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exotica-digest       Thursday, December 6 2001       Volume 02 : Number 1082



In This Digest:

(exotica) hope/crosby/baxter EP on ebay
Re: (exotica) Vinnie Bell question
Re: (exotica) Vinnie Bell and Nikki
Re: (exotica) hope/crosby/baxter EP on ebay
(exotica) Victor Mendosa
(exotica) Framed
(exotica) [obit] Rosemary Brown
Re: (exotica) Vinnie Bell question
(exotica) there's no place like @home MAry Jane
Re: (exotica) [obits] Kal Mann, Harold Schafer
(exotica) FW: Los Machucambos--Caramba
Re: (exotica) there's no place like @home MAry Jane
Re: (exotica) there's no place like @home MAry Jane
RE: (exotica) wah wah records
Re: (exotica) Farewell George Harrison.......
Re: (exotica) Farewell George Harrison.......
(exotica) The Lords
Re: (exotica) The Lords
Re: (exotica) Farewell George Harrison.......
Re: (exotica) The Lords
Re: (exotica) The Lords
(exotica) Special New Wave
Re: (exotica) there's no place like @home MAry Jane
(exotica) 78 crack quiz
(exotica) Whistling Record of the Month
Re: (exotica) Whistling Record of the Month
(exotica) Attilio Mineo LP on ebay
Re: (exotica) there's no place like @home MAry Jane
Re: (exotica) more anti-copy cd news
Re: (exotica) there's no place like @home MAry Jane
Re: (exotica) The Lords
RE: (exotica) Gotan Project
Re: (exotica) more anti-copy cd news

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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 00:21:14
From: "mark jung" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) hope/crosby/baxter EP on ebay

for all you interested, i finally got that minnesota tourism EP with the les
baxter music up for sale - w/ pictures & descriptions - and a few pieces of
"exotica" paraphenalia up, as well - check out

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1492690503

- - mark

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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 19:29:44 -0500
From: Paul Wages <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Vinnie Bell question

> It's called "Nikki", and it's on Bell's 1970 Decca album "Airport Love
> Theme". According to the liner notes, it was the theme to ABC's Tuesday
> Night Movie (I've seen that Movie of the Week clip, too). Never run acros=
s
> another version of it. Anybody else?
>=20
> br cleve

There's this great, informative Bacharach website - The Hitmaker Archive <
http://www14.brinkster.com/hitmaker/default.asp > - which is basically an
indexed discography of Bacharach songs, with lyrics, and the artists who
performed them.  The site offered the following:

=A0    Burt Bacharach=A0(1966) single=A0(Liberty=A055934=A01966)
=A0    Doc Severinsen=A0(1969) The Great Arrival! (Command)
=A0    Ed Ames=A0(1969) Sings The Songs Of Bacharach and David=A0(RCA=A04453=A01969)
=A0    Vincent Bell=A0(1970) -=A0album (Decca=A0DL75212=A01970)
/=A0single=A0(Decca=A032695=A01970)
=A0    Burt Bacharach=A0(1971) Burt Bacharach=A0(A&M=A0=A01971)
=A0    Burt Bacharach=A0(1973) Burt Bacharach and Associates TV Special

And lyrics:

Nikki=20
Burt Bacharach - Hal David

Somewhere there is sunshine.
Somewhere days are warm.
Somewhere there's a happy harbor
far from the storm.
Out where the sun shines there is someone
I'm meant to adore,
and I know the day I find her,
I'll smile once more.
Nikki, it's you.
Nikki, where can you be?
It's you, no one but you for me
I've been so lonely since you went away.
I won't spend a happy day
'til you're back in my arms.
For every dream there is a dreamer,
and when dreams are gone,
for each wish
another star shines to wish up on.
Take all my dreams and all my wishes
Hold them in your heart.
Tell me soon we'll be together,
never to part.
Nikki, it's you.
Nikki, where can you be?
It's you, no one but you for me
I've been so lonely since you went away.
I won't spend a happy day
'til you're back in my arms.
Don't make me wait here in the shadows
till my life is done.
I can't live without the sunshine,
you are the sun.
Oh Nikki, it's you.

