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exotica-digest          Friday, May 15 1998          Volume 02 : Number 110



In This Digest:

Re: Re[2]: (exotica) Formats & Speed
Re: (exotica) Galt McDermot
(exotica) Cook Laboratories
Re: (exotica) Baxter soundtracks
(exotica) A very sad message
Re: (exotica) Shipping damage and packaging
(exotica) Frankie Flies - Millenium Comes Early
(exotica) This American Life: Sinatra
(exotica) Exotica-l archive suggestion
(exotica) cleaning CDs (FWD)
(exotica) Sizes and speeds
(exotica) Love-In - NOT!
(exotica) Re: Baxter soundtracks :Cry of the Banshee/Edgar Allan Poe
(exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update
(exotica) Danke Schoen
Re[2]:(exotica) cleaning CDs (FWD)
(exotica) Galt McDermot (more research)
(exotica) 10" rims...
(exotica) Frankie
Re: (exotica) Frankie
(exotica) Moody Plays Mancini
Re: (exotica) Mike Love Not War
(exotica) Japan's karaoke industry mourns Sinatra
(exotica) fwd: Internet Update Special - Frank Sinatra 05/15/98
(exotica) Re: Danke Schoen
(exotica) Big and not so big ten inch...records
(exotica) Sinatra and Vegas
Re: (exotica) Sinatra and Vegas
Re: (exotica) Sizes and speeds

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Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 18:06:57 -0400
From: "telstar" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Re[2]: (exotica) Formats & Speed

Peter wrote:

> The only goofy record layout I have is the 100th release from ReR
records. It's
> a 7" with 50 locked tracks on each side.  Most are stupid noise, but some
are
> very funny and of course, conceptually it's incredible.

Actually, the release ("RRR-100") is on the American noise label RRRecords
(ReR is the British label run by former Henry Cow drummer Chris Cutler).

Another lock-groove disc is Non's "Pagan Muzak" which consists on a 7" disc
in a lp sleeve, with the added bonus of an extra spindle hole so the record
can be played off-centre!

Allan




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Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 15:38:24 -0700
From: "Carl Russo" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Galt McDermot

From Charles:

>Does anybody know which Galt McDermot soundtrack featured the track 'Ripped
>Open by Metal Explosions'? And can anyone recommend other McDermot
>soundtracks? (Other than Hair)

Don't know about that track title, but MacDermot also did the score for
COTTON COMES TO HARLEM.  Pretty hokey funky stuff.  Not worth dropping a
bundle to own.

C. "Ratso" Russo





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Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 19:27:24 -0400
From: Mark Renwick <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Cook Laboratories

Mimi asked about Cook Laboratories of Stamford, Connecticut.  Emory Cook
produced some of the first LPs with very wide frequency response in the
early fifties.  Most of his catalog was classical music.  Hence, his labe=
l
doesn't show up on the Spaceage Pop Standards Page.  There were a few
theatre organ recordings of Reginald Foorte at the Detroit Fox theatre an=
d
the Richmond Mosque.

He also developed a system for recording stereo on vinyl, whereby there
were two separate grooves, about 2 inches apart:  one for each channel. =

You had to have a special tone arm with 2 phono cartridges in order to pl=
ay
these records.  If you run across a Cook Labs catalog of this early perio=
d,
you'll notice that the play list for a given release is different for the=

stereo and mono versions, because the stereo version played half as long =
as
the mono.

I recently picked up "Cooks Tour Of High Fidelity," and it definitely is =
a
hoot!

- --Mark
  Jacksonville, Florida
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Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 22:45:15 -0400
From: Mark Benton Reed <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Baxter soundtracks

SLarry3595 wrote:

> In a message dated 5/13/98 2:03 you wrote:
>
> ....  When Roger Corman's AIP company imported

A minor correction--Corman worked for AIP, he didn't own or run the place.  That
honor went to Samuel Z. Arkoff.   BTW, does anyone know of a website devoted to
American International Pictures?



