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exotica-digest         Saturday, May 30 1998         Volume 02 : Number 119



In This Digest:

(exotica) Sinatra obit headline
Re: (exotica) Placenta-eating cookery show condemned
Re: (exotica) Placenta-eating cookery show condemned
(exotica) High-end audio.....
Re: (exotica) High-end audio.....
(exotica) High-end audio.....
Re: (exotica) Switched on Bacharach (was: Basic Hip Moog Tape
(exotica) Pop Katalog Vol.1 / Postpsychedelic Paintings
(exotica) Barcelona ???
Re: (exotica) Barcelona ???
Re: (exotica) High-end audio.....
(exotica) Re:  Barcelona
(exotica) The Otto Empire Strikes Back
Re: (exotica) Basic Hip Moog Tape
Re: (exotica) Re:  Barcelona
(exotica) Re:  Barcelona
(exotica) Thrift Scores
Re: (exotica) fwd: Swing Site
Re: (exotica) Basic Hip Moog Tape
Re: (exotica) Basic Hip Moog Tape -Reply
Re: (exotica) Re:  Barcelona
(exotica) Proof that Bill Gates is Satan
Re: (exotica) Proof that Bill Gates is Satan
(exotica) Oh my Jack Lord, June 6
(exotica) Re: REVIEW> Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra: "FutureMuzik"
(exotica) Exclusive for the Eclectropoppers !
Re: (exotica) Thrift Scores
Re: (exotica) Barcelona ???
(exotica) Tiki Wine
(exotica) Tiki Wine
(exotica) Tiki Wine
(exotica) Tiki Wine
(exotica) Tiki Wine
Re: (exotica) Thrift Scores
(exotica) Ray Charles Singers
Re: (exotica) Exclusive for the Eclectropoppers !
Re: (exotica) Ray Charles Singers
(exotica) Frank Gorshin enquiry

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 15:16:15 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Sinatra obit headline

from Mimiko Goldstein (via Will Friedwald):

* * * * *

We could've predicted the Post headline (HIS WAY) a year ago.

This would've been better:

THAT'S DEATH
Frank Sinatra, 82, shot down in May
Rolls up in big ball and dies



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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 22:44:41 +0100
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Placenta-eating cookery show condemned

Robert wrote:
>
>About one year ago my wife and I had our first child and were apt to read all
>we could on childbirth etc.  We ran across scads of info on placenta recipes
>(the practice seems more common in California - surprise, surprise).
Can any Californian reader answer the important question: if you're serving
placenta, does one have red or white wine to accompany it?

Yrs, Hugh.


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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 22:50:26 +0100
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Placenta-eating cookery show condemned

If you think this subject's a wind-up,
See Midwife Archives pages at

http://www.fensende.com/users/swnymph/Midwife/etplcnt2.html

One recipe seems to me to be a potential health hazard, in that it
does not involve cooking.

Advisory!


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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 17:50:58
From: Jay Schwartz <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) High-end audio.....

At Thu, 28 May 1998 10:26:22 -0500, Lou Smith wrote:
- ------------------------------
>>I'm soliciting recommendations for high-end audio
>equipment......(turntable, speakers, amp, tape deck) I'd like to
>stay around $500 for each if that's at all possible......

>Try this site:
<http://www.goodsound.com>

>This is a good site for info and recommendations on buying systems priced
from US$600+.


I checked out this site -- and there wasn't a word mentioned about
turntables. I guess they don't produce "goodsound."

Phooey!

- - Jay Schwartz



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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 17:06:49 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan M Perl)
Subject: Re: (exotica) High-end audio.....

>I'm soliciting recommendations for high-end audio
>equipment......(turntable, speakers, amp, tape deck)

No 8-track tape player?

Jonny

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 17:59:42 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) High-end audio.....

At 05:50 PM 5/28/98, Jay Schwartz wrote:

>At Thu, 28 May 1998 10:26:22 -0500, Lou Smith wrote:
>>Try this site:
><http://www.goodsound.com>
>>This is a good site for info and recommendations on buying systems priced
>from US$600+.

>I checked out this site -- and there wasn't a word mentioned about
>turntables. I guess they don't produce "goodsound."

