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exotica-digest         Thursday, June 4 1998         Volume 02 : Number 122



In This Digest:

(exotica) Re: Music to Watch Girls By as top ten exotica tune
Re: (exotica) Nerds, Geeks, Dorks and Satans
(exotica) Music to Watch Girls By...
Re: (exotica) Re: Montenegro
(exotica) cd snapped in half
(exotica) Bugs are Nuts!
(exotica) Standards
(exotica) More bloody Peter Thomas
Re: (exotica) Music to Watch Girls By as top ten exotica tune
Re: (exotica) geek intro
(exotica) More Standards
(exotica) Mark Beyer -"Old Man in Space"
Re: (exotica) My dad was a stereo geek
(exotica) Kovacs on A&E
(exotica) Mark Beyer -"Old Man in Space"
(exotica) Fishing with John
(exotica) Mark Beyer -"Old Man in Space"
Re: (exotica) cd snapped in half
(exotica) Mark Beyer -"Old Man in Space"
Re: (exotica) cd snapped in half
Re:  (exotica) Music to Watch Girls By...
Re: (exotica) Music to Watch Girls By as top ten exotica tune
Re: (exotica) Schmeed, Dee and Dick
(exotica) female nerds
(exotica) nerds etc.
(exotica) Lee Hazelwood
(exotica) nerds etc. -Reply
Re: (exotica) Schmeed, Dee and Dick
(exotica) A little dweeb'll do ya...
Re: (exotica) The Ray Charles Singers
Re: (exotica) Bugs are Nuts!
(exotica) Playlist for Jack,4/5/98
Re: (exotica) cd snapped in half
Re: (exotica) female nerds
(exotica) NOT about geeks or nerds
(exotica) female nerds
(exotica) Eclektronics again...

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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 08:47:21 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Music to Watch Girls By as top ten exotica tune

In a message dated 6/2/98 11:35:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[e-mail] writes:

> Frenesi

Thanks for pointing this one out as well. Never heard a bad version.

Larry


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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 15:00:25 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Nerds, Geeks, Dorks and Satans

[e-mail] wrote:

> For instance Bill Gates, the ultimate
> computer geek.  I don't think most see his as over-facinated or dorky (well
> maybe a little).  I think they see him as a tremendously knowledgeble computer
> geek who made it.

Now let me understand this: Bill Gates, whose identity was unequivocally cleared
as "satan" just a few days ago, is a "geek", when I always believed he's in fact
the typical "nerd". I remember days, when it was quite hip to be a nerd - well,
at least to know someone who is a nerd - and it was strictly connected to
"computer", and now everybody agrees, that nerds are not desirable anymore. I'm
afraid that might happen to the term geek one day, too. As for me I share a 85%
interest in everything and therefore can't qualify for "geek", right?

MO



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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 08:47:52 -0400
From: Michael Hibarger <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Music to Watch Girls By...

Anyone hear the Silouheutte version of "Music to Watch Girls By"?

How about the Bob Crewe Generation's "Music to Watch Birds By"?

Mike.
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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 09:52:07 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Montenegro

<< Warning to those of you who don't already know.  Do NOT purchase the
 Montenegro "Good Bad & The Ugly." It is a miss. >>

and, if you want a ass kickin' HIT, try the soundtrack to:

LADY IN CEMENT

no CD, sorry


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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 11:52:09 +0000
From: the_curator <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) cd snapped in half

I know you folks like to experiment, but has anyone got a solution (not a
liquid, wiseguys) for playing a cd that's been snapped clean in half?

friendly

Sem Sinatra




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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 10:30:35 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Bugs are Nuts!

At 12:19 AM 6/3/98 EDT, Michele wrote:

>You know I used the word Geek in my posting because I thought I read that that
>was the correct "lounge" term for these people in the 60's who were building
>their own stereos - where did I read this?

They used to be called Hi-Fi Bugs or Hi-Fi Nuts. What's wrong with those terms?

- -Lou




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Date: Wed,  3 Jun 1998 15:33:42 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Standards

I don't know about the other tunes, many of which I've never heard yet, but the
king daddy mack exotica tune has to be Caravan.

