieve streams and downloads in the blink of
an eye.
Other than that, a wav editor (I don't know if you need this - I use one), a
MP3 encoding program (a free internet download), a scanner and a program to
make a single web page (you can use Microsoft Word) are about all you need.
On the other hand, if a person has never created or upload files to the
internet, I could see it being quite an undertaking.
I'd be glad to lend a hand to anyone with any questions.
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:02:30 EDT
From: RoTone@aol.com
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Coloring Book
My girlfriend and I visited the Museum of Natural History here in DC to
catch an IMAX movie on caves. Before going in we stopped by the gift shop to
look around and, to my surprise, I spotted "A coloring book of Ancient
Hawaii". It has great text in it, explaining the life and importance of
Kamehameha as well as the Hawaiian way of life. Pertinent to this list were
the many pictures of tiki gods inside (black and white drawings- you have to
color them yourself, of course). And great pictures they are. Well worth the
$2.95 we spent. Just thought I would pass on this experience-
jon cook
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:50:11 -0400
From: "M.Ace" <mace@ookworld.com>
Subject: (exotica) Zippy meets Tiki
Today's Zippy comic... Zippy engages an Easter island idol in conversation:
http://www.sfgate.com/comics/graphics/zippy/3.gif
M.Ace mace@ookworld.com
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 12:01:47 -0400
From: lousmith@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obits] John Collins, Etta Jones
October 17, 2001
John Collins, Noted Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 83
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16 (AP) ù The jazz guitarist John Collins, who played with Nat King Cole for more than a decade, died here on Oct. 4. He was 83.
Mr. Collins was born in Montgomery, Ala., and grew up in Chicago. His mother, Georgia Gorham, was a pianist and bandleader.
He briefly played clarinet before switching to guitar and moving to New York, where he played with prominent jazzmen like the pianist Art Tatum.
Mr. Collins accompanied Billie Holiday and the saxophonist Lester Young in the 1940's and played in bands led by Benny Carter and Fletcher Henderson.
He served in the Army during World War II and played in Army bands.
Esquire magazine gave Mr. Collins its New Star award as best guitarist of 1947, his lone jazz poll honor.
Mr. Collins's 14-year association with Cole began in 1951, when he replaced Oscar Moore on guitar in the Cole trio. Mr. Collins played with Cole until the latter's death in 1965.
Mr. Collins went on to tour Europe with his own group. He played occasionally around Southern California in the 1990's but worked mainly as a private teacher.
He is survived by his wife, Naomi; two daughters; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:22:36 -0400
From: azed@pathcom.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) new album uploaded
At 06:47 AM 10/17/01 -0700, basic hip wrote:
.>Other than that, a wav editor (I don't know if you need this - I use one), a
>MP3 encoding program (a free internet download), a scanner and a program to
>make a single web page (you can use Microsoft Word) are about all you need.
>
>On the other hand, if a person has never created or upload files to the
>internet, I could see it being quite an undertaking.
>
>I'd be glad to lend a hand to anyone with any questions.
Well I was thinking of putting a few tunes on my website to go with my
"music-related" articles. I'm not sure if I have the space or not. And I
don't have the good internet connection either. But I'm patient. So,
where's the best place to download mp3 software?
It's an interesting idea Moritz (when did you slip back onto the list??)
had about actually making the music you're talking about available online
so people can hear it and not just hear about it.
Some people just want to hear everything.
AZ
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 06:21:50 +1000
From: Philip Jackson <pdj@mpx.com.au>
Subject: Re: (exotica) new album uploaded
on 17/10/01 11:47 PM, basic hip at basichip@home.com wrote:
> Other than that, a wav editor (I don't know if you need this - I use one), a
> MP3 encoding program (a free internet download), a scanner and a program to
> make a single web page (you can use Microsoft Word) are about all you need.
Mr Hip,
I've enjoyed that download too thanks. One minor technical comment. As the
album is originally mono you could either encode in mono and halve the size
of the files (which would help us slow dialup modem folk) or increase the
bit rate and therefore the fidelity of the of the mono mp3's.
Just a thought but thanks for the uploads anyway.
