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exotica-digest          Monday, July 6 1998          Volume 02 : Number 143



In This Digest:

(exotica) Tivoli
Re: (exotica) Autographed LPs
(exotica) mike nichols and elaine may purchased!
Re: (exotica) A&M needs to get with it
Re: (exotica) The intellectual fashion zombies
Re: (exotica) Claudine Longet
Re: (exotica) Tiki Lites / swing / etc
Re: (exotica) Lounge forever
(exotica) What exactly is a beanie baby?
Re: (exotica) Horst Jankowski R.I.P.
Re: (exotica) Autographed LPs
(exotica) Please er, ug, um, remove err... me?
(exotica) Moon Base Alpha playlist
(exotica) It's TIME
(exotica) Re: autographs
Re: (exotica) It's TIME
(exotica) You can never have too much Dick...
(exotica) Kiddies, Klaus Schulze and Disneyland!
Re: (exotica) Kiddies, Klaus Schulze and Disneyland!
Re: (exotica) Autographed LPs
Re: (exotica) mike nichols and elaine may purchased!
Re:  Re: (exotica) chris montez
Re: (exotica) mike nichols and elaine may purchased!
Re:  (exotica) Hawaiian fashions for the masses
Re:  Re: (exotica) Andy and Claudine
Re:  (exotica) Rolf Harris
Re: (exotica) Autographed LPs
(exotica) new reviews on motion
(exotica) Hula dance
(exotica) Disneyland
RE: (exotica) Rolf Harris
RE: (exotica) What's this doing here?
RE: (exotica) Autographed LPs
(exotica) A Good Beat And You Can Dance To It
(exotica) A Good Beat And You Can Dance To It

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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 12:39:35 -0400
From: "m.ace" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Tivoli

For those of us who can't make the trip, the Tivoli park can be seen in the
rubber monster movie, "Reptilicus" (1962). In the middle of the action, the
human principals take a break from the laboratory to go off for an evening out
at Tivoli. Blatant padding of the running time, but it's a nice little tour
regardless.

It's been airing fairly regularly on AMC the last few months.

Looking forward to Part 2 of the expedition story.

m.ace  [e-mail]
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Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 09:44:41 -0700
From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Autographed LPs

i seem to have a perverse (?) attraction to those kind of home-grown
limited pressing releases that are so often autographed. it's usually
autographed to a friend or family member, and there's often a little
note like "thanks for being there for me" or something like that. i
always have to wonder "gee, what a great friend this person turned out
to be!!"


I play keyboards from time to time for a sort of folk-singer friend of
mine named Cindy Lee Berryhill. One time in san francisco i found an
autographed copy of her first album for like $2.00.

so i gave it to her as a gift!!! she was kind of bummed about that!!!!
;)

similarly, i pretty much like *anything* of a very personal nature that
you find in thrift stores. one time i found a whole collection of some
woman's scrap books, and after looking through them i felt like i had
known her all my life. it really makes me wonder how these things end up
in thrift stores. i always get the feeling that the person went through
some kind of cataclysm or something.......

pea


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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 13:15:14 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) mike nichols and elaine may purchased!

Thanks to all who filled me in on this pair.  Every response recommended them
highly and I did pick up "Improvisations To Music" which is just great!
Pianist Marty Rubenstein plays varied sorts of music that suggests different
moods and Nichols and May spontaneously create a scene to fit.  One real
standout for me is track 8, "Chopin", in which Nichols plays the daddy and May
his little girl (natch).  Very creepy, haunting, disturbing piece.  But others
are on the lighter side.  Wonderful stuff for sure and priced right, too.
Gonna get the doctor one next.

Also, thanks to someone on this list who planted the seed of Sonny Lester in
my mind, I found an LP by his orchestra and chorus.  "How To Belly Dance For
Your Husband" is a beautiful mix of exotic jazz and mysterious wordless
vocals.

Picked up the George Cates "Polynesian Percussion" LP which I was very pleased
with.  Straight ahead and very good exotica, heavy on the percussion with more
background vocalese.  Very nice.