Reason 1: I've already got, like, seven versions of the tune in my little tiny
collection.  Also, virtually every mix tape I've ever traded for has a copy of
the tune.  There isn't anyone who hasn't done it, it seems.

Reason 2: They all rock.  I have yet to hear a bad version of the tune.

Anyway, another canon addition:

Harlem Nocturne - so many different versions and again, all great.  I think this
one definitely belongs.

Also:
Cool - I've only heard a few versions of this and they're all good, including
the original.  A personal fave.


PeterR


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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 15:41:48 +0100
From: "Charles Moseley" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) More bloody Peter Thomas

Charles Moseley@MCKINSEY-EXTERNAL
06/03/98 10:41 AM


To:   [e-mail] @ internet
cc:
Subject:  More bloody Peter Thomas


I know a lot has been said about him recently, but I just scored two of his
German LPs. One - Organic, is superb with arrangements of Wheel's on Fire,
Dock of the Bay, Jumping Jack Flash and others. The other one is a bit
'smaltzy' but also good. Both are Polydor Germany, early 1970s.TOP


Charlie





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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 10:33:51 -0400
From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Music to Watch Girls By as top ten exotica tune

At 01:43 PM 02/06/1998 PDT, you wrote:
>
>As for Music to Watch Girls By, a couple of favorite versions are The
>Ventures' and The Exotic Guitars'.
>
>As far as the core canon goes, I would include:

(Amongst others)

>Bond Street

These are la creme de la creme of lounge instrumentals as far as Im
concerned.  These and Quincy Jones's Swing BossaNova.

I agree with your other choices too.  Don't forget Java either...





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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 10:43:27 -0400
From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) geek intro

>At 02:46 PM 02/06/1998 -0700, Jasmine wrote:

>>I'm looking forward to learning lots from this list.  Which brings me to my
>>first topical question.  I read the FAQ, but didn't see anything addressing
>>the needs of the most freshman student of exotica.  Perhaps  a list of
>>essential artists/recordings sent to me would be a nice thing.  (hint;)
>
>A lot of the really good "Getting to know you, getting to know all about
you" important stuff is on the Rhino and Capital compilations, though the
"foraging for old records like so many truffles in the mud" method of
thrift shopping turns up the gems that nobody's bothered to collect
digitally yet.  I really recommend the second Rhino collection if only for
the lounge/swing mainstays like "Jazz BossaNova", "Call Me", "Mais Que
Nada" and a few other really great tunes.
>
>Somebody once said this and it seemed so perfectly applicable to this
whole genre:
>Remember- Nothing is "old" if you've never heard it before...
>
Hopin this helps,
>Joe in Toronto
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Date: Wed,  3 Jun 1998 15:41:13 UT
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) More Standards

Oh yeah,
I'd have to disagree with a lot of those "Spanish" standards, like Perfidia,
Maleguena, etc.
Why?  Because Norman Luboff killed them on that Apasionada album, so I would
argue they don't satisfy the original criterion, which was that all versions are
good.

Unless you're a Luboff fan.


Also, no Mancini?  No Morricone?  No Schifrin?

I'd say it's tough to do a bad version of Good Bad and Ugly or Mission
Impossible, but I don't have enough to back that up.  Anyone?


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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 07:50:58 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mark Beyer -"Old Man in Space"

Coming Soon! "Old Man in Space"
Primitive iconoclastic music by Mark Beyer recorded nearly thirty years
agobut only now being released on CD for the first time.
"A barrage of abrasive but fascinating sound collages utilitizing a
multitude of non-instruments"

http://www.rt66.com/~cleog/new.html

Does anyone know anything about this release? I wonder how my favorite
cartoonist sounds? Got to have that CD.