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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 02:59:19 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A very sad message

Frank Sinatra is dead

LOS ANGELES (CNN) --
Frank Sinatra, the dashing teen
idol who matured into the
premier romantic balladeer of
American popular music and
the "Chairman of the Board" to
his millions of fans, died
Thursday night of a heart
attack. He was 82.

Sinatra was pronounced dead at 10:50 p.m. in the
emergency room of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said
his publicist, Susan Reynolds. Sinatra's family, including
his wife, was with him when he died.

Sinatra was a master craftsman and ranked as one of the
most influential singers in this country's history. In more
than 200 albums, his music led the evolution of Big Band
to vocal American music.

Magnus


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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 03:30:16 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Shipping damage and packaging

>> Surely, I can't be the only collector whose had problems this year
with
>> damage to lp covers due to bad packaging.

No, you are not... 1 time out of 3 the records arrive to me in the same
condition as they was sent. Usually it is one or two corners that is a
little disfigured, not that bad, but unnecessary.

Magnus

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 05:02:48 PDT
From: "keir keightley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Frankie Flies - Millenium Comes Early

David Hadju, I think, wrote "Forget the calendar.  The day Frank Sinatra
dies, the 20th century is over".  In any case, may I suggest Frank's
1958 recording of Matt Dennis's "Angel Eyes" as an appropriate coda,
since it mentions the devil (someone Frank is probably getting to know
even better at this very moment), contains the line "burning unbearably
bright" (that describes Sinatra's talent, I'd say), and it ends with
"'scuse me while I...disappear".  Goodbye baby and Amen.

From Swingin'LoversLand,
Keir

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 10:09:57 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) This American Life: Sinatra

If you've got RealAudio, head over to this URL and listen to one fine tribute:
<http://www.kcrw.org/c/tamlife/tamlisten.html>


"Sinatra"
A rebroadcast of one of our most popular shows. Stories about Frank Sinatra,
his greatness, his awfulness, and why is it that he may turn out to be the
most important singer of the 20th century. Writer Gay Talese reads his 1966
classic piece of reporting "Frank Sinatra has a cold." Sarah Vowell begs
American TV producers NOT to play "My Way" as the background to Frank's
obit. Novelist Michael Ventura reads from his novel "The Death of Frank
Sinatra." Camden Joy describes a greasy spoon full of Pakistani cabdrivers
nearly choking to death while watching Frank acting in "The Manchurean
Candidate." Musicologist Will Friedwald explains what makes Sinatra so
different and special. Disturbing recordings of Frank in 1962, and more.
First broadcast 2/21/97. April 18, 1998.




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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 18:00:46 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Kenny Brockelstein)
Subject: (exotica) Exotica-l archive suggestion

I have a suggestion to make to whoever is responsible for the website with
all the archived messages from Exotica - is it possible to add a search
engine to the site?? I've seen that on other archived lists' webpages
atleast. It'd really make things more easy and accessible and instead of
having to go through *every* message (which is the current situation) if I
want to find some discussions about, say, Ennio Morricone or P5, a quick
search using one of those engines would give me exactly what I'm looking
for.

Kenny Brockelstein




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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 11:56:40 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) cleaning CDs (FWD)

sent by a correspondent:

* * * *

Date: 14 May 1998 01:40:42 -0500
From: Jeff Johnson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [PT] CD cleaners

I am not kidding about this. Clean your CD's with cheap vodka and an old
cotton T-shirt.

Cheap vodka is ethel alcohol and distilled water. It cleans CDs
wonderfully.

Wipe radially (like LPs)

Then suck the shirt.