>Phooey!

I guess you didn't drill down to <http://www.goodsound.com/advice.html> .
Here's what they say about turntables:
Further Purchases
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
You will find links from the names of equipment manufacturers in the
following section. These links lead to the pages created by those
manufacturers on their own products. If you are interested in products
described here, you can use these links to learn more about them.

Products linked this way are of course recommended by us, but not any more
than unlinked products. The manufacturer linked to pays a fee. One or more
products of a manufacturers must be recommended in GoodSound for at least
four months for the manufacturer's products to be eligible for linking.

1.A turntable.
Despite the advent of the CD, the vinyl record has not entirely fallen by
the wayside. In fact, many audiophiles prefer records to CD's for the
former's rich, warm sound. Good turntables are available from Sota,
Pro-Ject, Rega, and (for a little more money) VPI. Plan on spending $400 or
more. The tonearms and cartridges that come with these turntables can be
upgraded later.

Note: If you buy a turntable, be sure that your receiver, integrated amp, or
preamp has a phono stage. The phono stage must match the type of cartridge
("MM", moving magnet, or "MC", moving coil) in your turntable. If you lack
the phono stage you need, you can buy it separately from Creek (cost, about
$200).


- -Lou




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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 00:29:08 +0100
From: [e-mail] (Jack Racine)
Subject: Re: (exotica) Switched on Bacharach (was: Basic Hip Moog Tape

>u like something a little subtler, either of the "Switched on
>BACHARACH" records.  But I have that Moog Machine and if that's the best,

Basic Hip was nice enough to tape those two volumes for me, and they're
both great! I think I like the first one the best, and particulary What's
New Pussycat which is almost weirder than Perrey&Kingsley's most
experimental stuff!!

I seriously enjoy listening to moog music, I don't see why this kind of
music should be of less good quality then other genres...I have a
Perrey&Kingsley compilation with 26 songs and I definitely can listen to
that from start to end. Dick Hyman is pretty cool too. And yeah, I
definitely think his versions of both that James Brown song (Give It Up Or
TUrn It Loose) and the Booker T & The MG's track are much better than the
originals!

On another note, can you listees recommend the book "Easy! The Lexicon of
Lounge" by Dylan Jones?? I don't know anything about it apart from it has
some articles about Werner Muller, Francis Lai, The Sandpipers, Les Baxter
and many others.

Jack Racine

"On the first day God created man and woman; on the second, the vodka
martini, and on the third, the music of Burt Bacharach. And on the fourth,
man created rock and roll and ruined everything."
- - Julie Burchill




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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 01:06:02 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Pop Katalog Vol.1 / Postpsychedelic Paintings

Subliminal Sounds wrote:

> Aloha Moritz!
> Hows the book coming? Can't wait to see it.

It's finished! Can't wait to get it!


> 20% is the Euro tax that's why non Euros doesn't have to pay it.
>
Euro tax?????

See you Mid June!

MO






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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 01:21:36 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Barcelona ???

Almost forgot to ask:

Does anybody have any quick recommendations for BARCELONA, as I'll be
there for the coming weekend?

MO



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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 23:29:49 -0400
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Barcelona ???

At 1:21 AM +0000 5/29/98, Moritz R wrote:

>Does anybody have any quick recommendations for BARCELONA, as I'll be
>there for the coming weekend?

Don't miss the great Bar Marsella, one of the world's only surviving
absinthe bars. Corner of San Jeronimo by the hospital in the old city.

We went to an EZ club as well, but after 3 glasses of absinthe [absenta en
Espagnol, and perfectly legal as well]..........I couldn't tell you where
it is!

Salud!

br cleve




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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 21:12:03 -0700
From: Gary Mattingly <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) High-end audio.....

Hello,

Stereophile - Recommended Components - April 1998 - p.105

D Category (um, A-C category have prices of $1850 to $29,000, noticed
    a price of $1200 but that was just a turntable power supply)
    Rega Planar 3 - $695 -  This is supposed to be a good buy
    Rega Planar 2 - $495 - review says to check the speed accuracy before
purchase

Also noted in C Category is VPI HW-19 IV for $1850 and it says there are still
some VPI MK III still available for $1250 that are very good).

