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exotica-digest         Thursday, June 4 1998         Volume 02 : Number 123



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Lee Hazelwood
Re: (exotica) My dad was a stereo geek
Re: (exotica) Lee Hazelwood
Re: (exotica) nerds etc.
Re: (exotica) Lee Hazelwood
(exotica) Music to Watch Girls By
(exotica) Music to Watch Girls By
(exotica) Space Age Pop Standards
(exotica) Alpert vs. A&M
(exotica) Paul Phillips/Joe Harnell
Re: (exotica) Re: Montenegro
Re: (exotica) Schmeed, Dee and Dick
Re: (exotica) Music to Watch Girls By
Re: (exotica) Playlist for Jack,4/5/98
Re: (exotica) Music to Watch Girls By as top ten exotica tune
(exotica) fwd: Coney Island Parade UPDATE
(exotica) Re: Lee Hazlewood
(exotica) exotica standards
(exotica) Richard Cameron
(exotica) exotica standards
Re: (exotica) cd snapped in half
(exotica) look out bank account
Re: (exotica) Schmeed, Dee and Dick
Re: (exotica) Re: Lee Hazlewood
Re: (exotica) exotica standards
(exotica) Re: Paul Phillips/Joe Harnell
Re: (exotica) Paul Phillips/Joe Harnell
(exotica) Neat Art Pieces

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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 03:40:09 -0600
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (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.

I didn't think these were boots but actual re-releases. I haven't seen The
Cowboy though.

>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.

Lee=God.

Or so I think. But some people say I am weird.

Jill "Mingo-go"



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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 03:43:28 -0600
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) My dad was a stereo geek

At 10:51 03/06/98 -0400, you wrote:

>>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.

YIKES! You just brought back REALLY scary early childhood memories for me.
My dad is an engineer who decided to build and fix everytbing electrical. We
had a Heathkit TV. That thing broke every five minutes. Mind you, we had
like 4 TVs in our house (this is early 70s), and none of them worked
properly. It was especially fun when you tried to watch the Brady Bunch and
they were all green.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Jill "Mingo-go"



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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 12:09:42 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lee Hazelwood

> I didn't think these were boots but actual re-releases.
>
Someone told me meanwhile, it might be Lee's own label. "lhi"...lee
hazelwood international?

A friend who met Lee once told me this: At first Lee didn't want to talk
to my friend at all, waving signs of refusal when he only dared to
approach him. Only after a while when the friend of Lee's who had
introduced my friend to him said to Lee "come on Lee, these guys seem to
be OK" he would talk to them, but then he wouldn't stop and just
couldn't get enough of it.

I tried to make a film about Lee Hazelwood some years ago, put a lot of
work in it, to find him alone took me months, but in the end he
rejected, suspecting I only wanted to make money with his name.

Somebody from German TV reports that they wanted to film Lee in the 70s
and it took them 2 years to set up a contract and finally they wouldn't
do it at all.





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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 06:35:27 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) nerds etc.

In a message dated 98-06-03 22:40:08 EDT, you write:

<< In Germany we still call people who are maniac experts in a thing
   "freaks". Like "Exotica-freak" or "Computer-freak".   >>

  How about "Geek-freak" -- I think I dated a few of those in college.  At
 least on the days when I got out.

  Robert "Exotica Geek Freak"



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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 04:40:15 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lee Hazelwood

>Somebody from German TV reports that they wanted to film Lee in the 70s
>and it took them 2 years to set up a contract and finally they wouldn't
>do it at all.

A friend of mine worked at the Swedish TVs videoarchive some year ago.
He had to transfer all the broadcasts from year 77 or 78 to another
format. This was apparently made in realtime, so he had to see the whole
years TV-production. (Sound like a job for me... But I had preferred
another year, earlier). Anyway, on a show this year Lee Hazelwood
performed some space songs as "the Space Cowboy". I have wanted to see
this show since he told me about it, but that geeky dweeby freaky nerd
didnt tape it while he had the chance...