Magnus

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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 10:51:51 -0400
From: Joe Kilmartin <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) My dad was a stereo geek

At 02:24 AM 02/06/1998 EDT, MIchelle wrote:
>
>In a message dated 98-05-28 08:55:54 EDT, [e-mail] writes:
>
><< Okay, are there any audiophiles on exotica?
>
> 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......
>  >>
>
>Okay, this is really a coincidence that this gets posted to the list the day
>AFTER I just found out my dad was one of those audiophiles (I thought it was
>stereophile) in the 1960s.  He told me that in those days if you couldn't
>afford the thousands of dollars for the stereo equipment, you had to make it
>yourself.   He says that the really good speakers where made by Altec
Lansing.
>He used some by a company called "Voice of the Theatre" or "Electro Voice" or
>something like that.  He says the stereo equipment you made from a kit -
>Heathkit and there were others.

Our first stereo at home (that I remember) was a Heathkit that my Dad built
and huge 4 foot speakers that he would blast thetheme from Lawrence of
Arabia out of at a level that made you feel you were inside a Tympani drum
to hear.

It was great.

Am I the only one who remembers the homey *smell* that a fully warmed-up
Heathkit amplifier put out?

That's the one thing I miss most  about Dad's old box amp...


Joe in Toronto



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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 11:09:22 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Kovacs on A&E

FWD from Ben Model of the Ernie Kovacs website:

* * * * * *

 Just heard from A&E that:

   "Please be advised that 'Ernie Kovacs: Please Stand By' is scheduled for
broadcast on June 23rd at 8 pm EST.
   Thank you for your interest in A&E, and we hope that you continue to
enjoy all of our quality programming."

 Mark your calendars and set your VCRs.

 Ben




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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 08:13:48 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mark Beyer -"Old Man in Space"

Coming Soon! "Old Man in Space"
Primitive iconoclastic music by Mark Beyer recorded nearly thirty years
agobut only now being released on CD for the first time.
"A barrage of abrasive but fascinating sound collages utilitizing a
multitude of non-instruments"

http://www.rt66.com/~cleog/new.html

Does anyone know anything about this release? I wonder how my favorite
cartoonist sounds? Got to have that CD.

Magnus

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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 11:21:32 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Fishing with John

Those with cable access to the Independant Film Channel may be interested in
this up-coming series. And the CD soundtrack is available now.
- -Lou

Fishing with John
- -----------------
John Lurie knows absolutely nothing about fishing, but that doesn't stop him
from taking you on the adventure of a lifetime.

Part parody, part Zen-like nature and outdoor-adventure show, "Fishing with
John" is the newest series from IFC and John Lurie.

Leader of the musical group The Lounge Lizards and independent
filmmaker/actor John Lurie writes/directs/hosts this six-part series, in
which he travels to the most exotic and dangerous places on Earth to go
fishing with famous guests, including IFC Advisor and director Jim Jarmusch,
musician/actor Tom Waits, and actors Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe and Dennis
Hopper.

In continuing the journey begun by the legendary Marlin Perkins and Jacques
Cousteau, John Lurie joins the ranks of America's great television
outdoorsmen (even though Cousteau was French). "Marlin Perkins shouldn't be
the only one who can tell you what the animals are thinking," says John Lurie.

"Fishing with John" - every Monday beginning June 15th at 8:30pm ET
<http://www.ifctv.com/whatson/fishing/aboutfwj.html>




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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 08:45:16 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mark Beyer -"Old Man in Space"

Coming Soon! "Old Man in Space"
Primitive iconoclastic music by Mark Beyer recorded nearly thirty years
agobut only now being released on CD for the first time.
"A barrage of abrasive but fascinating sound collages utilitizing a
multitude of non-instruments"

http://www.rt66.com/~cleog/new.html

Does anyone know anything about this release? I wonder how my favorite
cartoonist sounds? Got to have that CD.

Magnus

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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 17:48:33 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) cd snapped in half

the_curator wrote:

> I know you folks like to experiment, but has anyone got a solution (not a
> liquid, wiseguys) for playing a cd that's been snapped clean in half?
>

Why not a liquid? Try superglue? If that doesn't do it, forget it.

MO




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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 08:55:07 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Mark Beyer -"Old Man in Space"

Coming Soon! "Old Man in Space"
Primitive iconoclastic music by Mark Beyer recorded nearly thirty years
agobut only now being released on CD for the first time.
"A barrage of abrasive but fascinating sound collages utilitizing a
multitude of non-instruments"

http://www.rt66.com/~cleog/new.html

Does anyone know anything about this release? I wonder how my favorite
cartoonist sounds? Got to have that CD.