[e-mail]
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Date: Fri, 15 May 98 9:06:58 CDT
From: "VIC RUGH" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sizes and speeds

     The topic has been pretty well covered now, I guess.  (Kinda
interesting the guesses on the reasoning for some of the sizes/speeds.  We
are like archeologists, interpreting the use and importance of tools of
which we find little pieces.)  Anyway, here's another two cents worth.
This is the way I've experienced it, from largest to smallest:

16 inch.  Broadcast transcriptions.  "ET's" for electric transcriptions.
Some DID spiral out from center; some did not.  Some did use "locked groove,
" where there was no tracking from cut to cut.  Many were 33 1/3 rpm, but
78 was also widely used.  Groove width was "standard" as in the old 78's
(which also varied alot) until around late 40's when microgroove at 33 1/3
started to sneak in.  Many "syndicated" (unsponsored) or "public service"
radio programs came that way.

(Don't have any experience with anything between 16 and 12 inch)

12 inch.  The labels in the 20's and 30's used this size for classical, I
know.  And late 30's thru the 40's many albums (four to eight sides) were
set on 12 inch.  Especially classical and spoken word artists.  These were
all 78 rpm, of course.  The 12-inch microgroove 33-1/3 was 50's thru
present day.

10 inch.  This size is about where the flat disk recording started, when
Thomas Alva's cylinder was abandoned.  (Most of those early thick,
single-sided recordings measured something a little greater than 12
inches.)  Many/most popular singles in the 78 world were this size.  These
stayed the norm until somewhere in the first half of the 50's the industry
(mostly RCA Victor) pushed the microgroove 7-inch 45 rpm on the market.  It
is interesting that the "LP" --(is that still copyright Columbia
records/Sony?) was initially most popularly accepted as a 10-inch item.
Don't know when the 10-inch faded.  (No, I do not recall ever seeing a
double-disk 10-inch issue.)

(I have only seen disks between 7 and 10 inches as special product, nothing
commercial, so I have no knowledge of how they were used in the public
market.)

7 inch.  There was a 7-inch 78 used for children's recordings.  Otherwise,
as noted above, that dimension introed in the 50's.  Microgroove 45 rpm.
Could easily hold seven or eight minutes a side.  The "EP" or Extended Play
was an "album" which is to say, more than two cuts on a disk.  (Or, as in
some jazz or classical releases, two cuts, but really LONG cuts!)  An EP
was not necessarily more than one disk, of course, but I have seen some
that had THREE disks, with the three sleeves constructed as three pages of
a book (versus three-way gate).    There is another 7-inch format:  the
33-1/3, which was introduced in the early 60's.  While the 45 rpm had a
large center hole the 33-1/3 reverted to the small hole of the LP and 78.
Commercially it never quite caught.  It had the advantage of being able to
carry just that much more time per side-- easily three or four cuts per
side.  I recall hearing that record producers expected people to like the
fact that, on SOME SELECT RECORD CHANGERS (the old
stack-em-on-a-spindle-and-let'em-go-things)  you could mix these little
7-inchers with your 10- and 12-inchers!  Yes, there were machines that
allowed folks to mix 10- and 12-inch disks.  Most 7-inch 33-1/3 I've seen
were Capitol label.  There were others, weren't there?

Except for kids' records (78-rpm on any color plastic) anything smaller
than 7-inch were, in my experience, "toys."  They were limited-distribution
prizes or hand-outs in cereal boxes and fast-food restaurants, for example.

A word about the 16 RPMs... I don't recall any size but 12-inch disks at
this speed.  I don't think I ever saw an attempt to push commercial
("popular") music in this format.  Through the 60's and 70's there were a
lot of "books on disk" and other educational materials available this way.
Most "household" variety machines had this selection (as well and 33-1/3,
45, and 78).

Some thots about record changers:  In the 60's(?) most record companies
started producing their LPs with the rim raised, or thicker than the rest
of the disk.  The idea was that, on a changer, the disk would drop onto
another disk and make contact only at the out (raised) rim and at the label,
 sparing the grooves of any contact, especially while the dropping disk was
NOT rotating and the one on the turntable was.  I think there was a name
given to that feature, as a selling tool (such as "Now with protecto-rim"
or something).  And one post mentioned the top disks beginning to slip and
slow down.  In many PROMO or DEEJAY versions, the weight of the disk was
thinner and it could be the second of the stack and start slipping.  It
made you program your stack based on the material content of the disk(!)
not the sounds!