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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 04:50:46
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Music to Watch Girls By

This tune has become one of my private manias, hence the following list of
covers from the Space Age Pop Standards site
(http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/girlwatc.htm):

Ronnie Aldrich, Two Pianos Today!, London Phase 4 SP44100
Chet Atkins, Solo Flights, RCA Victor LSP-3922
The Brass Ring, The Best of, Dunhill DS-50051
Ray Charles Singers, A Special Something, Command RS 914 SD
Ray Conniff, It Must Be Him, Columbia CS 9595
Floyd Cramer, Plays the Big Hits, RCA Camden ADL2-0128
The Bob Crewe Generation, Music to Watch Girls By, Bell SLP 9003
Xavier Cugat, The Best of, MCA MCA2-4072
Lenny Dee, Moving On, Decca DL 74880
Les and Larry Elgart, Girl Watchers, Columbia CS 9433
The Exotic Guitars, Those Were the Days, Ranwood R 8040
Benny Golson, Tune In, Turn On, Verve V6-8710
Joe Harnell, Bossa Now!, Columbia CS 9499
Al Hirt, Music to Watch Girls By, RCA Victor LSP-3773
Horst Jankowski, With Love, Mercury SR 61125
Living Marimbas, "Georgy Girl" and Other Music to Watch Girls By, RCA
Camden CAS-2149
Frank Malone, Player Piano Hits of the 60s, Alshire S-5109
Jerry Murad's Harmonicats, Great Themes from TV and Motion Pictures,
Columbia CS 9343
101 Strings, Million Seller Hits of 1967, Alshire S-5070
Peter Nero, Nero-ing in on the Hits, RCA Victor LSP-3871
Howard Roberts, Jaunty-Jolly!, Capitol ST 2716
Caterina Valente, Sweet Beat, London PS 536
Lawrence Welk, Hits of Our Time, Dot DLP25790
Andy Williams, Born Free, Columbia CS 9480
Roger Williams, Roger!, Kapp KL-1512

If you've got others, let me know.  I put a bunch of these on compilation
tape, separated with short cuts of dialogue about the relations between men
and women, and titled it, "Unoriginal Sins."  Traded one copy so far!





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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 04:50:46
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Music to Watch Girls By

This tune has become one of my private manias, hence the following list of
covers from the Space Age Pop Standards site
(http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/girlwatc.htm):

Ronnie Aldrich, Two Pianos Today!, London Phase 4 SP44100
Chet Atkins, Solo Flights, RCA Victor LSP-3922
The Brass Ring, The Best of, Dunhill DS-50051
Ray Charles Singers, A Special Something, Command RS 914 SD
Ray Conniff, It Must Be Him, Columbia CS 9595
Floyd Cramer, Plays the Big Hits, RCA Camden ADL2-0128
The Bob Crewe Generation, Music to Watch Girls By, Bell SLP 9003
Xavier Cugat, The Best of, MCA MCA2-4072
Lenny Dee, Moving On, Decca DL 74880
Les and Larry Elgart, Girl Watchers, Columbia CS 9433
The Exotic Guitars, Those Were the Days, Ranwood R 8040
Benny Golson, Tune In, Turn On, Verve V6-8710
Joe Harnell, Bossa Now!, Columbia CS 9499
Al Hirt, Music to Watch Girls By, RCA Victor LSP-3773
Horst Jankowski, With Love, Mercury SR 61125
Living Marimbas, "Georgy Girl" and Other Music to Watch Girls By, RCA
Camden CAS-2149
Frank Malone, Player Piano Hits of the 60s, Alshire S-5109
Jerry Murad's Harmonicats, Great Themes from TV and Motion Pictures,
Columbia CS 9343
101 Strings, Million Seller Hits of 1967, Alshire S-5070
Peter Nero, Nero-ing in on the Hits, RCA Victor LSP-3871
Howard Roberts, Jaunty-Jolly!, Capitol ST 2716
Caterina Valente, Sweet Beat, London PS 536
Lawrence Welk, Hits of Our Time, Dot DLP25790
Andy Williams, Born Free, Columbia CS 9480
Roger Williams, Roger!, Kapp KL-1512

If you've got others, let me know.  I put a bunch of these on compilation
tape, separated with short cuts of dialogue about the relations between men
and women, and titled it, "Unoriginal Sins."  Traded one copy so far!