Magnus

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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 10:33:30 -0700
From: LeAnn & Dave Davidson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) cd snapped in half

At 11:52 AM 6/3/98 +0000, Sem Sinatra wrote:
>
>I know you folks like to experiment, but has anyone got a solution (not a
>liquid, wiseguys) for playing a cd that's been snapped clean in half?

I am far from an expert on this, but I think that this cd is now trash.
Again, I may be wrong, but it's my understanding that once a scratch is
deep enough on the LABEL side (where the information is embedded) for light
to shine through when you hold it up to a light source, it is beyond repair.

Dave


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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 14:32:40 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Music to Watch Girls By...

Music to Watch Birds By is Crew's second or third album title, made following
a trip to England...It is well worth finding


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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 14:39:06 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Music to Watch Girls By as top ten exotica tune

At 08:33 PM 02/06/98 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>>From your list I would agree that these are songs that you pretty much
can do
>no wrong with (never heard a bad version)

Caravan is a killer tune and maybe a few others mentioned on this thread
but the idea that ANY tune is immune or invulnerable to ruin, mistreatment,
murder, blandification, mishandling, missing the point etc sounds vaguely
like some Soviet idea of official melodies.  Or maybe it reminds me of
Hogan's Heroes and "You will listen to these tunes and you will like them!"
 (Isn't that where I heard that?)  Or a lack of discernment, standards,
taste... a blind acceptance.
You see those tunes on a record and your reaction is what?  "Oh this is
certainly good!"
I can't believe anyone here really believes that.
It's interesting to think about WHY these tunes showed up on record after
record, what was it about these tunes that they appealed to that audience
or at least why the record producers assumed they would.
The producers might have done these tunes because they THOUGHT they
couldn't ruin them but the idea that we the audience automatically agree
with them... well it's thinking like that, that produces Celine Dion.

Maybe I misunderstood.

Nat



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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 14:39:09 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Schmeed, Dee and Dick

At 07:24 PM 02/06/98 +0000, [e-mail] wrote:

>Montenegro in Italy  Time S-2051. I find Hugo Montenegro sort of hit or
>miss for me.

I keep hoping but those Montenegro records on Time, it's like they're by a
different artist, no resemblance whatsoever to what I love about Montenegro.

>Dee-Day! Decca DL-8628.  IThe front photo is
>also interesting: Dee sitting high up on a convertible sitting in back of
>six high school or college age girls

That's a theme for Lenny. He had an eye for the ladies.  And apparently
liked convertibles too.
On Easy Come, Easy Go, he's driving some kind of classic old convertible
and he's pulled up alongside a "faceless" blonde in a similar convertible.
(I've got an autographed copy. "To Mary and Bob"  If anybody here can
convince me that they ARE Mary and Bob, I'd give it up I guess.)
But my favourite is Mr.Dee goes to town where he's sitting high on a stage
and in front of him are this couple and I'd say, if I know anything about
body language, that woman is not going home with her date that night.

I think it would be boring for people who don't have the records and can't
see a scan of the cover but I have a few covers that I'd love to hear
interpretations of, especially from some of the women on the list.
I'm thinking specifically of "Serenade for love" by Richard Hayman but I
don't think I should go into my theory if we can't all look at the picture.

>Persuasive Percussion, Volume 3, Command RS 817 SD.  This may be the last
>percussion album from their series that I did not yet have.  I wouldn't say
>it's my favorite, but it has its own points.

I think you meant that this completed your "set" but if by "last", you mean
that there are only three volumes, there are at least 4.
It's a little confusing but as far as I can tell, the first two volumes
were Terry Snyder's and then he must have left and Enoch Light himself took
over.  And as much as I love a lot of Enoch Light's "own" records, the
style of the records change noticeably and suffer for it.

This brings up something that I assume someone here could clear up for me.
WHAT DID ENOCH LIGHT REALLY DO?  What role did he play on these records?