Other possibilities:  Rockport Technologies Sirius II, SME Model 20,
Wilson Benesch, Simon York turntable/arm combo, Sumiko Pro-Ject 6.9,
VPI TNT MK1V, Well Tempered Record Player.

- --   Gary S. Mattingly
- --   [e-mail]
- --   http://www.dnai.com/~gmatting


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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 05:22:07 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Barcelona

Isn't there a Tiki bar in Barcelona that has live birds flying about?


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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 05:23:11 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) The Otto Empire Strikes Back

Latest gigs
(please email me directly if you wish not to know this)

Friday, June 5
10 pm
$5.00

Jumbo Shrimp and the Aquamen
play the first of Tiki News' Summer Surf partys at
Hotel Utah
Bryant and Third Street, San Francisco

The partys continue the first Friday of the month as long as summer lasts

Next dj gig is at Cafe DuNord
Wednesday, June 17
10 pm
between sets by SF's two best surf bands
(not counting Jumbo Shrimp and Aquamen of course!)
Pollo del Mar & the Aqua Velvets
Cafe DuNord is on Market near Sanchez near the Castro District of SF

and
Saturday, July 4
7:30 - 11:30
Free
Radio Valencia


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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 12:09:02 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Basic Hip Moog Tape

Charles Moseley@MCKINSEY-EXTERNAL
05/29/98 07:09 AM


To:   [e-mail] @ internet
cc:
Subject:  Re: (exotica) Basic Hip Moog Tape


Hang on a minute. What am I saying? Of course Switched on Rock is not the
best moog record. Perhaps I've gone mad. Jean Jacques' Moog Inidigo, Happy
Moog, In Sound from Way Out, Best of the Moog, Mig Mag Moog and Gershon,
Hyman, Hayman etc. are all excellent. And there's plenty more.

And what about Chatta Mooga Choo Choo (honestly)



Charlie





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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:46:57 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re:  Barcelona

[e-mail] wrote:

> Isn't there a Tiki bar in Barcelona that has live birds flying about?

I wish there would! Can anybody confirm it? Do we have people from Spain in
the list at all?

MO




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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 14:59:57 +0300 (IDT)
From: **CNM*** <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Barcelona



i'm traveling to barcelona in the next week and
if anyone knows the name of this supposed tiki bar (if it actually does
exist), i'd love to have it before i go ... and if not, i'll do a little
investigating while i'm there.
~courtney




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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:11:36 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Thrift Scores

Hooray, my first thrift list!
Unfortunately, it's not that hot, but still interesting.  I went south to St.
Petersburg to visit my 'rents and stopped by a thrift store on the way.  Someone
had just dumped a fabulously maintained collection of interesting looking stuff,
so I dropped a couple bucks and ended up with mostly a good deal of crap.  But
there were some good finds.

Ray Charles Singers: Very Best Of  (MGM-E/SE 4257)
and
Spring, Spring, Spring (Metro-MS 507)

Um, no thanks.  This sort of choral palp is not for me.  Fairly dull
orchestrations and choral parts, pretty much straight out of the Lawrence Welk
era.  Actually, a lot of this was.

The Sandpipers: Guantanamara (A&M 117)
Good Lord, who's demented idea was this?  These cats were on some severe
barbituates.  Plus they sing all in Spanish.  Pretty lame, except for the
unbelievable cover of Louie Louie, with all Spanish lyrics and this bizarre
Quaalude-induced slo-mo style.  Excellent, but repeatedly listenable?  We'll
see...


The John Keating Orchestra and Singers (okay, look, I'm new at this, all right?
It LOOKED good...): Temptation (LondonSP 44019)
Oh boy, the cover screams "Phase 4 Stereo + i.m.20c.r.!" Whatever that means.
Plus the gatefold has a little piece of tissue that covers part of it to
demonstrate where the tracks are located in stereo or some bizarre thing.  How
could this be bad?  Well, the orchestrations are decent enough, though not
particularly excellent.  The problem is that the singers do the standard choral
schmaltz thing in the Lawrence Welk style. (it's a trend in the stuff I got...)
One track sticks out, "Blues in the Night" but just because there's a weird bass
part for one of the singers at the beginning and end, although the rest isn't
BAD, really.  I'd consider hearing it again.