Finally, check the jazz section for Gary McFarland's "Soft Samba" on Verve
which has some really sweet, beautiful covers of Beatles hits.  Whistling,
humming, vibes and guitar work by Jobim and Burrell.  A number of selections
appear on the fine "Latin Lounge" CD.


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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 98 13:24:37 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) A&M needs to get with it

> Then you could walk into your
>local Goodwill or Salvation Army and pick up all the Sergio Mendes and Herb
>Alpert you want in near mint condition for a buck each.  If you get lucky,
>you'll get a Claudine, too.


Please,please do! We should all boycott places like Footlights that
charge absurd amount of money for the easiest to find albums.

Or at least trade amoung ourselves for those of us who need these albums.
Presently I have Claudine's Love is Blue that I'll trade.

On principle, I think I would refuse to by a desired LP if it was priced
higher than ten or fifteen bucks.

Frank

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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 98 13:24:41 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The intellectual fashion zombies

>Those involved in the pursuit of the "exotica"
> are generally folks steeped in irony who willfully avoid popular culture
> (of the present). So when we find that popular culture crashes the
> party, it's no longer the intimate gathering we once prized.


Yes, I agree,but at the same time I have the satisfaction knowing that
those co-opting party crashers simply don't "get it".

Call me elitist, and you'll have to call the party crashers clueless.

Frank

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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 98 13:24:38 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Claudine Longet

If you want the best source on finding out about the Claudine trial for
the Spider killing, check out an article by Susan Braudy which came out
in Crawdaddy (of all places) February 1978.

You could most likely get it through inter-library loan.

The article is aptly titled "I,Claudine".

Some tid-bits:
Andy actually testified in her defense as a character witness.

Claudine was convicted for "criminally negligent homocide" and spent 30
days in a very comfortable local jail. Shortly thereafter she went to
Mexico with her defense lawyer(who later left his wife to move in with
Claudine).

It was alledged that Claudine had for a long time kept a diary with some
comprimising statements about several of Claudine's jet-set celebrity
friends.


The whole article is a real treat, check it out.

Frank


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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 98 13:24:43 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Tiki Lites / swing / etc

>
>A friend of mine once said that ANY record collection, as long as it was
>thorough enough in its focus, would be inherently cool.

Obsession=cool=trendsetter

Dabbler=ordinary=dupe(trend follower)

Tangentially related:

When asked "What kind of music do you like?" those who reply: "I like all
kinds of music" are inherently un-cool.

Am I too mean?

Frank

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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 98 13:24:46 -0500
From: recliner <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lounge forever

>
>>Anyway, I do have the feeling that swing may be rapidly displacing
>>"lounge"

Nothing will *replace* lounge. Lounge is lounge period!


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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 13:23:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lou Smith <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) What exactly is a beanie baby?

At 12:38 PM 7/5/98 +0100, Charles wrote:
>Sorry to be so ignorant but I am not from the same corner of the globe as
>some of you and I have no clue as to what a beanie baby is. Could somebody
>assist me in seeing the light please?

As with most things these days a quick trip to a search engine'll get you
all the info you need and more.

Start with a look at the official BB page:
<http://www.ty.com>

- -Lou




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Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 22:19:10 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Horst Jankowski R.I.P.

Indulis R Rutks wrote:
>
> On Sun, 5 Jul 1998, Moritz R wrote:
>
> >
> > Another one handed over the spoon:
>
> I thought this was only a Latvian euphemism! My parents use this phrase
> often. Actually, the Latvian version translates to "He/she put down the
> spoon".

I actually translated a German expression literally into English. "Put down"
even sounds better!

MO


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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 16:25:47 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Autographed LPs

I found a Hank Mancini autograph on the back cover of his LP Best Of Volume 2.

It reads:

To Ziggy-- Warmest thanks for all of your kindness--Henry Mancini.

I paid $2 for it......

jayson



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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 22:09:23 +0000
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Please er, ug, um, remove err... me?

Brian Cartwright got out his biggest crayon and wrote:

> Subject: (exotica) Please take me off the god damn list.

Please read the "god damn" instructions which come at the foot of
EVERY post to the mailing list, dolt.


