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exotica-digest          Monday, June 22 1998          Volume 02 : Number 132



In This Digest:

Re: (exotica) Sinatra Question
Re: (exotica) Our Man Flint confusion
(exotica) Album cover art exhibit and essay
(exotica) Exotica Sales
Re: (exotica) Exotica Sales & Ultra Chicks
(exotica) Matt Monro
(exotica) San Francisco Tiki show
Re: (exotica) walter wanderley's cd's
(exotica) Exotica list members meeting
Re: (exotica) walter wanderley's cd's
Re: (exotica) Matt Monro
(exotica) WELK: FW: Lite Bulbs
Re: (exotica) WELK: FW: Lite Bulbs
(exotica) 2-17-98 Playlist
(exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, June 21
(exotica) Get Easy!
(exotica) tv highlights for exoticateers
(exotica) Re: Zoot Sims: "Recado Bossa Nova"
(exotica) Re:  Our Man Flint confusion
(exotica) Re: walter wanderley's cd's
(exotica) Les Baxter's TEEN DRUMS & Esquivel's GENIUS OF...
Re: (exotica) tv highlights for exoticateers
Re: (exotica) walter wanderley's cd's
(exotica) Oriental Schmaltzalarm Grooves
(exotica) Records! - as opposed to - The Volatile Record Industry

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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 12:30:06 -0700
From: "Larson/Thomas" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Sinatra Question

>I can tell you with no doubt in my mind...that Sinatra never
> released either a single or an album track with the title "Wednesday
Child."

Nancy Sinatra released a song called "Friday's Child."  Could these songs
be one and the same?

Jerry


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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 98 18:12:46 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Our Man Flint confusion

>
>I am currently enjoying the recent In Like Flint/Our Man Flint release from
>Varese/Fox Classics
>... and there are a few cuts that are missing altogether (no "Galaxy A
>Go-Go", my fave, dammit!)


How in the world could any one re-issue this soundtrack without "Galaxy A
Go-Go" ?!!?

The asleep-at-the-wheel compilers of this CD should hide their heads in
shame.


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Date: Fri, 19 Jun 98 18:12:42 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Album cover art exhibit and essay

Subject:     Album cover art exhibit and essay
Sent:        6/17/98 6:04 PM
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I've just contributed the following album covers for and exhibit of =
covers that will be shown at the Portland Public Library for the =
month of July. Along with my late fifties covers will be a collection =
of David Stone Martin covers, eighties political punk covers, Blues =
covers, Various representations of women on covers and late eighties =
early nineties heavy metal covers.

My contributions are the following:

Provocative Percussion
Ray Martin -  Dynamica
Music for Gracious Living: Do-it-yourself
New York Qt - Music for Suburban Living
Nelson Riddle's  Sea of Dreams
Bob Thompson - On the Rocks
Martin Denny - Primitiva
The Surfmen - Exotic Island
Stanley Wilson - Pagan Love
Henri Rene - Music for Bachelors (Mansfield)

Why these covers? Read my article.

The following is the article I wrote for the show. Before your =
criticism rolls in, let it be known that I purposefully wrote this in =
an 'academic' style and although I stand by everything said, some of =
the generalizations are stated some what tounge in cheek.

Enjoy.

Frank

The Vinyl Desire: Late Fifties Record Album Cover Art as Sales Pitch =
to the Middle Income White American Heterosexual Male Consumer.


    Looking back on late fifties advertising there is a tendency to view =
the layout as tacky or kitsch  without really considering that this =
view comes out of our  relation to our own more self conscious =
approach to advertising.  In other words, advertising is presently =
motivated more from a social science approach.When we look back at =
the fifties and their try-whatever-seems-to-work advertising tactic =
we are dumb struck with sheer amazement. However, with all the =
differences between now and then, there is  still a basic advertising =
tenet common to both: How do we make the consumer desire something  =
which they believe they lack? The graphic art of this fifties styled =
sales pitch are most gloriously illustrated by the 33 1/3 rpm LP =
record album covers that came out at that time.
     My research into this topic has uncovered four genres of this album =
cover art as directed to the middle income white American =
heterosexual male. If one =8Creads=B9 the images presented on these =
covers their sales pitch will be seen as proclaiming  at least one of =
the following:
    If you buy this record you will have the music that will:
a) Transport you to some far away place (preferably with a darker =
complexion female companion). (Exotica)
b) Offer you the absolute comfort and complacency of your present =
home life. (Suburban mood music)
c) Offer you the spectacle of reproduced sound as only this =
technologically advanced society can. (Hi-fi/Stereo engineered sound)
d)Transform your wife/girlfriend/palm into the sexually desired =
woman. (The desired woman, sexy lounge)
Certainly there is frequent overlapping of these categories but =
still,  they remain the dominant four and each calls for further =
elucidation.