- --
Philip
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:32:05 -0700
From: "basic hip" <basichip@home.com>
Subject: (exotica) mp3 software download
> where's the best place to download mp3 software?
here's one place that offers a free download:
http://www.musicmatch.com/
I use a different program by AudioCatalyst:
http://www.xingtech.com/mp3/audiocatalyst/
but aren't they all the same? Maybe not. I really don't know, I don't keep
up with this stuff. I'm not a technical person at all, so if I can do it,
anybody can!
Extra web space is required if you are uploading entire albums. But you can
conserve space by encoding at a lower rate or just using clips of a track,
like a minute or so in length. Or encode at mono (thanks Philip!)
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 00:58:56 +0200 (MEST)
From: Hemmel@gmx.net
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re H.S.G. (hidden sitar gems)
Talking about hast, anyone knows where that track HIPPIES with SITAR from
Brigitte Bardot, Serge Gainsbourg and Sascha Distell (so it is written on the
sleeve, not Sacha Distel) originally came from, that is on that comp called
Finderskeepers (FatCity Recordings, FC LP005, distributed by Groove Attack
www.grooveattack.com) ? (DJs take note: it is not a hot dancefloor groover, but
an ok warm up tune) all the info that is on the comp is that it was writen by
Bardot/Distel and the comment: french right winger bb takes a political day
off to lay down some eastern (!) flavours alongside co-icon distell and and
undisputed genius msr. Gainsbourg on this rarer than frogs teeth anti hippie
jam.....
- --
visit the ***Space Escapade***
Exotic Club Pop Entertainment
with Guests and the Lemon Squeezer Sound System
at the Atomic Cafe, Neuturmstr. 5, Munich, every Tuesday Night
http://www.atomic.de/
GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet.
http://www.gmx.net
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 19:04:09 EDT
From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com
Subject: (exotica) Looking for a song title
Aloha gang, Tiki Bob here. Safe and sound and de-lurking for a few moments.
I was in California doing a tiki tour last week and found a nostalgia station
that played much of the music we love. In Kings County about 2 hours north of
Los Angeles.
I am trying to find the title of a song I heard. It is very similar to
"Parisian Women" by Cy Coleman, which can be found on the Ultra Lounge "A
Bachelor in Paris CD," Track 6.
It has a honky tonk sounding piano that will play about 15 notes and then
repeat the notes in slight variation, especially at the end. It has a quick
tempo and the melody is very repetitive. The piano has a real "tinny" sound
and at parts there are singers that La La and Bum Bum in the background. It
does not sound "Can-Can-like" tho.
The Coleman song mentioned above has that French flair but uses accordions
and plucking violins. The tune I am looking for is more piano, though it
has that similar late 50's "French Sound" that was popular at the time.
Sorry about the strange description. Maybe somebody will connect with what I
am trying to say and can give me some direction.
I hope all is well with each exoticat on the list.
Balmy regards,
TB
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:05:15 -0700
From: crymad <crymad@xprt.net>
Subject: (exotica) full album download sites
My brother just got a cable modem, so I'm all set to try some serious
downloading -- no more of this 56k nonsense. Any other sites like basic
hip's with full album uploads of music favored by this mailing list?
- --crymad
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:28:37 -0700
From: "Benito Vergara" <bvergara@sfsu.edu>
Subject: RE: (exotica) audiogalaxy group
I don't know much about the net, so I don't know the full implications of
this, but type in "audiogalaxy" and "spyware" in Google and see what you
think.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of azed@pathcom.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 9:54 AM
> And while I'm here, is there a good MP3 site out there somewhere? And
> what's the best free mp3 software?
As far as software goes, here are my choices:
Winamp (http://www.winamp.com): for playing and wave file decoding
CDex (http://www.cdex.n3.net): for ripping and converting to mp3 (using the
Lame mp3 encoder -- supposedly better than Xing, which cuts off higher
frequencies or something)
And for mp3 sites, are you referring to "legal" mp3s? Because if not, then
Usenet is certainly the way to go.
Later,
Ben
http://members.tripod.com/~tamad2/
ICQ: 12832406
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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 20:50:38 -0400
From: "Carl Howard" <litlgrey@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Looking for a song title
Hi Bob ! There's a new Luxuria message board in the opening stages... I
don't want to post the URL here since some might consider it spam. If you
want me to tell you, e-mail me personally...!
Carl Howard
Ohio Regional WUV Supervisor
Alien Abduction Coordinator
Communist Dupe Extraordinaire
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Subject: (exotica) Looking for a song title
> I hope all is well with each exoticat on the list.