On Persuasive volume 2, it's Terry Snyder and the All stars but it's
"produced by Enoch Light".  On volume three and four, Terry is gone and now
it's "Originated and produced by Enoch Light".  But it says Lew Davies did
the arrangements on volumes 3 and 4 and Lew was also involved in volumes 1
and 2, even though they refer to Terry Snyder most of the time.
So what did Lew do, what did Terry do and what did Enoch do?
I've always been confused by this given that the "arrangements" are what
distinguished these records.  And the arrangements are so similar from
record to record, or at least there are certain constants.
On the other hand, Persuasive without Terry Snyder sort of sounds like
Enoch's Provocative records and Terry Snyder's records on his own (like on
Ultra Audio) sound a lot like the Command records he made with Enoch.
Are you following this?
What did Enoch do?  And what's the difference between Enoch Light and the
Light Brigade and a record he just originated and produced?

>The James Bond Thrillers, The Roland Shaw Orchestra, London LL 3412.  I was
>ready for the worst, but had to try it

I'm sure I've used up my reply allotment but besides having a spectacular
cover that I can't imagine anyone passing up, no matter how suspicious they
might be of the music, Roland Shaw's THEMES FOR SECRET AGENTS has a
shockingly good version of "Our Man Flint", a hard tune to ruin but he
really does it justice... though I could edit out the trombone solo.

That's it.  Let the threads unravel.

Nat



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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 14:40:31 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) female nerds

Continuing on the geek nerd "ecstatically marginalized" thread, thank you
for your responses so far.
Yes of course there are female nerds and female geeks but just as there are
disproportionately fewer female record accumulators, there are fewer female
geeks and/or nerds.
I brought up the topic because I wondered if the terms were interchangeable
to folks here or whether they had distinct meanings.
I think it's obvious that on some level, "nerd" has a more negative
connotation.  You're less likely to say "yeah I'm a nerd".
You're less likely to celebrate it, I think.
But there's some irony there because I see the difference between nerd and
geek to be the difference between being out in the world and being locked
up in your hovel.
NERDS GO OUT.  They go places, they hang out with other nerds, they go to
nerd conventions.
Geeks stay in, keep their own company.  They may communicate with other
geeks but it probably wouldn't be out in the world that they do it.
A geek might send a posting into a list but he would never agree to meet
another person on their list for fear that he be found out as something
other than the cool dude he appears to be in his frequent and lengthy
(ranting) posts.
Geeks have a hard time looking you in the eye.  Nerds are all over you.

Having said that, I've heard these meanings attributed in the opposite way,
reversed.

By my definition there would be more female nerds than female geeks because
well... socialization discourages women from "standing out" or being
different more than it does men.
And I'm not talking about "being an individual" because no one is
encouraged to be that.
Women are more socially adept, more driven to be social and therefore there
are more female nerds than females holed up in their rooms making a "suit
of skin"... which also may explain why there are disproportionately fewer
female serial killers.
The quiet neighbour that nobody really got to know until he climbed the
tower that day is much much more likely to be a man. And I don't think
that's just about men and violence.

I can't believe I just wrote "men and violence".  Please transfer this post
to any of a number of 12-step posts that I'm sure exist somewhere.

Nat



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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 21:46:57 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) nerds etc.

does anybody know the expression "dweeb"? does that have anything to do
with it? My girlfriend claims, it is something in between geek and dork.
In Germany we still call people who are maniac experts in a thing
"freaks". Like "Exotica-freak" or "Computer-freak".

MO



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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 22:01:13 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Lee Hazelwood

I found 3 very nice bootleg Lee Hazelwood-CDs. They're:

   Love and other crimes

       Poet, Fool or Bum

           The Cowboy and the Ladies

The label is lhi records, possibly from France.

They have all the cool and rare stuff that you don't find so easily.

To me it's still hard to understand why Lee isn't so popular. Speaking
of Sinatra... Lee's music means much more to me. Some people say he's
weird.

MO



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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 16:05:12 -0400
From: "NATHAN MINER" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) nerds etc. -Reply

There was a candy called "Nerds" I never actually bought it though, I got =
it with my Halloween candy......Didn't ya hate it when ya got Bit o' =
Honey?  Yuk!  And yer Mom wouldn't let you eat any of the apples, and =
whoever read those scary Christian tracks?.......Who were the cheapskates =
that gave you like, three pennies?