    Exotica, perhaps the most forgotten of late fifties desires, came =
about from post-war American=B9s desire for the primitive far away =
place. An urge that was spurred on in part from the national mania =
toward Hawaii upon its adoption to statehood and the returning  =
Pacific Theater veterans who had acquired  a taste for the islands. =
Although having Hawaii as part of the US made the exotic that much =
more available, still the ability to get there was not financially =
feasible. Exotica packaged this desire for the stay at home music =
listener by offering jungle drums, tiki torch lit midnight lagoons =
and of course the =8Cbrown skinned gal.=B9 A list of the back cover =
lexicon from exotica albums basically tells all: Savage, untamed, =
forbidden, unexplored, erotic, mystery.... All this was made palpable =
to the late fifties male with themes that were =B3...at once exotic =
and  familiar.=B2 (from the  liner notes to =B3Jun=B9gala=B2) Hence, =
a tune on a log drum was acceptable only if it was some recognizable =
=8Cwestern=B9 melody. The cover art almost always consisted of a =
photograph of some lush jungle scene with an exotic (i.e. slightly =
darker complexion) woman (almost always portrayed by a Caucasian =
model) and to top it off the obligatory =8Cprimitive=B9 typography.

    The happy home life is the flip side of the Exotica/Desired Woman =
sales pitch. With their =B3Father Knows Best=B2 scenes of the =
complacent, deliriously happy Nuclear family we=B9re served up a =
severe view of American home life. The consumer of these albums were =
being told to desire the idealized outdoor barbecue and the =
completely functional paternal family. Consequently, the music on =
these recordings is cheery, upbeat and quite, quite saccharine.

    The engineered sound came along with all the other post-war =
technological developments that were to transform the entire American =
landscape. These hi-fi/stereo effect albums offered the listener a =
sort of aural altered state that only the most up to date =
techno-wizardry could deliver. The characteristic cover art for these =
albums was abstract design. For a recording that favored sound over =
the music (or at the very least blurring the distinction) a graphic =
style that favored form over content was perfectly suited.

    Of course the album covers whose effect can still be felt today are =
the ones that, basically, promised to deliver sex. The scantily =
dressed curvaceous women that populated these numerous albums tapped =
into the fifties heterosexual male libido with promises of sultry =
nights and  helped set the mood for their sexual desire. Obviously =
using the sexually charged image of  the desired woman to sell =
products to the easily aroused male consumer has not left us, the =
difference seems only to be a degree of sumptuousness in the imagery =
and the fifties sensibility of discretion. The covers were absolutely =
meant to be racy, to titillate and to prod the male consumer into =
believing that the music contained therein would provide the perfect =
background to their sexual fantasy. The music from these albums is =
usually lush, throbbing and moist.

    There is a tendency to  disguise  our inability to comprehend our =
recent past with a superior laughter (=B3Aren=B9t those albums so =
ridiculous!=B2) rather than learning more about  how these =
=8Cartifacts=B9  still have a powerful effect on us. This brief =
analysis and these cover art illustrations will provide some insight =
into the golden era of post-war commercial art and hence ourselves.





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: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 20:37:45 -0800
From: "mighty recording corp." <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Exotica Sales

>I too am puzzled by the incredibly large number of exotic cd releases.
=====================

they many look like alot but you are considering both imports
and domestic releases together.  when a u.s. or european company
is considering releasing a title they do not really consider if a comparable
item is available 'overseas'.

really have to consider all domestics and all euro titles as arenas unto
themselves.

paul m.