Robbie

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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 22:09:22 +0000
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Moon Base Alpha playlist

Here is what I played for my first "Moon Base Alpha" set at the
opening night of Radio Babylon here in Edinburgh on Saturday
night.  Owing to drink-hazed memory, the order of tracks towards the
end is not necessarily exact!

Korla Pandit - Kumar ("Odyssey")
Three Suns - Fever ("Fever and Smoke")
Bad Examples - Song Electrique ("the river the night the moon
temptation and you")
Family of God - Why Go Go UP There? ("Family of God")
The Lonesome Organist - My First Piano ("Collector of Cactus Echo
Bags")
Henry Mancini - Experiment in Terror ("Ultimate Collection"
comp)
George Shearing - Aquarius (Mood Mosaic comp)
Edmundo Ros - Light My Fire ("In Flight Entertainment" comp)
Prez Prado - Mambo #8 ("The King of Mambo" comp)
Cal Tjader - Hot Sake ("Several Shades of Jade")
Dick Hyman - Goldfinger ("Keyboard Kaleidoscope")
Doc Severinsen - Summertime ("Live!")
Shirley Bassey - Spinning Wheel ("Something")
Three Suns - Caravan ("Movin and Groovin")

Radio Babylon returns on 1 August...


DJ Bongo Boy

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Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 14:37:41 +0000
From: [e-mail]
Subject: (exotica) It's TIME

Found two TIME LPs today...about the only records I did find (although I
decided to try out some Claudine Longet albums).

One was called The Era of Cleopatra and was performed by Richard Hayman and
Orchestra (TIME S 2080).  I have run across a number of Cleopatra themed
LPs in the past (and bought most of them).  This was a standard orchestral
go-around, like every Hayman LP I ever found.  Two questions: has anyone
ever found a Hayman that was interesting?  and  what is your favorite
Cleopatra themed LP? (mine, so far, is Jose Jimenez's followed by Al Caiola).

The other LP I was glad to find.  Percussion on Stage is performed by Maury
Laws and Orchestra (TIME S 2027) This is one of the better Broadway
oriented LPs I have found.  Wouldn't you know it...because Phil Kraus and
Bob Rosengarden are doing percussion!  What are your favorite
broadway-themed genre records?

Byron

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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 15:41:29 -0700
From: Eb <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Re: autographs

>At 06:50 PM 7/4/98 PDT, B.Yost wrote:
>>I'm sort of curious what autographed records people have found through
>casual means

I was once at a Rhino Records parking-lot sale in Santa Monica, and a guy
next to me started whooping because he found an autographed *Buffalo
Springfield* LP tossed in with the other 25-cent rubbish. Wow! The only
catch: no record inside. But who cares??

Eb




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Date: Sun, 05 Jul 1998 15:55:20 PDT
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) It's TIME

Byron asked: has anyone
>ever found a Hayman that was interesting?

Not only interesting but great! "The genuine electric latin love
machine" is one of the better moog lps i have come across. And his
spooky "Voodoo" album! Like wow! Unfortunately its not in my collection
yet.

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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 01:02:42 +0000
From: "Robbie Baldock" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) You can never have too much Dick...

Dick Hyman's making another of his regular visits to the town
where I live...  He's playing a number of gigs (including 3 on one
day!), mostly in a trio format, as part of the International
Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival.  Here are some details culled from
the official website (http://www.jazzmusic.co.uk/):

GALA CONCERT sponsored by Bank of Scotland
Wednesday 5th August,  7.30pm - 10.45pm
16, 14, 12.50 and 10 UKP
Dick Hyman Trio, Ethel Caffie-Austin Gospel Singers, International
All-Stars, Humphrey Lyttelton & his band,  King's Theatre,
Edinburgh

CELEBRITY GREATS FROM THE STATES
Thursday 6th August 1998
12 UKP
Joe Temperley + Howard Alden Quartet 7.30pm  - 8.30pm
Dick Hyman,  Bob Haggart + The Bob Barnard Quartet  8.40pm - 9.40pm
Stacey Kent, Howard Alden, Jake Hanna Quartet  9.50pm - 10.50pm
Dick Hyman, Joe Temperley, Bob Haggart, Bob Barnard, Jake Hanna  11pm
- -Midnight