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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 05:01:56
From: Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Space Age Pop Standards

I can't help putting in a plug, given the recent spurt of messages about
exotica standards.  If this topic doesn't bore you to tears, I invite you
to check out the Space Age Pop Standards website
(http://home.earthlink.net/~spaceagepop/), which includes an extensive
discussion and discographies of the following categories and examples of
songs that have become exotica/space age pop standards.

      The Hawaiian Number
            Hawaiian War Chant, Hawaiian Wedding Song

      The Near Eastern Number

            Misirlou
            Other examples: In a Persian Market, Calcutta, Istanbul

      The Jungle Number
            Quiet Village
            Other example: Moon of Manakoora

      The Brazilian Number
            Tico Tico
            Other examples: Brazil, Baia

      The Latin Number
            La Cucaracha
            The Peanut Vendor, Perfidia

      The European Cover Song
            Autumn Leaves
            Other examples: April in Portugal, The Poor People of Paris,
Lisbon
            Antigua, Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White

      The Classical Kitsch Song
            Baubles, Bangles, and Beads
            Other examples: Stranger in Paradise, In the Hall of the
Mountain King, Sabre Dance, Full Moon and Empty Arms

      The Foreign Film Theme
            The Third Man Theme
            Other examples: Never on Sunday, Anna, More

      The American Film Theme
            Moonglow/Theme from "Picnic"
            Other examples: Theme from "Exodus," Theme from "A Summer Place,"
            High Noon, Theme from "The High and the Mighty"

      The Sea Song
            Ebb Tide
            Other examples: Beyond the Sea, Red Sails in the Sunset, Harbor
Lights

      The R & B Number
            Harlem Nocturne, Night Train

      The Juan Tizol/Duke Ellington Song
            Caravan, Perdido

      The Ernesto Lecuona Song
            The Breeze and I
            Other examples: Jungle Drums, Malaguena, Siboney, Taboo, Babalu

      The Leroy Anderson Number
            Blue Tango
            Other examples: Fiddle-Faddle, The Syncopated Clock, Plink,
Plank, Plunk!

      The Mancini Number
            Peter Gunn
            Other examples: Moon River, Days of Wine & Roses, Baby Elephant
Walk, Mr. Lucky

- -------------
I do need to add a new category, 60s covers, which would include "Music to
Watch Girls By," Herb Alpert covers, "More," and the hands-down winner as
most-covered tune, "A Taste of Honey."

Brad Bigelow
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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 10:20:43 -0500
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Alpert vs. A&M

     LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Herb Alpert's dealings with his former record label
have hit a sour note, to the tune of nearly $6 million.
    The trumpeter who formerly led the Tijuana Brass claims in a lawsuit filed
with partner Jerome Moss that A&M Records and its corporate owner, Polygram,
owe them the money.
    The lawsuit accuses Polygram of shortchanging a shareholders trust set up
by the duo in 1989 -- during Polygram's buyout of their startup label -- by
$3.63 million in 1994 earnings from A&M.
    Alpert and Moss also contend that Polygram mishandled a Canadian tax refund
claim that could have added $2 million to the fund, according to the lawsuit
filed Tuesday.
    Polygram had not seen the lawsuit and could not comment, spokeswoman Dawn
Bridges said Wednesday from New York.
    A telephone call to an A&M Records spokesperson was not returned.
    Alpert, a multiple-Grammy Award winner, began his career as a songwriter
and musician in the late 1950s. His decades of instrumental hits have
included ``A Taste of Honey'' and ``Rise.''




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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 10:36:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David J. Strauss" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Paul Phillips/Joe Harnell

Just picked up:

Naked City: The Sound of Midnight by Paul Phillips & his Orch, arranged
and conducted by Joe Harnell on Kapp. This music is ingenously arranged,
with a darkness where you'd least expect it. Anyone know anything about
these guys?