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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 10:12:05 -0600
From: mike clifford <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Love-In - NOT!

The brother of an old roommate of mine once sent him a "Smile" cassette boot
 that had a great song by Ben Vaughn rounding out the second side called
"Kill Mike Love."  I forget the lyrics, but I think it perfectly
encapsulated many of our feelings about the Beach Boys.  I don't know if the
worthiness of the Beach Boys for this list has been discussed before, but I
just want to ask how many of us fans have had to fight Mike Love-induced
images of the Beach Boys while trying to explain our feelings to civilians?
I think he was happier to collaborate with that guy from "Full House" than
anybody decent.
Mike

>> >
>> >Some Mike Love facts: He blocked the release of Smile, he blocked the
>> >releases of Brian's 70's stuff (they are actually much better than the
>> >officially released records!), he was behind blocking the 1988 re-release
>> >of Pet Sounds and the Smile Sessions album (fearing that Brian would get
>> >too much attention along with the release of his amazing soloalbum that
>> >year), he was solely responsible for the three-year delay of the release of
>> >the Pet Sounds Box Set - which is why it's so hypocritical of him to praise
>> >the very same album in the promo film for the Box Set. Come on, admit
>> >publicly you hate it, don't be such a chicken and backstab Brian privately
>> >where noone can hear you!
>> >
>>
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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 19:06:08 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Baxter soundtracks :Cry of the Banshee/Edgar Allan Poe

>From: Pearmania <[e-mail]>

>Can anyone on the list offer recommendations to buy these?

    it's not like his "exotica" work at all, this is orchestral horror
    music, dark, spooky, very effective to increase the horror effect of
    the images of the movie, no doubt, but as stand-alone rather boring
    IMO.

    i preferred John Cavacas' score to "horror express", which is also on
    the same cd. not only orchestral, but also with cymbalon, brass and
    electric guitar; easier to digest, not as dark. the 2 title theme
    versions are beautiful, with whistling, and a haunting melody a la
    Morricone.

    all in all not really recommended.

        Johan

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 19:05:53 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) New eXotica Releases Overview Update

A new update to the eXotica Releases Overview is available.
These are the most important recent additions, that where not yet announced
here:




              - new (1998) releases & announcements -


* Alberto Baldan Bembo: "Io E Mara"
      CD/LP, Right Tempo/Easy Tempo ET 910, Italy, 1998

* Martin Bottcher: "Kriminalfilm-Musik
  (Originaufnahmen Aus Pater-Brown, Edgar-Wallace- Und Anderen Krimis"
      CD, BSC 6518, Germany, 1998

* Attileo Mineo: "Man In Space With Sounds!"
      LP, Wah-Wah, Spain, 1998  --------->  [e-mail]
      (also on CD, Subliminal Sounds SUBXMCD-604, Sweden, 1997)

* Soundtrack: "Chariots Of The Gods" [by Peter Thomas]
      CD, Polydor, Germany, 1998

* Peter Wyngarde: "When Sex Leers Its Inquisitive Head"
      CD, RPM 187, UK, 1998




              - old but interesting finds I stumbled on -


* Jack Costanzo And Gerry Woo: "Latin Percussion With Soul"
      CD, Tico, USA?, 199?

* Mongo Santamaria: "Afro Blue"
      CD, Concord 4781, USA, 199?

* Jimmy Smith: "Bashin'"  (The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith)
      CD, Polygram 539061, USA?, 199?