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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 17:42:12 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Schmeed, Dee and Dick

In a message dated 6/3/98 2:40:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [e-mail]
writes:

> shockingly good version of "Our Man Flint", a hard tune to ruin but he
>  really does it justice... though I could edit out the trombone solo.
I have a 45 by a Lee Hazelwood fronted instrumental group doing "Our Man
Flint" that is amazing! Flip side is "Spy Who Came In From The Cold" also
great.

Larry


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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 18:26:27 -0400
From: "Brian Phillips" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A little dweeb'll do ya...

> does anybody know the expression "dweeb"? does that have anything to do
> with it? My girlfriend claims, it is something in between geek and dork.
> In Germany we still call people who are maniac experts in a thing
> "freaks". Like "Exotica-freak" or "Computer-freak".


In the movie "The Breakfast Club" one character calls another a
"neo-naxi-zoom-dweebie".  There was also a short-lived television show
called "Dweebs" in the USA.  It was set in a computer technical support
center.




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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 21:04:17 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) The Ray Charles Singers

>
> While we're discussing the Ray Charles Singers,

Jumping at the chance to rave about the Ray Charles Singers version of
"Commuter Blues" on their Sunrise Serenade album, whose cover features
the hands of a man and wife reaching across a nightstand to touch each
other from their respective single beds.

"Commuter Blues" has this very listenable lazy lilting swing that well
captures the feeling of being stuck in traffic...its definitely not a
road rage song.   The chorus is split between the males who complain
about the traffic as they rush to catch their trains in the morning and
the females who complain about the traffic as they run their errands
throughout suburbia.  Both sing about their desire to trade places with
their partners.   It's actually one of those songs that probably has
more relevance now than when it was released and I would love to hear
some DJ play it during the rush hour.

Vern


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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 21:37:57 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bugs are Nuts!

In a message dated 98-06-03 10:35:29 EDT, you write:

<< They used to be called Hi-Fi Bugs or Hi-Fi Nuts. What's wrong with those
terms? >>

Nothing, if you don't mind being called a bug or a nut.  I'm a geek and an
accumulator.  That's what I am.

Robert


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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 18:38:38 -0700
From: Jack <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist for Jack,4/5/98

KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
KFJC play list 4/5/98 for Jack Diamond
Http://www.KFJC.org
Sundays 10AM-1PM

 ARTIST                 TRACK                   ALBUM/ETC
 The Planets            Chunky
 Chico Hamilton Qnt     It Don't Mean a Thing   1959
 Buddy Collette         Carson Smith
 Paul Horn              Fred Katz

 Don Morrow             Like Shoemaker and the
                        Elves

 Gene Page              Satin Soul

 Dorothy Ashby          Valley of the Dolls     Cadet
                        Theme

 Pete Rugolo Orch.      Twisted Image           T-H-R-I-L-L-E-R!
 Howard Roberts         Spooky!
 Fabulous Jokers        Instant Coffee          Monument, 1966
 Charles Laughton       Dharma Bums             Kerouac
 Mort Garson            Deja Vu                 The Unexplained
 June Wilkinson         The Arm Push

 Mineo, Attileo         Science of Tomorrow     Conducts Man in Space
                                                W/Sounds

 Mineo, Attileo         Space Age World's Fair  Conducts Man in Space
                                                W/Sounds
 Elizabeth Waldo        Maracatu'               Barbary Coast
 Marty Manning Orch.    Spellbound Concerto     1960, Coloumbia
 Rod Mckuen             3 Songs for "S          Beatsville
 Phil Moore Orch. W/
 Leda Annest            Part 3                  Columbia

 Ennio Morricone        Il Serpente
                        Esplicitamente Sopeso

 Kenneth Patchen with   The Murder of 2 Men By  Cadence Label
                        A
 Chamber Jazz Sextet    Young Kid Wearing Lemon
                        Colored Gloves

 The Animated Egg       Down, Down and Gone
 Hot Club of America    Autumn Leaves           Coral
 Odonel Levy            Baaaaaa Waaaaaaaaaaa    Manny Albam
 Boogaloo Joe Jones     Poppin!                 Prestige, Stereo

 Tower of Power         What Is Hip             Oakland, Ca
                        ????????????