DS
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 98 11:55:47 -0500
From: recliner <[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.  No where near as good as the
>original Morricone versions. Pony up the extra dough and get the real thing.



Montenegro's "Good Bad & The Ugly" is hardly a miss and people shouldnt
be discouraged to get it (unless of couse it's outrageously priced).

 Yes, it doesn't quite match Morricone's original score but a lot of the
charm of the records of this time period is how they attempted to copy
someones style but didn't quite pull it off.Compared to some of
Morricone's Time recordings this one fares much better.

Which reminds me... I have a duplicate copy of Montenegro's incredible
"Come Spy With Me" that I'd be willing to trade. It's one of a huge "for
trade" list that I will be posting exclusively to this group. I plan to
list what I'm looking for and what I have to offer.
It may still take a few weeks for me to get it together, I just wanted to
throw out a little teaser right now.

Frank

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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 98 11:55:52 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Schmeed, Dee and Dick

>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?


Any Enoch Light question can be answered by checking out Robbie Baldock's
Enoch website:

Http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~rcb/light


I've found this source invaluable for bio info and especially a Command
discography which has been helpful in my goal of finding all of them. (so
far 90 and, counting)


Frank

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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 98 11:55:42 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Music to Watch Girls By

>Subject:     (exotica) Music to Watch Girls By

>If you've got others, let me know.  I put a bunch of these on compilation
>tape, separated with short cuts of dialogue about the relations between men
>and women, and titled it, "Unoriginal Sins."  Traded one copy so far!

The Ventures - $1,000,000 weekend  Liberty 8054
Willie Bobo - Juicy - Verve 8685
Dave Fredricks - Bold Brave Organ Extravaganza - Gulco

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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 98 11:55:50 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for Jack,4/5/98

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


I love seeing that someone else has discovered this Wendy & Bonnie album.

Does any one know any thing about them aside from the info on this Skye
record?

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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 18:12:41 +0200
From: Sevo Stille <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Music to Watch Girls By as top ten exotica tune

Nat Kone wrote:

> 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.

Well, I rather think it is a question of "standards" - most of the titles on
the original posting do qualify as big band standards, titles that used to be
played by every band in their time, and are accordingly very loosely or not at
all linked to one particular artist or band. Appearently, hits of the age when
a composition and its arrangement and interpretation were not so firmly
entangled as it is now (and has been ever since the fifties/sixties) fare
better across different arrangements than more recent stuff - maybe, because
they were written that way (or rather made it into an evergreen because they
survived so many different arrangements), maybe, because we've been subjected
to so many different interpretations of these compositions that we have come to
like the actual tune rather than the one and only true interpretation as we
usually do with songs more firmly linked to one particular artist.

Sevo

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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 18:56:36 GMT
From: [e-mail] (Lou Smith)
Subject: (exotica) fwd: Coney Island Parade UPDATE

CONEY ISLAND MERMAID PARADE committee chooses official King Neptune
- --musician DAVID BYRNE, formerly of the Talking Heads.

Past Kings have included TV Talker Joe Franklin and NYC Parks
Commissioner Henry Stern. The Queen will be selected soon.

The parade is scheduled for June 27, 1998. There will be OPEN TO THE
PUBLIC contests for best parade entries including for Best Mermaid.
Actresses, Actors and Models invited to enter. March with your friends
or march alone. To join other Actors Email to
[e-mail].

 For more information about the parade and for a photo from a previous
parade go to:
< http://www.coneyislandusa.com> and
<http://www.buzznyc.com/actors/res.normandeau.raymond.html>



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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:14:06 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan M Perl)
Subject: (exotica) Re: Lee Hazlewood

>To me it's still hard to understand why Lee isn't so popular.

It's because it is very hard to track down his records anywhere.  Those
CDs seem to be the only ones in existence, and all over the world they
are sold at import prices.