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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 00:14:37 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica Sales & Ultra Chicks

Marketing decisions: Virgin Megastore in SF has moved the EZ listening section
into a dark corner under the escalator next to the gospel and kids records,
and the bins are filling with Richard Clayderman.  Guess Capitol's Ultra
Lounge money ran out. Borders on the other hand, has moved the lounge/ez
domestic comps into the various artists section. But good ol Medium Rare has
all the EZ/Go Go/Exotica domestic and foreign comps in a big rack right as you
walk in the front door, almost every goddam cool CD that has been mentioned on
this list. (The boots are back in a corner, one wall is ONLY cool soundtracks,
and the other is disco divas and Peggy Lee two-fers, appropriate for the
Castro neighborhood.)

Got Ultra chicks 1 & 2 there, & after a quick listen I thought of the "Growing
Up Too Fast" girl group comp but sung in French without the fancy production
of the GUTF cuts.  Donna Loren backed by the Hondels from one of the beach
movies also came to mind.  For the $10 price Will found, they are ok if you
like to hear young french girls sing, but I like to hear young girls sing in
any language.  I wish i remembered my french and knew what the Ultra chicks
were singing about, tho there is a cover of Goody goody and a knockoff of Gary
Lewis'  "She's Just My Style". "Nouvelle Vague Blues" is a nice jazzy piece.
And Ive got Jane Birkin and Juliette Greco on back order, sacre bleu!

For true lolita ya-ya style pop, I prefer Charlotte Gainsbourg's collection of
her daddy's songs ("Lemon Incest") , but I'll go to my grave madly in love
with Ronnie Ronette. The Ronettes and Cookies stole my heart many years ago
and never gave it back.

JB "Peppermint" Twist


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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 98 00:33:41 Pacific Daylight Time
From: darren hutton <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Matt Monro

Hello!

I don't know if this helps, but Matt Monro had a record called "Wednesday's Child," and Matt did sound a little
like Sinatra.


Darren!


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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 02:01:12 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) San Francisco Tiki show

Friday, July 3 9:30 pm $5.00
Hotel Utah
500 Third Street at Bryant, SF
Join Otto's Surf Party on the first Friday of the month during the summer.

Jumbo Shrimp featuring Klaus and Ray formerly of the Dead Kennedys
and local instrumentalists
Planet Seven who actually use a theremin in a good way!

I'm givin out free leis and forcing the bar to make good Polynesian drinks -
WAY better than Trad'r Sams, the Li Lo Lounge or even the Tonga Room!!!


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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 07:57:04 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) walter wanderley's cd's

hmmm.....
just a question....
why dont you buy the original wanderly lps? not only does they feel and
sound better, they are also cheaper than the cd-reissues. i even find
them in sweden for less than $10.

mahna mahna gnus

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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 08:35:29 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Exotica list members meeting

Aloha list!
Fellow listee Moritz R is visiting Stockholm together with his
girlfriend Katja, and today i had the pleasure in showing them around.
We headed for Stockholms biggest fleamarket, but unfortunately it was
closed for holidays. We went to another flea who luckily was opened
where I found this great Parlophone/EMI 7"-single, a release from 1981
with Peter Sellers doing Beatles "She Loves You" in the manner of the
mad ex-nazi from Dr Strangelove.
I have heard this earlier on the excellent club Sunkit in Stockholm and
was very excited to find it. Side B will be new to me, that one is
inspirated of Phil mcCafferty - The Irish Dentist. I havent the faintest
who that can be, or how it will sound.

I believe this single is the first official release of this material,
does anyone know where it comes from? a TV show or something?

Now Moritz and katja is heading for Gotland, a small island in the
Baltic Sea who is inhabited by Ingmar Bergmans, large mysterious caves,
natureformed tikis and Pippi Longstockings. If they get back to
Stockholm in one piece i will join them next weekend for a trip to Oslo
and the Kon-Tiki Museum.

Full report on that trip later.
- -------
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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 10:54:11 -0700
From: LeAnn & Dave Davidson <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) walter wanderley's cd's

At 07:57 AM 6/20/98 PDT, you wrote:
>
>hmmm.....
>just a question....
>why dont you buy the original wanderly lps? not only does they feel and
>sound better, they are also cheaper than the cd-reissues. i even find
>them in sweden for less than $10.
>
>mahna mahna gnus
Because they DON'T sound better.  The sound quality of Scamp's "Music for
the Jet Set" is excellent, and I don't miss the vinyl's surface noise one
little bit.  Can't speak for the Verve comp, I passed it up when I saw the
cheese references.  I do, however, have the vinyl copy of "Batucada" (Verve
V-8706), which is excellent.  Can't wait till it gets re-released on CD!