Paul



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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 19:47:51 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Vinnie Bell and Nikki

In a message dated 12/4/01 2:16:46 PM, [e-mail] writes:

<< I guess I win today's Bacharach geek contest. :) >>

its irresistible stuff...I'm strongly attracted to BJ's "Everybody's Out Of
Town"


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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 20:36:49 -0500
From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) hope/crosby/baxter EP on ebay

Am I the only one who might bid on this one because of the Bob Hope connection?

Will

Please note my new email address: [e-mail]

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, 4 Dec 2001 22:27:15 -0500
From: "Domenic Ciccone" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Victor Mendosa

A couple of nice threads lately here on the list.

Someone mentioned Victor Mendosa to me the other day. Described as great
over the top Latino instrumentals. The name sounds familiar but I can't find
any in my collection of LP's.  Anybody here a fan?

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

And please check out my new surgically enhanced web page!


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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 22:46:51 -0500
From: Will Straw <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Framed

This is a non-exotica request, but I'm seeking help.

Earlier this fall, I bought a bunch of semi-legal VHS copies of films noirs
from a guy in Texas.  Tonight, we sat down to watch Framed (1947),
thoroughly enjoying it until the copy stopped 10 minutes from the end.  I
can email the original vendor, but he seems to have dropped out of
sight.  The movie is on again on "MYST -- Encore's Mystery Channel", on
December 17th, at two different times.  (It was also on the same channel
about 4 hours ago, but that doesn't help me much.)  If anyone could tape
this for me, I'd happily return the favour with tapes of obscure films,
CD-burns or anything else it would take.  You can email me directly,
off-list on this one.

Thanks,
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, 04 Dec 2001 22:46:24 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) [obit] Rosemary Brown

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/02/obituaries/02BROW.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=3D%22Rosemary+Brown%22+medium&hl=3Den
December 2, 2001
Rosemary Brown, a Friend of Dead Composers, Dies at 85
By DOUGLAS MARTIN,NYTimes
=20
 Rosemary Brown, who as a middle-aged widow living in a London suburb in the
1960's said she had been in contact with history's most illustrious
composers, offering as evidence hundreds of piano miniatures that she said
Beethoven, Bach and others had "dictated" to her, died on Nov. 16 in London.
She was 85.

The odd experiences she described =97 which included shopping with Liszt (he
was interested in the price of bananas) and watching television with Chopin
(he was appalled) =97 found a resonant audience in the era of the Beatles=
 and
flower power. More intriguingly, they attracted expert scrutiny and some
approbation from such luminaries as Leonard Bernstein, along with tidal
waves of more or less good-natured ridicule from most of the music
establishment.

Mrs. Brown's credibility as a medium was buttressed by her own musical
ignorance. She had just three years of piano instruction and could not play
by ear or extemporize. There was no record player or radio in her home and
she said she never went to concerts.

"I seemed to lose control of my hands; it was as though someone were guiding
them," she said of the first time she received a piece of music from Liszt.

Peter Katin, an outstanding interpreter of Chopin, was pleased to record
many of the piano works, while the composer Humphrey Searle published an
essay noting the similarity of Mrs. Brown's Liszt pieces with his later
official compositions. Mr. Bernstein suggested he could "buy," meaning
accept, a piece by Rachmaninoff, but not much else.

Andr=E9 Previn, then conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, said that=
 if
the newfound compositions were genuine, they would best have been left on
the shelf.

But the British composer Richard Rodney Bennett seemed entirely convinced,
at least at the time. He said that when he was having trouble with a
composition of his own, Mrs. Brown passed along Debussy's recommendation. It
worked.

"If she is a fake, she is a brilliant one, and must have had years of
training," he said in an interview in Time magazine. "Some of the music is
awful, but some is marvelous. I couldn't have faked the Beethoven."

Regardless of how much Western music may or may not have been enriched by
posthumous contributions channeled by Mrs. Brown, there was scant doubt of
her entertainment value. She set off waves of interest in several
appearances on British Broadcasting Corporation radio shows, the first in
1969. In the United States, she played at Town Hall in New York and appeared
on "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson, telling him that her sources said
there was no sex in heaven.

