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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:21:10 -0500
From: <lousmith@pipeline.com>
Subject: (exotica) [obits] Tommy Flanagan, Melvin Burkhart
November 19, 2001
Tommy Flanagan, Elegant Jazz Pianist, Is Dead at 71
By BEN RATLIFF,NYTimes
Tommy Flanagan, a jazz pianist who with a classic trio set a high standard for elegance in mainstream postwar jazz, died Friday night at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 71 and lived in Manhattan.
Full obit at: http://nytimes.com/2001/11/19/obituaries/19FLAN.html
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November 18, 2001
Melvin Burkhart, 'Human Blockhead' in Vanishing Sideshow Culture, Dies at 94
By DOUGLAS MARTIN,NYTimes
Melvin Burkhart, a legendary sideshow performer who billed himself as the Human Blockhead and proved it by hammering nails and spikes up his nose in front of millions of Americans in thousands of places ù from the 1939 World's Fair to countless dusty midways to the Coney Island boardwalk to an off- Broadway theater just last month ù died on Nov. 8 in a hospice in Sun City, Fla. He was 94, and always swore that it didn't hurt.
He swallowed swords, breathed with one lung at a time, exhibited different expressions on each side of his face, ate fire, rotated his stomach muscles in an act called "the cement mixer," survived an electric chair, wrestled snakes and performed excellent magic. Working for a one-ring circus during the Depression, he was 9 of its 14 acts.
But it was as the Human Blockhead that Mr. Burkhart achieved carnival glory. Others had driven nails into their noses as part of larger exhibitions of withstanding pain. But he made a five-minute act out of it and added a droll presentation. Robert Ripley of "Ripley's Believe It or Not," a sometime employer, came up with the blockhead name.
Full obit at: http://nytimes.com/2001/11/18/obituaries/18BURK.html
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 16:15:32 -0500
From: bump@defectiverecords.com (Bump Stadelman)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Help! (please)
no problem for me. so there is nothing wrong with your files.
did not notice any distortion this time, like i did with BTVOTD.
maybe the problem lies in the player the person has.
BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD- M.K.GHANDI
IN A TIME OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT,
TELLING THE TRUTH IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT - GEORGE ORWELL
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:51:19 -0800
From: "Doug Shannon" <doug@reardensteel.com>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Re: Help! (please)
> When the computer looked for the software, iwas told there was no
additional software. Any ideas<
This sounds like a problem seen a lot with older versions of the Windows
Media Player (the actual player was not metioned in the email, so I'm
taking a stab in the dark here).=20
I would suggest to the troubled listener to get a different mp3 player.
I use MusicMatch Jukebox myself (http://www.musicmatch.com )(which will
rip and compress, no less), although winamp (http://www.winamp.com) may
be a smaller download. Or attempt to get a newer version of the windows
media player. Microsoft tends to make the media player more and more
annoying with each release, so I abandoned it a long time ago in favor
of MusicMatch (which has it's annoyances, too, but still very
tollerable.)
~Doug
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- -----Original Message-----
From: basic hip [mailto:basichip@home.com]
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 10:14 AM
To: exotica@xmission.com
Subject: (exotica) Re: Help! (please)
I received this plea for help from a fellow listee:
> I downloaded the first track and tried to play it, but I was informed
that
I
> needed additional software. When the computer looked for the software,
i
was
> told there was no additional software. Any ideas? I downloaded last
weeks
> with no problem.
Anybody else have a similar problem with these files? They were encoded
at
variable rather than constant bitrate, but I would not think that would
effect downloadability.
I really don't know how to trouble shoot. I can drive the car, but if
it
falls apart, I'm helpless!
Where's my guru...are you reading?
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 23:24:15 +0100
From: moritzR@t-online.de (moritzR)
Subject: Re: (exotica) JUNGLE DRUMS the Lecuona tune
chuck schrieb:
> There's a great early version of the song sung by an extremely
> young Dinah Shore with the Xavier Cugat Orchestra.
>
> We discussed this song a while back on the exotica list and I
> remember Mo giving a definition of Exotica with a capital E as
> music trying to capture the feel of a tropical land without using
> that lands typical customary instruments.