Dave


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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 08:41:05 +1000
From: "Terry" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Matt Monro

On 20/06/98, at 12:33, darren hutton wrote:

>
>Hello!
>
>I don't know if this helps, but Matt Monro had a record called=
 "Wednesday's Child," and Matt did sound a little
>like Sinatra.

Love Munro's voice. His choice of material sometimes stank, but numbers=
 like "On Days Like These" are classic
Terry


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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 98 21:26:10 Pacific Daylight Time
From: darren hutton <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) WELK: FW: Lite Bulbs

- --------
>From: [e-mail]
>To: [e-mail]
>Subject: WELK: FW: Lite Bulbs
>Date: June 20, 1998
>
>Welk Friends --
>
>I don't know if people are apprehensive about posting now, or maybe I'm
>just not getting e-mails, or what -- but I thought I would send the
>following along as an ice breaker.  I found it amusing.  Especially with
>everything we've all encountered lately.  I hope everyone is well.  And
>listening to their Welk albums...
>
>Speaking of, a friend just sent me a tape of some great Welk music.  And
>on the tape was Sandi and Salli singing "Snowbird".  What a wonderful
>arrangement.  Does anyone else have this?  I've been playing it over and
>over.  Sandi and Salli have/had such a distinctive style and blend.  So
>warm.
>
>So here's a little humor for everyone...
>
> --Christopher
>
>**************************
>
>Q:  How many Internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a
>light bulb?
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>A:  1,331:
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> 1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mail list that the light
>bulb has been changed
>
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>
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>
> 27 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light
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> 306 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where
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>
> 4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ.
>
> 1 to propose new alt.change.lite.bulb newsgroup.
>
> 47 to say this is just what alt.physic.cold_fusion was meant for, leave
>it here.
>
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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:25:36 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) WELK: FW: Lite Bulbs

In a message dated 98-06-20 21:20:33 EDT, you write:

<< Q:  How many Internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a
 >light bulb? >>

OK, so how may people are there on the mailing list????

Lazlo, are you listening???


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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 20:01:52 -0700
From: Jack Diamond <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) 2-17-98 Playlist

 KFJC play list 2/15/98 for Jack Diamond

 ARTIST                     TRACK                 ALBUM
_________________________________________________________________
 The Planets                Chunky                45, 1960,61 U.K.

 Oliver Nelson Orch         Freedom Dance         Prestige, 1961

 Billy Mure's Super-
 Sonic Guitars              El Cumbanchero        M-G-M

 Warren Barker Orch.        Far Away Places       1959
 Phil Kraus                 Prelude and Fugue     Conflict!
 Billy Strange Orch.        Group Therapy         Bunny O'hare Ost

 Phil Upchurch              Swing Low Sweet
                            Chariot

 Riz Ortolani               Tarantella Grottesca
 Don Elliott                Blues for Maaaaaaaaax

 Lucas and Friends          Deck the Halls &      Fuck Yeah!
                            Donuts

 George Barnes              Rockabilly Boogie     Country Guitar!
 Claus Ogerman Orch         Stingray              Watusi Trumpets
 Sandra Alassondroni        You Tried to Warn Me
 Fleetwood Mac              Fighting for Madge
 Kraftwerk                  Pocket Calculator     In German
 Augusto Martelli           Mood                  Easy Tempo Vol 1

 Boots Brown and
 His Blockbusters           Trollin'              RCA, mid 50's, 45 RPM

 Barney Kessel-Guitar       with the Poll Winners/
 Shelly Manne-Drums         When the Red Red      1956
 Ray Brown-Bass             Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobin'
                            Along

 Narration                  Mondo Topless-Intro   [coll]: Russ Meyer

 Gabor Szabo W/             Bill Plummer-Sitar
 California Dreamers        Are You there ?       Impulse, 1967

 Mike Curb                  The Fun Zone          Mary Jane Ost
 Short Rogers Giants        Lunar Montunar

 Louis Bellson Orch         Breakthrough          Project 3
 W/ Pete Christlieb

 Lalo Schifrin              On the Way to San     Bullitt, Request
                            Mateo