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 03:50:51 -0400
From: azed@pathcom.com
Subject: (exotica) Light my fire
I mentioned The Free Design to a friend of mine and he told me that they
played his high school. He went to a very strict school. It might have
been Catholic, I didn't ask.
The school officials were actually worried that The Free Design would be
too "wild" for the students.
And maybe that was because of the "Lettermen" incident.
They booked a Lettermen concert but specifically asked them not to perform
their "hit" Light My Fire.
The Lettermen apparently agreed. But I guess the boys wanted to let their
freak flags fly because they started to sing it anyway.
At which point, the school officials ended the concert.
I wish that was my memory.
AZ
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:27:19 -0400
From: "M.Ace" <mace@ookworld.com>
Subject: (exotica) Zippy / Tiki continues
Zippy's conversation with the Moai continues:
http://www.sfgate.com/comics/graphics/zippy/4.gif
- --M.Ace
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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 11:07:31 -0500
From: azed@pathcom.com (by way of Mimi Mayer <mimim@pop.texas.net>)
Subject: (exotica) Light my fire
A wonderful story, AZ. Thanks! Mimi
... But I guess the boys wanted to let their
freak flags fly because they started to sing it anyway.
At which point, the school officials ended the concert.
I wish that was my memory.
AZ
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 14:53:29 -0400
From: lousmith@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Jay Livingston
October 18, 2001
Jay Livingston, Who Co-Wrote Hit Songs for the Movies, Dies at 86
By RICHARD SEVERO,NYTimes
Jay Livingston, the pop composer and lyricist who collaborated with Ray Evans on three movie songs that won Academy Awards - "Mona Lisa," "Que Serß, Serß" and "Buttons and Bows" - died yesterday in Los Angeles. He was 86 and lived in Los Angeles.
In their heyday in the 1940's and 50's the team of Livingston and Evans turned out songs for film after film and wrote many tunes that became jukebox hits. They were "the last of the great songwriters in Hollywood," Warren Craig wrote in his book "The Greatest Songwriters of Hollywood." .
The team won their first best-song Oscar for "Buttons and Bows," a bouncy tune from the 1948 comedy Western "The Paleface." It was introduced by Bob Hope, playing the timid dentist Painless Potter, who sang it to a rootin'-tootin' Jane Russell. Dinah Shore recorded it, among others, and had the big jukebox hit.
"Mona Lisa" was written in 1950 for a modest Alan Ladd vehicle called "Captain Carey, U.S.A." In the movie, the song was used to send a signal to Italian partisans during World War II, but Mr. Livingston and Mr. Evans thought that perhaps "Mona Lisa" might have a life after the movie, so one day they visited Nat (King) Cole at his home to interest him in recording the song. They almost didn't succeed. A little girl was playing happily in the house and raised such a ruckus that it was difficult for Mr. Cole to concentrate on the song. "My daughter, Natalie," Mr. Cole explained patiently, as she romped, giggled and screamed. But Mr. Cole decided to record it.
He probably did not know that the song had started out as "Prima Donna" but was changed because Mr. Evans's wife, Wyn, thought that "Mona Lisa" sounded a lot nicer. Mr. Cole liked the tune but was not so sure that a song with the same name as a Renaissance painting would sell to a mass audience. His bosses at Capitol Records put it on the B side of a record that contained a song they thought would surely become a hit, "The Greatest Inventor of Them All."
"Mona Lisa" not only won an Oscar, but also became a huge jukebox success and later a standard. And in 1986 it provided the inspiration for the movie "Mona Lisa," starring Bob Hoskins.
"Que Serß, Serß" ("Whatever Will Be, Will Be") was sung by Doris Day in "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956), an Alfred Hitchcock remake of a film of the same name that he had first directed in 1934. In the later movie, Miss Day was in a cavernous house filled with nefarious international wrongdoers, and she belted out "Que Serß, Serß" so that her young son, who had been kidnapped and was being held upstairs, would know that she and her husband (James Stewart) had come to the rescue. Once again the best song Oscar went to Livingston and Evans, Miss Day's recording of the song was a hit.