She described the various composers in often humorous detail. Beethoven, she
said, was no longer deaf and had lost "that crabby look." Debussy wore "very
bizarre clothes" and was "a hippie type." Chopin kept screaming something in
French; it turned out to be a warning that her bathtub was overflowing.

<<early bio details snipped>>

In 1964, she suffered an accident at the school kitchen where she worked and
resumed playing the piano during her long recovery. That was when Liszt
returned, as promised. She recognized him immediately, she said, and he
arranged for the other composers to come, acting "like sort of a reception
desk."

They took different approaches. Chopin told her what notes to play and
pushed her fingers down on the right keys. Beethoven and Bach liked her to
sit at a table and take dictation with a pencil. Schubert tried to sing his
compositions, but "he hasn't a very good voice," she said.

She was supported by contributions from people who believed in the occult.
She wrote three books on her channeling, and made a number of recordings,
some featuring her playing the easier pieces, the last in 1988. In the
mid-1980's, the visits ceased as she fell into ill health. She is survived
by a son and a daughter.

She always declined to ask her musical visitors the questions that outsiders
thought would prove their existence. When Time offered her a list of 20
questions, she replied, "I cannot push a button and call on the composers
just like that."

But when she needed notes for an album cover in 1970, Sir Donald Tovey, a
musicologist, was pleased to provide them. "It is the implications relevant
to this phenomenon that we hope will stimulate sensitive interest," he said.

He had died in 1940.




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Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 23:18:18 -0500
From: Paul Wages <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Vinnie Bell question

There's this great, informative Bacharach website - The Hitmaker Archive
<http://www14.brinkster.com/hitmaker/default.asp> - which is basically an
indexed discography of Bacharach songs, with lyrics, and many of the artist=
s
who performed them.  The site offered the following on "Nikki":

=A0    Burt Bacharach=A0(1966) single=A0(Liberty=A055934=A01966)
=A0    Doc Severinsen=A0(1969) The Great Arrival! (Command)
=A0    Ed Ames=A0(1969) Sings The Songs Of Bacharach and David=A0(RCA=A04453=A01969)
=A0    Vincent Bell=A0(1970) -=A0album (Decca=A0DL75212=A01970)
/=A0single=A0(Decca=A032695=A01970)
=A0    Burt Bacharach=A0(1971) Burt Bacharach=A0(A&M=A0=A01971)
=A0    Burt Bacharach=A0(1973) Burt Bacharach and Associates TV Special

And lyrics:

Nikki=20
Burt Bacharach - Hal David

Somewhere there is sunshine.
Somewhere days are warm.
Somewhere there's a happy harbor
far from the storm.
Out where the sun shines there is someone
I'm meant to adore,
and I know the day I find her,
I'll smile once more.
Nikki, it's you.
Nikki, where can you be?
It's you, no one but you for me
I've been so lonely since you went away.
I won't spend a happy day
'til you're back in my arms.
For every dream there is a dreamer,
and when dreams are gone,
for each wish
another star shines to wish up on.
Take all my dreams and all my wishes
Hold them in your heart.
Tell me soon we'll be together,
never to part.
Nikki, it's you.
Nikki, where can you be?
It's you, no one but you for me
I've been so lonely since you went away.
I won't spend a happy day
'til you're back in my arms.
Don't make me wait here in the shadows
till my life is done.
I can't live without the sunshine,
you are the sun.
Oh Nikki, it's you.

Paul



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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 21:47:22 -0800
From: "basic hip" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) there's no place like @home MAry Jane

'cept there ain't no @home no more.  :(

but the situation is resolved, I've changed my email address for the third
time in as many days and, best news of all, I've got that fat pipeline back
to shove my MP3 files through

so here is Mary Jane.  it is a VERY short LP, but has some good tracks on
it.  The first side is less than 10 minutes long!  file encoding should
cause no problems this time, I hope :)

http://www.basichip.com/record_of_the_week/album.htm



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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 01:16:22 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) [obits] Kal Mann, Harold Schafer

I haven't seen that the obituary of Norman Granz, the pioneer of the Verve Records label, was posted here.  In TIME Magazine his notice is overshadowed by far by the outpouring for George Harrison; to some in the non-rock music community that could have been considered an outrageous snub.  I would look to Downbeat magazine, for example, to celebrate his contributions more thoroughly.