* Sound Effects: "Lifesong. Amazing Sounds Of Threatened Birds"
      CD, Manklnd Music MANCD2, UK, 1992?
        NOTE: CONTAINS A "BIRD SONG SYMPHONY" of recordings of
birds




        The eXotica Releases Overview is part of
        "Dada'quariums Exotica":
        <http://bewoner.dma.be/Dada/>

        Johan Dada Vis

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 19:48:56 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Danke Schoen

King Kini has a version of this by... nuts, Lenny Dee, I think.  Anyway, some
organ impresario.  And it rocks my world.  I was wondering what album is this
on, and is it on any CD collection I might be able to get?  I'd sure love to
listen to it over and over again.


Thanks,
PeterR


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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 19:54:56 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re[2]:(exotica) cleaning CDs (FWD)

<<
I am not kidding about this. Clean your CD's with cheap vodka and an old
cotton T-shirt.
>>


T-Shirts do work great, but I don't know what 'wipe radially' means.
You should wipe them from inside out, not around in circles.

PeteR


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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 17:18:02 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley"<[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Galt McDermot (more research)

Since asking about the Galt MacDermot track 'Ripped Open by Metal
Explosions', I have discovered that it is from Galt MacDermot's First
Natural Hair Band LP. This is not a soundtrack but I know that this track
is cool - laid back minimal jazz with bass, drums, Fender Rhodes and not a
lot else.
I have also seen Galt MacDermot's 'The Nucleus' soundtrack. Does anyone
know this? It has very sharp cover art and looks interesting.



Charlie

PS I am not obsessed by Galt MacDermot, honestly




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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 12:25:44 PDT
From: "keir keightley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 10" rims...

The 10" 33 1/3 LP begins to fall out of favour by 1954-55, as 12"
becomes the standard for pop (When Columbia introduced the LP in 1948,
the classical LPs tended to be 12", pop 10").  Sinatra's first two
Capitols, both 1954, are 10";  _In the Wee Small Hours_, 1955, is 12").
Although, of course, 10" LPs lived on with budget labels and for
one-offs like Rickie Lee Jones's _Girl At Her Volcano_ (ironically, only
the cassette issue of that album has her great version of June Christy's
"Something Cool", from the same-titled greatest 10" LP of ALL TIME!).

One of the trademarks for the "raised rim" to protect LPs was called
"gruve-gard".

From VinylVille,
Keir

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 12:35:26 -0700
From: Thom Heileson <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Frankie

(www.sinatracenter.com)

May 14, 1998

From:  Susan Reynolds

Frank Sinatra passed away at 10:50pm, Thursday, May 14 from an acute
heart attack in the emergency room
of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Mr. Sinatra is survived by his wife
Barbara; children Frank, Jr., Tina, Robert, and Nancy; and two
granddaughters.   Frank Sinatra was the most influential vocalist of the
20th century. He was also a respected and award-winning actor, producer,
orchestra conductor, cabaret and concert performer, civil rights
activist, and esteemed philanthropist.  Frank Sinatra was an
incomparable personality whose impact will be felt for generations to
come.   Throughout his career he was quick to express sincere
appreciation for the support his music received around the world. =20

Through his music, Frank Sinatra was a friend to millions.   He is a
comfort during sad times, and a
co-celebrant at happy occasions.  Frank Sinatra is a stranger to no
one. =20

Frank Sinatra=92s personal request was that donations be made to the
Barbara Sinatra Children=92s Center at
Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, CA and Catholic Charities in
lieu of flowers.  Frank Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915. =20

Funeral services will be private.


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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 12:55:49 PDT
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Frankie

Frank, dead? Forget about it.


>
>May 14, 1998
>
>From:  Susan Reynolds
>
>Frank Sinatra passed away at 10:50pm, Thursday, May 14 from an acute
>heart attack in the emergency room
>of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Mr. Sinatra is survived by his wife
>Barbara; children Frank, Jr., Tina, Robert, and Nancy; and two
>granddaughters.   Frank Sinatra was the most
influential......................