Aside from 'nancy and lee', I own just two records - 'the very special
world of Lee Hazlewood' and 'trouble is a lonesome town'.  Both are
excellent.  I assume there is some kind of rights issue preventing an
official CD release.  Or perhaps Lee isn't too bothered (LHI on the
offical records stands for Lee Hazlewood industries, so I think he may
owns the rights).
regards

Jonny

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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:09:05 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan M Perl)
Subject: (exotica) exotica standards

Nat wrote:
>You see those tunes on a record and your reaction is what?  "Oh this is
>certainly good!"

Not necessarily good, but probably something I would like to hear.
...
>... well it's thinking like that, that produces Celine Dion

If Celine Dion put an album out with 'Caravan', 'Frenesi' etc on it, I
would definitely buy it.  I love inappropriate seeming cover versions,
and the strength of the song often shines through.  A lot of those Disco
versions of standards come to mind - anyone hear Gloria Gaynor's 'How
high the moon' and the Ritchie Family's 'Quiet Village' and 'the peanut
vendor'?

Incidentally, LAURA is unquestionably my favorite standard.  I whistle it
and sing it all the time, and it makes me cry like a deranged baby.
Sometimes I'm not all that much fun to be around.  I would appreciate it
if anyone who has a special favorite version of Laura could email me
privately with it.

regds
Jonny

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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 14:27:00 -0400
From: [e-mail] (Jonathan M Perl)
Subject: (exotica) Richard Cameron

Elisabeth wrote:
>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.

Yes, he is spinning on Wednesday at the WTC, and on Thursday at Bar d'O,
on the corner of Bedford and Downing streets in NYC.  Both nights are
free.

This is from http://www.inhi-fi.com/nyc/nyc-hom.htm

>Updates to the Richard Cameron and Karin New York appearance: Not only
will >Richard and Karin be in town, but Berlin's Maxwell Implosion will
be sharing the bill >at both Mondo 107 (Wednesday, 10 June) and In Hi-Fi
(Thursday, 11 June).áá

regards

Jonny

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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 15:32:59 -0400
From: "Brian Phillips" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) exotica standards

> If Celine Dion put an album out with 'Caravan', 'Frenesi' etc on it, I
> would definitely buy it.  I love inappropriate seeming cover versions,

I am with you!

Lemon Tree - V. Balsara and his Singing Sitar
Waltzing Matilda - Thomas Dissevelt and his Sounds from Space

As for Caravan, there is always Johnny Mathis' vocal version from his first
album, which was a surprise to me considering my general disdain for Mathis
(My mother had nine of his albums and it drove me nuts!)

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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 21:05:15 +0100
From: Hugh Petfield <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (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?
>
>
> Why not a liquid? Try superglue? If that doesn't do it, forget it.

I'd be inclined to get a spare CD (e.g. one of those 'free 30 hours AOL'
giveaways) and superglue the broken CD onto it.  Take care not to get
glue into the crack, so that the cracked edges mate together as closely
as possible.  However, check your CD player first to make sure it can
cope with the double thickness of CD.

What CD was it, anyhow?  Is it worth saving?
"Kenny G plays Kenny Rogers"?

Hugh.


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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 13:26:13 -0700
From: jasmine j jopling <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) look out bank account

long email alert!  the list-maker insists that i break down what's covered.
so, in today's episode, we've got:

> a thanks
> various influences and likes
> what a great URL!
> the thrill of LP hunting

so, at your own risk...

well, first off, big cheers to everyone who offered suggestions and
favorites for my freshman ears.  Some of you asked what aspect of exotica i
thought i'd like to really explore, which led me to think about the stuff i
already know about...

now perhaps some of the things i like would not really fit into this
overall genre, but i think they do.  I like swanky bossa nova cocktail
loungy songs, like connie francis' "bossa nova hand dance."  I love the
soundtracks to late 50s and early 60s UFO/nuclear/monster/space movies. (In
fact, I've got this dream where i find a narrated "space invaders" story on
vinyl, complete with incredible artwork... does this exist?!?)