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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 09:21:04 -0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) FW: Los Machucambos--Caramba

I received this request, and I can't answer it.  Firstly I don't buy CD's
and secondly the only Los Machucambos track I have is off one of those old
compilations I got from a charity shop.
Is anyone able to help?

cheers

El Maestro Con Queso

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> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for Los Machucambos--Caramba on CD. Can you help ?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> David Soto
>
>
>


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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 12:10:01 +0100
From: [e-mail] (moritzR)
Subject: Re: (exotica) there's no place like @home MAry Jane

basic hip schrieb:

>
>
> so here is Mary Jane.  it is a VERY short LP, but has some good tracks on
> it.  The first side is less than 10 minutes long!  file encoding should
> cause no problems this time, I hope :)
>
> http://www.basichip.com/record_of_the_week/album.htm

download rate much better now and no problems with encoding the files! haven't listened to the record yet, but very curious and excited!

- --Mo
............................
studio «
http://moritzR.de
[e-mail]
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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 06:32:24 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) there's no place like @home MAry Jane

At 09:47 PM 12/4/01 -0800, basic hip wrote:
>
>
>so here is Mary Jane.  it is a VERY short LP, but has some good tracks on
>it.  The first side is less than 10 minutes long!  file encoding should
>cause no problems this time, I hope :)

I got it.  On my good ole 56K connection.

So now basic hip, if I'm going to put two of these on each CDR like I did
with the Adventurers and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, you have to put
one up next week that fits with this one in some way.
You have any ideas?  Do you have the Sword and the Switchblade?  I don't
even know it but that might work.
Or one of those Stu Philips biker soundtracks.  Something other than Angels
from Hell which I have.

Think about it.

AZ



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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 16:18:15 -0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: (exotica) wah wah records

Bit late I know, but I found this site recently:

http://www.terra.es/personal3/babytripy/wahwah

or if that won't work this is inside the site

http://www.terra.es/personal3/babytripy/wahwah/menu/sello/info.html

The English site isn't working yet, it seems.
I'm hoping to go out to Barcelona for a weekend in the spring for a wedding.
Perhaps do some shopping...

El Maestro Con Queso

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> Does anyone out there know if the reissue label/record store-Wah Wah
> records
> out of Spain has a website?
> if so what is it??
> thanks
> -jonny


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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 16:37:16 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Farewell George Harrison.......

In a message dated 12/1/2001 6:13:53 AM, [e-mail] writes:

<< Yellow Submarine was the first 45's i ever picked out to have
my parents buy for me. >>

My aunt bought me Magical Mystery Tour, my first record.
My favorite beatle was Yoko.


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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 16:42:09 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Farewell George Harrison.......

That's funny - I think my favorite Beatle is Sir George Martin.  Followed in whichever order by John Lennon and Billy Preston.  Then by Ringo and Paul van Moneybags, and George lastly.  I think his influence was more cultural than musical on the other guys, and I never thought much of him as a guitar player.


[e-mail] wrote:
>

My favorite beatle was Yoko.


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Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 00:03:35 +0100
From: [e-mail] (moritzR)
Subject: (exotica) The Lords

I can't believe this. I recieved the latest issue of Cool & Strange Music=
 in the mail today - thanks a lot, Dana, a wonderful issue! - and what di=
d I read? Of all people in the universe the notorious Alan Zweig doing a =
review of a CD by, of all bands in the universe, The Lords!!! This is rea=
lly too much. The Lords. You can't call them a band really, they were a p=
henomenon, a strictly german phenomenon that is, this lead singer of them=
, Lord Uli, whom I saw performing some 5 years ago in a disco not long be=
fore his death, was the typical post-war 60s slacker. Their big hit "Glor=
yland" is beyond belief. They are above all a childhood phenomenon, that =
I wouldn't even talk about with other germans, who might still know them.=
 I would never ever have believed that the Lords would create any attenti=
on outside Germany or outside the 60s ever, and now Alan - Alan! - writes=
 about them!  What does this tell me? It tells me, that there is no energ=
y lost in the universe ever - halleluja!