Or vice versa, like making jazz with exotic instruments. Which Marty did for instance
> More like Hollywood's
> imagination's version of that far off exotica land. Not indigineous
> music recorded in that exotic land. (I just butchered Mo's
> description, but that's the general point)
If you say, I said that, I believe I said it. !-) Yeah, I even remember it. I also remember a controverse string within that discussion about wether "stealing" other folks' music and using it, is exploitation or inspiration.
> I argued that Cugat's
> Jungle Drums was the first Exotica song. After hanging out with
> Kafka and getting exposed to so much music in the last few years I
> doubt its the first exotica song. Something from the turn of the
> century is my guess.
Yeah, definitely. Especially as a "Hawaiian Craze" seems to be the first ever hype in recording history, and that was from the turn of the century up into the 20s.
So if this was recorded in the late 20s I may have an earlier example at hand:
I downloaded a little film excerpt from an early Marlene Dietrich movie, it should be early 20s, but I'm not sure. It has amazingly wild jungle drums, heavy ritualistic type of pagan exotica jazz, tropical tribal stage deco and hula gogo dancers. The gig goes like this: In comes a gorilla, dancing until he zips his fur open and out steps half-naked Marlene Dietrich with a giant blonde(!) afro style wig... bizarre. Maybe I should make this available in the internet for you all. It's worth some downloading time.
- --Mo
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 22:28:39 -0000
From: "Robbie Baldock" <rcb@easynet.co.uk>
Subject: (exotica) Warm Feelings?
Does anyone happen to have a copy of Tony Mottola's "Warm Feelings" LP (PR 5058)?
Robbie
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:46:09 EST
From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Help! (please)
In a message dated 11/19/2001 4:54:26 PM, doug@reardensteel.com writes:
<< This sounds like a problem seen a lot with older versions of the Windows
Media Player (the actual player was not metioned in the email, so I'm
taking a stab in the dark here). >>
Actually I'm on a mac with real player. This is the first time I've had a
problem.
Bob
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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 01:18:34 +0000
From: thinkmatic@att.net
Subject: (exotica) MP3 playing problems
Someone reported not being able to play one of this
weeks Basic Hip trax. What type of mp3 player is on
your computer, and is your system PC or Mac?
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 20:33:11 EST
From: HOUSEOBOB@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) MP3 playing problems
In a message dated 11/19/2001 8:25:10 PM, thinkmatic@att.net writes:
<< Someone reported not being able to play one of this
weeks Basic Hip trax. What type of mp3 player is on
your computer, and is your system PC or Mac? >>
It's a mac with real player.
Any ideas?
Thanks, Bob
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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 20:29:45 -0700
From: kendoll <kendoll@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
Subject: Re: (exotica) JUNGLE DRUMS the Lecuona tune
moritzR wrote:
> I downloaded a little film excerpt from an early Marlene Dietrich movie, it should be early 20s, but I'm not sure. It has amazingly wild jungle drums, heavy ritualistic type of pagan exotica jazz, tropical tribal stage deco and hula gogo dancers. The gig goes like this: In comes a gorilla, dancing until he zips his fur open and out steps half-naked Marlene Dietrich with a giant blonde(!) afro style wig... bizarre.
i believe the film in question is 'blonde venus' from 1932.
mike
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The requested story, music2html, from issue, 2001-11-14, does not exist.
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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 09:14:41 +0100
From: moritzR@t-online.de (moritzR)
Subject: Re: (exotica) JUNGLE DRUMS the Lecuona tune
kendoll schrieb:
> moritzR wrote:
>
> > I downloaded a little film excerpt from an early Marlene Dietrich movie, it should be early 20s, but I'm not sure. It has amazingly wild jungle drums, heavy ritualistic type of pagan exotica jazz, tropical tribal stage deco and hula gogo dancers. The gig goes like this: In comes a gorilla, dancing until he zips his fur open and out steps half-naked Marlene Dietrich with a giant blonde(!) afro style wig... bizarre.
>
> i believe the film in question is 'blonde venus' from 1932.
could be. Giving it a second thought this morning, in the early 20s the sound film perhaps wasn't even invented yet. Marlene looks very young though, as from the time when she didn't yet have her special Marlene Dietrich light.
- --Mo
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