I like the sultry sound of Antonio Carlos Jobim.  oh, and the cheeky
tikiness of those "let's through a luau" albums I keep finding in thrift
stores.  I'd really like to learn more about early synthesized music, too.
The first forays into the moog world, for instance.  Oh, and 60s french
loungepop... is that considered exotica?

Oh, and i'm totally bowled over by the Space Age Pop Standards website!!
So much stuff!  Will i ever catch up ;)      On it, i read about "The In Sound
from Way Out", by Jean-Jacques Perrey and Gershon Kingsley.  What sort of
sub-genre would you describe this as?  From the description, i think i'd
really like it.

Another common question was "do you collect vinyl or cds or both?"  I
really love vinyl, and even more, i love the hunt.  I like the process of
picking up a stack of dusty records, which are almost surely going to
contain 5 copies of tito jackson's greatest hits, and spotting something
fantastic.  I guess anyone who's into used-stuff hunting (antiques, vintage
clothes, 50s dinnerware etc) knows this feeling!

Of course, my mac doesn't have a built-in LP drive, so cds are great too.
It's just that sometimes, when i see those comps, i feel sort of cheated.
it's like there's some marketing guy somewhere, who knows that the right
ratio of martini glasses, leopard prints and cool fonts will say "hey, you!
over here! you're going to like me! I'm cool!"

Alright, but i'm rambling.  If anyone has more useful links i should check
out, by all means.... and please, keep those suggestions coming.  my "to
buy" list is growing every hour!

thanks a mil,

jasmine




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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 23:09:29 +0000
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Schmeed, Dee and Dick

Nat Kone enquired:

> This brings up something that I assume someone here could clear up
> for me.

I guess that ought to be me!

> WHAT DID ENOCH LIGHT REALLY DO?  What role did he play on
> these records?

Well, he *produced* them!  I know his actual input on "his" records
often appears somewhat ethereal but essentially he was the propelling
force behind each LP project.  More specifically, the impression I
get from having spoken to some of the musicians who worked with him
is that he:

- - came up with the initial concept or theme for an album,
- - put the orchestra or ensemble together,
- - choose the arranger,
- - laid out some general requirements for the arranger.  Although
the details of these requirements would vary from LP to LP (being
largely a reflection of the theme of the album: bossa, discotheque,
"exotica" etc) there would always be common elements, usually
something like: "I want an instrumentation and arrangement which
really puts our hi-fi bugs' ;-) equipment to the test*.  We're also
going to put half the orchestra on the left channel and the rest on
the right - but you don't worry about that too much...!  Oh, and make
it *FUN*!"
- - chose the recording engineer,
- - oversaw the recording process (sometimes even leading the orchestra
through a take and then letting the arranger take over)
- - choose the cover artist,
- - chose someone to write those killer liner notes(!),
- - oversaw the marketing and distribution of the records.  In the
early days he physically took records around to outlets and hi-fi
fairs,
- - and, er, basically was involved in all the other processes involved
the chain of events from coming up with the idea for an album to
selling the finished product.

* - the main reason percussion features so strongly in all Enoch's
recordings is that in the early days of music recording it was a
section of the orchestra which was notoriously difficult to capture
because it required the recording medium to be able to handle the
extremes of frequency: from deep resonating gongs and marimbas to the
ultra high tinking of finger cymbals and xylophones.  It was a great
way for Enoch to show off the quality of his recording engineers and
disc cutters.

<PLUG>You can get an even better idea of how he worked by reading the
various interviews on the Spaced Out site.</PLUG>

Enoch Light rarely if ever arranged any of the records himself but I
believe he did play on at least one: he was formerly a violinist and
I believe he plays on the "Million Dollar Sound of the World's Most
Precious Violins" albums.  He also co-wrote several pieces (usually
with Lew Davies) - most notably the entire contents of Paperback
Ballet / Private Life of a Private Eye.

> 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".

I believe Terry sadly died quite young which explains his sudden
disappearance from the discographies.  I believe Brad Bigelow has a
Terry Snyder biography on his site:
http://www.netrail.net/~bbigelow/homepage.htm

Phew!  Hope this helps.