Other Livingston-Evans songs that received Oscar nominations included "The Cat and the Canary," which was heard in "Why Girls Leave Home" (1945); "Tammy," heard in "Tammy and the Bachelor," which became a hit recording for Debbie Reynolds in 1957; "Almost in Your Arms" from "Houseboat" (1957), with Sophia Loren and Cary Grant; and "Dear Heart" from the 1964 movie of the same name, which starred Glenn Ford and Geraldine Page. Andy Williams had a big hit with "Dear Heart," singing the plaintive Livingston-Evans lyrics with music by Henry Mancini.
Another hit was "Golden Earrings," a wistful song in a minor key from the 1947 movie of the same name, starring Ray Milland, disguised as a Gypsy, and Marlene Dietrich, playing the Gypsy he had learned to love. The music was written by Victor Young from a Hungarian melody; Mr. Livingston and Mr. Evans teamed up to produce the lyrics. In the movie it is sung in a robust basso by Murvyn Vye, but it was Peggy Lee's recording that made the charts.
Another Livingston tune with fame was "To Each His Own." The song, which was written to publicize the film of the same title but was not used in it, became a big hit in 1946 for several performers - Eddy Howard, the Ink Spots, Tony Martin, Freddy Martin and the Modernaires.
Mr. Livingston was directed by his wife Lynne to change the lyrics for the song that became "Silver Bells," a Christmas standard first sung by Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell in "The Lemon Drop Kid" in 1951. The song was originally written as "Tinkle Bells," but Mrs. Livingston admonished her husband, "Are you out of your mind?" The song remains among the most popular Christmas songs; Mr. Livingston frequently referred to it as "our annuity." By 1995, it had sold 140 million recordings and was sung for years by Mr. Hope in his Christmas specials.
Jay Livingston was born on March 28, 1915, in McDonald, Pa., the son of Alan Livingston and the former Rosa Wachtel. When he went to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1930's he started a dance band and became friendly with Mr. Evans, from the upstate New York town of Salamanca, who played the saxophone and clarinet. After graduation they decided to try their hand at songwriting and moved to New York.
In World War II Mr. Livingston served in the Army and Mr. Evans was employed by an aircraft company. They worked sporadically and part time. One of their earliest writing jobs was creating songs for the popular singer Martha Tilton. They played nightclubs, proms and cruise ships and wrote special material for the comedy team of Olsen & Johnson.
In 1944 they were summoned to Hollywood; their benefactor was Johnny Mercer, the great songwriter, who liked their work. They won their first Oscar nomination for "The Cat and the Canary" in their first year of studio work.
Over the years the team of Livingston and Evans contributed songs to more than 80 movies, many with Bob Hope, some for Hitchcock. Among the films are "Monsieur Beaucaire" (1946), "My Favorite Brunette" (1947), "Whispering Smith" (1948), "Sorrowful Jones" (1949), "The Streets of Laredo" (1949), "Fancy Pants" (1950), "Here Comes the Groom" (1951), "That's My Boy" (1951), "Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick" (1952), "Mr. Roberts" (1954), "Lucy Gallant" (1955), "Istanbul" (1956), "Vertigo" (1957), "The James Dean Story" (1957), "This Happy Feeling" (1958), "Harlow" (1965), "What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?" (1966), "Torn Curtain" (1966), "Wait Until Dark" (1967) and "Fox Trot" (1976).
They also worked with the great arrangers and composers of movie music, among them Percy Faith, Max Steiner, Neal Hefti, David Rose, Jimmy McHugh, Franz Waxman and Sammy Cahn.
The team tried the theater without much success, and when rock 'n' roll arrived, their kind of music was not much in demand in Hollywood. They would appear from time to time: audiences at the popular "Lyrics and Lyricists" series at the 92d Street Y in New York remember Mr. Livingston, a tall, thin man with a pleasant voice, spoofing the title songs that he had written for movies like "When Worlds Collide" and "The Mole People."
Mr. Livingston is survived by his second wife, Shirley Mitchell of Los Angeles; his daughter, Travlyn Talmadge of Nashville, from his first marriage, to the former Lynne Gordon; his brother, Alan Livingston, the president of Capitol Records, also of Los Angeles; a granddaughter; and three great-grandchildren.
Mr. Evans is still living, in Los Angeles.
After their movie heyday, the pair wrote the theme music for long-running television series like "Bonanza" and "Mr. Ed." It is Ray Livingston's voice heard singing, "A horse is a horse/of course, of course . . ."