ACKER BILK
Friday 7th August 1998
12 UKP
Acker Bilk's Paramount Jazz Band, Dick Hyman Trio, Cotton Club,
Edinburgh
Acker Bilk  7.30 - 8.30pm
Dick Hyman Trio  8.45 - 9.45pm
Acker Bilk  9.50 - 10.45pm

LATE NIGHT JAZZ CLUB
Friday 7th August 1998,  10.30pm - 1.30am
7 UKP
Alex Shaw Trio, Dick Hyman Trio, Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh

PIANORAMA
Friday 7th August 1998,  3pm - 5.15pm
5 UKP
Renaud Patigny, Tom Finlay, Colin Wood, Brian Kellock, Dick
Hyman, Cotton Club,  Edinburgh


Robbie

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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 23:31:40 EST
From: "Brian Karasick" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Kiddies, Klaus Schulze and Disneyland!

Lou Smith writes:

> ...My collecting interests include
> cowboy music and kiddie records
Speaking of... Raymond Scott's "Music for Babies" reissues (of course
another Irwin Chusid production) are really incredible, as exotica.
Outside of that, two other recommendations... first the Elemental
Ralph label.  IF you know Ralph Records (The Residents) you can only
imagine this "Ralph for Kids" label.  One comp. called "Goobers" is
by far the best. I have the original 10" on "peanut" vinyl but there
is supposedly a Cd reiss. Another thing is a French group called
"Dragibus". Called "Bartbapoux" it's reinterpreted kiddie folk
songs.  I think this is on a Japanese label but I only received a dub
so I can't be sure. I'm especially happy finding music that seems
to work for kids one one level and adults on another. I say this
but our 2 year old has always liked Esquivel though, so I don't think
it's that scientific somehow!

Moritz writes:
> > BTW, I seem to be the one that always ends up answering the Klaus
> > Schulze questions on this list.  Hmmm...
> That's probably because you like him so much, Brian!
I guess we all have our closet demons... But rest assured I won't
take up the cause for Heino!

> Could a Danish roller-coaster-cotton-candy-ghost-train-park come up to
> the expectations of the probably 3rd-biggest Disneyland-fan in the
> world? It could, and more than that!
I loved Tivoli myself and when I saw it in 1980 it was exactly
what I would have expected a real (European) amusement park to be
like. My own jaded view of Disneyland (never having visited) is much
the same as how I view Las Vegas (proudly, the only member of my
family never to have made the voyage); I would have loved to see both
in the 50's/60's when they were still genuine (I'd have visited Las
Vegas for the neon alone!) but now, I'd probably be visiting either
one with about the same paranoid (what if someone I know actually
sees me here) feeling as when I had to buy a Celine Dion cd for a
present for my mother last year in a major chain record store!
It's strange though because all things considered, I have to say that
Coney Island, NY was by far one of the most interesting places I've
ever visted, as amusement parks go. I was there some 15 years ago but
you could still sense what the place was like in its heyday. The
characters I saw there were such that you could ONLY find in New
York. I remember the burned out roller coaster (still standing at the
time) that Woody Allen's character, I think Annie Hall, claimed as
his childhood home. The train ride through the burned out sections of
Brooklyn was almost surreal. A 5 star attraction and a true urban
experience that Disney can never hope to match but my guess is they
wouldn't want to... Of course for all I know they've alreqady built a
replica in Las Vegas!

I am, however, finding myself intrigued about Euro Disneyland, if
anything just to see for myself how on earth France of all places
could have let this happen. I'm hopeful that somehow there MUST
be something better to eat and drink there than McDonalds. Plus
many added bonuses including; I could tell the family "yes I
took the kid to Disneyland", I wouldn't likely run into anyone I
knew, and last but not least, Paris, the world's absolute best food
city is only a short trip away. You can bet this will be my
first Disney experience and with the relative imbalance of
the US dollar compared to our currency, it probably would cost less
too! Anyway, welcome back Moritz! Gotta scan some of my Coney Island
photos for you...