 Lalo Schifrin              Medical Center
 Burt Bacharach Orch        After the Fox         Instrumental
 Howard Roberts Qrt         Dirty Old Bossa Nova  Capitol, 1963

 Bill Jennings-Guitar       Hey Mrs. Jones        Al Jennings-Vibes
 Jack Mcduff-Organ

 Ennio Morricone            S.O.S.                Malamondo

 Chet Baker Qrt. W/                               Pac Jazz, 10
 Russ Freeman-Piano         Isn't It Romantic

 Joe Vennerri               Day of Wrath          Rites of Exorcism

 Barbarella                 Barbarella            Vinnie Bell-
                            Goodnight Alfie       Electric Guitar and
                            Spaceship Out of
                            Control               Effects
                            Ski Ride
                            The Hungry Dolls

 Perrey, Jean
 Jacques/Chazam,D.          Neutronia             Eklectronics

 Umiliani, Piero            Nel Cosmo             Sweden Heaven and Hell

 Nuclear Bomb Explosion      That's it:)

 The Working Group          Young Amazzonia       Mo'plen 3000
 Gianni Oddi                Geronimo              [coll]: Psycho Be
 Mark Bruton                Suspicious Part 8     Library Music

 Montefiori Cocktail-
 Live From Kfjc-Fm          Another B

 Gerhard Narholz &Jurgen
 Jaenne                     Pop Promotion         [coll]: Music for

 Dizzy Gillespie Orch       Africana
 Brass Managerie            Mambo
 Sandro Brugnognili         Diacromeico

 Dean Elliot Orch.          Formost Milk
                            Studio Instro Music

 Al Caiola                  French Connection
                            Theme

 Art Pepper Trio            I Can't Give You
                            Anything But Love

 Mineo, Attileo             Space Age World's     Conducts Man in Space
                            Fair                  W/Sounds
 Pete Rugolo Orch           Diamond on the Move

 KFJC 12345 El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
 Http://www.kfjc.org
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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 00:47:44 -0400
From: cheryl <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, June 21

"Space Bop" (formerly "The Single Eye") can be heard every Sunday at 4pm
on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada, and is hosted by Brian and Cheryl.
Space Bop features music ranging from Space-Age Bachelor Pad to Space
The Final Frontier!  Comments & questions welcome.

June 14 - Offbeat Cover Versions (with special thanks to Allan for the
inspiration!)


Perrey & Kingsley:  Strangers In The Night  "The Essential Perrey &
Kingsley"

Arthur Lyman:  Hawaii Five-0  "Sonic Sixties"

Friends Of Dean Martinez:  The Shadow Of Your Smile  "The Shadow Of Your
Smile"

Laika & The Cosmonauts:  Experiment In Terror  "Instruments Of Terror"

Hybrid Kids:  McArthur Park  "Hybrid Kids"

Pascal Comelade:  The Way I Walk  "33 Bars"

Lemon Kittens:  Shakin' All Over  "Spoonfed & Writhing"

Ptose:  Smelly Tongues  "Face De Crabe"

Nash The Slash:  Dead Man's Curve  "The Million Year Picnic"

Caresse & Sickmob:  R U Experienced?  "R U Experienced?"

The Residents:  Don't Be Cruel  "Don't Be Cruel"

Psyclones:  Hound Dog  "Memorial Elvis Project"

Laibach:  Sympathy For The Devil  "Sympathy For The Devil"

Dick Hyman:  Fiddler On The Roof  "Keyboard Kaleidoscope"

Gina X:  Drive My Car  "Yinglish"



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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 03:19:02 EST
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Get Easy!

Johan wrote:

> Various -- Get Easy Vol. 3 -- The French Pops Collection
>     the package is not great at all, it looks ugly and cheap to me,
>     others might call it "retro"... liner notes are in german.
I have to agree!  Given that the German volume cost more than any
other CD I've bought in recent memory, plus the fact that it has
Polygram (money) behind it, you'd figure they could afford a
better printing job. I'm sure there's a reason somehow and I'm
suspicious that Motor isn't getting all they might out of their
afiliation with a major label.