Norman Luboff Choir: Apasionada  (RCA LSP-2341)
See, I got spoiled by Bob Thompson, who rules.  How could all these cool Spanish
titles be bad?  And such a bright orange and red cool cover.  But alas, Welkitis
strikes again and it SUCKS.  Not a good tune to be had.  So sad.  What a waste
of a nice cover.

King Richard's Flugel Knights: Cabaret (MTA 5003)
Sigh, it looked so promising, but again, slow and low, that is the tempo.  Yawn
city, fellas.  Well, at least it wasn't bad.  It just wasn't good.  Another
disappointment.

12 TOP HITS (Modern Sound 1057)
Some generic thing, but it segued from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly to Yummy
Yummy Yummy and included Blue Velvet and Mony Mony.  But it's just a budget
piece of garbage.  Again, so much potential.

Walter Wanderly: Rain Forest (Verve 6-8658)
Very nice record.  Bu that's about it.  No snazz, like Dee or Hyman.  Just nice
on this, very quiet, very laid back.  It reminded me of shopping with my
grandmother at the Maas Brothers department store.  Is all his stuff so quiet?
Or is there any really bouncy Wanderly?  I'm keeping it, and do listen to it,
but it's not what I had expected.


Charles Magnante, His Accordion and Orchestra (Command RS 869 SD)
Oh yeah, produced by Enoch Light, I knew I couldn't go wrong.  This was what I
had hoped for from Apasionada and Wanderly.  High tempo, swinging latin beats,
with great accordion playing which always fits right in with that latin sound.
MMMMmmmmmmmmmmm.


Anyway, I got more to add later, plus I spent some real cash at a great store
called Bananas, which has tons of pretty records, all mint or near mint
condition.  Malhereusment, the minimum price is six bucks.  But I got Walter
Kime/Brass Choir and Dick Hyman's Electrodynamics, which is great.  I also
shelled 19 bucks for Fever and Smoke by the Three Suns.  Well, where else is a
non-thrifting Joe like me gonna get a copy?  They had a 10" by the Suns too,
that had the Doll Dance on it that I almost bought (plus Movin' and Shakin or
Groovin' or whatever else that album is), but I figured my wife would only let
me buy one 19 dollar album at a time.  Ah well.

Anyone know if that 10" is any good?  It had a bunch of other nice tunes on it
as well.

Hasta accordionada,
PeterR


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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 08:21:45 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) fwd: Swing Site

In a message dated 98-05-28 12:06:55 EDT, [e-mail] writes:

<< Any Swing Goes

 With more than 125 swing band links, the people behind this site are
 serious about swing music. You can find current news, show reviews,
 interviews with revival artists and genre coverage includes swing,
 big band, jump blues and rockabilly. In addition to the music, you
 can also find information on swing dancing and culture. You can also
 find out about a companion San Diego area radio show.
 World Wide Web: http://www.anyswinggoes.com  >>

SWING CULTURE??????!!!!
Catch this one quick folks, before this goes the way of my favorite Lambada
site.

For all of you on the East Coast I'm collecting funds to raise a Swing
firewall at the Mississippi before anymore swing culture reaches the eastern
seaboard.

Any movement that heralds Joe Jackson's "Jumpin' Jive" album as a
quintessential classic and features 6 or more musicans fronting zoot suit
dressing bad singers deserves all our efforts of containment. Please help.

Ashley (come and get me swing boys)


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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 06:00:57 PDT
From: "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Basic Hip Moog Tape

Having spent my teen years in the 1970s, I never thought I would ever
want to hear sysnthesized sounds again (Kraftwerk excepted): of course I
was oblivious then of Perrey & Kingsley, Mort Garson, Chris Stone, etc.

And, speaking of Stone, though his lp, The Music of Gatsby: Turned On
Joplin is not an early Moog record (1974), it is truly strange, fun -
and quite upbeat.

Er, my wife also recommends headphones.

waugh


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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 09:51:59 -0400
From: NATHAN MINER <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Basic Hip Moog Tape -Reply

The wives out there know what they're talking about!!!!