Brian Karasick
Physical Planner
McGill University
Montreal, Canada


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Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 20:41:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: "paul m." <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Kiddies, Klaus Schulze and Disneyland!

http://www.mcs.net/~werner/yester.html

Yesterland Site - Rememberance of now defunct
Disneyland Attractions. waay cool site, kiddies :)

paul moshay/mighty recording corp.
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Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 04:47:26 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Autographed LPs

At 09:44 AM 05/07/98 -0700, Pea Hicks wrote:
>I play keyboards from time to time for a sort of folk-singer friend of
>mine named Cindy Lee Berryhill. One time in san francisco i found an
>autographed copy of her first album for like $2.00.
>so i gave it to her as a gift!!! she was kind of bummed about that!!!!

I once had one of her records but I bought it used and I don't have it
anymore so you probably shouldn't tell her that either.  I can see why
she'd be bummed out by the record in your story.
I mean, I have autographed records from Lenny Dee - more than a couple -
and by Don Ho but I assume they were autographed in succession from the stage.
I don't suppose the same thing happened much with Cindy Lee so her
autograph would have hopefully meant more to the person.
(But obviously not more than the two bucks she might have gotten when she
sold it.)
I've been with musician friends at the used record store and it's like
automatic for you to find one of their records there and go "Hey Gord,
look. Your first record".  But I have trained myself to resist the
temptation most of the time.

Although I guess some of them could be happy to find an old copy given that
many musicians don't have any copies of their own records.

>;)
 it really makes me wonder how these things end up
>in thrift stores. i always get the feeling that the person went through
>some kind of cataclysm or something.......

How does anything end up in a thrift store? They die.  Or their mother
throws everything out the minute they leave for college.
But usually they die.
One time I was discussing an unusually cool box of records I found at the
Goodwill and I was telling this friend of mine "who would throw out records
like that? I mean, these weren't a little old lady's records.  These were a
hip young guy's records".  And my friend was just smiling this knowing
smile, waiting for me to reach the same conclusion she already had.
And then it hit me.  A hip young guy dying.  Right.

Sorry to bring you down but I bet some of you just think "who cares how
they got there?".  And I agree with that too.

Nat



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Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 04:47:30 -0400
From: Nat Kone <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) mike nichols and elaine may purchased!

At 01:15 PM 05/07/98 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
>
>Also, thanks to someone on this list who planted the seed of Sonny Lester in
>my mind, I found an LP by his orchestra and chorus.  "How To Belly Dance For
>Your Husband" is a beautiful mix of exotic jazz and mysterious wordless
>vocals.


He also did "how to STRIP for your husband" and it's okay but not great.
Obviously belly dancing is more exotic.

I have two other records of his, both surprisingly - in some ways - on TIME
records, surprising only because I usually find those records promise more
than they deliver.
One is identified as a Sonny Lester record and is called "After hours,
Middle East" and if anyone is looking to reissue something, I recommend
this.  It has some astonishing cuts.
The other one is called "The Belly Dancer" and this time they call the band
"Abdul Alexi Freeman and his Enquirers".  It's got a much longer list of
musicians than the other one and Sonny Lester is only named in the writing
credits.
But some of the cuts are exactly the same as on the first record I mentioned.
So what does that mean?  That there was no one actually named Abdul Freeman?
(What Jew names their son Abdul?)
(Yeah okay I know there are non-jews named Freeman.  What's that African
American actors name?  Something Freeman Jr?)

Anyway, between the two records, you've got all the percussive, guitar
heavy, organ driven fake Arab music you could ever want.

Nat



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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 05:03:51 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) chris montez

Chris Montez--winner of the Wayne Newton soundalike contest


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Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 02:06:49 -0700
From: Pea Hicks <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) mike nichols and elaine may purchased!

Nat Kone wrote:
>
> At 01:15 PM 05/07/98 EDT, [e-mail] wrote:
> >
> >Also, thanks to someone on this list who planted the seed of Sonny Lester in
> >my mind, I found an LP by his orchestra and chorus.  "How To Belly Dance For
> >Your Husband" is a beautiful mix of exotic jazz and mysterious wordless
> >vocals.
>
> He also did "how to STRIP for your husband" and it's okay but not great.
> Obviously belly dancing is more exotic.