- -- Mo
=2E...........................
studio =AE
http://moritzR.de
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Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 01:03:05 +0100
From: Ton =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=FCckert?= <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Lords

>I would never ever have believed that the Lords would create any attention
outside Germany or outside the 60s ever, and now Alan - Alan! - writes
about them! What does this tell me? It tells me, that there is no energy
lost in the universe ever - halleluja!

That should be enough to qualify for an Ig Nobel Prize.

Cheers, Ton

PS

They had a following over here (The Netherlands) too, as far as I know only
in the 60s, though.



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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:03:47 -0000
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Farewell George Harrison.......

Unrelated-ish I know but have any UK listees noticed Paul McC around and
about this last couple of weeks. Radio 1, CD:UK, the Pepsi Chart Show,
Channel 4 on Sunday morning, etc. Apparently he has pressured his record
company into making his new album a big hit so they are telling the youth
music shows that, 'we'll give you X, Y and Z pop stars but you have to take
a washed up old Beatle as well'.
A busy week of appearances was thankfully cut short when George died so Paul
didn't appear with Chris Moyles.

And was it on this list that I heard that Paul owns the publishing on Happy
Birthday? What a top fact!



Charlie


Subject: Re: (exotica) Farewell George Harrison.......


>
>That's funny - I think my favorite Beatle is not Paul van Moneybags.



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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 19:31:52 EST
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Lords

In a message dated 12/5/01 6:05:15 PM, [e-mail] writes:

<< The Lords..........  whom I saw performing some 5 years ago in a disco >>

That oughta make Brian's hair stand on end up there at McGill



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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 19:56:11 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Lords

At 12:03 AM 12/6/01 +0100, moritzR wrote:
>
>I can't believe this. I recieved the latest issue of Cool & Strange Music
in the mail today - thanks a lot, Dana, a wonderful issue! - and what did I
read? Of all people in the universe the notorious Alan Zweig doing a review
of a CD by, of all bands in the universe, The Lords!!! .

Was that the latest issue?  It seems so long ago.
I don't remember if I said this in the review but I honestly thought the CD
was a hoax when I first opened it.  Like the Rutles or Spinal Tap.
They went through a few too many stylistic changes to believe they were a
genuine band.  From garage to ABBA.
Then it occurred to me that no one would do a hoax like that and then make
the liner notes German only.
(Unless they were really sneaky.)
So I had to take it seriously.  Which was kind of hard.  The pictures
alone, watching them change their outfits with the changing styles, was
worth the price of the CD (though of course I not only paid nothing but
subsequently sold it.)
I can't recommend the CD but it was a lot of fun.
Actually they reminded me of a whole bunch of Quebecois bands.  But I can't
think of any English Canadian or American band they remind me of.
Except maybe the Banana Splits.

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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:51:36 -0500
From: "George Hall" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Special New Wave

Slowly catching up to some aging threads...

Specials - I liked them in the day, still enjoy the first LP (at least in
theory) but passed on the second disc for that same reason, all those
reviews calling it "easy listening." This was a bad thing. Saw it as a
cut-out CD earlier this year,
remembered the reviews & thought hmmm, maybe I just wasn't ready. & I guess
I wasn't, it's quite good I think.

New Wave - when I think of it, I tend to imagine a nervous & possibly skinny
vocalist hiccupping over an unrelaxed dance groove, willfully wrong & not
often funky, but likeable. At least the stuff I don't dislike. I rented the
movie "Urgh! A Music War" the other month & recommend to anyone with warm
feelings for the era. XTC, Pere Ubu, the DK's, Klaus Nomi (!), Devo, Gang of
4, Wall of Voodoo, etc.
As far as a new wave / exotica connection, I can't help but think that some
of the zany period fashions helped make a phenomenon out of thrift-store
shopping. Some even ended up in the record section & bought some LPs for the
funny, anachronistic covers. Some actually listened to them.
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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 18:59:15 -0800
From: "basic hip" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) there's no place like @home MAry Jane

> ...if I'm going to put two of these on each CDR like I did
> with the Adventurers and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls...

Hold it!  unlike CD-R's made from WAV files, where two complete LP's usually
just fit onto one 74 minute CDR, you should be able to fit at least a dozen
LPs on the same CDR when they are formatted as MP3 files such as these.