 Average White Band     Cut the Cake
 Buddy Emmons           Linus and Lucy Medley    Rippin' Steel Guitar

 Bill Holman Orch.      The Big Street          Coral Label
 Solos By Conte Candoli Bill Holman             Richie Kamuca
 Lou Levy               Mel Lewis               Stu Williamson
 Zoot Sims              Herb Geller

 Johnny Spots           Private Ear             Heller Ferguson
 The Beatniks           Beatnik Blues           45 Rpm
 V. Balsara and His
 Singing Sitars         Yummy Yummy Yummy...    Odeon Label, 1969

 West Coast Worshop     Ding Dong the Witch Is  Prod X Nick Venet
                        Dead

 Barbarella (OST)       Hello Pretty Pretty     Barbarella
 Barbarella (OST)       Pygar's Persecution     Barbarella
 Barbarella (OST)       The Black Queen's Beads Barbarella
 Barbarella (OST)       Dead Duck               Barbarella
 Barbarella (OST)       The Pill                Barbarella
 Barbarella (OST)       Smoke (Viper Vapor)     Barbarella
 (Ltd Edition CD)

 Wendy and Bonnie(!)    It's What's Really      It Really Is!
                        Happening

 Ennio Morricone        Magia Nera              Lucio Fulci Film
 Pete Rugolo Orch       Diamond on the Move

KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
KFJC play list 4/5/98 for Jack Diamond
Http://www.KFJC.org
Sundays 10AM-1PM



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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 21:43:11 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) cd snapped in half

seems like a lost cause.  i would think the crack would be like a really big
scratch and thus it would not work.  interested tho -- prove me wrong.

robert


In a message dated 98-06-03 11:50:12 EDT, you write:

<< > I know you folks like to experiment, but has anyone got a solution (not a
 > liquid, wiseguys) for playing a cd that's been snapped clean in half?
 >

 Why not a liquid? Try superglue? If that doesn't do it, forget it.

 MO
  >>


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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 21:49:16 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) female nerds

In a message dated 98-06-03 14:42:10 EDT, you write:

<< Geeks stay in, keep their own company.  They may communicate with other
 geeks  >>

I heard that these geeks often have their own mailing list where they go on
and on  and on about some obscure subject.  Geez . . . you would think they
would get a life.

Robert

P.S.  I played Quiet Village backwards today and I swear I can hear Martin
Denny saying something about Yma Sumac being a communist.


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Date: Wed, 3 Jun 98 23:26:17 -0400
From: Elisabeth Vincentelli <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) NOT about geeks or nerds

I'd like to warmly recommend the new album by Fantastic Plastic Machine,
_The Fantastic Plastic Machine_. Highlights include a bossa cover of Joe
Jackson's "Steppin' Out," guest vocals by P5's Maki Nomiya, a song in
French, mixes by Le Hammond Inferno and Maxwell Implosion, and a Piero
Piccioni cover. As you can see, it's got pretty much everything a fan of
modern easy listening would want, and of course it's from Japan.

I hear that Bungalow (which put out the record in Europe) is about to get
some kind of deal in the US. Any truth to this rumor? It'd be nice to
stop paying import prices for their excellent releases.

Also of interest, Richard Cameron, of Dutch easy aces Arling & Cameron,
will DJ in New York next week. I believe it'll be at the bar on the 107th
floor of the World Trade Center, meaning it'll be free.

Elisabeth


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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 01:00:59 -0300
From: Lia <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) female nerds

We do exist.

And we're cute, sexy and smart. Slightly short sighted but who cares? We're
the kind of girl you would introduce to your parents.

L.




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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 03:05:37 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Eclektronics again...

Hey everybody

Here are all the contacts for distribution of the limited edition of the new
album of Jean Jacques Perrey and David Chazam "Eclektronics"

In America : [e-mail]

In Europa : [e-mail]

both are very nice people - hope you'll enjoy it !

Chz


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