Robbie

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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 18:35:35 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Re: Lee Hazlewood

At 02:14 PM 04/06/98 -0400, Jonathan M Perl wrote:
>
>>To me it's still hard to understand why Lee isn't so popular.
>
>It's because it is very hard to track down his records anywhere.

Are you guys really asking this question seriously?
I personally love the Nancy and Lee record and even the infinitely inferior
Ann Margaret and Lee record but I almost never think that my loving
something has any relationship to it being popular or deserving to be popular.
And I know that my loving the Nancy and Lee record originates in my
"perverse taste", not in the part of my taste that has it's finger on the
pulse of the nation.

Maybe he's not more popular because too many people heard the Nancy and Lee
version of "You've lost that lovin feeling" and took it back to the store
complaining that there's something wrong with the record because it seems
to run too slow.  In fact on one song, it seems that the record actually
stops spinning altogether.

"Woe woe woe..."  Pick it up Lee, there's still another verse.

Why isn't Lee Hazelwood more popular?  I don't know.  Why did "Ordinary
People" win the Oscar for Best Picture the same year "Raging Bull" came out?

Nat



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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 18:38:27 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) exotica standards

At 03:32 PM 04/06/98 -0400, Brian Phillips wrote:
>
>> If Celine Dion put an album out with 'Caravan', 'Frenesi' etc on it, I
>> would definitely buy it.  I love inappropriate seeming cover versions,
>
>I am with you!

I'm not sure what the question is at this point but hell, let's add
Killdozer's version of "I am I said".

Nat



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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 18:59:38 -0500 (CDT)
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Re: Paul Phillips/Joe Harnell

>Naked City: The Sound of Midnight by Paul Phillips & his Orch, arranged
>and conducted by Joe Harnell on Kapp. This music is ingenously arranged,
>with a darkness where you'd least expect it. Anyone know anything about
>these guys?


there is a 'sequal' to that LP called "The Sound of The Asphalt Jungle" by
Joe Harnell (Kapp/Medallion 7518) which is also very good.  watch for
either...  gotta have both!

 - kini




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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 17:49:41 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (exotica) Paul Phillips/Joe Harnell

At 10:36 AM 6/4/98 -0400, David Strauss wrote:
>Naked City: The Sound of Midnight by Paul Phillips & his Orch, arranged
>and conducted by Joe Harnell...
Joe Harnell is mainly known as a pianist who does pop tunes.  In the 80's
he was a community concert artist...maybe he still is.  That's about all I
know.

Byron

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Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 22:30:42 -0400
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) Neat Art Pieces

A few weeks ago I was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and saw an EXCELLENT
exhibit titled "It's Only Rock and Roll" at the Milwaukee Museum which
featured rock and roll themes in modern art.

Exotic slant?  One of the exhibits was a huge painting, over 6 feet
square, by Jim Butler that was a recreation of Herb Alpert's 'Whipped
Cream' album....but what I really want to mention is another work by an
artist named Helen Cohen titled "G.E. Solid Sate Stereo"

She took an old old portable stereo from the 60's (the kind where the
speakers attach to the side and the turntable flips down from the
middle) and rigged it so it was ALMOST in the closed position with about
a one inch gap at the top.  If you looked inside, it was dark, but if
you looked inside WHILE pushing a button, one could see by peering in
the gap an entire miniaturized diorama of a typical hippie bedroom from
the late 60's.  There were day-glo peace posters on the wall, American
flags being used for curtains, lava lamps, an unmade bed lying on the
floor, brick + 2x8 wood shelving, and even a miniaturized version of the
actual size stereo one was looking through.

The whole scene was lit up by a blacklight to create that essential glow
and I almost forgot to mention that as one pushes the button and peers
through the crack to view this scene, the song In-a-gadda-da-vida is
being played.

Definitely the most inspirational piece of art I've seen in a while, but
then again I'm biased because I have a very similar G.E. stereo that I
play my own records on.

Evidently, Helen Cohen also did a piece called "Ivory Plastic Radio"
which she turned into a miniature tableau of 1950's decor.

Vern


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