For those who are keeping score, these 2 LPs were later issued as a 2
record box set on Roulette Records. It's called "Music To Keep Your
Husband Happy," and comes complete with an instructional booklet. I
somehow doubt that it was the *music* keeping their husbands
happy..............

pea


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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 05:34:32 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Hawaiian fashions for the masses

another catalog with some interesting Hawaiian-oriented shirts is The
Territory Ahead...The language describing the clothing is written like the
catalog Elaine worked for on Seinfeld at one point, but some of the shirts are
the bomb


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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 05:37:42 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  Re: (exotica) Andy and Claudine

Andy may have given America the Osmonds, but the Osmonds gave us the world's
greatest Jackson5sploitation hit "One Bad Apple Don't Spoil The Whole Bunch
Girl".....which arguably COULD go on Brad's tape.. ;-)


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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 05:39:05 EDT
From: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re:  (exotica) Rolf Harris

"Sun-a-risin' in thee mornin'...Settin' in the evenin' all around..."


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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 04:08:50 -0600
From: Jill Mingo <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Autographed LPs

Not really on topic, but I thought myself lucky to pick up a copy in a
second hand bookstore of Armistead Maupin's "Sure of You" first edition with
his John Hancock. It was $5, which is a few bucks cheaper than new, and I
was prepared to buy it new to read it. A nice touch.

Jill "Mingo-go"



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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 11:24:28 +0100
From: dan hill <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) new reviews on motion

new reviews on ---+motion:

thelonius monk - live at the it club
deepak ram - flute for thought
sue garner - to run more smoothly
airto moreira and the gods of jazz - killer bees
god speed you black emperor - f#a#oo
joe and mat maneri - blessed
caravan - bbc live in concert
van der graaf generator - bbc sessions

apologies for cross-postings

simon & dan

http://www.state51.co.uk/motion/




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Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 12:27:11 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Hula dance

S=FCddeutsche Zeitung, 6/7/98:

Francis Dilorenzo, catholic bishop of Hawaii, wants to approach the pope =
with
an unusual request: The Vatican should allow hula-dances in the services.=
 A
speaker of the diocese in Honolulu, Patrick Downes, said, hula and other
traditional dances should not be prohibited in churches, if they are perf=
ormed
correctly. The bishop wants to discuss this matter with the pope this fal=
l.
After the complaint of a Hawaiian the Vatican had banned the Polynesian
hula-dances from the devine services. Bishop Dilorenzo assumes, that Rome=
 does
not understand the cultural meaning of the hula in Hawaii, said Downes.

(translation by myself)

MO


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Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 12:49:03 +0000
From: Moritz R <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) Disneyland

> I am, however, finding myself intrigued about Euro Disneyland, if
> anything just to see for myself how on earth France of all places
> could have let this happen. I'm hopeful that somehow there MUST
> be something better to eat and drink there than McDonalds. Plus
> many added bonuses including; I could tell the family "yes I
> took the kid to Disneyland", I wouldn't likely run into anyone I
> knew, and last but not least, Paris, the world's absolute best food
> city is only a short trip away. You can bet this will be my
> first Disney experience and with the relative imbalance of
> the US dollar compared to our currency, it probably would cost less
> too!

 I was in Disneyland, Paris resp. Eurodisney then, soon after it opened and
they really made that mistake of serving food with plastic-cutlery, paper-mugs
etc. and it just added up to the flop that this park was in the first
two/three years. You just can't do that to the French! Another mistake they
made in my opinion is to use this New Orleans style architecure for the
outside entrance area just like in Anaheim, but it is exactly the same style
of all ordinary French architecture especially from Paris, so it's not exotic
at all to them. Well...
Talking of the costs you expect for your visit, I wouldn't be so shure.
Anaheim is still the cheapest I think.
The nicest, to bring this to an end, might be the Tokyo Disneyland, not only
due to the fact that you have these thousands of jap schoolchildren with black
school-uniforms and their obligatory Mickey Mouse ears running around, but
they also have some unique attractions that you can see nowhere else, like
this inconspicuous acoustic sculpture next to a rest bank that makes little
electronic sounds until you respond and then communicates with you. Or a
wonderful show about Japanese history.