The Adventurers and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls total 59MB of storage
space and a CD-R holds 650MB, so you have tons more room!

That's why I started this MP3 thing.  So I could bring one CD to work with
15 LP's on it to listen to.  IN the process, I started the upload, since I
already had it on my computer.  You don't even need a CD burner.  You can
put them on a 100MB zip disk and tote 'em with you that way.  Or you can get
one of those neato gizmo's that fit in the palm of your hand and download
the files from your computer right into it and take a walk while listening
to your favorites.

And I remember holding a transistor radio to your ear and listening to AM.
Or using that weird nude colored single earphone thingy.

> Or one of those Stu Philips biker soundtracks...

I'm working on the Biker soundtracks, but they are tough to get without
coughing up decent dough.  I found Born Losers (Billy Jack) not long ago.
It has a nice cover and has music by the Sidewalk Sounds and Terry Stafford
singing a couple of tracks, but I did not think it was all that great.




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Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 22:22:12 -0500
From: "M.Ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 78 crack quiz

Record care question of the week...

Any tips on dealing with cracked 78s? Getting a decent playback? Repair?
Sacrifices to the Bug God of Shellac?

thanks much,

M.Ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:12:57 -0800
From: "basic hip" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Whistling Record of the Month

Well, you had to know this was coming, the latest featue of my
will-it-ever-be-finished site on whistling
records.  It's the Record of the Month

December's Record appropriately is a Christmas LP and a darn scarce one,
Fred Lowery's "A Family Christmas"

I have looked online for Fred Lowery and other whistling records practically
on a daily basis for a few years now and have never seen or heard of this
one.  So my eyes just about popped out of their sockets when I saw it.  I
immediately contacted the seller and made him an offer he was very happy to
get and he closed the auction early.  If this is a common find in Texas
thrift stores, don't tell me.  And if it is, why didn't you tell me!!!  I
need this stuff :)

It is a very old-fashioned, traditional Christmas album.  Don't expect any
Ding Dongs or Adventures in Carols, it is what it is. I was a little let
down when I first listened to it.  As is often the case with record
collecting, the hunt is more exciting that the capture.  But I'm glad to
have it and will treasure it for years to come.

It is a nice mix of Mr. Lowery's solos, voices by The Calvary Singers, a
duet with 10 and 13 year old sisters, even a spoken word piece, the famous
"Letter to Virginia".

here it is and happy holidays to all -

http://www.basichip.com/whistling/sounds/record_of_the_month/album.htm



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Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 01:19:17 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Whistling Record of the Month

At 09:12 PM 12/5/01 -0800, basic hip wrote:
.>
>December's Record appropriately is a Christmas LP and a darn scarce one,
>Fred Lowery's "A Family Christmas"
>
>I have looked online for Fred Lowery and other whistling records practically
>on a daily basis for a few years now and have never seen or heard of this
>one.  .


I just want to make absolutely sure you have "Whistle a Happy tune".
Because if you don't, you can have it for free.
And I can't remember if you're the bird call guy as well as the whistling
guy but if you are, I also have a Platt and Whitney record you could have.
The first tune is "Jesus is all the world to me", which the whole list is
already humming along to as they read this.

AS far as that other thing abuot how many MP3's can go on a CD, I guess
they must have converted to Wav Files or whatever you said, because I just
saved them to my hard drive and then dumped them onto CD with Easy CD
creator and they came out to 67 minutes for the two soundtracks.

And to be honest, I don't think I'm prepared for the idea of putting a
dozen records on one CD.  And anyway, if the Mp3's don't get converted, how
will my CD player be able to play an MP3?

Confused but whistling to hide my fear, I remain

AZ



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Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 11:17:10 +0000
From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Attilio Mineo LP on ebay

i was going to copy some lines from Jack's site about it being
'A-M-A-Z-I-N-G-!!' and the best record in the world ever, but his new
site seems to be a bit more restrained.