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:59:08 EDT
From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obit] Jay Livingston
Etta Jones died yesterday too...often compared to Billie Holiday and Dinah
Washington
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:15:15 +0200
From: "Bertrand Chaumelle" <CHAUMELLE@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: (exotica) re: HSG
Hi all,
I'm new to the List.
The Bardot/ Gainsbourg/ Distel track originates from a one-hour Bardot
TV-special that was made about 30 years ago. It's available on VHS here in
France ("Bardot Show").
Bertrand
>Talking about hast, anyone knows where that track HIPPIES with SITAR from
>Brigitte Bardot, Serge Gainsbourg and Sascha Distell (so it is written on
the
>sleeve, not Sacha Distel) originally came from, that is on that comp called
>Finderskeepers (FatCity Recordings, FC LP005, distributed by Groove Attack
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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:13:11 -0400
From: lousmith@pipeline.com
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Etta Jones
Singer Etta Jones Dies at 72; Won Eubie Blake Jazz Award
By Adam Bernstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 18, 2001; Page B06
Etta Jones, 72, a jazz singer whose sinuous, after-midnight style could be heard on about 25 albums and at countless club dates, and who was best known for her 1960 recording of "Don't Go to Strangers," died of complications from cancer Oct. 16 at her home in Mount Vernon, N.Y. She also had a residence in Washington.
"Don't Go to Strangers" earned more than $1 million for the Prestige label. Since then, Ms. Jones became a respected interpreter of standards like "Stormy Weather," "Say It Isn't So," "Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You" and "But Not For Me."
Fond of improvising, she told the audience during a 1998 Kennedy Center concert with pianist Billy Taylor and his trio: "I never sing [a song] the same way again. I can't even sing along to my own records."
Ms. Jones received Grammy Award nominations for "Save Your Love For Me" (Muse, 1981) and "My Buddy: The Songs of Buddy Johnson" (HighNote Records, 1998).
She died on the day her most recent album was released, "Etta Jones Sings Lady Day" (HighNote), a tribute to Billie Holiday.
Of all those with whom she performed, including saxophonist Illinois Jacquet at Carnegie Hall, her most recognizable partner was tenor saxophonist Houston Person.
They were first booked together in 1968 at Jimmy McPhail's Gold Room in the District, and until their final date together three weeks ago, their interaction was often likened to the fruitful pairing of Holiday and saxophonist Lester Young in the 1930s.
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch reviewer called their collaboration "one of those rare musical matches in which each artist complements the other -- without any battles for the spotlight."
"We didn't have any egos or anything," Person said in an interview yesterday.
Despite her long career, Ms. Jones never achieved household name recognition and was considered a hidden treasure to fans such as Taylor.
"All I want to do is work, make a decent salary and have friends," she once told an interviewer. "What's so good about this singing business is that I have friends all over the world. And without singing, I wouldn't have that."
Ms. Jones, a native of Aiken, S.C., grew up in New York, where her parents encouraged her singing. At 15, she lost a talent contest, but pianist-bandleader Buddy Johnson hired her anyway. In 1944, she made her first recording, for composer-critic Leonard Feather.
Through the 1940s, she recorded with clarinetist Barney Bigard, guitarist Kenny Burrell and vibraphonist Milt Jackson, among others. She became a vocalist for three years with legendary pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines.
Beginning in 1952, she tried to carve a solo career but had to work as an elevator operator, a seamstress and an album stuffer to make ends meet. Then came "Don't Go to Strangers."
She worked for the Prestige label during the next five years and then toured Japan with drummer-bandleader Art Blakey in 1970. She made many recordings for the Muse label from the mid-1970s to mid-1990s, when she became affiliated with its successor firm, HighNote.
During the past decade, she performed with pianist Benny Green and blues pianist and singer Charles Brown.
"When I first started, I had to do some songs I didn't care for, but now I more or less sing what I want to sing," she told the San Francisco Chronicle in 1993. "I want a good lyric. I don't want nonsense. I like heavy dramatic tunes -- a tune that's saying something, like Sammy Cahn's 'All the Way.' "
She received the Eubie Blake Jazz Award and the International Women in Jazz Foundation's lifetime achievement award.
Survivors include her husband, John Medlock of Washington; two sisters; and a granddaughter.
A daughter from a previous marriage predeceased her.