>     if you want to hear some *really* groovy, trippy, insane French
>     (instromental) pop, try to find the "Orchestral Party (act 1...)"
>     comp cd (i think Vik has a page on it)
Thanks! I've seen this one around town a lot and will pick it
up.  I thought it said acte 2, though I've never seen any
first volume. Anyone know?

>     I liked "Get easy 4: the German Pops collection" (Motor, germany)
> That one only has 2 crap tracks, by Katja Ebstein, and Lilian
> Atterer; both  very plain 60's popular vocals. 8 other are vocal
> tracks, the remaining 14 are instromentals.
> all in all a very soulful and funky compilation, with plenty of that
> "European" big band sound.
It's interesting you refer to these 2 as crap tracks. Let me
explain: I've been trying to bring up "Schlager" on this list for
some time. I think I've now heard enough to know that what I was
searching for in terms of German "Schlager" is exactly what is on Get
Easy - France. I really like the German big band sound and the
Get Easy comp, however there is some incredibly good German vocal
(Schlager) music out there, the best of it seeming to date from late
50's to late 60's. Moritz mentioned to me that he suggested this to
Motor when they assembled the comps but at the time they didn't take
his advice, though they seemingly went the vocal route for the French
volume.  I'm a bit puzzled why there is such an imbalance in
the types of selections for each country?  I do think the only
solution is to release another version of each with the accompanying
complememtary style - Volume 5 & 6 respectively. I know on the German
side, these records: France Gall (German vocals), Wencke Myrrhe, Conny
Froboess, Uschi Glas, Detlev Engel, Heidi Bruehl, etc. simply do not
exist in North America as there was no market for them here when they
were released. On the French side, we in Quebec are luckier than most
on the continent to have a decent selection but even so, there is a
lot of crap mixed in. The Motor compilation will help as a guide so
I'm grateful for is existence.

Hopefully Moritz will have more to say on this subject upon his
return.

BrianBrian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 12:03:43 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) tv highlights for exoticateers

US TV notes for this week (eastern daylight times)...

A&E's "Biography", 8:00pm weeknights:
Tuesday: Ernie Kovacs
Wednesday: Arthur Godfrey
Thursday: Annette Funicello
Friday: The Nelson Family (Ozzie, Harriet, Rick, etc)

Bravo:
Thursday at 5:00pm and Friday at 1:30pm: "Erendira" (1983), a Mexican
production of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez story.
Saturday at 11:00am: Felllini's "Amarcord" (1974).

AMC:
Saturday at 11:00pm: "The Third Man" (1949).

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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 15:05:27 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: Zoot Sims: "Recado Bossa Nova"

Brad Bigelow mentioned this cd:
Zoot Sims: "Recado Bossa Nova" (Fresh Sounds), telling: "reissue of two
1962 Colpix LPs, "The New Beat of Bossa Nova" vols 1 & 2. Arrangements by
Al Cohn and Manny Albam, choice assortment of NY jazz session men, and the
peerless Zoot Sims, a self-effacing veteran session man and occasional star
with a beautiful tone.  And the great Jim Hall on guitar. The title cut is
a gem, and there is not a cut that's less than gorgeous."

i couldn't find it anywhere in the big online mailorder stores, so it must
be either deleted, or very very brand new...

        Johan


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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 17:06:03 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re:  Our Man Flint confusion

>From: "Dick Diablo" <[e-mail]>

>I am currently enjoying the recent In Like Flint/Our Man Flint release from
>Varese/Fox Classics
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>and there are a few cuts that are missing altogether (no "Galaxy A
>Go-Go", my fave, dammit!)

    that track IS featured on the damned expensive German Tsunami
    "Von Ryan's Express (suite)/Our Man Flint/In Like Flint" rerelease...

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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 17:16:07 +0200
From: Johan Dada Vis <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: walter wanderley's cd's

>From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>

>Does anybody knows if songs from the Scamp cd ALL duplicates on the
>Motor Music release?
>Scamp cd features:

= 1. Summer Samba
  2. It's A Lovely Day Today (w. A. Gilberto)
= 3. Cheganca (The Great Arrival)
  4. Call Me (w. A. Gilberto)
= 5. Taste Of  Sadness
  6. Here's That Rainy Day (w. A. Gilberto)
  7. O Menino Decse O Morro
= 8. The Girl From Ipanema
  9. A Certain Sadness
  10. Agua De Beber
  11. Cry Out Your Sadness
= 12. Nega Do Cabelo Duro (w. A. Gilberto)
  13. Bossa No Praia (Beach Samba)
= 14. O Ganso
  15. So Nice (Sumer Samba; w. A. Gilberto)

    *** the ones starting with = are also on the Motor cd
    (although i cannot be sure if they are the same recordings/versions)

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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 17:58:00 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Les Baxter's TEEN DRUMS & Esquivel's GENIUS OF...