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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 11:32:01 -0400
From: "Br. Cleve" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re:  Barcelona

At 5:22 AM -0400 5/29/98, <[e-mail]> wrote:
>Isn't there a Tiki bar in Barcelona that has live birds flying about?

you're about 300 miles off, Otto.........that's the Bar Hawaiiano (at Plaza
Santa Ana) in Madrid.

Wonder if they make a Dr.Funk with Absinthe instead of Pernod?

br cleve




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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 22:27:12 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Proof that Bill Gates is Satan

from the Orchestra List
* * * * * * * * * * * * *

Microsoft Mozart

The classically-minded may have noted a new TV ad for Microsoft's
Internet Explorer e-mail program, which uses the musical theme of the
"Confutatis Maledictis" from Mozart's Requiem.

"Where do you want to go today?" is the cheery line on the screen.

Meanwhile, the chorus sings "Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus
addictis," which means "The damned and accursed are convicted to flames
of hell."



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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 01:06:48 -0400
From: cheryls <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Proof that Bill Gates is Satan

Like we needed proof?


cheryl


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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 01:51:54 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Oh my Jack Lord, June 6

> TIKI NEWS & SPACELAND PRESENT

> A TRIBUTE TO

> JACK LORD (JOHN JOSEPH PATRICK RYAN)

> 1920-1998

> Featuring American Made music by

> the Roulettes

> King Kukulele

> Poetry By

>  DAVID L. CORRICK

> Saturday, June 6 @ Sundown

> 1722 Silverlake Blvd 213-665-0800

>

> JACK LORD ISLANDS

> Dublin and Honolulu

> Metropolitan Areas

>

> > King Kukulele AKA Denny Moynihan plays Hawaiian Swing Hits on a uke.  He

> > is a surpher from Orange County (so I've heard), now living in

> > Silverlake.

> >

Corrick, the West Coast's leading expert on Jack Lord will play his

Irish penny flute with conga accompaniment between pomes.


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Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 23:09:14 -0700
From: Matt Hinrichs <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: REVIEW> Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra: "FutureMuzik"

I have a review of this, too! It was just posted on THE ARIZONA
REPUBLIC's Arizona Central's website:

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/music/cdreviews/0528thomas.shtml

Warning: I'm one of the few here who was kinda disappointed by it.

- - Matt


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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 03:32:32 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Exclusive for the Eclectropoppers !

H o l a   A m i g o s

I hope that there is a few european people reading this list :

(I should write european-happy-people)

I'm proud to announce that on july the first in Brussel, Belgium
there will be an exclusive concert of JEAN JACQUES PERREY himself, playing
with Thee Eclektricks, the band recently founded by his accomplice CHAZAM
(votre serviteur) and it's going to be very eclektronic and excentric !
So many analog synths on stage ! (Jean-the-poor-guy-Jarre is gonna cry !!!!!!)

Monsieur GADOU will play the funky-wah-fuzz-whammy-doddy-stony guitar
ROLF will play the brand exotic EXAGONE electronic accordion
HARVEY will rumble the fat sub basses
JEAN JACQUES will show and play the mighty ONDIOLINE
And I'm gonna beat the heads of the flabby sorcerer....

COME !

It's going to be during the
"Klinken de Munt" festival,
at the BEURSSCHOWBURG,
in the right center of the center of Brussel
July the first, 23H

Ask me if you want to know more

chazbam

I will certainly send this again...


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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 06:54:01 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrift Scores

At 01:11 PM 29/05/98 UT, [e-mail] wrote:

>The John Keating Orchestra and Singers (okay, look, I'm new at this, all
right?
>It LOOKED good...): Temptation (LondonSP 44019)
>Oh boy, the cover screams "Phase 4 Stereo + i.m.20c.r.!" Whatever that means.

Whatever that means???!! Well everyone knows what that means.  It means...
it means it's like the other Phase 4 records.

>Plus the gatefold has a little piece of tissue that covers part of it to
>demonstrate where the tracks are located in stereo or some bizarre thing.

Bizarre???!! What's bizarre about wanting to know exactly how a record was
recorded?  I don't buy a record unless there's a diagram showing microphone
placement.