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 16:12:58 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Moody Plays Mancini

Has anyone heard James Moody's 10-cut 1997 Warner Bros. CD?

Worth picking up?

- --Lou




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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 13:17:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: chuck <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mike Love Not War

Greetings Exotic Ones:

The Beach Boys have certainly done their share of exotica,  a great
example is Diamond Head on the Friends album.  Mr. Lanza himself chose
an instrumental off of Pet Sounds for his Exotica compilation on Time
Life Records (a recommended cd on the Vic's Lounge website).

The best example of Mike Love's personality came out of a Goldmine
Magazine interview with him 3 years ago.  Mike Love pointed out to the
magazine his good taste by telling the story of Paul McCarthy
approaching him him years ago.  Paul mentioned to Mike that the Beach
Boys ought to pay more attention to their album covers.   Mike proudly
told Paul that the Beach Boys pay more attention to what goes on the
records then on the record covers.   He was so proud that he told Paul
this.

My favorite title to a Beach Boy Bootleg is "Mike Love Not War"


Is any one here on the Beach Boy mailing list.  If so what is it like?

Chuck

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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 21:33:32 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Lou Smith)
Subject: (exotica) Japan's karaoke industry mourns Sinatra

   TOKYO, May 15 (AFP) - Japan's karaoke crooners Friday mourned
the death of Frank Sinatra, the singer whom so many have failed to
impersonate with painful renditions of the classic "My Way."
   Japan's lack of English-language skills has not spared it the
out-of-tune, drunken night-time attempts to sing "My Way,"
"Strangers in the Night" and "New York, New York" that so many
around the world have had to live through.
   And the death of Ol' Blue Eyes hit some people hard in the
country that has the dubious distinction of inventing karaoke.
Japanese businessmen stretch their vocal chords in karaoke clubs
around the country.
   "It's so sad to hear of his death," said one karaoke bar owner
in central Tokyo. "People in their 50s and 60s often sing his songs,
especially 'My Way,' at my bar."
   Decades after the Chairman of the Board's classics left female
fans swooning in the United States, he is still one of the
favourites for karaoke devotees in Japan.
   "His songs are popular with everybody. Not only older men but
young people sing his songs. He is aleady a legend even in Japan,"
said Hideyuki Saito, owner of the Smash Hits karaoke bar in Hiroo,
central Tokyo.
   "His 'My Way' is one of the best three songs. The song is sung
by not only Japanese but foreigners here. Almost every day my
customers sing the song," said the 50-year-old Saito.
   A spokesman for Toei Video Co. Ltd., which sells songs to 5,000
karaoke clubs around Japan by transmitting them along the telephone
lines, said 'My Way' was still a hit with clients.
   The company received about 1,000 requests a month for "My Way,"
a respectable showing against the top Japanese pop song which can
receive 10,000 requests monthly, he said.
   But the Toei Video Co. official was not a fan.
   "I personally as well as those in my generation do not have
special feeling about Sinatra since I only know him from 'New York,
New York'," he said, adding that he does not expect any surge in
requests after Sinatra's death.
   Japanese jazz singer Peggy Hayama, however, said: "We will never
have a singer like him again."



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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 21:45:48 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Lou Smith)
Subject: (exotica) fwd: Internet Update Special - Frank Sinatra 05/15/98

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1998 MAY 15 (NB) -- By Bob Woods,
Nwsbytes. Frank Sinatra, who died of a heart attack overnight, touched
mny fans throughout much of his 82-year life. He reached the younger
crowd with his "Duets," and older folks through his earlier movie and
music career. A family spokesperson is quoted as saying, "Frank
Sinatra was an incomparable personality whose impact will be felt for
generations to come."

Much of the "Chairman of the Board's" life, and now details of his
death, are captured and chronicled in cyberspace for both current
and future generations.

>Celeb News

>The publications and television offerings that make it their business
>to cover celebrities are devoting a lot of cyberspace to bring
>interested Web surfers the latest on Sinatra's death. Some are even
>providing retrospectives on his life and chat rooms for people
>to remember Ol' Blue Eyes' movie and singing careers.