MO


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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 07:38:03 -0400
From: "Brian Phillips" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Rolf Harris

I don't remember Sun Arise, but I just heard a clip of it at
http://www.enterprise.net/rolfharris/ when I followed the Music link.

The funniest rendition I have heard of any Rolf Harris music was on the tape
I have of "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again", in which they censored,
so-called "Questionable" words out of his inocuous songs, i.e.:

"Two little boys had two little *BEEP*"


It's a dangerous breed,
Brian Phillips




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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 08:02:32 -0400
From: "Brian Phillips" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) What's this doing here?

I almost had an experience like that at an estate sale that was rife with
MOR and bland gospel, to find a Ray Barretto record, which turned out to be
a boring, generic, dance band record that was NOT Barretto!  Check those
discs, everyone!

Brian Phillips




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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 08:02:32 -0400
From: "Brian Phillips" <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: (exotica) Autographed LPs

1. Not an LP.
2. Not Exotica

What it was though was this: while in the U.K., I was shopping in Camden
Town and I found the record I was looking for "Night of Fear"/"Disturbance"
by the Move for three pounds.  I looked, and I saw that someone had written
on the record, which I deplore, since I believe most folks know about my
fixation on labels.  However, I looked closer and I found that the scribble
said, "Carl Wayne", the vocalist.  A friend of mine knew someone who runs a
Move page and he said this may very well be the real deal.

Why not compare for yourself?

This is definitely his signature:

http://www.roywood.com/news4.jpg

This is the record I found:

http://www.mindspring.com/~hagar/d.html

Brian Phillips, Shameless huckster, leavened by dry wit.




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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 14:01:03 +0000
From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A Good Beat And You Can Dance To It

> "Ben Waugh" <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Subject: Re: (exotica) A Good Beat and You Can Dance to It
> Henry Mancini Combo: Tequila
> Dick Hyman: Washington Square
> Red Norvo: Evening in Azerbaijan
> Hugo Montenegro: MacArthur Park
> John Barry: Twisting with James
> Awfully, wonderfully yours,
> BW

Hi Ben, I'd like to have these taped down!
What about working for a tape swap of killer dance tracks, taking
inspiration from the recent thread introduced in the list by Brad (I
know it's you in disguise!)
Ciao
Gionni


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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 14:01:03 +0000
From: "Giovanni Berti" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (exotica) A Good Beat And You Can Dance To It

> Brad Bigelow <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Subject: (exotica) A Good Beat and You Can Dance to It
> Over the years of slipping exotica/space age/oddball pop and jazz into the
> mix for parties and other social gatherings, I've noticed there are a few
> tunes that invariably bring out the boogie in people:
> "Limbo Jazz" on "Coleman Hawkins Meets Duke Ellington"
> "Putti Putti" by Jay Epae from a European comp LP, "Rock-a-Hula-Bop"
> "Action Line" by Dorothy Ashby from some comp CD of Chess instrumentals
> "Coming Home, Baby" by Kai Winding
> "Pata Pata," by Miriam Makeba
> "Girl from Ipanema" on Martin Denny, "Hawaii a Go-Go"
> "The Liquidator" on Dick Hyman, "The Man from O.R.G.A.N."
> I'm tempted to put together a comp of nothing but killer tunes like these
> that will drive listeners into a non-stop dance frenzy leading into a
> higher level of consciousness and boogiosity.
> Any suggestions of other tunes from the rest of you out in exotica-land?
> Brad


Hey Brad, please let me know when that tape will be done. It sounds
such a great idea! Other track I can suggest:
- - "The In Crowd"; original version by Dobie Gray or others
- -"The Cat" by Jimmy Smith
- - "Wade In The Water" by Ramsey Lewis
- - "Sticks" by Cannonball Adderley
- - "Soul Bossa Nova" by Quincy Jones
and many more that I will post as they pop up to mind. As a DJ I
obviously have my classic dancefloor stormers, but I just picked up
tunes that seemed to fill among the titles tou mentioned.
Ciao
Gionni Paludi


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