Hey everyone, I'm new to this wacky world of exotica newsgroup/list....looks
like it'll be a blast!..I've been big into this music for the last 3 years or
so.. and have a nice, but small colletion of exotica LP's (around
200)...anyhow, I have to brag to someone---


I just found the finds of my life today (ok, not really, but I like to think
so...lol), at a recored store in Pasadena,Ca I found in VG shape TEEN DRUMS in
Stereo for $1, and GENIUS of ESQUIVEL in mono, sealed! for $.50! Man, I really
dig the Teen Drums LP...reminds me of Skins--but a tad better.

What can I say about the king Juan? Do wish this was in Stereo, but why knock
it--since I just saw this LP down in Orange Co. for $75 in VG- shape! Yikes!

Any word on the rest of the BAR-NONE re-releases of E's LP's? Anr they coming,
or are they doa?


Jayson


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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 19:39:08 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) tv highlights for exoticateers

Sorry, missed this one earlier...

Very late Wednesday night or very early Thursday morning (however you want to
look at it) at 4:00am (eastern) on A&E: "Our Man In Havana" -- leisurely
spy-comedy with Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Burl Ives, Noel
Coward and more. Directed by Carol Reed. May have been shot on location in
Cuba, but I may well be wrong about that.

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 03:09:02 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) walter wanderley's cd's

>>hmmm.....
>>just a question....
>>why dont you buy the original wanderly lps? not only does they feel
and
>>sound better, they are also cheaper than the cd-reissues. i even find
>>them in sweden for less than $10.
>>
>>mahna mahna gnus
>Because they DON'T sound better.  The sound quality of Scamp's "Music
for the Jet Set" is excellent, and I don't miss the vinyl's surface
noise one little bit.  Can't speak for the Verve comp, I passed it up
when I saw the cheese references.  I do, however, have the vinyl copy of
"Batucada" (Verve V-8706), which is excellent.  Can't wait till it gets
re-released on CD!

Bellybongo don't understand... Bellybongo thinks the only thing superior
with compact discs is the longer playing time. Bellybongo listens to
compact discs when he wants a relaxing bath in his bathtub, and he
believes they invented the compact disc for that purpose.

Vinyl is sexy.
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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 11:09:53 -0400
From: Georg Zoche <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Oriental Schmaltzalarm Grooves

For all the Munich Exoticats on this list:

...tomorrow, Tuesday 23rd I'll be spinning with my brother at the Atomic
Cafe (Neuturmstr. 5), going deeper and deeper, VERY DEEEEP, until the
bottom of the sea for this 'Night Of Forbidden Oriental And Exotica
Schmaltzalarm Grooves'. The night starts at 9 pm and don't be late, else
you might miss some of our submerging surprises (and yes, it's o.k. if you
arrive hungry there, if you don't mind exotica fffffffood)

from the bottom of the sea, i remain very truly yours

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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 18:21:30 +0200
From: Marcus Kozica <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Records! - as opposed to - The Volatile Record Industry

Yo,

Dear Mr. Charles Moseley,


Well, see - CD:s vs. records is tricky. $'s ain't doin' it all.

The record IS the interface while CD:s aren't; your buttons
on your CD player are. I (think I) know you know it's a different
thing to put on a record compared to put on a CD. On top of all this
comes the Vintage thing - we are all gatherers and find it fun just to
collect Stuff in General - or who on earth throws away everything that
doesn't have any future use. - Hey, I really don't need Granny's ol'
crap!

Besides, we can always have CD:s TOO - super cool, $'s are gonna flow
everywhere and
the Industry can go on! I can NOT blame MGM for Moon Gas or RCA for
Exploring The Unknown,
or UAS for Inspector Clouseau OR EVEN UNI for Stones, GNP for What? -
Moog Rock???????????????.

Mebbie I am taking this too far?
Marc.



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