>E! Online: http://www.eonline.com
>Mr. Showbiz: http://www.mrshowbiz.com
>Entertainment Weekly: http://www.pathfinder.com/ew
>People Online: http://www.people.com (also coverage from other
>Time Warner publication can be reached via http://www.pathfinder.com )

>NOTE: Some of the sites you'd expect to be all over the story, like
>Entertainment Tonight Online (http://www.etonline.com ) and Extra
>(http://www.extratv.com ) did not even have a mention of Sinatra's death
>as of 10:30 AM EDT.

>The Latest

>Most of the major news sites on the Web are blanketing cyberspace
>with coverage of Ol' Blue Eyes' death. Some even have special
>sections devoted to the man who captured the hearts of several
>generations. Many print editions of newspapers around the US could not
>cover Sinatra's death due to late deadlines, so many people are turning
>to broadcast sources or the Internet for the latest.

>New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com
>Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com
>Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicago.tribune.com
>NBC News: http://www.msnbc.com
>ABC News: http://www.abcnews.com
>CNN: http://www.cnn.com
>USA Today: http://www.usatoday.com

>Of course, many other news sites are covering Sinatra's death.

>Sinatra Family

>The Sinatra family, which has kept an eye on how Frank was depicted in
>traditional and new media, has its own site on the singing and acting
>legend. A guestbook is available for Web surfers to "sign." A listing
>of recent signatures shows that many, many people are already aware
>of Sinatra's death. In addition, a user's Web browser automatically
>downloads Sinatra's "Softly" at the site's index page. Watch out,
>though -- it is a 0.5-megabyte (MB) download and requires an appropriate
>plug-in to hear.

>Sinatra Family Web Site: http://www.sinatrafamily.com

>Fan Sites

>Despite the family's efforts to control Sinatra's image, many of his
>fans have operated Web sites dedicated to the crooner. Some of these
>sites have updated information on Sinatra's life -- and death.

>Blue-Eyes.com: http://www.blue-eyes.com
>The Frank Sinatra Mailing List: http://www.sinatralist.com
>Sinatra Center: http://www.sinatracenter.com
>The Frank Sinatra WWW Page: http://www.vex.net/~buff/sinatra
>Frank Sinatra Picture Archive: http://www.cc.edu/~jpatti/fspics.html

>New Jersey Online

>One notable Web site, New Jersey Online, has built the "Frank Sinatra
>Celebrity Shrine." This site includes a forum where fans of the
>Chairman are gathering and posting comments, a set of electronic
>condolence cards that can be sent to the family, and multimedia
>elements on Sinatra's music and life. RealAudio and RealVideo are
>extensively used.

>New Jersey Online's Sinatra Shrine: http://www.nj.com/sinatra
>New Jersey Online: http://www.nj.com

>NOTE: New Jersey Online was jammed with Web surfers trying to access
>the site Friday morning.



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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 17:27:52 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Danke Schoen

the version of Danke Schoen of which Peter speaks is by Dick Hyman and it
IS brilliant!   from his Command LP "Fabulous" (RS33-862)...  i don't think
it's on any CD comps, but i could be wrong.   you can hear it in RealAudio
here: http://www.tamboo.com/CVsounds.html amongst other good things.   new
shows coming soon!

 - H.R.H. Kini


>King Kini has a version of this by... nuts, Lenny Dee, I think.  Anyway, some
>organ impresario.  And it rocks my world.  I was wondering what album is this
>on, and is it on any CD collection I might be able to get?  I'd sure love to
>listen to it over and over again.




visit...

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
          King Kini's  C L U B  V E L V E T
             http://www.tamboo.com
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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 16:22:44 -0400
From: "Brian Phillips" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Big and not so big ten inch...records

I find this thread a bunch o'fun, so please do not think I am flaming
anyone, however, I grew up listening to a Bach record on Columbia (Ormandy
conducting) that was a 10 inch.  Perhaps we just lived in a bad part of
town.