 > The problem is that the singers do the standard choral
>schmaltz thing in the Lawrence Welk style. (it's a trend in the stuff I
got...)
>One track sticks out, "Blues in the Night" but just because there's a
weird bass
>part for one of the singers at the beginning and end, although the rest isn't
>BAD, really.  I'd consider hearing it again.

I suggest you give another listen to the title cut.  I think the horn
arrangements are really cool.  And the singers are remarkably restrained.
And "Whatever Lola wants" Lola gets in my household.



>Walter Wanderly: Rain Forest (Verve 6-8658)
>Very nice record.  Bu that's about it.  No snazz, Is all his stuff so quiet?
>Or is there any really bouncy Wanderly?

I don't know what you mean by bouncy exactly but yeah there is snazzier
Walter.  But of course, some people prefer the non-snazzy.






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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 05:26:57 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Barcelona ???

You must see the stuffed african warrior! I dont know in what museum he
stands, but when the olympic games were held in Barcelona the African
countrys refused to come if the warrior wasnt buried.

He is still there...


Have fun, see you in June!

Me ka pumehana,
Magnus

>Does anybody have any quick recommendations for BARCELONA, as I'll be
>there for the coming weekend?

>MO

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 05:46:15 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Wine

I bought four bottles of white wine yesterday, because the picture on
the front featured three easter island tikis :)

Santa Digna is the name of the wine, I dunno if its bottled here in
Sweden, but the grapes is from Chile.

All swedish exoticats must have at least two bottles in there pad.

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 05:46:30 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Wine

I bought four bottles of white wine yesterday, because the picture on
the front featured three easter island tikis :)

Santa Digna is the name of the wine, I dunno if its bottled here in
Sweden, but the grapes is from Chile.

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 05:46:40 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Wine

I bought four bottles of white wine yesterday, because the picture on
the front featured three easter island tikis :)

Santa Digna is the name of the wine, I dunno if its bottled here in
Sweden, but the grapes is from Chile.

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 05:46:49 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Wine

I bought four bottles of white wine yesterday, because the picture on
the front featured three easter island tikis :)

Santa Digna is the name of the wine, I dunno if its bottled here in
Sweden, but the grapes is from Chile.

All swedish exoticats must have at least two bottles in there pad.

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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 05:47:00 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tiki Wine

I bought four bottles of white wine yesterday, because the picture on
the front featured three easter island tikis :)

Santa Digna is the name of the wine, I dunno if its bottled here in
Sweden, but the grapes is from Chile.

All swedish exoticats must have at least two bottles in there pad.

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Date: Sat, 30 May 98 08:51:06 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Thrift Scores

>The Sandpipers: Guantanamara (A&M 117)
>... except for the unbelievable cover of Louie Louie, with all Spanish
lyrics...Excellent,  > but repeatedly listenable?  We'll see...

Yes, this is the stand out track on this album and yes, the whole album
may not be a record that spends a lot of time on your turntable. I
suggest putting Louie,Louie on a comp tape  and then saver the rest of
the album on special occasions.


>Norman Luboff Choir: Apasionada  (RCA LSP-2341)
>See, I got spoiled by Bob Thompson, who rules.  How could all these cool
>Spanish
>titles be bad?  And such a bright orange and red cool cover.  But alas,
>Welkitis
>strikes again and it SUCKS.  Not a good tune to be had.  So sad.  What a
>waste
>of a nice cover.

Whoa there! My suggestion to you is to start a section in your collection
of stuff you don't like at present and then in a year from now you can
dip back into it and re-discover these forgotten treasures. You might be
surprised that you'll come around to Mr. Luboff and his choir, althouh I
must admit that it's a tough step and took me nearly five years.If you
ever see a copy of Luboff's Songs of the Carribean or Calypso Holidy
don't pass it up, for although most of the album is comprised of silly
calypso tunes (which I still CAN'T get into) these albums do contain the
incredible song BAMBOO TAMBOO. A most essential song in any exotica
collection.