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1491739789


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Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 11:22:15 +0000
From: Michael Jemmeson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) there's no place like @home MAry Jane

basic hip wrote:
>
> > ...if I'm going to put two of these on each CDR like I did
> > with the Adventurers and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls...
>
> Hold it!  unlike CD-R's made from WAV files, where two complete LP's usually
> just fit onto one 74 minute CDR, you should be able to fit at least a dozen
> LPs on the same CDR when they are formatted as MP3 files such as these.
>
> The Adventurers and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls total 59MB of storage
> space and a CD-R holds 650MB, so you have tons more room!

not trying to guess what Alan is doing here, but maybe he's recording
the CDs as audio? that's what i will do with the Miriam Burton when I
get round to it. i find audio much more convenient than MP3s - then you
can listen through a proper hi-fi whenever you want


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Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 14:07:12 +0100
From: [e-mail] (moritzR)
Subject: Re: (exotica) more anti-copy cd news

I heard that it is very well possible to copy protected CDs with a stand-alone "audio" burner. Can you confirm this? I mean, it's logical: you go into the stereo in and out analog, so...

- -- Mo
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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:32:40 -0800
From: "basic hip" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) there's no place like @home MAry Jane

> not trying to guess what Alan is doing here, but maybe he's recording
> the CDs as audio? that's what i will do with the Miriam Burton when I
> get round to it. i find audio much more convenient than MP3s - then you
> can listen through a proper hi-fi whenever you want

Of course - Ok, that makes sense.  I did not even realize you could do
that...so much for my technical knowhow :(

Thanks for the offer on Whistle A Happy Tune and the Ralph Platt.  Happy
Tune was the one that started this ridiculous obsession.  Got em both, but
please do continue to alert me with anything anybody stumbles upon.





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Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 09:57:01 -0500
From: Brian Phillips <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Lords

I like some of the Lords' stuff, too.  My old band covered their version of
"Dr. Feelgood".

Brian Phillips




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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:54:59 -0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: RE: (exotica) Gotan Project

And as Rob reported the Gotan Project LP on XL is now out.  Picked up a
copy, and its very much in the Thievery Corp with Accordions camp.  =
Nicely
mellow, dubby,  judging by the personnel list, they may even be =
Argentinean.
So I may not be playing this after the summer ;=AC).
It actually reminded me of Grace Jones 'La Vie En Rose'.  Or should =
that be
Sly and Robbie's 'La Vie En Rose'.
Two names (Sly and Robbie that is) strangely missing from the recent  =
reggae
or dub or Ska debate, considering they practically invented the sound =
that
is under a lot of modern lounge records.

Have to keep an eye out for that Stereo Action Unlimited LP now.

El Maestro Con Queso

[e-mail]
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http://www.geocities.com/djcheesemaster/


> I love Gotan Project - the new album is due out any day now. There =
are 3
> 10"
> singles by them; the second one has a great version of "Last Tango In
> Paris"
> theme, and the third they cover Zappa's "Chunga's Revenge". Not for =
the
> dancefloor, but definitely for the lounge. Two of the members have =
another
> project called Stereo Action Unlimited, who just released their 2nd
> single,
> "Lovelight", a few weeks ago. It's a gorgeous bossa nova, along with =
3
> very
> cool remixes. There's a good Ya Basta compilation that came out a few
> months
> ago that's highly recommended, it's a great label.
>=20
> br cleve
>=20


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Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 13:55:02 -0500
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) more anti-copy cd news

At 02:07 PM 12/6/01 +0100, moritzR wrote:
>
>I heard that it is very well possible to copy protected CDs with a
stand-alone "audio" burner. Can you confirm this? I mean, it's logical: you
go into the stereo in and out analog, so...

I've never bought a copy protected CD and I'm not sure I ever will.  But I
would expect to be able to record it this way, yes.  If you can play it,
you can record it.
Actually I wonder about these anti-copy CD's in other ways too.
In case you don't know it, most standalone machines work only with special
blank CD's - which can be a fair bit more expensive than the normal
variety, at least twice as much.
And they say that these special CD's are copy-protected.
But all they mean is that you can't copy them if you're going from a CD
player to a CD recorder via a digital cable.
And I don't think I've ever seen anyone with that particular setup.

Anyway does anyone here really expect to be buying a copy protected CD in
the near future?
Unless you're planning to develop a taste for Celine Dion or Creed, it
doesn't seem like much of an issue.

AZ



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