Does anyone remember the sort of re-introduction of the EP in the eighties?
These were all issued as 10 inch records.

Titles I remember:
Cheap Trick - Found All the Parts
Nu Musik - Nu Musik
The Clash - Black Market Clash

Also, I have a copy of Joe "King" Carrasco and the Crowns' Bueno/Tuff Enuff
on Stiff.  It was and is the only stereo 78 I have.  This also brings to
mind the fact that Everybody's records found a stereo record of Duke
Ellington from 1932, which was recorded on two disc machines.  Both
selection last about six minutes!

Hey there Phillips, this isn't exotica, talk about exotica!

Well, OK, although it doesn't QUITE fit time-wise, it most certainly fits
musically.  Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940) was a man.  A big, big man!  I
was going home two days ago and I heard the last movement of his piece
"Night of the Mayas".  This is a mind-blowing piece for folks like myself
who like the large orchestral Baxter-esque exotica.   Revueltas pulled NO
punches.  I think that http://www.gemm.com has a CD of his and I may be
a-buying it soon.  Carlos Chavez was and is better known (and also worth
seeking out).  I know we don't normally speak about what is deemed
"classical" (let's not get into a semantics battle over it, either!) but as
soon as I heard it I said, when I have a moment, I'm telling the list about
thist!




> The 10" 33 1/3 LP begins to fall out of favour by 1954-55, as 12"
> becomes the standard for pop (When Columbia introduced the LP in 1948,
> the classical LPs tended to be 12", pop 10").



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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 17:42:32 -0600
From: Lazlo Nibble <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Sinatra and Vegas

Has anyone heard if/when they'll be dimming the lights on the strip?

- --
::: Lazlo ([e-mail]; http://www.swcp.com/lazlo)
::: Internet Music Wantlists: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo/Wantlists


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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 15:50:05 -1000
From: [e-mail] (Stephen Funk)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sinatra and Vegas

>Has anyone heard if/when they'll be dimming the lights on the strip?

Friday May 15 6:04 PM EDT

Vegas to go dark for Sinatra

LAS VEGAS, Nev., May 15 (UPI) - Most Las Vegas casinos are expected to turn
off their famed neon signs for one minute (Friday night) in honor of
legendary singer Frank Sinatra, who died in Los Angeles of a heart attack.
Officials at the Riviera Hotel says most of the Las Vegas Strip casinos are
likely to participate in the 8:30 p.m. PDT tribute, with many downtown
casinos also
expected to take part.

(From Yahoo! News)

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Steve Funk
([e-mail])
Anchorage, AK
USA




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Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 16:19:55 +0000
From: "Tim @ World Wide Wax" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sizes and speeds

> A word about the 16 RPMs... I don't recall any size but 12-inch
> disks at this speed.  I don't think I ever saw an attempt to push
> commercial ("popular") music in this format.  Through the 60's and
> 70's there were a lot of "books on disk" and other educational
> materials available this way.  Most "household" variety machines had
> this selection (as well and 33-1/3, 45, and 78).
>

I have a boxed set of 6 7" 16 2/3 RPMs.  It was manufactured by a
company called Highway Hi-Fi expressly for the Chrysler Corporation.
Presumably, the under-dash 45 players Chrysler had in some cars could
play at 16 RPM as well.  It includes the entire Original Cast
recording of "Pajama Game", a recording of George Bernard Shaw's "Don
Juan In Hell" featuring Charles Laughton, various classical and EZ
listening selections (Kostelanetz, Percy Faith), and a Disney record
with 3 Davy Crockett stories & Gene Autry's "Champion"!

Tim Barron
World Wide Wax - Your source for classic vinyl
Over 4,000 lps for sale & 600 scanned covers at:
http://www.worldwidewax.com



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