Having just done a show titled "The Haunted Voices of the Norman Luboff
Choir" I can attest to some of the strengths of the album Apassionada.
Although the version of Jungle Drums pales in comparison to some more
overtly exotica version, it does have some merits as a nice choral
arrangement. The tune Nightingale is superb and is a perfect example of
my notion of the "haunted" sound in Luboff's choir.

Also, In conjuring up the name of Mr. Welk as a blanket term for stuff
you don't like will keep you from hearing the subtlties of the artists in
question.

Not to defend the MOR crap of Welk.

Which reminds me, never pass up on George Cates' Polynesian album just
because it says "Lawrence Welk Presents" on the cover.



>King Richard's Flugel Knights: Cabaret (MTA 5003)
Not to negate all the open minded thoughts I've been trying to convey
but, I absolutely Hated this album when I first listened to it.
Maybe I should heed my own advice and give it another spin.


Well back to the records...
Frank

My Vinyl Recliner - Music from the in-seam of the 50's and 60's
Every Tuesday night from 10 - 11:30 on WMPG 90.9fm, Portland Maine!



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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 10:47:13 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Ray Charles Singers

I accidentally deleted the original message, but one of you cats recently
wrote about a thrift shop purchase and mentioned not liking a Ray Charles
Singers LP (I've forgotten which one.)

Just wanted to mention there is one Ray Charles Singers LP to pick up if you
see it.  It may have been issued under more than one title, but the one I have
is called Command Performance in 35mm (the gimmick -- the album was recorded
on 35mm film for "high quality" sound.) Anyway, most of this album is boring,
but there is a very cool "Hawaiian War Chant" on it. I used to always play
this song whenever I would have  a party.  I've had this record over 10 years
and this version still cracks me up everytime I hear it.

The record to not pass up (at thrift shop prices anyway) is Dick Van Dyke with
the Ray Charles Singers "Songs I Like". Not a good singer, but the
arrangements are imaginative and interesting (ridiculous and fun may be
another way to put it.)

Final note: For any not in the know, the Ray Charles Singers have nothing to
do with the famous songwriter/performer Ray Charles.  The Ray Charles in
question here is kind of a second rate Ray Conniff wannabe. I think the
Singers used to do backup for Perry Como on tv in the 60's.

Remember, when in a thrift shop, why pass up any good condition LP for $1.00
or less. You may rrun across someone who is dying to get it later. (Ofcourse,
ALWAYS avoid all mainstream 70's rock)

Larry


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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 11:57:26 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exclusive for the Eclectropoppers !

Since we are on the moog topic, I just picked up the Jean Jacques Perrey and
David Chazam ECLEKTRONICS LP.

One of my top scores of the year!!!!

Titles:

what's up duck?
analog dialog
doc tequil and mister h
clones war
an elephant on the roof
cyberbugs time machine
neutronia

No review - i'll let someone else put into words it's magical qualities.

AND my wife likes it - so there!





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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 12:53:35 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Ray Charles Singers

At 10:47 AM 30/05/98 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:

>Just wanted to mention there is one Ray Charles Singers LP to pick up if you
>see it.

Once upon a time, I thrilled to every time I saw the word Command or Enoch
on a record.  I had a dozen Ray Charles singers just for that reason.  Now
I only own "McArthur Park" and the psychedelic-covered "Slices of Life"
which boasts "the new contemporary sound of the R.C.S".
And the only remaining "Enoch Light Singers" record is "Whoever you are I
love you" mostly for "Born to be wild" and "hello I love you".. which
generated my most successful outgoing message of all time.
Also the latter has this cool picture of Enoch smoking a pipe.  Or I assume
it's him.
Yeah selling all those lovely-looking Command records at the record store
that day, including a bunch of Tony Mottola's, was a bit like penance but I
managed it.  Still I can't help reacting everytime I see one of those
Commands.  My hand still darts out for them.

Nat



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Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 22:46:37 +0100
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Frank Gorshin enquiry

Frank Gorshin

Not sure if he's an actor/singer or singer/actor.  Did a great
job as the Riddler in the TV Batman series, but I once saw him
do vocal impersonations.  His Andy Williams was the best.

Did he ever sing in his own right?  Is he still about?

Thanks, Hugh.

PS   Not seen a posting from Jessica for a while.
Everything ok, FVJ-wise?


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